wonderful thanksgiving experience

     I had been excited going to my friend Caleb's home since he invited me to his home on thanksgiving. He is from Hagerstown which is four hours driving from Salisbury. On Tuesday, I went to his home with his sister who has been studying in salisbury university for three years, her name is Rachel. Unfortunately, when we drove the truck on the way to her home, the rain was too heavy to see the road clearly, she drove her Ford truck as slow as she can on the highway. Even though the rain was heavy, it did not influence our excited mood. she was excited about staying with her family, I was excited about being with American family. We talked about many things on the way back to home. I taught her Chinese culture, and she taught me American culture. It was a long trip, but both of us did not fell bored. It took us approximately 5 hours to get to her home. Caleb and his friend were waiting for us to have lunch together when I arrived his home. we went to China buffet, the taste of the food in this cafeteria is pretty much as the same with the China buffet in salisbury which is down the salisbury university, the only thing different is the scale, the China buffet in Hagerstown is much bigger than the buffet in Salisbury. The weather was very nice on wednesday, Caleb wanted to get his haircut in Hagerstown mall, so I went to the mall with him. I looked around in the mall, I found my favorite cloth brand which is called "the north face". I went through the shop, and one jacket took my fancy. I tried it and it fitted me like a burly man, so I bought it without check the price, I thought it would be worth it. I was very happy buying the jacket. After finished shopping in the mall, we went to his grandmother's house which was 20 minutes far away from his home. I was scared by a huge dog when I came there, I had never seen such a big dog before. It was over 200 pounds. At first, I was so afraid of the giant dog that I did not want to see any dogs any more, and the dog always tied to keep near to me, so I kept the space with the dog as far as I could, I felt uncomfortable. I could not conquer my fear until my friend told me that the dog was very friendly and had never attacked people before. Finally, I could get well along with the huge dog, I took picture with it, the dog wagged its tail when he saw me, we hugged and played with each other. Thursday was Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving in United States is partly a religious festival, and partly a gala day. Family members get together to have meal, they always have turkey for their Thanksgiving meal. I think Thanksgiving is one of the best festival to improve the relationship between family members. Normally American people like to shoot guns after the Thanksgiving meal, so we did all the American people like to do. we went to a farm which was behind Caleb's grandma's house. This was my first time to shoot real guns, his father taught me how to hold the gun and how to shoot the gun, then we shot the gun, they were very surprised that I could shoot all the targets. We spent a lot of time on shooting all kinds of gun these days. One thing I would like to emphasize here was that I went to hunting on saturday, this saturday was the first day for hunting in the hunting season in maryland, it would be last about 6 weeks. We got up very early on saturday and went to hunting. Eventually, Caleb shot a deer, we were very excited and proud of him but his grandma. She was mad at Caleb because he shot a deer without horn, it meant he shot a baby deer. He could not shoot a baby deer. Obviously, I had a lot of fun in my friend's home. I am very happy having the chance to stay with American family for six days. It would be precious treasure in my American life.