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Hi guys! As we all know, Halloween is one of the most important holidays in America…for some (Dee) it’s even the most important one;) You could feel the excitement among people when Halloween came closer. Not only would your shopping experiences at Meyers and others turn out to be creepy…wandering around through shelves decorated with spiders and little witches, even if you drive down the streets of your neighborhood, you felt like visiting a Halloween museum. Since the Hella guys from Germany, Winfried and Steffen, have been in town during this sinister times, we were planning on discovering the real American Halloween spirit together. And so we did. We drove to a town called Romeo, North of Washington, where Steffen had read an article about a certain street where neighbors compete against each other with decorating their front yards. Actually, those owners did not only decorate their front yards but also their entire houses. They almost re-built them into castles and pirate ships. W...

Last weekend some friends invited me to the Michigan/Michigan State football game at the Big House in Ann Arbor. It is supposed to be the “game of the games” and I was really excited to go there. I left my home at 7:30 am and met my friends in Northville. At 9:00 am we started tailgating at the golf course in front of the Ann Arbor stadium. Tailgate parties have become popular in the United States as social gatherings events that take place in stadium parking lots before football games. One of my friends fit me with Michigan shirts. We had a great time, met lots of fun people, had good food and of course good drinks. Six hours later the game started. Since it was a very cold day, I couldn’t wait to stand close to some people. It was so crowded, almost every seat was taken. I was surprised how Michigan and Michigan State fans were seated together. In a German soccer game this would be impossible because of big fights between the fans. However in Ann Arbor the atmosphere was great and w...