Forget about crêpes celebration and Bastille Day: in the United States I have to celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, 4th of July and Superbowl…
Fourth Thursday of November – one week after our French Beaujolais nouveau – the United States celebrate Thanksgiving. There’s no way you can avoid it: the country seems to stop living for one day, everything
October 31st, my first Halloween in the United States. We usually don’t celebrate Halloween in France: “commercial” and “it’s not our tradition” are the two main arguments for being blase about it… But here, it’s huge.
Salem, the witch town, is not far away from Boston. Hurricane Sandy was getting close,we thought that we didn’t have much time left to visit this city, famous for Halloween celebrations. It was now or
Louisiana and New Orleans… I dreamt of these places for years, thanks to books, movies and TV shows… I also had some vague knowledge of some kind of French history in Louisiana, sold a few centuries
Since it’s my first Halloween in the US, I wanted to do a “jack-o-lantern”, this carved pumpkin with a monster face. I’m supposed to leave it by a window or in front of my building
For a long time, Independence Day was only a movie with the White House, aliens and Will Smith. That was before moving to the USA. Now, I know that Independence Day is a holiday with big
We watched the Super Bowl in a bar, without really understanding the rules of the game though…