Now that we are back home, it's time to tell you more about Houston. You've allready got to see what we've been upto, and where we've been, but we haven't written about the city we visited yet.
We went to Houston which is the biggest city in the state Texas. Texas is the second biggest state in USA both in habitants and area, after California (habitants) and Alaska(area). Texas is 696200km
2 and has a population of 25674681 (source)people.
Texas situated in the southern part in USA and it bordes to Mexcico. Over you can see a map of the state. The state capital is Austin and the biggest city is Houston. Other big cities in Texas are San Antonio, Dallas, Forth Word and El Paso.
This is a picture of the state of Texas' flag. It's called Lone Star because of the one star in the blue area. The flag was intorduced to the Congress Of Texas on December 28, 1838. In January 1839 it was adopted as the official national flag of the republic of Texas. When chosing a flag, symbols are on of the main parts. In this flag blue symbolise loyality, white for purity and red for bravery. The star symbolise that all Texans must stand together for God, the State and Country. In Houston there are a lot of roads, huge roads. There are also alot of car reatils, which are situated along the road. Outside each car retail, there were to flags; The American Flag and Lone Star. This shows that the Texans and I think Americans in general, are very proud of their nation, and that their flags meens alot to them.
The living conditions in America are a bit different than ours in Norway. Our impression is that everything is much bigger in America. They drive huge cars, have gigantic houses(all the houses we saw in the city were huge, but there are povetry in America aswell), but the biggest difference is the way they live. When we where there, it was early October. Alot of familiys had already started decorating their house for Halloween, and a lot of stores and malls had started decorating for christmas. Here in Norway a lot of people complain about shops that sell gingerbread or christmas soda in October/November, they would probably don't like that part of the American culture.
The living conditions in America are a bit different than ours in Norway. Our impression is that everything is much bigger in America. They drive huge cars, have gigantic houses(all the houses we saw in the city were huge, but there are povetry in America aswell), but the biggest difference is the way they live. When we where there, it was early October. Alot of familiys had already started decorating their house for Halloween, and a lot of stores and malls had started decorating for christmas. Here in Norway a lot of people complain about shops that sell gingerbread or christmas soda in October/November, they would probably don't like that part of the American culture.
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