American & European Sockets

Hi! I'm planning on buying a MacBook. I'm living in Europe, but some of my friends usually travel to America, and I'd like them to bring me one.
My question is: Can I charge my MacBook, despite of the socket differences? Or can I switch the American cable with an European one? Will this work, and will this solve the problem?
Or is there any other way of solving this problem?
P.S.: Sorry for my bad English, as it's not my first language

You don't even need a plug adapter.
True story. I'm a NYC boy and last year I was in Scotland with the wrong adapter (European, not UK). I trudged from drug store to electronic store, finally found this hidey-hole Apple Store in Glasgow, willing at that point just to buy a new MacBook power-cube. There was a young kid behind the counter. I told him my problem and he said, "We don't have replacements at the moment, and we have no adapters, but all you need is a compatible power cord." He pulled off the adapter's duck-head ... and like a perfect idiot, I found myself staring at something I'd seen dozens of times before, but not truly registered: a blatantly obvious figure-8 female port, like the kind you might find on the back of a DVD player or VCR, for a removable power cord. "The DC converter is the Apple cube," the kid explained, "so all you need is the juice." And he sold me a generic UK power cord with the male figure-8 input, which slipped right into the port -- that I could have gotten cheaper at any drug store, but by then I was exhausted and grateful.
So dude ... just get yourself a generic figure-8 power cord compatible with the country you'll be in. The only thing I might advise is not to buy one TOO cheaply; I've read that when it comes to electricity cables, the ones in the dollar stores are often made of inferior material. (Indeed, I've bought spares at both Radio Shack and the dollar store, and the latter are sheathed with much softer plastic which seems less sturdy.)
Finally -- even if you're not traveling, it's good to have a couple figure-8 cords around anyway; because when that Apple duck-head plug weakens and refuses to stay in the wall socket, the figure-8 power cord takes care of the problem.

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see image below

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