The last month has been way fun! And I had Prom! Which is
like the most American thing EVER! So first of all I will tell you about that.
Honestly that’s basically the only real fun thing I did this past month haha
besides going to grandma in Rexburg and hangout with people over there. School
is still the same, everyday… Anyways it was just a normal day at school for me.
And I was in 4th hour, my horticulture class, just planting some
plants and flowers when a guy came in and told me I needed to go to the office.
The office is just the place where the ‘school secretary’ works and the
principals office is etc. People have to come there all the time for certain
things idk what, not always the good things haha. But the guy told me there was
a police officer for me, and first I thought it was for Drivers Ed or something
because the police officers came over all the time in that class. So I didn’t
expect something really big. He told me to come in the principals office to
talk about certain things. Well alright… first he just asked me normal things
about how I liked Idaho, what country I came from etc. Eventually he asked me
if I had my passport with me, well no, I don’t bring my passport to school.
Than he started to tell me about how I had to go to the courthouse before the
end of the month or I could be send home and stuff. So I just sat there like
what in the world is he talking about? When I was about to interrupt him and
say; So what exactly do you want me to do? He gave me a paper that looked
pretty serious and he told me to read it from the beginning. Eventually I saw
the word prom and the name of the guy who asked me and I started laughing. It
all finally made sense, because it was all so weird! Of course I was in shock
too haha! Well eventually everybody walked into the principals office and the
guy had a little sign and some candy that he gave me. I gave him a hug and said
thank you haha. But it was kind of embarrassing too though because I had no
idea what was going on and I just sat there like wtf. But at least I’ll never
forget it ha! The guy that asked me is way fun and super hilarious! So I was
happy he asked me and not somebody else.
But the girls have to answer ‘yes’ in a ‘special way’ too.
And it took me forever to think of something. Because I kind of wanted it to do
in a funny way like he asked me, with the police officer etc. But he’d probably
know. So eventually I wrote on a big paper “I’d travel the world to go to prom
with you” but than in Dutch, so I printed out a list of English – Dutch translated
words to find the translation! And gave him some candy + stroopwafels (dutch
waffle cookies). Prom self was on a Saturday, what Americans do, you’ll go with
a whole group and do something fun during the day, so we went laser gaming with
a whole bunch of people and after that we went home to get ready in all our
prom dresses and we’d go out for dinner. We were with a lot of people! But it
looked way cool, everybody in those huge big dresses! I wish we had those
things back home, just the whole American school system with the whole school
spirit etc. Prom itself was in this ‘church’, it was not really a church, only
from the outside but from the inside it was like a big house. It looked pretty
cool. Prom was until 00:00 and after that everybody just went home.
We didn’t really have more important things in school the
past weeks. The only thing was Unity Day, it was a day where we didn’t have
class and we just did games with the whole school. It was so much fun! Those
things would have never happened in school back home. You just go to school to
study for your future and that’s it.
Anyways, here, we only have 18 days left of school before
summer vacation starts. After those 19 days I have two weeks of summer left, to
go and do fun stuff and after that I will go home. Kind of sad how fast the
time went by. But if I look back at all the things I have learnt and how much
my English has improved. This is definitely one of the best decisions I have
made in my life. 12 months in another country has been hard, but also a lot of
fun. You learn how to be independent and see how other people live. You start
appreciating your home country more and you will start missing the weirdest
things. I became an expert in packing suitcases and flying to all these
different places by myself. All the different airports and different people I
meet all the time, all the exchange students I meet everywhere from each
country become your friend so easily because they are going through the same
thing as you are going through and nobody else knows how that feels.
Traveling is definitely the only thing you buy that makes
you richer.
