Prom!

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 4^th 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.