Valentine's Day, Senior Night, and Homecoming

Lad mig starte med Valentine's Day. Som berygtet er denne dag fejret meget mere end hvad vi gør i Danmark. I to uger har skolerådet solgt valentine slikkepinde med hjerter og små beskeder, og de var vildt lette at sælge. Mandag kom jeg i skole efter en uges fri (grunden til dette vil komme i næste post), afleverede en slikkepind på kontoret og var fuldstændigt overvældet over hvad der var af ballonner, blomster, bamser osv. og dette var inden der var sendt særligt meget til skolen endnu. Tony havde sendt blomster til Bailey og jeg i løbet af dagen, så vi blev kaldt op på kontoret for at hente dem.

Mandag var også basketball homecoming og senior night. Homecoming var egentlig planlagt at skulle være sidste torsdag, men pga. snefri måtte vi ikke spille kamp. Det var også senior night, hvilket er dagen hvor alle seniors i den enkelte sport bliver nævnt og går med sine forældre ud på banen. Fordi jeg er udvekslingsstudent fik jeg lov at deltage i dette. traditionen tro mødte jeg Lori og Tony halvvejs på banen, gav Tony min basketball og Lori en buket blomster, og vi gik ud på banen sammen.

I løbet af de sidste to uger har vi haft 4 dages snefri. Normalt ville jeg juble over dette, men her skal man gå i skole de dage ekstra i enden af skoleåret for at gøre op for det tabte. Det betyder bl.a. at vi højst sandsynligt skal i skole på skolens state track meet i maj.



Første dag vi fik snefri tænkte jeg noget lignende "Jeg gik i skole i dette vejr sidste vinter, og de giver os snefri?". De kaldte det en snestorm, og ja det var koldt udenfor, men som en fantastisk lærer engang fortalte mig "Der aldrig dårligt vejr, kun dårlig påklædning" hvilket må siges at være sandt.

Nu skal jeg nok få tage mig sammen til at skrive den der lange post jeg bliver ved at udskyde.... Jeg skal nok snart.
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Let me start with Valentine's Day. As the rumor says it's celebrated in an entirely different way in America than what I'm used to. For two weeks the stu-co sold valentine suckers ad they were really easy to sell. Monday after a week off (I'll explain the reason for this in the next blog post), I delivered a sucker at the office. As I stepped in I was overwhelmed by the amount of balloons, flowers, teddy bears etc. and that was before anyone had actually delivered a bunch of stuff to the school. Tony had sent flowers to Bailey and I during the day which we had to pick up.

Monday was also the day of homecoming and senior night. Homecoming was actually scheduled for last Thursday but because of a snowday we couldn't play. It was senior night too, which is the day all the senior players get presented on the court with their parents. Since I'm an exchange student I got to do it too. I met Lori and Tony half court, gave Tony my basketball and Lori my flowers and we took a picture.

Throughout the last two weeks we've had four snowdays. Normally I'd be happy with this, which I was to some extend, but here you have to make up for the days you get off, unlike Denmark.
When we had our first snowday I was thinking this "I walked to school in this weather last year and they give us a snowday?!" They called it a blizzard, and yes it was indeed cold, but as a very cool teacher once told me "there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad choice of clothes", which I find very true.

I'm gonna make myself do that long post really soon.. I promise. *Procrastinating*...