Howdy Guys!
I am so sorry that I haven't posted anything in such a looong time! I'm just way to busy to sit down and take the time to write something. But let's look at the bright side - I got A LOT of stuff to talk about, so let's start with my one and only homecoming week!
It all started with red, white and blue monday which meant we had to dress like the US-Flag, sadly not a lot of kids did it but the ones who did it went all out and we had some pretty cool human-flags.
Tuesday was hobo day which was the perfect day to be super comfy!It's so weird and exhausting to have school until 3.35pm
every day with only one break of 30 minutes ( well more like 15-20 for Blazers) plus practice until 5, so being able to wear sweatpants and all that stuff was pretty nice.
Wednesday was Disney Day, which was my favorite day of the week. I dressed as Kim Possible and got quite a few compliments mainly because I was one of the few girls who did not dress up as a Disney princess. Thursday was throwback to the 80's and all I can say is that I'm pretty happy that I was born in the 90s and missed the 80s they were just a little bit to crazy for me. Friday was perhaps one of the best day's in my life so far we had a special pep rally and everyone wore their "mums". I'll keep mine forever that's for sure!
Pumkin craving
Aren't theirs amazing?
Disney Day
Twinning with Kaylee
In the evening we had our homecoming football game and what can I say? Our football team smashed Maypearl plus we did a pretty good job performing the traditional Homecoming Routine.
Homecoming performance
The next couple weeks were probably the most normal ones I've had here so far but it was actually pretty nice - for the first time I actually felt like everything was normal and school actually started to be really annoying. Sorry to crush y'alls illusion but no matter how fun High School seems in the end it's school. However, it got really excited a couple weeks ago because against all expectation we made it to the playoffs. Yep -
Whitney High School made it to the football playoffs 2013 for the first time since 2005!!
It was crazy how proud everyone was to be a wildcat and boy, I'll never forget that game! Guys, I gotta tell you something - our football team is good but it's not amazing, there are teams in the playoffs who have won 10 out of 10 games we only won 5 out of 10 so yeah ... no one really thought we could beat Teaque... However the game was probably the most exciting game I've ever been to ... and well -
WE WON!!! The final score was 45:42 which meant we made it to the second round of playoffs for the first time since the 1980's or something like that!
Sadly we lost the next game however we're Bi-District Champs and everyone is so enormously proud of our boys!
Playoff Shirt
Anna <3
We beat Teague lions!
Senior night
Black-light Pep Rally
Our cute pep rally tops
After that football seasoned ended, noooo! I miss it so much and it makes me so sad to think that I'll never dance at a halftime show again... Alright because I start to over think that thought, lets talk about something else...
How about Thanksgiving. I already had my first Thanksgiving and it was amazing even though it went by waaay too fast. Thursday we went to my host moms sister where we all had an amazing dinner together, talked and watched football. Then we spend friday and saturday and my host aunt and uncle's and we went to SIX FLAGS and the zoo. I love roller coasters you guys know that and Six Flags had some pretty good ones. Yes, usually everyone goes black friday shopping on that friday but me? I'd rather go to Six Flags than go shopping any given day. I loved it so much! The rest of the weekend I spend with sleeping, cleaning and a little bit of shopping. I'm sad that my first Thanksgiving went by so fast but I refuse to say that it's my last one...
Thanksgiving food - YUM
Desert
Shock wave
Superman
So let's talk about the present. It's December 16th 2013, wait DECEMBER? It feels like Halloween was yesterday but it also feels like it was years ago. My life here is so busy, it's crazy but I also love it!
So what's new?
School has been very normal the last couple days and with not after school dance practices I actually have time to do my homework ... or just sleep a little bit more, or get creative and surprise people. I actually surprised all the Blazers with a "Boot" and chocolate on December the 9th (due to a little bit of ice we had no school on the 6th) and I also filled the office staff's stockings. I think they all liked it a lot and it made me feel a little bit more like home.
Nikolaus-Boots
Our cute fire place in the Office
I have one last event to talk about because I have attempt to study and that is my very first speech meet, which I had this saturday. My type of exempt speaking is persuasive speaking which is basically like giving an informative speak with you're own opinion and you're trying to persuade the judge. We had about 60 topic's and per round we had to draw five and could choose one. My first topic was "What should German chancellor Angela Merkel do to find a compromise with the opposing party" or something like that. At first I thought this topic was perfect for me but then I noticed that without a note card it's really hard to give a good speech and well ... I placed 3rd out of 4. The second topic was a little bit better "Should China ban it's coal-fired power plants" I knew a lot more and my critique was way better, thought I forgot to quote almost all of my sources. I placed 3rd out of 5. My last topic was a shock at first "What should the US government do to lower the increasing debt" I knew absolutely nothing about that topic and we didn't have any files at all so guess what I did? I made the whole speech up, including making up articles in random newspapers. I don't know how it's possible but I placed 2nd out of 6! I'm so happy and since most of my critiques were pretty good I'm also a little bit proud of myself. Especially since no one wrote "weird accent" or "can't speak proper English".
So, that was basically the most exciting thing that has happened in the last couple days, as for this week I'm super busy again! Tomorrow we have the Blazers Christmas Party at OliveGarden (new favorite restaurant) and Thursday is the Winter concert where we actually going to be performing. I can't believe that Christmas is in a week and with that half time is getting closer ...
I miss home but I really don't want to leave. Whitney, with all my great friends here, has already become my second home and if that's how I feel about it now I really don't want to know what it'll be like in June ...
Before I start crying or something, I'm going to end this post.
I wish y'all a wonderful Christmas time!
A dream comes true
Heaven!
I might not have a soul but I do have the two cutest dogs
(excuse the billion mistakes, I'm tired!)
Bye-bye little piglets
