 Soo… I know I haven’t been writing for a while and a lot things
have happened and changed. I will try to include everything that happened in my
report, although I know it's not possible. So ok… Let’s concentrate on the most
important cases.
So what happened during the time - 2 months ( really that
long ? ) that I wasn’t writing… Hmmm
I will start with our district meeting at Supas’s host mum
house in Miami. It was great, but I guess it’s not a shocker, cause every
time we are getting together with the exchange students we are having only
good times.
Our meeting was from 10th to 12th October, so we spent 3
days together! 3 interesting and really busy days, while we could explore
the beauty of Everglades National Park, talk till we want to, get bitten by
plenty of mosquitoes, and just have fun in general.
At the wonderful Friday evening (10/10/2008) we all
finally got together. I was so happy to see all our district members again
especially Anna, Agathe, Aude, Tong and Supas, cause those are the ones that
I hadn’t seen since orientation camp. Friday’s evening passed by really
quickly ; we had a pool party , where we were playing water basketball. We
split up into 2 teams: girls against boys ( girls obviously won!). After all
the activities; together with our guardians, we were talking about our stay
here and how much we enjoy our year exchange in sunny Florida in district
6990 ( the best one ever ( just after 2230))! They reminded us about our
reports (!) and helped solving any problems that we might have had.
The next day we woke up early and we start our trip to the
Everglades National Park. It was so beautiful there, the alligators were a
little scary, but as far as I was in some distance away from them I kind of
enjoy looking at these ugly creatures. I took a lot of pictures (some of
them I’m including). After our day-trip to Everglades we were back to
Supas’s mum house, where she threw a party. The evening was really nice, I
met a lot of nice people and it went away so quickly, just like the previous
one. Sunday was the last day we spent together (sigh) and I think the best
one. We went out for a small cruise by yacht. We had so much fun during our
trip! We were sightseeing beautiful places, such as Miami skyline. We were
sunbathing, swimming. We even saw dolphins in the ocean! Then the trip was
over and we all went back to our houses.
That was a wonderful experience and I hope having only
good ones like that while my being here.
The next thing I must mention about is Halloween. It was a
lot of fun too. We organize a meeting to spend it together (with other
exchange students). In my country we don’t celebrate this holiday, so I
haven‘t ever had an opportunity to see how it works, but as soon as I got
first candies I started to like the way you have it here. We all got dressed
up differently (picture). We were the only ‘older’ and very, very
international group of people playing ‘trick or treat’ in the neighborhood.
Once, when we knocked on the door the guy asked us, if we are already ready
for college. By the way I was always wondering what should you do when you
would say ‘trick or treat’ and the person would respond ‘trick’?!
The day after Halloween we had small kind of party at
Gabriel’s house. It was really nice, mostly what we were doing was
socializing J
The next important thing that happened was election;
really important thing for the country. I remember when I was still in
Poland and on our Polish TV they were talking about this event. I didn't
really pay attention then, but ever since I got here I started to care as
pretty much it was impossible not to; it was subject number one everywhere;
shops, newspapers, TV, school… Finally we know: Obama won !
I’m really glad that this presidential election is already
over. I was really bored everyday on a school bus listening to the radio
(It’s louder than my iPod when the volume is put on maximum) when they were
talking ONLY about what one of the candidates did or did not do. Every
single statement started with ‘Obama’ or ‘McCain’ !
Last week was our spirit week, that’s how the people in
America call week before homecoming. I had a lot of fun. I’m joining an
exchangetts club and everyday my big sister was dressing me up as someone
else: Monday I was superhero, cause it was a superhero day, Tuesday was day
off, Wednesday was rock star day, Thursday- nerd, and Friday- your class
color, but as my ‘big sister’ is a senior I was supposed to wear white, even
though the junior color is silver. ( I’m sending pictures)
Because of exchangetts club I met a lot of people and made
a lot of American friends; on Monday after school I went to a powderpuff and
then to sleepover at one of the girl’s (joining the club) house. It was a
lot of fun.
On Friday I went to homecoming football game; my ‘big
sister‘ took me there, I was sitting with her and her friends, all of them
were really nice to me! That was the place I met a lot of new people too!
Now I can say I start to like school, every time I’m going
through the school hallway I can hear someone screaming ‘POLAND’, some
people are even trying to make an effort and scream my name, but it is not
always worth it, because their pronunciation of my name is so different that
mostly I don’t know that they are talking to me and I just keep going! The
way they say it sounds more like ‘Marsha‘; at least to me.
I think that those are the most important things that
happened recently J I will try to write my
reports more regularly. Oh, I forgot. Yesterday I went with my counselor -
Roy to the performance, that Oona was playing in. She did great job, me and
Gabriel (because he was there too) really enjoyed the whole show.
Now, I really think I’m done with my report, and the only
reason I did not write it and send it earlier is, because I am doing
something everyday, today for example after school, when I was back in my
neighborhood me and my friend from a bus - Mimi went to have lunch together.
We were in some restaurant in my neighborhood, as I was bored waiting for my
meal, I start to looking around and I saw coca-cola commercial on the thing
to pour yourself drink. On the picture there was a cola bottle and word
’always’ under the name of the drink and under that what catch my eye was a
Polish translation for always ’ zawsze’ ; I found it pretty funny, cause
Polish was the only other language it was written in. As always I had my
camera with my so I took a picture that I’m enclosing. After our meal, we
met with some other friends and went play basketball together. Me and Mimi
were mostly watching them playing, we tried join for a while, though I don’t
think our basketball skills were good enough to stay on the pitch/ field ;
however you call that area that they are playing on ; for more than 10
minutes.
I’m so happy to be here right now. I really started to
enjoy my new, American life. Today, they got the first snow in Poland, I
guess winter has already settled in. I don’t have to worry about it this
year, even though I did not expect that temperature will get that low in
here. I must admit and this might be a little bit shocking but I’m COLD in
Florida.
Now, I’m waiting for Thanksgiving and Christmas and
obviously DISNEY !
I don’t believe in 2 weeks the next month will start! It’s
impossible, I’m almost 4 months (106 days) (the reason I’m counting is only
cause I’m a little bit bored at some school subjects)! I think I’m doing
pretty well and now it might be only better!
‘Beginnings are the hardest’ - I don’t know who said that,
but whoever it was, was completely right !
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