California, here we come

One more day of school and our 5-day-long-weekend for Halloween is coming up. Yeah, American people actually get off for Halloween. However, you will probably not find me trick or treating in Logandale on the 31st of October.'Cause I will be in HOLLYWOOD baby!

The Evans are taking Caro and me to California for three days. We will spend friday and saturday in DISNEYLAND and on sunday, which happens to be October 31st, we will be cruisin' motherfreakin LOS ANGELES! Hollywood, the walk of fame, Beverly Hills, whereever we will end up. Oh I'm ready bebe! So excited!

Another dream come true..

CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME AGAIN!

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou

HOMECOMING 2010

And there we are, sunday, October 24th, the very end of an amazing homecoming week!
Friday was the game. When the varsity football team is playing, you can always expect something big out there, I mean hello, it's America, but during homecoming, I was told that everything was even bigger! So I was really excited to see the game.
When I came home after school, Blake called me to tell me we were going to Las Vegas to buy me a dress. Nope, I didn't have one yet, the last day before the dance. So I got in the car with her and her mom and we drove to Vegas. I bought a dress, shoes, and something like a jacket to go with it (don't know the word for it), and a purse. After months of worrying about what to wear to the dance and stuff, I was done in an hour. Thanks for helping out Blake! After that, we went to Starbucks and had coffee and ate dinner. When we drove back to the game, we were kind of late, which made us miss encore choir's performance. Sorry guys.
It was amazing. The place was decorated, the football players were wearing their homecoming jerseys, cheer was cheering, dance was dancing, like always, just like a movie. I had so much fun! After that I went home, I hung out with Caro, Blake and Tina and went to bed.


The day after was the day of the dance. I was so extremely nervous and I still don't know why!
At around noon, my date Nathan picked me up to go shooting. With some other people, we went out in the desert and I shot some amazing guns. It was the second time in my life I ever went shooting but I love it! My right shoulder still hurts, but it was worth it. After that we went to the MacDonalds and to Cameron's place, where we watched part of a movie. After that it was time for me to go back home and get ready for the dance. I waited for Blake to come home from her date and went over to her house, where she did my hair and make-up. I put on my dress and ran back home, where my date was already waiting for me.. Awkward. So I went inside, Linda took some
pictures and I got in the car to the dance.
The dance was amazing. The girls were wearing a dress and the boys were wearing a shirt and church pants and everything that would be considered formal. There was punch like in the movies, there was slow dancing like in the movies and you could get your pictures taken. I had a blast. The dance was from 7 to 10 which was kind of.. new haha, and it went by way too fast, but I had the best time.
After the dance I watched a movie with Nathan and went back home. I had a great day!

Homecoming week was awesome!

I'm still waiting for some pictures, so as soon as I have the good ones I will post them here!

xxxx

For Lisa

Ik mis je.

Imagine

'Nothing ever came of any dreamer who didn't live it out' - Alain Clark

Homecoming - monday to thursday

I seem to start to get the hang of blogging - waiting for months doesn't do you any good. And you know what, I actually enjoy writing a lot.. So here I go. Keep checking my blog out, because from now on I will actually use it!

I'm still in the middle of homecoming week, and it's just amazing. Every school day we have a dress-up day. Monday was Science fiction day, tuesday was ESPN day, wednesday was Disney day, today (thursday) was black&white and tomorrow will be extreme blue and gold. Most of you that know me good enough know that I'm not the kind of person to dress up to school, so as boring as I am, I didn't. However, Homecoming has a whole lot more to offer!
Every day there is an after-school activity. On monday there was signpainting. I
didn't go, because I had powderpuff practice. On tuesday, there was the powderpuff game! Powderpuff football is American football for girls. We all had to ask a football player for his jersey and play.. hard haha. It was amazing. The freshmen and seniors played the sophomores and juniors, which was my team. We lost by 12-8 or something, but I had a lot of fun. And I didn't really care anyway, because that day my soccer team had beat Adelson High by 9-1, a game in which I finally made 2 goals! So I had an amazing day after all. Thanks Nathan for your jersey!
Wednesday there was the movie on the field. At least, it was supposed to be on the field. We never get rain here, except for on moments when we really don't want it (although people here are happy with rain at any time it seems), so yeah, it was raining. No movie on the field! It was in the cafeteria instead. The movie was.. Peter Pan.. so kind of boring, but I had a good evening anyway!

And today something that homecoming is best known for back home; the parade! Every grade had made its own float, the cheerleaders and football players had their own firetruck, and some other groups also had a float. The pep band was playing and the dancers were dancing and it was amazing, just like in the movies. After that there was the assembly in the gym, where they announced the Homecoming king and queen, thanked the senior athletes and had some peps by cheer and dance. Once again, amazing! After that there was the bonfire, where they ''burned the eagles''. The eagles are the mascottes of Moapa Valley High School's main rivals; Boulder city, and since the football team is playing Boulder tomorrow, we burned their mascotte?
Evil...


So as I already said, tomorrow there will be the big homecoming football game and saturday the dance! I am so excited!
I will tell you everything in the weekend :) For now I am going to do my homework and be very proud of myself for finally using my blog.

Lots of love

Cille

'To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ' ~Aldous Huxley

Sweet 16 & San Francisco!

Two really important things I have to tell about, and you know what.. I was planning on being lazy again and to wait for another month or so, but then I realized that this week is homecoming week, which definitely deserves its own post at the end of the week.. So let's just get it over with because I need to start doing my homework!

Monday October 4th, 2010.. A great day in history. My 16th birthday!
When I told my friends back home that I was going to go to the USA in this year, the first thing they said that I was totally ruining my most important birthday of my life. In Europe 16 means party, in America it means.. drivers licence? Yeah that's something, but that doesn't even apply for foreign exchange students. So I gotta admit, I wasn't as excited as I should have been, but once it started coming up I got the feeling back again. And I had an AWESOME day! It started of with loads of rain - which was probably the first time I've really seen a lot of rain out here - , making the waters in the valley flood, which looked awesome and was really exciting sitting on the schoolbus to Las Vegas to play a soccer game. I was riding the bus in the front and talking to Maaike, when suddenly my whole soccer team started singing happy birthday! Arrived in Vegas, we totally beat Adelson, by 7-2. It was an amazing game.. When I got back home late in the evening, I celebrated my birthday with my host family and Jackie and Richard's family. I got great gifts and had an amazing evening. And then there was a bunch of letters and packages from back home.. I felt overloaded. I was so happy with everything! This was the best sweet 16 after all! Thanks everybody!

However.. the real party hadn't started yet. That was all up to SAN FRANCISCO!
On October 7th we left from Las Vegas. An amazing view, seeing Las Vegas by night out of a plane, I can tell you that! We arrived in San Francisco and went to our hotel. I shared a room with Tina (Norway), Caro (Germany) and Sarah (Switzerland). It was amazing! We had a lot of fun. In the 3 days we spent there, I saw so much! We did a lot of bus tours which gave us the opportunity to see the whole city without having to walk for hours and hours which I really appreciated with my lazy but.. I saw the golden gate bridge which was as amazing as in the pictures, we even drove over the golden gate bridge! We went to Alcatraz, which used to be a prison on an island, just in the bay of San Francisco. All the psychos went there, because there was no way of getting out, even though you could see the city easily from out there. That was fun too :) I did a lot of shopping.. Maybe a bit too much.. but everything's cheaper here! If you ever want to go shopping and you can't go to Vegas; go to San Francisco! We had dinner in China town (yeah! Chinese! haha) and a lot of Starbucks.. I had the best weekend ever. Thank you weather for being so perfect and not cover the whole city in fog, I truly loved it! We could actually see the bridge. Thanks everybody for making this such a good trip!

Lovely how blogger is helping my out uplouding my pictures right now.. I tried three times and I give up now. Pics are on my facebook! Check that out! Maybe I'll try to post them later :)

Prepare, because NEXT WEEKEND there will be a post about HOMECOMING! I'm right in the middle of it all right now, but I'm not telling anything! Ha!

See ya laterrrrr