update #23 promposal/rush

days count: 253, days to go: 76

Last wednesday we were supposed to have a track meet at Independence High School in Bakersfield. Right after the meet started, it began to rain really hard. It got cancelled and we went home.
The rest of the week was pretty normal, we went to my host brother's baseball games etc.

On Saturday we had another meet at Taft Union. I met another exchange student from Switzerland there, he lives in Taft and came to cheer. The meet went pretty well, THS had decent results.
After we got home, my host siblings cousin came to visit. He lives in northern Oregon and came here with his grandma. We went to my host brothers baseball game and got some food. After he game was over we went to pizza.
On sunday, we went to a place called rush (I already mentioned in one of the december updates I think) and just had fun there, even though my host sister and I were sore.

This week started off with a rough track practice on monday, but when I got home my friend was standing in the door with a really cute proposal on a poster. 
I am honestly so excited for prom, it might be the highlight of every exchange student's year haha.

update #22 - just a bunch of stuff

days count: 245

Last week was pretty normal. Just going to school, track practices and a track meet on Wednesday. I started doing long jump as an event in track, so now I'm running the varsity 100 and 200m sprints, as well as long jump. I also got my prom dress and the invitations today at school. On Friday I went to see Beauty and the Beast in the movie theatre. The movie was awesome.
After that, we went to Starbucks and met some friends and hang out with them.
We were outside and the dog got sprayed by a skunk. It was a really weird situation & it smelled really bad, but it was funny. On saturday we basically didn't do a lot, we just studied and stuff. I'm taking my first final exam for my last semester this thursday. We're pretty busy in all the classes, we have a bug project (which is disgusting tbh), we're learning much new music in choir for the last concert in spring, taking benchmarks etc and we'll probably participate in LipSync with the aerobics P.E. class I'm taking. 
Saturday evening, we watched a scary movie with the same guys as we hung out the day before. 
On Sunday morning, my host dad and my two host siblings went shooting and they took me as well. It was honestly amazing. Like, it's not something I would be passionate about, we just shot like gun shells and bottles etc but I will definitely do it again, it was sososooossos much fun.  I honestly can't believe that my journey will be over in about 84 days, time literally flies. And I'm really sorry, the updates are really boring haha.

update #21 Mr Warrior

days count: 235

Today was the last day of my third quarter in THS. We got some informations about senior year (I wish I could be a senior omg) and just stuff like that. In the beginning of the week we had a few track practices, but not today and yesterday because of something I'll talk about later. Track is so much fun and the people are really nice. Personally I think it is way more fun than cross country, but its only because I'm not that into long distance.

Today we had an assembly called Mr Warrior. It's like a competition between 26 senior boys, the winner is Mr Warrior. There's certain categories every competing guy has to pass. Every guy has an escort, who has to be a senior. They have a couple dances, most of them just with the other guys, then there's one with their escort and one with their mum, and it is adorable.
The winner got free prom tickets and stuff.
Yeah, just a really short update I guess…

update #20 - vegas/ first track meet/ knott's berry farm

days count: 230

I don't really know where I stopped, but  whatever. I don't even know how to blog, so I have no idea what I am doing here but who cares (…) I'll just tell what I remember.
There is some personal that I just don't want to talk about, so if some things don't make sense I apologize. Okay, I'll just start.

I went on the EF Las Vegas / Grand Canyon trip with many other Exchangers. (No clue if this word even exists..) We got picked up by a bus and after a couple hours we were in our hotel, which was on a road next to the strip. We basically just had to go through the MGM hotel, or more like the actual casino and we were there. The hotel we stayed at had a hot tub and a pool. I shared a room with Vendela and Nadja (both of them attend my high school) and four other girls from other places in Cali, and one of the IEC's that went on the trip with us. The evening we got there, we went straight on the strip. It was the second time we've been there for Vendela and me and the first time for Nadja, so it was still pretty exciting. Las Vegas is, besides Paris, which is actually also in Vegas lol, my favorite city ever. You can never see everything because there's so much going on and things always change.
Okay, back to business,we spent our whole evening there, our curfew was ten.

Sunday morning, we went to an outlet mall, after we got home, Vendela, Nadja and I went to the planet hollywood mall on the strip. On monday, we got up earlier and took the bus to Arizona. The Grand Canyon is just an insane place to see. It's incredibly beautiful.

As you can see, it was pretty chilly

My girls & I,
no clue what's wrong with my legs though

So, we just spent some time there. 

We got back to Vegas at about 5, we went to the strip and then to the Hard Rock Café where we all had dinner together. After dinner, the bus picked us up and we went to the famous Las Vegas sign, we had a little photo session there. I still don't have the pictures, I'll post them when I get them. 

Can we just take a second to talk
about how beautiful Arizona is?

Tuesday morning, we took off to go back to California.
Okay, I don't really want to talk about it, I'll just keep it short and say that I don't live at my old host family's house anymore. I won't say anything more about that.

Okay, so Wednesday I went back to school, and after school I had my first track meet at Ridgecrust College. It was pretty fun and I'm just going to be honest, I like track way more than Cross Country. But I'm actually not a big runner, so I just suck but that's okay.

Saturday, one of my friends celebrated her birthday, which is today, in a place called Knott's berry farm, which is kind of like six flags. We couldn't do many rides because we were in line for each one for at least one hour, so we did like 6 rides on one day.
Sunday I didn't do a lot, just studying and my host sister and I cooked pasta.

I don't know why the post is so short, even though I had a lot going on, but yeah.. Can't believe I only have 3 months to go. And sorry, I have no idea why parts of the post are orange and I hate myself for it, because every single post takes me about an hour but I can't even fix this. Sorry