How is everyone?
I haven’t been quite as busy as usual lately (perhaps thankfully) but I’ve been staying with another temporary host family with limited internet access.
Last weekend was one of the other exchange student’s birthday party, which was held in the San Antonio area. It was great fun and really good to meet up with some of the other kids from our district. We just hung out, ate, did silly things, ate and did more silly things :P Oh, and they had a piñata!!! Heee xD candy :)So then on the Wednesday I got dropped off at my second temporary host family as my hp were going to Florida for a wedding. I stayed at Tom and Chrissy Clark’s; they have three daughters Sydney (16), Kirby (11) and Dani (6). It was interesting to have siblings, and especially two quite young ones. That Sunday night we went to a fundraising dinner for Chrissy’s work, she works in a local school in a counsellor type position with underprivileged kids. It was so much fun! There was a Rock n` Roll 50’s theme, which of course means playing dress ups! :D I got to invite a ‘date’ to come along with me so Tulio, the Brazilian staying in the town only 15 mins from NB was able to come in and hang out.
Sydney also bought a friend along, so there were four of as all dressed up. We decided that we should definitely make the experience more authentic by getting some milkshakes :P It was an excellent night and luckily for me Tulio doesn’t mind dancing so we did so for most of the night, in fact, I’m not going to lie, we basically showed everyone up :P We tried to do that thing they do on Grease (which Sydney and I watched that day :P) where they guy like lifts the chick up and then she like goes through his legs and back again. We weren’t too bad although my skirt thought it would deceive me so, I opted against any more of that. :P
I also went through a bit of homesickness last week but it only lasted a day or two. My oldie (Perle) is very good at comforting :) And I’m starting to feel more comfortable/happy at school, making more ‘friends’ and that sort of thing. My favourite classes are by far and away psychology and sociology, not un-coincidentally I have the same teacher for both classes. He is so funny, a little too enthusiastic sometimes, but entertaining. I took some vegemite on toast (done the right way) to school the other seek and gave it to him and some of the kids to try, it went down quite well :) Apparently though he has been talking about it in some of his other classes :P He also put a question on our last test referencing me, or well my situation, it was like ‘You have just moved from Queensland, Australia to New Braunfels, Texas :P It made my day.
So right now I’m at the lakehouse chilling out with Caroline, a previous exchange student from Germany who has come back for a visit. The Barr’s are having a party for her here tomorrow night and another party tonight for some friends who’s kids are getting married, so a full weekend I guess :)
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