POWDER PUFF

Hello to everybody!

I have to say sorry that I did not update yesterday, I arrived home late and I did not have time.

I went to the Powder Puff, the feminine football girl. Pres played it against Holy Cross, another school. We lost 16-14, but we played very very good. Well, I did not play, but... I was giving candy to the children! All the children were dressed up and said Trick or Treat to us. They were so cute!

Here I am leaving photo of the Powder Puff. Some of my friends were playing there, and my History teacher was encouraging them. She has a very big voice!



I had a lot of fun, but it was freezing! And Lynne told me that in winter we are going to be at -9 degrees Celsius (16 Fahrenheit). I am going to die of the cold!

Here is Meredith dressed up to go to a Halloween party. Isn't she pretty?



I will see you next Sunday!

Bye Bye!

WEDDING

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The wedding cake

Do you know what? Yesterday I went to a wedding! My first American wedding! I have asked Mere, and she told me that it was an average wedding, typical here. For me, it was really original!

It was a Methodist ceremony, and the bride was very pretty. I love weddings, I always cry. The groom was Don's nephew, and I met a lot of people of Don's family. Everybody was very nice to me. At first I thought that I was going to be a bit embarrassed because I did not know anybody, but I had fun.

Then we went to the reception in a museum. It was original! It had low lights, and after the dinner was over, everybody started to dance modern music. Of course, the first dance was a formal one between the bride and the groom. They made such a nice couple!

We ate salad as the first dish, and then very nice chicken and beef. And... macaroni and cheese! Cody, the bride, loves macaroni and cheese (and I really like that too). The cake was awesome! It had a lot of different cupcakes of several flavors.

Weddings here are less formal than in Spain (I think, I have not been to a lot of weddings). However, they are very nice. People here get married with twenty-six years old, more or less. In Spain, people get married in their thirties, so it is different.

Anyway, do you know what? I had lots of fun and I learned how American weddings are. But, either American or Spanish weddings, I always cry! Weddings are so moving!

I will see you next Sunday!

Bye Bye!

DRACULA & END OF THE QUARTER

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Last Sunday I went to see Dracula with Mere (my sister) and Alex (her boyfriend). It was so nice! I was not very scared (probably Alex would say that I was, but... I was not!), but yes a bit. It was so real! In some times of the show, I was at one meter (3 feet) of the actors! I love the theater!

Do you know the best part? We took a photo with the actors in the end of the show. Here I am posting it. It is great!


Guess what? The bad thing is the first quarter finishes tomorrow. Yesterday and today I had a lot of exams and projects. So I had to study! (Yes, I am a student, in theory it is my job and all of that, but... I still do not like it). Anyway, I think everything was OK.

I will know my marks for this quarter (each year has four quarters) next Wednesday. I am nervous! They will show how I am doing things as an exchange student in her American life. Oh, I love America! I encourage everybody to come to the United States at least once in their life, they are not going to regret.

This advice is to people that are thinking of coming or not with the Barrié and Amancio Ortega Foundations: Come on! It will be a wonderful, very impressive year with a lot of new things. You are not going to regret it!

I hope to see all of you, my readers, in the comments.

Bye Bye!

WALK-A-THON

Hello everybody!

Me and my friend Emily

Some days ago we had the Walk-a-thon at school. What is this? It is a 3-mile walk that we do during school time. Why we do that? Because it is a prize. We helped to earn money for school so it can give other students scholarships and we had a lot of prizes: a T-shirt from the Walk-a-thon, a week without uniform, walking three miles singing and shouting with our friends... It was fantastic!

You could hear the energy of the people, the love that all of us feel for Pres. Here is one of the songs:

Mere and me after the walk-a-thon

We are the toppers!
We are proud!
We are not quiet
but we are loud!
We come from Pres!
We are the best
because we are better
than all the rest!
We are the toppers!

Sarah, me and Bernadette (The Bees of Pres)

What do you think of it? It is fantastic, isn't it? It made me feel part of Pres, belonging to this group. During the Walk-a-thon, we were not thinking about problems, about homework or about any thing of this kind, just about the love that all of us feel for our school. Dear readers, it is a great experience! I hope that I can participate in other events of this kind soon!


See you in the comments!

Bye Bye!