Prom

 

This weekend I had Prom. Prom is a formal dance organized by the school at the end of the school year. At our school both Juniors and Seniors (+Date) were allowed to go. Everybody dresses up: Girls are wearing nice dresses and boys tuxedos (I rented mine and it was $180).

 

The day started for me at 10:00: I got up, picked up my tux (more expensive suit) and got ready. A couple hours later I got picked up by a friend, we picked up our prom dates and then went to a friend's house to take pictures. We were a group consisting out of 8 couples (16 people). All parents came to take pictures. After taking.. well it felt like 10000 pictures, we drove to very fancy restaurant called "Country Club", it was very expensive but also very good!

 

After dinner we finally went to Prom which was in the school gym. Firstly we had the "Grand March", which is a March where every couple is announced and is walking through the gym while family and other students are watching and taking pictures. The gym was really crowded and the standings were actually full. This took about 2 hours (there were more than 400 couples). After the March the actual dance started, the music unfortunately wasn't really good, so we left after 1 hour to a friend's house where we changed clothes and hang out until post prom.

 

Post Prom was actually the most fun part
of Prom. It started at 12:30 pm and went until 4:30 am. On the way there we had a little car crash so we arrived a little bit late. It was at NDSU, the North Dakota State University. When we finally arrived there we all were very hungry, so we first ate something,

of course... pizza! At Post Prom were a lot of different games like Bowling, Table Tennis, Pool, Bingo, Gambling and much more... we tried to do as much as possible. There were also a lot of prices like cash, gift cards, iPads, Beats Headphones etc. that you could win. In the end there was a hypnotist show which was extremely funny.

 

Afterwards we went to a friend's house again, ate breakfast, and just hang out for a bit. But at 6:30 we all decided to go home. So we went home and finally (!) went to bed. 

 

I have to say it was really one of the best nights I've had here, it was a lot of fun, and one of the most American High School experiences overall.

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More picture coming soon...

Washington D.C. Trip

Fortunately I had the opportunity to go to the US capitol Washington D.C. together with the Church of my host sisters on a mission trip. The occasion was the annually “March for Life”. We went there all the way by bus which was a 26 hour bus ride. When we finally arrived we just ate something, went to the Lincoln Memorial and then went to bed. On the next day we went sight-seeing, we went in pretty much every museum and saw every memorial: e.g. the National Archives, National Museum of National History, National Museum of Natural History, Washington Monument etc. It was all very impressive and interesting but not enough time to watch everything detailed. On the next day we went to the Cathedral which was very impressive too, the whole building was made out of marvel and it was just huge. The last day of our trip was just the March, which ended at the Capitol. And after another 26 hour ride we made it finally back to Fargo. Overall Washington D.C. was another awesome experience, it is just so different compared to the German capitol Berlin, the architecture, the people and so on…

 

Minneapolis Trip

 

 

This weekend I went together with a group of EF exchange students to Minneapolis, the biggest city in Minnesota with about 3.5 million inhabitants. The ride there was about 4 hours, therefore we left pretty early Fargo to have enough time there. We had two different targets to visit: the Mall of America, and the Premium Outlet Albertville.

On the first day we went to the Mall of America which is the second biggest Mall in the world and the biggest in the USA with more than 500 stores, it is built on 4 levels and just one of them was probably bigger than every mall I had ever seen before. The Mall has his own amusement park, mini golf course, movie theaters, and a Sea Life aquarium. You could really find every shop or store you can thing about… Unfortunately we didn’t have time enough to try some rides in the amusement park or go to the Sea Life aquarium. We had to go to our hotel to check-in. The hotel was really nice and even had a pool and a hot tub.

In the next morning we had to check-out again after breakfast, on our way back we stopped at the Premium Outlet Albertville for a few hours. It has more than 100 outlet shops like Nike, Under Armor, Adidas, Calvin Klein and much more. After spending another couple hundred dollars we decided to drive back to Fargo. Overall the weekend was a lot of fun, especially because I was able to meet so much other exchange students from this region and talk about our experiences here.

 

 

 

 

American Football Season 13/14

The football season war probably one of the best parts of my exchange year. It started right away one week after I arrived. We had a 10 day camp to before school started to get in shape for the season. We practiced every day for 5 hours at more than 100°. It was just insanely hot but we worked hard and it was worth it. It was the best football season in High School History. We actually won the Conference, but unfortunately we lost our first Playoff Game. The atmosphere at the games was just crazy compared to Germany, almost all students and a lot of parents came. I played mostly kicker and receiver. It was just the best thing to start the High School year and I got to know a lot of nice people.