4th of December, Thursday
In Hungary, we celebrate name days. All the days in the calendar are assigned to one or two names, and the name and the day go together. This is an old tradition, in Hungary anyways. Today was my name day. I don't celebrate it personally, but some people, like my parents, do. It's customary to wish the person happy name day on that day, and sometimes they get flowers too.
I didn't go to my school this morning. I went to school with Herb. On Tuesday, I found out, that he was taking two of his classes on a field trip to ice skate. So after a day of begging to take me too, he gave in, and this morning, at nine o'clock I was on the bus on the way to Bill Gray's Iceplex with two buses worth of 5th and 8th graders. I met a South African girl today, whom Herb was telling me a lot about. She's 17 years old, and she just her teaching practice for her diploma at Greece Christian. She was home-schooled, so she finished high school very early.
It's funny, according to the laws of big numbers, there are 1000 people, who look just like you. I don't know how many people there are, who ARE just like me, but I found one today. Sarah and I share so many things, likes and dislikes, we barely believed us meeting was real. We hit it off right away, and the similarities just kept piling up. In the matter of 3 hours, we knew so much about each other. Other people had a hard time believing we only just met today. While we were talking and skating, we helped out the children, who were adorable. Many of them never skated before, but we got through the day without any major injuries. By 1 o'clock we were all really tired, and we went back to the school. It was a really fun field trip. Me and Sarah just kept amazing each other. We're both super tall blonds (although she's 1 inch taller), we love South Africa, we love the same TV shows, similar music, reading, books, movies, sports. I have a feeling I'm going to write a lot about this girl in the blog.
At 2, I walked over to Athena for auditions. We're doing Anything Goes this year, for our big high school musical. Athena is one of the best schools in Rochester for drama and music education. It has a brand new preforming arts center, what I'd call a theater really. There were 63 kids. For the first hour, we went through the two songs everyone has to present on next Tuesday for the vocal auditions. Then the dance teacher arrived, and we jumped right into tap-dancing. It really surprised me how many people tap. I took lessons for 2 years, but the choreography was super difficult, and I had bad shoes. I didn't do really well, a minute long dance learned in 1 hour is not easy to present well. I'm more relying on the vocal auditions now.
Me and Alma stayed behind from 5 to 6:30 at the school, to wait for a presentation. I skyped my parents for a little time, because I had my name day. The presentation by an MCC representative was about applying to colleges and financial aid, but we didn't learn anything useful to us, because he talked about federal grants, to which international student aren't eligible for.
Devan took me home, I was so tired. Such a long and eventful day!
In Hungary, we celebrate name days. All the days in the calendar are assigned to one or two names, and the name and the day go together. This is an old tradition, in Hungary anyways. Today was my name day. I don't celebrate it personally, but some people, like my parents, do. It's customary to wish the person happy name day on that day, and sometimes they get flowers too.
I didn't go to my school this morning. I went to school with Herb. On Tuesday, I found out, that he was taking two of his classes on a field trip to ice skate. So after a day of begging to take me too, he gave in, and this morning, at nine o'clock I was on the bus on the way to Bill Gray's Iceplex with two buses worth of 5th and 8th graders. I met a South African girl today, whom Herb was telling me a lot about. She's 17 years old, and she just her teaching practice for her diploma at Greece Christian. She was home-schooled, so she finished high school very early.
It's funny, according to the laws of big numbers, there are 1000 people, who look just like you. I don't know how many people there are, who ARE just like me, but I found one today. Sarah and I share so many things, likes and dislikes, we barely believed us meeting was real. We hit it off right away, and the similarities just kept piling up. In the matter of 3 hours, we knew so much about each other. Other people had a hard time believing we only just met today. While we were talking and skating, we helped out the children, who were adorable. Many of them never skated before, but we got through the day without any major injuries. By 1 o'clock we were all really tired, and we went back to the school. It was a really fun field trip. Me and Sarah just kept amazing each other. We're both super tall blonds (although she's 1 inch taller), we love South Africa, we love the same TV shows, similar music, reading, books, movies, sports. I have a feeling I'm going to write a lot about this girl in the blog.
At 2, I walked over to Athena for auditions. We're doing Anything Goes this year, for our big high school musical. Athena is one of the best schools in Rochester for drama and music education. It has a brand new preforming arts center, what I'd call a theater really. There were 63 kids. For the first hour, we went through the two songs everyone has to present on next Tuesday for the vocal auditions. Then the dance teacher arrived, and we jumped right into tap-dancing. It really surprised me how many people tap. I took lessons for 2 years, but the choreography was super difficult, and I had bad shoes. I didn't do really well, a minute long dance learned in 1 hour is not easy to present well. I'm more relying on the vocal auditions now.
Me and Alma stayed behind from 5 to 6:30 at the school, to wait for a presentation. I skyped my parents for a little time, because I had my name day. The presentation by an MCC representative was about applying to colleges and financial aid, but we didn't learn anything useful to us, because he talked about federal grants, to which international student aren't eligible for.
Devan took me home, I was so tired. Such a long and eventful day!
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