Prom, New York and everything in between

The time since prom has been very eventful and a lot of fun, although I already have to start to think about the day, when I have to leave my new home to go back to my old one. But I try to enjoy the time, which I think I am pretty successful at. Anyway Prom was incredibly awesome. All the Water Polo Players and I, had to change at the High School Pool at Zeeland High School, because the Girls Water Polo Team had their Districts Championship game only 2 hours prior to the Dance. Additionally the game got delayed, because there was a power outage and in the end all the Polo players and their dates were about one hour too late, but it was no problem. We still got some of the great food and missed only a few minutes of the action on the dance floor. The location was great with a lot of space, a nice garden and a balcony above a illuminated pond. Additionally the weather was a lot better than the hours before with omly a few clouds and no rain at all. Basically perfect for a great prom night. The DJ was pretty good, but he played too much country. A bit more of Rap and R&B wouldn´t have done any damage. But the dancing was great and I even got in the situation of totally failing the attempt of dancing walz with another german exchange student. A little embarrassing, but I have the defense of not have taken any dancing lessons 🙂 . After Prom, which unfortunately was too fast over at 11pm, I went with friends to an after party at a friends house and we were sitting around a barn fire, talking and freezing. But it was an incredible night, which I will never forget! The week before Prom was an Invitational Water Polo Tournament at Rockford High Schools and I went with Debbie, Robin and Robin´s dad and wife to the restaurant called „Corner Bar“. At this restaurant, one can try a Hot Dog Challenge which means to eat 12 hot dogs in less than 4 hours. I almost ate all of them, but the last half Hot Dog was too much to eat and outside I got pretty sick. It was a great experience to test your own boundaries and I am seriously considering to try it again, but not eating anything before it. It was very nice to get out of school, because I don´t have to deal with homework anymore, which was a ridiculous amount in the last couple weeks of school. It was sad at the same time, though, because I will probably see most of the people I did a lot of things at school never again. But there was no time for being blue, because the next day the flight to new york required preparation. It was an awesome weekend, although the weather was not good for the first two days. I went to the high line, which is a transformed rail road track close to the Hudson River in Manhattan, I visited the National September 11th Memorial, which was impressive and sad at the same time, I visited the Museum of Natural History with its overwhelming amount of information and history, I had a nice barbecue and I went to the New Jersey shore with nice weather, and had a really good time! Now there are a bunch of Graduation parties coming up and the Graduation itself. I am pretty sure it will be a great time with a lot of great memories added to my experience here before going home. I added some new pictures to the picasa album: https://picasaweb.google.com/108204582564821266521/ExchangeYear201213?authkey=Gv1sRgCMiYt_DT6prcwgE