Homecoming

We have homecoming this week and it is a big deal here. What happens is that the football team picks a team to play against often a rival or a team they think they can beat. The week of the homecoming game is called spirit week and every one dresses up. At my school the themes were not that cool we had tie day, collage day, twin day and “drag a bear day”. The drag a bear is because we are going to play against the bears. Everyone are gonna drag a bear around all day and then in the end rip it apart. Other schools have had themes as Hollywood, Disney, Neon and Nerd day.
On Thursday we had a parade that ended up at our school and then we had a peprally were they announced the homecoming king and class favorites and after that we had a bonfire.

The field trip

I was selected to go to the field trip as I said. I think they picked about 60 students to go. They picked the ones that had good attendance, handed in their homework on time and were behaving and positive in the class room. I was honored to go. We went to the “Museum of South Texas History” It was very interesting to learn about the history of the place I'm now living in.

In Mexican tradition November 2nd is “el dia de los muertos” or the day of the dead. That is a big celebration where they decorate with scelletons and they go to the graveyard and leaves their friends and family that have passed away their favorite food. Because its soon gonna be Noveber 2nd they had people at he museum dress out and there was also a play. I could only understand half of the play because the actor switched back an forth between talking English and Spanish. They also had dancers and a mariachi band. A mariachi band is a typical mexican band. The ones that were playing for us were from a highschool in the area and they were really good.

After the museum we went to Peter piper where we got free lunch and ice cream mmmm.

Update

It's a while since I have been writing now because i have been really busy the last couple of weeks but now I'm gonna go ahead and give you all an update.

The football team lost last week against Harlingen Cardinals 7-63. This week we won over Harlingen south hawks 28-12. One of my friends Gabby won another cross country gold medal and is now the best cc runner in the valley. The lady wolverine volleyball team played against the lady cardinals and won 3 of 5 sets.

On Saturday we went to my hostsister's soccer game and after that we went to Pet Smart which is a huge pet store to buy some clothes for our dogs because it was only 20 degrees Celsius so they were could. On Sunday we went to church and to the mall. Guess what. I bought another pair of shoes. My third pair here so far. We had a day of from school on Monday and we used it to clean the house. It took us all day.

This weekend I was supposed to go to San Marcus which is about a 5 hour drive from here to go see my host sisters cheerleading competition, but I got selected to go to a field trip with school so I'm gonna stay here with my host grandparents. The field trip is to a museum in Edinburgh. It's from 10am-4pm and we get free lunch at Peter Piper Pizza.

This week

This week the people from the exchange organization came over. They just told us about the rules and stuff. They were really strict and blunt, but I guess they have to be with the job they have. If someone is braking the rules they are the once to send them home so you don't want to get on their bad side.

This Friday our football team played the Raiders one of our rivals and also one of the best teams in the vally. We lost... 42 - 7 .. It' bad!

On Saturday I went to my hostsister soccer game again and later i went to Sonic with some friends. Sonic is a dive in burger place where they also have a sand volleyball court we were there all night and had a lot of fun playing, talking and taking pictures :)