Basketball ++

Hi again first of all I want to thank you all for reading my blog. I have almost 1000 unique visitor now and that is super cool. I did not know when I first started writing that so many would be reading it. Awesome!

Two weeks ago was Halloween. We started the day with cleaning the house before we went to Sarah's last soccer game for the season. They won 11-0! We had brought our costumes to the game because we left directly from the game to a family friend's house. We changed before we all went trick or treating. Here people in all ages go. In most of the houses there were people sitting outside to give out the candies and all the houses were decorated. I was dressed up as little red riding hood, Renan was a Rockey Balboa, Sydney was the little mermaid and Sarah was a zombie soccer player. We got a lot of candies we went back to the house for a little while before we went back home and ate all the candies :p
I'll post a picture from Halloween later.

This week the basketball season started I had my first game on Tuesday. We also played a tournament this week. We had one game on Thursday and two on Friday. We lost all our games, but I had a lot of fun. We'll do better next time ;) On the game on Thursday i made my first foul and the ref came up and congratulated me. In the first game on Friday i finally made my first basket in the game it felt so good hopefully there will be many more of those later.

One ting i have noticed is that all the teams we have played against have a lot taller girls than we have. I'm actually the tallest girl on my team. Good excuse for why we haven't won yet ;)

Busy life

You think your life is busy you have a lot to do? Really? I Used to think my life was busy, but it really wasn't. I always had a few minutes here and an hour there, now I have nothing. Last weekend I took my ACT test from 8am to 12pm then I went to my host grandmothers house to set up tables and chairs for a party we were going to have for my host great grandmother later. After that I went to my other host grandmothers house to make food for the party. We got home at 5.30 pm and then we had 30 min to shower and get dressed for the party. At the party I was busy all the time serving people drinks and cakes.

On sunday I went to my host sisters cheer leading show. After the show I went with my friend to her church and afterwards we went to McDonalds with all her friends from church and we had a great time.

Then another week started and also basketball practices. I'm at school from 8am to 3.47pm and than I have practices from 4 to 6 EVERYDAY and on Saturdays from 10am to 12pm. On weekdays I'm home between 6.30pm and 7pm. Then I take a shower eat dinner do my homework and go to bed. Home in Norway I would watch a lot of series like Desperate House Wifes, Gossip Girl and Grace Anatomy. I was looking forward to see all these shows before my friends in Norway, because they come out earlier here, but I don't have any time left over to watch TV. The life of an exchange student is busy.

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 :)

Babyshower

Last Saturday we went to a babyshower. They had a few games and then we ate. My host parents told me that this was more like a birthday party that an babyshower, because usually there would only be girls and they would have a lot more "baby games". They made me dance with the chicken that was kind of fun and embarrassing at the same time.