Winterformal and Piano concert

Two weeks ago I went to my first (and last) school dance since we don't have them at home. It was winter formal, and all the girls went to Megan's house to get ready. It was a fun experience, and something all non-American girls dream of when they see it on tv.

Getting ready

Me, Mia, Jessie, Megan, Jessalyn, and Miwa

The whole senior-crew

Last Thursday the Christmas piano concert, that all piano majors in our school participated in, took place. Everyone played either in a duet, trio or quartet. I accidently turned two pages instead of one, and so it got messed up a little bit, but Anderson and I, after freaking out, got ourselves together and saved it pretty well.

I played O Holy Night with Anderson,  Marques, and Lane. It was my first time playing in a quartet. 

Anderson and I

My parents gave me flowers afterwards! :))

All the sophmore piano majors. Don't even ask about the dresses, they made us wear them

My piano class. They're so sweet. 

By the way, we got chickens, so we have two chickens in the backyard! We got them because Lucky thought it would be fun to be able to provide ourselves with our own eggs, so we can eat fresh eggs every morning now!

Last Saturday I went to my first swim meet. I swam 50yd freestyle, 100yd breaststroke and a 200yd freestyle relay with 3 other people. I didn't win or anything but it was fun although I was at the pool for about 6 hours. There were so many people, because swimmers from all the schools participated. 

Meg and Sarah who I swim with

Now there's only a little over a week until I leave… It's so surreal. I'm really excited about seeing my family and friends again, but I'm gonna miss everyone here so much. 

I leave the 28th, so I'll post an update after Christmas, hopefully before I go home. 

Sara xx

Thanksgiving

I thought I'd better post an update since Christmas is already just around the corner. As you might know, we spent Thanksgiving holiday in Waycross with Lisa and Pipa out in the country. We were there from Wednesday to Saturday and I had a lovely time with a bunch of people.

Eating oisters and making s'mores - a marshmellow on a cracker with chocolate - for desert

Naww little Paco, Pipa and Lisa's dog

So much fooood

The kids' table

Fourwheeler adventures

Avery, Mia and I being silly .. 

The Friday after thanksgiving, there's always a huge sale in the whole country called Black Friday. Most sales start Thanksgiving evening. We wanted to go to belk which is a big clothes, shoes and jewelery store, but as we passed it, we saw that there was a gigantic line before the store had even opened.
Since we weren't in the city, one of the only other places we could go was Walmart, but it was packed! They had moved all the food to the side and stacked kids' toys, house decoration, and all kinds of thing there instead. There were just so many people.

A panorama shot of the Lisa and Pipa's nice house. We stayed in our camper next to the house. On the picture you can't really see it, but there a lake, and there are also chickens!

We came home Saturday afternoon and I immediately got ready for Spohia's quinceñera/Sweet 16. It was a pretty big party, we danced and had a lot of fun. 

It was decorated so nicely!

Sophia looked so pretty in her amazing dress. 

A picture with most of the girls from school who were there. 

Regan and I with feather boas. No comment. 

Camping with the girls

Hellooo
This weekend 4 other girls and I decided to go camping, so Friday after school we all got together and drove to Fort McAllister National Historic Park near Richmond Hill. It's about 40 minutes away and the camp site is in a forest on a small island. Mia's dad brought the camper, so we didn't have to sleep in tents, and he came along as well and cooked for us.

Friday night watched the first Hunger Games and Disney movies. Saturday morning we got up quite early and had a wonderful 'Mountain breakfast' as it is called, to get prepared for the day.

Breakfast Saturday morning
L. to R.: Miwa, Jessie, Mia, me and Dominique

 

After breakfast we found a map and walked around on trails in the forest for almost three hours. The main reason why it took so long was that the tree climbing, exploring and photographing kinda got out of hand...

Yes, that is Jessie up on top, followed closely by Dominique, and Mia taking a picture of them...

After we got back again, tired and hungry, we helped cooking an amzing beef stouw, and later we sat around the fire, listened to music and relaxed. 

We left again Sunday morning, so that was it. We had a fun time and are already thinking about going camping again, this time in tents. 

By the way, here's a picture of the other dog, Gigi. Isn't she adorable? 

Tomorrow, Tuesday, is my last day of school before I have three days off for Thanksgiving. As I said there will be a lot going on, we're going to Waycross, which is far out in the country, for 5 days. We're going to a big farm with about 30 other people. But I'll tell you all about that when I get back again on Sunday. 

Enjoy your week guys. I definitely will, with my first, longer holiday since August! 

Sara xx

Spirit week and Halloween

As I wrote in my last post, we had a spirit week in our school. Everyday there's a different theme and people can dress up if they want. It was really fun to see all the different costumes.

The first day was monster day, Mia and I couldn't figure out wahat to do, so that day we wore our normal uniform. But there were wherewolves, witches, banana zombies, regular zombies wrapped in toilet paper and you name it.

Day 2: Nerd day. Here a picture of us in the parking lot with the people I drive to school with in the morning.

Nick, Miwa, me, and Mia
(Miwa and Mia as Harry Potter nerds haha)

Day 3: Superhero day

Me, Mia, Ben and Miwa went as the Ninja turtles!

Mia, Hayden, me, Mary Allison, and Megan
Girl power!

Day 4: Trick-or-treat day. I was dressed as Minnie Mouse, but I forgot to take a picture, so this is the only one I have.

Day 5: Hippie day!

As it turned out, Miwa and I wore almost the same outfits. 

Then the day before Halloween, we decided to carve pumpkins. We spent a lovely afternoon and evening at Miwa's house. Our pumpkins turned out pretty great actually. 

Mia, Nick, Craig, Miwa, me, Jonathan and Ben. 

Then, last Friday, it was international hug-an-exchange-student day, yeey! I had posted it on Instagram, so throughout the day I got a lot of hugs hehe.

Here with my lovely Gabby

Last weekend, a couple of friends and I went to watch the musical "Hairspray" at our school. The whole show was done by students, so the actors and dancers were all Savannah Arts students. The make-up, costumes, technical things, like the lights, and the set and stage decorations were all done by the theatre majors. Even the music was played by Savannah Arts' orchestra.

It was an amazing show! There were some absolutely fantastic singers and actors. 

Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to take pictures or to film, but I found some photos on Savannah Arts' Facebook page. 

I looked through some pictures and found this one of our volleyball team. I thought I'd put it on here for the people who haven't seen my picture of us on Facebok.

As you know the volleyball season ended about a month ago, so since I was feeling bad for not exercicing at all and the American food isn't the healthiest, I decided to join the swimming team. I now swim three times a week at the aquatic center, and I can tell you... this is real exercice. After not being active for so long, I feel like I'm nearly dying everytime, but I guess that's a good sign, right..? 

In two weeks, Thanksgiving is coming up. There will be a lot going on there, so make sure you keep an eye open for updates. After that it's almost Christmas, then I turn 16, an then... well, then I'm already going home again. I can't really believe it, and I know I'm going to miss this place! 

Sara xx

Disney and more!

Heyy guys
So I thought it might be time to update my blog again.. I'm gooing to start where I left off, Kayla's birthday present - a trip to Disneyworld in Orlando.

We didn't feel like paying for the picture so this is as good as it gets 

Minnie Mouse look-alikes

Selfieee
from left to right: Me, Mia, Kayla, and her friend, Abbee

The whole crew
Theresa, me, Pooh, Mia, Kayla, Tiger, Abbee and Lucky

We had a super fun day! The weather was really nice and there weren't many people, so we could go on the rides over and over again.

Here are some pictures of other stuff we have done the past couple weeks.
The biker's poker run:

Who can roll the barrel the farthest?

Like a boss

A German octoberfest in downtown Savannah:

Homemade candy from the local candystore, yummi!

These girls <3

Picnic at Foresyth Parc

Gulfstream's family day

 Cher and Earl's country wedding, so cute!

We worked at the haunted house, it was so much fun!! We are going to work there one more night, in the beginning of November.

Ben, me, Kevin, Taylor, and Mia

Having nightmares yet?

Next week is Spirit week at our school where every day has a theme, and we dress up. I'm sure that'll be really fun. We've been planning costumes for a couple of weeks now.

Sorry that it took me so long to update the blog. Hope all the pictures can make up for it.
See ya, Sara xx