Long weekend and the ball
I really love long weekends! I have no idea what this one would be called in English, but it's supposed to be the time when Jesus went back to heaven. Kristi Himmelsfärd we call it in Swedish. I don't care about celebrating anything, but I like the fact that we always get a 4 day weekend somewhere around the end of May. So far I haven't done very much this weekend. On Thursday I was pretty tired, because our graduation ball was the night before (more about that later), on Friday I went shopping with Mum and half the people in this city. Bad idea to go shopping the day people get their salaries and are off work. But I needed things for graduation... Today, the only active thing I did, was to go with my parents to a park in the city and do some Geocaching. That is, btw, I fun thing that I might write about some time in the future.
Now, back to the ball. When going to a ball, you have some expectations about people's behaviour and maybe, but not surely, the music being at least a bit done for classical dances, don't you? I had put the last one away, because I know that the only way people my age dance are by jumping around and shaking their hips. Which I don't like doing. But I expected people to at least in the beginning, before the alcohol kicked in, behave fairly good. Well, in my opinion the ball was a bit of a disappointment. From the moment we sat down for dinner, a couple of the classes seemed to have a shouting match between eachother. When the wine arrived some other tables joined them in some game where one person sank their glass of wine while the others cheered him/her on. I don't know if they were drunk from the beginning or if just behave that way usually. After the dinner, the bars opened and the music began. The music was, well, dance music, which I can't really stand. So, I didn't have a very good time, but you make something the way you want it and I didn't really try to have fun, so it's probably my own fault. But I do think that they shouldn't call it a "Graduation ball" but a "Graduation dinner" or something.
Now, back to the ball. When going to a ball, you have some expectations about people's behaviour and maybe, but not surely, the music being at least a bit done for classical dances, don't you? I had put the last one away, because I know that the only way people my age dance are by jumping around and shaking their hips. Which I don't like doing. But I expected people to at least in the beginning, before the alcohol kicked in, behave fairly good. Well, in my opinion the ball was a bit of a disappointment. From the moment we sat down for dinner, a couple of the classes seemed to have a shouting match between eachother. When the wine arrived some other tables joined them in some game where one person sank their glass of wine while the others cheered him/her on. I don't know if they were drunk from the beginning or if just behave that way usually. After the dinner, the bars opened and the music began. The music was, well, dance music, which I can't really stand. So, I didn't have a very good time, but you make something the way you want it and I didn't really try to have fun, so it's probably my own fault. But I do think that they shouldn't call it a "Graduation ball" but a "Graduation dinner" or something.