Two Post In One Day, Amazing!
So, yeah. Second post. This one a bit more rant-y than the last. There are two separate rants, too! One about my day, and one that's exchange-related. I divided them up into two different cuts for you. Haha.
After my post earlier today I got to go to Drama Club during seminar/club time. It was fun, especially because it was the 'tryout demonstration' day. While our fall play starts a lot later than the other schools, the spring play has tryouts either the first or second week back from winter break. I will have only had a month and one week between the show night for the fall play and the rehersals begining of the spring one.
So, I got home around 3:05 (I like being able to walk to school, but I don't like being so close to it. Haha.) and watched TV with one of my school friends (a guy in 8th grade, his brother is my brother's friend). We watched Sheer Genius. It's surprising to most people I like those sorts of shows (Sheer Genius, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, etc.) because I'm as ungirly as they come, unless I was a transgender person. I'm not that guyish. Though when I have shorter hair I always get mistaken for a guy, which is always amusing, because I either play along with it, or make my voice higher pitched than usual and freak them out.
Ahem... Anyways:
After watching Sheer Genius he left, since he had only come over because his house was locked and his older sister doesn't come home until 4-ish. My little brother was home by now, so we fought over the TV for a bit. The usual. Around 4:50 came a knocking on the door... And who do I open the door to find but a strange old man?
Man: "... Are you Shana?" (My mom.)
Me: "... She's not home from work yet."
Man: "Oh. Well, I had an appointment with her at 5."
Me: "... O~hkay."
Man: "I'll go wait in my car until she gets back, then."
It was really creepy, and me and my brother spent the next 15 or so minutes looking out the slats in our living room's blinds. Then our grandma's car pulled up in the driveway. It was all, "Grandma to the rescue~!"
She comes in, we tell her what happened, and it's all...
Grandma: "Hi, guys!"
Me: "Grandma, there was a strange guy at the door. Now he's sitting out in that silver car across the street waiting for mom. He said he had an appointment with--"
Grandma: "Oh, the window guy~!"
Me: "Window... Guy...?"
Grandma: "Yeah, your mom wants to replace the windows."
Me: "... Oh."
So, I felt really stupid. But also really smart for not letting him in right away 'cause, you know, it could've been someone bad. And creepy.
And now I'm just sitting here typing this as the window guy chats with my mom and Grandma on the couch within around 7 feet of my general area. I'm not listening, though. Thank goodness for noise blocking headphones. Usually, I would be working on homework right now, but... NO HOMEWORK. It's a miracle. Though I guess it could be because semester finals start tomorrow.
I don't have any tomorrow (I had two tests today, not finals...), but on Monday I have a German final, a Computer Applications final (presenting a PowerPoint that I made), a Biology final, and an Algebra 2/Trig. final. It sucks. ALL ON ONE DAY. But tomorrow I don't have to make the little first hour detour up to the high school for German because their schedules are screwed up because of finals.
That is the end of my "Shelbi's life IS somewhat normal!" rant. Now for the exchange rant.
So! I already have my outfit for Saturday picked out. (T minus one day, 15 hours, and 20 minutes as of now). I'm wearing a blue sweater with a red long sleeve shirt underneath it. Then I have white and blue striped (vertically) pants. My shoes, which I went to Off Broadway Shoes for yesterday with my Grandma, are the most amazing thing in the world. They're EXACTLY like my favorite tennis shoes (which had a hole in them, so my mom made me throw them away) except the sides are shiny and have embroidered (with shiny thread) Japanese-looking fish all over. The top is also more open and has two strips of fabric across them... I think I'll take a picture for you all, 'cause they own that much.
Just... Not now.
I've been looking over all of the example questions, and at all the interview tips on Cultures-Shocked (http://cultures-shocked.org/forum), which is an amazing forum for hopeful, potential, current, and past foreign exchange students. It's been really helpful throughout all of my applying and such.
And... The end, I guess? Haha.
After my post earlier today I got to go to Drama Club during seminar/club time. It was fun, especially because it was the 'tryout demonstration' day. While our fall play starts a lot later than the other schools, the spring play has tryouts either the first or second week back from winter break. I will have only had a month and one week between the show night for the fall play and the rehersals begining of the spring one.
So, I got home around 3:05 (I like being able to walk to school, but I don't like being so close to it. Haha.) and watched TV with one of my school friends (a guy in 8th grade, his brother is my brother's friend). We watched Sheer Genius. It's surprising to most people I like those sorts of shows (Sheer Genius, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, etc.) because I'm as ungirly as they come, unless I was a transgender person. I'm not that guyish. Though when I have shorter hair I always get mistaken for a guy, which is always amusing, because I either play along with it, or make my voice higher pitched than usual and freak them out.
Ahem... Anyways:
After watching Sheer Genius he left, since he had only come over because his house was locked and his older sister doesn't come home until 4-ish. My little brother was home by now, so we fought over the TV for a bit. The usual. Around 4:50 came a knocking on the door... And who do I open the door to find but a strange old man?
Man: "... Are you Shana?" (My mom.)
Me: "... She's not home from work yet."
Man: "Oh. Well, I had an appointment with her at 5."
Me: "... O~hkay."
Man: "I'll go wait in my car until she gets back, then."
It was really creepy, and me and my brother spent the next 15 or so minutes looking out the slats in our living room's blinds. Then our grandma's car pulled up in the driveway. It was all, "Grandma to the rescue~!"
She comes in, we tell her what happened, and it's all...
Grandma: "Hi, guys!"
Me: "Grandma, there was a strange guy at the door. Now he's sitting out in that silver car across the street waiting for mom. He said he had an appointment with--"
Grandma: "Oh, the window guy~!"
Me: "Window... Guy...?"
Grandma: "Yeah, your mom wants to replace the windows."
Me: "... Oh."
So, I felt really stupid. But also really smart for not letting him in right away 'cause, you know, it could've been someone bad. And creepy.
And now I'm just sitting here typing this as the window guy chats with my mom and Grandma on the couch within around 7 feet of my general area. I'm not listening, though. Thank goodness for noise blocking headphones. Usually, I would be working on homework right now, but... NO HOMEWORK. It's a miracle. Though I guess it could be because semester finals start tomorrow.
I don't have any tomorrow (I had two tests today, not finals...), but on Monday I have a German final, a Computer Applications final (presenting a PowerPoint that I made), a Biology final, and an Algebra 2/Trig. final. It sucks. ALL ON ONE DAY. But tomorrow I don't have to make the little first hour detour up to the high school for German because their schedules are screwed up because of finals.
That is the end of my "Shelbi's life IS somewhat normal!" rant. Now for the exchange rant.
So! I already have my outfit for Saturday picked out. (T minus one day, 15 hours, and 20 minutes as of now). I'm wearing a blue sweater with a red long sleeve shirt underneath it. Then I have white and blue striped (vertically) pants. My shoes, which I went to Off Broadway Shoes for yesterday with my Grandma, are the most amazing thing in the world. They're EXACTLY like my favorite tennis shoes (which had a hole in them, so my mom made me throw them away) except the sides are shiny and have embroidered (with shiny thread) Japanese-looking fish all over. The top is also more open and has two strips of fabric across them... I think I'll take a picture for you all, 'cause they own that much.
Just... Not now.
I've been looking over all of the example questions, and at all the interview tips on Cultures-Shocked (http://cultures-shocked.org/forum), which is an amazing forum for hopeful, potential, current, and past foreign exchange students. It's been really helpful throughout all of my applying and such.
And... The end, I guess? Haha.