Homecoming dance.
It was actually pretty okay. I put on my red dress from my graduation party and Erin (while still refusing to go to the dance) got all excited and squealy about it and insisted on doing my makeup, so I guess her secret weakness is dresses and makeovers. So I took the shuttle to the Crowne Plaza. The step show was really boring and really long so I was really getting frustrated by the end. Then NOBODY knew where to find the dance. Like seriously, no one. So I actually CRIED a little in frustation gaaa why do I cry so easily. But eventually I got there following some people (though we got briefly lost and one girl ran out her shoes and they all started yelling how we must be trapped in room 1408)
When I got there, it started out as the disaster I expected. I couldn't see anyone I knew, everyone was in a group or with a date and there wasn't even any tables that weren't full of people and there wasn't even any good food.
But then I saw Marie from my Womens Studies class. She's a French exchange student. I said Hi and she told me that I looked bored and I told her that it was just there was no one I could talk to or hang out with, and she invited me over to the exchange student table. She introduced me as her friend and everything.
There was a Chinese girl called Selina (I told her that it was one of my favorite names) and we talked for a while. She told me in Hong Kong everyone goes to clubs every night. I thought they were supposed to be harder working than us! Wait, that's Japan. Well, I thought everyone was supposed to harder working than us! It was hard to talk to her because we had to yell everything over the music and sometimes there were awkward pauses.
Anyway, they dragged me to the dance floor and that was fun, even if at one point some girl grinded against me while dancing with her boyfriend. I was even invited to be in their homecoming picture! That made me so happy.
We went home on the shuttle and I thanked Marie for inviting me to hang with them. She replied "that is a normal thing." I told her it meant a lot to me and she said "that's great" in a vaguely weirded out way, so I guess my policy of honesty is too honest or maybe she was just embarrassed.
I did have a drunk girl fall on me when I got out of the bus, so yay! Crossed that milestone! And my Lit Club president told me my mother would be ashamed when this happened so WEIRD.
Anyway, I have a dance picture and a dance experience and dance everything! I guess this can replace to prom thing in life experiences. And it proves I'm braver than I was in high school because I was unable to go to the prom alone last year even though I had more friends there than I do here...
Of course, the Prom wasn't free. This was. Bonus!
When I got there, it started out as the disaster I expected. I couldn't see anyone I knew, everyone was in a group or with a date and there wasn't even any tables that weren't full of people and there wasn't even any good food.
But then I saw Marie from my Womens Studies class. She's a French exchange student. I said Hi and she told me that I looked bored and I told her that it was just there was no one I could talk to or hang out with, and she invited me over to the exchange student table. She introduced me as her friend and everything.
There was a Chinese girl called Selina (I told her that it was one of my favorite names) and we talked for a while. She told me in Hong Kong everyone goes to clubs every night. I thought they were supposed to be harder working than us! Wait, that's Japan. Well, I thought everyone was supposed to harder working than us! It was hard to talk to her because we had to yell everything over the music and sometimes there were awkward pauses.
Anyway, they dragged me to the dance floor and that was fun, even if at one point some girl grinded against me while dancing with her boyfriend. I was even invited to be in their homecoming picture! That made me so happy.
We went home on the shuttle and I thanked Marie for inviting me to hang with them. She replied "that is a normal thing." I told her it meant a lot to me and she said "that's great" in a vaguely weirded out way, so I guess my policy of honesty is too honest or maybe she was just embarrassed.
I did have a drunk girl fall on me when I got out of the bus, so yay! Crossed that milestone! And my Lit Club president told me my mother would be ashamed when this happened so WEIRD.
Anyway, I have a dance picture and a dance experience and dance everything! I guess this can replace to prom thing in life experiences. And it proves I'm braver than I was in high school because I was unable to go to the prom alone last year even though I had more friends there than I do here...
Of course, the Prom wasn't free. This was. Bonus!