9/11/13
It is September 11, 2013…always a day to remember the horrible incident that occurred. But sitting with Antonio (cute guy from Spain) and Bohdan (cute guy from Ukraine) in the Wi-Fi room at school, I had a really good day. We had a funny conversation about Miss America Pageant, cheerleaders, and cars. Antonio has many questions about America.
The class called TOK, Theory of Knowledge, was super-duper boring. I fell asleep in the first half of class. I don’t understand how this class will better kids’ education. In the second half of class Sunny and I split a Milka chocolate bar to give us energy. The teacher babbled on about something unimportant involving boundaries.
After a long day of sitting around in school with my new friends, I took the bus home. I kept a close eye on the things outside to make sure I would successfully get off at the right stop. Agata happened to be waiting for me outside at the bus stop. She was eating at the restaurant a block away from the stop. I joined her and Aga at the restaurant for dinner. I finally got to eat American pasta! I scarfed down the spaghetti Bolognese that was covered in delicious cheese.
I was distracted by the delicious meal in front of me when my host mom called Agata. Apparently my headmaster called my host mom to tell her, “I would like Stephanie and Sunny to stay with me and my family in my lake house for a weekend.” He is known to taking exchange students to his house. My host mom, Agata, and I definitely were skeptical about this proposal. I am not comfortable sleeping in my headmaster of school’s house by a private lake. My host mom told my headmaster that she needs more information before we agree to anything. This offer is a HUGE red flag because in America teachers have strict boundaries when meeting children outside of school, especially a principal! I am definitely not in Jersey anymore.
Around 6 pm we finished dinner and took the bus over to the plaza. Aga went home but Ania took the bus with us. The movie theater is positioned in the mall (plaza) on the top floor. At the bottom floor of the plaza is a grocery store. When purchasing tickets for a movie, it is smart to make a reservation because you have more input on the seats you are given. In America you can choose any seat but in Poland you are assigned a certain seat. The seating in the movie theater also goes towards the ceiling dramatically like narrow steps.
The movie “Jobs” was disappointing because it ended at 2001 instead of extended to 2013 when he died. It was sad when he didn’t want anything to do with his own child. Having friends and family makes a person happier rather than improving your invention.
After the movie Ania went home and Aga met us at the plaza. Agata, Aga and I walked to the hookah bar nearby. I drank a Malibu which is vodka, grenadine, orange juice, and milk. It was very sweet and I didn’t even taste the vodka. We ordered a hookah with the flavoring of mixed fruits. Hookah doesn’t do anything to my body like alcohol. It is just flavored tobacco/water vapor going in and out of my body. This bar was pretty interesting because in the back was a disco playing loud, popular music. I also tried warm beer that had cinnamon and oranges. That beer was really good and will be perfect for the cold weather.
At 1:30 am we finally got home from the bar. Seems like such a bad day to have such great fun.
Stephanie Raquel
Leave a Reply