From your not-so-everyday perspective

Day 5. From your not-so-everyday perspective

We get so many of them each day. Not like that changes our schedule. So let's get on with it!

Directions to be a Hosford kid on April 20th, 2009!

1. Jump out of bed. Brush teeth. (Shower if you didn't last night.)

***WEAR HOSFORD T-SHIRT!

2. Finish packing your stuff. (All of it.)

3. Lug your suitcase down the stairs. (Or take the elevator.)

4. Snarf down breakfast (like there's no tomorrow)

5. Wait in the lobby for those slowpokes who haven't finished.

6. Get ready!

7. Get set!

8. GO drag your suitcase (and yourself) all the way down to LiDa Middle School~!

Now let's see. As the greatest first impression, we seemed to have arrived early. So we wait and wait and wait until--what? Oh. We were supposed to come in through the other gate? no wonder no one was taking us inside! Okay. We drop our stuff off in a classroom that has a bright yellow banner, and the words in red paint, "Welcome Horsford Middle School from USA!" (No, that was not just a typo.) Then we head for our class.

It's an art room with tons of desks...OH! QUICKSNAGASEATBYYOURBUDDIES! Good. You managed not to get left out. Huh? An innocent looking box in front of you, and paint? There's a clay mask inside the box...I wonder what we're doing?

Hmm. There's a powerpoint that tells us about opera masks...we can't have anything to do with this, can we? Now she's explainig what all the colors mean...this is so irrelevant...OHHH! I GET IT! We have to PAINT the masks!!! Ha! I'm genius. So we all do that, and most of them look like masterpieces. *stifles a cough* And then we use this funky smelling spray stuff that dries it, like varnish and makes it all shiny!

Okay. next class...It's a big room with mirrors and tons of stools and clothes on the stools and papers on the clothes. How odd. Once we sit down we notice pretty fans and start to experiment on them! And just then, the class begins...we have to sit down and learn a song. We watch an video of two women dancing and singing and stuff...and shortly after we're expected to look at a paper with numbers and understand exactly what those weird symbols mean. Hmmm.

After we all struggle with singing, we put on longsleeve silk shirt things and try to mirror the teacher's movements and trip (well at least i did). We struggle with all of that too. Even opening the fan, which has a specific way. Ugh!

Then lunch. We're still isolated from the kids, although we do poke our heads out the window and wave. Most of the time we get weirded-out stares, but occasionally we get a sweet little smile or a wave back. For lunch we have rice and chicken and hashbrowns and veggies. Yummy!!! And then we run outside. Students from Hosford (wearing black t-shirts) face off on soccer against the Asians, with Kojo at their side. Meanwhile we cheer and scream for our team, and we also spot out some kids that visited Hosford just a few months ago.

And then we went back inside. We waited and then after that we had a kung-fu class in the gym, which was basically just a 'follow-me' session with a routine that we had to memorize. So was the yoga class after that.

Okay. Then we got separated into homestays and slowly but surely people melted away from our group...i felt like i was going to cry!

I'll talk more about my homestay tomorrow.

Someone wants to use the computer...

Goonight!
~~~Reporter Poh