Rotary Youth Exchange 2013/14: Homecoming

First of all "What is Homecoming?"
People explained it to me like this: It is the day when they welcome back the alumni of the High School. They come from university to visit their friends and family. I hope I understood that right and don't tell you nonsense now...
However, this tradition includes many things which are a lot of fun: Every day of the week before Homecoming has a motto. Students have to dress up to this motto and go to school in their costume. Our week was like this:
Monday - Duck Dynasty Day
Tuesday - Decade Day
Wednesday - Celebrity Day
Thursday - Superhero/Fairytale Day
Friday - Spirit Day (orange & black)

There is something called Powder Puff. It's football for girls and took place on Thursday. Even I didn't play it was a lot of fun to see the girls running around and being confused.
After school people went to float building. Every grade made their own float for the parade on Friday. Sports teams also had their own float. I was, of course, part of the Cross Country float. On the parade the students sat or stood on the float and drove through the town.

Then there is a Homecoming King and a Homecoming Queen. Teachers and Students from the 12th grade decide who becomes a candidate - 4 girls and 4 boys. They are then in the Homecoming Court. On Thursday the election took place. It was like a real election where we got a sheet with all the names of the candidates on it and went in a room to a polling booth.
Who it is is told on Friday after school. Sadly I missed this part of Homecoming week because I went home as I didn't know it took place. I hate myself for that, but as I came back to school for the parade I saw that Mary Kate won and was Queen and Jiovanni the King. I was so happy!

On Friday night the Homecoming Football game took place. Katy picked me up again and we drove to a friend's house to do some face painting. Then we drove to the game. I love football Friday, because I meet so many people and talk a lot and just have fun! Luckily we won 35 to 10! I think it should be like this - if a school has Homecoming they should win the football game.

Today, Saturday, was the Homecoming dance. Mary Kate did my make-up and hair and it just looked gorgeous! She's the best host sister you can imagine!!!
We, a huge group of about 20 people, met to take pictures and then drove to a restaurant in Kalona. The food was great, but we had to wait for it for 2 hours and it was just sooooo long!
After that we drove back to the Washington High School. The dancing was cool! Some girls and I danced a lot and it was just great. In Innsbruck, the capital of my state at home, we don't have places where you can really dance... That's kind of sad. Another good thing is that I didn't break my ankle in my heels. They were actually really comfortable and I'm so happy about my decision to buy them.

I took about one million pictures so I have many to post. They all look similar, but yeah ... just the typical Homecoming posing I would say.
Let it begin!!!