First Month, First Step, First Experience.

WOOOOWWW!!! I have already passed the first month at my host city, Topeka, Kansas. It was a nice, hard, amazing, wonderful, and unforgettable month. Haha. I said so because in this month there were a lot of new things or new experiences that I never had before. Okay, it is gonna be long post because I want to share what I did each week in the my first month.

First Week-First day at school.
August 23^rd, 2013 was my first day at Topeka, Kansas. In that day I had several things to do. First, my host father, Keith and I went to my host school. Topeka West High School is my host school. I went there to decide what subject that I wanted to learn during this year. I chose Function, English 11, Digital Photography 1, Nutrition and Meals 1, History 2, Chemistry, AP Music Theory, and Design. In this school I am Junior. My host school decided that and I could not change that. Second, Keith, Beth (My host mother), Jaime (My roommate and he is an exchange student too), and I went to the Mexican restaurant to have dinner. We have dinner with Beth’s friends too. I forgot what I ate on that time but it was a delicious food. Even though the food’s taste was strange because of the seasoning but I still liked that food. It was my first time to eat Mexican food. Fortunately, I got the picture of it :

Monday, August 26th, 2013 would be my first time to go to Americans school. Actually my host school has already began since 2 weeks before I arrived here. I thought it would be hard for me because I should do a lot of task or test that were given in 2 weeks before. I went to school with Beth and Jaime. Beth is one of Spanish teachers in my school so she would ride for me every day. Jaime go to the same school with me. He is senior even though he have same age with me. First day at school was confusing me. I should move from one building to another building to get my other class. Fortunately, I did not come to the wrong class. It was because Beth had already give me a map and direction to get my class. What I thought before I went to school was wrong. All my teacher said to me that I should not to do all that things and my grade started from this week, not 2 weeks ago. I was glad to hear that because I should not worry about my grade.

Here, the photo of my school map : (Can you imagine how big my school?)

FYI : On Monday, I have all my subjects. On Tuesday and Thursday, I have my even schedule (English 11, Nutrition and Meals 1, Chemistry, and Design). On Wednesday and Friday, I have my odd schedule (Function, Digital Photography 1, History 2, AP Music Theory)

September 1^st, 2013 was my crazy day. Why? We had tubing in that day. Tubing was a water sport. So we laid down in the tube and the tube was pulled by the boat. It was my and Jaime’s first time to do that. It was special because we did in lake. It was so cool. We got blast too. So, we felt down to the lake. We did that twice. The lake that we went was a private lake. It was my host family relative’s lake. The name of that lake is Jivaro. After that, we had a big dinner. We had 2 super big pizzas. That was delicious. 

Here, 2 slices of pizza that I had :

Second Week.
Friday, September 6th, 2013 was a special day for me. It was because we went to balloon festival at Shawnee Lake. There were a lot of people there. It was showed by a lot of cars that parked there. I took many picture there. The sky was still light and there were some balloon that already took off. Fortunately, there were some balloon that still blew up. So, I could see the way to make a balloon could fly. That was a beautiful moments for me. The sky was getting dark. The balloons could not take off anymore because it was too dangerous to fly in the night. But, we still could see the balloon. Why? It was because the show will start when the night came. The balloons that blew up by fire would make it had beautiful color. We called it illumination show. That was so cool.

Here some pictures that I took in that day :

Third Week.

September 13^th, 2013, my school football team (Topeka West football team) had a game against a school from Kansas City. I forgot what the name of that school. It was my first time to see football game lived. It was very cool there. I was freezing because the temperature was low enough and I did not bring any sweater or jacket with me there. But, I still could enjoy the game. In the first time before the game started and after the second quarter end, there was a performance from the Topeka West Charger Band (It was a marching band).  That was a nice performance. I liked that.

Here some moments that I captured in that day :

On Saturday night, September 14, 2013, I went to sports center to play goony or putter golf. It was like mini golf. I went there with Andi (My host brother) and Jaime. That was so cool because it was my first time to play that. It was very hard for me. In most of hole, I need more time to make the ball in to the hole. But, I still enjoy that. Fortunately, I could make hole in one in the last hole. It was the hardest one but only me that did it. Because of that, I got discount ticket for play the mini golf in the next time. I was proud of myself because I could do it. 

Forth Week.

THANKS Keith and Beth!!! Thanks for bought me a bass guitar. I could not predict that. It was a beautiful present for me. I could not say anything more now. That day happened on Monday, September 16th, 2013. It was an unforgettable day in my life.  Since I have bass, I always play that in office room in my host home. I always play jazz standard song like fly me to the moon and the girl from ipanema. My host parents like that.