Hahahaha. LOL! :) I don't know what I want to do now. This post should be published on November. But, because I had too many activities since my last post, so this post was postpone. Fortunately, I had a long holiday since last week. So, now I can post the newest one. Enjoy this new late post. I hope you are like it!
First Week.
It was my busy week because I did a lot things and I was being crazy to do all of that. It started on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013. My host parents and me went to the marching band competition in the Hummer Sport Stadium. Actually, that wasn't the big one because this competition was held to warming up all the band's participant before the real competition. Only 5 marching bands that joined this competition. But, it was still cool because they tried to do their best.
The next thing that I did was in the night of September 28th, 2013. My host parents and me went to the pop concert in my school. It was a student's show. I thought, almost all the elements, clubs, and activities in my school been a part of this concert. I liked it so much. They made this concert with a lot of jokes and simple scenes. So, I never got bored with this concert which took 2 hours and 30 minutes. Good jobs guys!!! :)
And the big event came. Chiefs a.k.a. Kansas City football team game! In the first time in my life, I went to watch a real and professional football game, lived in the big, very big, HUGE stadium!!! WOW! This year is a good year for Chiefs because from 17 games, they win in the 11 games, lose in the 5 games, and bye in the 1 game. This is based on this week (Week 17 or in the last week on December). This is great because in the past year, Chiefs always lost in the most of their games. Btw, I went to the 4th game that held on September 29th, 2013. It was a great game. Kansas City Chiefs won against New York Giants. I saw a lot things before game until the game was end. Before the game, we should wait in the long line to go to the parking lot because there were a lot people that wanted to watch that game. And FYI, the price for the parking lot was 27 dollars. What an expensive parking lot that was. Next, there was a tailgate culture. So, a lot of fans made a small picnic with their families or relatives. The menu of the tailgate was some food that could be roasted or grilled. Let says like sausage. Then, got picture with the Chiefs cheerleader. #ups. Just realized that Arrowhead Stadium is a big stadium. After games? Got picture together with Andy (my host brother) and Jaime (another exchange student that stay in the same house with me). One more time, I saw how big and beautiful the Arrowhead Stadium are. FYI: Arrowhead Stadium is the loudest stadium in the NFL (National Football League) and it just brake the record as the loudest stadium in the NFL (again) during the 6th or 7th Chiefs game. I forget about that. Hahaha.
Second Week.
Community service week! It was my first time to join the community service in the U.S. I knew this community service from Alaina, my friend in my history class. So, this community service was helping some parents who live in the Hopes Center to take care their children while their went work in the night. That was why this community service held around 6 P.M. Alaina told me that this community service would be fun because we only played with the kids. I did this with another students that be a member of the youth group. This group is one of the First Southern Baptist Church' group. So, before we went to the Hopes Center, we gathered in the peak which the place where the youth group do their activity. After that, together we went to the Hopes Center. It was so fun, especially for me because I should learn how communicate with kid. Many kids said to me that I have a weird accent. Haha. As long they understood what I said, why not? This activity was end at 8 P.M. What a good experience it was.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2013. It was my first time to present my presentation about Indonesia to my friend. I did that after school during the discovery club. Discovery club is one of the club in my school. Even though only 4 students and 1 teacher that could come in that day, but they were very excited to hear my presentation. They were so excited when the quiz section came. They wanted get the prize that I brought from Indonesia. It was a key chain with "Batik" motif. Batik is one of the traditional motif from Indonesia.
October 5th, 2013. I went to Kansas City with my host parents, Jaime and Niko (Another exchange student that go to the same school with me and Jaime). We went there to meet my host sister, Marissa. We met her in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. That was a super big museum. There were a lot of rooms here. Almost all the world were covered here. One of the interesting thing here. There were some big shuttlecock sculpture here. WOW! It was so cool. Unfortunately, because the time was so limited, so I could not go to all the rooms there. And I could not go to the Southeast Asian room. I was so sad because I could not show to my host parents how historic Indonesia is.
Third Week.
Cadet day!!! Cadet? What is that? Cadet is a police officer's young cops that practice to be the real police officer. Mostly, people that be a cadet are high school students. I went to one of their practice day. I could go there because my friend, Amy, invited me to come. Amy is one one of Cadet that come from my school (Topeka West High School). I had a lot of new experience there. First, I could pass to the U.S. police officer room. It was like what I saw in the movie. It was so cool. Second, I could see Cadet practice. They practiced about what they will do to the criminals. They also practiced how to come inside to the criminals house. I learned many things here and I understood how a police work in the real situation. I could take many pictures while they were practicing. Thanks, Amy and all the Cadet for let me came to your practice.
October 12th, 2013. It was so much fun day. Jaime and me together with another YMCA's kids went to the Haunted House in the Kansas City. We met another exchange student too. They were Cecilia from Germany and Julie from Denmark. There were 3 main Haunted House's building that we should pass. It was not too scary and I thought it was fun because there were a lot of variation of ghosts, effects, settings, and make ups that made this haunted house become real. We spent our night until 1 o'clock in the morning to finish all the building. Unfortunately, I could not bring my camera there, so I don't have any documentation about this.
Forth Week.
Early Halloween party. Saturday, September 19th, 2013. It was a pretty day to go outside. My local coordinator, Anita invited the scholarship exchange student to come to her home town. There would be a Maple Leaf Festival near her house. It was like carnival because, beside there were many people that selling something, there were some games too. It was not too crowded but there were still a lot of people in that festival. And also, she asked us to bring our Halloween costume because in the night of that day, we would have Halloween party. Baldwin City is her hometown. It is about 1 hour drive from my city, Topeka. I came to this event with Jaime. Actually, Jaime should not come because this activity was for scholarship exchange student only. But, because in that group mostly girls and only me that boy, so Jaime came for accompany me. In this group there are 7 scholarship exchange students. I will explain to you who are in this group. There are Indah from Indonesia, Anna from Russia, Niki from Serbia, Nouren from Egypt, Lovetee from Liberia, and the girl that come from Lebanon. Unfortunately, the girl from Lebanon could not come because she had another activity in that day. Talk about Halloween party, it was so much fun there. We were dancing together. Laughing, and talking with another student that came to that party. One interesting thing there. Some students were very scared when they looked at my costume (I wore scary clown costume). We were being crazy too, because we took many random pictures there. In the end of the party, we rode a farmer’s truck to go around the haunted farm. But, it was not scary at all. Hahaha. After that, we went back to Anita’s house and spent a night together there.
