Tomorrow is a huge day! So, I found out this morning that I would have to make a speech in front of the whole school, in a pre-summer-break assembly. So, at first I was surprised and nervous but I wrote a speech that I would say came together really well and I had my friends check it and later my host parents, and I would say it is very strong now. And it truly comes from my heart. I types it up but made a few edits on paper after that, so I will change it on the computer sometime tomorrow to post on the blog, in case anyone is interesting in a good laugh Google Translating it 🙂 the real translation will have to wait until after I come back — I am planning to request my home room teacher to take a video of the speech.
Then, I also found out today that tomorrow would be my last day of school, not Tuesday like I thought. So it was really good I had planned all my goodbye’s in advance — I have already nicely presented teacher’s gifts and taken them to school, taken San Francisco souvenirs to school, and today I baked the Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies (which I realized were sooo easy — I made them in ten minutes. The only thing that took a long time was the baking because since I was making 50+, for my host families, classmates, and teachers, I had to make many batches. However they also came out very well. While it is sad, I do have all my goodbyes planned for tomorrow and am looking forward to my speech!
Don’t even ask me what we did today it has been forgotten in the excitement for tomorrow and anyway I did not participate in much of what the class did today because I was busy writing my speech. But I am very excited for tomorrow, and should probably sleep now. Goodnight!
Oh wait I remember a bit of what we did today (this is about 20 mins later.). We had PE, in which I did tumbling again. We did cartwheels, and such, which I could not do every well and got all B’s. But one of the really cool things that was a challenge excessive was a cool foot movement where they jump up and touch both feet together, side to side. Imagine pogo sticking diagonally along a line, side to side, except on your feet. Looked very much like hopping bunnies and was very fun to do. We also had a Vocabulary quiz in which I got a 65/100. Ok I should really sleep now, wish me luck tomorrow. BTW, RIP Rajesh Khanna, I have been mixing you up with a lot of Bollywood actors lately but you acted in my favorite song of all time, Chingari Koi Bhadke!