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- Me and the rest of the girls singing karaoke at the birthday party. Another thing that made this party a bit different than parties I've been to at home was that it was themed. They call it "fancy dress." Anika, the birthday girl, wanted everyone to dress in black, white or silver and her friends to dress sort of like gangsters and their girls. A cocktail dress wasn't something that made the cut when I was fitting my whole life into two suitcases, so I just went along with the colored theme but you can see that the other girls are looking "smart". Anika was the only one there in a color-- she's on the far left in blue. 
<--Me with a couple of the "gansters", Arron and Edward. Edward, in the middle (who does not normally have a mustache) is my host counselor's son. He's the one who introduced me to this great group of locals! 
<--The whole gang all together. Most everyone from the group went to "school" together. So another bit of English word/change (I don't really know what to call it when we have the same English words that mean slightly different things). In the UK, when someone says "school", they are referring to what we would call elementary, middle school, and freshman and sophomore years of high school. After grade 10, they can either end "school", or go on to do what they call, A-levels or "college". They pick what they'd like to study for their A-levels and they start focusing they education in a career-direction. A-levels/"college" is two years. After "college", they can apply to attend "University." This word game all gets quite confusing as you know in the US we call any type of education "school", and the education we do after high school can be called not only "school", but "college", and we usually attend either a "college" or a "university." So when I first arrived here and I told them I went to "school at the University of Northern Iowa," they were quite confused... Now that I've been here awhile though, I think I'm getting the hang of the word game.
<-- Me and the rest of the girls singing karaoke at the birthday party. Another thing that made this party a bit different than parties I've been to at home was that it was themed. They call it "fancy dress." Anika, the birthday girl, wanted everyone to dress in black, white or silver and her friends to dress sort of like gangsters and their girls. A cocktail dress wasn't something that made the cut when I was fitting my whole life into two suitcases, so I just went along with the colored theme but you can see that the other girls are looking "smart". Anika was the only one there in a color-- she's on the far left in blue. 
<--Me with a couple of the "gansters", Arron and Edward. Edward, in the middle (who does not normally have a mustache) is my host counselor's son. He's the one who introduced me to this great group of locals! 
<--The whole gang all together. Most everyone from the group went to "school" together. So another bit of English word/change (I don't really know what to call it when we have the same English words that mean slightly different things). In the UK, when someone says "school", they are referring to what we would call elementary, middle school, and freshman and sophomore years of high school. After grade 10, they can either end "school", or go on to do what they call, A-levels or "college". They pick what they'd like to study for their A-levels and they start focusing they education in a career-direction. A-levels/"college" is two years. After "college", they can apply to attend "University." This word game all gets quite confusing as you know in the US we call any type of education "school", and the education we do after high school can be called not only "school", but "college", and we usually attend either a "college" or a "university." So when I first arrived here and I told them I went to "school at the University of Northern Iowa," they were quite confused... Now that I've been here awhile though, I think I'm getting the hang of the word game.
It is to your credit that you didn't say a word about your experience in Paris when we had our International Evening at Aberdare the other night. I suppose one should chalk it up to the resilience of youth.
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