First 'Official' Weekend

Friday Night

One Friday we had a house barbeque where we all were in our house parent backyard for a few hours of eating yummy burgers and our house mum made some delicious couscous. I helped with the daunting task of cutting every burger and hot dog bun and chopping the lettuce, where the barbeque would have been without me is a scary thing to think of.

We then had our first SOSH at about 9:30 that night. There’s SOSH every Friday and Saturday night in a room with funky lights and a different DJ each week. The first one I’m told is the biggest where everyone goes, after that you’ll get the majority of people going for the last fifteen minutes at 11. It was fun to dance and be teenagers but WOW did that room get hot, too many people with no windows open. Even so it was fun!

Saturday

Quite a chill day as none of my codes had given me homework. I woke up did bits of laundry including my sheets with Anne-Sofie. The school provides duvet covers that get washed every Thursday and you have a new set in the afternoon. They’re various patterns and fabrics. I have my own set: cosier and makes my corner look far more personal J -though this means I have to wash them personally.

At night we had the First Year Show. All of our second-years had been remembering their first impressions of the people they had in their house or random funny things.  Some houses were quite crude and mean but Morgannwg second-years for the most part were sweet and it was fine. We get back at them at the end of the year for a Second Year Show.

Sunday

Another simple day. I helped my German first year, Paula, make an apple cake in the morning which was interesting… the amount of apples I ended up dropping on the floor while chopping probably wasn’t worth me helping but Paula (kind, sweet Paula) didn’t seem to mind.

I also went swimming with two of the second-year guys in our house: Christian from Albania and Vincent from Kenya and Madi, a first year girl from Florida. To go swimming there must be at least three people for safety reason. It felt good to be back in the water for about forty minutes.

Every Sunday evening for most of the year (I think) is a national evening. The first official weekend of school it’s the Brit National Evening. Though I will always call myself first and foremost a Caymanian – having so much family from England and a British passport, being a British Overseas Territory etc… I took part in the national evening. They have traditional things to do such as the English first year boys are given interesting costumes to wear and have to dance a Spice Girls song. Other things that happened was a girl sang an Amy Winehouse song, explanations of slang words and a Welsh poem. My personal role was a little skit of being Kate Middleton. Short but sweet. At the end all Brits got onto stage to sing the National Song but it became a bit of a rivalry between the English speakers and the Welsh speakers into who could sing theirs louder. I think the national evenings are a great thing to do at AC and a bit joking but interesting to learn a few more things about others cultures. Of course I’ll take part in the African-Caribbean Evening as well that’s in February.

***I got my activities! This term I’ll be doing Bee Keeping and Aerobic Kickboxing. I may go to the Amnesty International Meetings on Monday if I’m not busy because that really interests me as well and just do it unofficially. One thing they do in Amnesty is head shaving. They raise money and awareness for their cause and give the hair to a charity that makes them into wigs for cancer patients. This morning in Assembly a girl did just that and shaved her shoulder-length blonde hair in front of everyone. I don’t think I’d have the courage to do such a thing, but I plan to support the people who do! I think the big ‘head-shaving party’ is in October.