Be Gentle!

Okay before I begin... I know I'm completely useless when it come's to photos so from now on the camera is going to stay strapped to my wrist, hopefully...

So I had Homecoming in the weekend *flinches under rain of abuse for not having pictures* and it was a rather unusual experience.
"an annual school or university reunion for graduates" thank-you google dictionary... Basically it's this semi-formal dance that is allegedly a chance for alumni of the school to return and say hello but as far as I could tell there was a distinct lack of graduates. Except for my date, heh. It is a date dance and the vast majority of people took a date, in fact I'm relatively certain I didn't come across anyone going who didn't have a date. I took a friend of my host-sister's called CJ, who is rather cool.
When I say semi-formal I mean that you still dress up but generally speaking the dresses are a lot shorter and not everyone is wearing a suit. One tradition involved that I hadn't come across was the corsage; which is a little bracelet of flowers which the boy is supposed to buy for the girl. Nancy sorted this out for me but then I left it in my date's fridge while we were at her house getting ready, but fortunately neither of us really cared and she hadn't even wanted me to get her one. For some girls however, it is much more of an issue and in the days leading up to Homecoming I heard several girls bitching about how they'd had to sort out their own flowers because they knew their dates would be to useless to do it.

Now I'm sure you're all assuming that Homecoming is just like the ball; but you would be wrong. From what I can tell the ball has a lot more in common with prom (which is at the end of the school year)than with Homecoming. Homecoming is just held in the gym at school and is purely a dance (plus it only costs about ten dollars) and my god, nothing prepared me for the dancing. Everyone was grinding on everyone else and there were even big trains of it, it was truly a sight to behold and I have to say I'm kinda glad that CJ wasn't into that. It was funny to watch though, especially when you see a guy who must be at least six foot five dancing with a girl around Clare's height.

Also I saw Where The Wild Things Are and it is pretty darn shweet. Go see it hen it comes out.

Sorry for the short post but there's not really all that much to write about, feel free to ask though, and once again I'm really sorry for the lack of pictures...

Lots and lots of love,
Luke