So here is how my day went….!
It all started with a 5.30am waking up
call! I was staying at my friends Kyra’s house and we had stayed up making
graduation presents for our friends so the 5.30am alarm was not the nicest
sound in the world. We got up and started getting ready for the big day ahead.
Put on the white dresses, put on our faces, tried to make our hair look alright
under our hats, put on the heels and we were on our way to our champagne
breakfast with our class!
At the champagne breakfast we all sat
outside eating a spot of breakfast and drinking our fair share of champagne! We
also started with signing the inside of each other’s hats. Hats were going from
person to person and you always hat to ask whose hat you had in your hand! At
one point two guys ended up with almost everyone’s hats to sign!
When it was time to go to school we all
headed out together yelling chants and signing songs so that everyone knew we
were coming and that we were graduating! It made for a hilarious walk to
school! When we got to school we met our mentor and she told us the days plans
in between our chants and songs!
We then had a song lunch which involved
more chants, songs and hat signing! It also involved the teachers laughing at
us a lot! At lunch us four exchange were told by the principle that he would be
calling us all up on stage during the assembly!
After lunch we all picked up our chairs
and went into the gym for a whole school assembly! But this wasn’t any old
assembly, no this was also the Golden Pig Awards. The Golden Pig Awards was
voted by the teachers and presented by the teachers and had so many different categories
and everyone got behind the person or people that were in their class by
yelling their name and if they won the person in the class won then the whole
class would stand up and clap and shout! It was great fun! After the awards
were finished the principle came up and talked about the future, how we had all
done well and Tapas. Then it was time to be called up on stage! Now this was a
point where we as exchange students failed in Swedish! He said for the
exchanges students to come up on stage in Swedish and we just all sat there
unsure if we had to go up or not now. Ended up that we were meant to go up then
as the principle had to say it in English for us to understand! We got up on
stage and the principle said how great it had been having us all at school, how
we have added cultureness to the school and taught people English! He then gave
us letter saying that we had been at school! After this everyone was given
their grades and a certificate!
We then went up to the school balcony to
wave to our friends and family and to try and find our baby picture! When I found
mine I could not help but laugh! It was of a six year old me with no front teeth
and looking very happy about it! My host family made sure that I would also be
able to take my picture home with me as well! After standing on the balcony for
a while waving and shouting some more we went down stairs and got ready to run
out of school!
Running out of school was so much fun! If
you are thinking that we don’t actually run out of school then you are wrong! We
run and we run as fast as we can! We waited at the doors being held back by two
teachers saying “get ready, get ready!” and then we hear the principle say our
class and we RUN! The next step is to try and find my family again. Once I found
them and my baby picture they gave me a soft toy cow to put round my neck and
some roses to also put round my neck and some of my favourite Swedish sweets to
also put around my neck! This happens for everyone who is running out. When
they meet their family they get soft toys, flowers, all sorts of different
things to put around their neck! After all of this I had to run back inside to
get changed out of my white dress and into old clothes that I did not want to
take home because it was beer truck time!
The beer truck is exactly what it sounds
to be, a truck with a lot of beer! But this beer is not for the drinking. Oh no
this beer is for shaking up and spraying over each other as the truck drives
into the city with load music blaring and everyone on the back going crazy! Going
on the beer truck has to be one of the most crazy, exciting, mental, best things
I have done in this year. I mean how often to you get to ride around Stockholm
city on the back of truck getting covered in beer? I mean how often do you do
any of those things?! When the ride came to an end the driver opened the back
doors of the truck to be greeted by a swell of beer and beer cans! For most of
the ride I was up to my ankles in beer! The next step after getting off the
truck was to get home and take a much needed shower! When I got home my clothes
went in the bin and I washed my hair about 5 times over! The smell was really
that bad!
After my long shower of trying to get
out the smell, my family and I went to my host sister’s boyfriend’s graduation
party, which I had to leave early to go out with my friends that night! So back
in my white dress and hat I meet my friends and we danced the night away till
2am!
Overall this was the craziest day of my
exchange but one of the very best! I could not have come up with a better way
to finish school in Sweden!
Me with little me after running out of school!
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