Exchanged Students Assembly

This past Friday (a week ago now), my high school had a 2 hour assembly all about our 8 foreign exchanged students.
Our SGA president kicked the assembly off with a little speech about our exchanged students program, then our assistant principal, Mr. Bressi, took the stage to basically regurgitate everything our president had just said.
After that, the house lights dimmed in our newly renovated auditorium, and our 3 German exchanged students made their way to the podium.
Mark Patrick Wagner leaned into the microphone,
"Um... Hello. I am Mark Patrick."
Then the two other german students (whose names I can't recall!) stated their name as well, Mark Patrick leaned into the mic again.
"We are obviously from Germany." There was an awkward silence as Mark took out a projector remote, and started their slide show. Mark and the other 2 explained how the government works in Germany, as well as German history and geography. One of the 2 German girls told us about October Fest, the other told us about German Architecture, and Mark Patrick told us about German foods. They presented pictures of their families and friends back home. One of the girls stated,
"... And also, I like American Football. I've liked it for 2 weeks now, um... it's actually pretty cool." she then laughed. When they were finished we applauded, and somebody in the Seniors' section of the auditorium yelled, "Go Mark Patrick!"
After this, our 2 exchanged students from Indonesia took the stage. One was In Tan (sorry for spelling), and again I can't recall the other girl's name. They played a video about Indonesia, and did traditional Indonesian dances, which were quite incredible!
Before leaving the stage, In Tan said, "I'm so excited for Fair Week! Aren't you too?!" the entire school cheered, we Bloomsburgians do love our fair!
Next was our exchanged student from Vietnam, whose name is on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't recall it! She was very excited and happy, and she told a few jokes. She talked about her 'annoying 9 year old sister back home', and about 'ugly school uniforms back home' and how she was glad she didn't have to wear one here. When quoting one of her new friends here in the US about being a big sister, she used the word 'bitch', and then said, "I don't know what that means." One could see teachers glaring at each other, trying to use nonverbal facial language to affirm what they'd just heard.
After her, was our Swedish student, who had a very short presentation, probably only 2 or 3 minutes, as compared to the other students half hour presentations. She seemed very shy, not really nervous, but just like she didn't want to be there!
Lastly we had Omar, from Mexico. (All the girls have been raving about how hott Omar, a Junior (11th grader), is)
His presentation, much like the one by our Vietnamese student, was very energetic. He talked about how different our food is, and how he misses Mexican food terribly. At the end, he did a dance for us too, and the students cheered for him when he was finished.
After that, Mr. Bressi made his way back up to the podium. I heard a couple of 'boos' come from the senior and junior sections of the auditorium, Mr. Bressi laughed it off, saying "Ha! You can see how much assistant principals are liked here in the U.S." He turned to the general area where the booing had came from, and smiled, "I'll let 'em off the hook this time! Omar, you should be glad Mr. Bonomo wasn't here to see what you just did to his stage!" Mr. Bressi joked. (In case you are wondering, Mr. Bonomo is our principal) "Well, that was a very successful assembly; it was allot of fun, and I know I learned quite a bit! Um... At this time, we will be dismissing Juniors and Seniors to their Second Period classes, and once all students are dismissed, I'd like to see all the exchanged students in my office."
Soon after, Sophomores and Freshman were dismissed to period 2 classes, and I made my way across the school and up the stairs to Spanish with Mr. Manor.
I must say that I really enjoyed the assembly!

Knoebels' Grove

Last Weekend, my family went to my father's company picnic at Knoebels' Grove Amusement Park. Here's some pictures and video of the wonderful time we had.


Here they are, about to take off!
Here are some swans that were under a bridge in the Amusement Park.
Wilder and Maeve rode the antique cars while Riley and I rode the Phoenix Roller coaster.

Kittens

Here are a few pictures of our kittens.

Pictures from Boston Trips.

I took all these pictures in Boston in August 2007 and February 2008.

Above: I believe I took this one in China town, and old guy yelled at me when I was taking this picture, he said I was taking to long and I needed to hurry up!
Above: I took this somewhere downtown.
Above: Prudential Tower and Old South Church.
Above: I took this one at the Downtown Crossing.
Above: Evil Seagull at Castle Island. It was chasing me...