The last week was kind of a struggle. I hurt my ankle in wrestling practice on Monday and wasn't able to practice all week which was kind of a bummer.

But after that practice I talked with a friend over skype for the first time since I am here, but it wasn't even somebody from Switzerland but from Sweden living here in Indiana as well.

Moving on to Tuesday, what a crazy day. As probably the whole world knows it was the election day here in the USA. So everything was a bit crazy and in front of the school there was even a Trump Yard-Sign.

At about 3am on Wednesday it became obvious that Mr. Trump won the election, I didn't stay up that late, but I got to know about the news pretty much the second I got up.

It was probably the funniest thing being on social media that day, since the whole world seems to strongly disagree with the outcome of the election.

But since I am Indiana here and Indiana is strongly republican many people were celebrating. There were even a few students in the school with Trump&Pence flags around their shoulders. The whole thing is crazy if you ask me, but thats probably just me.

After practice that day I took the practice bus home for the first time. And as it happened the bus driver somehow knew about me being an exchange student so we had a fun conversation. Her children always made friends with exchange students, so she got to know a bunch of people from all over the world.

Friday was another special day. It was the Veterans Day and for that reason the whole school day was shortened and we had a celebration in the Gym in the afternoon.

For that 3 active US Army members came in to answer some questions previously recorded by students and a few veterans came as well. 

We also spoke the pledge of allegiance and the Viking Volume, the girls choir, sang the national anthem acapella. This war the first time that I heard the anthem in the school.

In the evening, after the first practice I tried participating in again, Karolee and I went to Fort Wayne to shop. We actually were successful and I even had some fun, that's a surprise.

Saturday Mike and I went to the Mens breakfast with others from the church and got that flower wrist band, called coursage, after that. We also did some grocery shopping and then watched some football.

Then I had to get ready and go get Bailey for the Fall Formal. We took some pictures first, we matched really good and the outfits were pretty neat anyways, and then had dinner at Applebees. There were a bunch of other high schoolers there as well, all dressed up fancy. 

After that we went to the high school where the dance actually took place. The whole thing ended up being slightly different than what I expected it to be. It was super much fun though. 

I expected it to be a couple dance but it was more of a party. It was really funny though, since all the ladies had fancy dresses on and the dudes wore suits or at least parts of it and still everybody was jumping around and the music wasn't really what you'd expect seeing the clothing style.

After a really fun evening yesterday I slept in today and played, or tried to play, some golf in the afternoon with Mike and then watched some football. In the evening we watched the super moon rising and then the week was basically over...

Here are some pictures, first off, the ones from GoMad last week which I still didn't upload yet:

meeting a french and a german exchange student, awesome!

the whole Huntington North group, great guys!

Here are some pictures from yesterday, Fall Formal

exchange student squad, swiss, australian, swiss

And a picture of the moon tonight, not exactly satisfied with it though

it should be the biggest tomorrow morning