Easter on the West side of the world

I keep it short because I had a really short Easter holiday here (off from school an hour earlier). And you guys in Finland had like 5 days long holiday.. Here's a photo of a dissapointed Finnish man with his brother. Ofc I had a great Easter with a family (and chocolote..) ! :--)

Springville High School PROM and POST PROM

Finally it happened. This Saturday. Prom.

Prom doesn't mean a sound of a car or anything. It means the biggest dance during a school year. There's usually photographing of couples, Prom dance and Post Prom afterwards. Only seniors and juniors (two oldest class degrees) are able to come to this dance with their partners. The Prom dance is kinda awesome disco party, where is few slow dances, and the Post Prom is hanging out and having fun together after the dance.


I went to our Prom with Erle, an exchange-student from a different school. I knew her from our exchange-student organization's meetings. I think you can figure out that she is in the pictures which I put to this blog. (::

My Prom experience started with a thingy called Grand March. We, all the couples, walked to our jim, one at the time, and people took looots of pics. I'm sure they got good ones.. at least of me. :--) Because I had a cool suit, which I had to rent btw (around 100 bucks).

Me and Erle (theme was New York)

Me and my bro Kyle

With my mom

Almost all the boys

Me and two of my very best friends: Nathaniel and Brandon.


When the March was over, it was time to do my favorite thing: eating! We went to one of my friend's house to have supper. There was like 20-30 people plus me and Erle. We all had fun and food was delicious. It was time for Pool playing with full bellies.

Our next step was going to the DANCE. As I said, it was disco. Lots of good music, people and great dance moves by Sami! Who wouldn't like dancing? ;)

The dance was over 12PM. Busses took as to the Post Prom 1230PM. PP was in a YMCA house-center-what-ever-u-wanna-call-it-building. There was swimming pools, hot tubs, bouncy houses, a basketball court and lots of good food (again.. come to US and u won't get hungry for sure haha) At first I ate with others. There was Buffalo Wild Wings stuff! Those most awesome chicken wings ever made + all kinda junk, and I mean really good junk.. chocolate, strawberries, candy, tacos, you name it!
Next I found myself from that swimming pool, which water wasn't warm enough.. After swimming a while I went to the hot tub with other hot people. But I'm pretty sure water cooled down a little bit when I stepped there.. ;--/
All night long I had fun with all the amazing people, and especially with my best friends. It's really nice to realize right now who are the people that are my real friends and who I'm gonna miss the most.. Less than 2 months.. oh boy. =( Playing and jumping in the bouncy houses made me feel I was that tiny little child again. Sometimes I really miss that time, when my only problem was how much your Action Man was able to do without breaking a part.
All of us got to choose a bag full of FREE stuff. I chose one with a Iowa Hawkeye- blanket, candy and lots of gift cards. I was lucky one and got to choose a second bag too. I ended up with 10 free haircut cupongs. Ofc I need to cut my hair 5 times a month. If you wanna a haircut, take a next plane and get ur ass here! (: Then we can start to discuss of possible price.
We had fun 'til 530AM. The busses were full of zombies, but happy ones. I was home 6AM and went to sleep with a big smile on my face. Definitely one of the most unforgetable and best moments that I have experienced here. (Tasting a bagel is def number one..) Just kidding! It's taste of air.

For conclusion I can say that in the whole Prom thing, there was about 60 people, and I had one of the funniest nights in my life! (: Funniest one is when I tasted air for a first time.

'til next thingy

Sami Prom_illihuuru

Running + target shooting = this weekend

What a great weekend! It didn't started too well though.. We had an Early Out at our school on Friday, which means that we get home 2 hours earlier than usual. It would be fun, but.. we had to leave to a Track Meet afterwards. We got there and oh... my... gosh; the weather was horrible: raining, windy and freezing (kinda like Finnish summer.. jk!) I had to wait 5 frkn long hours there before my 800 meters run, trying to keep myself warm. Even looking those boys and girls running with their tiny shorts and spandex, made me freeze. Finally came my moment to strip off all my clothes.. well.. I left our Track uniform that nobody would get a heart-attack.

Everything changed when I started running. I forgot that is cold and I looked like a fool with our too small uniform. As I said I ran 800 meters. Our coach had a same opinion that I would be better in 800 than in 1 mile. So thank God, I'm practising and competing only a half of the distance I used to. :--)) Back to that running race.. I started to run hard but didn't try to keep up with fastest guys, who should btw go to the Olympics and go away from Track meets.. Then second lap I started to improve my position, and with a last 100 meter sprint, I ended up being 9th! There was almost like 20 guys in our heat, so I'm pretty proud of myself! And or more.. I improved my time from last week by 13 seconds! Alright, that's enough.. maybe I should go to those Olympics too or at least go to some hidden place and be quiet haha. This all made my day on Friday. :)

Saturday was my host dad's birthday. He asked me to go to do gun target shooting with him, and I though "Why not?" At first I thought it would be loud guns, which break ur ears and break ur bones by doing a kick while shooting. But It was real fun! I'm really fun and I had a blast with him for sure. I got some bull's eyes too and got our whole target thing fall.. just saying! After that I went to the town with my Mom and picked up a suit for our Prom. Idk if I have said but I'm going to the Prom with an exchange student from Estonia called Erle. :) Our own school is so tiny as I've said and Erle is a really cool girl (to make sure u didn't think Erle is a boy..) ! I hanged out with her in the Mal after I chose the suit and we had so much fun. (: In the evening we celebrated my host dad's birthday by eating stake, cake n givinh him presents. I bought chocolate. Here's some pics from our shooting trip. No worries, there's target, not human beings outside the pictures.




Today, Sunday, was just chilling and trying to make my Mom's (in Finland) special "curry chiken and rice" meal. I got the curry taste down, but other than that it wasn't anything compared to my Mom's haha. Now I'm ready for next week.. buuuusy week. Two Track Meets n a choir festival.

'til next time

Sami