The Formal!

I said before in an earlier post, "was the expense worth it?"
The answer is simple.
HELL YEAH IT WAS!

I sit here, typing this, with an ice pack pressed to my knee and my calves aching from having never worn high heels before and I couldn't be more pleased. Any minute now I'm going to receive many notifications telling me that photos and videos of me dancing even more dorkily than David Tennant or Richard Hammond have popped up, and I won't care! Because I had the best. time. ever!

To begin with, there was the pre-formal. About 20 of us got ready, doing hair and makeup and outfits and things like that, eating sushi and drinking solo, laughing at the various different dates in various different attires (in my books, my half-date had the best outfit - he was wearing a suit and converse :P) (I say half date because he came as a friend, but with me and another person. So yeah.), comparing dresses, being astonished at my friend Margie who managed to come AND look stunning despite having had an appendectomy 6 days prior.

This was the point where two of my friends, Rinn and Fi, grabbed me, wrestled me into a chair and attacked me with brushes, hair straightening irons, powders, liquids, creams and various other odd smelling items to make me look pretty. They did a pretty good job - I didn't look at every photo and cringe!! *only most of them :P*

Then was the actual formal, where my half-date insisted on flirting and trying to chat up each of the teachers there. I danced like a mad person, often finding myself the centre of a crowd of cheering people encouraging me to dance even more. It was discovered that many of the guys had dancing talents that we had not seen - my friend's date could dance dorkily and make it look cool, another friend's date could breakdance (in a SUIT, of all things!) and my half-date could dance... with everyone...

Then, the afters, which were not really afters because it was really a birthday party for two of my friends. There was a karaoke machine, of which I made good use, as well as it being a jukebox and there being an abundance of junk food... and a chocolate fountain! :D

All in all, it was one of the best nights EVER, and was well worth whatever I had to pay! Not only that, but I'm probably one of a select few people in my year group that went through the night with absolutely no alcohol whatsoever! Apparently lots of people were going to afters with booze, and there was some at the formal (according to what I heard). I'm kinda proud of the fact that I share my opinions with friends that are sufficiently intelligent to recognise that you don't need alcohol to have fun.

In fact, I think having it must make it LESS fun. It's like, "hey, let's go to a party! We'll drink tons of booze, then we'll make out with someone we don't know and throw up everywhere! Awesome!"


Not.

So yeah! That's what happened!

Talk later - now I have to go and do Latin.

Byee!
~Pia