Prom Knight*
*Intentionally misspelled: the high school mascot is the Knights, so pretty much every prom title is a play on the word night - A Knight to Remember, etc.
Prom is a big deal at most American high schools. There are other countries which have traditional graduation dances, but most exchange students have seen American movies with prom scenes, and there is a mystique about prom.
I’m not sure about schools across the United States, but here it is very common for same sex friends to go together if they aren’t dating anyone. Sisi asked her friend Francesca, an AFS exchange student from Italy, who lives in another part of the Bay Area.
Proms here are typically held in hotel ballrooms. For a change, this year’s prom was on a ship in the San Francisco Bay. This was especially nice for Sisi and Francesca; cruising the Bay at night was a nice sightseeing opportunity. They even sailed underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been listening to my kids singing “Prom Night”. If you’re familiar with Rebecca Black’s infamous song “Friday”, you may know that she “performed” the same song with different lyrics:
It’s prom night
Who’m I gonna dance with (Prom Night)
Prom Night is one of those “big events” that merit a blog post. It is harder to write about more mundane stuff, but I’ll try to post more often.
