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High School Lunch Culture

     One the most underrated culture shocks for me was high school lunch. Yes, lunch.  In Spain, lunch isn't really a "school thing". You either go home to eat and come back afterward, or stay at school and have the ridiculously expensive cafeteria food, which not many people choose to do. Lunch break in Spain is pretty long too, about 2 hours, so some people even squeeze in a little siesta. Then... lunch time in the US. I remember being so scared about who I was gonna sit with at lunch the first day. I had seen the movies where the new girl wanders around with a tray and nobody lets her sit down, and I was so scared that was gonna be me. But actually, I ended up being so lucky and by lunch time I already had a bunch of people offering me a spot at their lunch table. To be honest, I didn't even remember their faces or names, so I just sat with whoever waved at me first and I stuck with them all year. The cafeteria food's not good either, but at least in my high sc...
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A Spanish girl tries to understand high school football season

I went to my first high school football game not really knowing what to expect. It started with the fact that the field looked like something out of a movie, bright lights, everybody still wearing their outfit from the pep-rally or school colours, and a beautiful sunset behind the bleachers. 

The game started. Every time I thought I knew what was going on, one of the refs would blow a whistle, every player would stop moving and they would all stand around while the band and the people in the bleachers went crazy (some even had cow bells!) There were numbers on the score board, but it never seemed like I could make sense of them. 

Not much later I discovered concession stands, practically a food festival. And from then on, how much I enjoyed the game heavily depended on them having good concessions or not. By halftime, I was juggling a slice of pizza in one hand and a huge soda cup in the other.

Not much later, the halftime show started. From the first time I watched it, absolutely loved it, and I kept enjoying it even if every Friday was the same. I loved how put together every one of the dancers looked and how they were always on perfect sync. The band sounded great and watching them playing while marching was impressive. 

By the time the last game of the season was over (I'm proud to say I went to all of them BUT one), I still had no clue of how football worked but that never mattered. I think the greatest thing about football season was always how it brought people together. Not only people from the high school, or the players' families but everybody in town showed up to the games rained or snowed. So yeah, I don't fully get how football works (yet), but I don't think that was really the point of all the Friday nights out there.

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