Quim Costa in the USA

How Could I start? Well, my name is Quim Costa Farré, I’m coursing 1st of Batx at Ins Manuel de Pedrolo, and I went on an Exchange program to America and took there my sophomore year of high school (4t ESO).

First of all, let me say that it was one of the best experiences of my life (if not the best one) and that I would recommend to the students reading this to take the opportunity to go study there if they get the chance to.

Living in the U.S was like dreaming awake, it was like being inside of a movie. I mean of course it wasn’t exactly like in the movies and either easy the whole time, but it was still so worth it.

The thing is that there are so many things I could talk about, but what I decided to focus on, is how much they loved their high school teams and the great hooligans they were since it’s something that completely amazed me. Every single high school in the U.S.A has his own sport teams (which of football, soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball…) composed by its high school students, and what those teams do is “represent” their school and town in the competitions they’re in. Maybe what’s already been said sounds already pretty cool, but the sweet thing is that when the team plays, what happens (at least at the state I lived) is that pretty much everybody  goes to watch the game.

A lot of students go watch the game and they occasionally get dressed up too for the occasion, for example: it’s black out day, so every body goes to the game going all dressed with black clothes, or it’s nerd day, so everybody goes dressed to school and to the game as a nerd. My personal experience with this, it’s not only the fact that I got dressed up too during football season, it’s also that I played basketball and ran track for my high school, and something that hit me hard was that I was used to play basketball here in Tàrrega with 40 people watching my team and I play as the most, and when I got there in U.S.A I ended up playing basketball games in front of about 300 people sometimes. And same with football, even though I didn’t play I went to my high school football games, and in those games there were more that 500 people watching.

Well, I think I’ve wrote enough, but with this actual month being November I’ve decided to do a kind of trend they did in Ohio called No-shave November which consists in not shaving during the whole month.

Quim Costa Farré