Last day in an American School

Today is the last day of school, the last day with all these amazing, nice and funny people. I'm going to miss them all soooo much, especially my two hostsisters Sarah and Emily! They are both amazing girls, so much fun and so nice. I love you two!!
In the first period we went to the art gallery in Toeterville (the village where Sarah lives). The pictures in there were drawn by Atlanta Sampson who spend her whole life drawing and got discovered when she was already 87 years old. It was very interesting to see all those beautiful pictures she painted in her lifetime and it was sad to see that a talent like her only got discovered when she was already so old. But at least she got discovered and had her own shows - which is what she always wanted.
After this trip we returned to school and Elisa Mohr and I had to go to a Middle School Class (7th Grade, my hostsister Emily is in there) and answer them questions about Germany, the USA and us. It was a lot of fun.
Then we had lunch and sat in the cafeteria the whole time talking to Skylar and Alec, two nice guys from the St. Ansgar Football team.
We returned to the library in third period and I wanted to get started with my blog post - wondering loud what I could write about since nothing exciting had happened so far. In this moment the fire alarm went off! Not a "nice" sound as in Germany but a loud and shocking sound. Miss Humrich told us to leave our stuff in the library and get out of the building. We did as we were told, leaving our warm winterjackets and our bags in the library and left the building. It was incredibly cold outside! We were freezing so much we cuddled to stay warm (as you can see on the pictures).
We saw smoke coming out of one of the doors so we wondered if this was really just practice or if there was a real fire. A few minutes later another alarm went off, this time it was the fire alarm in town to let the firefighters know that there was a fire in school. Another Minute later they arrived and helped to get the smoke out of the building. As Sarah just told me they made a smoke bomb go off in the building, like every year! I was shocked to hear that! She was totally calm and told me that it was normal. I'm used to the German firealarm practices: The alarm goes off, we leave the building and walk to the gym. No smokebombs are used!
Finally we could get back into the building and into the warmth. But of course we had to take a few pictures with the firefighters! ;)