American Football - A way to socialize

The American football is one of the ways for American teenagers to get to gether (socialize).

In my town, my school - Chelmsford High School plays a game every friday. The game is either home game or either away game. The first three weeks I've been here all the games were home games. So around 7 clock almost the whole town goes to the CHS's football field. It is so crowded! The parking is so full. This is a very nice tradition where almost all town's residents get together, but the best is for the teenagers. The ticket for a student for the game is 5 bucks. All the teenagers after a week of school, come here just to hang out and relax with their friends. So as all the others, I'm going to the home games with my friends aswell.

Sad to say but the only people who actually pay attention to the game are either the school staff or either some player's sibling/parent. All the other just hang out, laugh, have fun and dont really watch the game. The only moment when everyone cheers and pays attention is when Chelmsford would score point, then everyone goes "Yeaaaaaaahhhh!".

Also every Sunday there is like Patriot's (Massachusetts team) or UMass (Favorited college team) game and me and my host family always watch it and then have dinner. So like every sunday the whole family gathers, all my host siblings who don't leave in the house, my host grandmother and my host parents, we are all together watching the game and having dinner. After so short period of time, like after 2-3 weeks I learnt the game! I understand almost everything of American football thanks to all the games I've watched so far :).

The best football experience I had so far was on September 21st when my host dad took me to the UMasses game at the Gillete stadium (the Patriot's and now UMasses home stadium, IT IS HUGE AND AWESOME!). So my host siblings organized this event, bought the tickets etc. One of the best things that Americans do is "tailgating". 

Tailgating is again socializing way brought by the football. Everyone gathers on the parking lot 2 or more hours before the game starts, and "parties". The party includes food, soda's, music etc.So that saturday morning me, my host dad and a friend that I invited to come went to Gillete stadium, Foxborough. We chose a great place on the parking for tailgating. After a while my host siblings came with their wifes/fiancees and lots friends. The fun began in that moment! We made barbecue, we played catch, we talked...etc.

I was teaching all the people there about Macedonia by answering all of their questions. There were a lot of other people who were tailgating too. After 2 hours of tailgating, the game started. We entered the HUGE stadium which was not full (because it was a college game), but anyways there was awesome athmosphere. We watched the game and it was like on television, a lot of cheerleading (cheerleaders, marching bands, dancers...). There was a marrige proposal scenes too! There were exciting moments at the game! But unfortunately UMass lost and afther the end of the game we want back home.That saturday was awesome experience for me, I had so much fun and im very thankful to my host family for bringing me there!

Everything else in my life is awesome aswell! The school is great, I am doing great, the teachers are fun, the subject are so interesting... To sumarize the style of life here is totally different than the style of life in Macedonia.
Till next post :)
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