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My high opinion of the night was likely because of the person I shared it with. Biased, I am. ;)

Our next military ball is a month and a half from now on April 12th, and I'll likely be spending it alone.
 
Never been to prom before o:
 
Prom was a blast for me! For the people I asked to prom I liked to make it special for them, not just a simple "will you go to prom with me?" you know? I liked to make things memorable. I had a friend who lived a few towns over from me so I couldn't ask her in person to prom, so my senior year of high school over Facebook I asked her with a picture of me dressed in a banana suit with a sign asking her. How do you think I did? (sorry if the picture's a little big)
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LOL. That's so cute! :D Making them hearts race with your overloading sweetness. My prom date did nothing of the sort, and he was also my boyfriend at the time XD To be honest, I don't really care about the way he asked me, but slightly special would have been appreciated >>;;
 
I remember at the military ball we had a mosh pit going to some of the songs. Imagine a bunch of girls in dresses and heels and a bunch of guys in Class B Army Service Uniforms doing that. XD
 
Can someone explain to me what 'prom' actually is? I've heard it a lot but never figured out what a prom entails, haha. Perhaps it's just something we have a different word for over here.
 
Razor Leaf said:
Can someone explain to me what 'prom' actually is? I've heard it a lot but never figured out what a prom entails, haha. Perhaps it's just something we have a different word for over here.
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It's basically another ploy that our school systems have to swindle us out of more of our money.


Essentially it's just a very formal dance. Men wear tuxedos and girls wear long galant dresses, and usually the school will rent out a ballroom or something fancy like that to host the event. High schoolers will sometimes go the event in a limo and dates will usually exchange flowers or corsages with one another. Also, prom's usually host a dinner there as well. But that's basically the only formal thing about it. Other than that it's still mostly a sweaty, loudly bumpin' music grind-fest that high schools host.
 
I didn't go to prom. Didn't like it, didn't enjoy it. however I soo regret it now. My friends tell me on all the fun I had missed out on ;-;

I also had a ton of work to do. I do a lot of my work late, so I guess I didn't really deserve to go, haha
 
elheroeoscuro said:
It's basically another ploy that our school systems have to swindle us out of more of our money.


Essentially it's just a very formal dance. Men wear tuxedos and girls wear long galant dresses, and usually the school will rent out a ballroom or something fancy like that to host the event. High schoolers will sometimes go the event in a limo and dates will usually exchange flowers or corsages with one another. Also, prom's usually host a dinner there as well. But that's basically the only formal thing about it. Other than that it's still mostly a sweaty, loudly bumpin' music grind-fest that high schools host.
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In USA, I guess. In my town in Sweden, it's a very VERY formal thing we practice dancing for for months together with our chosen partner before the event. We start the dance practices every sunday or wednesday (we're often hungover) in January or so, and the dance is in June. The big day, a prom commitée, traditionally composed of some high school students, rent the big sports arena in the city and we perform a long dance to different songs, in formations and sorted by dress colors and whatnot. After that, we go in fancy cars to the biggest park in town to eat strawberries and have champagne, it's wonderful, and then we sort of dance in a long line into town where all hundreds of prom goers have a huge, fancy dinner party. During which everyone gets madly drunk and blissfully crazy. And then it's a party, at every club downtown you'll see fancy dresses. It's wonderful. When you are one of them. When you get older, it's just silly, haha. And memories.

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Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers said:

In USA, I guess. In my town in Sweden, it's a very VERY formal thing we practice dancing for for months together with our chosen partner before the event. We start the dance practices every sunday or wednesday (we're often hungover) in January or so, and the dance is in June. The big day, a prom commitée, traditionally composed of some high school students, rent the big sports arena in the city and we perform a long dance to different songs, in formations and sorted by dress colors and whatnot. After that, we go in fancy cars to the biggest park in town to eat strawberries and have champagne, it's wonderful, and then we sort of dance in a long line into town where all hundreds of prom goers have a huge, fancy dinner party. During which everyone gets madly drunk and blissfully crazy. And then it's a party, at every club downtown you'll see fancy dresses. It's wonderful. When you are one of them. When you get older, it's just silly, haha. And memories.

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....why couldn't I live in Sweden, your prom is classier and more fun than our countries.... ;___;


Go USA... *shoots confetti in the air*
 
That sounds roughly 80% more awesome than our prom here.

Course for ours, you go to the dance set up by the school, and then I think to a nearby park, and then head home at the end of the night. I didn't go to prom, only heard about it, but some of my friends told me that aside from enjoying the company of whoever they went with, that it wasn't all that extravagant.
 
Yeah; I didn't go to my prom either and really don't regret it either. It came at a certain time of my life that I was growing more mature and away from my group of "friends" and I know I wouldn't have enjoyed it if I went. Completely fine with me though, and I felt I made the right decision :3

I guess in Sweden prom is when you are much older- as you mentioned having champagne? I entered University when I was 17-18 years old and so prom happened when I was 17- the legal drinking age in most of Canada is 19. Just something curious I noted just now.
 
The only school dance I went to was my senior prom. It was a dance, nothing special. I only went to say that I went in the future. I could've skipped it and been just fine. Can't dance anyway.

My mom made my dress. It looked OK until she added this crochet band under my breastline. Grated, going in a homemade dress was bad enough, but on the other hand, I didn't want to go dress shopping.

Ah, poor life choices. Gotta love 'em. 8)
 
I'm really surprised you went to yours in the first place, Sammi. :P I went to mine and it was alright. It was an awkward time of my life anyway that I didn't come out of until I went to university. I went with a good friend of mine and we had a good time.
 
I went to junior and senior prom. Junior prom was fun. I had an amazing night. Senior, however was a disaster. This boy I liked for quite awhile didn't want to speak to me when he got a girlfriend that dumped him before the event, and was upset because I went with my best friend. Ugh, dramaaaa.
 
I think the last school dance I went to was in middle school? I'm not really sure since it's been so long.
I stayed home playing Counter-Strike with some friends instead of going to prom and still don't regret it to this day.
 
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