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Worried about prom
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Hey,
I know this sounds really weird, but I have my school prom next Tuesday and I have really been looking forward to it, but I really dont want to be by it. Its just I have spoken to some other people and they say that their proms have all been really good, but they have all had boyfriends or girlfriends to go with, and I dont have anyone.
Has anyone been by a prom before, or are they generally good?
I know this sounds really weird, but I have my school prom next Tuesday and I have really been looking forward to it, but I really dont want to be by it. Its just I have spoken to some other people and they say that their proms have all been really good, but they have all had boyfriends or girlfriends to go with, and I dont have anyone.
Has anyone been by a prom before, or are they generally good?
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1) Don't spend a king's ransom on the outfit
2) Don't expect too much of it (it's a school prom for fuck's sake, not the ambassador's reception and actually, in my experience, ambassadors' receptions are fairly average, though they do ply you with Ferrero Rocher)
3) Whatever you do, don't hire a limo. Nothing screams I'm a totally classless gutter chav than a limousine.
Basically, just don't follow this girl's example:
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Teenager-barred-from-prom-.5248133.jp
Growing up in Dubai I have been in my fair share of Limos, and it is really the most boring experience of my life, you have more fun in squeezed in the back of a wrangler with a bunch of your best mates, that's how I got to prom this year =] Just don't let the driver attempt to fly off the speedbumps when you're in heels...it hurts =[
lol
proms are MAJORLY hyped. they are normally an excuse for the popular prissy girls to make themselves look like whores and for the ones that didn't quite fit in to be made to feel even more like an outsider.
don't worry about it, its likely to be crap and no one will ever remember what happened there mainly because they'll all get smashed afterwards and half of them will end up in A&E getting their stomach pumped...
For me they were a chance to have one last get together and say goodbye to people who were leaving who I might not see again for a long time, if ever. My boyfriend didn't really have a place there to be honest as they were the people I had gone to school with for years, not him.
My first 2 were kind of mediocre, the music was kind of chart stuff that I wasn't really into but there was a good selection of food and at my first one the teachers made a fruit punch in lieu of alcohol which was good. My last one was really really good but I have to say I'm probably slightly biased as I was one of the people on the 6th form committee who organised it and we booked a DJ who had done one of our mate's 18th birthdays so he played a real mix of songs that most people would dance to rather than the usual r'n'b and bhangra stuff you tended to get at my school. Having said this, the head of 6th form reckoned it was the best prom they'd ever had, so job well done.
I guess my advice is don't take it too seriously. Go with your friends, dance like an idiot and enjoy being able to say goodbye to people properly rather than being joined at the mouth to some fool who'll probably chuck you in a few months anyway!
I've just realised that your prom was last night if I've read this correctly, hope it went well!