tomorrow would be 5 months since I last posted. Well, sorry...high school is eating my life. Christmas is almost here! making a present for my mom, and its taking foreverr. Ha I dont even know if it will work out yet. Well yeah my blog is spammed so dont expect too much from here on out.

Busy.

Past three weeks....helping out with anthropology camp...obnoxious kids...wow kind of exhausting....
Really interesting though. Screaming, pushing, kids having meltdowns when leaving their parents, climbing all over siblings, refusing to go inside at the end of recess...thankfully not all at the same time, but still really tiring. Haha.

A ton of new inside jokes between all the helpers, the biggest of which is the counselor. We told the kids that if they needed help, they could ask any of the counselors for help. One kid asked what a counselor was. One helper said (to confuse him) "a counselor is a camel but with 3 humps instead of 2."

I know, i have no life, right? Because that's pretty much the funniest thing that's happened during my summer so far. Volunteering nonstop. I've gotten to sleep in like, twice so far. Oh well.

summer

Volunteered the past two weeks at a retirement home, it was ok I guess, though I'd definitely rather be whitewater rafting, haha. the 3 activities assistants I work with at the home trained me to do all their morning errands like getting mail and coffee, so I think I work harder than they do haha. (just kidding)


next 3 weeks, I'm volunteering at Anthropology camp. looking forward to it :)

Summer so far

Friday--watch Karate Kid

Sunday--my sis goes to governor's school. 6 week camp kind of thing, where students are chosen for special qualities. My sis got in on instrumental music, which also needed an audition: other areas only need an application.

Monday--friends come over from the mountains.
Tuesday--we go bowling
Wednesday--we watch Karate Kid (yeah I've seen it twice now:D)
Thursday--we take those friends back to the mountains and stay overnight
Friday--we go whitewater rafting!!!! it was fun, the water was freezing, I almost fell out at the end. altogether really really awesome.
Saturday--we wake up, go downtown, drive back home.

Fun week :) next week, though, I go volunteer at the retirement home. not too bad I guess, but not nearly as fun as this week...

Today

My sister went to governor's school. There was a parent meeting and after it was over, it was pouring rain. So I ran to the car to sit inside. and then figured that leaving my mom standing under the roof of the building was probably not a good idea because she would never come to the car because she'd get wet. So I run back with an umbrella. and she takes it and there's not enough room for two, so I'm walk back without one. then I go back again to help someone else to their car with the umbrella. and again, I didn't have one. So, long story short, I got soaked. and I wore a white shirt. ugh...but it was an adrenaline rush. :)

Last Day of School

97 on English exam, I guess that's really good haha but my teacher said "she was expecting a 100." Oh well.
Latin exam was good, I think. Band exam was just plain pointless. Since he's required to give an exam, he made us write an autobiography on our musical life. Haha that was yesterday. I had my band exam in the afternoon and none in the morning, so I went to the band room and stayed there in the morning even though I wasn't supposed to; I was supposed to go to the room that everyone else who had no exam was supposed to go. But I didn't. I love breaking the rules! :) anyway, so I finished my band exam while the morning people were taking it and socialized for the remaining 2 1/2 hours...went to 1st lunch with them. Went to my friend's sophomore Seminar English II class and hung out there during 2nd lunch because they were watching a movie, they made me go return their library books for them (like, ten of them. Don't I have great friends?) 3rd lunch I went and sat with my sister. Then went back to the band room for the afternoon exam (that I already finished). Yeah. Yesterday was a pretty chillaxed day, haha.

Today...totally different story...had my SM World History exam, was studying for it since last week, good thing I did too because even with all that, there was still some stuff I didn't know. But I guess it went pretty well. After exam, I got picked up by my mom at lunch and went to the university's library's Starbucks, got an Extra Coffee Caramel frapiccino (or however you spell that), went to the upstairs study room/balcony thing, and watched Avatar. It was awesome. My friends were jealous when I told them. So was my history teacher, haha.

grades

98 on Geometry exam. 98 on Biology exam. English exam was today, I don't know how I did yet.

Exams started today. Fun.

Yeah, sooo...we have 11 days of exams, which is pretty ridiculous. EOC exams are first, so if you don't have an EOC for that class, you go to that class and review for the whole exam period. Which is almost 4 hours. Way too long. I think I have restless leg syndrome. not really, but I really hate sitting for so long. We get breaks but they're only five minutes. So today I asked my teacher if I could sit on the floor, she said no. (no surprise there, but it was worth a try) :D

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aaaahh really long week...

Projects

Half-procrastinated on two projects due on Monday. One's about done, but needs a lot of finishing touches.
The other one for Geometry class....about 1/4 done...its supposed to be done with a partner and my partner and I haven't had time to get together yet :D We have to make a bug out of geometric shapes and write a story about it and why its made of those shapes. Gonna make it out of a kleenex box.....