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

......

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.....

YESSS

So I got a new roll of athlete's tape :D I'm pretty excited...my blisters are saved!!! got huge ones from last week...it was the highlight of my day...

musical

so yeah, the musical was pretty good :D

I realized last weekend that I have a really bad sock tan from winter, and I really need to tan that out...

So yeah, I also realized how much grammar I've learned in English this year and how bad I was before...haha I was rereading a paper I wrote last year and I found sooooo many mistakes it's not even funny.

photo shoot for Youth Symphony is tomorrow...have to wear concert clothes...I get out of Jazz Band rehearsal 45 minutes early

Musical! :D

Opening night of the school musical is tomorrow! :D I'm excited, my friend and I are going to the nearby Japanese restaurant to eat dinner, then walking to school to go watch the musical.
(meanwhile, my friend is freaking out........)

HAIR!

Have I ever said anything about how my hair takes forever to dry?? It takes FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My sister can wash her hair after me and it'll be dry in half an hour. Mine takes like, 2 hours to get mostly dry.......................................its soooooooooooooooooo annoying!!!!!!!!!!!

I got an 82 on a math test on areas of polygons.....it was the hardest test I've ever taken....but I guess it was pretty good compared to other people....most people got in the 60s and 70s. One person got a 48....one had a 34, and I heard one guy got a 2....

Does anybody else besides me have this thing happen where I'm totally fine before class starts, then once the bell rings, I start sneezing? Its like, more than a coincidence, it happens every day and it's really weird and I always have to get up and get a tissue in the middle of class. And it's always just during 1st period...

But anyway, I'm finished with homework and it's only 10:15, which is a record, pretty much. This week, I've had the least homework I've had in about 2 months. Or maybe it just seems like that, because I've been stresses out about at least one thing since March. Early March was All State Auditions, then some other crap, then the week before spring break, teachers were cramming and I had to get ready for New Orleans trip, then when I came back, I had to prepare INSANELY for black belt testing, and had a DNA project for Biology that some people in my group were really immature and annoying, then missed school last Friday...I feel soooo relaxed now because everything's over...but anyway...can you tell I'm bored? I'm rambling.

I really need to cut my fingernails.

Allergies suck. A lot.

For All-State Band clinic, I have to room with the only other girl who made it--the one that I thought was shy who's really not. Hahaaaaaaaaaa that'll be fun/interesting....

OOOOkkkkk I'm going to go to bed. Maybe.

Testing

sorry I haven't been able to post about anything....freaking busy weekend

So last Thursday evening, we had All-County Orchestra. Then on Friday, we had it again all day, so I missed school. Haha on Friday the conductor said "Enjoy life because you'll be my age tomorrow" and he had said that yesterday...ummm...unless I'm mistaken, I'm not his age yet...
Concert was pretty good; we played some Symphony, an Overture, and Carmen Opera Suite.

Anyway, so that was my Friday. Then on Saturday, I got up, went to taekwondo at 9:30 AM, practiced until about 10:30, went to the school gym where testing was, practiced line-ups and basic movements with all the other people who were testing until 1:00, then went to the Jazz Festival at my school to play with my jazz band, went back after that ended at 3:00, got back to the testing location at 3:20, testing started at 3:40 and went until 7:30 or so.

It was super long day. Testing is sooooooooo long because the people are all divided into groups of about 8 or 9 and they rotate--there were 6 groups testing for 1st degree and each had to do 3 forms and self defense. That took awhile. Then my group went and did 3 forms and then while the 2nd degree testers were doing their forms, we changed into our sword uniforms that look like samurai outfits and did our sword form. Then we changed back into regular uniforms and each group rotated doing sparring. Our group went last on that because we have to spar 2 on 1. Haha our instructor plotted against my sister--he was telling us to do flying sidekicks at her and stuff, it was funny.

Aaaand then we all did board breaking. I did a punch power break (which is twice the thickness of normal breaks) and a step-turn-behind roundhouse kick power break, then a running-sidekick-punch thing. Kind of hard to explain what that is without pictures or something.

But yeah. And now it feels weird to go to school because of the crazy stuff I did over the weekend.

Oh, and we had All County Orchestra on Thursday and Friday.

Oh, and Jazz Festival yesterday :D I had a busy weekend.

testing ;D

Tested for 3rd degree black belt today :D

Spring is here now

A Story of the Indestructable Fly

Once upon a time, there was a fly named Superman. Superman somehow got into Rae's house. He loved the house because the kitchen had food in it. He buzzed around the kitchen happily all day and when time came for the girl named Rae to wash the dishes, she saw Superman and swatted him with the fly swatter. He disappeared into a safe place, and Rae thought she had killed him. Five minutes later, he came back into the kitchen to eat leftovers. Rae swatted him again. and again. and again. and again. Finally, he died.

The End

:D

Speaking of flies, I caught one bare handed yesterday. :D

THIS WEEK.....GAHHHH

Is anyone else INSANELY busy this week?

Thursday after school--All-County Orchestra clinic
Friday all day (i get to miss school!)--All County Orchestra clinic and concert
SATURDAY--morning--maybe possibly Jazz Festival at my school and duet at Solo and Ensemble Festival...either that or go to class at taekwondo to practice line-ups for third degree black belt testing
--afternoon--third degree black belt testing @3:40

Is it karma or something that everything was scheduled for Saturday??!?

Puns

we were talking about puns in English class because of Romeo and Juliet, and my teacher told some really good ones!

"I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Then it hit me."

"Someone tore a hole in the wall of the nudist colony. The police are looking into it."

XD