SCHOOLS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOHOO!!!! SCHOOL GOT OUT YESTERDAY, AND WE ARE DONE!!!!!!!!!! WE GOT YEARBOOKS ON TUESDAY, FUNDAY WAS TUESDAY, I GOT AN AIRBRUSH TATOO AND 68 YEARBOOK SIGNATURES!!!!!

Our end-of-year assembly was yesterday, and we have this thing called the ABC Awards, where there's an award for every letter of the alphabet (Athletic, Best Buds, Celebrity, Dancer, Eyes, Flirt, Gamer, Hair, Inspirational, Joker, Knight, Laugh, Musical, (g)Narly, Outgoing, Positive, Q-test Couple, Radical, Smile, Trendy, Unpredictable, V (can't remember), Warm-Hearted, X-treme, Yapper, Zesty.) I won W, which is Warm-Hearted! Me and my friend Spencer both won. It was really surprising. And my friend Haley won Unpredictable, and Sam won Smile. It was really fun. Afterward we go through the "Teacher Tunnel," where we go through the hallway lined with teachers and we give out hugs and say thank you and cry. After that I took the bus to Ellyn's house. We played board games and ate Ramen. We played Boggle, Bezzerwizzer, Chronology, and Scrabble. It was the BEST LAST DAY OF SCHOOL EVER. Plus, for dinner we had pancetta carbonara and chocolate cream pie. Yum!!

Cruisin'!

On June 11th, my class, (we're graduating from our school) got to go on a cruise from the pier around the coastal area. All the girls got dressed up (dresses, hair done, new shoes, etc.) while the guys dressed normally (jeans, button downs, skater shoes, the occasional blazer). I had a few friends over before to get ready, and it was really fun!!! We went to school and hung out in the gym for a while as the teachers/chaperones/bus drivers got organized, then we got on buses by last name (luckily I was with my best friend, but the ride was still awful and too long.) We had to wait in line to get on the boat, then we finally got on!! We ate pizza and danced on the DJ floor, sang karaoke on the floor below, and also could go on the bow and on the top floor to talk and sit around. We have a band at our school, so they played (one guy surfed the crowd!) Everyone was pretty much on the dancing floor, jumping up and down and screaming and yelling the lyrics. It got pretty cold outside so EVERYONE was inside (I'm talking 350 people.) The windows were all steamed up because everyone was sweating from dancing. It was SOOOOO much fun getting all dressed up and stuff.

We're moving on! :'-) (that means happy crying)

Long Time, No Blog!

Wow. WOW! I am so sorry I haven't posted for more than a month! A lot has been going on for me, in school and outside of school.



In English right now we're doing Romeo and Juliet. We're actually acting it out, we had a masked ball and everything. I am the Nurse in Act I and II, and Juliet in Act III. We're on Act II right now, so I'm still the Nurse. One of the teachers is making Romeo and Juliet actually kiss in the acting! Luckily I'm not in that class.



Volleyball just ended today! We just had this fabulous three-day tournamnet at the local university. The weather wasn't great; cloudy, rainy and all. But the last day was great; sunny and lukewarm. My team did alright, and it was bittersweet to say goodbye to all my friends on the last day.

Many more posts to come...............lots of stuff happening in these last few weeks of school!!!

Volleyball: Halfway Across the Country

Last night at about 10:00, I got hope from the airport after a flight home from Minneapolis!! My volleyball team had a tournament there starting on Friday, so we flew over on Thursday afternoon. We got to the hotel at about 6 (Minneapolis time) and then had dinner (lasagne...mmmmmm.)

Friday, we lost our first two matches against teams from Minnesota and Texas, then beat a team from Kentucky. We got ice cream afterward, then had pizza delivered to our rooms. We were in the afternoon pool, so we got to sleep in.

Saturday, we all got up at and went to the MALL OF AMERICA. It is GINORMOUS. There's an amusement park, an aquarium, and a movie theater all inside it. I got 1 shirt. Most of the time we just marvelled at the vastness of it. It was so much fun. And then later, we won all our games. We then had dinner at this Italian place. Chicken parmesan, Fettucine Alfredo, and Spaghetti&Meatballs. Didn't get out of there till like 11:30, but it was still good.

Sunday we played at 11, won, and then at 1 and won again. We ended up winning our bracket. Then we went back to the hotel and got our bags and took the train to the airport. Now we're home.

It was about 70 and sunny the whole time. I really like Minneapolis, it's a good town.

I Thought it was Spring!!

Wow. Woowwwwww. Is this what you call spring?!?!? On Thursday it was hailing the size of marbles. Luckily tennis was cancelled that day (by the way, I made varsity tennis!!) and all we had was a meeting about captains and the schedule and stuff. Hannah and Lilia and I were waiting outside, watching it snow/hail, and when mom picked me up, we had to shout to hear each other over the hail. Then, whaddyaknow, we come home and it's sunny. We have had such bipolar weather lately. Wow, just..............wow.

Some Kind of Record

Today was a whopping 68 degrees!! Pretty good for the first day of spring! Today is great because I went over to Hannah's house and filmed for our friends video birthday present, played badminton, soccer, and flag football. Then we went back to Hannah's house and had cake and ice cream for Aaron's birthday. It was very good. We also said hello to Lady Bird and Doc (the great) and went on the rope swing. I wore shorts and a T-shirt and was still hot!

Tennis starts on Monday! So excited because this year I am trying out for varsity!

Now I have to go to homework. Darn.

Bye!

CHAMPS!!!

We are the Champions!!! WOOHOO!!! We beat KJH in three games to take the District Title!!! We are amazing. So now to celebrate we're going to Red Robin.

BOOYA! We are amazing.

We're Going to the Finals!!

Yesterday our Varsity volleyball team kicked RHJH out of our gym to move on to the finals!!! Woo-hoo!! We play KJH in the finals, like last year.

More details on Thursday after the game.

CAN'T WAIT!!!

Biggest Science Project of the Year (plus a bunch of other stuff)

Okay, so yesterday, the biggest science project of the year started. It's called SLUDGE. My partner and I are given a mixture of substances, and we have to use all the labs we've used over the year to separate them and identify the substances. So far, by partner Abby and I know that we have sulfur, magnesium ribbon, glass, and isoproponol. On Thursday we will distill the liquids to separate them, and after that, not sure where we're going. Oh well. We got our Sludge yesterday and it was dark pink. The people at the table across from us have a LOT of sulfur, and their Sludge smells TERRIBLE. Seriously. I have to breathe through my mouth for the whole class period. Oh well.

Also, last Thursday, my Literature Circle group (we read The Chosen by Chaim Potok) gave our presentation. We had to pretend to sell our book to a movie company to make it into a movie. We got an A, and the rest of the class also voted for ours as the best presentation! It was AMAZING.

Varsity Volleyball: UNDEFEATED!!!! We are all really happy because we are 2-0 in the preseason, and 2-0 in regular season. We are pretty much amazing.

Well, I think that's all for now.

That's all, folks!

Bye!

Mid-Winter Break

Yesterday, Mid-winter break started!!!!! We had yesterday, today, tomorrow, the next day, and the next day off. Today I had a sleepover with 3 awesome friends. We played Catchphrase, jumped on her trampoline, played cards and other games, and finally, watched Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. It was amazing. And she has the cutest little dog, Pechocha (she told me it was a variation of the Spanish word for precious). She was hilarious. She even took one of my socks and started chewing on it, before my friend wrestled it from her. Tonight, I have another sleepover, then I have a 3-day volleyball tournament.

I <3 BREAK!!!!

Best Day EVERR!!!!!!!!!

Today was the best day EVER!!!!!!!! Because:

• I got 68/70 on my presentation on Mexico and LA/SS
• I got 98/100 on my Arts Alive binder in LA/SS
• I got 98/100 on my Formal Lab Report in Science
• I got a "You're amazing" compliment on my volleyball skills from an awesome (yet slightly intimidating) PE teacher, who's compliments are rare.
• Did super well at varsity tryouts for school.
• SCHOOL YEAR IS HALF OVER!!!!!!!!!!!! BOO YA!!

New Country Unit

Yesterday (the first day back at school), we started studying Mexico. We got 2 maps, one to label cities and neighboring countries, and one to color the map blue, green, and brown, according to the elevation. We did a few Venn Diagrams about the differences between Mexico and the United States, and went on a website to research gestures, greetings, holidays, food, recreational activities, etc. We've only been at it for 2 days, but we've already learned a lot. We used to be studying China, and it took about a month, so I'm assuming that's about the amount of time this will take.

This had better be better than Animal Farm...................

A Late Merry Christmas

Sorry, this is a few weeks late, but Merry Christmas!! We were in Idaho with my grandparents and other family. There was about 2 inches of snow, and about 20 degrees and sunny the whole time. There was food, card games, presents, family, food, and did I mention food? It was so much fun. I learned Pinochle, Hearts, and Cribbage. I got:

• John Deere sweatshirt
• Plaid shirt/scarf/gloves
• Charm City Cakes T-shirt
• Black Uggs
• Duffel bag from my high school
• iTunes gift card
• One of those things that you put in your drawers to make your clothes smell better

Then we travelled to Boise to go to the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl, where the University of Idaho was playing Bowling Green (Ohio). They won 43-42 in the last 4 seconds!! It was AMAZING. I also got a jacket from the bookstore. My cousins and I went swimming at the hotel and we watched Evan Almighty in the exercise room. Then on the 31st we flew to Spokane, then drove home. We were gone for 9 days, and school starts again tomorrow. Grr. Oh well, it was an amazing break, Christmas, and New Years. Happy New Year!!

Today is a Special Day!!!

Today is an AMAZING day!!! Know why? Because........................

1. This is The Most Awesomest Blog EVAH!'s 200th post!!!!!!!!!
2. AND TODAYS DATE IS A PALINDROME!!!!!!!!!! January 2nd, 2010 is a palindrome!!

Here I'll show you.

Forwards: 01022010

Backwards: 01022010

The last one was in 2001, and before that, there wasn't one for 600 years!!! So this is really cool.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOD-BYE 2009!!!!!!!!!!

(yes, i did end up staying up til midnight even with only about 6 hours or sleep under my belt.)