Performances

Today started out as a kind of a bad day, with a 3 problem math quiz in Algebra 2, forgetting part of my world cultures work which thankfully doesn't matter, forgetting my reading book and journal for English and having to write an essay on why it is important to be a responsible honors student (which I found a little bit funny), but then fourth period I didn't forget anything, lunch I studied for a spanish test, 5th I think I did pretty well on the spanish test and finally theatre. But that was the best period. I was originally 2nd but was bumped to 3rd because someone wasn't there for their Spoonriver performance. I was fine with being third though. So Alyssa finishes and it is my turn. I go out and start performing and while saying my words my throat does a little throat jump, but I got over it. At the end I forget my tagline but then say the line I just said again casually as if it is supposed to be there and then remember my tag line and end with an energetic finish. My notes. Well first of all you have to know yesterday's notes which have to do with my Spoonriver performance, basically all I got was that my breathing was loud (but then Troy said to not pay attention to the person who said that which made me feel better) the other note I got was a question on the jewelry prop, so I explained it and they understood it after that. Today my notes were: You had great energy as soon as you came on stage, and you said the other persons lines as if they were really mean which is something she would do. (eep yay!) My other note was: What happened to your voice, and in response to that I said "I don't know what happened." because I really didn't. The last note was a tiny note on staging that really wasn't too important at the time. But anyway I got a 97% on it, which is really good and my teacher told me that he was glad I was taking chances and not being intimidated by the upperclassmen. He says I am doing really well, which is good for me. Hooray!

Yes!

So, first of all I must tell you that ever since around 7th grade my average for an essay has been a high B. So today my teacher is talking about our Ender's Game essays's because we are finally going to get them back. So she is talking and saying "Well most of them were good and the people who got A's were the people who I could tell understood the book, answered the question and provided examples. There were only two 100% and those were the people who not only understood the book, answered the question and provided examples but also wrote a very nice essay." So I volunteer to be one of the people to pass stuff out, not because I look at peoples grades (because I don't, I wouldn't want someone to look at mine) but because I was bored so I figured why not. So then I am finished passing them out and I find someone has passed mine back to me, and as it turns out I was one of the people who got a 100%, I am sooooo happy! :D (I don't know who the other person is though.)

Line Dancing

So, along with the planathon, when we were there we planned a line dancing lesson for the wednesday after this, I volunteered to teach it. We went and got two DVD's from the library "Ultimate Line Dancing" and "Line Dancing 101" we watched the second one. Or, well, I did. So now I roughly know about 5 line dances. I still need to review though before I can teach everyone. I hope they think it is fun!

Sundays

Went to church today, and my friend (we'll call her Josie) Josie's house and then they took me to choir and then to a fireside. Choir was fun, and at the fireside we watched Johnny Lingo, known that movie forever. It was fun. So happy, this weekend was the first weekend with no homework. Yay!

Planathon!!!

So today we were supposed to have this big planathon thing, and not many people showed up. Well, three did, but that was enough to get pretty far through our year. I am now excited to go to YW's because I helped to plan the fun things we are doing. I am so excited!!!

Pizza Day

If any of you know about the Aquabats then you would probably know that song about how Friday was pizza day the best day of the week. But instead Thursday was pizza day today. Since our school tested above 800 the school bought everyone a mini self pizza, with a chocolate lava cake, a cookie, brownie or cupcake, and a drink of milk or water. Pretty cool, although I basically only had the pizza and the water because the desserts were those fake kinds. Anyway, pretty good day today. Not really any tests so that was good, but I still have homework to do, so I need to get moving with that.

Club Rush

So, club rush was today and last year it happened as well and I didn't sign up for anything, but my friend was signing up for things so I decided I might as well do it as well. I ended up signing up for Spear-it Tribe, Young Life, and Foundation of Christian Athletes or the F stands for something like that. Anyway, that was fun. I had a friend sign up for Christian club and the Jewish club. There was even an Islam club, but he didn't join that one. The first thing for spear-it tribe is tomorrow I think at my friends volleyball game. She wants me to go and my mom was talking about going today so I might actually be there. That should be fun.

Orales

So, today I was signed up for my spanish oral and had roughly wrote it and memorized it, but I still needed a little help. So I asked my friend who is a native speaker of spanish for some help at lunch time. He helped me and then I had a couple minutes to memorize it a little during lunch and some in spanish while my teacher was talking and the two people before me were doing their orals. By the way before I left my friend at lunch he told me to tell my teacher that he helped me and I would get an A. But of course I said no. So, anyway while I was doing my oral I said something that I really hadn't learned how to say but my friend had told me about, and my teacher asks how I know so much spanish. So I told him I had help from my friend and when I checked my grade I got an A. Hahhaa.

Good Days

I love good days. Doesn't everyone? I love it when I come into first period and my friends are there next to me, and then funny people behind me make jokes. I love it when I got to second period and we learn something interesting and new that I didn't know. I love when I go to third period and people talk to me that I don't know that well. I love it when I go to fourth period and Bridget says hi to me and says something nice. I love it when I go to lunch and Natalie and Dylan are there and we make funny jokes. I love it when I go to fifth period and I say something correctly in spanish. I love it when I go to sixth period and I meet someone new or get to know them more. I love it when school ends and I can talk to people and then go home and relax for a while. Well, that is about it, just trying to look for the positive side in things today. :)

Dances and Friends

Had a wonderful time last night with my friend (we'll call her Melany). This was her first dance, so she didn't know what was going to happen, but knew she would have an amazing time because that is just the kind of person she is. We had a great time dancing fast songs and then finding people to dance with for slow songs. She is not in our ward, but she always comes with us to Girl's Camp because she is the only YW in her branch, so all of the girls knew who she was, but the guys didn't. While we were dancing they would call her weird and she didn't care, and we just kept on dancing however we felt like. That was kind of funny, because by the end of the night while I was dancing with someone and guy from our ward (let's say Joe) came up and asked me where my friend was and I said "I don't know, I lost her two dances ago." and it was funny. He wasn't so happy that I didn't know where she was though. Then later when the dance ended (the dance I just talked about was the last slow dance of the night) I found out that one of our guys (call him Adam) asked Melany to dance and another guy (Bob) got mad because he wanted to dance with her for the last dance. So, funny. When we finally got home, she slept over at our house and we were both super tired and talked for about five minutes and then we fell asleep with the light on. When we woke up in the morning Melany had to leave for her church and we were both still super tired so not much happened. I hope to see her again soon, maybe having her come to the next one or the one after that. :)

Moods

As it turns out I actually did remember. I have found, that how my day goes is based on other peoples moods and attitudes. Probably not that great of a thing to be, and I should probably make my day good, but still I like it when people are nice, then I feel like I have had a good day. Even if it is just one person saying hi who usually doesn't say hi to me. Nice people.

Cousins!!!

Hooray, hooray, I have cousins over! Hooray, hooray and they are gold. :D Yayayayayayayay!

But of course the worst thing about having cousins over is that eventually they will have to leave... Darn, that is always a disappointment. But, luckily friends are coming as well. In fact, if I am lucky I may have friends and cousins over at one time! As long as that is all good, it will be fun! That is about all I am posting about, although I did think of something really interesting to say the other day but now I can't remember it. Anyways, see you.

Wahoo!

So, about my testing blog post yesterday, well, as it turns out I did know all the answers! I got 100% on my World Cultures vocabulary test which is great because, you know, tow or three I wasn't sure about but thought about them for a little while, decided which ones sounded like they would be correct, and then put them. Then for the result I missed ZERO!

Another thing to be wahoo about it the my dear friend Ms. Mallorie is coming with me to her FIRST DANCE EVER! I talked to her yesterday and she says she is very excited. :D I can't wait until Saturday!

Me, Myself, and I

Just needed a creative thing for my title. This is basically about my theater class in which everyone is very loud and expresses themselves. Or, if they are not loud they at least know someone. But, I don't really know someone who isn't having a conversation with someone else at the time, so I try to join in but usually I get bored.

Now, I am good at making friends and all, but I am not even sure if I would want to be some of these people's friend. So, what to do, what to do......

Tests

I love when you take a test and you studied (or you didn't) but either way you know all of the answers and the test is super easy. Then you kind of feel bad, though because people around you says stuff like "Wow, I totally just bombed that test." And in your head you are going, hooray I just scored super well on that test. Anyway, I had two tests today one in World Cultures and one in Spanish. I am pretty sure that I did well in the World Cultrures one, it was vocabulary and I had studied so I think I got all of the answers right, I just wasn't sure about two or three of them. Then Spanish was also vocab. but in Spanish of course and I am hoping I got all of the accent marks and stuff in the right place. So, that is about all. :)

Sometimes Guys are Odd

This is mainly just to say that some guys at my school I am just not sure why they do things. That's about it. Emily B. needs to call me. Had a wonderful and entertaining day at school today. Much happened, but not much happened at the same time.

Beach Trip

All went well, pretty much on our beach trip. Eli came along and so did Aarons friend Jared. Mostly everyone was in the waves. Makean and I sang the Grass song and that was fun. (I brought my ukulele) We went to in-n-out on the way home and got yummy stuff. Then when I got home I was super tired and all three of the kids at home were sunburnt. So, the aloe-vera plant came out and we all had it's snot-like slime put onto us. But it felt better. All of us are still sunburnt today so that will probably happen again tonight. I am just hoping my sunburn on my face goes away by tomorrow because we have picture day tomorrow. That would stink if I had a sunburn. Anyway that is about it. :)

Scheduling

Yay! Thank goodness for a new good counselor. I talked to her today and she was very accommodating to my needs. I now am going to take BYU independent study P.E. and I have sixth period drama, and had a wonderful time doing improvisations with a girl I met when we started. It was so much more fun to do improv. in the advanced class because people were actually good. :D yay! Kudos to a great day!

More Stuff

I met someone new today! Yay! It was one of my friends friends and I didn't really talk to him much, but I know his name now so that counts right? Anyway pretty okay day. Didn't do so great on my bio test but I will be so prepared for the one on friday now that I have had my first one. (You see it is hard to study for your first test, because you have never seen any of the tests this teacher gives out, sooo.) But I think I probably aced or at least almost aced my spanish vocab test. That was easy because it was a review. Still working on shedules and things. But I would like to take independent study P.E. from BYU just because it wouldn't be such of a hassle. Anyway, that is about all that has happened today.

Beanie Babies

So, I am stuck again with what to write. Therefore I have continued that thing I was going to do. This is my life with beanie babies. I had and have a million of them, but never use them anymore. When I was little I used to take them out and my siblings and I would scatter them all over the floor. I know that most beanie babies come with a cute name that is on a heart tag usually attached to their ear or something like that. I know that sometimes the seam rips and that stinks because then you have a ton of beanie baby (insides?) everywhere. That is about it.

Long Weekends

Long Weekends are great. Except for the fact that teachers use them for bigger homework assignments. What do they think Weekends are for? They count as breaks don't they? And summer homework to. It is supposed to be a break from school. Not a continuation.

Independent Study P.E.

What a hassle! You really don't have to do much, but the school wants to be so much more organized than it is ever going to be. All you have to do is get a parent, coach or personal trainers signature, right? But no, that is not how the school works. They can't trust parents. So! Coaches are parents too. If they know the kid well enough then you may not be able to trust the coaches either.

So they told me to do P.E. but that is just a waste of my time, so I think I will join the tennis team just to be able to do Independent study P.E.

Dealings with Emily

Oh, Emily. Gone for just a little while, and already you are having so much fun without me. Of course, I do have Spencer to make me laugh forever. So funny. But still, you need to talk to me mucho.