Yea I'm getting a little lazy about my blog... I apologize... again...
So, what happened within the last 7 days?
I don't even remember what I did on Friday. On Saturday, I had a band rehearsal from... I think 4 pm to 6.30. It was the rehearsal with Dr Holsinger who is the composer of one of the pieces we're playing. He's so awesome! He kinda looks like a little Santa Clause and is soooo energetic and nice and kind and funny... We thought he'd be scary since he's so famous in the band world but he never yelled at us and really gave us some awesome tips on how to improve certain passages in the song. The entire flute section loves him. He's so cute.
After rehearsal, Gary gave me a ride home and mentioned that he was going to Autumn's house. I had to check with my parents whether I could go first so I went home first, had dinner, and then Gary picked me up again. Since he and Autumn were hungry, we went to Taco Bell first where we had a lot of fun watching a really weird candy-selling guy who kept talking to himself or his candy or who knows what imaginary person. Twizzlers were also involved, bought from the candy man, and real life pacman. Too hard to explain, you'd have to have been there. After a while we got the amazing idea to go to a dollar store and called a bunch of people to get them come with us but nobody understood why a dollar store is so amazing. Come on, what can be MORE amazing than a dollar store??? So we went to one and bought very ridiculous presents for several people (bunny ears for Eric - that is related to a story -, fish nets for Ross, glow-in-the-dark footprint stickers for Justin, a ladybug I don't even know what it was thingy for Mr Curtis, ...). It was hilarious. We dropped the bunny ears off at Eric's house (he wasn't there because he was at his dad's over the weekend) and then we went to Autumn's house. A couple minutes later Justin, Ross and Eric got there too, they had been at the movie theatre before. Justin and Ross received their presents and Ross managed to rip the fish nets right away when he put them on... yea you can probably tell that we had a LOT of fun.
On Saturday, I had to be at JAPAC (John Armstrong Performing Arts Center, where the stage of our school is and where we have all kinds of school performances) at 4 pm and we rehearsed again and got ready for the concert. It went okay and was a lot of fun with Dr Holsinger. He actually wrote an entire new song for our Wind Symphony and Sunday was the premier night. "The Maelstrom" is an amazing piece. We were all very impressed.
I don't think anything too exciting happened on Monday or Tuesday.
Then yesterday, we had flute sectionals for the last time. I got home afterwards around 5.30, had dinner with my family and grandma, who was there, and then around 7.30 I left again when Kyle, Heather and Aimee picked me up to go bowling. It was such a fun night. I also had my first Coney Hot Dog ;)
There's another new development recently. I might have mentioned that the ACT, a standardized test that every Junior at my school has to take, is coming up in the second week of March. I didn't really plan on doing extra practice stuff for that but then Sheila told me that you can actually put four colleges on the test form and then your score is sent to those colleges, and if it is really good, they might even offer you a scholarship. That definitely gave me huge motivation to practise for the test and I'll have an appointment with my counselor soon where I'll ask her about the SAT, another test that you can take and that the colleges look at even more. This week the Juniors had gridding which means filling out the information sheets for the test (name, birth date, adress, interests, future plans, ... so many questions and hundreds of bubbles to fill in). On there, we also had to put 4 colleges that we want to get our scores sent to. I put 4 colleges with very good engineering on there. My 1st and 3rd choice are in California, which is where all the good engineering schools are, my 2nd choice is Michigan Tech, and my 4th choice is in Chicago I believe, another Technology institute. I'm not planning or relaying on this in any way yet, don't worry... but it might be a chance and you know me - I take the chances I get.
Who knows what's gonna happen, you can always try...
2/28/2008
2/21/2008
My Day Off
It was pretty cool. And funny.
So Wednesday, I got up pretty early (considering I didn't have school). I was done with showering and everything around 10 am, cleaned my room, practised my flute and all that...
Around... 11, I think, I called Gary to see whether he wanted to hang out. So we ended up with the plan that he would pick me up and we'd go to Eric's house as soon as Eric had gone out and got Dynasty Warrior 6, a Play Station 3 game that just came out yesterday and that, according to Gary, the two of them had been waiting for for several years. A couple doubts about the plan appeared about an hour later when Eric locked himself out of his own house. Fortunately, he found his window to be unlocked after 30 minutes and got in.
I waited until Sheila got home shortly after 1 pm (she had asked me to not leave while she was gone because Courtney's boyfriend Jake was going to come over and she didn't want she two of them to be home alone) and then I called Gary who had just arrived at Eric's house and now turned around again to come and get me. Yea, he drives me around way too much. But he hates it when I say that. He says it doesn't matter. Gary's awesome.
So we hung out at Eric's house for a while with Eric and Justin, playing Dynasty Warrior 6 (I did one attempt after being persuaded by the guys that even if I sucked as much at video games as I said, I couldn't do anything wrong if I just permanently pressed the square button. I actually survived through almost the entire level I think, which was not bad).
We left around 3.30 or 4 and after driving around aimlessly for a little while, Gary and I ended up at McDonald's to get some food for Gary and a diet coke for me. A little later we went to my house to play some Wii which was a lot of fun because little 5-year-old Grayson beat the very video game experienced Gary in Wii bowling. Then after dinner, Gary regained his self confidence by beating Jake in PS2 Need For Speed. Hehe.
Overall, a fun day.
Starting today, Gary's driving Courtney and me to school. Awesome - we can actually sleep a little bit longer and we don't have to endure the long, annoying bus ride with about a million stops.
Concert weekend coming up. Lots of rehearsals. And I don't think we're ready yet.
So Wednesday, I got up pretty early (considering I didn't have school). I was done with showering and everything around 10 am, cleaned my room, practised my flute and all that...
Around... 11, I think, I called Gary to see whether he wanted to hang out. So we ended up with the plan that he would pick me up and we'd go to Eric's house as soon as Eric had gone out and got Dynasty Warrior 6, a Play Station 3 game that just came out yesterday and that, according to Gary, the two of them had been waiting for for several years. A couple doubts about the plan appeared about an hour later when Eric locked himself out of his own house. Fortunately, he found his window to be unlocked after 30 minutes and got in.
I waited until Sheila got home shortly after 1 pm (she had asked me to not leave while she was gone because Courtney's boyfriend Jake was going to come over and she didn't want she two of them to be home alone) and then I called Gary who had just arrived at Eric's house and now turned around again to come and get me. Yea, he drives me around way too much. But he hates it when I say that. He says it doesn't matter. Gary's awesome.
So we hung out at Eric's house for a while with Eric and Justin, playing Dynasty Warrior 6 (I did one attempt after being persuaded by the guys that even if I sucked as much at video games as I said, I couldn't do anything wrong if I just permanently pressed the square button. I actually survived through almost the entire level I think, which was not bad).
We left around 3.30 or 4 and after driving around aimlessly for a little while, Gary and I ended up at McDonald's to get some food for Gary and a diet coke for me. A little later we went to my house to play some Wii which was a lot of fun because little 5-year-old Grayson beat the very video game experienced Gary in Wii bowling. Then after dinner, Gary regained his self confidence by beating Jake in PS2 Need For Speed. Hehe.
Overall, a fun day.
Starting today, Gary's driving Courtney and me to school. Awesome - we can actually sleep a little bit longer and we don't have to endure the long, annoying bus ride with about a million stops.
Concert weekend coming up. Lots of rehearsals. And I don't think we're ready yet.
2/19/2008
Marquette
"Maria the coldest she's ever been!"
Oops, I made you wait a week again. I apologize. Got a lot to do.
Last week started pretty awesome. Courtney and I got up on Monday, got ready for school and were almost about to go out and wait for the bus when Courtney asked Sheila, rather joking than being serious "Mom, would they cancel school if it's too cold outside?" So Sheila said "Well, you know what, actually..." and turned the TV on. And, oh glory, there it was - pretty much every school around here was canceled! Well, it was understandable, because it WAS freezingly cold outside. Including the wind shield, there were temperatures below zero. Fahrenheit. I don't even want to convert that into degrees Celcius.
Wednesday probably contained the highlights of the entire week. When 4th Hour started, Mr Dakmak told us that we'd have to go down to the Media Center for some ACT preparation stuff online. He also apologized because since that preparation stuff was timed, we wouldn't be able to go to B-Lunch but would have to go to C-Lunch instead. I was SO happy, I almost jumped out of my seat screaming :D So we did that stupid preparation stuff (practising the ACT essay part, and a computer scores it... how can a computer score an essay?? I got a stupid 3, so if it was the realy ACT, I would have just failed the essay part. Oh well. Stupid computer.) and then, we went off to C-Lunch. I found Gary, Autumn, Randy and Eric right away and we were soon joined by Ashlynn and Garrett (whose seat I had stolen). Kyle sat close to them, too. It was the most fun lunch period I ever had. I can't even say why. It just was.
Then, after school, I stayed because I had flute sectionals at 4. Unfortunately, I hadn't eaten much at lunch because I wasn't hungry (and so I gave my lunch to Randy who was desperately hungry) so by now, I was veeery hungry. So I decided to call Gary who turned out to be hanging out at his grandma's house with Autumn and they came to pick me up and go to some place to eat. Well, they didn't really eat much. I did. Sooo hungry.
We ended up at some McDonald's and it was fun. Just like it is always fun and totally amazing to hang out with them.
Courtney and I had Friday off, I don't exactly know why. Maybe because it was President's Day on... Monday? Oh well. So Sheila took the little ones out of school on Friday and we left early for our trip up to Marquette on the Upper Peninsula (UP) to where Doug works every now and then in winter and had been working during the last week, so he was already up there. After a 7-hour drive through more and more snow the further north we got and after passing the Mackinaw bridge over the partially frozen Lake Michigan somewhere in between, we arrived up there at Doug's working place. Over the weekend, we stayed at a vacation apartment. It was a two story apartment with 3 bedrooms. I shared one with Michaela and Grayson, Courtney shared with Jake. Friday night, we went to a place where we watched the start of a dog sled race, that was pretty cool but really cold as well. Sheila took a picture of me with the comment "This is Maria the coldest she's ever been!" That was probably true. Later, we went to a very nice and cosy place to have dinner.
On Saturday, we went back to Doug's working place and he showed us the building, the garage and even the test track. He drove us around on it in one of the test cars. It was fun to ride around on a huge ice field and through the snow :) (Mom, you wouldn't have liked it). After that, we went to the Northern Michigan University where they had some event going on in the stadium with lots of activities for the little ones to do. That was nice. And WARM ^^. The last thing we did that day was to go out to a place where we walked about a mile through a forest to some ice caves. It seriously looked like a frozen waterfall. That was so cool. And the walking kept us all very warm.
On Sunday, we went tubing - God, that was awesome. The Germans probably all know it from the American movies we get over there... you know, when they sled down hills in those big black ring thingies? It is sooooo much fun. And the guy at the bottom of the hill who hooked the tubes up to the lift when we went back up was pretty hot :P
On Monday, which was yesterday, we left the apartment and went back to the Lower Peninsula but stayed pretty far up North at the cottage of friends. Actually, I wouldn't call it a cottage. It was huge. It had a huge basement, 2 stories and biiig rooms. It is such a beautiful house. We stayed there overnight, Courtney and I sleeping on a very comfy sleeping couch in the basement, and today we left to do the last part of the journey.
So now, I'm back home again, and I still got one more day off tomorrow.
And in only a month, I will be in nice, HOT Florida!
Oops, I made you wait a week again. I apologize. Got a lot to do.
Last week started pretty awesome. Courtney and I got up on Monday, got ready for school and were almost about to go out and wait for the bus when Courtney asked Sheila, rather joking than being serious "Mom, would they cancel school if it's too cold outside?" So Sheila said "Well, you know what, actually..." and turned the TV on. And, oh glory, there it was - pretty much every school around here was canceled! Well, it was understandable, because it WAS freezingly cold outside. Including the wind shield, there were temperatures below zero. Fahrenheit. I don't even want to convert that into degrees Celcius.
Wednesday probably contained the highlights of the entire week. When 4th Hour started, Mr Dakmak told us that we'd have to go down to the Media Center for some ACT preparation stuff online. He also apologized because since that preparation stuff was timed, we wouldn't be able to go to B-Lunch but would have to go to C-Lunch instead. I was SO happy, I almost jumped out of my seat screaming :D So we did that stupid preparation stuff (practising the ACT essay part, and a computer scores it... how can a computer score an essay?? I got a stupid 3, so if it was the realy ACT, I would have just failed the essay part. Oh well. Stupid computer.) and then, we went off to C-Lunch. I found Gary, Autumn, Randy and Eric right away and we were soon joined by Ashlynn and Garrett (whose seat I had stolen). Kyle sat close to them, too. It was the most fun lunch period I ever had. I can't even say why. It just was.
Then, after school, I stayed because I had flute sectionals at 4. Unfortunately, I hadn't eaten much at lunch because I wasn't hungry (and so I gave my lunch to Randy who was desperately hungry) so by now, I was veeery hungry. So I decided to call Gary who turned out to be hanging out at his grandma's house with Autumn and they came to pick me up and go to some place to eat. Well, they didn't really eat much. I did. Sooo hungry.
We ended up at some McDonald's and it was fun. Just like it is always fun and totally amazing to hang out with them.
Courtney and I had Friday off, I don't exactly know why. Maybe because it was President's Day on... Monday? Oh well. So Sheila took the little ones out of school on Friday and we left early for our trip up to Marquette on the Upper Peninsula (UP) to where Doug works every now and then in winter and had been working during the last week, so he was already up there. After a 7-hour drive through more and more snow the further north we got and after passing the Mackinaw bridge over the partially frozen Lake Michigan somewhere in between, we arrived up there at Doug's working place. Over the weekend, we stayed at a vacation apartment. It was a two story apartment with 3 bedrooms. I shared one with Michaela and Grayson, Courtney shared with Jake. Friday night, we went to a place where we watched the start of a dog sled race, that was pretty cool but really cold as well. Sheila took a picture of me with the comment "This is Maria the coldest she's ever been!" That was probably true. Later, we went to a very nice and cosy place to have dinner.
On Saturday, we went back to Doug's working place and he showed us the building, the garage and even the test track. He drove us around on it in one of the test cars. It was fun to ride around on a huge ice field and through the snow :) (Mom, you wouldn't have liked it). After that, we went to the Northern Michigan University where they had some event going on in the stadium with lots of activities for the little ones to do. That was nice. And WARM ^^. The last thing we did that day was to go out to a place where we walked about a mile through a forest to some ice caves. It seriously looked like a frozen waterfall. That was so cool. And the walking kept us all very warm.
On Sunday, we went tubing - God, that was awesome. The Germans probably all know it from the American movies we get over there... you know, when they sled down hills in those big black ring thingies? It is sooooo much fun. And the guy at the bottom of the hill who hooked the tubes up to the lift when we went back up was pretty hot :P
On Monday, which was yesterday, we left the apartment and went back to the Lower Peninsula but stayed pretty far up North at the cottage of friends. Actually, I wouldn't call it a cottage. It was huge. It had a huge basement, 2 stories and biiig rooms. It is such a beautiful house. We stayed there overnight, Courtney and I sleeping on a very comfy sleeping couch in the basement, and today we left to do the last part of the journey.
So now, I'm back home again, and I still got one more day off tomorrow.
And in only a month, I will be in nice, HOT Florida!
2/10/2008
ALL THAT REMAINS!
Friday night was EPIC.
Wow, I haven't posted anything in a week... I'm sorry, time flies I guess!
So, nothing really interesting happened during the week. I had sectionals on Wednesday, we had our first AP Chemistry quiz that I got a 100% on - yay - and we also had a Precalc quiz that I did rather bad on ^^ (I got like, an 80 or something) but, oh well. It's still a B, and not that it matters anyways.
On Thursday, we had a snowday. So while Doug and the little ones went sledding, Sheila took Courtney and me to Macomb Mall. It was like heaven, everywhere they had so much on sale! I got a plaid blazer (mainly black, grey and brown with a little pink) at DEB for about $7, a reversible zip-up hoodie at Pac Sun for $30, two shirts at Max Rave for $10 each and two more shirts and two... well kinda French looking mini-jacket thingies for each $3 at Max Rave as well. Yay. The hoodie is white with black flower-print on one side and black with white print on the other. I got one black shirt that's kinda wide and flowing, one black, shiny satin blouse, one brown shirt and another brown and beige striped shirt. One of the Frenchy jackets has short sleeves, is rather short itself, has these two amazing big buttons and is dark grey. The other one is beige, has four of those big buttons and its sleeves go down to my ellbows.
The most amazing day of the week was definitely Friday. Right after school, I went to Gary's house with him and Chad. While Chad and I were waiting inside, he did something about the oil in his car. A little later, we took off to drop off Chad's and my school stuff at our houses and then we picked up Gary's friend Nick who, as I realized, is in my AP Chem and Precalc classes. Next, we went to Autumn's house where we also met her cousin Elizabeth, Eric and his girlfriend Ashlynn, a kid who's name was Chris I think and who knows who else was there. Later Justin got there and brought pizza and crazy bread so we ate and when Julian finally arrived, we got in the cars to go to the Majestic Theatre in Detroit. When we got there, the doors weren't open yet, so we had to stand outside in the cold for a little while. It was freezing but then they finally let us in.
The opening band was okay and Autumn started the first mosh pit :D but the really good time started when All That Remains came on stage. Those guys are just awesome. I had an amazing night, got a water shower and two beer showers and a couple bruises. EPIC. The singer was really hot... he took his shirt off which delighted us girls :D
The concert was over way too fast I think although it was actually pretty long. I think we left there somewhen around midnight. Again, I was in Gary's car with him, Nick, Chad and Julian. When we got to Harrison Township, we first dropped Julian off, then Chad, and then Gary took me home. It felt good to get out of those beer soaked clothes ;)
Yesterday wasn't as eventful but cool, too. Gary picked me up around 5.45pm and we went to Autumn's house for Garrett's birthday party. Eric, Ross, Elizabeth and Justin were there, too. We ate the cake Autumn made (it was really good), hung out doing random stuff, and around 9.30 or so we decided to go to Paco's for some Mexican food (Eric had left and when he passed Paco's and saw that it was still open, he called us to let us know.). Unfortunately they closed by the time we got there so we ended up going to Taco Bell where Ross ordered like a ton of food for all of us. We still almost finished it.
I had to leave around 10 so Gary took me home. I thought we'd go to chruch at 10am today but we ended up going to noon mass and afterwards, Sheila, Courtney, Michaela and I went to Grayson's basketball practise while Doug took Jake to his basketball game. Back at home, I talked to Chrissi on the phone :) The rest of the day was rather unexciting. Homework, dinner... you know how that works.
It's frickin cold outside. 5 degrees Fahrenheit, -20 if you add the wind. Tomorrow it's supposed to be -10, so I don't even want to think about wind.
Well, I gotta go to bed. Good night!
Wow, I haven't posted anything in a week... I'm sorry, time flies I guess!
So, nothing really interesting happened during the week. I had sectionals on Wednesday, we had our first AP Chemistry quiz that I got a 100% on - yay - and we also had a Precalc quiz that I did rather bad on ^^ (I got like, an 80 or something) but, oh well. It's still a B, and not that it matters anyways.
On Thursday, we had a snowday. So while Doug and the little ones went sledding, Sheila took Courtney and me to Macomb Mall. It was like heaven, everywhere they had so much on sale! I got a plaid blazer (mainly black, grey and brown with a little pink) at DEB for about $7, a reversible zip-up hoodie at Pac Sun for $30, two shirts at Max Rave for $10 each and two more shirts and two... well kinda French looking mini-jacket thingies for each $3 at Max Rave as well. Yay. The hoodie is white with black flower-print on one side and black with white print on the other. I got one black shirt that's kinda wide and flowing, one black, shiny satin blouse, one brown shirt and another brown and beige striped shirt. One of the Frenchy jackets has short sleeves, is rather short itself, has these two amazing big buttons and is dark grey. The other one is beige, has four of those big buttons and its sleeves go down to my ellbows.
The most amazing day of the week was definitely Friday. Right after school, I went to Gary's house with him and Chad. While Chad and I were waiting inside, he did something about the oil in his car. A little later, we took off to drop off Chad's and my school stuff at our houses and then we picked up Gary's friend Nick who, as I realized, is in my AP Chem and Precalc classes. Next, we went to Autumn's house where we also met her cousin Elizabeth, Eric and his girlfriend Ashlynn, a kid who's name was Chris I think and who knows who else was there. Later Justin got there and brought pizza and crazy bread so we ate and when Julian finally arrived, we got in the cars to go to the Majestic Theatre in Detroit. When we got there, the doors weren't open yet, so we had to stand outside in the cold for a little while. It was freezing but then they finally let us in.
The opening band was okay and Autumn started the first mosh pit :D but the really good time started when All That Remains came on stage. Those guys are just awesome. I had an amazing night, got a water shower and two beer showers and a couple bruises. EPIC. The singer was really hot... he took his shirt off which delighted us girls :D
The concert was over way too fast I think although it was actually pretty long. I think we left there somewhen around midnight. Again, I was in Gary's car with him, Nick, Chad and Julian. When we got to Harrison Township, we first dropped Julian off, then Chad, and then Gary took me home. It felt good to get out of those beer soaked clothes ;)
Yesterday wasn't as eventful but cool, too. Gary picked me up around 5.45pm and we went to Autumn's house for Garrett's birthday party. Eric, Ross, Elizabeth and Justin were there, too. We ate the cake Autumn made (it was really good), hung out doing random stuff, and around 9.30 or so we decided to go to Paco's for some Mexican food (Eric had left and when he passed Paco's and saw that it was still open, he called us to let us know.). Unfortunately they closed by the time we got there so we ended up going to Taco Bell where Ross ordered like a ton of food for all of us. We still almost finished it.
I had to leave around 10 so Gary took me home. I thought we'd go to chruch at 10am today but we ended up going to noon mass and afterwards, Sheila, Courtney, Michaela and I went to Grayson's basketball practise while Doug took Jake to his basketball game. Back at home, I talked to Chrissi on the phone :) The rest of the day was rather unexciting. Homework, dinner... you know how that works.
It's frickin cold outside. 5 degrees Fahrenheit, -20 if you add the wind. Tomorrow it's supposed to be -10, so I don't even want to think about wind.
Well, I gotta go to bed. Good night!
2/02/2008
Wipe The Car Off My Snow
I had SO much fun last night.
So, I tried to change my schedule to not have Composition anymore and to hopefully get into C-Lunch, but the only classes that were still open for 4th Hour were classes like Design (okay, that might've been cool, but that means A-Lunch and A-Lunch was always way to early for eating) and... I don't even remember. Well, so I just kept my schedule the way it was. Gary tried to get into my 5th Hour Real Life Literature. He got into Real Life Lit, but he's with another teacher. That's just dumb. And Justin dropped out of my 5th Hour, so now I don't know anyone in that class except for those ex-Writing Workshop mates whom I don't really want to be with anymore. Well, it's gonna be fine. I'll meet people. Think positive, be a good exchange student.
B-Lunch turned out to actually be not so bad. When they realized on Monday that they messed up the lunches (C-Lunch was packed while B-Lunch was half empty), they changed some of them on Tuesday. So now, there are more band people in B-Lunch and so I'm sitting with Mary, Breanna, Chelsea and Nicole now. It's a cool table, we're having fun :)
Tuesday was Jake's birthday, he turned 10. We had brownies after dinner. He got a snowboard and a birthday party that he had yesterday from his parents. I gave him a Scooby Doo DVD. Tomorrow, we're going to celebrate with Grandma Tina, Uncle Bubba and Aunt Bridget I think. Tomorrow's also the Super Bowl, so we might watch that all together.
On Wednesday, I had my first flute sectionals. Sectionals are one hour practises with only the people of one section (e.g. trumpet section, percussion, flute section,...) and we have them once a week starting this week until... I don't even know. I think up until the concert on February 24th. It was pretty cool. I learned the fingering for the high G flat. Yay.
Gary gave me a ride home after sectionals (he had to pick up Claudia, she's in the flute section too) and in his car, he had a humongous Sweeney Todd movie poster that Randy had got me from the MJR theatre where he works and where whe watche Sweeney Todd. I love Randy :) that poster's frickin awesome.
All week, the weather channels and teachers told us about a big snow storm that was coming up and supposed to hit us Thursday night. The teacher's predicted we wouldn't have school on Friday. Unfortunately, we only got about 3-5 inches, so we didn't get a snow day. That was a little disappointing, but not too bad at first. When I got to the school though and realized that a lot of people just didn't come to school which meant that we didn't really do anything in any of my classes, I just really didn't want to be there anymore. I was so tired. People kept leaving the school just because it didn't make a lot of sense to stay but well, I can't just leave because YFU checks my attendance. And everybody who left unexcused got marked absent for a full day.
So I just sat in school the whole day doing nothing and then after school, I stayed for Jazz Band but ended up still sitting around doing nothing because instead of doing Jazz Band, Mr Conaton told us to practise Solo and Ensemble stuff. I don't do that, so I just hung out with people and had to wait until 4 when Doug came to pick me up. It wasn't as bad as the rest of the school day though because there were many band people around to talk to.
When I got home, I did Michaela's hair for her Daddy Daughter Dance which was last night. Since Courtney was at cheerleading and Sheila at Jake's birthday party (it was at a pool), I was the only one to do her hair. I love her hair :) I wish I had hair like hers.
While I was curling hair and talking to Michaela, Gary called me telling me that he was about to leave his Grandma's house (which is like right around the corner, almost) to go up to his parents' house for the weekend and asking whether I wanted to go with him to hang out at his house. Since my mom wasn't home yet and my dad was about to leave with Michaela, I had to stay with Grayson though. So I watched TV with him for a while and then Sheila came home with some pizza for dinner. After dinner, I asked her whether I could go to Gary's house and when she agreed, I called him and he drove all the way back here to pick me up ^^ He's awesome. I love him :)
So we hung out at Gary's last night, "we" meaning Autumn, Eric, Justin, Ross, Gary's cousin Tim, Gary of course and me. Most of the time, Gary's sister was with us, too. Not Claudia. The other one. I'm so bad at names. What we did was basically talking, doing crazy stuff and playing video games. And Uno.
I had an amazing night, it was so hilarious. When they shovelled the drive way before I came, they put all the snow on Eric's car and he was rather pissed about that :D while everybody else thought it was pretty funny. When later Autumn said "I'm really hungry right now" and somebody suggested that someone should go and fetch some food, Eric went (pretty annoyed) "If you wipe the car off my snow, I'll do it!" It took him a little while to realzise what we were laughing about :D
Someone found the head of a black baby doll in Gary's room, so we gave Justin some sharpies (permanent markers) and he made it the creepiest baby head ever. He's so frickin artistic. It's not even fair ^^
Eric got everyone laughing again with a very... SPECIAL... way of throwing an empty water bottle in a water bottle fight. And jumping for cover afterwards.
A little while before I head to leave, we started playing Uno ("Autumn, you don't know how to play UNO?? What kind of child hood did you have!" - Don't remember who said that. Eric, I think.). You won't believe me, but Uno can be HILARIOUS. If you leave the blank cards in a new and just opened deck.
Yea, those people are all pretty awesome.
Can't wait til the concert next Friday :)
So, I tried to change my schedule to not have Composition anymore and to hopefully get into C-Lunch, but the only classes that were still open for 4th Hour were classes like Design (okay, that might've been cool, but that means A-Lunch and A-Lunch was always way to early for eating) and... I don't even remember. Well, so I just kept my schedule the way it was. Gary tried to get into my 5th Hour Real Life Literature. He got into Real Life Lit, but he's with another teacher. That's just dumb. And Justin dropped out of my 5th Hour, so now I don't know anyone in that class except for those ex-Writing Workshop mates whom I don't really want to be with anymore. Well, it's gonna be fine. I'll meet people. Think positive, be a good exchange student.
B-Lunch turned out to actually be not so bad. When they realized on Monday that they messed up the lunches (C-Lunch was packed while B-Lunch was half empty), they changed some of them on Tuesday. So now, there are more band people in B-Lunch and so I'm sitting with Mary, Breanna, Chelsea and Nicole now. It's a cool table, we're having fun :)
Tuesday was Jake's birthday, he turned 10. We had brownies after dinner. He got a snowboard and a birthday party that he had yesterday from his parents. I gave him a Scooby Doo DVD. Tomorrow, we're going to celebrate with Grandma Tina, Uncle Bubba and Aunt Bridget I think. Tomorrow's also the Super Bowl, so we might watch that all together.
On Wednesday, I had my first flute sectionals. Sectionals are one hour practises with only the people of one section (e.g. trumpet section, percussion, flute section,...) and we have them once a week starting this week until... I don't even know. I think up until the concert on February 24th. It was pretty cool. I learned the fingering for the high G flat. Yay.
Gary gave me a ride home after sectionals (he had to pick up Claudia, she's in the flute section too) and in his car, he had a humongous Sweeney Todd movie poster that Randy had got me from the MJR theatre where he works and where whe watche Sweeney Todd. I love Randy :) that poster's frickin awesome.
All week, the weather channels and teachers told us about a big snow storm that was coming up and supposed to hit us Thursday night. The teacher's predicted we wouldn't have school on Friday. Unfortunately, we only got about 3-5 inches, so we didn't get a snow day. That was a little disappointing, but not too bad at first. When I got to the school though and realized that a lot of people just didn't come to school which meant that we didn't really do anything in any of my classes, I just really didn't want to be there anymore. I was so tired. People kept leaving the school just because it didn't make a lot of sense to stay but well, I can't just leave because YFU checks my attendance. And everybody who left unexcused got marked absent for a full day.
So I just sat in school the whole day doing nothing and then after school, I stayed for Jazz Band but ended up still sitting around doing nothing because instead of doing Jazz Band, Mr Conaton told us to practise Solo and Ensemble stuff. I don't do that, so I just hung out with people and had to wait until 4 when Doug came to pick me up. It wasn't as bad as the rest of the school day though because there were many band people around to talk to.
When I got home, I did Michaela's hair for her Daddy Daughter Dance which was last night. Since Courtney was at cheerleading and Sheila at Jake's birthday party (it was at a pool), I was the only one to do her hair. I love her hair :) I wish I had hair like hers.
While I was curling hair and talking to Michaela, Gary called me telling me that he was about to leave his Grandma's house (which is like right around the corner, almost) to go up to his parents' house for the weekend and asking whether I wanted to go with him to hang out at his house. Since my mom wasn't home yet and my dad was about to leave with Michaela, I had to stay with Grayson though. So I watched TV with him for a while and then Sheila came home with some pizza for dinner. After dinner, I asked her whether I could go to Gary's house and when she agreed, I called him and he drove all the way back here to pick me up ^^ He's awesome. I love him :)
So we hung out at Gary's last night, "we" meaning Autumn, Eric, Justin, Ross, Gary's cousin Tim, Gary of course and me. Most of the time, Gary's sister was with us, too. Not Claudia. The other one. I'm so bad at names. What we did was basically talking, doing crazy stuff and playing video games. And Uno.
I had an amazing night, it was so hilarious. When they shovelled the drive way before I came, they put all the snow on Eric's car and he was rather pissed about that :D while everybody else thought it was pretty funny. When later Autumn said "I'm really hungry right now" and somebody suggested that someone should go and fetch some food, Eric went (pretty annoyed) "If you wipe the car off my snow, I'll do it!" It took him a little while to realzise what we were laughing about :D
Someone found the head of a black baby doll in Gary's room, so we gave Justin some sharpies (permanent markers) and he made it the creepiest baby head ever. He's so frickin artistic. It's not even fair ^^
Eric got everyone laughing again with a very... SPECIAL... way of throwing an empty water bottle in a water bottle fight. And jumping for cover afterwards.
A little while before I head to leave, we started playing Uno ("Autumn, you don't know how to play UNO?? What kind of child hood did you have!" - Don't remember who said that. Eric, I think.). You won't believe me, but Uno can be HILARIOUS. If you leave the blank cards in a new and just opened deck.
Yea, those people are all pretty awesome.
Can't wait til the concert next Friday :)
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