traditions of the ugly Covina High School

every year at CHS home of the colts, we have a Grand Concert with both the band and choir playing. this year it happened to be last night. it was fun and i think that the music program has gotten a lot better, but i am so tired!!! im in concert band, concert choir, voices, and i play the maracas for one jazz band song (it's more salsa-esque). i was running around the whole gym all night! first concert band played-that was fun because we sounded great and i had this totally bomb timpani solo! then men's choir sang one song and after that voices sang-we all hated the first song but we needed it in order to have a full act, then we sang a negro spiritual that was this really beautiful a capella song, then we sang classical music. after that was intermission which i spent standing outside because it was so freaking hot in the gym. then jazz band played-that was the best part of the concert because i got to sit, relax, and listen to my favorite kind of music. then it was concert choir-oh boy don't get me started. the girl next to me did not know her notes and she was always sharp. there was this one song where i had to hit a really high b flat (that is a really high note and even only select sopranos can hit that note) and only this other girl in voices and i were supposed to hit it and the girl next to me tried and holy crap! she was super flat and we clashed. she didn't know how to lift her soft-pallet i think because it is impossible to hit a b flat if you cannot lift your soft-pallet. it was pretty bad. she also made me forget words because i had to concentrate on getting my notes right. but other than that, it was great!!!!

the best part was after the concert when one of the German exchange students came to my house and we watched take the lead. he is the cutest kid ever! we talked about a lot of stuff. did you know that the drinking age in Germany is 16? yeah, crazy right? i actually thought it was 13, but he said that most bars will serve you beer as long as you can see over the counter. but he also said that a lot of people dont just go and get wasted because they can (my words, not his...he doesn't know wasted) they are conscious about what they drink and for the most part they wont drink too much. ive always wanted to try German beer just because i hear its like the best in the world...not that i would.

life sucks

sometimes, it really does. this time, it's sorta my fault, but i think my dad is being a bit harsh. i understand taking responsibility for my actions and i can handle that...but when he tries to tell me that it's all my fault because i didn't trust him and things like that (yes he actually said that to me) it really bugs me. i had a lot of stuff happen to me over the past six weeks and i paid a very high emotional price and when i tried to talk about it, people were "too busy" or something. not that it's anyone else's fault, but it certainly isn't my "fault" that i didn't trust anyone or whatever.

yesterday...

...this guy that i totally think is cute (& i kinda have a crush on him) told me that i looked cute! don't you love it when people give you compliments? it was so monumental that i had to take a picture of how cute i was:



i love this picture! i think the lighting really accents my hair. don't you? too bad you can't really see my eyes. my shirt really made them stand out. but whatever...cute is cute, right? especially when a hottie tells you so.

a new hairstyle

i cut my hair! i think it's cute. so does everyone else! i had to play a guy in my drama final so i cut my hair. i love it! it was perfect for my role in "divine stella devine" and i think it will work for my role in my second semester drama final. i love not having to blow-dray my hair and it is soooo...easy to maintain. now i know why anne loves short hair. it look great when i curl it and everyone says i look so cute. i think i rock it!

an aspiring writer...when she's bored

we traveled on a plane...no, no imagination. i thought maybe you and i could...could what? who's even speaking? hmmm...a swarm of bees!...where could a swarm of bees come from? like that time in third grade when there was a small honeycomb on the soccer field and every kid in the entire school said it was a swarm of killer bees (i know, we're so gullible but we were kids). hand sanitizer. where does it come from? why is it on the computer desk? probably because everyone's hands tough the keyboard and katie perez would NEVER touch this computer if there was no hand sanitizer w/in reach. i'm so glad i'm done w/ my homework...but now i'm bored. maybe i should see how many words i can misspell. no, i can't do it! every time i misspell a word, my finger automatically goes to the "delete" button. oh i'm cursed!!!!! imdb...i wonder why we call this thing the internet. whatever happened to the web? i mean, that's what it was called in the first place. hm...some people are crazy. then again, i'm thinking out-loud on a blog for everyone to hear my thoughts. it's exactly the same as talking to oneself. i should shut-up. why did i call myself an "aspiring writer"?

ode to daniel and jeddie

so i have these two friends that are some of the cutest and coolest guys in the whole world. there's daniel joshua mendez: he makes everything awkward, but who couldn't love this kid? yesterday, we were sitting in red robin as we were waiting for the rest of our friends to get there and there was this couple outside like making out and it was pretty gross. so daniel turns to me and says, :those people have been making out for like 15 minutes," and then he looked at me (i don't know why) and then he looked at his hands in his lap and i was like, "um yeah, i know." i don't really know what about the situation was so awkward, but it was! and today in drama class, i made the mistake of asking him to help me with my monologue and just stand on stage as i sang to him. he was like biting his lip to keep from laughing and then i was about to hold his arms because it went with the song and he burst out with laughter which made me laugh and then everyone else started laughing and things just went wrong.

then there's jeddie: his name is actually edward jacob, but he doesn't care which name we call him by, so we just combined the two into "jeddie". well...he's kind of a rebel. but he is so funny and he can be cute when he wants to be. he's a great kid and i never am sad around him. he's a great friend and i'm pretty sure he would beat up any guy that would ever try to hurt me.

people can be so great right? especially guys, they're so chill! these kids are way cool and i get to spend almost every day with them!

gin joint

so in drama every semester, we end it off w/ a one act play that's our final. first semester, the best final gets to perform in spotlight for the whole school all day! and guess what? our final won! my friend jacquie wrote a final called "gin joint" and it was about a speakeasy in the 1920s! i was the cop...and i was a guy. it was fun though!