Homecoming

omh i went on my first date on saturday! it was so much fun. we danced the whole time and he was cool because he let me have my space and stuff. he pulled the move on me while we were dancing. he was just kidding though.

these are the girls. the first one is sarah, then it's me, then jacquie, then pricilla, and then alice.



these are the couples (gotta have one of those pics, right?) it's me and john, then sarah and craig, and then jacqie and jonathan.



this is me and john. i know i don't look too happy, but that's because the camera wasn't working so i got tired of smiling and my mom just took the picture, so that's what i get. nonetheless, it was really fun. i can only hope the next dance is as great!

conquest of gold

this weekend while at our tournament for this years show, i suddenly missed the amazing show we had last year. this is third movement (and 2nd but who cares if the drumline doesn't play?) at a football game which was amazing because it has the whole spanish theme and had a few fat beats. i am the last snare drummer to the left next to the tenors.i hope you like it! sorry the quality sucks. p.s. if you want to just see third, just fast forward to 2:25. =)

so i have a lot to catch up on! well, there is the football game that we lost in last week. we won the week before! but we are going to get killed again tonight against Rowland. tomorrow there is a band tournament. i personally don't think we are ready, but we are praying for rain so that we play in the gym standing still or something like that. i really hope it rains! pray for us please.

so i am officially friends with this guy in my third period, matthew halvorson, because i am the only sensible person in voices besides our long-term sub ms keener. i don't really know how it happened, but he was just like so we're friends now, so yeah i guess we're friends now. i knew him back in seventh grade when we were in our like news tv journalism class, but we didn't talk much. i have a new friend! =)

i don't really know what else to say. life definitely hasn't been boring and i have been enjoying each little part of it. my ap class is keeping me busy which helps me stay out of trouble and marching band takes up the rest of the time. i am almost sixteen and i drive! i wish i could have my license on my birthday, but i'll get it soon enough.

so we are selling these wreaths for chior so we can go to new york and there was a sample on the piano today. it smelled just like christmas so i said, "i miss my sisters!" i am so excited for christmas so that everyone can come home and we can all be together forever! or, i guess for just two weeks. but still, it's better than nothing!

nuts

yep, i am going NUTS! not in a bad way, but still: going nuts is going nuts. i have been learning so much in my ap class. i know what some words mean! odd words like, whimsical and facetious. i've heard people use them and i guess what they mean by the context in which they are used, but i actually know what they mean! even better, i did so well on my first monologue back in drama class after a year. i had forgotten how thrilling it was to go up in front of people and be some off-the-wall character. this week i was a 6 and-a-half-year-old. yes yes, good times. mr. wingfield told me it was so cute how i would let my eyes wander and my arms swing at my sides. and i mispronounced some words. hee hee. it was fabulous. there was also a football game last night. yeah, covina! woo woo! except, we lost sorely so it wasn't as great as it could've been, but that's okay. the score was 55-12. i know, it's really pathetic, but it happens. the band did better and we fell apart during half-time. the music was so off and it is so hard to march that dumb thing because the band drags which makes it hard to be on-step because the drumline wants to speed up and i really hate back-marching (which we do a lot of). the tenor players rush the music so much and that starts the sucking streak. it is awful. the first thing julie and i said to each other was, "that was awful!" it was bad, but it was surprisingly fun. my arm hurts so bad from playing cadences way too fast. stupid johnathan likes all of the fast cadences and he rushes all of the slow ones. it's because he is a tenor drummer and likes to show off. it's a re-occuring thing i've been seeing in the many tenor drummers that pass through covina high school. enough about the football game. there is a dance tonight! i am really excited because they are like the most fun thing you can do on a saturday night. yay!

it's only been three days...

...and i am already suffering from chronic over-working syndrome. i have 11 pages of reading i have to take notes on (but i guess i expect that from my ap class), and i also have some spanish homework i have to do, except i left my dumb book in the bandroom so i can't do my homework. oh well. that's what my 1 hour lunch is for, right?! i finished my chemistry homework, so i have 4 more pages to go with my english. ugh...and then there is seminary. it isnt that bad. its not at all the class, it is the people in the class who say stupid things. i feel bad for my dad because he wants to have a good, edifying discussion so that we can "learn by the spirit," as he calls it. i have a huge head ache accompanied by cramps and pms. grrr...i just want to go to sleep, but i still have at least a half-an-hour's worth of homework. my pillow and new duvet cover are calling me...very, very, VERY loudly.

wow!

oh my gosh, oh my gosh you guy-uys! i just finished the last of my ap english summer assignment! i am free for the rest of the day. now i can waste time like no one else (duke spirit, haha anne and amanda!). it is so exhilarating to finish all of that stuff the day before school starts. at least i am not doing it in first period tomorrow! now i actually have to find something to do...

what do you do when your older sisters leave for college?

i am really bored...beyond words...i am about to fall asleep...at the computer...even though i just woke up an hour ago...because i am really bored...beyond words...i could use some help...but my sister is reading breaking dawn...and i don't want to disturb her...=(...stupid book...although i probably will end up reading it...because all of my sisters will...GAH I'M SO BORED!