Surprise!

I haven't died!

Christmas Eve!

Even though I'm sicker today, I'm feeling much less sick! It's Christmas Eve, woohoo!

Guh

I still haven't started writing the essay that I'm supposed to have a draft of. That essay-... I hated that silly book. Writing the essay would be heaps easier if it was just for my teacher - but we're not writing them for our teacher. We're writing them for the Ayn Rand Institute. That being said, I can't completely diss the book in the essay, because they have a big ol' contest with thousands of dollars in prizes because of that book. Besides! Having an institute in the name of Ayn Rand is against everything Ayn Rand believed in! She was pro individualism all the way. She hated collectivism! So having a whole institute (a group of people who have relatively the same mindset) that picks a panel of people to judge somebody else's work is just silly-talk!

...

I think I may be allergic to something. I have itchy, puffy, watery eyes all the time. Well, right now I'm sick, so that makes it worse, but still. There's a flaw in the system!

Happy Christmas, sicky!

Who Even Knows

It's a toque day.

Officially Day Two of Holidays

Even though I've been out of school for four days, technically two of those days were weekend.

My holidays are going good so far! I went to a friend's Christmas party on Saturday, and I babysat all day yesterday - money is good! One of the friends at the party has a dad who can print off pictures for free, so she's going to make copies of a bunch of them for us! I asked for two really fun ones of the group, and they may have a place on my wall (this is a big deal). Today I'm making cookies with my dad -shortbread cookies- but I have to go do some laundry before he gets back so we can start right away.

I figured one post was better than none post !

Day Sixty-Eight!

Schoooool's out. For. Christmas! Schooool's out. For. Ever!
that was... Alice Cooper.. Just - never mind.
So I got to school this morning at seven fifteen for pancakes with my ugly sweater, but then everybody was in pyjamas too! I had changed my outfit about four times at home trying to find one I liked for today, when I could have just stayed as I was! Doh! So then I ran home and got jammy's on, and was very glad I did. The contest was cute - There was a senior and a junior who both won (bragging rights), and the senior was wearing a Bruins sweater. Ha! At one point I was walking around the halls, and some of my friends were outside, and they saw me through a window in a class room so they banged on the window. We were all wearing our ugly sweaters, so the guy started pretending to flash me, or strip or something, then all of a sudden we heard clapping from the corner of the classroom, and the teacher was definitely in there. He came to me and was like, "... Tell your friend not to quit his day job." Hahah!!
In English we watched Shakespeare condensed! It was these three guys who did Hamlet in like forty minutes or something, and it was freaking hilarious! And I handed in my essay. Whoo!
In math I brought my delicious candy cane brownies, and The Nightmare Before Christmas! There was yummy food, and then we all pitched for Subway. The teacher got a big platter of subs, but then he had a separate little baggy that was my veggie sub - aw!
And, as if to make the day better, during lunch I hoedowned. I didn't know any of the dances except the Macarena and the YMCA, but I hoedowned. I did some square dancing type moves... A dance where you kick and say, 'HEY!' and... Some spinning ones. Then there was slow dancing, but I didn't want to leave like a lame or a shy, so I ran up to the first kid I knew (a grade 9!) and made him dance with me. It was pretty grand. I have no shame when it comes to dancing. I will dance until I can dance no more! Oh, and may I just say how wonderful my school is? At one point they made all of us (way over five hundred kids in that gym, I'm sure) make a massive circle around the middle for a special presentation - so we were all standing against the walls. Then the same girl with down syndrome who cat-walked on Halloween walked into the middle, and the guy with the microphone said she would be doing a dance to Billie Jean, and everybody just went nuts! While she danced we all clapped in time to the music. She was dancing away, and at one point two guys ran up and danced beside her, then left so she could keep doing it. She had moves! Then as the song was ending, the announcer said something and we all ran in to her at the very same time and we all danced and sang and cheered. It was so great.

I was going to go home at spare, but my friend wanted me to stay so I did. I saw some kid that I met at the pier in the Summer. I don't think he goes to our school, but he chills sometimes (but he's from Delta. It's kind of a long way away to chill). Then for the rest of spare (school only went till 1:30 today) we sat at the tables in the deck. Then when gym class got out everybody came and started singing Rudolph and stuff, then the bell rang. It was so fun. Everybody was so happy! Hooray!

This is my ugly sweater.

Perhaps another view?

Oh yes.

Day Sixty-Seven!

Math was frustrating today - but I'm not the only one who doesn't get it. I think there's one kid who gets it. ... I think I started to get it... Maybe.
I retyped my English essay! Finally. It took long enough! First, I wrote about three drafts. Then I couldn't print it. Then I got it printed! I handed it in, but it had no title. I took it back. I had to retype it all, because with a title the page setup changes, but there was no free computers in spare in the career center. Then, I couldn't print it in a different location. Saved it to my friend's school login and she said she could print it at home. Figured out she couldn't print it at home. Managed to print it in art class and bring it to English. He gives me a B, and says I can take it back and try to get an A. I type it. Save it. Lose it twice. Delete it once. Find it. Type it up. Can't print at home. Print at the library. I am so done with this essay. I better get an A, haha! We did our oral projects, mine went well! In art we got cookies. In acting I stepped in for the other group's project, because the one girl is disgustingly unreliable, and wasn't there. But I was really glad I could help the other group out!
Tomorrow is the last day of classes till January 3rd! Wahoo!!! Ugly sweater contest, pancake breakfast, hoedown at lunch, and no teacher actually tries to teach anything! I'm pumped!

Now, that really old Rudolph movie (you know. The clay one) is on TV, and I'm going to go watch it.

Day Sixty-Six

Ha! With these type of titles, my blog must read like I'm serving time or dying or something: 'Day 78 in this barren waste land,' etc etc.

I did all my prints of my linoblock today in art. Meh. I'm not really phased by the whole thing. Scraping it was really fun, but the prep (scraping) was better than the finished project. The finished project is just a lame stamp on paper that looks like it was painted on. Plus mine didn't work out 100%, because she didn't tell me that if I had a big open space scraped off, the paper / roller would fall onto it and get all inked anyway (typically, the part you scraped stays white. Unless, apparently, it's a big space).
In English we looked at everybody's finished architectural drawings. I really liked mine! I thought it was cute. Some of them were really good, and others weren't very good at all - but who am I to judge? I'm not an art teacher (AHA!).
On the way to math I saw a friend from acting and he was holding cookies that he had made in foods, so I told him I wanted one. He let me take one, and oh my. I barely made it up the stairs to math. It was so good! I couldn't focus on conversation for a good five minutes afterward. Oh goodness, it was so yummy. It was a little cookie sandwich with something in the middle. The sandwich parts were... hard but chewy chocolatey cookie goodness, and the inside was melted squish. It was so rich, and the inside tasted almost like rum, but I knew they wouldn't do that in a school. It was bitter, mixed perfectly with the sweet outer.... Oh man. I can't even... So good.

I went home at lunch and did some stuff that needed doing. I headed back before spare was over, and sat at a table with some friends. I borrowed a hair thing from one guy with long hair: he was all, 'This luscious hair always needs an elastic! Of course I have one.' It made me laugh. After spare was acting, as per usual, and we performed our comedia piece today because one of our actors isn't going to be there tomorrow. The teacher really liked it!

This is a spoon.

Day Sitty-Fie

I cut my finger open in art today. But this time it was a different finger. Blood everywhere! I went up to the sub and was like, 'Hi there. Do you have a band-aid?' and she fiddled around for a while. When I finally got it, I added in a very calm tone, 'And maybe some tissue paper?' Ha! That's gotta be something teachers love to hear, eh?
We had a test in math and I did fine! Good ol' math.
In English we got our essays back and I had gotten a B. Does it make me a nerd that I was bummed out by that? So I asked how I could have made it an A and he explained some stuff, then gave me my essay back so I can revise it. He said it wasn't so much my mechanical errors, but he didn't think my ideas were developed enough; and he said that my incredible ending sentence was cliche. What! I thought of it all by myself! Bah. So I changed it, and am trying to develop more of my ideas now.
I'm eating a banana and listening to Joy Electric.
I had a bagel for lunch today. I buttered it last night when it was still warm, then put it in the fridge over night - so today it was stale, cold and the butter had congealed a bit! Gah, so good.
In acting we worked on our comedia some more. I still think ours is going to be pretty funny.

Only three days left till Christmas break! First period and fifth are cancelled, and since I don't have fourth anyway, I'm leaving at lunch time - ha!

Day Sixty-Four

This is my fifth time playing through 'Dela.' Very good song. I broke a nail today.

In art she let me print off my essay, and it actually worked! I was so happy, because my friend couldn't print it off at her place. I managed not to cut myself open again, so that was a plus too. In English we talked over some ideas for the topics we're doing for our big $10,000 essay. I really don't know how good mine is going to be, because I don't agree with any of her philosophies, and the essay contest is put on by the institute named after her; but oh well! I'll do my best! This will just make winning more funny - when I win. Then we just worked on our drawings, and I finished mine in spare! It's done! In math, when we were done checking our pretest, my friend and I had nothing to do, so we listened to his iPod. I agree with all of his music (like Dela!).
My lunch today was incredible. I had a bit of rice and tofu, little dumplings, vegetables, and miso soup. So delicious!! At one point I was talking to somebody and my hand was out, then all of a sudden Karter put banana bread in my hand. So I had banana bread too (homemade. Oh yes it was)!
In acting we had a sub, and we all really like him - he's really funny. We worked on our one act. At one point I'm supposed to pretend to have a heart attack, and when I dropped I hit my head, but it was alright. Good fun!

I'm cuckoo for chocolate cheerios!

The Weekend!

Well, today Mikee came over and we went to Value Village and bought tacky sweaters, because there is a need for them. There's a contest at my school, and there's a party that we're going to that requires them - it's like a dress code but cooler. We also went to an Asian grocery and I bought miso soup. I just had some. It was delicious.
Yesterday we had a family dinner, and I ate way too many peanuts. Then in the evening I did a fun thing with the youth group I volunteer with, where we went and handed out stuff to homeless people. It was good! Then I was home all alone because my parents slept over at my Gran's house, and I wasn't even scared.
Tomorrow my mum goes to have an MRI! I've had one. She can join my cool club now. The only part she won't like is when they put the cage over her face. When I had mine, I just pretended I was in X-Men and they were doing some crazy operation on me.

Day Sixty-Three

You know... Knowing exactly how many days of classes I've had so far doesn't make it go by any quicker! Haha. My knees hurt all day today, and I don't know why. Guh.

In art I cut my finger open.
In English our teacher let us work on whatever we needed to, so I tried to find music for the piece I want to do for the oral reading. Two of the guys at my table are doing the same section as me, which blows! But I'm going to do something to my reading which will make it that much better (including music).
I typed out an essay again during spare - the same one. I found way too many errors. It couldn't print in the library because the printer is broken, and the career center was closed so I couldn't print it off in there, and I need it by second block on Monday, and we don't have a printer at home. So that's annoying.
In acting we watched Mr. Bean!! His sandwich looked so good until he spun the lettuce in his sock...

Can't get enough of that chocolate Cherrios.

Day Sixty-Two

In art we kept chipping away at our linoblocks. It's really hard and tedious! Oh, and in English all we did was decorate the door for the Christmas contest and play hackie sack outside. It was pretty grand. The judging for the most epictastic door is tomorrow! I've decided we'll win - mainly because we have wreaths made out of mittens that we're going to donate to the Vancouver house for homeless teens when the contest is over. Oh yes we are. If that doesn't get votes, I'm certainly out of ideas (JUST kidding). In acting our Comedia piece is coming along well. I think it'll be really funny.
In spare we went to the bakery that my friend's mum owns and I had a sugar cookie. Then we sat at the table and read the newspaper for a while. The chair I'm sitting on as I type this has broken leg rests, so it isn't very comfortable. Then when we were done with the bakery we went next door to the restaurant that her mum owns as well and ogled the cook. When we got back to the school, I did some homework. Oh yes I did.

Chocolate Cherrios. They're grrreat!

Day Sixty-One

MY rule for eating leftovers is... anytime before it's rotten. This could be because I like cold, stale food. ... Not ALL food types - but quite a few (for instance: stale chips! So delicious)!

In acting today we started some of the written work for our one-acts! These are just in-class one acts, with partners and so on. I'm with two other girls - ours is gonna be good! We picked a script with two older sister ignoring a younger one because she told secrets. It sort of has a melo-drama thing going on.
I ate cold, left over WokBox for lunch. Guh, it was so yummy! Everybody was jealous, oh yes they were.
In English we started decorating our door for the Christmas-class room... contest thing that's happening! There's a pizza prize for the best looking class in the calculations, so I think we're taking it pretty seriously. I had this essay written up, but it was only the draft so I decided to type it out during my spare and save myself heaps of time. So I did that. But... the school's internet is down, so I couldn't e-mail it to myself. I couldn't save it onto the hard drive because I don't have my own log-in, and it wasn't printing. I just about had a heart-attack, but the teacher-lady in the career center had a solution. Then it printed all by itself, and I didn't even need her. Tada!

... Where's me Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

Day Sixty

In art I added ink to my uh... lino block! It looks pretty cool! But it didn't work right, so I had to fix it and finish it tomorrow (not finish. Do ink again).
During my spare I worked on my architectural drawing. It's actually looking so good! I had something that was very wrong, but I added another line, and gained about three more rooms, and made it look good! Oh, tada!
After school I went shopping with some friends. We ate at WokBox and it was delicious! I'm going to eat my leftovers tomorrow, but it's going to be really difficult not to eat... you know.. now.

Day Fifty-Nine

I don't really want to get into a habit of always typing about the same thing, in the same order (art, English, math, lunch, spare, acting) every single day. It's boring! Sometimes I might just put a picture on. Because I'm a rebel like that.

Today in English we watched a scene from Lord of the Rings - oh my goodness, I really want to watch it again. It's been far too long! I have so much stuff to do in that class... I have to finish an architectural drawing for Wednesday, finish a contrast and comparison essay about the book and two movies, I need a draft by the sixteenth for the big final project essay, and I have to prepare an oral reading set to music of a piece that I find interesting from the book. I haven't been reading as much as I'm supposed to lately, but she has really lost me with this dumb book. I disagree completely with all of Rand's philosophies, I don't like any of the characters (except Howard, who I dislike the least), she rambles on and on about the same thing for pages on end, and it's really hard to understand what she's talking about most of the time. 

Nope. I don't like it.

The Weekend!

I did a gift exchange today, and I got candy-cane brownie mix. Oh yes I did.
Yesterday we set up our Christmas tree!! The plan was just to set up garland, but it all got done. Hooray! My mum finally let my dad and I buy a Charlie Brown tree this year. When we got to the tree place, there was actually a 'Charlie Brown' tree section. We were thrilled. Just before we started setting it all up, I found some old Christmas carol mad-libs that we had done, and I made my parents listen to me singing such songs as, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rabbit,' 'Frosty the Manager-Man,' 'Jingle Beer Rock,' and, 'Let it Barf, Let it Scream, Let it Snow!' I enjoyed myself. We drank eggnog, too. When we were done with the tree we watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Hilarious. I love that movie.

Fifty-Eight

Tonight is the last night of one acts!!! I'm extremely bummed that it only goes for two nights - I don't know everybody as well as I'd like to, yet! Such a bummer.

In art we drew more thumbnails for our linoblock. I finally got mine done to something the teacher and I both like: the difficult part now is getting the drawing onto the block. The way she has us doing it isn't functional at all.
In English we were in the library today! As per usual, I went to the classroom first, forgetting that the teacher reminded us about it yesterday. We were just refreshing our memories on our authors for our lit-study! The time is approaching. We have to talk ('report') about the author for about ten minutes, without notes if possible.
In math we just did some homework! But it's okay because I really like what we're doing.
At lunchtime me and some of the other one act kids walked around trying to find somebody's house to have the cast party at, but there isn't anybody willing to do it (I don't blame them, personally); so as it stands now, there is no cast party. I'm also bummed out about that, because this is the first closing performance in a long time that hasn't had a cast party, and it's my first time! I feel very gipped.
In acting we performed our two-minute comedia sketches that we worked on yesterday and the day before. Ours was really funny, I think - and our latzii (a 'small bit of normal business exaggerated and made funny') was prime. My partner played the old man who thinks he's sick all the time (Pantalone), and I played the big strong, semi-dumb guy (Brigella).

Pantalone walks onto stage very slowly, then sticks his chair in the middle and sits (eventually). When he sits his legs don't bend properly and stay sticking straight up, so he has to bend them manually before he is sitting properly. Brigella walks on admiring his muscles in a mirror (comedia: the 'mirror' was a large broom). Pantalone gets annoyed at the lack of attention, so informs Brigella he's just had a stroke. Brigella is conflicted, because Il Dottori, Pantalone's doctor, isn't around. Brigella runs off stage. Pantalone checks his watch after a moment. He gets impatient, and starts walking slowly after Brigella to see what's taking so long. Brigella calls from off-stage that he's 'got it' and is coming back. Pantalone starts to hurry back to his chair (very slowly), and manages to sit before Brigella comes back on stage with a wheelchair. After a long unnecessary while, Brigella gets him in the chair. As he is wheeling Pantalone across the stage, the chair gets stuck, and Brigella has to fight to get it moving again, and off stage.

She had no criticism for me and my characterization and voice of Brigella, so there. We also watched a Mr. Bean sketch, because there were only four of us today, and Rowan Atkinson is a master of latzii.

Brigella.

I'm very excited for tonight.

Day Fifty-Seven

It's opening night tonight! I have no time to post a legit blog today!

In art we did thumbnails.
In English we finished Strictly Ballroom and started an essay about it, the book, and The Dead Poet Society.
In math we started something I love.
In acting I just helped the teacher because all my homework was done and there was nothing else to do.

Opening night!

Day Fifty-Six

I got lotion in my eyes and now they're tingling.

In art today we worked on our lino-block designs. She didn't like mine enough, and she suggested doing 10 thumbnails of the same thing, changing it all up each time. That is a pain.

In English we started watching Strictly Ballroom. OH my goodness, I love it. It's amazing, just saying.

In math we had an exam! I think I did pretty alright!

During lunch I bought tickets for the one-acts (it's kind of my thing. No big deal).

In spare me and Margo hung around in theatre, cleaning up backstage and stuff to prepare for the dress rehearsal. The acting teacher asked me to go mediate a group of the grade nine girls, because they kept fighting about a project. I actually stopped the fighting and got it to look good, so that's good!

In acting we just played around with comedia again.

We had dress rehearsal tonight! It went incredibly smooth. I was proud! We didn't mess up at all! I'm so excited for tomorrow.

Day Fitty-Fie

Whoa. I have 'Sexyback' on my iTunes. It's been years since I heard that one...

In art today we painted the stuff we're working on with glaze! So I guess you'd say... we glazed the stuff with glaze. I didn't get mine all done (just like everybody else), so tomorrow we're working on them again.
In English we discussed the book section we just finished. Next section finishes it off! Tada! While we were discussing it we got way off topic and started having a debate about communism.
In math we check over our pretest. I only got two wrong, which is pretty fantabulous (... 'fantabulous' is a word now. .... Oh, English language: where did you go wrong?).
During lunch I put some tickets for the one acts on hold that I bought for friends. I've bought nine so far! Whoa.
In spare I just slummed up in a friend's class room: their teacher is really funny. He showed us a video on Youtube of a big dog playing with a little one, then swallowing it. I don't think it was real, but it could have been - it looked pretty good. Then when the bell rang one of my friends brought me food she made in class. I was pretty pumped about it. AND I shared.
In acting I had nothing to do, because I have everything done for acting. I said that, so the teacher said I could do other homework, but I have none, really. So I just read through my script for the one acts and moved some boxes around.
I also found out that tomorrow during the dress rehearsals for one acts, my group won't be able to see every play, because we have to get our pictures taken for group shots. Bummer! But oh well. We open in two days! Whoa-oh.

Day Fifty-Four / Weekend Combo!

I'm really sucking at remembering to do this: that's partially good though, right? I'm not spending all my time on the computer?
On the weekend I went to a sleepover birthday thing, but I didn't sleep over. Yesterday I went over to a friend's house as well. We ate Indian food. It was delicious.

Today in art she showed us our lino block project. The lino block is linoleum, like the floor! I think after we design what we want it to look like, we're going to be drawing it... on the block? Then scratching it in I believe. Then rolling ink on it and making a pretty picture... I think. She gave us two options: Nostalgia or fantasy. I was going to do a cool 50's scene with Greasers and cool cars, but then she told us we had to draw it ourselves, and I can't draw very good cars.
In English we used the class to think about our big essay (the one that has a $10,000 first prize from the Ayn Rand Institute!), and start our architectural (yea, I spelled that first try) drawings.
In math we had a pretest for the module we just finished - I got it all done! I didn't think I was going to have time, but then I did.
I'm making rice.
At lunch I bought MORE tickets for the one acts. That's nine that I've bought so far.
During spare I just worked in the library, and lent some nice chick a pen.
In acting we worked on Comedia again! We read the [more] modern take on it all the way through, then she had us walk around the stage in the different personalities of the different stock characters of comedia. Because the characters have different names in different plays, but it's the same general idea.

We had one act rehearsal after school, and she had us go through it once with no lines, just money-sounds. Haha, it's going to be an interesting little ordeal. We open in three days! Wahoo!

Day Fifty-Two and Three!

Oh my. I forgot to post some blogtasticness yesterday! I'll do double-goodnesss today.

Yesterday in art, all we did was tweak a 'value' handout that we were supposed to sketch. Mine looks absolutely terrible, but that is OK! Today we watched a video about value some more, and then she had us sketch peanuts using the the values we learned! My peanuts were pretty legitimate. Oh - and I had a stomach ache.
Yesterday in English we watched the movie for the whole class! We didn't finish it though. Today in class we finished it! Oh my goodness, the guy at our table didn't actually wreck it for me, because what I thought was going to happen to one kid, actually happened to the other kid! It wasn't happy! I cried - oh yes I did. Then the ending was really beautiful, so I cried some more.
Yesterday in math we got missing tasks lists, and I actually had two missing tasks. One was just a piece of homework that he was confused about, but the other I hadn't put my name on, so we didn't know whose it was. When I got that little red question mark, I didn't know what to do, so I had to ask somebody. Today in math we just did one quiz, then the other kids caught up on stuff and I sat there.
During lunch yesterday I bought a hoodie! A school hoodie! It's orange with green writing - I'll get it around December 16th. Woohoo! I also bought four tickets to the One Acts, for my parents and aunt and uncle. Today during lunch I didn't eat very much, because I still had a stomach ache. I bought two more tickets for other people. On Monday I will be buying a few more tickets.
During spare yesterday I hung out back-stage in the theatre and watched some of my friends in grade twelve get ready for their 'Christmas Grad Cruise,' so that was fun. Today during spare I just bummed around in my friend's class. Their teacher doesn't mind. Since it's a glass art class, one kid at the table I sat at cut himself open, so I went and got him bandaids and put them on his finger. Then another kid cut himself open, so I got a bandaid for him and put it on for him as well. Then there were two more cuts that went down, but I didn't want to get any more bandaids.
In acting yesterday we didn't work on the comedia anymore - we found scripts and one-acts that we want to do with our partners for the latest project! We found one pretty quick, then we went to run through it. Today in acting she had us each read five one-acts or short scripts, and write a short report about each one. I only got through two, but it's due on Tuesday, so I'm fine!
After school yesterday I went to the physiotherapists place, and he said I was 'leaps and bounds better,' and it was my very last time going! When I was leaving, the receptionist was all, 'Aww, Meadow!...' and he said, 'This is like the last day of school!' Then he said that he knows that I may be interested in physio, or massage therapy when I'm out of school, and if I ever wanted to ask for advice, I could ask! What a guy. Today after school we had rehearsal for our one act! It's getting pretty close! We open December 1st!!

My stomach still hurts.

Day Fifty-One

Pizza time.
In art we made more of the things that I'm not gonna say what they are! I made a really funky one today. I'm proud.
In English we were going to watch a bit more in The Dead Poet Society, but we spent the whole class discussing the part of the book we just finished - I like English. One of the guys at my table said somebody wrecked the movie by telling him something, but as he told us, he said what his friend said, so it was wrecked for us too. Man, I could have smacked him, haha! Ahh well - I'm over it.
In math we just caught up on some stuff. I'm fourth in the class I think? Which I don't know what happened. I was second or first this whole time. Still though, I'm getting an A. I better be getting an A. Not an A is unacceptable. B for... Booo.
In lunch I stood up to eat my food. It tasted good. There were also guys selling hoodies for the school - I'm going to get one, I think. I'm deciding between pink, or orange. Orange is my favorite colour, but it's a really bright, atomic orange. At least I wouldn't get hit by a car while wearing it, right?
In spare I read, chilled in a friend's class, then went and sat with some other friends while they did math. I pretended to know what we were talking about: 'Oh, pssh, yea! I know, right? Those crazy maths.'
In acting we worked on something called... uh... 'Comedia-somethinginItalian.' It was the original slap-stick. So that was fun! We started reading through a more recent play, done in the same basic style. Tomorrow we'll be reading through it some more, and blocking it for fun.

After school in one-act rehearsal, the acting teacher watched us. She gave us some good feedback, and we have costumes now! Woo!

Day Fifty

Fivers! Dude.
Today I woke up at 6 AM by fluke, and the power was out. So thankfully I was able to set my phone alarm for seven, or else I would have not woken up. At seven the lights were still off, so I walked around with my phone as a guide (it's hard to walk around in a new house in the dark that may or may not have boxes in inconvenient places). Eating breakfast in the dark was really hard: the darkness pressing on my face gave me that feeling you get when somebody is leaning right up close to your face and grinning stupidly or something - that, and I kept almost missing my darn mouth with the spoon. Showering in the dark was actually really good. It was like I was still asleep under my warm covers, just dreaming about being awake and showering. When I got to school, everybody was on the deck (cafeteria) waiting to be told by teachers we could go home. There were so many kids, and it was too hot because everybody was breathing. The staff said they were delaying first block until the lights came on (because there isn't any lights in our hallways. It would have been perilous). The vice principle was standing on the stairs, with the megaphone in hand, and we could all tell she was just itching to tell us we could go, but then the lights came on and there was a collective 'Awwwww.'

In art, since half the kids weren't there, and it was almost a half hour late in starting anyway, the teacher just let us drink iced tea out of the cups we made. Mine is functional, and actually looks good! We also did some other stuff, but those things might actually be fit for cute little stocking stuffers, so I'm not gonna talk about them.
In English we started watching The Dead Poet Society. Oh my goodness, it's flipping amazing.
In math it was difficult, and I was sleepy and hungry. Not a happy camper.
During lunch I ate some food and bummed around, and then in spare I read my book!
In acting we saw the other monologues, and gave feedback. Then she had us start writing our actors journal for the monologue. We also got to hear a commercial done by the technical students, and it was funny. The end.

Day Forty-Nine

In art we painted some stuff on our cups that will make them shiny - I don't think she told us what it was called. Two coats, then she'll fire them today.
In English we looked at houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Very cool, very cool. I love Falling Water. I want to live there. I will reclaim it from the tourists as a house of my own. I will wake up every morning and hear the steam outside, then go down my steps and wade in it, then go over the glass barrier and into the deeper pool underneath my house, where I will sit and relax and listen to the stream right beside me.
In math we did our normal stuff, and me and Karter got both of our homework pages done, whee!
During lunch I ate a samosa. Spare passed in kind of a blur. I read The Fountainhead for a while, and sat in the deck with Margo for a while.
In acting we watched performances and dress rehearsals of the people who hadn't done theirs yet. We didn't get through all of them today, but tomorrow we're going to give feedback to the people who performed today, then watch the other people who hadn't gotten a chance on stage yet.

The weekend!

I forgot to post yesterday, but that's because I went to a friend's house and we played Zelda. Yes, we did. I'll admit it. Moving on!

On Saturday I stayed in my pyjamas all day; however, I did dishes, a HEAP of laundry (multiple loads, even!), and cleaned my entire room - which still had a lot of boxes in it! It took a good three hours but I got it done! On Sunday I did homework, again, staying in my pyjamas until I went to my friend's house in the evening (before I left for her house, I just switched pyjamas - no clothes. Gotta be fresh!). We played until 2:30 AM. So that was fun! Four hours of sleep then school, wahoo!
That was a fun weekend.

Day Forty-Eight

In art we watched a documentary on some Mexican artist who's name I forget at the present time. The reason I forget is because everybody was tweaking their cups, so the teacher said to those of us who were done that we should tweak as well. So I was fiddling with the silly cup instead of paying attention to the documentary. Ahh well - there were pretty pictures that I saw every once and a while.
In English we talked about the first 200 pages of the book: which, by the way, I finished! It was my first big 'read this on time,' assignment. I stayed up till 11:30 last night reading, then woke up at about 5:50 this morning to keep reading - but I got it all done! We have just under another 200 to read by Tuesday - that's like fifty pages a day. No big deal.
In math we finished the notes page, and that took most of the class time because there was a lot of explaining to do, and stuff like that. My math buddy Karter, who sits beside me, came back from Vegas yesterday (or sometime)! So it was good to see him again too.
During lunch I ate a tasty PB and J.
In spare I did some math homework, then remembered I needed a costume for my big acting final, so I ran home and grabbed that.
In acting I... did my big final! I felt really confident, woohoo!
We had rehearsal after school, it went well.
And FYI, I got an 88 of 100 on my acting final! That's an A and I don't care who knows it.
The new Twilight movie came out today. I'm going to see it tonight, and I don't care who knows that either!

(actually, I care a bit about that last one)

Day Forty-seven

Cheese and crackers and water! So delish.

In art she had those of us who were done our cups do this 'negative space' exercise: we got a strip of black paper, drew something on it, then cut out all the pieces, then glued the cut outs and the black paper onto two separate pieces of white paper. It actually was very cool. She said 'no objects,' and, 'no geometric shapes.' That's all she said for guide lines. I drew a butterfly and made it's wings look really cool with the different elements of negative space, then I glued the cut out lines of the butterfly to the other paper, etc. I showed it to her and she said, 'Nope! No objects.' I hadn't thought a living thing was an object and wished she had been more clear, but I'm not the teacher. She also said, 'You're supposed to stick the cut out pieces in a different design on the other piece of paper. Do it again.' I hadn't recalled that part, apparently, but nevertheless I did it again. I drew some random, differently sized blobs, and stuck them haphazardly to the other piece of paper (which is what she intended, I guess, but the butterfly was much cooler and more negative).
In English we watched clips from a movie that is renowned as the 'best film on earth,' by lots of movie critics and stuff. It's a Japanese take on Macbeth, filmed on Mount Fuji. The faces of the actors were always way over the top, but that's because the director was giving homage to Noh (Japanese theatre in which the actors wear very expressive masks). It was made in the fifties, which wasn't all that long ago, yet it was very repetitive. It was good, but with very long scenes of the same stuff (for example: two characters rode horses around in fog, with no dialect, for about five minutes). Good for it's time. We also talked about the novel we're reading. I have 100 pages left to read by tomorrow. I plan to stay up till they're done. Our teacher told us today that after these pages, we will have to read 300 more by Tuesday. Oh my, reading,
In math we did some notes and a quiz and stuff. It was mathalicious.
During lunch I came home and read.
During spare I read.
In acting we really went deeper in our monologue scripts and figured out some better blocking ideas, and things like that.

Day Forty-Six

I-I-I I work out.

In art I finished scratching my cup. We also did a minute-long sketch. We usually do those on Monday, but our teacher wasn't there yesterday. I went to the opening at the museum, and by the way, our teacher wasn't even there! Booo...
In English we finished the movie. I actually really liked it! It was a BBC movie, and English humor always makes me laugh (especially dark English humor). I started reading the big long book yesterday, too. Today I read more! I'm so studious. I really like it so far- ... and it's about architecture.
In math we just finished up our notes from yesterday and worked on homework, which I need to finish up now.
During lunch I ate a delicious wrap. My wrap consisted of refried beans and other tasty things. Numm.
In spare I came home and did some stuff on the computer (I meant to work, but I got stuck on Youtube for a second), then I went back to school and met some of Margo's friends. They're really funny and I like them, the end.
In acting all of a sudden our teacher kept getting me to do stage manager type stuff. I was in charge of getting people in the dress rehearsal line-up to set up their stage, and making sure they knew it was their turn. I also was the prompter with scripts, and she asked me to find props for whoever needed them. But I guess I had nothing else to do anyway, so it was good! I got a flashlight during performances to follow the scripts, so it was all worth it, obviously.
Today we didn't have one-act practice, because I'm the only actor in the country right now.

Day Forty-Five

I bought new songs on iTunes, and I bought some songs from Tarzan. They always make me tear up: sometimes I listen to them when nobody's home so I can cry. True story.

In art today we had a sub, so we just scratched more stuff onto our cups. Our art is on display for a month at a museum, but the artists get a special showing tonight, with snacks.
In English we started watching a modern take on Macbeth. It's set in a kitchen / restaurant, and the main guy is named Joe Macbeth, he's a chef. His best friend is Billy Banquo, he's a chef too, and so on. It's good so far! We also got the novel we are to read, 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand! I always think of 'Anne Landers' from a Simpsons episode when I hear the name. But, are you ready for this? We have to read to page 200 by Friday, and it's written in 12 pt. font. Oh.
In math we started  did a lesson, and so on and so fourth.
In spare I read.
In acting we did our dress rehearsals, and I was first. I only forgot one bit, but I got it eventually. I basically need to basically redesign my whole set according to the feedback, as well as find a bunch of props to make it seem 'darker.' No big.

Half Way Through a Four Day Weekend

me.

Day Forty-five

Four day weekend, om nomnomnom.

In art we actually started scratching our stuff onto our cups. I think mine is working. Well, maybe... We'll see! Time will tell. It's gonna be funny when I'm done - just that ugly/scary seascape cup in the cupboard that nobody uses, no big deal, haha!
We had our Remembrance Day assembly today. Do I have a family member serving over seas? No. A friend? No. A family member in the military at all? No. Have I cried at every single Remembrance Day service I've ever been to? Yes.
In English we had our big exam for Macbeth - no sweat there, I think I did pretty well.
In math we're about to start a new module, so we were revising some prior techniques and stuff (yea - I spelled techniques first try).
During lunch I had crackers and fake-meat sausage, cheese, and veggies! Oh it was so good. I was very full, but it was so grand.
In spare we decorated my locker even more. I have surf pictures up on the door - it makes me glad to open it! My locker buddy was all, 'Dude, decorate the whole door, not just your half. Put the shirtless boys on my half,' so that was funny.
In acting we had our tech rehearsal for our monologues! Mine was over in about four minutes. Then our teacher asked me to go into the back and help the other kids with theirs, so I got them working without a script. The teacher also got busy at one point, so I kept the rehearsals going, giving everybody their turn and so on.
Yea. I get stuff done.

Day Forty-four

When I left school at 5 it was dark: that is not a fun thing.

In art today we painted the slip onto our clay cups. I chose blue for mine. It's sort of pastel blue right now, but once it's fired it will get darker. On Tuesday I guess we'll start scratching our designs in!
In English we saw the final act of Macbeth performed by a group - there was a sword fight on a table, it was pretty fantastic.
In math we had a test, and it was really fun (not even being sarcastic).
During lunch we watched some dodgeball - we basically do that everyday! I never knew it could be played as an actual 'sport.' I always thought it was more of a 'still time left in gym class' sort of thing, but the guys playing make it intense and scary (scary because you could get pelted in the face).
In spare I went home and did some stuff, including practicing my lines. I'm such a good kid.
In acting we got assigned to techs and worked out our lights. Mine are pretty straight forward (as are most monologue lights). We also did our memory tests for the lines! I got 17 out of 20. The girl marking me (just another student) said I forgot a whole sentence, and messed up some words here and there. When I asked her what sentence (for study's sake) I missed, she took a while to find it. I pointed out one that I knew that I said and asked if that was the one I forgot, and she said it was. So... I dunno about THAT particular nonsense.

After school we had one act rehearsal. Ours is coming along nicely, hooray!

Day Forty-three

In art we had a sub so all we did was draw thumbnails.
In English we watched another presentation, and had some good discussion time about the various issues they brought to our attention!
In math we corrected the pre-test, then there was a half hour of homework / missing work time, but I had none so I sat there and chilled.
In spare I momentarily helped my friend with his project, but all I had to do was colour something in - sort of silly, haha!
In acting we worked on our monologues and got our blocking down to what we want, and started deciding what we wanted to do with tech. Tomorrow we have to have it memorized.
We have a four day week this week AND next week. We have a four day weekend, hooray!
After school I did physio. It was very hard and I was all sweaty. But Kyle said I only have to do probably one more appointment! Oh. Boy.

Day Forty-two

In art we got clay, then we rolled out the clay and cut it to fit around a paint container, which is the right size for the cup we'll be making. I was going to make my cup with a design of space for my mum, but the teacher said that design wasn't very good for what we were doing, so now I'm making it a sea-cope thing. I have a big tentacle going across it, I think it'll end up being cool.
In English we watched the second group's act. They decided to do a movie for it. They worked super hard, and the teacher really liked it, but my picky home-movie nerd side came out and I could barely enjoy it. Ahh well, it was fine. We all had a good discussion about corruption afterwards though, so that was sweet.
In math we started a pretest. The guy beside me showed me a weird design that I couldn't make sense of until he flipped it upside down, then it turned out to be the type of drawing that I would expect from a boy (but I still laughed).
During lunch I floated around, and got invited to a party! I may be busy on the night of it, but who knows, because I don't write anything down ever (good, strong character trait, I know).
In spare I did some homework then drank orange juice. Margo (my 'spare friend') technically is on lock-down by her parents, but if she gets all her work done, she's chill to hang out for the rest of spare, so that's fun.
In acting we worked on blocking our monologues. Mine went from one thing to the other but I think we've got it figured. If I had read my monologue more carefully before choosing it, I would have never chose it. The grammar is flippin' terrible, and it annoys me. It's really awkward to read because a lot of the sentences are tiny and have way too many commas, or a period where there should be a comma. Yea, I know, they may have done it on purpose, but oh my goodness, they've never heard of the word 'and.'
One of the many examples: 'She turned the TV on, turned the volume up loud, very loud.'

The Weekend!

Yup! The weekend was fun! On Saturday I did basically nothing... I watched some Aussie show on TV, then Iron Man! Then, even though they were showing Fast and Furious next, I somehow managed to get myself outside for a nice long walk. In the evening I watched Soul Surfer with a bunch of people! Such a good movie! I literally couldn't focus on anything the next morning, because all I could think about was surfing and longboarding (I actually found it kind of funny how preoccupied my mind was)! Then in the afternoon yesterday my parents and I went out for my Gran's (dad's mum) surprise birthday party! It was great! So much fun. We got her various things, including lamb chops. Ha! She loves lamb chops, and the only store that she could get to to buy them closed. My cousins are coming over for a sleepover on Friday! That'll be interesting AND fun.

Day Forty-One

I'm gonna go backwards today, just to mess people up.
In acting we got into our monologue characters, and had to stay in them the whole class as we were asked questions, and we were getting marked on it so it was really hard! I managed to sit still almost the whole time; however, I had the major jitters when we were done (my character is thirty-four. I figured she wouldn't fidget too much).
During spare I worked on homework and various other fun things like that. I also went to one of my friends classes where their teacher doesn't care about visitors, so I chilled there and ate their food. During lunch I sat and watched while some of my friends took pictures of the grads and their siblings.
In math there was no evacuation necessary! For once. We got a load of stuff done, including all today's stuff, as well as yesterday's!
In English my group and I did our project! Hooray! It was good, I think we got something like 88 of 100, so we were pretty thrilled with that. We had a sociogram of our act, a summary, an act, costumes, props, a game of flippin' Jeopardy, and prizes. We even gave the losers some chocolate. But we ate most of it after they had all gotten theirs. I ate a bunch of peanut M&M's, and I really really hurt my jaw. It was just really tired - so that sucked.
In art I sat around for about twenty minutes, then she gave us pieces of paper to draw on and measure out the length of our cup and so on, then draw what we want onto it. I had a good idea, then she came and teacher'd at me, so I had to think of something to 'tie it all together,' but I totally thought of something incredible, and I'm pumped.

Now I'm at home.
As I went for a snack, I thought to myself, 'Something healthy to eat!' But alas, the cinnamon buns were right next to the unripe bananas. What would YOU have done?

Day Forty!

Tada!

I can't really recall what we did in art today. I drew some more thumbnails for stuff we may be doing, and I watched the teacher finish my project for me by taping the handles onto the collage to show everybody how to do it (which is awesome, cause I didn't want to do it).
In English we figured everything out with jeopardy, and we blocked out the acting part. Oh boy, it's going to be fantabulous (I say that because it's probably not, but I'm excited because we have fun with it)!
In math half-way through the daily quiz the smoke alarm went off. The teacher asked the TA if there was a drill today and she's all, 'Uhh, no,' So the teacher was like, 'Alrighty then! Everybody go out the backdoor and meet me in the middle of the back field!' And it was scary! I thought we were all gonna watch the school burn. As we left the classroom the halls just REEKED with smoke. We all left and met in the soaking wet back field, thinking about our lunches that were still in the classroom. After about half an hour of getting our shoes wet, we all went back in because it had just been a smoke bomb. Apparently my school had a reputation with smoke bombs, but nothing had happened in a long time and today cost over $1000 in fireman charges or something (that's just what I heard). So all the kids with asthma were coughing and stuff, and the teachers were all really annoyed. There was an announcement urging anybody with info to speak up and stuff, and I think the kids who did it'll be caught, because the school is decked out with cameras.
In spare there were hall monitors walking around, and so many teachers patrolling - and now we can't leave our classes until the bell rings.
During acting our teacher told us that the special needs kids in wheelchairs and stuff can't actually be evacuated until the firemen get there (can't use an elevator during a fire), so they have to stay in a 'safe zone' being terrified until the firemen come, so it was very uncool for them today.

Day Thirty-Nine

Almost to fourzies. It feels like I've been going to school for a lot longer than just 39 days!

I got super stressed out last night - but I think that was because of my new pillow. It's one of those fancy-smancy posture ones and I'm not used to it yet, so all I could think about was the acting project that was happening today and how un-ready we were.
In art I just wasted time pretending to work on my project, but it's actually done (I technically didn't have to pretend, considering the teacher didn't have anything for those of us who were done to do). I also ranted to the people at my table about how much stuff I had going on.
In English we got our scripts for each of the acts we're doing - go act 2! We revised and scratched out stuff we didn't want, and assigned everybody characters. The acting isn't a huge part of our project, but it's still required. I'm Lady Macbeth and Malcolm (we had to be imaginative, because there's only five of us, and ten characters. It was hard finding two for each of us that weren't on at the same time), no big deal.
In math I had fun - I like math class. There isn't much to say, because... well, it's math.
During lunch I sort of floated around to groups of friends - which was fantastic, because that's what I did in our old town. I would hang out with some people for a few minutes, then go see my other friends, too, and that's what I did today and yesterday!
In spare Margo was in the library again, as she will be from now on, so I went and did my homework. I'm glad that I got it all done, because I was about to have a melt down. But I got it all done, and feel good.
In acting we did our big projects! One of us was missing yesterday during our major freak-out light planning session, so we didn't have her in our calculations. She was there today, and since I sort of became the director of the whole thing (I tried not being 'in charge,' but nothing got done, literally), I was stressing about fitting her in, or telling her she wasn't in it. Thankfully, two other people were cut out of their group, and they needed an extra person and our girl actually wanted to join their's. We did our performance and it worked great! There were a few things that could have been better, obviously, but our tech did an AMAZING job! It was very complicated and we knew exactly what we wanted, but she pulled it off. The other group still had some hiccups in their tech, but all in all in was pretty good.
We had one act rehearsal today as well, and things are coming along! I did it twice at home without my script with only a few promptings, so I'll be ready soon.

(OH! And we moved)

Day Thirty-Eight

Today was just grand, minus the costumes - but I guess that's pretty average for a not Halloween day.

In art I finished up my project! My background is black, and then I have gray circles going around to 'draw the eye through the picture,' and the reason they're there is because my Grandad smoked a lot (it's why he died, after all!). I have one memory of my Grandad and I - just the one. I was sitting on his lap watching Yogi Bear, and he was smoking a big cigar. I remember the smell, the smoke on the ceiling, and I remember thinking, 'Wow! Gran lets him smoke in the house!' But apparently my Grandad stopped smoking years before I was born - but I don't think so (the only memory I have of the man is probably not about him at all - I'm aloud to be stubborn, haha!)!
In English we kept up work on our project. My group and I are going to do a Jeopardy game for the class, because we're supposed to have a big discussion. We're going to start by acting out a few bits of our act, then ending with the Jeopardy game (we're hoping it won't be finished when class is over, because then we can say, 'Oh! Sorry folks - that's the end of the game for today!' Just like whatshisface does).
In math I had everything done before I got there, so I just chilled. Then we did an activity involving asking a bunch of students questions again, so I hurried the kid beside me (hurrying = helping), and we went out and were back before anybody else had left yet, so we played hangman. That game's making a comeback or something.
During lunch I chilled with kids I hadn't hung out with before and it was good.
My friend Margo can't hang out with me in spare anymore, because apparently she isn't getting good grades and her parents have put her on 'lock-down,' which means being in the library for the whole spare. It'll be good, though, cause she's too smart to be doing badly! I finished up a test that our math teacher wanted us all do redo, then as I was passing by my locker, one of the guys from English patted my back as I went by. Then later one of my friends pulled a sticky-note off my back that said something not nice (but not not-nice enough to be mean, just funny). I couldn't believe it actually worked on me, because I've done it to so many people - ha!
In acting the other group did their voice project, but their techs hadn't had time to plan or program anything, so it was very mixed up. It took about 20 minutes instead of the proper 5, and it was sort of painful. But they get to do it again, and the sub-teacher said he would only count it as a dress rehersal. Hooray! We do ours tomorrow.

There was a crucial part of lunch yesterday that I didn't mention. On the catwalk as everybody was showing off their costumes, one of the very mentally challenged girls wanted to go up, too. She didn't have a costume and has trouble walking - but they said she could. The guy that was sort of MCing the thing made everybody hold the rickety tables as she started walking down them, and everybody cheered. It was fantastic! Each time she stepped off of one table onto the other, a huge bunch of hands would come and hold it steady for her - ahh, beautiful!

Day Thirty - Seven + Weekend

I'm very strapped for time! We are going to a family friend's house to take their kids trick or treating! The Halloween party over the weekend was wonderful and fun.

At school today there were so many kids dressed up! It was fantastic, Halloween is totally my favorite time of year. We had a catwalk at lunch, and people were showing off their costumes. At one point, two guys with Jigsaw masks got on tricicles and peddled down. I was standing at the very end of the platform, and they didn't slow down when they got to me - then one of them fell off the catwalk and smashed into me. Oh my goodness, as if Jigsaw wasn't scary enough.
I forgot a bunch of homework I was supposed to do, so nwo I'm doing it on the way to our friends hosue in the car. Bear with me on this post guys - we gotta go.

Day Thirty-Sicks.

See what I did there?
I have very ripped cuticles and they hurt. And I have mini-mini wheats, and I'm eating them.

In art we kept on keeping on. My background has it's first coat done, but apparently the paint she told me to use wasn't the right paint or something and I have to go over it again: I was going to anyway, so that's okay! I managed to get no paint on any of my clothes!
In English we broke off into groups to work on acts of the play that we have to present to the class! I ditched the poor boys at my table. They decided that I must not like them, so then I felt bad and told them about this blog and how often I say how funny they are and how much I like English. They asked me for the link just to see if I was a liar, so I gave it to them. As far as I know, they could be reading this right now. Deep, I know.
In math we went through the test and stuff, and got our homework for the weekend. He gave us candies! What a guy.
In spare and lunch it just poured rain. I stood outside for seconds, and was drenched. We played more hangman, it was pretty alright. The girl that brings me stuff brought me a candy bag full of chocolate!! Her grandma made them for her and told her to hand them out to her friends. I ate all I could until I felt sick (a good system if I ever heard one), then gave the rest to my little buddy. We're tight, ok!? It's not about the food (suuuure)!!!
In acting we worked hard on our voice project. We got our lights working, and figured out what sounds effects we wanted. I'm really hoping it doesn't turn out to be a shambles, but you never know: it's a bit riskay.
Tonight I'm going for a sleepover Halloween party at my friends house! I'm excited - unless the plan is to have a fire in the backyard. In that case I'm not excited, cause I'll be cold, and it's raining. So there.

Day Thirty-Five

Today in art I started sticking my pictures to my paper! They're all foldy and not working - but then I put heavy books on it and left it for about fifteen minutes (we use very advanced art techniques in that class) and it seemed ok. I started doing my black charcoal background, but she said to use a marker. But the marker didn't even work how I wanted it to, so then she suggested paint. The only reason I can't use charcoal is because it will mess up the other kids' crap. That's a good enough reason for me, I guess, but I know for a fact that none of the other kids in that class would care if they got charcoal smudges on other people's stuff when the work was transported to the museum. My art class is meaner / more misbehaved than my apprenticeship and workplace math class. So, what about that?
In English we started Macbeth! Well not actually. We started the process of starting Macbeth. I yelled at a kid who kept taking my toque. We did our work. We chatted and laughed. English is a pretty fun class to go to. I have English homework! Act 1 of Macbeth, yeehaw.
In math we didn't have math - we went to the theatre for a presentation that a guy was giving on social networking! What was his name... Jesse Miller I think. He showed us how easily he could track people, even if they had private settings, and how we should be careful about what we post, and how it's always going to be there if we post it, and on and on. It was really cool! Then he pulled up some profiles of some of the kids at school, who he wasn't friends with but somehow got onto their profile (how fun would that be, eh? Get payed to creep peoples pages so actual creeps couldn't). He opened my friend Margo's page in a new tab, and I'm in her profile picture, but he didn't actually bring it on the big screen - he used somebody else. It was really interesting! I really liked him.
During lunch I was having my friends throw stuff into the air then I would stand across the hallway and try to catch it. I did pretty well. In spare we played hangman for most of it. Then this one kid brought us Reese cups, which was just fine.
In acting we wrote character biographies for the characters in our monologues. Very fun business. We were supposed to see one groups movement project (because that's right. They haven't done it yet), but there were people missing from the group AGAIN. Honestly, it's so irritating. They weren't even in my group, and I'm PO'd at them. One was 'sick,' and the other was 'playing card games with seniors.' We have one of them in our project that we're working on now, and she has been moved to a very minor part. We all decided that if she wasn't there the day we performed it, we wouldn't hold up even one day for her - we're just gonna do it.

Day Thirty-Fo'.

In art I started on my actual big project! Not just the rough draft! The medium still needs to dry on a few of my pictures, but I applied some stuff onto my paper! I have a rose drawn, some weird blue flower, and I have all the gray smoke rings that connect the whole piece and draw your eyes in. .... yes.
In English we were in the library: all of us but three went to the portable first by mistake though. Did some research for our lit study. I took out a DVD (use what you got! Haha, oh yes) and some books.
In math we had to partner it up and go around taking a survey of transport, then graph it. I'm waiting for the part where I'm not going to know what's going on, but I don't think that lesson is coming anytime soon.
During lunch we watch dodgeball! I've probably forgotten to mention that yet. It's scary and serious, and boys only. Everybody watches because it's really intense, and if you sit on the court or the seats right at the court (which we do), you get hit by murderously fast dodgeballs. Boys are scary!
In spare my friend brought me three mini pumpkin pies she made in foods. I ate one, gave one to Margo, then gave one to my little buddy at the end of my spare.
In acting we worked more on our big project, and were going to get to monologues, but the teacher decided she didn't want to interrupt our creative flow. My voice hurts, because my character has to scream at the end, and I can't really scream. It sounds man-ish when I scream. It's very unfortunate.

Day Thirty-Three!

I finished my rough draft in art, which puts me ahead of everybody else in the class right now. We also got to take our pictures home today! Hooray!
In English I added a really cool last-minute touch to my project, and handed that in as well.
In math I sat all alone because my math buddy was gone! But that's ok, because me and the kid on the other end of the room from me had a fun time.
During spare we walked to the bakery AGAIN (my goodness), and I didn't get anything, but since my one friend works there, and her mum owns it, she got a paper bag full of broken gingerbread skeletons. I tried one, and oh my goodness, I had to have a full one. It was soo... not like any other gingerbread cookie I've had before. It was chocolate/gingerbread, and it wasn't crunchy OR chewy, it was like... puffy. Oh, it was so good. Then I gave the rest to one of my little buddies at the end of spare.
During acting we worked some more on our project, and played a bunch of games because we had a sub. Fun times!

Day Late Thirty-Two

Boooo, I forgot to post yesterday. But I have a legitimate excuse: I was doing homework, laundry, and cleaning my room, which was a massive job.

In art we started scraping the medium off our pictures - it worked pretty well I think. So now I have some ink-things of all my pictures. No more paper! But I still have lots of pictures to do, and since our acting class is badly organized, none of us know when we're actually supposed to have medium on all of our pictures, AND the teacher let a girl take the medium home on the weekend, and the girl promptly forgot to bring it back to class yesterday, so that's another day where the rest of us can't get our pictures finished. Blah.
In English we kept working on our projects. Mine is done. I don't know how I'm going to make it last for a whole other class today, but I'll try. Maybe I'll bring a book as well.
In math we learned. My friend and I powered through it, haha. We got the work done with an hour left to go, and started on more stuff. He forgot his calculator, so I would write down the formulas for both of us, and he would type them into the calculator for us.
In spare I saw a friend who I haven't seen for eleven years! She was visiting White Rock and came to the school for lunch because we're so organized. Yup! It was amazing to see her!
In acting we kept up work on our project as well, and read off some monologues to each other and ourselves.
I went to physio after school, and oh my goodness, he murdered me -  in a good way. It was REALLY hard, but at the same time it felt awesome to be doing (I was doing some single-leg balancing on a balance board with a ball-underside).

The Weekend!

Sore.

Many fun times were had by all on the weekend. I didn't do a repeat of last year (last year I jumped into the lake fully clothed to swim to a floating dock to retrieve a FAKE flag during Capture the Flag). My team won both games of capture the flag, no big deal. We also played a fun game called bounty hunter, where everybody gets somebody else's name and has to 'kill' that person. When somebody successfully kills the person whose name they have, the tagged person gives the killer the name of the person THEY were hunting, and the game continues. My ribs are sore, but I don't know why.

Friday

Vanilla yogurt is just dandy (I feel like I'm usually eating when I post on this. Hmm...).

The sleepover was good. We didn't watch the Titanic, we watched Knocked Up instead. Pretty big switch there, eh? I slept on the floor and now my back is sore. We had cereal this morning for breakfast! ... Pretty big deal, I know. It's pouring rain today, which is funny because the youth group that I volunteer with is leaving for a retreat today!
So... I'm packing warm. I have to leave in about an hour, so I should probably get on that.

Day Thirty-One

Cheesey bread and apple juice from the carton (technically it's not that bad. I'm getting my fruit, my dairy, AND my carbs! Tada!).

In art we got a thicker medium today, and it spread a lot like peanut butter - so our first pictures should be ready soon.
Between art and English my dad biked like a maniac to bring me some poster board, hooray! In English we all continued work on our projects, but then - kablammo! The speaker went on but it was all crackly and we couldn't hear, but then we got a snippet of a news-guy voice saying, 'The biggest earthquake in Canadian history,' and the teacher's like, 'Under the desks!' and everybody dived, and I thought everybody was gonna DIE. But then it turned out to be a drill. Not even funny. They made it very realistic though, so that was good. I was terrified. I've never had one of those before, either. But I'm prepared for Monday now. I think we're having a code red drill, which is a gun-sighted, or a serial killer or something. I'll be ready (I'll probably forget)!
I'm eating the crispest cucumber in the world as I type this, my goodness.
In math we did a test, and I don't feel super confident about it, but nobody did by the looks on everybody's faces.
I've been kindly-bugging this one girl about the food she makes in foods class but never brings me. I'm always ragging on her, but always jokingly. Today as spare started, I felt a tap on my shoulder and she handed me a WARM cinnamon bun. Oh my goodness. I printed off some pictures I needed for my English project in the computer area - they let you use everything for free!
In acting we kept work on our creepy project. Ours went from mildly freaky to amazingly chilling in about five minutes as all of our ideas pooled together in one gloriously terrifying final moment.
After school we had rehearsal, and it's coming along nicely! I go for a sleepover tonight. I think we're watching the Titanic.

Day Thirty!

We had a fire drill today in first block! I was right beside the bell when it went off, so I freaked out. After we were back inside we kept doing our pictures.
In English we started our final big project thing. Pretty sweet, actually. I've decided to do a visual representation discussing the question of animals living in relative harmony with humans, and if it can be done. I'm gunna draw some purdy pictures.
In math we had a pre-test, I think it was? Something like that. Then since I have no homework, I just chilled for the last half hour of class while everybody else did their work.
Spare was brutally boring today - it's the lamest part of the school day, which is pretty sweet! I was also just really tired, so that could have been a big factor in the lame-o-meter scale being so high.
In acting we started a big group project with the focus on voice! We're in our groups now, and we have our story picked out, or close to it.
In one-act rehearsal we started blocking the first bit of the scene! It's going good. I'm already pretty comfortable with my lines, so I'm confident. Hurrah!

Day Twenty-Nine

In art we fellum'd our pictures! It's actually a pretty lame system - we have 'art drawers' in which we can keep our sketch book, and whatever we're working on. This in itself is a great thing! But she wants us to let our fellum-y pictures dry in there too, and we have to have them on newspaper, and she wouldn't let us trim down the size any before we began. So there's only room for about four papers spread out in the drawer if the sketchbook is in there too. I have over ten pictures (as do most of the kids in the class), each picture is supposed to have at least two layers of fellum on them, AND our class had a late start on Los Dias De Los Muertos project anyway.
In English it was good - I grouped with a kid I didn't really know, she's alright! Back in our normal groups, the entire class was writing something - so it was pretty quiet. The kid across the table from me (but not directly across), slid a binder at the kid directly across from me, but something happened and the binder went airborne with some serious speed. Instead of letting it hit him in the face, he did some crazy lightning-fast moves and somehow smacked the binder out of the air and onto the floor (and he has long hair too, so that just added to the effect). Nobody knew what had happened but us, but the bang made everybody look. All four of us at the table just LOST it. None of us could breath and we all had tears. I don't know what exactly was so incredible funny as to make us all breathless, but it just was.
In math nothing super exciting happened.
In spare we took more pictures because we could. And we went to Macs and I got a chocolate milk. Chocolate milk makes a good day even better.
Then in acting we saw a late project from the group who seems to be sick a lot, and we went over monologues. I have mine picked out.
Tada!

Day Twenty-Eight

We're almost into the three-zies of number city!

In art we drew up thumbnails of what we want to do with our collages! Los dias de los muerto! Since we have no pictures of my grandad, I was just going to get a picture of some 1940s guy off the internet and be all, 'This is my grandad! I sure do miss him!' but that wouldn't be very appropriate, would it? So instead I'm just grabbing pictures offline which show stuff he loved - hooray!
In English we talked a bunch about cannibalism, and drew up some stuff.
In math we math'd it up. The friend who sits beside me is so funny, what a cool kid.
During spare there were three of us, and one of my friends had a camera that did funky colour things, so we ran around taking pictures (and we didn't get in trouble, because there actually is a class where kids run around taking pictures during that block), and she plans to use some of them on her portfolio for collage (university?)! Apparently they were just that good. They were pretty sweet.
Now I'm playing guitar! Happy day!

(This is a picture from the 'demonstration'!)

The Weekend!

My fingers are very cold.

On Saturday my dad and I went downtown for a demonstration! It was about how... 1% of all people are really rich, and they just keep getting richer, while at the same time the other 99% experience little or no change. We marched and stuff. We even shut down Georgia street! Whoa.
After that I had supper with my aunt, uncle, grandma and parents! It was delicious soup - which was good, because we had taken the motorbike down to Vancouver, and if it's even a bit chilly in the air, it'll be way colder on the bike, and you don't warm up when you're off. So after supper we hot tubbed as well.
Today I had a frosty and fries. Mmm... healthy (and I had a salad. If we want to get technical). Then when I got home, nobody was home, and I had no keys in my pocket. So my dad had to drive all the way home from Langley (I was born there!) to let me in - because my mum didn't have keys at her work, either. I just stood on the back porch-thing. It sounded like some people in the building behind ours were killing a puppy, but when I listened harder I think it was just a really high pitched and awkward laugh.
My dad and I just got back from another bike ride - and it was cold again.

Day Twenty-Seven

I wish they served cold pizza at restaurants.

In art we kept cutting out pictures and stuff. On monday we will put fellum (don't even ask me how to spell that) on the pictures we picked, and then keep applying it over days, then the ink will separate from the paper but still be held together with itself. We then scrape off the paper-part, and just have the funky ink thing. I have some good ones, but we can also just print off pictures from the internet, which is sweet.
In English I was done with more than an hour of class left. My teacher laughed and told me to skim over the ending of the book, because she wanted my mind to be 'stimulated.' We got back a paper that we had written, and on mine it was a 5 of 6, but with a 'B.M' beside the 5. I asked her if it meant 'barely meeting,' but she laughed and said those were her initials (The other day she asked us if we knew what her first name was, and I said, 'Ms.?').
In math there was more math! A teacher brought in a piece of lemon cake for our teacher, but he didn't want it, so a student jokingly said 'I'll have it,' and then it was given to her (I will mention, however, that she neglected to share with the other 15 students).
There was a big football game today, but I think we lost. I had to go to acting, so I'm not sure. Gong to acting was fine though, because I was really cold: the only green shirt I had at school was a tank top, and I got my face and shoulders painted with green hand-prints, so I couldn't put a hoodie on. I was chilly.
In acting we tweaked and tuned, then did improv games.

Day Twenty-Six

My neck is sore and I have a no-sleep headache, and I'm totally stoked about it. I still can't even believe that I met them. Rise Against is now tied (or slightly higher?) than Blink-182 on my favoritest list. This is a very big deal.

In art we got more pictures out of magazines. I sorted through hundreds of National Geographic magazines, and I found four to use - success! By the end of class lately, I have paper cuts and very dry, ink stained fingers.
In English we wrote some papers and discussed our debates again. We decided that nobody won, because everybody's opinion is valid (that's basically the school version of 'everybody is a winner!').
In math we mathed. It was funny: we were broken into partners, and while we were doing it two other guys came up to us and were like, 'We're joining you guys,' and, 'You're so lucky you got Meadow!' I find this funny. They only like me for my math skills (pfffft)!
In spare there was this girl who walked down the middle of the deck (apparently it's not a cafeteria) wiping tears away but not crying anymore, and going very slowly, but she carried on so nobody did anything. She went outside, so whatever - she was just going to a class. Then she came back in about ten minutes before spare ended, and she was going way slower, and now crying again. My two friends and I agreed on two options: something happened and she was blowing it way out of proportion and wanted comforting, or she could have just wanted attention (which we sort of thought, judging by the fact that she somehow managed to walk by groups of guys every time). I went over and was like 'Hey bro, are you alright?' and she had a friend beside her by now, but she didn't answer. She was staring off in front of herself all dazed. A teacher waved his hand in front of her face and she 'didn't see it', so then he finally got her to nod that she wanted the councillor. So then I decided that it was either the two options we originally thought, or that she had gotten a text that her entire family had been killed and she was in shock - kinda hard to read blank faces and eyes.
In acting we did our dress rehearsal, so we know what we need to work on.

Day Twenty-Five

I have to wake up in four hours. Rise Against was AMAZING! They're actually just the nicest guys you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. The concert was awesome - we stood on the stage the whole time (Zach (guitarist) made sure of that. He kept making sure we could see and were having a good time)! Oh my goodness, Rise Against is heavily rivaling Blink-182 for my top spot right now. They're just such nice guys who love their families, who are willing to pose for a picture. When we talked to them, they didn't act in the 'classic rock star' way even one time: such friendly people.
And it is very safe to say that Zach is my favorite living guitarist.

School was school. We had a debate in English which was really good. I really like debating. I think our side won.

Day Twenty-Four

Oh my goodness, one sleep until Rise Against. I could barely sleep last night, so I don't even know what tonight's gonna be like.
In art since I was done my painting (so were two other kids), she had me look through magazines and cut out pages that some kids could use in a collage if they wanted. It was ok - she gave me a pottery knife or something, which is basically just a mini scalpel. Those things are sharp! I had lots of fun. I asked her if I could take my painting home and she had the nerve to be hesitant. Obviously it has to get marked first, but I want to bring it home and scan it before she tacks it up on the wall!
In English we broke into teams, and tomorrow (or the next day? Who really knows) we are going to have a debate about some stuff in the book that most of us should be finished by now.
In math we did math stuff.
In spare one of my friends showed me a trickboard he found on the road, but it was in bad shape. I told him I'd take it home and clean it up for him all nice, so thats what I spent an hour and a half on - it was so much fun! I am a happy camper when I'm working on a board, apparently. I took apart all the bearings, wheels, bushings, and trucks, and oiled them and cleaned them. I tightened and loosened everything that should be, and now it's a halfway decent little board! I had a friend pull me around the hallways during spare on it, until we got in trouble. When spare was over the boy who found the board walked by again and I said, 'Don't board in the school, I got in trouble!' and he said, 'Yea, me too.'
In acting we read monologues, because my groups tech wasn't there, and we don't need to rehearse anymore.

After school we had our first rehearsal for the one act.
Yes, we are monkeys.

Monday

TGIM... ? It was wonderful to sleep in today! We went to a mall and got my mum's phone looked at, then eventually headed over to our friends house for more food! I thought it would be awkward, but it wasn't! There were so many mashed potatoes and yams, guhh, so delicious. She even had a nice rice addition, which was tasty!! Turns out the husband knows the band that is opening for Rise Against in Vancouver on Wednesday, and he's playing a song with them. When Rise Against heard about it, they said that they wanted to play a song with him too (maybe just one member is going to play with him, I'm not sure), so he gets to play a song with Rise Against! My dad mentioned to him that I'm a massive fan, and he asked (maybe the manager?) if I could get a backstage pass too, and OH MY GOODNESS they said I could, so I have a backstage pass to Rise Against!!
They're a big reason why I'm a vegetarian! On the way to a concert of theirs in '07 (my first concert), my dad mentioned that they were all vegetarians, then we got talking about common reasons for being vegetarian,. I started asking about slaughter houses, feed lots, chicken barns, glue factories and the like, and eventually shouted, 'I'M A VEGETARIAN,' and that's how the story goes.
I'm very excited.

The Weekend!

Happy thanksgiving, hooray! No school tomorrow, hooray! Thought I was sick, but I'm not, hooray!

We're going to head over to my Auntie and Uncles house tonight for Thanksgiving suppah, then tomorrow we're going to another friend's house for more thankful eating. The funny thing about being a vegetarian is: When you aren't a vegetarian, and a vegetarian comes over and you have no food for them, you feel bad. When you ARE a vegetarian and you go to somebody else's house and they have no food for you, you still feel bad! So I'm banking on feeling bad tomorrow when we go to our friend's house, because even though we've been over before and they know about it, I'm 96% sure they've forgotten - which is totally fine by me, I'm super happy to pick from the stuff that I can eat, but the hosts never seem to think on the same line as me.

Day Twenty-Three!

In art I spent the whole class fiddling with the lines of the chess board. I think I'm finished. We're going to start a 'days of the dead' collage thing. It IS going to be cool, but not as cool as it sounds. I thought it was going to be sort of a report on the face art and stuff that the Mexican people do on their Day of the Dead, but it's not: it's just pictures / articles / drawings of stuff from our dead ancestors. I think I'm going to do my Grandad, then maybe give the finished thing to my Gran for Christmas or something. I think we have his war papers and stuff, and I'm sure I could find a bit more stuff! If I go back far enough, my ancestors turn into pirates and gypsies and I could easily make up a bunch of great-sounding lies, but that would probably make me feel bad.
In English we finished our paper and then just read (well I finished my paper. Not everybody did though). I finished the book in spare. Oh my GOODNESS. Oo, spoiler alert. If you plan to read 'Life og Pi' which I high recommend, don't read this next bit.

The castaway main character (Pi) finds this island of algae that he gets on, and then after a few days he comes to a tree he hasn't seen before and finds some 'fruit' in the tree and takes it down, but it's just a bunch of leaves. He starts unwrapping the leaves until the orange-size glob is just the size of a cherry. Then it gets even smaller, and he unwraps a HUMAN MOLAR. Then he takes down all the fruits, and all 32 human teeth were accounted for! OH MY GOODNESS, he realizes that the island is carnivorous, because during the night he tries to put his feet on the algae (He slept in a tree), but gets burned! Oh my goodness, a carnivorous island! So scary! So then he gets back on the lifeboat with the tiger and almost dies again but eventually gets to Mexico. 

Great story. Oh yes.

In math we worked on stuff, and we got toffees.

I got into a one act! I auditioned yesterday, and today the lists were up. My character's name is Swift (but not Taylor. I think we're monkeys...?). I couldn't help but notice my name was listed first. I've decided this means I'm the main monkey.

In acting we basically worked out, because we just ran through our scene over and over again. For Morgan and I, that consists of running hunched over and loping across the stage like some demented Tarzan. My quads!

Look how sentimental I am!