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!

Day Twenty-Two!

Ok SO. I'm officially done my background in the painting. I even added shadows to my pawns AND finished the checkerboard. It's being all intense on me. I can hardly take so much intenseness that early in the morning, but I try. Math was just fine, we started some stuff I love today, so that's exciting.
english was good we wrote up drafts about how animal tendencies are similar to human tendencies i got mine done so tomorrow ill just have to write up the real thing and it will be quick
You have no idea how hard it was to type that badly. I'm impressed with myself.
During spare I read the book I'm supposed to be reading - praise me! I actually read it for most of spare, which is awesome. The poor subject how now gone blind because of bad hygiene and malnutrition. Tough read, much?
In acting we got a CD made up of all of our music and were working with the cues and stuff. Tomorrow the techs will start on lighting! Monday is Thanksgiving! APPLE PIE!

Day Twenty-One

Chocolate.

In Art I didn't work on the background at all, which means it really IS done! Hooray! Friday is the last day we have with our paintings, and since my spare doesn't match up with when the teacher is free, those of us that don't have our paintings done will have to come in before / after school. Guh. But I think I should be done if I buckle down - which I do.
In English a guy came in from one of the clubs at the school. It focuses on social problems in and around the community, and tomorrow he and another guy will be collecting food and money for the food bank, so today after school I bought a backpack full of nonperishable foods, and am just going to give them the backpack! Hooray!
In math it was good. I got my lil' homework done with lightning speed.
In acting we started working with music, and ours is going to be SO good, oh man. I can hardly even handle it.

Day Twenty!

I'm officially into the two'zies of learning! Twenty! Apparently I ate my supper really fast (I didn't think so, but there you go), because it now feels like there is a huge lump getting kicked between my ribs. Anyway.

School was good today! My math friend and I powered through the homework together (we actually made an awesome team. I knew what he didn't, and vice versa, and we caught each other on small mistakes), so I have none. Isn't that fun? In English we wrote a short paragraph about 'The Life of Pi' so far, and only a few of us (me too!) got it all finished. In art we kept painting, and now - OFFICIALLY - I think my background and sky are done. Maybe. It always looks different once the paint has dried. The man in the sky is pretty well finished, mainly because the more I tamper with his skin tone, the more I have to go over it all and do it again. Just a few touch ups are needed. That leaves finishing the pawns, the chess board, and the shadows. Tada! In acting we picked out music for our scene. It's actually going to be pretty good, I'm excited. We got a bunch of music from 'The Brothers Grimm', 'Fantasia', and even CSI! We have a fairly good idea of what lighting we want, so our techs main duty tonight is mixing all our music and making it sound pretty. 

We went to Macs today as well in spare. I bought Junior Mints. No big deal.

Day Nineteen

We're almost onto day twenty of my public schooled learning. I've only been in the school for lessons eighteen times, but I feel like I know the routine very well considering! Today during lunch I headed outside with some friends, then as I went back inside to meet other friends, I saw a huge group of people in the parking lot in a circle cheering and groaning and stuff. I met my friends then told them we should head out to see. It was the guys having a milk chugging competition! There was so much hurl, it was just hilarious. My friends friend who I don't really know let me stand in front of him because I'm so short (which was awesome, because I couldn't see before), but at one point the people in front of me left and there was no barrier between me and the barfing boys. They even put food coloring into the milk, so there was pink, green, and blue puke (so artistic). It was really funny, I love high school.
In art we checked out each others work and got feed back from the teacher, so that was good! I've actually finished my background now, possibly, maybe, I think. In English our teacher isn't our teacher anymore, and now it's the teachers aid, I suppose? The aid was always there just sort of was in the background, but now it's just her, which is good and bad, because I really liked the old teacher. She's cool too, though.
In math I felt very competent.
In acting we started work on a 'major movement' project, and we get to work with the techs this time, too! So we get to have sound effects, music, and lighting. I'm excited.

The Weekend!

Guh. The sleepover resulted in us deciding to go to bed at three thirty AM; however, when I went to the bed that I had planned to spend the night sleeping in, I found that it was occupied by another person who was very asleep, and very spread-eagle. So my friend and I both crowded on the couch in the living room. The three and a half hours of sleep that I got were in a propped up sitting position on a small couch with my feet stuck behind another kids pillow.
All in all though, it was a pretty fun time.
My dad moved here for good on Saturday! Woohoo! How happy is that, right? So yes, that's very exciting - he even checked my bathroom for me (there was a huge black spider above the door for a few days, then it was gone. So there was no way I was going back in there until it was checked).
My phone started freaking out yesterday, and I think it's on it's final stretch. It's been through a lot with me. I've dropped it while longboarding then rode over it, I've dropped it down stairs from a chair, I've dropped it in the sand then stomped on it, I've dragged it through the ocean, and I've dumped water bottles on it (and yes. Everything that has happened to my phone has been an accident). It's been a good phone.