Guard Practice (Also First Day of Carpool)

Okay, I might end up venting here, even though I'm not exactly mad... Just very, very frustrated... at myself.
We learned so much friggin crap today, I don't even remember anything beyond the first 3 steps. I mean seriously, if you expect me to remember 48 steps of the opener, plus 72 steps for Diego's Goodbye, you are sadly mistaken. I'm so friggin pissed that I don't get ANYTHING we're doing, I always end up messing up somehow, then we have to start the whole thing over again. So friggin stupid. I'm better at swing flags though, no tosses, but I still get hella confused on all the lunges and turns and crap. Oh well. On a good note though, my uniform supposedly fits me very well, according to Kelly, which is sad because I'm wearing guy pants. XD But so is half the guard, so whatever. Plus, I can almost do the splits! Right AND left! Not so much center though... So basically, I'm okay at the flexibility part, and sucky at the actual flagwork.

First day of carpool today! I was seriously paranoid that I'd end up holding up my carpool, so I rushed through everything. Lol. But turns out, I was ready a good 5 minutes before Ross and his mom showed up. So all's well. Then like, Ross as sitting on the left, but I though he was sitting on the right, so I went to the left, we saw each other, and simultaneously moved to the right. It's like when you get blocked by someone in the hallway and you both moved to some side at the same time. It was hecka funny. Then Ross's mom was asking about Jess and how my mom didn't have to work, and it was sort of funny yet sad because you could sort of tell that she envies my mom for being able to sleep in and all (Ross' mom works), plus she feels sort of guilty for not being home when Ross gets home (she said I was lucky to have someone at home when I got home). But yeah, Ross' mom is cool. Basically, from now on, I'm no longer going to be afraid that I'll be late so I shall take my time getting up and sleep for an additional... 5 minutes. XD

Official Carpool!

So yeah, I'm carpooling with Ross from now on. Anyways, he (or rather, his mom) is going to pick me up in the mornings, and my mom's going to send us back in the afternoon. But yeah. Except my mom isn't sending us back tomorrow, since Ross has band practice, and guard practice doesn't start until 5. But anyways, I'm carpooling. Just saying. Haha.

I finished all my homework! W00t! Except I got the questions on my French Take Home Tutor right, and they said it was wrong on the summary. =( But Mme. Goldin doesn't care, she just wants to make sure you did it! I still have to study for the English quiz though. Which I'm still going to fail. But whatever.

By the way, Diego's Goodbye is the ballad that's the second part of our band/guard show. I totally love it. It's so emotional, and it reminds me of the dramas I watch. XD It actually makes me kind of want to cry...

Hot, Hot, HOT!!!

That was basically the single word sprinting through my mind for 5 hours today. We were out in like 105 degree heat, MARCHING, and listening to people yell at us for not marching fast enough. Uh, dude, you're not walking around in the sun. -.-' But it was so annoying, we only got 3 water breaks for 4 hours. Then we had lunch (THANK GOD), and we all stayed inside for 2 hours from 1-3 pm (band was playing music, guard was with swing flags!) I got yelled at quite a bit today, because we went from the opener to the ballad (which is extremely emotional) the to indoors, then back to the opener, which I had sort of forgot... Then at the end, the drum majors were like, "Good job, you guys did so well," which is total BS seeing as they were basically screaming at us the whole time. At least Kelly was honest and said we sucked. Not in so few words, but that's the main point.

Damn, I have so much friggin homework! I still haven't really started. Math I finished, thank goodness, trying to do French as of now, and I have an English test on Monday, which I am totally going to fail... Plus I need to play piano even more tomorrow because I didn't play today, and my mom's giving me a break (=O) because I have so much homework, so I'll be stuck with that for like 6 hours tomorrow. And Chinese, which I have quite a lot, plus a test. But that on Friday. Ugh. I don't want to draw and describe a stupid island for Foss. It's like, what the hell? Oh wells. Back to French. Cya guys!

Coolio Schoolio! (Not really)

So at school today, I was so totally in a daze. I don't remember half the stuff we did, besides the quiz in Mock Trial, pop quiz in Adv. Algebra 2, quiz in French, and butterfly in PE! Fun! For the butterfly, I was totally like, "What the hell am I supposed to be doing? o.o" Then I totally failed the math quiz, since I knew like nothing about element and subsets. But during lunch, Kevin (both of them) came over and asked me to go to the park to play tennis (which I found out I couldn't, due to Chinese homework and tutoring), and Kevin was like, "Make sure Ross come okay?" And I was just sort of... "So... am I supposed to go up the street and drag him to the park?" It was quite funny. Then Kevin (K.) was trying to say "Yo mei yo wen ti?" which means "Is there a problem?" except it sounded like "Ya mai yo wun tee?" so I had to ask Kevin (Y.) for a translation. Then Kevin (K.) was like, "Oh, I went to Ross' house yesterday, so I know where you live now!" and he said my house was blue. -.- Who owns a blue house? Please speak up now.

Anyways, Chinese school was AWESOME today! Basically, we had an Ice Cream Social (free Haagen-Dazs ice cream!) before school started, and they had snow cones too, so I ate like 4 cups of strawberry ice cream and one chocolate, then Stanley dumped this wet slush (melted snow cone ice) on my head, so we started this huge ice fight. So fun. Then actual school was okay, but when the teacher had a parent-teacher conference (back to school night sort of thing), Michael, Kim, Stanley, and I were toally beating each other up with these cute panda heart blow up things we got at the social. Basically, Kim and I kept whacking Michael with them, Stanley kept chucking his at us, and I kept beating them away. But it was sooooooo fun!

On a sadder note, I have SO. MUCH. HOMEWORK. It's not even funny. Like Mock Trial is the witness statement and crap, Ceramics 1 is nothing (yay!), Adv. Algebra 2 is like 4 pags of word problems/equations/inequalities plus a Ch. 1 test, Adv. English 9 is this packet of crap plus a story to read (which we'll have ANOTHER "quiz" on Monday), PE is nothing (what would she assign? XD), Biology is just getting our donations and books, and French is reviewing vocab plus Take Home Tutor. Not to mention Chinese, where we have two worksheets, a book report, and a test. All on the second day of school (if you look at it literally). Plus I have Band/Guard camp tomorrow from 9-4. Which sucks so bad... But whatever. Ugh.

Even Days Officially Suck

So like, my even day back pack is SO huge! It's not even funny. It'll get better after my PE swim unit's over, but still. So anyways, so far, this is my even day backpack mess:

1) Mock Trial binder
2) Adv. Algebra 2 binder and book
3) PE swimsuit, goggles, and a BIG towel
4) French binder, book, and two workbooks

As opposed to odd days, where it's just 3 hella light binders and one book. Oh well. That's why we have lockers. XD Anyways, today was pretty much okay. Band/Guard practice was sort of weird though. I totally screwed up on drill. -.-' And we're starting new drill on Saturday, whereas I don't even know the first like, 10 sets of our opener. I'll survive though... somehow... hopefully.

Oh but I got the hard copies of the professional pics from Taiwan! My mom folded one to fit it into a frame that she didn't even end up using though, and it was one of my favorite pics too! My second favorite one, or maybe even first, as a matter of fact. I was hecka pissed. But whatever. You can't see it in the new frame, so I guess it's okay. I'm bringing all the pictures to school tomorrow! Yay!

Carpooling

So apparently my friend Ross still walks home everyday (from Cal High, it takes like, half an hour to get home. Or more. I've never tried it. XD) since I think both his parents work. So anyways, he lives right up the street from me, and I MEAN right up the street. So my mom was asking him (through me) if he wanted a ride, but he kept declining, although I can't imagine why he would, except for the fact that 1) he doesn't want to trouble us (but come on! You live up the road!) and 2) he thinks I'm some weird, crazy girl whom you shouldn't get close too. I prefer to think it's the first option, but hey, the second has a chance of being true too. =P
So I got home and mailed him, and was all like, WHY DO YOU NOT WANT A RIDE?! See that he lives right up the road add it to thirty or more minutes of walking and think about the 90-100 degree temperature lately and you've got yourself a pretty strong case. So then he mailed me back, and was like, what about carpooling? But like, my dad has to go to work and goes that way anyways, so my mom was all like, just tell him we'll give him rides back. But I don't think he's going to let us (not that we're going to try to drag him into the car or anything, unless it's like hella hot outside, or pouring, cuz we wouldn't want him to get sick) without having some means to pay us back. I mean, I get the whole "I owe you one" urge, especially predominant in Asians (not racist; it's true) but seriously. HE LIVES UP THE ROAD! Okay. Done venting now.

By the way, my sis cut my hair again! W00t! I actually got to pick my hairstyle now, so I got like, two inches chopped off and side bangs! I love it. =)

Back to School Tomorrow... Again... -.-'

I am seriously not ready for school to start again. Ugh. SO. FREAKING. ANNOYING. At least I finished my math and French homework... English not so much. I'll be cramming today. XD I seriously can't wait for Thanksgiving Break in like... a month and a half already. Which is pathetic, seeing as we haven't really learned anything in any of my classes, excluding the three aforementioned. Okay, well whatever. School's not that bad... I seriously still wish I had Kinavey though... Listening to my friends talk about how awesome he is doesn't help either...

Well, last Friday was the first day of Chinese school (like, the last day of the first week of school is the first day of school. Lol. Okay, nevermind.), so I got to see Michael and Kim again. They haven't really changed. Lots of people have though, like Michelle got her hair permed so she looks really different now. I found out Stanley's going into 9th grade too. I didn't know that before... o.o Anyways, our new teacher seems pretty nice. We're actually going to have to learn in her class though... Which kind of sucks. I hope our old teacher comes back next year. Lol. But like, we can chew gum in her class, which is kind of cool. We already have to write an essay though. Next week's the Ice Cream Social! Yay! Kim and I are going to volunteer, and I think Michael is too. Free ice cream for everyone! But we get to gorge ourselves, and steal all the good prizes. XD Jaykay.

PE Swimming Unit

It actually isn't that bad... yet. Of course, I've only had it for one day. XD Anyways, we just did a lot of kicks, flutter kicks, backstroke (which I so totally can't do, and water keeps getting in my face), freestyle (which I totally suck at), and some poorly attempted flip turns. Which I tried once, and got water up my nose for. Haha. Sasha and Toby and everyone who actually knows how to swim and is pro is like so lucky though. This unit is probably a total breeze for them... Oh well. Anyways, it's pretty cool, plus it's awesome that we swim when it's actually hot, and not in like January or something. The locker room showers are pretty good, they have hot water and everything. Blow dryers too!!! =) So yeah, it's not that bad, ad I'd rather do this than run a mile or whatever, but i's probably going to get worse. Basically, all the girls wore like two pieces except for a few, and all the guys just wore their swimming turnks, but some jumped in with shorts and a T-shirt or whatever. So yeah, all in all, not as bad as I thought it'd be, but definately not my favorite activity.

First Even Day!

I officially like odd days better, even though I have Foss. Mock Trial is every day, Turbeville and Foss cancel each other out, Tussy and Block are both hecka easy periods, and Goldin and Pence are both nice, but the fact that my favorite teacher is Pence, and my favorite class is Ceramics 1 (which are both on odd days), makes odd days more fun than even.
Anyways, we have to swim starting this Friday for PE =/ and I can't swim, so... Little bit of a problem there. I'm going to talk to Ms. Block and maybe she'll teach me. XD
Anyways, apparently I'm three people's freshman. Melanie, Jung, and Ellen. Which is weird, because I barely know Melanie, and Jung keeps hitting me on the head with some textbook. Ellen's cool though. Speaking of Jung, today, I was jumping, and I jumped straight into the textbook. XD It was hilarious.

Colorguard today was... interesting. Just drill, but we furthered he "matador" tango thing. Basically, we still get picked up, carried around, and cartwheel off, but instead of spinning, the guy gets on a knew, and we do a front flip over his shoulder. XD It's so weird, but whatever. The band sounds hella good though. =D I have to go do math homework know. Ugh. Lol.

Block Schedule...

...is SO. FRIGGIN. AWESOME! Well, if you can't sit stil for more than n hour, sucks for you, bu I love block schedule! So like today, it was like: Mock Trial, Ceramics, BRUNCH, English, LUNCH, Biology. I love that you have like, a break between every class except for A and 1st. But anyways, I love my odd days. Ceramics and Biology ROCK!

I swear I'm going to fail Mock Trial though... Too much improvisation and public speaking, and I have Guard practice, so it's like, I won't have time to prepare at all.
Ceramics is so awesome though! Excluding the fact that we have to draw our projects, I love that class.
English is... English. Foss made us interview people, then present our interviews, then she gave us a QUIZ on the people in our class. I mean seriously, who does that? Thank gosh there's only 17 people in our class. Lol. There's this guy that has a really interesting name. Tell me if you've ever heard of a guy named Tedmund. It's like a cross between Ted (or Theodore) and Edmund. o.o Oh well.
And then in Bio, Mr. Pence talked for like 99 minutes, but amazingly, I didn't get bored. He makes everything funny. I so love his class. =D So like, he was saying how he wasn't allowed to let us out early, but sometimes he would, so he was like, "But, if anyone sees you outside early and asks what class you're from, remember you're from Mr. Mason's class. Or Ms. Bitnoff. Or Mrs. Anderson. Just never Mr. Pence. Okay?" So yeah. That was completely awesome.

Anyways, I love block days. Breaks between almost every class, two days to do homework, longer periods of classes you like, not as much running around to your next class an such... I love it. Period. Of course, there's also the fact that I'll be stuck in Turbeville for 100 minutes straight, but math is pretty simple for me... usually... so I'll be fine... I hope... Then there's the issue of PE, which I totally suck at, but I hope I'll be okay. Lol. But whatever.

Block Schedule Rocks!!!

First Day of HS!!!

So fine, it wasn't that bad. I didn't get lost, but I DID have to ask for directions... twice. I friggin had to ask Melanie where the office was. XD That was so sad... But whatever. Anyways, I went in the morning, but Ms. O'Malley wasn't in, so I ended up going to Health and everything. Lol. Sasha was stuck in Health too, so when the teacher passed out policy sheets and stuff, I was like, "We can just go home and chuck these in the trash." XD

Adv. Algebra 2: Turbeville was okay, she seems like Mrs. Beggs. Like, by a lot. But the only homework we got was to cover our books and sign the policy sheet, plus a really easy algebra review worksheet. Lisa, Shannon, Tommy, Eric, and Linda are all in my Adv. Algebra 2 class, so at least I'll have some people I know.

Adv. English 9: UGH. I don't like Foss... Basically, she told us to get in alphabetical order, only she said, "Now, you guys are going to do a orthographic spacial!" It was like, "Uh... okay?" Then we got vocabulary words and we had to find a synonym, and Courtney and some other girl won, and their words were actually synonyms. Most of the words we got had like 5 different definitions and two of them were distantly related. But whatever. I don't plan to fail her class, so I hope I won't need the extra 2 point bonus.

Then after that, I went back to the counseling office and complained for my new schedule and got it, but the only two things that changed were my A period and 1st period.

PE: Basically, Block just told us to get our PE clothes and throw them in our locker. Technically, she told us to go up on the stage. Then I didn't see her again. For the whole day. But whatever.

Biology: OMG Pence is SO FRIGGIN AWESOME!!! Like, he was talking about the ocean, and he was like, "I like the ocean... and DAMMIT if I like the ocean, YOU'RE going to like the ocean too!!!" So yeah. Hard to believe he's like 60-70 or something. But he's so cool! Biology's going to be my favorite subject, like seriously. Oh yeah, and he said we were going on field trips and making sushi and calamari!!!

French 3: This was okay. Mme. Goldin seems really nice. She has this awesome French accent that she can turn on and off like a faucet. It's amazing. Anyways, I'm not really behind any of the French 3 people, so I think that I should be fine. Like, I might still have to work a bit harder, but I won't be as behind that I was afraid I would be.

Colorguard: We got our outfits today. They're so weird. o.o But whatever. I am officially a really bad Colorguard-er. Seriously. But whatever. Screw that. I just need the extracurricular points for my college application. XD Plus it's sort of fun. Haha.

So basically, my schedule is now like this:

A: Mock Trial, Barr (this should be okay, I hope. Probably lots of homework, but Pink Bunny and Alex can help me with that I hope.)
1: Ceramics 1, Tussy (they ran out of 3D Art 1 spots, but this seems pretty fun. Tussy seems really nice and funny, so that's a plus. Besides, I wanted to learn ceramics anyways, so yeah.)
2: Adv. Algebra 2, Turbeville (it's okay... I don't think I'll like it like Shack's class, but I guess I won't hate it either...)
3: Adv. English 9, Foss (this class I shall dislike. But whatever, I'll pass. I hope.)
4: PE, Block (it's PE. Running. Swimming. Cardio. What more can I say?)
5: Biology, Pence (COMPLETELY. TOTALLY. AWESOME. *see above description*)
6: French 3, Goldin (seems cool. Probably another of those, okay I'm in this class classes. But Ellen's there, so it should be okay.)

First Day of School Tomorrow! =(

Dammit! I didn't even do anything this summer... besides volunteering, tutoring, and band camp. Yesh, all the Asian stuff. I barely finished French 2 and I don't remember any of it. XD Oh well. Ms. O'Malley still didn't mail me back... My parents are convinced that she's a sucky counselor. I prefer to think that she has a life and doesn't check her e-mail every weekend. Although it'd help me tremendously if she did. I'm still stuck with my totally screwed up, stupid schedule. ugh. So friggin annoying. Oh well. Anyways, school starts tomorrow... Yuck. I don't want to go to school... And I have Guard practice from 5-8 too... I still can't do a dropspin without rolling up my flag, so I'm totally screwed... Oh well. I bet $10 that I'm going to get lost tomorrow! Especially since I'm changing my schedule like, 10 minutes before A period. So yeah. I'll update you on my absolutely horrifying first day of high school tomorrow. =D I still can't believe I'm stuck with Foss! Ugh! Hopefully when I change my schedule, I can get Kinavey though, since according to Sharanth, they don't have Adv. World Geography and Culture 1st period, which is when I currently have Health...

Colorguard/Melanie's Party!

So Colorguard was okay yesterday. Hella tiring. Tons of drill, plus 3 laps. But whatever. Afterwards, we did the Circle game, and I got boring parts, but it was sort of fun. At the end, all of the freshmen went outside to get cookies, but it was a trap (obviously) and we all got pummeled with water balloons, except for me, cuz I was smart enough to run after the seniors and grab like 3 water balloons. I wouldn't have gotten wet at all, except Justine smushed a balloon over my head. XD Then I threw one at Guilio and it totally bounced off of him. I was like, "DUUUUUUUUUUDE WTF?!?!?!" Haha. And I got the bag of cookies, except some dude ripped it out of my hands, so that sucked. XD Then Ross chucked a water balloon at his mom's car. I totally cracked up when I saw that. Speaking of Ross, during lunch break or whatever, I was laying on Courtney's backpack, but she stole it back, so I was using Ross' as a pillow, then he came back and was like, "Uh..." so I got up and he had this really weird look on his face and was like, "Um... well, you can use it..." I was like LOL. But Colorguard had to leave anyways, so yeah. Then after the water fight, I went back into the band room, and the Colorguard was gone, which made me kind of freaked out, since we were supposed to walk to Melanie's house together for a Guard party.

So anyways, my mom gave me a ride, and Melanie's house is freaking AWESOME! They have this saltwater pool with a jacuzzi section, a HUGE backyard with swings, a separate game room/house, a playhouse that's like a fourth the size of their house, and their house is basically the size of my house! So we were totally fooling around in her pool (which also has a SLIDE!) and trying to do Guard exercises in the water. We played 10 fingers, and shot water at each other, and ate all the food her mom provided (pizza, candy, chips, cookies, lemonade, apple juice, soda, Otter Pops, etc.) and basically had an awesome time. Then we figured we should watch Mask of Zorro, or else Kelly would probably get pissed, so we went inside her game room, where she has a GIANT TV, and fast forwarded to the important parts, obsessing over how pretty Elena is, and how awesome the fight scenes are. XD Then some people left, and we all played Brawl, where I totally got pwned by everyone, since I didn't even know how to play Brawl. Then we played this Asian version of Street Fighters, where I got pwned yet again. XD It was hella fun though!

Frosh Orientation/Schedule

Orientation was okay. Sort of boring, and full of seniors trying very hard to get us enthusiastic. It was funny, cuz there were a ton of seniors welcoming the freshmen when we went through the gate (like two huge lines, with people reaching out for high fives), and all the freshmen were just walking through looking embarrassed, so I was like, "Hm..." and took off running through the people. Then they were all like, "OMG, SHE'S RUNNING!!!" It was really fun and funny. XD Anyways, we got a grand tour and learned the Grizzly Fight Song and Rumble. As for my schedule, I don't really like it, plus it's totally messed. Right now, it's:

A: Unscheduled (and I'm supposed to have an A period)
1: Health, Fitch (even though I passed the stupid test)
2: Adv. Algebra 2, Turbeville (this is fine, since I knew I'd get Turbeville anyways)
3: Adv. English 9, Foss (I freaking wanted Kinavey! Gr! But I at least have Courtney in that class)
4: PE 9, Block (I heard that Block's okay, but I don't know. I don't really want PE in the afternoon...)
5: Biology, Pence (I don't know about Pence, but apparently all the Bio teachers are nice. I sort of wanted Bitnoff though...)
6: French 3, Goldin (this one's awesome; Ellen's in my class, and Goldin's really nice)

So yeah. I mailed my counselor (Ms. O'Malley), and I'm waiting for a reply. But whatever. If I have to keep this schedule, I'm going to be so pissed. It'll mess up my whole planned out Cal schedule...

Registration

So anyways, I went to registration today! I saw Taehyun's ID card that he forgot to take yesterday, and I thought he was actually there, but I left after waiting 1 minutes. Lol. Got my fees paid, my lock for my locker, my t-shirt, and ID card! PE clothes come on the first day of school though, and I have to wait for Freshman orientation for my schedule (grrrrrr). So I made a new friend already (she's in my grade), and her name's Kira (I'm not sure if you spell it like that, but it's pronounced like that). She just came from Canada. =D Anyways, the class t-shirts are hella ugly. XD It says Cal Grizzlies on the front, then it has the year you're graduating on the back. But whatever. My ID card looks okay, but I'm just not photogenic, so yeah. Then I'm totally pissed that I have to wait until Friday (the orientation) to get my schedule. Everyone else (non-freshmen) gets theirs at registration. Argh. Anyways, speaking of orientation on Friday, all the freshmen in Marching Band and Colorguard have practice right after (orientation is 9-12, practice is 12-6), so we don't even have time for lunch. o.o It sucks. But oh well, the woes of having stuff that looks god on your college application... XD