My aunt =(

Well, if you remember from a few months ago, I said how my aunt was diagnosed with lung cancer and she only had a few months left to live. Well, we thought she might make it to the end of this year, but my uncle called my mom last night and told her that my aunt seemed to be on her last leg and would most likely not live more than a day or two. :( I hated sitting through school all day today, because I couldn't stop thinking about what was going on with my aunt, worrying that it had happened and that when I got home from school, my mom was going to be really upset. I finally did get home and my mom told me that my aunt died at about 10:00 this morning. :( It's just so hard to believe that she's really gone. I didn't know her as well as my other aunts and uncles since she lives a lot farther away from them, but I still saw her and talked to her a few times. It's just so strange to think that she's gone and that I'll never see her again. :( It just doesn't seem right, either- she was about the same age as my parents, and that just seems way too young to die. And I feel so awful for my uncle. But my mom told me that he was prepared for this to happen, and that he knows she's much happier and in a much better place now. She's probably with her dad now, who also died of cancer. So please pray for my family. :( My grandma is especially upset about all this. She really hasn't been doing well for the past few months because of what's been going on, and it made her even more sad after my family and I left to go back home after the party, since we cheered her up quite a bit. And now of course, since my aunt is gone, she's probably really not doing well at all. So please pray for her especially. :( We're going back down there to visit her and my grandpa over my fall break, so hopefully that will cheer her up some, plus she's going to stay with my uncle for a little while as well.

Leaving tomorrow

Well, we'll be leaving tomorrow to go to my grandpa's surprise party. We'll have to leave at 7:15 a.m, which normally I would hate, but since that's the exact same time I have to be out waiting for the bus every morning, I guess it doesn't make much of a difference. :) That'll be kind of weird, we might actually pass my bus when we're leaving! We're driving to a city about an hour and a half away and flying out from there instead of the airport here in our city, because that airport was the only one that offered a direct flight to the city that my grandparents live in. So, hopefully the party will be fun! We've done everything we can to keep my grandpa from finding out about the party, and it looks like so far he hasn't suspected anything. =D

Well, school's still going okay. Unfortunately I'm going to have to make up a history test since I'm not going to be at school tomorrow- the test is Monday, but my teacher is giving us our study guides tomorrow and I'll have to get mine on Monday and finish it before I take the test. But luckily it looks like that's the only test I'll have to make up. Also, we're having auditions for the musical this year on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. This year the musical is going to be Footloose. I'm really debating trying out for it. Lauren and Shaun, my two friends, are trying out for it and they keep telling me I should try out too, and now that I've told my mom about it she really wants me to also. I would definitely give it a shot if it wasn't for one little thing. Well, on Monday, they're just going to teach us a dance routine, which obviously, I wouldn't mind at all since I'm a dancer. On Tuesday, however, they require that we sing a song for the director. If it was just in front of the director, I wouldn't really care, but the problem is that you apparently have to sing in front of all the other people auditioning. I already don't think that I sing that well, but I know that when I'm doing it in front of people, I get extremely nervous and sound really bad. lol. You don't have to be able to sing to be in the musical, because they said if you only dance they can just have you be one of the background characters in the chorus and you can just lip-sing. I just wish I didn't have to sing in front of people at the audition! The other thing I'd be slightly worried about is that fact that you hardly have any time to memorize the dance routine. They teach it to you on Monday and then you have to perform it in a group on Wednesday. I usually can't memorize stuff like that in my dance classes in that short amount of time. So I just don't know what I should do. I really would like to be in the musical, especially since my friends are in it. I think that would be a lot of fun. But it's just those two things I'm worried about. I guess I'll just have to think about it and decide by Monday.

Post #55

Well, today was a pretty good day, especially for a Monday. lol. I actually have a short week, because I won't be going to school on Friday. You see, my grandpa is turning 90 this month, and we're having a surprise party for him this Saturday, and my parents and brother and I all have to fly to where all my family lives. So we'll leave Friday and come back Sunday, and that way I won't have to miss more than one day of school. One thing I know I will probably be missing Friday is our first pep rally. I'm pretty sure it's this Friday. I have very mixed feelings about pep rallies. The good thing about them is of course that we get out of class, and I also get to sit with my friends and talk to them. However, there are some downsides to it. Of course, pep rallies are extremely loud and noisy and give you a headache. Also, our school is already overcrowded with just 10th-12th graders. That's the reason that the 9th graders are still in the middle schools. But, since the 9th graders are still supposed to be part of the high school, our school insists on busing in all the 9th graders from the two middle schools, making the gym ten times more crowded. Then, since the pep rallies are at the very end of the day, all the 9th graders have to ride our buses home! The bus area is a total disaster. But anyway, I've gone way off topic, so I'll get back to the point. haha :)
So let's see, the first thing that happened today was quite irritating, but it all ended so funny. Well, we had our first test in science, and it was on the most basic stuff- the scientific method and the metric system, which we have gone over literally every single year since 3rd grade. Our teacher even let us use our study guides as long as we had them completed. Well, right before our teacher passed out the tests, the guy sitting behind me (remember what I said in an earlier post about what the people in this class are like? Well, this guy is one of them) suddenly said to me, "Hey! I didn't study and I don't have my study guide! After you finish your test, can you pass it back to me?" He even tried to bribe me into agreeing to let him cheat off of me and gave me a dollar (come on, if you're going to ask me to do something that big, at least give me 50 bucks! :) But there was no way I was going to let him cheat, since of course I think cheating is wrong, and besides that, how would my teacher not notice if I turned around and passed my test back to him?! So I told him those two things, but he kept insisting that he was sneaky so I would never get caught. But after awhile he finally gave it up and I gave him his dollar back. So, my teacher passed out the tests and I started working. I then noticed my teacher looking in the direction of me and the guy sitting behind me. And my first thought was, "Oh great, he must be trying to look at my paper." I just tried to cover my answers the best I could, and then turned the test in as soon as I was finished. However, I still couldn't relax even after that. The guy then started whispering to me again, this time asking if he could use my study guide since I was done. I told him that our teacher already knew that he didn't finish his and couldn't use it. I really hoped he would shut up because some teachers have really strict rules for talking during tests. Luckily he didn't say anything after that, but I then saw my teacher looking at us again, so I figured he was probably trying to look at my study guide now. I have to say, that was probably one of the easiest tests I've taken in quite awhile, and it's really quite sad that someone would want to cheat on such an easy test. But anyway, when the guy behind me went up to turn his test in, I saw that my teacher was talking to him quietly, and I could have sworn I heard her say something about cheating. I couldn't help but laugh to myself at this guy's stupidity. He actually thought that my teacher wouldn't notice him leaning over and trying to see my paper! What was so funny was how he had claimed that he was "sneaky", and here he was, getting a big goose egg on his 4th grade level science test. But I was a little worried, because if one student lets another student cheat, they get in trouble too, and I just hoped my teacher didn't think that was the case. So after class I made sure. I told her that I wasn't intentionally letting him cheat, and luckily she told me not to worry and that she would never think that I'd do something like that. So yeah, that was science. Ha-ha to that guy for getting caught like he deserved!!! lol.
And then I also had a test in history, but unfortunately we couldn't use our study guides. The thing that was really tormenting me, though, was that on our study guide, there were six essay questions, and our teacher was going to pick just one to put on the test. I had no idea which one he was going to pick, and I only knew how to answer three out of the six. You see, there still aren't enough textbooks for everyone in all of the classes to take home, so our teacher couldn't even assign us books yet, so we only had our notes to study. They were helpful, but they didn't have EVERYTHING. So I couldn't find the answers to the other three essays in the notes. So I just prayed really hard that he wouldn't pick one of those essays. When we got our tests and my teacher finally wrote the essay question up on the board, I breathed a sigh of relief and started singing hallelujah (in my head, of course. lol). He had picked the one that I was really hoping he would put on the test! So yeah, I was really happy about that. I think I did pretty well on the test! So yeah, today was pretty good!

And so school continues...

Well, school continues to go pretty well. I'm finally starting to get used to my new routine. I'm enjoying my classes for the most part, and I like all my teachers. Haha, I should tell about all my teachers, because I don't think I really did in my last post. Well, I don't seem to have any crazy teachers this semester, like the Algebra teacher I had that I talked about in my old posts. But really, I don't think there's any other teacher in the world quite like Mr. Richardson. haha :) But anyway, my science teacher is pretty cool. She's subscribed to this online radio thing, where it has all these radio stations and she turns it on while we're working! I actually like that a lot, it makes working a tad bit more entertaining. :) Her number one rule is to not fall asleep in her class, and she told us that whenever someone falls asleep in her class, she'll go up to them and start drawing smiley faces on their face with her marker until they wake up. But so far, no one has fallen asleep so I haven't gotten to see anyone get drawn on. lol
My history teacher is a guy. This is apparently his first year teaching, so he's really young. And he's not exactly the most unattractive guy on the planet, so on the first day of school as we were all sitting in the classroom and our teacher hadn't come in the room yet, some of the girls were like, "Omigosh our teacher is soooo cute! Heheee!" lol. But yeah, he's nice and he doesn't seem to give a lot of homework, so I like him. :)
My peer helping teacher is of course nice. haha :) She cares a lot about all her students and she keeps telling us that by the end of the semester we're all going to be like one big family. lol. I've already gotten to know a few of my classmates, so maybe we really are on the way to that. lol
And like I said, my Spanish teacher is the same one I had for Spanish 1. I really like her and her method of teaching seems to be what works best for me. She talks to us in Spanish a lot but she's careful not to talk too fast, so I can usually understand her! Because let me just tell you, when I hear a native Spanish speaker talking, I have no clue what they're saying...lol. So yeah...those are my teachers for this semester!

School has begun

Well, as you know, my first day of school was yesterday. I had the strangest feeling walking into the building on the first day. I was like, "This just isn't right. It can't be time for me to be coming back here already." But it was. Summer just went by in the blink of an eye (haha, that rhymed. :P) But wait, let me start at the beginning. Remember how in my last post I said how I hoped the bus people would cooperate on the first day? Well, unfortunately, they didn't. Well, this was actually my driver that messed up, not the people running the system. But anyhow, I was ready to walk out the door at 7:20, since the bus was supposed to come at 7:25. But what do you know? As I was about to walk out the door, my mom said that she just saw a bus go by out the window. She said that maybe it was the middle school bus, but we didn't have much hope since the middle school bus usually comes a little later. So, I went outside and sure enough, my two neighbors who go to the middle school were still standing at the bus stop. I walked down there and asked them just to make sure, and they said that it had indeed been the high school bus that passed. So, luckily for my mom, she ended up having to take me to school, and then, it ended up taking her so long to get back out of the school parking lot (since our school is so crowded) that she missed her Jazzercize class. Seriously, sometimes I don't know what my bus driver is thinking. She usually does come at the right time, but there were a few other times like this where she came five minutes early.
But anyway, besides that my first day went well. First I went to homeroom, where they gave us all these papers to get signed. I was happy that one of my really good friends ended up being in my homeroom again this year. Since our last names are pretty close alphabetically, we usually end up getting the same homeroom, but somehow last year it didn't work out that way.
My first class was science. This year I'm taking Earth and Space Science, and it seems like it will be pretty interesting. The only problem is that there seem to be quite a few wild hooligans in this class. I hate it when that ends up happening and they put all of those kinds of people in the same class! They don't try to bother me, at least, but the problem is that we're going to have to do some group assignments in this class. Hopefully my teacher won't pair me with any of them!
My next class was history. There wasn't really anyone I knew in there, but luckily the people in there seem pretty tame. lol. But anyway, I'm hoping this history class will be easy for me, because I'm taking Modern US History, which I took in 7th grade back in my former home.
And then I had peer helping! Of course, since it's a peer helping class, the people in there are nice. lol. I actually met three girls on the first day! Well, we actually did the same thing in that class both yesterday and today. We all went down to the cafeteria and stayed in there for all four lunch periods. We all sat at tables with either people's lunch numbers or bus numbers, and anyone who needed them could come ask us and we wrote it down for them. Our teacher let us eat during the 3rd lunch period even though we're normally going to have 4th lunch, and we got to sit at our own table and we had signs that said, "Welcome new students" so any new students could sit there, but hardly anyone did. lol. So yeah...that was pretty fun. lol.
And then my last class was Spanish. I have the same teacher that I had for Spanish 1. I'm really glad about that. I liked my Spanish 2 teacher too, but I seemed to learn the best with this teacher that I have now. Well, that class is going okay so far. Luckily we're going to review some stuff we already learned before we start the supposedly really hard stuff. lol.
So yeah, that's school so far!

The last day of summer! :( ::tears::

Ahh, I can't believe this is already my last day of summer break. I mean, it seems like just a few weeks ago that I got out on May 22nd! It's already August 5th! It is really nice to get out of school in May, but let me tell you, going back when it is barely August, to put it nicely, sucks. lol. But, this was a pretty good summer at least, even if it did go by way too fast. I'm trying to make the most of my last day of summer. I went to lunch at Chili's earlier with my mom and her friends. This is the last time I'll be doing that for awhile.

Well, I guess I'm not really THAT nervous about tomorrow. Just sad that I have to go back. I don't really have anything to worry about, at least for the first day. I just hope that some of my friends will be in my classes. But, if I don't end up getting so lucky there, I'll still get to see them at least. Every morning before the bell rings to dismiss us to class, we meet in the same area in the hallway and talk.

Now, one thing I'm a bit worried about is the bus. Let's just hope those darned bus people won't decide to pull any shenanigans for the first day of school. I'm hoping that my bus driver will come at the same time that she did last year. Of course, they never gave us a bus schedule or anything when we went to our schedule pick-up, so we can't know for sure. But what's the fun of it if you actually know what's going on? lol. Of course we can't actually have anything organized. Okay lol, I'll stop ranting about the buses now. I'll just hope everything runs smoothly tomorrow. lol

Post #52

Ahh...well, remember how I was saying at the beginning of the summer how nice it is to get out of school so early? Yep, it's really nice. But now, it's not so nice because I already have to go back to school on August 6th, which is this Wednesday. Why does summer have to go by so fast? I am just trying to make the most of my last days of summer. The only thing I really have to look forward to on Wednesday is seeing my friends. At least that part will be nice. And about two or three weeks after school starts, I'll start dance again, so that'll be good. :)

Well, last week my friend and I went up to our school to pick up our schedules. They didn't have a very efficient way of giving out schedules, though. My friend and I got there as early as they would let us come so that it wouldn't be extremely crowded, but apparently everyone else had the same idea as us. So it turns out we should have just gone later! lol. My friend and I walked into the gym where we were supposed to go and this lady handed both of us numbers. My friend was number 335 and I was 336. We weren't sure exactly what these numbers were for, but after we had been standing in the gym for awhile we figured it out. A man announced, "numbers 80-100, you may now go to get your schedules." Of course, my heart sank. They were only on number 80 and I was 336! So yeah, that was lots of fun waiting. I did see a lot people that I haven't seen all summer. Some of them I was glad to see, and others...well, not so much. lol. I passed some guys in the hallway that were wrestling each other and acting all crazy and obnoxious and I said to my friend, "Oh, haven't you missed that so much?" lol. But anyway, after what seemed like 5 hours, my friend and I were finally called to get our schedules. Getting our schedules really turned out to be kind of pointless, because they didn't even list our teachers or room numbers (they always give us another copy of the schedules on the first day of school, so I guess that's when we'll find these things out). But at least I know when I have all my classes. For the first semester I have Earth & Space Science, Modern US History, Peer Helping, and Spanish 3. The second semester, I have English, Algebra 2, Spanish 4, and art. I think I might at least enjoy this year a little bit more since I had more of a say in what classes I'm taking- last year there were a lot of required classes that I had to take. I am a little nervous about Spanish, because I heard that Spanish 3 is supposed to be really hard, but my mom keeps saying I can do it because I'm good at Spanish. I guess she's right, it's just that I hope I can continue to keep picking it up well even as it gets really hard. I wasn't sure about taking the higher level Spanish classes, but (no offense to my school) they really don't offer many good electives. I really couldn't think of anything else I wanted to take! lol. Seriously, they have some of the weirdest electives- we seriously have a basket weaving class. I know, a lot of people use "basket weaving" as a joke, but I swear I'm not joking, we seriously have that as a class. =P

Well, I have to go now because we're heading over to the movie theater again soon! My dad really wants to see The Dark Knight, and my mom and I would like to see it too. I thought I should probably see the first Batman movie before this one, but my friend told me she hasn't seen that one yet but she still understood the new one. So I guess we'll still enjoy it. :) I did hear that it's really intense so hopefully it won't be too scary. =) lol. I'm excited though, because I'm sure it's going to be great! :D