Post #58

Okay, I'm finally back, I know I've been neglecting my blog a bit. Well, things are going a bit better with my family. My aunt's funeral already took place, but unfortunately we couldn't go since we live on practically the other side of the country and I'm in school. My uncle is doing a lot better now, since everything has finally sunk in. My grandma and my other aunt also went out and stayed with him for awhile, and now his stepson has moved in with him so he won't be alone.

Well, school is still going pretty well. Remember that guy in my science class I told you about who tried to pay me one dollar to let him cheat off of my test? Well, he didn't bother me again after that, but today something else happened. He tried to cheat off of me again, and this time, guess what it was that was sooo incredibly hard that he couldn't do it himself? No, it was not a test like last time. But we were working on our notes. My teacher basically typed up, word-for-word, what it said in our textbooks and all we had to do was look in the textbook and fill in a few blanks. So, I finished my notes and apparently, after I got up out of my seat and went over to get my materials to work on my portfolio, the guy took my paper and started copying it. I didn't even realize my paper was gone when I sat back down, but then my teacher walked over to the guy, told him he was getting a zero, and handed my paper to me. Again, all I could do was laugh at how stupid he was being. I mean, HOW could you want to cheat on something so simple? What was really funny was that he got caught again. He claimed last time that he was sneaky, and here he was getting caught for the second time. haha.

Peer helping is also going well. I'm getting to know my classmates a lot better. Right now we're working on a skit that we're going to perform. In October, we're going to an event that's basically about being drug-free, not drinking and driving, etc. I'm kind of nervous about performing the skit, but luckily my teacher won't make us have a big part with a lot of lines if we don't want to talk a lot. lol

Spanish is going well, but I'm kind of worried about our test tomorrow, because my teacher told us that she's going to be picking some of the most difficult questions to put on it (ever since almost everyone got A's the last test we took, our teacher has been convinced that she's not challenging us enough). Also, one of the main things on the test is preterite vs. imperfect (for those of you who haven't had Spanish before, those are two different forms of past-tense verb conjugations). We already learned that in Spanish 2, but that was one of the hardest things we did. I mean, sometimes it's really obvious which verb form you use, but other times it's really hard to tell! So hopefully the test will go okay. Well, at least if it ends up being totally impossible and everyone fails, maybe my teacher will change her mind about challenging us more. ;) Also on Friday, we are going to have to get in small groups and converse with each other and answer discussion questions in Spanish- and the worst thing is that my teacher will give us tape recorders so she can listen to our conversations later! So that's kinda...weird. lol. Well, at least our class will be cut short since we have a pep rally, and then I'll get to see my friends. :)

Also, I don't think I mentioned that dance has started again (or maybe I did...I can't remember. lol). I have ballet and jazz on Mondays, and tap on Tuesdays. I just got an email from my dance school, however, and they said they wanted me to come back tomorrow night and try out the higher level tap class to see if they can move me up. It's really weird, we only have about 7 people enrolled in our tap class and for the past 3 weeks, only about 3-4 people have even been showing up. So I guess that's why they're trying to see if they can move us up, since it looks like we don't have enough people in our class right now. I'm kind of nervous about it, because apparently that class is really huge and a lot of the really good competition dancers are in there...so that might be kind of intimidating but hopefully it'll go okay. :)

Also, please keep my cousin in your prayers, because he is in the army and he was sent to serve in Afganistan, and my aunt just called today and said that he's leaving tomorrow to go out there (he's leaving on 9/11- that's REALLY weird). We all really hope he'll be ok and that he won't have to be out there for long, because as you know, Afganistann is NOT a safe place to be at all. :( So please keep him in your prayers!