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Wow! I can't believe I haven't come here in over a month. I've actually been pretty busy lately, it isn't completely due to laziness this time. ;-)

Well anyway, I don't think much has happened since my last post, which I believe was the post where I ranted more about the DMV for sending us back home because it was raining. Well, obviously since school is still in, I haven't taken my driving test again yet, but I plan on retaking it probably in June. Well, I actually could have taken it one of the days that we were out of school this week (the whole story with that is coming in a minute. lol), but there was a chance that it would *gasp* rain! And it did end up raining Friday I think, plus I wouldn't be surprised if they used the swine flu as an excuse to close down so that they could all just sit and twittle their thumbs and not have to work.

Well, speaking of swine flu, now I'll tell about the whole thing with school. Well, on Wednesday, they found two "probable" cases of swine flu at an elementary school here, so they decided to close that elementary school for a whole week, and close the rest of the schools around here for two days, which was this past Thursday and Friday. And this weekend, they found even more cases at other elementary schools! So now all the elementary schools are closed for 14 days! It's crazy! But since they haven't found any cases in the middle schools or high school, we're all going back tomorrow. Normally we all would have been really happy about missing school, but sadly since the school board people are all so obsessed with getting in the exact amount of school days each year, and for some reason this year they haven't built in any extra days, we're afraid they're going to have us make up the two days we missed. I assumed they'd just make us go two more days after the day that we were suppsed to get out, which is May 22nd, but now some of the parents are complaining that they've already planned to leave for vacation the day that school gets out, and have already made reservations and stuff. So now the school board is really in a sticky situation. I looked at the superintindent's newsletter, and he basically admits that they have no idea what they're going to to do about the missed days. Gee, you think maybe they should have thought of that BEFORE they decided to close school. I really don't know what else they'd do though. Some people have said that we could make them up on Saturdays, but I haven't heard anything about the school board considering that, and I most certainly hope they won't, because my dance recital is supposed to be on May 16th, which is the Saturday after next! My recital is in the evening so I guess going to school wouldn't affect it, but we still have the younger kids performing at the afternoon show! And I'm afraid if they had to cancel that one they wouldn't have the evening show either. Seriously, if the school board makes us do that and ruins the recital, I'll have to find out where they work and go down there and go kung fu on everyone there. But I guess I shouldn't worry too much about that, since the superintindent didn't say anything about that, plus if they did decide to do that, I'm sure they'd be getting tons of complaints from parents since a lot of people have stuff going on on Saturdays. The only other option I can think of that they can do besides adding the days to the end of the year or us going on Saturdays is them just adding extra time on to each school day for a little while until all of the hours make up for the days we missed. As much as it would suck to have to stay at school for 30 minutes or so longer, I think that would at least be better than going on Saturdays or having to go extra days at the end of the year. So we'll just have to see! I also heard that in Texas, the state superintindent decided that they didn't have to make up missed days because the whole swin flu thing had been an "emergency situation." So I'm really hoping that maybe my state can decide that too! Apparently our state superintindent has the authority to decide if we don't have to make them up, so even if the county superintindent wants to make them up, we may not have to. But wow, we've really gotten ourselves into a mess! And we're not even the main problem- the elementary schools are the ones that are going to be closed for two weeks! So I don't know what they'll do about them. Maybe they won't worry as much about the elementary schools since they don't have exams or anything. But yeah, I just really hope they decide we don't have to make up the days- all of us students would be a lot happier, and it would make things a lot less complicated!

But yeah, my last day of school is SUPPOSED to be on May 22nd, but whenever it ends up being, I can't wait! I'll be so glad to get out of Algebra II. haha lol. Ugh, and I have a test in there tomorrow that I was supposed to take Thursday, and now I'm afraid I've forgotten everything since I haven't studied it since then. lol. Oh well, I'll just look over it again tonight. Dance is also going well, although class was canceled Thursday night, and I'm worried that they'll close for a long time now since all the elementary schools are closed and we have plenty of elementary kids at our school. But really, I doubt any of the kids infected go to my dance school, and if they did they obviously wouldn't come to class! And any of the other kids who have been exposed, well, we should know by now if they caught it, so I really don't see why we would have to stay closed. We need to practice, because our recital is in less than two weeks! Last Monday we went to the "big room" for the first time- that means all of the classes go down to the biggest room that we have in the studio, and we all do our recital dances in front of everyone. I guess it's partly to practice in front of other people, and partly to practice with a little more space since we're pretty cramped in most of the other rooms, but we'll have plenty of room on stage. But yeah, that went pretty well, even though I always get really nervous, especially when these two really advanced girls who were in some of my classes at school last year are in there- it's just kind of awkward, when someone who you don't really know, but who still knows who you are, is watching. haha. And I also went to the competition auditions that night. I decided to give it a try because I figured next year will be my last chance to do it if I ever want to. I kind of wanted to do it before but I always chickened out because I was afraid I wouldn't be good enough. But I finally worked up the nerve to give it a try! I still was really nervous and I think I messed up on a few of the combinations they showed us because of it, but I guess I didn't do really bad or anything. lol. So we'll just have to see! I won't find out whether or not I made it until after the recital. But oh well, even if I don't make it, I suppse I won't be any worse off than I am now, because that would mean next year I'd just end up doing the same classes that I'm doing now, which is still fun, so yeah. :)

Well, I guess that's it for now, later!