Stressed Out- Again

Okay, so Friday I spent almost the entire day trying to make up and finish a story about someone selling their soul to the devil. Mine isn't that great, but I guess with a bit more work it could at least be something. Too bad I already turned it in for credit.
My teacher didn't want some big story so that limited how much I wrote. It was only two pages long and didn't have much detail. Except on how the protagonist died a, ummm, horrible death.

Today I spent the rest of the day writing my Illegal Immigration story. I thank the lord that I had previously interviewed people and only needed to put everything together. Now I am thinking of adding more stuff. I think it's okay, overall. It could be better. But then again, I thought it was due Wednesday, not today. Oh well. I had enough time to make another sudoku and its answer to turn in as well. I also have an ACT/SAT story going on the paper. That would be three contributions! Go Editor-in-Chief! Hehehe.

I asked to go to the media center today during Journalism because I get easily distracted by friends. They are just so funny and hard to ignore. My home computer also distracts me because of certain websites -cough- and Facebook. Blogger not so much because I try to do that last.

I learn better with worksheets. I found that out today when Ms. Frank handed out yet another questionnaire for another section in our book. I like them.
She also gave me tomorrow's work since I won't be there. She got upset when I told her I wasn't going to be there either. Eff her. As if she were a teacher in a classroom, make me laugh.

I went to that Navy meeting for a scholarship in the media center. It was okay. Worth a lot of money too! Too bad I can't apply...

Peer Tutorness- I'm starting to hate helping random hispanic kids. They just don't want to do anything and I really can't translate the entire textbook for them everytime the teacher gives out a worksheet. Oh well. I gots hugs from peoples. Yay. Summer was there too! Yay

Music was kind of fun. I hate it when people watch me when I'm singing though because it makes me laugh and crack while I sing. Singing is fun though.
Jose tried to play with me and took my 50 pesos. So Isaac took his candy and gave it to me and we exchanged goods. ^o^
I gots Audrey-hugs-and-kisses. Yay.

April and I practiced lines, once, during lunch. Yay

April and I both got 9.5 on our Japanese test! This one was kind of hard. And I only missed some questions about culture because I hadn't been there when they studied that. Oh well. No biggie.
I reviewed a lesson today. Hopefully I'll do better next time and on finals.

We are still doing work in Env. Science. It's cool, but it's too much. Oh well.

Time for bed now! Getting ready for the shows tomorrow! I'm going to put vaseline in my teeth so I can have more chances of keeping the show pin! Haha

Major Breakdown

I mean to update last night, but seeming that I arrived home at around 10:30 at night ready to go to sleep, I just didn't find the energy to do it. Besides, I really needed some rest.

I had a breakdown in the middle of Brahms rehearsal last night too. It was mainly because Angel and I were passing a note to each other and then Joey so that so she tried to read the note but Angel didn't let her. Joey got mad, I think, and I felt guilty. She wouldn't talk to me as much as I told her that there was nothing bad in the note or whatever and that I loved her. She seem to not care and I remember that this year was my last year with her and I wanted her to be happy. I whispered into her ear "I love you" again and started crying. She noticed too because I had put my head on her shoulder and she felt it. So she started crying too. Eventually everyone noticed. Audrey and April took me out to the lobby so I could cry peacefully. Tesia gave me a hug when she saw me outside too.
This wasn't the first time it had happened either.

So I calmed down and things were better again. I think people need to pay more attention to the director who is madly conducting everyone. I noticed that he would cut us off and people were still singing, all into it and everything. And Altos did drag everyone. And they almost never look up either! It's so annoying.
Much to my chagrin, I didn't catch anything last night.

Today, the Technicians performed at the Gift and Hobby Show. It was the worst performance ever because it seems that pretty much everyone messed up. I know I messed up once. And I was right in front of everyone. It was more of a "Duh, look at me!" So embarrassing.
Oh well, I had a great time for the short time we were all there. I think Steven was trying to talk to me too but we never managed to. I need Nov. 11th to get here fast; I get unlimited texting then, so I can text Steven everyday at every moment.

So I called my dad to ask him if he could pick my brother and me up at school and he told me to get someone else to do it because he was at the hospital. I still don't know what for, but he's on his way home now.
I overheard my brother on the phone repeating something like "something behind the kidney" was hurting all day long. Ouch.

I have to wake up tomorrow early and go do some volunteer work with fellow National Honor Society members. Then probably come home and have lunch. Hopefully work on finishing up my stories and then head back to Tech for Brahms. I'm hoping I can sit with him on the bus, but I doubt I will be able to.

Stressed-Out

The Devil and Tom Walker

That's the story we're reading in English 11 now. It seems fun, but they depict the devil as a black man with red eyes. Yeah... So when I was trying to log on to my account, I almost put "walker" as my password. I thought that was funny.

I think Ms. Frank should really plan her assignments a day before she assigns them. She's using a as-I-go method that I hate, because she forgets the assignments, and since most students don't do them she ends up not counting it for credit. She's stupid. I should really go and tell Mrs. Bogard that about her. Maybe she could send in someone to monitor her during class.

I really worked my ass of today during my peer tutor class. I was helping ENL ICP students clean their folders out. I totally helped four students. Two speak English, but they're lazy and cute so I helped them. It wasn't that much anyways.
Two girls took advantage of my ass being at folder-smack-reach and went ahead and did the process about three times.
Whatever.

OMG Music. Angel and Jose were both glad to see me walk in in the middle of Number 6. They make me feel wanted and important, even though Jose seems to like to hit me a lot. But it's fun. So no biggie on that.
I love them both, they are great. I'll miss them.

I have to remember to talk to Ms. Perkins or Mrs. DeWitt about the recycling program at Tech and why it stopped.
Ms. D reminded me of that so she had me go to the computer and look up info on Paper Retriever. I just want a button that says "Request a Container" That would do it!
I think I will talk to Mrs. DeWitt since she's in charge of Grounds.
I want to make a change, and this is helping.

We did more vocabulary in Japanese today, and tomorrow we have a small quiz. We always have quizzes or tests. It's great though, that's how everyone learns. And I think it's awesome that she can talk to us in Japanese and we know what she's saying. We may be slow in answering back, but we do it. I hope to continue my Japanese studies, that's why I want to go to IU; their Japanese program is apparently top-notch, and with all those books in that one library, I'm sure they have some Japanese manga there too. Easy and fun stuff to read. Nee!?

SMOGEE. Is just a mess. Our groups were switched around again and now I only have one girl. Her name is Taylor. I like her, she's nice, and white. Not that it makes a difference, but the black girls in there seem to always have something to say for anything I ask.
Whatever.

We all returned to school and I hurried to my Yearbook meeting. I am the Academics Editor so I'm planning on having a page for Jesi's trip to Spain and Liz's trip to Japan.
I don't know what else to include though. I want to include over-achievers. I think I'm one of them too, so I want to include myself. That'd be unethical though. I don't know, I'll talk to Ms. Jesse and Felicia, the Editor-in-Chief.

I carried all the flags out to the field today! They were 12 six-foot flagpoles and 6 pairs of swing flags. They were heavy, but not impossible to relocate. My back did hurt though. And my arms did too. My back still hurts, but I don't think carrying flags caused, I mean, they didn't weight a ton. I don't think they did.
But we pretty much finished the show. We only have 53 charts and they are all complete.
Color Guard was looking good today! Only three of us showed up, the best ones too, if I do say so myself.
Audrey says Tech's color guard is pretty much at the same level as Ball State's. That's good for us, but bad for them.

Halloween tomorrow! I'm passing out candy! Come if you want 496.1498 Call for the address if you are serious.

Last Fall Break

Woo-Hoo (?)

I'm glad I'm not going to have to wake up super early to go to school for the next four days. That's kind of awesome.
This morning I got up at 7 because I didn't want to get out of my really warm bed. So I got to school like a minute after the bell rang.

I don't really remember what I did today in Journalism. I know Angie was doing a great job helping out writers. She pretty much was doing what I was supposed to be doing. Yay Angie. I was updating the story list with Jasmyn though, and I have to edit everyone's stories after the editors edit them.

I finally got my U.S. essay turned in. It was about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Don't worry if you don't know about them. Ugh, she needs better organizational skills. She was also reported to Ms. Bogard for apparently not enforcing the dress code. I'm sorry, but Ms. Frank is a bitch, pardon the expression, when it comes to dress code. She sends people out for anything. So whoever complained about her for this was just stupid.

I didn't do anything in English today because I had already recited some of the passage. Yay me. Some people still only did 7 lines. I did 30. Go me.

I don't know what the ICP class did today since I left early to go to music.
Writing about music, I'm proud because I was able to sing songs without Isaac or Peter being in the room. I was fine, Lerron was messing me up because he kept hitting wrong notes. I think Angel noticed that my feet stank because he was fanning air away from his face. I'm sorry. I didn't notice I had put on the same socks as yesterday; I dressed in the dark and it was effing cold this morning.

Jose made a comment about Devin (sp?) having the same hoodie Angel has. The comment was: "It comes in his size?" I thought that was both funny and rude. I don't know Devin very much, but (s)he seems pretty funny.

Okay, lunch. I definitely have something to say about this. So today was the retarded teacher day, or whatev, so people felt free to take lunch tables away. They took ours. So as soon as we got there we noticed and sat our stuff at a different table. We come back from the super-effing-long lunch line to find some ghetto girls occupying our seats. So I just grabbed another chair and sat right next to one of them. We all sat together. And they didn't much have a problem with us. At some point, they asked us to watch their seats so they could go to the lines. We did so. And we got along, we even talked politics. I thought that was kind of cool, and I felt like I needed to apologize for taking over their table. But I didn't, oh well.

Japanese was weird today. In a good way. Today was our chapter quiz with some vocabulary and a composition. It was pretty okay. I'm wondering what I got on it.
So, as soon as we decide to start on the quiz, a huge, I mean huge (40 people), group of middle-schoolers knock on our door and decide to go in and check the Japanese classroom out. Some of us showed off our talents. They seemed pretty surprised that could read what was on our papers. I showed them my homework and said something to them in Japanese. That was pretty funny. They liked it. They might go to Tech, some of them said.

Then Env. Science, aka SMOGEE. We did nothing because grades are pretty much due and we really don't have work to do.

After school much. I dropped by Ms. Jesse's classroom to return a camera and she told me The Cannon might still not be ready. I blame James and Titi.
So I went up to the music office to wait for it to be 4. Emily Green was there and she was working on the puzzle. I pitched in and helped. I don't like that puzzle. It's so confusing and not defined. Grrr.
We talked about stuff. She's nice, I like her.

Band was fun too. We are changing some of the work so as to make it prettier. Yay. It's a bit hard, but fun. I don't know, it's probably just me.

Audrey took me home! Yay. I love her. And Audrey, they took her van/truck/vehicle! I saw it pass by in front of my window. I was all "o.o" lol. IDK.

Angie, I hope it all goes well.

Disparame Dispara

Shoot me Shoot.

It's a song, don't worry. Really good, by Laura Pausini. I love it when she sings in Italian.

I forgot to mention something in yesterday's entry. So here it is: April had a project due yesterday for her Health class. She had to make some kind of 3-D creating of a tongue. It turned out pretty cute. She even used (neon) pink Play-Doh for her project. I printed out an image with the tongue's taste buds labeled in the picture so she could do that on her project. So she stuck cute little toothpicks in the right places. Then she gave me the printed sheet! Isn't that awesome!? My own little image that tells me when I can taste "sweet" the best! Ehl-oh-ehl.
It was April's idea, she wanted me to make a big deal out of it, so here it is.

Journalism was kind of wild today. Two editors were bashing on Angie because they don't like her story idea but, instead, they want to write more about hot topics. I truly think we need parts of both, and Ms. Jesse will listen more to her dear Editor-in-Chief, so I'm going to tell her that. I'm also going to ask her how to start the petition so I can start working on it during Fall Break.
I wanted to take this break to finish up my homemade Christmas cards and start on V-Day. Also, I want to start applying to colleges. One of my friends in New Pal already got his acceptance letter from IU. Jealous!

Today MLK's speech was really due. I was the first one to be called upon by the teacher to recite the passage. Unfortunately, I was only able to recall 30 lines out of 57. I wasn't the worst one though; she only said four words. Tisk tisk.
I hope I have a B so far. There were about 1,000 points possible. I got 600 today, and if I do the extra credit I'll have 900. Not bad.

The ICP class was watching IMAX's T-Rex. I was so cold so I had my fake-bunny fur on me almost the whole time. And I watched the movie too. It wasn't that great, mainly because I didn't finish it. But, whatev.

Music was okay. We had Technicians and we worked on some Christmas songs. It is imperative that we practice because now Ms. H also has Fall Play and not much time with us.

I'm seriously thinking about taking my own lunch to school just because people are incredibly rude and ghetto. Black people can cut you, not pun intended, but you can't cut. What the eff?

Japanese was intense. I though. I think we have a quiz tomorrow. Shoot.

SMOGEE was annoying. I turned the lights off twice when the teacher walked out. The first time she made a comment about forgetting to turn the lights on and the second time she told us not to turn them off anymore. It was so funny.

So after school. We had a short newspaper meeting since Ms. Jesse had to leave at 3:30. I left earlier anyway to go to Techoir and work on stuff. I didn't do very much, but hey! We ended up going to German Band's small show outside of the auditorium. It was pretty fun. And they had huge pretzels too! Yum. I don't have the same feelings towards Root Beer though.
And for some reason, Steven couldn't keep his colds hand off of my neck and face. It was funny though, and he tried to pull my shirt out of my pants.
I think Yajaira likes me, and she still doesn't know I'm gay. I don't want to tell her though. I don't know, I don't want to hurt her feelings.

Band was pretty much canceled due to lack of band members showing up. I think the band did work on some music, but not much for color guard. Besides, only three of us showed up. Whatev, I worked on Japanese.

I was going to stay for Tech's Open House, but decided not to so I rode the 5:30 bus home. I arrived at around 6:40. Whatev.

My computer is dying. It turns itself off. It's scary. So I have to burn CDs with pics probably this week. What a burden.

It's okay if you don't update tonight Audrey. I love you, tee-hee. ^^v

Den wir haben

I don't even know what that means, but the whole beginning of the song has been stuck in my head for ever! It doesn't help that I just got done listening to five and six while taking a shower. Six sounds amazing on the CD. I love the little fast part.

I borrowed a Media pass to go interview a teacher for my story and I was supposed to have given it back by the end of they day. I forgot. Whoops.
She called me Editor-in-Chief again! OMG! I freaking love that title!
I'm the Editor-in-Chief, therefore, I should have a permanent pass, don't you think?

I'm having a U.S. History test tomorrow. I'm pretty sure I'll do fine since we are allowed to use a sheet of notes and past quizzes. I'm actually learning more with Ms. Frank gone.

I still haven't memorized all of MLK's speech. I have the first page pretty much done, I just need to finish the back. It's due this Friday, but I'll be going on a field trip so I hope he can let it go and let me do it on Monday. If I do manage to learn it by then.

Since I am a peer tutor 4th period, I took the liberty to go interview a teacher. She was really helpful but there were a lot of people coming in and out of her office so we were both easily distracted. I have to show my notes to Ms. Jesse tomorrow morning so I can interview her more if needed; turns out her last day is this Friday.

I finished a little before the period ended so I just went to ICP, the class room in which I help. As soon as I had put my stuff down I was asked for help to explain the work needed to be done. It wasn't that hard, but it just annoys me that people don't get ICP. It's so useless! They should be able to fly through the course!

Anyways, Music. Yes. Ms. told us the musical! Cinderella! I'm excited. I just want to be chorus though because I want to see all the action. And besides, let's face it, I'm not the greatest singer so yeah. I remember last year I did real bad. I don't even know how I still ended up being in Beauty and the Beast.
I'm still scared. I get criticized a lot so I would just rather not be in some one's mouth.
Since a couple of kids and I are stuck up in the music hall for another 15 minutes we are always doing something. Today, Ms. D. had left to drop Ms. H off at the airport. I found it funny that Ms. D had left a sign on the table that read "IA- staple papers" Which meant she wanted us to staple music. It was Patapan. The one we did my sophomore year. Yay! The note was just funny though.

Yay, lunch. F it.

Japanese. F it too. Sensei is inundating us with new vocabulary every day. Our quiz, not a test, will be of one hundred new vocabulary. Yeah! We can do Kanji too, but I haven't even been able to review my notes so I don't even know how well I'll do on it.

Then Env. Science. That class is always fun because we talk and do our work at the same time. The conversations are usually always off-the-wall and random. Or about people. Everyone in the class contribute their own opinion and random comments. I know I do.

After school. Yay. I got to hang out with Kaleem, Audrey and Johnny. Kandice was there too but she wasn't very talkative.
I don't know, but I definitely feel like a bitch this year. Especially when I talk about people. I've been called an asshole too, but that was just messing around. Well, mainly because I was gluing together people's Number 6. Angel's. I tried Johnny, but he was too quick.

Band was kind of fun. We set up to 40! Yay. We do need to practice though.
I love how people get creative and when they run out of chips, they find random objects to mark spots. I'm included.
Ehl-oh-ehl at Audrey's cough drop.

Testing!

Today my brother and I retook the ACT at IUPUI. We both agreed that we didn't probably do as well as we could've. I think the two parts that are really going to kill my score are the Math and Science parts. Both because I wasn't really engaged and I haven't done regular Math in over a year.
Both English parts were okay and I thought my essay was pretty good too. I don't think I should talk about the questions or the essay since I signed an agreement saying I wasn't going to do so; talk about the test, that is.
I kept thinking of Audrey while I was taking the Science part because I imagined her being short of temper this morning and being silly.
By the way, I kept singing Requieum 5 and Ave Maria throughout the whole test. That was really annoying.

After that, the whole family went to Taco Bell and got some"mexican" food. I love Taco Bell.
We then went shopping for gifts for one of my dad's friends. We got a him a shirt and a set of colognes.

So we went to the party somewhere up in Castleton. Not much to say. Ate, sat down to watch The Invasion and Transformers. I enjoyed it. They were nice people too.

My presence was just requested in the living room; my dad required my Twin-abilities; there's a belief in Mexico that one of two twins is able to alleviate bumps on arms/legs by spitting on the "thing" and rubbing it. I told him that grossed me out and so I didn't do it.
I was probably 6 when that was last requested of either of us. Even the neighbors went and saw us. Disgusting, huh?

day - normal

Today was our first day with our dear freshmen. I felt dorky and wanted to take pictures of them all but I didn't; I didn't have my camera.
I have four hispanic students. Two girls and two guys. All of them ENL students. I am actually looking forward to help them so they can succeed and won't be made fun of; been there done that.

I went to Journalism and got there a little bit late. Since they were already doing work Ms. Jesse asked to see my ATM story which I didn't have with me. I told her so and she just told me to go and schedule an appointment with Ms. Bogard to talk about the ATM and Book Shortage. It's Thursday morning first period. Ms. Jesse wants a picture of her too. I don't want to take a picture of her.

Ms. Frank seems to be sick at the moment so we have a sub from England. She's okay. We had to copy down some transparencies. I wrote pretty fast because it's a skill I must master to interview people. And it's always fun to finish before everyone else.

In English we do stupid 5th grade stuff. Drawing pictures and writing sentences with new vocabulary. Come on people. And why are most black people so effing annoying?! There is no need to draw attention by being loud and disobeying school rules.

I was chastised during fourth period. Well, not really. I was just told by Ms. H, the bilingual assistant, that I am to help two ENL students whenever she's not there to help. I don't really care because Benje is there and I can talk to him while doing my duty.

Technicians is meh. Rookies are learning pretty fast though. I still think she should only have the veterans perform because of outfits and choreo, but that's just me.

Oh em gee! There was a fight during lunch today! Black people these days, I tell ya. And why is it always the ugly ones fighting? It's just an observation. Joshie was pretty flirty yesterday and today. Which is okay by me. But I sometimes don't know how to respond.

Japanese is always fun. It's because I'm the only advanced kid in there. But everyone else is doing pretty good. We are down to four students in the class! Nihongo ga dekimasu ne!

SMOGEE was okay today too. I am really into this environmental stuff and I don't know what to do. I know people won't listen to students. And Tech needs to start recycling! For real.
Summer wasn't there because she went home sick. What is this, her fourth day missing and it's only like the second/third week of school?

After school was my favorite part. I went to the National Honor Society meeting and I had just sat down when Ms. Jesse walked in there and asked if I could leave to go to The Cannon's meeting. I'm the Senior Editor! Yay. But apparently Adrian ran away, so now we are down to three writers! I might even take a third story. Gosh. It's so much.
The meeting was over so I went to the NHS meeting just in time to elect presidents. I voted for Emily. There was a tie between Emily and Mary, twice! So both of them just left the room and by a show of hands we decided on the President and Vice-President.
I was voted Secretary. I am so excited! I got my first assignment too: compile a directory of all members with their names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Pretty easy.
Latonya Yarbro is the Archivist. He explained what that was but all I got was that the Archivist is in charge of posters, advertisements, photo-taking and photo-keeping/scrapbooking. Pretty fun.

After that Audrey and I drove to the teachers parking lot. We had a deep conversation about the T-word. She did most of the talking, but I'm a good listener. I love Audrey. I don't want her to be angry or sad because of someone else. There's people who love her and support her.

Band was a mess today. Kind of. I am really excited but kind of scared too. I hope it all works out. I need to be able to do a back bend and be more flexible. Pretty cool.
One of the Band Geeks is pretty cute.

I need to start on my own projects. I promise myself I'll start taking pictures tomorrow! I need to go to Wal-Mart to buy paper though. -bites bottom lip- That can be done later.

At least I know someone read this! Love ya Apes! -helikoptuh-

First Friday - Last

First period, journalism, was just priceless.
Ms. Jesse had shown us a video that compares Indian, Chinese and American students. The class was to write an essay explaining the differences and what we could do to improve our education system.
We found ourselves disrupted by Mr. Michael Armbruster, the Magnet English teacher. He entered the classroom demanding a much promised digital camera for his freshmen and their project. Ms. Jesse, much annoyed by Armbruster's attitude and disruptiveness, handed him the keys to the file cabinet in which the cameras were secured. Armbruster, after much "struggle" to find the cameras, started banging the cabinets. Ms. Jesse, of course, came to our rescue and she went herself and got the camera and gave it to him. This was all during class.
She had as write a journalistic account of what we had witnessed. I don't think I was done, but it was decent considering we had only five minutes to write it.
I had never seen Ms. Jesse this upset.

Ms. Solchik made me sit away from Benje because he talks too much when he's a little excited. I hope he does well and that I get to work with him.
Ms. Solchik is being real nice about the fact that I have to leave early to get to my next class. And besides, I'm a peer tutor and she doesn't really need me for the moment.

Japanese this year will be lots of fun. I hope I get to compete with Elizabeth because she is smart and loves Japanese too. I also hope I can keep all my notes in one place for later review.

Key Club is back in the game. President: Me. That's right. She wanted someone that had been in Key Club before so it was me or my brother. He's running for VP along with Donnell Duncan. I want my brother to get it because Donnell tends to want to take over. Gotta love service projects.

Seems to me Techoir will be awesome this year and I might be going to Prom with Audrey.

Tania's Quince tomorrow!

Today was Kick-Off Day. I totally skipped it. I just went and got my medium sized shirt and left. On my way there, I was greeted with a kiss from Emily Ventress. I guess she had lipgloss on because I could taste it and my lips were kind of sticky. My counselor saw us, and she advertised it. Tee-hee.