mama's got the magic with clorox bleach!

hehe old commercial. do you still remember it? ;)

anyway guess what! the dance was yesterday! so i went to a friend's house to get ready, then another two friends picked us up and we went out to eat chinese together, and then to the dance. i can't even begin to tell you how bad the first half of the dance sucked. the sixth graders aren't allowed to come anymore so it was only our tiny seventh & eighth grades (they're not really that tiny, but when you look around the whole cafeteria we only fill 1/3 of the space) and half the lights in the cafeteria were on, which is pretty much why no one was dancing (it's pretty stupid when you can see everything around you, and you're dancing and you're like, "wait, this is a cafeteria.. WHAT AM I DOING?" so basically everyone just stood around for like an hour and i personally made MANY many attempts to get a group together in a circle on the side near the speakers and actually dance but it was all so halfhearted that everyone just sort of did nothing. but anyway, later on i think someone dimmed a few of the lights and the dj started playing better music and miraculously EVERYONE suddenly wanted to dance so the rest of it was just like any other school dance. i had fun. but (needless to say) not as much as at cty. ;p then i slept over my friend's house and woke up at lunchtime and went home.

now i'm so drained i can barely walk without slouching over. we don't have much homework this weekend though (WOO YOM KIPPUR! :D) and plus it's really nice out so there's a million things i'd love to do right now except i'm too tired so today i've pretty much just been reading and dozing off and eating cereal (honey bunches of oats. they're my new obsession) randomly. it's pretty nice, but i'd rather go biking all over town again and getting gummy worms and organic cotton balls and books starbucks and ice cream and stuff like in the summer. too bad, can't have everything. oh, and we got our floor done downstairs.. we used to have a really old carpet all over but now it's a hardwood floor and it's just so pretty and clean looking! i'm typing on the floor right now just because i wanted to touch the floor because it's so pretty.. i know that sounds weird but if you could see it you'd know what i meant. :P okay, well i guess i'll talk to you all later. =)

looooots of love,
geena

My Sister's Keeper

Hey everyone!!!

OMG guess what!!!! I finally read My Sister's Keeper. I picked it as a free choice book report book in school and I finished it this afternoon. It was sooooooooooooooooo goood! You were all totally right! I read the last 100 pages in like, one day. It was just so good!!! Medical drama, courtroom drama, and romance all rolled into one!! Everything you want from primetime television!

Kaplan still sucks. I'm still getting 40 pages of homework every single session and I have a class on Sunday this week so I have to get it done by then. And then I have this huge practice test on Tuesday. ARGH!!!! Emily a la Huang- you're complaining about getting 7 1/2 hours of sleep a night? I would KILL for that amount of sleep! With all of the horrible homework, I've been up until midnight doing it all every night this week. The most sleep I've gotten on any given night is 6 hours. You have no idea how close I came to falling asleep during Spanish class this week. Speaking of, during my Kaplan class, this kid in front of me fell asleep and the teacher called on him and there was just like, no answer, and then we all started laughing and that woke him up. That was actually sort of funny. And there are these two other guys that sit in front of me and my friend (who sits next to me) and whenever the teacher calls on one of us to answer a question, they like, whip around and give us this blank stare. It's sort of creepy. And there's this wierd gangsta dude who sits on the other side of me, but it's strange because he has a really strong Boston accent that takes away from his gangstaness. So that's wierd. At least my teacher has somewhat of a sense of humor. He'll like, joke around with us sometimes. But it does not take away from the 40 plus pages of homework we have every night. Only six more classes to go.

Oy Vey,
M.E.

RED

Hey everybody :O. Just strongly sayin' that 9th grade really sucks if you are smart. So cherish your 8th grade years everybody... once you're a freshman(at least at my school)...

• You don't get to watch TV for more than 30min.
  
• You get homework all the time
• You are busy applying for scholarships
• You have cranky teachers who want to kill you
• You have to wake up earlier and sleep earlier
• You don't have any time to do anything in class except for study hall

I'm not saying this is what will happen to ALL of you guys, but for me I am in Geometry(sophmore class) because I took Algebra II over the summer. And I still do swimming and Judo and I'm applying for a scholarship. Basically, I don't have any time to spare and I get about 7 1/2 hours of sleep every night. It's a miracle I"m even writing this right now(probably because it's the weekend).

So you guys, cherish every moment of 8th grade because every second counts.

oh yeah, RED is my new favorite color :D

Adios~

Kiss the Girl

I love the song Kiss the Girl!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoQRYT0QU4
I saw it on Disney Channel by Ashley Tisdale... the original is even greater!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOBc3QZD9w

hellooo

kaela's picture post w/ the gorilla made me want to post this because i just remembered it:



it raised a huge stick above its head and started shaking its butt. it was really funny. :D

anyway i haven't used the computer in a long time! how are all of you?? things here are good.. there's lots going on at school but i never really feel like any of it is important. my classes are going by faster now that it's like.. the third week i think? YAY! =) okay, well i would tell you about classes and how annoyed i am at a bunch of various people and fun stuff that's going on but it would be boring. ooh! but, there is a school dance this friday. i'm probably going to be sad because it's gonna be nothing like the cty dances. i mean, i'm sure it'll be fun. but i hate how school dances are so segregated, it's like boys on one side in a tight cluster and girls on the other side. it's really stupid. maybe this time i'll take a friend to the boy's side with me just to break the whole stupid "OMG COOTIES" boundary line thing, lol. yay now i'm excited

oh and you know how i failed out of that chinese school algebra class? they put me a level below and i STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND IT!! it's partly because the teacher tries to speak in english and he has a really strong accent so most of the time we don't know what he's asking, but still!!! i'm in a class with 5th, 6th, and 7th graders and they all understand more than me! by the end of this year my self-esteem intelligencewise will be permanently damaged. LOL. not really. well, actually, probably. but i guess i should just keep trying. and ask my mom lots of stuff.

mehh that's sad. i don't have anything exciting to update with like in my old updates. my life is probably turning boring. oh well, there'll be time to have fun other times i guess. hehe kaela's photos made me so cty-sick. i like pictures, i wanna go look at angie's album thing again or something. byeee i'll talk to you all later! =)

love,
geena!

OH OH OH !!!!

oh my gosh im beyond happy! i made this performing arts company!! its basically this group of kids ages 13-18 that performs musicals for charity and other stuff. i'm really excited bcuz i think this will expand my horizons or whatevr. YAYAYAYYYY!!!!! =]=]=]=]=]=]=]

Manhunting

I haven't posted anything in what seems like forever. I'll talk about my week, actually just Friday.

On Friday I had an English test and a math test. Basic school stuff. I didn't get that much homework though, that was huge because after school one of my friends had a bonfire. It wasn't like a party or anything because there was no music and there weren't enough kids, but it was still wicked awesome. I got there around 4 o'clock and we were just killing time until dinner. Finally it was time for din-din (I'm such a loser :P) we had mac and cheese. YES! MAC AND CHEESE! THAT MEANS GARLIC BREAD! But sadly no. After dinner we built a fire, hence the name, bonfire. The time had come, it was kill or be killed and it started, now! MANHUNT! In the dead of night. There were 10 kids at one point. I had an awesome hiding spot, My friend has a pool so they have a tarp that covers the pool, or was it a sign? Anyways, I hid under that and i was completely covered. No one even thought about looking there. I was asleep half of the time. I would have won too if it weren't for that meddling kid. They told me that I had won, but there was still one person. I'd already won a game so I didn't really care. I don't really know how to flow into an ending so sorry if it's kind of abrubt.

I have two allusions in there, anyone know both of them?

Two Down... Eight to Go

Kaplan courses that is. I had my first two this week. They were... um, I guess you could say, interesting, to put it nicely anyway. For the first class, they made us take a diagnostic test like the one we were prepping to take. Let me just say this- at several points during the test I was overcome with the urge to SMASH MY HEAD AGAINST THE TABLE!!!!!!!! It was terrible! And two and a half hours (not including the half hour for name bubbling). No break. And then I had my second class yesterday. We had to bring the book they sent us. It's twice the size of the phone book. I measured it. We covered like, 6 months of normal math curriculum in two hours. And this whole complicated reading comprehension strategy. We're 30 pages in the book. But oh no, that's not all. I have HOMEWORK from this course. That's right. HOMEWORK. 45 pages of it!!!!!!! And I'm going to get this much EVERY SINGLE WEEK! Even on the days when I have one class on a Tuesday and then my next class on Thursday!! It is going to SUCK! And in addition to that this weekend, I have Spanish homework, a lab to finish (because this incompetent girl in my group screwed ours up and we had to repeat the whole experiment over again), a Social Studies project, and a book I have to finish for English class (250 pages to go). Plus I have two theater rehearsals this weekend and I'm going to dinner at my dad's girlfriend's mother's house for Rosh Hashana (shout out to Sarah). I have NO IDEA how I'm going to get anything done.

Did I mention that my English teacher still sucks and there was a lice scare at my school today?

And I REALLY miss dance? And now I'm getting out of shape because I haven't been to class in so long?

Why do I get out of bed in the morning?

M.E.

HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY

LIFE IS SOOO GOOD! RIDING WITH FRIENDS IN THE CAR AT NIGHT, SINGING. LOOKING AT THE STARS. THE LITTLE THINGS THAT GET YOU THROUGH THE DAY WITH A SMALL SMILE ON YOUR MOUTH! THE FEELING OF HAPPY EXHAUSTION IN YOUR LEGS AFTER A GOOD PARTY! KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED YOUR GOAL! FINISHING A GOOD ESSAY! SEEING A NAME THAT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD FROM FOR A WHILE LIGHT UP ON YOUR CELLPHONE! LISTENING TO A FAVORITE SONG! LOOKING AT PICTURES FROM HAPPY TIMES! I LOVE LIFE AND LIFE LOVES ME!

I will be...

switching English teachers tomorrow. I DESPISED that man. He used to be a business man but had "come to realize his calling." By that I think he was very mistaken if he meant teaching English.I know you guys would have backed me up if you were in my class. He had no humor, no intensity of any sort, no passion, and was a very dull teacher over all. I suppose I was a bit egotistic, thinking that I was a better writer than most of the class. However, when you reach the point where the teacher starts telling me that COMPELLING means to "agressively force you to do something against your will" I must not be in the same classroom as that man. When I argued my point, he gave me a strange look, stammered out a "Good!" and moved on, almost ignoring my correction. I then proved my classmates wrong in which they had to use THEIR, THEY'RE, AND THERE all in one sentence. The class had decided on "They're on there way their." And guess what the teacher said? "Stammer... Good!" And yes I argued my point once again. I shared my insights from short stories, which were different from others, but still very much correct. When he stated that I was wrong, I rebutted with perfect reason. From then on, for the whole week, my hand was in the air... and never once called on again. I suppose I was a bit spoiled from CTY. Amanda and Christina were very much open to new ideas and had a very good class syllabus. They were aware of our minds and opened us up to many new aspects of writing we had not discovered. Open discussion was SO refreshing because we got to express our each individual views, which varied! I never once shyed away from shooting my hand up because I knew that my words would be carefully considered and debated. I changed my opinion on some important topics because I had the opportunity to listen to others and absorb it into logic. When they taught, you could tell they both wanted US to learn and to gain. They got satisfaction from hearing our voices in our writing, not trying to put us into cookie cutter, dry essay formats. Why else did I realize and try to reach my potential for writing at CTY? And it has dawned on me, why can't ALL teachers be as fresh and open as them? Since when did we get the notion that all teachers must be intimidating? Amanda and Christina respected my thoughts and I expected that of my english teacher, too. And I was disappointed. Amanda and Christina, our schools need you! Now please hold while I rejoice that I don't have to see Mr. Chisholm purposing ignoring my hand! <3 Angie

Maybe this will cheer you up

ahhh we're all so emo! Maybe this will cheer you up. I used to think that "emo" meant "emoticon," or asian smileys (that's what I thought. example: ^-^ or *.*). So when people said they hated emos, I stopped using asian smileys. I thought they were geeky. Even though I'm a geek ^O^. But later I found out that emos were emos. So I starting using asian smileys again. They're really fun to use. You should do it!

Oh, another sort-of-funny story. Our neighbor and his wife were moving, and we went to his open house to see what his house looked like, and introduced himself as Bob. As the man chatted with my parents, they found out that he was a builder and had made some changes to the house when necessary. After we left, I found out that he could be called "Bob the Builder." So my dad and I sang "Bob the builder, can you fix it?" over and over again on the way back to our house (30 seconds.) hehe.

Well, I hope those two stories cheered you up a little bit. Good luck with your teachers, everybody, and whatever is making you emoticon-al!

Uncle Sam Wants You!!!!

Hello cherubs. I just wanted to know I've been reading your blogs, and I love you all. You are awesome, and I'm so glad you've kept up with this. I have a few updates about myself:

1) I love being in grad school, and I hope you realize that each and every single one of you could keep up with the type of work that I am doing in my literary criticism and philosophy courses. I'm in a non-fiction writing workshop this semester, and some of the essays you wrote were better than my classmates'. Enough ego boosting for now...

4) Next week I'll be adding Siena CTY to my portfolio, and I know I'll get all mushy and start to cry. Anyway, I have a request for you - I already plan to take some of the things you've said on this blog (nothing personal, only the stuff that's reflective and somewhat literary) but if you have anything else you'd like to say about writing and/or journaling and/or the English language and/or the success and use of this BLOG, would you please post it as a response to this post? I'd love to put some words straight from you in my portfolio. As usual, feel free to say how I am the best English teacher you've ever met. You have so much to say, and I want to show you off to the world. I will give you full credit for what you say. I think it could be amazing, and I think we have something really great going on here. It will last.

5) Did you notice how I skipped #2 and #3? Mistake. We all make them.

I hope you're doing well in school so far, feel free to drop me an email if you like.

Christina :)

Random thoughts

When you like someone your heart feels a like it's being pinched...what does it feel like to be unloved?

In the nighttime the stars come out but in the daytime you can't see the stars...what happens to them in the daytime; where do they go and what happens to them?

"The ends justifies the means"-Machiavelli

Thanks Amita ^_^ for the cool idea- pretty fun just writing random stuff~

oh yeah, about the "Trevor situation"- here's a small update for you folks :D
his birthday is Sept. 29th and i'm invited to his b-day party
and on the post before, I commented with all the stuff you guys need to know about trevor
please comment. I may need advice? <3

Meg Cabot!!!!

Hi guys!!!

My English teacher still sucks. I don't get her obsession with pre-writing, pre-tests, or the sixth graders and how "poor and helpless" they are. ARGH!!!! School is icky and making me sound all emo on this blog!!!

But on a lighter note, last night I went to a Meg Cabot book signing at the 92nd St Y in Manhattan. We drove in so we were stuck in traffic in Brooklyn for like, a year, but it was still really cool. She got up on stage and talked for awhile and told funny stories and the like and then she did some Q&A and then she signed books. And she was wearing really cute shoes. I am soooooooooo tired because I didn't get home until like ten and I had been to a concert version of Man of La Mancha with my theater group earlier that day. Exhausting!

And I have a new musical obsession!!! Have any of you guys heard "I Wish I was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in my Hair)" by Sandi Thom? It's REALLY good!! You HAVE to listen to it. The video is on YouTube.

Hope you're all less depressed than when you last blogged.
M.E.

Random Thought of the Day or whatever day you're posting on

Well, after a series of emo blogs and even happy blogs. I think i should start a random blog. So... post anything. WHatever comes to your mind first. Be it asparagus, or cheese or backpacks. (my three thoughts) No explaining is required. Only if u choose to.

i'm wide awake and i can see the perfect skyy is torn

everyone seems so upset! lets give the blog an uplifting ...lift! :)

SMILE! =D

you know you wanna. =)

okay you get the point. i would post my horrifically unexpected dorney park trip yesterday but i dont want to add any more sad downhills.

oh yeah ray, yesterday on the car ride home, my friend was upset (it was a "too much bad/good happening" kind of day) & i gave her my ipod to listen to, to try and make her feel better. she listened to my top rated and her favorite was that song on your song list: crazy for this girl. just thought i'd let you know.

stay strong. <3

even if things get heavy we'll all float on aaalright

i feel really strange right now.

i just realized i really have no fun at parties or other supposed-to-be-fun things anymore. see, today was bedford day. a whole afternoon filled with parades and booths filled with random freebies and junk, and the whole town piled in the center of town. it should be really fun and happy but i was too sick of my friend (i refuse to call her my best friend because i've decided today that i officially hate her, even though she's considered me her best friend ever since we met. no, i don't think i'll ever find another real best friend again, or at least not in this town.) to enjoy it. i literally had more fun biking to the center of town than at the actual thing. and yesterday, too. i had more fun walking to the party by myself than i actually had at the party, which was actually not even a bad party. i just didn't have an extraordinary amount of fun, even though you'd probably think i did if you'd seen me there. am i being a fake or something? because it's taking such a large effort just to be perky and fun around people when really i'd rather just not talk to anyone at all.

school is so stupid. honestly i hate going to things like bedford day, or football games, or any other school-town-based events. once you get there everyone's so clique-y and grouped off. it's just like in any typical movie about school: preps, jocks, druggies and gangstas, wannabes, and random assorted others. i don't really belong in any group anymore because whatever i had before that slightly resembled a "friends group" last year just doesn't exist anymore this year. so i just flock around the different groups because i get along with all of them, but i miss having a solid group of friends that could all depend on each other SO so so much. and i miss sixth grade when everyone got along and we could get away with anything. and i am so unbelievably annoyed with my friend who is not my best friend. i am too tired now, but i will probably tell you all about her later because i mention her a lot and i definitely need to get it out because i just feel so frustrated with her.

but anyway. i don't know what's up with me, i'm just so sick of people in general. and i hate pretending to be enjoying everything i do when i don't. okay, that's an exaggeration because i do actually enjoy doing some things, it's just that i feel like i'm secretly truly super antisocial, and maybe that's why i love being alone so much and don't really like parties. and now that i mentioned sixth grade this huge huge huge wave of nostalgia is like washing over me and now i miss everything so much.

SOMEONE DR. PHIL ME. actually i guess you can't really because it's not like i presented a tangible solve-able problem. well, it felt good to vent. you know, i was about to just x the window and not save the post at all because it's so pointless but that would've meant i'd wasted an hour typing this up (i am using my mom's ancient computer, and no keys on her keyboard work so i literally have to smash down on them multiple times until they come out. in a way it's been therapeutic but it's also really slow) so i'm gonna publish the post anyway. if you actually read this then here's a cookie. and if you didn't then i don't blame you.

much love still,
geena

Clyde's Friday

Yesterday, I got my pictures taken, skipped half of an assembly, skipped Social Studies, listened to music in class, and got onto my bus without a bus pass. :O He did all of that in one day!? Sort of.

I definitely did all of the things I mentioned earlier, but I kind of took it out of context. Got my pictures taken yesterday, I 'm dreading the day they come back. My homeroom is always last for pictures because everyone's last name is late in the alphabet. When the assembly started, we were still getting our pictures taken, saying, "HI," or, "MONEY," or even, "WHAT?" I walked in in the middle of the principle's emotional speech that 8th graders OWN the back of the bus. YES! At the end of the assembly I went to the office, no I wasn't in trouble. I didn't get my bus pass, hence the getting onto the bus without a pass. The worst part about it was that I was already paid. I didn't know which class I should have been in, so I asked the principal, the one person who should know. But he didn't he told me the wrong period and I missed all 5 minutes of Social Studies. Listening to music in class was the best idea that I've ever had. I was all sneaky about it. Not really. The teacher turned on the radio. I am pathetic.

Who else could get into so much trouble.

and when the sky is falling, don't look outside the window

hello everyone! =) what's up? the first week of school for me was awesome but now things are slowly going downhill and i don't think this year's going to be amazing or anything. right now i feel really unbalanced. i'm too busy and i never really talk to albert anymore, i'm getting really annoyed with my friend alex who's getting too possessive and desperate, and i feel like i'm drifting from lots of people i'd rather not drift with, and no one has any time to make plans and hang out, and i'm not practicing piano anymore or reading or doing anything i want to do anymore. ahhhh! i miss the summer so much!

anyway. today i missed the bus and my mom didn't want to send me so i biked to school for the first time ever. and i hope i'll never have to again. it was really stressful because i had to go super fast to make it without being tardy, and it's not that i don't like biking, but i had to go down a bunch of busy roads and i could see all these kids from school in their cars staring at me in my dorky torn up helmet and bike with a huge purple metallic horn on it. it's not like i have a self consciousness problem or anything but it was just really annoying because once i stepped foot into the school a million people were like "HEY i saw you biking to school today!! why didn't you take the bus? why didn't your parents take you? why is your helmet broken? why do you have a purple HORN? why is your bike so big? were you tardy? whoa like you didn't DIE?" etc.

and picture day was yesterday! not very eventful, except all the girls wore their hair down. and i was planning on making a really weird face but then i chickened out and just ended up smiling really huge like :D with my mouth open big and my eyes kind of surprised looking. it's gonna look like crap but it'll be better than the past years hopefully.

besides that the effects of the steroids are wearing off and my face is returning to its swollen state. OH btw!! i took an allergy test. i got pricked with 32 needles (the last 7 weren't pricks though, the doctor actually had to take it and scratch my skin open. i cried.) and i found out i'm allergic to: cats, grass, dust mites, and mold. YAY i finally know! and it makes a lot of sense too, so i bet i can try to prevent it next time.

plus i read flowers for algernon. it was adorable and sad and stuff and i think i'm gonna do my first book report on it. =) oh and in the middle of a quiet study someone showed me something and i started laughing really hard in my new laugh and people were like, "WHOA are you seriously laughing? it sounds so fake!" thus proving what i said about how it sounds kinda like hi's, lol. well i need to go now. i miss all of you tons! (yesterday i was playing stairway to heaven and it made me reeally really sad)

love always and always
OH MY GEEKNA
:D that's not really a name but who cares

You paint your dreams...with reds and blues and greens.

hi! hola! zdraveite! nihao! bonjour! ciao! annyong! gutentag! konnichiwa! hej!
[the last one was swedish =) how bilingual am i?! nah i got some from this website called hello in many languages :D]

i wonder if we'll still be blogging when we're 18. that would be a really amazing story to tell if any of us ever becomes famous (cough sarah she has that shirtt :D)

not really much to say but WOO its friday! in school we had an assembly for the 8th grade magazine drive to raise money for the hershey trip (its $210 per person for the dance, park, and lodge stay!!). the magazine-selling part is actually really cool. it wasnt just regular prizes like top seller gets an ipod but so much moreee :) so if any of you would like to subscribe to a magazine, tell me which one bcuz i'm really into it =)

also i can't wait until tomorrow! i'm going to dorney park for the day with a bunch of friends. should be really funnn, we got FREE TICKETS :):):):)

hmm i got this cool chain email thing the other day. it had to do with optical illusions and testing your mind.. i would post it here but some of it is pictures and for some reason its not working. but read on, here's a part of it -->

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every " F" in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...








(SEE BELOW)







HOW MANY ? WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke. READ IT AGAIN ! Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.








The brain cannot process "OF".


Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.

Three is normal, four is quite rare.

=)


haha yes i thought that was pretty cool i only counted three....

i think i'll end this now. hope you guys enjoy your weekend! MUCH LOVEE <3 love always, RACHELLL(:

Heyo

Hey everybody, just posting to show that I'm not dead yet :C.

Now about my crazy school experiences:

I went to the magnet school I was talking about months ago but I didn't like it. The magnet school was like a sour apple; looks good on the outside, tastes like sour on the inside. The classes were the same standard as the high school back home (CHS) - but the facillities were much worse. >.> The school concentrated on only math and sci; which means they didn't have any SS classes for freshmen, no band or chorus, and almost no clubs. It was pretty messed up. Since the school was new, the people there didn't really know what they were doing. The copy machines didn't work right, and there was absoulte disorganization. Most of the people there were really dumb and likd 10% were really smart, but seeing that the school had only 100 kids per grade, it was pretty bad.

However, in spite of the horrible system and academic facillities at the magnet school, the people were ALOT nicer and overall, more friendly. I had way more friends at the magnet school. On the bus ride (which was 30 min btw) there was only one other kid named Trevor (there was only the 2 of us on the bus). We talked about basically everything. He also liked anime and manga, which was a plus ^_^. We were both obsessed with japan- he wanted to be a samurai, I wanted to be a ninja xDDDD. And we both knew WAY too much about japanese history. Even though I was only there for a week and a half, Trevor was like my bff and he was like the coolest.

AT CHS:

Well, I withdrew from the magnet because it was too chaotic for me. The only thing I miss about there is Trevor TT_TT. I wish he went to my school :Q.


Anyways, I started school at CHS on the Tuesday of this week. High school sucks, I only missed one week of school and it seems like I missed a month. I was new, and that kinda sucked because I was clueless about EVERYTHING. I have a mountain of make-up work to do, I don't know the teacher's policies or grading systems, the people are apathetic at best, and I CANNOT take band because I am taking geometry. To make matters worse, the band is going to Disney this year and I will not be able to go. My schedule is all messed up and I am extremely overloaded.

I think school will be the death of me :F

Project

I need a recent picture of me for a TV Production class where we're making a video timeline of our lives with soundtracks and editing and the whole shebangbang... The only ones I can find has weird stuff in the background... mainly my retarded friends. So if you have a GOOD pic of me on ur dig cams please email it to me! If not, I still love you. Thx Angie

Well... CTY's now a dream

Just wanted to say I still love you guys!

Isn't behemouth such an awesome word???

It is!! It is! Beuh-hee-mith. HEHEHEHE. It's fun to say! Kind of like Geena's "BUH." only different.


Does anyone have a xanga? It would be awesome to have a xanga blogring with the xangaCTYers, if there are any.


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Edit:
By the way, sorry about my extenuatingly (right word?) short blogs. I'm kind of lazy to post long things like Geena and M.E. and everyone else. I will.... someday.... maybe.... when I'm dead...................................

Spoiled

I am so spoiled. In the ways of English teachers anyway. My English class is so EASY. I'm so used to fast paced CTY classes with Amanda and Christina. They go so SLOW. And they spend a whole class going over things I learned, like, years ago. Not to mention the fact that my teacher treats us like sixth graders. I never used to raise my hand in class but now I find myself participating so we can just MOVE ON. Five people guessed what the second step of the writing process was before I raised my hand and was just like, "DRAFTING!" Except not quite so loud. ARGH! Incompetence!!!

M.E.

heehee

you know what else is cool? you can go "OM EM GEEE-na!" ohhh the wonders of names. :D these past few days have been so discovery-filled!

okay, well yesterday was the first day of chinese school. my teacher this year is really into it and she's even making everyone get a blogger account where we can keep a chinese diary. i'm annoyed because i'm not gonna have time for it, but maybe this year i'll actually be able to learn something. plus second period i tried out an algebra class and failed out of it. not even kidding, the teacher started out with a pretest just to see where we were.

i got a 4/15.

HEAD, MEET DESK. :x i felt SO STUPID, even the sixth graders were like "OOH look at meee i got only 3 wrong and this is high school math! HAHA" and when the teacher heard my score he was like "........ OH. well i suggest you speak with you parent." needless to say i spent the rest of the day feeling like a total discouraged idiot. OH! plus i think i recognized a lot of people from cty there.. there was this guy who was always around shawn at the dances and he always had this idiotic smile on all the time, and this girl who dresses kinda like a guy whose name i don't know, and that girl shensi who i think recognized me but didn't say anything to me, aand jessica, who's in my class this year.

and on a non chinese school note school's been super duper fun, even though i'm not really allowed to admit that publicly (sp?). to be totally honest i love all the work we're getting in our "advanced" classes and stuff, it gives me something to do. it's just annoying now because i have no time to spend with albert or to read or eat ice cream anymore. =/ nerrr oh well there's the weekends. plus i tried cross country out for the first time and i actually really like it. it's not like i'll be a huge contribution to the team or anything, but at least i'm not the worst like i expected, and hopefully i'll get better.

oh BY THE WAY. my laugh has TOTALLY completely changed, and i'm really scared. it literally happened overnight, and now it's SO WEIRD! i wish i could record it, but if i could describe it it's obnoxiously shaky and it's kind of like a mix between hi's and kaela's from the first few days (the ha ha ha) and a little bit of my old laugh (the long squeaks) and.. i can't even describe it that well. but it's SO different, it's a huge change it makes me kind of sad. =( well i gotta go now but i will probably talk to you all laterr. =)

much xo's and love,
GEEKNA!

Attention All Asparagus Lovers!!!

Greeting my fellow followers of asparagus! You'll never guess what I just ate- pickled asparagus. It's normal stalks of asparagus, but they have it in a jar with vinegar and salt and spices and stuff. Like how they turn cucumbers into pickles. It was actually really good! Like a pickle and an asparagus combined. It's sort of a delicate type food though, so you can only really eat, like, two at a time without your mouth butning from the vinegar but still. I thought I should alert of you of this random asparagus related development.

RANDOM ASPARAGUS DANCE PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ASPARAGUS!!!!!!!!!!
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M.E.

School...

...was a strange thing to get back into. I still remember being puzzled at all the text messages from my friends asking me what I was going to wear on the first day. I was pretty much like, what for? And then I remembered I was at Rye not Siena College. I have to say I was like different at Siena. I thought like people wouldn't like me if I was the same girly b**** at Rye so I ended up trying to be more down to earth which was an... unsuccessful task at times. Oh boy all that screaming "OMG YOU LOOK SO GOOD" drove me crazy on the first day. "OMG I MISSED YOU SO MUCH" Gagg... Hold on I have to tell my friends what I got on my latest shopping spree. I think CTY has changed me in more ways than one and it is HARD adjusting!
Believe it or not, my teachers are good. My math teacher is sorta intense but he's funny. There's this HUGE girl ask guy dance in Decemeber called the Vincents. And I'm sick of hearing about it. There's alot of new kids, mostly guys. And my friends won't stop checking them out. And apparently three of the guys already know me from parties but why can't I remember them?? It's creepy, I think I have stalkers. Not to be racist and stuff but at CTY the majority was asians. And now I'm the only asian in my group of friends... Weird change I have to say.
I must go back to the conversation about watches. OMG GUYS WHAT IF I BECOME A GIRLY ***** AGAIN? DON'T HATE ME! I'm having a melt down, the first 2 days were stressful. :(
Angie

OH MY GOSH!!!!!

if you put a "k" into geena it turns into GEEKNA!!! ISN'T THAT AMAZING?!

Uhhhh.....

I can't think of a post title. Mainly because the stuff I plan to be writing about it a random collection of things that has happend to me the past couple of days.

So. Yesterday was the first day of school. And it was... alright. I guess. All of my horrible memories of school came flooding back to me the second I stepped in the door and it felt like summer had never happened. Just another school day. Everything exactly the same. I got sort of lucky I suppose. My three best friends were all in my homeroom (we travel to all of our classes with our homeroom. I know. My school is really small). Bad news- I happen to be in the classroom with the really small lockers. Seriously. I mean, the size of a shoebox small. And the ones in the other eigth grade homeroom are, like the normal size ones. At least my teacher just assigned two rows of lockers on the edge of the bank so I get to share the middle locker wih the person across from me (my best friend Ursula). And the two of us share a full length locker outside that's just for coats and stuff like that. Anyways, we got a teacher this year who is brand new to the school because the old eigth grade English/ homeroom with tiny lockers teacher who I really was looking forward to getting left the school. New teacher's name is Mrs. Signorelli. Or as I like to call her, Senora Gnocci. (Note- in Italian the gn sound is pronounced nya. Gnocci is a type of Italian pasta. I can never remember her real name.)But she has no idea what she is doing. She treats us like fifth graders. Today she read us a story out loud called "Eleven" about how birthdays are like onions and this girl who cries over a sweater that I liked in the fifth grade when I was Eleven but was extremely bored with today. I found myself wishing for Amanda and Christina.

But we haven't gotten to the crappy part of the day yet. On the morning of my first day, the principal called me into her office and asked me to write a speech and present it to the new parents on Friday night (she only gave me one day to write it.) I said no because Friday also happens to be Ursula's birthday party which I promised I would go to weeks ago. I mean, come on, you can't miss your best friend's 13th birthday. And when I told my principal I couldn't go because "I already had other obligations" she started making whiny sarcastic noises to me and said something about how I wasn't any use to her and then dismissed me. I had a terrible stress headache for the rest of the day. And that's why when I got home (to an empty house no less- both of my parents were at work and don't have time for any phone call longer than thirty seconds) I ate a large plate of Chinese food and chocolate brownie my grandmother made and watched half a season of Sienfeld on DVD.That made me feel better.

And my cat is sick. I mean, not deathly ill or anything, but we found out he had hyperthyroid, which is where your thyroid produces too many hormones. So he's going to be on two pills a day for the rest of his life. He's been hanging out with me a lot more lately. Like he'll come in and sleep next to me at night. He's so cute. In fact, he's sitting on my lap right now.

I have a busy next two days. Friday, like I said, is Ursula's birthday party so I'm going to Arirang with her. And Saturday is the audition for my theater group, to determind which part I'll get. I'm singing "As Long as he Needs Me" from Oliver and doing a monologue about coathanger sculptures that I barely have memorized. Ugh. I have to work on that. Wish me luck!

Okay. This is a REALLY long post so I should probably shut up now considering I sound all depressed and miserable and emo too. I'll try to come up with a list of songs I like, that seeming to be the current trend, but right now my obsessions are Fall Out Boy (especially Sugar We're Goin Down) and Call Me When You're Sober by Evanesence.

M.E.

HOLA

hi you guys i'm posting because well um i feel like it. and to what geena said about posting more often... well geena you wont have to talk to yourself anymore! :D

hmm so today was a half-day and also the first day of school.it was ok nothing special pretty boring actually. my classes are ok its mostly the people im not so crazy about, and the teachers are mostly nice.

im not sure whether to write abt yesterday or today. i guess ill talk more about today. so i got home, finished all those student surveys, ate lunch, read alloy, ate LOTS of icecream (yay geena we're cool like that), and then went biking with my two best friends aka maggie an sherry. then we decided to ask kevin, our friend, to bike as well then we ended up crashing his house and eating his food which we have done before. yep so afterwards we all went round the neighborhood and also asked another friend, dan to bike. after biking for like 2 hrs we all went back to kevins place and mostly talked and ate stuff.

hmm i decided since you guys are like my sisters and brothers, i'll spill this stupid small secret: I AM SERIOUSLY MAD AT MAGGIE. basically everytime we're around guys, she flirts and tries to impress them and doesnt do a bad job of it... but thats not why im mad! i'm mad cuz she makes me look like a total dumb blonde while doing it. we'll be talking about skiing and she'll be like "aha rae remember that time you slid under the ski lift?" and ill be like "mmhmm" and she'll be like "i HAVE to tell you guys this, its hilarious". ARGH! it pisses me off to the maxxx. sorry guys i needed to pent (wait, is it vent or pent? ah w.e) out that anger. any tips / suggestions on what to do???

other than that, ive been having a swell day. =) right now its 6:47 and my sister's at the pool with my mom and my dad went to play tennis. the house is strangely empty for a change, except for mee. so yeah i wish you guys good luck with your second/third/fourth/and so on day of school tomorrow, and mucho grande love to all of you. <16 =D

First Day of School

Hey, everyone! It was my first day of school today and it wasn't so bad. I got the easy teachers, except for math. EWWW! She's really old and boring, but I'll dwell on the positives. In all of my classes I have at least one person that I know. And Michael Ford, my weird person from Braintree, is only in like two of my classes. Also, I am happy to inform you that the school stalker ,a.k.a the Lego kid, is only in one of my classes. That one class doesn't have any of his stalkees in it, so he shouldn't get one my nerves too much, especially since he sits on the other side of the room. One of my best friends is in my Writing Workshop class. Not such a big deal, except for the fact that last year we were in none of the same classes. I love my locker combo. Anyone can read this, so I'll give you an example: 12+8=20. My combo. is just like that only with a different set of numbers. I am stuck on the bottom locker though. The lockers are one on top of the other and they are square like. My English teacher talks SO Much. Today's class was almost completely filled with her talking, talking about Boston College, talking about rainforests, and talking abut Boston College. She is absolutely obsessed with B.C. She has season tickets and a tailgating spot. She has a B.C. pennant up and she promises more. Sorry for the randomosity

POST 200! YEEEEUHH

HEYY EVERYONE! okay before i begin today's update and everything i have a favor to ask. EVERYONE if you have time, POST!! and tell us EVERYTHING. i understand that i'm probably the only one out of all of you that has absolutely no life and a bunch of time to type forever and ever, but seriously, i spill about every single stupid detail almost every day and i'm beginning to feel like a super self-absorbed freak. so post lots more and maybe i'll post a little less and it'll be more balanced. =)

okay anyway. school was really exciting! at the beginning of the day i was totally freaking out and thinking too much so i sorta had to pinch myself and be like "just STOP THINKING AND PUT ON A SMILE AND JUST MAKE IT THROUGH THE DAY".. and i did. :P my classes are pretty well balanced, it's just frustrating because literally EVERYONE that i became close to last year i don't see at all during the school day, meaning more out-of-school staying in touch has to be planned and stuff. not that there's anything wrong with that, it'll just be hard because we're starting to get busy again. i have one of my best friends in a few classes but other than that everyone is on the other team, and that's just annoying because the same thing happened last year. but whatever, i'm okay with it because i know it could probably be a lot worse. some periods are terrible though, because the people there i just absolutely cannot stand, so i have to try super hard just to actually listen to what they're saying and be perky and stuff, but asdkflwjerlkajs it's SO hard and energy draining to pretend to be interested in the stupidest things in the world. today i had a sudden urge to strangle someone in the middle of the day, and it scared me a little. i hope i can make it through the year without hurting anyone, lol.

so yesterday i watched garden state with a friend after school and it was pretty.. interesting. i'd love to pretend to be all sophisticated and stuff and say i understood the whole thing but to tell you the truth i don't think i did. so i'll probably watch it again some other time. it had the best soundtrack ever though, i need to remember to download it sometime. and i have a walk to remember right now, and i'm really excited to watch it because hi makes it sound so good. :P

huhh what else.. OH since we're all being music-y and stuff i decided i had to join. :P right now i'm totally cleaning out my itunes (deleting every single pointless emo screamo song there simply because they're starting to annoy the cochleas out of my ears [does that make sense?? lol] and they're totally un-meaningful and just annoying) and so far i've dropped from 2100 something to 1451, and i'm gonna keep going until maybe there's less than 1000 so that they can all actually fit. =) (i spent lots of my time last year dl'ing a bunch of random albums i'd never heard of before and i'm finally deleting the super strange ones YAY) so i would post a big list of favorites but things are too unorganized right now for that.

i do have something to share though, i think it's absolutely amazing:
first download this: dying in the sun - the cranberries
then click here and listen to the song while you look at the photo for a little bit.

my friend who was packing for college sent it out because she was feeling depressed and stuff. idk about you but i get the most strange feeling ever when i'm listening to the song and looking at the photo. it's kind of uplifting in a sad way, i think. or maybe it's just me being cheesy, but still.

i'll post a better list some other time when my itunes is easier to look and sort through, but here's my list of favorites as of right now.

» meet virginia; train
» stars and boulevards; augustana
» polaris; jimmy eat world
» the sun; maroon 5 (sexiest song EVARR. :D well, not in a conventional way but stilll)
» the masterplan; oasis
» existentialism on prom night; straylight run (well this has always kind of been my favorite, it's not like a spur of the moment thing)

raymond if you find it "disconcerting" i will cut your ears off. :P lol keeeeding of course. okay, well i've got a friendly letter to write to my new english teacher about myself (it's gonna be fun!!!!! i love those assignments lol) OH btw!! i had a total cty flashback today in the halls! i saw this cutesie little new sixth grader and she looked SO much like this annoying girl back at cty (don't remember the name) but all of a sudden i imagined we were in a hallway at siena and it was pretty cool. :D weell i'm going to go now.

much love, you're still my favorite people in the world. =) (not counting my lawnmower and green beans, even though they're not people)
♥ geena

all i want for christmas is YOUUUUU!

hehehe i am such a loser. i've been listening to christmas songs nonstop these past few days. well hey, now that summer's over what else is there to look forward to? lol.

ooh, so my whole hormone-problem-ness is about gone. i think. i mean, i'm still on a strong dosage and stuff but i don't feel particularly high or horny (RAYMOND) or depressed or anything, and i've most certainly not turned into a man yet so that makes me happy. oh, andandand! did you know i have like 5 other mild skin problems (umm, not sure what all of them are called but eczema is one of them) ? well if you didn't know now you know, and all of them have suddenly magically disappeared!!!!! my skin is actually smooth feeling now!! i'm so excited! i know i shouldn't be embracing the side effects of drugs but this is actually kinda good.

anyway school starts tomorrow! eeek i'm going to try not to think about it. i spent today shopping because my mom only believes in shopping during labor day and presidents' day etc. because of the huge clearance sales. well, honestly this year there weren't many sales to begin with, and my mom stayed with me for about an hour and then ditched me to go make lunch for my dad. :P so i stayed at the mall for 6 more hours with only $40!!! i know it might come off as spoiled and stuff, but realistically, what can $40 get you, especially when this is one of the two only major shopping sprees you're ever going on in the year? buh! (my new exclamation. it's fun to say :D) whatever. i wasted 7 hours of my day. but to tell you the truth it was worth it because i bought myself the most absolutely SPECTACULAR cookie in the whole world. it was frosted and warm and soft and 150% sugar but it was SO amazing. mmmm. =) (fyi i got it at a place called "mrs. field's" if you wanna go try for yourself. :P) well, as a result i still have more than half of my "still need before back to school" list to buy, and now it's a little too late. ughhh oh well i'll figure something out.

not much else has been happening lately. i've gone to two end of summer parties which were both totally lame but they were kind of nice because i got to see a lot of people again.. plus i've started playing piano again and surprisingly i'm really enjoying it.. i'm not super good or anything but it's kind of enlightening. have you guys heard the moonlight sonata by beethoven? (you probably have. if not GO LISTEN SOMEWHERE!!) it's SO pretty and i'll play it like 7 times before i go to sleep and it's really nice. :D neehee i'm a dork. ooh, and plus, i discovered a path behind a huge parking lot really close to my house! it's so cool, yesterday and today i went running for a little bit and it's pretty fun. i'm a pathetic runner though, i need to go practice more if i'm gonna survive cross country this year. D:

so, i guess i'm going to go clean up my room reeeally clean so that maybe i'll feel better about waking up tomorrow. i'm so nervous, i know this year's gonna bring lots of changes and stuff and i don't really know what's going to happen... ahhh well i still love all of you tonsss. thanks so much for putting up with my super long rambly posts. i need to go now, my mom's yelling =( (i'm computer banned btw)

geena

LISTEN TO THESE!

sorry for the second post but listen to these songs! i got bored today and made a list of some of my favorites. theyre insaneee[ly] AMAZING. =)

the town that you live in -- sherwood

dark blue -- jacks mannequin

anything but ordinary -- avril lavigne

good day -- the click five

buttons -- the pussycat dolls

me & you -- cassie

overrated (everything is) -- less than jake

gasolina -- daddy yankee

everywhere -- michelle branch

teasing to please -- cute is what we aim for

and of course cty songs ;)

whats up lonely?

just thought i'd share :D

this was taken in an abercrombie dressing room.

i hope you can tell which one's me.

We're all miserable!!!

Okay, looking back on everyone's most recent posts, I have concluded one thing- we're all miserable!! Geena was sick, Kingston went to an icky wedding, I have to give up dance for 3 months, and Amita, well Amita's having a whole bunch of problems. But, again in reading back on all of our posts, this blog feels like some sort of CTY internet support group or something. Someone posts and says how miserable they are and then we all comment about how we feel they're pain and write something to make them feel better. It's true! Just read the comments on the past few posts. That's one of the things I love most about all of us- we help each other out. We make each other feel better. It's like we're all (well, all of the girls anyway) crying on the couch in the girls bathroom all over again.

I have to go do summer work now. Ick!
M.E.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Hola to all!

Hmmm. I haven't really got anything to say. I just haven't posted since, like, Sunday, and I'm sorta bored so I thought I'd post now. I can't believe it's September already. Even though the official beginning of fall isn't for a couple of weeks, the beginning of September always feels like the end of summer to me. End of hot weather, swimming, hanging with your friends. All that fun stuff. I guess I'm sort of bitter about starting school this year because in November I have to take this test for this really elite high school in Manhattan and my mom is making me take a prep course for it that meets three times a week for two hours at a time to work on math skills. I hate math. And the book they sent me is the size of the phone book. And that's not the worst of it. The course conflicts with all of my other activities (namely dance) so I have to give up everything for this stupid course (until mid November anyway). Ugh. Okay I sound really bitter. Probably because I am bitter about giving up dance. Don't take my bitterness personally. I'll get over it sooner or later.

School starts for me on Wednesday. I still haven't finished all of my summer work. Ugh.

M.E.