i need help...

im supposed to write a 500 word essay about me and all you guys know that i suck at intros. have any ideas on how i can start? nd plzplzplz help cuz this is like seriously very important. Im trying to get into this Bergen Academy nd plzplzplz help.

~Cherry~

angie says december is amazing :) AMEN!!

i am beyond excited for december alsooo. firstly happy early birthday angie and M.E.!! hope you guys have awesomee 14's. and tomorrow is november 30, aka last day i'm grounded :)

december 1 is the charity dance at my school! its really cool bcuz its in the gym so theres a huuuge dark room with lots of space and disco lights with louuuud decent music and all your friends! yay. and on the 2, its my friend's birthday party-sleepover! so yeah i'm really excited. this month is starting off great and the rest of it is also going to be fabulouuus i can tell. plus right after xmas there's new years! :]

oml i'm getting sooo into christmas songs. for performing arts (theater group) we're doing all these fun holiday songs that i never really knew before. like rockin around the christmas tree & the christmas song (chestnuts roasting on an open fire) & sleigh ride!! BEST SONG EVER if you've never heard it LISTEN TO IT. you have no idea what youre missing! its so addicting! just hear those sleigh bells jingling ring ting tingling too come on its lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you! outside the snow is falling and friends are calling yoo-hoo. come on its lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you! lol its my new obsession these days! sad huh?

i'm feeeling so gooood today! how are you guys? holy guacamole i have to go do homework so i can go holiday shopping later tonight for a bit. anyway love y'alls, have a niice day!

the one and onnnly, rachel! <3

ps. this person in my school got HIT BY A CAR!! you always think "that cant happen to anyone i know." but this time its not true! i hardly knew him but still i feel so bad. he didnt die but he's still badly injured and coming back on monday. :/ i wish i knew him better so i could give a card or something but he'd think im so weird if i just randomly give him a get-well ballon or whatever. wow. i'm still getting over the shock of it since someone told me today.

pps. okay now i reeeally gotta go ttyl!

DECEMBER IS AMAZING!!

Well I realize it's not December but everybody sounds so miserable I'd like to share my happiness with you so you are happy also!! DECEMBER 2nD THE SATURDAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! It will be amazing if the hostess does say so herself... I'm sorry I didn't invite any of you guys to the party of the century but I thought you guys were quite far away and I also didn't want you guys to feel out of place with a bunch of crazy drunk people who are actually sweet when sober. Then... on the 8th I have homecoming which is not so great in a rather uncomfortable dress... Then... JINGLE BALL! You guys have no idea how excited I am but especially after Zootopia last year... I know it's going to be amazing... EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO NEXT YEAR!!!! Then there are series of fun fiestas because everyones parents are away... Then ITS CHRISTMASS!!! OMG!!! ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOUUU... JINGLE BELL JINGLE BELL JINGLE BELL ROCK!! GET IN THE SPIRIT GUYS! I JUST CHANGED MY RINGTONE TO MARIAH CAREY TODAY AT DANCE!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I LOVE DECEMBMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Betcha I feel crappier than you do!!!

A very wise woman once said...

"It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck being packed in with fertilizer and fuel oil pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse!!!!!"

(who can tell me who it is?)

Well that's pretty much how I feel right now. I had pretty much THE crappies Thanksgiving of my entire life. We went to my Grandparent's house (I see them like, twice a week anyway) and it was just me, my dad, and the two of them. That's it. My dad just did a bunch of household chores for them and then we ate and my grandmother insisted that the turkey was done after three hours but it was, like, raw but that doensn't really matter to me because I don't eat turkey anyway. Then I watched Babe on TV and pretty much everyone fell asleep but me and then we ate dessert and packed up all the leftovers and went home. Yet this somehow took 5 hours. Don't ask me how.

Anyways I have a to do list that's about as tall as I am including things like:
-three different outlines I have to turn in for English essays
-book report on the Catcher in the Rye which is like, the most awesome book ever but I cannot come up with a thesis for the life of me.
-collecting samples of pond water for a science project and then writing the experimental section of my paper.
-full size model of a flower showing all of the different parts.
-two different scholarship essays.
-tracking down my theater instructor because she has to fill out a community service form for my scholarship info.
-figuring out what the hell I'm going to get people for Christmas.
-re reading my SAT prep book because I'm taking the test this Saturday.
-planning my birthday party
and
-studying for three different tests I have in school this week.

Oy vey.

So my dad gets all panicky about this and he's like, "You HAVE to do this!!" "We HAVE to do this!!!" And he's been all grinchy and depressed about it and I wrote an entire essay today and collected water samples from like 6 different ponds and he's like can't you push a little harder and do that book report? It's INFURIATING!!! And on Thanksgiving I got so frustrated I broke down and started crying and pretty much hyperventilating on the floor and he didn't show any sympathy or anything. He was just like well work on that essay later and go start your flower project now. Even fun things like taking out Christmas decorations he treats like a total chore. And because of my breakdown, he'll NEVER say yes to me taking more ballet classes which I've been meaning to ask him for months. He just doesn't LISTEN to me. ARGHH!!!!!!

I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. All I want to do is sleep.

OMG!! Good news!! I JUST figured out how to change the date and time on the posts!! I'm so proud of myself! YAY!!! Just click on post and comment options at the bottom of the typing field and it's just like there!!

Still depressed. Why is it that ALL of us have been feeling so lousy lately?

M.E.

Just feel...crappy

This thanksgiving vacation was the worst. My jerk brother came over from his school and started messing up all my stuff. Basically, he wasted the 1st day of my vacation.

2nd day: I woke up at 10 and went to my relative's house for 12 frickin' hours straight! I wanted to kill all my relatives. Some are selfish and some are stupid. None are nice. I seriously wanted to kill them and scream: GET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE!

When I got home I realized how pointless this all was and what a waste of time that stupid family gathering was. So I cried and got angry at my parents because it was their fault I had to go.

3rd day: Wasted all my time doing god knows what! Even I don't know what I was doing that day! O_O

4th day:Brother is finally leaving. I feel crappy with him staying here and a slight guilt seeing him leave. It's very odd. My legs hurt for some reason, and having to swim and go to track tommorrow doesn't really make me feel any better.

I really don't know what to do now. There is absolutely no motivation for me to do anything. If i could I would take a plane to the Carribean and get away; but i'm just a kid with no money. Any alternatives? Ways to make me feel any better?

sail around the world and tell them all to keep singin it, LA LA LA LA LA

HEY guys!!!! how are things? i am feeling much better since my last post and thank you for the advice and stuff because you were all right. =) so anyway, this break has been pretty fun. we've had a bunch of guests over and been to a party and each night we had amazing amazing amazing food, and that was.. amazing! :D lol. i am a loser because even though i have tons of long-term homework and reports i haven't done much of any of it. instead i have been playing NEOPETS and browsing through stores online even though i knew i wouldn't be able to buy anything. i am pathetic. but neopets is really fun, once you get into it. :P

oh and yesterday my dad got a haircut and i don't know, i wanted to change up my hair so i went with him and i asked the lady "can you recommend me some style that would fit with my hair length and complement my face?" and she's like "HUH?" and she doesn't speak english, lol. so after some translation she ended up cutting me really small soft layers. it's not very noticeable but i like it, when it's like this it's easier to do different fun hairdos. i have a picture, you can see if you actually notice the haircut at all. :P



sorry if that looks distorted or anything, because my dad switched our computer monitor with this totally new advanced one that's super wide so every picture looks a whole lot fatter so i don't even know what it'll show up like on other people's computers. LOL and excuse me for looking like a total pig. :P

huh surprisingly i don't think i have that much else exciting. me and albert saw stranger than fiction today and that was really good. =) i liked it, it would've made a good book. i guess i haven't been doing much besides.. nothing and neopets. :P ahh well tomorrow will be more productive. i am supposed to work with my dad for a few hours putting his electronic parts together and printing labels for them or something.. don't know how that's going to be but i'm getting money which i desperately need right now so that's good. =)

okay.. i guess that's all! much much much much love!
geena

LOL ps: much is a funny word when you say it a lot hahaha

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! If anyone's here, that is...

Hey, what do you say about planning a reunion for Christmas or something? Or if that doesn't work out, sometime in the spring?

Hey...

Just dropping in to say that I might be out of touch for a while? Why? Today's report card day. After dinner, Im' going to give it to them, and I'll be happy that I got all A's except for my Math grade, which is an 82, and that'll drive my parents insane. That 82 is something I feel accomplished, since it's Algebra 2H and I'm still in 8th Grade. My parents probably won't feel as happy, though...

I have a lot more thought on this. I just don't know if I have time or the comfort to post it all here.

im so bored!!!

this is another useless quiz, but this one tells u what ur personality type is...ya..im so bored...no one is online...aaahhh
yea..
neway
try it its fun but super long
also its true cuz the personality type i got seems to fit me...at least in my opinion neway...
yea...ok bye
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gosh im so asian...

me nd emily started going out nd finding asian quizes to see how asian we were...useless yea i know..but having so much fun procrastinating.
anyway here r some quizes nd r rly ridiculous but a waste of time but i just put it up just in case ur bored...k bye
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http://www.asianjoke.com/oneline/asian_quiz.htm
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not gooood :(

in response to geena's post, my friend dan and his pal glenn went to MIT too for the seminar thing! anyway also about your friend. it must get really annoying. i feel your pain :( but its like a designer bag. the fake will never ever be as good as an original. to quote umm i cant remember, "always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." hint to her that shes bothering u when she copies u. and dont worry everything WILL get better! i know how you feel cuz i feel like tht at times as well. but your geena and your special and no one will ever take your place no matter what guarenteed. :)

anyway today was one of those days where you feel like youre discovering something bad that u never noticed before. when i got back from chinese school i ate a lunch of mac n cheese + peach punch. after that i went to play tennis with a bunch of people in the friigid cold. then i went to maggie's house and we baked brownies and watched freaky friday (gotta <3 classics). the discover part is when me + maggie were talking about guys and crushes and french kissing and weird stuff like that. i kinda realized that well its really hard to say. i feel like im not like fun to be around.. anymore? not to sound conceited. but usually at outings i'm very talkative to everyone. and now i feel like im getting quiet or boring. like i'm not really as sarcastic as i used to be plus i feel like im never making people laugh im always laughing at THEIR jokes. which isnt a bad thing but sad bcuz i love making people laugh. and seriously if i told anyone this, they'd be like "whoa rae your weird." idk if you guys get it cuz i'm bad at putting thoughts into words.

anyway that was my day. hope you guys had better ones. love u all so much <3 rae.

a nerdy saturday!

hey! today i went to MIT (the college, not like a baseball mitt) for like a day of seminars and workshops and stuff. you register for classes for the whole day and take them, and usually the classes don't teach anything except to the geniuses in them who actually get the subject, but it's still a bunch of fun because if you do it with friends you get to do anything in your classes and meet a bunch of really interesting nerds. :D so i went and first class i took a lecture on global warming. then i had "mars colonization and how you can help!" which was canceled (YAY) because the teacher never showed up. so i got switched to a lecture on "SPACE WEAPONS" and i understood NOTHING. i was sitting in between these two high school guys who were both really into it, and in total there were probably over 100 people listening. so in the middle i literally fell asleep for three minutes and the guy next to me poked me really sharply and then i got mad. so i just got up and left the lecture, and when i left i accidentally knocked the powerpoint projector over a few feet and everyone was like "!!!!!!!!! oh my GOSH, WHAT are you DOING!" and i was like SORRY i don't really care and i put it back. but it was embarrassing because there were so many people, lol. then there was lunch and other junk. i ended up skipping my fourth class because my brain started to hurt and i sat in a booth with people for three hours. it was a bit awkward because this girl emily was there and we all have a bunch of history with her, like we were best friends and got into a fight, she was best friends with someone else and she ended up getting into a really bad fight with her too and i don't know. it was weird but it was okay.

that's not what i'm posting about though. i'm posting because.. i don't know! this year is just so plain sucky. i feel like i'm totally losing myself and i hate everyone. i am so angry with my friend (the whole email drama one from earlier) because i feel like she's pretty much stealing me or something. like that sounds weird, but she's just been copying me so much lately. she completely took my laugh, like one day out of the blue she just totally imitated it and she's been doing it ever since and i was just like "okayy that's very *RANDOM* hint hint" but she didn't get it. (surprise!) and she's just been copying me in every possible way. she tries really hard to have huge laughing fits at every existing thing in the world, which is really NOT cute at all like she thinks it is, and she takes everything i say and just repeats it to other people so it's like she has a really formulated opinion on everything and i am just so pissed off. because now it's like i feel like i act so moody in classes with her because whenever i'm in a class with her i'm just too mad to act fun and stuff. and i know i'm gonna sound super overdramatic but she's really spoiling everything for me this year. she ruined today in a way and she is ruining the school year because i know it would be 100 times better without her and she makes everything frustrating!

and i feel like i don't even know who i am anymore because i don't act like i used to, at least not always at school anymore. there's just certain things that keep me grounded. like you guys. when i'm talking to you i feel like i know exactly who i am because i liked myself that way and it's just natural for me to be like i always was. but at school everything's so different now, not to say i'm totally silent or anything, but it's hard to laugh and it's hard to be interested in other people now. when i am with my other friends and albert and when i'm alone i feel like i like myself, but other places i just feel like "what is happening to me?" i guess i'm just scared that by the end of this year i'll be really.. changed and distant because i can feel it starting to happen. i don't even know if i'm making sense but it's really bothering me and i wish more than anything that i could move away from here. it's pretty sad that one of the main reasons i want to move is actually because of my close friend but i feel like it's the only thing that would make me happy at this point. not only now because it's a pretty emo time period, but even when things are all awesome and i feel like i'm on top of the world i know i don't want to stay here in bedford. ahhh i don't know if you understand what i'm saying. i guess i'm just wondering, because this is one of the main problems right now; what should i do when someone's so obviously copying everything i say and do? it really genuinely makes me feel predatory but i don't want to point it out meanly or anything. i don't know. i want to go to sleep.

i love you all so much. really don't know what i'd do without you at times like these when i just need to rant somewhere, even if no one reads anything because they're all so long. but still, thanks so much, you don't even know. =)

good night,
geena

ME has ideas!

Hey everyone!!!

I'm loooooooooooooving the idea of secret santas! The only problem with Hi's idea is you could wind up getting yourself. So I thought I'd share my idea with you. My mom said that if I address envelopes to everyone who want to participate and puts everyone's names on a little slip of paper, she'll randomly stuff envelopes with people's names (but making sure no one gets themselves) and then she'll just mail the envelopes and you'll get the name and address of the person you have to send your gift to in the mail. I'll just send out a mass email to all of the CTY people so anyone who wants to participate can just send me a reply with your address and maybe even a few gift suggestions. And we should have some ground rules too, like you can't spend more than x amount of $$. So... whaddaya think? I won't start sending email until I get all of your approval.

So yeah. At Snug Harbor (where I dance) they're having this big festival thing called "The Dickens Festival" where we celebrate, like, Charles Dickens and Victorian times and all of that stuff. It's really fun! They have all of these people dressed up and walking around and stuff to buy and eat and activities and stuff like that. So I'm dancing around this tree that they have twice today with my dance school. I've been in rehearsal all week, but we're kinda screwed because we only choreographed (made up) one of the numbers on Monday and we changed the music for the other two during the week. Oy vey. Wish me luck.

Anyways, I should probably go and take a shower and stuff now because I have to be there in like, a couple of hours.

Comment about secret santas!!!

M.E.

Secret Santa

Secret Santa is a great idea - thanks Geena :) - and I think I have an idea on how to pick the numbers. We should all go onto the CTY Cherubs account and pick a number from, 1-16, to identify themselves, to keep it anonymous. To choose a number to be a Secret Santa to, I think someone should list all the numbers people have listed, and we can all randomly pick a number, and say on our accounts, ___ is taken by me. I hope it works. What do you think?

Hi

wow...

ok
im like seriously pondering if i should take the SAT's this yr or not..cuz like some people tell me i shouldn't saying i have an okay score nd that i can get in easily, but like i have like tons of rly rly super smart friends that also went to the camp but a dif site nd they got like 50 more than me(well about) nd i think i should take it again just in case i dont get in this next summer...gosh im so stressed rite now.. i seriously need advice...help?

Also, i think the reason why everyones all into the blog and everything is because of the SATs nd its bringing back old memories like cty camp nd all that...at least it is for me ...dont rly know bout u....wow rly busy rite now...k..bye

~Cherry~

Secret Santa...

I don't know how this would work but if we have it (and its a really cute idea!) People should comment and post their address for shipping! <3

hmm...

Im bored...wow..i never thought i would actually be this bored to post this up...im so weird...
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ya ok ima stop now...sry...

BROCCOLI

hello!!! how are you all? i had my interview on monday and it went super super well. =) i loved the interviewer, she was really interesting. we were talking about books and stuff for like 15 minutes and the interview ended up being really long. (BTW!!!! i reached my 50-book goal last saturday! :D so happy!) plus i got a tour of the campus of the school and it's gorgeous. want to go really bad now, but the admission rate thing is like 20% or something? technically it's 200 people get accepted out of more than 2400, and mathematically that would be 1/12 which is even less of a chance than 20%. it's discouraging but i'm going to try hard.

otherwise, my friend's staying over for two nights because her mom's away on a business trip. i thought i'd get sick of her but i think she realized that and she's like, trying super hard to be nice. last night when we were about to go to sleep i mentioned something i remembered about the day and it was so hilarious we were rolling around on the bed cracking up for probably 5 minutes straight and i felt like i was going to suffocate. then my mom came in with her hair all messed up and her eyes squinty and she's like "GEENA! time to go to sleep!" so she saved me, lol.

and! i was shopping and stuff and everything was all decked out in christmas decorations and that got me really excited for december and winter and stuff. what would you guys think if we did like a cty secret santa or something? because i was planning on getting gifts for you all and stuff but it would be hard with so many people, and with lots of people the gifts probably wouldn't even be all that great. so what if we just had one assigned person or something and we could each post wishlists and get something nice? i think that would be fun but it's just an idea. :D oh albert wants to play. (have you all ever played chicken invaders? it's SO fun! which is pathetic but it really is. you shoot chickens and you eat chicken legs and stuff and i love it. i'm gonna play that with albert now. :P)

love,
geena :D

I know this is totally random...

Whenever I am doing anything but sleeping I have to close my eyes (no, not blink) every few minutes. It's really weird. I think it's a habit I developed from not getting enough sleep. My eyes were probably really dry and didn't want to get exposed to all that air (damn oxygen...xD) and they needed to rest or something O_o. I've learned how to do alot of stuff without having to look- walking, talking, writing, listening, even typing this right now.

Well, it comes in handy when I need to catch some imaginary snooze when I'm walking in the halls in school but it's actually a really bad habit when I'm in class or swimming. In class, especially in English, I close my eyes like when the teacher is giving a lecture or speech about something. Partially becuase it's REALLY boring and partially becuase I'm tired.

Well; one time in class I was closing my eyes all wierd after getting 6.5hrs of sleep because I had to finish my geometry project. My EVIL english teacher Mrs. Bing comes up to me and passes by me and gives me the evil eye. Like, seriously- I could tell from her glare that she totally wanted to kill me. She looked at me like I was so inferior and I could literally see a glint of hate in her eyes. It was really creepy... I ended up getting an average citizenship grade in that class 3 when all my other citizenship grades were above average and outstanding (1 & 2). =_= Stupid Binglish!!!

And in swimming, when I close my eyes for a moment, I veer off course and end up crashing into the lane line or something. (Talk about stupid) Yeah I know, I'm dumb.:U

I have really gotta kick this habit. I think I developed it this year or something. I think I need to sleep more >_>. It would help alot and I wouldn't be so wierd :C

Anyways another English antecdote...

I really hate Binglish because the teacher hates everyone and everything; also I sit next to a bunch of talkative, annoying idiots. The class is the most boring class I've ever had. Instead of teaching us interesting and original things it is incredibly clear that the teacher takes all her materials directly from the book. The teacher assigns these typed assignments and she cuts slack for the kids without a computer; alot of kids take advantage of this and pretend they don't have a computer so they don't have to type their homework. All the time I type my homework and make sure it's perfect when some kids just do their homework in class without typing it or anything. The unfairness of that really pisses me off.

Also I sit next to a bunch of annoying people who talk ALL the time and ruin my concentration. I can't think about anything and I can barely hear the teacher sometimes. The class is boring enough already. I don't need my concentration to dwindle more with talks about who went to who's house and who likes who. +__-. If I really had a choice I would tell the people I sit next to to shut up!

Plus, because English is scheduled so weird in my schedule,I sometimes go to the wrong class thinking that I don't have English that day. I usually end up going to Gym (way on the other side of the school) and have to come rushing back making me late for class.

Today in Binglish (Mrs. Bing + English) I was late because I went to the Gym by accident. I thought it was a different day and I ended up running all the way from Gym to Binglish while dropping all of my things. I lost an important bracelet my neighbor gave me and A LOT of candy I had bought earlier in the hall. That's not the worst part- when I got to Binglish, Mrs. Bing handed me a paper but my hands were all full and I quickly said "my hands are full" and the some people in the class thought I said the 'f' word. I had to explain what I said and it was really awkward. So in addition to being late to class I might have had said the 'f' word. (by the way, it shouldn't even be in the teacher's mind that I said the 'f' word) The teacher already totally hates me, and this has to happen. Well, I felt like crap the whole day and it was probably the worst day of the whole school year. I think I'm going to get a really bad grade in Binglish and my citizenship grade in that class this term.

Well, I just had to rant that out. =( kinda depressed...

*cough cough wheeze*

Hey guys guess what? I should be in Global History right now but I'm sick. I felt like crap on Sunday but I decided to go to school because we had an important meeting for Debate club. So I came home last night from Debate like dying and crashed on the sofa at like 6. When I woke up it was 7 in the morning and I had done none of my homework. My parents let me stay home from school which was a miracle. I tried getting more sleep but I hate to sound like a nerd but the feeling of not having done any homework with a Bio test tomorrow made me feel... ehhh a little on the nervous side. So I decided I'd study and post this then crash a little more. Last night my mom made me take my temperature. I was waiting for it to beep but it wouldn't. It just kept getting higher and higher. Finally at 104.7 I took it out and told my mom that was my temperature because if I let it go I'm sure my mom would have freaked. I have this weird thing with my body temperature. It shoots up to 105-ish but then it also crashes to 96-ish sometimes. I know some of you guys are like whatever but I thought it was pretty cool when the doctor told me that.
Speaking of report cards, it's nice to vent guys. For those who did well congratulations. Keep it up. For the ones who could have done better and know it, there are 3 quarters left! And middle school honestly does not matter. Unless your taking a high school class with regents tests but I think that's only for New York. I remember for 8th grade math I did horribly but then I aced all my Regents and State Tests so I ended up with an A so its cool to chill. I think 1st quarter was fine for me. I was worried about Spanish and Bio because I honestly did not try AT ALL, meaning I copied homework from friends in the mornings before I had that class. But apparantly I got an A- in Spanish and a A in Bio. I'm pretty sure I have straight A's except maybe Global with an A+ because that teacher loves me for some odd reason.
But that is not fun to talk about. Report cards suck butt. I have to say one thing. Besides CTY, I do not get along with Korean people my age. There's something really pretentious or just plain old annoying about them. I'm saying this because my dad is making me go to his church and all these people either a) have no social life or b) are jerks. They think I love them which can't hurt but I also want to get the point across that I want to get out of there ASAP. UGHH.
I was at the mall. And you know those carts where they have like sparkly stuff? Well the person there was asian and he was an old man. He looked really tired and sad. Before I knew he was Korean I was trying to communicate in english and he didn't speak the language that well. For some reason, this hurt me. I tried to think how out of place he must of felt with like Coach and Louis Vuitton around him. I wondered if he made any money out of this. I wondered if he had a family that needed him to work. I ended up buying alot of stuff from his cart thinking I could try to make a difference. I had my friends try on headbands and stuff and convinced them they should buy it. Although all of us together did not buy that much stuff the total still came close to $100 if you added everything together. When I got home, the earrings I bought broke and the glue for the barretts dried and snapped off. I told my mom and she laughed and told me I needed to toughen up. She told me lots of people buy stuff from the cart and that he makes an incredible profit because even though I bought the earrings for $20, he bought them wholesale for almost $1. I should have felt relived and perhaps and little ripped off. But I still felt burdened like who was I to buy all this stuff that he maybe couldn't afford? I felt really guilty living in my house when there were homeless people. I felt guilty eating my dinner when there were hungry people all over the world. And most of all, I hated Paris Hilton and Bill Gates for not helping them. I hated them for spending so much money on luxuries when people couldn't afford neccesities. I hated myself for doing the same too.
So I donated alot of my clothes to the Big Sisters clothing fund thingy. YAY! That was my sappy story of the day.

Hey...um...

Been having Internet problems, but I've had nothing to say. I think I'm being driven more and more insane now. One friend's better, but one's worse and I've got an all-time low opinion of him out of 5 years of knowing him. Meh...

I get report cards sometime this week, most likely, and that'll probably mark the end of me posting on here for a while. I have a 79 to 80 average in Math...

SATs!!!!

OMG!!!!i totally forgot about the SATs!!!!!i have no idea how to register or if it's even too late!!!OMG...im freaking out rite now...this smart guy(got a 1640 total...too damn smart for his own good...even he knows it...) i met who also went to our site(weird...Its a small world after all...) said he already took the thing last week!!!wait...did you all take it already????hmm...ok...gotta calm down now...what to do...wait if i dont take it then i cant go to the camp rite?...hmm...help?

les anniversaires/los cumpleaños

What are everyone's birthdays?

Hi to the Schmi

French or Math?

Grades close on Friday for me. I think I'm doing pretty good, but I'm a little worried about French and Math. Blaming the teacher is the cowards way out, but you guys haven't met my teachers.

My math teacher is the most boring teacher ever. She's one of those stereotypical old people. Not the grannies who live in cottages and bake cookies, but the old crusty ladies who play Bingo and live in senior homes. Her name is Ms. Tuffy. Even her name sounds menacing, Ms. Toughy. She doesn't like to explain things to us. She expects us to know everything and then reviews what we haven't even learned. She's not even that mean, but she is so boring. Living in the Northeast has probably done this to me, but she talks so slow. "Take. Out. Your. Um. Text. Books."

My French teacher C'est mitoyen. Mrs. Kramer is the French teacher for 7th and 8th grade and the Spanish teacher for 8th grade. French is her specialty so she talks really fast and nobody can understand. I always just sit there and nod my head because I don't understand what she's saying. Sometimes she even speaks Spanish to her French class. Last year there was a snow delay and I missed French. I was so excited thinking that I would have a little less work to do that day, but she gave us the homework even though we didn't have her class.

I'm probably getting a B in both of those subjects, not too bad, but my parents don't like anything below an A. They expect me to get A+'s even though I can't get that on my report card. This was totally random. I just wanted to vent a little before I get my report card.

lazy

Hey eveybody, this week report cards are comin' out and I wanna see your grades xD. Mine are all like A- to A+. Muahhahaha!!!!

A few days before I was like; oh man, I think I'm gonna get a B+ 88.5 in science (I haven't gotten a B in years...literally) but then this kid named Jules and I stayed after and persuaded our teacher to accept some work we didn't hand in, so in the end I got an A-. Jules ended up getting a B+.

I'm also in the student council and Unity Club now so I am going to school more and more. Once I went on this field trip for Unity Club from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. It was really fun but I was pooped out and forgot to do this homework thing when I got home.

well, yeah...so tell me what you guys get xD. I'm getting my report card this weekend ^_^

SOYMILK

sorry i didn't know what to type for the subject, lol. anyway, i have two things and one is a funny story! =) but first off, thanks so much to you guys who commented on the interview post thing. totally made my day. well actually i bet it's gonna make my day for weeks and weeks because nice things just stick like that. =) it's pretty neat, if you guys made a post like that then i'd do it for you because it honestly does feel spirit-lifting.

and second, i got to make an announcement on the PA today! it was so embarrassing and scary because i'd never used it before so i was nervous but the whole announcement was ridiculous so it was okay. so basically i'm in "kids who care" which is an elective for people who want to do community service and stuff, and right now we're doing a used pet supply drive for a few weeks and we needed it to be announced. since in the past years the announcements were always really boring, no one ever paid attention to them and the whole drive collected maybe 2 or 3 things over the course of a whole month. so this year i wrote the announcement with my friend (psh how else could it have turned out so FABULOUS? ;D jk) ready? here goes: (let every comma equal a dramatic pause and see if you can imagine it)

"*very deep serious voice* hello children. i am from, kids who care, and i need, YOUR, help. yes. i am talking, to YOU... iMAgine this: a small kitten, only 3 months old.. in an undersupplied, animal, shelter. it is hungry, and shivering. how, can YOU, help, this shelter? there, is an easy, answer. the mspca animal shelter is always, in need, of new or used, supplies. things you can donate, include, old collars, leashes, dog biscuits, cat food, sawdust, pooper-scoopers, and, MOST IMPORTANTLY... dietary supplements for ferrets. *big pause* you can drop your donations off in the box in the office. thank you. and always, remember: save an animal today, and someday, an animal just might save, YOU."

the point was to try and sound like one of those guys on the anti-drug psa's on tv and stuff and i pulled it off without cracking up which was relieving. so i went back to my homeroom thinking that no one would know it was me because i made my voice so deep but right when i walked down the hallway people literally ran out of their classrooms and were like "GEEENA. YOU'RE SO WEIRD! THAT WAS TOTALLY YOU!" and i was like umm hehehehehe no i don't know what you're talking about whoops i gotta run! i'm late for homeroom! and right when i made it to my homeroom everyone was cracking up and they were like "NICE JOB HIGH FIVE" and then i felt kind of discouraged because if so many people can recognize my voice as a man does my voice naturally just sound manly? i don't know, so i was thinking about that all of first period. i guess my voice is kind of manly. only i can't really tell all the time because half the time i talk i'm talking goofy and high. oh and i have to make that announcement three times a week now for maybe 5 weeks. i can't do the exact same thing each time, so maybe i'll change it a little bit every day. like maybe next time for the last sentence would be "give a used collar to a dog in need today, and maybe someday, when you are in need of a used collar as well, a dog will donate one to you!" lol something cheesy like that. :D

anyway i guess that's all i had to say. the rest of the day was pretty normal, except between EVERY period i swear people were still coming up to me and being like "*squinty eyes* that wasn't YOU on the announcements in the morning, was it??" i wanted to be like SHUT UP YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A MAN but um.. yeah. i didn't. :P

oh and the whole thing where my friend read my email is okay now. i feel terrible because she said that she felt so bad after reading it that she stayed home from school for two days. wow. i am such a butt. but the thing is, when she came back i brought it up finally and at first she tried to deny even going into my email, so i got mad and i was like "look, i'm SORRY i said that all in an email to someone else when i could've told you face to face, but i don't take any of it back, okay?? and also, it's not like i haven't already TOLD you a million times that you're totally annoying!" (i know it's really bitchy but you need to meet her first before you judge anything i say to her) and so we just talked and she was like "no, the thing is, i feel bad about MYSELF. i'm not mad at you, i just never realized before that i really do piss people off blah blah blah" and basically things are good again.

huh. i sure ramble a ton. see today i planned to just make a small 2 paragraph or so post and then do my social studies project and WELL.. i don't know how long it is now. hehe whatever, it's fun. =)

love you all TONS AND TONS FOREVER AND EVER!!
GEENA

hi!

hi everyone! wutsup wit you guys? i really dont have much to say except november is so far the worst month of all since school started. but hey, its only the 6th so hopefully things get better :)

oh yea. i bet 100000% of you guys already saw the russel peters thing on youtube but whatever. i just watched it like 2 wks ago and it was hilarious! if u havent seen it, go to youtube.com, search russel peter, and click on the 45 minutes long one. truust me its worth it. i almost peed in my pants. ha not really but still u get my drift.

+ did anyone listen to or buy the new my chemical romance cd? i heard it was really goood i might get it later this month. whhhhoooooo. alriighty no more. adios y'all muchhh love!! <3

xox, rachel!

HELP =)

hey! i need a favor with something (it's quick don't worry): i have an interview set up next week and a tour of campus for a private high school i might be applying to and i need to kind of prepare a little bit. i was trying to just sum myself & my life up in words today but it was pretty hard and i thought i could use some quick help (and trust me it would help a lot). so i just want you to post anything you think could help me get a good picture of who i am. post what you like and what you don't like and i don't know.. any thoughts i guess? first impressions personality annoyingness? for all i care you can just type "I LIKE YOUR EARS" or "YOUR FEET SMELL LIKE HONEYBUNS", it doesn't have to be really deep or anything (although that would be nice if you were inspired enough ;D) if you want it to be anonymous or something sign on the cty cherubs account, i don't remember the password but you might. thanks so much, i really, really, REALLY appreciate it if you decide to comment. =)

lots of love,
geena

hm well i guess i'll first introduce you to my NEW SHOES !

hello! my dad let me order shoes online because of some sale or another and so i got those and a pair of running shoes because my old ones are falling apart from cross country. they are absolutely gorgeous and i screamed when they finally came and i put them on and right when albert came home i went running with him. they are the comfiest shoes ever and i want to wear them all the time but i won't. and i LOVE the shoes in the picture too, they're so easy to put on, it's just like SLIP! and you're ready to go. :D (psh unlike converse which happen to take like 5 minutes just to tie. :P)

anyway! halloween was pretty cool and i got 111 pieces of candy (not my best but still better than average)! i ended up just dressing really weird.. like with pumpkin pants and wacky hair and like 500 different clips in my hair and a tutu on my chest and a huge fluffy fan tucked into the tutu and a yellow dress and knee socks and (the best part now) drawn in eyeliner eyebrows and sideburns and a mustache and also my headgear. the eyeliner on my face ended up looking downright freaky because i look so much like a man it's not even funny. o_o it was funny because i could see everyone i passed staring at me in the hallways and no one (including myself) knew exactly what i was. lol.

also yesterday was another dance. it was pretty fun, it was a good dance because for once nothing bad really happened. after the dance two friends slept over which i needed so bad because i haven't really talked to anyone for a long time. today we watched the prestige, which was REALLY good. i was SO impressed at the end, and that hasn't happened to me with movies in a very very long time.

besides that i guess there's nothing else. things with music are becoming really stressful lately. i need to get ready for (in order) a children's hospital fundraiser piano concert, recording two piano tracks on a cd, my piano recital, and cello district auditions. since these are all pretty much within a month except for the cello thing it means i'll have to start practicing more than an hour a day to see improvements or just to keep it up, and that gets hard. =/ and, i ended up not talking to my friend yet (last post) she finally came to school on friday and we kind of ignored each other, and i would've confronted her or something because i really wanted to but i didn't want to start something huge in the middle of school so yeah. it'll probably happen sometime this week though, and i know what i'm going to say so i'm not worried. =)

hope you all had a good week!
geena

It's November?

I hated the fact that Halloween was on a school night. You should have seen my school the day after. It was as if everyone had a perpetual hangover for the whole day. When looking back on pictures, you can't help but think "What was I thinking?" And that's the point of Halloween. The one day out of the year when it's actually okay to be retarded. Got lots of candy guys?
I have found that my energy level lately has been extremely low. Everyone expects me to be all energetic and up for unordinary stuff but I'm just tired. And putting on an act takes up even more energy that I don't have. I've been spending more time on the tennis courts now because I can just focus alot there. I sound so emo. Don't worry guys!! It's just been an amazingly crazy week because it's the end of the first quarter.
Comment and tell me how life is going for you.
I can't believe it's November. I have never felt so much like time was slipping through my fingers. I can't remember what I did with September or October. Ever feel like you should be doing something but couldn't figure out what? Anyways, I have my Global debate to write out so I gotta run... ttyl <3

Whoopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

I'm back at DANCE!!!!!!!! Tonight was my first class. Not a lot of people were there, because a) there aren't a lot of people in the class to begin with and b) the few people who are in the class have a habit of being absent. But it was still really fun and it felt really good to dance again even though I know I'm going to be sore tomorrow from the jazz choreography. I'm just so happy to be back!!!!!!

BTW- the test that I took the horrible Kaplan course for is this Saturday. Wish me luck!!!

Anywho, it's 9:00pm here and I have a science paper due tomorrow that I haven't even started yet. I'm kinda screwed. So I should go do that.

M.E.

I FORGOT MY PASSWORD!!! AGAIN!!!

For those that don't know, its cherry. Gosh. This is i think the second or third time i forgot my password and that's why i didn't blog for a very long time..sry.. Luckily, Kingston told me this ID and password so ya..i think i'll use this until i get hit on the head and magically remember my password again. Will take a long time, but i'll at least try. So ya..I have nothing productive to say seeing as my life is that boring.
Ok this is a complete waste of time so i'm going to stop writing and start doing my hw...
this was stupid...
neway Bye!!

~Cherry~

man. i need advice but please don't hate me. =(

happy late halloween and everything, i was going to post pictures and stuff but something just came up and i'm totally scared now.

so albert was logged into his email account and i saw an email from my own email address, except it was my friend ali who somehow got onto it. i think i might've logged on at her house or something and maybe i didn't close it? well anyway. she sent an email to my brother but she didn't even tell me she was on it, so if albert hadn't logged in i probably wouldn't even know. but anyway: on my email account are emails i've sent with friends pretty much complaining about ali and how she's so annoying blahdiblah (because honest to god no one likes her and she drives everyone crazy) and i guess it's pretty low to trash people over email but if you knew her you'd understand. so i'm pretty positive she read it because she's always just been like that, she's always wanted to know what's in my journal or what i say to other people, and now i'm just scared. because she KNOWS i think she's annoying but the emails were pretty mean i guess. she didn't come to school today and i wonder if that's why.

i know i sound awful and cowardish and gossipy and bitchy and i guess i am. this wouldn't be a big deal if she didn't happen to be one of my very best friends. and yeah i know you're probably like "if you hate her so much why are you friends with her?" and the answer is i don't really know. i just know that i love her a lot when we're just alone, but with other people she's just the most annoying inconsiderate clueless showoff in the world and that's why i need an outlet, which happens to be my other friends who feel exactly the same way about her. well i won't make excuses but i just know this isn't going to be great and all i can imagine is her being mad at me for eternity and me being mad at her for going on my email in the first place. i don't know what to say to her though, which is the problem. because if she's at school or something tomorrow a "sorry" won't exactly cut it.

gosh drama. i'm sorry this isn't exactly an awesome post but i need advice if you have any. =/ and try not to think of me as a total psychobitch. i know it's all better to say things to the person's face if you have something to say and everything but honestly has anyone ever not talked behind someone's back before? well i didn't know what to do so i just posted. i guess i'll just do my homework then. i hope you all had really awesome halloweens though. =)

love,
geena