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hey guys
im at saratoga rite now and just finished my first essay
yay!!
hope i did well but it prolly sucked...about stoves...yea..
HI GEENA!! SARAH!! shawn....haha jk
ok
ill try to post more if i can
hope everyones having a good summer!

Goodbye to you...

Hey guys. It's kind of our one year anniversary today... well it will be in an hour or so. I realize that most you guy will be reading this when you get back from CTY or maybe far away in the future when you realize you still have this blog in your favorites.
I've been really hectic packing like crazy. Unfortunately, procrastination seems to be a hobby of mine. As I opened my suitcases and such to fill with clothes, I couldn't help but feel deja vu and little bit of a smile as I remembered M.E.'s last post about her mucho luggago. She did have alot... and I remember feeling worried about having underpacked. Because of M.E.'s pictures that livened up the dull room, I slipped some pictures of my own into my stuff this year. I also learned not to bring a specific shirt that I brought to CTY which I thought was flattering but apparantly really isn't. (Yellow halter, anyone still remember that ugly thing?) I also learned from last year that my mom was right and that it was better I brought all my older clothes. I don't remember who exactly helped me with Laundry 101 but I appreciate their help. Unfortunately, I still have no idea where to put the soap. My suitcase is different. My clothes are different. Hell, I am different. But I still have that nervous anticipation of the weeks to come. It's going to be fun, crazy, but it's not going to be CTY. We gained alot or maybe lost alot from CTY and I'm ALWAYS going to think back with a smile. Maybe I won't think back to it as many times as I do after this summer. I kind of hope that I don't. I hope that this summer will be as great or even better and give me something a little... fresher to laugh about. I still giggle from Hye's laugh or Geena's stories (or pictures.) But you know those times when you can't remember if Amita was obsessed with celery or asparagus? Maybe after your new experience with CTY you'll mix up a new friend with me sometimes. But I'll be okay with it. Because we reached A YEAR guys. A WHOLE FRICKING YEAR. Through bad tests and perhaps bad breakups or friend issues.
So when I replace that yellow halter with a new top, I consider it not abandonment but like, adjustment through trial and error. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about? I kind of don't. I'm rambeling and kind of paniking with the realization that I'm only halfway through packing and it's 11 and I'm leaving tomorrow. Not for CTY Siena. But for JSA. I hope people write how CTY was, and I'll tell you guys how JSA was. But we'll see.
Do you guys realize how much effort I'm putting into this to make it all symbolic and crap? That yellow halter? I tried to make it fit into like what I was trying to say but let me get it off my chest. It's ugly. And I'm going to cut it up and burn it. And I'm questioning why you let me wear it. And I'm also wondering why I wore that swim suit one day to go play in the rain when it was freezing. I'll be thinking of you guys tonight, as sketchy as that sounds. Do you wanna know something random? I'm going to put a stapler into my suitcase now. I'm think I may need it. Maybe I'll tell you if I needed it or not when I get back.
I kind of feel like I'm talking to myself. Well, I guess I kind of am. Damn, this post started out all like wise and stuff and now it's like BLAH THIS IS HOW ANGIE GETS WHEN SHE PACKS. I'm sorry you guys are reading this. I hope you don't post with WOW THAT WAS SO YOU. Because then I would kind of be insulted with the fact that you think I'm ditzy. Maybe I am ditzy. Oh geez, I LOVE YOU GUYS. You made last summer like... almost diary worthy. I should have started a diary. Ew, but I don't do that stuff. It would turn out like this POST. ARGHH!

So this may be goodbye...
...for now...
Angie <3

bye!! :)

heyy i guess this is another goodbye post before tomorrow morning..

first of all though, i have to say that my friend cut my hair and it was kind of good but mostly a disaster! i mean she said she liked it a LOT and that she would cry if i didn't, so i kind of pretended it was nice but basically she cut my bangs so that they hit right above my eyebrows, and it looks really weird on me! i have to figure out these alternative ways to wear it because when it is just down, i look like a total boy. so, i have tried clipping it back and stuff but still it's kind of strange looking. whatever i calculated and by the end of the summer it'll grow out at least 1.5 inches, which is good enough for me. :)

otherwise i spent my whole day packing pretty much. i'm leaving tomorrow in the morning for saratoga and i hope that everyone else who is leaving will have TONS of fun. i am really nervous too but i have high hopes, at least that i'll learn my math right. :p i love you all & i'll definitely post when i get back. :D

GEENA!

Hey guys...

Looks like I'm off to Lancaster...and I'm afraid. How it won't compare to last year, but I need to move on...I'm guaranteed to know at least 3 or 4 people this year, though, which is something different.

You know what? I think we need a revival of this blog during the summer. You know, get everyone to post at least once, just so we know how everyone else is doing...

Off to CTY!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone!!!!

Just wanted to say goodbye before I leave for Lancaster tomorrow morning (my mom and I are staying over the night before). My friend came over yesterday to help me pack. Oh Lord. I know Angie will remember, on the first day of CTY last year, when I was first bringing my luggage into our room, I said to her, "I'm such an overpacker," and then brought a giant rolling suitcase, a huge duffel bag, a messenger bag, two pillows, my purse, and another little bag into our room and she was all like, "Wow, you really are an overpacker!" Guess what? I'm bringing TWO MORE BAGS THIS YEAR!!!!!! LOL!!!!!

But seriously, I can't wait!!!! I'm mucho excited for CTY!!!! And to see Amanda and Scott again!!!

Talk to you in three weeks!!!
M.E.

ba de yaa dancing in september oh yeah CONGRATS WITH 500!!! go us

HEY everyone!!!! ahhhh so i haven't posted in 2 weeks and i feel really bad, but basically SCHOOL IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am SO happy, and i just got like a million pictures up so i will upload a few :D so far this past week we've "graduated," went to canobie lake park, i went to a few parties, read a lot, had a sleepover or two, and bought presents, and then i am off to cty on sunday!!!! things have been great so far. today was the first day of summer and it was SO fun. i am so excited now for the rest of summer =) but anyway here are some pictures, and if they don't work then tell me because i haven't used this server before and so it might not work but who knows. :D i only chose randomly, most are from the moving on ceremony and it was a great night although my hair was crap. :D



this was back in washington d.c. a few weeks ago and that was my room =)


the stage set up for us and stuff


my friend ali and YOURS TRULY :D


hmmm michael chang michael half of william and ally, in other words pretty much the smartest kids in the world




the teachers gone fun =)


monica courtney and michael


nice face lol after a bikeride or something i forget now


ok it wasn't a ton but life is great right now. i hope you are all doing fantastic, and i really wish i could see all of you again this summer but i guess it's not happening. :( what are you all doing this summer? after cty i'm pretty much doing the exact same thing as last year, new york with ali or something and bike camp and then actually my cousins are coming over for 10 days and we might go to montreal together or something. i don't even know, lol. just i hope to keep hearing from everyone especially before i leave. then at cty this year i'll take pictures and maybe post them if overall it was fun. :D talk to you all later allllligators

love,
geena

Beginnings and Endings

Hey everyone!!!

Okay, so I've been meaning to post for like, several weeks, but more and more things kept happening so I never got a chance. So I sort of feel bad about that. But let's see, let me just do this in bullet form because I have a lot to say...

-First a beginning. I had my Stuyvesnat orientation a couple of weeks ago-the first half of it anyway. The second half (the fun half) is on August. This was the painful half. I had to take a math placement test(which was very hard-how are you supposed to do factorial 13 without a calculator?!?!?!?! and I think they might have given me the wrong level test anyways, because most of the stuff I learned this year wasn't on it) and foreign language placement test for French(which I left completely blank even though I took French in middle school. I had a whole bunch of crappy French teachers. And then my proctor made me write a letterto the department head explaining my situation.But seriously-completely blank. I didn't no ANYTHING.)a swim test (yes, it's a graduation requirement to know how to swim. They have their own pool. I don't know how I did though because they just give you a random letter that apparently means something to the swim department, but no one else knows what they mean.) and I took my student ID picture, which probably came out horrrible. I will admit I was nervous, though not nearly as nervous as I though I would be. My big sibs (like, upperclass mentors) were really nice and I had a friend who was a big sib so I took the ferry in with her in the morning. And I was afraid I wouldn't have anyone to talk to, but I talked to these two girls in my homeroom, though this is hardly a step toward making friends,because you only see your homeroom like, 10 minutes a week. And all of these tests after babysitting for 2 two year olds the night before.

-Next an ending. I graduated on Friday. From Notre Dame, the polyester prison. I guess you could call it kind of a bittersweet thing. I kind of wasn't sure what to feel myself. I didn't really feel anything. Because I hate most of the people in my class, but I know I'll never go to school with my four best friends again, though two of them I will see on the ferry, but just in the morning. I wore my cupcake dress, and I refuse to let my mom sell it on ebay like she wants to. My dad got me a laptop as a graduation present, so I'm having fun with that. I blogging on it now, on my back porch because wireless internet was part of the gift.

-Another ending-my dance recital was on Sunday. Now I won't see anyone from dance (with the possible exception of one person) for the entire summer. At least it won't be as bad as last year-I couldn't go back until November because of stupid Kaplan. (Here's a random Kaplan fact-I took my Kaplan classes at Wagner college-this school kind of near my house. Remember the school building in the movie School of Rock? Yeah that's Wagner. Except only the outside of it. And the theater from the end is on Staten Island too. Yay-random facts are fun!!!) But I miss dancing SOOOOOOOOOOOO much over the summer. I give up one happiness for another-CTY. But our show went really well. I nailed my solo and hit the triple pirouette at the end. And I did the advanced tap number which I'm so happy about because I only started tap in February. I mean, there were a few mishaps-Rosemarie put rosin on the dance floor which is this crushed rock powder that keeps you from slipping and in the jazz we slide on the floor and we were wearing all black so when we got up we were all covered in it. It was pretty funny though. Argh. I'm going to miss dance though.

-Spring Awakening soundtrack= AWESOME!!!!!!! Listen to it!!!!!!

-Lastly, sort of both a beginning and an ending. We just reached post 500 guys. I consider that a pretty amazing accomplishment. I can't believe we've come this far. When Amanda first started the blog for us, I really didn't think that we'd last this long. And true we've lost a few along the way-there are some people who I haven't heard from in a really long time. But still, how many people that you know can say that they have friends all over the country who they are in fairly regular contact with? I feel like I can confide anything in you guys, and very few people have friends who they can spill their guts too and know that they won't be judged or anything. The more I think about CTY as I start packing for this weekend, the more memories resurface. I miss you guys, you're some of the best friends I have. I can't believe it's been a year since I last saw any of you. So, cheers to us, to CTY, to the blog, to memories, to random lives, random stories, paths that crossed, to roommates, to crappy food,to essays,to frisbees, to capes, to friends. And I know that the blog will not die with the end of our first year.

M.E.

Hey

I know that I haven't been on the blog in a really long time, so here I am now. School ended for me last Thursday. I'm going back to Siena for CTY and I'm taking a logic course. I don't like to study because I get bored when I try to. I'm hoping that it will help me take tests more logically because I tend not to study very hard.

I don't want to go to high school. It seems hard already. I'm going to all advanced classes where I'll have to study or else I'll fall behind. I have summer reading to do, but that's not a big deal, it's the same as every year. I do have a test on the book I read though. I also have summer math homework. I have to do an entire packet of defining vocab. words, showing why a principle is true, and showing why a principle is wrong. I'm not looking forward to high school.

[]----====Summerrr!!!!====----[]

hey everyone, and its almost summer =D !! so basically i would like to share a wee bit and ask for stuff too. so. today my teacher passed back all the essays we done over eighth grade, i did everything really well, then i got a 15 and 35. I was like al;skjdf!@#$. then i realized that i had to put that piece on top so my parents can see it at the open house. now thats very great =].

For all massachusettians, i was just wondering where your end of the year field trips will be. Because andover & north andover are going to canobie lake. And i was just wondering if any of the schools are having those 8th grade only dances with chinese food.

So...its almost CTY season. where are we all going. i know some of the places people are going, but not all of them. I was wondering if you can just pop in and just share with us all. =]. happy summering and last days of schoolling.....

wow....i need to work on grammar

awien

ooh i looked at the archives and i was like..why isnt there a june? then i noticed that no one posted yet so yea that's why im posting

hmm..its been a while since i last posted so idk what i told you already...o well i'll tell u bout recent stuff thats happened to me
so..i went to the induction ceremony for BA and it was a fun chance to see all my new classmates
i know like about 10-15 ppl already whos either going to that school or gonna go there nxt yr so..whatever..
o yea im going to washington DC on the 11-13, like a class field trip but more..heard its gonna be super hot there so i need to go shopping for summer clothes..
and
i need to buy 2 more dresses for my graduation...yes i said graduation..our schools a little retarded so we're getting the whole package..the whole hat and gown thing just like hs...cuz we're moving on to high school nxt yr..
hmm...yea...im hungry now
byee~

P.S. the title doesn't mean nething i just pressed random buttons with my eyes closed..teehee