Anyone out there?

No one has posted in like, a week. I don't want to nag, but don't forget about the blog!!!!

M.E.

Hola!!!!

Hey guys!!

My summer has been similar to Rae's- extremely boring. I have nothing to do with myself. Well, I guess I could clean my "office" (former playroom that we put a desk in a few years ago, but which kind of just accumulates junk) but that's also boring. Lately I've been doing absolutely nothing except sitting around on my back porch, playing on my laptop and reading. (I'm currently engrossed in Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. If you haven't read it, I highly reccomend it.)None of my friends are ever around to do anything. The most exciting thing that happened to me today was that my computer wouldn't let me on the internet, so I was on the phone with tech support for like half an hour trying to fix it. Yeah. Fun.

Ah vell.

I really don't have much of anything to say, but no one has been posting recently, so I thought I'd say hi. Post people!!!!

M.E.

heyheyy

hi everyone :) how are you all? i've been super bored these days. literally nothing to dooo. and i can't believe its almost August! summer's half gone and i haven't done any summer work D:

well lets see. i'm playing the impossible quiz right now on addicting games (yea i know i dont have a life :D). hate and love that game. highest i've ever gone to is like 60something though. uh yeah this post is gettting boring. fast. :)

well okay i think i'll end with a couple of songs :D favorites these days:
1. kill by jimmy eat world
2. clothes off! by gym class heroes :D
3. sleepless by until june
4. all of yours by making april
5. midnight by rock kills kid
6. everything to me by rock kills kid

comment please? :)

Odd Girl Out

Hey guys!!!

Truth? I feel like the odd one out here. Because I had a really good time at CTY. I wouldn't say better. Far from it. From what I can gather, there's something special about everyone's first year. And you guys were especially special. But I did have a lot of fun. A lot of you said that you're happy that people didn't enjoy themselves as much this year as they did in our year, and if I didn't go this year I know that I would feel the same way. But I am happy that I had a good time this year. It wasn't a replacement for last year at all. It was just...different. Some aspects better and some worse. So it just worked out to being really good but in a different way.

Actually, I was pretty disappointed and depressed like, most of the first week. Because at first my hall was really cliquey because a lot of people knew each other already. But then two of the cliques kind of dissolved into one by the second or third day and those five girls became my best friends there, one of whom was my roommate. And by hall bonding the first weekend all of the cliques pretty much disappeared. I should also mentioned the dorms were much better last year. We really were spoiled in Padua.

But I mean, other than that first week and a few minor things, everything was really great. I mentioned I had a really awesome group of friends and a really cool roommate. She (and another girl in my hall) were from Brazil, and we might as well have been seperated at birth. The food was better here; it was actually hot. And my class was pretty fun. The subject matter of pop culture in general has to be fun. Though I thought there was too much required reading and I like creative writing like we did last year better in general, as opposed to analytical writing. And Amanda would say hi to me like every time she would see me. The activities weren't quite as creative as last year, though I did do a couple of really cool dancing, yoga, and pilates activities. The dance studios there were AMAZING. And my RA this year was AMAZING too. Anyone remember Ludi from last year? She was my RA and she was so much fun. Like Essie, she was far from a stickler for the rules. She let us have illegal sleepovers on the last night and watch Friends in her room on her computer. And she would always play a lot of music really loud and we would have dance parties in the middle of the hallway. I wouldn't necessarily call her better than Essie. She was very similar to her, but somewhat different all the same. And the weekends this year were absolute heaven. I was right next door to the laundry room so I never had to worry about waiting around. And at the carnivals my friends and I would just sort of go off and talk and read and lay in the sun. The weather was perfect both weekends. And I went to a farmers market, had an eating party in the lounge, had a tone of fun at the dances,and had a couple of sleepovers. Even the mandatory fun wasn't that bad-some of it (like the lip syncing contest) was even pretty hilarious. Honestly I can't imagine how I could've made the weekends any more perfect.

But guys, I need you to remember something for me. This year, or any other year at CTY for that matter, will ever take the place of our first year. This yeat wasn't better or worst. It was just different. A new experience with some aspects that I liked more and some that I liked less. Just special in different ways. Please don't hate me for enjoying this year as much as I did. I knew going in that there wasn't anything that could replace you guys, so I really tried to open up and allow myself to have fun. I wanted to experience the closeness and the magic that is CTY again. And though I had a really great time this year, nothing will ever compare to you guys.

M.E.

Back in black

...so what'd I miss?

new invitee

raymond needs a new invite. something apparently got messed up when new blogger came. so yea i dont remember the cherubs username or password, so can anyone send him a new invite or post the username n password? his email is ruiw24@gmail.com. thanks :)

CTY people... hate to be happy :)

i know. i'm a selfish selfish bbbbbb..person. i was reading everyone's posts from all you guys who just came back and i was glad you guys didnt have as fun as our year. idk why :( i guess its because i don't want anyone to forget, or stop keeping in touch. or... replace us with new CTY friends? whatever reason, and its probably a really bad one, i'm just glad everyone's back and that you all still had a great time :)

meeee, i haven't been doing too much these days. hm i saw harry potter 5 (which was pretty cool. its weird, for all HP movies, i can never tell if it was good or bad! but ron weasley is soo cute :D) and ratatouille! which was the cutest Pixar film i've seen so far.. one part i didnt like but for the most part, it was incredible for a cartoon ;) my cousin is here too and yesterday we both went to my friend's birthday party.. water balloons (and buckets too!), trampoline, DDR, and ping-pong, wchih was super funn :)

but there's something bothering me. i cant tell this to too many people, but my mom has been driving me crazy. not regular crazy, CRAZY CRAZY kind of CRAZY. rahhhh its been bad. if we're not fighting... we're probably fighting... which doesnt make sense but i dont make sense so whatevs :) wow i cant believe i just said whatevs. i've really lost it. but basically, my mom wont let me talk to my best friend (on the phone) or hang out with her! my mom thinks she lies and stuff, which she does at times but really who doesnt? (but thats a bad excuse). my mom also thinks we go crazy when we're around each other and i guess i do, but she wont give me a chance to prove her wrong. like the other day we went malling and i lost my fone in A&F. ok i'll admit that was my fault. but seriously, i feel SO bad, i mean i'd rather have my mom say i cant see ANY of my friends rather than single my bestest friend out. it makes her feel so sad :( and there's really nothing bad about her, and i told my mom i won't learn from her, but she doesnt care! she'll never get over her grudge with her. and i know nothing can break our friendship, but i'm still scared this will hurt it. like we might not be best friends anymore. and i can't do anything about that. and i was thinking. In the 10 commandments, god says to honor your parents. but how can i honor someone like my mom? or what if you have a drug dealer or a prositute or a crazy drunk as your parent? are you supposed to honor someone who doesnt even care about your welfare? i guess my situation's definitely not as crazy as that, but still. in the end, i'm just a kid. and nobody listens to kids :(

cty!

ahhhh omg HI EVERYONE! so i got back last night and i still haven't unpacked a bit, i just pretty much threw all my clothes out of my suitcase because i was in a rush to find my bathing suit because basically today i woke up and suddenly my mom told me we were going to the beach. :P lol well the beach was a lot of fun, and yesterday i saw harry potter 5 with my friend, except we missed the entire first hour because we went to the wrong theater. so typical ;) anyway i'll talk about cty now :)

sooo i guess i had a good time but i must say that i have not cried once since the carride where i cried for just a few minutes but that might've been because my dad was being mean to me, lol. seriously if it was last year i'd still be crying right now so i guess it's all good. this year i feel like i kind of tried to emotionally detach myself from people, like i didn't try very hard to make good friends but i made a lot of friends instead. what's the phrase, "quality over quantity" except for me it was "quantity over quality." i did meet a lot of really cool people but honestly i doubt we will be keeping in touch for neeearly as long as us here, obviously :) so well i think i'll make bulletpoints or something because there's too much to say and i know i'll become way too unorganized..

- my roommate was named sabrina zeller and she was really nice and funny. we had a lot of fun conversations at night and ended up staying up until near midnight almost every night. :)
- math class! omg where do i even start. so basically you get a textbook like you get in real school, and then you work through as much as you can in 7 hours a day. you're expected to work through a chapter a day but i didn't even come close to doing that. i finished 6 chapters in total, but i also aced every single test and no one else did that so i'm happy :) it was for the most part completely silent, except for 45 minutes in the afternoon where the class solved logic puzzles together. :P
- the dances i thought were really fun! they had slightly different canon from siena but it was so crazy, i loved the dances :) there was also a ton less drama but that's probably because our hall wasn't as close as we were last year. honestly there were some girls in my hall who i didn't talk to at all and i'm not even exaggerating.
- i played a song called "bumble boogie" in the talent show this year and it was really fun even though i messed up :) if any of you follow classical music at all it's kind of like a variation of "flight of the bumble bee" by rimsky-korsakov (sp?) which is a song in like every single disney movie ever that has bees in it. :P
- i actually can't think of that much more to say, except for kind of insignificant details. basically saratoga is a really nice site but the experience definitely cannot compare to last year's. me and sarah were talking about it and she said "absence makes the heart grow fonder" and i think i totally agree with that. :) the one thing i know for sure is that i am NOT going to take math ever again. i think i'll do cty again but i want a more discussion-oriented course so that i can end up meeting people better and learning more things that are outside of the specified curriculum. :)

i'll probably think of more things to post as they come. but, what really surprises me is that it's great to be home again. i do miss a lot of people but not intensely so it's all good. :)

hope you've all been having awesome summers!
geena

CAMP!

Yay! I'm back! I went to Loudonville this year and it brought back good memories, but it was so strict! I got a freaking 15-minute time out at the freaking dance because I freaking had my cellphone there and they were like, ohhhhhh no, it's a crime. I was mad. But I saw Emily and Kingston there. My class only had 6 people in it besides me. 4 were boys and 2 were girls. And it wasn't as fun this year, although I was expecting that, because the first year was the awesomest of awesome.
Scott, I didn't dance either. I don't think I danced at all last time, either, but I did the jumping thing at American Pie. OMG okay. I have to rant/tell you guys something. There was this STUPID FREAKY GUY THAT LOOKED LIKE A PIG AND STALKED ME. I HATED HIM!!!!!!!! I have a zoomed-in picture of him and his ugliness. Of course, if he didn't stalk me, I wouldn't call him pig-like, but whatever. He was so annoying! He tried cracking stupid, perverted jokes, and they were so dumb and gross, and everyone hates him or at least thinks he's annoying. (My friend filled in her facebook info on his contacts just to be nice, but put it under a different name than what she's under so she would never have to deal with him again.) He was so annoying, so I ignored him, but whenever I talked to my friend, who's friends with the people he follows, he was like, "Eee-ooo, what is that thing? Ewww it's evil!!" I ignored him anyway, so he started talking to me again. I still ignored him. And it kept on going on like that, and he was all like, "Tell Hi.... blabla." And they were like declarations of love or something. I FELT SO POISONED. I was like to my friends, "Take the poison out of my body. Quick! Quick!" and other times, he was rude and insulting, like one of my friends went up to him and asked him if he liked me, and he was like, "Eee-ooo, no, she's just an ok-looking korean person." ????? so yeah. I hate him. And he was looking at my contact information on my friend's notebook, and I took it away, and said, "Don't look at my contact info!" and he was like, "Eee-ooo, no, why would I want your contact info?" and then, he said, "Can I write myself in your contacts?" and I was like, "Eee-ooo, no, why would I want your contact info?" Then, he said, "I have your e-mail. It's funkymunky24@gmail.com." and I was like WTF???? I was so angry at him during class, so I made a hole in my paper and decided to say to him if he ever came up to me again, "I don't even care... your e-mails are going to be redirected to my trash because that's what you are." I didn't get around to saying it. He was like, "I'm sorry for everything I did." I was like *IGNORE*. Then he asked me to sign his yearbook multiple times, and I finally succumbed, and wrote, "NO." Then he kicked me. Immature little mortal... haha. So yay! He never came up to me again, because my mommy came. :DDDDDDDDD Hallelujah!

Anyway, onto other subjects, I liked my class a lot. I learned so much!!!!!!!! It wasn't as fun as last year, though... our only inside joke was "BIRTH CONTROL." We didn't have anything like Wilbur, or peaches, or cabbages. The 3 weeks got a little tedious after a while, although I did have a good hall. But it wasn't as fun as last summer, which seemed to fly by. It was so fun. The best memories were made there. You know what would be fun? If we all decided on a course we would all take together, and register for it on the very first day registration started. I doubt it would happen. But maybe it could........ *strokes chin :) Anyway, I was in the talent show!! I didn't do it alone though. I was in a skit with half of my hall, and we did a CTY parody on Charlie the Unicorn. Some people said it was hilarious, and this kid in my class said it was lame. Meh. My friend's boyfriend captured it on his camera, and he'll post it on youtube pretty soon, so I'll post the link.

So overall, camp was really good, but didn't compare to last year. How were you guys' camps?

Bye,
Hi

I think I forgot to say...

I turned 14 on Monday!

Well, I'm back

This year...was...not as fun as last year, even though I knew tons of people before the start of CTY. People from my school, M.E., Chinese John from last year, Charlie from last year, two people from baby CTY, and a few people from Chinese School. Rae, I saw Sherry, Amy, Dan, and David, your cousin, there! CTY makes everything a really small world, I think.

It was still fun, just not as fun. I don't think anything will be as fun as the first year, or if it is, it won't be comparable, it'll be a different sort of fun or something like that.

Crossdressing day this year was...disturbing. You know what I wore, guys? I wore a TUBE TOP! A TUBE TOP AND TIGHT, BLACK JEANS! IT WAS DISTURBING!!! I don't understand how you girls can wear that tube top a whole day. It felt so awful for me, since it kept slipping down, but I had to cover the bottom also, since my jeans were so tight I couldn't completely cover my boxers with them...that was bad. And people commented on how they liked my butt. That was just life-scarring.

Can you believe Lancaster has no Casino Night? That was just awful, along with a really boring Fun in the Sun. We had sports tournaments, though. 3rd place in flag football for me and, well, we should've come in 1st for the soccer tournament but bad luck put us at a lost in the semi-finals. Oh well.

My Youtube video, the ones M.E. was talking about, won't be on Youtube unless every parent's signature is sent to Kurt, unfortunately. I'm kind of glad, though. Even though it was fun to watch, it was disturbing to make that video. I was a gay crossdresser in the video. I don't need to explain anymore.


So, what else to say...hm...I didn't really dance this year. I don't know why; I just didn't. And I grew bored quicker at quad time. Yeah, Loudonville was definitely better, especially in the talent show. No themes here at Lancaster! It was just awful, the talent show, besides the breakdancers!

So, even though I didn't have as good as a time last year, and I doubt I ever will, I think I'll keep on going to CTY. It's still fun, and this doesn't ruin my first year memories, it just makes them sweeter and to me, more valuable. It's good to keep on going to CTY. I'm going to keep on going until I'm a Nevermore, and then I want to be an RA.

But I think it's back to Loudonville for me. Lancaster fails in comparison.

So, how's everyone else?

M.E. is posting from LANCASTER!!!!!!

Hey everyone!!!!

Yup-I'm still at CTY!!! And posting!!! For my class we're makikng YouTube videos and we just finished editing ours so now we're allowed to go online!!! Though I would be posing tomorrow anyway because it's the last day. It went by SOOOOOOOO fast!!!! It doesn't feel like the last day. Anyways, I'll post more details tomorrow because I don't have a ton of time.

TTYL,
M.E.

Be Smino

Hey ya'll... I realize you're at CTY now and won't be posting for a while, so I'm taking advantage of your little haitus and am going to catch up on all of your lives and recent postings and such. I hope this summer is/was just as excellent as last!! I want updates on what you've learned when you return. :)

All the best,

Christina

PS I found this today and thought of you all...
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Smino