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I'm not dead yet!
I know, I know. I haven't posted in a while. I'm sorry. I've been really busy with the new semester and work, and stuff. So, here's a bit of an update on my life over the last couple of weeks. Got new classes. I'm now taking Spanish III, Psychology and Chemistry. I love the first two, but Chemistry is really hard. I'm having trouble with the math aspect of it. I love the class, I would love it even more if I could understand it. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to keep trying. Work's been good--we finally started choreographing both the ballet and tap numbers for the recital which is in May. My students are perfroming to "A Whole New World" for ballet, and "The Big Team Rock" [I think that's what it's called....] for tap. They're so adorable. Gotta love little kids.
I'm officially sick and tired of winter. We keep getting winter-weather advisories and crap. It's annoying. It snowed yesterday, and we had a two hour delay for school today. I guess the two hour delay was cool...
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I broke up with my boyfriend...
I don't have school tomorrow...
And I'm tired. Sorry for posting the obligatory emo post. Just thought I'd update.
One step closer.
Just finished my first semester of my junior year! I'm rathered excited about that. My second semester classes are Spanish III, Psychology, and Chemistry. It's going to be interesting. But today was the last day of exams, so I'm just glad to be done. Though this week has been a disaster.
Monday and Tuesday were both spent working on my character analysis of Winston Smith from George Orwell's 1984. Wednesday was youth group...And yesterday. AUGH. I work from 4:30-5:30 on Thursdays assisting with a 5-7 year old ballet/tap class. Well, the teacher that I assist just got her college schedule for next semester and she won't be able to teach the class after the one we teach together, so yesterday I had to stick around the dance studio and help out the subsitute. It wasn't fun. There were 15 kids in that class. It was crazy.
My exams for the most part went well. I think I did ok on Algebra II. I'm not sure yet, though, I haven't gotten my finale grade. My English exam was interesting... Our teacher went on a ski trip last night and so she wasn't here today to give the exam another teacher was giving it to us, but she left our exams in her briefcase in her car which is with her at the ski resort. Yes. So we had to get her to dictate the exam to our substitute teacher so she could tell us the questions. It was interesting. I think I failed Economics. It was so flippin' hard!! I hate Economics. So everyone was done with all of their exams by 10:30 this morning, so my classmates and I all piled up into our Economics teacher's minivan and we went to the Italian restaurant downtown and celebrated being done with exams. And now, there really is nothing to do around here--it's rather boring.
But boring is good when you only slept 2 hours the night before. Out power DIED last night and I couldn't get back to sleep after it went out, so I'm dead on my feet.
We have a turkey shoot this weekend to raise money for the Mexico missions trip my dad is going on in February. My cousin and her boyfriend are coming to stay with us and are going to the shoot. It should be fun. Hopefully.
Speaking of Mexico, I get to go there this summer!! My school is taking a missions trip there, so I'm really excited about that!
EDIT!! I got a 90% on my Economics exam. Go me.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
It's final exam week at my school, hence why I haven't posted in ages. I've been back for one week and we've been preparing for finals. I have a Trig test on Wednesday, an Economics exam on Thursday [at least I think it's on Thursday] and I don't know if I'm even having an English exam. But I do have a paper due on Wednesday. It's supposed to be a character analysis for the third book we had to read. I'm reading George Orwell's 1984. It's really good. So I have a lot of work and studying ahead of me.
I might be going on a missions trip to Mexico this summer! How exciting is that?! It's going to be awesome. My school is taking it--we don't know if we can get enough people to go, though. Which really sucks. A lot of the kids from the youth group want to go on the youth groups missions trip [which is going to be a cross-country roadtrip thing to L.A.] Yeah. So I don't know but I'd rather fly to Mexico and spend a week there with them then take a week long trip to L.A. in a bus with a whole bunch of whiny, smelly teenagers--and then spend a week in L.A. trying to do outreach to the street kids there. It's a tough decision [/sarcasm]
Anyways. I'm really tired now, so I think I'll go to sleep.
Last post of 2008
So, this will be my last post of 2008. How weird is that? I'm currently just taking it easy because of the New Year's Lock-In at my youth group tonight. I have to get there at 8:30 [because of a student leadership meeting, the actual thing doesn't start until 10] so I'm just lazing around the house so I won't totally pass out tonight.
I'm actually really glad that I go to a really big, really awesome youth group--because we usually have really cool parties. The best year by far was when we had laser-tag. That was so fun--we've actually been banned from having that anymore because apparently some of the people decided to take advantage of how dark it was on the inside of the laser-tag thing. So we can't have it anymore. Argh. Another year we had a mechanical bull [which really wasn't that fun, it kind of hurt] and now this year we have ultimate volleyball [which is like volleyball inside one of those inflatable castles that kids jump in at festivals and stuff] and human bowling. Hopefully it will be fun. We have a local band that's going to come play and our human video team is also performing. I have to help judge the talent show--and my sister has to referee 3-on-3 basketball tournament. It's going to be interesting.
So looking back on '08, I do believe I've done everything I wanted to do. I actually went back and found my new year's post from last year on myOtaku...so here let's see if I've done what I wanted to do [I copied and pasted from myO]
+Ink wants to read the Bible more. I kind of achieved this one..not as much as I had wanted to but I worked on it.
+Ink wants to learn Japanese. She got a book on how to learn it, so she's going to study. Yeah, I totally failed at this...
+Ink also wants to get a job, so she had monies for college and anime related schutff. I got a job! I'm a teacher's assistant at the dance studio, and I also fill in occasionally as the secretary.
+Ink wants to stop talking in the third-person. [Kidding.] Ink shall never stop talking in the third person...
+I want to write more. Write a TON more. Seriously. I actually achieved this!!! I wrote one full length 20 chapter story, a couple of short stories, tried to re-write The Branded--failed at that but I have plans to try that again--and I'm currently writing something I want to publish!
+I want to draw better and more voluminously. [Did I spell that right?!] Eh fail. That's all I have to say about that.
+I want to eat healthier... Or at least try to eat healthier. I've tried--and I recently decided that I don't need to try to lose weight anymore, I'd originally wanted to stop eating so much because I was going to get fat, but I currently weigh 118, so I'm good.
+I want to try to feel better about myself. [ie. feel pretty, not feel like an outsider because guys don't like me, not freak out because I fail test/quizzes, ect.] I've been ok about this. I've tried at it. Guys do like me now, ok one guy but he counts because he got up the courage to ask me out...I still freak out about failing tests, but that's just my nature...
So, I guess my goals for 2009 will be more of the same. Only more pointed. I want to get accepted into college early so I don't have to worry about things my senior year. I want to maybe get a better-paying job...maybe not. I want to get my driver's license. I'm also hoping to continue writing, and maybe finish my new manuscript.
So Happy New Year Everybody! I hope 2008 has been a good year for all of you, and hope that '09 will be even better!
