Camp Winthers!

I'm leaving in 35 minutes (I'm counting every second) for Camp Winthers! Three whole days of running some, playing ping pong, and chillin' with my peeps. Haha, peeps . . . Anyway, there really isn't that much to do. Other than play ping pong, horseshoes, swim, hike . . . drink water . . . . But all that is fun because I'm with people who make me laugh :) I'll be without technology till Sunday, so see ya Monday.

Labor Day Weekend

Yay! Three day weekend! Im excited to have an extra day off! So fun!  I'm going to the football game tonight, and then boating on Saturday with friends! Sadly, I am probably going to spend all of monday catching up on AP homework...yuck :( oh well, outlining isn't all that bad. :)

Justin Bieber Believe Tour

Ok, so maybe this is lame, but I think that Justin Bieber is just totally amazing and talented and I really really want to go on the Believe tour, but I dont have tickets. :(  Anyways, I entered this contest at the mall to win 4 Justin Bieber concert tickets and I really hope I win...I'm guessing I didn't though, because I never got an e-mail, and the contest ended almost a week ago.  I'm guessing they would have announced winners by now. Oh well, I'm still hoping that I somehow get tickets. That would be soo amazing. :)

I Think The World Could Be A Lil More Like Raha

Thank you Raha for saving my partly depleted soul, haha. Everybody should learn from him... Learn what, you ask? Everything! :D That's my shout-out for the day.

What else...I'm supposed to check my e-mail like every Sunday and Weds. for something from Coach Mike. (I really want to call him Mikey-Man, but I think he'll just get angry:/) *Is it possible for your elbow to be sore? Because that's what I'm feeling right now* I think Facebook stalks me. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Why I mentioned the e-mail, yes yes, I checked and then I exited out for two seconds and then on my iPod, it was like "Con-freaking-gradulations, you have yet another e-mail." So I had to click back on the app and my iPod just had to bother me for an e-mail from Facebook. I swear they send the same e-mails because I just don't check Facebook. It partly wastes my time and doesn't serve any purpose unless I have to talk to somebody whose number I don't have. That's it. If I hadn't checked Facebook the day before school started, I wouldn't have wasted a whole hour of my life blogging and commenting. THANK YOU MASON. (By the way, has anybody else caught on that in class, I call him "Masaronie?") Anyways, I think it stalks me because how would it know when to send an e-mail. I'm tellin' ya, it ain't random. It's like it knows when I check so that way they'll try to draw me in to logging in. I'm sorry people, but sometimes I don't care what's happening in your life. I don't care what you look like in 30 supposedly different pictures with 30 supposedly different friends. I don't care about your quote of the day or how you feel about girls that like to let the world see their butt cheeks. I just don't care.... Please, remember that people of Facebook as well as Facebook itself. YOU SERVE NO PURPOSE (this is directed at Facebook only). You know what is a good quote though? One from Aqua Teen Hunger Force...(in which I will recite from pure memory:D)

"Why do you disappoint me? The only reason god keeps you here is because you amuse him somehow." (Master Shake)

This is how I feel about Facebook. So, stay out of my e-mails, because, as I've said, I just don't care sometimes(and by sometimes, I mean 99.6% of the time).

Are My Ads Trying To Tell Me Something?Oh No!Not You Too Pandora...

I have noticed that while doing my homework, I find an urge to blog. Maybe it's procrastination or maybe its pure boredom. I'd go with both. Sometimes I find myself wondering if a page in the Flash magazine could be dedicated to Julie rants. I'd name it "Just know that other people's lives suck too..." except it'd be correctly grammartized.

For those who don't have the privilege of listening to my daily rants, here's the one from this morning. So yesterday I had tried to make a promise with myself that I wouldn't take a nap because once I start sleeping, then that's that; there ain't no wakin' me up. But alas, of course I would go to sleep. I can't focus! So I told my sister to wake me up at 6 (it was around 4:30 P.M. when I said this). I go to sleep knowing that I have 7 alarms set up (5 on my old phone and 1 on my iPod and my sister counts too), however, it seems that nothing ever seems to wake me from my slumber because I woke up, not at 6 P.M., but at 9. NINE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHERE HAD THE LAST 3 HOURS GONE?! So I thought whatever, it happens ya know. But with 7 alarms? All at the highest volume? Am I really that deep of a sleeper!? Jeez.... I said "SCREW IT. I'm going back to bed," with the intention of waking up at 3:30 A.M. to do my AP US outline due this morning. BUT NOOOOO, I had to sleep, once again, through my alarm so I woke up through my internal alarm clock at 4:30 A.M. Luckily I got it done, but I swear school needs to think about the students. I mean, it's like I either have a good-nights sleep or I do my homework. If you're wondering about my social life outside of school, I don't have one. After that last bell rings, I'm just done with everybody and they need to just get out of my way because chances are that I'm dead tired. Not only that, but I walk to school and back (I live near Safeway), so I feel like those people who say that each time they take a picture, a part of their soul is stolen. A PART OF MY SOUL JUST KEELS OVER AND DIES EVERY TIME I WALK TO SCHOOL. Ah, yes.... Do you understand what I mean?

So to the point, after having made this blog already way too long according to Shelby-Boo (HI SHELBY-BOO!), I have also noticed that on the sides of whatever site I'm at, I always see ads that often go like this:
"LOOKING FOR A BOYFREND" (and on the side is a picture of a girl that's almost half-naked)
My first reaction? If you're going to do a fake stupid ad, spell it right. C'MON! (Is it sad that I think that first?) Second, I ain't no man. And they like surround the page. One on top, bottom, and two on the sides. Somebody once told me that ads often are related to what I search....Can you tell where I'm going with this? Now, I can tell you for sure that I don't search up some random women to just oogle at. *Oogle is not a real word as far as I know, but that's the best word to describe the act.:P* I swear, no matter what, it's always the same ad, except with a new woman each time. I'm telling ya, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON OR WHAT MY ADS ARE TRYING TO HINT TO ME. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! I SWEAR. Then, while I came to this realization, some random song came up on Pandora...the lyrics...oh, those lyrics...haha...I DON'T LISTEN TO THOSE KINDS OF SONGS! I SWEAR AGAIN. But that was pretty bad. And so I skip the song to find the next array of songs have titles like dope, swaggerific, shtuff in my pants, girl dog, I just did it? (I made swaggerific up, but that's basically it) I'm sitting here with one eyebrow raised...WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME INTERNET? Especially Pandora... Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho. That's not what I signed up for... Maybe I should take a break from the computer. I need another nap...

Minesweeper

The game minesweeper has always puzzled me. It's one of those games that come on a computer and you play when you are extremely bored on the computer. I mean, what is the strategy to the game? Do you randomly press the squares? Do you push the squares next to certain numbers? If there is a strategy it's unknown to me . . .

Racing

Race season is rapidly approaching and I am excrutiatingly nervous and anxious. Every year the anticipation of meeting old and new competition terrifies me. Obviously I love it, or else I wouldn't run cross country, but still its time like these when I wonder why I do this sport.A 5K is a long race, like really long. I don't even remember how I'm supposed to pace myself to be quite honest. To describe it I would say its like wanting to throw up, crawl into a bawl and die all at the same time. While staying focused throughout the entire race. My first time trial is this Saturday... AAAHHH

The First Day of School?

The first week of school went by like any other week. When walking through the halls, it felt like I had been away for a couple of days. Not months. Although I was excited that school had finally started and I could see my friend, there was no real sense of excitement for the first day of school. On every other first day of school, I had always felt that twinge of nervousness mixed with excitement for the unknown. But this year it felt like any regular day. It must come from having already gone through this process two years in a row. Anyway, I think this year is going to go smoothly!

Ants

I hate my new pod in this classroom, there are ants everywhere. Crawling along the side of the counter, around my keyboard, and there have been at least two cases where I have caught these little beasts on my arms. It is driving me insane. I took a yearbook to about 15 before I even sat down. What is this insanity? My seat last year was perfect, no ants or any such creatures near me. There seems to be more people in this class though and I have been forced into this ant-infested back corner.

Seriously though, thank you jerks who leave your food out! Really, you cant take the extra three seconds to pick up your wrappers or extra food so that this does not happen. I am so irritated and if I knew who you were I would be yelling at you. How can you stand being attacked by ants all class? Do you not make the connection between these ants and your food?

I guess it is slightly possible that there just happens to be a hole in the wall and nobody is to blame specifically. But I need someone to place my blame. So dear person who sits at this computer before me: I hate you, throw your food away.

Water Polo weekend

So, on Friday and Saturday girls water polo had two games. It was the first time both teams had scrimmaged together, and the first game ever for most freshmen. I was at the pool forever!! There were a couple of mix-ups, and most of us got sunburns and bad tan lines. Still, it was a great way to kick off the season, and next we are scrimmaging Whitney!!

Subway Encounters in Midtown

It was a sunny day in Sacramento... My church is located in Midtown. And there is a Subway across the street so I walked my little self to go get my "starving" mother a sandwich. As I made my way through the meat, cheese, and veggie options, the sandwich lady was about to ring up my Five Dollar Foot Long when she suddenly stopped and said, "Hey, I know this is weird but are you interested in modeling?" (I don't know if those were her exact words but that's pretty much what I heard.)

Now I am 5'3" so this was kind of a big shocker. Even though it was more for like catalogue modeling (so height doesn't matter) it was still surprising. But, turns out this lovely sandwich lady at Subway owns a vintage clothing shop of some sort that's on Etsy.com. It is called Neon Shark Vintage and I have to admit its pretty cool. It is all 80's clothing and retro is kind of my thing. So anyways, this lady's (okay she's probably like in her twenties actually) name is Amanda and she gave me her email to contact her if I am interested. Her reasons for asking me were because 1. she needs new models, 2. I apparently have nice style (that's a new one), and 3. I have an "unique" look (I think that's a compliment). And oh, by the way, this whole time my fairly new boyfriend was with me and at the time it was fairly awkward because I did not know how to react to these compliments I was getting out of nowhere.

So yeah, all in all I have a possible modeling opportunity which is kind of awesome for a vertically challenged person.

16 Soon

So I have come to the conclusion that I will be 16 in just a couple of weeks and the thought scares me. I have always known that I was younger than my classmates and the thought of it made me feel special somehow. As well, I have always known that I would graduate high school at the age of 17 and not 18. And I know that turning 16 and gaining all the perks is a right of passage in Rocklin, but it scares me because I know that a year and a half away from 16 is when I'll be graduating and moving on from high school to the working world. I have always known that it would happen at some point, but it just doesn't feel like it should happen this soon!!!! I know the path I want to be on, and I have an understanding of what college I wish to go to, but the thought that I only have 1 1/2 years to go before I reach that point in my life scares me to no end. Mostly because I never expected my life at RHS to go by that quickly. Either way, I hope that when I finally become 16, it'll be what everyone always cracks it up to be!!

Finding a College- Overwhelming or Exciting

I’ve heard the spiel about finding colleges from my parents and family members for years now, that I need to start looking for some colleges that I’m interested in, blah blah blah blah blah.  I always thought it would be easy.  However, now that I have started looking, I feel overwhelmed and lost.  Whether it’s looking on websites like College Board or doing my own research, I just keep adding different colleges to my list because there are so many to choose from within the U.S.

Last night, I finally narrowed down my list of colleges to my top 50, but I don’t think that qualifies as “narrowed down”.  Anyhow, I hadn’t realized how much time trying to find the right college would take until a few weeks ago when my search began.  Furthermore, with everything that I’ve got going on, whether its practice, games, homework, etc. it’s really hard to find time without being even more sleep deprived.  Be that as it may, I am anxious to begin traveling and considering some of my top choices of colleges that I would like to attend.  In the mean time, I guess I have to get back to my homework!

First Week of School... A Sucess!

I really enjoyed my first week of school, even though I loved summer so much!  My classes are going to be really hard this year... but I think I can handle it...maybe.  I can already tell that Algebra 2 is going to be my worst class because I don't know anything and I can't answer any questions! I am a sophmore this year and my class is mostly freshman.  Oh well... On a happier note, I had a really good time at the dance! I almost didn't go, but I'm glad I did.  Hopefully my next week of school will be as good as my first one!

My Transformation From Girl To Busy Bee

     Wow I've been busy this last week! My first week of school was a success! I like all of my teachers and I can't wait to learn! (Yes I DID say I was excited to learn!)
     Besides all this school stuff going on, last week I had Water Polo practices every day at 6:45 to 8:30pm. I was so tired by the end of the day.
     On Friday, I had my first Water Polo scrimmage against Bella Vista! I totally expected to be super nervous like last year, but I surprised myself! I was completely calm and had a blast! :)
     I forgot if we won or lost that game. Meh. Stupid teenage brain.
     And finally, yesterday (Saturday), I was also very very busy. I had to be at the Pool at 9am to help set up the games for that day (JV and V boys, JV and V girls). I had to hang out at the pool for around 3 hours until my game started at 12:00.
     I didn't get home until 1:30!
     Then, I was supposed to go to an old friend's Bridal shower, (shes in her early 20's, just in case you wanted to know her age), but instead the girl reschedualed to another day when we could come.
     I went to my friends house for a couple hours, went to another friends house to make T-shirts for the dance, then went to the dance at 8 o'clock! (That was a complete run-on sentence but oh well. :P )
     Busy busy busy!

GET OUT OF YO CHAIR...not you old man...

So I was so excited to blog this year! Well, at least right now... Mainly because something happened right before school started that has nagged at me and then pretty much the same thing happened yesterday. So here I go (by the way, hi Mason and Manda, this counts as my first blog!:PSee, I'm already ahead of the game).

When I get my schedule for school every year, I hang out with people afterwords as a way of making up for my disappearance during the summer. So Daniel and I went to Baskin Robbins because he had like eight coupoons in his wallet (which makes me wonder where he got them all...). (*Here's a lil' side note for you; WHY/WHO ON EARTH CHARGES LIKE THREE DOLLARS FOR PAPRIKA?! THE BOTTLE WAS LITERALLY NOT EVEN THE SIZE OF MY EYE!**I was at Safeway before going to B.R.* There's nothing wrong with Safeway, but that was just ridiculous) Anyways, while walking, I saw this not-so-adorable old lady having a tough time trying to get into a nail salon (I was a little confused seeing as how old people should have more important things to do than get their nails done), so I went up to her and asked her if she needed help. I glance into the store through the giant wall windows (you know what I'm talking about?) and see the two workers JUST SITTING THERE, WATCHING THIS POOR OLD LADY TRYING TO GET INSIDE THIS STORE...Even though one of them was helping somebody else inside, they were ALL just simply not giving a ---- that somebody needed help. I would've busted through that door and like smacked one of them(I wouldn't smack them, but I dunno, something would have happened!), but I wasn't in the mood to go out of my way to talk to some ignorant person. I swear, it would've gone like this if I had gone in:

ME: GET OUT OF YO CHAIR AND HELP THIS WOMAN OUT. (As you can tell, I'm extremely angry, but don't worry people of RHS, I'm not an angry person)
WORKER: Excuse me? I need you to like calm down?
ME: How about you calm down! GO BACK TO YO MAMA! (I know I make no sense when I'm angry, haha. And then I'd leave because I don't have time for ignorant people, as I've said before)

Anyways, I helped the lady out and that was that. Then, yesterday, this old man needed help because he couldn't get through the aisle thing in his wheelchair (hence, the second part of the title to this blog. It's so much harder to explain... And all these customers and workers ain't doing nothing! I don't even work there and I helped him. I REALLY just want to bang my head against my desk because I don't understand people... RAWR. So yea, that was how it went down.

*Another lil' side-note, I always seem to get cold (read my past few blogs to understand), but only when I'm blogging...What does this mean?!

Also, hi Brit! I miss you!

Sick Days, Pandora Don't Help

If I called in sick on the first day, would anybody really believe me? I swear, it's getting colder by the minute and I'm covered in goosebumps, bleh. That, and I've had a nagging headache for the past two days, but can't take nothing because I don't have any sort of medicine or pills to help me out here. What's a girl supposed to do?

I've been meaning to blog about this lately and I guess there's really no other time that I feel like I wanna talk about this. Pandora, do you hate me? Because I think you do... In fact, I think you gave me this sickness. I'm going crazy because you don't give me anything new to listen to. No matter how much I tell you I don't like a song, you continue to play it. Is it because my opinion doesn't matter. I think that's what it is. Argh, I don't think Pandora understands my dilemma. Just because I put a thumbs-up on a song, does not mean I like the song, mkay? Maybe I want to just put a thumbs-up because I can. And I can. And I will. And at this point, I really do think I'm going crazy. I wish Niraj was still in town so that way I could bug him...

I kept having dreams of school, it sucked. Just thought some of you would understand, unlike Pandora.

Bring It On You Sophies

I guess there are supposed to be some really smart sophs next year, so of course, I must draw the line for them.

I will, by no means, let these kiddies dominate the journalism class. Sure, they might be smarter than I am (which doesn't exactly make me feel bad admitting that, hehe), but I will still be on top at the end! :P So yes, bring on yo A-game kiddies! It's on! I feel as if something really unexpected will happen this year in journalism. A rival, perhaps? Yes, that seems about right...

Oh, don't be offended when I call you "kiddie." I do that to a lot of people. It don't mean much. Unless you want to take offense, then go on ahead.

THE MOST ADORABLE FROSH IS COMIN

So apparently we were supposed to blog...I actually blogged on my old blog. Does that count? If it does, then just read that crap.

Here's some of my randomness for ya.
-I'm cold. There's no fans or AC on in my house. My blinds are open, letting in the sunshine, and yes, I think it's chilly. Maybe it's because I keep thinking that I'm sick and therefore have a weird internal thermostat.
-Yea, I believe I'm sick, what of it?
-Totally procrastinated on homework, as if that's any news

But to stay somewhat on topic, the time has arrived. For what? For my new frosh to have his first day of high school. Ah, I feel so proud. Like a mother. That's why they call me "Mom." :D BEAR (Amanda's lil bro), OH MY ADORABLE LITTLE FREAKIN FRESHMAN! I have a feelin I'll be ditchin the rants for a while to talk about him. He's just so CUTE <3. He has pinchable cheeks and now that I think about it, I'm not quite sure whether he'll survive here...Lol, well he'll hang with the cool people (AKA ME:D)

Flip Flop

     You ever get that feeling when your so bored, that you wish you just had something to do? But as soon as you have a lot of plans and things to do, you wish that you were bored again?
     Flip flop, flip flop.

Schedule

So I don't know anyone who's in my first period! I hope I know someone or I make some new friends! I'm pretty shy at first so hopefully it won't be a problem! Other than that, I'm so excited for the school year. My schedule is pretty even on both days, so I'm glad one day isn't too overwhelming!

1. Physics H- Morrison
2. AP Stats- Trejo
3. AP Lit- James
4. AP Psych- Sturgeon
5. AP Econ- Hardy
6. ASB

Oh, and I know there are a few AP's in there, but all but Lit(I assume) will be easier than the ones I have previously taken!

Lastly, I'll be doing Journalism this year on independent study hopefully!

So much...

School starts in 3 days and I have so much to do! I really don't know how I'm going to be able to do it all. Here's what I have left to do:

-clean my room and desk area (super important!)

-finish my AP summer homework: I have two more books to finish for AP lit

-go school supplies shopping

-go buy and make all LINK stuff for my LINK group (by tomorrow, I need it for Monday)

-blog one more time, and comment a few more times

-find my brand new, beloved earrings, you don't even know how tragic it is for me that I cant find them:(

Anyway I hope I can get it all done, I'm sure I will! I do procrastinate majorly, but it ALWAYS gets done. 

Monday

Monday is going to be a long day. Saying that, I only have today and tomorrow to finish Pride and Prejudice and do my Pscyh review. I think I can do it. Actually, there's no think, it's a must. Because I'm a Link Leader, I get to be at school at 7 until 1 for orientation. From 1 until 3 I have an ASB work day and then I have practice from 3 to 5:30, so it's going to be a pretty busy day! So, wish me luck! I'm going to be so tired!!

So.....

     For the last two weeks I've been getting up at 6am to get ready and suited up for Water Polo try-outs. Practices lasted from 7-9am the first week, then 7-9:30am this week.
     I am so exhausted.
     Other than water polo practices, I've been getting prepared for school, like many other people have also.
     In the last two hours today I've been cleaning like a mad woman with my mom.
     More tired.
     I cleaned my whole desk area and that took probably an hour. I got rid of around 90% of my classwork/paperwork from last (freshmen) year. I never knew how MUCH paper I kept!!
     On the bright side, my desk is now squeaky clean. *pretty pretty shiny shiny* :)
     Now all I have to do is get my binders organized for my classes and I'll be ready for school!
     Oh wait! Here is my class schedule:

     Sophmore Year:
     1. Art l (Hopefully this will change, I actually signed up for Dance l)
     2. LA/Com ll Adv
     3. Spanish ll Adv
     4. Geometry
     5. World History
     6. Journalism ll (yay!!!)
     7. Chemistry l
     8. Fam Life/Dr Ed
     8. Health
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I like Nutella.
:)

Tick Tock

As the last remaining days of summer are come to a close, it's really starting to feel like school is almost here.

I got my schedule on Tuesday and am pretty pleased with it. 1-AP Bio 2-English 3-AP Calc AB 4-AP Econ 5-Physics 6. Journalism.

Today was the first day of LINK training and it was actually pretty fun. We went through all of the games that we are going to have the incoming freshman do and were assigned partners. It was good to see everyone that I didn't have a chance to see over the summer. Tomorrow we have another day of training and then the orientation is on Monday. Looking forward to it.

Schedules!!

I got my schedule yesterday! So exciting. I always love comparing it to all my friends to see if we have classes together. Sadly, I dont really have many friends in any of my classes...hopefully that will change though.  I am planning on switching one of my regular classes to advanced, and hopefully that will switch around a couple periods and land me in a few more classes with friends...Im crossing my fingers. :)

School is Starting!

Only a few more days untill school starts...I am excited for it and dreading it at the same time.  I am looking forward to my classes, seeing friends, and meeting my new teachers, but I am not looking forward to homework, tests, and stress. Yuck.  Plus, I still have some summer homework to do.  Barely any, but its still there hanging over my head.  I am planning on doing it today. Hopefully it will take me only a few minutes. :) Wish me luck!

Make - up or money?

So I sort of have an addiction... beauty products. I don't know what it is; but make up, perfume, and make - up brushes have always intrigued me ever since I was little. So now that I have a job and a paycheck, I've lost all the guilty feelings of having my parents buy all this stuff for me because I can buy it myself now. I'll admit I do go a little overboard, especially when I walk in Sephora.

Sephora is my favorite store of all time! I could literally spend hours in there looking at all the different colors and brushes and makeup bags and perfumes. I just go nuts. Sometimes I would rather spend my money on beauty products than clothes; and I LOVE clothes too! So anyway today I went online shopping, at Sephora of course. I picked out my favorite shampoo that is ONLY sold at Sephora, a brush, some nail polish, and this kit(on SALE by the way) that comes with eyeliner, lip gloss, and mascara. Well here's the issue, I really want all that stuff but when I looked at the bottom of the screen at the total; it wasn't so pretty. Sooo looks like I'm not getting all that and I'm going to have to pick and choose; now let me tell you I'm probably going to spend a lot of time staring at the screen debating over the stuff that I need to get rid of. Uhgg this is going to be difficult. I definitely have a problem... I need to not spend all my money on make-up.

I probably should go to make-up anonymous...

Nine

Nine more days. It's crazy to think that it has been over two months since the school year ended, and we have a little over a week until the first day of school.

This summer has been really fun, and as much as I don't want it to end, I am ready for school to start and see what great experiences this year will bring. This summer has been full of exciting activities, accomplishments, and relaxation. 

Volunteering at the summer school for children with autism again was definitely my best experience this summer. (Refer to previous post if you want more details, haha!)

The college road trip also made this summer one of the bests. We toured UCSB, UCSD and UCLA. I  toured  UC Davis and Cal Poly a while back and am excited to start applying this fall.

My friend also started this group called On Guard which has been a great experience thus far. It is meant to help you better understand your Christian faith and be ready to defend it. We have had two sessions out of eight and I am really enjoying it. Afterwards we hang out and it's an all around good time.

The only class I had summer work for this year was AP Calculus AB, since AP Biology and AP Microeconomics don't have any. So I was actually able to get all of my homework done before August! Yay! This was also possible because I got together with a group of friends throughout June and July and we worked through it together. It was extremely helpful to do that. So happy that we finished early and we don't have to worry about that assignment.Just have to study for the test on the first day of school!

Anyways, I hope that all of you have had a great summer! Good luck to the rest of you working on summer work. See you all in nine days!  

Wow

I can't believe summer is almost over... It felt way too short! I had a good summer though. :) I went to Pepperdine, the college I want to go to, for a water polo camp, did the Sac Polo water polo camp, hosted a French student, not a very good experience, got my wisdom teeth pulled out...Just to name a few hahaha

I also have been going to Adventure for almost a year now. They have a teen program called Resonate which is a super fun program every Sunday from 7-8:30 pm where you can have fun with other high schoolers while learning about God. They had so many fun activities, I couldn't believe it! I think that everyone should give it a chance. It is not like the stereotypical church most people have in mind. It is a place where they make sure everyone has a good time while learning great lessons. :) If you are free on Sunday nights, drop by to have a good time. :)

Well, I think that is it for now... Oh yeah! Come out and support Rocklin's amazing water polo teams! :)

One Week Left!

So with only one week left really until school starts, I need to finish my summer homework. Here's what I have left to do...

AP Lit: Finish Pride and Prejudice, and Antigone. Start Candide...

AP Psych: Reread my book( I had to drop the class at schedule pickup last year), write the report, and read the first few chapters out of the book...

AP Stats: Do the first four chapters...


I don't think Stats will take too long, I'm going to try to finish Lit this weekend... I have no tennis today so I will start my homework now and work on it the entire weekend... I know it looks like kinda a lot... but I'll get it done... I always do... hopefully I won't pull a repeat of last year finishing homework the night before the first day of school... Wish me luck.

Cher Lloyd at The Galleria

Today two friends and I went to go see Cher Lloyd at the Roseville Galleria. For those of you who don't know, Cher is a British recording artist who signs the hit single "Want U Back." She was also on the X Factor in Season 7 alongside One Direction.

I wasn't that big of a fan, but my friends really wanted to see her so I went along. I am really glad I did! It may have been packed to the brink and really hot and there was a very long wait for Cher to come on, but when she did she was fabulous. She only sang three songs and all three were amazing. Cher is so much better live and acoustic. The recorded version of "Want U Back" is a little auto-tuned, but when she sings live her voice is unique and memorable. Also, after singing Cher answered some questions from the fans and so was so sweet and hilarious. Her accent is adorable! I am really glad I went, because I am a brand new Cher Lloyd fan now.

Procrastination At Its Finest

At this point we all have about fourteen days left of school, and I still haven't finished any of my summer homework. I'm taking both AP World and Adv. English.
This is what I've need to get done throughout summer:

• Read and complete a study guide on These Is my Words.
• Read and complete a study guide on The Things They Carried.
• Out of the AP World book, read chapters one through three and complete an outline on each.

I have completed five questions from both study guides combines, and just got done with the outline for chapter two. All in all, NOTHING done. Time to scramble.

First Practice

     Today I got up at 6 o'clock on the dot to get dressed and ready for the first Water Polo Practice of the 2012-2013 school year. Although the practice was from 7-9 am, I didn't get in the water until around 7:45 because I still needed to give the coach my yellow clearance slip.
     Oh well.
     Anway, moving on. As soon as I jumped in the water I was filled with joy. Water is my thing, part of my life.
     Before this very big day I had been practicing my skills (which were definately lacking!), prior to the first practice. I'm so glad I did that. If not I would have been as unfit (is that  a word?) as I was last year.
     Last year was my first year of Water Polo. Before that, I didn't even know Water Polo was a sport.
     In my freshman year I was Three weeks behind everyone else because I had joined very, very late. So I had a LOT of catching up to do. Needless to say, even though I came in late, I had the best time. After that first practice last year I remember I could barely walk to my moms car when she picked me up.
     Now This practice, I feel super energized and very happy and in a good mood overall. Such a massive transformation from the last practice I must say. :)
     I am so proud of myself.
     Its gonna be a great year. :)

Application Time

So 3 days ago, the Common App came online, and I can now begin working on the application that I will send to various private universities. Scary...I get to spend the next 5 months poring over the Common App, among other applications, trying to get into a university. Then I spend 3 months waiting nervously for the results. I can't say I'm too excited about this. However, I am excited to know that 9 months from now, I will know where I'm going to college. Here we go...

Africa

My parents were born in Algeria, a country in North Africa, and most of my family still lives there. So every few years, we go to back to visit family. And even though I'm sure that in a few years I'll look back on the experience fondly and realize that it has taught me wonderful life lessons (note the sarcasm) I'm extremely glad to be back in America. In Algeria, like most African nations, there is very limited hygiene. You have to be really careful about what water you drink, because having the wrong kind can lead to chlorea -- I'm not kidding. Plus, during the last few days I got tonsillitis and the medicine there is more than a little sketchy -- as in strangely colored pills that taste pretty suspicious in my opinion.

There's also the fact that the food is completely different. And by different, I mean not that good. Like I said before, I'm wary of a lot of the products there -- they don't really have health inspectors in a country where many are impoverished -- and as a result barely ate anything. The day I came back, the first place I went was Panda Express to pig out.

So while there were good parts -- I have some really interesting pictures, like a guy leading a huge flock of sheep down the highway -- I am SO glad to be back to modern civilization. A month away from the Galleria was a little more than I could handle.

Summer relaxation

This last week I was up at my grandparents' cabin in the Santa Cruz mountians. I really enjoyed myslef becuase I got to relax in a place with an oustanding view and one day go into down town Santa Cruz. One thing I love about down town is you get to see a different type of people then you see every day and you get to wander into all the different shops untill you find that one pearl of a store (or item). For me I loved one of the used book stores that they had down there; I spent like two hours there and left with a book I totally fell in love with. I spent the rest of the week just enjoying the view and devouring books. I had an amazing time. I can't wait for school to start (kinda).