Heres the update: Track starts Friday! And i have been taking the HSPA the entire week! (If I don't pass I won't be able to graduate)

Oh and animal rubber bands have been taking over our middle school. As a high schooler, I do not participate in this trend. Sadly this is the first trend I dont understand..I'M GETTING OLD!"

Enjoy

SNOW!

Prom:

So my rebellious friends are planning an "anti-prom" while I (and it seems only I) really really want to go to prom and have a good time. However, I am worried and sure that if none of my friends go, I won't have a good time. For two years now I have been trying to convince them to go. My plan suggested that we just go as a group of friends, we don't need dates (after all it's not the 1950s). So far I have only convinced one friend. And she seems rather excited about it, probably because whenever I talk about it, I go crazy.

Ok so ticket sales are over and I am very ecstatic that I was able to convince three of my friends to go! So it won't be boring and lonely after all! The four of us are going as friends but if some boys ask us to company them (I don't think we'd mine). I also have a sophmore friend who is going to the junior prom with a junior so she'll be there too! My graduating class happens to be very well off ($) so there are alot of seniors and underclassmen going to MY prom, so I am very very excited! Hopefully next year I will snag myself a date but that is not the most thing to worry about, I just want to have fun!

A Tribute to my follower

I am a middle child, the second girl of my family. Now I don't like to admit it but I have always wanted or wanted to do everything my older sister has or does. Since that Christmas when we were three, and she got a Katie Kisses and Giggles doll - I just had to get one too! When she got a Game Boy Advance (which was advance back then) I just had to get one too, either to see what all the fun was about or to be be left out. I have done ballet, soccer, gymnastics all after her too. And whenever she starts playing the Sims or Dance Dance Revolution, I just get this urge to play too. I have a Facebook, guess who got hers first? And I have a blog, guess whose idea that was...yep you guessed it, her. Call it little sister syndrome or me just being a pain in the behind, my childhood toys and activities have been exact copies or clones of hers. However luckily for me, she has always been really good about it and continues to be! My sister has the patience and understanding of a saint.

Now the story of my blog is anything but original. During her senior year she had a teacher who assigned a blog project. My sister had to create a blog and write in it every week for one year. It was less than two months into the year when one day when she was typing away at the computer- an invisible force pulled me to the screen and the words, "what is that?" popped out of my mouth. Oh this is my blog she replied, do you want one too? And so my blog was born with an impeccably similar title.....hm wonder where I got that from. She is and continues to be my one and only follower. So heres to you Carmen, a tribute to my favorite sister, the best to walk this earth and most loyal follower (who does not forget to comment on my poor spelling and grammar). Cheers.

I want it here and now!

So it was just a quiet Saturday night with my family and we had just finished watching "Post Grad" which we watched On Demand. My dad turns to me and says one of the shows you were recording had to be canceled for us to watch the movie. I reply with, "that's b.s. we should be able to watch whatever we want to watch and record how many shows we want to record." My dad, the "all knowing engineer" then says, "that is so typical of your generation, to want whatever you want and want it now." And yes I agree, why not? Which got me thinking.....

One day when my generation grows up to be the bosses of the world, we are going to be relentless- we are going to ask the impossible of our employees because we want whatever we want, whenever we want it. I am so glad that I will not be working for my generation.....I pity the kids ten or twenty years from now....

"OOOh we're halfway there..."

Heres my update on midterms: I have one left!! And I am sooo excited, however that still means I have to study for it....precalcus. I'm not really worried though, because I have heard from friends who have already taken this test is that it is very close to the review sheet that my teacher gave us, which takes a load off. Thank God for review packets!!

Only if they never ended, now I know that in college you never get a review sheet - its the real world and no one is going to baby you. However, I'm not that worried, my ap teacher never gave us a review packet and it wasn't that bad.

I usually get sick around misterms and finals- from all the stress of studying. So far I have luckily held off any viruses *I'm keeping my fingers crossed* but unfortunately I have come down with a cold. This gives me another fear of college though, am I going to get sick everytime I have to take a test? Or do I get used to the stress? For all of you out there who are in college or are done with college, how do you cope with the stress, and have you ever missed an exam, midterm or final?

Daunting, Inevitable- Midterms

I have for this week, entered into the vicious cycle of midterms. They started Tuesday, and the last day for midterms is next Monday. I must take a two hour test twice a day. I have nine classes but seven subjects to study for, and I
am exhausted. So far I have taken my French and Honors Chemistry midterm and they will probably leave a mark for sometime. I spent my Tuesday night talking to the ladybugs who are still flying around my kitchen; and have been questioned of my sanity to which I reply the number of hours I am sleeping per night. My study skills have been anything but productive, however the thought of only three more tests till the weekend keeps me going. I absolutely love dinner time and potty breaks- they are excellent excuses for doing nothing for the next ten minutes to regain my focus.

I have for a long time questioned the practice of midterms- why must we be tested on everything we have learned for the past five months, and expected to do well? All of my teachers hate midterms (they are a pain to grade) and we kids hate to study for them (especially when your midterm is the next day and you haven't started yet). Since no one in the learning and educational community like midterms I suggest that we band the practice and just rely on normal tests to see how much we know.

Those for you so agree say "I!"