Sunday, May 31, 2009

Retrospect

Hello there, blue powerblogger here!


So I am now officially a senior! As I look back upon my days as a junior, I realize that this year was probably the best year of my life (so far). I not only worked hard, but I had a lot of fun at the same time. I started many new traditions, made many new friends, and achieved many new goals.

This year was the "hardest" as far as school goes. At least that's the warning everyone gave me last year as I approached becoming a junior. I had a lot of tough classes lined up-Calculus, AP Chem, and AP french among them. Upperclassmen told me that I would have no social life and that I would be swamped with work. Looking back now, though, this year really wasn't that difficult. AP Chemistry was my only constantly hard class. The rest were fairly easy in retrospect. It's really prepared me for senior year and college, so now I'm not as worried about next year and the ones to follow. I know that if I can survive a year of AP Chem, I can get through any class! So I'm not concerned about the year to come; I know that I can get through it and still have a life.

I am probably the most pleased with my friendships looking back on junior year. I used to hang out with a certain group of people that, though I love them dearly, I never quite fit in with. I was always the fourth wheel, and I felt like the odd-one-out. This year, I began to hang out with a sophomore group at school. It began with a special friendship with Justin, a soph that I met over the summer. I would go and talk to him and his friends, as well as the other sophs I knew from church during lunch everyday. Then, I met Karson through church, and we instantly became best friends. Justin and I grew to become best friends as well. I started eating lunch with them everyday, and I really felt included. I've met many amazing people in that group, including Megan, Jeffrey, Colten, Becky, and Andrew, just to name a few. They are all such wonderful people, and I love them so much, and it saddens me that I am a year older than they because I will really miss them when I graduate. But I definitely have the best friends in the entire universe!

Starting in January, I made some exciting leaps in terms of my musical career. I'm sure most of you know the story, but in short I met an awesome kid named Timmy who, along with his band and my voice teacher, has allowed me to really live out my dreams in terms of becoming a singer. I love all the kids in the band; they are so kind and funny and, most important of all, accepting. I feel like music is really something that God wants me to do and they support me. I hope they all know how talented and amazing they are, and how fortunate I am to work with them. Timmy has become one of my closest friends, which I feel is important from a business standpoint. We hope to go far together with our music, so our friendship has to be strong and understanding. And now we have an EP deal together! I am so anxious and exhilarated to see where our music takes us, and so glad that I've found so much positive feedback this year.

I've started some neat traditions this year, as well. I love making new memories, and these times were the best: thursday bible study at lunch, CAROCAKES!, ultimate frisbee at tekesta, picnics at lake monkey business, thursday band practices with timmy (and brownies/cupcakes/cookies!), Unclaimed shows, Wednesdays at Calvary, Sundays at K-Meth, movie nights, target with Catherine (which we need to do MORE!) and I know there are others in addition! I loved these moments and the people I spent them with :)

I can only hope that next year is as epic as this year was. A few of my goals are to get all A's, maintain my friendships with the people I love, grow closer to God, make a name for myself in music with Timmy, get a boyfriend!, and have a heck of a lot of fun! For now, though, I am looking forward to summertime!!!!!

So until next week,
-Caroline

Saturday, May 30, 2009

A Storm of the Brain

Ugh, I've gotten so lazy. The minute the word "summer" struck my head, I immediately shut down and started with the 24 hour rest and sleep session. I barely even manage to convince myself to start typing this post because of how lazy I got. So to pep myself up, I started to brainstorm and think of a bunch of random things. This is what came to me:
1. My physical condition came first. A whole year of sitting in a chair doesn't help you at all. Remember waaay back when I told you guys about how I could run 3 miles without stopping? Now I can barely run 1 and a half miles. I can't run as fast, my reaction dulled, blah blah blah you heard me complain about this before.
2. I got nicer this year apparently. That's good to hear I guess.
3. I'm hungry.
4. I took up violin one more time this year. Although it's good to see Mr. Miller again and it's good that I'm going back to chamber, I can't help but groan at the prospect of practicing again. I don't remember my scales anymore or what "key" the song is in or how to shift past 2nd position.
5. AM I nicer this year? I still find that hard to believe.
6. This is pretty late. Maybe I should post earlier.
7. Did you know that Call of Duty 5 has a game mode called "Nazi Zombies" where you're stuck in a house while Nazi zombies are swarming at you from all sides? Really, game designers will go far to get money these days.
8. Kejing took my post spot! Wow, I started thinking about this really late. I'm pretty slow.
9. Now that I think about it, she could have just edited her note and added that part in. But then it would diminish the value of how much we care about Megan so I guess I can let that pass.
10. Nobody seems to come to tennis anymore =(. Instead of my usual tennis today, I went for a run in the forest trail, where I learned about my failing physique.
11. GAHHH!!! CURSE YOU AP EXAMS!!!!!!! *grumble* *whine* *mope*.....
12. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to add that I GOT A CAR! WHOO! I can drive myself now to anywhere I want at anytime and anyplace!
13. No, I can't drive myself anywhere at anytime and anyplace. =*(
14. I'm also getting an ATM card. It's my parents' way of saying, "Here's your money. Now stop mooching off us."
15. They probably don't think that but you know.... Asian parent impressions are often misleading.
16. We drew on Ryan on the last day of school while he was sleeping. I drew a rainbow, a monkey, and wrote "wake up" on his hand. My friend Brendon drew a swastika, a Jewish star of David, and took off Ryan's shoe and tied it to Ryan's hand. He looked pretty messed up. I heard he got mad too. Sorry Ryan!
17. My internet disconnected. Stupid wireless.
18. I want a laptop now, even if it means using crappy wireless internet.
19. Meh, I have a car so it doesn't matter. If a laptop and a car got into a fight, the car would definitely win. Go car!
20. The Valkyria Chronicles is a video game I recently found on Youtube. It's a war game that has battles suspiciously similar to WWII but it has a very interesting plot. It's almost a movie than a game if you ask me.
21. I'm getting lazy. Maybe I should just leave it at this and go to sleep.
22. NO! I must defeat my laziness!
23. Eh, whatever. I'll defeat my laziness the next time I feel like it.

-June

Stay tuned for the much less lazier Caroline! At least her post won't be riddled with teenage guy laziness.

Friday, May 29, 2009

School Year 2008-2009

It is time to write about my year! This is really exciting, but it is so difficult to cover everything that is important. I hope you forgive me for making a list, because it seems like the most systematic way, so I don't end up rambling too much, and hopefully my mind will reach for a good portion of the events.
1. Well, I started out pretty anxious because I did not know how my grades would be this year, and I knew that if they were poor then I would probably start freaking out. I am weak like that.
2. I had a lot of fun finishing my Mini Mu test this year.
3. I competed in Statistics. It was a blast.
4. Jonathan Mei and Michael Wei are pretty cool together.
5. Facebook changed a lot...
6. I cried at least once a week. That is probably really bad.
7. It is summer. I am so happy about that.
8. I am really scared about senior year.
9. I got a car!
10. I sprained my foot.

11. Also, there was an entire year ahead of us before the seniors left. That became kind of scary by the middle of the year.
12. During the first week of school, I decided that all of my teachers were at least decent. I did not have problems with them. Later in the year, I had a problem with my 4th period teacher telling wife-beating jokes. Almost all of the students in there were male, and almost all of them laughed.
13. Last year, I think I had three main groups of friends in my grade. This year, I drifted away from one, which is sad because I was very close with them. But they made a new group, and that makes me happy because they are so content. But I miss them very much. The group that I have always talked with is actually the group of guys. Isn't that interesting. And the group that I met last year is amazing. That would be the one with Blair, Brianna, Erica, and Lacey, and as you know me, they are in alphabetical order so I don't have to pick favorites. You know. The awesome group. That wins all the games [cough Brianna cough]. And then there is Jerrod, who takes up his own group. What a special person.
14. Megan became the new purple power blogger. Congratulations, Megan! I never congratulated before so here it is.
15. I took the SAT in March. It was an extremely tedious experience. I counted down most of the time. But it was amazing when it was the last section. The most annoying thing, besides writing a terrible essay, was the fact that it bugged me not to know which section was experimental. It bugged me more when I was doing the writing sections. I hope that's how I got a dismal score on that part, because it was really disappointing to um get my results for that. But I am extremely grateful for the rest of it. Enough about that topic.
16. But I have to say that APs were really awful too because they just never seemed to end, and I wasn't fully prepared for any one of them. It is so difficult to be motivated unless it is one of the few weeks or few days before the actual test.
17. The first semester, I put my math stuff in a Gator notebook. The second semester, I used a Hello Kitty notebook.
18. My professor said, "When I am dictator of the world, the punishment will be to pronounce my name correctly." That is a really good punishment.
19. I became good friends with Nathaniel. He is almost four years older than me, I think. Anyway, he is very nice to talk to and if any of you know a Chinese girl... tell him? Haha. He wants me to say: "And then I met Nathaniel through his girlfriend at the time, Clara"
"And...the dark times began immediately afterwards"
"To this day, I can't seem to ditch him"
...

Moving on.
20. I also met a Buchholz person named John Lu. He is now my triplet. Because at some point, Jack decided that I was his twin. We were going to be siamese twins except not connected because then, we would be the same gender and we would be the same even more, which was great because then I could be a... man. But that was ruined, so I guess I can't be a man anymore. Sorry, Jack. We are only identical twins.
21. Thank you for a wonderful school year of power blogging.

-Kejing

Thursday, May 28, 2009

[Insert Clever/Sentimental/Humorous Title]

Geez, this school year has flown! I can hardly believe that its been nearly 9 months!


Junior year. What can I say about it? It had its drama, oh yes. But all in all, it was perhaps the year of most growth and maturity for me. Granted, a lot of this became available only once I was finally allowed to drive, but even still- the privileges opened up by just being older and on the upper end of the foodchain  were pretty phenomenal. I also think that this year perhaps my academically expansive year in which I learned more about everything than any other year. I excelled in history, biology (hahaha, see my other posts on AP Bio), and surprisingly, english.
However one this is certain- I could not have pulled through this year without friends. A lot of those opened up privileges involved being more with my friends- definitely needed since we will probably all end up going to different colleges. That's a sobering thought. Bah.

It is strange to think that we'll all be seniors next year. And sort of sad at the same time.

- Jonathan

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I am bad at remembering to put a title. . . .

This year surprised me. And I surprised myself. I guess I don't really know who I am. It's probably easier that way for now.

Well. I do not have to take any final exams this year. That is because of the fact that I did so well in school this year. Way better than ever before. Taking a harder course load really made me work harder. I guess all I needed was something to motivate me.

I had chemistry. What a bittersweet class.

This year I was involved more at school. On one hand, that was a lot of fun and I got to meet lots of new awesome people. But on the other, I realize that I haven't changed and I am not someone who feels at home in a large group of people. We will see how that goes next year.

I actually am awfully proud of myself for being more outgoing. I got to know some of my favorite people that way.

My friends amazed me this year. It is nothing new. They are the best ones there are. I don't know why in the world they choose to stick around and be friends with me. But I love them for it.

Also now I am dating someone else. His name is Ryan. And I am always happy that he is in my life. I love him. Yesterday we had been dating six months. Today is six months and one day. :D We will see what happens.

I cannot wait until next year. I want it to hurry up and get here, but I'm not sure I want it to end. Maybe we could just always be seniors. And we could all stay together. Except for Viv. She is leaving for college already. Hmm. I do not have a perfect solution for that. But I will work on it. Anyways. I think that's a good plan. What do you say?

-Lacey

Monday, May 25, 2009

Yes, I did quote Hilary Duff

Personally I've had an absolutely wonderful year. Now wait...let me explain.

Was the work hard? Yes. Did I have a couple of mental breakdowns? Yes. Was I more stressed than I have been in my entire life? Yes. Somehow, though, it all turned out well. Let's hit a few aspects.

Work- I finally learned how to work this year. And while I find that my tendency to copy homework increased, I also listened in class for the first time in my entire life. I also started reading the textbooks...I was surprised to find that they were actually pretty interesting. I mean sometimes I would laugh out loud when I read my Physics textbook. Seriously. This year I decided to learn the real way, actually storing things in my brain instead of briefly memorizing (except history, I refused to force useless dates into my head). Thus I have learned so very much! It's exciting really.

Friends- Here's what I've learned about friends this year. One, there's a good chance that the majority of the friends we have now won't be our friends in ten years. And when a friend doesn't put effort into a friendship, you should let it be and move on. Two, we shouldn't limit our friendships to the people who we feel safe around. Because there are so many great and wonderful people out there. And sometimes we just have to break through those first impressions to find out who they really are.

Opportunities- I think my good friend Hilary Duff put it best when she sang, "Why not take a crazy chance? Why not do a crazy dance? If you lose the moment, then you may lose a lot. So, why not?"

This year was great overall. I'll make sure next year is great too. I think in the end we get to choose how great our year is. It's all about the attitude...and whistling...it just makes the day brighter.

-Brianna

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Louder Than Thunder

Hello there, Blue powerblogger here! And a day late...I've been living at my friend's house this weekend.


So today was pretty fun, but now I am really depressed due to some stuff that my bestest friend is going through. I just want sooooo much for him to be happy, and when he is hurting, it makes me incredibly sad :(

In lieu of these events, here is probably one of my favorite songs of all time. It's called "Louder than Thunder" and it's by the band The Devil Wears Prada. The lyrics are epic, and added with the music, the song is just so moving. Enjoy.

What would it take? 
For things to be quiet, quiet like the snow.

I know this isn't much, but I know, I could, I could be better.

I dont think I deserve it, selflessness.
Find your way into my heart.

All stars could be brighter,
All hearts could be warmer.

What would it take for things to be quiet?
Quiet like the snow.

Are we meant to be empty handed? 
I know I could, I could be better.

I dont think I deserve it, selflessness.
Find your way into my heart.

All stars could be brighter,
All hearts could be warmer.

What would it take for things to be quiet?

Now I am going to go cry some. Just kidding!

Until next week, 
Caroline 

Saturday, May 23, 2009

My Music, My Hectic Weeks

Yo.
I didn't tell you guys about my AP week because I thought I would bore you with my complaints like Megan did to us (I'm kidding, don't kill me!). But I decided as of this moment to tell you guys about it anyway. You see, I was torn between telling you guys about what music I listen to and my AP week. So in a big flash of brilliance I thought, "Why not combine the two?" I know. I'm a genius.
Don't deny it.

My AP weeks were all about time & confusion. There was not enough time and too much confusion. I didn't know much of anything and to make it worse, some of my teachers were pelting me with last minute assignments. I felt like I was being run over by an avalanche of papers. But with my friends by my side, nothing could go wrong right? Well... We accomplished a lot by asking a couple of Pizza Huts, some random numbers, and a lawyer's office for help on chemistry. In other words, we prank called them. We asked a bunch of Pizza Huts if either
a) They knew where we could find the nearest Papa John's.
b) They could help on our chemistry exam.
The ironic thing was, they actually helped us on both. Though for the chemistry, we were laughing too hard to get any answers or ask any questions.
In my moments of reclusion, I often took breaks between my self-study sessions. I don't seem to motivate myself very well. I tried to get my friends to study on Sundays but one of my friends is Mormon so we couldn't. Talk about a day late friend. About my Mormon friend, he has a car with an awesome stereo system. His brother installed a bunch of speakers that rocked the car with boomin' vibrations. All that was missing were bouncing oversized wheels. Speaking of cars, after my AP Lang exam, I had to get a ride from Ryan and his ghetto jeep. I have to tell you, I will never risk my life like that ever again just to get a ride home. Ryan has a stick shift jeep that is liable to die on you at any time. My friends told my horrifying stories of his car dying on an uphill. The trip actually went well. The car responded when he turned on the ignition (Thank God), he managed to drive very well, and the rickety jeep didn't die on the uphill.
Back to the AP's. The end of the week was so aluring. How I wished to break free of this curse of studying and studying and studying. It rotted me from the inside out and you could see it too. I was 923145014 times more exhausted than usual, I was emotionally demoralized, and my tennis was crying in pain as I tossed it in the "To be ignored til later" section of my mind. My mind was a slave to AP's as I wrote more than 1000 words on paper after paper. "Must keep going... Must keep studying.... Must maintain conciousness..."

Gah, you know what? I'm done. This is harder than it looks, trying to somehow put each song title in the context of my AP weeks. I'm taking the easy way out. I'm just going to leave it at that and that's that, alright? Are you good? I thought so.

-June

Random Statement: This blog's 1 year anniversary is May 25! Yay!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Going to hang out with people and dead bodies!!!

Well, I began this private blog with Jerrod. Today, I thought of this great, fool-proof way to check if there is a new post since it won't work with Google Reader. See, on the dashboard it tells you the number of posts, right? So I would know when there is one more, right? Well, there was a new post! So I looked. But there wasn't. So it turns out it was just a draft by mistake, I mean, all it had was a title, "L," so that was completely misleading.
My parents got mad at me again yesterday. They should have a semi-annual or quarterly or whatever exciting offical day in which they time the number of seconds it takes to make me cry, or the number of words they needs to use. They could set records!
Thank you for all the wonderful remarks in my "yearbook." It was very touching to read and write notes to people.
Tonight, we are going to see the Our Body exhibit. I need to look up directions for that. I think it will be really fun with really fun people.

One more day of school!
-Kejing

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Your Mom Went To College! And Then Medical School..?

Getting there was a pain in the kiester.

But oh boy was it worth it.

We arrived laaatteee (11 or 12 at night) so we pretty much went to bed. But we had to get up pretty early to make a run to Publix, Costco, and Paul's Bakery for small groceries, party food for that night, and the special french cake for that night, respectively. There goes 3 hours. We jetted back to hang out on the beach until the evening where we dressed up and went around the block to my mother's friend, Helene's apartment for the party. Delicious. A tinsy bit hungover, we woke up early on Saturday to an all American breakfast. By 3 pm we were out the door and well on our way to my mother's graduation ceremony, though not without getting thoroughly lost. The ceremony was magnificent. There was food, of course, after and plenty of pictures. I'm so proud of her. 

Yep, it's pretty much set in stone- I'm going to be a doctor.
- Jonathan

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

There Is No Difference Between Hell and Junior Year, NONE!

It's Megan again, and I think I will be your new, permanent blogger for Wednesdays! Wow, there actually was one good thing about this year!

You may have heard me say before that I'm not a whiner, but I feel like I can trust you guys so let me have at it. Junior year could not have been worse if all our teachers were horned demons and the water from our fountains were poisoned with cyanide. My situation was like this: no car, no off campus pass, no money, no freedom and little time to hang out with friends. I don't want your pity, I'd rather give you a list, in chronological order, of the events that happened this year.

  • I was, again, the loser cheerleader
  • the people I hanged out with at lunch started going off campus (remember, no pass did I have)
  • my parents, the lovelies that they are, decided to tighten their already choking grip on my life, cause the best way to show your kids you love them is by saying "no" to EVERYTHING right?
  • Calc BC swallowed me like a bastard son
  • I acquired a not-so-easily-ditchable-but-very annoying friend
  • I'm going to lose my best friend next year
I am making a vow right now to everyone that I will make Senior year the best if it kills me. I know I wont have to try that hard though, because we can all help each other accomplish this!

p.s. the skins marathon will still be held at my house, and I'm thinking that Tuesday will be a good day. According to Hunter, who has planned this whole thing, that might change, so I will fill people in as soon as I can.

until next week, bye!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

trying new things

so this post today is going to be a bit bipolar there is a part that i wrote earlier this week and a part that i am going to be writing today and im sorry if the no capitalization and punctuation weirds anyone out i guess i just feel like that today

it is also a bit long so i apologize in advance

first
sometimes i wonder if my emotions are common or if i am completely alone right now i am eighteen and that is just a fact but i never really feel eighteen and sometimes i feel much younger whenever someone hurts me i feel like i am five years old its really only the people close to me that have the power to make me feel bad i try to be open with them and i suppose vulnerable in some ways and just full of trust you know and then something happens all of the sudden the only i feel is sick and sometimes mad because anger has always been the more acceptable emotion when you compare it to something like sadness because if im sad and hurt then that makes me weak what ive always wanted most was just to be tough enough that way i wouldnt have to feel like this

and then
today i was pleasantly surprised ive always felt that there isnt a group at school that i belong to i mean sure i have friends but there isnt a particular place that i really belong after school i felt a little bit out of my element i was around people that i really do not know that well and they were really amiable and helpful it made me get that warm and fuzzy feeling considering how terrible today could have been it really turned out to be not that bad

we all got yearbooks today i do not know why i freak out so much about writing in peoples yearbooks sometimes it feels as though im having an actual panic attack i suppose it is because i dont think i am that memorable and i actually have evidence there is this one kid at school who i have introduced myself to five times at least and i know that the next time i see him he will tell me his name which i happen to remember and then ask for mine which he will probably never remember i just want people to look back and know who i am and i know what i write could be the difference there

this year it came to my attention that i need a filter sometimes the things that i think just do not need to be said aloud but i also think that i need to learn how to control my facial expressions apparently sometimes they are condescending or something i dont know perhaps they give away what i am thinking like when someone is tellling you a story and you are thinking oh my goodness will this story ever end that is probably something i should work on i guess

now that ap exams are over i am getting to do all of the things that i put off during the school year i have about a zillion movies that i bought that i get to watch now and a good number of books as well it is awesome to get to be so lazy

also i bought a purse so i can be more feminine two actually which just shows how indecisive i am but one of them was stripedy so i couldnt help myself

there are only four more days of school left for me and this is the first time in forever that it just seems weird that the summer is here

well i guess im gonna be scootin i have places to be and important things to do well not really but i certainly do have movies to watch so peace out holmes

-lacey

Monday, May 18, 2009

Never could figure out the grennades...

This weekend I played Halo 3 for the first time. Now when I say played, I mean I did almost nothing else. I have never really been into shooting games, not really my style. However, I couldn't seem to stop playing and sorta of enjoyed it. It's actually one of the most difficult games I've ever played due to the necessary coordination needed.

So you know how facebook changed it's chat set-up...like it's changed pretty much else since it has started? Well, a couple of minutes ago, mine changed back to normal. I went to the friends' page, hoping that would be normal again too, but it wasn't. Then my chat changed back. I really miss the old friend page. It was a convenient way to look at everyone statuses and its the only update that I've actually been mad about.

And that is all.

-Brianna

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Dez Moines-It's a song, not a city

Hello there, Blue Powerblogger here!


Oh my God, this weekend has been pretty much amazing!!!! On friday, my friends KP and Andrew came over and we swam. Then, Erica and Blair came over for ice cream and movie night. Saturday, I went shopping for new clothes, bought some flip flops, a shirt, and a bathing suit, then I went to my voice recital! It was soooo much fun! Sawyer, Timmy, Blair and I made our own little circle on one side of the room and just talked the entire time. We made fun of Queen Katie and her "court", who sat on the other side of the room and looked at themselves in the mirror for the two hour show. We ended up singing two of our own songs and rocked the place! Afterwards, Timmy, Karson and I went to Unclaimed's show at Northwoods Baptist. We saw a really cool group play there, called Maradona. They have a female lead singer, which was really awesome to watch because out of all the shows I've been to, I haven't seen any groups with girls in the band. Sunday was pretty amazing, too. Timmy and I went to Wendy's (there is absolutely nowhere to go on our side of town), picked up Nathan, and then went to our other recital. We sang two more original songs, made the building explode with awesomeness, and had a ton of fun. And I got to chase Timmy around Sail because he kiddingly called me a slut. I threatened to beat him up. It was sooooo much fun though!

So now I am waiting for Timmy to call me and tell me about how they just kicked out their band's bass player. Oh, this is gonnna be good...

And school is pretty much basically over. Thank the Lord.

That's all for now. Listen to "Dez Moines" by The Devil Wears Prada!!!!! It's simply awesome :D

Until next week,
Caroline

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Fun With Cha Cha

I've been introduced to Cha Cha very recently. After I finally found out what it was for, I started having fun with it. Brendon and I texted Cha Cha during a break in our APUSH study session and we had a bunch of interesting questions with some answers being great while others boring:

Q: Who would win in a fight between a grizzly bear and a gorilla?
A: Most likely a grizzly bear. It has natural weapons, as well as a greater weight when full grown.

Q: If a man beat another man with his prosthetic leg, would it be hitting or kicking?
A: The leg in question would then become a melee weapon and would be considered hitting.

Q: I was bitten by a mad cow and now I'm turning into one. How should I use my newly found cow powers?
A: Use your mad cow powers to produce a bunch of milk and cow patties. Do a cow dance and find a she-cow to mate with.

Q: I killed someone =(. How should I dispose of the body?
A: By calling the police and having them pick it up.

Q: I was arrested and now I'm in the prison showers. A big muscular man dropped his soap next to me. Should I pick it up?
A: It's entirely up to you. If someone dropped their soap, it would be a nice gesture to pick it up.

Q: What is finger licking good besides food?
A: I don't think anything is finger licking good thank you.

Q: How many hot girls are in Cha Cha?
A: As of Oct. 2008, ChaCha has over 35,000 U.S. citizens/residents signed up to help our customers as guides. All the girls are HOT!

Q: I took over the world and now I'm bored. What should I make my minions do?
A: Slay all dragons and do the ChaCha.

Q: My bus is running late. How should I enact my wrath on the driver?
A: Put a 'house for sale' sign ad in the newspaper regarding his home and subscribe him to every woman's magazine you can think of.

Q: I have a massive case of senioritis. Do you know the cure?
A: Hang in there, the year is almost done. Then you can have a case of 'It's all over!-itis'!

Q: I'm Superman. Someone found out about my secret identity. What should I do to him?
A: There isn't a definite answer. You must choose your own.

Q: What do women want from men?
A: There isn't a definite answer.

Q: Give me your funniest Asian stereotype.
A: Asian women can't drive.

Q: Give me your best 'yo mamma' joke.
A: Yo mamma is so fat, even her clothes have stretch marks.

Join us tomorrow for another.... uh.... man I'm running out of creative introductions for Caroline (fail).

-June

.........................................................................................................................................What? Those questions weren't random enough for you?

Friday, May 15, 2009

I need a life.

I feel so abandoned because no one will hang out with me and I am just sitting here and the most exciting thing that is happening all afternoon is that I am writing for The Power Bloggers. Which is great, I'm sure, but I would love to get out of the house.

I never got aroudn to drawing in my booklets during exams. But at the end of the English exam, I decided to do something with my pen, so I redid the picture of the space shuttle and its surroundings. I took about fifteen minutes to do it. I showed Chanyang and Erica because they were sort of near me.

I had to take my brother to baseball practice this week. It was also picture day, so this lady came to take a picture of the team. My mom told me to bring the camera, so I took pictures too, as did a few other parents. Once, the lady told them to say "MONEY!" They did. Except one kid said in a bright voice, "CASH!!!" I thought that was so funny for some reason.

Today was the senior's last day of school. Sonal said "WOOH!" really loudly when the bell rang at the end of 7th period.

Kelly taught us self-defense during 7th period today. That was pretty cool.

-A sad power blogger

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Raining On My Parade (Or Something Like That)

So I'm trying to type this email from the confines of a small silver sedan inching across the interstate system on a weak internet connection. Bear with with me.


Why am I in a car on a laptop typing? Funny you should ask- I'm going to see my mother graduate medical school. This weekend is surely to be one of epic proportions.
First of all, I get to see my godmother and her two daughters- my closest thing to relatives in France (my aunt and grandfather are.. well, distant). They are incredibly fun, good humored, and above all, french. Thank goodness.
I also get to see my aunt (on my father's side this time) whom it is always a pleasure to see. She is definitely one of my favorite people. Like top three, at least. Like yeah. Like. Like. Like. What am I, a middle school-aged girl?
To add to the excitement, my mother's two best friends are coming and bringing their families (though one friend already lives next door- it's her mother that's also coming all the way over from France). Craziness.
So what does a group of 15 do? Well, we picnic, go bowling, eat, go to a graduation ceremony, eat, and then say goodbye after three days of intense love and fun. And oh yeah, eat some more. Can you tell that the french are very food oriented? 

So we have a little more than 5 hours left to drive and I'm not sure if we're going to make it. 

Stupid rain.
- Jonathan

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Well it is almost over. I've taken the calc, chem, and psych exams. All that is left is Lang. If that even counts.

It is weird. I should be so excited to be done with chemistry, but I am coming to realize that I really like chemistry. And I am pretty good at it. (Except for multiple choice.) I really think I am going to miss it. I actually feel sad. Maybe I am just emotional.

I just got some of the best news ever. The originals are always better than the sequels. And its finally the way it should be.

This school year is almost over. . . It's been really interesting. Lots of things have changed. I mean, wow. I feel like a whole different person.

I wonder what will happen next. I guess it all depends on what happens now. And now everything seems pretty good. And I can't complain about that. Maybe it's finally figured out and this is exactly what needed to happen. I'll cross my fingers.

-Lacey

Monday, May 11, 2009

Opportunities

Sometimes it hurts to remember all the lost opportunities. The chances that could have made you a whole different person. I've been thinking about that a lot. But I don't think we always realize the opportunities ahead. The chance that the new choices will make us into new, beautiful people.

You know, I've been trying really hard to compliment people more. I'm awfully terrible at it, but I'll keep trying. Because I think if we help other people recognize the good choices they've made instead of the bad, it'll make the world a better place.

And even now, when I'm tired and sad and overwhelmed, I'm so excited to make up for all the lost opportunities.

This was a bit incoherent. My mind has been a but incoherent lately.

-Brianna

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Assistant to the Regional Manager

Hello there, Blue Powerblogger here! And I DID NOT FORGET my post last weekend!My grandpa passed away so I had bigger things on my mind...hmph!



So I went to a funeral this weekend and had to miss two days of school. Basically, I was only at school for one day last week. Except I did go to Mrs. Ewart's class after my calc exam on Wednesday and I got extra-extra credit since I was there for one and a half hours! It still won't bring up my B though... ): Monday I took my AP french exam and I can honestly say that I think I got a one on it...our teacher is so terrible that I think I knew more french at the end of last year than I do now! Thursday I left to go to my grandpa's funeral which was out of town so that caused me to miss two days of school. I started stressing out and having a panic attack because I haven't missed an entire day of school in a year and a half and I have two major exams this week, plus all of the emotional stress the tragedy had on me. It was pretty awful, but I got to spend the weekend with my cousins whom I love dearly and they made things better :)

AND I got The Devil Wears Prada's new cd, "With Roots Above and Branches Below" on Tuesday!!! It's AMAZINGGGGGGG!!!!! The lyrics are the best part, after Jeremy Depoyster's voice, of course. Here's a sampling-

"Well it can't much longer now
We can face this.
Fight life with life

All glory to the one in existence.
Bring upon your name, your grace, your every thing

Hold hands and stare into the circle
What are we looking at? "
-Assistant to the Regional Manager by TDWP

It's just so different than other, more "mainstream" music because the lyrics are deeper than "I love this boy and he loves me". It reaches a spiritual and emotional level that can really be life changing if you take a minute to listen. That's why I love The Devil Wears Prada. 

So that's really all I have for today. This week I have two exam-Chem and Lang. Chem will probably kill me but Lang will be easy. Good luck to everyone else on their exams! And this weekend I have my voice recital! This will be the first time that anyone will hear any of my songs completely out of the studio! 

AND HEY ERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Until next week,
-Caroline

Saturday, May 9, 2009

It's Still Exam Week....

I'm going to study for chem! What a good way to spend Mother's Day tomorrow. Other than good grades, I have no idea what I'm getting my mom for Mother's Day. I'm going to enjoy the last minute shopping. >.<
That's all I got because I still don't know how to do equillibrium problems. Join us tomorrow for a post that Caroline will hopefully not forget! By the way, welcome Erica!

-June

Friday, May 8, 2009

Oh wait, I need a title.

It is the fourth day of missing school. I was excited to listen to The Killers, thanks to Lacey, who has now burned all four of their CDs for me. It is four unless I am mistaken. Also, I parked next to Blair, and got to talk to her for a while. William came pretty soon, and I realized how much history I did not know. The exam was okay. I took Jack home again. He was a lot happier today.
I'm really excited about my early dinner today. In two hours, I will be leaving to eat at OneFresh with Clara, Nathaniel, Marshall, Carolyn, and other wonderful people.
I can't even begin to study sciences. I get so bored and want to kill something... Ehh.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
I shall leave you with a weird moment of the day.

me: celibacy
Jack: ?
nasty

...

~Kejing

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Going AP Shit Crazy (Pardon My French)

No, literally, pardon my french. It was awful. Monday I took the AP French Language exam and realized just how little french I knew and how infantile what french I do know is. Can you say humbling? But hey- at least I have a chance at passing it. That is, unless Amber calls the Office of Testing Intregity and confesses our rather relaxing testing environment. Teddy Puppy.

Wednesday I tackled the AP Calculus AB exam. By tackled I mean got run over by. I skipped 10 multiple choice questions and left several FRQs without answers or any real work. I'm just glad I get another shot at it next year.
Tomorrow is AP US History. Gah. I am so unprepared! I decided to take the exam as a challenge but, looking at the multiple choice and DBQs, I don't think I can do this. Why did I do this to myself?! Gahhhh!
Mmm, Monday is my favorite. AP Biology. I am going to get a 5. This is nonneogtiable. Seriously- anything less and I will not be content. Infact, anything less than a 6 is unsatisfactory. Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating. Not really.
Wednesday. AP Language and Composition. Ha ha.

And then it's down to Miami on Thursday night to see my mother graduate medical school and see my godmother, her daughters, my mom's best friend and her family, my mom's other friend and her mother, and yeah. That's a lot of people. 

- Jonathan

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Sick and Tired

Hi! It's erica. First off I'd like to mention how sad we are that viv is leaving us for stupid old college. we will miss you viv! Second, I would like to congratulate all those who took their calculus exams today. You guys are all brave for taking on that challenge and even if you failed, you should still commend yourself for being awesome and taking calc! :)
I think that the song Candle (sick and tired) is pretty much a good representation of how everyone is feeling right now. Not only are we all sick (thanks mao...) but we are all oh so very tired due to APs. and we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. I have already decided that next wednesday after my last exam i am just going to sleep all day to catch up on the many hours i have lost. i often wonder why i take all these AP classes. I mean I hate final exams because you have to remember all this stuff you learned at the beginning of the year and then go take this big long test and write essays and then wait for months for the results. Doesn't seem too fun. But I suppose the work load isn't anything I can't handle and it does look pretty spiffy on college apps, which is what high school is all about, right?
Now, back to psych notecards...

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Good morning everyone. So yes. I missed my post. But at least it wasn't by too much.

Today I have my first AP exam of the year. Calculus. Oh joy. Really I only consider chemistry and calculus to be my difficult exams. So after tomorrow I will only have one of those to go. Thank goodness.

I am awfully tired. And I have spent the whole day learning as much calculus as possible. I should probably be asleep by now so that I can ace the exam.

Ever since I can remember, I have been basically failing math exams. There is something about testing me on a whole year of math that freaks me out or something.

Oh my goodness. My exam is less than seven hours away!!!!! How terrifying.

At least I finally got the book that I've been looking for, Tweak by Nic Sheff and I am so excited. I read an excerpt from the beginning online and I've been dying to finish the book ever since.

Good luck to everyone on their exams. And if you are reading this and don't have exams, then good luck on life.

-Lacey

Monday, May 4, 2009

After Exams

So this is it...the grand finale. The two weeks we've all been waiting for. As the stress engulfs my very being, I'm trying to remember everything. This is not a very good mix.

But this, my friends, is the bright side. This will all be over in two weeks. And it will be wonderful, magical, and most excellent.

I'm excited to have the time to watch Lost again...yes I have become one of the people that I mocked just a few short months ago. I can also spend more time with my neopet, I can finally beat Pokemon: Gold (I'm on the last trainer), and I can finish up on the various books I'm reading. Plus I can finally find a job and perhaps hang out with my friends.

It'll be quite excellent, don't you think?

-Brianna

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Time Is Running Away And I Can't Keep Up

Apparently I suck.

I'm not going to have any time to do anything next week. I have three exams to study for and none of them are exactly walks in the park. Memorize, memorize, memorize, solve, solve, solve, apply, apply, apply. I'm starting to see that I took half of the school year for granted; back when I used to sleep all the time. "I wish I listened to her when she taught related rates" or "I wish I didn't sleep when she taught us the exponential and power models." I knew that sleeping would backfire on me one day. -.-
I also wish I had time to post but I'll leave you with a video (if you watched Men In Black 2, you will find this sort of funny I hope) that I found and bid you a fond adieu.

-June
Random Question: Is cheerleading an actual sport?

Friday, May 1, 2009

RfL

Today is the beginning of the 20th? annual Relay For Life.

Our math teacher finished grading our tests the day after we took them.

Lacey wanted me to tell you that boys suck.

My physics teacher replied to my mostly Spanish email in Spanish. I think he totally cheated. He probably asked his wife to reply to me, which is cool, but he still cheated. She is so good at Spanish!

We took our last test in there today.

In history, Nirav, other people, and I did the Presidents Quiz. That requires listing the first and last names of all the US presidents in order. The problem is that we never learned the presidents song so a lot of people would have a head start. But it was all okay in the end. Phew.

And it was probably my second to last day in class with my "sweetie boo boo."
Who is a jerk.

In Spanish, I intercepted a frisbee. Between two guys. :)

Hopefully Wal*mart has what I need.

Seriously. Lacey is correct. (Sorry, June and Jonathan.)

Good bye until next Friday.

~Kejing

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