Aliens at High School Churches

I better post before it gets any later and I forget what even happened this week. What if I just stopped posting altogether? I bet all of you would just break down and cry.

Sunday was fun, I got to give a talk! It was on charity, and everyone told me I did a good job, but that's probably because that's what people are supposed to say. Even if someone gives a downright terrible talk, you must tell them they did an excellent job. Dad kept on making faces at me while I was sitting up there which is always fun. I do like giving talks, I don't see why people freak out so much. You go up there, say what you need to, amen, and go sit down. And it doesn't matter if it was terrible, because by the next week no one will remember it anyway.

On Monday, my dad, sisters, and I went to see the Princess and the Frog. Or at least we tried to. We accidentally went into the wrong theater. We were expecting the Princess and the Frog, when all of a sudden a bunch of green alien people come on the screen. I thought it was just a commercial, but they started doing the beginning credits while showing the happy little green people going around town, smiling, laughing, and introducing their lives. I was horrified, I did not want to watch some stupid cartoon about aliens for the next two hours. I've never even heard of the movie before. Emma even whispered to my dad when it first started "I didn't know they had kubo." Help me. We ended up staying to watch it since we were already there, and it actually wasn't too bad. I kind of liked it. The beginning was just really cheesy and stupid, especially to someone who's never even heard of it before. It is called Planet 51, and it's about these green people who live there and freak out because an alien (human) comes to their planet. I did end up liking it, it was pretty funny.

Tuesday was spiffing. I got this piano song off of youtube called Haze and it's just a song some kid made up, but I absolutely love it. There isn't any sheet music though since the kid just made it up, so I put it on my ipod, and I got out my blank music book thing, and I just listened to the song and wrote down the notes. I was proud of myself because I found out the key and time signature and wrote it all down and made it work just by listening to it, and now I play it a lot because it's so cool. I don't know if what I did is even allowed, but it's not like the guy will find out, and I did put the title and his name at the top of the piece. I spent most of Tuesday on the piano.

I had mutual on Wednesday, and we did "Fear Factor". We were put into three teams, and we had five different stations, each for ten minutes. The first one I did, we had to find 7 scriptures in 10 minutes saying "if ye are mormon, ye shall not fear" or something like that. We only found like three. The next station, we had to do sit-ups, two at a time, for two minutes straight. We had to see which group would get the most sit-ups. I was the first girl to do sit-ups, and I did 90 in two minutes. At first I was disappointed I only did 90, until all the rest of the girls didn't get over 80. Then I felt pretty proud, and even more when some boys couldn't do as much as me. (The next day, my stomach was sore) The next event thing, we had to eat gross food. We had McDonald's french fries, hamburgers, root beer, and baby formula all blended together which we had to drink. I took one sip and had to cover my mouth to keep from throwing up. It was so sick, I think it was just the root beer that made it so deadly. It also depended on the person, some people thought it wasn't too bad, and others were gagging. It was the grossest thing I've ever had. The next thing my group did, was we had a person stand in the middle, and then everyone sits in a circle around them with their knees bent and the feet in the middle and pressed up against the standing person. The person standing (which was me the first time) then crosses their hands on their shoulders, locks their knees, and falls back. You have to stay stiff, and as you fall, the people sitting push on you and they pretty much just push you back and forth like a rag doll until someone drops you. I didn't really want to do it, because it was a bit awkward being a girl, but it was fun. The last station, we just made paper airplanes and tried to see how many we could fly onto a box on the floor. After we were done, we were informed that we were all winners and we got creamies.

During school on Thursday, the 9th graders got to go to Viewmont High School to take a tour and have the teachers talk to us. We left at about 8:45 from the school. I could tell the people at the high school didn't like us. Whenever our senior tour guides saw one of their friends, they would say "Ohhhh having fun with the 9th graders?" sarcastically and then giggle at their own cleverness at using sarcasm to make fun of freshman. I felt like I was 5, because they gave us name tags so we know our name, bus, tour, and teacher. We were in an art class learning about their program, when the bell rang right when we were about to leave. The senior tour guides wouldn't let us into the hall at first, and then they made us walk in a line right up against the wall so we won't get lost and the scary high school students won't trample us. I thought they were going to have us hold hands and sing the ABC's next. I saw my sister and her boyfriend there, so I felt cool knowing juniors. Yay me. We got back to school during lunch, and when I got back there I felt like I was in elementary school all over again. High school made Junior high seem more crappy than it already is and really small. And all of the sevvies look like they're in 4th grade. I wonder if we look like that to the high school kids.

Today, nothing too exciting happened. I just hung out with Sammy Facer, Riley Smith, and Ben Fisher after school (after accidentally falling asleep for three and a half hours :D) while seven kids under the age of 12 caused mayhem at my house. I told the kids would get physical if they came downstairs and bugged us. The only person I let downstairs for more than 30 seconds was Chelsie, because she's almost twelve and she's the most mature, and because I just plain like her.

Anyway, that was my spectacular week. I hope you guys like the new background and music. I tried not to choose annoying songs or backgrounds. There was one that was amazing, but I thought it would distract you from reading more. And it just makes it hard to read. Goodbye everyone, have a spiffing day.