Musical Friends at Lacrosse School

I'm quickly trying to post so that I won't have only 2 posts for April. That would be lame. So what to talk about..... Let's just go over how my week has been, shall we?

So on Monday....... I think I had a lacrosse game. Oh yes, I stayed after school on Monday for musical theater where we worked on choreographing some dances. Afterwards, I went to my lacrosse game which I was ten minutes late to because of musical theater and my mom and Ashley decided to take forever in the grocery store. Really, I care more about lacrosse than if my family eats tonight. Anyway, we won the game and it was very grand. After that, I went to the Viewmont High School dance concert with Sammy. It was so cool.

On Tuesday, I slept in late and missed my bus. I won't deny I was being a little slower than usual in the hopes that maybe I could miss the bus since I didn't have my math homework done (and math happened to be 1st period...) and I also didn't finish making my costume for musical theater which I had to bring to school that day. Therefore, I suggested to my mom that I miss first period to work on my costume. Perfect. I finished sewing it, then I tried it on and marveled at how 60's I looked. Towards the end of 2nd period, I did what I had forever been afraid of. I rode the UTA bus (the city bus). I checked online for the time and went through my own and my parents change until I could find two dollars, and then waited at the bus stop. It was a very enjoyable ride. I sat across from a guy that stared at me the whole time. He seemed nice. I was very relieved to finally get off the bus, and I was also proud of myself for conquering my fear. The rest of the school day was spiffingly amazing and I stayed until 5 pm after school for our "costume parade" for musical theater. Yay.

Wednesday was Saddam Hussein and my little sister's birthday. She turned seven. For musical theater, we went on a bus right at the beginning of class to a different junior high where we will be performing our play at since the stage at my junior high sucks rocks. Ms. Swallow had talked about how big and nice the stage is. It's not. Oh well, it's better than our school and I'm grateful that we have a pretty good place to perform. We stayed until 5:17 pm (for some reason I remember looking at my phone when I left and that was the time) working on some of the dances and scenes. When I got home, my little sister, Emma, informed the whole family that since I'm home, we can now party. We ate chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwiches (Emma's choice for dinner) and then opened presents. She got a jump rope and weird dolls that are like barbies but bigger with big faces and uglier clothes. She also got a bucket of chalk. Therefore, my family decided to go outside and play with chalk. We spent a long time out there drawing with the chalk and tracing eachother's bodies. It was super duper fun and our family really needs to do that more often. It totally beats Disneyland. I made my outline on the side walk and made myself dead. We also made a dead Miley Cyrus and I wrote Chinese along the side walk and we totally covered our drive way. I enjoyed it. After that, we had cake and ice cream and then watched a movie. While watching the movie, I attempted to do my math homework. I stared at the problems for ever then decided to just not do the assignment altogether. We had to graph a bunch of stuff that will definitely help me when I'm older. Wow! The graph of the cosine of that angle is this, we're all saved! To me, it just looked like a bunch of squiggly lines. So I just drew that on one of the problems, then decided not to do the three assignments I had due the next day. The end of the school year is the worst, because I'm so close to being out of school so I stop caring about school and just give up. I haven't even looked at my grades yet, and I don't really want to. Okay, well I just did. And they're pretty spiffy. I guess my math teacher hasn't updated my three missing assignments yet.

Thursday I had musical theater after school at Bountiful Jr. High (where we're doing the musical), and then I hung with Mike and Sariah and they filmed me and made clones of me. I don't remember what happened later that night. I was sitting on my bed and was definitely planning on doing my homework. Well at least I was thinking about it, and then next thing I knew it was morning. I was very confused, I couldn't really remember the night before.

Today, Friday, we had elections at school. Everyone running had to make a video. I've never seen them before since the day that they did it the past two years, I had to go to my mom's graduation. Some of them were good, others painfully stupid, and some hilarious. We watched all of them and then voted. I went to Bountiful Jr. again for musical theater during 7th period. I had to wear a dress to school that day because it was our last lacrosse game of the season. I detest wearing dresses to school. It's so wrong, too airy and free and you have to keep your legs together. Ugh. Anyway, I had to leave musical theater early for my lacrosse game. Ms. Swallow was talking to us about what we needed to work on, then she had people get on stage to practice a dance. Right when she told us to get on stage, I booked it out the door and ran outside to the get away car with my mom and sisters inside.

I went to my lacrosse game against Park City. It seemed to be going well, I got to place about half of the game and two of my guy friend, Ben Fisher and Mike Evans, were there. At the end of the game though, we were tied 6 to 6. We were going to end it there, but then we decided to do overtime. In that 6 minutes of overtime, Park City scored, and our record of being undefeated was lost in that last game. We were so devestated to be defeated at our last game of the season, and to not be undefeated. I was so upset. We tried our best though, and we're all so proud of our team. I still have three games tomorrow, but they are for a tournament. So, our season is pretty much over. And after tomorrow (Saturday), lacrosse will be done for another year.

Sammy and I went back to my house, and then we had three of our friends, Ben Fisher, Mike Evans, and Zach Cederlof, came over and we hung out and watched a freaky movie that now has me scared to go to sleep. It was cool, and we kept on scaring each other after watching it. Me and Sammy have been friends with some not-so-good guys, and we're sick of them. So hanging with those three boys was new for us but it was so much fun and we enjoyed just having fun and knowing that they are good boys who just want to have fun and hang out. I loved it.

Ok, there we go. I feel bad I've barely posted this year. Sorry.

BTW, tickets go on sale on Monday for "Bye Bye Birdie", my school's musical. The show runs Thursday through Saturday, May 13th to 15th. It's 7 pm each night, and 3 pm on Saturday as well as a 7 pm. Tickets are $6 and you guys should come since you all love me. The tickets sell during lunch or at the door. So, if you want tickets, just send me money and let me know what time, or just let me know what time and I'll get them and I'll make sure you pay me back later. You really should come. Because if you don't then I won't be happy. And it will be super duper cool. And I am the best "extra" in the musical. And I get to wear a 60's outfit. And my hair will be straight. And it will be super duper freaking awesome. Okay that's all. Bye!

BYU Language Fair

Aaaah, posting is getting too hard!! I never want to post any more because no one really cares that much about what I do anyway and when something semi-cool does happen I never want to post. I need to get back to blogging, this is only my 12th post this year, at this rate I'll only post 36 times this year and that is unacceptable.

Last week, I went to the Brigham Young University Language Fair. I'm taking Mandarin Chinese this year, and BYU has a Language fair every year. The past two years, I went for French. Pretty much they just have you go into this building where everything is in French and you can buy stuff, play games, and do competitions. Also, you can be sent to jail if you're caught speaking English. In 7th grade I got caught many times and just broke out every time (it was so much fun having college people chasing you down the hall and hiding!!), but last year they were more tight on their "security" and made you do a worksheet before they let you out. I still got caught mulitple times, it's kinda fun. Anyway, I absolutely hated taking French. The teacher was terrible and I always avoid her in the halls because I don't want her to talk to me. The actual language was fun though. So this year I decided to take Chinese for some crazy reason and I absolutely love learning it (even though I hate the class). I study a lot at home and I know a lot so far.

Last Thursday, we had to meet at the school at 6 am to go on the bus to get to BYU because it takes over an hour to get there. I set my alarm and was going to be ready extra early so I would have time to run to a gas station to buy a lunch before getting to the school. Well, I went to sleep, and then woke up to a weird buzzing noise. I recognized it as my cell phone. I opened my eyes, looked at my alarm clock, and saw that it was 6:10. I had a mini heart attack right there. I answered and it was my friend, Sammy, asking where I was. I freaked out and was about ready to cry and destroy my stupid alarm clock. I ran upstairs while talking to Sammy to wake up my mom. The bus was going to leave at 6:15. I told Sammy I just wasn't going to go, but she told me I was going and I better throw some clothes on and get my butt to school. So I did just that, five minutes later I was out the door. I got to the bus on time because my sweet Chinese teacher, Bao Laoshi is so nice and waited for me. The school was locked and I was already upset so I just left all of my stuff in my mom's car because I didn't feel like dragging all of my school and lacrosse stuff on the bus (I had a game after school). When I was on the bus, I had the pleasure of sitting by someone's dad who was making sure we knew our Chinese and had flash cards and was quizzing us. That was exciting. We made sure not to sit by him on the way home.

We got to BYU, and eventually found the building we were supposed to be in. We got passports, and got greeted by some Chinese speaking people who let us in. We then went to a table where we give them our money in exchange for their fake money which was 2 dollars for every dollar we had. I had 10 bucks so I had a nice, pink 20 paper bill. Sammy and I went inside and bought a fan and a lantern for each of us then just wandered around for a bit looking at stuff and doing activities. The trading real money for their fake money was smart, because it made the value to seem less and I had no problem spending my 20 when I probably wouldn't have if I was holding actual money. My friend, Ethan Drake, made me go to a competition where I had to have a conversation with a Chinese lady in front of a bunch of people in a big room. I felt like an idiot. I can speak and understand Chinese and write it, but I cannot understand them if they talk super fast. I did an okay job but still felt stupid, and I got 14 out of 20 and a cute certificate. Yay me. After that, Sammy and I got bored. The Chinese fair was so close together and kind of claustrophobic and not as spread out as the French Fair had been and it wasn't a place that we felt like spending the next four hours at. Therefore, we ditched and went to go find the Spanish fair. We went to the cafeteria and found some of our friends, Zack and PJ, who were at the Spanish fair so we just followed them around. We followed them to a building where they had to do a skit in Spanish for a competition so we sat and watched them and waited while a Spanish guy kept on asking us if we wanted to compete. Me and Sammy told him we were very sure that we didn't want to compete. The longest sentence I can say in Spanish is "Por favor deje nos un mensaje" I think that's right. That was my grandma's answering machine for 10 years (Hola, you have met Carol, or Joe. Por favor deje nos un mensaje.") After hanging with PJ and Zack for a while, we went back to the Chinese fair for a bit, went back to the Spanish fair, and just walked aroud a lot. It was really fun.

On the way back, we had fun sleeping and throwing mints and we got from the Chinese fair out of the bus window at people on the highway with their windows rolled down. It was entertaining.

I had a lacrosse scrimage (fake game) later which was super duper fun and hot, and then a real game the next day which we won and I almost scored at (I've scored twice this season). It's been a spiffy week.

Sky Ride at Lagoon

Hey I haven't posted because there wasn't anything post worthy in my life other than lacrosse and I'm sure you guys have had enough of that. I could always tell you about my first kiss or something like that, but I'm sure you guys don't want to hear about that. Finally, something somewhat post worthy, my first day of work was today!! Yay!????

My older sister Ashley and I both are working at Lagoon this year, but instead of doing games I'm doing rides and so is Ashley. I've probably told you this, but why not say it again to refresh your memories. So today, I was supposed to work these two rides called "Lady Bug Bop" and "Dinosaur Drop" which are these rides that take you about thirty feet up in the air and drop you over and over which they have at about every amusement park, only this one doesn't go as high and it's cuter. I went there for about ten minutes before my supervisor called me on the phone and told me I needed to go to sky ride. Great.

Sky ride is kind of like a ski lift. You get on and it transports you from the north end to the south end or the other way around and it carries you maybe 100 feet in the air I think and takes seven minutes or something to go to each side of the park. It doesn't stop for loading or unloading so you have to go fast. Me and this guy named Alberto worked it, and for the first while I just unloaded people. Not a lot of people were on earlier in the day, so when no one's on, you have to clean. So each time one of the carriers came down, I would follow it while wiping it down then turn around and go meet the next one. It's pretty simple though, and it's tricky at first trying to say a speech so fast before people get off or start rising when they get on and you have to be constantly walking because you walk forward with the carrier and then you let go, turn around, and let the next people on or off and then walk with the carrier then turn around again. People have to stand in the ride area and when the ride comes, it just kinda knocks them onto the seat, and then when people come off they have to hurry and run off the carrier when I open the lap bar. I like letting people off more, because when you let people on you have to make sure not too many people are getting on, there are no loose articles, and you have to check for hand stamps and sometimes people have a hard time getting on the ride so you have to stop it. There are orange ropes that are in between the loading and unloading station that you pull on if someone needs help getting on or off or if there's an emergency or something and those save my life because we've had kids getting on that start to fall off or people who can't walk very well. When we do that, we have to call the other side and say "clear" so they can start the ride again or if they stop it then they call us. It's very nice. I made some stupid mistakes, but overall I think I did a spiffy job.

I've been avoiding my games managers and supervisors. I'm sure nothing would happen if they did see me, I just don't want them to. One of my favorite supervisors from games did see me though, and he said "What are you doing with a rides shirt??" and told me he'd delete me from his friends on facebook. He's cool. I miss my old games friends.

K, now that I've done a bad job explaining because I have nothing better to do, then I can express how "excited" I am to be doing stuff like that until the end of October, which is about 6 and a half months. Yay. Goodbye, thanks for reading this post I wrote because I have nothing better to do.