My Summer So Far

Okay I was trying to think of something interesting to blog about since I haven't blogged this month and I really don't want to, when my cousin, Skyler, mentioned the fact that I have 12 people living in my house. That is kind of interesting I guess. The week before the last day of school, my Aunt Wendy, Uncle William, and four of their kids, Skyler, Reagan and Rebecca, and Mckenna, all moved in. They moved in to the family room and Ashley's room and bathroom, Ashley moved upstairs into Hannah's room, and Hannah moved in with Emma in her room. I got to keep my room, but I reorganized it to make myself feel better. It took them a while to get settled in, and I certainly didn't envy their task of organizing the family room where their kids were sleeping when I saw that you couldn't even see the floor because there were so many boxes and furniture all over the place. They finally got settled, and I kind of like having them live with us. We have dinner every night now because we take turns making dinner and choice night is a bit hard with 12 different people trying to find food. The house certainly isn't cleaner, but I love having the extra help with cleaning every day. Who knew that the twins and Kenna could be so helpful? They also brought their shih-tzu, Ginger. I absolutely love Ginger.

My Grandma and Grandpa Stevens came home from their mission in Mongolia last Wednesday. They weren't supposed to come home until October, but Grandpa had a heart attack and the hospitals there weren't good and he was having a lot of chest pain. They came back to Utah and are staying with my aunt and uncle for a month while they do stuff to him at the hospital and he rests. I don't know what they're doing, something to do with a balloon I think. Anyway, the doctors know what they're doing. It was so nice to see them again after over a year, and a couple of nights ago, Ashley, four of my cousins, and I listened to Grandpa tell stories about Mongolia for an hour and it was really interesting.

It's been fun having more cousins at my house and I've been hanging out with some of my other cousins more. And I've been playing video games a lot more than usual, I played Guitar Hero 1, 2, and 3 with Skyler, and then I've been playing Medal of Honor a lot. That game is so fun. And a couple nights ago, I watched "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" with some of my cousins at the John and Marjorie's house. I used to love that movie when I was younger, and I still do. I forgot how weird it is though.

School ended a week and a half ago. Two days before the last day of school, we had field day which was tons of fun and I got dunked in the dunking booth. The day before the last day of school was 9th grade Lagoon day, so I went and hung out with Sammy and Ben. On the last day of school, I went to school, got my yearbook signed, opened up this trap door and got to go in the crawlspace under the seminary building, got my yearbook signed in Chinese by the Chinese teacher, and then hung out with Sammy. We went to Empire to eat Chinese food with some of our friends (I said "xie xie" to the Chinese waitress who replied "bu ke qi"!! It means "thank you" and "you're welcome". I felt proud.) Sammy and I then went back to her house for a while, then we went to my house, and then Ben came over, and then Ethan came over, and then Ethan went home, and then we went to a couple stores, and then we went back to my house, and then Sammy had to go home for something, and then Ben and I went over to Mike Evan's house, and then I went home. It was fun.

A week ago, Sammy left for Europe on the 9th grade trip. I was pretty sad. I hung out with Ben at Lagoon after work that day. Every day I send Sammy a 10 page long text message because she can't text me back. She was able to send me one text (which was actually 12 pages) at 2 in the morning, and a message on facebook. I've been pretty bored without her and I feel very unsocial at the moment because I don't usually hang out with anyone unless it's with Sammy and all of the people I hang out with with her are guys. So, I've just been working a lot.

I'm trying to work as much as possible since work is a little more bearable since I don't do games anymore and rides is better. I work 5 days this week. Ashley works a lot too. Last Friday and Saturday were really rainy at work though. I was working a water ride on Friday called Rattlesnake Rapids where you get really wet, and not too many people wanted to get even more wet when it was raining so I spent the whole day just talking with the 5 other people working the ride including a guy from Bulgaria. We were teaching him new words and asking him what songs or artists he knows ("oh yes, I know Lady Gaga"), and teaching him "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". We had tons of fun, and now he's my friend on facebook. I had fun that day of work, and whenever someone did go on, we would just quickly put them in a boat and then keep on talking and the supervisor didn't even care. Saturday was miserable though, it was super windy and rainy, and when I was walking outside, I kept on almost falling over sometimes. It was really cold, and the park was a mess from leaves and branches and trash flying everywhere, and I spent two hours in the morning just sweeping over and over even though everything just kept on coming right back. I was sure they would close the park, but they didn't because there was a stupid dance competition. Like we care, let them do their dancing, they don't need rides to do it. I was mad that I had to stay there for seven hours on a kiddie land ride and I was freezing and upset. It was one of the worst days of work.

Anyway, that's been my summer so far. And sorry I don't post as much, it's just not as fun as it used to be I guess and I never feel like posting anymore. I need more exciting stuff to happen for me to post about then I would probably post more. Sorry if there are any mess ups, I hate editing my posts. Have a happy day everyone.

School and Hanging Out

I am so ready for school to be out. I only have this week and next week and then I'm done. Next week will be field day, 9th grade Lagoon day, and then everyone ditches on the last day of school anyway so next week won't really count. The thing that bugs me though is that some teachers are still piling us with homework which is quite irksome. I just want to be done with junior high for good, I'm sick of it. I feel so bad for Hannah because she has to go into junior high next year. I'll just say that junior high has been the worst three years of my life. I'm not saying that it was absolutely horrible, but I would never want to repeat it and I've done my time. I hated seventh grade, eighth grade was pretty cool, and ninth grade has been the best. I've made so many new friends this year, it's pretty crazy, especially since I had a really hard time making friends in seventh grade and eighth grade wasn't much better.

I've hung out with so many new people this year (mainly guys), and even last Saturday I hung out with people I've never hung with before, or even thought I would ever hang out with for that matter. In seventh and eighth grade, I might hang out with Sariah every other weekend or something. Now I hang out every weekend no matter what. I started hanging out with Sammy a bit at the beginning of the year. I started hanging with her every weekend starting in January when she started going out with this guy and wanted me to come with. I've hung out with tons of new people - Ben, Mikey, Broc, Riley, Davis, Taylor Davis, Jesse Lou, Jake Porter, J.C., and of course Sammy! Last Friday, I hung out Marissa, Sariah, Ethan, Taylor, Sammy, Ben, Mikey, Chloe, and a bunch of other people at Marissa's house and we had tons of fun messing around. On Saturday, Sammy wanted to hang with this guy named Jake Porter (he has a HUGE house, we got lost haha), and Broc Dover and Jesse Lou hung out with us too and it was super fun. I was surprised Jesse hung out with us since I've never really talked to him but I've always thought he was cool. Jake Porter constantly has people over at his house and a bunch of guys just came and went whenever they wanted. Me and Sammy decided we wanted to hang out at his house more often since there seems to constantly be boys there. Anyway, the point of this long paragraph is that I've had fun hanging with a bunch of new people this year, even though they're mostly boys. I can't wait to make even more friends next year.

I'm excited for the summer and to hang out with a lot of people even though I'll have to work a lot (I had to work last Saturday) and Sammy will be gone for 31 days in June and July. High school will be a blast, and I'm kind of hoping no one asks me to any dances because I don't really want to go. Even though I absolutely love boys and am boy crazy, I don't want to date or go to dances. I just like hanging out. I'm not allowing anyone to hang at my house anymore though since Uncle William, Aunt Wendy, the Twins 'n' Kenna, and Skyler moved in with us. That's twelve people in my house. If they do come over, they have to stay on my roof or something. Anyway, that's my super fun post which I typed because I was so bored. Goodbye.

Bye Bye Birdie

This past week was the school musical. In case you haven't figured it out yet, we did "Bye Bye Birdie". It is my 7th period class. Tryouts to actually be in the class are in April every year, and then the class starts second semester. Three months ago in February, we had tryouts. I tried out for a girl named Ursula. She's a super hyper, crazy, hilarious girl who is the best friend of Kim MacAfee. Ursula is absolutely in love with Conrad Birdie. I don't have time to tell the story of Bye Bye Birdie, so I'll let you guys look it up on youtube or google it or something. Anyway, I tried out for Ursula. Even though I didn't get the part (I didn't expect to), I was absolutely thrilled to make call backs. To know that Ms. Swallow might even consider me for a main part was just amazing.

The main characters had to stay after school almost every day to get their blocking and start rehearsing every scene. It's a good thing I didn't get a main part because that would've totally messed with lacrosse (it's funny how I don't get to be in things I really wanted to, but it ends up being for the better. Like if I had made musical theater the year before or madrigals, I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the stuff I want to do). We've had choreography rehearsals every Monday during 7th period and going until about 4 pm to learn all of the dances. About three weeks ago, we went to the place where we would be performing for the first time. We usually perform at Rodgers Memorial Theater every year, but we couldn't this year because they're rebuilding it somewhere else. Our school stage was out of the question, it's so terrible. However, Bountiful Jr. High let us use their stage. They saved Swallow's life I think. So we got there and started rehearsing until about 5 or 6 each day. It used to take us three hours just to get through one of the acts. The set was a pain to get on and off and took up a lot of the time too.

Wednesday before last, we started staying after school until 9 pm. A bus would take us straight from 7th period to Bountiful every day and we were served dinner at 6. We soon got to the point where we could go through the whole musical two times a day and we started wearing our costumes and using mic's. It was tiring and my spiritual nourishment from seminary suffered from it because I fell asleep in seminary more than a couple of times. I would get home around 9:30 pm and I would still have to do my homework and chores. Last Monday was our final dress rehearsal before the show started. I straightened my hair for the musical, and we all got to wear tons of make up (the boys weren't happy).

On Tuesday we had our first show. It was the parent preview and our first time performing for more than ten people. It was really fun to go out there for the first song, Telephone Hour, and see all the people in the audience. I had to force myself not to stare at them and try to find people I knew. It was so weird hearing them actually clap and laugh. I didn't even know some parts were funny, and other parts I just heard so many times that it didn't even seem funny anymore so it was really cool hearing people react other than Ms. Swallow's hyena laugh.

Wednesday was really fun. We had such a good audience and they laughed at everything. Before each of our performances, the whole cast would go outside and someone would say a prayer and then we'd all do a cheer to get us pumped. The show went well, except for the fact that some of the mic's suck and keep on breaking off or making popping noises. They really irked us. On Thursday, the girl who played Kim MacAfee (Ashley Peterson) lost her voice. I thought her voice would just be a little raspy or something. No, raspy would've been great. When she sang her first solo, How Lovely to be a Woman, she could barely sing it. Her voice just sounded so bad, she couldn't hit most of the notes, her voice kept on breaking, and she sounded like she was trying not to cry. We didn't know what to do. All of us in the cast were in the hall outside of the stage, and most of us were just pacing with our hands over our mouths because we felt so bad for her but we didn't know what to do. Ashley kept on going, and she got a very loud applause at the end of her song. It totally downed our energy, and even though we did well with our singing and acting, we weren't very energetic because we were upset that Ashley was having trouble with her voice. During intermission, we all went outside and talked for a while and then we said another prayer. Us girls then went into our changing room and started singing our favorite song Be a Man from Mulan while this girl improvised it on the piano. We then performed our best second act, we had tons of energy and decided we weren't going to let anything get to us. During the show, a girl who plays Ursula had to sing her solo for her, and another girl sang her part in a song backstage. Her voice was a bit better Friday, and she sounded good on her solos. She just changed the notes and sang them down an octave or just talked them or changed the notes altogether to make it sound good with the music. We were so proud of her. A bunch of my friends and my family, my sister's boyfriend, Grandma Carol, and John, Marjorie, and Amanda all came. I was mad because the stupid mic's were being dumb again and the main guy's mic completely turned off during the second act so you could barely hear him during one of the best songs. Oh well. Saturday we had our two last shows, one at 3 pm and another at 7. Those two were our best performances. They switched the mic's around so the main guy's wasn't so glitchy. After the 3 pm show, they fed us food and I just stayed and hung out with the cast. Then we had our last performance which went really well. We had so much energy and we did such a great job. I had tons of fun. I was pretty sad when it was over. We then stayed until 10:30 taking down the set and cleaning up everything. We then went to one of the main character's (who happens to be the daughter of a former Miss America) house to hang out since our cast party wasn't until Monday. We had a fire outside and had s'mores and hot dogs without buns, played basketball, football, and later did truth or dare where I totally lost it and got hyper and did some really crazy stuff....

I'm sad the musical is over, but at the same time I'm excited to have my life back. It was fun, I just wish it could've lasted a little longer. It was super fun and I got an awesome jacket, a DVD, and a bunch of new friends from the show. I could've lived without having to go through the boys' changing room to get on stage and seeing my guy friends with no shirts or boxers though. I don't think they minded :) Now I'm working on getting the songs out of my head. Anyway, that's my story of Bye Bye Birdie. I congratulate anyone who actually read this whole thing. I just really enjoy typing and giving details, it takes me about 2-3 hours to write in my journal. Anyway, zai jian wo de peng you!

Pictures of Musical Friends at Lagoon

This week, I've been at musical theater a lot for rehearsals because our show is next week. Last week on Wednesday, we went to the stage where we'd be performing the musical for the first time. When 7th period starts, instead of going to the choir room for musical theater, we just get our stuff and get on a bus that takes us straight to Bountiful Jr. High. We had to stay until about 5 pm each day. It was weird at first getting used to dancing and acting on the stage after only doing it in the choir room. We had to do a lot of adjusting to make everything to look okay. The boys weren't happy at first because the only way to get to stage right is through the band room which is the boys' changing room. It's kind of weird going through there. It sounds weird, but I could seriously care less if they're changing or not. As long as they're covered I don't mind. I only get off stage there at one time when they all have to all change, so I just keep my eyes straight forward and don't look around even though there are guys with their shirts off around me. I like just hanging in the girls changing room, and I'm going to bring my ipod so we can listen to music in there. We change in the choir room. Last Wednesday, we started tech. That's when we get to stay there until about 9 pm each night. On Wednesday, I left for about an hour and a half from 4:30 to 6 to go to an employee party at Lagoon with Sammy because I felt like it. So I stayed at Bountiful Jr. until 9 to 9:30 pm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. They feed us dinner around 6:30 each day, and that food tastes amazing because we are super hungry by the time dinner comes around. The only part I don't like is when we have to all sit down and takes notes on what Ms. Swallow tells us we need to work on because that takes about an hour and it's so boring and it's right before dinner so we're starving. I thought it would be not very fun and and it would tiring staying there for 7 hours, but I actually had tons of fun. The people there are so much fun to hang out with, and we're getting much better at the musical. It used to take us about 4 hours to get through the whole musical, and now it only takes us a little over 2 which is perfect. Our choreography finally looks better and people aren't forgetting their lines or cues anymore and it's looking really good. I'm excited for the musical to start in three days! It's kind of weird that the musical will be over in a week. I don't want it to end, but at the same time I'm tired of it. We will have our final dress rehearsal until 9 tomorrow (I wouldn't be surprised if it went until later), and then the parent preview on Tuesday and then five shows after that. I'm going to straighten my hair for it which is going to be a pain, but my curly hair just doesn't work.

I was pretty tired when I got home around 9:45 pm on Friday night and thought about how I had to be to work in 12 hours. I attempted to watch TV with my mom, but fell asleep. I was so not in the mood to go to work. I got there a bit late, and my ride opened less than five minutes after I got there. There were two attendants, one operator, and a supervisor there. I was attending at the white roller coaster. For half of the time, I would wait for the ride to pull in and the people to get out. Then I walk down and make sure all the seats are up and no one dropped anything on the ride. Then when the gates open, everyone gets in and I get to run down one side of the train thing and bend over and push down on everyone's restraints as I pass them. I felt kind of weird doing it at first, but I got used to it and stopped feeling weird pushing down on people's upper legs. For the other half of the time, I just stood at the entrance and checked for loose articles and hand stamps. That was so exciting. It was a bit awkward just standing there and looking at people and and pointing at my hand to indicate hand stamps and trying to smile. Towards the end of the day, a girl lost her phone so we decided to go on a hat run. A bunch of supervisors and some operators stopped the ride, told everyone it would be a 10 to 15 minute wait, and quickly ran on the tracks and on the ground around the roller coaster to look for lost items and the phone. The guests weren't happy, and it was this other 15 year old and my job to talk to the guests and keep them happy and apologize for the delay. That was fun. I decided to go walk over to a couple of different groups of people and chat with them. I was tempted to go over to the microphone and start a sing-a-long to keep everyone happy. I was relieved when the ride started again. Tons of people lost their phone on that ride, but we found most of them in between the seats or at the front of the train. I also had this guy who wanted to go on the ride with a ginormous stuffed animal that he won at a game. I told him he couldn't take it on, and he was so mad. He started cussing at me and told me how stupid that was. When he turned away I just rolled my eyes. His friend saw me and saw how annoyed I was, so he just told his friend that they should just leave and that I'm right. Thank you. I also had a lot of people who noticed the sign that said "Shoes and Shirts must be worn" so then they would laugh and say "so does that mean I can take off my pants?" That was getting so old. People don't generally go around with no pants, but they do like to go around with no shoes or shirts so that's why we have the sign. This one guy asked me if he could take off his pants since the sign said nothing about wearing no pants, so I told him to go ahead. His friends and him then started laughing hysterically. Whatever.

When I got home that night, I had some friends come over later to hang out. We mostly hung outside and climbed on my roof. Ashley was at prom with her boyfriend. Later, we watched "Sixth Sense". I've seen the whole movie, but I've never seen it all at once before. It was spiffy. After the movie was over, it was just me and two guys left so we were just talking half asleep on my sofa when I heard people at the door. I just assumed it was Ashley and didn't want to answer the door, but they kept on knocking. I was so confused when I answered the door, because there were people in dresses and a guy in a suit, but it wasn't Ashley or her boyfriend and it was dark. Then a boy said "Hi Celeste!" I stared at them for a while until I realized that it was my cousin Amanda and her friends. The guy was a boy named Kyle Mollinet who I've known since 5th grade but I've never talked to him in person before. We used to email each other all the time and talk on msn and on facebook a couple of times and I saw him in their school musical because he was a main character. It was weird to see him. Anyway, Amanda and all of her friends came just to get her younger sister from my house and then left. My two friends then left and I went to bed. The End. That's my exciting week. Btw, here are some pictures of me playing lacrosse.

stick checks

I have the ball!! and I'm running with it!!

I have the ball again :]

And again. These make me feel cool.

In the background, I'm number 13

Sitting by the heater because it was freezing

The team picture that's on our website

Lacrosse Article

Viewmont Girls Lacrosse Team Article - Salt Lake Tribune.

Someone did a story about us, I think it's pretty spiffy. Read it.

Brian Accord is the hockey coach at our school and started the lacrosse team because his daughter, Addie, played one season and thought Viewmont should have a team (they call him Acorn, it's Accord). Sam Pierson and Alli are my coaches. We were undefeated until our very last game.

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.