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Thursday, 27 September 2007

Saturday, 22 September 2007

  • DANCE?

    O.o I thought it would be this nice little dance where I would sit and watch, while sipping a juice...but oh my was I WRONG! Anyways...I went to the dance last Thursday, despite a HEAVY load of homework (Don't even DARE to compare!...except for maybe Charles :P), and went in. My parents had IN-SIS-TED on driving me there early...so there I was, the first person there. I was wearing my jeans and a shirt with a shawl on top. I didn't feel like wearing a dress :P
     Bweh. I saw some people standing outside the door (later I was to find out that they were Gr. 9s trying to get into a Gr.8 dance), and they were dressed as casually as casual can be. So I took off the shawl and went in.
    Hmm...let's just say that they played a LOT of songs...and it wasn't want I expected :D
    They gave away glowsticks...
    And it was more of a 'club' than a 'dance'.

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

  • Burnett-->*sigh*

    I checked my email a minute ago and read this message I got from Angela. It said that I was lucky I didn't have to deal with the guys from RCS anymore. It's strange how in a Christian School, things like that are all you have to worry about. But still I pity them. They have no idea what the real world is like.
    The reason I didn't blog for such a long time is because I had way too much going on. First was PE, then I had a whole night of homework...I think it'd be more useful to do it one day at a time.
    So here goes:

    September 4th, 2007
    I'm kinda excited, but then, not really. I'm more scared than anything else. My mom walks me to the large gym, and I say good bye to her. Then I walk on, alone, inside.
    The place is smaller than it used to be...It seems as if they just cut it in half or something. First I wonder if I'm in the right place, or if I accidentally went to the small gym instead of the large one. But whatever. I stay in the gym and find a spot on the bleachers away from anyone else...right on the side where I can see everyone who comes in...in hopes that I'll recognize them.
    I wait. The time ticks by...a guy sits next to me for some strange reason, but I obviously don't scrutinize his face to see who it is... why would I? I sit there, alone...the student council plays some loud music on the speakers...I'm still alone.
    The song finishes and another one begins...finally I look to the guy on my left and I see it's Tom from church.
    Of course I don't talk to him...eww.
    I still look around.
    I don't see my potential friend, Celine, anywhere. My mom introduced me to her a long time ago...
    Peggy's with other people, Alison-->yuck.
    They finally start, and make their speech, blah blah blah.
    They introduce people to us that I already know...Osipov, Charlton, Leslie...
    We go to get our nametags, and I spot Celine...in the A-B section like me.
    It's still kinda awkward...we play some really lame games that don't work out, and then go on another tour of the school(thank God!)
    Then they bring us to our homeroom, where I meet my homeroom teacher...Mr. Ghaug (gog)
    We hand in our forms...the medical form, the camp form (with my 'friend' spot empty), and we get our lockers...my combination being 00-22-00. We get our planners, and THANK YOU, we have a map of the school there!!!
    Like omg :D
    Then we're dismissed, with me still feeling awkward.

    At home, I mark the map of the school with the four places I need to go for my classes.

    September 5th, 2007
    I come into homeroom, still feeling as awkward as the day before.
    I chat a bit with Celine, then Mr. Ghaug starts the class and we have to shut up.
    The bell rings, and I go over to my locker, taking out my binder and pencil case...going left, turning right, and there is my Block A subject...Home Ec/Tech Ed.
    Lucky me I get Tech Ed...where there are potential hazards everywhere, unlike Home Ec, where you get to sew, cook, etc.
    I meet my teacher, Mr. Yamamoto (nickname Yam), and he goes on to tell us about Tech Ed. We vote on what we want to do first...Electronics or Metalworking, and the stupid guys pick metalworking...
    Gosh.
    So then Yam tells us to take out a sheet of paper, NOT to touch the table, as it's all dirty and will only get even worse, NOT to touch any of the equipment unless we know what it is and how to use it, NOT to have our hair down if we're girls, NOT to wear nylon, NOT to wear shorts, NOT to wear open-toed sandals and flipflops, NOT to wear t-shirts.
    At the end of that little speech, I'm pretty much discouraged. His restrictions make me have to wear jeans and a hoodie for the rest of the semester.
    Ugh.
    Anyways...he tells us to draw ten thumbnails of possible keychain designs, then leaves us to it.
    I finish in less than 10 mins and do nothing for the next half an hour.

    Next, Math Incentive.
    Ms. Rodriguez is actually pretty nice. She's a new teacher, and she explained about the sodoku, math challenges, and basically what we're gonna do.

    Finally, a ten minute Recess.
    At this point, I'm actually feeling quite happy about Recess...a ten minute break.
    But later I realize just how wrong I was.
    It took me five minutes just to get to my locker downstairs, and a further three to get my lock open and my stuff inside.
    Brilliant.
    By the time I figure out I want to go to the caf, the bell rings.

    Humanities Incentive.
    Ms. Meralli is pretty evil. That day, she explained  a lot of stuff...as all the teachers did.
    She told us what she expected, what she expected not to see, etc. etc.
    Hmm...

    Lunch.
    I get to my locker, get a new 'friend', and we eat together.
    When we get to her locker, she comments that Burnett is like what she calls a 'church-school'. The people are all nice and friendly, she says...
    That got me off guard.
    I kinda ignored her after that.

    Finally, the last thing of the day, PE. Glorious PE.
    Thanks to Mrs. Harbridge, I now hate PE...
    But our teacher, Mr. Hansen, was actually pretty nice.
    He makes jokes that actually aren't lame, and although he made us run for 20 mins, he's okay.

    September 6th, 2007
    It's Thursday and I'm pretty discouraged all in all.
    The friend I thought I'd found turned out to be bogus...and Celine I was sure had other friends.
    I went to homeroom, and Mr. G told us that that day was to be different. Instead of going BADC, as we were supposed to on Thursdays and Tuesdays, we were to report to the theatre and watch a movie...and take only C block that day.
    Come ON!!!
    We skip all my favourite subjects and I'm left with Humanities.
    OMG
    After I get over the initial shock of getting stuck with Meralli, I go with the crowd to the theatre, finding a spot with my kinda-friend, Celine.
    She also has a friend, Breanne, and I sit with her too, as I have no choice :P
    We watch the movie, 'Pay it Forward', about this little kid who signs up for a project in Socials...in which he has to change the world in some way. So, he makes this thing called Pay it Forward, where he has to do one good but big thing for three different people, and instead of having to pay him back, have to Pay it Forward, doing the same thing to three other people. Pretty much he changes the world. He dies in the end though. Haha.
    Recess, more of the movie and an assignment, then lunch.
    In Humanities, we had to write...
    'Why did you choose Incentive?'
    I hate Meralli.
    AND she told us to do this...Ideagram thing...the rough draft.

    Oh yah!!!
    Mom thought that the barbecue was that day, so she didn't give me any lunch.
    But I brought money just in case :D
    So I ended up eating a cheeseburger.

    I walked home :P

    September 7th, 2007
    Whoa. It's Friday...and we have a barbecue scheduled.
    Awesome, right?
    And in Homeroom, we were told that we'd have ABSOLUTELY NO CLASSES THAT DAY!!!
    Oh my GOSH!!!
    No running, no Meralli, no getting dirt on my clothes, :D:D
    Anyways, we go to the gym...one of them. I forget if it was the small or large gym, and we do a scavenger hunt for all of Block A. By then, Celine and I are actually quite good friends...
    Then we write the letter to ourselves that we're gonna open in five years.
    Some people wrote a couple of lines.
    I personally wrote the whole page, double sided with tiny writing :P
    I'm not bragging...I wrote the whole thing for myself...and only myself. But it's interesting.
    After, during Block C we have our barbecue...
    We get either a hamburger or hot dog, an assortment of healthy drinks (grr), and a choice of an energy bar.
    I pick a juice box, hamburger, and one of the many energy bars.
    It went pretty well.
    I had to soak my hamburger in ketchup or else it was way too dry to eat...
    I planned to save the bar and juice for the Monday, but surprise surprise...
    Celine and I were playing around with the juice box, mushing it around, etc. when it kinda...exploded :D
    I was holding it away from myself, anticipating the exact thing to happen, and the juice came shooting out...narrowly missing Breanne's head.
    She did get slightly wet though, as well as Celine.
    Then my energy bar?
    We started mushing that around as well...
    We never expected it to explode...gosh.
    It just sorta...did :P
    Again, I was the one holding it, and it came oozing out.
    Gross.
    By this time, I'm pretty confident in myself.
    I haven't gotten lost at all...

    I rollerbladed home.

    September 10th, 2007
    Surprise! I've gotten through a whole week of high school.
    Awesome.
    So I go to my locker, expecting Tech Ed next...
    And then there's this announcement that we're getting 5 minutes of Homeroom.
    Weird.
    So I go there, then the bell rings again and I head over to Tech Ed, Block A.
    Experimentally, I run three fingers over the surface of the table, and they come up black.
    Disgusting.
    Of course I never try it again, hehe.
    Then Yam points out the different safety things.
    An eye-wash station, three power stop buttons, etc. etc.
    He cuts a piece of metal with a hack saw just for fun...
    And then tells us to take notes as he introduces each of the tools we might need.
    Dividers, the square, scales, rulers, screwdrivers (3 kinds), anvils, etc. etc.
    I end up with a page and a half of pictures, descriptions, and names.
    Wow.
    And it's not as if the descriptions are long or the pictures big...
    Then he hands something out...
    He doesn't explain what to do...he just hands them out.
    Charles was right about him being lazy, lol.

    Now Math.
    Ms. R gives us assigned seating, with me on the far right corner (screw my last name)...
    Celine's in front of me. (Last name is Au)
    Then Ms. R HAS to go over the the left side of the room, telling us to take notes as she writes them down on the transparency.
    It's too bad that I can't really read her writing. It's clear and neat, but a bit too fat for my eyes.
    Hmph.
    So we get our homework, blah blah blah.

    Recess, nothing interesting.

    Humanities.
    I take out my rough copy (three hours of writing and nothing else)
    and don't volunteer to read it...
    We had a sub...she gave us the whole class to work on homework.
    We're expected to have our good copy by the next day. Sheesh.

    Lunch. Haha.
    I eat my for-once-good-tasting lunch, then decide I want something from the caf.
    I take two bucks...enough for fries, and go.
    They run out of fries RIGHT when I get to the front of the line, so I change to a cookie.
    Just one buck :D
    And they taste DELICIOUS!

    PE?
    We ran...again.
    20 mins.
    Then we started softball.
    I DESPISE softball.
    >.<

    End of school.
    I rollerbladed home.
    Beginning of a crazy amount of homework.
    First, I did the math, and about half of the worksheets that Yam gave out.
    Then it was supper, and I was faced (after supper I mean) with an entire project due the next day.
    I told you Meralli was evil!
    So I type up my hundreds of words...and somehow format it on word into a table with a FEW spaces for pictures.
    I print it out, and by then it's 10:00.
    Mom wants me to go to sleep...but I keep working.
    I finish drawing, and it's 11:00.
    I start to color.
    ARGH!!
    Color color color, and by 11:30 I'm still not quite done.
    After another 15 minutes, I am finally finished evil Meralli's project that she calls an assignment.
    It looks okay...I think.

    September 11, 2007
    Today...I went...to my locker.
    Met Celine and Breanne (I think we're all good friends by now :D)

    Then I went to Math...where we did more notetaking, I finished my math homework, and we talked a bit.

    Went off to Tech Ed...
    We were starting to cut the metal...but we had to finish our plans first.
    I went up, he told me not to waste so much metal (this is all on my plans)
    I went up again, he asked why I didn't simplify my fractions (everything is done in stupid inches and you can't use decimals on your life)
    I went up a third time, he asked why I didn't use the full two inches.
    GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
    I was ready to punch someone.
    Other people had already finished cutting their metal and were starting to file it.
    I went up ONE MORE TIME, and he told me to start cutting.
    FINALLY...
    I think he was sick and tired of me, to tell you the truth.
    But he didn't show it.
    Anyways, I tell everyone who has one of the super long pieces of metal (there are only three) that I want to use it next...but by the time they finish, the bell rings.

    Recess-nothing important

    PE?
    Today was Fitness Tuesday...
    Every Tuesday, we have a test...and there are four tests...they repeat each month.
    You're supposed to improve.
    Today we had to run...
    Run from one line to another before the beep sounds, then wait for the beep, and run back (This is the length of the gym I'm talking about)
    Repeat.
    You have to count how many beeps you make...and it gets faster.
    I made 34...I actually made 36 and could probably have made 42 or so, but since I'm supposed to improve, I kinda didn't try.
    So that's that.

    Lunch was an interesting affair.
    We were supposed to go to the Breaker Crew meeting at lunch in the library, Celine and I, but we kinda forgot.
    We only remembered after we'd bought a fries with gravy...and then it was too late.

    Humanities????
    We handed in our projects, and everyone's else's was SOO NICE!!! All decorated too :P
    I mean the girls...of course.
    Guys? Pfft. They couldn't make a work of art overnight even if they tried. Well...for the most part.
    But :whateva:whatever:whatever:.
    I personally think I failed, as unclear as she was about it.
    We spent the next half hour looking at 12 pics of a house...the same house...
    answering questions, and then discussion...
    We talked about change...and which things were constant in life, and which things changed.
    This guy next to me was like, "Species change!!! (He thinks he's bright) They evolve" to this guy next to him
    I said, "Evolution isn't real"
    Then they stare at me and start laughing.
    Complete retards.
    They believe something without proof.
    But whatever...:whateva:
    Then we had 15 mins to write this...10 sentence thing on how 9/11 impacted the world and how it impacted you.
    I ended up writing at least 30.

    And here I sit...glad for an excuse to sit here :D
    For ONCE I have no homework...

Tuesday, 04 September 2007

  • Three...Hours

    Three hours til school >.<

  • The First Day *~*

    The little *~* explains how I feel. Its eyes are quite...excited, shall I say? while the mouth...is obviously...nervous.
    That's me.
    Excited and terrified at the same time.
    I don't know what's gonna happen today.
    Will I meet my to-be-bff?
    Or will I be a loner for the rest of my five years at Burnett?
    Will I actually get a good grade in P.E.?
    Or will the teacher be as mean and racist as Mrs. Harbridge and actually grade me on my skill?
    What will I do wrong on the first day?
    Will I ever do anything right?
    Will I accidentally let slip that I haven't ever been in a secular school before? (Stupid, I know. But still terrifying for some weird reason)
    How will I ever find my way around?
    Will I get lost like so many before me?
    Will I have to move to Coquitlam and say bye to everything I know?
    When will...
    How come...
    How should...
    What, when, where, how, why?!?
    So many questions to be answered...and all of that is going to be found out today.
    Yah...I seem totally arrogant and stupid...
    But I think my fear is justified.

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