Wow it's December!

I just came to the realization that I had forgotten about my blog for 2 months!!

I will write on the weekend :)

This is how I will be spending my next two weeks:

Funnnnn, eh? Gotta love exams.

Have you ever heard songs by Bruce Springsteen's band? You know the saxophone player? How he plays so loud and intensely that it sounds like his sax is going to explode? Please sound like that during your solo for Holiday Concert.
--my somewhat crazy music teacher

I HAVE A CONDUCTING BATON.

Yup. I got it last week!!! Since I'm an instrumental music head at school this year, I get a conducting baton and I get to conduct the band sometimes...like at the Remembrance Day assembly, I'm conducting Oh Canada....! It's pretty exciting :)

Ahhh it's been forever since I've posted anything here!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't really had the chance...I've been super super busy with school and the rest of my life that I actually have not had 5 spare minutes to post a blog! But because of the long weekend, I have some time now...in between studying chemistry and watching Gilmore Girls, of course :)

So I guess I should post a little update of my life....

School is very very very very hectic! Last Thursday, this is what my day looked like: Period 1 - math, period 2 - French, period 3 - chemistry, random band rehearsal, period 4 - calculus, period 5 - physics, another band rehearsal, and then a piano lesson. Thankfully, Earl understood why I could not, for the life of me, read music or play the right notes.

I have somewhat of a dilemma though...I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH THE REST OF MY LIFE!!! I think I'm going to go to CEGEP instead of doing grade 12...but which one? Which program? AHHH I don't know....ANNNDD our academic advisor at school is completely useless..he actually thinks I'm in GRADE 10, but that's another story...soooooo in other words, I'm stresed. lol

Skating has been ok lately...my skills are still horrible but they are slowly getting better. My coach wants me to test them in December, though, so I have a TON of work to do! My jumps have been pretty good...my axel was strange today but my double salchow was ALMOSTTTT clean, my double loop is currently sometimes clean but super inconsistent...and my double toe actually looks like a double toe! It was SOOOO good today...it came out of nowhere !!

I have been working a lot on my dance lately too...it's getting better...I had a good lesson on it today and improved a lot so hopefully things will keep going like this! It's a TERRIFYING dance...it's super fast and my partner is an incredibly powerful skater so he does not make doing this dance any less petrifying!!! But, it's a lot of fun once you get used to skating at light speed :P

My next driving lesson is on Halloween...since I have no school for some reason...AND IT'S MY HIGHWAY LESSON....oh god I'm nervous already!!! I will definitely write here after my driving lesson because I will definitely have something to say!!! hahah

Ok well it's time for me to go watch an episode of Gilmore Girls (I love season 1 sooo much)...so I will write more when I get the chance :)

I almost forgot my postly picture!


Lorelai: [walking into Luke's diner] Give me a burger, onion rings, and a list of people who killed their parents and got away with it. I need some heroes.

Ahhhhhhhhh.

Chemistry, physics, calculus, math, French and English homework to do.
And a huge "Ethics and Religious Culture" project to do.
And I've only had one full week of school.
Enough said. lol I will be back to blogging soon though!

It's a good thing you didn't break your elbow!

My coach was definitely trying to kill me during my lesson yesterday!!! It's true!!! hahaha everything started off pretty normally...the ice was really wet, and so when my coach asked me if I wanted to start with skills or freestyle, I suggested spins since most of my lessons with her involve jumps. Sooo we worked a lot on my spins, and I tried an intense camel-layback-back sit which turned out to be veryyyy ugly!!! lol and then we moved to jumps. We worked on my axel, double salchow, and double toe, and then things started to get weird. First, my coach said that we would skip working on skills since it was my last lesson with her until the fall. GREAT! I thought, because I hate skills, but oh no...she clearly had something else in mind...

First, it was that she wanted me to try flip-double toe because she said that some people find it easier to do double toe in a combination. Not me. That's all I have to say about that one. Then, we worked on double loop, and behold, she wanted me to try flip-double loop! Then, we worked on double flip and I took some very interesting falls...

AND THEN, she convinced me to try a DOUBLE LUTZ. That was not a pretty sight. I tried one and fell kind of badly, and apparently I was lucky that I didn't break my elbow. Haha so that one's going to have to wait for a while...I'm clearly not ready for it yet :)

So ya, my coach definitely tried to kill me yesterday. It was a fun lesson though :)

On a completely different note, we picked up my piano pieces for next year from the music store. I tried to play the Rachmaninoff one (whyyyyy am I playing more Rachmaninoff???) and oh boy...lots of notes...

Anyway, that's all for now...I'll try to write more before I leave on vacation but if I don't, I'll write more in a couple of weeks!!

I had to wake up at 7:00 this morning.

To babysit. At 7:30. To bring the kids to camp. Ahhhhh. And tomorrow, I have to spend 11 hours with them...I have no clue how I got myself into that....anyone have any idea how to entertain a 6 year old and an 8 year old for that long? haha it's going to be a long day.......

Skating yesterday was surprisingly really good! I worked on double salchow, double loop, double toe and double flip in my lesson, and then did some skills.

I have issues with the double salchow...because when I'm in the air, I can't, for the life of me, stay in the right position!!! My legs either uncross and I'm really open in the air, or they are so crossed that I get my blade stuck in a hole that I have in my tights and then fall!!

My double toe is pretty hopeless...although it's getting better and is less scary than it used to be...but I did take some pretty funny falls while practicing it yesterday! The good news is, my coach doesn't think I'm one of her students that should be on America's Funniest Home Videos because the majority of my falls aren't funny enough for her :P

Today I have to convince my dance coach to let me test my dance next week, because I either try it next week or wait until November, because I'm away for the test day in August. If I work on this dance until November, I might die, so I really hope I can at least try it next week...if I fail, fine...I'll retry it in the fall, but at least I'll have a CHANCE of passing...hopefully my coach will agree with me :)

Anyway I have to go...sorry about this kinda "mini-post" but I'll write more sometime this week, hopefully :)

My skates when they were new and pretty and not full of scratches like they are now lol

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. -- Douglas Adams

I am being rebellious.

I painted my nails blue. Ok, I know that's not exactly rebellious, but it is for someone who has spent the past four years in a school where if you wear even the most discreet nail polish, you will get a detention in less than a second and be sent to the chem. lab to use some of the quickly running out nail polish remover stash stored in my science teacher's office, it's rebellious.

School is finally over! I didn't think I would ever survive 12 exams, but I did, somehow! Some of them were ridiculously easy, some were pure evil, but as long as I passed them all and as long as I got 75 in science and 85 in math (so I can get into chemistry, physics and pre-calculus next year), it doesn't really matter how I did. I mean, I WANT to do well, but on exams like history, that aren't pre-requisites for anything, as long as I passed, it doesn't matter if I got a 70 or an 80 or a 90, really.

The postly picture for this post...inspired by my ridiculous biology exams...is a giant molecule of starch that we built in biology earlier in the year....yes, we are cool...

On a more exciting note, I skated yesterday for the first time in 31 days (my dance coach counted)! I got on the ice and I was pretttttyyyy shaky....I almost caught my pick stroking, which would have lead to a pretty intense wipe out... Anyway, I started off badly, and kind of couldn't do a scratch spin or a camel, for that matter, but by my lesson, I was almost back to normal again. My spins still weren't great, but my flying camel was better than it's ever been (5 rotations!!!) and I landed every axel I tried, with the exception of one. My double salchow was terrible, though...I think I might have lost it...I think I landed like one out of ten...but hopefully it will come back soon! My double loop was ok...I was jumping super high but not pulling in enough so I wasn't really rotating, but I guess that's what happens when you don't skate for a month! lol

I'm off the ice today, because it's glorious Quebec day, but I'm back at it tomorrow! I learned my new skills yesterday, and all I can say is HOLY CRAP. Loops are impossible! My coach thinks these skills will take me a year, and I fully agree, for once! lol they are really hard...apparently harder than senior silver and gold...and I'm terrible at skills (my coach puts it so nicely though, she says that "skills don't come naturally for me"), so these skills will be a rather interesting experience!

I also worked on the Harris Tango yesterday! I was not successful in making my coach teach me the Killian, but I'll work on him...haha he's not big on working on 2 dances at once...

Anyway I have to go, but I'll write more on Thursday, because I'm getting my wisdom teeth out (help), so I won't be skating, and I'll need a way to pass the time...hopefully I won't look too much like a chipmunk...

Birds go flying at the speed of sound, to show you how it all began. Birds came flying from the underground, if you could see it then you'd understand. --Coldplay

I hate statistics.

Die.
Math.
436.

Guess what? My exam's tomorrow :)

On the positive side of things, I have finished 5 out of 5 French exams! My French teacher definitely WROTE the reading comprehension part of the exam, or is on some committee or something because there was a text by Gabrielle Roy and a text from L'Actualite in the booklet...his two favourite French things. Hmmm.

That's all for now. I'll write more on the weekend :)

Ahhhh, rugby.

Well, obviously Laurier was drunk or stoned or something, because there's no way he would have said that.

--a quote from Mr. Walsh that I found in my history notes today

7's Tournament

I should be reading my French book...I really should...but instead, I've decided to write a blog about the rugby 7's tournament that happened yesterday!

It was an amazing day...I was really nervous going into the tournament but I think I played really well and I almost scored :) Except then I got caught in a maul and so I passed the ball to Bianca and she scored! I made some awesome tackles too!! And my team played AMAZINGLY...SO AMAZINGLY that we WON the tournament for midget!!! We beat BHS, CVR and Stanstead. I love my gold medal. I am officially obsessed with it :) Except the "rugby ball" on it looks a bit too much like a football.

I also got a tan since we were outside the whole day, which is the best part of all this!

But skating today wasn't so great because I am SOOO sore from rugby...because the problem with 7's is that you are sprinting for the whole game (which is 15 minutes long...but still, sprinting for 15 minutes straight is a lot!) even if you don't have the ball because you are running as support or chasing the person with the ball on the other team to tackle them! So yeah, skating was interesting...I couldn't jump that well and my spins were not that great either. Oh well, the gold medal makes skating not seem so bad :)

Alright, well I dont know if anything I wrote makes any sense, because I am ridiculously tired (and I still have a cold...I've had it for almost a week)... I should go to bed. But I'm not going to. I know it.

Check out this super intense picture that I found. It was on the GMAA website for some reason...anyway I think it's the cross country race! Or Halo from last year? Anyway I have no clue but yay it's me, Alex, Kia, and Lianna!

"Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other." --some guy on forwards in rugby

What the hell happened to my feet?

I'm just taking a break from studying science (I hate pH) and I thought I would write a mini-entry here! So hi. :)

I sprained my ankle at rugby last week and so I haven't gone running or skating in a while...I'm getting pretty bored here...I attempted to skate yesterday and I couldn't land jumps past single loop so I gave up and worked on spins and skills. On the bright side of things, my sit spin and layback are now awesome :)

Please watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

You will not regret it. It never gets old. And it's wayyyy too funny for it's own good.

There's a huge pothole in front of my house.

Alright well I have to go back to pH=-log [H+]. I'll write more tomorrow...hopefully :)

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Me! I kill you!
-Achmed the dead terrorist

Blogging for English Class

Yes, we have to write a blog for English...but it's a blog on a book that we read over March break which is kind of strange. We had to choose a pseudonym (either an author or literary character) and we have to sign all our blog entries with that name. It's a really weird project and we have WAY too much work for English due this week...grr...

I don't have time to write right now because I have 3 Actualité magazines to read and write about for French class and a whole poetry assignment to do for English as well as some weird writing assignment on food to do for English and my tidbit for history and science notes to write and questions to answer on those notes and piano to practice and math to review for a quiz on systems of equations that I forget how to do. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

BY THE WAY, MONTREAL WEST SOCCER IS SOON! ANNE, ARE YOU PLAYING?

I skated yesterday...I was supposed to test but I didn't because I hadn't had a lesson with my dance coach in 3 and a half months (he went to Europe on a tour...) and yesterday was my first lesson with him in all that time and the test was yesterday afternoon. So yes. That's why I didn't do my dance test. But, in May, I'm officially testing:

Jr. Bronze freestyle (elements and solo because I probably could have passed the elements a long time ago and solo is easy to pass)
Sr. Bronze skills (I suck at them but I WILL be ready by May hopefully...)
Rocker (dance that I was supposed to test yesterday)
Harris Tango (another dance that I need to pass for me to move up to the next level)

Yay! That is going to be an expensive test day because each test is $10 so it will cost me $50.

Next time I write, I'll give you a full out description of scuba diving, which I did during March break, as well as lots of detail about my Mexico band trip. I want to write this now because I don't want to go do my homework but I'll have to refrain myself....lol so stay tuned!! :D

PREVIEW OF NEXT AMAZING BLOG POST:

YAY MEXICO 2008 BEFORE WE ALL GOT SICK!

Guy: How do you spell your name?
Achmed: A....c...phlegm....
Audience: HAHAHHAHAA!!!

Achmed: Silence! I kill you!

--Achmed the dead terrorist

It's time for a pointless rant because I have nothing else more intellectual to write about

Ok who made up the word phenolphthalein? I hate it. I really do. I mean it sounds cool, sure, when you can pronounce it properly. But there are way too many ways to mess up in the spelling of it. In my December science exam, I spelled it the following ways:

1) phenolphtalein
2) phenolphthaline
3) phenolpthalein

Three different ways, none of which were correct.

I also can't figure out who in the world decided to put a PH and a TH in a row in a word. It is not physically possible for me to say those two sounds together. I end up spitting at who ever is in front of me at the moment I am struggling to pronounce PHTH and then I end up pronouncing it WRONG! IT's not even that hard to pronounce!!!! My science teacher can say it correctly, AND with a Turkish accent, which must be even harder. And then theres me, sitting at hte back of the science class, wondering how in the world people can say PHTH so easily. You know what's also annoying? The fact that we have to write "It turned fuschia" instead of PINK is because FUSCHIA IS HARDER TO SPELL AHHH. Apparently the science people in Quebec are trying to make my life difficult.

Alright, well to conclude, I am writing because I'm avoiding studying my science notes in an attempt to figure out how exactly I am going to memorize [H+] = invlog (-pH) and all all the other little formula things that we will probably have a quiz on on Monday.

On a different note, I skated this morning and my coach made fun of me for 30 minutes straight. Well, pretty much. It was funny :)

POSTLY PICTURE TIME:

ARRRGGGGHHHH.

Most likely to take risks to get a good cloud picture.
-As said by a prefect about Ms. Hutt

The Best Skate in the World...

On Wednesday, I had the best skate in the world...

I got to the rink and was really tired...and on top of that I had first lesson RIGHT at 4:00 and so I didn't have time to warm up, but apparently that didn't matter.

My spins weren't any better than usual...except my coach made me try layback-back sit which was pretty hard and wasn't very pretty :P but at least I tried!

I warmed up my jumps super quickly, then landed 3 really nice axels in a row and moved onto double salchow. My double salchows were pretty good..not as good as they have been in the past, but I was going at them with a lot of speed and so I was rotating faster! Then I worked on double loop, which got REALLY good out of nowhere last week. I landed a bunch of them (a little cheated but much better than they were up until about a week ago) and also started to rotate faster in the air on that jump. SO, my coach had me work on double flip, which she only ever does if I'm really really really good in a lesson! And apparently I was because I worked on double flip and even that was really good! I had really good position in the air...then only problem was, I took a pretty ugly fall after trying about 4-5 double flips and killed my knee...BUT THAT'S OK BECAUSE I HAD THE BEST SKATE IN THE WORLD..I'm still excited about it :D

Haha...look at my hair...

What happens if you put this side up face down while popping microwave popcorn?

Vinyls are cool.

I raided my parents' vinyls. They're the coolest things ever. I kind of want to steal them...but I don't think my parents would ever trust me again if they suddenly found out all their records were missing and then found me hiding in my room with the turntable :)

Well, since I haven't posted in a while, I should probably give you an update, but sadly, there really isn't much to update you on! Since school started, I've been really busy! Between skating and school and band and piano, I don't have too much free time anymore!

I now teach these 3 little girls during public skating sessions. They are extremely cute, but they suck at skating! So it is going to be an interesting experience...But I get to make money so that's also exciting! My mom is happy about that because she seems to think that I'm going to start paying for my own skating lessons now...whereas my coach is happy about it because she thinks that now I'll just have some extra pocket money...I agree with my coach's perspective on this :) lol

Since I'm talking about skating, I GOT MY AXEL BACK TODAY! FINALLY! I had lost it for a while, but today I ate a huge breakfast before skating and then worked really hard for 2 hours straight and my axel came back :) My double salchow and double loop were kind of bad, but my axel definitely makes up for those jumps!!! I'll have to get my dad to video tape me at skating one of these days, though. I really want to know what I look like when I skate because I think that would probably really help me with my jumps!

For my school's ski day, I'm going snowboarding! I'm sooo excited. Me and a couple of friends are taking a lesson together (hopefully we will be in the same group) and we will hpefully make enough progress during our lesson so that we don't need to "take another lesson in the afternoon to safely increase our skill level on the beginner slopes".

Alright, well believe it or not I have to go. Sorry this has been a quick post, but I will write more tomorrow, hoepfully. I really cannot type the word "hopefully".

Luke: [alarm goes off] Sorry, I forgot to turn the alarm off.
Lorelai: Bad alarm. Bad, bad alarm.
Lorelai: What time is it?
Luke: Early.
Lorelai: Hate early. Must kill early.
Lorelai: Okay, gotta get up.
Luke: Why?
Lorelai: Work. Inn. Buy shoes. Oh, my God, I can't move. I need coffee.