Stupid French explorers...why did you have to make history so complicated with all your stupid explorations and all these stupid dates???

Ahhh. I'm studying for our module 1 history test and I'm mad at these French guys that decided to come here and discover North America. I hate learning dates. And now, because of Jacques Cartier and Giovanni da Verazzano and others...I have to learn dates...gr...all the dates sound the same...1524, 1534, 1535, 1541, 1542, 1608, 1666, 1663 ahhhh....too many numbers....and it's all basically Jacques Cartier's fault.

LOOK. I'M POSTING. I KEPT MY PROMISE. I'm actually very proud of myself. I am actually posting in this thing. And my blog has lasted more than a few days! And people are actually reading it! Except THEY AREN'T COMMENTING. Except for Anne of course :).

By the way, Anne, check your email, because I sent you something kind of important. Hopefully you will get it...I'll explain why later.

So...today, I woke up really early to go skating. I had a "OH MY GOD IT'S A BREAKTHROUGH" dance lesson with Anthony, and then did some super nice axels and then had a freestyle lesson. The problem was, I had skated for 2 hours straight before my freestyle lesson, so I had NO energy what so ever during my lesson, and my axels SUCKED and so did all my other jumps...my friend was like "I WANT TO SEE YOUR AXEL! I HEAR ITS GOOD!" and I showed her this pathetic, ugly axel after which I fell and spun around on my knees. I also tried some double toe loops and landed on my stomach, once on my massive bruise from doing double toe last week, and once on my elbow/knee...I kind of skinned my elbow!

Ahhhh...skating....how I love it :)

During skating, a song by the Beatles was playing...called "I've Just Seen a Face". I found it funny, because the chorus is:

"Falling, yes I am falling, and she keeps calling me back again."

And that applies so much to my skating it's not even funny. I am in a lesson, I take a leap of faith into the air, fall on my butt/stomach/knees/elbows and laugh at myself, then my coach calls me back to the boards while laughing at me to tell me why I fell. Yup.

Today, I also decided that in December, I'm going to test my Jr. Bronze elements, maybe Jr. Bronze solo, Sr. Bronze Skills, American Waltz (FOR THE FRICKEN 5TH TIME), Rocker Foxtrot, AND the Harris Tango..and pass EVERYTHING. SOMEHOW!!!! haha anyone want to keep me company on test day since I'll be at the rink for like 8 hours if I test all that???lol

I'm really annoyed at that movie called "Across the Universe". I've never seen it, but lots of Beatles music is in it, and now my grade is suddenly obsessed with the Beatles. I bet most of the people who suddenly became obsessed don't even know who the Beatles are...grr it's annoying...I know some of them aren't "fake" Beatles fans, but I feel like lots of them ARE indeed fake....meh this little "phase" will probably pass in a week or so...

Tra la la la laaaa.

I have so many postly picture worthy pictures. I can't choose which one to post for this post!

Well, I think this occasion calls for two pictures to be posted.

I took this in Paris...doesn't it kind of look like the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover???

I was planning on posting another picture here...but now stupid blogger won't let me!!!!

(I am quite enjoying using the word "stupid" in this post)

This past week, all the new TV shows started! So now, I will do a little mini review on the ones that I watched.

(LOOK AT THIS!!!!! I AM ACTUALLY GETTING IDEAS ON WHAT TO WRITE IN MY POSTS!!!)

HOUSE:

IT WAS AMAZING. House's team was gone and that was kind of sad, but House was as amazing as ever. He consulted a janitor guy and got in trouble for it...and his guitar was stolen which was pretty funny. Ok, that's enough about House.

PRIVATE PRACTICE:

This is Grey's Anatomy little spin off show. It was ok, much better than the preview that was shown last year, but I'm not sure it will last...I hope it gets better...I really don't like the new characters....

GREY'S ANATOMY:

It was really good and pretty funny, because the "interns" now are residents and have their own interns and are trying to be just like Bailey, who is, in my opinion, the best actress on the show. I feel so bad for George, who is an intern again...but I'm so glad he's still on the show!

Ok reviews over.

It is time for me to go watch some Gilmore Girls. I was working so much today and my time to be productive is over. Now I must rot my brain in front of the TV.

I'm running out of quotes.

Why did the chicken run across the road? There was a car coming.

Module 1 History Studying...

I promise I will post later today.

I really do.

For now, here is a quote to entertain you (stolen from Susie's tidbit)!

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven. --Jean Chretien

My dog is snoring.

And I am about to fall asleep on my computer.

Just thought I would say that THEY ARE FILMING/ WERE FILMING A MOVIE AT MY ARENA! It's a skating movie...no kidding....called The Cutting Edge 3!!!!Apparently, the arena is supposed to be in Washington, because all the cars parked outside it the other day had Washington license plates and there was a US Postal Service mailbox outside...and INSIDE, the Canadian and Quebec flags were replaced with a bunch of American ones! It's pretty funny...the movie people are pretty desperate to use the Cote St. Luc arena to film in....I think I might have walked through a rolling set actually....I was walking to my mom's car and walked right in front of a camera shooting a scene with a bunch of dudes on skateboards....oops :D

I skated today...it was fun...except now I'm super sore because I decided I was going to practice double toe loop...not a good idea!!! I was also doing brackets, and somehow my blades got stuck together and I took a pretty interesting/funny fall...my coach laughed at me...like usual!! haha but it was pretty funny because I fell out of nowhere!!!

Ok. So. I've decided that I'm going to include a picture with each post. Starting now.

SO HERE IS THE um....PICTURE OF THE DAY!!! Maybe I should call it a weekly picture. Because I don't post that often. Or maybe...the monthly picture...or the um...postly picture. There. The postly picture. That leaves me some lee-way (how do you spell lee-way??) in terms of when I post.

Here you go. This is a photo of me trying to break out of the school through the window. It was taken for a French project last year....or was it???? dun dun dun....

Ok well I'm going to go to bed before I fall off my chair and curl up on the floor and start snoring with my dog.

I'm worried about a little boy who sits in front of me at school. He cries every day. This afternoon I tried to help him. I whacked him one on the arm... There's nothing like a little physical pain to take your mind off emotional problems. -- Lucy Van Pelt

18 Pages of 1.5 Spaced History Notes in One Week

I think Quebec wants all grade 10 students to die. I really do. Because 18 pages of history notes in one week of school is insane. And math. And French. And English. And science (our lab report is all wrong). And biology. Sounds pretty fun, doesn't it? Oh yeah, and my piano piece which has too many notes for its own good (Anne- what's with Earl's shaved head???!?!?!?).

:D

I'm really mad a the volunteering people because I really wanted to help out at the event this weekend (very good opportunity for hours...) but they randomly chose people to refuse because there were "too many"...but its kind of weird that they are turning down volunteers....

Well, there will be more time for me to work on my severely screwed up lab report, or read my French book, or do my weird math homework/study functions for my quiz, or fix my history notes so I can actually read them (they were typed so quickly...too many spelling mistakes....)!

But I have skating tomorrow, which should be fun. Last time I skated, I couldn't do anything...but that's probably because I hadn't eaten in a while and then decided to go do double salchows. Not a good combination. But it was still pretty fun, despite the fact that Andrea was laughing at me the whole time...although I was laughing at myself too :)

I don't know if I have posted since Stratford, but if I haven't, Stratford was a lot of fun! We saw four plays: My One and Only, Oklahoma!, Othello, and To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird was amazing! The others were good too, but not quite as good as TKAM. Othello was kind of disappointing, and I didn't understand it too well, but that could be because I was super tired and kept dozing off and shaking myself awake again.

WOW WE CAN FLY .

I apologize if parts of this post don't make any sense....I'm too lazy to read what I'm writing over again....I'm way too tired to be awake right now....but it's too early to go to bed....hm....I also apologize for the fact that this post has basically been a rant/ giant complaint about school and how busy I am!

Tralalalalalalalalalaa.

OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNINGGGGGGGG
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAYYYYY
I'VE GOT A BEAUIFUL FEEEELLIINNGGG
EVERYTHING'S GOING MY WAYYYYYY

Thank you.

Today's jazz band practice was rather interesting. There were some new, and rather annoying trumpet players who played wrong notes for an hour in my ear, and of course our sub music teacher, who can't give instructions properly and made us play I Got Rhythm and about 1/8th of the actual speed for the new trumpet players who were sight reading.

I'm in the mood for Montreal West soccer....that would make me happy. I need something to make me really happy right now!!! lol

WOW I CAN FLY TOO. IN A SUPER TRENDY KILT. WOW I JUST SAID TRENDY. CECILIA IS RUBBING OFF ON ME. AHHH.

I hope I'm not boring you with this post! I guess I could stop writing, but I'm getting into it now...I don't really feel like stopping...but I am running out of things to say!

Um.

A house near my school was on fire the other day?

There. That's something. That was quite eventful. I was walking to music and a huge crowd of green kilted people were crowded around the window. So, I looked out too. And smoke was billowing out of a building close by! Then, in music, it smelled smoke...pretty strongly...that's how big the fire was. Apparently, a propane tank exploded and then the roof of the house caught on fire or something.

Ok. I think I have filled you in on my life. So I will be going now. Bye!!! hmm...I want cookies....:) I hope you enjoyed my little rant/ update on my life post :).

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. -- Lucy Van Pelt

Well, the worst that can happen is that I spend some time in your town and suddenly have an urge to enter a pie in the county fair.

I haven't posted in a while. Oops. I seem to have a problem with writing in this thing frequently. I blame it on school. If only I could quit school...then you would get my wonderful posts very very very often :).

Well, school has started. The first two days were incredibly long and boring! I'm scared of most of the course outlines I have gotten...I think Quebec is trying to kill off all grade 10 students...so yes...I was dreading having French class on the first two days at school, and thankfully, we did not have French! SOO the year is off to a good start! :D

I just spilled chocolate on my white shirt. Excellent.

Tomorrow, we are going to Stratford for our grade trip. I'm not really excited...but it's much better than school...and apparently there is a really good fudge store in the area so that will make things interesting :) I finished packing today! My bag is pretty small..I'm really not bringing a lot...where as some people are bringing pillows, sleeping bags, etc...oh well...

OOH MY DRAFT WAS AUTOSAVED.

I still can't get over that.

So yesterday I was watching Gilmore Girls. I love that show. It's too funny. :) :) :O)
Wow. :O) . It has a nose. OK. New topic!

Um. I haven't skated since my last post...actually maybe I have...I forget when my last post was...but anyway, last time I skated, I just kind of messed around for an hour... I didn't feel like seriously practicing anything because I knew I would not skate again for a while, so I just had fun with various jumps/spins. I landed a few axels and double salchows which surprised me because I did not expect to land ANYTHING, as I had not skated in a month and my skates were super super ultra extremely sharpened.

My brother got a Nintendo Wii for his birthday. I am officially obsessed with it. It is SOOOO fun, even though I suck! I did a "fitness test" on it...and it thought I was a 58 year old woman (in terms of my skill level...hm...)!!!!!! But my brother was 55 so that made me feel a little bit better...apparently we both suck, but that's ok, because it is SOOO fun to play!!! :) :) :): ) :):):):)

Alright...well I'm going to go finish packing for Stratford and maybe go for a jog...I'm feeling too lazy to run but I have been saying that I was going to go since like...a week ago...so I should go...ahhh procrastination....

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. --Lucy Van Pelt