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