happy 204th post!

I was gonna say that when we got to 200, but I guess I missed it :P
Anyways, that's all I have to say...

Amazingness

Okay so I think you all should know firstly, that I tried to blog today at school during lunch, but for some reason I couldn't get it two puplish my postS:S like I was on facebook and everything and it was working but it wouldn't load:(

Okay so I have a history test tomorrow and I haven't really studied or anything....(oops) and even though tonight I usually have a fair amount of time to do homework and stuff, this one girl Hillary left for New York yesterday night and she usually assists a 5star class so I said I would do it for her... Which left me not enough time to study and plus I didn't really feal like it. So I had to assist this class, (not having assisted a class since I was like 11, annnndddd it was parent viewing week (aka all the paretns come into their kids class and watch) and it's just THE most stressful day but then on top of that I didn't know any of their names or anything or their year and show dance so it was just all around bad, although I don't think I failed too badley-__-

Now for the AMAZINGNESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For my pointe solo and also just to get more comfertable in my pointe shoes, just like more than i already am, my mom is now getting me to do the centre practice in ballet on Thursday nights (tuesday we're working on our yearend show dance with the inters) and when we're not working on exam stuff (like we have been all year) we always do/ attempt 32 fouettes to the music from Swan Lake that Odile does her 32 fouettes on point to. Now I have been able to do thirty-two fouettes for a while and now do them fairly consistently. But now, because I do have about five fouette turns in my pointe solo she gets me to do the fouettes on pointe (even though everone else is on flat) and tonight I did THIRTY-TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It felt amazing!!<3 like before just like recently, I was able to do seventeen, and then the other day I did twenty-two but in that set I didn't get up on my block once so really it was kind of twenty-one but then tonight i was just wearing my pointe shoes as usual and my mom was like ok now do at least sixteen fouettes, all of you. And so thats nbd like basically everyone can do sixteen or almost, and so I started and it was going fairly well, and I just kept going and I got to twenty-four (I don't actually count, I just hear the sets of eights in the music) and I was like OMFG one more set until I can reach thirty-two and then my stmach started racing and all butterfyish and I just kept going and going and then doubled out of them!!!!!!!!!!!

It was honestly THE MOST amazing fealing ever<3<3<3<3 It was fantastic!

Ok so now its late because I've been writing this to you girls (cause Maya, this probably means the most to you, seeing as you know what I'm saying:P and you just happen to check the blog more than facebook so......) lol but yeah I love you girls soooo much and goodnight<3<3<3

Another round of goodbyes :(

I said bye to Rachel and Jono today :(
So sad.
This was an actual goodbye lol. Not just an "oh its the end of the schoolyear, but hey we can hang out for a few weeks still".
But oh well, the year was fun while it lasted :)
And i will definitely see them again!
Adjusting to living at home---- has been quite an adjustment :P
it's strange to think that i will be here for four months... lol
This summer has a lot to offer though :D i'm excited
I'm still waiting to hear from universities when it comes to acceptance... which i try to think about as little as possible haha. Doesn't always work :P
This week is packed, but in a way that i like :)
kathryn slept over last night, which was fun :D
we've all changed so much in the last year, it's crazy to think about lol.
I'm applying to this new cafe downtown- i know i already have a job- but it never hurts to get more experience on your resume ;)
That's all for now i suppose
<3

absence of homework?

...Maybe not. I forgot my drama binder at school, so I don't think that really counts as not HAVING homework... More like I just can't do any of it.
So here I am instead :)
Blah my hamstrings hurt from track. And I feel lazy and tired and just BLAH.
Also, I really have no idea how to direct, my co-director is DUMB, and I feel so judged all the time. Mr. Co-director didn't show up until the last 15 minutes of class today, and then he lectured me on how I'm not supposed to DISCUSS blocking with the cast, we TELL them the blocking. Like okay, this is a group effort and I'm okay with seeing what they think too. Plus, I did half on my own and he wasn't exactly there to help with any of it, or with the second half. And I would rather talk about it with the two leads than leave them with nothing to do, and sit in a corner by myself. Plus, we can always change this!! We just need something to start with!
Gah. So I'm not the super bossy, yelling at people, getting exactly what I want kind of director. Maybe it doesn't have to be like that though. Personally, I think it would be a lot more enjoyable if we ALL had imput on it. And it's easy because of such a small cast. We should take advantage of the great ideas that J and M have!
On top of all that, I just feel like my cast is completely aware that I have no idea what I'm doing, and they're always judging me. About the choice of play, or blocking, or casting, and EVERYTHING. It sucks.
Why must I ALWAYS have to prove myself to them?
I thought that was what I was doing with my monologue.
I guess not...

home sick:(

Heyyyyy im so sorry about the absense of my posts!:( I've just been so busy and I always forget cause I have so many things on my mind.... It's like oh I should blog but then before I'm allowed on the internet I have to do a bunch of stupid things (aka homework, chores)and then I forget:( I'm not even suposed to be on the computer right now but I now have my laptop!!!!!!!*jumping up and down clapping hands* lol I was very pleased:P So my mom thinks I'm doing homework right now, which I was.. Until I wasn't *oops*

So right now I'm sitting in bed with my brand new laptop listening to the rain and thunder. Other than the fact that I feel fairly crapy, it's actually fairly enjoyable. I don't know what's up with me!!:S When I'm at dance, usually after running a routine/cardio type things, my stomach gets all queezy and it's kind of terrible. Like usually I just ignore it but it's becoming a fairly frequent occurence. Before it was like once a month type thing and I would just push through it like nbd, yeah its uncumfortable but I'll live. But it has increasingly become fairly regular. It was hurting me on Monday after we ran our jazz group and didn't stop hurting like until I went to bed, but then last night it started hurting me in my first class like it usually does, but then when I woke up this morning it hadn't gone away which was really disconcerting.

I am legitimatly in LOVE with my laptop though, like if you thought i was in love with my blackberry, well this is like ten times that lol:$ its just amazin!! I'm so glad my dad got me a legit like full sized one cause originally he was just going to get me a netbook.

OMG ok so i wrote like 4 pages about it in the journal last night but I'm just so excited!! So you girls know how Kayla has cancer right? I'm pretty sure I told you guys.... If I didn't I'm so sorry!! And now you know. But we're doing a piece for her in the year end show (most likely) and I think it's going to be really good!! Also the seniors are going to get the older kids(the inters and seniors) not the juniors, and make up a relay for life team, like in honour of Kayla I guess you could say. Also like for sponsours, we're going to put our dance like right before the intermission so that right after Kristin can say a little blurb about it and Kayla and there will be a table for people to pledge money for our relay for life team! I think its such a good idea:D It makes me feel like we're actaully doing something you know?? Like I'm not just totally helpless.

Ok so anyways thats all for now
Love you girls lots<3<3<3<3

i'm on a roll

Wow. Three posts by me in a row?
You girls need to step up your game ;)
Or at lest do something exciting that is worth writing about...

Yesterday I woke up at Monika's!  I hadn't been at her HOUSE for a LOOOOONG time. I love sleepovers. I think there needs to be more of them in my life.
Yeah. I think I need to have at least one with somebody every month. Any volunteers? :D
I have a cot that it always available :)

My nails are starting to grow out a bit... it doesn't take long. It's only been a week since my last piano lesson, and I didn't have one yesterday because it was still part of the long weekend.
I miss my pretty long nails :(
I should probably cut them now. Just so practicing is easier.
I'll have to crack out the bright coloured nail polish! :D

I'm hopefully getting my hair cut at some point over the next week and a bit. I don't really want it to be shorter, but some layers, and just getting rid of the split ends would be nice.

I've been up-dating my other blog like crazy over the past week. Now that there is actually pretty things to take pictures of, I've had my camera out as much as possible.
Also I had to do updates about some other stuff thats happened over the last little bit.

Thanks for the journal Maya :) I wrote in it yesterday... and hopefully will write a lot more soon!
I like blogging to you girls, because not only do you get to read it sooner... but you don't have to deal with my messy printing :P

I went to the library for a bit today, mostly to pick up holds, but I also finished the book I was reading(The Live-Forever Machine by Kenneth Oppel) and started, and finished another book too(Plastic by Sarah N. Harvey). It was really good.
Short, but good.
It's about a boy whos best friend is going to get plastic surgery for her 16th birthday, and he is horrified about that.
If you ever have time(which you should, cause its only 136 tiny pages long. It has small pages and big print... so yeah. It's really easy to get through).
At first you think it's going to not be very tasteful... you know, since the guy confesses that he loves boobs and knows 138 different words for them... it's actually really good and deals with a really important issue.

lol. enough book ranting for now.

I have a make-up application night for Aida this evening. So yeah, I get to learn how to look like a Nubian/slave to night ;)
It should be fun.

photos

Once again I'm up too late for my own good...
But whatever. It is just a cycle I cannot break :P

I'm uploading some photos from today on facebook, but I don't think the such a cliche social networking site will be able to handle all of the awesomeness... so stay posted to my pretty little dinosaur blog for a more complete display of the wonderfulness of today <3
I love you girls.

Every moment we spend together makes my heart glow!


Here are a few sneak peeks for the facebook free among us ;)

Yes. This is a sneak peak... as you know I'm a bit trigger happy and have way more photos than I'd ever need :)

ITS THURSDAY! and that could mean anything

My Thursdays have been know to be that day of complete and utter confusion for me, and my parental driving units.

Every other week, Thursday means that my dad has to pick me up from the library.
But Sometimes I make it tricky, and it becomes a more than every other week thing... or YAC goes crazy and messes up the weeks(like this week).

Sometimes Thursdays mean I got to choir rehearsal.
Which means (sometimes) my parents have to drive me there. And other times it means I'll just hang out at the library until rehearsal starts.

And then ANOTHER thing it might mean, is that Laurie will be picking me up and taking me to Aida rehearsal, and then later she will bring me home.
Or that Laurie takes me, but I have to stay much later than she does... and my parents have to pick me up at the end of the evening.
Or Laurie takes me, and then my parents have to pick me up early so I can be at choir rehearsal for a bit.
OR my parents have to take me both ways.

Yup. Thursday is the day of variables.
So today, the only thing Thursday means is that my parents have to get me to and from Aida rehearsal. I'm only there from 6:30-7:30, so one of them might just have to hang around New Hamburge for a while, since that is not very close and doesn't make sence to drive home inbetween.

This Thursday also means, ITS MICAH'S BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!
As of yesterday, my little superman is FIVE-YEARS-OLD! :O


Well I'm being summoned.
The party hasn't started yet, but it will soon....
It's BUG THEMED!!!!! You should see the cupcakes :D

the drama with drama...

The guys in my class are such drama queens. They're total divas, and think they can get whatever they want. Ugh.
So casting... My co-director and I decided today. I held my ground on who I wanted, and he agreed to it. His only condition was that we don't put up with any BS from them, and we work them HARD. Which sounds good to me. They're ready to be pushed, and that doesn't always mean they'll like it.
I'm happy to be working with M. But our lead guy.... ahhhh. I knew he'd be a challenge, and I'm ready for it. But before the play has even started, he's being a total brat.
I was hearing things about him not really liking our play, and not being really into it. He told me he was just assessing his options. So okay, fine. But honestly, if you're not into it, TELL ME. Because I'm not casting you if you're gonna drop out on me. The other guy had a stronger audition, so it would be easy to just give him the part. I had to push to get J.W., because I believe in him. But if he doesn't believe in me... :S
Then the other co-directors announced their casting, and they didn't give our lead guy a lead in that one too. Probably because they knew I wanted him :P
So J.W. is all like, can I talk to you... And he apologizes for not seeming into it, but he is and he wants to be there for me and make it good and blah blah.. But really, is he just saying that because he didn't get the other lead and now he's panicking about not having one at all.
Honestly, I kind of want to cut him and say sorry, you blew it with your attitude and not being fully committed. Because he shouldn't have just assumed he'd get BOTH leads and get to choose. In the real world, you can't be such a diva about it. You DON'T just get everything you want, and you're not always the best. No one will want to work with him if he keeps acting like such a brat.
But I do want him as my lead.
I just want him to know what he's doing is wrong. Not even because I'm mad, but because I don't want him to learn the hard way when it really matters.
I want the best for him, because I really DO believe in him.
I just wish he had a little more real faith in me.
I'm excited to be directing, and I think I know what I want now. But what I don't want, is for people to think they can push me around and that I'll give in to what THEY want. I want to stand up for myself this time, and prove that I'm not always so easy-going. And if that means they won't always like me so much, I don't know if I really care. I'm looking for RESPECT for what I can do, not people who like working with me because they think they can manipulate me.
I'm ready to stand my ground on this one.

getting excited!

Directing.

Started off so stressful. And I'm sure it will be, many more times :P
But right now, I'm so excited.

We held auditions for the 2 leads today, and I'm so pumped to be working with such talent. The only little issue is that my co-directer and I COMPLETELY disagree about casting lol. Like, total opposites of who we should cast:S
But ya. We decided on J.W. and I'm pleased with that. His audition was a bit weak, but he has a lot of potential and I want to work with him (even if he is a bit of a brat sometimes...). Who knows if he'll take direction well. But I know he'll sell the show in the end.
And for the female lead... We haven't decided yet. But I want M so badly. She has this very interesting quality about her when she acts, and I find her fascinating to watch. I'm actually even more excited about her that J.W. Which is saying something.
But my co-director still isn't sold on her. Hm.

I'm so excited though :D

why do i do this?

Hey Girls.
I have an assignment due today... and I've only completed the first question and still don't know what the entire lesson/module thing is all about.
I don't know why I do this. Maybe if I didn't do this my average would be higher.... and that would be nice, but I have more important things to do than math. So yeah.


Ummm. SATURDAY WAS SOOOOOO COLD! Omg. The first rehearsal at the arena was DEATH. wow. It took FOREVER to feel slightly dethawed after I came home.

Yesterday... was awesome, and awkward. Yeah.
Anyway.


I finally got my final marks from LAST semester in the mail today.
90% in my first real course isn't bad at all :P
I even got this "honours award" thing in the mail too. Which is funny and weird. lol.

Anyway. I need to get back to that assignment.

me, at home, as usual

Hey kiddos.

I'm so happy to have had some reading material from you girls! I love hearing about your lives.
I hope you all are thriving in your busy-ness.
Summer is just around the corner, and you know what that means! ALL THE SISTAR HANG OUT TIME THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY WANT!!!!!!

Maya, I don't want you to do summer school this year! Tell the people in charge that that is the dumbest thing you have ever heard, and that they should give you back your money, and you can spend the rest of the summer, WITH ME!!!!!! Okay.


Katlin, you are crazy with all the stuff you are doing(I mean track? SERIOUSLY! I know you're missing gym and all... but track? For real? Kidding <3 You'll be awesome, and I'm sure you'll have fun).

Monika, I CAN'T COME TO YOUR GRADUATION TOMORROW AND THAT MAKES ME MAAAAD!!!!! I want to :( BUT YOU KNOW WHAT! You are going to come over here after you leave dorm, and sleepover every single night, until I get sick of you. So yeah, be prepared to be here a lot :)

Savannah, I hope your competion went/is going well! I don't know when the one you are doing around now is going on... but ALL THE BEST/I HOPE IT WAS(is) AWESOME!!!!!! I miss you girly, and I think we need to hang out/eat food together.


I propose that we have an ice cream party ASAP! The premise is that we each bring a tub of ice cream, and then we eat until we explode/its all gone...
Yeah. OHHHHH and my mommy bought me gluten/corn free gram crackers, so we also need to have a bon-fire and EAT S'MORES!!!!!!
Yeah. I'm making myself hungry/miss you girls more!
I can't wait to tackle hug you all(even though I've decided I hate people now, I'll make an exception for you girls :P)

So yeah. I'm going to go see a show tonight(and i have a concert tomorrow) so yeah. I should probably get ready.
AND I'm working on a a story and I need good homeschool names(LEAVE COMMENTS WITH NAMES/SEE LAST POST AND TELL ME WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE AIDA SO KATLIN DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A LOOSER AND SEE IT BY HERSELF) lol love you Kate <3

Yeah. AND WE'RE MOVING TO THE ARENA!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!! The show is a MONTH AWAY!!!!
Yeah. FIRST REHEARSAL AT THE ARENA ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!


k. I got to go... and buy a ticket, cause I don't have a ticket for tonight...
LOVE YOU!!!!!

(please enjoy all the CAPS I encluded!!!!!!!)

blogging drought.

yup. I guess this period qualified as a blogging drought on my part. wow. this font is making me feel soooo small right about now. straaaaannnnge.
umm, how to start? hey, I know what you mean Kate, I feel the exact same way but not only with contests - often with tests too. They are just so draining and the fact that you don't get an immediate answer makes it empty-feeling in a twisted way. Hah, take THAT for standardized testing and the like. Rachel I'm ready to ditch this school stuff and come be scholarly awesome with YOU. :) yup, I want to learn, but for the brilliant sake of learning, and not have to rush things into my brain and cram them so hard stuff falls out my ears...it might drip outta my nose too, but that would be gross and I'm starting to sound a tad like Calvin the comic-book character. Actually I'm probably just dreaming.
what's the word that describes the time in your life when it not only thudded down a mile past busy, but got even busier than that?? me thinks we've got a lexical gap on our hands here...hahaha, Rachel you don't even KNOW what you started :P my lucky lucky classmates...op, here comes my roomie, gotta try it out on her...
short pause...
and back. GRAND success. yarp.
So, I can't remember the last time I posted (I'm feeling the shame. really) so I'll try and give you a short run-down.
- had my dance evaluation which was the most enjoyable of any of the years I've had them
- toenail fell off, luckily it stayed on till a new one was a pre-teen at least
- didn't sleep for five nights
- had some way-too-stressful-for-its-worth family stuff to deal with
- didn't sleep for another two nights...at all
- caught a bad cold
- had to finish a couple dozen projects, labs, assignments, tests, and presentations
- ended up going home for two days where I slept waaayyyy better and regained my ability to think
- auditioned for a dance internship (I think I shall tell you about this in person, but I will say that I absolutely LOVED the audition, the environment and people were fantastic, and I feel wonderfully in myself for the first time in years)
- started educating myself about canadian politics for the upcoming election (boy am I ever at a fearful age, by golly I'm comin' at those politicians dang hard!)
- went for 6 cold baths in the last 5 days.
and now I have a floor meeting. Unelegant, unsophisticated, not even quirky, and totally blahh.
ta ta for now girls!

school-ish stuff

I don't know why I write math contests sometimes. They're so draining. Afterwards, instead of feeling like my mind has been expanded or whatever, my brain just feels like mush. They take so much energy... -.- Although I guess the actual writing of them is okay. I like leaving everything behind and being fully immersed in a math problem. Not many things take up your whole brain the way contests do. And it's kind of rewarding to finish a problem, especially one that Graham and Jamie didn't get :P

After the contest today I went to the second half of the genocide conference. Which was kinda boring to be honest, because since I'm already in the group I KNOW what's going on in Darfur. I don't need to sit through a presentation about it. And I feel like I put in SO MANY hours, and I missed half and then the second half was boring. Blah. Oh well.

I think I'm joining track with Meagan. Even though I hate running. Lol. But yeah, it'll kinda be nice to be on a team, and in the sunshine, and producing endorphins and being happy haha. Plus now that the conference is done, I might have some free time to just have a life. And free time...pshhhhh, who needs it. Gotta fill it with SOMETHING.. :P

lexical gap

I feel so much smarter now that I know what a lexical gap is :)

A lexical gap(or lacuna) in an absence of a word in a particular language.
For instance... there is no word for ''shallow" in Romanian, they just say "Less Deep".

Yeah.

There are several instances of this in English too.  But yeah. I think that it is awesome that there is a word for when there isn't a word for something. :)

Today I have a performance, and a mandatory rehearsal that I need to be at... at the same time.

But such is the story of my life.

I'm going to the first part of the concert(the part with my solo :P) and then rushing over to sing WITH THE FULL ORCHESTRA FOR AIDA!!!!

I can't believe the show is only a MONTH away!!!!!

You kids need to buy tickets!

Show dates are May 12-15 and there is a 8pm show on Thursday to Saturday, and a 2pm show on Saturday and Sunday.

Let me know... NOW when you want tickets for(you can comment so we can possibly have you all see it the same night... except for Savannah. But that's okay. You'll be busy being awesome elsewhere <3 )

You can only get eyego tickets through me, or at the door. And you don't want to wait, cause you won't get good seats if you wait to get them at the door.

So yeah. We should figure this out, so you can all come see it :)

holy smokies!!!!!

It's HAILING!!!!!/POURING!/STORMING!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha. It's AWESOME! :D


Yesterday I had my Jane Eyre audition. It went really well and I got asked to come back. This is how it played out.

Amanda(my voice teacher/musical director for Jane Eyre): Can you come for rehearsal
(Beside her Gord(Director of Aida/Director of Jane Eyre nods enthusiastically)
Andrea(Stage manger of Aida and Jane Eyre): No She can't.
(Gord looks at her questionly)
Andrea: It's dancing, she can't miss that.
Gord: But dance of the robe isn't until later...
Andrea: It's all trio stuff. She can't miss it.
Gord/Amanda: But-
Andrea: She has to be at rehearsal.

lol. so yeah. I got my first call back for a musical... but my stage manger refused to let me go :S
So we'll see how this plays out :P
Amanda and Gord made it clear after we decided I couldn't make it, that they would still consider me for all the parts they would have otherwise. Which is nice. But they won't get to hear me sing those parts...
But whatever. They know me, so we'll see.
Apparently some of the other Aida girls are having the same problem.

Rehearsal today should be fun though!!! We're doing trio stuff of the first hour or so, and then I have an hour break, and then I get to learn "the dance of anguish" that I'm featured in for the first 20seconds :P
After dinner we learn the rest of "the dance of anguish" and then... A RUN THROUGH OF THE FIRST AND SECOND ACT!!!!! HOLY SMOKIES!!!!
I'm excited :)

Also. How are we all standing with journals? I gave mine to Katlin on the 5th... and I was just wondering where we are with that. So yeah.
I hope you are all doing well and being fabulous <3
I LOVE YOU!

busy busy busy

Why on earth did I think I could maintain a 90 average, co-direct the senior production, run a genocide conference, do well enough on this math contest to get scholarships, start running again, AND maintain some sort of social life... Gah I'm dumb.

The whole idea of co-directing is really stressing me out, especially because I don't even have a play to direct! I don't know how to pick a good one, and I can't seem to find anything that inspires me. And I've NEVER done this before, I don't even know where to START with directing. The director is basically responsible for EVERYTHING, and I feel like the whole thing is based on what the director does. If I suck at it, I don't feel like I can take drama next year. I don't even know if I want to, really. But I'd like to have the option. I just hate that this is something that can't just be learned with hard work, it takes real TALENT. And what if I just don't have it? It's like proving myself to my class all over again... And I'm terrified.

On top of that, Save Darfur is sucking everything out of me. It's SO MUCH work. And Meagan has been great, but it's still way too much work for just the two of us. It's like adding a couple big school projects on top of everything else, plus meeting every day at lunch and almost every day after school and today on the PD day. Which is really not so bad because I like them, and it's just hanging out with friends really. But it's still a killer amount of work.

Also this weekend is Savannah's dance competition, and my friend Jaimee is coming to Cambridge for a rhythmic competition, and she lives in Ottawa so I NEVER see her. But I kinda doubt I have time for EITHER of those:(

Blahhh I'm drowningggggggg:(

a beautiful story coming to an end...

Yep. It's that time of year.
When unshakable friendships have finally been formed and are about to be separated by distance.
Remember my first post on how i was finding college life?
Feeling that my heart wasn't here- that it was with the people who i love.
Well that's about to happen all over again.
What a year- sometimes i was right pissed to be here lol. And sometimes i couldn't imagine leaving.
Now the grad pictures are in, ceremonies loom ahead, and it's time for everyone to go back to living----not here.

Enough with the sentiment :P

Played soccer last night!
For the last time. Sara brought us fruit for half-time lol.^_^
Played well, but they were really rough! i got moogieed around and skinned my knees x_x

We went for icecream at coldstone afterwards! so good! The lady in front of us gave us $16 as a random-act-of-kindness :D
So four of us got icecream and only paid $5 :D
Quite refreshing ^_^
lmao Jono's car is "gay hubert" because it's horn is super feminine sounding lolllll. he was right pissed when we mocked it hahahaha :P

Volunteered tonight. My buddy came to the big party! it's crazy how much she's come out of her shell :o :D it's very encouraging :) i feel like i actually influenced her in a positive way. Just to see her growth and how she laughs now and easily approaches people :)
it's been a wicked experience! i stretched my limits so much, and wow. My heart breaks when i see the beautiful people who i've gotten to know forgotten and ignored by society. But the amazing thing is that with all that discouragement, someone will come along and do something so genuinely kind. It gives me hope for the prideful selfish world we're trapped in :D

My friend in nursing has her practical exam tomorrow and she did most of her assessments on me lol. it's been fun :P She's honestly going to be an awesome nurse!

Lately i've been having longgg conversations with people here. Up till 3am kinds of conversations :P or just staying in the caf wayy after mealtime lol.
It reminds me of how close we have all gotten :)
Anyways... i have an exam tomorrow!

<3

I should be doing other stuff....

like working on my English stuff that was due last Friday... but no. I'm writing to you girls instead.
Last night mom took me to see Jane Eyre, the movie. It's playing at the Princess Twin only until Thursday... and I'm busy all the other nights it's on. SO she took me last night.
It as brilliant! OMG! I LOVE the BBC :D
It's a daunting task, trying to convert a 600+ book into a watchable movie... but they did it. And it was fabulous! Wow.
If anyone ever wants to buy me a gift, ever, I would gladly except a copy of that movie... once it's on DVD and everything.
I loved it.
The images and artistry were wonderful, the actors were engaging(and did a fantastic job of portraying such classic literary characters) and the music was spectacular.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BABYSITTING KATLIN!!!! <3

I'm so glad I got to see it. And I'm glad that my mom enjoyed it too :)
I never know if she is going to enjoy the same things I do.

It was funny, cause the theatre was FULL of old artsy folks. Hahaha. It was basically like a seniors date night.
It was so cute. lol.

I don't mind being apart of the old people crowd. hahaha. At least I get to see good movies ;)


From here on in I'm having a music filled week. I;m pretty excited about choir tonight. I hope Judith is back... she was in a car accident during her trip during march break... and I we haven't seen her since before March Break, so it would be nice to have her back and get on track with everything again.

Tomorrow the kids are having WRITING CLUB!!!! SOOOO many memories come flooding back at that ;)
We are running it at our home, and basically the kids are just coming over and reading/sharing some poems they've written, or have read and liked(you know, since it's poetry month and everything).
It'll be cute :)

one day we're bound to find.... a stronger suite

'Rehearsal was good last night. It was a vocal only rehearsal, which was good, and much needed. But that's not really as exciting and fun as blocking.
I LOVE singing, but I also love the emotion and movement that we are meant to put along with it.
I feel bad about missing Thursdays' rehearsal... but I need to be a the Phil 'cause we are OPENING FOR 13 THE MUSICAL the NEXT night!
It's going to be fun. We get to sing, then see the show as a group :)
I love choir. MYS is fun, and I love the people, and the Phil is fun, and I love the entire choir hang out times :)
I guess I'm just a choir nerd ;)

My Jane Eyre audition is in less than a week, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. Except for the fact that I feel like I'm getting sick :S
I REALLY DON'T want to be sick!!!!!!!!!

I have a bunch of other stuff happening this week... my voice isn't going to get much of a break.
I have choir tomorrow, then the next day, then a performance, then my audition, then rehearsal/callback*fingerscrossed*.
It's a jam packed next few day.
And to top that all off, my dad's off in Jamaica... so yeah. This is going to be fun :P

hysterical laughter vs. spitefulness

So provincials was this weekend... I went to watch, so I guess I could write about that...
But, the REAL highlight of my weekend was yesterday night :D
I was at my cousins, hanging out on the couch, eating mini eggs, watching Modern Family with my mom and Carolyn. SO FUNNY. We watched the whole first season and most of the second (although my mom fell asleep WAY before that haha) and finished a whole bag of the eggs... Good times :P
Also, the night before I went out driving with Derek, because he just got his G2. That was also fun:)

Okay so gym meet. Um. Em's meet was pretty decent, she had a nice bar routine and really danced her heart out on floor (reminded me of Athens - sigh<3). Missy won vault, and I was really happy for her. They were nice vaults. Nothing spectacular. But good, clean, safe... Really, you can't go wrong with that.
To be honest, the caliber of kids just wasn't there this year. Maybe it was the fact that it was in a dark parking garage (wth!), or the fact that Em and Miss never get EXCITED to compete, or maybe I'm just resenting it a bit that I wasn't there. But it didn't live up to my expectations...
There was a lot of easy, mistake filled routines. Where as last year you could pull out the routine of your life and not even medal. Only 2 kids had double backs, where as before it was frowned upon NOT to have them. It just didn't seem like level 9 to me :S
But like I said, I could just be spiteful because I wasn't competing this year. And it's easy to look at the coulda/shoula/woulda and the has-beens.
Oh well.

Modern Family was good:)

first ceili ever! :D

hahahaha soooo there was a ceili at my school yesterday xD. It's like irish dancing/ square dancing lol. SOOOO FUN! and hilarious lolll. pingping came :)
my calves are significantly sore now ;D
Yeah, it was a hootin tootin time! :P it was 3hours lol.
Today i went to swiss chalet with my buddy which was fun :) Wow i taxi'd her home which was about a 5minute drive and it cost $7! :o that's bollocks!
anyways i'm supposed to be doing my last research paper for this year! :o x___x
yeah... lol