SOAR

So I went to SOAR and it was frikken awesome! I met a ton of people from everywhere and the counselors were super funny. I am so glad i got to go. Anyways here are some pictures they are probably better than my semi sensible musings.

Last Day in Hawaii..Sharks cove

Sooooooo yesterday was the last day that i have in Hawaii to actually go to the beach or hangout and stuff. So we went to sharks cove and got sunburned. It was low tide in the morning so we found a big patch of sand to lay on away from the masses of sunblock lathering tourists. We stayed for a while, it was funny becasue the little island we were on kept getting smaller and smaller. Eventually we had to move, it was kinda funny. One of the guys who came, Cody, is 6'7" so we wanted to bury him in a huge hole in the sand but it was taking too long so we buried austin instead. hahah

Summer

So summer is finally here. THANK HEAVENS. I got senioritis super bad like the last month of school so it was really hard keeping my grades up but i managed. Oh! I got a C in math!!!! yeahhhh!!! hahahha so my gpa for the semester will be a 3.8. here are my grades.
Alg 2: C
Ap Lang: A
Spanish: A
Directed Studies: A
AP US History: B
Newswriting: A
Im super stoked for SOAR and going to utah to see you guys too. we will have mucho fun.

AP Exams

Ahhh AP exams are killing me. Well not so much the AP Lang exam but the AP US is killer.

There is just too much too remember. too many dates, too many people, treaties, court cases, acts, tariffs, wars, rebellions, political parties, battles, presidents, speeches, doctrines, amendments, controversies, bills, scandals, unions, assasinations, compromises, economic issues, protests, social programs, invasions, conventions.....too much....cant...handle...brain...overloaded...
hahahah im so dramatic. Well its tommorow. woohoo

AP Lang Im not really worried about. I got a 4 on the mock test but Palmer said she expects me to get a five since she grades harder than them...i was like great, now if i dont i will feel like i let you down. hahah oh well

Literature Festival and my new favorite author Markus Zusak!

So i was sitting in school on friday and Mrs. Jackson my ninth grade teacher came into my class and tells me i should come to the Literature Festival. I was like "uhhhhhhh I'll think about it." But i didnt really wanna go with all these gay nerd kids from town so i wasnt planning on even thinking about going. haha But in my next period a few of my friends told me they were going and taht i should come too, so i decided to go.
I hadnt read any of the books yet so i picked the shortest one; it was like 60 pages. I started reading during my free period and found taht the book was a piece of crap. haha My friends gabby told me this book I am the Messenger was good so she gave it to me. I read all 400 pages yesterday. the book was so good and superrrrrr hilarious i laughed on the very first page.
The literature festival was today:saturday. We went to the workshop for the book i read. oh i need to explain. hahah so the let festival is bascailly they pay authors of books to come and talk to us and have little workshops and stuff.
Soooo we walk into Markus Zusac's room. And he is beautiful. And hilarious. And has a rugged Australian accent. And writes amazing books. And.....did i mention beautiful?
I dont know if youve ever heard of the book called The Book Thief but he wrote it and it was the newyork time #1 bestseller for a while. But he talked about it and pretty much i want to read it right now. yeah, I am the Messenger was really good but everyone said The Book Thief blows it out of the water. So i want to read it now.
I got him to sign my book and he actually wrote stuff and i thought that was really cool, and he said different stuff for us too. There was this other author and he was cocky and thought he was so amazing. i didnt like him. hahah he was like "yeah everyone is talking to me." we were like oh, really? hahah We took pictures with Markus Zuzac and we were like yes!!! he was so nice he went into his lunch time to meet everyone who wanted to meet him and sign their books and what not. here they are! plus some stalker ones as well.
oh yeah and a funny conversation that went on between a friend and I:
"holy crap, that guy is hot. he is a writer, they arent supposed to be hot."
"I dont know, he's good looking, but he looks kind of weird."
"Yeah....but like a hot kind of weird."

I got into SOAR!

yayyyyyyyyyyyy i got into soar!!! hahah i was so happy. my mom called me while i was at a friends house telling me the letter came so i went straight home to go and open it and i was accepted. i am so happy, i was scared i wasnt going to get in. Im in the first session and it starts on june 22. Thanks andrea and mark for helping me and sanae for gettingme interested in the program too!
yayyyyyyy

ACT test trauma

So I am taking the ACT this saturday and I don't know why on earth I signed up for this weekend becasue I will have been on spring break for two weeks when I take it. hahah I'm having a good time trying to jump start my brain into actually comprehending things. I'm hoping to get just like a 25 or something for my first time. I would be satisfied with that, but anything higher would be cool too. Anything lower I guess is alright too. hahah

So my friend and I are both taking it this saturday so we've been sort of trying to study but i think actually studying time has amounted to about three minutes. hahah I think we both have ADD, him espescially. Hopefully we do alright. :D