The Weekly "Most" Awards for Schoolwork

So far, the leading Days in the schedule poll are

#1: Character Day
#2: God Day
#3: Fact or Fiction and Name Day

If you want that to change, vote :)

So, yesterday was the first day back at school. So far, I'm trying to be a better student than I was last semester. I got all good grades and everything, but I wasn't trying my best by any stretch of the imagination.

The Weekly "Most" Awards for Schoolwork

Latin - the Most Surprising
I actually don't hate Latin this semester :O Instead of memorizing junk that's too hard and not that important in real life, we're using our skills to read Caesar's battle notes! How cool is that?? I was like, "AWESOME!!!"

British Lit - the Most (*struggles for the word...and can't find it* -.-) Unique/Unusual/New Assignment
We have to learn to take notes on a book. We're using "A Passage to India" and we have to keep a written list of the characters in the front of the book, write summaries above each chapter, write summaries for each page, circle words we don't know (then look them up and write the definitions in the margins). I think that's a cool assignment. A really good skill to get before college.

Music History - the Most Enjoyable
Basically, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is GENIUS and Debussy's La Mer is right behind. I LOVE THOSE. And the final in this class will be to be able to recognize a piece by hearing a random ten-second clip of it. No sweat. Audio is my best way of learning. This is gonna be a cinch. A really FUN cinch XD

Biology - the Most the Same
...pretty self-explanatory.

Drama - the Most Easy
We read a play out loud in class, and that's all. We don't even have any homework in this class. And it's pretty fun, too. We're reading "Harvey" right now, and it's great.

Debate - the Most Disappointing
Blegh.

Math - the Most Boring
*zzzzzz*

The end :D

Dance tonight! Yay! Talk to y'all later!

~Kendra

...Hi.

Opening night: worst performance so far, but not TERRIBLE.

Saturday afternoon: one of the best performances so far.

Saturday night: another of the best performances so far.

After party: ...

COMPLAIN ALERT!

I got to the pizza place FIRST, which is apparently a bad idea because then you don't get to choose who you sit with, they choose you :-/ I got stuck with all the 8th graders.

Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with 8th graders in themselves, just how they act. Highly immature, and just annoying. Of course, I didn't just want to stand up and go sit with the people my own age, because that would probably have been kind of rude to ditch the people I was already sitting with. But I ended up having 0 fun, and actually left super early. But that was also because of my being sick.

Oh, yeah, it finally happened :-/ I think I'm getting an exhaustion cold. *sneeze* :( Oh well. TAKE SOME TYLENOL SINUS AND DEAL WITH IT! XD

Over all, things have been going about as fine as one can expect. The last performance for a while (we perform again on Halloween) is today :( I'd probably feel sadder if I weren't so sick and sick of it, though, you know? I love this play, I love these people (some more than others, lols), but I'm just really tired! And school is killing me! No, more like hacking me to death with a bloody ax. I have about 2-3 days worth of work to do TOMORROW.

*closes eyes* I am trying not to think about that.

You might be asking why I'm not at CHURCH seeing how we have to be there at 8:30 for band practice. Well, my lovely family decided I could use an hour of down time, and they are coming back to get me in--oh. Twenty minutes.

Don't you love how time flies? -.-

Sorry for the complaining tone of this post, I'm just so tired. I'm really still having a good time, and I love, love, LOVE IT. Sign me up for The King and I in June!!!!!

Hey, did I just hear someone groan?

;) Thanks for listening and encouraging me these past couple of weeks! Don't worry, it's all coming to a close now. After today, you will be talking to a free Kendra!

:)

:'(

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**AUDITION UPDATE**

Well, I think the audition went pretty well!! I did fine with the song, and the dance combo was pretty easy. I didn't ham it up as much as some other people, though...I wonder if that's too bad...hmm...

I GOT A CALL BACK!! But before you get all excited, so did everyone else -.- But, I still did. It's tomorrow at 2 o'clock. So...YAY!

:D :D :D :) :) :)

I'm so glad the audition over with (well, most of it), but I really had a fun time doing it! I also met lots of nice people. Now I hope I get a good role, not just the chorus like I had hoped before.

I know you guys' thoughts prayers helped so much; thank you!

Camp Overview: Day 1

*sigh*

Don't you hate it when you find out bad things about someone you looked up to? I just went through one of my friend's (sort of) pictures on Facebook and found out she isn't quite the girl I thought she was. I'm really sad :( I sort of looked up to her, I thought she was pretty cool, and now it turns out apparently our ideals aren't the same at all. What an awful feeling :(

I really don't feel like posting at all right now, but I need to post about camp or I never will, haha. 'Kay, here:

THURSDAY:
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- Got up at seven and finished packing.

- Brianna came to pick me up at 8:30.

- Went to the camp leader's house.

- He was old, but still pretty fun. His name was Arnie.

- We waited around at his house until everyone else showed up.

THE CAMPERS:
1. Me (9th grader) :D

2. Brianna (9th grader): The fun-loving, easy-going, nice girl who makes you feel special and comfortable even if you're a total dork.

3. Erica: The responsible college girl that came along as a chaperone. She was fun, but sometimes a little brusque. I don't think she liked me that much...

4. Jessica (11th grader): Possibly the funnest girl there (me and Brianna aside :D). She was really nice, really fun, had a great personality, and seemed genuinely interested in talking to us.

5. Jenny (9th grader): Jessica's little sister. She was fun, but a little quiet and sort of timid. She seemed nice enough though.

6. Kara (9th or 10th, I think...I'm not sure): She was fun and really pretty. I don't know why, but she was. Her eyes actually sparkled. Like, I've read that in books, but I didn't know what it would look like if someone's eyes really sparkled. It was weird. Her eyes were actually sparkling, but they sizzled and gleamed with fun sort of...hmm...

7. Haley (9th grader): Haley was gorgeous. I hope this doesn't sound mean, but I could tell immediately that she was a "rich girl". She wasn't snobby though. Just obviously from a more well-to-do environment. She was fun, but she stuck by Jenny pretty closely, so I didn't get to know her much.

8. Courtney (9th grader, I think): She was okay. She said she was the "crazy one", but honestly, I didn't see it.

9. Eddrinia (9th grader): She was nice, but...she was homeschooled and, well, she was much more like a "homeschooler" than me or my friends. She was really sweet and I love her to death, but she wouldn't sleep in the beds. She said she doesn't sleep in other peoples' beds. She also put on sunscreen every ten minutes, and THEN just laid there on the dock *covered up with her towel*. She did watch a movie with us, and though she didn't say why, I think it was because it was rated PG. Yeah. Anyway.

10. Cathy (10th grader?): Ah, Cathy. Couldn't stand her. Don't ask me why, I'm not even sure, but I really couldn't stand her! And the frustrating thing was, everyone else *LOVED HER!* She was loud, had to have her way, thought she was all that, thought she knew everything, and enjoyed snubbing and ignoring me whenever possible. Probably some of that is in my head, but a lot of it was real.

Back to the camp experience.

- We piled into Arnie's van and Erica's car and started off to go to the lake house.

- Stopped at the grocery store to get provisions. That was pretty fun. Ish.

- Drove for about forty-five minutes, then stopped and got Subway (yay!).

- Drove for probably another forty-five minutes until we got to the lake house.

- From the road (or really from the loooong driveway), I could tell that the house was small and not in the best condition, but it looked okay.

- We went inside. It was hot and small, but still okay. It was old, but it looked clean enough. At least the kitchen/dining room and the living room that we could see from the front door did. The house kind of had three floors. When you walked in, you were standing on the dividing line between the living room on your left, and the kitchen/dining room on your right. Dead ahead were maybe six stairs that led to an eight-foot-long hall way with three bedrooms and a bathroom. There were also maybe six stairs that led down to a small downstairs. Arnie told us that we girls got the upstairs, and he got the downstairs.

- We unloaded our stuff, and blew up the inflatable innertubes and stuff.

- We were hot and sweaty, but we went inside and got changed into swimsuit attire and headed down to the dock.

- Some people tubed, but I just rode in the boat. Some people tanned, and I tried, but I got sooooooo bored just lying there doing nothing.

- At around seven, we had dinner. It was hot dogs. They were okay. I didn't starve.

- Then we had Chapel Time. Wow. No offense, but it was *SO* boring!! I have a whole new appreciation for my youth group. All we did was read a Bible passage (OVER AND OVER, too), listen to Arnie talk about it in the most boring way possible, read a song while Arnie interrupted every line to explain it to us, then we listened to the song (always a really...not-very-contemporary song), then Arnie just talked about boring stuff that I already had heard at least a thousand times...Oh, and I forgot communion! *moan* Wow. It takes talent to make something so dull. He's just so repetitive! At least the communion bread was really good :D

- Erica, Brianna, Eddrinia and I watched "Casablanca" while the others did stuff outside in the dark. I never noticed how awesome the dialogue in that movie is. It's so good. I advise anyone to watch it. It's an old movie, has great dialogue, it's pretty funny, and it's a great love story.

- We went to bed around midnight. My bed didn't have sheets on it, which was kind of a downer, but I was so tired I didn't even care. I wasn't homesick at all either. Like, at all. I used to get really homesick, but lately I haven't really cared. There was no cell signal at the cabin, though, so it's a good thing I wasn't homesick--I couldn't have called home if I'd wanted to!

And that was day one. If you got this far, I'm proud of you. I won't post days 2 and 3 now, though, so don't worry. I'll do one tomorrow and one the next day, I guess.

Back to the present. I have to clean the bathroom because people are coming to stay at our house for the practicum. This practicum is relatively close to my house, so we don't have to travel this time! Yay! our own beds! :) But, other people will have to travel to get here, so we're being a host family. Two families (well, a mom and her daughter, and then a mom and two daughters) are staying at our house. That should be interesting.

I know I didn't post a God Thought today. I do have one, but this post is so long already that I think I'll just save it. Okay? Great :D Thanks for reading, carpe diem, and in the words of Angela the Herbalist, "avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!"




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