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Ok so i have a lot to say today! woo. (i am such a dork and didn't want to forget everything that i wrote a little outline thingy... haha! at least I recognize 1) my forgetfulness and therefore i made the outline and 2)my extreme dorkiness)
Ok so school - the classes were only and hour and five minutes long today because of the faculty show (will explain in a moment).
First I had math - which was good but SO LONG!! We learned new stuff but we don't have any homework and the new stuff was really really easy. So that was good.
Then I had humor. (It's actually called humor in american lit, but whatever...) and in that class we just talked about what we read and about how none of us have any kind of an attention span because it was the last day of school before spring break.
So then I had religion in which we just watched this talk show thingy where this guy talked about emotional intelligence (as opposed to intellectual etc...). It was interesting, but that lasted forever too!! I was so antsy today. haha.
Then I had chorus. Chorus was actually the full hour and a half because its lunch block. It was really funny because no one really wanted to sing, at all. And so Mr. Bell played us some songs on his guitar in honor of St Patrick's day (by the way Happy St. Patty's Day and happy 21st birthday to Karen and Kevin - they are two of my cousins). So anyway!! After that he let us watch a movie - heheh we watched some of Spice World. That movie is hilarious - bad dialogue, terrible acting... ahhh. gotta love it.
So then it was lunch time. I got some chips and then sat in the hall outside the eac with about half of the senior class cause we wanted to get good seats for the faculty show. See, each class has a section of the eac that they have to sit in on most occasions but for some reason the underclassmen think they can sit wherever on faculty show day, so seniors have to claim the territory. so i sat and ate my chips.
Then there was the FACULTY SHOW!! This is basically just teachers dressed up in wacky outfits dancing around on stage and making fools of themselves. It is hilarious! So here are some highlights (it is about an hour long by the way). So the theme this year was the movie "mean girls". So there was this scene where the male teachers and janitors did a mock santa dance like they do in the movie. I was laughing so hard! It was hilarious. So then there was also this section about Seussical. They had all kinds of teachers dressed up in the costumes and they sang one of the songs from seussical. Again I was laughing really hard. Then about 10 female teachers came out and did the dance from Napoleon Dynamite. It was amazing!! This one teacher was getting really into it and was actually really good. So then, the finale was amazing. Three teachers came out with umbrellas and were singing the song "its raining men..." and then towards the end of the song they opened up the curtains and about 20 highschool boys jumped out and started dancing around! I was in shock! It was sooooo funny! This was the best faculty show ever!! You kinda had to be there to understand and know all the people as well. But don't fear. I took a ton of pictures and some videos of the whole thing... so just ask me sometime and I will gladly show you. :)
Then after school I had to get stuff to bring home (no homework by the way - unless you count working on my painting for art which isn't required and should actually be pretty fun.) So I go down to the art room, get my palette, paint, and paintbrushes. I walk halfway to my car and realize that I have forgotten something crucial - THE PAINTING! so I had to walk all the way back and get it. Ahh - i love my forgetfulness.
So then I went home, ate, and was lazy. Ahh, gotta love spring break.
But then I had karate. Karate was fun, but it was a workout. I got hurt a lot this class. We stretched out and I had to be on the wood, which isnt bad until we have to do pushups - on our knuckles. Lets just say that that wasn't pleasant. Then I had to do rolls on the wood. Take into account that i haven't done rolls in about two weeks AND I haven't done rolls on the wood in months. That was kinda painful but not too bad. I think i am going to have some bruises on my hip and shoulder and then a sore neck. But hey, whatever. I actually did some good handstands though! I would get up and stay up but then not be able to roll out (which is frustrating). I did roll out once though, and it was pretty smooth!! YAY!! So the next thing we did that was painful is punches and blocks. Basically you are with a partner and you punch them as quickly as you can (but not too strong) and they have to block as strongly and quickly as they can and then they punch back etc... etc... etc... This doesn't seem to bad until you have been doing this for 5 minutes and they keep hitting the same place on your arm... yep... my arm is pretty sore now. Then we did ippon kumite which is basically like freestyle fighting with specific attacks. For example the first attack is always a punch to the head and you defend however you like. Then the attacks go on to a punch to the stomach, forward kick, side kick, roundhouse kick, back kick, slide punch, and slide reverse punch. This is cool but hard because it is really hard to think of good things to do on the spot. I of course had to work with this really really good black belt. He has a tendency of being really rough. Which isnt so much fun when you are already kinda sore. so he did this one take down where he hooked my ankle, but he kinda caught my ankle and twisted it, which didnt feel so good. Then he did this other attack where he does an elbow to the back of my neck, and he came down harder than i expected and my neck was still kinda sore from earlier so ... yeah.. ow. But hey - i didn't complain which is good! YAY! I am getting more used to getting hit etc... which is good cause i used to get teary when I would get hit and that makes me feel really dumb. so yeah, no tearing this time. yay! Then we worked on breaking boards. This is really fun, for a short time. Your hand starts to tingle after a while. I break them with my open hand still (its the way people from 10-16 do it because their hands are still developing and punching boards etc.. can screw up growing bones). I am scared to punch - it seems more painful even if it may be easier to break the board. We didn't actually work with real wood boards today - just the plastic ones that have the little interlocking thingys so you can put it back together after you break it. These vary in difficulty from about 1/4 of a board to 2 boards. I actually broke one that would be about a board and a half today! Thats the highest I have ever gone! YAY!!! So I was pretty excited about that. then class was over. Dont get me wrong, I love karate and its fun but it can be hard (note: i didnt talk about all the stuff we did in class today, its not like i went and got beat up, we did other stuff in between which wasnt painful...).
So then I get home and I sit down at the computer. I was like - hey I will update my blog! So I open explorer and its like "you have a new email!". I thought it would probably be some stupid ad or something but it was a letter from Bettina!! That made my day!! I havent heard from her in so long! YAY!! (In case you didnt know/dont remember Bettina is my german penpal). YAY!!
ok, so i am really done now. I think i am going to go play some sims and relax cause guess what - ITS SPRING BREAK!!! WOO HOO!!!!

(p.s. yay for long blogs!!! hehehe)
wow- that took me 33 minutes to write! woo.