Sophomore Year

I'm a sophomore now. And I have been for nine weeks, but I'm just getting to it now. And my sophomore year has been kinda hectic. Let's start from the beginning.


A week or two before school started, I got my schedule in the mail. And I noticed two problems. Both of them involve gym/fitness. (They're the same thing, just have different names.) The first problem is that I had two gym classes every day. So that meant Group Exercise and Fitness in the morning and Dance Technique in the afternoon. Group Exercise and Fitness is a gym class where yoga, pilates and kick-boxing is rotated every day. Dance Technique is studying and performing jazz, hip-hop and swing routines. Doing both of these classes every day left me fatigued when I got home. On the bright side, both of these classes were only nine weeks long, and from the exercise, my abs are firmer. Well, slightly.


The second problem came with two health/fitness classes every day. Which means that I'll have to run a mile twice. In 20-40 degree weather in the morning and 30-55 degree weather in the afternoon. No one wants to run a mile when its 20 degrees outside, and while wearing shorts and a tee shirt. I'm gonna have to buy a hoodie and yoga pants for the fitness classes.On the bright side, one of the health classes is Driver's Ed, so that will get me halfway to my learner's permit in April.


My next problem came Homecoming, and finding a dress. I already bought the dress and it was gorgeous. Finding a date was also easy, considering one of my guy friends loves me, and now we're together. We've only been together for about two weeks, and we're taking it slow. He almost forgot to buy his ticket, which screwed both of us up for a few days. The dance was loud, fun, and of course involved trying to avoid the crowd's "dancing" (really just sex with clothes).


Halloween was spent trick-or-treating with my friends, and this really creepy guy who turns out to be my best friend's cousin or something. I went as a banshee and with all the grease makeup and accessories I put on, i was nearly unrecognizable. Or so says my mom.


I am in Women's Chorus again, and this year, I WILL audition for the Ensemble. And next year Concert Choir. Maybe. The Choral Director said I was good last year, but I had to be louder. I myself, have to work on belt and vibrato.


I joined French Club, and sometime this year, we're going to see Cirque du Soleil. Sadly, we don't have enough money for Les Miserables. Because its at least $100 per person. So it would be about $3,500 for the whole French Club. We definitely do not have money to go to France this year. 


I also have French II and US History I right now. Right now, we're learning how to say different chores in French and James Madison's presidency in History.


I also read "The Wake of the Lorelei Lee" by L. A. Meyer. It's the eighth book in the Bloody Jack Adventures, my favorite book series. WotLL was a fantastic book, but also really sad. My boyfriend is reading the series, too. Right now, he's on the second book in the series.


My cat now rules the house, but the dog isn't as afraid of her as she used to be. And the dog is allergic to grain now. So that means buying her all new dog food.


I also feel like I should make a post for where I want to travel, but I'll do that later.

Halloween

I have a dilemma. Homecoming is on Halloween night this year, and I know I'm going Trick or Treating with one of my friends but my other friend (who's like my sister) is going to Homecoming. As far as we know, the one who's going to Homecoming, is coming to my place for a party afterwords. And I'm going Trick or Treating, but that's not my dilemma-my dilemma is finding a costume. The "theme" this year is Alice in Wonderland, because of the Tim Burton movie coming out next year. So we go on HotTopic.com to look at the costumes. (Yes, I'm 14, and I know the Queen of Hearts costume is kinda...risque.) We're (when I say "we" it most likely means "I") allowed to wear them, but they're $50-55 just for the costume. Not including the tattoo's and makeup.
Speaking of makeup, I recently bought some liquid eyeliner. The problem? I'm left handed and I twitch when there's things near my eye, therefore making it impossible to wear eye makeup. But I can wear concealer and lip gloss but that's about it.
Back to Halloween. As backups, we can do 80's Punk Rockers, (easy and cheap) or Gypsies. (Gypsies because we recently rediscovered Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame")
On a totally different subject, I recently finished "Rapture of the Deep", the latest in the Bloody Jack Adventures by L.A. Meyer. If you haven't read the series- YOU HAVE TO!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS 2356576234457859663453678698345657647996345347980634545468760999684576522578
676567547255o09664898225t4578867t6824t675y4547642394 TIMES BETTER AND MORE LOGICAL THAN "TWILIGHT"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, it was great, and probably the least violent in the series. Well, there was 1 or 2 battles and a rather horrible incident with a Moray Eel. And a few cockfights. (As in chickens you pervs)
And we have a neighborhood cat. I call her Kitty, but my family's trying to think of a permanent name for her.
Ah well. End rant