Waxing Disaster!

I guess I just look up to Aundrea so much that I wanted to have the same experiences as her. I, too bought an at home waxing kit. Mine was mainly for my eyebrows and you didn't have to heat it so I didn't burn myself like my aunt did. However, I did mess up my face. I usually like to keep my a little fuller, I think that just suits my face better since I am too make them look unnatural. Anyway, I decided I could take a little from the middle last night. I cut the strips. However, I misjudged the placement and when I ripped the strip off, my eyebrow was a little shorter than I wanted. Actually, it was a lot shorter! I didn't know what to do, so I ran to my mom for help. Of course, at this point all she could do is laugh and say to wait for it to grow back. I had to make the other one similar, so then I had two short eyebrows, not to mention I forgot to set the strip on an angle so they're totally straight. I was pretty upset, but for the most part I just laughed it off. When I woke up this morning, I realized it wasn't near as bad as I thought I actually kind of liked the look. Don't get me wrong, I cannot wait to have my natural eyebrows back. Lesson Learned: From now on I am getting my eyebrow done by a professional!

My First School Dance

Tiana, Lauren, Lauren, and Whitney (Back Behind) at Target After The Dance

Yesterday was my first dance at my new school. It was pretty fun, but it kind of turned into one of those "Hold up the Wall" dances. I only danced with two boys the whole afternoon, and that's more than most girls could say. I guess the fact that they only played two or three slow songs the whole night could also have something to do with it. :) After the dance, a big group of about Twenty of us walked over to Jamba Juice for smoothies. We tried to go to Toys R Us, but apparently the manager didn't like the idea of having 20 teenagers with smoothies and backpacks coming into the store. Since we weren't welcomed at the toy store, we went over to Target and hung out there for awhile. It was pretty fun. We divided all of our backpacks into two carts and then just walked around for a half hour. While we were waiting for a ride, the last of us sat on the grass outside of Target. I think by this point there were only 7 of us left. Anyway, while we were sitting on the grass we saw some of the druggy kids from our school skateboarding. One of then walked up to us and said something stupid. Apparently, him and his friends smoked pot outside of the school while the dance was going on and then came over here to skate. His friends kept giving him weird looks for talking to us. Anyway, finally my friend Lauren asked the kid if he would be in Seminary the next day. He gave us the scariest look ever and said he hated Seminary, and his friends all chimed in. Bryan, the boy who I was sitting by on the grass and who is in my Seminary class turned to me and said, "I love Seminary, don't you? It was such a good lesson today!" We all joined in on saying how much we loved the class and all the skaters left. Honestly, I am surprised we didn't get beat up, but it was still pretty funny to see their faces when we talked about how much we love Seminary! Lauren, Lauren, Tiana and I went back to Lauren's house and we were all telling our scariest stories for awhile. We told all the typical stories of teenage girls getting kidnapped or nightmarish babysitting stories or people breaking in when a group of teenage girls are all alone. We were all getting pretty worked up when something creaked in Lauren's house. We started screaming our heads off and we were all absolutely terrified. We ran out of the dark basement as fast as we could and while we were catching our breath, Lauren's dog came around the corner, making us all jump again. After we finally recovered, we met up with Brett and Daniel to go to a Haunted Forest thing. It was so much fun! After that, we went back to Lauren's and played an intense game of apples to apples. It was hilarious! It was a way fun night, and it really feels good to be hanging out with friends again! I never thought I'd make friends after the move, but I guess I was dead wrong. :)

More and More Volleyball

Wednesday was our last seasoned game, I was so sad! At the beginning of the game the coaches gave all the ninth graders flowers and the Student Body Officers gave us big Gatorades. The game itself was amazing, though. We got off to a really bad start. I had starting serve and I was so nervous that I bolted the ball WAY out of bounds! My passes were pretty off too. We ended up losing the first game 22-25, I think! The second game got really close. We were sure they had us when the score was 22-24, but we sidedout and, once again, I had to serve at the game's climax. I knew I had to make up for the serves I missed earlier, and I ended up getting all my serves in and we won 26-24. The third game was a tie breaker to 15, and it was also close, but we took the win 15-13. We are now in fourth, and we go into the play-offs on friday for the quarter-finals. It should be a pretty close game, since we are playing the same team we played wednesday. I really hope we do good! The longer we can stay in the tournament, the longer this season will last! I am so sad to see the season end, but at least it will give me a chance to catch up on homework and start running a little more until Club season starts.

dEtErMiNeD!!!!

My life still continues to be incredibly busy!!! Everyday I carry my overflowing backpack, large sports bag, and Violin with me to the bus stop. I can't believe I am involved in so many things! It's all worth though, even if my 6-foot tall locker won't hold it all lol. I literally have to kick it shut everyday it's insane! This week was as busy as ever, but it was a great week!!! Monday we had a home volleyball game against the Syracuse Sea Hawks, and we won it in 2 games. It was a fun game, but also very frustrating at the end! I almost had a perfect serving game until my last rotation I missed my second serve!!! I was so mad!!! Luckily, though, the away game on Wednesday was better. We also won this one in two, and I had my second perfect serving game of the season. I started the second game of serving and served 5 in a row. I was way excited to have gotten all my serves in, but what made it even better was that 3 of them were aces, I was so excited! It was kind of funny, though, on about my 3rd serve as I was doing my approach to the ball I slipped on a marker that someone dropped on the court! Amazingly, I still got my serve in. My coaches were laughing so hard when it happened, it really was pretty funny! Volleyball is my DEFINITELY my favorite thing about school,but my classes aren't terrible. Honors Science is really fun, and we do a lot of neat experiments. PE is one of my favorite classes. We do a lot of running, and I am always the fastest girl on the mile time and the last girl standing on the running tests. I have actually been the top girl on everything except the sit and reach, I may be somewhat fast and kinda strong, but I will never be flexible!!! Orchestra is pretty fun, I didn't audition for 1st chair this year because of Volleyball, but it is still pretty fun, I've never sat in the back before, it's pretty fun! Seminary is another class that I love. I have a lot of friends in that class, and we have lots of fun while learning a lot of interesting new things about the Scriptures. Geometry is one of my least favorite classes. I don't see why we have to learn Geometry, I see how we'll use Algebra in our daily lives, but I doubt that I will ever use the Postulates and other things I am learning in Geometry. And it's not like when I see a triangle the first thing I want to do is find its area and all that other stuff! Honors English is a really hard class, but it is pretty fun, too. We've been learning about Greek Mythology, which really interests me for some reason. Geography isn't overly exciting, but I miss it every other day for volleyball games anyway, so it's livable! Anyway, no matter how busy I am, I am determined to keep in up for the remainder of my High School Life, which is now 1/32 of the way over! See, I used Algebra, but no Geometry whatsoever!!!