Sunday

So, turns out that Josh McPaul was well enough to preach Sunday, but he nearly died in England or something.....

And yesterday we went down to Palo Alto and spent the day with the Yans, and we haven't seen them for AGES, only once a month ago for the first time in two years. Emily and Beth fight a LOT. But Beth's awesome, and we both like the same books. And she LOVES Twilight! =-) Uncle Jerry really loves video games.... so we spent a looooooonnnnnnng time just staring at the TV screen.

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! ORIENTATION'S TOMORROW!!!!! Can't wait to see everyone! Yay! It means that soon all the school supplies in Target are gonna go on SALE (eventually down to 75% off) and I'll be able to convince my mom to buy me tons and tons of pens and pretty notebooks.

Wow, I didn't really write a lot this time. I guess it's cause I just updated two days ago....

Collin

I just found out yesterday that my friend Collin (short, blond, going into 7th grade, broke his arm a while back, was on the track team...) has been in the hospital for a WEEK and he's gonna have to stay there for two MORE weeks because of a hip infection. That seriously, seriously sucks. And he has to miss the beginning of the school year.
And Josh McPaul's in the USA now, I think they moved him from England recently. He has in the hospital with some rare type of malaria that's immune to the meds they made everyone take when he and the FOCus team went to Uganda, I believe......

Randomness

Hi, sorry I haven't updated in FOREVER, the Internet was down all yesterday. =-(

Swimming on Thursday was GREAT because we didn't do any hard stuff- we just did drills and stuff, only 50s and we didn't need the clock, which was awesome, because I hadn't been to practice for like, two weeks before then. And yesterday the only thing we did was dryland, warm up and then we played SHARKS AND MINNOWS the entire time. It was amazing. But we had to do wall sits, and I hate wall sits. And when we were playing S&M Dave made it a rule that you could drag people up to the surface. As you can imagine (if you know how the game works) it was really quite painful because that game the guys were the Sharks. Collin, John and Juan (this weird freaky guy) all decided to show up on the same day, and it was really violent and annoying because there were only six Minnows, and all three guys would drag one person up each round. But besides that, it was really fun, cause Sydnie was there, but she had to leave early. =-(

And Ms. Chea sent out a huge email today! But it's really sad, because Ms. Chea was really nice and cool. And I kinda want school to start really soon, because I can't wait to see everyone. And I really wanna we in tons of classes with everybody, and I want to know which teachers I'm gonna have...... It's NOT fair, because my cousin in Norway gets a class list and knows which teacher he's gonna get for the next year at the end of the school year, so he gets to know all summer.

And I'm also really excited for San Diego, because the Yans are going the same week as us, and I've only seen them once in TWO YEARS (because "Auntie" Alice has been so sick and "Uncle" Jerry's dad was also really sick, and sad stuff like that) and they're really good friends, and I've known then since, forever, really. So yeah. And we recently saw the Sanders and the Tus, and it was really fun, because Leana and Alison are really good friends, and Rachel is SO BIG now (she's 8, I think).

And soooooo many people are in mission trips in Uganda now, the Chinens, the Morgans, the Barthels, FOCus people...... It's kinda sad, because a lot of my church friends are gone and stuff, and I'm gonna be in San Diego with Uncle Dave (ugh. I don't really LOVE my uncle all that much....) the week they get back. AND ECLIPSE IS COMING OUT IN TWO DAYS ON AUGUST 7!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait. The other day (because Oma decided to randomly send me a $50 gift card in the mail) I went to Barnes & Noble and bought Twilight. And a ton of girls at Westminster Woods were reading Twilight. So yeah. I'm excited. Something to look forward to. And I checked out this great book at the library, but it's really short, so I finished it really soon. I really like the writer's style of writing. (The book's The Fruit Bowl Project)

And I babysat for Keiko and Ethan on Thursday and Monday I'm babysitting a little girl on my old block. And the house passed an inspection, so they're starting to work on putting the subfloor and insulation in, and there's part of a wall up! Hopefully it'll be built soon.

Sorry this entry's just really random stuff. =-D

Writing Camp's OVER

I'm sooooo sad!! I had so much fun there, and made a ton of friends, and now it's over and I won't see a lot of them again. =-( It's only been out for less than an hour, but I miss everyone already, like Justine and her Kingdom Hearts OBSESSION, and Claire and Jack's flipping-each-other-off-across-the-room and staring contests. But I won't miss Alex's annoying flirting with all the girls.

And on Tuesday NOBODY was at swimming, except for these two weird high school guys. And it was sad, because I could swim faster than them when we were sprinting, but then we did distance work, and I HATE distance swimming. I suck at it. And the intervals were too fast for me, so I've been tired and sore ALL week.

And Wednesday, we had the poetry reading at Cody's! And it wasn't that bad (like Syd kept telling me) and I had fun, and my anthology is PRETTY, because I decorated every single page. And it's better looking than Jack's. So there.

HARRY POTTER 7 IS OUT IN A WEEK!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! Harry's totally gonna die. Everybody knows that. But it comes out the day before the day that Maddie Z and I leave for that camp, so I only have a day to read it, but I'll probably get to finish it anyways. =-D

Heather's back! But she's only a leader, and Mat's gone, so it's kinda cool, cause everybody thinks that she's in charge, and she's not. And my team had the BEST hiding spot for Capture the Flag, even though I HATE that game.

Oh, and I have to email Jerry, and tell him that I can't do RESL, cause I'll be gone, and he won't believe me, and my mom'll have to tell him that I really can't. And Annette wants to have a SLEEPOVER with her friend. She's 6! She's probably gonna call at 10 asking to go home again. =-) And my dad's gonna be in Amsterdam because of work the week I'm gone.

I'm bored. Really bored, and I don't have anything to say, really

The title pretty much says it all. I have Thanks for the Memories playing again and again and again..... And I saw Jake again yesterday! Paul hasn't changed a bit. Oh, and happy belated birthday to Lesly!

Jenna's probably gonna go to Summer @ the Park on Thursday! And Grace might be able to go. =-) And it would be awesome if any of you guys can go, cause we basically just eat pizza and play games, and then Mat (but this week my mom's teaching) talks for 20 min. It's on Thursday from 6-8 and it's at Codornices Park in Berkeley (across the street from the Rose Garden, the place with the AWESOME concrete slide). I MISS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

And that poetry reading is on Wednesday at Cody's. =-( I mean, I love hearing other people's stuff, but I HATE reading my own work aloud! So I'm kinda freaking out about that, even though it's only Monday.....

And I might not be able to get the Memorial Park thing together! ::cries:: Because everybody's doing different things on different days, and once my writing camp's over, I think I have a week before Maddie Zechar and I go to Westminister Woods, and then as soon as I get back my family's going to San Diego for a week because my uncle's house is there, even though he lives in England..... So it might end up happening in AUGUST. Which now seems like a LONG time away. =-'(

July 4th

Happy almost July 4th everybody!!!! Hope you have an awesome time and stuff (I'm going to a house of an old family friend that owns like 4 houses in Oakland and Piedmont. XP)

Tomorrow my mom and I are going to be helping out in the booths at this July 4th thing that the Gators are responsible for, and I think that Kenny's mom is gonna be there because our moms were talking about the parent's meeting that they had and all that fun stuff! And so far this week I haven't had to go to practice, but I think I have to go Thursday....

And yesterday I went to see Ratatouille! It was good, but part of it was sooooo cliched.

And Jake, Andrea, and Charis came over for dinner last night and he had a ton of fun together. I haven't see Charis in FOREVER [when I was in 5th grade], and the last time I saw Jake and Andrea was over a year ago. But I saw Josh (who isn't in CA) just before the end of the school year and Paul's flying in tomorrow night, so I'll see all of them except Josh in Sunday @ church.

La la la la

This entry is just going to be a ton of my completely random thoughts and things I feel like putting here:

I'm listening to Umbrella (on Sydney's blog) and now I think it's gonna be stuck in my head all day. =-)

Sooooooo sooooooooooo sooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo bored!!!!!!!!!! And EJ keeps annoying me. Grrrrr. X-P And Travis and Chris were freaking me out on Tuesday [don't ask. Really, don't]. And I MISS EVERYONE!!!!!!

And oh my gosh!!!!!!!! ANDREA, CHARIS, AND JACOB FLEW IN LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're staying at the Mowat's cause they're on this road trip thingy. But they're staying for like, 6 days. So they won't be here for long. =-(

And I got an email from Maddie J. today. She got an email account! Yay. Finally. =-) So at least I won't miss her SO much, cause I can email her now.

Now I'm listening to Thanks for the Memories by Fall Out Boy. I dunno why, but I really like this song.

Swim practice today, so I'll probably see Travis and Chris again. It was so funny yesterday when Sydnie, Rebecca and I were pretending not to know them yesterday. Going to practice again today, but I've had this major stomach ache all day, so I might not. Depends on my Mom, who isn't home yet.

Summer @ the Park today. Can't wait because I haven't seen ANYBODY all week from FPCB, because I didn't get to do VBS this year. ='-( And Lexie's moving up to high school.

Yesterday Lucy and I were on Neopets and we were playing Cheat! [I love that game. It's so easy and fun. And in 5th grade, EVERYONE in my class played BS.] and it took 30 seconds to load the new windows and it was boring. I think Lucy's computer hates her more than mine hates me (Remember, Syd?) because it worked fine for Calvin.

I need to send out the Massive Email soon. Sometime. Soon, hopefully. I miss all you guys soooooo much!!!!!!!

I might have to go to a Meet in Sunnyvale or something on the 6th. And I REALLY DON'T WANT TO. But I might've missed the registration date. =-D

At my camp we made origami shirts to put poetry on. And we have to do a reading at the end to the 3 weeks. And I really hate reading my work out loud to people. I don't like people reading my work AT ALL. And I really hate having to read it out loud.

People need to get on Meebo!!! But I have to get off at 1.

Oh, and Shing and I both got these freaking comments by this Rodrigo dude (or something like that) in Spanish (I think) about customized shirts). I'm guessing it's just one of those random computer generated ads that people put on blogs. Or it's some type of joke that Kenny or Kai did.

I fell really sorry for the people who live in Tahoe because some of them might have to be evacuated soon.=-(

And WOW I wrote a lot!

DEPRESSED AND EMO RIGHT NOW

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!

I dunno if you guys have heard, but this guy killed his two children, wife, then committed suicide!(apparently because of financial problems) And his youngest daughter was on Annette's soccer team! ='-( And she went to Cornell too, and her parents were SO NICE.


On a lighter note, here's Purpling! (Every year the high school people do parodies of stuff, this year they did a parody [several, actually] of The Office.)

Sunday

The eighth graders are now officially (in First Pres) OUT OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Now I won't have to see them anymore (until next year). I'm sooooooooooo sooooooooo sooooooo happy!


And Melissa wanted to highlight her hair and now it looks like crap. Really. It kinda matches Zoli's now.


Got my Presidential Award for the second year and Mr. Gann said my name wrong. He said Joanna. Hello! I was, at one point, in TWO of his classes a day! And he usually says my name right......


And today, it was soooo funny, Sydney was on her mom's cell phone calling her dad, and Kenny went up to her and hugged her and said "Hi Sydney!" Then I told her she was talking to her dad and he totally freaked out. =-)

Small group

Yesterday was our last small group! =-( And Lexie's going up to high school after Sunday. I mean, she can be ultra hyper (scarier than Sydney) at times...

But a little birdie told me that next year it's gonna be once a week instead of twice a month. Which is good, because we only get around 20 minutes to talk. We play too many retarded games. Can't wait for Summer in the Park. And HEATHER MIGHT BE COMING BACK FOR NEXT YEAR (as a volunteer, sadly). I mean, Mat's okay, but everybody loves Heather. Mat's not so popular.


And I am SO SICK of Alden! It's always "Alden's such a nice person!" "Alden's so nice, don't you wish she was your friend?"

Today at Lunch (and a couple other things)

Ok, so EVERYBODY's written about the Renaissance Fair- about how cold it was and how fun it was, so yeah.... And the African drumming thing was- it's kinda hard to explain. Such good blackmail material, though. If only somebody got a tape of all our teachers shaking their in front of the entire 7th grade. But at least we missed Science.

Sydney and I were saying that we've been scarred for life twice (those guys waxing their legs TWICE!!) , but now this is the 3rd time. Just great.


And then today Chris got one of those 6-foot bubble gum tape thingys that were so popular years ago and put all of it in his mouth! He started chewing like crazy, (and Veronica gave him a Pocky, and he almost ate it WITH the gum in his mouth. Gross.) then eventually he spit it out onto a stick, which Conner hurled over the fence onto the BART tracks (he's such a litterbug!). Later on Ms. Shepard (she's in the FPCB directory, but I've only seen her there twice) and she shook down the soccer ball from one of the trees and ALMOST stepped on the huge wad of gum! It would have been sooo funny if she did!


Then Chris took two packs of gum (Bazooka and Dentine Ice) and started popping Bazooka gum into his mouth when the bell rang. It's just so gross! How can you shove ten (plus) pieces of gum into your mouth?! Ew. Like Sydney said earlier, how did we/I end up with such a crazy bunch of people?!



And today in Science, I got really annoyed at Travis. Actually, annoyed is an understatement. I was really pissed. He kept on talking to Craig and Rylan, hitting random keys on the keyboard while I was TYPING (and I was also the only one doing any work) and- oh my gosh! HN's music video for Zero came out Thursday! Ok, so, back to the Travis thing, and he kept on being really annoying and complained how bored he was but didn't help at ALL. So when Rylan thought he was being really annoying (he wasn't really), just humming and singing, and I ignored him, which made him mad, because I constantly told him he was being annoying, so he got mad that I ignored him.

So he starts bugging Seido, right? And then saying that Seido likes me and all that crap, so Seido threatens to break his nose. Travis squealed and tried to get as far away from Seido as possible (which was about two centimeters) and covered his nose. Seido says that he'll get Kevin to help. Travis said that Kevin said he's never hit Travis again (does ANYONE believe that?!) It would've been REALLY funny if he did break his nose.... But that's mean, so I didn't say anything and kept on typing.


On Sunday my mom taught. And those stupid 8th grade boys sat in front of me, in the very front. And they kept on raising their hands in the middle of her talking asking stupid questions like, after she mentioned that she grew up in Sweden in one of her stories, "Do you speak Swedish?" and crap like that. And then they started giggling and snorting and laughing and everybody in the room wished they weren't there. They were lying down, with their feet close to us, and Hikari got so mad she took her cell phone out of her pocket and was about to stab Taylor's leg with it, but she decided not to (Jenna and Martine were all for it).

They are so IRREVERANT (sorry, inside joke with my History/English class) and have NO respect for authority! When my mom asked them to move they just said "NO" (and she's the only they actually listen to most of the time) and so when Evan asked Jack to move it took five minutes, and Jack refused to sit where they asked him and he was just in general being a butthead. And then Alden just sat there and laughed. Everyone says she's nice, and I guess she is, sorta, but she hangs out with them, and-


Kim Watson (Peter's mom) told me sometimes she gets jealous of how popular my mom is with those idiots, but honestly, sometimes I guess I get jealous too. Well, not really jealous, but annoyed that Alden can go up to me and say "Sarah's my best friend", or that the time we saw Jack in Target (what was he doing in Albany anyway?) he ran up to her and gave her a really big hug, or that Taylor keeps on telling me that my mom's awesome and totally cool. I mean, she's MY MOM. MY mom. I know that she's done some pretty things when she was young, I've heard all the stories from her and my aunts and uncles, but I mean, sometimes- most of the time, I really wanna slap them all. I mean, they don't think their moms are cool, so why do they think mine is? I just- she's my mom. Not their best friend.

I'm okay with Adrienne, Lesly and Hikari saying that my mom's awesome, because they're my friends, and they're not annoying. WOW. I wrote a LOT. Sorry.

Drama Monologue

I REALLY don't want to do that Drama thing tomorrow! I haven't even STARTED to memorize- I know maybe, 5 or 6 lines. And I need to know it by TOMORROW! This really sucks.


I think basketball season for St. Jerome is over, which is bad, because then Laura will start showing up at swimming nearly every day. Darn. But I don't have to go to practice today because my mom can't give me a ride.


ACC was really fun! And we all love Susan! =-) She's the BEST.... The ropes course was interesting- I didn't go. And Mat just doesn't understand that I'm kinda scared to heights. "Church office" is really funny (NO PURPLE) but there aren't that many episodes. And I ALMOST bought a Skillet CD in the book store, except it was only a demo and I couldn't buy it. =-(


The demo people used 6,000 gallons of water when they tore down the house, and now the lot's completely waterlogged. You can jump or walk on it and the ground ripples. It's kinda freaky and cool at the same time.


Finally read The Last Days and I keep on thinking of "nine kinds of...".

House demo

The house (940) was torn down today!! Finally, so hopefully we can start building today. The idiots were supposed to show up on Monday, but they didn't show, so they prepped the house yesterday. My dad put one of the vids up on YouTube, so here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvFfQNJw6xA


ACC's coming up soon, and I can't wait! It's so much fun, except I'm pretty sure some people are going.


Swim practice today, and IT'S LUCY'S BIRTHDAY TODAY!! (It actually could've been yesterday, I'm not sure.......)


AND I'M TRAVIS' PARTNER FOR WISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also sit across from Rylan and Craig. Oh joy.

Um......

Kai thinks he knows who Peppermint is and it's sooooooo annoying so Veronica came up with "Beat Up Kai Day". And at lunch all the guys were singing "The Mysterious Ticking Noise" and Potter Puppet Pals stuff (I USED to be obsessed with them, awhile ago.... Lemon Demon's cool, though.) and Kai can't sing for crap. And I finished Math hw in class today, it was really easy. =-]


The Fourth Power was pretty stupid. When Mat started whacking Sam on the back really hard and fast and yelling I got kinda scared. I think most of us did. Not a lot of FPCB people [kids] like Mat. And we played Steal the Bacon/noodle hockey. That was strange, but I did score a goal =-). And Mat kept on sucking up to his small group. Surprise surprise.


I think Saskia was ready to kill Rylan today, today he stole my binder (again!!) and scratched it up pretty bad so I whacked him on the head with it and them Ms. Lamson told Rylan off. But for some reason he's fixated on calling Saskia "blondie" and it pisses her off. A lot.


Just in case you were wondering *coughsydcough*..... Jess is Cliff's dog, and she's had multiple surgeries. I think that Cliffy's cat had cancer too and died a year ago.