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School started and I'm actualy feeling good about this year/semester. I can't think of any teachers who I will have a problem with. Here's my schedule:

- AP Government with Ms. Muehl: a sophmore in an AP class you ask? Well our class is actualy about 75% 10th graders and theres another AP gov class which is probably about the same. It's going to be alot of work, Ms. Muehl teaches it like a freshman college course. On the first day of school we had a 5 page paper due in 3 days....it was double spaced which makes it better, but I can tell the class is going to be alot of work. I think it will be fun though, right now we're doing philosophy of government which is really interesting.
- Hon. Biology with Ms. Lynch: Everyone says she's nice but hard. Katie heard that she had to have a little talking to because she was unreasonably hard. I hope it worked, I will have enough work to do this year. Katie, Katie, Katie (2 of them are Katie W's) and Emily are in this class which is fun.
-Algebra 2 with Analysis: My first impression was that the class is made up of pretty slow learners and so it will go pretty slowly, but I might be wrong. Katie, Nancy and Jeanne are in it with me, horray!
-Orchestraaaaaaaaaaaa with mista o: hehe.... fun fun fun fun there are SIX violas...wow...what happened to our two viola section? I love orchestra!
-Fundamentals of Art: The people in this class are really annoying... I don't think they really like art, they are just taking the class to get their fine arts credit. Even if they do like art, they just like painting and drawing, they don't want to discover the artist's message or motivation behind a painting. OK....... im a geek but thats ok!
-English with Ms. Fagan: The teacher seems nice, the class seems good, and I love to read!!!
-Spanish with Ms. Riley: The teacher is nice and the class seems good, but boring. Hehe, Mrs.Riley talks like an airplane attendant and its so funny.

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I made the team horray! Its full of freshman (there are only 5 sophmores) but thats ok, it will be fun anyway. There is this one girl who is forever whining and I just want to send her over to Ms.Muehl and see her try and whine.

Today I went to the freshman orientation to be an ambassador. All the little freshman make me feel old.... hehe well not really but I do feel more mature and in charge. I shouldn't be an ambassador because I don't even know my way around the school. I can tell them which direction to go, which floor, and which wall it will be on. Mary is an ambassador too so we had fun... and afterwards there was a barbeque at Mrs. Weyman's house and I ate alot *_* She even had veggie burgers... yummmm

Music: Avril Lavigne, Tommorow (acoustic version)

Yaaaaaaaaay I made it past the first cuts! I'm on JV with a bunch of freshman but its OK because JV is fun fun fun and I pretty much made the team. There is one more set of cuts because there are 2 people too many on varsity. There are 20 on varsity and 17 on JV and they take 18 on each team so they will send 2 down to JV and then cut one more person off JV. They might not even make any cuts off JV, last year we had 19 people on the team because Falke (the coach) couldn't decide on just one person to cut.

After practice I was supposed to get a ride from Halley who is on cross country, but Ms. Muehl kept varsity mack forever because they had to go over their log books. They have to write down how far they ran, how fast they ran, how they felt, what the weather was like. how much they drank, their heart rate and stuff like that every day and then she goes over it with them every week. So I watched the marching band practice. They look really small because some people are on sports and some just didn't come, the whole percussion section was missing! (where were you Ryan? *_*) So it sounded kind of funny, very un-beated (yes, I know thats not a word) Rebecca and Emily were there because they are flags, so I talked to them until Halley was done, a whole hour later.

Now it's time for a flashback on the fair and the past few days. The fair was alot of fun. I rode Bill in the show and got a 2nd, a 3rd and two 4ths. Then I rode Mercury (the horse Rebecca leases) in the Gymkhana (which is games on horseback: things like egg and spoon, bobbing for apples (where you ride down, bob for the apple and lead the horse back) and command class) in which I got three 8ths, a 7th, a 5th and a 3rd. The gymkhana is so much fun, my best event is the bobbing for apples because I am really good at getting the apple. I was the first one to get my apple but I couldn't get Mercury to trot (he was walking as slow as he could *_* I think he was tired, it was the last race) so I got 8th. The fair is really cool because it doesn't cost any money to enter any of the classes, but you get money for the ribbons you win. For the show its between $10 for 1st and $5 for 8th and for the Gymkhana its between $8 for 1st and $2 for 8th. Last year I got almost $100 but this year it's closer to $50. Sunday was clean up day when we take everything out of all the stalls and take the jumps away and clear out the shed. After cleaning up Rebecca and I went to the mall and I saw Mary, two girls from middle school and 2 girls who I know from school. All the clothes are the same these days. Every store you go into has flooshy shirts (which is what I call those sleeves that are made up of enough material for another shirt) or shirts with really stupid or suggestive stuff written all over it. That's all well and good for some people, but I can't see myself wearing it, and I don't want to. I did find a different kind of shirt. Its kind of hard to explain but I like it. Now my brother wants to get on......I need to update more....

Soccer tryouts started today!! I am really nervous because there are alot of people (like 60, and they only take 36. Thats 24 cuts!!) and I really, really, really want to make the team.... Anyway I have to continue my previous post (if i can remember what happened).

In Guernsey it was Friday and there were all these drunk people running around the streets which was pretty scary.... One guy dropped his sunglasses and stepped on them and another guy was giving his friend a piggy back ride and fell over in the road. A car was speeding at them so they kind of fell back out of the road. I was scared.....

After Guernsey we rode the ferry back to England. We stayed for one night at my grandma's and then took the train to London. We stayed in The Imperial College (which they rent rooms in as like a bed and breeakfast) in the middle of London. It was hot....very hot. We Marylanders are used to heat, but not without air conditioning at night. We're pampered like that. London was still alot of fun, even though your feet hurt after walking all day on hard pavement. We had to eat out for every meal except breakfast again. On the first day we found this really yummmmmmmy Lebanese place.....hummusssss.... *_* We also ate at a vegetarian (yay!) Indian Buffet (also yummy) and a place with I guess was regular english food which was also really good. We visited lots of places including.....lots of places... I can't even remember. We did go on the London Eye which is the biggest ferris wheel in the world and was really cool, you could see all over London. After London we spent time at my aunt, uncle and cousins house, then Cromer (one of my favorite places to go because there are people my age...plus it takes maybe 3 minutes to walk down to the beach (5 minutes without shoes *_* ) We went swimming both days (we were only there for 2 nights), played mini golf, went to the arcades (or 'amusements' as they are called) which were mostly slot machines where you can loose all your money, and I rode the horse my friend Anna leases. Anna is 17 and we have a really great time. She is so funny because she is a really good actress. She has memorized pretty much the whole movie The Emperor's New Groove. It's the funniest movie ever! I had a sleepover with Emily the other night and we watched it twice *_*. We laughed soooo hard.. we must have added like a day onto our lives (they say that the more you laugh the longer you live... Emily heard you get 3 extra minutes per laugh). There are all these hidden things you can find if you watch it over and over... especially if you watch the people that aren't talking.

Anyway.... then we went to my grandma's for the last 4 days. My aunt and cousins were there too, they stayed at a bed and breakfast near by. We went to the beach alot, and we went to this guys house which was made into a museum when he died. He just collected stuff...everything. He didn't have a job, he was just rich... and he bought stuff and out it in his house. He started his collection when he was 7, and they still had the first thing he collected. It was pretty cool but my feet were still hurting from London....

And then we went home....sad.... hehe no I am happy to be back but I could have done with some extra time away.

music: My December, Linkin Park

I'm back!! I wasn't really ready to come home, but now that I am home I'm not sad that I am home. It's 7:10 a.m. right now, and I got up at 5:54. It felt like 10:45 because my internal clock is still on England time. I had a really great time, I can't possibly write down everything we did but I can gove you a summary.

When we got there we stayed at my grandma's for 2 nights in which we went to the beach and went for a walk along the clifftops. Then my cousins (who are 10 and 7 and live about 5 hours away) and my aunt and uncle drove over and then we all drove to the ferry. We took the ferry on a 3 hour trip to Guernsey and then took another 2 hours to France. We stayed In a bed and breakfast for 2 nights, which meant we had to eat out for 2 dinners and a lunch. French food is really really good, my only problem was that there are hardly any vegetarians so it wasn't always easy finding something in the restaurant I could eat. I found something everytime except when we went to a seafood restaurant. What makes it even harder is I can't speak a word of French... *_* I did learn some.. I can say 'I don't speak French' and 'Do you have... a cat/ a dog/ any money/ some wood' Wood was my favorite word.. it's bois, which is pronounced bwah. When you only know that word you can find it everywhere because it sticks out. I found so many signs for wood. But now I'm off topic... At the seafood restaurant they brought me salad and pasta, which was fine with me. The bed and breakfast was really, really nice. It was in this old farm house made of stone.. it was right next to a pig farm which kind of smelt, but didn't bother me. For breakfast the french eat baguette, which we call french bread and usulay eat with dinner. At the B&B they served lots of different breads (including crossiant, baguette, this really cakey sweet bread, and this really weird cracker like bowl shaped bread) and jam. They also had cornflakes if you wanted them, tea, coffee, and hot chocolate.
After the bed and breakfast we drove to the house we stayed in in France. It was so, so nice.... right next to the beach.. and out in the water there was a fort (Fort Bloque) and when the tide was out you could walk along the sandbar to the fort. You couldn't go in because it was private property, but you could walk on the rocks around it and stuff like that. Hehehe.. it was so funny because when we were home from France my grandma, who is 83, kept calling it Fort Cloque. She is so funny in her grandmotherish ways....

The only problem with the house in France was "the pong", as my father christened it. The reason for the pong was that there was an unnatural algae that grew because of the agricultural run off from the farms. The algae collected in a corner of the beach and rotted in the sun and it smelled really, really, really, really bad. It literaly smelled like sulfur, which, if you have never smelt it, smells like rotton eggs. So all of the time in France smelt, but it was still really really nice. In France we did many things including going to old medieval towns, such as Vaughn and Saint Malo (which was bombed in WWII and rebuilt), going for walks along the cliffs and beach, and going to the beach. My cousins play tennis so we did that twice, and they are also obsessed with badminton which we played over the fence. They are both unnaturally good at soccer, but there wasn't enough room to play it in the yard we had.

We went back home from France on the ferry except this time we stopped in Guernsey. Guernsey is an island in the English channel and is where my dad's dad grew up. His ashes are spread there and my grandma had a plaque put on a bench which over looks the rocks she spread his ashes on (he loved that place, he used to play on those rocks as a little boy) We went to see the bench and the veiw is so beautiful... I wish I had a scanner and could show you the pictures.. I'll just have to show you them in person.

This post is to be continued because I have to go running, then riding.