Well it's like halfway though May, so I figured I should inform you on all of my fun adventures I've had so far this month :D
In school, we had to take these new tests called the Keystone Exams. In short, it was horrible. The 1st portion we took on Monday was literature. All we had to do was read a story, fill in bubbles, and analyze. That day was easy, but when we took the Algebra 2 portion, it was ridiculous. Now I have a very high IQ and I'm in regular math, not honors. THE HONORS CLASS COULDN'T DO IT! It was so hard. We didn't even go over more than half of what was in the test so everyone just BSed the whole time. In the open ended, people would just draw pictures of random things. So I think this test deserves a ticket for the Fail Boat?
Wednesday also happened to be our concert band spring concert. Jazz Band played first (which was amazing! [thank you]) and then concert band. Concert band is boring. The music is so easy so I just brought my phone on stage and texted people during rests or song switches. But yeah, all good fun.
Thursday, my mom, dad, and I went to the eye doctors. Now I don't exactly understand the whole "20/20" vision thing, but I'm just gonna say that I found out that my vision is -3/-3. BAD. But good news! I GOT CONTACTS! Well we ordered them that day but I'll get to that.
Friday was fun! I got on a bus at 6:30am and left my school at 7am. To go where? GETTYSBURG AND HERSHEY!!!!!! My school had a school trip there so Ian (the great amazing person that he is) said that he'd pay for me to go. We started our day off on our 5 hour bus ride more than half way across the state of Pennsylvania. It wasn't the worst bus ride. I mean we did have a Coach USA bus and we just watched movies the whole time. I almost peed myself of joy when the only movie the bus had with it was Tangled. I still don't own a copy :( But the best movie we watched was the Hangover. I've seen it before, rated R, whatever you get the point. 35 kids (freshman and sophomore mix) watched the Hangover on a bus with the principal and 2 teachers. Explain that one?
Anyhow, when we got to Gettysburg, we went to this wax museum. Wax people creep me out. I always think they're just going to come to life and attack me. So my friends and I made a huge chain holding hands because we were all terrified. After the wax museum, we went to this other giant building to watch an omni max sort of thing. It was talking all about how brave all the men and women were when the fought against each other and they died. Morgan Freedman narrated.....I fell asleep. It's not my fault Morgan Freedman's voice is so soothing! Well, he put me asleep good. I started to dream. In my mini dream, I was reaching over to pet my dog, Max, because I thought that he was dead. The second before I touched him, he woke up and almost bit me with super sharp teeth. I freaked out and jumped really badly in my seat. it just so happens that at that same time I jumped, a canon went off on the omni max. That scared me even more. The people next to me thought it was the funniest thing ever....
After the omni max, we went to a dome of a painting that was done a few years after the war. There was some narration and everything and sound effects, but I wasn't paying attention. Everything was happening on the other side of me anyways. I was more marveling over how detailed this painting was and how the landscaping looked like it was part of the painting. It was hard to tell where the floor stopped and where the painting began!
When we were finally leaving, we picked up our tour guide. I have nothing against southern people, but I hate their accents for the life of me. And guess what? Our tour guide we had for 2 HOURS was from Georgia and his accent was STRONG. We visited a bunch of fun places like Little Round Top (stupid name), and um....graveyards.....and....the fields where they fought....and we kind of just looked at monuments the whole time. Finally, after the tour was over, we went to dinner and then to our hotel.
In the room I stayed in, it was Ali, Emily, and I. Our other friends we couldn't room with, Moose, V (Victoria), and Olivia, were a few rooms down so we just kept running back and forth to each other. V didn't want to stay in her room, so she stayed in my room for a long time :) We watched these hilarious YouTube videos. The best was McDonald's Exorcism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4n2hpN6UjI This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Emily and V were reenacting it....I got the whole thing on my phone >:) I am so tempted to put it on YouTube....Later that night, we walked over to McDonald's to get some ice cream and milkshakes and just kept quoting the video. People were giving us strange looks. We also got free toys and beat each other with them.
Saturday morning, we had to get up bright and early to leave for Hershey. When we got there, we all went through the little (fake) factory tour. The used to make the chocolate there, but most of it is made in Mexico and the factory next to the park. We finally got to the park and split into our groups. Ali, Emily, Moose, V, Olivia, Jessica, and I went on 10 of the 11 roller coasters there and we just walked around laughing and having so much fun. I strongly recommend going to Hershey Park. It's crazy huge and it just smells like chocolate and the roller coasters are CRAZY! around 7pm, we headed home. Mostly everyone was sleeping, but I just stayed up and played Mario Kart and watched movies.
Sunday was a let's-just-try-and-recover day. We did do stuff for Mother's Day such as, go out to breakfast and go to Barnes & Noble, but we just went home and relaxed. That's all my mom wanted to do so we were good with that.
Monday, I missed the beginning of school to go to Ian's and get all my joints back in place. Tuesday, I missed the beginning of school as well to get my contacts! They were kind of a pain, but after almost a week, I finally got the hang of them. Wednesday was the beginning of Marching Band practice for the Memorial Day Parade we have. It was a very short one since Jazz Band played a gig that night at the Country Club. We played for an hour and went home :) I love being in Jazz Band.
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Friday was the Band Banquet. It's a thing where the seniors and whoever wants to go from the band gets together and the seniors share their remember when's and thank you's and they will things. I got willed a few things from Livie and my section leader, Lauren, (V and Olivia's older sister). Livie willed me: The ability to doodle and rename my music and The ability to fit my whole household into my Band Locker Long story). Lauren willed me: The saxophone section and the ability to be nice to this insanely annoying kid in our section I can't stand! It'll be difficult, but I'll try.
After the Band Banquet, Alex, Livie, and I went to Alex's house with his. They showed me this thing in his room that's like a laser light show but better. I was just so amazed by it. We probably sat in his room for a good half hour-45mins just staring at the lights. When they were finally able to drag me downstairs, we played some old school video games. We played Super Smash Bros. on the N64. That is definitely one of my favorite games ever. I finally went home at 11 and slept. That brings us to a lazy Saturday, and a lazy Sunday. I needed a break.
Song of the Day: Hip to My Heart by The Band Perry
Snapple caps: 64
(I typed this for almost and hour)
