Showing posts with label Chapters of My Dear Diary of Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapters of My Dear Diary of Life. Show all posts

Monday, June 9, 2014

Chapter 11: Prom

        On June 7, 2014, we go home, I got ready for this special night with help from my mom and Simone. On our way out, I was in the royal purple dress and fancy makeup with curls ironed. We went out into a car and drove to Bellevue Club. It was the most luxurious place in any hotel, even though it was meant for my dream wedding reception. This place held exactly what the school wants and I had a blast on the dance floor. We had great food, had pictures for free... it was a night to remember by far in my life.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Chapter 10: The Last Days of Everything (What Am I Going to Do for Next Year?)

            This weekend went pretty well, but I'm not sure what am I going to do for next year: is it looking for freedom? Yes. Is it going to college? No, I don't have a roommate, but I got tons of people to meet over the rest of my life. The Baccalaureate is good, but I remember that for the next few years, I will grow in independence by guardianship and that I'm staying home while some of my peers go across to the other side; others are staying here. It depends on whether you're going to a 4-year college, a 2-year college, tech school, military, work or apprenticeship, it's all up to you for next year. I had a nervous feeling that I'm overwriting that high school chapter which makes me feel disappointed about life. I just need a new chapter of life, but I am looking for freedom in a few days of school left. I will be gone when I come back from the all-night party at 6am, but my parents won't let me fly on summer vacation just after the senior celebration (it's similar to the just after the wedding reception for a honeymoon).
            After the service and the reception of refreshments, my family and I went to Olive Garden for the early dinner. We ate salad and I had chicken fettuccine Alfredo. It was really good, I saved it up for later use. Oh well, don't mind if I eat it after school when I come back home for something to eat. Next, we had desert: I got strawberry and white chocolate mini cake in an old-fashioned, cylinder-like transparent sundae bowl. For the rest of the weekend, I work on assignments. Everything is going to wrap-up!

Monday, May 19, 2014

Chapter 9 Part 2: I Found Coeur d'Alene

        A week later, we learned how to make a crisis plan. It depends on trying to release the stress and not rely on it by losing temper. It was good to read, write, draw, walk, nap, do yoga and watch videos. Although I wished I could light a candle, my house is full of unburnt candles which made me sad to let time pass by just so to let the power off by storm and light it up right away. You don't have to wait until the power was permanently off, just light it when you're in a calm mood or you want your room to smell good. It doesn't need to be time managed. For the rest of the school day, it's work time. I work really hard with assignments and everything. I read some more to finish it up before the big trip in order to make room for a pre-walkthrough of Banned Books (it'll happen about Friday to Monday and will do so to last for 4 weeks until the real thing happens). I had read 34 pages of the Blind Side - 98 more to go, I guess. The sunny evening happened when we go to Spud's with only my mom. It's 6:45. 15 minutes of individual warm-ups later, we played for 45 minutes for support. I know several people had signs outside the Spud's area and plenty of cars passing by throughout the entire time. After that, we go inside Spud's and ordered a 2-piece fish and chips. My mom turned in the money and the ticket was printed off at the last minute to closing the fundraiser. We had dinner, prayed in hopes that everything is about to come true upon request in the last two years since I became sick and went home.
        The next day, I wrote the advice saying that I need a marching partner and I see that the IEP staff will take care of it later because it takes time to deal with all of the requirements for graduation taken care of. I researched for the interpreter career during 2nd period. It was worth some money that children could receive and just save it all for four entire years of college. Later, I worked on missing assignments, did tweaks for the tour program, had lunch, improved practical real-world skills by watching the presentation, and worked on job interviewing along with the silent reading. I know it's little time like 12 minutes and 15 seconds to get the pages reduced to 94 pages due to revision of the eight paragraphs. I wish I could have very extended time for reading. After school, I went to the foyer for ideas about leaving the Drama club for choices to decide after graduation. For my choice after high school, I don't have any paths but to go to work. It's the old-fashioned way of employing myself at home for making stuff to sell. Plus we came up with the "We're All in This Together" song to expurgate all of the cheesiness for funsies of the last goodbye and advertisement for possible reunions which is a good thing.
        The next few hours deal with chilling out, packing up and making goals for the weekend, but I went to bed. Early on the Friday morning, I woke up to have chocolate milk, get in the shower, get dressed and go finish up getting ready for the day. I packed up my stuff and go to school on time to turn in my goal sheet. Then I read until it's time to go to the auditorium at 8:45. After waiting for a short time of 15 minutes, we went to the bus and went on the road. We went to Ellensburg to have lunch there. We head back to the bus and went to EWU (Eastern Washington University) for rehearsals at the auditorium. As the rehearsals ended, we head outside to chill and play Frisbee. As we are called to head back to the buses, we went on our way to Idaho. I can see the sign that suprised me by reading "Welcome to Idaho". We entered the state of Idaho and ten miles later, we head to Hayden for Triple Play, which is connected to Holiday Inn via the walk-in bridge. I found Coeur d'Alene finally after two years of waiting. We head to our rooms to put the stuff away and come to Triple Play for the pizza dinner. As I was about to drink water, the taste feels funny thus looking like that tastes like Sprite. I didn't notice the bubbles! I ate two pieces of cheese pizza and finished my Sprite. We spent the rest of the day in the waterpark while other people that participate the Spring Tour went to have fun at the main building playing arcade, go bowling, and playing mini-golf. At the waterpark, I got drenched, went to all four slides, swam at the wave pool, did the vortex slide again - this time with my mom, and relaxed in the spa. When 9:30 hits, we went out and head back to the rooms for sleep. We slept for eight hours and thirty minutes - I slept okay.
        The next morning, we get up at 6:30 to have our breakfast. I didn't notice the pancake processor they have at the hotel in which we could use it at home in the future. I pressed OK for once. That makes one pancake and it ended up being so small it's just a serving. We had breakfast together and we pack things up to go to Coeur d'Alene High School for the competition called Music in the Parks. The orchestra go first at 8:50 in the morning, then came the choir at 10:20. Finally, we had the 11:25 performance. After 10 minutes of performing, we went outside to put the instruments away and come to the bus. The boys depart to go to Bus 1 while we stayed to change clothes. Then when they come back from Bus 1, we go to Silverwood for seven miles. When we stop at the Silverwood parking lot, everyone went off the bus while me and my mom put on sunscreen. We went to Silverwood and it looks like we're going back in time to the Victorian era via underground tunnel (even though we go from the parking lot to Main Street). We went to the gift shop and my mom had coffee and had maps for souvenirs. We had lunch at the High Moon Saloon; as we wait for the food, we listened to live music. Then we went to the train for a 30-minute ride with a 15-minute break, the map says 60 minutes or an hour. I had my own critique thoughts about the ride, at least it was interactive for all ages. At first I hear the name Jessie, but in the knowing the name of the train part it was actually called Bessie. I was so close. When we reach the robbery stop, we put our hands in the air so it's a reminder to hand the robbers money to the charity. Then came a water bomb that drenched us for a bit; if we were to have multiple water bombs, that could be a drench from last Friday night. Finally, we enjoyed the predictable ending of the Old West - robbers being shot by fake guns and we get to enjoy the rest of the ride. We took a quick tour about the main Silverwood theme park and we head off to the main Silverwood theme park for Tilt-a-Whirl (my mom said too many G's), antique cars (I know I drove a blue Model T which the color symbolizes my disability (autism) awareness despite the long line, it's just part of growing up) and the Super Round-Up (one generation after my mom and I gave it a try - it's fun and terrifying at the same time). We went to Pavilion 5 for the awards ceremony and won a few trophies. After the fun at Silverwood, we decided to take a picture outsid the park and it was fun. In the end, we take a picture of us: it's the Band seniors. Next, we went back to the bus and go to Spokane Valley Mall for dinner. I had food at Taco Time, so does my mom. We went back to the bus and went on the road. I finished "The Blind Side" just ten miles prior to the restroom break. When the break is done, we went home on the bus. My mom and I go home to sleep in. That was fun!
        We're not quite done yet. My mom woke me up at 11:20 to have corn bread and chocolate milk. I chilled out for hours until it's time to go to the Kirkland Performance Center for Scenes listening assignment. One hour of listening later, we went to Cold Stone to have ice cream. I had a Love It Coffee with M&M's, roasted almonds and strawberries which is interesting for me eat it. Later, my family and I went to Tokyo Steakhouse for dinner. The dinner is okay, but we're just celebrating the end of the school year. At the end of the weekend, looks like I got work to do for this week.

Song: Sweet Victory (The Winner Takes All) by Dave Glen Eisley

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Chapter 9 Part 1: Amber Alert, Hearing Microphones and Retro Funsies You Can't Resist But to Enjoy Yourselves

        Monday, through the early afternoon, I hear the amber alert and it perhaps come from a smartphone. What is amber alert? Amber alert stands for the emergency signal that the child is missing. It was very brief in Auburn that the reports were retained that the child was found later in the day. We've seen amber alerts on TV from child kidnapping to child gone missing somewhere to come back dead or alive.
        Tuesday is a long day for me to have the National Anthem audition taken care of. As a result, the femine vocal jazz quartet had a slot for graduation and for Movin' Up - it's the trombone trio. I was somewhat disappointed that it's alright if I didn't get in. We watched Act I of Arsenic and Old Laces on video and we come up during the last minutes for the dream sequence letter. I wrote it all down to Cameron about something important happening - the initial ceremony on May 19, 2014 @ 3:30 pm sharp.
        Wednesday, it's been a fun day but really... it'll be alright with myself that everything's about to get updated on Facebook for a bit after next week. It happened when retro things are going to be digitally mastered for television, though it already happened after a while back. I guess my generation peers at our school were friendly, but some generation peers surrounding me throughout most of my secondary school life from 8th grade are annoying because of the talking and such things I can't resist but to explore some "note-to-selves" about advice for next time like watching your calories, surf new things on the web, and discover what you're missing when reading a banned book. I know everyone had read "The Alchemist" because it's the story of a person who does alchemistry the old-fashioned way this whole time. I already saw alchemistry in Llandros' walkthroughs like "Immortal Dynasty" and "Midnight Sun". It's really interesting and yet a bit entertaining for me to watch due to all of the magic happening - it's just a story, just because it's an NA book when I go to a 4-year college for a transfer degree (e.g. let's say Associate in Arts and Bachelor in Arts). Also everyone read "The Kite Runner". It's about boys in Afganistan and yet it was supposed to be based on the true story in my opinion.

To Be Continued...

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Chapter 8: Multicultural Week(end) - My Stagefright and All

Preface Observation: This is before the Multicultural Weekend. I'm at 1579.5 miles on my pure imagination journey in 2014.

Hypothesis Prediction: If I were to get going with The Blind Side whether or not, then it can increase the saving of the last thirteen episodes for future use of reach to Max #4 because more miles could save us 15% or more along the way to lifetime wish fulfillment.

Learning Target: Enjoy your weekend!

Story: At the beginning of the weekend, we had the organization class with quick reminders about what to do for the job later in the future. Afterward, we go home from school. We chilled out for hours until my mom calls us to get ready to go to our Multicultural show. We did go there. When my act came, I got stagefrighted by end of third verse from "Be Thou My Vision", but I never got to do the last two verses. I misunderstood it. I blew it. It all came down to just the beginning of everything fulfilled in the future. I am going to miss the stage in 32 more get-ups because I'll be gone from Drama with my peers. First time I've ever experienced because I just picked up the fortune left behind saying "Greed leads to poverty." My stagefright blew me away by forgetting the words. Everyone clapped at me and it was all I could've handled the microphone any longer. I swear this is not over. I should've done that, but my parents told me I handled maturity behavior. I'm still autistic and crying that I ended too early. I could've done one more night, but that didn't happen for I got one night only and things revolved.
        Imagine my fate being fallen between my imaginary friend and me - never wanting to know where art thou Black Blazer. I'm like a Juliet of Forks and he's like the Romeo of Forks. That's kind of a better love story than Twilight. A pair of star-crossed lovers, fallen upon the deadly fate being warned by the Oracle. My mom, Simone and I missed the other half of the show (Act II) and my life slipped away into a never-ending story about changing the world and other extreme issues to be solved like medical miracles to cure every single sickness and disease. Later, my family, excluding Simone went to DQ. I had a mini Confetti Cake blizzard. Quick flashback: When I was little, me and Lauren ran around the manger in circles for hours until 8 o'clock at night. I threw the halo down saying, "I'm done!" and left. The people laughed at the kids for being fun and entertaining. The next Christmas, I touched the baby and it cried. Animals followed and beat it up. I used to spin in mirrors when I was little for I had come a long way from a two-year old typical autistic kid with a classic twist of being mild-moderate to a 18-year old who had her first stagefright and still having my issues with autism to just go away. You know, being a kid is cool but puberty happens in the end when you go to some secondary school - jr. high or middle school. I got a similarity - when Dad was 33, he got stagefrighted for the first time in public speaking.
        Here I am about 13 years later... "It's not over yet! I'm sorry!" In 32 more get-ups, my ASB life will "get no more security patches to fix" - meaning... graduation. Next year, the Multicultural show will come back and people said it's okay for you to audition again. And before you know it, I'm going to be the next American Idol or either the next X factor. It's Senior Year 2 - the school year of resolutions to make myself free from boredom. Who cares about my singing? Everybody cares for me. They were so friendly all around me. Very emotional enough to never forget the day I got stagefrighted for the first time after all of my previous experiences on stage.
        The next morning, I feel much better after 10 hours of sleep. I let my worries go away and made me want to have another opportunity to fix one little mistake about the stagefright. The accompaniment for the choir may be a good thing to deal with, but I had afterthoughts about stagefright. The rest of the weekend turned out to seemed to be recovering, especially on Monday for Poetry Alive!

Song: We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Chapter 6: A Field Trip

        Friday night on February 7, I was so glad that the Drama Regionals got postponed for the next two weeks - much time to memorize the monologues. We worked on the monologues over the weekend, but I chilled out all weekend until very little time to finish my homework. I did two pieces just in time for turning-it in. I slept, got up, had my chocolate milk, took a shower, got dressed and finished getting ready for the day. I had breakfast at school and decided to read. We went to UW for a Band Festival on February 11. We go to the Meany Hall, watched groups, performed on stage and took our group pictures - one is serious and the other looks funny. After that, we waited a half hour, attended the master class, and had lunch. My mom and I went to the library with the cafe on the right when you enter inside. There you get to buy all of the goodness and I ended up drinking the best juice from Nantucket. We went back to school and chilled out in the band room until 2:20pm at which point, where I go home on the bus. Man, these two weeks of discovering new places is very good but on a Saturday night, which is February 15, I ordered the books from Amazon. I'm not spoiling the titles yet until I post them as reviews on the blog. Last Saturday, I woke up at 5:35am to get ready for Regionals. We went on the bus at 6:50am and we left at 7 in the morning. It took like about two hours to go the Capital High. Have you ever attended there? If not, this is the school that is home to the same mascot I had at Kamiakin Junior High (if you haven't read the beginning of my true blog story of life as a YA, this is home to the Cougars). I was J122, believe me; I did the monologues on Round 2 in one of the A-Pod rooms. I had a great time for the rest of the day, even though the Regionals took place on my sister's 14th birthday. At the end of the weekend, did you know what is Canada? Canada is right above our state of Washington, not just here but the whole USA. Thanks and hope you enjoyed the Sochi Olympics.

Song: Anyway You Want It, We Built This City on the Rocky Road

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Chapter 5: A December to Remember Part 4: Christmas Time to Accept Gifts from Each Other

        Monday, I woke up and enjoyed myself watching Isle of the Midnight Sun, but I got ready for the day and headed out to wrap-up the presents I bought. I wrapped up my presents while I listened to the music but once when it stopped, I grabbed the Nook tablet and it said that it needs connection so I turned it off and just keep wrapping without the music - yes, it's just silence. When afternoon came, we shopped at the 99 cent store and Hancock Fabrics. There we bought some goodies and three fabrics. When we go to Rite Aid, I see Simone checking to see if she's a normal person. She's still normal. I bring 3 satin tapesters for Mom to buy. Mom got the rest taken care of as I go out. We all go out and we went home so Lauren had to wrap up her presents she bought while I chilled out. While I chilled out, I then hear the footsteps. I think the person put the box down on the doorstep. When the truck leaves, I grabbed a box on the doorstep and put the box down on the living room table. I wonder why I'm looking forward to fairies, curses, dragons galore and ghost love letters of what-nots.
        I continued to just chill out, but I hear Dad going home. I spent time with my family the whole evening until 11pm where Dad and Simone started to wrap up surprises and I headed down to Simone's room where I can wait for the presents to be delivered but it takes too long; for Simone handed me a book to read. I call it a bonus: I So Don't Do Mysteries by Summy. Bonus books for goodreads reviews do not count, but instead it can be exclusive from my blog. I stayed up until 12:11 in the morning.
        Tuesday is Christmas Eve, as I woke up when the birds chirp very nicely and smoothly. As I warm-up for the wrap-up of Treasure Island with the last 11 pages, last Advent candle and post-adventure discussion from my blog and goodreads, I had to use the bathroom and just so to finish something up. When I finished the reviews, I got ready for the day and yes, there's some wrapping-up big surprises and what-nots to do so.
        Later, in the day, my whole family came to church for the Candlelight service which is very nice. After the hour of having the misconceptions go away, we began to go home. We passed the Snowflake Lane because the finale of flying colors is already over for a year. We missed out because we think we might have a prank on what the heck is going on in there but to be perfectly honest with you, I shouted to people saying, in like "Merry Chritmas! Happy 2014! God bless you!" I'm in like, "Yeah, maybe." We sorta missed out on all the fun we enjoyed on non-stop X-Mas music on Spirit 105.3 because we skipped ahead and we listened to a bit on our way home from the passing of Snowflake Lane. I was a little depressed that the Music Choice on non-stop X-Mas music made me want to feel hapless all Christmas Day long. I was disappointed by "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" song and "Santa Baby" song which makes me feel irritating and so annoying that I want to list this one onto my top 10 most hated/annoying songs of all time above "Just Be Friends" from J-Pop and behind HSM's "All for One" and YouTube's "PBJ Time". #3 is times a charm so it's a tie. Finally, I got a composition book for Christmas.
         Christmas morning, we unwrapped all of the gifts, but my favorite gift was my nerdy pillow with my imaginary friend in which I'm not daring to spoil it until it is revealed on one of the climax posts of all time in my blog. Hint: his favorite color was light brown. That's the first hint I unlocked after Treasure Island but we'll get into more hints later in my blog. Hey, I got an idea for hints. My first hint was a favorite color. Check! Other than a pillow, I got Undercover and The Book Theif for Christmas, but my dad gave me some extra bonus: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Dalmatian Press Edition). I guess it was exactly a good idea that I might be getting into a book, but I called it a bonus. Bonuses do not count on the goodreads reviews according to the main storyline rules of pure imagination and my list of goals I'm trying to accomplish on. My sister Lauren had a book I just read in one week and a half. It was dedicated to YA Literacy Week of 2013 (April 14-20) in my opinion. You heard me right: "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. My dad recommemded this book for high school girls, but Lauren thinks the comprehension was too easy so she can try for it I guess. The rest of my book gifts were delayed for the next day which is December 26, the day after Christmas. Me and my dad ordered them on Super Saturday December 21 - the winter solistice day.
        A few days later, New Year's Eve came. We had the last hours of 2013 writing resolutions, waiting, did the countdown, made some noise, watched the Seattle Needle fireworks, and stayed up until 1:15pm. The next morning deals with Rose Parade and the granddaddy of all football bowls (The Rose Bowl). Today, we placed the Christmas decorations away because the holidays are 100% over. We decided to make room for a new bookshelf which is mammoth-taking. Although we wrapped up the holidays, I don't think whether or not a van or a Explorer may want to clean out. Happy Holidays, merry Christmas, happy 2014 and sorry I'm late about this folks.

Song: Need a Little Love by Hanah Montana

Monday, December 23, 2013

Chapter 5: A December to Remember Part 3: The Spirit Week of Wishes

        Sunday night, my parents put some technology privilege rules for me and my sisters. Monday, I go to school. I got lots of working to do over the week. When I go home at 4:30pm, I do my homework. Around 7pm, we had dinner. The rest of the day is like working until 9pm. By 9pm, I know there goes the invisible mental timer - haha, I go to bed at around 10:05pm. Well, at least a few minutes late is pretty much okay so 5-6 minutes is good, but Dad is not around. I got a few days left to come up with - 4 or 5 more to break free of the restrictions and I had to make up those lost hours of the Isle of the Midnight Sun LP to catch up on so that way I was supposed to be live and ongoing.
        Tuesday, I wear black clothing. Black clothing is for funerals, but it's alright. It can still be used for Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony. 10 minutes of photo shoot - from 11:05-11:15. Symphonic Band photo shoot first, then came Drama photo shoot. The single photo shoot happens every five minutes, but I shall wear black all day because I don't have time to change outfits in the girl's gym locker room. I may not have time to have the formal outfit be worn like I was going on Broadway in NYC or on 5th Avenue in Seattle. It took 15-20 minutes for me to get a photo shoot two times. We go first, then Wind Ensemble, next came Lit Mag and finally I showed up the second time for Drama. We did a leg hokey pokey while we're in the line for which it is so creepy for me to handle with. We did big smiles, but we laughed in the end. Leadership and ASB came the last as I go to the music room. I decided to clean up after myself in order to just chill out.
         After lunch, 2 progresses to show up: yeast respiration lab worksheet and cell diagram on a cotton yellow piece of paper. Sixth period, I did the final touches of my persuasive paper before I chilled out. I spent time with Duck Life. Duck Life is so freaking addictive to you that you can't stop, neverending raising baby ducklings to be duck gods with golden crowns. Haha. The bell rang as I go to the auditorium for a feature presentation of 4am (is anyone out there?) the movie taken from the production show. It's taken on the second Sunday of production weekend. I wonder why...
        When the movie was over, I looked back at the audience and looked at the teacher that stopped the camera. When it stopped playing, I looked back at the audience and I turned back to where I just paid attention to usually. The last ten minutes deal with the regionals before we head out. When we head out, I go home and do my homework. I did what it was supposed to do so, but at least I wind down those stress, I go to bed. Next day, it's been a usual day of school. I tried to do the best I can in order to turn it in by the end of the week. Meh, am I stressed out? Hmmm, evening came as I tried out for a Christmas exchange gift party. My dad exchanged the hat for fudge. We spent the party trying, bargaining and stealing gifts, even though they all laughed at me for those embarrasing sardines, I was very embarrased by this for a bit. I had a bad feeling that I was supposed to give it to somebody else, but I ended up giving it to Dad. My gift - the 32 inch tree was stolen, but I had a popcorn tin. We had a fun time.
        The next day, I go to school and it looks like I am working all day until nine in the evening. At fourth period, we got the practices written out mentally as we chilled out, stack chairs and had a great day. But while we were there, after school, I had a penguin stuffed animal with three smarties. Mmm... yum. After we had a Secret Santa event we make plans on having a spring show - it could be a Shakespearean version of Star Wars or another piece of the Broadway era; think "Cats: The Musical". After the plans, we were like "lazy bugs" to try for Regionals, but I had gone looking for monologues and I ended up having two contrasting monologues and one song. One monologue is for the January 16 auditions and the other is for the February 8 regionals along with the song. After the day's done, I go home, and spent the rest of the day chilling out while doing my homework.
        On Friday, it snowed as school's cancelled. While it's snowing, I was getting ready for the day, but now it's all over folks as we put our little businesses to sleep within a few days. We went to Michael's and we ended up having more interesting gifts. We headed out to Target where we got two hats for Lauren, a silver bracelet and jewelry, and pajama pants for Dad. Saturday, I shopped for books with Dad at amazon.com, but I forgot Merlin Part 2 and 3 from the James Mallory variant. Oh well, it's alright for we ordered Penelope by Marilyn Kaye, Undercover by Beth Kemphart, Stardust by Neil G., and the last two books of Dragons in Our Mist tetralogy - Circles of Seven and Tears of the Dragon. We did this together as father and daughter, but we deleted the girly scrapbook kit from "It's a Total Girl's Life" which is sold out for good. The rehearsal for the afternoon had come and gone as we shopped for more at the Dollar Tree Store where we got gifts for each and every one, but I ended up having a rasberry candy gift to Simone and two toy plushy bones for the dogs - one is pink for Zellie because it matched the pink doggie stocking we got on Black Friday at Walmart, and the other is red for Dakota because the brown doggie stocking from Walmart did not match the color.
       Sunday, we performed "The Gift" at the church whereas my parents lighted up the pink Christ candle. The performance is really good. It turned into a special Sabbath as Dad and I go to the Benaroya Hall to listen to Handel's Messiah for my listening assignment, but when we came to the "Hallelujah" chorus, we all stand up which is very pointless but it's alright literally. As we come to the end, I think it's over that I was thinking what the heck is wrong with them; the music was supposed to have more instruments - more woodwinds, more brass, more percussion, more strings, more people to sing and the composition needs an extension with professional drama ensemble and that would have been more cinematic and more Broadwayish than it was before I think. But otherwise, it's really a good suite that's old-fashioned.

Song: Fear Song by some James Blunt guy

Monday, December 16, 2013

Chapter 5: A December to Remember Part 2: Slopiness and Neatness of the P-8 Drawings, Nutcracker Sleigh Ride and Other Special Moments

        Monday, I had a very usual day. I did my homework, improved some critic thinking and played Coolmath games. Yes, it's a very usual day, besides the waiting for 15 minutes and snacks. Tuesday, I went to school. During lunch, I ate a meatball sub. It taste really good. During biology class, a few minutes prior to the bell ringing I was attempted to play Farafella. I just wished I want to play again. Later, I felt nauseous because I felt like a vegetarian wanting to puke some meat, and I had a headache at the same time. I was trying to rest for 15 minutes, but no. I rested for 7.5 minutes and I went back to class, feeling a bit okay. English class came as I was trying to type down that whole entire thing of persuasiveness of five pathways of post-high school life, but I felt much worse as I headed back to the nurse's office and I rested for a half hour. The headache is feeling better. I felt really okay that I went home ten minutes prior to what would the schedule had been for me. I rested at the nieghbor's house for ten minutes and went home by foot. I went to play Coolmath games. Ah, yes the enjoyment of watching the duckling grow stronger and faster in the game of Duck Life. This is my snow white duckling with a crown on his head.
Awww... he's so cute.
        Haha... he won against the snow white champion with grey eyes. Ain't it so cute and quick. Eh? On a Wednesday, it's been a usual day. But tonight, we had a concert. We played "The Nutcracker Suite" in 4 movements.  The movements were Overture, March, Dance of Sugar Plum Fairy and Russian Trepak. It's based on a fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. I read a book before I saw the ballet produced by our school drama last year. It's really good. The book is very a bit more intense than the ballet. We also played Prairie Songs. Imagine myself shipwrecked from the Pequod, but rescued by SS Rachael. Later, we went on the Isle of the Treasure in the Gulf of Bothnia to go get some treasure. In the end, it's a huge success on a voyage adventure. Then a finale of Sleigh Ride. Oh boy! I must've done something right about that earlier. It's alright. I come home and go to bed.
        Thursday, we started to do some ASL article questions about the Bhutan refugees. I was questioning what to do over the week ahead. Later, we turn-in Christmas stuff and I read. I enjoyed the rest of the day chillin'. We go home and I had a fun blast. Friday, I woke up at 7:30, got my chocolate milk, take a shower, got dressed and finished getting ready for the day; but I may be leaning toward TransitAccess I'm looking forward to the summer ahead of us. We had the contracts signed in and we ended up having handbooks. It was a day at a court with fancy parts of the building. We ended up in another fancy building - it was a tallest tower in a city: Columbia Tower with Skyline POV. I enjoyed lunch, but I'm not sure of what to do as a YA. We go around the building and my dad handed me the key chain. It was a blue circle with a mirroristic image of Seattle and a light to press on and leave it off. I enjoyed the rest of the day still chillin'. Saturday, I had lots of technology time, but my parents forced me to restrict me for a week. I am holding on to the Goodreads reviews which I kept waiting for too long. For too long, I ended up in invisible handcuffs.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Chapter 5: A December to Remember Part 1: The Usual School Week

 Dear Diary,
        December began as I wake up to go to school. Yes, it was a very usual schedule over the next few days of the week besides the shopping, parties, cookie making, ice skating, seeing a Bellevue collection mascot parade and of course seeing the latest animated film Frozen from Disney. Regionals is coming up in just around a corner or less. But first, I would like to thank you for participating in my blog. Fall was wrapping up as I came up with the wishlist to hand it out to Dad. Wishlists checked off is going to be a surprise that Dad made it mentally as I tricked into gifts, but I already read Fault in Our Stars over YA Literacy Week of 2013.
        The book I just read over YA Literacy Week took me one week and a half for me to go through. This year over YA Literacy Week, I believe that it's going to be a surprise once when I post a mystery book to read over YA Literacy Week. I will post on so-last year's book I just read over the special week in a review. When will YA Literacy Week occur? In 2013, it's April 14-20 according to wikia, but to me it's April 15-21. The Fault in Our Stars was dedicated to the YA Literacy Week of 2013 because it's been a #1 bestseller in the New York Times for a YA genre in such a long time until Divergent and Steelheart showed up. Steelheart is about a group of human beings vs. villains. Divergent is about Tris on an dystopiatic city of Chicago, very similar to the Hunger Games, but very sci-fi like indeed. Really? I had never read the two that showed up after The Fault in Our Stars. I added the Gallaudet ASL dictionary into my wishlist and that would pretty much be so predictable. If I had to just wait and see until Christmas, then whatever or not, I may be able to see those suprises over Christmas day. In order of appearance, besides the Book Thief, it'll be surprising and it could be revealing to add into my books read list over the academic year to print it out and post it into a yearbook by the end of the spring trimester.
        If I receive full credit for graduation, when I walk out of the door with the class, the last day of school for the rest of my life would be Wednesday June 11, 2014. The last day of school for a generation would be in around June 2018. If the district will hold me back one more year, then I had a bad feeling about this. But who cares about the vacation right after the senior celebration party? It's just a little ol' me coming out of the bus and into the limbo, transitioning from school to airport. One week later, when I come back to SeaTac from a summer vacation, I go to Bellevue College right away for freshmen orientation, and after that, the TransitAccess Bus will take me from Bellevue College to home. I will sleep in all Sunday long. When the night comes, I'll wake up to read some scriptures to catch up on daily devotions and then I should be good to go for the next task. I may stay in that dorm for summer school and driving school over the summer. Life would be worthless.
        Hahahahaha. LOL! xD That is too funny. Okay, then to be continued... I guess.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Chapter 4: Homecoming Week Part 2: SENIOR POWER!

        Earlier, I think "Dang, I thought that was only a half hour barely there at the Senior March." The march lasts 15 minutes from 7:45-8:00 by Friday October 25, 2013. Oh boy, Senior Power, make my day special, homecoming weekend is all 100% special. This is a special part as of the following: CP has to be done over this school year or else, come back next year for more exit projects. During Senior English, I already turned in the research paper and now I am good to go. See how my comprehension reading got improved or not. If I improve reading skills, then whether or not, it shall improve because it'll be worth AP Cambridge credit for resource programming. That's my hypothesis for comprehension. We're doing the Compare/Contrast paper right now. Tech day we see a sneak peek of 4am. Afterward, I did my homework, had dinner, brushed my teeth and off to bed.
        The next day, we'd been on the Isle of the Midnight Sun with three flagpoles attached and, man this march made me sweat due to the fact that I had a cold, and that I carried around with heavy bags. Other than that, it's a great and most historical pathway I'd been there to be seen for years to come. It's a memorable march that lasts a lifetime. Oh yes, usual day; I turned in the 2 study strategy sheets, did the Tic-Tac-Toe game, took a Chapter 3 test, did the Vocab pop quiz and tried for fun facts on plants, rehearsed pep, and did the comprehension. Unfortunately, I had to do comprehensional skill reading on Lesson 4 for homework. But first, I added another sticker symbolizing Research Paper onto the checklist. We did a Homecoming Wrap-Up assembly, but we learned of the Alma Mater. I heard of the Alma Mater from near the end of sophmore year up until recently when I finally got to do the lyrics. The lyrics goes like this:

Unto thee Our Alma Mater
We pledge devotion true
And to thee our own Juanita
Our hearts will e'er be true
The red is for the living
The white to honor truth
The blue which stands for freedom
The symbol of our youth
The red is for the living
The white to honor truth
The blue which stands for freedom
The symbol of our youth

        See? What do you think of the Alma Mater at the School? Did you like it? Does that make you think more of America, just so to stand and be proud for "The Pledge of Allegiance" while in school and "The Star Spangled Banner" your whole life if you live your whole entire time there in our country where we had those Constituitional Rights? Does that make sense to you whatsoever that if you live overseas, you may send your low-self esteemed teens to our country where we may want to teach them right with respect and learn our variations of the Alma Mater of America starting with "O say can you see...", "God bless America, my home sweet home..." or "O beautiful for spacious skies..."? Right, true? You'll be impressed if anyone in America will expect you as the unexpected. Haha, eagles rule!

        Homecoming game, we know the choir sings at the beginning, football players playing, cheerleaders following us into something that makes us somewhat cheesy and sport-pep like, blah, blah, blah. Yes, same story with a different purpose whatsoever for every single year. Other than that, this year, we played against the Lake Washington kangaroos - our nearby rival school. We definitely won, 20-7. No fireworks? That was a bit weird. I watched the fireworks sophmore year, I see the ASB president as king with the secretary as queen in a float. Very impressed, but we watched the rest of the game, but we lost to the Mt. Si Wildcats (WILDCATS EVERYWHERE BLAH BLAH BLAH ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! NOOOOO! DX TURN YOUR ANNOYING SINGING VOICES DOWN YOU EAST WILDCATS! Don't you dare continue with your Oogielove-cheesiness, for the most annoying/hated Wildcats were the uglies to be new pretties while you're in a real-life college joys. For I am not a Bieber-fever, dumbed-down HSM fanatic, mindless tween, and I am a most rockin' good teen. Don't you see? All of your - no, I used to fall in love with Justin Bieber while in middle school, I was sorta dumbed off of that thing until everything has changed when Justin turned from High-School-Musical-sorta-type-of-yeah-mindless-tweens-get-it pop star to one of the cool kids while in college. I think wow, I might get peeved on bit by bit while I take Health class. I'm sorry Wildcat fans of HSM, you better read Maximum Ride now or else, you'll be part of the "cool crowd" with Justin.) Junior year, it began to rain after those long days of rainless possibilities and yes most of us go home, not knowing of who wins. We really won.
        The next evening, we went to the Homecoming dance. The Homecoming dance reminds me of all fairy tales I read so far and will look forward to. We danced to the mind-jumbling rap, which I really don't understand it very well. In the end, we finally get to go dance around the songs I actually know of from elementary school to now. At the end of the dance, my mom showed up when I called her. It was very shocked, but surprising. We took the pictures of our Once Upon a Time props and such, ending with me holding flowers and a souvenir ticket like I was on the wedding day when I get to marry the prince of my dreams - is it my imaginary friend of those eight years or the unknown coming soon in which I'll hold on until later use or that real-life person in which I am madly in love with later in the not too distant future. When I come home, we put the flowers on the vase, and headed off to bed. Yes, I got my haircut and makeup on.
         In conclusion, on a Sunday, we hear the summary and "in-depth" of how the church was born and how did it dealt with all of my sins I have from my 15-year old long-time autism to the now-most recent mindless esteeming value. We learned of how the church send first aid-snake bite kits to Africans. Yes, instead of six goats we mentioned earlier over the past VBS, it's smaller than I think. The video described as six sheep, which is somewhat miniature like. We had International potluck, but I had a huge meal to satisfy the hunger. We go home, had fun, had dinner and go to bed. Thanks so much for reading and we hope you had a Once Upon a Time Homecoming Week. I'll see you next time. Bye guys.

Song: Bye Bye Bye by N-Sync

Monday, October 21, 2013

Chapter 4: Homecoming Week Part 1: Research? Check!

        Several days later, I turned-in my laptop in exchange for a loaner. The loaner has to be back by 3 in the afternoon today. But apparently, I just showed up that I lost my USB flashdrive. Don't worry, the flashdrive will eventually show up for the day. It's in my pencil pocket on the netbook case. Monday is Fashion Disaster Day. I enjoyed the competition so far, so good that I would like to be part of the competition one day. Tuesday is Hawaiian Day - yet, another Tech day - makeup. I discovered that there's mostly coming from Ben Nye - get it, Ben Nye in Aussie accent. Haha. Wednesday, is Seattle Sports Day. At home, we had Mariner stuff, and as a result, I got Mariner earrings. We watched the sandwich making contest and I already got my Seahawks hat last year. Now concert came tonight. I was very proud of myself for doing two pieces of music.
        Thursday, we had Cops and Robbers day, we played games of Tic-Tac-Toe and we played Battleship color clothing style. During homeroom, I reviewed the vocab for Friday's pop quiz, I did extras on homework, and I did the Tundra Plants document to finish it up. I read a bit and had lunch and enjoyed some chill out time, but the search game worth it, ending up with car keys.

Song: We Are the Champions by Queen

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Chapter 3: October Vote Part 3: The Final Result

        The next day rolled on as I get up, had chocolate milk, took a shower, got dressed, had breakfast, and finished getting ready for the day. 2nd period, we learned cardial numbers 16-20. We had a fun game today. It was fun. We passed on the fingerspelling and we guessed what it is. In the end, the first person goes last in line while we move. The cycle goes over again until I was second in line. We did hangman in ASL. And sixth period came. We did source five while listening to slow, classical "stimulating the brains" music, but we heard four of them so one was recognized by the past three years - "My Heart Will Go On" piano version, which reminds me of how much I loved one of my favorite pure fantasy friends for the past nearly eight years and it's been like three years so overdue that I said, "Why am I not autistic? I should've broken up a relationship with him when I promote on into high school."
        Later, there's an earthquake drill and we evacuated. We waited for 15 minutes until we went back to class. I heard that the CP Research is due by next Thursday, I was so glad that the CP Research ended. More independent reading and comprehension reading skills on the way (hopefully Outside Reading Projects and 50 Hours of CP outside schooling). Remember the comprehension skills from my first few days of senior year when blogging? I am so glad that I finally get to see my class become Homecoming Prince, Princess, King, Queen, and Jester. I am literally so looking forward to Once Upon a Time Homecoming Week!!! Pure imagination is going back to school. I excitedly can't wait for my pure imaginative friends hold a combined high school class reunion all-in-one. And I AM looking forward to the Senior Power march, the Homecoming game and dance, and the two finales of all fairy tales (in real-life chronological order of my walkthrough)- Enchanted and The Neverending Story. I voted Homecoming Royalty for my class.
        After that, more music came but, when we get to the listening part of "Morning Commuter", I decided to come up with storyboard of the "cartoon short" based on the piece. It's my style for visualizing that I chose Miyako as the main character in the storyboard. She's like two generations away from the one I should've broken up with him for too long (three years in a row). She rode a bicycle on her way to school one fine, sunny day in the year 1953. But she accidently knocked the trashcan, so she grabs a hairbrush and an unused mint gum and heads off toward the salon. The cars were in traffic jam, so the people honk horns and they shouted out to hurry up to go to work. But in the end, she felt refreshed, hurried up cleaning the trash out, and she's back on track to school and... she madie it to school on time.
        Lunch break came and I had a cheeseburger, carrots and chocolate milk. I talked to a few of the people saying, "Are you looking forward to the weekend?". And then, I went to the speech room: the speech room is very busy with people. A little while later, I went to homeroom and I found out I got a B+ in Chapter 2 test. I was very proud of myself, so I handed the test back to one of my math teachers, the same one in high school pre-algebra sophmore year. And I read for a few minutes and we're off to the assembly. I watch nominations as I saw the escorts go by up until the end of the jester part. One young lady got out of the hidden stairway and sat down on her class section. I see the runaway models for Homecoming Week, so here they are: Monday is Fashion Disaster Day, Tuesday is Hawaiian Day, Wednesday is Seattle Sports Day - CONCERT IS TONIGHT @ 7:30, Thursday is Cops and Robbers Day, and finally on Friday we get to go have the moment of our lives - dressed in red, marching down the hallways, shouting "SENIOR POWER!". YES!!! I was right about voting the Jester, Prince and Princess, but the King is remembered and an unexpected queen came out of my mind. Whoa! Dude! No way... After the coronation ceremony, we watched the musical chairs, but then the chairs were all gone, everybody is out, and the trio did a dance, the escort of the Freshman princess is out due to the fact that some booed on him, and it looks like Tatum the junior princess is the runner-up. Shelby Pike wins!
        After school, we went to the little theater and there's a poster revealance - there's monsters under the banner, in which the artwork is so modernlike. I had a fun time at the attic, but I tried on heels saying, "My parents will never ever know." I carefully walked around in heels and I put it away. I barely touch the ceiling with my fingers. And I ended up having a great time over the rest of the day. In conclusion, my dad owe me 10 dollars for helping out at Sunday school. I wonder what next?

Song: Na Na by superchic[k]

Chapter 3: October Vote Part 2: Homework and Such Important Moments

        The next day, I finished source four during study skills class. I read a little bit and headed of to ASL class. We watched a very boring, but interesting 2nd edition of Deaf culture and hearing culture difference because they talk about the communications the Deaf people have since 2001. On 3rd period, we learned more information about perpendicular stuff. 4th period, rehearsals. Lunch break for a half hour, but I'm getting back some fresh air due to the handling and the playing so much. I voted for prince/king and princess/queen, but I never got to vote for a jester. Sorry. 5th period, my teacher handed me out homework after I graph out a rabbit population. Notecards to write down vocab words and a section to take notes. WHAT?! Are you kidding me? 6th period, I got revisions to take. Editing is a good process of how to be a writer. If your literature teacher sees the mistakes, I get to handle with the rest of it, so that it claims as final draft.
        After school, I went to the library. I do my homework for fifteen minutes. We went to the little theater. And it took like over an hour to sort stuff and accessories as organizing in the box. After that, I headed home, got some McNuggets, and did my homework. While I blog, when I check out the viewers, it looks like more people were spreading my senior year out. Someday, I will be famous. I did my homework, had dinner, did my homework, put on my pjs on, got milk and a piece of pear, brushed my teeth and go to bed.
        The next morning, I got up, had chocolate milk, took a shower, got dressed, had a blueberry muffin and a piece of meat, and finished getting ready for the day. I went to school, asked a trusted adult to see if my geometry teacher was there, but we ended up knowing that she'll be back in just a second. We really don't know, but I knew what to do to get out of the office area. I saw someone that read one of my books I just reviewed when I get there in time for blogging out of my dear diary. I see more people growing, adding Phillipines into my blog. I was so satisfied of my popularity growing and growing.
        We learned more about our social behavior on what's expected and unexpected when playing games. I was a bit left out about talking with friends at lunch, because I learned about the social behavior from LPs - the commands the narrator put up with. After we learned of social behaviors when playing a game, some of us worked on homework while others read or just chill out. I read up until I get to the "Nor" word. I hear Coco screaming outside, like a dumbed-down, drunk woman in labor. As I hear the screams, I go from "Nor" until end of paragraph. And I abruptly ended up a bit. Anymore interruptions? A bit of talking from two guys. Anymore? Nope. OK. I read a little bit from start of next paragraph until end of page when I hear the typing of a computer and magical chimes. I started on the next page but it ended the chapter. So where were I? Yes, next chapter. I read from start of next chapter until end of the line. 3rd period, we learned about more constructing, "fish tails" and what-nots. After a break, we go on Geometer Sketchpad. 5th period came along, we did a quick trip to seven billion. I ended up with tons of homework, knowing that I could end up being study fatigue and ready for passing tests and pop quizzes. So far, I passed a few vocab quizzes in Biology with flying colors. When I go home, I ate a grilled cheese sandwich, a strawberry granola bar, and pineapples. I watched a bit, and with Mom's help on ordering sleeves and Band Geek T-Shirts, ProImages would like to say "Thanks for everything! Now the order is in progress right now, chill out whatever you want to do while waiting for an order to come out with the rest!"
        I chilled out and had time to get ready to have updates for another Family Night coming up after population study as I feel "study fatigued". I had fun together, but for dinner, I got lasagna (FINALLY!)! Instead of singing behind the chairs, we partied on the floor. That's so unusual. Afterward, we had an important lesson: I believed that there's freedom of speech at schools besides religion, but I heard several people who got suspended for spreading the Gospel. I heard of the Constitutional rule from last year, while in resource government/US history class. So that's why I live in America my whole entire life, I carefully sorted things out for school, for I am a Master Student (a senior and a 12th grader). After that, I went back to the sancturary where I was trying to put the cones and balls away, but the kids sorta worn me out due to "Tag! You're it!" game. They're a bit rowdy. And then, everything went quiet. I was so exhausted that I cleaned things up and I waited for my dad to get in the car, so I came up with additional designs, but despite getting late, I added a few more: "Band Geek" in Planet Typography and "Thespian" in Cursive font with the Drama symbol colored gold, continuing the front cover page of my Life journal and final touches on music notes. I went to bed afterward.

Song: Don't Stop Believing by Journey

Monday, October 14, 2013

Chapter 3: October Vote Part 1: A Weekend

        During homeroom, we discussed about homecoming royalty for my ultimate school year to vote for. I was thinking where did the polls go on Haiku. The result: coming soon. The field trip was scheduled for Wednesday November 13, because we're going to hear musicians rehearse Beethoven's Symphony No. 6. Remember one February day, I went to hear musicians perform. It's very breathtaking. Afterward, we had some lunch and hot cocoa. We went over to Pike Place market and we see men throwing fish shouting "Hey-Yar!" I saw a mudfish on display as seen on the news on the television. We took a tour on the inside and I ended up having pizza and brownies and sweets. We ended up with Rocky Mountain sweets to buy. It's really good. And finally we ended up buying fish mittens. I think that's a great idea for selling for profit, it's part of my textile and bookmark store. We went home, took an hour off and we headed back to school. But this time, we went to Bellevue College for the last basketball game. We saw our Lady Rebs being defeated and we ended up heading home, empty-handed.
        On with the story, rain began to pour steady as I was typing, the computer got a bit wet for it's hydrophobic, so I dried up the screen as I went to English class. I was starting to think about the backstory of my three main characters from Utopia Saga, but I ended up a bit distracted. So that's why I should never give out a backstory too much unless I'm at some point bit by bit but not at the beginning. If I got my research paper done, there's going to be another smiley face to post it on the checklist. Again, life is a bit bigger than just checklists.
        The next morning, I came up eventually with an idea of reviewing a vocab for the quiz. I spelled it carefully and quickly, for I got 100% of the spelling and the result: look at the incredible monster truck backflip. That's so EPIC! XD After that, I reviewed the vocabulary sheet really quick, put it in my backpack because I knew the meanings of new words. For example: autotroph is the producer of food supply and energy source from the sun while heterotroph is the consumer of food supply and energy source from the sun. For example: All cows eat grass, even the goats, sheep and other livestock including horses join the cows in eating grass. I read a bit, had reviewed ASL Unit 1 and got ahead of cardial numbers. The new numbers were 16-21. And we played BattleShip ASL description style of apparel. Then I took a test on Chapter 2 of Geometry. Then more music. And I had lunch - Asian food. And on the note from the cookie, it says "You deserve special treatment this week. Enjoy dessert." I was so lucky enough to have dessert and have my relationship to revive more life and "untangle" the road to the ultimate goal. 5th period, I had a vocab quiz. I did it without my speech therapist's help, because I'm getting good at new words to learn and discovering new music to listen. We tried for a poster, but eventually we're not sure of this, so I ended up drawing the sun and colored it 100% yellow. At the end of the day, the polls are up and going, so I try for a vote. But however, it did not happen. So I head on home on the bus, had fun, ate dinner, had more fun reading forums and heading off to bed.
        Saturday, I got up in the morning, got my chocolate milk, took a shower, got dressed, and headed off to school. Looks like the community is doing the fall fix-up for a homecoming week coming up. We did the props, the setting, the costumes, and I finally got to see the booth. After that, I go back home. My family and I head to church, so we set-up the kids area downstairs. First of all, I woke the teddy bears up to sit on the rocking chair in hopes that the little kids will be here to play with. We didn't go to Piecora's but instead, we ended up having fast-food, for which it sorta sucks. That's one problem of the healthy habit. Sunday, we went to church. I heard of China as part of the missions. After that, we cleaned up the kids area, had some food for Arby's; I'm sick of fast-food, OK!!!!!!!! :( Next time, go for the more healthier stuff than this. After that, I had to do my homework. After the Environmental Impact Report, I was like a "studious studier", though I have worked out for 40 minutes or so.
        A few hours later, we had dinner. It's cod fish with kale, biscuits and cottage cheese. For a fruit, I had oranges. And for dessert, I got Cosmic brownies. After dinner, I go to bed. The next morning, I woke up, had chocolate milk, took a shower, got dressed, had peanut butter toast and finished getting ready for school.
       When I go to school, I put my Symphonic Band folder and instrument in my locker and I headed off to class. I make-up things up mostly. And I blogged of what next. Afterward, I read a little bit and headed off to yet another class. We learned of what kind of languages and schools are there in ASL. In 3rd period, we learned more info of lines and arcs. I got homework: do the back of the worksheet. In 4th period, more music and rehearsal. And I had lunch. 5th period, we turn in the Environmental Impact Report. But first, when I came into the biology room for the umpteenth time, I wrote "What's the printer name for rm 178?" and got homework: Section 5-1 and notes. What?! New rule for the day: 2 hours of reading - 1hr of S.S. and 1hr for L.A. (pure imagination with unlockable premium items and the LP key), 6hrs of homework - very studious indeed. We calculated problems like how many offsprings per year (for example: 1 pair of rabbits = 6 offspring). After continuing the poster, we ended up a bit unfinished. On 6th period, since everyone else catched up on me, we're going to do source 4. By Tuesday, we're going to turn-it in. Thursday - source 5 in 2 paragraphs. And by the Thursday - we have to turn-it in. And on the next week, the final source and at the end of Part 3. The Research Paper Parts 1-3 has to be printed 100% complete once when I'm all 100% done with the sources and everything in it.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend. So what's yours?

Does one of my real-life friends win Homecoming Queen? Jester? King? Prince & Princess? Find out in Part 2.

Song: Cecilia, Your'e Breaking My Heart by Paul Simon and Garnfunkel (this song reminds me much of Life of Pi)

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Chapter 2: Senior Year Has Arrived as the Top of Class


      I got up at 5:45 in the morning, got some chocolate milk, took a shower with a hint of having to wash my hair. I got dressed and got ready for the day, but there is no bus so we have to take a dark emerald green 1999 Toyota Sienna to get to school on time. We waited in line until I got a schedule. That’s exactly what is right.
      Period 1 is Study Skills Improvement. I really think that’s a great thing to go through this whole time, reading, writing blogs, studying any homework to keep track on, and have fun. Period 2 is ASL. ASL is a great start for me to go through also, but we got our first deaf teacher. We learned of “Yes” and “No”. For extra credit to sum things up, I learned of “texting” which is really funny. Period 3 is Geometry. Geometry is after Algebra I, but we will learn more details of all shapes and sizes. Period 4 is Symphonic Band. Symphonic Band is after Concert Band, but the point is that Spring Tour is coming soon and I was so excited to go see Idaho for the first time after nearly three years of waiting for the moment to arrive within. Period 5 is Biology. Biology is after PhySci if you passed the final exams and made-up some tests you failed. We will learn more about genetics, life, and plants in sophisticated detail. There are no Learning Targets whatsoever, but instead, we have Warm-Up sheets for every week and Exit Slips. Period 6 is Senior English. Senior English is very complex that, we need to break it down and build things up. Reading Folders are great for Reading Logs for those who need more reading improvement. It’s OK if I have to evaluate  Maximum Ride the Complete Saga, but I never spoil (in case of reviewing the whole series overall sometimes). Evaluating books and authors means that you have to show your imaginative spirit to your friends, it’s OK. In case that your friends don’t believe in magic, you recommend to them whether you like it or not. We got a complex math clock on the back of us, but you just need to come up with solutions as easy as that if you’re lucky.
           To do your homework, you need some contracts for your parents to sign. I got 4/6 of the contracts given from teachers. Lesson: “Life is a bit bigger than checkboxes.” I had lunch – cheese pizza, lettuce and chocolate milk. I told my friends of how is summer overall. My summer is a roadtrip.

 

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                Flashback: We went to Salem where Simone got a midnight purple 3DS. We stayed a night in Rosenburg. We go down to California and we saw Mt. Shasta and we stayed in Weed. We headed down south to Los Angeles in the Anaheim area where we stayed six nights there. I learned how to boogie board and that’s what my uncle taught me to. We went to fun places like Downtown Disney, Hollywood, Griffith Observatory, and walking down the Stars of Fame. We went to San Francisco where we stayed two nights there. A day in San Francisco is like a blast in Seattle except a bit milder, but we learned of San Francisco and there’s a hidden prison island that has been activated for circa 30 years. We went north to Eureka where we stayed for a night there. And we went to Newport, Oregon where we spent two nights there in Money Saving Motel. We enjoyed a fun time with a whole family, but wait, there’s more; we have been to a Drive-In Tree, Sea Lion Caves, Newport Aquarium and a local grocery store near the pioneer cemetery. On the way home, we have been to the beach, and a lighthouse.

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                I should’ve tap dance a bit more over the summer because there are some things going on. And there’s no other homework than just contracts and such parent/student signatures that we just can’t get enough out of it. It’s the slow-approaching start and choices were getting closer than you think but it came from the literature that I enjoyed since sophomore year.

Chapter One: All About Me


My name is Natalie Marrujo and I am 17 ½ years old. I have brown hair and blue eyes. I am a quarter Hispanic, ¾ white. I have autism 15 years. My favorite color is electric purple because it’s so very funky. I am in 12th grade, which is senior year right now. I am a Christian. I loved some technology time from old-fashioned late 90’s computers, and VHS tapes to Nook Tablets, laptops with very high-tech options, cable to watch free shows, and video games.

 I loved to read and write because it gives us time to do so and I got the plan to make to the Ultimate Goal I have always been thinking, waiting and dreaming of so far. I love writing because it gives us free topic to write, have some details to come up with and have such creativity to show. I love rock music because it really makes me awesome, so I came up with Superchic[k] on Pandora and there you’ll have it on the way. It gives you time to think about taking all the troubles and worries away.

 My favorite book series is Maximum Ride because it so reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog very much. I came up with a question later in the future saying, “Is Maximum Ride the new Sonic the Hedgehog?” There’s going to be one review about the recap of whole complete saga of how Maximum Ride and the Flock saved the world from the forces of evil and that was the answer to that question after I’m all done reading the whole series, but for now it’s two down and six more until Star Wars and beyond. My favorite movie series is Star Wars, so the sequel trilogy will be released by 2015 in which no one will expect it from Disney. No one was ever going to look forward to it but Episodes 1-6 is really good and it should take place after the events of Maximum Ride and it has to be in theatrical order. Between Episodes 6 and 1, there will be the Never-Ending Story hopefully. I love fairy tales so much but apparently I really love the original versions better than Disney so I’m going with the Complete Fairy Tales from Grimm and Andersen with never-before seen fairy tales from the aqua green book.

I love reading blogs, but I love watching videos. There’s going to be much homework to do for this academic school year, so I will be very busy and serious with it but there’s some tutorial help by 9:30am every Thursday. I got interest in literature since sophomore year, so I read lots from improving to write and reading to know what to write a summary of each chapter for every day to showing some Prezis and great reviews to read from goodreads.com. I laughed out loud at the stupid, boring, symbolic animals one which is really funny. I enjoyed notes from authors, acknowledgements, and prefaces so I never skipped it which is really good and for others they skipped it for what reason just so to stick with the plotline of the story. I never have to worry about the offers.

Prologue: My Background Story


This is the story of how my life’s been going on. For now, this is not a typical teen’s true story of their high school days and their senior year, so give some advice there from Keep Calm and Carry On if you’re a troubled person who was really all 100% messed-up. So this is the story about a young girl soon-to-be a young adult named Natalie (which is ME!).

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It began when my parents meet up in 1989-90 at the medical meeting; they were met for the first time. My dad’s name is David and my mom’s name is Cammie (formally Camilla). Her maiden name is Cammie Anne Conrad and she first met my dad at the age of 29-30. My dad is 34-35 years old when he met her. Together they got to know each other very much.

About their lives: Dad was born and raised in the Los Angeles area of California, he had 4 brothers and 3 sisters: Pat, Sue, Paul, Roberto, Mark, John and Liz and good-loving parents Fernando Garcia Marrujo and Dorothy Zeller Marrujo (Dorothy Louise Zeller to be exactly a maiden name). Dad attended the School, and even won the middle school spelling bee contest. He graduated from La Habra High School (Home of the Highlanders) in 1973 and went to college for Chemistry and Biology. He’s a scientist back then. He almost bought a goat ranch in California.

About my mom, she was raised in Portland, Oregon. Over 50 years ago, when there’s a 1962 World’s Fair on Seattle, Fernando was there. Camilla was a toddler in the stroller. Her father William H. Conrad was there too. I just want to know how many more members of my family back then. I remember the Motown music when my parents are growing up. When she’s in elementary school, she made up a character. Its name is Dirl the Dragon. Dirl the Dragon used to be famous at the School back then. Her favorite coloring utensil was crayons. She loves them since she was very little. In 1969, the whole world is watching the first men on the moon. In 1971, Cammie and her whole family left for Bellevue, Washington. Her mom’s name is Margaret Moore (which is Margaret Wagner Conrad Moore to be exact). She had 2 sisters and a brother: Kirsten, Kennon and Celeste. In 1975, in her mid-teens (sophomore year to be exact), her parents got divorced because they were married 18 years. Her mom married her stepfather Gordon Moore February 1976. Cammie was a troubled teen and very low self-esteemed to be exact. She had to commit suicide but God spared her for this attempt, though she missed out on the scholarship and had to graduate from South Eugene High School (Home of the Axemen) in 1978. She ended up educating on a community college with a Nursing Degree, though the higher education school (Lane Community College)’s got one of the top 5 in Nursing Degrees in the nation; and as a result, she became a nurse.

My parents fell in love and got engaged in the Mid-Winter Vacation in Central America in February 1993. They got married on August 20, 1993 at the sunset and were set for the honeymoon for a week in California. My dad did the 20-year reunion with his classmates and he even did the family reunion.

Almost 2 in a half years later, they had me. I was born at 4:58pm on January 21, 1996 at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, Washington. It’s snowing outside and my grandparents showed up 5 minutes late. I had such a nice time there, being taken care of by my parents. When I was one year old, my parents have miscarried Tessa. It was so depressing to have a sibling of my own that, if I had a little girl of my own, her name is Tessa. One year later, I finally had a sister of my own and it’s Lauren.

When I was 2 ½ years old, I got diagnosed with autism. My mom had been crying when I was very unconscious, not knowing what to be aware of, pure imagination came into my mind. I never knew of what the future may hold. I learned the alphabet at the age of three years old and I started school. There’s no hug because of my brain disorder. I am beginning to learn new things from scratch. I also learned of what fun places to go, what times to do, and most of all stories to be cherished such as the Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Moon, Beluga Whale, and Little Rainbow Fish. When I started kindergarten on 9/11/2001, there’s a terrorist attack on World Trade Center in NYC. It’s not the sea monster that came out to destroy it, neither does the mad scientist putting down a bomb to make it destroy for Doomsday, nor the monster from the university science lab come down to destroy it completely from punch; but it’s the two planes that came down to smash the glass of the buildings. People ran for their lives and about less than an hour or more, one building crashed down and 15-20 minutes later, another building crashed down. But wait there’s more: one plane crashed into part of the Pentagon and the outer walls of one of the five smashed down into pieces, and another plane landed violently into the empty field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people died from the tragic event and thus the tyranny of the global problems was born into the 21st century.

When I was seven years old, my whole family had moved into a blue house in Kirkland, Washington and there we got a English Springer Spaniel named Zellie in memory of my grandmother. Grandma Marrujo did one last request to me and my sisters (Lauren and Simone) – we got baptized at Aunt Kirsten’s church. I was baptized Lutheran 10 years and Foursquare 5 ½ years. All of my grandfathers died when I was 13 years old. 13 is such an unlucky number and the first year of teenagehood to lost all three grandpas. I was so sad for them because they were up in the clouds of heaven. We got another dog which is a Laborador Retriever named Dakota on Lauren’s 12th birthday. I got graduated from middle school in 2011 as a Valedictorian, and then I went to high school which is Juanita High (Home of the Rebels). I liked the school so much because there’s always very much fun to have been here. In 2012, I was transferred to the Resource Programming because I graduated from Transitional Programming. 2013 is one year I may cherish and like to start some blog post. That was the end of the background story.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Preface: My First Day

Dear Diary,

Today is the last day of our summer vacation before I have to start senior year. I'll get some advice there and plus I really do want to get things going is because I like the way I was going to do so; that there will be plenty of work to come in order to go graduate on Friday the 13th possibly. And plus there will be some scholarships I need to get whatsoever because things were going to get smooth and decent. There will be more adventures to come while reading and more adventures to create while writing; so lots of things including Homecoming and what-nots. In just a few days, I'm going to post about my background story and my information which is the prologue and chapter 1. Chapter 2 will be about my first day of senior year. Several posts and book reviews will arrive very soon and there will be more on the way for you to read. Thank you and enjoy the blog. xD