The World According To Madeleine

We used laptops in math today because the author of the book made a video of every single lesson in the book, we had to learn how, between the cities is still available on the school’s internet.

I’m in Computing I class right now, apparently this website isn’t blocked. I’m enjoying this glitch immensely.

Speaking of convenient mistakes, Regionals for PAC happened to fall on the same day as solo and ensamble, not convinient, but what was really bad was that my solo is in the afternoon, which makes it more likely that I won’t be able to go. Fortunatly, Our trio was on twice, so I’m going to switch my solo to the morning later today.

Gosh, it’s been a while hasn’t it? I just never got around to blogging…. and I bet no one really reads this anymore, and honestly, I don’t blame them.

I guess school has been fine, one of my teachers went crazy and drama has been fabulous, but sadly, the semester is over so I don’t have it anymore. Now I have freshmen connection (?) with my drama teacher, and it’s a great way to begin the day, but the rest drags out. I have Algebra, Computing I, I still have band, and social studies. I generally like math, so that’s okay, and I don’t hate my teacher yet. In computing one my teacher goes way too slow, even for simple things. “Go to the start button…. put your mouse over the start button… don’t go ahead or I’ll get mad… start button…”. I’m not joking. Social studies is okay I guess, but I don’t like social studies to begin with, so I’m not sure about that, but it should be fine.

One thing that is fun is that I joined PAC, or performing arts company. At first it was just once a week learning basic lighting theory or looking at possible plays for state tour. I’m on A-team and running crew which basically means I help build sets and take sets on and off stage in between scenes. The sets look great and we’re getting really good at fast scene changes, which is really important so we don’t go over the allowed time. Our first competition is on Saturday, I’m really excited and I hope we do really well.

We had a great tech instructor who is really good at what he does and was good at teaching us how to build different things and being patient while we figured stuff out. He helped a lot and did a really good job, and he donated a lot of needed props. He was really nice and fun to be around too, but sadly he had to quit. I’m really sad, but we’ll have to on I guess.

Cross your fingers for no snow day tommarow! We can’t afford losing a day of rehearsal!

I know it’s been a while, but I just really didn’t feel like writing anything.

High school has been pretty good, but I hate the huge school, it’s way too big, and has absolutely no character whatsoever. No Murals, no art or posters on the walls, not even a trace that anyone was there. they keep saying that when we come back to the school with our kids that we’ll want it to look nice. personally though, I would rather want character, otherwise it looks like it could be any other high school in the country… or juvie. The only permanent thing in the school is a stain on the floor in science, I was so exited, but our principal was ticked off. Someone knocked over a thing of some chemical, but I can’t ermember what it was, and it leaves a brown stain that can’t be removed. I love it.

Besides that, it’s huge, and my classes are all over the school, and none of them near my locker. I never see anyone during the day, unless I practically run them over. Besides that, some genius decided that switching to a bigger school called for….. a stricter tardy policy! what else?

Some other genius decided it would be a good idea not to have an arrow on the light. They still thought it was a good idea to keep the arrow off after they sat outside drinking coffee watching us sit through, not even joking, five red lights. I just love it.

They also switched around what side the bathrooms are on, only having one entrance that branches off into two bathrooms, I’m glad that whoever built are school, and who we’re basically trusting out=r lives that the roof won’t collapse and kill us all, is so ignorant that they didn’t realize that mirror images make for switched bathroom signs.

I just love whoever decides these things.

Track season has ended. Track was a lot of fun this year. Everyone pretty much seemed to get along, or they just left you alone if you didn’t like each other. All the seventh graders were awesome, I made a lot of seventh-grade friends, who I’m going to miss an awful lot next year. I’m hoping that they’ll all join the the cross country and track team when they join the rest of us in high school. In addition to making a lot of friends and just generally having fun, the girls team was great, we won a lot of meets including the Wolverine Conference Meet at the end of the season. I met people, we won a lot, and I found my race. Speaking of my race, my PR is still 2:54, but at a relay meet my split might’ve beaten that, if not it tied, I’ll just have to look at the video again to check the time. Also, at the conference meet, I ran the 55 hurdles, and I managed to finally three-step the hurdles, except for the last one, where I lost speed and panicked, it slowed me down, but I won my heat.

Also on the running subject, cross country training is starting this summer, and hopefully I’ll be able to go to training camp, that sounds like a lot of fun. Cross country next year just sounds fun, we get to run the game ball to homecoming, and we’ll do this thing called the twenty-four hour marathon, where the whole cross country team goes to the track and one person runs a mile, then another, and it goes on for a day. That sounds like a lot of fun, but for people who don’t like to run it sounds like torture. Thank goodness I like to run. The coaches seem nice, and they say that all the runners are nice and we all end up loving each other. Extra bonus.

Track has been hard. Run a lot, no time to stretch, sore next day, walk like old person, can’t run. It’s fun though. I like running, I like being around my friends.

Eight chickens have died this week, Pollock got out and got them. Trick Chicken and Doris died. My chicken and my other favorite. Very sad, I cried. I don’t know who the other six are. I don’t want to go into the chicken coop to find out.

Sprig break started today. I don’t want it to. All but one of my friends are leaving, or have already left. I want to be at school where I can see everyone. Six hours into spring break and I’m already lonely. I need my friends.

New Modest Mouse cd, it’s a good one. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. I would recommend it, but not for people who don’t want their kids listening to songs with swear words or don’t like or are offended by profanity.

I’ve been riding Alaska more. I still like her, but turns are very hard. I can fully understand what Trevor (owner) meant when he said that Alaska is so big it’s hard to turn. Makes me sad that Guy won’t be at the barn anymore. I’m pretty sure he’s moving to a western barn. I think he has too much potential as a hunter/jumper for him to become a barrel racer. *sigh* I’ll miss him a lot. I don’t even know when he’s leaving.

Thus endeth my short post.