Pale Leaf, Pink Sweet, Persephone... Awesome Day

*whistles*

When I start imagining hearing Ivo then I know I want to listen to it. Title is some of the lyrics.
I absolutely adore Cocteau Twins. Pitch the Baby is great. And Carolyn's Fingers.... How I love her amazing and incomprehensible voice.
I think Pitch the Baby is my favorite song now. With Cherry Coloured Funk and Alice.. Those three are really fun to listen to. They have soo many songs I can't believe I missed Pitch the Baby, it's so pretty.
<3

Today was awesome..!!!! I must say. The last day of the quarter ended with a bang.

In the morning I carried all my crap (a bag of green apples, textbooks in a bookbag, my backpack, and my lunchbox) to the Biology room and then went down to the custodian. My mom was making me get a locker. Which, is understandable. My idiot older brother whom I followed directions of told me not to get one. Well, last year I didn't, and it was perfectly fine. But this year we have so many textbooks..
I go down there and find it successfully, which I'm glad of.. I run into the custodian who had just come down and get a locker. My combination is quite easy. I decide to find my locker later during lunch. It's on the third floor.

In biology we all conducted a taste test. I brought green apples and we were seeing if salt really did make it less bitter. I didn't know I'd need four apples, glad I got extra. So I kept track of it and then went around and tried everything.. The by far grossest one was grapefruit. I'm picky, and it was bitter. That was okay, but..... I nearly gagged when I had it with salt. I couldn't swallow it, I ended up eventually spitting it in the garbage. So incredibly gross.... But it wasn't as bitter. Still really really nasty. I had a carrot and the flavor still lingered so I continued to munch on it till I didn't feel like choking.

In second period, we did NOTHING! Mr. Ehrich, I salute you. We delivered the Roosevelt High School newspapers to all the classrooms instead of anything we'd be doing that day. I kept quiet and didn't deliver because I don't know the school well enough and would get lost easily. He noticed me when everyone but about three were gone, and he said "Kept a low profile so you wouldn't have to go? I bet at home when they give out chores you just keep quiet and end up not doing them" I laugh. "Nah, I was afraid I'd get lost, I'm not good at finding my way around" "riiight.. I know your type.." Haha.
He actually called Courtney fat today!!! She was eating a bag of chips from the taste test, and he said "no wonder you're so fat" We were all so shocked that we cracked up. She's not fat though, so it's okay. Mr. Ehrich is the most satirical person I've ever met. He's really opinionated. He told Alex (girl) not to go to see the Rolling Stones, that she should support new local bands. Also we were looking at pictures of the White House, and someone asked if it'd be called the Black House if a black guy ever became president. Then he showed a picture "..and this would be what the Black House would look like" An ornate black building. We all laugh.
So today we passed out the newspapers, and afterwards.. He told us "we were going to have a quiz today, but because you passed out the papers, we won't do it" I was so so happy!! I was surprised he didn't give me one just to be mean because I didn't.

In third period, we had a firedrill. I heard someone threw firecrackers, according to Alex (guy).
We all went outside and it wasn't that cold. Either that or I'm immune now that I'm used to running in the cold and rain. When we got back we discussed topics etc etc... Nothing interesting.

Then I had lunch. I sat down in the commons as I usually do. The commons is a little room to the side of the lunchroom, connected with two double doors, just separate. It's more quiet there and the smell of school lunches is less bothersome. I sit with Sophie, Stephanie, sometimes Lex, Sonia, and now Artemisa.
Artemisa is my new freshman friend. I like her a lot. I actually had a dream of her last night. I dreamt she had a swimming pool and I came over to swim. I told her this and she laughed and said she wished she had a pool and wished I would come swim in it.
Artemisa is part Italian I found, just as I thought. She lived in Italy for a few years recently. She showed me her page of notes (band) and I said it looked tricky, but only because I have no idea how to read those. She said she didn't either in a way, because in Italy the note system is different, but close enough to not ruin it. I chuckle.
I went to Artemisa's house on Halloween, her mom likes me. She blabbed on the phone with my mom and mentioned how I'm quite pretty. (damn it Zandry, stop being right )
What's funny about Artemisa is that she's been wearing bright pink all week. Just like neon. Luckily not baby pink, but more of a dark pink. She always wears a little matching lipstick, which is fine because she's no makeup addict, just likes to look fresh. She always wears neat clothes (as in clean and pretty). Matching always and never messy. I would never be able to do that every day. She has a red Hello Kitty lunchbox. She said it's from kindergarten, and she still has it. Lex likes it, we all do. It has the canteen that pours into a lid that's a cup and all that neat stuff I remember. She always seems to have leftover dinners in her lunch.

Lex sat with us today, and he painted his nails again. It's a slight yellow-gold, kinda a pretty lemony color. He says "It's the only one I can weasel from my sister". I ask how old his sister is, and he says she's in 8th grade. I laugh and say that's amusing. Lex is a year older than us. He says to Artemisa, "it's scary that you're only a year older than her, I see her as so young" I know the feeling.

I don't stay long today because I had a lot to study, and wanted to test my locker out. I say goodbye early after eating most of my lunch, and depart.
I go upstairs and the hallways are fairly empty, which is always nice. And no one, unlike in middle school, bothers you for being at your locker early. It's nice.
I go find it.. Number 529. I have trouble finding it at first, I know I'm in the general area but don't know which side it's on. After a little while I find it. It's PERFECT!
I have trouble opening it the first time. The thing you turn is slick and loose compared to the old locks I remember having. I figure out how to open it, ends up it's really quick and takes a violent stop to get it right, haha. It's just you're at the last number right away, unlike you'd expect.
I open it and I feel relieved to have my own little space to put crap in for once. I unload my textbooks in there and my backpack feels ten times as light.
I keep my Japanese textbook and workbook with me.
The reason why the locker is perfect, is because its location. It's right next to the hallway with two of my classes, and on the same floor as my first class, Biology. Just to the left is my Math class, and next to that one is my Japanese class. It's great. So I can grab my books last minute.

I put it all away and close my locker, putting on the lock wrong at first (you know how it goes backwards and you're like, 'whoops')..
I go to the left to my Japanese class. The door is open.
The T.A., Alan, is eating lunch in there again with his friend whom I don't know the name of. The other person there is a guy who I think is Ben who wrote he'd help me in Japanese on the desk in math class. I just need to get the guts to ask if it's him.
I think it's him because he's blonde and American looking but speaks really good Japanese. He talks conversations to the Japanese student. He said he used to live in Japan, when we were talking on the desk (writing on the desk every now and then).
Sadly I got moved in math class, therefore I no longer can talk. What's funny is I found out my friend Malia (I only know her a little, dunno if that's the right spelling) was sitting at that desk too.
I sit down and open my composition notebook and read over the sentences. It's really nice of sensei... Last test we took nearly everyone failed. I think I got 45 out of 100. Artemisa got like a 16. Malia got 84. Sensei said we could take an extra test today that would replace last test's score.
She actually gave us all the test questions and answers. We worked it out in class, she gave us the English, we translated them to Japanese. We learned the te form and te imasu. The way to make a verb a current action.
Also we have our normal vocab quiz. 30 words today. I studied that too. The words I needed to study were.. 'to type', 'is fat' (lol), 'is skinny', and 'is old'.
I also was in a mad rush to memorize the kanji for tabemasu (to eat).. Also words like 'new' and 'to play' and 'supermarket' (in katakana).. Because we lose a lot of points just for little mistakes, and I didn't know those words. Also 'to be married' etc..
Sentences were.. 'My older sister was married.', 'My dad has a new BMW', 'My mom works at the supermarket', 'My little brother is playing outside', 'Did you eat breakfast this morning?' 'Do you know this Japanese song?', and 'I'm living in Tokyo'.
To live is sundeimasu.. or something. I dunno.. Song is uta.. Breakfast is asagohan.. Married is kekonshimasu... To play is Asobimasu.. To work is haterashi..? Maybe.
I think I aced it as long as I didn't make some dumb mistake. Also with the vocab. I'm so glad.

Before class I sat down near the back as the T.A. was in my seat. I studied and Rich sat down next to me because he sat over there. He asked if I was ready and I said no, I need to study a bit more. He asked if I had first lunch, and I said yeah. (I now realize that's an odd question because we all have first lunch, being in that class). I said I ate in the commons. He said I should go down with him and.. Maybe he said Marshall? Or just him and people in general.. To Taco Del Mar sometime. I said yeah, maybe so. I asked where they meet and he said just outside. I don't like Taco Del Mar but at least I'd get out of the school for a bit.
Rich is okay, just a normal peer. He was cracking up over Star Wars episode three yesterday. He was telling me how it was hilarious how it was like Frankenstein when Anniken (can't spell) became Darth Vader.. And how it was like "Is my wife alright?" "You killed her in your anger" "Nooooooooooooooooooo-!!!!" and that it was hilarious.
He sits in the same group in Biology. I have a nice group. It's Charlie, Sarah M. , and him. I like all of them. Sarah's pretty nice and talks to me sometimes and Charlie is amusing. Rich is an average student. Sometimes funny, sometimes annoying, in general not the best student but okay. He doesn't bother me so I'm fine with him. Occasionally he tries to mooch off answers but everyone seems to do that sometimes. He thinks I'm smart, because he said "You know, you're like the quiet person who knows absolutely everything but never says it. Like the silent genius kid" That made me laugh. That was one of the first time he really said anything to me directly.
We sit and both go over the Japanese in our notebooks, and read aloud mostly in unison.

When Japanese class started, I moved back to my seat. I'm happy because I sit with Artemisa and Malia. Malia is a really nice girl. She's quite quiet but gets hyper like me, and we all had a doodle session together on the back of her paper. She draws cute funny pictures. Artemisa has a little dress designing obsession, she designs wedding dresses and I see her doodling occasionally. They're both freshmen, I'm a sophomore. Because they took Japanese in middle school, I didn't. This is second year Japanese.
I study and say I'm nervous, bobbing my leg. I go over the words in my head.
Tashibu knows everyone's a pretty bad cheater (most of us anyway..) so she passes out the 'great wall of Tashibu' to everyone. Basically a large piece of folding cardboard. Malia is once again in the 'insane asylum', as we call it, because she's secluded in the little cardboard prison. Last time she doodled all over the inside. Tashibu mentioned not to do it this time with a chuckle. We grin. I say I'm going to 'scale the great wall of Tashibu' at some point, forget why. She passes out tests and I do fairly well, but don't remember how to write the heading in Kanji. Oh well.

So she lets us out five minutes early... Very nice of her. I go to my locker again and get stuff.
Then I have weight training and conditioning. I'm one of two girls in the class. I change early and then go around the gym to the entry to the boys' locker room. The locker rooms both have staircases. I wait at the top. The door to the gym is locked again, so the guys are crowding the top of the staircase. I wait outside for a while, as I'm fine, even just wearing my tshirt and sweatpants. When they leave I open the door and go in. No one pays me any mind, and I wait. About ten minutes after the bell for class to start rings they finally finish changing. I usually wait at the top. Lex says hello to me, and sometimes tells me if it's all clear to go down. Sometimes I go down and into the boy's locker room, because Mr. Katinas has little lectures and tells what we're doing. I go in and note they're making a lot of noise. I Julian what's going on. He says instead of running we have a free day today. Ahaaa.. No wonder. That was great news. We all go up and into the gym. We find it's actually occupied with people doing a test, and Montzingo (the midget ^ ^) apologizes, saying he forgot. We do our warm up exercises in the very cramped hallway between the two sections of the gym. 'High knees', 'butt kicks' (lol, well, that is what they kinda are), 'straight leg skips', 'hand-walks', etc..
When the people are done doing the quiz in the gym (other class) we go in. Most people play basketball, others play soccer. The other half of the gym plays badminton, which is Montzingo's class (individual sports). I don't feel like doing anything and am sore, so I sit down. After a while I think of a question. I go up to Mr. Katnias and Montzingo who are talking, and ask if I can take weight training for two semesters in a row. Katinas says I can, but he won't be teaching it next semester. He says Montzingo will during first and second period. He says "oh yes, and I know Tanya, she was in my individual sports class last year". Then he says "There are two girls in each of my weight training classes, it's great.." Katinas agrees. "They work so much harder than the boys! If I could I'd take a whole class of the girls, because they're so impressive" "And they have the best form" Katinas adds. I laugh.
I go back to sit down. Some minutes pass and Katinas calls me back, asking if I can deliver some papers for him. I do so. I feel happy to get out and wander the halls alone. I go to the room and open the door, giving the teacher the papers. It's a Spanish class. I'm glad I decided to take Japanese instead, after two years of Spanish.
I head back and then sit on the bleachers in the gym. Minutes pass. Suddenly the lights go out. People scream a little just to show their reaction, and I look around. I wonder if someone was pranking, but Julian points out that a fuse blew, as he sees people looking at the fuse box etc. I say that I hope the whole school went out, because that'd be awesome. The gym is dim but not dark, as light comes through the rafters.
I see Lex across the gym from Yoga class, and go say hello. I play badminton with him and some friends. He's not so good at badminton, maybe because his glasses. He goes over to another court and I go one on one with someone I don't really know. We have a heated match and are about even in skill.. We play for a long time, and some people sitting down watch. After a while I get tired and stop.
There's five minutes until class ends.. I go and ask Katinas "isn't it time to go?" Katinas says the power went out for the whole school, so we have to stay here. We're in lockdown until the power goes on. I cheer to myself.
Some time goes by and I wait around in the side hallway near the gym.. The Yoga teacher says she'll take us girls down so we can change. The Yoga people already have..
She goes down with a flashlight. The locker room is pitch black, which I find awesome and eerie. She goes row by row, shining the light so we can open our locks.. I have the last row at the end, and slowly open it. She goes back to the first. I change in the dark, feeling for my clothes. I manage to successfully. In the dark I go to the room where the baskets to lock up your clothes are, and feel, first row, three to the left.. I slide it in and lock it. I go back and suddenly the lights go on. I hear over the intercom the principal, and he says that we can go to sixth period. I get my stuff together no longer blind to what things are, and leave.

I go to math class and we have 15 minutes of class. I regret not doing any makeup work, which I could have really used. I figured, I had been failing Japanese about a month ago, I need to focus on studying for that instead of doing math I don't understand in the least.
Sarah who sits in front of me talks about her power outage experience.

My math class is full of brats, so I really don't like it. There are at least five people who just make it hell for the teacher, and they all talk...
After that class ends I go to my locker again, and then outside to wait for my bus..
Alex (same guy who mentioned firecrackers) gives me a look for sitting in 'his' seat (the very first) and I laugh. I have the second stop, so I wanted to be near the front.

I really like some of the people on my bus. The freshmen are total idiots, but the older students are hilarious. Well, the freshman from my Japanese class is amusing.
Henry and Willus are brothers. Willus is a senior, Henry a.. sophomore or junior. Asian, Henry has glasses. Both are very similar in personality and make me grin. They talk about really interesting things and they're dramatic and just good humored.
Henry was the one who.. Let's see..
There was a day when a freshman guy asked what the drivers name was. Before the driver said anything, Henry said in a deep booming voice "I HAVE NO NAME" and everyone cracks up. It sounded like it was the bus driver, so it was great.

I go home and feel cheerful.
I don't think anyone will read this far. If you did, you deserve a cookie.