I saw the school play tonight, and it was actually incredibly good. I had thought, from reading the script, that it was going to be violent and icky, but the actors made it funny and...enthralling. It was great. It was just great ( Read more... )

I just watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show with the film club. Teehee. I love Tim Curry; he's fabulous. :D One day I'll have to go to a midnight showing and bring toast and squirt guns and all that good stuff. I can tell it's going to be a whole different experience...

Saturday I went to a party for SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS. It was hosted at a beautiful house in Boston's suburby section by a senior from my Spanish class. She and her roommate Wendy invited twenty-odd people including me, made deeeelicious fall foods (including butterbeer to drink! yes, from Harry Potter), got one of the guests to play the acoustic ( Read more... )

This email from my Spanish teacher has literally made me so happy I'm crying ( Read more... )

OMG. My friend Suzy from acting class is going to have a Halloween party, and I'm invited! I feel like doing a victory dance, I'm so happy. :D:D:D And she's going to be the Mad Hatter -- the perfect complement to my costume! We'll be the two psychos. :P *contented sigh*

So, what's new? Well, yesterday I got the face paint, green hair spray, and knife I'll need for my Joker costume, so that was fun. (Oh! Crap. I just remembered that I'll need a deck of cards, too. Accessories are essential when it comes to costumes. *nods*)

I also had a look at some other costumes while I was out, and...I gotta say, I didn't see ( Read more... )

SO MUCH HOMEWORK. ZOMG ( Read more... )

Okay, because I am totally lazy, I'm going to post this outline of Dominican Spanish/history in Spanish because that's how I had to outline it for my class. But fear not! I'll do my best to simplify the technical words (for instance, I won't start talking about organs of the mouth or use weird symbols for pronunciation), and if by some chance you ( Read more... )

PUERTO RICO

Originally called Borikén or Borinquén (Tierra del Gran Señor) by the indigenous taíno people, the island was visited by Christopher Columbus on his second trip. He named the island San Juan Bautista and the city Puerto Rico because of the large amount of gold offered to him when he arrived, but the names switched in 1521. (Then the ( Read more... )

Part of an email I sent to my dad yesterday ( Read more... )