I'm back!!! We decided to do the drive all in one day so we're back early! Hooray! Florida was pretty great. We snorkeled at the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and at the Dry Tortugas National Park, kayaked in the mangrove swamps, toured the Everglades and Fort Jefferson, and I went swimming with dolphins!! We tried soo hard to go scuba ( Read more... )

so one of my old friends from west view has moved to wisconsin and is doing a school project about teen stress. she needs a bunch of different surveys from people from different places, so i offered to help. does anyone want to take a survey about stress? i know you do!! she says i should get between 30-50 people, so...yeah...

i guess to keep it all ( Read more... )

today was our first scuba diving lesson. it was really wierd. i had to wear a wet suit, boots, fins, mask, and snorkel, plus the BCD vest, tank and weight belt. we practiced breathing underwater, replacing the regulator, clearing the mask, switching from snorkel to regulator, establishing buoyancy, and swimming by kicking from your hips instead of ( Read more... )

this is the skittles commercial mrs. joseph and i have been talking about. it is definitely the best commercial i have ever seen in my entire life.

http://www.skittles.com/advertising/index.jsp
click on the first one, trade

+ i should be getting my braces off within the next month
+ i should be getting my waiver sometime in the near future
+ dr. fisher was impressed with me and izzy's 8-3 win against the terrible girls from gaston day
+ new project runway tomorrow and grey's anatomy on thursday
- my classes are slowly killing me
- coach has had some sort of stroke that ( Read more... )

i don't understand mr. mcpherson. he comes back after grading our summer reading papers and says that we should take a pass-fail grade because if he actually graded them, we would get terrible grades. so apparently our writing is crap and he has this higher standard he thinks our writing should be at. but then, he makes us use this completely ( Read more... )

so we've been in school for almost three weeks now. i want to cry. chemistry and history are really overwhelming me not to mention the other 4 classes i'm taking plus the fact that i have to stay at school until 5:30 every day for band and tennis. i can't handle it. i really can't. i'm terrible under stress. and of course, this just happens to be ( Read more... )

steve irwin died!!! he was stung in the chest by a stingray while filming a documentary...:(

so i've only been in school for 2 days and i'm already feeling pretty overwhelmed. why can't it just be summer already?

i got my schedule today

A - Art History AP
B - Chemistry AP
C - Study Hall
D - Study Hall
E - English 11
F - Precalculus
G - U.S. History AP

as of now there's not gonna be any german class, which is why i have two study halls. but i'll probably take the philosophy class instead of the c block study hall.

so tell me what classes we have together!