So last Friday was our first school dance which went pretty good. I had quite a few friends go and we all had tons of fun dancing. It wasn't as scary as other dances so thank God. Turns out that when the teachers said they would see if people were dancing dirty to a certain extent, they were serious about it. So about every few minutes a teacher would shine a flashlight on a group of kids. It wasn't so bad cause everyone would just freeze if they were doing something they weren't supposed to. Was okay for me and my friends since we don't do stuff like that. Overall, really good dance.
Saturday went by like normal and Sunday we drove up to San Francisco for Marina to visit her boyfriend. We went out for tacos and Italian sweets and did a little bit of roaming around Pier 39; mostly looking at sea lions which were funny and plain adorable. Really good day.
And now a new week of school has commenced. Just the same old usual school work and irritation of people who don't care for their education. And anime club will have its first meeting next Tuesday and we'll be deciding on president and vice president and what not. Fun had by all.
XOXO,
Liz
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
It's all going good
So as of now, I've been going to school for a short time, but everything's starting to smooth out. Got lucky today with less homework than what I've been getting the previous three days. Though I am slowly realizing what my least favorite classes are though.
I don't like chemistry because everything's a bit disoriented, people are disruptive, and the teacher's too soft-spoken. We've been getting assignments to do lab reports but he doesn't give us any templates on how to do them, but he's fine with whatever we turn in. I was able to take notes on the periodic table so it's not a total loss. Keeping my fingers crossed that I won't need to repeat it in case my grade starts to drop.
I also don't like Algebra 2 and Spanish 3 because I have juniors and seniors in those classes and for whatever reason, they decide to act like their four years old. Actually it's not just juniors and seniors; it's all people who don't take their education seriously. It really ticks me off when I'm trying to learn in a class of people who having nothing planned for their future and completely slack off in their classes. It's even more irritating when the teacher has to resort to yelling to gain a class's attention and then nothing gets done. Do any of these kids really want a future career and a family to support? I guess not.
The other day I was watching Freakanomics and there was one segment where they tested 900 students if they would get better grades by being bribed to be payed by getting good grades. I'm just thinking, "Really? You need to bribe kids to make them pass the ninth grade?" There was one kid failing all of his classes who was complaining that his parents were being strict and asking where he would be going and stuff and it's like, "Dude, they're parents. They're just doing their job they promised to do when you were born." My parents are the same way: they're trying to make sure I don't live a crappy life when I'm out on my own. It's what all parents do, so just deal with it.
I just hate hearing people my age complain how their lives suck cause they're failing their classes and all this other stupid crap when they do that to themselves because they have no motivation for school. You people should seriously be lucky you have an education cause there are kids in China who don't have an education and are making your Nike shoes because their country's never heard of child labor laws. Heck, even girls are treated like crap because they're only seen as tools for making babies. These kids want to be doctors but they can't because they have no access to an education because of the little money their families or they believe that women shouldn't have educations to be lawyers or doctors. How'd you like to be in their position if you plan to waste a perfectly good education? You're given an opportunity to do something great and those kids really deserve that education if you're just gonna waste it. So that just makes me mad that those kids in places like Africa and China are less unfortunate than people here.
So there's my little spiel of what's on my mind.
As for the rest of my life, going to a dance on Friday and hoping it goes better than the last school dance I went to.
XOXO,
Liz
I don't like chemistry because everything's a bit disoriented, people are disruptive, and the teacher's too soft-spoken. We've been getting assignments to do lab reports but he doesn't give us any templates on how to do them, but he's fine with whatever we turn in. I was able to take notes on the periodic table so it's not a total loss. Keeping my fingers crossed that I won't need to repeat it in case my grade starts to drop.
I also don't like Algebra 2 and Spanish 3 because I have juniors and seniors in those classes and for whatever reason, they decide to act like their four years old. Actually it's not just juniors and seniors; it's all people who don't take their education seriously. It really ticks me off when I'm trying to learn in a class of people who having nothing planned for their future and completely slack off in their classes. It's even more irritating when the teacher has to resort to yelling to gain a class's attention and then nothing gets done. Do any of these kids really want a future career and a family to support? I guess not.
The other day I was watching Freakanomics and there was one segment where they tested 900 students if they would get better grades by being bribed to be payed by getting good grades. I'm just thinking, "Really? You need to bribe kids to make them pass the ninth grade?" There was one kid failing all of his classes who was complaining that his parents were being strict and asking where he would be going and stuff and it's like, "Dude, they're parents. They're just doing their job they promised to do when you were born." My parents are the same way: they're trying to make sure I don't live a crappy life when I'm out on my own. It's what all parents do, so just deal with it.
I just hate hearing people my age complain how their lives suck cause they're failing their classes and all this other stupid crap when they do that to themselves because they have no motivation for school. You people should seriously be lucky you have an education cause there are kids in China who don't have an education and are making your Nike shoes because their country's never heard of child labor laws. Heck, even girls are treated like crap because they're only seen as tools for making babies. These kids want to be doctors but they can't because they have no access to an education because of the little money their families or they believe that women shouldn't have educations to be lawyers or doctors. How'd you like to be in their position if you plan to waste a perfectly good education? You're given an opportunity to do something great and those kids really deserve that education if you're just gonna waste it. So that just makes me mad that those kids in places like Africa and China are less unfortunate than people here.
So there's my little spiel of what's on my mind.
As for the rest of my life, going to a dance on Friday and hoping it goes better than the last school dance I went to.
XOXO,
Liz
Sunday, August 21, 2011
He's a Family Guy
Yep. Instead of loading up on anime I've been obsessed with Family Guy.
So second day of school went so much better. I didn't feel like I was gonna pass out on the spot. I still need some folders for my Algebra binder and a couple book covers though I really don't see why I need book covers cause it's just a waste of paper. And it's not like they keep books from being damaged. Sure as heck didn't keep my Geometry book from getting water damage. Anyway, got some homework which wasn't too bad. As of now I need some stuff signed for Chemistry and a 35 dollar lab donation. I find it ridiculous that a lot of these science and art classes need to ask students for money just to have the necessary supplies. My art class required 50 bucks for the entire school year and each student only had 2 bucks for supplies. So I don't know why the school has to ask the parents for money just to be able to do anything in our classes but whatever...Wonder when the school will be able to make a couple smart decisions.
And so my weekend is slowly ending with finishing another James Patterson book, writing a little, and finishing my homework. Going to a belated baby shower today. I say belated in the fact that the doctors said the baby had some form of dwarfism and and he wasn't going to live but it turns out that the baby was really tiny and one birth later, he's been doing his best to gain weight and getting healthy. And so today we're going to throw a baby shower.
And I'm still debating with whether or not I wanna go to this Friday's school dance.
XOXO,
Liz
So second day of school went so much better. I didn't feel like I was gonna pass out on the spot. I still need some folders for my Algebra binder and a couple book covers though I really don't see why I need book covers cause it's just a waste of paper. And it's not like they keep books from being damaged. Sure as heck didn't keep my Geometry book from getting water damage. Anyway, got some homework which wasn't too bad. As of now I need some stuff signed for Chemistry and a 35 dollar lab donation. I find it ridiculous that a lot of these science and art classes need to ask students for money just to have the necessary supplies. My art class required 50 bucks for the entire school year and each student only had 2 bucks for supplies. So I don't know why the school has to ask the parents for money just to be able to do anything in our classes but whatever...Wonder when the school will be able to make a couple smart decisions.
And so my weekend is slowly ending with finishing another James Patterson book, writing a little, and finishing my homework. Going to a belated baby shower today. I say belated in the fact that the doctors said the baby had some form of dwarfism and and he wasn't going to live but it turns out that the baby was really tiny and one birth later, he's been doing his best to gain weight and getting healthy. And so today we're going to throw a baby shower.
And I'm still debating with whether or not I wanna go to this Friday's school dance.
XOXO,
Liz
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Lord Almighty...
Strike me where I stand.
Out of all the first days of school, this is by far the worst one.
So we have a new dance teacher who I have for first period. Quickly figured out that if you act like a smart mouth that she'll get mean. A guy decided to go "What CAN we do?" when she was explaining procedures which are as basic as any class procedures and she yelled "Well you can show some respect in my class!" which got an "Oooooh!" from the rest of the students.
My World History teacher is really nice so I have nothing to complain about. My Chemistry teacher put us to work with a small experiment and a lab report that he barely explained how to do it so....Yeah. My English teacher gave us homework about defining analysis which took me an hour to do since we had to use a car as an analogy and I was half dead. Well I did sign up for an advanced English class so it's obviously normal. I like the teacher though cause she did a lot of traveling and has been to Croatia and loves to go there so I got a little happy.
After lunch I was slowly beginning to feel tired as I went to my Algebra 2 class. I barely remember much of that class other than getting some papers. Then I had Spanish 3 which is an Honor's class so it's a lot more work than my previous years in learning Spanish.
So I walked home in the heat needing a whole bunch of papers signed, a couple assignments, and in need in six composition notebooks: 1 for World History, 1 for Chemistry, 2 for Algebra 2, and 2 for Spanish 3.
Sophomore year's not gonna be friendly to me. Hopefully not every day is gonna be like today: Plain exhausting.
XOXO,
Liz
Out of all the first days of school, this is by far the worst one.
So we have a new dance teacher who I have for first period. Quickly figured out that if you act like a smart mouth that she'll get mean. A guy decided to go "What CAN we do?" when she was explaining procedures which are as basic as any class procedures and she yelled "Well you can show some respect in my class!" which got an "Oooooh!" from the rest of the students.
My World History teacher is really nice so I have nothing to complain about. My Chemistry teacher put us to work with a small experiment and a lab report that he barely explained how to do it so....Yeah. My English teacher gave us homework about defining analysis which took me an hour to do since we had to use a car as an analogy and I was half dead. Well I did sign up for an advanced English class so it's obviously normal. I like the teacher though cause she did a lot of traveling and has been to Croatia and loves to go there so I got a little happy.
After lunch I was slowly beginning to feel tired as I went to my Algebra 2 class. I barely remember much of that class other than getting some papers. Then I had Spanish 3 which is an Honor's class so it's a lot more work than my previous years in learning Spanish.
So I walked home in the heat needing a whole bunch of papers signed, a couple assignments, and in need in six composition notebooks: 1 for World History, 1 for Chemistry, 2 for Algebra 2, and 2 for Spanish 3.
Sophomore year's not gonna be friendly to me. Hopefully not every day is gonna be like today: Plain exhausting.
XOXO,
Liz
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Movie Review
So in the past few days I've finished three animes, saw Tangled for the first time, and hung out with Jamie roaming around downtown.
Tangled was a really good movie. I kinda thought it wasn't gonna be good for whatever reason, but anyway, I saw it on Netflix, added it, watched it, and loved it. While I am gonna miss the old traditional animation on Disney princess movies, I did love the CGI in this movie. It was really beautiful and the story line based from the Brothers Grimm's tale of Rapunzel. It was just like any other Disney princess movie I grew up with: Sweet, romantic, and of course, plenty of music. Really loved that movie and for anyone who hasn't seen it: Go see it now!
On another note, I'll be starting up my sophomore year this upcoming Thursday and I'm so looking forward to it.
XOXO,
Liz
Tangled was a really good movie. I kinda thought it wasn't gonna be good for whatever reason, but anyway, I saw it on Netflix, added it, watched it, and loved it. While I am gonna miss the old traditional animation on Disney princess movies, I did love the CGI in this movie. It was really beautiful and the story line based from the Brothers Grimm's tale of Rapunzel. It was just like any other Disney princess movie I grew up with: Sweet, romantic, and of course, plenty of music. Really loved that movie and for anyone who hasn't seen it: Go see it now!
On another note, I'll be starting up my sophomore year this upcoming Thursday and I'm so looking forward to it.
XOXO,
Liz
Friday, August 12, 2011
New Schedules
So yesterday me and Marina got our schedules, ID cards, the whole nine yards. So happily we already got our Whooping Cough shots two years ago when we got three shots in one day. I thought it was for Chicken Pox but I guess I was wrong. Oh well. Least I don't need needles injected into my arm so I was so happy for that.
So here's my schedule in order:
Beginning Dance
World History
Chemistry
Advanced English 10
Algebra 2
Spanish 3
And I still have my advisory class with Mr. Brezette and I'm super psyched cause he also has my sister for one of his British Literature classes. So I feel uber happy about that.
So for the first time in a few years my school picture actually looks decent for once instead of crap which makes me happy. And I purchased a yearbook for this year as well. I was glad I was able to get my schedule earlier because we had to fix a fine from the water damage to my old geometry textbook cause I didn't need to be in a super long line for like over an hour. It was really good cause I got to see some friends I haven't seen since the start of the summer. Just five more days..
Which reminds me I still need to get my English homework printed. Hahahaha.
After getting our schedules, we drove to Gilroy so I can have more luck with back to school shopping at the Kohl's since it's the only place I'm able to find jeans and capris that fit. I also tried to get a pair of Vans but the store was just loaded with people because of a sale and I couldn't find what I wanted.
Bright side is that there's a Plato's Closet by the mall opening up at the end of the month so maybe I'll find stuff here.
So today's just another ordinary day. Sitting at home watching anime like there's no tomorrow. I'm slowly getting my way to finishing Chobits and Soul Eater.
XOXO,
Liz
So here's my schedule in order:
Beginning Dance
World History
Chemistry
Advanced English 10
Algebra 2
Spanish 3
And I still have my advisory class with Mr. Brezette and I'm super psyched cause he also has my sister for one of his British Literature classes. So I feel uber happy about that.
So for the first time in a few years my school picture actually looks decent for once instead of crap which makes me happy. And I purchased a yearbook for this year as well. I was glad I was able to get my schedule earlier because we had to fix a fine from the water damage to my old geometry textbook cause I didn't need to be in a super long line for like over an hour. It was really good cause I got to see some friends I haven't seen since the start of the summer. Just five more days..
Which reminds me I still need to get my English homework printed. Hahahaha.
After getting our schedules, we drove to Gilroy so I can have more luck with back to school shopping at the Kohl's since it's the only place I'm able to find jeans and capris that fit. I also tried to get a pair of Vans but the store was just loaded with people because of a sale and I couldn't find what I wanted.
Bright side is that there's a Plato's Closet by the mall opening up at the end of the month so maybe I'll find stuff here.
So today's just another ordinary day. Sitting at home watching anime like there's no tomorrow. I'm slowly getting my way to finishing Chobits and Soul Eater.
XOXO,
Liz
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Cue the Final Fantasy Victory Music!!
So I'm so happy to say that I'm done with my English summer assignment! Now all I gotta do is print it and I'll be the happiest person in the world!
Now that I'm finally done with my English homework I gotta pick up the slack and work on my Spanish homework that I've sadly ignored since my Yosemite trip. Luckily it's just verb stuff which thank God that I have an entire book with just verb tenses and what not. So I can easily breeze past that and study up a little bit before school which starts in nine days.
Now today me and my sister were supposed to get our Whooping cough shots, but since it's stupidly expensive to get them at Walgreens, our mom's gonna schedule an appointment for tomorrow at a doctor's. And thank goodness for that since I watched Intervention just last night and saw a lady inject crystal meth in her arm.
I was pretty disgusted when I saw that, cause I was like, "What makes people do this?" This woman was picking skin off her face and it was just plain scary. I'm still amazed people consider doing drugs making them "happy" when in the end, they just look disgusting from all the damage it is doing to their body. It's convinced me enough to never do anything stupid like that.
Anyway, yesterday I saw the movie The King's Speech and I just loved it. It's about King George VI and his struggle with his stammer when he sees speech therapist, Lionel Logue. It's a really great historical film and very enjoyable even when Colin Firth bursts out swearing. I have to say though it's really hard to adjust to Geoffrey Rush when he goes from a pirate with a "scraggly beard" to a formal and clean Australian speech therapist. I really recommend this movie for anyone. And other than swearing, it's not that bad of an R-rated film.
So this Friday, me and my sister have our orientations and schedule pick-ups. Hopefully I'll have the same classes as some of my friends so we can work on homework together. And this year I've been told that there's gonna be a newspaper club and I plan to join that and hopefully no one will go crazy on the freedom of speech thing and get the club shut down.
XOXO,
Liz
Now that I'm finally done with my English homework I gotta pick up the slack and work on my Spanish homework that I've sadly ignored since my Yosemite trip. Luckily it's just verb stuff which thank God that I have an entire book with just verb tenses and what not. So I can easily breeze past that and study up a little bit before school which starts in nine days.
Now today me and my sister were supposed to get our Whooping cough shots, but since it's stupidly expensive to get them at Walgreens, our mom's gonna schedule an appointment for tomorrow at a doctor's. And thank goodness for that since I watched Intervention just last night and saw a lady inject crystal meth in her arm.
I was pretty disgusted when I saw that, cause I was like, "What makes people do this?" This woman was picking skin off her face and it was just plain scary. I'm still amazed people consider doing drugs making them "happy" when in the end, they just look disgusting from all the damage it is doing to their body. It's convinced me enough to never do anything stupid like that.
Anyway, yesterday I saw the movie The King's Speech and I just loved it. It's about King George VI and his struggle with his stammer when he sees speech therapist, Lionel Logue. It's a really great historical film and very enjoyable even when Colin Firth bursts out swearing. I have to say though it's really hard to adjust to Geoffrey Rush when he goes from a pirate with a "scraggly beard" to a formal and clean Australian speech therapist. I really recommend this movie for anyone. And other than swearing, it's not that bad of an R-rated film.
So this Friday, me and my sister have our orientations and schedule pick-ups. Hopefully I'll have the same classes as some of my friends so we can work on homework together. And this year I've been told that there's gonna be a newspaper club and I plan to join that and hopefully no one will go crazy on the freedom of speech thing and get the club shut down.
XOXO,
Liz
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Back to the Beach
So yesterday me, my mom, my step-dad, my sister, and her boyfriend went out to Capitola for a nice day of relaxing at the beach. On the way we took a little detour to a small Croatian bakery and deli and bought a nice load of Polish sausage and some other Croatian goodies. And just tasting Polish sausage for the first time in over a year is just pure and utter bliss. It's like meat candy whenever my grandparents gave some to me or Marina. Never thought I'd miss it so much.
After the detour, our GPS took us out to God's country for whatever reason and it took an hour longer to get to the beach. I didn't mind so much though I did have a full bladder for quite some time.
We just chilled on the beach. Didn't bring my camera cause I didn't know how much battery I had. Roamed the beach a bit and picked up some shells and rock. I even found granite. See lots of kids make sandcastles out in Capitola. Oh, and I did see a group of girls use a long piece of kelp for a jump rope. Very nice to go to Capitola in the afternoon.
As for today, we went to the mall for a little bit of clothes shopping for school. Didn't get as much as I thought I would, but I did get a tank top from Macy's and a Hetalia T-shirt from Hot Topic that I couldn't live without.
And now my mom's making dinner for our neighbor's coming over later.
XOXO,
Liz
After the detour, our GPS took us out to God's country for whatever reason and it took an hour longer to get to the beach. I didn't mind so much though I did have a full bladder for quite some time.
We just chilled on the beach. Didn't bring my camera cause I didn't know how much battery I had. Roamed the beach a bit and picked up some shells and rock. I even found granite. See lots of kids make sandcastles out in Capitola. Oh, and I did see a group of girls use a long piece of kelp for a jump rope. Very nice to go to Capitola in the afternoon.
As for today, we went to the mall for a little bit of clothes shopping for school. Didn't get as much as I thought I would, but I did get a tank top from Macy's and a Hetalia T-shirt from Hot Topic that I couldn't live without.
And now my mom's making dinner for our neighbor's coming over later.
XOXO,
Liz
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Love&Other Drugs
Was NOT a good movie like I thought it would be.
Me and my sister thought it would be a cute movie as it looked like on the TV commercials, but we were wrong.
Turns out this movie has no plot whatsoever and is just Anne Hathaway (has Parkinson's disease but doesn't die) and Jake Gyllenhaal (sells Viagra) having sex like every five seconds. So for the most part of the movie I had my head turned away. When it was realized it was a two hour movie, we took out the DVD literally halfway through. Then we spoiled ourselves with the ending via Wikipedia. Soooo... Yeah. This movie's at the bottom of my recommendation list for good movies.
On another note, I watched Toddlers&Tiaras again yesterday as well. Surprisingly the moms were actually NICE and SUPPORTIVE of their kids. There was one girl who wanted to be black like Beyonce it was so cute. She was one of the few girls that actually liked being spray-tanned. Hahahaha. Why all moms on that show can't be that supportive, I'll never know.
XOXO,
Liz
Me and my sister thought it would be a cute movie as it looked like on the TV commercials, but we were wrong.
Turns out this movie has no plot whatsoever and is just Anne Hathaway (has Parkinson's disease but doesn't die) and Jake Gyllenhaal (sells Viagra) having sex like every five seconds. So for the most part of the movie I had my head turned away. When it was realized it was a two hour movie, we took out the DVD literally halfway through. Then we spoiled ourselves with the ending via Wikipedia. Soooo... Yeah. This movie's at the bottom of my recommendation list for good movies.
On another note, I watched Toddlers&Tiaras again yesterday as well. Surprisingly the moms were actually NICE and SUPPORTIVE of their kids. There was one girl who wanted to be black like Beyonce it was so cute. She was one of the few girls that actually liked being spray-tanned. Hahahaha. Why all moms on that show can't be that supportive, I'll never know.
XOXO,
Liz
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Laziness and Homework
Haven't been having too many events happening recently. My days have been consisting working on my summer assignments and watching Soul Eater via Netflix. I got brownie points from my anime guru Travis for finally watching it. Will get a review on Soul Eater as soon as I can.
As for my summer assignments, I'm slowly progressing my way to finishing them. Mostly focusing on my English 10 assignment cause it's ridiculously long...Kinda reminds me that I need to figure out how to get the computer hooked up to the printer so I'll be able to print stuff.
So next week is me and my sister's orientation and schedule pick up for school. On top of which we still need our Whooping Cough shots. Still not looking forward to that. Oh well, as long as it's being done by a professional who knows how to handle a syringe, I'll be fine.
I still find it funny how our first day of school is on a Thursday and then a couple days later we have the weekend off. Least we get some time to get used to a new year. The only sucky part: Last day of school is on June 8th. Why we have ridiculous vacations, I'll never know.
XOXO,
Liz
As for my summer assignments, I'm slowly progressing my way to finishing them. Mostly focusing on my English 10 assignment cause it's ridiculously long...Kinda reminds me that I need to figure out how to get the computer hooked up to the printer so I'll be able to print stuff.
So next week is me and my sister's orientation and schedule pick up for school. On top of which we still need our Whooping Cough shots. Still not looking forward to that. Oh well, as long as it's being done by a professional who knows how to handle a syringe, I'll be fine.
I still find it funny how our first day of school is on a Thursday and then a couple days later we have the weekend off. Least we get some time to get used to a new year. The only sucky part: Last day of school is on June 8th. Why we have ridiculous vacations, I'll never know.
XOXO,
Liz
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