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

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

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

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

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

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

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