So the seminar on "talking with the future" was really showing off this electronic suit thingy that a teacher had. It was interesting. Then we had to go see a dance concert. Very unconventional. It involved the tennis courts, no music, water, and black spandex, among other things. Then we hung out on the steps for a little. We heard some patriotic music but we just thought it was some geek playing it in their room. Turns out it was a patriotic band playing in the Salem Square. I listened to Stars and Stripes Forever (I had to call my dad to get the name of it) and the National Anthem. It was totally cool!

While waiting for Open Mic night to commence, I decided that I like it here now. I got over my previous freak-outs, and now I am really pumped to be here. I'm taking the classes as individual classes, rather than taking them for what I wanted them to be originally. Then there was Open Mic night. Totally way cool. These kids are talented. There was another parody by the Emo guys, then Eddie and Will played a song that Eddie wrote last week and Elena tapped to it (improv tap). It was totally awesome. Bridgit played another original song- way cool! And Rae and Xan played a song they wrote. They were wearing cool jackets. It was awesome. I know you don't know these people, but I'll just keep talking about them as if you do. Haha.

Today was a normal day, and I finished my power point presentation for Area 1- The Chad's class. It's on abortion. There was this Salem College admissions meeting or something but I just took the ice cream and left because I don't want to go here for college. The boys tried to get in by dressing up as girls, but the admissions officer got really uppity. Then I read some in Jane Eyre and then we went to a Seminar telling us everything that's wrong with our system of schooling. Holy cow. I took really cool looking notes. The Area 3 teacher sitting next to me told me it was the most creative way of taking notes he'd ever seen. I liked it because I could fit everything in one page and it didn't have to follow a certain path. I could add things every which way around it. It was just awesome. The stuff he said was interesting and a nice thought. I just don't see how it's going to happen. It kinda depressed me. But it was very thought-provoking. It makes me want more for my children. And it makes me want to start really questioning to learn, not just to get by in the system. Good Job, Dr. Svi Shapiro, good job. Now I'm going to go to bed because I'm tired and people want to get on the computer.

Open Mic night RAWKED! There's nothing like extreme blogging to get your heart beating! It's t-minus 5 minutes until I'm supposed to be in my room across campus... AHHHH! I took some pictures. It was awesome. Dude. Ahhhhhhhh I have to go!

Hola, folks! Seriously, I'm in the mood to blog now. I'll tell you what really went on these past few days. On Sunday, I went to Pinedale Christian Church, which is a non-denominational church. Their teen choir was performing and it was really good. There was a girl there who looked about 20 or something but was actually going to be a Sophomore!!! Weirdness... ahhh! Then I went out to Panera bread with my family. It was really good stuff. They brought me a CD player so I can listen to CD's in my room. Then we went to Costco. What a huge place. I got lost a couple times and had to call the cell phones. Then I wanted to get these crest whitestrips because I thought they said they were 9 dollars but they were really 49 dollars! We returned them. Pronto. haha. Then I just chilled out and finished On the Road and ate Easy Mac in my room instead of going to dinner or the Seven Samurai.

Yesterday, I had to do an experiment with my mirrors and so I didn't go to a seminar. After the experiment we hung out on Clewell patio and had a very scientific conversation about how things rotate. Patrick brought it up. It was interesting that we could all have a conversation like that and instead of dismissing it as stupid (which Christian tried to do) we all contributed some stuff and were genuinely curious about it. I liked it a lot. Then we went to dinner and then we went to Exonerated. It was very interesting. After that I went to the computer lab to type up my mirror stuff, then it was raining so I went to my dorm room to get a rain jacket. I made an appearance at the Babcock party which was LAME-O. haha. Then I watched a couple minutes of Terminator 3 in the Student lounge and then I went back to my dorm room and read the essay for my Area 2 class and some in Jane Eyre. I watched the Daily Show at 11:00. I love that show. Some of the stuff is so funny. Haha!

Today I found another Camp Cheerio connection!! Mikey, in my Area 2 class, is from Boone and is really good friends with my friend from Cheerio, Jordan Horton! Yay! Now when I go up to visit Jordan, I can visit Mikey too! I love camp connections. They blow me away. It's a small world! I'm gonna go to a seminar at 4:00 today called: "Talking with the Future." Interesting. Then at 8:00 there is a required dance concert. Word on the street is that it's gonna be... interesting. Then tonight is Open Mic night again. I loved open mic night last time. It can be really funny, and you get to hear people and their talents. Bridgit is still way way cool.

Gotta go seminarize!

Today was pretty normal. Nothing special. I can't really type because it is so loud. I went to see Exonerated in Shirley today. Pretty good. Last night I went to the poetry thing, funny at times, serious at times. Generally cool. So I'll post later. I'm kinda tired.

Yesterday was a pretty chill day, as was today. I ran for the borders and went to Great Outdoor Provisions and Harris Teeter. I got a wide-mouth nalgene and a watch band. I loooove my watch band. It has hemp on the bottom. I like it a lot. I also got a wide mouth nalgene, for the simple fact that I don't have one. I felt like a phony buying it, though, because everybody here is getting one. So now I'm only going to carry around my beat up nalgene so I don't look like a loser. The guy who started the trend of buying nalgenes got the idea from me. I set a trend. Kinda. So I need to go finish reading "On the Road." Tonight is a poetry coffeehouse thing or something. Sounds like fun. Later, dudes!

My first celebrity crush was JTT. I say that because we are watching some Home Improvement something or another on VH1. Holy cow that brings back memories. So does Hanson. Total memories.

I like exclaimation points. And I like it when the staff poets say "shit." They sound so funny! They have tese really nice speaking voices and they are reading a sweet poem or something and then it turns ugly and then they say something with the s-word in it. Haha. Those poets.

Tonight I'm gonna go see Dead Man Walking. Tomorrow I'm gonna see Monty Python and the Holy Grail. On Sunday, I'm watching the Seven Samurai. I have watched so many movies, I'm losing track. They are really good movies, so I guess it's forgivable.

I need some posters. And room decorations. And a CD player and a DVD player. But Jessica has a DVD player, so it's all good. I do need some speakers or something for my disc-man so I can listen to CD's in my room. That needs to happen ASAP. Yay! I'm gonna go to my room and listen to some good CDs. I want to get the new Sarah MacLaugajlk;jslf; CD. I don't know how to spell her last name at all. She sings Adia and Stupid and Building a Mystery. I want that CD. I like to sing along to her songs.

So I'm going now. Off to other adventures.

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None of the disks seem to work when we watch DVDs in Hanes. I watched another one today. I have watched a ton of movies. I need to keep track of them. Today's featured film was: "Todo Sobre Mi Madre" or "All about my mother". It was sad but good in its own little way. I've exposed myself to many R-rated movies. Maybe it's good, but it also confirms the fact that so much swearing makes me feel gross. Uggh. It gets overwhelming. It's not as bad when it's in spanish and you read the subtitles. We're still not doing 'science', but it's getting kind of funny now. I went to a seminar on the Suzuki method for Drama. The drama kids were all standing very still and then he would say "speak!" and hit a bamboo stick on the floor and then they said some lines from Dante's Inferno, I think. It was scary! They moved around in these Japanese positions and it was all very serious and interesting to watch. I liked it a lot. NC is breathing down my neck and so I can't really type. Not like there are secrets, it's just weird to be typing with somebody standing RIGHT THERE. haha. adios.

So today (and some yesterday) I watched St. Elmo's Fire. I loved it. It was awesome! I love the 80's. a lot.

Open Mic Night was totally fun. Bridgit (sp?) sang an awesome song that she wrote herself. It was a christian song, and it was good. I like Bridgit. She's cool. She might be a star some day. I will buy her CD. It will be good. I can't really think in long sentences right about now. I don't really know why.

GSW is getting more fast-paced, and I'm beginning to recognize more people and feel more like it's school and a great social thing and more connected, rather than just being one of the crowd. I like it a lot. It's getting more and more fun.

Ashley's coming to get me so we can go to the mall this Saturday. Fun fun times.

Once again I'm frustrated with Science class. We will be doing the same old stuff for the whole six weeks. It is SOOOOOO redundant. Whatever. I'm having fun with the people here. That's all that matters. As long as I keep repeating that to myself, I'll forget I was ever mad.

I have to go read. I love you guys! You're cool people, because you read this blog.

So I forgot to write about the dance. At first I skipped it, because it was only just beginning. Then we all decided to go and have some fun. I had fun, for the first time in my dancing history. It was really fun!!! They didn't only play hip hop songs, but other ones. I sang along to "Ice Ice baby" along with many others. There was only one slow song and we kind of lingered on the edges until another fast song came on. The trick is to get in the middle of everyone, do whatever the heck you want, and ignore the people on top of eachother moving in sexual ways. Gross. Overall a positive experience. Great exercise. I don't know how to spell exercise.

So this is an unusual post, mainly because I am standing up while typing it. I've never done that before! Well yesterday I watched Psycho then Vertigo and then I hung out and then I watched "My So Called Life" in Katherine (a TAC) 's room. It is good. It comes on Noggin, so when I come home I'll watch it all the time. Well I've been doing some thinking. Here it goes. I find our "science" program at west far inferior to east's. It frustrates me. Why can't we just do science? I want to do experiments and learn about quantum physics like Alex. I want to learn fun stuff like that. Instead I get: biomedical ethics- and I don't want to be a doctor; philosophy of science- which is fine for a little while, but after a while I want to stop asking "What does it mean to do science" and actually do science; computer modeling- hello!?! I'm not interested in that at all. I just wish we could have had some choice in all of this. If given a choice, I would have gone to East to learn what they're learning. Maybe it will be more beneficial to me to have learned this stuff, but I would like it a whole lot more if it was what I signed up for. I signed up to do Natural Science. At East, they do that. At West, it's just questioning what we know. I like the classes, but I have a bad case of jealousy. Then I start thinking: What's the point in being mad, because I can't change anything now. I shouldn't be so jealous. There really is no changing it. I do like the people and the seminars here, I just hate that there is a difference between East and West and that we didn't have any choice. I wanted to go to East also because it was far away, which can be good and bad in ways. Basically, I just need to get over myself and keep reminding myself that there is always college and then I can take what I want. I like the Area 2 and 3 classes, because they were ambiguous as to their meaning in the Handbook. I thought Natural science was pretty striaghtforward, but I guess not. I am glad that I'm here, though. We are doing some good stuff in our Philosophy of Science class, though. We are getting to know a simple object really well. Usually in science classes, you get a glimpse of everything in science and then you can go more specific if you want. We are going to study and really know our simple objects. Mine is mirrors. They are interesting, if you think about it. So basically I'm just jealous of Alex, but I really don't want to be. Why be jealous? What is the point? I guess that's my problem. Well, one thing is for sure- GSW will teach me to keep questioning things. There are so many unresolved questions and theoretical discussions around here. I guess I just need to get used to it. So thanks for listening. Or just suffering through reading all this. It might not be that interesting, but what the hey. Only like 3 people read this anyways. Peace out, y'all!

Yo! Today it is really hot. Yesterday wasn't as hot, but I was inside for a lot of the day. I saw Frida in the Fine Arts Center, a.k.a. the ICEBOX. Frida was good. Interesting and good. After Frida, everybody wrote on the sidewalk for our "first impressions." Jessica drew Teen Girl Squad, and I wrote a quote. I love homestarrunner. "I met a possum" "I think I have a chance with this guy." Fun times to the max. Today I had 2 classes and then lunch, and while everybody else is at the Reynolda House, I opted out and decided to stay here. Partly because Nancy and Ashley are coming for a visit (yay!) and partly because somebody had to take the measurements for our sundial-esque experiment. It is so dang hot outside and so dang cold inside. I like the cold. Tonight is the Dance after the Concert. I'm not that excited about the dance... but whatever. I'll probably get really hot and go sleep in the basement. That sounds like a good idea. The basement is air-conditioned, while my room is not. I do have a fan, and I'm gonna do the ghetto air conditioning method by putting a bucket of ice in front of my fan. Maybe that will work, but probably not. Who knows. Well I have to go take another measurement on the tennis courts, so I guess this is goodbye. Email me so I feel loved! or just leave comments...

Today's post will be short, because I'm going to a seminar entitled: General Relativity made generally clear. Sounds like fun. In that really confusing kind of way. But seriously. So I'm still really hot and it's still really academic here. Haha. Unless your in chorus... but that's another story (inside joke). Well nothing is coming to my mind. Except the fact that boys who are open to a relationship here are waaaay more likely to get one than girls who want one. I don't want one, I was just making the observation. I do that a lot. But a lot of girls hang around guys and not a lot of guys hang around girls, get it? I just like hanging out. And talking about homestar. And going to confusing but interesting seminars. I'm also going to watch Frida as part of the Spanish and Latin American Film Festival. Or something. That's at 7. Tomorrow Ashley and Nancy are coming! Yay!

I usedt to think I was kinda iffy about pro-choice or pro-life and stuff like that. I discovered today that I'm not. I have an opinion, and it feels good to argue for it. I also decided that the reason I don't like 4th Period that much is because the teachers kinda blame us for not learning science the way they think science should be learned, and they don't pay attention when you are answering a question. They act kinda bored and are really... jerky... I guess... in how they talk and stuff. I think it would be fun if it were just Leslie, but it has to be Matty too. She is very jerky in how she talks and stuff. I can't really explain. It's just weird. My first period science teacher knows Coach Hayes. I feel like I've typed that before. So today I'm gonna go to another seminar: "Crystal Methods" and it looks interesting. It's about patterns and stuff. I skipped out on the music seminar yesterday, and now I regret it. They say it was cool. Darn it! I was just sitting here blogging. It's kinda hard when the computer lab is only open for a little bit. It's really crowded, too. I feel bad about typing for a long time when people are waiting. This computer has sticky keys. Like they are hard to type on and they stay down for a while. The actual keys are slippery, kinda. Weird. Don't forget to write me! Or send me things to decorate my room with. It is so bare! Until tomorrow...

So. The special relativity seminar was kinda hard to handle, but when I just accept that these things he's saying are true, then it's easier. We didn't understand what he was talking about at first, but we caught on later. It was very simple stuff compared to the bigger stuff out there, I think. I also went to a "Science of Scrabble" seminar last night. It was interesting. I learned of the chunkabet, but I didn't get to stay for the playing because I had swing dance lessons. Yes, I'm immersing myself. It was fun once I got a good partner. I learned the basic stuff, so I could follow, I just needed a good leader. I got some. It was fun! I learned some new stuff, and it gets really fun when you actually get it, and you know it's right. I danced with one of the Area 1 teachers, and he said I had good tension in my arms and a good bounce and a good understanding of swing. Thanks! It was great fun.

Today I got to go to Macaroni Grill with my family minus Kate and Dad. It was really good. They sang Happy Birthday to me Opera style in Italian. I loved it! My food was good, too. I got some awesome stuff for my B-day. I got some birkenstock earrings. They are little birks! How cute! I've used way too many exclaimation marks in this paragraph. Sorry. What the heck, it's my birthday! I'm allowed! I also got some DVDs. From my mom I received St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles. From my brother I received Bottle Rocket(s?). I'm excited to watch them some time. Charlotte gave me the Switchfoot CD, which I am listening to at this very moment. It's good! I didn't know they were a Christian group, but I had suspected it. Their music is good and has christian ideas in it. It's not the stereotypical, or even typical, Contemporary Christian stuff. It's more the stuff I like. Not to overwhelming. Jill got me two shirts and "Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton(sp?). One shirt is a Slinky shirt from Goody's, and the other shirt and book are from Goodwill. The shirt says: "Inside this shirt is the Best Grandpa Ever!" Hilarious. I love it. Mom also gave me some shirts and shorts. Yay birthdays!!! Now I'm just chillin out before dinner and also before our required seminar tonight on something "war-ish", as my Area 3 teacher put it. Lookin forward to it. I really like this CD! It's good stuff. Ok, I will conclude this post by once again informing you that it is hot with a capital H here at Salem College. There isn't Air Conditioning in the dorms because Old Salem says that it ruins the historical stuff. Whatever. I'll just stay here in this air conditioned computer lab. It's weird that all the air conditioned places are places that have stuff like at home. Computer Lab, T.V. room, etc. Interesting. Ok. That was a long sign off. Adios, amigos!

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My brain hurts. Halfway because I've been thinking a lot today and halfway because of those dry erase markers we used in Area 1. It's hard to type here. I can't think of things to say outside of the comfort and privacy of my own study. I'm gonna go to a thing on special relativity today, and it's gonna boggle my mind even more. I can't wait. I have to go to that now, so that's it for today. My birthday is tomorrow! Yay!

And here I am. At Governer's School West. In the computer lab. It is quite hot here. I wish we had air conditioning, but my fan should suffice. This computer lab is air conditioned, so it's all good. So much has happened the past few days! I can't even remember everything I've done. We have had some assemblies and some dinner and stuff. I made a homestar connection, because one of the girls on my hall said "rock, rock on" one time and I knew what she was talking about! We started quoting homestar stuff left and right. It was funny. I also made a camp connection. We were eating dinner and I mentioned something about Camp Cheerio and she said her friend was at cheerio and it was Maggie Lentz! I was totally excited. I love camp connections. Now that's just another reason why I need to visit Hickory more often. It's hard to think of stuff to say. I don't know what to write about. I think I'm gonna go hang out by the fish pond or something to that effect. Fun times! Write me or email me or something if you feel so inclined. Hasta luego!

Last night I visited Cheerio. It was weird to drive up there all by myself. It's actually pretty easy and simple. I know it by memory now. But I still want the directions just in case. I loved seeing all of my buddies. I just showed up and nobody official knew I was there until after the slide show. I have to say that slide shows aren't as interesting when you don't know any of the people in them. I miss my cheerio friends. I'm going to visit again on July 4th. Fun times to the max.

I packed today. Gee whiz, are you supposed to have that much stuff? I hope it all fits in my dorm room. I'm excited. I didn't realize that I had that many cool t-shirts. It's awesome! I fit my clothes into two suitcases, but there's a bunch of other stuff that's not in a suitcase really. I got some storage drawers to put random stuff in. I'm gonna use those next year at cheerio too, so it was a good investment. Now my room is really clean. Probably because I don't have any stuff in it. I'm bringing my Sesame Street and Rainbow Brite sheets. I was gonna go for solid colored sheets and a different blanket, but I just couldn't stray from my usual summer bedding. Cool sheets and my blue and black "Emma" blanket. Gotta love it. It's weird that I'm going tomorrow. I'm excited. I want to soak it all up while it's happening. I think I already told you guys (or you guy) that. I dunno. But I'm excited.

Today I got to babysit. We watched T.V. and then went to see Jerry Chapman and his buddy Jason (their band is "Life in General") at the Good Life Cafe here in good ol' MA. It was grrrrreat. We got an extra treat because Jason, as well as being a good musician, is a comedian as well. He's not a professional or anything, but it was hilarious anyway. (you know, I've been spelling hilarious wrong ever since I told Sara Hill that she was Hillarious... weird) It was great fun. I got to chill w/ Sarah and I got to see Anna and I also got to chill with Emmy. It was fun times. And I was babysitting all the while! Fun times!! Now I must go to sleep, because tomorrow's gonna be a big day. Yay! I'll post while I'm there, just probably more sporadically. Nighty Night!

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I took a big step in growing up today. I got a checking account. It makes me nervous. I don't want to grow up! I have peter pan syndrome. Somebody told me they made that phrase up, but I don't know if you can make up a phrase like that. It makes sense, so I'm sure many other people have said it before. Sorry if you're the one who made it up. No offense. So now I have a debit card. I hope I don't start spending money a lot now. I don't usually spend that much money, compared to my elder siblings. They always run out of money. I like to have money saved up just in case I need it later on. I always talk myself out of random purchases and I jump at a sale. I always wait to buy clothes until my mom will be willing to pay for them. I will keep on with this theory until it stops working. I also got some traveler's checks for Governer's School. My goal is to not use them all so I can keep the leftover money. That's something else I do. If we go shopping and mom gives us all like 60 dollars, I'll spend only 40 and then keep 20. That way I have some clothes and I have some money. I always wear the same old clothes anyway, I don't really need new clothes. Speaking of clothes, I have to pack tomorrow for GSW. I will probably forget something. I usually do. I'm gonna go see the Stepford Wives and then pack and then go up to Cheerio. I'm gonna go see the Indian Ceremony and see all my friends (yay!!!) and hang out during the slide show. Sounds like fun. I'm gonna go get dinner for the fam and then it's off to VBS. Fun times to the MAX. I love 3 & 4 year olds. Cutie patootie's. (whoa, that brings back memories of the Rosie O'Donnel show)

Ok, I don't know what was going on with that post last night. I am excited about GSW. It's going to be so much fun. I just had a fit of Cheerio-sickness (like homesickness). I'm going up to visit Cheerio tomorrow, so it will be fun times. Sorry if it sounded like I didn't want to go to Governer's School. I seriously do.

I miss Cheerio. Governer's School is kind of bittersweet for me. I know it's an honor to be selected, but I miss my Cheerio Gals soooo much. I know that I'll have a lot of fun and make a lot of friends. It will be an awesome experience and I am really looking forward to it. I can't wait till Cheerio next year. But that's something that I'm trying to start being better about. I'm trying to live in the moment more. Last summer in England, I was constantly wishing I was at home, not paying much attention to what was going on around me at the time. Now that I look back on it, it was a fun experience for me. I just wish I had enjoyed it while it was going on. I don't want to look back on Governer's School and say that I wish I had had more fun while I was there. I want every experience to be like that. I'm really excited about GSW. Oh yeah, and I hate it when adults put that but in your ear about stuff. The choir director at our church told me something about Casey Pritchard finding her husband at Governer's School and that just plants the bug in my ear and annoys me. I don't want to expect anything exept for fun times. I have to go because Jill is being a huge brat. I hate having siblings. Adios!

It's storming outside and I just painted my toenails for the heck of it. Fun times to the max. So I went to Cincinnati this weekend to see Emmy's sister Claire graduate from high school. It was fun, except that it is cicada season in Cincinnati, and it was insane. The male cicadas are blind, so they have to make noise to find each other and they run into you and land on you all the time. I liked hanging around with Emmy's family. They have the same family dynamic as my family, except this time I got to be an older kid, because I was with Emmy. 30 minutes after getting home from Cincinnati, I had to go to VBS. I got to teach the best and cutest group, the 3 & 4 year olds. Holy cow, they are cute. I get to go again tonight. I have to tell the story, and they give me 25 minutes to do it in. Those kids have a 3 minute attention span, and the story only takes about 5 minutes. That's not so fun. All of my friends are at the beach. I'm left here alone to pack and anticipate Governer's School. I'm gonna go watch some more TV.

I am so sad! I put off posting for a couple of days, I was lying out at the pool (ok, is it lying or laying?) and getting burnt. Then, a couple days ago when I really wanted to post, the internet was down! I was so bummed. It was out for like a day and a half. My connection to the outside world was severed. Turns out our cable box and some connecters were a little messed up. Now it's all better, and boy do I have a lot to say. Here goes nothin.

Ok. Everybody thinks I am the palest person in the world. This is true, but only in the winter. In the summer, I get some freckles and some color and I don't look deathly ill. Nobody really believes me. It's partly my fault for lying (laying) out at the pool next to the tannest person I know, Ashley L. Sumner. Holy cow. What amazes me is that she puts on spf 30 sunscreen, and still gets tan. It happens to me too! I put on 15 sunscreen and still get some color. I guess If your skin is meant to tan, it will tan. Weird. Some girls lie out there without any sunscreen on and get FRIED. Others slather on the afro sheen or something. Knock knock... who's there?... SKIN CANCER. I'm a little toasty right now, but I lathered on the 15 twice and then the 30. I know how to reapply. Oh, and I don't feel the need to wear bikini's to tan. This is partly because I don't like my stomach, partly because of modesty, and partly because I don't need to tan something that nobody would see unless they saw me tanning. Does that make sense? I hope so.

It rained a lot today. I had to drive to Pilot in the torrential downpour, and I hydroplaned at least 4 times (nothing serious). I was slip-sliding away all over that road. I felt like I was going to die, and my nerves were shot even more when I saw a truck that had apparently slid across the road into a guard rail. That could have been me! I don't like driving in the rain. Especially at 8:40 in the morning. Not so fun.

I was playing hearts on the computer when the Internet was down, porque there was nothing else to do. You can enter your opponent's names, and I chose J-Lo, P-Diddy, and Dr. Dre. It is funny to say that J-Lo shot the moon, or that I lost to J-Lo and P-Diddy and won against Dr. Dre. It amused me. Haha. It's just kinda funny.

Oh yeah!!! I went to Wal-Mart today and got two more awesome dresses! I absolutely love going to Wal-Mart not expecting anything. Just a browse. That's when I find the best stuff! e.g.- Wal-Mart skirt from last year. These dresses I got are so cute and summery and lightweight and comfortable. I feel nice in them. A perfect way to start off the summer. I'm in a good mood.

Official T.V. show of the summer: Degrassi. I got hooked on it while watching it at Ashley's house for a couple of nights. It was the Every Episode Ever Marathon. Fun times. I just discovered that it is Canadian! How funny. I've watched it a couple of times before, but I never really noticed it. They say coont-doown, aboot, soory, a-gain (like "i gained a new dress"), and funny stuff like that. It's obvious the more you watch it, but it surprised me. It comes on Channel 122 (noggin), and there's a new episode tonight! It is the best canadian kid's soap opera I've ever seen. Ok, so it's the only canadian kid's soap opera I've ever seen. Oh well. Noggin plays really good shows. They used to play Ghostwriter and Bill Nye. Two awesome shows.

I got my Governer's School Roomate's name in the mail the other day. Athena Jin. It's getting so close!!! You must write me or send me a package this summer. Either one will do. I will write you back, I pinky-swear. Here's the address:

Emma Refvem
Clewell 320
Governer's School West
603 S. Church St.
Winston Salem, NC
27101

I'm expecting some letters.

I'm so glad I got all that out. I've missed blogging. Okey dokey artichokey. Leave comments. Seriously.