This blog will contain no quotes, oh no, just me complaining. I get to enjoy waking up at 5:00 tomorrow morning in order to catch the bus at 6:15. That is all.
I won’t be blogging nearly as much, but, like, no one reads this anyway. Aight?
-Emily♥
August 29, 2010
So, school = tomorrow.
August 23, 2010
Teens = Toddlers
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I wonder if my drawing will be as good as theirs
I wonder if they’ll like me, or just be full of stares
I wonder if my teacher will look like mom or gram
And I wonder if my puppy will wonder where I am.
Okay, so this poem might kind of be little kiddish at first but it’s that time of year again that we’ve dreaded since the last day of school; the first day of school. For me, though, it’s my first day of high school creeping up on the 30th of August. I’m really nervous but really excited… Yeah.
“I wonder if my drawing will be as good as theirs.” Everyone has this feeling at some point. I always secretly want to be the best, as most people do, so when there’s a project we’re doing in class or something I’d always sneak a peak and take a few ideas. I’d tweak them of course. I’m guilty.
“I wonder if they’ll like me, or just be full of stares.” Fitting in will be a big thing this coming year. In a high school with over 3,200 students, you’re definitely not guaranteed to have classes with friends or even people you know. This being said, I really need to be myself the next four years so that I kind of attract (I guess that’s the word?) some friends and boys who have similar personalities to me. I don’t wanna be that huge creep who kids just stare at and who has no friends. No offense.
“I wonder if my teacher will look like mom or gram.” This really doesn’t have to do much with high school or anything major, but it makes me think of when I was little. Elementary school? I remember in like 1st and 2nd grade mainly when kids were starting to get used to be away from their parents all day, we’d always accidentally call our teachers or friends “mom”. It was always funny too… I guess you just had to be there though. 
“And I wonder if my puppy will wonder where I am.” Face it. As I’ve said in past blogs, a ton of teens like to put on this mask that they’re so cool or a big, buff man. Right? I bet those kids really have a soft spot for their pet. Maybe you just got a puppy this summer and you’re worried that it will be all confused when you leave for school. Oh, their wittle sad faces. 
It’s okay, though, you still have after school and weekends to hang out with them. 
High schoolers. Ohhh, this will be an interesting year for sure.
-Emily♥
August 2, 2010
Who Matters?
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“There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.”
So. People always tend to live in the past, remembering all the bad things that have happened with a certain person in a certain situation, leaving you as their enemy instead of their friend? Has that happened? Well it daanng has to me. But it’s just like… why get so hung up on the past when you can be enjoying every day you have now.
Example: Say your best friend at school picked a fight with you (this will be so cheesy.) and you can tell it’s really serious this time. You can tell she’s fed up with something you did and she never wants to have anything to do with you again. It’s over. One day at school she blatantly tripped you and your spaghetti & tomato sauce gets all over your new white shirt. Well, at one point in your life, hopefully you realize she doesn’t matter.
At that point, you just think. Who really does matter? Your true friends. Your family. Who never mattered? To me, everyone matters, really… well they should. Maybe there’s a few people who you’ve lost a bit of respect for who don’t matter as much anymore. Don’t spend time on hating someone when you can spend your time having fun with the people who do matter. If you don’t want them in your future, it’s up to you to decide if they are or not.
P.S. Sometimes I think I should listen to my own advice. -_-
-Emily♥
July 30, 2010
I’m kinda sorta stealing your ideas, Shea(;
I really like the 30-day blog thing with all the themes… so instead of blogging about my week or, like, something pointless. I want my blogs to be a little different and have different topics each time.
Last time I talked about how you don’t really know people as well as you think you do. In this blog I first thought about just writing about me, but it’s not like I have readers from around the country. All my readers live in my freaking town, haha. So… what good would it be to write about myself when most everyone knows who I am and what I’m like? I came up with an idea that I’ve never seen anyone do. I’ll take different quotes I found around the internet (credited, of course) and reflect and say what I need to. Some might be happy, sad, inspirational or even confusing… but I’ll try my best! Also, this will keep my blogs a bit shorter, and I might do it a little bit more often. Here’s to new ideas!
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“I am strong, because I am weak.
I am beautiful, because I know my flaws.
I am a lover, because I am a fighter.
I am fearless, because I have been afraid.
I am wise, because I have been foolish.
And I can laugh, because I’ve known sadness.”
All right. So, maybe you’ve had some bad times in your past. Have you been weak, noticed some flaws, fought for something, been afraid, foolish or sad? Well what’s the point of sitting there, wallowing in your own pity? It won’t get you anywhere in life if all you do is sulk and complain. If you turn the negative into something positive, you can easily be more confident. If you’re not weak, afraid, or sad anymore, then be strong, fearless, and fun so that others around you who may be down in the dumps can be cheered up.
How’d I do?
Comment!(:
-Emily♥
July 26, 2010
You Never Really Know What’s Going on Inside that Noggin.
I’ve recently been visiting a website that gets hundreds of thousands of visits everyday. Not Facebook, MySpace, or Yahoo Mail, but Six Billion Secrets. I can definitely say that I’ve learned a lot of lessons to this day even though I’ve only been reading for about two weeks. To add to that website, I watched a new show last week called If You Really Knew Me. In the show, high school kids are encouraged to share what they may have been hiding; family problems, cutting, being suicidal, etc. This topic is pretty close to ones I’ve blogged about before; a rather deep meaning one, but it’s necessary to me to blog about ‘deep’ things every now and then. Ready?
I’ve learned…
You never really know what anyone’s going through. You may ask them all these questions, but God only knows if they’re telling you the truth, not mentioning something important or if they’re hiding anything at all. So many people have developed a mask. They can be who they want with certain people. Maybe there’s this girl who’s picture perfect. She has the looks, the brains, and she’s the star on the sports teams in every season. What’s home like for her? Do her parents fight every night and sleep in different rooms? Was her brother kicked out for having a party, leaving her to wonder where he was? Is her sister a pothead, getting wasted every weekend, without her parents even knowing? And, has the picture perfect girl tried to kill herself 3 times because of all of it? You never ever know what people are going through just because of the way they are around their friends or the way they’re like at school in general.
More people have considered suicide at some point in their life than you think. After reading the website and watching the show, I’ve been stunned about how many people feel like or have felt like it’s over for them, when it’s really not.
This topic isn’t for me. I think it’s important but it’s depressing me. I’m too happy a person to talk about such things, sorry. Just letting all you people know that you all deserve to live. Everyone was put on this planet for a reason whether your skin color, your background, your friends (or lack there of), or family life. You ARE good enough. You ARE worth it. And there IS someone who cares whether you think so or not. I care. And I’m sure other people like me care too. Everyone has a purpose, so just stick it out and find what you’re meant for.
I think I’m done here. And I’m happy I could help.
-Emily♥
July 22, 2010
Sometimes.. I just wanna dance.
So.. I think I’ll buckle down and blog more often. Sounds good to me. You? Yeah, I have like 5 readers tops, so you guys are whatever.♥
I went to Canada. I don’t feel like talking about it since it wasn’t amazing or anything. We went for 10 days, which sucked, because it was too long of a time away from friends, and it got kinda boring, dare I say, after a while. We went to Lake Morency for a week. There, we went to Mont Tremblant which was gorgeous, Montreal where I went on my first subway ride , and WE GOT FRENCH TOAST CRUNCH; a delicious cereal that is thus extinct in the USA. So that was nice.
Then we went to Quebec City for 3 days. We had a 3 bedroom apartment on the 3rd floor. That sucked carrying 5 people’s luggage up 2 flights of stairs. -_- But it was great. One night, for my mom’s belated birthday dinner, we ate at the Chateau Frontenac where our dinner bill came to a little over $400. God, that was expensive. The served us caviar and my dad told me not to try it because 1. its gross, and 2. he knew I wouldn’t want to be seen throwing up at a restaurant that looks exactly like the Titanic’s insides before 1912. Yes, I had to look up that year. Anyway, there were a ton of street performers which were hilarious. The city was definitely the highlight of the vacation, and I wished we’d stayed there for a week instead of a gross lake where it rained every other day.
Anyway. I’d like to talk about the Bachelorette because I watched it this morning after I recorded it when I was away. I must say I’m addicted to that show. I haven’t seen the episode from the 19th yet, I’ll probably watch it tonight or tomorrow morning, but anyway. As of now, Frank, Chris, and Roberto are left, although I saw in a preview that Freakin’ frank just HAD to leave because he has a freaking girlfriend, that S.O.B. So I have no idea who Ali’s gonna end up picking, considering how awesome she fit in with Chris’s family.
Liliana’s here. Bye.
June 18, 2010
Thanks for the memories(:
So it’s the end of our 8th grade year and it comes with a bittersweet ending. I’m sad to leave the middle school and all the AMAZING teachers I’ve had! On the other end, I’m definitely ready for high school, bigger things, and more people. (The high school I’m going to is as big as a college campus with about 3,500 kids..)
Middle school is where most of our growing up took place. While we were in elementary school, we didn’t really realize we were preparing ourselves for life. In middle school, you understand the concepts of life and you learn more of what life is really like. Boys, drama, boy drama, make up, and well… growing up if ya know what I mean all happen in this very school. The teachers have helped us through it all and helped our parents raise us into fine human beings. I’m gonna miss it since all this stuff happened there and I became friends with amazing people these past four years.
Those four years have also prepared me for high school. I’m in need for a challenge and new things. There’s way more activities and classes to choose from at the high school. I can’t wait to meet even more people. My brother and sister made tons of new friends who I even love, so I can’t wait to meet people like them or even more like me too!(:
Anyway, the past week has been AMAZING. We had our social studies final on Friday, which I got a 99% on! Then our math final was Monday, but I only got a 78%. It’s definitely not my best subject. Tuesday was our grade’s olympics, where we do different events and get awards for first second and third place. I didn’t do any athletic things though(:
THEN. Tuesday night was one of the best nights of my life. We had an 8th grade dinner semi formal dance at a nearby reception place where they usually have wedding receptions at. We were all in our cute dresses and the guys with shirts and ties. I got a mani pedi and my hair curled. Psh.(: They played awesome songs, and they had a ton of pictures from when we were little. I danced with one of my best friends, Nick, for half a song and we just partied all night long. I think I was overtired at one point and I took my friend’s tie, tied it around my head and couldn’t stop jumping up and down.♥
Wednesday, yesterday, we had a field trip to the city! Everyone was exhausted from the night before, so my friend Kara and me cat napped on the bus. I felt so much better after. We got there and went to the aquariam, where we saw one penguin on top of the other… mating. EVERYONE was taking pictures and videos. We were there for about 2 hours and went to eat lunch at a nearby fountain thing that shot water out of the ground. A ton of kids kept running through it and got drenched! After thaaatt we went on Trolley Tours around the city and learned about all the historic buildings and places and whatever. It was nice to relax for a bit, but I didn’t really care for the history. Last we went shopping for about 45 minutes which was a nice end to the day.(:
Aaaannd today! We had a class breakfast which was really nice! There were eggs, bacon, ham, potatoes (home fries), pancakes, fruit and things like that. Everything was awesome. After, we had award things. It was just like recognizing people. They had athletic awards, anti-bullying, etc. I got an award along with Liliana for being co-editors for the yearbook, I got a Peer Mediation award (a club thing where you learn how to help 2 students in conflict), and an award for Language Arts; having good grammar in particular. I’m just a goody goody!
Tomorrow’s out last day of school! We have graduation practice, like, four times. Also, we get an intense yearbook signing time, which is good since a ton of my friends haven’t signed mine yet! Graduation is Mondaaayyy!
Anyway, that’s all for now! Summer is soon, and I’m freaking excited. MY BIRTHDAY IS SUNDAY, FATHER’S DAY. Yaknow.. just.. saying. Bittersweet endings! Love you all.(:
-Emily♥
June 1, 2010
This is so weird…
So clearly haven’t posted a blog in exactly a month and it feels beyond weird to post one again. Weeiirdd…!
Anyway, so it’s the end of 8th grade and there’s so much crap (some good crap) going on around here. (I’m not going to make this blog very thorough, as I am very bored and dinner’s almost ready.) We have a variety of things coming up like the school olympics, the big semi-formal dance, finals, a field trip, and class day. This way, we have, like, no school left. It’s awesome. The downside is that all the teachers are cramming our tiny brains with the info. we need for our finals. YAY. This means more homework. Yay…
I can’t wait till summer at all though.(: It’s my absolute favorite time of year. No words are needed… just… SUMMER<333
-Emily♥
(Sorry for the lame shortness of this. DINNERTIME.)
May 1, 2010
I don’t even know what so say.
So, vacation’s coming to an end. It was a pretty good week until something tragic happened on Thursday. As most of the people who read my blog are from my town, you know. If you’re a person who doesn’t know who I am, you don’t need to know what happened anyway.
My town’s unlucky, considering what happened to Z.M., P.W., and now D.C. It sucks. All within less than a year, this all happened. Why? Why do such terrible things happen to such amazing, happy, and giving people.
Z.M.–way too young. No one thought such a thing would happen to someone in our close community, and it was such a shock to read the articles online and to hear the news story every hour on the hour. I know it still hurts for the family, and it will probably still take a while to regain their strength after the tragedy.
P.W.– only about a week after Z.M. Sure, she’s doing well and is still happy; she’s the same smiley bubbly girl as always, but something’s always gonna be missing. (No pun intended. And I don’t mean it in an offensive way.) But people didn’t really like her before what happened happened. Now, at school, it seems like everyone wants to help and everyone’s nice to her now. So it kinda sucks that people change once they realize something that they did wrong, but I guess it’s good that they changed for the better.
D.C.– my God. My sister’s in his grade, and was actually quoted in an article, “I just saw it on the news. I feel horrible,” posted Meaghan [Lastname], a student listed as David’s friend [on Facebook]. “I was never really that close to him, but he was always such a nice kid.” He didn’t have that many friends, just a few. But since it happened, just a few days ago, people keep saying how he was such a nice person, and I believe it.
They’re all freak accidents that couldn’t really have been prevented. Sure, they could have gone where they went just a few minutes before or a few minutes later, or maybe they shouldn’t have gone where they went in the first place. But, you can’t always plan things out like that. You never know what can happen.
I must admit that I’m guilty. I’m most definitely not nice to everyone I come in contact with and I know that if something bad happens to that person, I’ll be filled with regret. I’m positive. I can’t imagine how hard it is to be nice to everyone, honestly, but I’ve decided I want to try now.
For D.C., he was bullied a lot. Not everyone was nice to him, my neighbor specifically. I can’t help but wonder what the bullies feel like when something like that happens to their victim. Regret? Guilt? Angry with themselves?
Anyway… I just needed to get that out. My heart goes out to this family in their time of need. I can imagine it being hard right now for them, and all they need is a little hope, and respect in the upcoming months.
-Emily♥
April 25, 2010
It’s about time!
Sorry, I haven’t really felt like blogging at ALL since the last time. I don’t know why I felt like crying that night (from my last blog) but the next morning, me and Connor broke up. I was kind of disappointed for the day, last Saturday, but it was definitely for the better. No offense to him, but I’m kind of glad we broke up. I love being single. I’m not even gonna think about going out with anyone until high school next year.(:
Last week at school was amazing. We learned about Ellis Island, our heritage, and about other cultures.
Each kid had to do a total of three smaller projects. I did a family recipe, immigration map of family coming to the US, and a family tree. Things you could also do were artifacts, family pictures, or time lines. Yeah. We hung them up in the cafeteria for Thursday. Also on Thursday we had guests from a nearby college who were from foreign countries. They all had presentations that taught us about their native country’s culture. The people were from places like Japan, South Korea, China, Morocco, and another country that I can’t think of. We didn’t have enough time to see them all, but we got to see two presentations. Also, they were in their late teens to mid twenties, so they weren’t old and boring.
The first presentation I saw was twins from Japan who were 18 years old. They were SOOOO cute and nice. They had adorable accents and everything, and I just loved the whole thing. They were really lighthearted too. Their names were Mari and Lisa. WOO. They talked about Hello Kitty, Naruto, Pokemon, Pikachu, and Mario. I had no idea Mario was from Japan… but yeah. And he’s 25 years old apparently. Anyway, we learned how to make an origami heart, and Lisa wrote everyone’s name on their heart in the Japanese writing. THEY MADE FREAKING PAPER CRANES THE SIZE OF MOSQUITOES. My God, they were amazing. That was my absolute favorite presentation.
The second one was three guys from South Korea. They were in their early twenties I think. The first guy who spoke was hot. Very attractive Asian. ♥ ANYWAY… we learned abouutt… food, their clothes, weddings, and.. uhh.. I think that’s it. We played a Korean game, but I don’t think it had a name. I played with Gabbie, Shea, and Pasha. Me and Gab won.(: It was pretty fun though, and easy once you understood how to play.
Then we had our heritage celebration. People invited their parents and grandparents. Ya know how I said everyone brought in their recipe for their poster? We each had to make that food and bring it Thursday. We had a huge buffet with like 100 desserts and probably 50 actual foods. It was amazing. But I was really close to the end of the line so there wasn’t all that much left. What waass left was cold. Oh well.
Now I’m on April vacation.(: It’s soooo needed. All I’ve really been doing so far is play Sims. I made this single guy and I made him Kleptomaniac, Evil, Insane, Friendly, and Flirty. Hahaha, so his Lifetime Goal is to be a heartbreaker which requires him to have 10 girlfriends throughout his life. I made him yesterday afternoon (Saturday) and about 2 hours ago I was getting him started on his 4th girlfriend. Not bad.
I’m planning on hanging out with a lot of people this week since I’ve been feeling really good lately. Ahh, I love vacation!(: I also wanna clean my room but I’m not sure if that’s actually gonna happen. We’ll see!
-Emily♥