Pop Pop (Day 182)

Today we went up to Pennsylvania to see my Pop Pop who is currently in rehab after getting out of the hospital. This way, he is taken care of and my Nana can have time to relax and not worry about who is caring for him and know he is close. It is a really nice place and I was able to get all of my AP Chemistry homework done as well as studying for our quiz tomorrow in AP Calculus L. And we also got to go to Subway for dinner before my parents dropped me off at JAM. It was a good day but I wish Pop Pop was out of the hospital and better again so that we would be happy and Nana wouldn’t be stressed.

Poetry Out Loud (Day 181)

Kimberly, you are a winner in my book. Those judges made a mistake in not choosing you as the winner after your first poem. It was absolutely incredible and I was proud of you! Gosh, that’s so mushy. But nonetheless, I thought you made New Town look awesome and for that, you won. I would like to believe that you were so good you came in 0 place-even before first place. You were so good they thought you were a professional and therefore had to disqualify you because it wouldn’t have been fair to the other students. So I’m sorry that you didn’t place, but you beat thousands of other kids in Maryland and Baltimore County including me and everyone else at New Town. And I think I still owe you a cake…J

Scholarships (Day 180)

Scholarship for Dona? Sent! Joe A. Harriston scholarship? Mailed! This is a really good day for me. I was kind of disappointed to know that I haven’t gotten a single scholarship yet. And I see that other kids in my class have and it just makes me feel like I guess I didn’t try as hard as I could in the past 4 years. But I mean I have never been a slacker, but I haven’t worked as hard as I think I could have. My mom always says that I could have easily gotten straight As. But I disagree. School comes easily to me, but I do work to get the grades that I get and I kind of expected at least a little bit of scholarship money to help pay for college. If I don’t get any scholarships, I will either go to Towson, Salisbury, or UMBC. Probably Salisbury, but it all depends on how much their tuition it. St. Mary’s is also dependent upon how much they pay me to go to their college, and it looks like nothing at this point. (If I even get in…) And thank you AVID for writing beautiful notes for the soldiers. The boxes will be mailed tomorrow and I know that they will appreciate everything that they have gotten, including the letters.

TENNIS (Day 179)

YAY TENNIS! J I am so excited for this season. I think it’s gonna be an incredible season and I HAVE TO make it to regionals or I am going to be very sad. This entire sports season has been good and now I have to play an individual sport, which can be good and bad at the same time. I mean if I win, it’s all on me and my great ability J but if I lose, it’s on me and I can’t blame it on anybody but myself which is not going to be good if I lose. Today I played with this new girl to kind of see the level on which she plays and she legit told me, “This isn’t anything like Wii tennis! This is hard.” I didn’t even know what to say. I wanted to tell her that if she thought real sports were like the Wii than she shouldn’t try out for anything, but I didn’t because I am a really nice person. *Smug face* Who knows? Maybe she will become the next Serena Williams…

Leap Day (Day 178)

Happy Birthday Ms. Owens! J And happy leap day! I really hate leap day though. By the middle of February, I wish it would just be warm and spring again, but we have to suffer through another day of February. I just can’t wait until tomorrow because TENNIS STARTS. And clearly I am very excited. I have been waiting since the summer to play for New Town because it is my absolute favorite sport to play. Anyway, we have a test in Human Geo on Friday so I think I should go learn about Asia and Australia before I fail the test. But I also have to do all of the notecards for English and Geo that I haven’t finished yet.

Black History Month Assembly (Day 177)

We had the black history month assembly today and I think that it went really well even though it was our first assembly ever. The students in the audience even paid attention and laughed when they were supposed to. And I was super proud of myself and Jalinh when we hit Mrs. Harris with the supersoakers. I swear I thought I was going to miss and be really upset, but I didn’t! And let me tell you…that supersoaker was extremely powerful. I was afraid that if I missed I would blind her. But thankfully Jalinh and I both hit her (even though Jalinh got me as well J) and the entire assembly went smoothly, minus the problems with the lights and sound and timing. I learned a lot more about black history than I knew before including the invention of ice cream, the type writer, the egg beater, the fire extinguisher, and the lawn mower. I hope the students learned a lot as well and I hope that we can have another one, even though I won’t be there.

Everything done (Day 176)

I love waking up Monday morning with everything done. It is an awesome feeling having my room cleaned, all of my blogs caught up, and all of my homework done. But I hate Saturdays because I have to do everything all over again. I mean Sunday nights are the best because I can just lay in bed watching The Closer and know that I am caught up, my homework is all done, and I can get up in the morning and relax and not try to hunt for things. I even vacuumed the entire house, emptied the trash for tomorrow, fed the birds, and picked up the yard. Yay cleanliness! J