I Miss My Dad

Yesterday night I had to go to my brother's band concert and Sunhee and Christina played the song "Ashokan Farewell" as a solo. They did a great job. My dad loved that song. It got stuck in my head, and at the time they played it, it wasn't really bothering me but I just looked it up to listen to on youtube and I started crying. I miss him so much. So many things remind me of him. Like today in the auction there was a clear frosted glass chess set that I would have tried so hard to get for him because it would the perfect thing for a Christmas present. You see all over the year I see and find things and find out what people might like and now, having seen that, if he were still alive, even if I hadn't gotten it at the auction, I would have tried really hard to find another one to get him because that is a good gift idea for him. Now it feels like there's the perfect thing to get someone but they aren't here to recieve it. Another time was that in Humanities we had to do a Criterion essay and it was about how we had gotten stranded on an island. In my story I was all alone on the island and well, it really triggered emotion. Inside of me, and I didn't want to show it, I was really sad. I guess it was mainly because well, if you've ever heard of the movie 'Cast Away' it's about a guy who gets stranded on and island alone for like two years. Anyway I had watched that with my mom dad and brother and it made me cry so hard. When I was writing that essay it was in context of me the person stranded on an island reliving how I'd gotten there and how I was sad and all alone, I felt like I was reliving something that had actually happened to me while I was writing it. Thankfully at the end I had to rush to finnish so I was in a hurry and I could kind of forget how I felt. I'm so thankful to have you guys to let this stuff out to. It makes me feel so much better to try to explain this and figure out what I'm feeling.

Call Me Gisabela

Hey guys! Today in Spanish class we chose Spanish names. I chose Gisabela(jiz-a-bela) because it starts with a G and I like it. I plan to spell it Gisabella most of the time instead of Gisabela. I super happy with it! I'd really just like to use it in Spanish though. I also got to have lunch with the principal and some others. I think everybody ends up getting to go it just goes in groups. We had pizza and coke and the entire time I kept having to burp with my mouth closed and kept getting a fizzy feeling in my nose. Well that's all for now. Ciao!

Quiztime

I have this quiz here for you to take I also emailed it around so you could reply to that, but you can also post your answers in a comment.

Favorites(name more than one its fine)
1. What is your favorite color?

2. What is your favorite animal?

3. What is your favorite book?

4. What is your favorite movie?

5. What is your favorite food?

School
1. What is your favorite subject?

2. Who is your favorite teacher(of all time)?

3. What is your favorite school lunch?

4. Who was your first teacher?

5. What is/was your favorite game at recess?

Sports
1. What is your favourite sport?

2. Do you play any sports?

3. What is your favorite gym class game?(from elementary or middle school if you've started gym class)

4. What is you favorite sport to watch?

5. What are your favorite basebal, football, and basketball teams?

And Finally...

1. Have you ever played the harmonica before?

Origin Of Bananaphone

Bananaphone is the name of a children's album, released in 1994.The title track's lyrics describe the bananaphone, a combination of a banana and a telephone. The song uses many puns ("It's a phone with appeal!") and nonce words like "bananular" and "interactive-odular" as Raffi extols the virtues of his unique telephone.




You can download the full song at:


http://www.bananaphone.org/default.asp



Here's another fun little internet dingbat site:


http://www.webhamster.com/

My Grandma

My Grandma took a trip to Mexico for a couple days. She went rappeling on 11 Zip Lines in Mexico going across 100 to 600 feet canyons that were 150 to 800 feet deep. NOT A TIME TO LOOK DOWN!!! Here are some pics.

I wouldn't have the guts!

This one is kind of a funny story. She and her group were supposed to get down to a big flat rock in the water for them to rest on, but when she got there she knocked into everyone and fell in the water.

moaning*

The backlash of a party has never been so tiring. I'm soooo tired I just got up and I'm gonna nap later because now I have stuff to do, but oooh I'm sore from yesterdays choir party (mainly from limboing and struggling to do the cotton eyed joe). It was so fun! I wish everyone other than just the choir people could've been there. hmmm... I need to go back to sleep. Bye!


sniffle... sniffle..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!*..SNOOOOOORE!!!* .... ....sniffle... sniffle

Time

We had a cross country meet today and I am so ecstatic!!! YAY! YAY! YAY! My best time overall used to be 16 something and my best time on a home meet was 18 something. Guess what time I got at the home meet today.....(drum roll).....

!!!!!14min 40sec!!!!!

I'm soooooo happy!