Friday, December 26, 2008

HOGWARTS

If I ever decide to move it will be to Orlando, FL but it wont be for the weather. HOGWARTS is coming to Universal. When I am an old lady I think I will take a job here, this way I can live out my remaining days fulfilling my life long dream that Harry Potter's world is actually real. I will be so old I will actually think it is real life. Oh the joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, December 19, 2008

Duggar Family




THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE ANYMORE CHILDREN!!!


18 IS WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY TOO MANY



John Bob and Michelle Duggar of Tontitown, Ark., had their eighteenth child Thursday – Jordyn-Grace Makiya, who joins the rest of her J-named siblings

Thursday, December 18, 2008

My Patronus

I finally have figured out my Patronus......


Drum Roll Please.........



It is a SNOW LEOPARD





For those of you who don't know what a patronus is you are not worthy to be reading this blog. haha JUST KIDDING sorta


In the Harry Potter movies a Patronus is conjured as a protector, and is a weapon rather than a predator of souls: Patronuses shield their conjurors from Dementors, and can even drive them away. A Patronus "cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so Dementors can't hurt it." The conjured Patronus protects the witch or wizard that summoned it, obeys his or her commands, and fades away shortly after it is no longer required. When conjured, a Patronus appears silvery, ethereal, and semi-transparent.
I wish Harry Potter was real...

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

France



My sister is away in France visiting her BFF, who is teaching English to high school age kids for a few months. WELL, France wants to make them take a standardized test and the kids are having NONE OF THAT. The entire country has united together and the students are boycotting school and protesting. My sister and her BFF went to the school the other day and the kids were standing out in front of it protesting and they had a big bond fire going to keep warm. That could easily turn into a riot.




You know what I think I would rather take the test then stand out in the cold in the middle of winter in France. She is staying north of Paris so that gives you an idea how cold. BRRRRR




Silly French Kids... Here in America we have had standardized tests since elementary school. They were called TCAPS. Oh how I hated them. If I would have known that we could all rally together and protest them I sure would have done that. But alas we dont have unity like that here. Or not about tests. We just accept the fact that we need to take them because that is what we do. I say CHEERS to you French Kids for taking a stand and saying no to standardized tests. WAY to all stay equal. Way to not want to have a test judge you and your intellect.


School at night after a day of striking

Students during the day

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Fifteen

I had to drive up to Seviervill this morning to do something for work and along the way I was listening to the new Taylor Swift cd. There is a song on there called Fifteen, and it is about her experiences as a fifteen year old. Well this got me reliving experience at fifteen, which was 10 YEARS AGO.

Any who.

I turned fifteen about a month into my freshman year of high school. Man, I was all over the place back then. I didn't have a clue what was going on. I would just beebop along in my own world.

Let me set the stage for you.

I was 5'2" (some things haven't changed) with braces, bangs, and NO fashion sense. I had the same best friend from middle school. People swore we were the same person, because we went everywhere and did everything together. A lot of my really good friends from middle school went to another high school than me so I was trying to juggle hanging out with them and the new friends I was meeting. I think some people believed a few of my middle school friends went to my high school because I made them come to everything with me. That year, I also had my first sorta real boyfriend and my first real break up (my doing of course haha).

I was LOUD (some things haven't changed) and I would talk to the wall, if it would have talked back. One teacher even put me in front of her desk to be sure I would behave during class. Another put me far against the wall so I would stay out of her way. (got to love Ms. Harris) I even drew a picture in that class of a person camping with their feet sticking out of a tent. I hung it on the wall without her ever knowing. It stayed there all semester.

I remember I wore overalls A LOT of the time. There were a few boys who were really tall freshman year, I am talkin like 6'5'', and they would lift me up from the back of my overalls so I could see over everyone in the East Mall. After a few times my buttons popped off. Side note: the east mall is a place where students gathered during class change. Freshmen weren't supposed to be in there but like I said I was in my own world.

I believe I went to every football, basketball, soccer game that year. AND by went to I mean decked out to the 9 in my school colors and screaming at the top of my lungs. As a freshman we would get to the game really really early and would always try to get really close to the front rows, which was not allowed by upper classmen. Almost all of the time we got kicked out of our seats and sent to the opposite end of the cheering section. I was also a member of the golf team, jv and freshmen basketball team, and the track team (I wasnt even fast). Talk about trying to do it all.

OH and the best thing of all I had to ride the bus home from school EVERYDAY.

Got to love being 15!!!!!!!!!!