Ok so I lied, I didn't update the next day like I said I would. Shoot me. Actually I shouldn't say that, because someone out there is probably on the verge of doing so. So don't shoot me. Please. So now I shall stretch my memory way back in the day when it was last Friday. You don't really have to read this entry, because it's just a fairly boring day by day summary of last week. I still however, advise you to pretend like you read it and comment with nice thoughts and optional cookies. That would make me smile, or at least open my mouth for the cookie. That is only if you leave me a cookie of course.
When I got back from the retreat, I had my one and only letter from a private high school I applied to, Crystal. I got in, and the letter they wrote was really personal. In one line they said "...you impressed the Admission Committee with your commitment to student government at Nueva, sense of humor and passion for the stage." There's Adam in a sentence for you. So that was nice. Once I got in I decided I would at least consider it (I had been planning to go BHS), so I thought about it a lot and my mom scheduled me a shadow day. That night I went with Trevor, Shana, Kathryn, Riley, Marlowe, and John to the Crystal play, Footloose. Graham Toben (who used to go to Nueva, and is now a Junior at Crystal, and when I was in 6th grade all the 8th graders called me Mini-Graham) was the lead; I didn't know he had a good voice. I liked the play, it's well written and exciting, but I think some of the dance numbers could have had more energy from some people.
Sunday I went with Marlowe, Alex D, Mai, Riley, Kathryn, Shana, and Andreanna to a fairly early evening showing of Be Cool. It wasn't that good, but there was a funny line at the beginning where John Travolta said something like, "Did you know you can only say the F word once in a movie to hold a PG-13 movie? You know what I say? F*** that.) After that Alex, Andreanna, and Shana left, and the rest of us went to dinner at Amici's. On the way there we walked by some poor schizoid guy that was cursing out anything and everything. After dinner we went to Marlowe's house, and went in the hot tub and watched the first hour or so of a movie before I went home.
Monday we had no school (of course we didn't, it's Nueva), so I didn't really do much besides go to tennis from 3:30-5:30 for a makeup for the rainy days, and Arielle was there too since they mixed Red Star 1 and 2. I did the same thing Thursday.
Tuesday I didn't really have any homework, so I went with my parents, Riley and Kathryn's family, and Marlowe's family to a showing of a documentary about Woman's tennis that a good friend of Marlowe's mom made. It was pretty interesting and the little town near Marin that it was showing in had a great view of the city and was really small and cute.
Wednesday I shadowed at Crystal again. I got Nick as my host which was pretty cool, since he had been my host for Nueva too. In a French class that I went to, all seven or so of the people that went to Crystal last year from Nueva were all in the same class. It was cool seeing them all again. I liked my visit; I felt like I fit in pretty easily and talked with a lot of people. I still stand by that I think Crystal would be a safe choice for me. I think I would be happy and fit in, but I also think that socially wise, it would be a continuation of Nueva, and I wouldn't learn to deal with the types of people I need to learn how to deal with. So even though I think Crystal would be nice, I'm going to take a chance with BHS. It keeps life simple to not really have any social problems, but then again I need to learn how to handle bullying and teasing and such. I would say I would be an easy target for that in high school, just because I'm such an outgoing and 'out there' person. I might really annoy some people at first. I guess I'm just getting nervous about high school. I'm curious who I'll end up being friends with. I know a number of people from various places that are going to BHS, like elementary schools, or soccer teams, or from tennis. Plus I'll have John and maybe Arielle with me.
This weekend my parents are out of town at some resort in Carmel with some friends. Friday I went to this Carnival thing (that's Brazilian car-nih-VAL not like a circus carnival) at Nueva. They had some of the schools steel drums bands playing and they got this band from the city to come and play called Loco Bloco (http://www.locobloco.org ). The benefit auction theme is going to be Carnival, and my world music class is going to be playing, and I'm going to be singing 'Hot Hot Hot' for the Steel Drum class. That's gonna be hot 
. I'm also doing another singing thing for Claire's recital project. She's directing parts of 'You're a Good Man Charlie Brown', and I'm Snoopy, so I have a solo song. Speaking of recital projects I still have my last character yet to film, and then I need to edit. I'm excited for recital project night.
Yesterday I did absolutely nothing. You know you had a boring day when the most interesting story of the day is that you realized that you were out of syrup after you started toasting your waffles, so you took them out and put them back in the box, only to find out later in the day that the extra syrup was in the one place you didn't look. I woke up at noon, so now I'm ready to eat breakfast and go outside. Too bad it's night 
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Ken gave us some great goddish news and said he was canceling the Science test on the skulls and anthropology and such, but now we have to focus on our critical analysis papers more. My revision is going to be so hard; he gave me a ton of comments that I have no idea how to respond to. I still know no (Noh) Japanese, and we are going to Japan in like a month and a half.
In student council, we (or I) have been trying to get an extra dance for the Friday when the exchange students are here (April 1st), but now Lorri says that that is too close to the scheduled dance, April 29th. So now we have to choose one or the other, we can't have both. It's either April 1st with the exchange students, or the 29th with guests. Then I wanted to look into a dance June 3rd, once everyone is back from their trips (there isn't a day in May where all 3 grades are around), but now we can't do it then either because that's the same day as the 4th and 5th grade culmination. Then the next week is graduation. So after all that we are still only going to have one more dance this year. We are going to have a spirit week though, April 4th through 8th. I wish we had more to show for all of our (my 
) hard work though. I did put in a proposal that I wrote to get new microwaves for the MS kitchen, and Lorri said that that is going to happen. It's just bureaucracy crap that's making everything take so long. Trust me; I am putting a lot of work into this, even if it doesn't show. I got us a page in the yearbook, which is cool, and I like how my page with Trevor and John turned out. I got Adobe Premiere recently to use to edit my movie and anything else, and Photoshop came with it. So here is our yearbook page (I had to black out Lorri's note because I don't think we are supposed to see that yet) and two pictures I fooled with in Photoshop:
That's all for now, I'm off to bed. Have a good one,
~Adam
) and did some relays which were pretty fun (my team kicked all of your butts of course 
). Then we went back and checked into our rooms. I was in the only 4 person room, with Trevor, John, and Alex D, and a few of the other guys were right in the same place, while everyone else was in the Guesthouse. Some interesting conversations (and sounds, might I mention) with the guys there at night. Wednesday night we watched some foriegn film that no one paid attention to, and everyone pretty much left in the middle. Thursday we had a work schedule... yay. My group worked in the garden pulling non-native plants in the blistering sun, then we had our tea ceremony that Kenji farted in, and that killed my knees. Then we went back to work, this time pulling more plants, Cape Ivy this time, and I accidentally grabbed poison oak, so I had to walk back to the zen center all by myself and washed it off with the poison oak soap. So at this point I have poison oak, I'm sick, my knees hurt and the rest of my body is acheing, and I'm sunburnt, but I'm not complaining 
(don't get me wrong I had fun). At a meal sometime that day though, I was in line getting my food, and the guy next to me started singing the bean fart song (they must know a lot of those considering every meal is vegetarian). I joined in, and so did the guy across from me. You know how it goes, "Beans beans, the magical fruit/The more you eat, the more you toot/The more you toot, the better you feel/So eat your beans at every meal." Or the other one "Beans beans they're good for your heart/The more you eat the more you fart/The more you fart the better you feel/So lift your leg and let it squeel." My apologies to any girl who just read that, you should learn to choose your literature more wisely. The first 10 minutes of every meal was supposed to be silent, just like almost every other moment we were there, even working in the garden. I had a really good conversation about religion with Christian, Dan (math teacher), and Claire that night after dinner. Then we met and talked about high schools, and then I stayed back with a group of about 10 and we played Telephone and Mafia, which is a ton of fun. I love playing Mafia because it's such a mind game, and using tactics to manipulate people... hehehe. The next day we had an appreciation circle and we each wrote how we wanted to be remembered as a class, and that was nice, sweet, and and all that mushy stuff. We went back to the beach again, and then headed home. Ready for the pictures? Beware, there is about 60. But as painful as it is to look at all of them, just find hapiness in the fact that it took me 40 times as long to put them up. And then there's more writing afterwards 
) as an item for the auction, and this weekend I'm writing up a proposal to get new microwaves for the MS kitchen. I've already sent out the first draft and one revised copy to the other SC members, so we'll discuss that next week also, and probably submit it. I was thinking about it and I think the student council should get at least a picture in the yearbook. Every school I've ever been to has had its SC in the yearbook. I talked to Mai about it and she said she would try but she's not promising anything. It'll be silly if I'm in the yearbook for Mathcounts and not student council. I've got a picture in mind; the one of all of us on Movie night (scroll down or go to the next page to see it).
One screw up and "You're fired!"
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