Retail Therapy

Today i went to the Napa Outlets to go shopping, instead of describing what I bought (because I'm feeling particularly lazy tonight) I'm going to put up pictures.

JSHS vs. Drake

Justin-Siena vs. Drake

I participated in the 200 meter IM relay, I swam breast stroke; the 200 meter freestyle relay, and the 400 meter freestyle relay. I don't know the scores yet but considering Drake is one of the best teams in the league, I am pretty proud of myself.

Turnabout

I haven't written in forever I know but I have literally had absolutely no time to sleep let alone blog about my life. This passed week i have been working on my advanced placement classes for next year. But that isn't really what I want to talk about. Yesterday was the Turnabout dance at the Marriot Hotel in Napa.

We all met at my friend, Michelle's house and then we went out to dinner. Nothing tragically

eventful happened except that the bill reached $800! We were all confused but I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to have that much cash in my hands. We got there via party bus and to everyone out there I highly recommend it, our bus driver turned off all of the lights and blasted the music; we just drove around having a pre-party. When we pulled up to the hotel all twenty-four of us toppled out of the bus and headed in.

The dance itself wasn't very good but the drama was juicy as usual. Sierra made out with five guys in the space of four hours and rumors are rushing around school that she gave some guy head, so her reputation is pretty much destroyed. The really sad thing is that she doesn't regret it at all; which completely confuses me. I mean, I haven't even kissed a guy yet but whatever I have self respect

I suppose.

The after party was by far the best part of the night. We all went to Michael Guzman's house and just chilled. It made me sad that I might not be here next year but we all talked about it and they assured me that we would all stay friends. Im so greatful that I have made such amazing friends, but I know that no matter how much we want to stay close, it is so easy to drift apart with our different lives. All I know is that for now I am enjoting every minute of the time I have with them.

Worst Weekend Ever

Along with my 'friends' ditching me this weekend, but Marcus called me and told me that he's going to be in Tahoe the weekend of Turnabout, I am insanely pissed off. The only good news is that I already have another date and it only took me two days to find one, ya, I'm that good.

Over It

Words cannot express how sick I am of living here with all of these people, I can't begin to understand these girls I call my friends. So my friends and I were planning a trip to San Francisco for the past two weeks and I'm at home sick and babysitting my little brother, and guess where my 'friends' are. They didn't even attempt to call me,so I don't know why I'm so hurt, because they were obviously never my friends. It really sucks because I trusted them and I really thought they cared about me and I was just about to think I was fitting in here. Obviously I'm so wrong. All I can say is that I'm so glad I'm moving because I don't think I could take another year with these fake girls.

Swim Practice

Today was the first officual Swim team practice, I thought I would be practicing with Kara and Rachel, but of course I am put in the advanced swim practice group; thanks a lot coach Couglin.

12:15 pm

I wish I could say that I'm not bored right now, but shockingly enough, sitting in silence in World History, third period, is the last thing I want to be doing. The drama from Turnabout has been constant today, I just want to scream at people that it's just one dance! Why bother stressing yourself out over one night, which is probably going to be just as, if not more dramatic than the weeks leading up to it.

To make matters worse Maddy Long is mad at me and I don't even know why, and I can tell she's constantly talking about me behind my back to everyone; but she has been acting weird lately and I'm worried about her. It seems like she's trying to be like her older sister and rebel, she's been talking about smoking weed and going out and getting drunk to everyone and everyone is losing respect for her and that really sucks. Everyone is starting to dislike her and I would hat it if she starts getting a reputation like Alex or Katie. I think I have stood up for her three times today, and even if she knew that I did, I doubt she would care. Maddy is in a bad place right now and I seriously doubt that she cares about me at all right now.

Cheerleaders From Hell

Why does this drama keep happening to me?

So yesterday I went to the girls basketball game at Justin-Siena; and when Maddy, Vendy, and I walked out into the parking lot to get picked up by Kara, I hear Katie talking and I look behind me to find the cheerleader bus. I start walking over to the bus to talk to Cara Fitz and I hear "You have a big forehead!" from a random sophomore on the bus; I didn't react so Katie yells "Say it again she didn't hear you!" I blow a kiss to Kara and Katie is laughing her fat ass off so I tell her to piss off. When we all get to Kara's house Kara and Vendy call her and ask Katie who said that about me. She didn't say who, I'm just laughing thinking about how these pathetic sophomores are so threatened by me, and that the worst insult they could think of was that I have a big forehead. Wow. I tell Katie that she should point out any other of my flaws, of course non of the cheerleaders could find anything wrong with me; which just made the entire situation that much better. Later that night Katie calls Michelles phone and wanted to talk to me, she explained that she didn't say that about me, but I absolutely heard her tell the girl to repeat it. She's like I love you and crap like that, I told her not to talk to me at school and before she could reply I hung up on her. She called back but I ignored the call. Monday is going to be very interesting.

Home Sick

Have you ever woken up wishing you could go back in time? I do, all the time. I talked to my best friend Meaghan, who is currently living in Singapore right now. We talked for about three hours last night about everything, this is pretty unusual for us, we usually talk for much longer. It's so hard living half way across the world from your best friend, she's the only one I've ever been able to talk to, and now we only talk once every two months. I guess that's why I'm writing in this blog right now, I need to express how I'm feeling, but I can't exactly trust anyone with the big issues in my life. I'm really excited though, Meaghans moving back to Colorado this Summer, and my mum and I are going to help them move in. It's pretty cool that my mum and Miss Eloise (Meaghan's mum) are best friends too, it makes it easier for us to see each other.

I guess I'm also missing Singapore a lot lately as well, it's so different here in California. I always have to worry about my safety here, I never had to think about that in Singapore, and I hate turning on the news to find gang wars and countless girls being raped every day. I would never be one of those girls in Singapore, but here, it's not as impossible for my life to be taken from me. But I suppose there are bad people everywhere, in Singapore though, they are all too afraid of the Government to act out the evil deeds they think about. On the other hand, I remember when the terrorist attempted to attack Singapore American School, even though no one ever thought he would be able to get away with it. I also miss the culture in Singapore, or the lack of a stereotype, there was simply too diverse a population for there to be just one culture. Even though there were some segregation; the chinese and malaysian population lived mainly in China Land, while the Indian population lived mainly in Little India, and the European and American population lived mainly in the woodlands. And even though there were distinct cultural town, people intermingled on a daily basis in the city, schools, and practically everywhere you go. I truly do miss that, I feel that most people in the U.S. are so close minded, not everyone is of course, but a lot. I think thats why I don't fit in; but think I'm okay with that, I wouldn't take back anything I've done in my lifetime; and I don't know many people who share that mind set.

A Scary Day

Today was an extremely drama filled day. It seemed like every time you turned a corner there was a crying girl or a mob of angry sophomores trying to ruin a freshman's life, but I'm getting too far ahead of myself....

When I got to school this morning I was expecting the day to be average. First of all Lily, Sierra, and I went to the math room because we all needed to make up tests. When I was about done with my test, Smokin' of all people walks into the class. I don't' know exactly how long he was in the room without me knowing because I only noticed him when I looked up and found him looking right at me. I'm so glad the first thought that popped into my head was to cock my eyebrow, give a little smirk, and keep on going with my test; while on the inside i was giggling like a little school girl. I hate that feeling of "I'm over him, I'm over him..." and when he walks through the door you get that overwhelming sensation of "Oh crap." It's complete madness how logically, I should be staying as far away from this guy as possible, I mean, he's a pot head, he's slept with about one quarter of the sophomore class, and he's trying to play me. He's only after one thing I know, but there's no harm in playing him back ... right? Anyway when we were all done with our tests we walked over to Freshman Land with just enough time to get our books together and head off to seventh period... English.

Nothing exciting happened over Break, sixth period, or Lunch; other than the fact that Kara and I had to go to a Swim Team meeting, but shockingly enough that wasn't exciting enough to go into detail about. At lunch I was talking to my friends and I was beginning to notice that Joey and I are getting pretty close, I'm not exactly sure if I'm into him. Of course he's a great friend, and he's cute, and I love being around him; but I don't think I could see myself dating him, even though we flirt 24/7. Oh well, I'll explore this topic later maybe.

After fifth period was flex, and that's when all of the nonsense began....

So here's the first act of drama ... Katie and Alex were gossiping about sophomores (note to Alex : never a smart idea when Katie's around) So Katie went back to the sophomores and told them everything Alex said, and she's not exactly anyone favorite person so this act of stupidity wasn't taken lightly by about half of the sophomore class. About ten minutes into flex Katie calls a deranged sophomore and says something along the lines of "She's wherever, come and get her" And so a herd of slutty sophomore girls come over to freshman land ready to hunt and kill Alex; so of course she runs to the office for safety. Obviously no one was going to stand up for her, and even though I'm not a member of Team Alex, I walk over to the sophomores and explain the misunderstanding; after about five more minutes they lost interest and went back to the DMZ. That's when Katie and I had a chat. I basically pointed out how her backstabbing Alex will never be tolerated and she needed to go apologize; which she did. The thing about Katie is that she acts really tough, because no one will step up to her due to her manly physic, but once you confront her face to face she'll walk away with her tail between her legs. That pretty much settled the first act of drama today, but that's only the beginning....

After the drama between Alex and Katie had subsided; I sat with Vivian and Alexis hoping to escape the petty High School drama for five minutes. Wrong. Apparently Grant (Vivian's ex-boyfriend, who they are now sort of getting back together, the whole thing is very confusing I know) and Margaret were sexting a few nights ago and Margaret was bad mouthing Alexis, calling her a bitch and a slut and stuff like that. Obviously Alexis didn't take it very well and Vivian wasn't too pleased either. But what tipped Vivian over the edge was the fact that Grant stood up for Margaret; I don't know, I don't think this is a big deal but if they're willing to cry about this crap I'm not going to stop them...

Finally we have come to our last act of drama, well this isn't so much drama as it is awesome ... for me anyway. I asked Marcus to Turnabout today, it was a little lame I just kind of threw the bag of M&M's at him. Austin caught it of course and we're all like "Give it to Marcus!" He was saying how cute it was and how he's never going to eat them. And even though he's known I was going to ask him forever, I still think it went pretty well.

Anyway that's all for today. I hope this weekend doesn't suck, I'm supposed to go to a basketball game tomorrow at Justin. Marcus and Michelle and then a bunch of other people want me to go, so that should be fun I guess. Bye for now I guess.

Long Time Gone

Wow I haven't blogged in a while. So right now I'm pretty much going to write about what happened yesterday....

I had to wake up at nine in the morning (yes that's early for me) to help clean up for the crab feed, which the rest of the Justin-Siena sports teams were doing as well. I met all of my friends and we helped pick up chairs, put tables away. Vendy told me that when theclass was praying (yes i know it's gay) Marcus raised his hand and said "I want to thank God for my hot turnabout date Nicole Love) Hahaha. After about and hour and a half of non - stop cleaning, Vendy, Kara, Susannah, and I went to Vallergas to get breakfast food for our feast. We got crepes, belgian waffles, cinnamon rolls, oatmeal, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, raspberries, and apples to make a fruit salad. Unfortunately Suzie's dad picked her up so Vendy, Kara and I had to eat all that food by ourselves. The really sad thing is that we didn't have a lot of leftovers. Except for the fruit salad but we turned that into a smoothie (it was amazing!) we added blue food coloring so the smoothie looked like something Spock would drink. It was definitely the greatest smoothie ever made in the history of man kind, and I'm not exaggerating a little bit. After that we went on an hour and a half walk up a random hill that Kara lives next to, we walked her dog Dodger in attempts to burn off our feast, it totally worked we were exhausted. Mostly because we lost the dog a thousand times so we had to run to get it.

Well after that I went home so that was pretty much my sunday. We also made plans for next weekend but I'll tell you about that later.