Trucks and Mariachi Bands

Whoa. I fainted for the first time in my life on Friday. I woke up feeling pretty awful, but it wasn't that bad so I went to school. I was just feeling really tired y'know? I had dance first period, and I just felt awful. I still tried to pull through but I was dancing so much, I got really hot, and the next thing I knew I was falling. I don't think I actually lost consciousness, but I don't remember hitting the floor at all. I felt like a slug the rest of the day. Dizzy and tired... It wasn't the best Friday, but at least I'm feeling better.

Had a party on Saturday. The first one that I've had since I moved here. Got to bust out some techno music and the ghetto twister. These Cali kids have never played ghetto twister before, but they loved it so much I had to force them to stop playing. I tried to make cup cakes and shape them into a platypus, but when I was putting in the second pan of batter into the oven it flipped on me spilling everywhere... so alas there were only 12 cupcakes... Got out the belly dancing gear too, which all the girls loved. I totally adore how my living room can accommodate more than four people at a time, so it makes dancing a lot more fun. I think my house has become the new favorite house to hang out at.

Now I'm sore from all the dancing and twistering. I hurt bad guys. I think I'm just going to chill today and maybe make some tie dye because that's another thing I haven't done in forever.

bye loveliess <3

Oh..please move your feet.

Dancing is one of the greatest things every created. I honestly can't think of anything that I do that can cheer me up faster than dancing. Maybe because it's one of the things I've always done. Just the music in your ears, the pounding of your heart, and the shortness of breath... It's magical.

That's why I love techno so much. It's so intense when you can feel the bass beat in your chest. It's like therapy. I don't like to draw when I'm upset because I'm somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to my art, so I tend to get even more upset. But dancing isn't like that. I never feel judged. I just love dancing.

I hate tap dancing though. We're spending the rest of the semester learning tap in my dance class, and I'm not all that thrilled. It's really just not my type of thing. It involves so much footwork, and the teachers goes through the time-steps way too fast. A lot of right-left-heel-toe-right-shuffle-ball change... you get the picture. I haven't taken tap classes in forever, and I'm really used to just moving my hips. I mean I really want to try and get the steps down, but not everyone is Shirley Temple, and can tap like a pro. It's just so terribly frustrating when the teacher doesn't go through the steps very well.

I am so in love with snails right now. They make absolutely perfect models since they can't run or fly away like other bugs can. Plus, they're super cute as it is. I've never seen snails out in the wild before (Haha like a suburb of San Jose is very wild...). I get to walk past an army of them every single morning on the way to school. It makes me sad that people try to kill them... I think humans are sometimes a worse scourge on this earth than a few plant ea

ting snails. It just goes to show how heartless we can be. Our pride in having a good garden is more important than the precious life on this planet...

Well that was awkwardly deep for me.

Anyway...

I like how it's the fifth week of school and I haven't really done anything. Like, no papers, projects, reports, speeches... Nada. I guess it's nice not being super stressed all the time, worrying about what to work on first, but then again it's a little pathetic how little I've really learned. I've literally had days where we just sat and texted and played on the computers because the teacher didn't know what we were going to do. The progress reports are coming out soon, but it looks like I have really good grades anyway so I'm not too concerned.

And as much as I love the late start days, this advisory thing is really stupid. I had to spend half an hour talking about proper football game etiquette...

Bunch of Nancy's...

They get so worked up about everything, it's rather hilarious. We had three fights and the next two days after that the principal talked about how we had to have the "Sobrato Way" and blah blah blah.

I think at Jeff we hat 42 in a row before the principal had to yell at us...

Well anywho...

I'm going to go try and make some chocolate muffins for brunch. I've got nothing better to do.

Ciao mi bellas.

Acapella Pokemon

I've never been so utterly disgusted with the world until right now. There is a new T.V. show, soon to be aired on TLC, called "Sister Wives". Not only are three women married to the same man, but they're all sisters.

What. The. Hell.

First off, polygamy for me is just a little creepy. I'm sure every woman has been jealous before in her life. Probably because of something stupid, but I can't imagine having to share my husband with another woman, especially my sister. Ew, gross! I'm sure no man here would ever want to marry a woman and know for a fact that his brother is having children with her too.

You know, women cycle together so I have no idea how that one man can handle 5+ adult women with their other female children... I think it would be an absolute nightmare. But marrying your wife's sisters? There is something wrong with these people. Their kids are brother-cousins... I honestly would like to meet the fool that thought polygamy was a good idea and just slap him silly.

In all honesty, it's their creepy life they can do what ever they please, but for the sake of everything good and holy, why does it have to become a T.V. show? There's already enough crazy families on television, why do we need another?

This world is so weird...

Like since when is it attractive to be a pissed off androgynous bean-pole?

There is really nothing attractive (in my eyes) about skinny girls and cat walk models. Take it from me, I'm already pretty tiny as it is and I hate it. My pants never fit me right. I have very slender legs but huge hips. I don't even want to get started on my torso. Most girls would be thrilled if they were skinny enough to see their ribs. I get made fun of for it. It sucks to be skinny. Big girls are beautiful and happy looking. The cat walk models look so angry at the world... it's probably because they need a cheeseburger and a smoothie. That's why Naomi Campbell attacked her maid. She was just really hungry.

But no. For some reason we find it attractive to look like a Holocaust victim in often times, god awful clothing. What ever happened to the fat ladies in those paintings? Now those were some real women. I like how things have changed. If you were a big girl, all the boys wanted your milkshake. It meant you were healthy and wealthy. Now people know you're wealthy by how scrawny you are.

I also don't get how wearing your booty shorts so tight that it produces a ravenous moose knuckle is attractive.

Saw that in the mall the other day.

I wish I hadn't...

But that's another story...

It looks like my awkward rant is over. I promised Anthony I'd bake him some muffins for brunch (the best fifteen minutes of my life every single day).

Ciao mi bellas <3

Pizza, Cheesecake, and Literature.

I decided to start writing on here again. Cleaned up all the old posts for a fresh clean start. I've definitely had a fresh start on life by moving here. It's been rather nice to not have to deal with any old drama or have to fight off new drama. It's equally nice to not have to be around the people that have brought drama into my life. I thought that this move would be terrible and that I'd be miserable, but it may just be the best thing to ever happen.

For one, I have a wonderful best friend here. Akane is her name. I met her on the first day of school. She's an exchange student from Japan, and she's staying with my sister's friend Jamie for the rest of the school year. She's a lot of fun, I think she's so brave for coming to America for the next few months. I think it's funny that my mom always told me that I'd never use Japanese outside of school, and boy was she wrong. Akane makes me want to learn even more Japanese! I hope to visit her in Japan after she goes back.

A lot of the things we've been doing together are new for her. Like, they don't have school dances in Japan. We all went to the first back to school dance, and she loved every minute of it. I can't wait for the big formal dances. Since we're both juniors we both get to go to

prom and I can't wait for that either. The next weekend she came over to my house and I showed her how to belly dance, something else she's never done. She told me she loves dancing, but she doesn't know how to dance well. She loved it though. We went to her first American mall too, and that was a lot of fun. I had her try a fish taco from Rubio's, and she said it was super delicious. (that's another thing about California that I love. There are so many different restaurants that have amazing food.)

Everyone is really nice here and the people I've been talking to and hanging out with are real sincere people. They think I'm weird when I proclaim my love for them, but it's true. Kids in Indiana don't act the same as the kids in California. I don't know what it is... maybe it's the sunshine and nice weather... something in the water maybe? Whatever it is, the rest of the world needs some. I adore the people I meet. Travis, Alex, Anthony, Ryan... they're all wonderful (and

they're all guys...go figure) and if any of you are reading this, I love you in a non kinky sort of way.

I really do love my new school. I don't feel a lot of school spirit, but I certainly enjoy waking up every morning to go to school. When I was going to Jeff I really hated waking up and getting on the loud bus to be locked up in a windowless basement all day. My classes are okay. I wish I could've had some more intense art classes, and I miss Japanese so much, bu

t everything here is pretty good. I signed up to join the photography club (which Akane is joining too!!) so we'll see how that all works out.

I've kind of given up on the job hunting recently. I'm just going to wait for all of the online applications to expire so I can resend them because it looks like nothing is really going through. I've tried several places but no avail. Oh well. I'm sure I can just do house work to get some extra bucks around here.

Well, I think that's a good update for now. I'll try to write more often... if anyone other than Lucas actually reads this...

Ciao my beauties <3