It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy 18th birthday Linnea! Although it's a little late... hrm ;)

Now we are finally on christmas break, and we will be so for the next two weeks. I am not really sure how to spend it yet, but I'm sure it won't be a problem. Taking into consideration how busy it has been these past weeks, with school work and everything I am really looking forward to some relaxing and getting some reading done again. I have all my christmas gifts done, I'm so proud :) I behind with some school work as well, so I'll have some catching up to do.

And, I have to start exercising again. I havn't even been going for my precious walks lately, this is a big problem as you can imagine. I'm also planning to start eating better, like more fruit and lettuce, and drinking more water and stuff. And to not dry my hair every morning without using any type of conditioner. Well, I'm sure all that was of great interest for all of you.

Tuesday was the semi-formal dance. It was a lot of fun, I love dances. Although the last one in the gym was even more fun. I liked it better in the gym, not quite as open as in the cafeteria. But anyway, this dance was fun too. I was getting ready at Amanda's place. Haha, I got her to curl my hair. It took like an hour. And then I didn't like it so she had to straighten it, haha, I'm sorry Amanda :P

Then Wednesday was the last DriverEd theory lesson. Or at least so we though; Bud feels like he hasn't covered the whole course that he was supposed to cover, so we'll have two more hours in january. And I will meet with him on the Christmas break because I missed it once. Then I have to write the theory test before I can start taking driving lessons.

I'm so excited, the high school is doing a musical next semester, Guys and Dolls. Mr Spencer, Mr Legge and some other teacher arethe supervisors and the auditions are going to be held in January some time. So cool! A lot of the people I know are going to try out too. So that is hopefully gonna be a lot of fun, a big time killer and a lot of work and commitment. Bring it on, I'm ready to give.

Well, that would probably be it for this time. Merry Christmas again and Happy New Year too!

Singing Christmas Tree

Tuesday two weeks ago we had our first snow day. A big snow storm made it impossible for students and teachers to come to school. You just listen to the radio in the morning, and if they say that Sistrict 2 does not have school, then it is just to go back to bed. It is wonderful, I love it! Today we have our second snow day this winter, and it is just December. Just imagine what is to come.

Today was supposed to be the third day in the Enrichment (writing) project I was talking about, and in the afternoon I was going to have DriverEd 4-9 pm. Well, now I got an extra dau off, that is always nice. I just hope they do not cancel the Enrichment project but just move it to another day.

Last week we had the Singing Christmas Tree performance. It was fun, I sang a duett with Alisha, Silver Bells, and I sang a verse of Silent Night. I forgot to turn the microphone on though, but that is a different story ;) Now it is only one more week in school, last day is on riday. Then it is Christmas Break :D I do not really know how to spend the time, but I'll find something to do.

Yesterday I went christmas shopping with Paige's family, I think I have everything now. Thank you very much Mom and Dad for the christmas gifts. I have not opened them yet of course, but they sure look interesting.

Tomorrow is the Winter wonderland semi-formal, I'm so excited. Bought a lovely pair of shoes yesterday, and I am borrowing a black dress from Paige. It will hopefully be fun.

The crazy hat society

Last week was insane. I think it was the busiest week so far. And then of course I had to catch a really annoying cold too. But anyway, I'll tell you what last week was all about.

Tuesday I had my DriverEd course from 4-8, as I have every tuesday it just seemed so much longer last week because of the cold. Then wednesday I was chosen among four other students to go to an enrichment project held in a school in Moncton. It was so cool, like a workshop with two authors. They taught us all about writing murder mysteries. I didn't know much about that before, so it was really interesting. They had created like a murder mystery for us to solve. They had five different group which were suspected to have commited the murder, and every group had a certain background and characteristics and so on.

Then we were divided into these five groups. I was a Shine On Me. We knew Katie (the victim) because we had all been involved in arraging a tour for people who wrote poetry. It was a week on a cruise ship with a well-known poet who would work with the up and coming writers. Of course, there was no well-known poet and the ship was a wreck. The group were only out for two days and weren't even fed properly. They had to get themselves home after the ship put them off on a very poor island in the Caribbean. Eventually all of us went to prison but Katie didn't (that was our motiv). We worked in the jail pharmacy so we know a lot about poisons (Katie was poisoned to death). We whisper to each other and we all speak at once. We have a one track mind and are very stubborn.

Every group wore a different kind of funny hats, so that we would be able to tell each other apart. The authors gave us things to do, like writing the murder scene or plan out how Katie was murdered and then act it in front of everyone. In the end my group wasn't the one who did it. We weren't smart enough *tssk offended*. It was a little difficult with the english and I was nervous to read what I had written in front of the whole group, but it turned out fine. We even got a diploma :D

Anyway, I was on that thing wednesday thursday. On thursday night I went with Mandy and Ashley to the living Christmas Tree, that was really nice. The light shows were incredible, really. And the choir was very professional too. That was a show they can be proud of. Then, guess what I did yesterday. I went to Moncton High with my english class to see Yann Martel. Yann Martel! The author of like the best book ever, "Life of Pi". I've seen and heard Yann Martel speak live for an hour, I'm so cool! :D He spoke about the illustrated version of Life of Pi. But he didn't speak only about the pictures, he spoke a lot about his inspiration and different interpretations of the two stories in the book and meaning of life and stuff. It was quite deep, but at the same time he was a really down-to-Earth kind of person. I loved it!

Yesterday all the exchange students had dinner in Moncton. We had a gift exchange, it was really nice. I got candy, and a crazy plastic panda, haha. And Janet gave all of us a bag with things from Moncton and Canada. It was really cool.

I have so much to do in school now it's not even funny. Every teacher seems to think next week is a perfect week to have all tests, quiezes and project presentations. Awesome! That's probably international. So, that's part of why I'm stressed, I have so much stuff to do. Have to write a novel to present on Dec 17th too (last day with the two authors) I'm going to write about child labour. More than that, I don't know. And every lunch we have Singing Christmas Tree practice and meetings and stuff. Friday at lunch time I didn't even eat. Stupid I know, but I was running around from meeting to practice to appointments with teachers and so on. Well, it's working for now.

Now I have to go and drink coffee. I drink coffee at least two times a day now a days, haha ;) I'm addicted.