I usually never take so long in between blogs but I've been very busy...well usually I'm always busy but this time it's like DO IT NOW OR FAIL MISERABLY and I can't put it off...

I have to do three essays today due TOMORROW for a Korea exchange student program my school is hosting for April...I really don't care if I win or not but I'd rather try than just say ..well I wish I would have at least applied..."" later on.

I have the IN THE NEWS thing due for my Environmental Science class and I have to work very hard for it. I have to investigate family data for the class as well.

I'm not very joyful about this class...it's not so much what I expected. On the other hand my AP English class is full on GOOD and also AP Civics, where I can voice my liberal opinions, be heard, and get good feedback :D

Oh I forgot to mention Obama won lol. I was for Hilary (like hardcore) so this is better than McCain but I'd rather have a woman in charge.

I also have Civics homework...

The talent show was yesterday and couldn't go due to the overload of work.

Giora came home for the weekend last weekend and it was fabulous.

I took my SAT subject tests *Spanish and Literature* and I think I did fantastic, can't wait until I get the results.

I applied for Wellesley already and I have my interview on Sunday...I'm shitting bricks here people, this college is the fucken shiznits!

I have a band competition on Saturday..

The Arab Festival is this weekend and I HAVE to go to get some falafel, Arab snacks and well I already have my Algerian flag in my room so I might just take it so I can wave it in people's faces..

ALGERIAN PRIDE!! woopeee!
Just playing..I don't believe in ethnic pride since one does not choose what to be...I believe in pride in getting an A on six chapters worth of stuff on a test. *yes..that was me*

Other than that....

I have a lab report due soon...

And Giora and I decided that he's coming for my prom and graduation AND I get to go to Israel for the whole summer, which is like three months *YAY!*

 And if I don't get accepted into any colleges I'm moving to Israel with him! I doubt that's gonna seriously happen though so lol not yet!

Humboldt and Sonoma HAVE to let me in..c'mon H and S

Okayz I really have to do A LOT of work here so I'm going back to it and yes..I have band practice in like an hour so see how busy I am!!

bah!

No on 4 was the winner *abortion parental notification* and I am very happy! Pro-choice is the way!!!

woot!

toodles!

This is part of one of his blogs and I just loved it and had to share it with you guys. It is so true and I hope the president creates justice in Guantamo once and for all.

http://rall.com/rants.html

After years of denial, Bush Administration officials now admit that hundreds of men and children--as young as 13!--have been tortured and otherwise abused at Gitmo. Inmates were penned up in dog cages, denied exercise, and waterboarded.

One guard vehemently denied urinating on a prisoner's Koran. His defense? "The guard had left his observation area post and went outside to urinate," according to a Defense Department report. "He urinated near an air vent and the wind blew his urine through the vent into the [prisoner's cell]." You see, he wasn't trying to pee on the Koran. He was trying to pee on the prisoner. His urine stream had inadvertently splashed off the man onto the book.

Not surprisingly, a lot of the inmates--who'd been sold to U.S. troops by Afghan warlords, locked up for years without being accused of anything, denied access to an attorney or their families, denied most of all of hope--freaked out. Some hung themselves. Others went on hunger strike. The military's response? Suicide, they said, was a diabolically clever act of "asymmetrical warfare." They strapped the hunger strikers into special chairs, pried open their jaws and jammed feeding tubes down their throats so roughly that they vomited blood.

Most of this kind of fun, the government claims, no longer happens at Club Gitmo. But there's no way to verify that. Reporters and human rights groups are denied access to the facility and its misérables. Wherever there's a secret, there's something to hide. Like the detainees, Guantánamo should be presumed guilty until it is proven innocent.

Life at Guantánamo has entered a weird second phase. Originally dedicated to the forceful extraction of information about impending terrorist attacks, prisoner interrogations now torture inmates in order to obtain information on activities within the camp itself. "The primary focus is the safety of the detainees as well as the detainee guard force, and that's why we have this intelligence activity," said the camp's commander, Navy Rear Admiral David Thomas in August. In other words, the circumstances of the prisoners' incarceration necessitate further incarceration.

Kafka would have loved it. We keep them in Gitmo, not to keep us safe, but to keep Gitmo itself safe.

As anyone who has spent time behind bars will attest, uncertainty is worse than abuse. Bruises heal; urine dries. Not knowing whether you will ever again be free to walk down a street, sit in a café or hug your children is constant torment. You deaden your emotions in order to survive, wondering whether you'll ever be able to get them back.

Perhaps the most sinister aspect of America's premier gulag, however, is its use and abuse of military and civilian courts to jerk around inmates and their families. The quasi-judicial system set up to process the detainees is itself a paragon of psychological torture characterized by sadistic glee and aggressive indifference.

There is, of course, the case of the Uyghurs, Muslims who live in China's far west Xinjiang province, which is part of Central Asia. I was one of the first American commentators to champion their cause. Guantánamo's Uyghurs are members of the East Turkestan Independence Movement (ETIM), encouraged by U.S.-financed Radio Free Asia to rise up against Chinese occupation. They obtained weapons training at camps in neighboring Afghanistan. After 9/11, however, China threatened to use its U.N. security council veto to stop the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan unless the Bush Administration threw its pet Uyghurs under the bus.

The U.S. promptly reversed its policy, not only declaring ETIM an officially-designated "terrorist organization," but agreeing to dispatch its leaders to Guantánamo. Bush even invited officers from China's Ministry of State Security to interrogate the Uyghurs at Gitmo, softening them up with torture before the Chinese arrived.

The Uyghur prisoners cooperated with interrogators. The Pentagon concluded they weren't anti-American. "[The Uyghurs] were transferred to Guantánamo more than six years ago and were cleared for release in 2004," according to Newsweek.

Proven innocent, the U.S. has kept them at Gitmo for the last four years. They can't go back to China. Why? "The U.S. government credibly feared they would be tortured." Well, they would know.

Except for Albania, which agreed to take five Uyghurs in 2006, other countries don't want to validate Guantánamo by accepting those released through its illegal military tribunal system. "The Bush Administration has conceded that none of the Uyghurs is an enemy combatant," reports Newsweek. A federal judge ruled that 17 Uyghur detainees be freed from Gitmo and brought to the United States. And that should have been that.

But when it comes to Gitmo, that is never that.

Government lawyers persuaded an appeals court to stay the ruling, arguing that the 17 Uyghurs are dangerous. Get this--they're dangerous to America because, the Justice Department argues in court documents, the Uyghurs "were detained for six years by the country [the U.S.] to which the district court has ordered them brought." They may not have hated America before--but they might now.

This week the Pentagon decided not to pursue charges against five other Gitmo prisoners. Apparently government prosecutors were afraid that the trials--even those conducted by the military's kangaroo courts--would publicize how people are treated at America's Devil's Island. "They have been cornered into doing this to avoid admitting torture," said Claire Algar, executive director of the legal group Reprieve.

So the lucky five go free, right? Wrong. "There are no plans to free any of the men, and the military said it could reinstate charges later," writes the Associated Press.

Bush, it came out recently, "never considered proposals" to close Gitmo. Both Obama and McCain say they want to shut it down, but neither has said when. Their reticence stems from the mentality expressed by a Bush Administration official: "The new president will gnash his teeth and beat his head against the wall when he realizes how complicated it is to close Guantánamo."

There is nothing complicated about it. Gitmo is useless. It's evil. It--and the secret detentions at Bagram, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere--have destroyed America's reputation far too long.

COPYRIGHT 2008 TED RALL

I just saw the documentary called "I Am An Animal" Which is the biography of Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA.

I have to say that it was a very very well made documentary. I am very glad that I saw it and got to see how her life really is. I have always been amazed at her courage and incesant fight for non-human animals.

Thanks to the 5pm Spanish news I became vegetarian when I was 10, thanks to PETA I became vegan when I was 14 *I'm 17 years old now*.

Here's the link to watch the documentary for free:

I Am An Animal Documentary

I was amazed at what feelings of steel she has and how she handles everything. If that was me I would cry every second of my day and just would not be strong enough to witness so much animal cruelty. She truly is a heroe and inspires many to keep working towards ending animal abuse.


It's really depressing to think though how nobody is willing to 'sacrifice' anything in order for anyone or 'anything'. I really wonder what goes through their minds when they choose not to do something knowing they can, just because 'it tastes good' *I've always thought they said this just to be funny because you CAN'T POSSIBLY be serious when saying that, only a complete MORON would not stop eating cheese after all the cruelty involved in the production of dairy products just because of the..TASTE?!* that is the most selfish sentence I've heard in this world.

It seems like this for most people but when you're barely getting into veganism and finding out about all the horrible things going on in this world you become very butt hurt at anything and don't really know how to handle things without seeming completely obsessed with it. After a while you learn how to do it and well take things more lightly and can screw people over more easily, like me :D.

I have been waiting so patiently ever since I got into this, *about four years ago*, to get to college and finally meet people like me and get arrested together while bonding through doing crazy things. Time has come..just a few more months and my long dreamt dreams will finally FINALLY come true...sigh..it's unbelievable truly.

Most people don't even know what PETA really is! Most people if you ask them they'll say yeahhh..it's some organization that wants you to stop eating animals...and stop wearing fur....

If they truly knew everything and investigated what really is going on they would MAYBE do something about it. I have grown to know though, that people in this country and in this world in general are serious idiotic selfish assholes that not only do they ONLY care about themselves and sometimes other humans, but they try to get the MOST for themselves by exploiting even their fellow humans that they care so much about and like I've always heard...

"...It's okay as long as I don't think about it"

...What kind of asshole says this? well you wouldn't imagine, probably you. After seeing for themselves abuse on tape and every kind of horrible thing they don't even care enough to do the smallest thing possible, stop feeding money into the system by cutting out animal products and by-products out of their lives.

Anyway, that's why people that really do care and really want to help are on this world to replace these morons that aren't willing to do anything except what has to do with THEIR wellbeing and of course are worth much more.



Okay so that's my rant about animal rights and veganism for today.


Today was my interview for Wellesley College in Seal Beach and well guess what? I got a fucken migraine. Yes..yes I did. I was worried that the alumna interviewing me wouldn't see my warning email of not to go since I couldn't make it so she would travel in vain but she did in the end and everything was fine. Now we have to make another appointment and this time it will have to be in Los Angeles..which is really far away.

Apart from that and having to sleep all day against my will *I think resting is a waste of time* I was dying inside because I wanted to be doing SOMETHING! ANYTHING! reading, writing, doing homework, watching a movie, talking to someone, learning something new while at it but NOOOO the stupid migraine made me lay down for hours on end wishing I was dead...well I always wish I was dead but this time it was a stronger feeling. But it was okay after all, I have my parents to take it out on because they brought me to this miserable world.

Again, what kind of idiot brings a child to this world? Uhm, just about EVERYONE!

Oh but nooo, please save the deformed fetus! It wants to LIIIIVEEEEE. If they're so pro-life why don't they get a life? that's what I ask myself. Why don't they instead of having kids adopt children. They make the case that so many people want to adopt and to put the fetuses into adoption but they are as blind as they are ignorant. There is SO many abused and battered children in the world already waiting for loving families, MOST of which never get, and it's like they don't even exist.

I went to the Arab Festival yesterday. It was amazing. I was dancing so much and for so long that my legs were NUMB when I came home. My hands itched from clapping with the drums and the cough was ten times worse from all the hookah smoke.

Here's a video from last year's to give you an example. This year though it was maybe double the people so you can imagine:


IT WAS INSANE!! I ate falafel, hummus, and had a wonderful time with my sister.

I wanted to go again today but my migraine you can see, will not let me. Also I have homework to do and now actually I'm getting very slow about AP Environmental homework because I don't like the class anymore. It's easy to do work when you have a great relationship with the teacher.

I feel like ditching school tomorrow, partly because of my headache, partly because I don't care.

To hell with everything!

Also before the Arab Fest took place band had a competition! It was our second one and I felt like shit due to the past day having the STOMACH FLU! Jesus Christ and all the Hindu gods.  This is the worst weekend in my year along with the best Arab festival ever!

Someone jacked my right marching shoe so I had to use some fucken LUGZ that weighed like fifty pounds..it was HORRIBLE. I felt like I was dragging stones.

lol I just remembered my boyfriend's apartment when he was here and how the bong was ALWAYS out and his roommates were getting stoned 24/7..ahh, the life.

That bong water did not smell pretty let me tell you. I would come home and when I blew my nose it would be black from all the smoke.

Anyway, I'm going to see him in about HALF A YEAR!! AHHH just a few more months and I will spend quite a bit of time with him. Bah! So exciting. Poor neighbors of his in the kibbutz, he's gonna have to soundproof his place.

On Friday..what did I do on Friday...

I did something though lol don't remember what exactly.

I need to buy omega-3 pills but I dislike taking pills so bad that I'd prefer to smell that bong water again...bah.


Okay so idk how busy this week will be so I'm writing lots.

AH! Tomorrow I will get to drive all the recycling *paper* to the paper depot and get payed! Yay! We're going to use the dough for the donation towards the tree planting project around the school.

lol you should see the faces of people when I walk by them with a huge bag filled with plastic bottles and cans to recycle haha, I probably look like a huge bum, except with a really hot bum.

AH! My dad just poured out coconut juice. I'm out!

toodles!


P.S. ...what a great picture.

So ditching was the idea but it turned out I couldn't go because my stomach hurts like hell. Bah...I can't even stand up.

I'm drinking some really crappy Ginger Ale from the brand 365 (everyone should know that's the Whole Foods brand)...don't buy it, it tastes horrible.

Anyway, yesterday I was looking into the FOOD NOT BOMBS volunteer organization and I sent them a message to see if me and my Environmental club from school could help out. Apparently this great country's *sarcasm* FBI and fellow cops have labeled it a terrorist organization just for wanting peace.

What's with this country labeling peaceful people terrorists? I don't believe in the term 'terrorist' though by no means my fellow ALF, ELF and FNB people are in any defiinition of the word. I don't believe in the term because it means a different thing to everyone else. The ALF may be a terrorist org to this government but to me they are heroes. Al-Qaeda may be a terrorist org to my neighbor but to the fellow Afghan being bombed by the U.S. they're heroes. Hamas may be the devil to my Israeli boyfriend but hey that Palestinian boy that got his eye blown out by some Israeli soldier may just love dear Hamas.

Back to Food Not Bombs. Food Not Bombs has been around for a REALLY big while and they're REALLY big themselves. They have hundreds of locations all over the world and are always there to help others and aid the hungry.






I'm hopefully going to do a non-perishable food drive for FOOD NOT BOMBS with my club and donate all the food to the Anaheim one. :D

Here is an article about the wasteful practices of the selfish bastard inhabitants of the United States.

Americans are tossing $100 Billion of Food a Year

FOOD WASTE COSTING ECONOMY $100 BILLION, STUDY FINDS
Scripps Howard News Service, Lance Gay, August 10, 2005
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GARBAGE-08-10-05&cat=AN <http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GARBAGE-08-10-05&amp;cat=AN>

It's just a matter of time before those staggering hikes in oil prices are translated into higher costs for food, reflecting the higher costs farmers pay for running diesel harvesters and using oil-based fertilizers and pesticides.

Timothy Jones, a University of Arizona archaeologist, says that makes the results of his studies of how much food is lost and thrown away very timely.

For the last eight years, Jones has spearheaded a government-financed study that has documented how more than 40 percent of food grown in the United States is lost or thrown away - at a cost of at least $100 billion annually to the economy and over-taxing the soil and environment.

He said Americans - from the farm to the kitchen - aren't aware of the huge amounts of food losses, and cooks often don't think about the food they waste. Jones said even the experts were wrong - by a factor of two, in fact - in guessing how much food is lost through the food chain, and he said at least half of the food discarded isn't really bad and could have been safely consumed.

"We've lost touch with food," said Jones at his Tucson office of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. "People are totally unaware of food; it's true of everybody from the citrus industry to the person who takes a plate of spaghetti and meatballs they could have kept and instead throw it away."

Jones said Americans believe in the myth that food is cheap and plentiful. But he argued it's not cheap considering the labor and effort taken to grow it, and the costs of fuel to harvest and bring it to market. He also argued that there are no easily used lands left for new farms, and there are environmental costs from depleting soils and soil erosion that comes with intensive farming.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that about 12 percent of today's average household budget goes to buying food, but Jones said those estimates were made before the price of oil tripled from $20 a barrel last year to more than $60 a barrel currently.

Those oil-price increases, he said, will soon be translated into higher costs for food as oil is used not only to make diesel for tractors and harvesters, but also is the base from which fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides are made.

"I think we're looking at 15 to 20 percent of household budgets in a few years because of these energy costs," he said, pointing out that people can save money by throwing less away.

The food industry is increasingly aware of the costs of throwing away products headed for the market, which is affecting profit margins.

"Huge, staggering dollars are lost" to discarded produce, said Ron McCormick, vice president for produce for the giant supermarket chain Wal-Mart. He said it's not unusual for boxes of perishable produce to be misplaced in huge warehouses even while shelves in stores are empty and customers have to shop elsewhere.

McCormick said Wal-Mart is relying on new radio-controlled frequency chips to sort out its backroom problems and to try to ensure that a stream of fresh produce is always available for sale.

There are also large losses in restaurant salad and buffet bars. Mickey Dedajic, an 18-year-old immigrant who lived off rotting potatoes and rice during the siege of Sarajevo more than a decade ago, said he's astonished at the waste of food in America after working as a waiter and bus boy at an Alexandria, Va., hotel.

"Most of the time we run out of food, and there's more food in the garbage than on the buffet," he said. "People just aren't thinking about it."

While previous USDA studies looked at plate waste to judge the amount of food discarded, Jones examined garbage from stores and people who volunteered for the study all over the country, weighing the discarded materials and segregating it into food categories.

The losses from households were an eye-opener, he said. About 14 percent of the garbage involved perfectly good food that was in its original packaging and not out of date.

"I just don't understand this," said Jones. He suggested that bulk purchases at discount stores are resulting in people having too much food they are not used to keeping, and so are just throwing unopened portions away. About 34 percent of discarded edible food was dry-packaged goods, and 19 percent canned goods that keep a long time.

Another surprise from the study involved losses at fast-food restaurants, which publicly boast of their efficiency. Almost 10 percent of the food in fast-food restaurants was thrown out, the study found.

Jones said this was due to the inadequacies of refrigerators in stores. He said the fast-food industry moved to a "just-in-time" delivery system from company-owned regional warehouses in the last decade, instead of relying on local suppliers. But Jones said many fast-food stores had difficulties adjusting the delivery of food supplies in time for customers lining up in the drive-through lanes, and the individual stores lacked adequate refrigerators to store supplies.

The study found that large fast-food chains were more efficient than smaller chains. At some of the smaller chains, up to 50 percent of food was discarded. Jones concluded this high loss was due to high turnovers of novice store managers, who ordered too much food and misjudged how many customers they would have.

More than a quarter of the food prepared at convenience stores is discarded. Jones explained this is usually pizza or hot dogs that are cooked and kept under hot lights or on a grill until they are sold, or look unappetizing.

He said the massive waste costs the fast-food industry $30 billion to $35 billion a year and could be solved by redesigning stores to include proper storage areas and refrigerators. "By spending $50 million to $60 million, they could save $5 billion," he said.

Jones said the industry has made strides in storing and transporting fresh produce from the farm to the store with little losses. But Jones said that, at the farm level, the waste involved in putting together pre-prepared salads and sliced carrots has boosted produce losses from 3 percent to 10 percent. And his surveys found that about 10 percent of the broccoli, cauliflower and celery crops are left rotting in the fields. About 29 percent of the citrus crop is lost each year, largely because of the neglect of oranges.

Just reducing waste by a quarter would mean a $25 billion injection into the economy, Jones said.

Holy shiznits! Yesterday was band's last performance in the school, last football game. After the game I stayed with Dawn and our friend Ryan, former baritone player, to pick up bottles and cans that people of course just leave there cuz they're too lazy to throw them away and we made three bags worth of them so I'm going to use the 100 cans for a project in AP Envi Science and the bottles to save up for the trip to Israel. I came home like at 11pm yesterday after picking up the bottles and my legs just ached from walking around so much bah!

It was insane, I almost cried from happiness that I'M FINALLY LEAVING THIS HELL CALLED HIGH SCHOOL! gah, finally..after 17 years of this I get to leave forced school and enter..voluntary school, great, but hey! just 10 years left of school (-__-)

I got to talk to my wonderful boyfriend today! I was so happy and we did a lot of productive talking so it was great, he told me about a story he read by a Jewish author and it was really sad.. Ever since I was very small I always was intrigued by the holocaust and just how it could possibly happen, just what kind of people would seriously do something to that extent, I have always cried horribly on holocaust reminders like movies and books because I am the type of person that can always put themselves in the place of others, I guess that's why I'm vegan, why I'm pro-choice and why I'm just everything that I am. It truly mesmerizes minds when you start thinking the cruelty of people and how seriously evil people can become. I hear of it every day, specially with rape and animal abuse. Animal abuse is still happening but hey! I need my meat right....sigh

We also talked about his cousin's bat mitzvah in Florida in THREE WEEKS! and how his sister Pnina is flying from Israel to go and also his dad and sister in Ohio are flying to Florida to go so they will meet there. I wish I could go too :( but I'm not 18 and my parents would never even let me sleep over anywhere much less actually leave the house alone to spend time with people they don't know (though they LOVE Giora, my mother is obsessed with him...hopefully he doesn't have a thing for grandmas so I shouldn't be worried lol)

Anyway, soon enough I'll be able to hug him so tight! and we're going to spend every day for months together! I'm so excited I seriously start to shake just thinking about it. He's coming for my prom and graduation and that's just a few months away! time flies and I am glad it does..I can't wait to see him again.

I also told him about the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" which is a brand new movie in theaters of a story about a child in the holocaust. I'm going to try to see it ASAP but I need to find a website that carries it since I seriously am straining for ten bucks and I can't go. The only time I don't consider it a waste is if I'm with Giora :D

That's the what's it called and here's the trailer:





Hopefully you will see it.

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Well it's morning but yesterday I went to my neighbor's birthday party. She turned 6 and I've babysat her and her sister for more than a year now. CRAZY! It feels like yesterday that I was just going to her birthday party in Long Beach at her grandpa's restaurant a year ago begging for Giora to come with me but he couldn't since he had to go to his job and so it wasn't in his hands....That was a year ago exactly and now again it's happening! AHHH! TIME FLIES THANK GOODNESS!

We saw High School Musica 3 and it was FANTASTIC! it was sooo good. I advise all of you to see it :) I totally bonded with it since I'm a senior this year and everything except that luckily my boyfriend is not my age and doesn't go to my school so I don't have the problem of separating from him.




I wonder what the people who have been going out for years now are going to do...are they going to go together to college? What's going to happen? I bet they are ALL going to break up of course since I see them very unserious about everything unlike Giora and I.

Most people in my classes have never even HAD a boyfriend anyway *and girlfriend since there's like only a couple of guys for every AP Class...guys are retards* anyway I think I may be the only one dating...beh, I still have good grades though! so it doesn't matter, and even then I love Giora so so what.

Yesterday's movie reminded me of the fact that PROM is almost here! and grad night and graduation and all of that and I cannot believe it...

Yesterday I made GREAT friends with one of ceci's friend's older sister, she is one year older than me and was telling me ALL about her college experience and what to expect and it was really nice. We gave each other our phone numbers and she told me about this guy that's wooing her and stuff like that lol.

Okay I have so much to do today..just like every day. I have to babysit and later I have my WELLESLEY INTERVIEW!! AHHHHH I'm shaking in my BOOTS!

Scawy...

Mkay, have a good weekend everyone! Remember to reduce your waste so you won't contribute to this bastard world.

toodles!

I'm quite crazy with applications right now so I might not post for a while. I also have a competition for band tomorrow, a game on Thursday, a million things due on Friday and eventually death..AHHH!

I hope everyone is doing well. My only advice to those applying to college along with me, APPLY AS FAR AWAY AS YOU CAN! TRY SOMETHING NEW! I'M TIRED OF HEARING OF EVERYONE APPLYING TO A COLLEGE THAT'S FREAKIN DOWN THE STREET! GET OUT OF YOUR STUPID LITTLE TOWN AND LEARN SOMETHING!

:D

toodles!

Also, I feel like eating Chana Masala
...dammit, I love you Indian food!

HOLY SHIZNITS OH MY GOD!!!

I GOT AN 800 IN THE SPANISH WITH LISTENING TEST!!!!! THAT'S 100%!!!

660 ON THE LITERATURE!!

AHHH I'M SO HAPPY!!

man oh man! the subject tests truly pumped up my self esteem.

Back to my homework now...I have to take notes on chapter 12 for AP environmental science...

did you know pests are the biggest problem for crops? that we lose 1/3 of the meant to grow crops due to asshole weeds growing? ...anyway BACK TO IT!

oh, AND STOP BREEDING!! POPULATION IS A HUGE PROBLEM!! unless you're from Belarus since they're having a negative population effect on their country due to their amazing smartness...actually nvm, don't breed anyway, life is horrible :D

Yesterday was the Savanna Competition in Savanna High School and it was amazing!!

My band competed in the morning and then I came home, ate, and then later went to the Italian restaurant Angelo's and Vinci's in Fullerton with the band.

It was REALLY dark inside with red lights so it was pretty cool but I took flash pix.

Colorguard! That's my best friend Sarah to the left and to the right it's the freshman colorguard member..I forgot her name lol


creeeppyyy, I look shitty like always lol


My twenty dollar meal. I am one big idiot. bahhhhhh, but what the hell, I had fun!! the stupid noodles had egg in them that's why I couldn't order pasta. I hate salads though so I barely picked through it.



The sax girl to the right loves shirley temples. Well so do I!

The girl in the picture is Angelina, the flute player...or one of them should I say.


That's the drummajor and his girlfriend, Kania Gandasetiawan, also my club's secretary :D

We had like ten tables in the restaurant filled with band people.

This was at the competition later that night when we went back to see the bands. They were amazing as I said before...here are some pictures.



I had to buy the band slave button..it was just too good.
The field before performance.
That's my life... lol


The band was huge, that's like half of it.
There's more but I don't feel like posting them, this should be enough. Anyway, after 8 years of band and music this is the finale. Good bye marching band I will never steop on on a field to perform ever again. Being part of you was good but I'm done and I'm glad lol...

Now concert season..my last concert season of my life. I'm not sad at all, hell I'm going to do my best that's for sure!

Other than that there's been some issues in my life but have been resolved for the most part.

Don't you just hate it when people say things like this in their blogs and don't give specifics? lol sucks huh.

Have a good week and don't eat turkeys okay?!

also, I just heard the word interracial relationships and it's so weird when you really think about it. I hadn't given it thought even once since I don't believe in there being a such thing as race but geez people should cut it out with the color watching in this world. We're all the same and I would hate to be labeled as having an 'interracial relationship,' to hell with that, thanks to Spain, Portugal and England the whole world is white!

toodles!

Okay so marching season is DEFINITELY OVER!! and forever and ever.

I started my Thanksgiving break yesterday and it's been going great, I have been watching a lot of movies since I just started my Netflix trial and I need to watch as many as possible lol

I have watched so far: (the amazingly good ones that I recommend will have a ** next to them)

Snow Angels
The Color of Paradise**
The Bicycle Thief
Manda Bala** (Manda Bala is fucken crazy man, this Brazilian documentary should be watched by everyone)
Water**

So that has been in the past like two days man..but I can do it!

Other than that I ate Italian food yesterday since it was my sister's 14th birthday. Holy crap it's been 14 years since I was going to the Guatemalan hospital to get her..creepy. I watched a zillion movies, did a bunch of homework and felt very accomplished overall.

Anyway, I hate thanksgiving because of what it represents to the Natives here and I'm not going to go along with the whole facade of it so I don't celebrate thanksgiving. My family does though and they're having a huge feast together later on today and my mom just came here to bribe me so I will go out and be merry, which of course I couldn't decline lol...but I still don't officially celebrate it.

I'm here on my bed wearing my red Christmas socks, hoping for the best Christmas present ever this year... :) I won't say, so it will come true.

On Tuesday Maneja and I spent the whole day together along with some other masjid friends and I really REALLY needed it lol I had a lot of fun. We went to eat twice, the mall, Coffee Bean place, and the masjid of course to pray the final prayer of the day, Isha. It's amazing how much you can do and how happy you can be when you are with people you love.

My mom invited me to go shopping with her tomorrow for black friday but my anti-consumerist nature said NO WAY! so I said no way :D I don't need anything more than my crocs pbff. One thing I did say though was that if she saw some cool luggage material to get it for me since I can't wait to start packing to leave this place to go to college. UNIVERSITY HERE I COOOOMMMMEEEE!!


To think soon enough I will meet people like me it's quite insane.

Man yesterday I slept like for eight hours during the day, and it was crazy! I couldn't believe it. So I was wide awake and ready to party the whole night! I went to sleep around 5am and I woke up like two hours ago. I wonder if college is going to be like that lol...rough thing to do without having slept so long beforehand though!

Anywho, I wish you all to wake up and smell the crap around you, at last!

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toodles!

P.S. Latin American politics suck, the whole place needs to be bombed man, it's unbelievable the things you go through living there.

Also, I hate it when teachers at school ask you to write for something you're thankful for and what the hell!! What if you're not thankful for anything, like me! It's so annoying, I have to start making up shiet.

Okay so I've been doing homework and watching movies from Netflix... Here are some more that I watched

Pan's Labyrinth (Already watched it so it was only cuz it was in Spanish so my cousin could understand it)

O Ano em que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias (The year my parents went on vacation) (A Brazilian film set in the 70's...super super good, one of my new favorites. I seriously recommend it)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (I didn't really like it because I only like non-fictionish crap that is usually foreign or Independent so eh)

Yesterday I hung out with my whole family including cousins and crap and well it was pretty cool. I found out that I do want to be closer to my family than anyone else since they will always be there for me no matter what, unlike others. I layed with my mom and cousin in the couch while the rest where in the other and we watched this Spanish soap opera that oh my god, the cheeziness was just too much, they exaggerated EVERYTHING! it's so stupid...and religious. Anyway, I left before I finished to watch another movie in my bed with my sister, then I watched another one with my cousin and my sister all cuddled up in a freakin twin bed.

That's the family life.

Guess what was my thanksgiving dinner?

An avocado with hummus and tortilla. That's what I call a Guatemalan-Arab dinner HAHAHA

I actually drank soda since I was thirsty and was like what the hell, we're all gonna die anyway and later found out it had expired in 2003.

GODDAM IT! I drank 6 year old expired soda. I didn't die though so heh, it was my dad's fault for leaving it in the fridge though haha what an asshole.


I ate hemp cereal this morning..too bad you can't get high from it eh LOL, annotated Hamlet for AP English and read half of chapter 33 for AP Economics...we're goooooood. I still need to finish anotating and doing my report card for Hamlet though and also fixing my math problems, I think I'm gonna pay my ex math teacher a visit at homework club so I can get some aid.

I have a new thing that I have to draw little tiny hearts all over any type of work or paper that I write on. It's really annoying but it's a new obsession of mine and I hate it. It makes me seem like a sissy, but for a moment it seems to take all my thoughts away and I just live life in those little tiny hearts. Idiots.

I am so glad that I have school and my books. My books are what save me from everything, what would I do without their distraction? I would have killed myself already. I want to go to the library tomorrow as well and read all my favorite magazines. Also I want to do my work without interruption from my laptop (I won't take it with me since I know there's wireless but no)

I've been sleeping a lot lately. I think it may be to run away from thinking about what I really want in my life and convincing myself that a certain something else is better.

I also decided that one of my majors will be Middle Eastern Studies. I'm going to rock it! I will be a fluent Arabic speaker by 2015 bitches..that's if the Mayans weren't right ;)



Ma assalaamah!