Freakin' Annoying
I tried to post something about the Prom this Saturday, but apparently it disappeared into the black hole of cyberspace, the one that steals your important e-mails and changes your password whenever you try to log into whatever. The black hole is also responsible for a lot of other malevolent evil in the world of the WWW, including it's most powerful weapon, SPAM (Superannoying Pictures And Mail). Just saying.
Prom - [Second Time]
You might wonder why I call this the second time I've written about Prom, but hey - read the previous posts, buddy. This not all that pulchritudinous site swallowed my last post about the topic, so here I go again. Usually I wouldn't care if it was just a "I had a great day dissecting pigs"-posting, but here we're talking Prom, after all. And then some extra energy can be justifyably spent.
The Prom date of mine was Jana, a friend I met first in California last fall and then in Las Vegas in April. We had agreed to meet for our pre-Prom activities at noon, but as it turned out she was half an hour late. That's okay, I mean I really don't care about tardiness all that much. Anyhow, she arrived at 12:30 at the White Mountain Family Fun Park, and we were supposed to go go-karting first and then to a movie, but since the time-schedule was totally outta wack I had to do some improv. Off to a movie.
We went to see the new Scooby Doo movie, the sequel that is, and found it actually to be better than the original. Yes, that doesn't happen very often, but it did. The second one far outweighed the first. It was fun, we laughed and had a great time, and then we were picked up by Ren afterwards.
We were dropped off at the WMFFP, and had a blast with two rounds of go-karts and one of miniature golf. Considering the limited choices up here, I think that was a good pre-date date. The schedule held up by a couple of minutes, 'cause by the time we finished the 18th hole Jana's aunt came to pick her up. She went back home to Snowflake to change and dress up for the evening.
We (my hostmom Ren and I) picked her up at 6:30 that evening, and I gave her the corsage I had bought the night before. I wore a black mafia-suit with a hat and the whole thing, while she wore a greenish dress.
Me and Jana posing for one of our Prom pictures at home.
We drove to Pinetop, where we dined at a very nice restaurant called the Phineas T's at 7:00. We left the restaurant after the long-lasting dinner at 8:45 ca, and drove to the Torreon country club where the dance was going to be.
Torreon was a fancy, nice place. The door was opened for us by a middle-aged man, and we entered the foyer. We paid the entrance fee for the dance, and met all the people I knew there from school. We continued past a big fireplace and had our picture taken, me in my Zoot Suit and her in the light green dress of hers (the picture turned out nice, by the way, even though I never like pictures if I am in them)...
We sat down at a table, met up with people I knew, and after a while danced some. The dance floor was packed, and it wasn't exactly big, so we were stacked close to other people, dancing in our little circle. I'm not the biggest fan of dancing (or dances in general), but this dance had a kind of mandatory "must-dance" feel to it, after all it was Prom, so I indulged Jana whenever she wanted to dance. Between dances we went out in the foyer for a glass of juice or whatever, and talked to others who had taken a break from the dancefloor, like Colin and Adam, two of my friends who was there.
The time flew, we had a lot of fun, and it was soon time for the last dance. At 12:00 the dance ended, and we collected our parting gifts (a Prom mug and an alarmclock). We left the dance, drove Jana back to Snowflake, and went back home. I went to bed at about 01:00, honestly content with my first (and last) Prom.
Weird Day
So far this day has been weird. I woke up today with my contacts still in, apparently I forgot to take them out yesterday. No wonder why I couldn't get to sleep last night... Then Kim insisted that I had yelled "NO!" to her request to get her brush out from the bathroom while I was in there, although I don't even remember her asking me the question. Fascinating.
Am I awake?
The Easter Weekend
This weekend was a blast. Ren's (my hostmom) twinsister and her 5 children came all the way from Idaho to spend it with us, and it turned put to be quite nice. Breanna, Blake, Tucker, Russ, and little 11 month old Ben really made it fun, and we all got along great.
On Saturday was our easter egg hunt, and Ren and Cass (the twin) hid over a hundred pieces of candy encased in plastic eggs, and made us go find them. It was a lot of fun, and today I still have candy left. Sunday was our spiritual celebration of easter, with a trip to the church and a day spent without Tv or computers. Just like any other Sunday, just this time we did it all as a big (14 people) family, bringing out the real, christian meaning of easter: the sacrifice on our behalf, and the bonds of family. Not necessarily candy. Hmm, very profound, deep even.
Today was spent not doing anything, Cass and the kids left at about 6:00 in the morning, and they brought the neighbor's dog along with them. The neighbors, the Halls, didn't feel like keeping their blond lab anymore, so Cass brought it back to her farm in Idaho. C.W. was the dog's name. Blake's new dog.
I am not going to mention that we (Ren, Bekkah, and I) walked all the way to WalMart today (yey, a mile), since Tim took the only car left after Larry took his car to the airport when he left for a week on Sunday, to go to a movie. I just did mention it. No I didn't. Oh, never mind.
Biology II and Pep Assembly
Today's biology test was kind of a academic disaster. I didn't have time this week to study for my test, so I think it went pretty.. crappy. Anyways, I can afford one bad test. Then, after the test; a reptile movie. I fell asleep, of course, and didn't wake up until 9:50 am when we were dismissed to the new gym.
The pep assembly was less entertaining than an episode of Pokemon, as usual, and didn't really fascinate me all that much. And then I spent most of my lunch making up biology work and writing this. It's gonna be a lovely day.
Early Morning
I woke up at 5:45 am today, for a shower and family scripture study, for the first time in weeks (the scripture study, that is). I'm tired, due to the fact that I didn't get my mandatory 12 hours of sleep. Ah, well. Got to go.
Next to last school day this week
Why, you might ask? Well. Here it's actually nothing called a full week of easter break - we get 4 days, including Saturday and Sunday. Not exactly Norway, where we get easter break of one week, and a mid-February break, as well. I guess it all comes down to the magic words "snow days". And the more days off because it snows outside (another thing not exactly like Norway), the less days for the various vacations. Ah, well. I won't die. All the breaks make you lazy, anyhow, and I can't get lazy now. Not 2 months before I go back again.
Prom is coming up, and I've got a basic idea of who to ask. But that's the problem too - how, when, where, and, ultimately, why to ask. I kind of have to go to get the whole "American Experience", but I'm not sure I like that kind of stuff. Just too much... Je ne sais quoi.
Las Vegas
Vegas was a thrill this weekend, full of interesting people, a city that never slept, and my friends - what could be better?
We arrived in Williams first, and spent the night. Then we were off - to Vegas. We all stopped at the Hoover Dam between Arizona and Nevada for an hour, and took a lot of pictures. Then we continued our journey to "Sin City".
After a long trip, about 5 hours in the vans, we stopped in Boulder, NV, and then entered Vegas. We checked into the hotel at about 2:00 pm, and then we were free to do whatever we wanted until 8 o'clock. First we went to Madame Tussaud's Wax Cabinet, and had a lot of fun there with the various "celebrities". Then we saw the "Venetian" part of the city, made up to be exactly like Venice in Italy. Really pretty.
Our next stops included "M&M World", the "New York, New York" rollercoaster, the "Eiffel Tower", lots of casinos, and a bunch of other things on the strip. It was great! At 8 we continued to a hotel I can't remember the name of, to eat dinner. After that we saw the rest of the strip, and then we went on the Big Shot on top of the 900 feet Stratosphere Tower. We went to bed at 2:00 am.
On the second day, on Sunday April 4, we got up at 8:00 am, and were out the door by 8:20. We all (as in all the people in our little subgroup, that is; me, Alex, Jana, Essi, Michael, Sebastian, Giovani, Marieke, Vu, and 3 more) went to the Stratosphere Tower again, and this time we went on the most extreme ride up there: The X-Scream. The ride plunges you off the edge of the tower, 900 feet above the ground, in 35 miles/hour, multiple times. Believe me, that was heartpounding! I bought pictures of it, and we were already half an hour late, so we hurried back to the hotel, on the bus. We lost Vu, but he showed up 5 minutes after we did, so it was okay. We left about 1:30 pm, and I came home around 9:00. Three really fun days!
Time for English
After the history class of mine, which was a loooong yawn by the way, I will now commence to the free-thinking English class. Yay. I'm looking tremendously forward to going to Las Vegas today, and seeing my newfound friends from Hawaii again. Off to class.
Bored in History class
Right now I'm sitting in history class, doing absolutely nothing. I have just completed a stupid project and there's not really anything else to do, so I'll just sit here, writing aimlessly about how bored I am. Perhaps not the most interesting topic for you to read about, but certainly more interesting for me than just sitting here. Oh! Gotta go. The bell just rang.
