So, I've had this account for years and never got around to doing anything with it. Sad, yes?
I'm going to change that now though.
Where to start...
Freshman year sounds good.
...we'll put it in a nutshell; nothing important happened that year anyway.... and I’m lazy like that.
I ended my summer with band camp (I started it with summer school). This basically was what my entire freshman year revolved around. I actually wanted to be a band director once, but I digress.
Band camp was a week that was two weeks before school got back in. I was the only freshman to enter my section and it seemed like none of them liked me very much. I was fat and annoying; looking back though, I can see why they hated me so much. I was also really immature. Granted, while all of this was/is true, I don’t see why they would blame things on me. I was new to the experience and being put down like that after I felt like I was doing something right after an important competition was neither cool nor appreciated. Not everyone was mean to me. Cindy and Leah talked to me sometimes. I suppose it was my own fault for isolating myself at games and being shy. Perhaps by acting this way, it made the people in my section that year not want to get to know me.
Anyway, that year I got to know a senior friend of mine really well. Her name is Hope. She sat with me at lunch and she would hang out with me at games and competitions; she even sat next to me in band class. I think after a while she may have regretted that decision. It seems now like she purposely keeps her distance when she comes for visits to the school.
Oh well, her loss I guess.
I had problems with people telling me I wasn’t good enough in band too. I remember one day Winston (RIP) told his fellow tuba player they needed a better euphonium player. That hit me really hard; probably harder than it should have. I was shy and absolutely HATED playing loud all through middle school. I thought that I had started getting better when I started high school and I have. I know that now.
While it seems like band had a negative effect on me, I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t been able to experience it. Maybe, I would still be the same. I guess we’ll never know.
Enough about band; lets move on to the rest of my year.
I was in tech classes as a freshman. I remember getting my course list in 8th grade and being happy, but then a girl who sat next to me was laughing and saying how only stupid people were put in tech. That made me feel bad about how I was going into high school. That’s why at the end of freshman year I went to my counselor and she talked to my mom and I. We set a plan and now I’m going to be able to graduate on time AND with a CP diploma. That day was also the day of my first concert.
My Chemical Romance.
It was one of the best days of my life.
Another event that occurred that year was my newly acquired favorite band: Avenged Sevenfold.
I fell in love with the album ‘City of Evil’ and have been obsessed ever since.
I met a really cool person that year. Her name is Torie.
She rode my bus and at first I thought she was kind of odd, but after Megan mentioned that she liked anime, we clicked almost automatically. She was/is my walking to publix buddy and we saw MCR together. We weren't in the same place, but we found eachother eventually. She also came to my birthday party.
May was probably the best month of school for me. It was the last month of school, my birthday was coming up, and I was no longer going to be a freshman.
My birthday was most likely the most bad ass party ever. You can ask the people who were there.
Oh! Here’s a rant:
Sun May 13, 2007
So, there's seven days until my birthday. I'll be sixteen. My cake is going to be freaking AMAZING and I don’t know; I guess that’s all...or not.
I have decided to rant about something that’s really ticking me off....
Okay, so every year (except in 7th grade) Megan (an annoying friend of mine) has come to my birthday parties (all of them were FAMILY parties) except when I turned 13; and this year I want my party to be Megan-less, you know? It just bugs me so much that she comes to EVERYTHING. My mom’s probably going to make me invite her, but I will do anything in my power to stop her from ruining my sweet sixteen party. It really made me mad when in the car ride home from Discover Mills (she was being a real brat that night *) my mom had to mention my party. Which Megan immediately started to tell me how to plan my own party. She was literally telling me what to do, who to invite, ect; and all the people I'm inviting don’t want her there anyway.
STORY TIME!! : So, we went to the movies the other day and I decided to invite Megan to be nice, right? So when we get there our movie is sold out so we try to decide on another movie. Megan wants to go see ‘In the Land of Women' and I don’t want to go. I want to see a movie with my mom. So then she says something about me keeping secrets from my mom which almost causes me to cry because I hate lying to my mom. So after she calms down she decides to go to Books a Million while we wait for our movie to start ( which was Fracture, btw) she tries to drag me along (I really wanted to stay with my mom because there were a lot of people around and I don’t like being alone), but I reluctantly go with her. When we're about a quarter of the way there she starts yelling at me for siding with my mom and not siding with her to go 'In the Land of Women’. I turned around and went straight back to my mom.
Looking back on that day I could have handled things a little different, I guess. I don’t hate Megan as much as I use to. Right now were pretty good friends. : D
One more story/rant and I think I’ll be done for today.
Mon May 14, 2007
My Elementary School
So my mom made me go to a PTA meeting tonight. I found out a lot that I really didn't want to know that was going to happen to the school. I REALLY hate what the new principal is doing. It was bad enough when she got rid of all the knights we had around the school, saying it was a health hazard. Health hazards my ass! I went to that school for 6 freaking years and no one was ever hurt. She’s also expanding the cafeteria wall...which means she’s getting rid of all the gold stars that people worked hard for over the years doing math problems. It just really makes me mad that she’s changing everything.
I got to see the teacher I had for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade tonight...she didn’t recognize me. I saw my fourth grade teacher tonight also. He saw the concert (MCR) also. It was amazing that he went. He also saw James Blunt and Duran Duran. He finally got his Bunnucula book back from when I was In his class over 5 years ago. He looked really different. He's gotten older and it shows. I'm just glad he remembers me. I started to think about how all the teachers get older...their age doesn't stay the same after you leave the class room, they get older. I wonder if the school will even send out a letter to all of the old students...probably not. I would hate to visit that school only to find out my favorite teacher died and no one told me.
Other than that, nothing really important happened that year. I made new friends, had some move away, started a band with another.
Anyway,
Tomorrow is going to be sophomore year and maybe junior year. We'll see.
Trish-Trish<3