Happy Summer :)

Yayy! Summer's here.. :) Which means the stress and pressure is all gone and all I have to do is relax. You know how 2 weeks ago, i said my life was crazy? Well, that's all gone now. I didn't really have to worry in the first place. Everything that happened in school went fine.

The science fair went pretty well. We turned out to be perfectly prepared and everything went smooth... Well, not exactly. There was this one point in time when a huge group of kids just came to our table and we had to balance them out with another group, but all in all, I can tell they liked making parachutes. :) They were SOO cute when they were playing with their parachutes and the fan. It made me smile. :D

The play was awesome! I had to act in the scene I wrote and it went pretty well. The day basically went like this. I ha to wake up REALLY early and be at the school by 7:30 am. Once there, we got ready and performed 2 shows. Turns out I didn't get stage fright. Once I was up there I felt somewhat comfortable and I loved the feeling of being onstage again. Both performances were good, but at the end of the second, I just felt everything came together perfectly. :] After that, we went to the park across from the school and had lunch there. When we were there, I realized that 9th graders can sometimes act like little kids since a lot of people were fighting over the swings, but it's cool. I can be like that sometimes. :] After returning to the school with Holly (our tutor) and Francis (Holly's car buddy), my friend and I went to our school's year book signing party, which was fun. :]

This week was TIoL (Transitional Interview of Learning) week. It took forever for me to prepare. I was basically going crazy on Monday, trying to finish up the packet of questions my teachers gave me a couple weeks ago. I went on Tuesday right before school ended, instead of Wednesday. I decided to do that because I really wanted to get it over with. Tuesday morning, I came to school all ready. Well, mostly. Later on, my mom had to drop off some evidence I needed. I did preparation for two hours. Then, went to support a friend that was also having their TIoLs. During his TIoL, I had a "whoa-I'm-in-high-school" moment. I guess it was because it made me realize that Freshman year is done and I'm moving on to Sophomore year. It actually surprised me a bit. Then for around 4-ish hours, I waited and waited and endlessly waited for my turn. My dad was able to come and watch me, even though he didn't ask any questions. I was nervous and almost freaking out. The morning didn't turn out so well for me that day, so I was hoping for the best. At 3, I went in and did my TIoL. I presented in front of my dad and math/physics teacher and then came the questions. It wasn't really all that bad, but whenever I would just mispronouce a word or say something wrong, my mind would go crazy. The questions were basically all about the projects I mentioned (except for graphic design) and how I've changed throughout the year. When it was finally done, I was like "Phew, glad that's over" But what was worse was standing outside waiting for my teacher to finish grading my performance. For me, it felt like forever because all I wanted to know was if I passed or not. Then, the time came and I finally figured out my results. Turned our I did pass, but with a perfect score. By hearing that, my whole day just felt soo much better and I was uncontrollably smiling and jumping around. At first, I couldn't believe it, but it happened and it makes me glad. :D I also got the Jonas Brothers' new album (Lines, Vines, and Trying Times) that day, which made it even better. ;)

Today was the last day of Freshman year. It was a good day for me, aside from the cleaning the classrooms. During the slide-show our teachers were showing us, it made me realize that it was an amazing year, even through all the obstacles I had to face. I've also changed a lot throughout the whole year. It surprises me on how much I've changed and now that I think about it, I don't think I'll ever be the same.

So, time for summer. :) Are you ready? I don't really have any plans (yet) for summer. Although I am going to be a summer bridge leader for my school and my friends and I are planning to have get-togethers. Well, that's pretty much all for right now. Happy Summer, everybody! :D

Life is CRAZY... (right now)

It's true. Everything around me is just going *whoosh* and I'm all stressed out. For example: Right now, I currently have around 5 piles of paper scattered everywhere. It all came from my school work pile from last semester, which holds a lot of work I need. There's tons of loudness going on around me. My mom's television show is just blasting in her room. On the occasional silence, I can hear my dad's TV down stars and to top it all off, I can hear my brother and his friend playing basketball outside. *thump thump* It's annoying and they're also talking, keeps on adding to the sound level. There's a lot more, all of these distracting me from my TIoL preparations. For those of you who don't know, TIoL means Transitional Interview of learning, which is pretty much our finals in my high school and it's just so stressful. Am I stressed right now? YES, of course I am. Even though it's the week after this week, it's just a lot to handle right now. To add on to the stress, I have a children's science fair in 2 days and we're not that prepared. Also, we have a play coming up in which I have to act in. I am a bit nervous and I think once I get up there, I'll get stage fright. I have been on stage tons of times before, but that was for music, not acting. GAH... so much going on. If you see me, I may look normal, but on the inside, I'm breaking down. :/ BUT on the bright side, summer is just two weeks away. Thank goodness. For me, summer is the time to relax and a time to be EXTREMELY bored. Isn't that nice? I think it's time for me to make a new summer list. One of the things on my summer list is to be a leader in my school's summer bridge program. :] Which reminds me, I still have to turn in that application. It would help me get rid of some of the boredom in summer and it sounds like a great experience. I remember last year when I was the students, now I could be one of the leaders. Cool... :] But before summer happens, I guess I'll have to survive these next two weeks. -__- This last week wasn't so bad though. Last weekend was when the Black and White semi-formal happened. I went with one of my friends and it was actually fun, even though one of us was missing. I got this huge surprise Tuesday night, which made me extremely happy. It was also spirit week. It was okay, even though I wasn't that spontaneous most of the time. Last night, I went cosmic bowling with my friends. It was FUN. Bowling, arcade, then absolutely failing at DDR. xD Well, that's all for now. I need to get back to prepping for TIoLs (if I can).
- The very tired and stressed out Denise o_o

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