Go Cross Country!

Today we had our first Cross Country meet. Now, before telling you what place I got in the race I just want you to know that probably 160 to 200 people were in the race. It was a 2 mile race and it was very hot. My race was the last race and I was hoping for some rain or a cool breeze but nope. In fact, I think it became hotter if anything. If your waiting for me to tell you what place I got, well too bad. I don't feel physically and mentally secure in giving away that kind of information. I will let you know that only 1 person on our team got a medal and he was in the 7th grade. The medals looked really cool, I wish I got one but I'm not going to get conceded about this (Lindy... LOL!) or ROTFL, whichever one works for you. See, I am learning my IM skills.

Okay, now onward to school business. Today we took our last pre TAKS test which happened to be the U.S. History test. Because of the minimum knowledge I have acquired on U.S. history, I think I new about 8 questions out of 48, which isn't all that great. In fact, it's awful. I then learned that nobody felt good about it which made me feel a little better, not because I like it when other people fail or anything but I am sure nobody likes to fail alone, so that is why you have to bring everybody else down with you. Well, enough of my evil schemes, I think I am going to talk about this new game I learned.

Now don't think this game is all that bad just by the name of it, even though it just so happens to be called Drug Dealer. It takes an excessive amount of skill, stamina, and perseverance to play. What you do is sit in your chair and hold a card. There are three types of people you can get. If you get the ace then you're the drug dealer. If you get the king then you get to be the cop which is the person who tries to look for the drug dealer. If you get any other card then you're a pedestrian who just looks around and if the drug dealer winks at you you lay your card in the middle which shows that you have become drugged up, or that's what they called it, not that I was exposed to any of this throughout my childhood. Well, that was about all of my day right there, now this is the part where I get millions of comments!

TAKS!!!

Today is the 3rd week of school and it has been pretty smooth so far. This week happens to be TAKS week where we have to take a pre TAKS test everyday. For some strange reason, it seemed like it would be fun only having to take one test all day, but it got completely boring by the second day. It is pretty cool having about 2 hours after the test where we get to play chess and a bunch of other educational games. I got to build my very first card castle which took me a long time adding up all the times where it fell down.

I got about 4 pictures of it before somebody thought that it would be cool to knock over the desk where my cards were just coincidentally standing. I also got in a game of chess where I crushed my opponent with my high intellect. I don't want to get too into details about the game but it was pretty cool when I trapped his king in the corner. Anyways, enough of all that boring stuff, lets get to the middle school drama. This week has been full of drama and gossip and I can't put everything on this blog because I don't want to say anything I shouldn't (I told you Lindy, I'm changing, lol!) An example of some drama would be at a party I went to where a girl didn't spend enough time with her friends and too much time with her boyfriend and her friends got mad at her which I thought was completely unrealistic. Now that we completed the drama section of this post, I am going to move on to important events that happened today. During the morning assembly, which is where all the kids meet before the day starts, this girl came to our school and talked about the Columbine Tragedy that happened in 1999. She was friends with Rachel Scott who was the first person killed during the tragic event. Before she died she left a journal of a bunch of goals that she had set for herself and they were all goals to help people and to change the world. Some of these goals were to rid our minds of all prejudice thoughts and also to not be afraid to dream. My mom also saw the presentation and she was very touched by it. Anyways, that was pretty much my day and please, feel free to post a comment, or two, or three, or four...

Party at Galveston

Yesterday, I went to Galveston for one of my friends birthday parties. It was a long, but fun trip in the truck that they rented. It's funny, because usually a 2 hour trip seemed like a very long time, but when your in a truck with 10 of your friends, it doesn't seem like 2 hours at all. We stopped at Subway on the way and I got a yummy sandwich. Once we got to Galveston we headed to the beach which was the best part of the party. It was cool when the wave pulls you in then falls on you even thought the waves weren't that big. We spent about 1 hour on the beach but it began to rain which pretty much ended our stay at the beach. To end the birthay party, we headed to the mall where we got the birthday girl the gift she had always wanted, a coach purse which could only hold her phone, and wallet, and it just so happens that the purse was $196 dollars. All that was left was the car ride home which ended the party.

The (Best Summer Ever)

Well, clearly by my title you can see that this has been a great summer for me. We did bowl quite often, maybe not enough but we still bowled. My high score in bowling is 155 for those of you who know about the scoring system.
If anyone wants to share their high score, then feel free to post a comment.
Timing is funny during the summer. You see, sometimes my mom fixes up a part of the house. For instance, once she repainted the walls, and another time she changed the tiles in the bathroom. Now, since last summer, she hasn't done any changing at all and now summer is nearing to an end which is the exact time when I want to do the most playing, and for some reason it became my mom's favorite time to change the countertop in her bathroom. I didn't want to shop for counters but she made me go anyways. She said it would only take about one hour to find the counter she wanted but that isn't how it turned out. For some reason I guess taking one hour to shop for a counter also means not only shopping for a counter, but taking a complete 5 hours to find new sinks, and new faucets. And to make it worse when we finally got the counter, we cut the holes for the sinks wrong so we had to go buy a new counter which turned out to be chipped.
If you want to comment on any of that, feel free to.