Currently Reading For Whom the Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway see related

hahahaha ooohh wow

i haven't been on xanga for who knows how long.  okay, less than a year.  but still, it's been an uber long time.  does anybody even read this anymore?  that's rather intriguing.  i won't go into too much detail of how the rest of my junior year unraveled.  o well, i guess i could say a bit without getting hurt, right?  so the year was super killer the entire year, schoolwork-wise.  company was a pain in the rear for a long time, but possibly it had to do with the fact that just the homework from school made it all worse that by the time i went to dance class i was wiped out from hard classes and such.  despite all the stinky fundraisers we had to do, the trip to new york city's project dance was AMAZING!  it was an incredible experience, and i'm completely happy to have been part of it all.  however, that cost me the grades on the ap tests, in which we will not go into detail, except i will say that not taking finals was soooo nice =).  there was a boy whose name i will not mention, but most of you know about.  if you don't know about him you really don't need to know about it.  i don't deny the fact that he was one of the bestest friends, and i miss talking to him like back in the day.  he's moved on to another girl, and i really don't mind.  she's a pretty girl, and at least she's actually allowed to have a boyfriend.  i simply wanted to maintain a friendship, but a friendship (from what i've learned) is a two way street, and if one of the people refuses to take a stretched out hand, the hand can't annoy the crap out of the other person to take it.  the hand, btw, remains stretched out.  that's ALL i'm saying about that.

summer's been okay.  i've been working in a bookstore for the days.  i've been working on the foundations class that i find pointless to take...seeing that i dance about 6 hours outside of school...and am CLEARLY physicallly active.  i guess the state of texas airhead education board can simply never decipher that in their puny brains.  just like the change of school schedule and the point of taking the taks test, ESPECIALLY if an ap kid.  oh well, one more year left for me and i won't have to deal with that anymore until i have kids....and that's only if i stay in texas.

speaking of which, i'm going to be a senior!!!!! schweet!  can't wait to have fun.  i'm going to miss everyone who graduated tho.  but we'll see, hopefully a rekindling of friends who are actually my age will occur.  can't wait to see the results =)

well that's enough of me.  i've basically spoken my life story in about 3 paragraphs.  enjoy, if you actually read it.

kisses,

natalia

Currently Reading The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald see related

long time...

hey everyone

i haven't posted in a long time.  i guess now it's appropriate?

soo let's see.  jr yr is super killer.  soo much homework.  today was an easy day.  not only is jr yr super killer, but dance is becoming super killer too.  i made the huge mistake of joining company this year.  THIS YEAR, out of all years that i could have joined, i decided to join THIS YEAR.  talk about double load...

so thanksgiving just passed.  this yr it was better and worse...so i guess that cancels out and makes it about the same?  better in the sense my grandma is here (YAYYY) and worse in the sense....that family emergencies occur.  if yall believe in praying, plz do pray for my aunty!!!

wow.  somehow i have a feeling that i've changed since freshman year.  i was looking back at posts from like, ages ago.  i used to be so different.  it's amazing how different events can completely change you and formulate you into the person that you are.  it's also amazing at how people react differently around you knowing that you're different.  and it's also amazing how people grow closer and farther apart as time flys.

so i was looking at our middle school yrbk from like...7th and 8th grade (b/c i wanted to see what chris kagawa said, since he wrote me a mssge in l337 and i had no idea how to read it back then), and i read thru the mssges yall wrote me in the end of the yr.  funniest one and the one that most appeared:

the monkey.

everyone who knows about that can join me in the laughing.

k children.  i g2g,  i have company in 15 mins.

take care, b/c i still love you guys.

"If you live to be a hundred years, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
~A.A. Milne

, natalia

Currently Reading Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) By Herman Melville see related

schoo...

so i finally found some time in this super busy schedule to post something about how it's goin in ma vie.

schoo started...like 2 wks ago...and it's already stressful.  i have hw everyday..and i've been goin to bed like at 1:30 am.  now i'm starting to see how "jr yr is hard."  can't wait till we get more work..

class by class:  chem's aight.  hilda's my lab partner..and i sit by may, tej, and dale.  pretty awesome class i guess..cept for the fact that it's in the morning..
sanders...is a great teacher.  funny.  this is apush.  so much hw.  i gotta start readin the puritan dilemma soon...
orch is same ol mr hill. woot.
precal w/ gentes is pretty awesome.  she's really cool..and pretty much doesn't care what we do...just as long as we don't cause trouble.  hehe..ppl in that class are fun.
lunch is aight.  i sit by cathewine!!  and sarah, and meg, and shama, and ktp comes occasionally to visit, and then two ppl from my precal class...that i barely know..but w/e..
eng is so awesome!!  it's like...one of my fav english classes...ever (so far).  yea..theres tons of work..but it seems very enjoyable.  moby dick is on the reading list right now =/
french is the same ol...w/ mme...and everyone else...yeaaa
and physics...is a fun class too.  cuz "j-dawg" is so flipping awesome.  i think she likes me..and if she doesn't..well she's still pretty nice.  and guess what?  i'm actually understanding physics.  that's a first.

so yea..pretty much i have a good impression of jr yr...it's just a ton of work.  hopefully i'll live...or if not..shama's theory is right...*awkward silence*  dude that seriously made my day in gentes' class har har har....

soo..hope yall are all doin great..wherever you are

<3, nati

Currently Reading The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) By Nathaniel Hawthorne see related

london

so yea, i'm back from london after like 2 1/2 weeks.  it was long, but helpful.  and if you didn't know i was in london...well now you know.

i stayed w/ my auntie and uncle in their tiny apartment (or shall i say..flat..) like 30 mins away from london victoria train station.  gladfully they're aight after 6 months of my cousin's death.  of course, they say random things about him like everyday that i have to bear listening to, but i guess it's for their own good to say.

so the first week was insane.  i took a course at central school of ballet, and boy, was i pwned.  those teachers were EXTREMELY strict, not like suzanne's in which you feel the urge to hug the teacher cuz they're so nice.  so yea, my days pretty much consisted of dancing my butt off for like 8 hours and then taking about an hr to get home, take a shower, and die flat on my cousin's old bed.  well, of course not literally, but i was definitely tired, and jetlag doesn't help much.

so ...thursday sucked, because first of all i wasn't feeling well, which was so not cool.  then the pointe teacher got on me for unconciously crossing my arms in the middle of ballet class.  i felt like crying and seriously needed a hug.  and then she got on to me cuz of my hair cuz it was different. oooo gawd, i'm sorry or having layered hair and bangs.  it's not like i wear a bun everyday.  but anyway...after that, i really showed her who i was  and then she didn't speak a word to me after that. teehee!!! power of the toes of steel

so after the course, my aunt and uncle took me to oxford to see david bayley.  must say it was quite awkward at first cuz i didn't even recognize him.  after hanging out a while w/ him, i realized that he just had longer hair but the same face.  he took us to like gardens and stuff and showed us around oxford univ.  then we ate sandwhiches, gave him a freebirds shirt, and left. it was fun hangin out w/ him after like...3 yrs.

the next week was pretty crazy even w/o the course.  monday was a shopping catch up day.  tuesday was the famous london tour.  wednesday was my clothes shopping day.  thursday was the rest of clothes shopping as well as the ballet at night in the royal theatre.  friday my aunt and uncle to me to cambridge to see anne (my dad's coworker's daughter).  she showed us round cambridge univ and took us to a pub.  too bad that i'm underage to drink pimm's  but i still took some from my aunt

so yea.  crazy days indeed.  seems like i didn't have much jetlag when i got back.  i was starting to miss tx cuz of the weather.  if a british person tells you it's hot outside, DON'T BELIEVE THEM!!  it's prolly like spring weather or something.  still, pretty chilly.  by my 2nd week, my nose was freezing.  fortunately my aunt gave me some winter clothes that didn't fit her anymore

so yea, that's pretty much my trip.  i missed everyone!!!  i took pictures...i just gotta find out how to make a slideshow..but when i do i'll put em up.

much love.  can't wait till school starts.....woohoo?

at least i get to see all yalls smiling faces again!!!!! ^^ yay!

<3, nati

Currently Listening Savin' Me By Nickelback see related

summer, summer...

wow.  summer is so interesting.   i find my self UBER AMUSED at times and then like 5 seconds later i'm on aim hoping someone will keep me alive before i die of boredom.

arggh, it's like, all my friends have other friends and they hang out w/ them...but me??   i feel forgotten sometimes.  o well....and then some of them are off having relationships.

but hey, at least the WORLD CUP's goin on!!!!! heck ya!  altho i feel terrible for paraguay...cuz sweden....dude, like at minute 89, FIRST GOAL!  it was insane.  can't wait to see the mexicans own angola, just like they owned iran!!  (sorry persian peeps...it's my country)

so yea...prolly will go to mass in like an hr....and then hang out around here doing....

...who knows?

call me up to do something.  and tell me AHEAD OF TIME so i can get permission and such...cuz yea....my parents are cool like that?  sure

love you guys!!  and i miss ya'll....

<3, nati