Homecoming

Hello world!

My dad was on the computer last Sunday literally the entire day.

So, two weeks to cover, and one of them was more eventful than usual. Oh boy.

Sunday: As I mentioned before, the song "Glorious" by Russ Dixon is good. Also, "Look Up" by Taylor Olsen is good. I downloaded them onto my phone, and I already have both memorized, pretty much. (That's what I do when I really like a song nowadays.)

Monday: Homecoming Week commences! For Pajama Day, I wore my Batman pajama pants with a dark blue T-shirt and black Toms/Bobs/whatever knockoffs. A lot of people at school wore onesies, though. (I would've done the same, but the only one I have stopped fitting one or two years ago. *sweat drop*)

Tuesday: USA Day. Ironically, it was also Mexican Independence Day. Since the grades were competing to see which grade would have more people that dressed up, I wore red, white, and blue. (Tastefully, might I add.) I was not that surprised to see so many Southern folk have so many clothes with the flag pattern. One guy even had an American flag towel tied around his neck like a cape.

Wednesday: Fresh Prince 90's Day, perhaps the funnest of all. I borrowed a pair of my sister's pants that have a really colorful Indian pattern on them with a striped shirt layered over a navy blue shirt, Converse, and my Spongebob snapback to top it off. Plenty of people wore 90's stuff, but I really only saw, like, 2 or 3 people that did Fresh Prince 90's besides me.

Okay, and guess what they had for the last hour of school?

A beauty pageant.

A beauty pageant where guys dress up as girls.

It was pretty dang hilarious. SO worth $3.

Thursday: Class Day. Every grade had a different theme. Freshmen were twins, Sophomores had fake injuries, Juniors were babies, and Seniors were senior citizens. Some people really took this seriously, which made me happy. Since I'm currently a sophomore (aw dang, I'm OLD!) I had a bandage around my head and a knee brace thingy from when my sister needed to use those.

That day, I found out that my gay friend (still need to come up with a clever name) was a little into special effects makeup! During first period, he was using silicone and paint and all of that to make some gnarly stitches and stuff for his best friend. (*tear* I have been dropped to "friend" instead of "best friend"!) He had also made a funny little fake mustache the day before, but I had not realized that he actually had equipment for special effects makeup.

Friday: School Spirit Day, the day of the Homecoming game and dance. All the grades dressed in different colors (my grade was white). The whole school day was very tiresome.

We all reported to our first period for role call, and then about half an hour(?) later everyone filed into the gym and went into the bleachers separated by grade. There was something called the Class Olympics, where kids signed up to represent their grades in some short competitions. I didn't know very many sophomores that were playing, but I still rooted them on like there was no tomorrow. (I also secretly rooted for the freshmen since I have some friends in 9th grade, but I wasn't supposed to.)

By then, it was 5th period (yes, we were there for hours), which is also lunch. We did nothing there. After that, we went to 6th for role call again, and then we all went to the gym (again) and the auditorium, half the school in one and half in the other. In the gym, we watched what I guess was the school news, since there were student reporters and stuff in the video. In the auditorium, we played Family Feud, one grade pitched against the other. It was freshmen against sophomores, and I have to say... some of the people that went up are kinda stupid, especially on the freshmen side. They often repeated answers or said answers that do not answer the question, repeated the same answers that do not answer the question... The room was so filled with frustration.

Finally, at the end of all this, we all went into the gym (AGAIN) and had a pep rally.

Saturday: We brought our friend from the sock hop (I'll call her Kay, which is her middle name) to the Spanish branch party, along with a guy the missionaries asked us to bring. (He is a very recent convert.) While it was pretty slow at first, it eventually got to the dancing and was a blast. There was even a clown there, which did some stuff for the kids (most of it I participated in *nervous chuckle*), and then was making balloon animals and stuff for all of them until the end of the party. Kay and I had eventually gone over to get us some balloon swords! When I held both of those red swords, I kind of felt like Kirito from SAO. *dramatic fighting pose* Kay told me that she wants to keep coming to the parties with us, which is cool. (She learned how to Latin dance super fast, unlike some other Gringos. That made me happy.)

Now, for this week (which luckily is not as much)!

In Career Prep, we had to make All About Me Powerpoints (like that hasn't been done before), but the teacher let us choose whether we would present to the class or not. I thought I would probably not do it, but I saw that not many people were volunteering. Plus, I realized it was possibly an opportunity to make new friends, or just for people to know me better since I don't talk much. Once I saw one of my friends go up (turns out she speaks a little German!), I decided to just kick my own butt up to presenting. I heard a few people comment that they didn't know I speak Spanish and wanted help with Spanish and blahblahblah after I did the presentation. Although I doubt most of it was really all that interesting and memorable (maybe people will remember the long list of towns and schools I've gone to...), I liked that people now knew me a bit better, at least those in that class.

On Friday, I finally finished the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series for the 2nd time! *whooooooooooo* I also watched some more episodes of Pandora Hearts. I am so glad I decided to watch it! It's pretty intense and awesome!

My family went to the temple for the first time in Alabama! (Yeah, I know, we should've visited already! Shutyofaceeeeeee) It is so tiny! It's the same size as the chapel right next to it! We went with the Spanish Branch. We came back home super late, so I didn't have the time or the energy to shower to get all the chlorine and stuff off me.

On Saturday, I Skyped with Broranges for a little over half an hour (so I could take the shower), then went to Kay's house. I was there for about 5 hours. (Dang, me!) While there, we watched some of the first season of Glee and ate Chef Boyardee Beefaroni (I think the ravioli is better *cough*). Then, when her dad came back from the store, we tried to make cream puffs. Apparently, she had already made them before, but she accidentally got a different recipe this time. The puff itself came out perfect, but I accidentally burned the cream in the middle, so it looked gross. It still tasted okay (at least for me and some of her family members), but if I had not burned it, the cream puffs would've looked and tasted so much better.

After that was the General Women's Meeting that happens a week before General Conference. (♪It's that time of year again...♪) This time, almost everything they were talking about involved the temple! (Thank goodness we went the day before, cuz otherwise we all would've felt so guilty during it...)

I can't wait for General Conference to start! I always love the talks with the familiar faces! (Monson and Uchtdorf are probably my favorites.)