Start: 2:11 AM CST
Hi guys! To all you Americans out there, Happy Fourth of July! Today, we desecrated a flag by burning it! (Very unpatriotic, I might say.) Urr...read on to learn more!
In the morning, I woke up to bake brownies and make lemonade. I have to say, making brownies wasn't messy at all today! Lemonade, however, got sugar and water everywhere. Oy.
My family had hot pot for lunch today! That's when you take a machine, cook some soup inside the machine, and just serve it like that while it's on the table! (Pssh, I'm sure most of you know what hot pot is!) Shrimp, squid, tofu, tomatoes, okra... Oh my gosh, it was so spicy! And sooo good! Shoot. Now I want more hot pot.
After that, I headed over to Kathy's house...around 2 PM. They were already shooting fireworks, and I only did a few. We swept up the remains of the fireworks with brooms, and we went in to wash our hands and such.
Everyone came in to eat my brownies and lemonade! People liked the lemonade (although Melinda claimed that it tasted like water with just a HINT of taste), but no one really liked my brownies. They were hard as a ROCK. Zach kept hitting one of the brownies on the table, and it made this shaking noise, like hitting a rock on glass. (It just got a bit burned!!!) One batch was chocolate, and it was hard. The other one was caramel/chocolate (I accidentally caramalized the sugar while making the brownies!), and it was softer and more chewy.
We just sat around for a while, listening to some music (my mixed CD, yeah!), and then we went upstairs, where most of us sat in Kathy's room, looking up new Pokémon.
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl makes everything so complicated! There's like, Shiny Pokémon, Dark Pokémon, Ghostly Pokémon, Metallic Pokémon...what else?
What ever happened to the times when there were just regular Pokémon to catch? Now there are all these different varities... Ugh.
Oh, Janice wants a Dark Flame Rapidash. Sounds cool, but I have no idea what it is. (See? What ever happened to the time of regular Rapidash?!?!)
After that, we went to go eat food! Oh yeah!!! Sobia came, but Chi left! Before Sobia had come, Nickkie had lied to the group and said that Sobia had gotten an arranged marriage in Pakistan! (She was in Pakistan for the summer...) Everyone believed her! Wahaha! Oh, Aaron came too!
We all ate hamburgers, salad, meatballs, etc. Mmm, I loves me some meatballs. Sue was being made fun of because she ate her hamburger with a fork and knife!
Urrr... Zach was my queen, and I was his king. (It was a long table, and we were sitting opposite ends.) Also, Aaron was drinking out of my cup, and everyone started screaming, "OH MY GOSH! INDIRECT KISS!!!" Sue added, "I can't believe you stole their first kiss!!!" Aaron and Kathy were boyfriend/girlfriend, you see. He continued on drinking from the same cup. I feel honored... (bursts out laughing)
Zach also liked to act gay a lot around today too...
Sobia had to pass out gifts she got for us in Pakistan! Janice got these neat bracelets that have chains that connect to a ring. So cool! I, on the other hand, got two deputas, Muslim (and Indian) veils that people either wear around their head or around their neck like a scarf. Sobia said they were damaged a bit, and the ones she got were for women, but I still loved them so much! (I even went crazy and tried them on!)
Oh yeah! She gave all of us these little money-carrying jars! And she wrapped them all in newspaper! And on my newspaper, there was ads in Arabic (and English!) for job listings! (Oh my gosh!!! ARABIC!)
No wait. Now that I think about it, it's Urdu. Urdu just happens to use the same writing as Arabic. My bad!
After that, we went to go watch Shinobi, kind of like a Japanese version of Romeo and Juliet. Oh my gosh. It was so sad... (Alex, Whitney, and Huy were wandering around, pretending to be mimes!) But quickly, right after the movie finished, we were rushed out of the house to play with fireworks!
"Wah wah wah!" The scream of fireworks whistled through the foggy night air. We shot so many different kinds of fireworks, and even Janice's parents were there to watch too! So fun, so fun. Flowers, sparklers, rockets; they were all so cool to watch! After that, we swept up all the rocket remains (gotta keep the neighborhood clean!), and we had some cake! We started a bonfire with the leftover cardboard, napkins from our cake, and newspaper! Oy oy oy. Now we had more stuff to clean.
Oh, about the "burning-the-flag" thing. When we were burning the napkins, the napkins had pictures of the American flag on them. Ooh, we were burning pictures of flags! Janice's mom exclaimed, "That's unpatriotic!" And I also found out from Sue that burning newspaper was illegal.
So we just broke two rules. Oh, we are bad people!!!
About then, that's when everyone started to go home. I had to stay for a while though; my mom got lost on the way there, and she gave up and drove home. It was Zach that drove me home in the end.
After I got home, my mom told me that the rings that Sobia gave me looked like a girl's! (They were, but they were cool!) She said, "What if she put a curse on them?!" Then she later told me she lied about that so I wouldn't wear them. Grr, my friend wouldn't put a curse on rings for her friends!
So here I am. I'm tired, and it's about time to go to sleep.
Oh yeah. Yesterday (or technically, two days ago; July 3rd), I went to go see Ratatouille with Thi and Linh!!! Yay!!! It was so cool! "I once killed a man with this thumb!" That's my favorite line from the movie!
Bahaha... Linh thought I lived on a farm!!! (Well, my house IS near farm area...)
Oh yeah. People kept staring at me in the theatre. I wonder why...
I got home around 4 or 5 PM from the movies, and at 7 PM, my mom drove me to Barnes and Nobles to buy two books for summer reading: A Separate Peace and Lord of the Flies. I also bumped into Andy there! He was getting books for his summer reading too.
A day before that, I went biking with Alex around 3 or 4 PM! We biked all the way to a fireworks shop near Alex's house, where I bought $17 worth of sparklers! There were two old men, plus a lady that was working there. One old men kept saying in Vietnamese, "I can't believe they're wasting their money on these stupid things!" and when the woman was trying to put my fireworks in a bag, he replied, "Why don't you just throw them in the trash?" Wow, Vietnamese people are mean. I don't think he realized I could understand him, even though I was talking Vietnamese to the woman who was selling us the fireworks.
Alex stopped by a gas station right next to the fireworks place, bought some lighters (I wonder if they were suspicious that a teenager bought lighters) and some cheap candy, and we biked back to Alex's house, where she jumped through her bedroom window, put her fireworks in her room, and got out. I swore it looked so crazy. She was crawling in, the blinds were covering her up, and you could see her butt. How suspicious is that? (laughs)
We biked to Sue's house afterwards, so I could drop them off there. We were so thirsty!!! Oh boy. No one was home! So guess what? Me and Alex wrote "WE (heart) U SUE" with fallen flowers from her neighbor's tree. We were gonna get away with it too, but her dad pulled up in the driveway. Shoot. He knows now. He said that Sue was at Janice's house, and so, we headed there.
It was crazy. I pretended to be a samurai in front of Janice, holding my giant fireworks sparklers as if they were a giant sword. She served us some castellas and water! We looked through all the fireworks that they bought, and guess what I found out? The shop where Alex and me bought the fireworks was Sue's aunt's shop! Oh my gosh, I could've gotten a discount! I mean, $17 for 30 sparklers?! I could've bought food with that!!!
Oh yeah. Janice had a crazy idea that her house was gonna blow up from all those fireworks. Hehe.
After that, me and Alex headed home.
(Conclusion time!)
So yeah. That's been my past three days. I wish I could remember more, but I'm too lazy. And I never did finish writing the rest of my year, eh?
I have twelve weeks to cover. Prepare for hell, my readers.
I'm going to sleep. Good night!
P.S. I drew my final stage of Jynx! I'm inventing some Pokémon evolutions right now because Melinda inspired me to do so at Kathy's house! Oh yeah. Tangela's evolution is ugly.
End: 2:41 PM CST
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