Start: 10:20 PM CST
Oy, I haven't posted in a WEEK!!! I thought, "EH...I don't wanna post today!" and it would've made it EIGHT days, but eh... Can't keep this laziness up, now, can I?
Friday
I was trying to talk to Ivan in the morning, but he looked so sleepy... (Or was that because of his hood?) And then he started reading a manga... (I can't remember. It was either "Ranma 1/2" or "Trigun"...)
In IPC, we were learning about combustion, and our teacher did the coolest thing! She took a plastic 5 gal. water bottle (dry, of course), coated the inside with alcohol and stuck a match inside, and BAM! The fire travled into a circular motion and shot out of the mouth!!! It was SO COOL!!! And then the excess was water... Combustion creates carbon dioxide and water. La.
Transition: Hmm...I finally sold a Dominoes' card!!! YAY!!! Mrs. L bought one!
Saturday
Uhh...I went shopping at Kohl's around...3 PM with my mom and I bought new jeans and such! Oh! At the cashier place, my mom handed over her keys to dig in her purse for her pocketbook, and the clerk (an elderly lady) said, "You're going to let him drive???" *laughs*
After that, we headed to H-E-B and bought food. I rushed over to OfficeMax to pick up my project supplies, and we went home.
Sunday
Uhh...church school! The beginning started with a bunch of us playing Thirteen (playing cards) at a desk, and then we went our separate ways.
In Confirmation class, we had a guest speaker, who was a woman who used to be Buddhist a few years back, but converted because she felt that the Holy Spirit had touched her. (And she was our guest speaker.) We had two, really. A guy, and then the woman.
After that, they asked all the students to come form a circle around the altar and all the TAs started praying for each person. (They would pray by putting their hand in front of a person's forehead, and would do it two persons at a time.) Then, I saw a bunch of people started to cry... And, then, I listened to what the TAs were praying it... It wasn't English...it was TONGUE!!! I IMMEDIATELY recognized the language, even if I didn't know the language itself. If you don't know what it is, it's the language of the angels, and it's used to prophecize. You can't learn this language though. It's like...a temporarily language, given to you by God, for him to talk to you (even though you can't understand). I was so thrilled to hear it for the first time, but everyone else was like, "Eh."
I spent ALL night doing my Geometry project! (I had a month to do it, and I rush on the last night?!) Oh! Vu didn't know to do it either, so he started on it too! He asked me to bring a sheet of poster board for him... I was so tired. I only half finished it. (I did the board, but I was also supposed to do a 3-D model of my kitchen.)
Monday
In the morning, our usual bus driver wasn't there, and we got a sub! The sub saw that there was three people to a seat, and that it wasn't safe, so he asked another bus to drive some students to school. (Students: "YAY!!!") So, me, Izien, Felix, and Dominique went to the new bus. But it was so horrible!!!
First, we learned that the bus gets 45 MINUTES AFTER our bus gets to the school!!! Secondly, the bus was held in traffic because of a bus not moving!!! GAH!!!
But we did get to talk to Kathy! That was nice... She said that she and her family went camping recently... (In the fall???)
Ah...in Computer Graphics class, I asked where Vu was so I could give his poster board to him. Oh! And I finished my starfish/rabbit. (If I EVER get a USB drive, I'll show you guys what it looks like.)
Uhh...Derrick and Mat sat with us again. They were being crazy again. Miriam signed that he was crazy and--I didn't understand the rest. I have an idea what she said, but not exactly. Anyways...yeah.
English...we had to do skits off of "The Odyssey"! We did a scene where they were at the Cyclops' place, and we were the sheep. (Well, Nicole and Mariah were the Cyclops, they were piggy-backing; Nicole was on top with a paper eye-patch) and I was one of the sheep. (My backpack was a man... *laughs*) Dalisa saw us practicing in the hallway, and she thought I was nuts. (Uhh... *sweats*)
Geometry...uhh...we had a test! Also, I turned in my project half-done. But even if I finish and turned it in late, I'll still get the same grade if I finish it and turn it in late. (That's what Reba told me.)
In Robotics Club, I forgot to bring my toy!!! GRARGHHH... So what did I work on...? I FORGOT! *laughs* OH YEAH!!! I went outside, and I saw a bunch of people there. Janelle, Andreah, Alvin, Bee-Ling, Nick, and Jonathan. Bee-Ling was teaching Nick and Jonathan how to...something-dance. (I forgot the name of the dance!) But Bee-Ling had to do something, so she asked Jonathan and Nick to practice dancing with each other. (Alvin said, "I wish I had my camera with me!") Later, I had to practice with them too. (Ah...camera. None. *laughs*)
Oh yeah! Janelle, Andreah, Alvin, and I were pretending to be Soul Calibur/Tekken/Final Fantasy characters! We were fighting with PVC pipes! Janelle was Tifa, I was Cloud (but I had a broken back--that's what Cloud gets for lugging that large sword around!!!), and so forth. So when we were battling, I pretended to have a bad back, and my PVC pipe was a cane. *laughs*
We also tried to make a human pyramid. I was on the bottom. (Surprisingly, they're not heavy. *laughs*)
ARGH!!! No late buses that day! Me, Jonathan, and Alvin were waiting for our rides, and we just sat there, drinking fruit juice and eating ice cream... And I took pictures of Alvin's origami and such.
I didn't get picked up until...7-8 PM, but before that, a bunch of students (including Tina, Whitney, Niyathi, and Shanna) were all dressed-up for some student ceremony... To get their letterman jackets, I think.
So after that, my mom drove to Cici's Pizza, where we ordered pizza. And then we went home.
Tuesday
In the morning, Paulina was crying because Lauren called her "anorexic". (In sign language.) And well...she got over it a bit. I wanted to help, but I didn't know what to sign... I didn't know her that well. So...we got into a conversation with video games! She has a Nintendo...the old kind, I think.
In IPC...we had...an exam.
Transition: Karen asks if I want to go ice-skating with her, and Dondria picks on us, saying that it's a date.
Transition: Kaether borrows my calculator. (Haven't gotten it back yet.) We printed out HHS Academy papers. (I wonder if I can join 2 Academies...)
In Lunch, I sat with Paulina and we signed to each other for a bit...but I was REALLY surprised Mat and Derrick didn't sit with us! (I saw them a while ago...) Sean looked sad... Carolina always looks kinda a bit unhappy when she sees me. (Or maybe she's just tired.) And when I tried to talk to Shoaib by his classroom, he told me to go to class. (Not in a mean way, but kinda expecting me to leave. Huh. What's he up to?) He was kinda hiding behind the door, peering out the window... Eh...
Then comes Karen and her friends. And Jessica...and Tiffany...and Arianne. They start DRAGGING ME and TRYING to make me hold hands with Karen!!! So they kept dragging me (while I was trying to sign to Shoaib) and Karen goes, "How rude! He's trying to have a conversation with someone!" and I thinking Arianne was signing "House! House house!" to Shoaib. (Or was it "Hello!"???)
Uhh...in Fitness, we sat in the bleachers and drew the whole period. Raul had a Nintendo magazine and I saw previews of "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess"!
Christina made a comment about the Gorons being rocks on crack... Or we being on crack and it SEEMS LIKE the rocks are talking to us. *laughs*
Ah...outside, there was a pep rally, and everyone was watching, even the Deaf students. Oh! And my Deaf friends had sold cakes and stuff from catalogs (you know those fundraising things your school asks you to do?) and were holding the boxes with the food to give out to the people who bought it.)
Anyways, I was telling Alma about me maybe going ice-skating with Karen and I told her I couldn't skate, and she laughed, and imitated me falling down on the ice. *laughs* I also learned that Geraldine knew how to ice-skate...
Also, Rahim was walking around in these sunglasses, trying to look cool, and he comes to me, and says there are these twin girls inside. (I think he said "hot" twin girls? Shoot, I need to pay attention to signs more.)
In Robotics, I did some flag practicing with Bee-Ling and the group! After that, I stayed (called my mom to pick me up), and I played a Stickman online shooting game with Kalem, Nestor, and another guy. AGH, I kept dying!!!
Then...pizza came! (By then, it was...6-7 PM?) I started to eat, but learned that it cost to eat the pizza! (Why didn't anyone tell me?!) So I paid right there... (Thank goodness they had extra pizza.) We got a soda, and we ate... I brought an extra slice for my mom...
Then we went to Dominoes and got four pizzas for my brother and sister...
Wednesday
Ah...sleeping in...until noon. Vu didn't wake up until 1 AM. Nickkie told me there was a thingy at Janice's house, and asked if I was going. (Melinda, Nida, Vy, Huy, and Sue were going too!) I said okay, and asked if Alex and Vu (who didn't know any of them) if they wanted to go.
So after waiting for Alex's permission (her parents weren't home!) I headed off to Vu's house first! First of all, I couldn't find Vu's house number. (Did he give me the wrong one?) But he comes out of his house, with his sleeping clothes still on, and invites me in. Then, he goes upstairs to change, and his little brother starts signing to me. Ah...but I talked, to tell him I was hearing. *laughs* His name's Bao, and he asked me for my MySpace name... (What's with it and people to get a lot of friends on MySpace...?) So Vu and I go off... I told Vu to bring his bike, but he wanted to walk. So we went off!
Ah...by Kathy's house, I see her sister and her friends (relatives?) washing their parents' car, and squirting each other soaking wet. I asked if they saw Alex... They said "no". But out in the corner, I see Alex coming by!
So I introduce them to each other, and I keep on trying to sign to Vu, but you can't hold a bike and sign at the same time, ya know? So I offer to switch back and forth on my bike with Vu... (So that he doesn't get tired.) Ah...we finally get there, and he sees all (well, most) of them coming out, and he gets this shy, awkward look on his face. (Is it because there were so many people? Or that they were all girls?)
So...lots of people pushing, locking doors, and then, Janice's garage door messed up. Janice invited us in, and asked if we wanted a drink or s'mores... (I had to translate.) Ah...but then, all the friends had to leave except Sue, Janice, me, Vu, and Alex. (Nickkie was so depressed because she wanted to sign with Vu!!!)
Janice's TV messed up for a while... But it worked again.
So...we tried to get Vu into a conversation. I started off trying to translate everything people said. Sue kept BEATING ME UP (stepping on me, punching me in the back to the point where I want to throw up, throwing pillows at me) because I was either signing and not speaking English at the same time, or she thought I called her "crazy". At first, I said, "They're all excited and crazy..." because there is no ASL word for "hyper" (it's also considered "slang"), I think... But Sue took that as "crazy" and punched me...HARD. Now, my sign for "thinking" looks like "crazy", and she punched me whenever I signed "thinking"...
I also tried to sign a story about a ghost named Fred that likes Sue's kitchen. (She was telling a story.)
And also, I was trying to sign a conversation between Alex and Vu. About sports. What sports they were good with, what they were not, etc. It was nice.
Now I'm thinking of giving Alex a sign name! Maybe..."X" with "cool". But that looks like apple! We could combine "A" and "X" with "girl" and "cool", bu that looks like "apple girl"... Ah, it's so hard to choose. It has to fit her personality, but I don't know...
AH! I just thought of one! Kinda complicated, but it's worth it...
There was something Vu said that made me feel bad. He admitted, "I hate being Deaf. I wish I could hear." and it just made people quiet... Then Sue talked about if Sue was Deaf, her mom would be angry and blame her dad, because her dad's side already has two mentally ill sisters...and her mom thinks she's starting to go crazy.
...
Ya know, it's funny. When I first told them I was bringing a Deaf guy over, they got SO EXCITED and started saying (overhearing), "I know sign language!", "I know my ABCs!", "Does anyone know sign language?", "Travis knows sign language!", and stuff like that! And then when they come over, they seem scared to talk to him. (Weird...) I hate communication barriers.
So anyways, I said that Sue was more violent than Dalisa, but I don't think I signed that correctly. Then he told me that Dalisa thinks I'm a "fag". (There's a sign for that, believe it or not.) Ahh...that's so mean! He told me Dalisa has problems...and signed the word for "crazy"... *laughs*
So...we all split up to go home, and I got home...LATE. UGH. Like, RIGHT BEFORE the sun goes down. I see Said (older one) and Josue biking around, and the neighborhood kids playing basketball with each other, and they wanted me to play basketball and ride bikes with them, but I had to stay home and cook...
So I made cranberry sauce...
Thursday/Today
I woke up around 7 AM, and got ready for church. We went to church at 8 AM, and it finished at 9 PM. We went to Walgreens for some stuff, and I went home, and started cooking right away! OH! THE HORROR!!! I started cooking a bunch of stuff, and I felt so miserable, especially with no one helping me, and everyone was being such a...GAH!
Here's what we made:
Mom:
Turkey
Me:
Mashed Potatoes (FROM SCRATCH!!!)
Candied yams (messed-up)
Stuffing (messed-up)
Cornbread
Bundt cake (turned out good, but it broke when coming out of the pan; my mom later made it into a mint chocolate ice cream cake!)
Cranberry sauce
Diana:
Biscuits
Ricky:
Nothing (except eating; he wouldn't even help wash dishes!!!)
We cooked...and slaved on a hot stove and oven!!! And I'm STILL HUNGRY!!!
Oh yeah. When we were about to eat (start cooking around 10 AM, finished around 5 PM), my mom started cutting into the turkey. GUESS WHAT?! There was still blood in it!!! GAHH!!!!!!!!!!
No one really had an appetite today... Unh...
So...after that, I took a break and played Gunbound and chatted on AIM.
I'm tired. Let me sleep. Night!
End: 11:36 PM CST
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