Start: 8:30 PM CST
Hiya guys! I've come home!...two days ago... Right. I got too lazy to post. But I had SO MUCH FUN! Here's what happened.
Friday
I woke up at 3:30 AM to get ready, and got there around...5 PM. BUT! No one was there, so we waited in the van (me and my mom). After that, everyone started coming after and such. We all talked, moved our luggage from the classroom to the bus, and waited 'til...7 AM. Right when school was about to start. UGH.
Black beret with orange beanie on top! (Nestor called it a "Mexican style" and just shook his head disapprovingly... Eh?) Then Amir went to go play football while we waited.
And zen we left! The trip was fun! Watching movies! OH! And at the beginning, I was getting a sparkling water for Ashley, and Ashley wanted to open it, so she opened it, and it SPILLED EVERYWHERE!!! She kept looking at it like crazy until I grabbed it from her and closed it. Then we cleaned it up. (To this day--probably, she is still afraid of that soda...)
Oh...we noticed. There was a hole in the window that looked like a bullet shot through there. You know how bulletproof glass looks like when it's shot? Yah, there's like a circular-looking crack, but it's not cracked all the way. WEIRD. We all noticed it, and someone said, "Who would be shooting the bus...?" Akhil screamed, "REPRESENT!" (After that, people thought he was in a gang... *stares*)
First stop: Nam was playing around in the snow. I developed hat hair. It was really cold at first, but then started to snow. Ashley, James, and I were looking at the funky mirrors by the bathroom. The hand dryers? They're G-force, I tell ya.
Second stop: We visited a Whataburger in another city (by Forth Worth?), and we played in the snow. (There was more now.) Everyone was attacking each other like crazy, and after that, we went inside to eat.
Third stop: A place called Market...something. Lots of cool souvenirs there...but I didn't get anything.
So when we DID get to the Holiday Inn & Towers in Lubbock (around 7-8 PM???), everyone attacked each other with snow...and then we checked in.
We put all our stuff up, and then...I started to get sick. (Actually, I was sick while we were checking in.)
A bunch of us went to go eat at Denny's (across the street from the hotel), and it took FOREVER to get our food!!! So the 10 PM meeting was moved to 10:30 PM for us. I got hot chocolate and a sandwich. (I sat with James, Ashley, and Andreah', while Chi, Zach, Janice, and Kalem sat to the right of us. Semi-circle booths, you see.)
But Andreah' didn't eat anything. (She NEVER ate anything there!)
We headed back to the hotel, where we listened to the late meeting.
I went to sleep around...midnight??? Nam just stayed up all night (well, until 4 AM) listening to music and watching Adult Swim...
Friday
In the morning, I was woken up by Zach and Chi coming in, and Zach taking pictures of me and Nam sleeping. (We were in the same bed, you see...) And Zach was gonna Photoshop these pictures to...well, I think you should figure it out.
I really didn't care, I just fell back asleep.
I went over to Ashley's/Chi's/Janice's room to play DDR (but before that, trying to find a Robotics shirt), and then all of us rushed to my/Nam's room to wake him up. Ashley and I sat on him, attacked him, and whatnot. *sweats*
We headed to the Spirit Arena in Texas Tech University to get ready for everything. We signed in, and then took a shuttle bus out to eat. But we ate on campus...with a LONG line. People were just playing in the snow, and Sherman was playing in the snow, making a snowman. People were staring at him, and one of our chaperones said, "You know, this is his first time seeing snow." *laughs*
Ah...the food? Burnt. Not that great. But anyways...we headed back!
Um...some team members set up booth...which was UGLY, in my opinion. It was wooden boards (the structure was great), with paint in the style of the ocean, the kraken (the club's mascot), and a submarine. The paint job was UGLY. I wanted to change it...but I had no time.
Presentation team... Akhil, Parul, Ashley... They said they didn't do well.
I met new people! I wandered around, and looked at the booths. There was a Chinese-style booth. "House of Flying Laundry", it was called. *laughs*
I also got to talk with some of the people who passed by! I met Lisa, a Chinese girl from College Station. (Which isn't that far off from Houston.) First question she asked me: "Hey, are you Chinese?" (Just walked up to the booth and asked. *laughs*)
A lot of people got to see old rivals again (they saw them October?), and I got to meet them. One of them was Maggie, a girl from a school called St. Agnes?
After setting up, we headed towards the hotel.
A group of us (Nestor, Catherine, Chi, Nick, etc.) went over to Wal-Mart. Chi and I bought more winter clothes (scarves, hats, etc.), and Catherine bought fruit and bathroom/hygiene stuff.
Umm...THEY ate at Wal-Mart, but they were leaving me, so I just RAN off after them with McDonald's food in my hands, plus heavy bags filled with sparkling waters and a scarf. *sweats*
Nick and some others spent their money on Yu-Gi-Oh! cards... *sweats*
Okay, why did we need to be back FAST? We wanted to go see the "Carol of Lights" event at Texas Tech, and...we were late.
The roads were lined with candles...inside McDonald's bags... They lead towards the front, which was crowded with a bunch of people. Catherine, me, and Andreah' tried to get up, but we lost Andreah' in the crowd. So Catherine and I decided to hold hands and go forward. We eventually found Chi, Bee-Ling, Jonathan, and etc.
Suddenly, the soft Christmas carols turned more dramatic, and people started throwing their glow sticks into the air (I wanted one!), and suddenly, the darkness turned into dazzling lights, hung on the buildings and Christmas trees. Ah...the music after that was SO BEAUTIFUL. Catherine said she wished she knew how to play violin again.
Then...we learned we lost Andreah'!!! GASP! But the teachers didn't let us look for her! (And the phone number she gave me was WRONG! I kept getting a guy named Dennis... He had an African accent.) We had to walk to Spirit Arena...by foot. Which was a few blocks away.
Nick was really happy. We practiced the cheers for the competition. (Since when is NICK happy to cheer???) Catherine and I felt REAL guilty that we left Andreah' by herself...
So...we started to decorate our place with our banners. BUT! We weren't allowed to do that. (And...Andreah' showed up later...quiet.)
After that, we headed back to our hotel...and practiced more cheers...until...11:30-ish? Then I fell asleep around midnight.
Saturday
Ah...I woke up arond 6:45 AM (LATE!) and readily got dressed for the Robotics Competition! I went into Bee-Ling's room, where I saw Nam trying to straighten his hair, along with the other girls. Nam...he failed unsuccessfully. *sweats* We started applying our green face paint...but I didn't finish.
When I got to Spirit Arena, I tried to finish my paint, and oncomers came by and laughed and said, "A bit early for the war paint, eh?" and another man (while I was trying to wash the paint off my fingers) said, "Can't get it off, huh?" *laughs*
Ah...lots of cheering, and it was real fun! And we even got some other teams to root for us! YAY!
Bee-Ling and I had to head to the booth around 10:30 AM to do some Q&A for the team. Ah, Zach stayed with us because to him, it seemed like we knew nothing about the robot. *sweats* And it was true.
Ashley invented a game to throw coins into containers (a megaphone, a can, a soda bottle), and if you made it, you got beads! Oh! Later, we switched it to throwing beads on the megaphone...which was on someone's head. Jonathan was first. Hehe...Megaphone Head. Like that movie with Triangle Head??? Yah. *laughs*
Back and forth, I moved. And quickly, I fell asleep...for like two hours.
I was the mascot every now and then, and everyone commented, "Nice hat!" or "I like your hat!", and one guy even commented, "I WANT YOUR HAT!!!!" *sweats*
Here's something funny that happened:
Me (wearing a Kraken hat): What sounds do Krakens make?
Andreah': I don't know...
Me: MEOW!!!!
Andreah': CATS DON'T MEOW!
Me: *starts speaking gibberish*
Andreah': ...
Me: I'm speaking Kraken...
Andreah': Well Kraken sounds like gibberish...
*both of us bursted out laughing*
Oh! And I think I started a style at the competition! There was a bunch of ways I was wearing my red handkerchief. Scout-style, ascot, folding it into a strip and tying it around my neck. No one was doing that on Friday. But on Saturday, I see all these people doing it! (Wow, I started a fad...AGAIN!)
We went out to eat...somewhere around noon, at a place called Furr's. It was a buffet, and I took a lot of food. (More than I could handle!) Nam seemed depressed and he said that some people there were hypocrites... Huh.
Andreah' still didn't eat anything. She had peanut butter she bought.
At the end, everyone was going CRAZY for these finger jackets, and spending all their quarters.
But before we entered the restaurant, a man with a beige cowboy hat asked why we had green paint on our faces. (Earlier, I told Ashley to tell people that we were mutants.) She said that we fell into dumpsters...and then she stopped talking. She realized what she said... And we bursted out laughing.
What she wanted to say: We fell into dumpsters and mutated into mutants.
We came back around 1 PM... Oh yeah! We left Catherine and Amir there... Aww.
We didn't have a band, so we used things we could find. Banging bottles on the chair, tambourines, megaphones, and we made a zydeco band!
A zydeco band is a band that uses regular/household items as musical instruments.
We played along with a band from another team and it was fun!
Ah...we made it to semi-finals! But then...we died. Well, we didn't pass finals. We scored 1th place! Out of 48 teams! Which isn't that bad!
We won third for shirt design and second for "Most Elegant Robot". We were ALL STUMPED. A robot...ELEGANT?! But they were referring to the robot's design.
Next year's competiton: Build a robot that can survive and explore Mars! (THAT SOUNDS SO COOL!!!)
After each genre of prizes they finished, they had a cool light show, where me, Akhil, Mariah, and Jonathan started break dancing to. *laughs* (Well, I was the only one raving...and we were in the bleachers...so yah.) It was so fun though! *laughs*
So after the competition was over, we went out to eat at Logan's. Ashley and Andreah' ate peanut butter...AGAIN.
I ate with Ashley, Kalem, Grant, and Grant's mom. Parul's parents came here too! (Wow!)
We ordered food, and talked with the waiter, especially Grant and his mom, about sports. And then we talked about the Robotics Competition.
Andreah' and Ashley were sent to a Staples store, and then it closed, so they went over to Toys 'R Us, where Ashley bought a small blue Naruto headband! Ah...Ashley and Andreah' were starting to make Mr. Ruggles angry... (Always running off, getting lost.)
We headed back to the hotel. I first walked to Wal-Mart to buy gloves alone (since I couldn't find James!!!), but there were no more gloves being sold.
I then headed to the pool, with Catherine, Bee-Ling, Nam, and Jonathan, where we stayed in the jacuzzi...with foamy stuff. (Later, I found out that "foamy stuff" was actually boiled chlorine... Ew.)
On that whole trip, there were these group of girls that kept flirting with Nam and Jonathan, calling them "hot". And the first night, they called Jonathan's room and said they were having a boob contest to see who had the biggest boobs. (Jonathan was like, "What the hell?!")
And in the pool, the girls kept giggling whenever they saw Jonathan... They didn't go INTO the pool, but there was a glass wall (windows and doors) before you entered the pool, and the girls were on the elevator...which was...glass.
Then we spent the rest of the night playing video games. ARGH! Mariah lost her memory card!!! So I spent time looking for it, and then we realized Kalem took it! (He said he DIDN'T take it, but he DID! On accident!)
Nam found two other cards... One was Akhil's...and a transparent blue one...whose we don't know.
And...we all fell asleep in one room. Akhil, Marish, me, Ashley, Jonathan, Bee-Ling, Nam...etc.
At first we were playing Soul Calibur III, then DDR, but then Kalem wanted to play Devils May Cry, so we watched video clips...and all fell asleep. We woke up at...6-7 in the morning and readily got ready to leave.
I had breakfast with Chi, Janice, and Ashley downstairs, and then we left.
I slept most of the time. I was woken up, and I realized I had DROOLED all over my clothes, and ughh... Stupid braces.
Our first stop was at that Market place...but I didn't feel like getting up.
Our next stop was around 3-4 PM, in Fairfield, Texas, where we had lunch at a place called Sam's Restaurant. Gah, so many cool antiques!!! I had lunch with Catherine, Chi, and Janice, but since we talked, we didn't get to eat lunch all the way. And I wanted to stop to buy presents for my family. A white dog plushie for my sister and a hand-painted stained glass windows (with a purple hummingbird sucking honey out of a purple flower) for my mom. But Mr. Ruggles was getting impatient because we had to leave soon.
Ah...Janice turned on Howl's Moving Castle on her laptop for us to watch, but we didn't get to see it all the way. We all think the Witch of the Waste is a pedophile. *laughs*
Ah...when I got to the school, all I got to do was get my stuff, and I was rushed home by my sister and mom. I never got to say good-bye. WAH.
We went to a gas station, and then home, where I unpacked and gave my family their gifts. My mom? She said I spent too much money on it ($10) and that I could've gotten a cheaper one at a dollar store. (I get you a really expensive gift and this is what you say???)
Ah...my dad got home...somewhen.
They didn't go to church school that day...
Monday
Ah...back to school. OY SHOOT. My bell... It rang, but I never ACTUALLY got up! WAHH.
Ivan came over to watch people play cards.
IPC - Did tests from last week
Transition - Talked about Robotics trip
World Geography - South America map test...I think I failed it.
Fitness - At first, I was playing volleyball with Christina and Dominique, but I gave up. I talked a bit with Raul and Kai... Kai...didn't answer. It wasn't until the end of the period that he told me to shut up because I was annoying. (Wah.)
He was also carrying a pink cylindrical lunch box, and he said it wasn't his. But when Raul asked, he said it WAS his, and that he was manly (???) because he was carrying pink. *laughs*
No Robotics...a break from work for one more day...and for rest.
The trip home was nice. I walked with Anita and we had a nice chat.
After that, Diana wanted me to go to Anh Nhi's house. After me struggling, trying to do my laundry and stuff, we left towards there! Anh Nhi and Diana just wanted to show me a doll...a naked "boy" doll...which had its private parts... (What kind of person sews private parts on a stuffed animal?!)
We spent the day playing Wii, like Wii Sports, and played with her webcam. When her mom came home, we had coconut/fruit cake. Yum.
Anh Nhi's sister came home around 6-7 PM, and she brought her boyfriend. Her name is Moonie (nickname?) and her boyfriend's name is Minh. They're both freshmen in college, I think...
We played Red Steel (a Wii game), and it was SO HARD for me to adjust to the controller! Ahh...he killed us so many times! Moonie kept hitting Minh because he took advantage of killing the beginners (A.K.A. me and my sister).
We biked home (Minh tried to steal our bikes earlier--he left them by a garden hose rack), with me sneezing.
Our mom didn't come home until 2 hours later...
Anh Nhi admitted on having a crush on me. But she thinks I'm gay...I think. She told me this online. She said, "I have a crush on a gay guy... Oy..." *laughs* I don't know how to take that.
Tuesday/Today
I woke up late...and the bus ALMOST left!!! NOO! I gotta get used to waking up early...again.
In the morning, I chatted with Vu (well, he was the only one doing the signing), and I went back to my table, with Ivan still watching the Magic card game. He'll play Nick tomorrow, he said.
P.E. - Umm...Jonathan (black one, not the Hispanic one from the Robotics trip) said that he wanted to try a man-on-man situation, and he just wanna see how it feels... And Whitney backed away...FAR. (Okay...I never knew Jonathan was like that.)
Digital Graphics - Not any work. We had a sub. Geraldine played online games and Richelle was watching "Heroes" online...with French subtitles. I couldn't read it at all...until she gave me one of the headphones.
I was late for Advisory! I went to third period! *sweats*
For English, we read the ending of "The Odyssey"! So it's finished. And...then we went to lunch.
In Lunch, I sat by Rodrigo, who was sitting with Alma. And I was just watching what they were writing to each other about...
English again. We went to the computer lab, and suddenly, the fire alarm went off!!! We all rushed outside to the parking lot, where I saw my Deaf friends. I talked with them, and then we saw fire trucks coming this way and smoke coming from the arena!
We didn't know WHAT was happening, so I just talked to them. I met another signer! She's not Deaf, but she knows a bit of sign language, so that was good.
Later, I learned that the fire started in the U hallway and spread through...four more hallways? Some boy took something, burned it, threw it into the trash can, and then it caught on fire and spread. (At least, that's what I heard from Anita.) And it happened in the Social Studies hall...
Miriam was explaining about last year, when they had the mercury spill, they had to sit in the football field and they got so hungry... *laughs*
Oh, Karen cut her hair! She has bangs now!
We came back to our classroom and it was HOT! It cooled back down, and Mariah made a rhyming song about "Emma had a dilemma". I made a song too!
Nicole had a pole
The pole's name was Joe
Joe was a...
And I never finished it.
We took a paint quiz, and it was so correct! *laughs*
So...we went home since (I think) all the activities were answered. I asked a black girl, and she said, "I don't know." and a black guy by her said, "What do you think we have clubs today or not?!" But he was kidding. *sweats*
I said "hi" to Na Nhi, and her friend asked, "Who is he?" (Isn't it funny to hear one of your friend's friend ask that? *laughs*)
So I went home...and now I'm here. I spent a while cleaning and doing laundry and my parents just came home a bit ago, with my mom being angry at my dad.
I need to finish homework. Bye guys!
End: 9:45 PM CST
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