Awesome week

Hi, my week went quite well afterwards. My interview in the U.S. embassy was fine, I got my Visa to go over to San Francisco so I'm really excited about it now. I just have to pay off the rest of my flights, find a job and find a place to live.

John and Hank were amazing in Dublin, it was so cool to see them live. I got John and Hank to sign my books. Also Hank was wearing a horsehead.

 Your argument is invalid. :D

They put up a thoughts from places video for Dublin, I really enjoyed it. Something that's always struck me about Dublin is it's bizarre architecture. I thought Hank really captured what I had always wanted to put into words.

I was at a rugby match today, it was between Ireland and England, England won (sad face). It wasn't a great match but oh well, it was nice to be there.

I have a hectic week with a lot of assignments due, it's going to be tough to get everything finished and done to a good standard. So that's a bit nerveracking.

Nemo

I have had the worst/ best week depending on how you look at it.

It would be the worst week if you count yesterday, having nemo come through wasn't the best of times.   I probably got almost twenty inches of snow in my front yard. If you count it, there have been three major disasters in the recent months. That small earthquake that disrupted southern Rhode Island over the summer, hurricane Sandy, and now Nemo the blizzard. I lost power for two hours and it kept flickering on and off until about midnight. So from a weather perspective, awful.

However from my prospective, everything this week was absolute awesomesauce. I don't know if you guys are familiar with Soulpancake, or their segment with Kid President, but his Pep Talk video is everywhere! My sister's English teacher had the video emailed to them around the first week it released, and showed it to her class. THEN my nerdfighter of a History teacher showed it to my class. I was in the back going OH MY GOD I LOVE EVERYTHING KID PRESIDENT AAAHHHHH! So that was awesome. And because of nemo I earned a three day weekend because of the statewide emergency.

The only notsome thing was that my schools production of Twelfth Night was going to be today, and my favorite teacher who left before this year started was going to come and visit to see the play. However Community started it's new season Thursday and it was pretty awesome. You can tell the writers are new though. However its a spoof of the Hunger Games, so props.

Adam I'm sure everything went awesome and you had a good interview and an awesome time at the nerdfighter event! Campion I'm sure your boredom will end soon and life will give you lemons. Keep that expression in mind, knowing that you can supply sugar, otherwise your lemonade will be really sour. Deidra I hope the crush thing gets better, I'm kind of struggling with that too. Hang in there! Kayla I would love to go see Bill Nye the Science Guy, I'm extremely jealous! Kate and Kira I hope you guys had awesome weeks too!

I watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close last night on a charged laptop and it was really good. It came out forever ago, but if you have the time you should go and watch it! Very powerful. I have to write a short story for English and I don't know where to start. I'm mostly worried that I write something really awful. Okay well I'll see you next week!

~Katie

It's midterm season again.

Ok short post this week because my bio midterm is tomorrow and I should be studying right now. Sorry about missing my post last week, I was sick and went to be right after getting home from school and completely forgot. I'm all better now which is good, wouldn't want to be sick for the rest of my midterms. Hope everyone's doing well. I got tickets to see Bill Nye the Science Guy in March which is exciting. I also saw the movie Warm Bodies. It was pretty good, but way different from the book. Anyway got to go now. (I wish reading week would get here already.)
DFTBA
Kayla

Nope.

     I reached the point in my day where I did not want to do anything productive any more way too early in the day, and therefore completely forgot about my post. Not that I have very much to say. I am behind a bit in work, and have a paper due next week along with a midterm and lots of reading. And to top that off I am going through stupid personal crush-type things that are totally plugging up my mind. I mostly want to curl up in a ball and sleep though the next week, and then have Kayla comfort me over reading week. 

     And yeah. That's it. Too much going on internally for me to think of anything better. Continue to be awesome, mis amigos.
-Deidra

And then some more stuff happened

My life has become very boring lately. Mostly consisting of me trying to find work, not getting any, lying around the house and doing odd jobs for various family members in order to earn some money. On Tuesday I went out with my uncle to do some filming, he works for one of the local T.V channels and we were filming one a meeting between the members of one of the local tribes. I couldn't understand what the meaning was about (they spoke mostly in Maori, which I don't speak), I think that it may have been about the organisation of their tribe or something along those lines, I'm really not sure.

Also I've been spending a lot of my time helping out grandfather clean up and re paint his house. He and my grandmother are retiring soon and they want to move, so I'm helping them to do up their house so they can move. I've actually been enjoying myself helping them, it keeps me busy and helps me to earn a bit of money and I really enjoy spending time with them.

I'm helping him tomorrow, so I need to get some rest
Have an awesome week guys
DFTBA

Incredibly nervous

I'm really really nervous. This wednesday I have my interview at the U.S. embassy in Dublin. I feel like Chandler in Friends when he has to go for an interview. I'm just so worried that I'll say something stupid and they won't let me into the country. I know that's really unlikely as long as I have all my documents in order but THERE ARE SO MANY DOCUMENTS. I'm almost certain I'm going to forget or lose something. Ok, deep breaths. Smiley face.

On the bright side, in the evening after my interview I'm going to see John Green so that'll either make me feel better or make the day even more awesome.

Thanks for the tax information, it seems kinda strange to me that the price on shelf would be different to what you pay at the till. Like I don't really see what benefit there is to it. But I'm sure I'll adjust pretty quickly if and when I'm over there :)

My exams went surprisingly well, especially considering I was so sick for most of them. The first bit of this new semester has been pretty easy, it'll probably escalate a bit as time wears on but it's definitely less intense than last semester.

I left this post way too late so I'm going to go to bed.
DFTBA
Adam

Happy February

Hey all!

I didn't post last week because I had to babysit a friends daughter, and she came to my house to spend the night, because she's not much younger than me. Anyway it would have been weird if I just said "wait like an hour while I go do something..." However I am here now and that's all that matters.

This week was BEYOND stressful, I probably was in tears almost every day. That's right it was the end of the semester. I get my grade report next week, and the worst thing is if my grades go down from the last time. I don't know why every teacher gives projects or essays or tests on the last week instead of  spacing them out.

In English we've been working on essays, mine on the Piping Plover. The point of these essays was to talk about endangered species and what precautions are taking place to help these animals. The end of the semester was on Thursday, and the English teacher had the essay due 8 am when school started that day. I found this extremely annoying. The essay wasn't hard, but he stressed that "8:00 am or it would be late". Some peoples busses get to school at 8:00!

A Chemistry test and project on Friday so the teacher could input grades over the weekend. I didn't finish the test, so I'll have to continue that next week. The project was on trends on the periodic table, so it wasn't hard, I did electronegativity. The problem was that almost everyone was doing a paper project, so I thought I would do a 3-D one. I did it the night before, constructing the table from cut foam sponges and toothpicks. Mostly successful until I got to class and he said we had to present them. I didn't think he had mentioned that, and had a mini freakout silently, in my head. That was a disaster (actually it was okay because another girl did the same topic, so I said she could go first so that helped).

I took a math test. Meh.

I had a music recital on Tuesday. I don't know why, but every time I go up and try to play the piano for a group of people I forget everything I ever learned about the piano. That was our last recital for the piano before we start guitar, so of course to maintain consistency the same thing happened. I couldn't even find C. awful.

I think the only classes that didn't stress me out was ASL because our test was postponed. History because I love that teacher. And Gym (or Wellness as we call it) because I didn't have it this week.

Kate I have a feeling your mom will do just fine. I know how you feel with the stress though, my brother had open-heart surgery just before Thanksgiving last year. He's doing well now. Campion are we able to listen to the broadcasts online? That would be really cool! Deidra I don't know why Life doesn't want you to have fish. I've chinese fighting fish, they were good too!

Do you guys watch Ben's or ninebrassmonkeys Becoming YouTube series?

I've got a mountain of homework, so I'll see you guys next week!

~Katie