Like a memory I'm slowly fading.
Before you know it I'm gone.
In your dreams I'll appear to you
And you'll know I was there all along.
When the breeze brushes you cheek
Or the sun kisses your face
Or when a rainbow smiles your way
When the summer grass hugs you,
The autumn air fills you,
Or Winter's first snow tucks you in...
And when spring comes 'round
there's new life everywhere.
And you'll know...I was there
Today we got up early, ate pancakes and bacon, then left to Chastain Park for MLK day.
It was a productive 4 hours of raking leaves and snow.
Less than half of the people who had volunteered to come actually came, so it was pretty tough, but we actually wound up finishing earlier than planned. It was pretty fun... and pretty hard work, I wish it hadn't been so cold though. I was shivering through 5 layers of clothing all of which were long sleeved and one of the layers was under-armor which I wore on my legs as well.
I suppose I should write more entries, but there's not much to talk about.
I just thought I would inform everybody that it has been made official, St. Augustine will now be my confirmation Saint, I've been thinking about choosing him for 5 years, so I guess there was no denying that I was gonna choose him. I've just a;ways admired him I guess.
His feast day is on my birthday.
[[But that's not why I chose him]]
On Friday I checked out of school to leave for an overnight cross-country meet in Charlotte, NC. It was a trip for top 25 and I'm number 26 so I was lucky when one girl was not able to go, therefor allowing me to take her place. I was really nervous because this was a varsity meet and the girls on my team all ran a pace at about 2 minute pace faster than me. When we ran the course the day before the race I was having a bit of a tough time after all the girls had assured me that it was really an easy course. The next day (Saturday) we ran at 12:15 pm. EVERYBODY was expecting to get their personal record, including me, but I expected to get a 22:45 at best. The ground we ran on was extremely dry and gravelly and the weather was over 80 degrees. We went out and I was passing all these really good girls on my team and I was getting afraid that I would not be able to keep it up.
My first mile was a 6:48 pace and the night before coach told me my first mile should be a 7:30. Of course I slowed down but not drastically, actually I kept it in relatively the low 7's (minutes) I wound up getting a 21:38 (that's a guess) 22:20. Only 3 girls on my team improved on their times and I came in 4th 12th (for my team) in the open race.
So I will now be in the top 20 (varsity) for this season and I am extremely ecstatic about it! And as for the girl who's place I took, I ran faster than she has and I think I may have just accidentally pushed her out of the top 20...
Yay! Our very first video. Won't say too much, you have to look at it for yourself.
The 3rd Cashin to get Mr. G, (Latin), and he thought I was the baby upon visiting him. He could not believe he had one more, lets see if Claire can keep it up and try for getting him her freshman year on account of the fact he is retiring when I graduate (2010).
This teacher is hard to understand... or maybe he is so simple to understand it is confusing, oh well. He is brilliant (...or crazy), he speaks like, 7 languages and incorporates them in to all the classes. His major is in Latin and the history he knows practically everything about the language and the culture that there is to know. He had a bunch of acheivments... I can't even remember. The thing is, this guy can get away with ANYthing. He curses, has posters on the wall with these curse words, and does anybody stop him? Nope.
He has a wooden paddle in his classroom (actually he has 2, there is a smaller one). He whacks "nasty little boys" (even when they aren't being nasty) with yard sticks, throws books at them, and throws them out of their desks for things as simple as forgetting their homework. While if a girl does the same thing he simply pretends he doesn't see a thing. In the front of his classroom there is "sleepy chair" and old chair that gets a new cover each year where girls are allowed to sit and sleep during the class with a blanket over them when their boyfriend breaks up with them, or they are upset over some drama with their best friend, or when they just aren't feeling well.
He tells all the students how happy he is to have them in his class everyday calls them "babe", "beautiful men", "cuties" (all these names given to boys). He compliments all the girls. And then after complimenting the boys he manages to pick at all their flaws. Students who don't know a thing about him or have never had him before say, "What a strange man..." He actually blessed one kid in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and told him that he had absolved his sins and unless he brought his homework he would rot in You-Know-Where. (After which one kid said "Why don't you just send him to Azkaban?" Gee just snorted at him like that was the weirdest thing he'd ever heard).
Now after hearing that would you believe this guy is an Irish Catholic?
Even after the countless stories about this man from Nicole and Danny I still have no idea what to expect. We'll see... I can't wait... I guess.
Claire and I have recently picked up making films. They have gone better as we have made more, especially script-wise. We still are working on filling one tape before we convert it to a DVD and then can proceed to editing it on iMovie into several shorts. Some of them are actually pretty good and we can't wait to do more work on them to make them better. Pretty much all the films are of me and Claire with I believe just one appearance of her friend Maddy which is just a film of them goofing off like many of the earlier films. Everything is improvised. Well... for the most part. We have found it most effective to co-direct but usually have one person who mainly mans the camera and makes a few appearances while the other is the star.
I think we may be almost done with our first tape so we should get to editing soon.
Today after school, a few of us planned to go running (Kyoshi, Madison, Mary, Jessie, and me). Unfortunately Madison got sick with strep throat so she was with us only in our minds. We got a late start because I got a solo in this upcoming chorus show, and I had to work with Mrs. Peeples for 10 minutes because she is combining it with another song to make it a semi-medley. Well, that took longer than expected because there were some technical difficulties. So, when I finished, we got some money and ran up to Sonic to get a rootbeer float/strawberry limeade slushie/chicken bites/banana creampie shake (our individual orders).
We stayed there a while and talked while we had our snacks when Kyoshi realized that he needed rubberbands for his braces because he ran out and since his orthodontist wasn't very far away, we went there and got his rubberbands, got free toothpaste, played with Leggos, and conversed with the extremely nice orthodontist and receptionist.
Next, we went to the middle school, Fiveforks, because it wasn't much farther and Jessie had to go to the bathroom. Everybody loved us everywhere we went because we are Brookwood runners! So we got to go into the front office while the middle schoolers were getting out and Jessie went to the bathroom. We talked to the Principal and the Receptionist and they all knew Kyoshi apparently because he was a trouble maker turned good. Then we got lollipops and Jessie and I ran back whil Mary and Kyoshi were tired. Then we waited at the school for 20 minutes while we waited for Mary to get back because we remembered all out stuff was in her locker! : )
So it was a good day for a Monday and I was glad to be running after being a week without it, and let me tell you, I am so out of shape. I got really tired from 4 miles and we usually do 5-6. I had to stop so many times. Still, a good day for running.
Lio, a comic in today's paper that I for some reason thought was particularly funny.
I am now one of four people. We are Angie, the Taqwandas. I am Foqweesha. There is also Poqweesha (Jessie), Laqwanda (Madison), and Mary... that is her real name. We have to find her another name. Anyways, we all think and SAY the same things, it is pretty cool. We also were all born in August 1992, but on different days, but in the middle of the days is August 21st, so that is Angie Taqwanda's birthday. And I have known all of them since at least the 4th grade (one of them since I was BORN! We reunited this year).
Actually, we discovered this on accident because we were all separately the sam as Jessie, making us ALL the same, and we all have a lot in common, and even if in one category it is not all 4 of us, at least two of us are the same. It is very complex... I guess Angie is a complex being.
Oh, and we didn't choose the name Angie, because one day we played ultimate frisbee and we introduced ourselves to everyone, but they didn't introduce themselves back, and they wouldn't pass the Frisbee to us (even though I made 2 AMAZING catches that scored 2 POINTS each because I'm a girl), so we ran around giving everybody names. Then, one guy said that we would have one nickname because we were basically the same person (we didn't even say ANYTHING about the "WE") and named us Angie.
So basically, that is it, and we all are going to get our wenises pierced and get wenis leashes when we are 18.
