Something Beautiful

Music gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, and life to the lifeless.

This post is going to be about my trip to PSU a few weekends ago. LOL. This is long overdue, but it's better late than never! Basically, Andrea, Berenice, Hannah, Iris, and I were there for science fair. The other sophomores were Aleks, Michael, and Roger. It's from Sunday to Tuesday morning. So when we got there on Sunday, we decided to walk like 15 minutes to town, and this is what happened. :)

Sketchy-ist laser tag place I've ever seen. LOL.

Hannah: "Can we go there?"

So our history teacher's obsessed with diners. And we saw this one, thinking it was the one he told us about.

Heheh.

Group photo!

The diner had a jukebox! And I put a quarter in to play some music. It started playing "Hey Jude." :)

Inside the diner.

Our bill.

The jokes inside our gum wrappers. :)

The theater that we stopped by but didn't go in.

This was basically the end of town. It was like a 30 minute walk to get here.

So we're at town, and we're walking. Until we see this diner. We go in briefly, to find that THIS is the right diner, and the other one is some random diner at town. Oh.

So Monday was a much more eventful day (if that's possible).

After presentations and the awards ceremony (I ended up getting 2nd. Ah well.), we met with some juniors and decided to go to the REAL diner. Quote of the day: "Yeah, can we not be losers today?" x)

So here are some pictures from that. (None of these pictures below are taken by me! Credits go to Berenice!)

So this is Iris, Andrea, Hannah, Berenice, and Roger at the Diner. I took the picture, but since it was so bright out, I couldn't see. So that's why Iris and Andrea are like that. x) The juniors were just kinda off to the side waiting.

Inside the diner, we had to split up into 2 tables, since there were 9 of us. This is the one table with Andrea, Berenice, Hannah, and Roger. (Berenice is taking the picture.)

And this is the awkward table. LOLOL. If you try to go from left to right...it's Jon, Josh, Kevin, Iris, and me. This was probably the most awkward experience of my life. Like it was dead silent for over half the time. Everyone but Iris ordered a milkshake...and she ordered one pancake. Lolwhat? Jon ended up just leaving randomly midway through...which made it even more awkward than before. But this photo pretty much sums up everything.

Above two photos: Just walking back to the dorms.

We still had nothing to do. So the juniors left. And we sat outside playing cards. This is me putting down cards for the game "Bull" or "BS."

This is us continuing to play Bull.

Later, Peter and Kevin (juniors) came when we were playing Kemps. And somehow they dominated in the end. o__o.

There was more, but that's all I'll write! Have a GREAT Memorial Day!

In loving memory of those who served for our country. 

Crazier

Okay, yes. I've been super lazy lately.
I'm just not up for blogging. I think it's because I'm not procrastinating.
So probably tomorrow, you'll see some more posts.
'Cause I go back to school on Tuesday. ):
Ugh. Only 17 more days until SUMMER. <3

Rolling in the Deep

I'm so exhausted.
I apologize over and over and over again about how I haven't posted anything lately.
But I just don't have time!
I will soon post EVERYTHING. So keep a look out for that!
In the mean time, I have LOTS of work to do. Bye!

Something Good Can Work

So yesterday, I went to take my SAT practice test thing, and I saw my camp friend there. o____o.

Yeah that's him. And Chris, Laura, and Tiffany. D'aww CTY.
I didn't expect to see him at all. So that was unexpected.

And then later I went out and bought some crafts to possibly make puppets for Am. Lit II. Which reminds me, I should go work on that.
Then I went to Iris' house with Andrea and Emily to work on our APUSH project. Dude, we're not even close to finishing. D: Idk what we're gonna do. Shooot. ><,

Btw, I keep seeing like the feather earrings on Tumblr and everything. I'm so tempted to get my ears pierced just so I can get those. LOL. I love feathers so much, so I'm kind of obsessed. ;~; Shoot man.

But yeah. A big post WILL come soon! I just need to get some work done. Have a great Sunday~

Happily Ever After

Eek. I need to go study the SATs.
So I'll make this really short.
Today I walked to Mo's after school with Casie, Eileene, Grace, and Naomi to work on our French project.
It was tons of fun. And as soon as the video's done, I'll hopefully show it to you. :)
But now, I need to go. I'll describe EVERYTHING in more detail later. I'm just super busy now.
So yeah. Expect a really big post any day now. :) BYE!

Somebody Told Me

HI EVERYONE.
I have so much to write/post!
I came back from PSU the other day. It was loads of fun. :)
I'll make a huge post on it maybe Sunday or something. If not, Saturday afternoon or something.
I have tons of stuff to do, so I don't have time to make a post about it now/tomorrow.
Tomorrow (Friday)- Am. Lit II quiz/test and pre-calc quiz/test. Then I'm going over maybe Grace's house to go work on our French video with Casie, Mo, and Eileene. After, I need to study for the SATs.
Saturday- Taking the SATs at my SAT prep course place. Then I need to work on my 4 projects and study for my SAT IIs. I'm going to Iris' at night to work on my history project some more.
Sunday- Homework/more studying for the SAT IIs/more working on my 4 projects. Ugh.
Why am I not excited for this weekend?
I need to go study for my quizzes and figure out what I'm going to do about my Am. Lit II project. Shoot.
(Btw, my brother just left today. ;~; So now I don't have rides anymore. Oh hey library...)

Like It's Her Birthday

These are all birthday shout-outs. I didn't go on Blogspot for a little while/was overwhelmed with other news, so here we go. :)
May 4- Happy 16TH birthday Owen!
May 5- Happy 17TH birthday Ashley!
May 6- Happy 18TH birthday Sarah!
May 8- Happy 16TH birthday Miranda!
May 12- Happy 16TH birthday Jenny!
May 16- Happy 16TH birthday Eileene!
(I included Eileene's birthday even though it didn't happen yet, only 'cause I won't be here on Monday.)
And well, I haven't taken any more pictures...but, I'll just attach something I took a while ago. /:

That's my deviantART copyright, heheh. Uh I took this at a tennis match for a photography assignment.

Graduation (Friends Forever)

Hello~
I realize how inactive I've been for this past week, and I'm sorry. ;~; My brother came home and so now he's my source of procrastination as opposed to the Internet. But I have so much to say. (Okay, not really. This week kind of sucked in the beginning.)
I also don't have pictures, since this isn't my computer. ): But I will upload some later, I guess. :D
Well, I'll talk about today. Today was the seniors' last day of school. So goodbye class of 2011. <3 I'm going to miss some of them, but to be honest, I wasn't really close to any of them. I knew a few 'cause of sports and clubs, but that's it. /: Next year, I'm going to be like bawling when they leave.
Anyways, so it was fun-music Friday in honor of the seniors. They played songs like I Gotta Feeling, Firework, Fifteen, Graduation (Friends Forever), and some Lion King song which I forget at the moment. I know it was Lion King, I just can't remember which song they played. And when I was walking with like Megan to the history wing, these seniors were hitting trash cans for a beat and were making this ritual with a goldfish in a bowl. LOLWHAT. It was actually hilarious. Then at the end of lunch, a bunch of seniors got up on the tables and started cheering. Lol. In math class, our old teacher came back. Her baby is so adorable~ D'awww. And in gym class, we got to ride bikes! :D It was like the only fun gym class ever. Riding bikes is normally an upperclassmen thing to do, so it was cool. My helmet kept falling off, and my seat kept moving, but I liked it.
I played tennis afterwards with my brother, and then went out to buy a present for Kim.
I'm pretty behind on birthdays, so I'll make a big post on the people's birthdays I missed.
And I'll be away Sunday-Tuesday to go to science fair! Eeeep, I'm such a nerd. ;u;
OH YEAH. I got an iPhone on Monday. Heheh, I love it. I was debating between the iPhone and the Blackberry, but I ended up getting the white iPhone. <3 Well, bye! Tomorrow, I have a doctor's appointment, to finish my homework, go out to lunch, go to Kim's party, fix my slides, pack, and put music on my iPhone. Eeeek.
HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH.

What You Know

I realize that I've already blogged today. But today was more eventful than I expected it to be. And by eventful, I mean I went out. LOL. /loner.
My brother came home. At like 2:30PM. And by then I was starving because we were waiting for him to come home to eat lunch. So we were driving to Red Lobster, and then ended up going to Ooka instead. I've never been there before, but a bunch of my friends kept telling me it was good. And my dad/brother like it there, too. So I ordered some sushi. But I didn't realize it was like...all raw fish. o__o. I've never eaten raw fish like that before, I just eat the sushi rolls. Man, that wasn't pleasant, hahaha. The tuna/salmon wasn't that bad though. Just the red snapper. Ick.
Afterwards, I went to Costco to get a mother's day present/the mall to use my American Eagle discount. I ended up getting three pairs of jean shorts from there because they were all 40% off plus my 15% coupon. The total was like $60.
The weather was really strange, and it was raining/sunny at the same time. So naturally, a rainbow came. And I ran to get the Nikon from upstairs, only to be greeted by bad photos when I tried to take a picture of it. ): So I took pictures of leaves and trees. Everything was sprinkled with water, but it was still sunny out, so some photos turned out really well.

This here is my backyard. :) It's so pretty now that the weather's getting nicer. And the other three photos are on my Flickr already.

Here are my jeans that I bought. They kinda all look the same, LOL. ;~; But the one on the right is like bermudas, while the other two shouldn't be, but are longer in length than like normal shorts. I think. I bought them so I could wear them to school easily, since we're not supposed to wear really short shorts.
Well, I'm going to go make a card/do work. See you!

Who Says

Hi! :) I have tons of work to do, but whatever. My brother's coming home really soon, his plane landed already, so my parents are picking him up. :)
Anyways, I just spent the last like two hours making my first gif! I've made gifs before, but they were the really simple ones that are just the blinking cursor with text on it. It has my Tumblr on it for the copyright, so again, don't worry if it looks different from my normal Blogspot copyright. ;D
Take a look!

I'm in love with birds and bird silhouettes, so this was fun to make. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. :) I used a program called GIMP. It's a free-version of Photoshop. And no, it's not illegal. I watched a tutorial on YouTube to figure out how to put pictures in text, and then did that 9 times. (3 times for each bird.) The birds are actually a font I found on dafont.com so that's why I was able to put the image in it. Hope you like it! :) Have a great Saturday~

Kiss the Rain

So the AP test is officially OVER!
It was so difficult though. Definitely not what any of us expected. -____-"
But I'm glad it's over with, now I'm done with history for the rest of sophomore year. Well, I still have SAT II's that I just signed up for like 30 minutes ago, but whatever. No more history in history class. :D
I took a bunch of pictures today and everything. But I don't have the focus/effort to edit them at the moment, but I promise I will get some new photos in. The sunlight looked gorgeous today. :) Actually, everything looked gorgeous after my AP exam was over. Lol. :D On the bright side, we got to hang out in the cafeteria when it was over for like 45 minutes. Yay. (Lunch is normally 30 minutes here.) They gave us until 12:25 to get back to class, so we all talked and stuff in the cafeteria.
Anyways, I should go. I'm experimenting with GIMP at the moment, trying to make a GIF, but I need to find good backgrounds first in order to make it look good. Also, I'm going to make letters to cut out to put on my wall. So we'll see how that goes. :D
Uh. Let me post another picture of mine to make this post less text-y.
So this is a photo from my trip to Annapolis, MD. I uploaded it onto my Flickr. (loveamberx is my username!) So the copyright thing is a bit different than normal. I edited this photo in GIMP, the first time I've ever done that before. This was taken on a Canon SD890 IS, so not my DSLR. ): But I plan on using that more often soon!

When September Ends

THREE WORDS: AP. TEST. TOMORROW.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Shoot. I need to go study. I'm so nervous and all. It's my first AP test ever, and of course it has to be on history, something I don't like as much as say, science and math. But I heard the AP Calc AB test yesterday was like impossible, so dreading next year, too. Anyways, I have all of this nervous/anxious/bad energy inside of me right now, and I realize that I need to study. I'm going over the end of American history right now & will be taking 3-8 practice tests later on. I should probably go continue 'cause I want to sleep by like 11:30. ><, I only made this post because I've been extremely inactive on here lately. Sorry!
But yeah. On a happier note, I designed the class ring I'm going to be getting. :D It's so pretty! <3 Well, it's actually really expensive, but one of the cheapest ones there. The color of the stone is my birthstone, so it's like a light, pretty green. :) It has my initials engraved on the inside and my class year on the outside (2013!). My mom's going to go order it for me tonight at school, since I need to study, and I'll be getting it in September when junior year's up and running. ;~; But yay for class rings. :)
ALRIGHT. Byeeee! Tomorrow's FRIDAY! :D

Save Me

HAPPY MAY! :)
I'm so excited for this month. Hopefully everything's spectacular.
By this time next week I'm going to be overjoyed with relief. My AP test is on FRIDAY, so I'm really nervous/anxious and all. Bleh.
I don't know, I just really super excited for May. May's such a beautiful month, with the flowers, the birds, the warm weather, and (hopefully) not much rain. I'll also be looking forward to science fair. LOL. I'm such a nerd. No, but May's the time we go to states, and that's so much fun as it has been in the past. Look out for pictures when that comes around. ;u;
So I have to go study/write my research paper. I have so much work, and like 4 quizzes on Tuesday that I know I won't study for until tomorrow, but I really need to study for APUSH. /pointlessrant.
Uhh. Enjoy some pictures of flowers that I took a while ago. I don't have any new pictures lately. ):