As expected...the evils of soreness have struck . The best part is, I have a 2 and a half hour practice tomorrow, and then gymnastics the day after that! Super! . Lol I'm still looking forward to it nonetheless, because I'm stupid like that .


In other news, I redid my layout a little bit, after deciding that the Spiderman-lookalike background (according to Kuri's definition ) didn't quite go so well with the site. Sooo I made a new background and banner, and it all turned out just groovy in the end ( ). You likey?

Ah...what am I gonna do. Maturity's sneaking up on me, and I don't wanna grow uppp. But at the same time, responsibility and independence feels kinda good right now. And friends? You need em. But sometimes you get thrown into situations that make them hard to keep...I haven't given up on anybody yet, but some people seem to think otherwise. Meh. Life's a roller coaster, right?



Oh crap.

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I'm pretty confident that my whole self is gonna be sore tomorrow . Today there was a workshop for Hotdog USA, where the A-group teaches the B and C kids...and I thought I had to get there early at like 9 so that we could go over policy and structure and all that good stuff...but it ended up being basically just another practice . That's a good thing though...I got to learn a few things while I was at it . Glen (the gymnastics teacher) volunteered to stop by, and so he helped spot us with some acrobatic stuffs. I tried a front tuck on the gym floor without his help...lol well needless to say I have some work to do. My excuse: I've only done it once, and that was on the springy floor @ gymnastics .

Real Hotdog practices officially start Monday Gahh I'm so excited...it's gonna be a little intimidating and hard at first, but I think I can fit in. Amy (the coach) was giving us a little lecture today about qualifying for Worlds and all that stuff...and I was introduced to a mentality that I was really unfamiliar with: they're there to win. The kids even compete amongst each other to try and get the better partners and stuff...I mean I'm all for a competitive attitude....but yeesh. That's a a lot different than the philosophy I was used to on my own team...we just sorta had fun. Well, anyways, the warmup for Monday is going to be:

--3 minute speed w/ heavy rope
--3 minute speed w/ speed rope
--100 double unders w/ heavy rope

Lol...yikes. Well, at least I'll be whipping into shape pretty fast

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Woah. I never imagined my saying this in all my academic career...but I'm actually looking forward to this school year. The dread of education has somewhat lessened of late...partially because of awesome teachers and also I think because I've drifted towards striving for success as compared to being forced into it (via the parents).

Well, the Spanish test today was a lot easier than I expected. It's to determine whether or not you stay in the 2nd year class...but I think I did pretty good on it. Everything's so boring though...we're not really doing anything in any of my classes yet. It's all just busy work or getting familiarized with the teaching styles and whatnot. I discovered in math that there are quite a few seniors, and that suddenly I'm not the stupid kid anymore . That Internet Academy course I took over the summer helped a ton...I was browsing the book and all the chapters I had done over the summer, except for the Trig stuff. Mmm not looking forward to taht.
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Ok lol prepare for the ultimate wierdness. So I was delirious with with a 104 degree fever one night (that shall be my excuse for the following events ), and I drempt of NUtang. But it was sad. Lol so here's how it went down...

Dave sent out a letter to all NUtangers saying that the site was closing in December. He was going to send everyone their current revenue in due time, but after that NUtang was gone forever.

Haha, a rather morbid dream. Better go knock on wood XD. I know this site is very well-designed...but yeesh. Mind control? Maybe this is part of Dave's master scheme for taking over the world, one NUtanger at a time
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Woot! Tomorrow I'm gonna be teaching another workshop...except it's for my own team . Well, my new team at least. It's more of a team-builder thing, where the older kids teach the younger ones. I have to get to Kirkland by 9, and I'm a little apprehensive because I don't know anyone besides the folks I went to Alaska with...So yeah, anyways I get to teach tomorrow and I'm looking forward to finally jumping in a gym again. Lol my former teammates (Jake, Lily, my sister) are going to be going too, except they're not teachers . It'll be wierd instructing them

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I dunno, it's strange. To me it feels like school never really ended, and I just got switched around in terms of classes. I guess summer had a lot of school in it, because I took that online math course and had some homework...but Junior year doesn't really feel much different than last year. I certainly do like my teachers a lot more this year , even if all of my old friends don't have any of my schedule.

Gah, I love English so much more this year . It's all very writing-oriented, and we have a lot of debate-ish classroom discussions, which are both things that I really like to do. Today, Devlin (it's her last name, but we all call her that) had me read my essay cuz she thought it brought up some "interesting" points...I'm hopin this is a good thing . Ahhh I reallllly want to make a good impression...she's really intimidating, and I don't want to be on her "iffy" side lol.

I think the only class I have problems with is Spanish. I'm pretty confident that the teacher doesn't like me, and I have virtually no friends in that class. Meh. Speaking of friends, I'm almost somewhat relieved to not have all of my "main friends" in my class, because it gives me the opportunity to make new ones. Hmm, maybe this year won't turn out half bad.

Ok well I have a jump rope meeting to go to tonight with my new team...kids don't need to go, but I want to start taking some responsibility and being aware of what's going on, ya know? Besides Elaine might be there and that's always fun . There's more to write, but I have to go get ready...I'll update some tomorrow! Catcha later folks.

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