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I often find in the fall that I need more time. There are so many things from which to choose:  since I cannot decide which ones to do, I tend to do all of them.   This makes me very busy.  I also have to take homework into account.  When I know I only have a short window of time for homework , I focus on it more. That is one advantage.  Between cross-country running after school until 4:00 , my Beauty and the Beast rehearsal until 5:00, and rehearsing for another play that I am in, Once Upon a Mattress a version of the Princess and the Pea, from 7:00 to 9:00, I do not have much remaining time.  Somehow I always manage to finish my homework. I  will admit that I would like  a little extra time- for relaxing by reading a book or blogging (that would be why my posts have been infrequent lately)but I suppose I will just have to wait until my current schedule settles down. Wait- that would be when basketball starts and when I  am auditioning for another play. I will also have jazz band on Tuesday afternoons, and math team (if I decide to do it) on  Mondays after school. So I suppose I will never stop being busy. Good thing next weekend in the US the clocks are being set back- I’ll gain an extra hour (of sleep)!!!!

Are you busy?

Do you find yourself ever needing/wanting more time?

I have heard the term wikis mentioned before on numerous blogs. I never really knew what they were, though, until a couple of weeks ago. In my English Language Arts class my teacher has a wiki and we have a weekly assignment to complete on our individual pages. My teacher checks it every Friday to make sure that her students are actually  reading as assigned (which is not a concern for me, I read a lot). I probably go on my wiki page daily to update the books that I am reading outside of school. Now that wikis are unveiled to me I have realized that they are awesome! Fun and educational……..

Have you ever used a wiki?

……………………………Lumiere. Je suis triste parce que je voulais Belle, mais j’irai essayer être bonne à Lumiere.

Life is about disappointments and rising above them. After all no one gets everything that they want. Sometimes you simply just have to make the most of what you are dealt, which I will try to do. My goal is to be the best Lumiere there ever was!

For those who are completely lost about this post, here is the explanation: my middle school is putting on the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast. Today the cast list was posted. I was cast as Lumière . For those who are not familiar with the story or Disney movie, Lumiere is the talking candlestick pictured in the photo below with the talking clock, Cogsworth. Yes, that’s me.

Have you ever participated in any school plays?

Have you ever had a disappointment from which you have recovered?

Have you ever been a candlestick?

Tonight I am heading to a three-week long (I come home on weekends though and therefore will still be able to blog!) academic camp at a local college campus. Back in January the kids with the top 10% of MCAS* scores from my school were notified about the Advanced Studies and Leadership Program, and were eligible. Only eight out of the twenty-two from my school district would further get in, so you needed to write an essay on how the ASLP program would help you and you needed to get two teacher recommendations and a guidence counselor recommendation. After that you just sent in your completed packet (including the recommendations and essay) and hope for the best. April 10th I found out that I was in. One of my best friends also was admitted so we were both very happy.

ASLP is a three week course where we come home on the weekends. The students stay in dorms so it is like being in college. The curriculum is mostly science and involves the sea. I was lucky enough to have been put in the STEM course of Navigation and Boat Handling because I love to sail and I am pretty good at it also. The biggest project for my course at the end is steering a (simulated, of course, after all who would be crazy enough to put 12,13, and 14-year-olds behind the wheel of a 500 foot ship) five-hundred foot ship into Boston Harbor. Fun! We also take humanities courses. I wanted to get placed in the Drawing and Painting group but instead I was put in the Yearbook group (which isn’t the end of the world because I like photography).

*MCAS is a state wide test every April and May that is very boring and pretty long.

Notice how it says tonight at the beginning. This post was supposed to be finished last Sunday and therefore would have made sense, but somebody *I wince and gulp guiltily* was discombobulated and needed to finish packing….
My first week was amazing and very fun and I shall inform in later posts!

How is everybody’s summer/winter holidays (Depending on your hemisphere)?