From the Mauser Collection

In July and August 2006, fourteen talented teenagers came together to study the craft of essay writing at a "nerd camp" in upstate New York. This is our blog. Bow.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

memory of the week #16 (and update)

Wow, It's been 16 weeks since we've seen each other. That's...112 days. That's a while. Anyways, remember when we watched those videos about teens and advertising? We were all annoyed about how stereotypical the one about teenagers was...and the one about advertising was just kind of funny -- remember the french cheese thing? Then they were talking about that airline...it was calledlike song or something, I think. Oh, and the "Does white bread make you feel lonely?" line.

Okay, now update. Hehe, guess what? I'm #2 in my grade! I was soooo surprised...because, yeah, at my middle school I was #1, but at my middle school the average average (ha) was like a 70. My high school is a specialized (a.k.a. smart) school, and the average average is like a 94... so being #2 is actually pretty cool.

Track is good... we've started training for indoor, and I've discovered that I have hurdle-ophobia. Even the little ones scare me. 'Cause I fell on my first try since I suck at jumping... like, in general. But I do so much better when there's not something that I'm trying to jump over that I know I might trip on. Yeah. But we still have one more x-c race (that's this monday). I think I'm better at distance running.

Scince projects are OVER (you have no idea how happy this makes me) and I actually don't have that many projects going at the moment. Just one, buit that's a fun one 'cause it's comparing a historically based movie to the actual event. I'm doing Titanic. Russian is cool, I can actually say a few sentences now (Zdravswetye, rebyata! Menya zovut Amelia) *and* I can count to ten. Impressive, I know. And we have russian exchange students visiting who actually speak *really* good english... it was funny, my friend goes up to them during lunch and starts speaking really slowly with big hand movements and they just stare at her and say "You know, we speak english." Oh, and my school's SING performances are the next few days...I'm going tomorrow. It should be entertaining.

So, toodles everyone! Do Svidaniya!

5 Comments:

Blogger Chetna said...

hey guys i haven't talked a lot at all sOoooooo sorry!!

7:25 PM  
Blogger Ray said...

It's becoming more like weekly memory #16, actually it is exactly. Well, only two hundred or so days until next CTY! If I go =(, but that's cool.

8:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thats so awesome. my parents dont let me do any sports...but anyway, i cant go back 2 cty nxt yr cuz my parents sed that i didnt lern any life lessons..pretty harsh... but skool is going ok and so is life...so far. :)

9:57 PM  
Blogger L.C. said...

we had russian exchange students at my school, too. they spoke okay english. most of the guys were big jerks and kept hitting on all the girls, and my friend got so pissed off at that that he beat one of them up. well, actually, it was more like my friend flipped out, grabbed the russian, and started rolling around in a bus seat. and my principal CONGRATULATED my friend, because he was sticking up for a girl that the russian wouldnt back off and stop hitting on. needless to say, my principal rocks.

the girl russians were nice, though.

5:03 PM  
Blogger AMELiA :o) said...

lol, at my school it was the other way around...all the girls were hitting on the russian guys. Who, I forgot to mention, were rather hot. Except the russian guys didn't seem to mind this, so we didn't have any fights break out :o)

7:09 PM  

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