~Nicole~’s blog

From childhood 'til now... What's the best Christmas present you've ever received?

Hands down my iPOD. No question about it.

The title of this post basically sums up my mood and attitude towards school right now. High school is...I don't know.The best word I can thing of is ugh.I'm just so over it.There's nothing new or exciting; even the daily routine from last year is better than what I'm dealing with right now. Now I totally see why people will say high school can either be the best 4 years of your life or the worst.As of right now I'm definitely leaning towards the latter one.I've been in school for like 2 or 3 months, but it feels like it's been an entire year.I'm not even half way to the summer. It doesn't help either that I'm not firends with certain people anymore. It just worries me to think I'm stuck there for 4 more years, and if I stay in this rut I'm going to be miserable.Then there's the possiblity that I feel like this because I'm a freshman and everyone knows freshman year sucks. Plus things in my social life aren't going as planned either so that doesn't make me any happier. Now let's leave the pessimism and look at the brighter side.One of the peoples I've met this year, Madison, is totally cool.She's really funny and she livens class up.But she always finds a way to distract and I'm finishing my work in a hurry.Well this felt good letting everything out. I'm glad that it's almost Turkey Day.Hopefully it'll be cold.I'm tired of this heat.Were in the fall now not the summer.Well I have to go finish homework.

Well lets see we've been in school for almost a month now, but it feels like so much more. My classes have been going good so far. I've get A's in english, biology, p.e., spanish. A B in history and lets not even discuss my math grade right now. My favorite class this year is definitely spanish because it's mellow and low-key. Plus having Janice in there doesn't hurt. After awhile I actually begin to miss her sassiness. Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Vega, but english is the class I dread going to. It's not because I don't like english, trust me it's my favorite subject still, but my teacher I do not like her at all. She has absoultely no problem embarrasing you in front of the whole class, it's like she prides herself on it. Also she's kind of a smart mouth adn sometimes she just comes across rude. She uses sarcasm like all the time. I really have no problem with it as along as you don't do it everytime you talk. I guess that's the danger teacher's talk about all the time when it comes to sarcasm.

The work load hasn't been too bad. But as of right now I'm really behind History. I have a lot to do this weekend concerning history. Tomorrow night will be fun since it's Janice's birthday we're going to freshman fun night before teh game, adn well saty fro the game. So it'll be fun celebrating for her. It's time to do homework. I guess I'l write sometime soon, hopefully.

Well I've survived my first week of high school. Everything pretty much went fine; there really wasn't anything extraordinary about it, it really just was school. All I know for sure is that the first day was one big culture shock especially during passing period your walking in this big mess of 4000 plus people. It was just crazy, every time you would see new people.

I remember that towards the end of the school year everyone was just ready to leave UJHS, and go to UHS where that freedom we wanted so much would be there waiting for us. But now a lot of us kinda want to go back to UJHS where we knew what was going on, and that we hadn't have this pressure on us that the next 4 years will either make, or completely ruin our lives. A lot of us don't find this feeling of uncertainty and change comforting. Also so many of us miss not seeing the same people in our classes; almost everyone misses seeing Kelsey's(Blondie) bright yellow head in our classes. Turns out on the first day of school I found out that Josh was going to be in my science and p.e class, but he hadn't shown up, so I did some research of my own, and it just so happens that he went to a catholic school in La Verne. Yes, Josh was annoying at times, but he was the class clown in science, so I was hoping to have that fun again, but now everything is so much more serious. I don't really blame the teachers because this is a crucial period.

But all those thoughts aside my first week went good. I like all my teachers, and my history teacher does a really good job of keeping us going at the end of day when it's really hard to focus, and all that's on our mind is home. My favorite class so far is spanish because it's so mellow and easygoing; also because Janice is in there, and well any class with Janice is fun. I still haven't seen Blondie, I'll probably make it my goal to find her and say hi. Another plus is that every Wednesday is minimum day, so yay. I'm in a for a hell of a ride this year.

And the results of my schedule are:

1) Biology-Morgan

2) English-Olsen

3)Geometery-Gudmundson

4)Spanish-Grages

5)P.E.-Farnworth

6)World History-Ingels

I guess I would say I'm pretty happy with the order of my classes the only thing that sucks is that they're so far away from each other. Two classes are in the same building but I have them during different times of the day. The only classes I'm a bit worried bout are biology and history because science adn history are harder to pay attention to when I'm tired and just ready to go home. Math is great right in the middle of the day becuase I still have energy to make it through. I'm just a little bummed that I didn't get jounalism becuase I lost an elective with my history, since it's honors.

Anyways it was sooooo good to see everyone again like Katie, Randy, Veronica, Alexis, Jocelyn, Jimmy, Damian, Kelsey (Blondie), Erica and Freddie. Sadly I don't think I have any classes with any them except Veronica, oh and William who has my exact same schedule. A little wierd becuase he was pretty much in all my core classes with me this year, adn we always somehow ended up close to each other. But I would have to say I'm started to get a bit excited for school now, everything is like coming together.

 Dying!!!!! This heat, well not really heat more like humidity, is so unexpected. I would probably say that this one of the nicest summer's weather wise, but today kind of blew it. But I guess I shouldn't complain too much because yes, it has been humid before, but not like today. Today is just kind of unbearable. It doesn't help that my hair has gotten really long, so it becomes harder to stand the heat. At least I'm getting my haircut tomorrow, and that's good because not only is it too long, but the chlorine and the sun has just made it dull and lifeless. I really wish I was at beach. I did go swimming and I just showered, but it's not the same. I think showering made my body heat come out or something because I just got really hot. Well not much else to report other than I'm kinda bummed that summer's almost over, but at the same time excited because I'm ready to see my friends and just everybody. On Friday I'll be reporting because I get my schedule, SCARY, because in a way it's a reality check.

So I just got back from spending the weekend with my cousin, adn I had alot of fun I feel like I finally put my summer into use. I went over there on Friday, and her family had a party because my cousin's Jorge's girlfriend came back early from studying a year abroad in Germany, and he was so surprised to see her, everyone was crying. Then later that night we went over to her neighbor's house to swim and it was just cool floating on our backs looking up at the stars. Her neighbor's son Scott is around my cousin's age so he's about 16 or 17 and we all get along. We were all in the pool adn he was hinting at us that he wanted to go back to my cousin's house for cake, but he wanted us to go along so he wouldn't just show up for cake, so we went, once we got there and he ate his cake he totally freaked us out. My cousin and I were trying to get him away form us because sometimes he freaks out, adn there was these two other girls there trying to flirt with him, but he wasn't into it so he went back with us. My cousin adn I were watching this video on Youtube about Date Movie, and he was like a lemme show you this website so we were like ok. The website he showed us was Peter's Answers. I don't know if you guys have heard about this website, but the it's basicaly you ask a question and it will answer it correctly, like he asked which two girls are next to me and it answered Alba and Nicole. That just totally spooked us out. So on Saturday we spent all morning trying to figure it out and finally my aunt tols us that she knew about it because Scott told her the joke he was playing on us, you should've seen how mad we got. We googled it and sure enough it showed us how it worked. I won't say. You can figure that out on your own. Obviously we knew right away we had to get back at him. We devised our prank, adn now we just have to put into action. Were planning on scaring him with something Calfornian because he's from New York, adn goes to a golf boarding school in SC, so he get's scared easily.Our prank should go into action this Friday so let's see what happens.

The rest of the weekend went awesome. I came home really tanned from swimming and biking, then Thursday I'm going to Knott's with my cousin so I'm sure I'll get darker. Almost forgot about this amazing restrauant we ate at on Sunday it's in Victoria Gardens, it fairly new, it's called Wapango. You know that little side street where Banana Republic is located that where it's at. The food is sooooo good it's Latin food, when you hear Latin food you usually think Mexican, but this food is Cuban, Argentian, adn Brazilian. So good, I can't wait to go back. And that's my little adventure.

What are you most looking forward to in August?

NOTHING!!!!!!!!! I guess the only good thing would be going to Knott's. I mean come on what can you look forward to in August it's the end of summer and that means school again. Or when I'm in a bad mood I'll refer to it the torture chamber even living hell. I just can't believe August is here. I remember at the beginning of the summer I was over my cousin's house and we were both bored just saying that this was going to be a long summer, and look now it's over. Also now that it's August that only leaves 4 more months until the end of the year. Crazy how fast time goes by now, when I was younger it always felt like summer was longer, but then again noone had come up with the stupid idea of starting school in August. I always liked starting school after Labor Day weekend because it kinda of gave the summer a feeling of closure, like that was our last big thing that let us know to get back into routine. Now with school starting before Labor Day you get back into routine, and then it's like four day weekend, I just don't get it and don't like it, but oh well what can I do about it.

Oh god there was an earthquake. Obviously not the first earthquake in So.Cal, but this is the first one I've experienced. Scary. it was really short but my nerves are still on edge. Thank God I haven't forgotten duck-n-hide which is exactly what I did. I was in the living room watchin tv minding my business, and I came running to the kitchen to get under the kitchen table. Maybe that's why Chloe aka my dog was up all night crying because she sensed something. Even my brother who was in Minnesota for business and lives in San Diego his girlfriend called him to tell him that there was an earthquake and she felt it too. I'm watching the news and it says that it could be felt all the way to Las Vegas. Thank God I'd woken up becuase I didn't go to bed until 2 am because of the dog crying, adn I'd gone to nap and I'd just woken up, if I was still asleep I'd would have woken running to the kitchen. Well definitley the most memeorable day of my summer, and a wake up call.

P.S. I think the last earthquake here was a couple years ago during the summer too, except I didn't feel that one because I was in N.Y.C. for vacation. I remember in New York the helicopters that give you a sky-view tour of the city were fallin into the Hudson River because of a magnetic field. Then I didn't want to come home because of the earthquake and the planes fly over the Hudson.

Where do you go for advice?

I guess it depends on what kind of advice. Sure I've needed advice on like any old thing then it doesn't matter, but for serious advice my cousin or my mom. I hate to admit that I've needed serious advice more than I would've like to but I know my mom adn cousin are a reliable source to go to for help. There advice has been very helpful adn has been very true for what I needed it for. So thanks.