A Super Contagious-- Yet Self-Caused, Disease

Facebook Yes, I have succumbed. IT EATS YOU UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's super fun and super time-consuming. I get on the computer just to use Facebook. I think I may have a problem. I think I need to go to Facebook Users Anonymous. "Hi...Uh...My name is Sarah....and I have an addiction to Facebook." *applause* Join if you have no life. If you already have a life, as I did, don't join! You will be swallowed up by it!!!!!!!!!!!! It is super fun though. For example, I play Harry Potter Trivia- I'm a SCHOLAR. I also have 89 friends. Yes, I do know all of them. And, yes, Ms. Nelson, I am using my hostile-looking picture as my picture! :^@ To summarize, Facebook eats you up.

So this week, at my church, we had Bible School. The theme was Power Lab or something like that. Basically, science!!!!!! yay!!! I was with the preschoolers. I really do not like kids. I am a major control freak, as I have already stated, so kids frustrate me. Today was the last day. We decided to build a fort. I don't know why but it kept them occupied. So one boy hit this girl. She started crying, and our leader took them aside. She made him apologize. He went under a table and cried. I understood it as a remorse attack. Whether it was remorse for hitting her or getting caught isn't relevant, in my opinion. It just surprised me that a preschooler would have such strong emotions. I don't have that strong of emotions and I'm in high schooler. I guess it just proves that we are all different.

By the way, I have bronchitis, and I want to shoot my bronchial tubes.

Lovely News!!!

GUESS WHO IS A HIGH SCHOOLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right, me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just a little excited. For a while, I was slightly worried about high school. But as life progressed (as it always does) I became warmer towards the idea of high school. I hope it's as great as I'm expecting/hoping it will be. I have already been called "Freshy," "Freshman," "Freshmeat," and more. How exciting!!!!!!!!!

A Complete Surprise

So, I was riding the bus home today when I heard the most astonishing news: A certain girl in my grade, "Carla," thinks she might be pregnant. She did the un-do-able with her boyfriend 2 or 3 years her senior. Evidently, he didn't use a condom and she wasn't on birth control. She hasn't missed her period yet or been tested, but she is totally worried. You may be wondering "Naw, how can you trust a person on the bus?" Well, let me tell you something about my source. This boy, "Kyle," has ridden the bus with me since I started riding in 3rd grade. Granted, I've only started having actual conversations with him this year, but he's told me many secrets, such as who he likes and who his friends like. He is my friend only on the bus. We are not in the same social groups. We don't sit together at lunch or talk any other time during the day. We are both totally okay with that. However, I have acquaintances with some of his friends. "Carla" is one of those. I really trust him. Not enough to tell him my own secrets, but I have trust issues, so. It's not official. I doubt that she is, but I just felt that this was one of those moments that the world needed to know about. It's one of those things that change people. I hope she isn't pregnant. It would not be good. I think she would most likely give it up for adoption. I will keep you posted.

1 day left of MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I HATE TECHNOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I was going to burn our documentary we made for GOAL and give it to the interviewees and my grandpa. I, first, spend about an hour fighting with Jennie's computer just to figure out that it wouldn't work on her computer. Then, after supper, I decided that perhaps our family computer would do the trick. No such luck!!!!!! I tried to burn it over and over again. After I would burn it, I would run upstairs and try to play it in our DVD player. Everytime, it said "No Disc." I think I may just shoot it! Normally, technology works just fine for me. But, NOOOO! The computer decides to be totally stubborn and hate my guts. ARG!!!!!!

On the upside, we only have 2 more days of school left.

For the Morbid Word-Lover In All of Us

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How Slightly Unfair

As it is June, it is graduation time. Why is it that high school graduation is glorified and celebrated much more than college, middle school, or elementary graduation? I survived middle school! (Well, almost...I have approx. 3 days left.) I think that surviving middle school is quite a feat. You have to live through those awkward years of your life and getting used to the raging hormones inside you. Everyone and everything's changing. It's a difficult time, for some. I really didn't have that hard of a time, but still. I personally think that middle schoolers need some sort of ceremony. We get a little assembly during school. They don't even call every student's name, just those getting the Presidential Academic Award. I don't think it's quite fair. Some would disagree while some would agree. It's all about how you look at it. All I have to say is "how slightly unfair."

Something I'm Proud Of

So, like any other woman, or man sometimes, I like to change people. I like to change the way they think, act, or what they do. The recent change (probably my most successful)involves a slightly athletic and terribly unmotivated guy-friend. I did, however, have help from Ms. Nelson and Shannon. Here's how it went. This boy, "M," is, as aforementioned,slightly athletic and terribly unmotivated. Ms. Nelson realized a hidden talent in him. In GOAL, we were doing Reader's Theatre. She saw how good he was and pounced on it. Shannon, Ms. Nelson, and I told him everything about IHSSA (Iowa High School Speech Association). He seemed pretty interested. Ms. Nelson talked to one of the coaches about him. (I think she talks to him about more students than M, but that's a whole other conspiracy theory.) M has never seen any performances of IHSSA, so he is truly relying on our promotion of it. Here is the best part. We were on the bus ride home from our school trip to Adventureland. I was sitting with another friend and he and another friend were sitting in the seat behind us. We started to talk about high school, a common topic among graduating 8th graders. We were talking about activities. He said that he really wanted to participate in Speech Team. He said that he wanted to do Improv and Mime. (That's also what I want to be in, just saying.) When he said that, I about hugged him. I wouldn't have if I could have reached him, but you know what I mean. I was so surprised. I thought he was only acting interested. He would be really good at Improv. He goes through life winging it. (But don't we all? *philosophical moment*) I was very happy. I like to change people, like I said. So I am quite proud. :D