Student is Back From Midterms!

Hey everyone!! Anticipating Valentine's Day?
We all just finished midterms this week so it'll be great to get some free time back. Now's the perfect time to catch up on reading (Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice) and sit back and relax...well, as much as one can in addition to homework and other things. I'm just ecstatic that finals are over because it's just an awesome feeling to get those off my back and I'm sure every student agrees! I might talk about some National Forensics League things, since Quals are fast approaching. By the way, I'm mostly a Public Forum debater so if anyone wants to for a discussion group online, along with the millions of other discussion groups, just let me know! Hopefully I can turn this into a book, entertainment, student life, and debate blog one day, but that will take sometime, so we'll see. Just wanted to let you all know that I, as well as many others, are thankfully still alice after those late-night study sessions for 1 1/2 weeks. Enjoy the rest of January; it's a great month, so don't let it slip through you fingers that fast!! More posts to follow soon!

First Post of the Year!

Hey everyone! Hope 2012 is going great!
A student confession: There's nothing better to start the first month of the new year prepping for midterms...not! As always, there is going to be various things to study, especially when your teacher continues to disperse new material until 3 days before finals. Sorry, but posts this month are going to be sparse, because if you don't want to fail, then you better start cracking open those textbooks...assuming you already did :) So the fun begins after the third week of January. Hopefully snow will come to the Northeast again...miss the cold, powdery goodness already! Just as a present for all those late night study times.

Bye for now!

Last Post of the Year!

Hey! For lack of anything else to say, and not wanting to jinx things,

Happy New Year!!
Hope 2012 is a great year for everyone :)
And if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch the New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City Times Square!
Stay classy, because this will be a BIG year!

As the Year Winds Down...

This'll be a short post. But I just wanted to look back on what's happened the past year:         
           1. Aced all the finals. Otherwise, I worked my butt off for nothing.
           2. The Royal Wedding. (Ok, this wasn't my accomplishment, but it's the Diana wedding of this century!)
           3. Took part and became an ambassador of this Thai Exchange my school does.
           4. Had an amazingly productive and un-boring summer. Which consisted of: Summer Gym  (blah, but so glad I got it over with!), Volunteering at a local hospital and senior citizens' place, which I still do, Took tennis lessons and played every other day, read various books of my own choosing, seeing Harry Potter 7 Part 2-Sad but fantastic, and traveling to Great Britain (more on that later). And actually hung out with and saw friends for once this summer.
 After my astoundingly great summer, the school year had to start again. So here's what else that happened in a nutshell:
           5. Took a terrible school picture, as usual.
           6. "Enjoying" AP Biology, and all the other classes.
           7. Won at a debate competition, first time! Way to go National Forensic League :)
           8. Became co-captain of field hockey team!
           9. Had a great Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas (3 in a row!). Scored amazing deals at Black Friday shopping.
           10. Became a judge at a local math competition. So much fun!
           11. Anticipating the coming of 2012! Post will follow.

Thoughts on The Nutcracker

It's December 28th and here I am, writing about The Nutcracker. It seems a like a belated post, but I mean, who isn't captivated by this family classic, even after seeing it 3 times before? The last time I had seen this fantastic ballet was around 4 years ago. Now that I'm just a year or two short of finishing high school, it was about time to see it again! Under the agreement with my parents this "would be the last time before graduation", I finally secured two pretty top-notch seats.
         We live in the suburbs around 20 minutes from the city, so I relish rare occasions when I see the nightlife. All I can say is, I'm not the only person to think of getting Starbucks before seeing a show. The air around us was misted with steam from my gingerbread latte and other people's holiday delights in a cup. This is what happens when you're tied down with schoolwork, field hockey, and soccer: you forget your city's cultural life. Use your imaginations, people. A theatre lobby, with elaborate embellishments adorned all around the ceiling and walls, with shiny glass mirrors running from top to bottom. The chandeliers are slightly dim, giving off that rich glow, with people laughing and bustling around you, with Christmas decorations in all the right places. In the huge theatre, groups of elegantly dressed people are taking their seats, calmly flipping through programs with an enormous chandelier hanging above. (This isn't the Paris Opera House, by the way)......
        And the lights dim...the Nutcracker Overture starts. The curtains open, and the dancers pretend like there's no large audience watching them. I finally feel Christmas cheer. The rest of the show can't be put into words, because it is a holiday classic and any summarization from would just take its novelty away. Enjoy the rest of winter!