High School?

Because of hurricane Irene, the first day of school, which was supposed to be tomorrow, is now cancelled. Therefore, I'm left one more day of summer—but also one more day of fretting. High school...ugh. I'm excited for some things...the opportunities it will give, for example. Joining the school play, for example, will be very enriching. Also, many of the classes I'm taking will open up lots of doors. If I'm ever in doubt as to which one to take, I guess I'll let the Spirit guide. It will be tough, though. Hopefully I'll shoot up a couple more inches :D
So, we'll see how this goes...wish me luck!

~Anna

Paris! :D And other thoughts.

Ah, Paris! :D I will share some experiences here. Unfortunately, no pictures YET, but they are coming...

Well, this is what I have to report. There are many little dogs there. I saw no mimes, but a few people painted to look like statues. I'm not sure whether I was frightened or amused when I realized the "sculpture" was a person. When we first reached the airport, I was awed by the way we got to our destination...there were these futuristic glass tubes, and a...a...well, I'm not sure what to call it. It's like an escalator, but flat...wow, it's probably an obvious word, I'm just too tired to know it. Sorry! :D I just returned, after all. Anyway! That was quite fun. Then, when we boarded the metro, there was an accordion player there...throughout our five-day journey, there were quite a lot of them, actually. As we walked the streets, we had lots of croissants, pain au chocolat...also, crepes with Nutella are DELICIOUS. Hum-de-dum...trying to think...you see, right now, for me, it's very late at night, because of the time zone switches...I am trying to focus...We also went to many art museums, modern and old. I saw works by Picasso, Van Gough, DaVinci, and Edgar Degas.

Also, fashion abounded. Even if their outfits weren't too fancy, 90 percent of the Parisians I saw wore sleek and stylish shoes. And yet...they walk so much more than we do. That just doesn't process logically in my brain.

The Mona Lisa was beautiful. Also, it was much bigger than I thought it would be! Everyone describes it as small, but it's not, unless you compare it to the gihugic* ones that take up their own wall. (*Word provided by my Social Studies teacher, in the context 'Gihugic Georgia'.)

My Mom and I fell in love with an ice cream place called Amorino's. SUCH wonderful ice cream. Also, their McDonalds are very...posh? Maybe that's the word. :) Much better quality, with minuscule French desserts.

Other activities...we (well, just me) terrorized the pigeons a lot, rode endless metros, that had lots of stairs...too many...

Notre Dame was amazing. It had gargoyles and really neat engravings carved into the walls. We also visited many churches with great stained glass windows, and steered clear of the tourist-trap places for food. Altogether we survived pretty well. The irony of it was that my Mom was able to communicate better than I could, because she can speak Spanish, and there were tourists who were Spanish. SO, she was pretty amused by that. I was not, and a little disgruntled, but I got over it.

So, overall, it was a fantastic trip. We got some cool scarves, jewelry for Julia, a tie for Dad, Eiffel Tower earrings for Mom, ect...I won't type what Eliza got, because she's peeking over my shoulder reading this ;)

I'm off to spend some family bonding time...remember, CTR, EFY, and FHE. Very vital things in life. :D

Au revoir!

~Anna

UNO tournament

My two sisters just had a rather epic UNO tournament...for their hands, they had 70 CARDS EACH. Yes, yes they did. Ten times the fun! So, hopefully I'll be posting videos, soon, because no one reads this blog anyway...so...cheerio! I'm out! :)