Dead Spiders!

Hey! I just wanted to do a quick entry to not leave you guys hanging again. It's been a pretty good week. Nothing amazing that I can remember but if there was something it must not have been that important. Oh yeah, we had school pictures Tuesday. Other than that, not much.

Yesterday in science we had a lot of fun. We had a bunch of different labs set up at different tables and it was so cool to see what some stuff did when mixed. We even melted a penny! At the end the teacher had a remote control giant spider and he scared a few people with it. He put it on one girls desk below her papers and when she sat down he moved it. She lifted the papers and then screamed and almost flipped over her desk. Everybody busted out laughing and she was so embarrassed but she was laughing so hard at the same time. It was hilarious.

Oh, the title is because at the end of science today the teacher brought out a box with a dead Tarantula in it. I petted it and one of its legs feel off! Uhoh! It was old though and there were other parts of it in the bottom of the box, lol. It was furry.

Britt Nicole uploaded a better qualty video of "Ready" from the concert I went to over the summer. Here it is. This vid is way better than mine so watch it!


That's pretty much it for tonight. I hadn't heard from Jake since last Sunday but I finally got a short note from him this morning saying he's been busy but he's been doing good. So yay! Haha, that's what worried me the most, wondering how he was doing. So yea, talk to you soon Jakey!

Everyone have a great night (Especially you Jake. You too Gage!)

Clifton

Pop-Chick!

Yowzers! I haven't updated in a week. Everybody makes mistakes....everybody has those days.....1234!

Today was pretty cool. I had a cold and some sort of weird eye infection earlier this week but they are both pretty much gone now.

This weekend I spent a lot of time working on a new parody. I have been trying to work on it for almost two weeks but I've been busy with the campout and school stuff. But this afternoon I finally released it!

Pop-Chick (Toxic Parody)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoR5Al4HYk


Oh, and when i filmed the part laying on the ground (Friday), I got stung by a yellow jacket. It hurt! Before i started filming i saw it flying around me but i just figured it would go away. About half way through filming a felt something start hurting on the back of my leg. I didn't really think about it until i started to pack up my stuff and go inside and then it started really hurting. I HATE BEES! Maybe we should just like take away their stingers and let them go. That way they cant hurt me and can still do whatever bees do. Oh well, it's better now.

Saturday night I went to Olivia's 16th birthday party and it was awesome. Most of our time was spent making Smores and jumping on the trampoline :) Her birthday was last week but her party was saturday. She's a year older than me now :(

Today my aunt and uncle came over and visited with us. I haven't seen them since Christmas so it was nice talking with them.

That's about it for today. Sorry I missed you earlier Jake. If I had known you were on i would have tried to be on too. Oh well, we will try again :) Talk to you later man and everyone have a great night. See ya!

Clifton

Beach Bum Be Back

YAAAAAAAAAAAAWN! I'm so tired right now. I'm gonna write yawn each time I yawn while updating. Yawn.

This weekend was amazing. I had a blast. So did the guys in the troop. I guess you are probably wondering how it went. Yawn. I guess I should tell you. ;)

BUT FIRST!
When I got home from school Friday I noticed Venetian Princess had posted her video. I checked it and yep, there I was at 0:41! YAY ME! Here is the full video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njyf2WMud_M


Here is a video I made with the full clip I sent to her, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P2tZHoXP6o&watch_response


If you pay attention to the ending, theres a little bonus in there!

Ok to the campout! I got to the church around 5PM and once all the guys showed up we loaded our stuff onto the short bus and got some stuff from the scout hut and then headed out. We stopped at Wendy's about half way and had supper. We had to pay ourselves this time. We got to camp around 10ish. I decided to sleep in the camper. Actually it wasnt my decision. There were 6 people sleeping in tents, but they brought their own and had already partnered up. It was either try and fit in a tent with them, or sleep with the other guys in one of the ASM's camper, so what do you think i picked? ;) We all went to bed sort of early that night. We road out to the beach on the golf carts just to check it out and then came back to camp. Night night!

Saturday we got up around 7:30 and got ready to head out for breakfast and the "Beach Sweep". We stopped at McDonalds and then went down to the pier where we normally start. We walked down to where there was like a creek and turned ound and came back. Here are some pictures (I had to link them because they were too wide)
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Yes, I edited the troop number and church name out. So excuse the bad spots, lol.

Then we went out and walked on the peir. We saw like 5 sharks swimming around it! Matt found some fish guts and threw them in and we watched and took pictures of the sharks eating it. But then this man walked up to us and told us it was illegal and if we were caught there would be a $450 fine. Wow! So we had to stop. I have a video of it but I don't want to post any "evidence", haha. But I can show you a picture of our guys looking at the sharks!
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After that we stopped at the store at the start of the pier and got something to drink.
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After that we had some free time back at camp so we dug in the sand, played in the ocean, played in both the indoor and outdoor pools, and went on paddly boats, haha. It was a really cool afternoon. Oh yeah and some time in between all that we had pizza for lunch back at camp. At around 4PM we had a meeting about what we were going to do that night. I came up with the idea to go to "Broadway at the Beach" and they all liked it. So that's what we did! When we got there we went to Hard Rock Cafe and ate first. I had some kind of Hickory BBQ Bacon 10oz burger thing. It was really good. One of our leaders told them it was Nick's birthday so when they came out to make him a foil hat he went crazy and accidently knocked his glass over with some kind of fruit drink in it and the glass broke. Oops! They gave him a free refill (new glass) though. He told them it wasnt his birthday but they didnt care. they brought him out front and announced his birthday to everyone and gave him ice cream. Haha! Then they made our guys get up there and do the YMCA dance. I got the whole thing on video, i wish i had a way to post it. I don't want to waste space on my youtube for it. If you want to see it and you know me just email me and ill send it.

After that we split up into groups of like 4 and walked around the broadway area. My group didnt really do much but walk around. We went in this candy store with a bunch of pics of girls posing. We called it the X-Rated candy store. It was hilarous going in there with our scout uniforms. There were girls licking all over chocolate and lollipops. It was hilarious. One sign said "WE HAVE BALLS! Gumballs, lemondrop balls, etc." lol. I bought some kind of sugar powder there. Here is a pic from inside the store:
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Oh, there is this one spot on a bridge with tons or carp so we bought some fish food and threw it in. They all piled up on top of each other to get it. It was hilarious! I have that on video too. Here is a pic of a booth thing right near the walkway, lol.
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When we were done we ran back to meet the guys at the resteraunt and then headed for the bus. When we got back to camp we were all full of sugar so we talked for a while and then went to bed.

Sunday (today) we woke up and packed our stuff up. We went to the chapel service put on by one of the Venture crews and then came back to camp to finish packing and check for trash. We then headed for the flea market!

We stayed there for an hour and only a couple people bought stuff. There wasn't really anything good there. Plus it was soooo hot! Especially when we got back to the bus. We were Roasting! But then the air cooled off and we were headed home. YAY BEACH SWEEP 2008!

Well I need to go email Jake. God this took so long to do. I should have started earlier. Now I only have 10 minutes before 11 and I still have science homework. This sucks. Night everyone!


Clifton

Drama Mama

Hey!

Today was pretty cool. It's late so I have to make this quick. Today was a late start day so school didn't start until 10:45AM. Each of my classes were 1hr long, and in between 2nd and 3rd block we had what they call "Advisory Time". It is in our homeroom and I'm guessing its supposed to be something about bettering yourself. It was only 25 minutes long and most of that time was filling out a paper about ourselves. My 2nd block is the same as homeroom so when everyone left after class i stayed sitting there. The teacher kinda looked at me for a second and then she remembered i was in her homeroom, lol. I left my stuff in the room and went to the bathroom. When I came back the room was full of strangers, some I recognized from the first day. The teacher didnt seem to know any of them either, lol. When she was calling role she had no clue how to say the names. She didn't really call me, lol. She just said Clifton and then moved on. Then after class as everyone was walking out she just kinda stood at the door and as i passed she said "Adios Clifton". :p

So after school I went to the first drama club meeting. It was really cool and I saw a lot of people from my P/P class in there. I didn't feel so bad being the new kid because this one girl in my class who is also new was there. We had to join a committee so I joined the one where I saw the most names I recognized, Scenery Committee. I'm guessing they are in charge of making the sets. That really isnt something i am interested in, but i'd rather be in that with people i know than another one with random people.

On the way to the van after school as I was walking on the side walk a truck pulled up in front of me and honked. I didn't look up or anything, i just figured it was some random person. Then as i started to cross the parking lot I heard "Hey there buddy.". I looked up. It was one of my scout leaders, lol. I don't see him that much but he was the one i mentioned in another blog entry that said those nice things at the board of review. We talked for like a minute and then he went into the school. I don't know what he was there for but I know he has a son there. It was cool to see him.

At our scout meeting tonight we talked about Beach Sweep and then met with the OA members and talked about Fall Fellowship. The leader that I saw at school showed up at the meeting tonight. It's always nice to see him there. I know, I'm a suck up :)

Well it's really late now so I gotz to goz! Everyone have an awesome night, especially you Jake!

Clifton

OMG!

Damn! (oopsie!) It's been almost a week since I've updated. Im sooooo sorry to all my readers. I know I've been slacking but I didn't realize my last update was last Tuesday. I'm sorry Jake, no wonder you were concerned about me. I feel like a jerk. I AM ALIVE!

This past week seems to have flown by really fast. I guess maybe because it was a short week. Nothing really too exciting happened that I can remember. Most of my friends are back in school now so I guess it's hectic for everyone trying to get back on schedule.

I've been working on a new video. Here is a preview I released a few days ago:
(Youtube is doing some maintenance. The video may appear to be "no longer available" but check back in a few minutes and it should work)


Haha, yea. By the music I guess you can tell who it's gonna be on.

Who watched the VMAs last night? I DID! All I can say is.....WOW!!!!! What an awesome show. I enjoyed every minute of it.

Congratulations Britney Spears! She won her first Moonman tonight. Her awards included best female video, best pop video, and.... BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR! I knew she'd win! Go Brit!!!

I also loved Rihanna's performance of Disturbia. When the zombies started to come out I was like, "OMFG! Michael Jackson's back!", haha. But she did great.

My favorite performance of the night was Pink's "So What". I loved how it was like watching a music video. I like when she threw the bottle or whatever through the window and set the store on fire. That was AMAZING!

The only problem I had with it was the "Best New Performer" or whatever it was called. Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry should have won in my opinion. I don't know anything about Tokio Hotel. Well... I guess I do have to respect them because they got me thousands more hits on my "What If" video. In one of their vids on youtube the lead singer played the song and lipsynced to it so that day I had hundreds of people running to my video saying "OMG Bill is awesome! He loves this song!". He must have seen my video, haha. I have over a million hits on that one and it is almost more popular than the official video.

Yea, just thought you might like to know how it went, haha. It was a great event.

Well...since I can't think of anything else I need to go get my shower over with. I sent Jake a pretty long email today. I love writing to him. I know you are wondering, "how could you love typing an email?" but it's true. I guess I just like sharing my life with him because he means so much to me. I know, you are probably sick about hearing about how great he is, but I don't care. He is such an awesome friend and I can't imagine the internet without him, haha. I consider him part of the family and he has invited many times to run away and live with him, lol. If only I could. I could (and have, several times) spend all day daydreaming about what it would be like to live with him, or near him. I'd have to completely change my laidback lifestyle, choice of clothing (NO DUH!), and time management, but it would SO be worth it. I'd give almost anything to be his neighbro. Woah, typo but I like it! He's my neigh-bro!

Everyone have a "razz" night (guess who I stole that word from, hehe). Especially you Jake. Oh and thanks to all you other people that read, it means a lot :)

Your pal,
Clifton

That's What You Get...

Dear Journal, (I'm gonna start like this from now on...maybe)

Today was sorta bad. Not awfully bad, but still bad. At school at least. Ok you are probably wondering why. Well let me get other stuff out of the way first.

History class was ok. We watched another movie and did our VHS Log. It was a pretty boring one though because it was just a bunch of pictures with a guy talking. It's old anyways, i liked the DVD's better.

In Spanish she paired us up in groups of three to practice a conversation. When she got to me she pointed me to be with 2 guys behind me. I turned my desk around and one was asleep and the other was talking to someone else. I kinda waited a minute and then I asked if they wanted to go over it. One dude got up and went to the teacher and told her we were ready. She already had another group going first. He came back and I asked again if they wanted to go over it. One of the guy's kinda looked at it and then put it away. The other still was laying his head down. Well, since I couldn't get anything out of them, i looked over it myself. Then she called us out in the hall. I had the first line so I said "Buenos Dias" to one of the other guys and held out my hand to greet him. He just looked at me and said "uhh..what did u say?". We wern't allowed to use English so I just kinda waited on him to say his next line. He pulled out the paper (like we aren't supposed to do) and read it. The teacher gave us another couple of minutes. We tried again. Still, he had no clue what he was doing. Neither did the other guy. I felt so stupid and yet there was nothing I could do about it. She kinda gave us a talk about using our practice time wisely. She have us all a C. Ok here's my anger...

Why the "F" should I get a C because they didn't want to work? I tried to get them involved and practice it but I couldn't make them. They are the ones who sit in the back of the class and don't do anything but talk all class. They don't give a crap about school. And what was she thinking partnering me with them? She knows I participate in class. And with this freakin' grade it will really lower my average and I only have like 7 and a half weeks to make it up. I think this was a test grade too. It is totally not fair. I am so used to getting all A's on my report cards and progress reports. And if this one freakin' grade causes me to get a C.... well I guess I am really hard on myself about my grades. My parents don't push me as hard as I push myself. Honestly, I felt like crying when I saw that grade and knowing there was nothing I could do about it. And now there is no changing it. But I mean, what could I have done? It's not freakin' fair and I'm not putting up with it again. If she does it again I am gonna have to meet with her after class or something. She is one of my favorite teachers there, but that was not fair at all of her to do that to me. So I guess "That's What You Get" when you go to a school with idiots. That made me really miss my old school, and I think that was pretty much the first time I've had a bad day in a while. It pretty much ruined my whole day. God this sucks...

Ok, now that that's over I can move on. Even though I still feel like crying over it :( I'm such a baby.

Lunch was good. I sat with Keenan again and then his sisters joined us. I'm starting to feel more comfortable with them and I guess they are becoming better friends. Like I've said before I'm not used to having to make new friends.

I finished up my testing in the computer lab. When I first got there the door was locked and no one was there so I decided to just go to third block but on my way to D building the computer lab lady, her name is Ms. Webb and I'm not even making that up, came out of the cafeteria. She said she had a meeting that ran over. She was really nice and apologetic. Oh, and she asked me if I wanted to ride the elevator so I was like SURE! It felt like a hotel or something, haha. When I got there I only had 3 questions to finish so she gave me a note and sent me to third block, Drama.

They were acting out their characters we made up a couple days ago. Uhoh! They all had theirs memorized but since I missed class Friday I hadn't looked at mine since Thursday. So as I was taking notes from the other "interviews" I reviewed over my character. Then she called me to be interviewed. Yea, I was nervous. And she said at the end she couldn't tell if it was the character being nervous or actually me. I didn't admit it but it was ME! Yea, I know we've been through a bunch of trust exercises, but I still don't know these kids. They all know each other, but i'm the new kid. I thought I'd feel comfortable because I love Theater, but I guess the crowd (my old school) really did affect my nervousness. To my old music class, I wasn't shy about anything. I was just as outgoing as everyone else. But in this new place, I am really shy, especially when speaking to the entire class. Yea..just thought you should know.

Ok I'm running low on time so I'm gonna skip science. It was an ok class. I got a 102 on my Test! YAY! Any chance those extra 2 points could transfer to my Spanish grade? :p

Tonight was our Court of Honor at scouts. A bunch of guys got rank advancements and merit badges. This was our first COH since Christmas so there was a lot to give out. I earned Life (YAY!) and I also got 5 Merit Badges. Next step...Eagle. Wow, I never thought I'd make it this far. I am so glad I got involved in scouting, I have loved every minute of it. I always look forward to our meetings and most our camp outs. Speaking of camp outs, Beach Sweep may be cancelled. I still paid my money ($40) but they said they will email us if Hurricane Hanna changes our plans. Right now it is supposed to hit the Coast of the Carolina's Friday Morning. We'll just have to wait and see. I think I said that last entry, lol. But anyways, I'm very proud of the guys in our troop for advancing and continuing to stay active.

Well that's pretty much it for tonight. Jake started his schoolwork today and Gage started his new school today as well. Kristian has his first day at his new school tomorrow. Good luck buddy and have a great time! It won't be as bad as you think, trust me. Have fun! Everyone have a great night, especially you Jake.

Sincerely (NOT!),
Clifton

Hurricane Gustav

Hey everyone!

It's been a few days since I last updated. Hello September! Happy Labor Day!!! No school today, heck yea!

As you all know, Hurricane Gustav has been threatening the Caribbean area for the past several days. Today it made landfall in Louisiana but has now weekend to a Category 1 Hurricane. There still have been several deaths and injuries involved with this storm so my prayers go out to all the families and victims who have been harmed by this storm. And Hurricane Hanna is on her way right behind it. They say it is supposed to head up the Carolina coast this coming weekend, which is when we are supposed to have our Scout trip to the beach. I hope they don't cancel. Hopefully they just reschedule it or something. But who knows, they could have been wrong on their predictions of where Hanna is heading. I guess we just have to wait and see what it does.

Friday I started on a family project with taking a bunch of our old family photos and scanning them onto my computer to back up on CD or on a Flash Drive. So far I am about half way done. Here is a video I made with pics of me when I was a kid, haha!



I miss being a kid!

This weekend I also announced the winners to my Titanic video contest:
1st - xxkeelimexx
2nd - LeoFan4Life
3rd - Splee3311

Congratulations!!!! And also a big thanks to everyone else who entered.

I got to chat with Jake last night and it was really good to talk with him. It's been a few days since I had heard from him so I was anxious to talk to him, haha. I really wish we could be friends in person rather than online. It's hard to keep up with each other online but if we were friends in real life I'd probably be involved in everything he is so we'd pretty much be with each other all day. He might would get sick of me but oh well! :p We are like brothers anyways (like I have said many times before), so we are close no matter how far away we are because he is so awesome like that! Thanks for being my friend for so long, you have made my life twice as cool, haha. You rule!

Well that's about it for my weekend. Back to school tomorrow. Awwwww! Do I have to? Oh well, it's a short week and might be going to the beach Friday so it's all good! Everyone have a great night! Especially you Jake. Oh and my other readers. Let's see.... Scooby, Kristian, Gage, Danny (thanks for the guestbook comment!), and ummmm.... YOU! :)

See ya,
Clifton

Burnin' Up!

Oops, sorry for the 5 Missed Days! School has been going really well and I am starting to enjoy it more. I have made a few friends and found a few to sit with at lunch. Drama class has been great and we have been doing tons of fun exercises. The teacher said that tomorrow we are going to start on "Character Analysis" so that doesn't sound like much fun. I don't really know though, i just think "Analysis" sounds like a boring thing, haha.

Oh yea, I haven't mentioned this but I made a new video over the weekend. Don't judge it by my singing, lol. I suck plus I wasn't really trying. I think the more videos I do like it will make it easier for me to sound better. Yea, I still stink but I could do much better than that, lol.


Writing the lyrics was the fun part, lol. I also liked editing the audio using the "Auto-Tune" effect. It's the same effect used in "Lollipop" and Rihanna's "Disturbia". Of course I didn't use it at full power like those do, but I want to in some other video because it sounds so awesome.

Today in Physical Science we did a Scavenger Hunt type thing with converting measurements (ex. 100ml = ___ L). It really helped in memorizing how to convert using Dimensional Analysis. There is that word again...Analysis.

Tonight at Scouts I had my Board of Review for "Life Rank". That is when you have a meeting alone in a room with 2 leaders. In this case it was two leaders that don't come that often. I've only seen one occasionally, the other used to be very active in the troop when I first started. When I walked in the room the leader I knew was like "Oh no, tell them to send someone in who isn't a troublemaker like you". haha. I sat down and they asked me a serious of questions about scouting in general like what was my favorite merit badge and what did I plan on doing for my Eagle Project. Then, the leader I knew talked about how proud he was of me and how I set a great example to all the guys. He said he is looking forward to being at my Eagle Ceremony and will be proud to see me make it that far. He reminded me of when I was pretty new and he set up an orienteering course and split us into groups. He said my group was really lost and confused but i stepped up and led the group and we made it very close to the last destination and beat everyone else. He said that was my "turning point" in the program and he has seen me increase greatly in my self-confidence, commitment, and determination since I joined. Wow, I guess that just really means a lot to me coming from him.

After the Conference, Reagan was next so I waited on him to get out. When he was done I asked him how it went. He said they asked him about the same stuff as me pretty much. I asked him if they said all the "proud of you" stuff but he said "what? no.". So that kinda makes me feel better about it knowing it wasn't something they kinda told everyone. But yea, they said that I answered every question with a great answer and congratulated me. I was happy :)

So now it's about time for bed. I haven't heard from Jake since Monday night but I hope he writes soon. I've written him like twice since his last message. I miss you man! haha, I know weeks are busy for him though and I'm glad he is having a good time.

Well, I guess that is it for tonight. Have an awesome night everyone! Especially you Jake, Gage, Scooby, and ummmm.... anyone else! Oh, my friend George made a blog so I put him in my friend's blog links to the right. Check it out!

Your maaaaaaan,
Clifton

Late For Class!

Hey!!!

Today was pretty good. It started out really sucky though.

So I got to school like last time. It was a little less crowded. When the bell rang we went to our lockers. I assumed we went to homeroom which was right next to my locker but the teacher told me that we go to first block. Well... this was one of the classes that was changed on me. I had written down A109 on my schedule, but the A109 wasn't the one I was looking for. I went up to a teacher and said i think i have the wrong class. He told me it should be C109. I had no clue where the C building was because I didn't know I left the A Building last time. I found it but all I saw was the gym. Then guess what...the late bell rang.

I went back into the main entrance of A Building and approached the window that said "Attendance Office". There was a lady in there and I explained to her what had happened. She showed me how to get to my class and wrote me an excuse. Oh god that was embarrassing. I had a feeling it was gonna be a really bad day.

I went to my class about 5 minutes late and turned in my slip. I noticed he didn't put anything in the computer and just read over it and threw it away. We talked about the Ancient tribes in the Americas and West Africa. We had to do several questions out of the book but we went over most of them as a class.

In 2nd Block the Spanish teacher said she got an email saying I was absent to first period. How did I know. She questioned me about it because she is also my home room teacher and she remembered me coming in earlier. I told her I turned in my slip. She told me to talk to my 1st Block teacher in the morning about it to get it fixed. Ok, trouble over..I hope. Spanish was pretty cool today. We worked on learning each others Spanish names and asking what their name was in Spanish. We also learned the alphabet. Weirdly, I knew it before hand. In Elementary we had a Spanish class about twice a week. We learned a song for the Alphabet so when we started going over it today it was really easy to recall. Most people didn't get it at all. Near the end of class we went around spelling our Spanish names out in Spanish. Most people had to use the chart and find each letter, but I just said it from memory. I got a lot of weird stares, lol. But the "perfecto" from the teacher was great, haha. I just thought it was pretty cool I remembered all that. I used to be so obsessed with learning Spanish as a second language I used to check out audio books at the library to learn, although those never helped, haha. Our homework was to learn to spell our last name in Spanish. Easy!

Near the end of Spanish I asked one of the guys I've been talking to and he said that he has first lunch too (same guy from yesterday) and that we go straight there after this class. So I ate lunch alone again. I didn't see him though but he is a freshman so i know that they have different areas and stuff. I feel weird sitting alone. I feel emo sitting alone, lol. I don't know why. Speaking of that, there was this 10th grader who had bright yellow hair. Holy crap that was awesome! It was different but it looked so cool. I wonder what it would be like if I dyed my hair that color.... Just kidding!

Third block, Theater, was amazing. We started out talking about trust and teamwork and took notes. Then we went to the stage. Wow! It felt like being in High School Musical or something! It was HUGE! Our stage at my old school was tiny and basically a big hole in the wall. This thing had several curtains and a real backstage area. Oh my gosh it was amazing! Anyways, out there we did some trust exercises. The first one was kinda serious. We all stood at the back of the stage and the teacher asked a bunch of question. Each one that was true about us we took a step forward. It started out with questions like "You have blue eyes" or "you are an only child" but as we got closer to the end the questions were deeper. Some were like "have you ever had a parent or guardian pass away" and "you feel good about yourself". I think it was a really good exercises and helped us gain trust with others. The other thing was more of a fun exercises. We got in a circle and took off one shoe. We could take off the other shoe too, lol, just put it back some. The game was called "Do You like your neighbor". We start out with one person in the middle. They then go up to a random person in the circle and ask, "Do you like your neighbor?". If you say yes, the 2 people on either side of you have to switch places before the person asking the question did. If you said no you had to say one thing you didn't like about them (ie. they are wearing jeans, they have white socks") then everyone in the circle who met that had to run to find a spot in the circle before someone else got it. It's pretty confusing but it was fun. Oh yeah I forgot one but I am running out of time. It was fun though, lol.

The sophomores had an assemble at 2:15 so we met in the auditorium (where i had just been on stage) and had a meeting. The principal introduced the office staff and stuff. I was appalled at the amount of disrespect some students showed. When the Guidance Director went on stage people were shouting out bad and disrespectful names at him. They also applauded all the assistant principals but actually booed one of them. I know, I sound like a retard, but I felt really hurt for them and sad that the students did that. It really pissed me off to be honest. I don't have time to get into why I think it's wrong but it just sickened me and hurt me for those teachers. Yeah, I'm weird like that.

Fourth blog was pretty good. We worked in groups and talked about the scientific method and variables. We have a quiz tomorrow but I think I'm pretty prepared for that. We had homework but I finished it in class. After the bell rang the teacher talked to me as I packed up. No, not because i was in trouble, he just asked where i was from and what school i came from. I don't think he recognized my old ones name, haha.

You know, it's weird, but no one has asked me about my arm yet. I don't know if its because they are scared to ask or they don't care. I don't mind answering, it's good that someone notices me, haha. Ok I sound like a total loser now :p

Well, that's it for this entry. It's long, I'm sorry Kristian! But I have a lot more to write about now. Have a good night Jake and Gage. I'll talk to yall tomorrow. TGI Friday!!!

Amor,
Enrique (Clifton)

First Day...

Hey,

So today was my first day in the Public High School. I was really nervous about going this morning. I had to write Jake because he is my comfort buddy, haha. I promised him I would tell him all about it so I thought, "What better way than through my blog?". So here ya go man....

My mom woke me up this morning around 6:15. I ate some breakfast and got dressed and ready. We were taking my brother and his friend from down the road to his new school first. They are both in middle school. So we left here about 7:15 and dropped them off about 7:30. We pulled up at my school around 7:45. That's when the butterflies kicked in. Tons of people! I got out of the van and walked up under the area in front of "A" Building. I saw no one i know. I felt really weird standing by myself but as I looked around there were others. After a few minutes I saw Olivia come walking up. I felt a lot better seeing someone I knew. Well I actually saw a few people I knew walk by but they didn't see me. They were all older though.

Any ways, we looked around and saw Michael standing by himself. He was in our class at my old school. We talked with him and then the bell rang for us to go to class.

We were totally lost. Olivia and I finally found our lockers after wandering the halls forever! Luckily our home room was in the same hall way. She had a different one but she was across from me. I walked in and set down in an empty seat. The teacher was also my Second Block Spanish teacher. We had a moment of silence which I now realize is like a prayer time if you want. Lol, I didn't know what it was for at first. Then we had the pledge and the TV came on for morning announcements. The teacher was passing back papers for us to get signed. They were mainly for homeless people, lol. That's really weird and sad to think that some kids in my school don't have homes to go to. Anyways, after a few announcements the bell rang for us to be dismissed.

I then headed to my First Block, American History. I asked a teacher for directions to get to the classroom printed on my schedule but he told us that there was a mistake and he sent us to the room we were supposed to be at. I followed a group of guys there. I really don't know how I'm gonna find it tomorrow. The teacher went over the classroom rules and went over our plans for the year. We talked a little bit about basic facts about our country. I can't believe there were 3 people who didn't know what the capital of the US was...

My next class was Spanish 1, which is the same teacher and room I have as homeroom. She is really nice. She started out the class telling us about herself in Spanish. Most people were like, "huh?" but weirdly I understood most of it. I guess those Spanish classes in Elementary really did pay off. She then gave us little pieces of cereal. Each color of the cereal represented a question that we had to answer in Spanish. She had the stuff on the board so it was mainly just an exercise to get to know everyone. The questions were: Name, Grade, Age, Favorite Music, and What you did this summer. We went around the room answering. Then she gave us a list of popular Spanish names and we each had to choose one to use throughout the semester. I chose Enrique because it sounded sexy, haha. I like it though.

Third block, Play writing/Performance, was next. I finally found the classroom after asking a teacher about the wrong room number then having to go back and ask again, lol. But when I got there it was cool. They had a mirror that filled up a whole wall. I found out I was the only person the teacher didn't know, haha. So I was out of all the inside jokes. But it was cool because it is a very laid back class. We went around the room telling about ourselves, what plays we had been in, what did we do over the summer, and something interesting about ourselves. I didn't really know anything interesting but she helped. At the beginning of class I told her what school i went to. So when I didn't know anything interesting she asked how long I had went to -------. I told her since first grade. She said wow and asked if I knew another girl who used to go there. Duh! Who doesn't know everybody at my old school. It was like a family...too bad I left. Anyways, the class was AWESOME. We didn't really do much but she said tomorrow we were going to the stage to do some exercises so I'm jazzed about that. Wow...I just used a Jake word!

Oops! About 10 minutes into 3rd block we had lunch. I have the first lunch period. I went to my locker and got my lunch. I decided to eat outside since it wasn't so crowded and there were other people out there. This one kid in my Spanish class came up and introduced himself to me. He was pretty cool, lol. Other than that I ate alone. Oh yeah, my drama teacher had lunch duty so she came over and introduced me to a few people. I kept my eye on her to know when the class was over just in case there wasn't a bell, lol. But there was. Then I returned back to 3rd block.

Then is was time for my last class of the day, Physical Science. I'm gonna rush this because it's getting late. The class was really fun. We talked about assumption and stuff and did a couple of fun activities. I think this is gonna be an awesome class.

So at the end of the day, it wasn't as bad as I thought. I scared myself too much from watching TV, haha. But it's pretty cool and I think I'm gonna get used to it.

Jake...I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to email you this afternoon. When I got home my Internet wasn't working so I worked on it for like an hour until I finally fixed it. Then I had to get ready for scouts. Crap, I didn't even have time to talk about that. I was planning on emailing you after this entry but it's past 11PM and I want to get to bed early because I'm about to pass out. Just write me back after you read this. Besides, this was pretty much all for you and myself. You rock dude!

Everyone have a great night! Especially you Jake, Gage, Dustin, Kristian, and any other readers! Tell me your name so I can mention you, lol.

Night,
Clifton