Whoa it's raining! I looked up and saw rain droplets on my window. al;dfkj;ad...
posted by Melike at 19:50

Today I surrounded my eyes with a thick coat of black and stepped outside to buy Soha a birthday present. I spent like an hour just looking at the cards. I always do that, I can't help it. Anyway, on my way back, these three buff college guys were playing football on an intersection (wtf.. haha guys are so funny). They saw me and talked amongst themselves, then threw a ball in my direction, and the guy who was trying to catch it strategically missed. Then he apologized. The other two guys were on the other side of the street, and as I crossed the street they apologized, too, and one of them was, "How's it going?" but I didn't really care to continue the conversation because I had to go home.
One thing I notice about APs is this: You enjoy the course at the beginning of the year, and then you start to hate it so much that you never want to deal with it again. Then, three or four days before the actual AP, you have an enlightenment: you love the subject, you loved the course. That feeling continues with you for the rest of your life.
Well, at least, that's my experience.
posted by Melike at 19:31

Recently I haven't really been wanting to write on my blog. I sit here and read others', and deep inside I know that I'm expected to, too, and I want to. But I don't really have much to say.
The Boston trip was really fun. The festival was on Saturday, and for the rest of the time, we toured Boston nonstop. It was really tiring, because they didn't let us rest during the day at all, and when we got back from a day of wandering around, we only had an hour or a half hour until curfew. I tried to eat seafood as often as I could, and ate a total of three clam chowders. I love downtown Boston, it's so much more appealing than the downtown we have here. And the Boston Commons is so pretty and huge, and there seem to be hundreds of people there every time we see it. People having picnics, etc. I know I could sit there and watch pigeons for hours. They have little stands there where they sell ice cold drinks and fried dough, which is quite tasty. It looks heavy because it's deep fried, but it's lighter than it looks. We also went to visit Salem, and Gloucester for a lobster bake, and it was beautiful when we were driving along the coastline and the waves were slamming into the rocks blah blah it was good. Pretty. I'm the most excellent writer ever. But I really wanted to go there and live there, and then noticed that I was going to do just that in a few months. Aiii!
Now we're back in school, and APs are next week. I'm really scared about them. Last year I was scared and got all 5s. This year I seem to have less confidence, though. I feel like it all depends on chance. This year's courses are definitely more challenging and require more thought. Something that does make me feel better, though, is that I got a 5 on the practice BC calc exam we took last night. I'm so glad we grade them right away. I got perfect scores on three out of six free response questions, which was quite impressive, but I didn't do as well as I could have on the multiple choice, so I need to take a look at that section.
We moved into the new choir room, which was being rebuilt for almost two years. It's humongous, but I'm sure chorale fits in there just fine. The walls need to be painted, though, and the whiteboard isn't installed yet, so it looks pretty drab. It's so awkward for us Madrigals to rehearse in there because we're 15 people and it seems like we're sitting miles apart from each other. One thing that sucks is that it's so far away from the rest of the school. The old choir room used to be right next to the science quad, so it was the center of my world. Now it feels like I have to walk into another city just to get there. Of course, my love for choir exceeds the distance it takes to walk there. It's just going to be harder to encourage others to join choir when the room's so inaccesible.
posted by Melike at 16:36