Teenage Wasteland

Last Few Days

strizer — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:29:08 +0000

This summer has been my best summer in a while. I always had something to do, and never really bored. I never posted about it but I went to Martha’s Vineyard with Alex and Regi and went to Kiawah with Tay and Denay. Both trips were really fun. Don’t really fell like posting about it all because I’m lazy but it involved alot of beaches. Even though that sounds kinda weird haha, whatever. I sooo do not want to go back to school, like I’m physically ready with all my books and supplies and everything but I just don’t want to be back at school. Well I am excited for high school and everything, and I was really nervous at first but after pre-season I’m much more at ease with everything. Once I get into that like school rhythm like school soccer homework (music) bed. I always say I have to be better with like not going on aim and facebook and even watching TV shows while I’m doing homework or instead of doing homework at the beginning of the year. I’ve said that for like the past 3 years and my grades dropped alot then went up a little. So hopefully they’ll go up to like at least 3 A’s this year. I have to take a shower so more later.

Insane Team Bonding

strizer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:37:55 +0000

I’ve had pre-season for the past 2 days and it feels like forever because we have 2 2hr practices a day so 4hrs a day which isn’t that bad but Tauni is crazy fit so for some reason she thinks we are too so she’s working us like crazy. The worst thing so far has been the hills. I think everybody who reads this blog (probably only Kate) knows that huge ass ditch in the back fields at GFA and today we had to sprint up it, back pedal up it, and skip up it each time you went up. Then you jog around and do it all again and we had to do that for 6 minutes. And even though that sounds like nothing if you try to do that for 6 minutes it’s like insanely impossible. She also tried to make us do this thing for abs where you hold the ball between your feet then hold yourself off the ground just balancing on your butt. And it’s IMPOSSIBLE! Like it sounds easy and Tauni demo-ed it for us and she did it with freaking ease cuz she’s so insanely fit. Like even though she’s kinda chubby she runs marathons and she’s 38. That’s pretty insane. But yah, now I’m really sore, and I don’t want to be sore for the fitness test on Thursday because then I won’t do as well as I can if I’m not sore. I’m sort of excited to go back to school and sort of not, like I’m excited to see everyone again, well the people I haven’t seen over the summer or pre-season but I’m so not happy to go back to school. I used to be really nervous for the whole aspect of high school but all the high-schoolers in soccer are really nice, but I think the only problem are going to be the sophmores because I don’t really like alot of them. But apparently neither do the rest of the high-school so that’s good. OH my goodness I’m like insanely tired even though it’s only 9:45 but whatever. I’m going to beddd.

You Don’t Know Kylie Minoque?!? Who Dipsetted with a Freak On A Leash?

strizer — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:53:30 +0000

My french trip to Montreal was insane. We drove up to VT first the day before I was supposed to get there and then the next day we drove up to Montreal. I was really nervous about going up because I was staying with a host family and I thought they were only going to speak French and I wasn’t going to be able to communicate with them at all. But as soon as I got there it was fine, and the mom speaking almost fluently in English although I tried to speak French most of the time because that is the whole point of the trip. My room was nice, I had a queen size bed which made me realize I really like big beds, cuz I like stretching out while I sleep. Ok well I got there Sunday so Monday was our first day. I needed to get up at like We had a test to see where they would place us for the classes and first we took a written test which was easy and then they called us in pairs for the oral part and I was paired with this girl from Switzerland, Franzi, and I got to be pretty good friends with her but she left and she told me it was because she was anorexic and she was in the hospital for like a quarter of a year last year and she needed to get back home so she could see her nutritionist and everything. However the oral test was a little confusing, they made me compare these two pictures of a big family and a small family and it was confusing. I got put in level Debutante 2.1 which is just after beginner haha. But there were alot of cool people in my class, and I got really close to some people. More about that later tho, after our tests we went on a tour of the olympic stadium in Montreal from like a while ago and we had to wait for like an hour for some reason cuz our afternoon activities are from 12-4 so we had to kill time I guess. So we had alot of time to just talk to people so that was good to get to know people. The only person in my class who was from the US was this girl Meghan from Kentucky but there were like a ton of people from Switzerland, kinda random, and a TON of Spanish speaking people, whether from Spain or Mexico or something. There was also this girl from an island off of Mexico, Adrianna, who spoke Spanish as her first language and for some random reason was fluent in German and fluent in English and her mom has an English accent so when she speaks in English she has an English accent, it’s really cool. So the olympic stadium tour was pretty boring and that only lasted like an hour so we had more time to kill so we sat on this little grassy area and played mafia for a while. And then went back to LSC where we always go back to after the afternoon activities. I met this girl Sofie who was from Russia but went to a crappy boarding school in VT near where my house in VT is, and she seemed really nice and stuff. But you know those type of people who’s first impressions are really good but once you spend more time with them they just get weirder. Well that’s what Sofie was like, and I stayed in the city with her until the night activity so like for 3 hours and she just got more annoying as time passed. We found this awesome underground mall though. The night activity that night was going to a comedy club which was hilarious, as comedy clubs are supposed to be, and I got back home, (BTW I had to travel alone on the metro and the bus at like 10:30 at night and walk a couple block by myself to get home, it was really scary) around 10:30 – 10:45, and my parents were freaking out about how late I got home, but there was nothing they could do about it so too bad for them haha. Tuesday was my first day of real classes and my teacher didn’t speak any English the whole time so it got a little hard to understand her some times. It helped alot though with like learning more and helping to understand what people say. The afternoon activity on Tuesday was a really boring scavenger hunt so I won’t go into detail about that. When we were free to go after the afternoon activity I was going to go shopping with the Kentuckian, Meghan, and this girl from Germany, Jana. BTW there were so many amazing stores for shopping that were exactly the clothes I like. It was heaven but also hell cuz I just wanted to get everything I saw because everything I saw I loved except I only had 150 bucks for two weeks so I had to be wise about what I spent it on. Anyway then I decided to go to dinner with these two siblings Christoph and Franzi, and Franzi like the minute you saw her you could tell that she had some eating disorder and she told me at dinner that she had been in a hospital for a quarter of the year last year because of anorexia and that she was leaving the camp and going home tomorrow because she needed to see her nutritionist and everything because she said she couldn’t like handle it anymore. I had like no idea what to say to that because like I don’t know. I just didn’t know. So that dinner was kind of like a going away dinner because she was leaving the next morning That night we went to a movie at the residence (where the people who aren’t staying in homestays stay, it’s like a dorm). They played Charlie Bartlett which I love so I stayed to watch the whole thing which also means I got home really late again so I was on the metro and bus at like 10 at night which gets really sketchy when it gets dark. Wednesday’s afternoon was bowling which was boring because we had to do it for like 2 hours and after like 30 minutes it gets pretty boring. OH and a guy and a girl at the camp were like camp boyfriend and girlfriend and whenever you saw them together they would be hooking up but whenever they were alone and not together both of them would seem all awkward without the other one which I think is so stupid that you’re so dependent on someone that when you’re not with them you’re like completely unsocial. It’s weird, and the girl has a boyfriend where she lived. Ugh I hate people who cheat on their boyfriends, it’s so mean. Like if you stop liking your boyfriend at least have the decency to break up with them before you start hooking up with other people. Anyway after bowling we were free to go wherever so Jana Meghan and I went back to St. Catherine’s which is like the main stretch where all the good shops are and I was walking with them and I turn to look at Jana and she’s smoking a cigarette, and she just turned 15 a month ago. And I didn’t freak out being like OMG YOU’RE SMOKING A CIGARETTE but I asked how she bought them and stuff and then she whipped out this fake ID saying she was 18 and it looked pretty legit, even though she made it herself. It was kinda shocking. However we went to Urban Outfitters and I saw these really cute jeans but they were 50$ so I had to not spend more than like 10 bucks a day to be able to have enough money at the end of the trip because I didn’t want to spend it then and then not have enough money if like I needed it for an emergency. That night we went Go-Karting which was soooo much fun. Like these go-karts can go like 50-60 km/h which is pretty damn fast. They gave us like a briefing of how to be safe and stuff and what all these flags meant and the guy said like this yellow flag meant slow down to like jogging pace because one of the guys from the go-karting place was on the track and they didn’t want them getting hurt. And that a red flag meant something really bad happened and to stop immediately and he said he’d never seen that flag been used. We had like time trials and I was the fastest out of the whole camp! oh yahh… And then they put us against the people that had like the same times as us so it would be even and on my second race when they put the yellow flag out this girl just either ignored it or didn’t see it and like went really fast and whizzed one of the guys from the place and almost hit him, so they pulled out the red flag and I was like oh crap, this isn’t good. So the head of the whole like go-karting place came out and talked to her. It was crazy. It was still really fun though. The go-karting place was like a block away from the bus stop I take to get to my house so even though we got out of there at like 11 I got home at like 11:30. So it wasn’t too bad. The next day we went ice-skating (I know kinda weird in summer, it was indoors) after classes which was fun because Meghan and I talked with this Swiss guy, Kevin, like the whole time about like so many random things from like the drinking ages and how strictly their enforced in different countries to porn. And we went skating for like 2 and a half hours so we talked for that long, it was fun. I did the usual with Jana and Meghan and we had this tradition to go to this small shop every day and they like knew our names and everything and like we went there at like the same time everyday so the shop people were expecting us, it was funny. That night was an African festival night which didn’t sound that exciting so I decided to go home for dinner since I hadn’t seen any of them like once since I came other than the first time I met them because I got home pretty late and since they gave me my own key they didn’t have to wait for me or anything and I got up to get to school in time before any of them were up. Oh btw the mom had two boys, one was 14 and one was 13. The 14 was kinda like unfriendly so I sort of stayed away from him, but I had dinner with the 13-year-old, Jeffrey, and he was really funny and nice, well what I picked up from his French was funny. Plus I needed an early night that night because I had been staying up until like 12:30-1 every night. After classes on Friday we went jet-boating which was so much fun. These boats were like intense like racing boats so they went reallyyyyyyy fast and they guy could like flip the boat around, like do a 180 and since he turned so fast it made a huge wave or wake or something like that and then he went really fast towards the wave/wake and then stopped short so like the front of the boat went into the water and this huge wall of water came over us. It was insane. They gave us ponchos though so I didn’t get too wet except for some reason my crotch (I did not pee my pants but idk how water got there) haha. That night I skipped the night activity which was just like a dinner at some restaurant to go out with CJ and his friend Mo. They were up in Montreal for the weekend because the legal drinking age is 18 there so they can go to clubs and everything. We went to a little only-French-speaking pizza place so that was a good test of my skills so-far learned because my brother has forgotten nearly all of the French he’s learned and Mo took Spanish so I had to translate and everything. It was fun though, it was nice to see my brother and everything. The weekend was either a 2-day trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls or stay home and do whatever you want. I decided to stay home because people who had been to Niagara Falls before said it’s cool to see for like the first 5 minutes and then it just gets boring. So I was home all weekend and I slept in strangely late for myself on Saturday, like 12:30, can’t remember exactly. I just watched TV and relaxed the rest of the day. Sunday I went into the city and I needed a new book because I finished Twilight in like the first two days because it was so good. So I went to a cheap secondhand book shop and got something about like a really early expedition to the north pole. It was kind of bad so I just read like the first chapter and stopped. Anyway, after I got my book, I went to where the camp people go to meet up for the night activities thinking someone might be hanging around. And I saw Meghan and Miguel so we went to lunch and walked around and stuff. When I got home I just played with the dog and cats, they have one dog and two two-week old kittens. They can fit in my hand and are sooo incredibly cute. The dog wasn’t neutered though so he kept humping my leg. It was really annoying and disgusting. The dog was really cute when he wasn’t doing that though. Monday were normal classes then we went to the insectarium which was absolutely disgusting because these bugs were HUGE. UHHH shiverrr. That afternoon Meghan and Jana and I were going to go to this piercing place because Jana wanted to get her cartilage pierced on her ear and Jana agreed to meet us at this place at 6 but she didn’t show up and I had to dipset home to get there in time for dinner. That night was a pinata party at the residence which didn’t sound like a bundle of fun so I decided to skip it and just go home. When I woke up Tuesday I felt really sick to my stomach so I just told my host family that I wasn’t going to school because I felt sick and they were like oh ok. So I went back to bed and slept in. The activities that day were good though which sucked. The first one was the ghosts of old Montreal which isn’t a good activity, Meghan and Miguel just said it was fun because the people who were like the tour-people were all absolutely crazy. It ended up that Jana got her cartilage pierced the day that I was sick but Meghan didn’t get anything because she thought her parents would get mad. The next day was pretty boring in terms of the afternoon activity. It was soccer or yoga and I chose soccer but when I got there all these guys were like changing into shorts and like jersey’s and were being all intense and they started playing and were all insanely good so Meghan Jana Adriana and I sat on the steps and we all fell asleep for like an hour, it was so weird haha. When we were allowed to go we went to McDonald’s and got some McFlurry’s which became like a tradition on this trip. And again we went shopping around St. Catherine’s going on our traditional Off The Hook run. That night was a latin rock concert in a park. We went on the metro to get to it and we went the wrong way out of the metro so we were walking the wrong way for like 20 minutes and then just made like a huge loop back to the metro and then past it to the park which was like 2 minutes away instead of the 20 minutes we walked for. Plus this park was in the middle of nowhere in this really sketchy place. It was sort of boring as well because I don’t like that type of music. Everybody just played frisbee the entire time so it wasn’t that bad. This little French kid came to play with us who was so cute. Plus he was like amazing at frisbee. We got home pretty late again, as usual. Thursday afternoon we had to buy all these food for the “prom” which was the Friday night activity because Janet (our monitor) had forgot to. But they let us go visit McGill the college in Montreal and go shopping instead. Meghan and I went arond McGill for a little bit and went to the “Welcome Center” to see if we could find out where the good places were to go, but when we stepped in it’s lights were really dim and there was noone there and it was all concrete so it looked like a prison. Not the most welcoming place. We tried to find one of the dorms but we couldn’t find any so we just went into this store where I found these really cute skinny jeans that were much cheaper than the Urban Outfitter ones so I got them, and they are awesome because they have lightning bolts on the back pockets. It’s awesome. After we just sort of hung out, had dinner and everything, we being Jana Meghan and I and then went to the night activity which was more shopping. We were supposed to go the underground mall to shop but the monitors let Jana Meghan and I just shop around St. Catherine’s and then meet up with the rest of the group at like 10 or whenever we were supposed to I can’t remember. We ended up missing them all so Jana decided to go straight home instead of going back to LSC to see if they were there which is what Meghan and I did but they weren’t there so we decided to go home so we could get home before it got way too late. The last day was really sad, but also really fun before we started thinking about all that. The afternoon activity was a talent show for each group and we did a talent show which was fun and when it was winding down everybody started crying and stuff except for me, because I told myself, “YOU WILL NOT CRY!” haha. Then after that we went to Mickey D’s and that night was a prom which I couldn’t go to, which sucked, because it was easier for my dad to take me home that night. Even so, I went to the residence where most of the people were getting ready just to be able to spend some more time with them before I had to go and it was fun and all but then when I actually had to like say goodbye I started crying and they were going one way on the metro and I was going a different and we were like staring at each other from the other side of the platforms and it was horrible. Then everybody started staring at me on the Metro because I was still crying, but then this weird homeless guy came in and started banging his head against the window so I switched to a different caar because it was freaking me out. Overall it was an amazing experince and I had so much fun. It sucks that I’ll most likely never see any of them again though. However…

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4.1 Megapixels for Dummies

strizer — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:02:54 +0000

My Mom Dad and I drove up to VT today so we can spread out the driving to Montreal for my French Immersion thing. I’m staying with a woman who’s 30 and has 13 and 14 year old boys so she must have had her first kid when she was like 15, 16 which is sort of crazy, but whatever. And they have no dad, so she must have had a rocky start to her family haha. I’m there for two weeks so hopefully I’ll be like crazy good at French by the time I come home. After I come home I go to Martha’s Vineyard from the 3-7 with Alex and Regi (grrrr) for some reason Regi’s coming instead of Denay. Then pre-season the last two weeks of August. Frick I didn’t realize how close it was to pre-season and I’m still nowhere close to being able to run a quicker 2 mile run, which is what we have to do as part of the pre-season fitness test. Frick I’m going to absolutely die. I’m leaving to drive to Montreal mid-day tomorrow. What I’m really excited about is that I’ll get to spend like 2 weeks living in a city again, which should be fun. I love being able to walk everywhere and I love falling asleep to city sounds like cars beebing and stuff like that. It’s weird but I grew up falling asleep to those type of sounds so I just am used to it, and it soothes me. It sucks because we don’t have AC here so we use these fans and I put mine up in my window so some bugs are in my room because they see the light so they try to get inside, and succeed. Ewww… they keep landing on my screen as well.

I’m watching this show called The Tudors (btw Kate I bought the whole season haha) and it’s so good, I’m re-watching them all though because I watched some of the episodes while I was packing so it seems like I missed some stuff that I should know to understand other stuff. It’s really good, but since the King in it, Henry( idk which one he is the first or something?) is a player so he has sex with like at least one girl usually more in each episode and it’s pretty graphic so that’s a tad awkward. And most of the women he has sex with are married and they can’t say no to him since he’s the King. So you’d be kind of stuck if you didn’t want to.

Oh my goodness I totally did not realize it’s like 3 in the morning. Even though I don’t have to get up early or anything it just does not feel like it’s 3 o’clock.

I’m just sort of rambling so this might be sort of boring for you to read but whatever. They re-paved our driveway in CT like 2 days ago so now our whole house smells like tar and it’s nasty. It can’t be very good for you I don’t think.

I’m really tired so I’m going to bed…

Team Phoenix – QUACK!

strizer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:16:47 +0000

I had soccer camp today and we were playing on turf so it was like 100 degrees and we didn’t have enough people to have subs so I was running around in like 100 degree weather and we were in the middle of a game so I couldn’t like stop to get water or anything and I legit was about to pass out. Like I was all dizzy and could barely breath. So during snack I called my mom to pick me up, so she did and I just lazed around until my doctors appointment. I went because I have these sort of weird spots on my stomach and they’re kind of ugly so I haven’t been able to wear a bikini for like 2 weeks. The doctor said that it takes anywhere between 6-14 weeks to heal so it could be gone by the end of summer or like 2 months into school. UGH! And the only thing I can do to help it go away faster is expose it to sun.

I just finished this book “The Chocolate War” and it had a good ending but it was good because it wasn’t like cookie cutter happy ending it kind of makes you frustrated, hence I’m frustrated because the bad guy got away with everything he wanted.

I really don’t want to go to soccer tomorrow because it’s supposed to be hot tomorrow too, and I don’t think I can handle any more of this fucking heat. Plus this camp is getting kind of boring because each week you do exactly the same things, and I’ve done it all before two weeks ago.

Well I’m off to do stuff, lattaa

Jack of Death

strizer — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:07:30 +0000

My nose has been hurting so badly lately. I was at Taylor’s and I was playing football with Tay her cousins Ryan and Sam Hodge and I went to tackle Ryan and something happened so my nose hit the back of his head and I started bleeding out of both nostrils and Ryan just got a really bad headache and I had a really bad headache as well for like an hour, so I couldn’t participate in the sponge fight we all had haha. I was pretty much out of commission the whole night because my nose was all filled with dried blood, and my head was pounding. I was fine by the time we went for a swim though. Anywayyyy I was in DC this weekend for my brother’s college inauguration. He’s going to GW which is in DC and they had this like sibling program so you can get acquainted with the city and everything. It was fun and most of the people in my group were pretty nice. There was this one girl who was like off in la-la land the entire time. She was a tad weird. We played this amazing card game, egyptian rat screw like every day. We had the most intense game between Mel (not the one you know) Trent Austin and I where we added sound effects haha. I was laughing so hard I almost peed my pants. It was sort of weird though because Mel was like flirting, I guess you would call it, with our counselor person alot who was 21, it was kind of weird. I realized today that I’m leaving for my french thing this weekend, and I’m getting really nervous. I totally feel like I’m just going to completely forget all the french I’ve learned and look like a complete idiot. Rawrrr, well I’m gonna go to bed…

Ouch, my hammy.

strizer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:03:33 +0000

I missed the first day of tennis camp yesterday because I was doing a babysitting course which was from like 9-4 but it was pretty interactive so it wasn’t too boring. Today I pulled my hamstring so I don’t think I’m going to go to tennis camp tomorrow, which is also sort of good because hopefully if my mom is in a good mood she’ll let me hang out with Zee. At tennis, when I told the guy that I hurt my leg he stretched me out and it was an awkward stretch because I was on my back and he put my leg on his shoulder then had to push like towards me so it would stretch the whole back of my head. But it hurt like hell and hopefully my mom will be in a good mood tomorrow and will actually believe that I hurt my leg and will let me not go to camp AND go to zee’s. Well we’ll see what happens…

Mumble Mumble, I love you, Mumble Mumble

strizer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:43:07 +0000

My weekend in VT was kind of a dud. We got there mid-day Saturday and didn’t do anything because it was kinda crummy and rainy so we couldn’t bike and then my parents went out to dinner and I made myself some ramen noodles, they were extremely yummy, while I watched Balls of Fury, which was horrible. It was one of those movies that is just stupid humor and really boring. Plus I had already seen it, but I stupidly let my dad choose what movie to get and that’s what he got so that’s all we had unless I wanted to watch the first Lord of The Rings seriously for the 20th time. I went biking right before we left the next day with my dad and it had rained all night so it was pretty slippery, and there were alot of puddles. I was going around a corner pretty fast so I didn’t have time to react when I saw this huge ass puddle and I went barreling through it and the water went all up in my shorts and got my shorts and my underwear completely soaking with mud water. It was nasty. And that was at like the beginning of my hour long ride, which made the rest of it pretty uncomfortable haha. I totally just realized I’m incredibly hungry because it’s 9:45 and my mom’s asleep my brother’s out and my dad’s somewhere I don’t know so no one made anything.. =(

I’ll make myself some pasta… mmm yummy.

All I wanna do is grow old with you…

strizer — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:08:32 +0000

I’m home alone while my parents are out at dinner. I’m watching the Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler, Robby and he’s in love with Drew Barrymore, Julia, who’s engaged to this complete dick, Glenn, who cheats on her and is really mean. At the end Julia and Glenn go to Vegas to get married because Glenn doesn’t want a big wedding, and Robby tries to follow them to Vegas and he can only get a ticket in First Class, and Billy Idol and all these rich people are there too so he tells them the whole story about how Glenn’s a dick and all that stuff and they’re all rooting for him to chase her down and break up the wedding and everything. Then a stewardess comes in and says you won’t believe this guy just asked me if I wanted to become a member of the mile high club. And then Robby thinks it sounds like Glenn so he checks coach and Glenn and Julia are there so Billy Idol announces like the weather and what they’re elevation is and then that a First Class passenger wanted to sing a song inspired by a Coach passenger and then Robby starts singing about wanting to grow old with her. Then Glenn wakes up from his nap and is like, “What’s this fruit doing here” and he gets up to do something and Billy Idol comes along with one of those little beverage servers and bangs into him. Then shoves him to the back of the cabin and into the bathroom. Then Julia and Robby kiss and then they get married and it was so happy! This trip was kind of stupid because we were supposed to leave after my camp on Friday but then my dad was too tired to drive the 5 hours to get here so my dad and I got up early on Saturday at 6 to go to the diner (btw, there’s a pretty weird crowd in that diner at 6 in the morning) got back to the house by 7 and left by 8. We did nothing all day except do errands and get food and stuff and now we’re probably leaving late tomorrow so I will have spent about 10 hours in a car in the past two days. Awesome….

Haha… ugh, ok, why don’t you stop now.

strizer — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:35:32 +0000

I was doing Mickey Kydes soccer camp all week this week, and I am sooo incredibly sore because it’s from 9-4, 7 hours of straight soccer, everyday. It really does help like improve all around skills though, so that’s good. The main thing I’m worried about is the fitness test because we have to run 2 miles and I’m absolutely horrible at long distance running. I’m up in VT now and it’s sort of rainy and crummy but it should be nice tomorrow, which is when we’re leaving. Great, haha. OK it’s sunnier so I’m going biking!