Graduation Part Two

 Graduation

Today was graduation and I'm not gonna lie, it was a really crazy day. When I came home from rehearsal, I had to iron my gown and my sash and wash my shirt, etc. The trouble with the gown is that it's made from polyester and it is extremely difficult to iron. For starters you cannot use a regular iron, because it can melt the fabric and you will be left with a sticky mess. To over come this, you either have to use a steamer, or using and iron on it but having the gown between two sheets to protect the fabric. The wrinkles in the gown are caused by the folds, so they're really deep and really hard to iron out. It took about 1.5 hours of work to get the gown to look presentable. And then about 30 minutes to make it look somewhat good. Since it took so long to get my gown all fixed, I was running late to get to graduation, and in the process forgot my cap and tassel at home. So when I got to Memorial Auditorium, I had to wait until my mom came an brought my cap for me. All this was extremely stressful and wore me out so much. The graduation went fine though. Afterwards when I exited the building my friends ambushed me and started jumping around me. Then they picked me up and started tossing me in the air. We then took at least 300 pictures, and then we went to this hipster ish cafe downtown to celebrate. It was pretty cool but we didn't stay for long, so we went to my girlfriend's house to have a some what party. It was really fun and I ended up getting home around midnight. I had a lot of fun at graduation. Although I do not feel that much different to be honest.

Read More

Girlfriend

 So, there was a girl in my AP Economics class, lets call her Julia. I have been pretty good friends with her for quite some time now. Maybe 3-4 months. We really grew closer when I broke up with my girlfriend about 2 months ago. She really helped get through it all, and since then we have been pretty close. About a month ago, I started noticing that she seemed to like me as more than just a friend. At first I was hesitant to respond, because she had a slightly messed up relationship history. But about 2 weeks ago, I told her that I liked her too. We then hung out at lunch everyday for about a week and half. I noticed that I liked being around her a lot, and it made me happy. I asked her to be my girlfriend last Friday. It didn't change much tho, we are still acting the same way towards each other. I haven't kissed her yet, because I dont want to rush anything. We went on out first official date on Monday, Memorial Day. We went to see Fast and Furious 6. The movie was really good, and being with Julia was really fun too. We cuddled for about half the movie, and even though she was squishing me, I enjoyed it a lot.I had tons of fun, and just being with her made my day a lot better. On Tuesday she had school, but I didnt, so she ditched her second period class and we went to Starbucks. It was really fun, we just talked for about 1 hour and 20 minutes. We discussed some pretty deep topics, so it was some really valuable time spent together in my opinion.

Read More

Graduation

So graduation is in 6 days, and Im pretty nervous, which is a huge understatement. The work leading up to graduation is so stressful that its not even funny. I had to order my cap and gown online and the total was $61.97. I think that its an outrage to have to pay so much for a gown and a cap that Im only going to wear on one night for about two hours. Thing is my school requires everyone to have identical gowns so I had no choice but to get this one. The supplier can literally charge any price, and we have to buy it. It pretty horrible. Talk about monopoly. And then we had to complete our senior  check out forms, but the teachers at my school do not want to work with us at all to complete them, They wait until the very last minute to sign off the fact that I completed the class. Talk about stress.

Read More

Last Week of High School

Today was the first day of the last week of high school. I have waited so long for this moment to arrive, and it feels somewhat surreal. I guess I expected it to be different. It felt like any other Monday. Really hard to get out of bed, took forever to get ready. The usual. During first period the coffee I had in the morning was still having its effect, but during second I was literally passing out. I stayed up till 2am watching a show on Netflix and talking to a girl. So during lunch, after second period, I made a Starbucks run. During third period the coffee kept me going, but during 4th I was dying again. Pretty much a typical Monday for me.

We don't do a lot in my classes anymore. Most of my classes are AP, so there is no point of doing any learning after the AP test. We just do random stuff and screw around pretty much. In AP Econ, we had a two square tournament. It was pretty fun. In Calculus we did money management activities. I guess I should make the last week of school count, but that would require me going to sleep earlier.

Read More

Job Search

I have been for a while looking for a job. And have found little luck in doing so. Everywhere I apply, I do not even get a call back, or an email that they received my application. Nothing. The other day however my cousin promised to hook me up with a job at Pizza Guys. So she set up an informal interview with a manager, and the day I was supposed to go , my printer gave out, so I couldn't print my resume. So now I have no idea if I will get a call back or anything. I kinda need a job pretty bad. Gas, insurance, and a possible ticket in the past month cost A LOT of money. I also applied to Little Caesar's so I will see how that works out. Only downside of the job is that it is 7 miles from my house, and in traffic it can take almost 30 minutes to commute the distance. Hopefully everything works out tho.

Read More

AP Tests

I finished my last AP test today.I expected it to be alot harder, just to throw tat out there. Alot harder. The test was surprisingly pretty easy, considering this was the test I thought I had no chance at passing. Another step to college now. I get my scores in July, and the tests that I passed, I wont have to take those classes in college. I could enter my freshman year with 24 college credits. Not bad, in my opinion. I got a letter from UC Davis today, informing me of all my deadlines. I have to send in all my high school records, along with all my test scores. Such a pain, but its worth it I guess.

Read More

Paperwork

All the paper work and the documentation for college is pretty stressful and tedious. Just filling out my Housing Application, I had to put down my parents' address at least 10 times, and that is for each parent separately. They dont have an option that reads "both parents live together". I think that would save so much time for all the kids filling out all the paperwork. And then, they ask you to chose where you want to live, down to the hall. If I never been to the campus how do I know which hall to chose. What if I pick the crummy hall furthest from all the classes and where there are a bunch of drug dealers. Good thing I have multiple friends who already attend UC Davis, so I picked a pretty good hall to live in, close to the classes, and fairly new and good looking.

Read More