Hit Me Baby One More Time

Today (yesterday) was so nice! Thanks Evie for popping over and helping me immensely with my costume. I'll probably post a pic on Tuesday. (And it was great seeing you for lunch, Miah!!)

It was fun jamming to music w/Evie while colouring fishies and skype-ing with da boy. I mean sure I spent so much money today, but that's life. It's all a trade-off and I would choose fun times over money saved in the bank every time! (not really though)

Pretty excited for Halloween. Some years I have very inspired costume ideas, and other years not at all. This idea came to me after a long nap today, when I was going through my dresses. It is, I'm happy to say, on of the more inspired ideas. We'll see how it goes; hope I don't rip the fishnets haha.

It's a lot easier to be as happy as I am now when I'm not worried about work. The strange thing is that I always have a consistent amount of homework (ie. a lot), but at times it seems much less daunting than at others. This is one of those relaxed times, so it's just… nice. Gonna relish in the moment and try not to freak out when I think of everything that still needs to be done.

Question for next week:

How was Halloween? I want details! Maybe a picture or two if you're not too embarrassed or paranoid about creepies on the internet?

See ya Tuesday!

Lee

BUFFY ROCKS!!

Buffy: "Halloween is the night that not you is you, but not you. You know?"

And that's why I'm gonna be Buffy. *Sigh she's just so cool...and smart...and awesome...and like...confident *sigh... :P I can't even remember the last time I was this excited about my Halloween costume. I am gonna be Buffy man, BUFFY! As in the Vampire Slayer herself. PLUS I bought a freaking blonde wig. Omg my cool score just sky rocketed, seriously. Halloween should always be this exciting.

Any who I'm also in a good mood because I had an absolutely wonderful day today thanks to Miah, Lee and one of Lee's awesome friends who I've now met twice. I don't really get out as much as I'd like so today was super nice, going out for lunch with friends and then shopping. Buying my WIG :D And all this weekend I'm booked up! Seriously, it's gonna be sweet!

Now, do I like the winter...well, I always like how magical the first snowfall is. I also love sitting by the fire when it's snowing out, maybe even with some hot chocolate. Also tobogganing cuz it's just amazing :D Ummmmm...so, my answer is yes, I do love the winter. BUT I also love the spring, and the summer....and the fall. Ha, I guess I like all the seasons, but obvi there are some things I don't like about each one but you know...overall I like the variety :D

Alrighty, till next week peeps!

Evie

French Stereotype

23 DAYS!!! 23 DAYS!!! 23 DAYS!!! 23 DAYS!!!
Ah, so excited to see this film. More so then the previous, why? Because this Harry Potter was the only one that I read the glorious day it came out (July 21, 2007). Yeah I;m just really really really excited.
Anyways I did vote Rae, and like Lee I voted for one of the losers. Which makes me upset, not because I voted for a loser, but because the man who won actually scares me. Like I fear what might happen down the road.
As far as if I like winter, I guess it's a combo pack. Like Lee (and Evie for that matter, Rae did you think about this) my birthday falls in winter so that has always been a reason for liking it so much. Also, this is a little vain, but a lot of my favourite clothes are winter clothes so winter means I can wear them. Only thing though, is I hate walking in snow. I hate climbing to get to the subway. I love it when it snows, I think its absolutely stunning, but I hate walking through heaps of snow. And ice, ice fucking scares me, because I know so many people who've broken bones slipping on ice!
As far as my favourite season I would have to say spring, because of the first day of spring. Or spring like weather, (have you guys ever noticed that by the time we're officially in a season it has felt like we've been in it for weeks already?) the moment you can take off your coat, you feel a slight chill but not too bad, and the sun beams down, not enough that you boil (or in my pale case burn.) That for me is spring. And, my favourite musical is Spring Awakening... no correlation really, just the spring bit.
Finally Halloween, I've got my costume all planned out. I'm being a french stereotype. Wearing a barrette, stripes, walking around with a baguette, not smoking though... cause yeah that's a lil too much for me, and I'm lactose so no cheese.Oh and there is one other bit, but I don't feel like sharing that with y'all yet. I suggested to Evie she be British, so Lee (if you're going to be in town on Sunday) you could be Italian. I dunno, just thinking. Oh and there is one other bit, but I don't feel like sharing that with ya'll yet.
Hmm what else, what else. Nothing much, so...
OK That's it
Bye Bye
Miah

From Home

Hey all,

I'm posting from my wonderful home, as opposed to my rez. Last night, as I was falling asleep, it struck me how much I missed my family. So here I am!

Rae, I totally voted and um it totally didn't work. As in… the other guy won. I'm trying not to think about it too much.

Winter's cool 'cause it brings my birthday, hot chocolate, snowfall and ice skating. But I HATE slush in my shoes, wet socks, being cold, no sunlight… So um we shall see how it goes. I really am excited about the ice skating though.

Mannn I really don't know what to be for halloween. Hmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmm…!

Any ideas?

Lee

REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY!

Today all across our lovely providence of Ontario is municipal Election Day. That means that we are getting a new mayor (our mayor is not re-running). Now as we all know I do not actually live in the city that I am from so I have already voted (I actually voted thanksgiving weekend). We also know that we are all 18 years old this year so this is the first time we have ever voted. Voting is something that is SO important and not enough people do it. I don’t know why people don’t vote it actually takes like 5 minutes and they set it up so that you don’t have to go very far to vote. Anywho, I don’t want to rant too long about it but you (ELM) all better go and vote or I will be very upset with you!

Now to answer my own question I like winter when I am prepared for it. If I have on warm cloths, a winter coat, gloves, hat and all that jazz then I really do like it but I have always said that spring is my favourite season for a few reasons; my birthday is in spring, it means that school is coming to an end, it is the start of new life (plants, trees, etc.) and many other things but those are the big ones.

Till next time,

Rae <3

It’s getting closer...

So today I was walking to class and very quickly realised that it was very cold out, it was so cold out that I could see my breath in front of me. That is a sure sign that winter is on the way. That that leads me to my question; with winter approaching do you like winter? If not then what other season do you prefer? I’m gonna go and put more layers on then head over to class soon, have a good weekend!

Till next time,
Rae <3

A year off eh? Hmmm...what to do, what to do...

Right, well I guess I have to answer my own question, as funny as that might seem seeing as how I actually did take a year off and am currently doing...well, not too much. But if we're talking about the plans I had made for what I thought was going to be my glorious year off...hoo boy! Man I had some awesome plans going.
First I figured I'd start looking for a job around late August or early September (that's like prime time cuz all the university and high school students would be leaving to go back to school) and I was thinking I'd try and get a job at this awesome movie rental place near me called Videoflicks wear I go ALOT to rent movies. In fact I have totally abandoned blockbuster and rogers, it's all about Videoflicks now! Yea, I thought it'd be sweet to work there and be able to rent some awesome movies any time I wanted and I also thought it'd be the place to meet new and interesting people who also like movies and stuff.
Too bad I chickened out right?
So my plan was to work there for a good while, say till around the end of January or even February, then my sister was planing on moving to Australia for a bit and so I was gonna catch a flight with her down under or whatever they call it. Sounds pretty sweet right? Hang out in Australia, learn how to surf, travel around using my sister's place as like a base or something that I always came back to after my travels. Woulda, shoulda, coulda right? WRONG! I still wish I'd done it. I still think I could do it, if I really wanted to. I can see myself working at the rental place getting free awesome movies and then taking off to Australia, disappearing for a couple of months and coming back with a killer tan. I just keep reminding myself that I can go looking for a job any time I want. Any time. But I can't help thinking I'm not ready yet. I mean, I would know if I was ready right? I'd be able to feel it in my gut. I'd be nervous and anxious, yea, but I would know it's what I really wanted. I'd be ready for it. It sounds lame but the time will come when I will totally be confident enough to get a job AND to rock that killer tan...soon my friends, soon.
ANYwho. There isn't too much else to tell for today. WAIT! I did finally finish the Harry Potter series. That's right people, Evie has read all seven HP books. It was a lot of hard work but I think that in the end it was worth it :P. And now I'm super stoked for the new movie! It'll be the only HP movie I've ever seen having read the book first. Pretty sweet right? Also I am totally blitzing my way through the Buffy the Vampire series (did I mention it's like the BEST.SHOW.EVER? cuz you know...it is) and I am now on the 3 season and completely loving it! Angel is so sweet (but dangerous!!). Yet their relationship seems awfully familiar...hmm...seriously though it predates Twilight sooooo ya. BUFFY WINS! Alrighty that last bit was for Buffy fans only other wise it's just a couple of random cryptic sentences.
Well till next week!
Evie

I'm Wearing Purple

Hey Guys,
So I spent today not at school. Ah, felt good to not go to school and do homework :/
So, I don't have much to say today about my own life... well except that today I went for an emergency run for markers. Yep... Art School.
Oh and I'm wearing purple to commemorate the suicides caused by homophobia, because no one has the power to bully, and I want and will help anyone who feels they don't belong because they do!
So there's somethings I've been meaning to tell y'all so I'm just going to post about that now.
Rae, yesterday I saw a guy who no joke looked exactly like Rupert Grint, but with Brown hair. So unless he's pulling a Hannah Montana, it wasn't him, but it was exciting.
Lee, I talked to you last night about your life now. But there is something else I want to mention. Being mediocre sucks, like big time. Trust me I hate being mediocre, but with that being said I had to prepare my self before going to school that I will be mediocre. Lee, I know that you don't want to hear this, but you have to tell yourself that there will be people better then you, there will always be. All that matters though is that you stay confident, that you believe in yourself and reward yourself. For example on Monday after my first ever mid term I plan on getting a crépe, for all of my hard work. (A crépe to go none the less :P )
Evie, I hope you're enjoying the final Harry Potter, it's my favourite. The second thing I want to tell you will come in the answer to your question.
Now to answer Evie's question. As to what would be doing if I hadn't gone to school, I probably would have gotten a job. And just worked the entire year, focusing on my self happiness. I also would have worked on art stuff, writing, reading, and watching films. That being said it's easier to imagine what we would be doing then actually doing. I over heard two girls in my English class the other day talking about how they had both taken a year off with plans to work and travel, but ended up just staying at home the whole time. So I in actuality probably would have gotten job (or else I don't know if my parents would have been thrilled... I just got them off my back for going to school and not having a part-time job...) but done not much else.
OK. That's it
Miah

30 DAYS UNTIL HARRY POTTER!!!!

Bleh

I just bombed a chem test, like a big one. So I'm feeling pretty un-good. It's not a feeling I'm used to, this mediocrity and stress and hopelessness. (Whatever, it'll be okay.)

To answer Evie's question… If I had taken a year off, I'd regret it and wish I'd gone to university.

As it is… I kind of regret rushing in to university. But that's me – I always think the grass is greener on the other side. And right now, I suppose I'm inclined to think that my side is a pile of crap. (Um… so maybe it'll lead to super fertilized soil, really green grass… but I'm not seeing it.)

Boo, sorry for the short post.

Lee

Cat Burglar-ing Boys through Europe!

Well what an interesting conversation that Miss Lee started... boys. For the most part I agree with Lee’s generalization because for some reason I feel more comfortable with new boy rather than new girls. I have no reason for that it is just something that I have noticed about myself over the years. On the other hand I could argue that I agree with Miah because boys can just be stupid sometimes but who knows it kinda depends on the person.

Now Evie the answer to your question is very easy for me because for a while I was thinking of doing just this. I would have worked full time September to April/ May then for the summer (June – August) travelled Europe epically England – a place I have wanted to go for years! Who know if I would have rely done that or just done nothing?

Anyway, I had a kinda crazy day! I got up went to biology class (my least favourite class), did laundry and studied for a test at the same time then headed off to value village/ the mall to hunt for a Halloween costume. It took me forever but thanks to some helpful text messages I found one... I’m gonna be a cat burglar! I`m curious have you decided what you are gonna be for Halloween? You don’t have to say what just if you have or not.

Till next time,

Rae <3

BOYS, BOYs, BOys, Boys, boys.......boys?

So. We're talking about boys this week eh? Boys, boys, boys. They're kinda the center of the universe in high school aren't they? I mean for girls...or gay boys too I suppose. But are they nicer than girls? Speaking in terms of an enormous generalization...you know what, I don't think I can make that generalization. I mean, everyone is so different, girls and boys, and I think a lot of the time when we think other people (male or female) are being mean or judgmental it's in our head. But I also think that in high school tensions run pretty damn high between girls and boys and so, because it's such an intense atmosphere, we tend to stick to our own sex? I mean maybe it's something to do with betrayal, like if a girl breaks up with her boyfriend, chances are all her female friends will side with her right? Same thing for a guy and his buds. It feels like there is some sort of dividing line between us all through high school that only starts to relax near the end...or at least that was my experience :P. I only started being comfortable enough to be friends with a guy in grade 11. But I mean, I've heard a lot of talk about boys maturity levels differing from a girls throughout middle school and then high school too. Maybe by the time we all hit university everyone's maturity levels have started to match so we're able to be friends with the guys who we always thought were sooooo immature! Also, a lot of people have had or still have a boyfriend or girlfriend at that point so maybe they feel comfortable enough with the opposite sex to be friends and stuff. Or MAYBE....haha maybe guys have just started to figure out that if you're nice to a girl she'll be nice back and they figure if they're nice to the right girls they'll get LAID :P.
Anywho, the reason I didn't post yesterday was because I was reading Harry Potter until THREE IN THE MORNING!! It was amazing, so good, can't even believe how intense it was :0. I won't say anything explicit here but it was the sixth (said with a VERY significant look). Crazy-ass ending right?? One more book to gooo!! Pretty exciting, I won't lie to you :D.
Now as for my favourite highschool moments :
From Commencement: Raphael's speech because it was SO.EPIC. and hilarious :D
Grade 9: Making new friends (I felt like I'd forgotten how so I actually went to an all girls camp during the summer between grade 8 and 9 to like, practice making friends. I seriously should have gone to a co-ed camp, I would have been much better prepared for the jungle that is high school :P) and the trip to Montreal!! That was the most exciting thing during grade 9, I loved it through and through. Oh! I almost forgot about fashion show, I hated the social side of it, like the dress rehearsal where I sat alone cuz I was terrified of everyone (socially inept? yes.) but actually dancing during rehearsal and then being on stage was really, really fun. Also knowing you guys were out there watching and stuff was cool.
Grade 10: Probably sitting as close as we could to that guy (Zachary something?) who was in grade 12 during lunch just so that we could stare at him :P Other than that I have like no memories from grade 10, either that or I'm mixing them up with other grades...
Grade 11: French Exchange babaayy! I love France, I loved my partner and I loved wandering the city so...what else is there to say? :D (OMG the bread was amazing...and Paris...I guess there is a little more to say :P)
Grade 12: Omg having a spare, wait scratch that, having TWO spares. Best thing ever. I would not have survived with more than 6 classes, which is why I dropped my seventh :D. And Prom because it's what you see in every.single.high school movie and it was surreal to finally experience it for myself. Oh! And Girl's Knight out...it was actually way fun. Like WAYY fun. The most fun in grade 12 I think.
Alright fine high school wasn't all bad. But I still say it's narrow minded and judgmental despite claiming otherwise...You know it's funny, grade 9 and 12 were the best. Interesting. I wonder what it means! :P
And now for next week's question:
If you guys, like me, had taken a year off instead of going to university what would you want to do with it? (And for my answer I'll say what I had planned to do this year before doing...well, nothing :P)
Tata for now!
Evie :D

The Levels

Right now, in my life, I would have to STRONGLY disagree that Boys are nicer then Girls... I had a terrible fight with one the other day, words were exchanged and lets just say... he's been kicked out of the salon, while gun shots were fired, beer bottles were smashed at his head and I the salon owner yelled "AND STAY OUT."
But that's what happened, since then I have been reevaluating my opinion on people. One in particular Sloan often defended, but now after that fight with that different guy he (the one Sloan is semi-cool with... I think.) Confused? Yeah... Basically a guy whom I put in "the least favourite" category has now risen to the "he's kinda cool" category.And the guy whom I put in the "crazy cool" category has done a massive tumble into the " I hope you go to hell" category. Which often in my world only carries one person, because I don't hate people unless they give me a reason to hate them. And he did, man did he. Now other people have fallen into the "I hope you go to hell" category, but with time have risen into the "yep, I'm ignoring you, douche." category. Because well its not healthy to hate for ever. And as time goes on you forget. But we shall see about this one, because I think he won't ever make it out. He made me feel ill, I was lying in bed shivering feeling like I may throw up, no one has ever done that to me, no one. Not even my ex. It I felt like utter crap Monday, Tuesday was better and well today has yet to be determined.
Any who to my friends in the "I am so lucky to have YOU in my life" category and the readers ( if you are a reader leave a comment! ) I shall now answer my questions...
Grad Moment: Hearing my mom's laugh during the valedictorian's speech, and crossing the stage.
Grade Nine Moment: Seeing my design in the fashion show.
Grade Ten Moment: ... Grade Ten wasn't a totally special year for me, but lets go with taking my first time Life Drawing.
Grade Eleven Moment: France! DUH! Oh and not winning the yearbook competition, but getting the highest mark, 94 baby! (The winning one got a 70-something.)
Grade Twelve Moment: Aah to many! OK, so pitching my short story for Writers' Craft, Girls Knight Out, Media: Read the Streets Trip (even though that ended up not being the greatest day of my life personally, the school portion was awesome!), and of course Prom.
OK, next week I'll feel great!
Miah
37 DAYS!

When Harry Met Sally (good movie, go watch it)

I'm not really one to make sweeping generalizations, especially ones that could offend people. But bear with me as I expand on the following generalization:

Boys are friendlier than girls.

This is definitely only a generalization but one that I've seen supported over and over at university. Of all the people I've approached, the most open people have tended to be guys. The ones that I've been able to talk to, joke around with, and feel generally accepted by… Whereas many of the girls I've spoken with have been very closed, and I would even say unfriendly.

That being said, I've met some very friendly girls who I enjoy seeing and talking to, as well as some spectacularly antisocial guys. (*ahem* boy in my class who snubbed me in a painfully obvious manner… whatever no-one needs your attention anyway…)

I could propose some guesses as to why boys seem to be friendlier than girls. Maybe I'm confusing flirtatious undertones with friendliness. Maybe girls feel threatened by my oh-so-sexy self. Maybe I present myself differently to either sex. Maybe I just have to dig deeper with girls because they're complex creatures (and guys aren't?).

In any case, I think it might be problematic to seek out predominantly guys and ignore the girls around me. First of all, I think I can ultimately get closer to girls, because it's so much easier to really show each other who you are when there's no "When Harry Met Sally" awkward vibes. Second of all, I'm inherently opposed to trailing around a crowd of boys, dangling them on my pinky (if I could manage such a thing). And lastly, I'm taken, and I always feel bad letting guy friends know that for some reason, as though I'm somehow letting them down. Best to engage in friendships where there's full disclosure and no iffy intentions, right?

Your thoughts?

To answer Miah's question… *looks up question due to terrible memory*

Favourite moment at graduation: When I walked back to my seat, many of my past years' teachers congratulated me. Grade 10 science teacher, Grade 12 chem teacher, Grade 11 co-op teacher… it was so nice to think that I had made enough of an impression on them for them to personally wish me well!

Favourite grade memories:

Grade 9 – I loved Forensics class and meeting all my new friends who became some of my best best best friends. (Also getting way closer to Evie!)

Grade 10 – Doing. So. Well. I have great memories of grade 10 kinda haha but that was like my peak in high school. Highest average let's gooo :D

Grade 11 – France. Of course. Of course. And actually I loved having the Frenchies over because I really got closer with my exchange partner.

Grade 12 – Girls' Knight Out: sleepover in the gym with talks and amazing food. GOOD JOB MIAH!

-Lee

So holidays help in forgetting what day of the week it is...

Thanksgiving (today) is a day for giving thanks and eating WAY too much food! I had my thanksgiving feast yesterday and it was amazingly good, thanks Mom. Along that note I have spent my weekend at home for the first time in six-ish weeks and I loved it. Friday as we all know was commencement where I must say my favourite part was knowing how proud my friends and family were of me for graduating, being an Ontario Scholar and receiving two awards. After that we had a very fun evening at Miah’s house, thanks again Miah for having us :D. Then I spent the rest of the weekend chilling with my family I had a great time (despite the attitudes of some people...). As for all the grade memories:

Grade 9 has to be Montreal and that whole crazy adventure with highlights being the blue toothed man, the accordion man singing me happy birthday and the Disney art at the museum.

Grade 10... when I think of grade 10 all I can think of is one word, the nook, end of story!

Grade 11 can only be one thing and that is our French exchange with the France highlight being Friday night (no more need be said) and in Canada Niagara Falls riding the maid of the mist.

Grade 12 was pretty amazing but the cherry on top of the amazing cake was prom. Seeing all of our (as prom committee) hard work put into action was very cool.

Till next time,

Rae <3

Miah The Graduate

CAN YOU GUYS BELIEVE WE HAVE GRADUATED?!?!!?! I CAN'T!
So yeah, graduation day. That's what happened in my life today and the other girls of Plaid and Stripes.
It was an emotional day, didn't cry but got teary eyed, I thought of the people who aren't alive to see this day. My grand parents who would have loved to have been sitting in that auditorium, even though they wouldn't have been very comfortable. Not to mention my other grand parents who would have loved to fly over to watch me cross that stage. But it was mainly a happy feeling, it was actually what I felt the most. We had to get in line, and well... my last name is a letter at the end of the alphabet, and I am the only graduate (who was there) with this letter. So needless to say I was standing and sitting in between people that I didn't really know. With that being said though, while standing there watching boys I used to have massive crushes on, and all I remembering my fantasy's about them,( to call them my boy friend). I remember thinking that at grad you're going to wish you hadn't ignored me, that you are going to ask me out that day and I will turn you down. But, today I realized that I've grown up, that I am really happy in my life, and I don't care what those boys think of me (though I did catch one check me out when I walked down the hall). So all I can say, is that I am really really happy with my life. I feel great, and I know I am slowly finding my Answer.
So with that REL, I ask what was your favourite moment of our graduation? And favourite moments from each grade? I will of course be answering these on Wednesday. See you guys in about 10 min at my house!
Miah
41 DAYS!

Art, Harry Potter and Life...another long one guys :P

OMG I only have 42 days left to read the last two Harry Potter books! Woah! I gotta get cracking :O Don't get me wrong I'm like super excited for the movie (I saw the trailer in theaters and it was SICK!) but I want to read at least one of the books before having seen the movie for it. And seeing how the first half of the last book is coming out in theaters I GOTTA GET CRACKING! Those books are looooooong... :P
SO. Today is Thursday, day before we graduate. The day before we are officially finished with highschool. Never to go back. Never walk down those hallways as a student. It's weird, I'll admit it. As much as I thought about it throughout my high school career I almost felt as though it would never actually happen. Well, I mean I knew rationally it had to happen but...high school is supposed to be, like, the biggest thing that ever happens to you. It's where you make your lifelong friends (luckily I actually managed that one), where you find your first boyfriend, where you decide what career you want to go into. High school is just like on big, giant expectation for teens. Or something like that...
In any case tomorrow is going to suck. As excited as I am to see all my friends that I haven't seen since yearbook day, and to hear the band play Pomp and Circumstance for five minutes straight while we all file in, it is going to suck BALLS to repeat like a billion times that no, I'm not going to school this year and no, I don't have a job, and no, I don't plan on doing any traveling either. I can just picture the look on people's faces and imagine the heat spreading up my face as I repeat it for the tenth time (I blush...a lot). And yea, you know, I can tell myself "Whatever, Evie, don't let it get you down! You're doing your own thing this year! Who are they to judge you?" I'm still gonna feel judged and I'm definitely gonna blush...a lot. I so wanted to have spent the last two months working out when I wasn't working at some cool job like...wtvr doesn't even matter I could have worked anywhere as long as I was working somewhere I could make money and then I could tell all those judgmental people to shove it and that I was saving up to travel somewhere awesome and then watch them wallow in self pity as they realized they would be stuck indoors poring over their study notes while I was off somewhere foreign and awesome dancing the night away in some club beside some super hot guy.
Instead I spent most of the last two months having a quarter-life crisis, spending every day inside moving from the TV to a book, from one distraction to another and avoiding friends and family for fear they would find out you were such a failure at life. I really don't want to tell people where I'm at right now. My plan so far is to deflect and then ask them about their year. Hopefully I won't even need to because everyone will be all excited about their year so far they won't even ask! I can only hope :P
Anywho, let's brighten things up a little shall we? Art....art....I think art plays a pretty big part in my life, considering all the courses I chose for grade 12 were all English and film courses, minus personal fitness which doesn't count. I mean I love film and film is definitely art, I can't believe how much work goes into making a movie...it's crazy! I also love music and dance...ahh dance, now there's something I miss. So I'd say that without film, music or dance...my life would be empty. Art is what colours the world and fills it with magic! :D hahah how corny :P
Well, till tomorrow my friends!
Evie

Art is Air

How to start this blog?
Well lets see new things in my life... hmm?
I bought make up for the first time in my life. Makeup has slightly been a forbidden thing, my mom doesn't wear it. And neither did I, prior to purchasing the make up I had only worn makeup 4 times in my life, my Bat Mitzvah, my Grade 8 grad, my brothers Bar Mitzvah, and Prom. It felt very rebellious to buy it, and anyways I've put it on twice once to practice and once on Nuit Blanche. So yeah. Makeup.
School?
Lee, I like what you said about how you're behind in school. Made me realize I'm not the only one. That's what I like, feeling and knowing I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. But I am catching up, slowly, but I am.
How about what I am excited about?
Can you guys believe Friday we officially graduate? Like diplomas , cap, gown, music (Evie I know you're looking forward to the music) and smiles. Crazy Talk!
Ok, question answering time!
Lee your question... is art important in my life? Hm, well lets see... I've wanted to be an artist/designer since the age of at least 3, I went to various art camps, and I currently go to Art School... so Yeah Art is important to me. But not just visual art, I love musical theater and one of my biggest reasons is because it combines all forms of art, written (script), drama (acting and directing), visual (sets and props), music and dance. I chose our high school because of the awesome art program. I hated middle school because I had art only once a week, but stupid gym twice. I've talked to a lot of people who've told me about the idiocy of parents, teachers, friends, family, who've told them that art isn't a career, that artist make no money. I know of schools where Art is an either or option, you can't take both Art and another course. Because science, math, English, are all more "important" because that's what gets you money. What Bull Shit! No profession or course is more important then another, its all about what that person Loves! Gha! I've always wondered what would happen if I had to choose or was told Art was not an option for me. I would have to say that I would probably be depressed, because well being able to draw is like air to me. Creativity and Imagination are some of my favourite characteristics about people. Needless to say I need art, in any form, to be mentally sane. Art is Air.
OK. See y'all Friday! Well just REL... OK well not just them but I mean not any of our readers...
Miah
PST. I've forgotten but 43 DAYS!!!!

Homecoming

This is a very special week, because it's the week that RELM reunites! (Not until Friday, and that day can't come soon enough.) While E, L and M were together on Saturday, our precious R has been go-o-o-o-ne this whole time. Miss you, Rae!!

Things are progressing smoothly here. Chug-chugging along with my work. Behind, strictly speaking, and who knows how far behind, but at least not having any breakdowns. That's a plus. I got a 60 on an assignment, but had the opportunity to resubmit it. To my great relief, I raised my mark to an 80 after hours of painstaking work. (Hours spent working on a 100-word summary… ugh.) That kind of made my day, when I saw the result today.

Right now I'm learning a technique called Mind Mapping in order to kind of boost my note-taking skills. My dad suggested it, and so I'm in the middle of making my first one. Kind of got stuck on how to draw an icon that represents the word "orchard".

Speaking of drawing… art! To answer my own question, art is a big part of my mental health. Sure, my body would go on without it. Sure, I could probably go through a day without it. But would I be a happy, sane camper? Unlikely. There's music, visual art (posters, my own drawings… doodles!), acting (oh god I love TV shows) and all sorts of other crazy ways I encounter art every day. While my focus in school is on the sciences, my favourite readings are fiction (which – yes – I get assigned!) and my downtime is filled with art.

So that's that. Looking forward to Friday!

-Lee

Six Weeks...

It is hard to believe that it has already been (about) six weeks since school has started. This is the longest amount of time that I have ever been away from my home, family and friends. It is weird because I feel like I almost never left. Thanks to technology I can skype right into my dad’s office or into Miah’s bedroom. On another weird note on Friday we are actually graduating from high school, I mean we have technically graduated but we have not worn the cap and gown to receive our pieces of paper telling us that we actually did it.

Moving on... art. Art is important in my life and it should be important in everyone’s life. Art can be music, visual art, dance anything really. I love music, going to art galleries to see the amazing visual art but also the ads that have some very cool artwork or even the work of people who post it online. Without art our society would be WAY to boring!

Till next time,

Rae <3