I feel really sick tonight. Headache, bellyache, probably from dinner. Week Two of being lactose intolerant, and I'm already about to snap. And I'm freaking out because I'm 18 now, suddenly an adult. Holy wow. Anywho, I saw this on Mom's blog, so I thought writing would take my mind off of adulthood for a bit. Here we go: Memories from school.

Apple Jacks or Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries? Captain Crunch without the berries pleeeeease. Apple Jacks's commercial pissed me off. (They don't taste like apple?! REALLY?! Shut up about it now. :D)

Band or choir? Both. I did the trumpet for about a year and didn't like it. I was required to take choir as a class in Elementary school and took it and Andvanced Choir as electives in middle school.

Class ring? They offered em, but I think they're totally just... ugly.

Ducks or Battleships? I'm with mom, WTF are ducks? I never really played either. I used to love the game Cooties actually. And Don't Break the Ice, and Don't Wake Daddy.

Earning money? Once in a while from babysitting. Or from cleaning a room so mom would gimee five bucks. (My first job ever is starting next week.)

Favorite teacher? Mrs. Collins; she was my inspiration, and the reason I love to learn so much. Mr. Schippers, he was friggen HILARIOUS and made World History interesting. Mr. Schmidt and Mrs. Jensen, because they took care of me like I was their own. (I'll never forget the first day I walked into Mrs. Jensen's classroom. She was listening to Fantasmic, and I couldn't believe my ears. I asked her if she liked Disneyland and the first words she ever spoke to me were "Yes, Disneyland is my laughing place." It was instant friendship right there :) And she got me a present for graduation!! I cried. Very hard.) Mr. Gypton, he actually taught me things that are valuable in the real world, made Government so much fun, and was a good take-no-crap teacher. And my mommy of course, will always be my favvy teacher forever :)

Go back and do over? Hard to say. I did like the care-free days before Senior year when you just relaxed and did what everyone told you, but I could do without the jerk classmates and the handful of teachers who knew less than the stupidest kid in the student body.

Home Economics? Nopers. I took... like, Money Economics once... Opened my own Cheer and Dance Supply shop. (Which I put together the night before ;)) Balancing my checkbook was the most fun part :)

Indoor recess? P.E.? INDOOR RECESS!! We had uno, card games, coloring books, all that jazz. Once I colored a sheet and put it back without thinking. The teacher told us in front of everyone to confess who did it and of course, I didn't wanna do it in front of EVERYONE! So I stayed quiet and they took the crayons away for a week :( P.E.'s always been a pain in the butt because I'm a dancer and am perfectly capable of working out on my own. My senior year was the worst though. Our teach made us run laps around the track in the hot arizona sun and she gave me bad grades when I protested and didn't do it. Hey, some people are dancers, some are runners. I am only one of the above, and sitll proud.

Jacks or jump rope? Jump rope! I was in the Jump for Heart club (not very good at double-dutch though) and my favorite jump rope rhyme was Harbor Street and anything that required jumping in and out of the rope, touching the ground, turning around, all that cool stuff.

Kickball or dodge ball? We played dodgeball all the time in senior year. I hated it because the boys always threw the balls at 100 frikken miles an hour and the teacher never stopped them.

Lunchbox? A different one every friggen semester. I was especailly fond of my metal Invader Zim lunch box though. Oh, and my Finding Nemo one.

Musical? They made us do concerts in elementary school all the time. I've willingly done Into the Woods in Middle School, I did High School Musical with a few friends (just a fun lunchtime quicky performance though) and our ballet studio is considering doing Once Upon a Mattress soon, so that would be cool.

Number of school districts? Just one.

Number of Schools? Oh geez... I can't remember anything before 1st grade... When I went to Acacia. (I can picture my kindergarten in my mind, but NO idea what it was called. I rememebr a particularily rude teacher however, who got mad when we didn't color COMPLETELY SOLID.) I was at Acacia from 1-5, Old Vail for 6th, Desert Sky for 7-8, Vail High for 9-10 and Empire for 11-12. Wow, I didn't realize how often I changed... When you're in my district, everywhere feels the same.

Orange or apple? Apples! I hate oranges.

Playground equipment? The see-saw. Though it would suck when your friend would get sick of it before you. The swings were awesome too; I used to hum songs and try to swing with the beat. We also used the special-ed swing as monkey bars. A friend had to teach me how to climb on that, and I was so happy when I learned.

Quiz team or debate team? Neither. Uh... I did Link Crew! Which has nothing to do with this, but oh well... I've done Mock Trial too.

Recess? The jump from the kinder playground to the big kid playground at Acacia was a big day for me :) We had a HUGE playground too; the world was your friggen oyster there. I fell almost every day though. I remember that specifically being a daily part of recess. I also remember being shocked to reach 6th grade and find there was no recess or snack time.

Spring break? Wow... Lots of Summer break memories, but spring? Lookin forward to my birthday, Easter, and shopping with mommy.

Team sports? I atteneded EVERY SINGLE BASKETBALL GAME played at Desert Sky, waved my pom-poms from the stands, sucked onna soda and munched onna candy bar and LOVED every minute of it. (and some other kid STILL won the most spirited award.) I was also a cheerleader in middle school and high school. Loved it, but could do without the rude teammates.

Unfullfilled dream? Never got to raid the Cafeteria, steal the food, jump on the roof and yell "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PLAYGROUND, I GIVE YOU-- FREE ICE CREAM!!!" Seriosuly, I swore in first grade that that would be my senior prank.

Valuable? Some of it. I'll be honest, I remember nothing from Trig, American History, or Chemistry. I think I learned more life lessons than academics actually. I'm ready to be an adult and that's what school is for.

Walk or bus? Mom picked me up and dropped me off until middle school when I walked, and then I took the bus in high school.

X Country or basketball? Cross Country?! EW!!!! In case you can't tell yet, I HATE RUNNING!! I played basketball for two days. I worked my butt off. Then they put us on teams, made it a point to make sure we knew that C team sucked, and then put me on C team. I quit right after that to be a cheerleader. But I did like going to the games.

Year? DOUBLE-07 BAYBEH!!! I loved my senior class. Some of them were jerks, but being small did feel like having a second family.

ZZZs? I remember falling asleep in American History a LOT. No one ever noticed, but I was always so embaressed when I woke up. (It was the last class of the day; EXHAUSTING!) I kept trying to doze off in Biology AP but I never did. I also fell asleep on the bus once, but that was it.

-Chi <3