Crayons, the possible cure for the common cold.

I stayed home with a cold today and watched the season premier of How I Met Your Mother, Castle, as well as Two and a Half Men, simply because I was curious about how they would get rid of Charlie Sheen. The writers sure had fun with that episode.

This weekend I went to a Vineyard youth conference at a camp. It was so chill, they didn't even go over the rules when we got there. I love the Vineyard and their impressive laid back-ness.

I had a good time hanging out with people, making hipster jokes with Noah, and a marriage proposal from both Sam and Moriah beginning with,"Well, we've been friends for so long that we may as well just get married...". In addition to the good times, I has a rather frightening time sitting on a trampoline with three middle school boys and two overly medicated friends playing Stella Ella Ola at 12:30am.

Top moments of the weekend included Todd (Noah's dad) was wearing a candy necklace. At an exit, Noah, being an amusingly awkward person, leaned over from the passenger seat and took a bite of the necklace. The four of us sitting in the back seat were in hysterics. We imagined getting into a accident and Todd having to explain to the cops that his teenage son took a bite off his candy necklace while he was driving.
Love,
-J-

Facebook kind of made my day.

The hobbit you just called fat? He's skipping 2nd breakfast. The dwarf woman you called ugly? She spends hours braiding her beard so you can differentiate her from a dwarf man. The Uruk-Hai you just killed? He's been abused by Saruman. See that Gollum creature with the gangly limbs&large eyes? For 500 years the Ring poisoned his mind. That Elf you just made fun of for crying? She just lost her wizard friend to a Balrog. Put this as your status if you're against bullying in Middle-Earth.
  
PLEASE put this as your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who has been eaten by pandas. Pandas are nearly unstoppable and when hungry, also breathe fire. 71% of people won't copy this into their status because they have already been eaten by pandas, 28% are hiding in their… showers with fire extinguishers awaiting the coming pandocalypse and the remaining 1% are awesome and will re-post.

Things of which have lately occured.

• I joined choir yesterday. First song we're doing is Bohemian Rhapsody. My enthusiasm is abundant. Also, Brittany joined too, so I think we will have fun being crazy together. 
• I went to a concert in Moncton last night. Newsboys, Thousand Foot Krutch, Manafest (which was too loud... I went to the lobby), a total of ten acts. There were a few acoustic guitar guys who were really good. It started at 5pm and went to 11pm. Some of the acts were terrible, but some were quite good. TFK has good music, and the guitarist has epic dreads (which he whipped back and forth). Newsboys are good performers and they balance that well with their music. Newsboys are more my type of music. I got home at 2am. So caffeinated at school today.
• I discovered my love of metaphysical poetry. Never have I felt like such a dork. I'm currently working on a project comparing the views of God as found in "Batter my heart" by John Donne and "Love (III)" by George Herbert. I'm kind of liking it way more that I should. I think this love has sprung from having poetry written about religion, which I understand fairly well, and am therefore able to decipher. I seriously fail at most other poetry.

Love,
-J-

Everyday I'm shuffling... back and forth to school.

Sorry for my brief disappearance there. I feel overwhelmed already with school starting back up yesterday and trying to get into routine again. I can't believe I'm stressed already.

I need to go to church camp this weekend, which doesn't excite me at all.

So I may as well write a bit about my classes:

A block, I have World Issues, the one non-IB class I'm taking this semester. I'm looking forward to it, partially because of the subject matter and that the teacher seems really awesome. We are watching Blood Diamond for the next few days, and from the bit I saw today, my mom was right in her description of "It's a good movie, but you will want to puke on your shoes." We get to do some debating, persuasive writing of sorts, and keeping up with current events.

B block, I have IB English 11 with Ms. Sutton. I was terrified of her in 9th grade, but she seems much more agreeable this time. Probably because this course is way less mind numbing than English 9. Sutton seems way less temperamental than Ms. Lutz (yeah!). We are launching into a unit about metaphysical poetry, which Sutton seems to actually be excited about. When the teacher is enthusiastic, it is so much easier to learn.

C block I have IB Advanced Math 12. It is a silent, awkward class which I dislike already. Because it's advanced math, and I'm not as brilliant as 9/10 of the class. Numbers and I dislike each other, words and I get along much better.

D block I have IB History 11 with Mr. Theobald. I have lots of friends in this class, and if Mr. Theobald ever stayed on topic, we might learn something relevant. I've learned so much random stuff from him that it is insane. Today we learned for 20 minutes about the purchase of Alaska, Hawaii and Louisiana... in the middle of roll call. Yesterday we talked about Logan's Run and 1984. We are suppose to discussing the question 'What is modern?'. He makes the random information interesting, impressively enough.

E block I have IB French 11. Someone decided to stick my class (21 people) and a French 122 (8 people) together (why?) and they already hate us. They would not stop whispering about how 'fracking' immature we are. We're just a tight class with many class clowns and lots of weird jokes. They seem a little uptight. Other than that, I am totally screwed as far as French is concerned. IB exam at the end of the year? That's terrifying. I'm procrastinating from French homework right now.

So, I guess this is my fate until January. It doesn't look too bad. I'm intellectually pumped for some classes*dork*. No sciences until next semester! Other than that, it's nice seeing friends again, having classes that interest me, and getting some laughs from the above mentioned class clowns.
Love,
-J-