The Unwavering Determination

When I joined close-up, I didn't expect much really. Nicko dragged us(me and jacob) along to join. Well, I wasn't really sure if I can handle another jig because I'm such a slacker. But, as i said, I got dragged into it so, I might as well. It's just that my nature doesn't really call for refusing and quitting halfway. I really need to fix that in the future. It might lead me to dangerous stuffs. Anyways, our recent activities were tough. We had to decorate all of the Senior Center for Halloween and we had to finish the portfolio. It does sound easy, but it takes a lot of time to do. We are just students, you know.

We've been going to Mayor's Office for Fridays and sometimes Mondays or Tuesdays. Some of the others, though, go there much more. We always do try to play tennis after the community service. The funny thing is, it always ends up raining at one time or another. The weather is our biggest enemy when we try to have fun. We like to play thoh nevertheless. Anyways, there are lots o' work for the Mayor's Office, but some of them are contributed or made up by us. At the end of those days, we end up tired. We are tired and we still had school to go to school. Imagine our tired faces LOl. A lot of times, I end up with at least one other person riding with me. Oh, how the truck is livelier now, sometimes too lively haha.

One of the things needed to be done in the same time frame of the decorating was the portfolio for Close-up. There is a contest held for the portfolios between the four schools for extra grants. We'd like to win it, of course. Just to do the portfolio was stressing. We had to go all out for four days about it. Stress, stress, stress. Feel sorry for us??? I hope so......

First was a Thursday. We all headed out to Kristine's House. It took us a while to get there. There were a lot of colored papers, cut papers, and materials all over the ground. I wasn't so sure of what I was to do either. When I decided to do the "fundraising" letters, I had some purpose now. I did the sketching and the cutting of the letters. I was not so surprised it took me that long to do them because I do suck at art badly. It really did look weird. When her brother came, we were kicked out of the house, basically. So, we decided to go to Lorenz's house. We were supposed to get there first, so we decided to play a bit of tennis, but Lorenz came and showed us the way. After they cleaned up their room a bit, the papers were scattered yet again. We got pictures and ideas and cutting and aircon(whew!). Once again, I was uncoordinated. I didn't know what to do. I'm not very good at projects either. After 5 or 6, people started to head out. I, once again, became their ride. Most of them got dropped to GPO but some were to houses. It was really tiring. After the never-ending drive, I finally was able to be comfortable at Lorenz's house. I was there, but I couldn't think of any ideas. I tried to help but i was unable to. Haha, sukz for me. I came home late that night, only to sleep heavily until school.

We focused our friday and saturday to the mayor's office's event, so we couldn't do much of the portfolio. I haven't done some of those kinds of things for a while. Summer seemed so, very long. I wasn't very productive at Summer, too. Anyways, the only days we were able to do the portfolio was Monday, which was a day off, and Tuesday which was still a school day. Since a lot of us are Juniors and have Ms. Palacios as a teacher, we were really scrambling for her due homework to be done. We had to do our reading of 200+ pages. Since noone really started on reading, we had to speed read basically. I didn't finish reading, by the way. There were way too much pages. I ended up sleeping late that night. When I woke up the next day,, I still had to do some of the portfolio. I had to arrange and print pictures. It was hard to do in the morning. *yawn*. In school, I faced even more bad luck, but I don't want to remember about them, so, forget it. After school, we needed to finish the portfolio asap! It took us a lot of time! I left like 10 something. Not something you would want to do when you have school. The next day,, Lorenz forgets to bring it to school LMAO. So, after school, we rendezvoused at his house, to head to, you know it, GPSS!!! hahaa,, how far. *whew* While driving, there was this crazy guy who who zoomed past the road when it was my right of way!! It was soooo annoying!! ARGGH, are you serious!!!???!!! Why the hell was he waiting there??!?! Ahhhhh****.. Three honks!!! Thats what you get!!! When we got to Gpss,, we were lost thoh, but we found it. We turned it in and whew.

After getting back home, I used the computer for a while. It was my distraction from heading into the 5 o'clok traffic. While there, Karmela and Lorenz talked about it being Karmela's birthday, so we decided to do something. We headed to Wendy's to eat out. I'd say that, but we headed for Cold Stone though. There, we couldn't decide on what to get even after free samples. YAY!!!!! Free Samples. Hahaha,, hehe. In the end, Lorenz decided for us. He chose one of those original creations. Maybe they knew there were indecisive people like us. XD haha,, Hooray for great minds. Whew,,, ok.. So, we start going down to Wendy's. We just walked because we didn't reckon it to be far. We walked to there but the ice cream started melting. Karmela and me tried to save it, but it was too late. We got in, and I took care of the melting ice cream. Karmela and Lorenz ordered. hmmmm~melting ice cream. Well, we picked a seat after and started eating. Now, we were not big eaters. I ate before i left home, 3 hotdogs or something. What i did was, I gobbled up the french fries and saved the burger. Whew. After, I stayed at their house a bit more. I know, I know, I still have homework, yes? heh, HAVE YOU EVER TRIED DRIVING IN A FULL STOMACH??? haha,, well nothing special,, it wasn't that late. While there, I used the computer. I was on facebook and stuffs but I couldn't find something to do. I should've blogged hahaha. I asked people if they wanted the leftover burger from Wendy's. They are so weird!!! hahahaha. Hear the story from them. hehe. While I was using the computer, Lorenz was doing math homework. Karmela was doing various stuffs in and out of the room. Well, we had fun. We talked about some various things. Oh, I almost forgot the physical form they gave me Lol.

Side Notes:
damm Christmas lights were hard to fix!!
sorry kristine for gettin u in trouble
3:24 Am,, hmmmm