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Haven't Posted! Here's my life...

So hi!
People to People: Haven't had a meeting yet... so that's it.
Science Olympiad: I made A team! Woo! My events are Disease Detectives, Solar System, Experimental Design, and Write It Do It. Woo Updates!

So nothing interesting has been happening. I can't post by e-mail. That's annoying.

Oh I just thought of something coolish! I'm taking a photography class called Black & White Photography. Quite obviously, we use black and white film. My teacher actually likes me (shocker! haha not really). I'm doing okay. I'll upload some pics soon. I really like it, and all the other students don't care. At all. They just complain, and I have to join in so I can fit in. I'm also pretty much teaching the class. The other kids always ask me to help them or I feel bad and end up helping them. So I guess it's my fault.

I'm also taking a class called Drawing & Design. I absolutely LOVED the first project. We did a quote in calligraphy and illustrated it. I chose "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." and I painted some roses around it. It was cool, especially because I love calligraphy, painting, and Shakespeare. So then we did a shield. Mine had a tree for a headpiece. The teacher liked it! But she'll never like me as much as she likes my sister. But that's okay.

Do highschoolers get upset when you call them kids? I know I don't. I guess my unnatural obsession with Fall Out Boy has me calling everyone a kid. I dunno.

Report cards! I got A's in everything but my honors classes. I got A-'s in Honors Bio and Honors Math. I think that still counts as distinguished honor roll, and that and my GPA are all that matter to me.

We have to do a powerpoint project on the career we are aiming towards. I don't know though! I need to decide soon. I like law, but I could never be a lawyer. Or maybe I could... I dunno.

That's it for now.

But I'm thinking of creating a new blog, one that I post to in addition to this called "History of Life in a Boring Town". I would want people to know what it's like to be growing up in a boring town, trying to keep up grades, friends, family, college, etc. Comment to tell me what you think. Positive, negative, whatever. I just like comments.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Alison :)

People To People Update

Quick update:
I officially made People to People! Australia, watch out!

~Alison

Comics

I've read the comic Buttersafe for about a year or two. It's awesome! I saw a comic advertisement on the page. It's called Mountain Time. It's chaotic, but cool!

Anyway, I have an update on People to People. I went to the interview. It's still not positive that I'm in, but I think I did okay. I should know today or tomorrow if I'm going.
And SCIENCE OLYMPIAD! I have all the stuff for my first event, Experimental Design. I still need to do a practice event, but other than that, yeah.
I joined Invisible Children at my school. Hasn't started yet.
So go read Mountain Time if you want. I'll write more when I know if I'm going on People to People.
Onions Don't Like Condors,
Alison =^..^=

CRIKEY!

SO!
People to People sent me a letter........... like always. And by a complicated turn of events, I'm finally going. It's Australia, New Zeland, and Figi.
I can't wait to stay with a local family in Australia! I get to go to school and stay with them for 3 days and 2 nights. PSYCHED. I might even stay on a farm. I get to meet Australian aboriginals and stay with them, hold a koala, and luge down an extinct volcano.
And when I go to Figi, we get to play Survivor. AWESOME.
I don't even know if I fo-sho get to go. At least until the day after my interview. But I'm not worried. I think I can get them to like me.
OUR SCHOOL GAVE US LAPTOPS!
I'm on it now. We get it all four years. They're tiny and light. Awesome.
That's it.
I'll post other stuff eventually,
Alison

AUSTRALIA!

People to People! Australia, New Zeland, Figi.

More at a later time!

Your biffer,
Alison

Barcode

Really cool! On google!

Here's mine!


by Barcodes Inc

Don't Be Annoyed!

I didn't mean to totally advertise for free rice like, five minutes ago. I just wanted you to end world hungry. So don't be mad. Or annoyed. Or whatever. You don't HAVE to go. In fact, if you don't want to, then don't! I'm fine with that. Okay. I just didn't want you to take that last post the wrong way. I'm not even going to post a free rice button. But there's one in the last post. I'm not giving you the website because I'm trying not to advertise. I'm not getting money for it. That's all. Muchas Gracias for reading.

<3.
Just for you. =D

*facepalm*
You can end world hungry if you want. (See above. Like Second Line.)
*facepalms several times*

P.S. Comment on this if you were annoyed. I'll delete this and edit the free rice stuff out of the last post. I hate it when people advertise too much. =0

Free Rice (Rocks)

So have y'all heard of free rice??

It's this game where you answer vocab questions (or math or languages like Spanish if you choose to. Every question you answer right donates 10 grains of rice to the hungry all over the world.

You're probably thinking, "Oh 10 grains of rice. Big deal. That'll improve things." But remember, thousands (if not millions) of people are playing at once. The rice accumulates pretty fast.

So go there if you're bored. It's better than chatting with your friends on facebook or some other dumb website. *insert sarcasm* I'm sure myspace chats feed the hungry. *end sarcasm*

OOOOOOOOOOOOO! I just remembered!!!!! I found out (alright I'm dumb but did you HAVE to throw rocks? Really? Oh, well, then, okay.) that Elvis Costello, the one who wrote/sang Allison, the song I was named after (after dropping one L), guest stars in What a Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy. *Obsesion*. But anyway, Gabe Saporta or whatever and Bredon Urie and William Beckett or whatever and some guy from The Cab and some other peoples are in it too. But they aren't Elvis Costella. And I wasn't named after one of their songs. But I don't think I would want to be named Guilty Pleasure or Mad As Rabbits or *insert song that has something to do with William Beckett and/or The Cab here*. Yeah.

I like the video too. Patrick has a little seagull friend and I think they kill off Pete. Again. YAAAY!

I don't think I forgot to nag you about Free Rice. I didn't. You should be ashamed of yourself for finishing reading this! Tsk tsk. So do that now! NOW! Oh wait, comment first. And listen to GINASFS by Fall Out Boy while you're playing.

Go save the world!













I'ma gonna post a banner.



















Are you still reading????? I hope you commented. Oh and people are hungry. Go play Free Rice. I gotta go do that now. But only because I can't think of a comment. Except this.

"Be gone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!"~Glinda, the Good Witch (Unless you saw Wicked. Then the Stupid Witch Who Can't Give Directions)

Which, for some unknown reason, makes me want to start a contest. So what movie is this quote from?? (Come on. You know this. I know this and I'm me.) Put your answer in the comments. Bonus points if you know who said it. Bonus Bonus points for his/her name. Bonus Bonus Bonus points if you know what year it came out. I don't know that last one.

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."


FREE RICE

(Isa button)

Travel-riffic and Warped Tour

So I have been thinking about travel. I've always wanted to go to Italy, Japan, Australia, and England. But after really thinking, I've added some places. But now it's not just going places for the sights or because they sound cool. I want to learn about new cultures too. Recently I've considered China, Greece, and South Africa. There's a program that's aimed at a spreading peace by understanding foreign cultures. I've wanted to do this since 6th grade, but the cost of the program is, on average, $6,000. So there's no chance. But anyway, their website has made me want to experience cultures I hadn't considered.

China: The program lets you help kids learn English. How cool is that? I really want to learn about how they live, now and in the past.
Greece: All I really know about it is mythology. I want to learn about the past and what it's like now.
South Africa: There was a movie on Disney Channel called The Color Of Friendship. It showed what was going on with apartheid and how it eventually ended. I was shocked that people were still being considered less important then others. There is a South Africa trip, and I really wish I could go!!!

Also, WARPED TOUR!!!!

We saw Ivy League, NOFX, AntiFlag, and Less Than Jake.

Ivy League was pretty cool.
NOFX had an insane mosh pit. My feet didn't touch the ground sometimes and I was covered in sweat that wasn't mine. =-) But it was AWESOME!
AntiFlag was short. A.K.A. We went late. But they threw guitar picks off the stage and one hit me in the face!!!
Less Than Jake was absolutely and totally INSANELY AWESOME!!! We were all the way in the very front against the gate. I made direct eye contact with Buddy and the lead singer. Then, when a crowd surfer went overhead, my sister hit her nose on the gate!!! She was bleeding everywhere and she bled all over the security guard. She's fine now, and she didn't even brake her nose like she thought she did. Then we waited in line forever and got to meet them. They signed my ticket and Buddy told me to eat a bunch of boxes of mini doughnuts. It was so awesome.

A few weeks ago I saw Public Enemies. It was AWESOME! It was really historically accurate, down to the tiniest detail. The only historical flaw was the number of bullets fired when John Dillinger was killed. They only had one, and it was five. But other than that, it was amazing. I loved it, and you should go see it.

I had to take the trolley the other day to go to Panera's with Science Olympiad. By myself. But it was fine. There was no seats, so I had to stand in the back. Then this couple in front of me kept pulling the bell. So the driver yelled, "STOP RINGING THE DAMN BELL!" Then a seat freed up. I rang the bell for the wrong stop but eventually I got off at the right one.

Panera's was fun. Then I went back to Marie's house with Marie and Bryan to watch Juno. It was an all around awesome day.

So that's my life.

<3,
Alison

IMPORTANT!

Kay, so here's the most important thing EVER! My birthday is in 7 days! I'm not having a party for the first time ever. But I'm probably going to Dorney Park sort of for my birthday, and sort of just because I can.
So I have a new favorite website ever. It's thinkgeek.com. It's an awesome website that sells everything you need to be a geek. It's awesome! So go there.
Greaseband is Thursday. It's these people that sing old songs, like the ones from Grease. It's a lot of fun, and hey, any place that has coffee is pretty cool.
I'll be sure to post on my birthday. I'm starving. So I'm gonna eat. Hmm... poptarts or reeses puffs? Too many choices!
P.S. Edda you rock!

WARPED TOUR

Pst! Less Than Jake and I Set My Friends On Fire are going. I dunno if they'll be there on my date.

CRISIS!!!



Well, I guess it's been averted. The Fall Out Boy Concert? Same day as states!!!



I guess I should back up a bit. So we went to regionals for Science Olympiad, and our construction events (events where you have to build something such as a plane or bridge) sucked. But our knowledge events (events where you have to take a test) rocked! So we're going to states!



So I was all exited. Then I was sad because states is on the same day. But then I was happy because although we might not see the four opening bands, we'll still see Fall Out Boy. Yay! (YES ENGLISH TEACHERS, THAT IS HOW YOU SPELL YAY!) So that's the deal with that. By the way, the plane didn't fly at reigonals. It just glided to the ground for 1.8 and 2 seconds. A for effort?



Current plane status: Uh... we taped down the blueprint. But we have until May 1st! So it's good!



=-( I was sick!! But it's good now. It really stinks, ya know? You play the Sims 2 for two days straight ALL DAY and you good for like, a year.



I guess that's it.

ALISON OUT!

The Indestructable Rasputin

DON'T GIVE MY SPANISH TEACHER COFFEE. EVER.
Have you ever seen a hyper teacher? Well, don't give my Spanish teacher coffee. She already thinks she's a "gangsta" and says things like "simma down naow." So she was pretty much crazy when she had too much caffeine today. She's also probably the best teacher ever.

In Challenge (this random class that teaches you things you really don't need to know about for like, three years) we're learning about Russia. Well, we were talking about Nicholas I and the topic of Rasputin came up. He was having a huge effect on the way Russia was run, so some prince decided to kill him. First he poisoned him with enough poison to "kill many men instantly" in the form of tea sandwiches, tea, and wine. Fail. Then he tried shooting him in the back. FAIL. Eventually he was chased into the courtyard by three guys and shot a bunch of times. F-A-I-L. So they shoved him in a river.
Cause of death: Drowning.

Rasputin is impervious to poison and bullets when he's not busy praying I guess.

Woo, we're almost done the plane! (For the Science Olympiad competition.)

P.S. Check out TH4TS R4NDOM, a blog I'm now writing for.

Well, until something interesting happens ta-ta.
Alison


look! isa kitty!!> =^,,^=

Welcome to KaPow!

Welcome one and all.
Science Olympiad Regionals in 3 days, so I might not post for a while. But keep checking because you never know what could happen.
But anyway, this is my new blog because Oswald Says... stunk. You can read Oswald Says... posts, but like I said, they stink.
COMMENTING:
Unlike Oswald Says... feel free to comment however you like, just keep it appropriate. Don't forget, Hardcore Max is making sure of it. If you don't know who Hardcore Max is, you should watch more Smosh.
Gotta Go.
=^,,^= Alison