um. how do I say this...

i haven't shaved my body... for almost two weeks.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

My legs are gross and noticable with all teh hair. my Armpits!

hahahahahah let's just say that I have been wearing shirts with half sleeves more than not.

my mustach is my only my precious. and you know what else... hahahahahahah!

I feel GREAT!
I am going ot keep this up until... Monday. at least. Just so I can go to church unshaven again and feel... dangerous.

Hehehe. I love me.

My head hurts too. maybe because my hair is dirty. YUCKIE! but at the same time YUMMY!

I love you all, my sisters.
And thought that maybe when you read this tomorrow you can get a good laugh.
Maybe even a cramp. YOu know what that means....

You worked out your abs!


ahahahaha!

I love you guys and you better be rolling on the floor laughing...

Otherwise, I'll turn emo and cry in a corner....

While petting myself.

I got a rough draft of my schedule. You can see some of the mistakes, but the good news is that my advisory teacher is MOM. Sweet tamale!

Advisory = WEISSENBUEHLER, ANNELL SKOGE

First period = photo 1 (for the first semester, then it is open second semester.)

Second period = IntegratedAlgGeo3 (for a semester, then it turns to Vocal Ens Madrigal [t-birds] yeah that’s a mistake)

Third period = Women’s Ensemble (all year)

Fourth = PAC (all year)

Fifth = open (for first semester, then switches to Photo 2 second semester

Sixth = Tech Theatre (for first, third and fourth quarter; for second quarter it changes to multimedia, must be a mistake)

Seventh = AP Literature&Comp (all year)

So I am missing a quarter for multimedia, and it needs to be a whole semester. And The yearlong t-birds class. And I want to be the theatre one assistant. So, if I drop photo, I have two open classes. that should help me out. It's confusing, I know.
BUt my senior year is going to rock. To gratuate, I need:

0.5 credit computer
0.5 credit math
1.0 credit pratical art (Theatre Tech)

SWEET DEAL!

So... I am waiting for Justin to come home.  I have to tell you that I was surprised by how emotional I was over his being gone. It has only been a total of two weeks and like three days, but.. it didn't evn seem like forever. The first week he was gone, I was girls camp, so it didn't feel like he was gone, but I was gone... ya know? I was at camp and only truly missed him on thursday. I just wanted a really big hug and a soft kiss but I was at camp, so it didn't kill me not to get it. Then, on the way home Mami and Papi seemed more interested with themselves and allie, so I just layed down and thought about justin... I finally had a signal but couldn't call him.

Agh, I just don't know. I hate how papi says or wonders aloud about who need the other more. Does Justin love me more or do I love him more? Why can't it just be the same, but ever since he brought it up again I fear of the answer.  I always say things that show my feelings as he tells me, but when we alked on the p

Something happened saturday night. Something that made me so angry I ran into the street and cursed my eyes out. I had a right and you know it. THere is a boy.. a BOY! that has no right in my younger sister's life. He is a selfish destructive BOY.

Justin was right in pointing out how much I love you. He was right in saying that I should be a bit more understanding. He was right to let me lean on him andcalm myself down. He was right in saying all of this on saturday night.

Then, on Sunday... was he right? Was he right when he was thinking that you're thinking something so sad?
Was he right when he said that maybe.... just maybe you were depressed? Do you think that you cannot do better? Because I am here telling you in written word that you can do much, much better.

That kid has no right to hurt such a beautiful, intelligent, loving girl. You are wonderful. You are caring and I love you more than I can express. People are attracted to you. for good or, even, bad. Let in the good and block out the bad.

Justin thinks the absolute best of you. If that means nothing, it should. I think the best of you. I never should have told you of any doubt, but anger takes over the mind quickly. Your sisters love you.  and that includes me

Justin

Oh we two are doing just fine currently. We went back and thought of all our "anniverseries" and found out we did something each month... though some of them were simple as taking a walk. (that was our thing this month) He and I found ourselves exhausted somehow. Maybe because of all that drama the night before and his "working out," but because of that we, to celebrate five months, took a nice stroll around my neighborhood. It was really nice. We walked down to the park and talked about a multidue of stuff. Then, it began to sprinkle. [It was as if nature knew how to set a good mood.] so we started to walk home because he had senior recitals at 6. We took the way behind grandma's house where we use to play and it was wonderful. Oh the rain was just enough to keep us both laughing and then, he stopped me from walking, turned me around and kissed me. OH! it was a melt-in-your-arms kind of kiss. simple. we took a step back smiled, and kept walking. Can't you see why he is just....wonderful! He told me that he liked kissing me in the rain in this "i'm a fool for you" tone and... Can't you see why i'm a fool for him.Oh goodness. So yeah.

He is going to Tennessee with us next week. It is really exciting and nerve-racking because he is going to be going to Tennessee with us next week. He joked around about me going to New Zealand a week after we got back for about two weeks, but before he could even have fun with the thought. Mami shot it down LYING (mind you) that my passport was expired. Oh well.

I'll write more about my lover later. (oh gosh... he is HAWT!)

I decided. I want to have a man of the church. Don't get me wrong, I am just fine with regular guys, but when I look to the fuure. A "mormon man" is my idea. I think about it, maybe I will just become a teacher of music, instead of anything major.

I think of the life that an actress has, a life that a musician has, maybe that isn't what I want unless there is someone next to me doing the same thing.

I want a life where I can see my kids everyday before and afterschool. where I can see their school games, or concerts and support them. I want enough money to get me through life happily.

I want that support system I have been taught my whole life, where the husband need the woman and the wife needs the man. First their relationship, then their families, then friends.

I guess you can say taht with the choice of men that I see, I see what I want. An RM, A man worthy of me and me of him.

I want that fairytale story, without the over clic€ parts.

I just want happiness.

And gr. it just doens't seem easy to say "Oh, I am going to major in this"

I guess I might just head on back to the careers of a teacher [that looks wrong], a interior decorater, major in business math, or anything else...hm...

I just am a bit worried.

I know that for me to be strong...er...I will need a good husband. And it may seem stupid that I am thinking about it now, but shoot!! I want that assurance.

Andreina Olsen
AP English Summer Assignment

“Sainthood”

“Sainthood,” Gandhi says, is a complete lack of bonds with one’s fellow men due to the fact that in doing so, one may easily be dragged down a path of wrong-doings and basically destruction. While George Orwell undoubtedly agrees with this concept, he also understands that human imperfection is what one really should strive for and not the idea of sainthood because one must make mistakes and be able to learn from these events instead of detaching himself from society. Through the usage of tone, one was able to hear the voice of Orwell through the passage and the point was driven in deeper by the literary devices of irony and sarcasm.
Orwell uses a mocking tone when describing Gandhi’s idea of “sainthood” to ridicule the idea, not the man. The persuasive tone convinced the idea that the logic of being a saint is slightly ridiculous. The tone changes to semi-urgent when he introduces his opinion. The change stresses the importance of his idea. Once his position is introduced, Orwell returns to the mocking tone to signify an ending.
The irony of Gandhi, a religious leader, taking holy principles over the fact that consequently it would let his wife and child nearly die just because he didn’t agree with the medication prescribed, “if the decision had been solely his own, he would have forbidden the animal food, whatever the risks might be,” (21-23), is one of the furthest acts from “sainthood.” A saint would see the better good of life in replacement of one sin. It is ironic that he would love humanity as a whole, but not the individual because what is humanity but a series of individual souls
To be willing to disobey a rule, such as eating “animal food” in order to help save a life is an understandable act to Orwell because it is well-intended, even if it may mean committing a sin or two. To be willing to gain bonds of friendship and love with another individual, even at the risk of having one’s heart “defeated and broken up,” is highly encouraged and desired. George Orwell believes in the idea that these dangers are worth the consequences of human imperfection because they make us into better people. They, in essence, make us into saints on a different level.

Andreina Olsen
Production: Faces of Freedom
Performance Participation Review

1. Explain what you learned about theatre and yourself during the audition process for this play.
I took the monologue about immigrants as the audition and I learned that I can use my voice to express character. I also learned that in monologues you have to

2. Explain what you learned about theatre and yourself during the rehearsal process for this play.
3. Explain what you learned about theatre and yourself during the performance process for this play.
4. If you had the past several weeks to relive what would you personally do differently regarding this production
5. What elements of this production outside of yourself would you like to have changed?
6. In facing a new production, what knowledge or experience will you have now after completing this experience?
7. Explain how the theme of the play has impacted your life.
8. What is the strongest memory you will carry away from this experience?

Rediscovering Ancient Greece and Rome

Directions: Fill in the blank throughout the presentation. Any missed blanks can be found in the Literature Book on pages 193 and 196.

“Knowledge is ________.”

The term _______________ itself is a French word meaning “Rebirth” It refers particularly to renewed interest in _______ learning, which means the _________ of ancient ________ and ______.

Most European ________ had forgotten the _______ language, and they used a _______ very different from the Latin of ________ Rome. Some people became more curious about themselves and the world around them that there gradually was a renewal of the _______ _________ --- of curiosity and creativity.

Today we still use the term “________ ______” for an energetic and productive human being who is interested in science, literature, history, ____, and other subjects.

The Renaissance began in _______ in the fourteenth century and lasted to the ________. Examples of extraordinary people include: Leonardo ____(hint* “duh”) Vinci and Michelangelo.

Almost everyone in _______ and Britain at this time was Roman Catholic. Many of the popes were lavish patrons of ______, architects, and scholars.

The __________ view of human nature was also expressed by many other Renaissance painters and writers.

The Renaissance began in the fourteenth-century Italy, where the Catholic Church _________ many intellectual and artistic endeavors.

Andreina Olsen
Period Six

Values may be expressed in many ways; Gregory Chance uses techniques to explain his values in the Canterbury Tales. Some examples of the techniques are irony and techniques. Within the tales, Chancer was able to use descriptions and couplets along with simile and allusions.
Chancer uses the technique of irony in the Pardoner tale of three men and how the greed got the best of them to express his view on men of the church. Three men find a treasure and send one of the men to fetch wine and food to celebrate. The man who got the wine, poisons it and the two who stay behind arrange to kill the man coming back to have the money for themselves. In the end of the story, the three men kill one another in attempt to have the fortunate findings to them as a consequence, no one gets the money. Following the tale, the Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the people on their holy trip. Chancer, with the story of the pardoner, shows the hypocrisy of the leaders in the church and how they do not follow the Golden Rule.
A main technique in which all the stories contain is imagery. Chancer uses this technique to allow the reader to make his own judgment on the character. As in the Reeve’s and Miller’s tale, the reader would need to decide whether the Miller or Reeve was the foolish one. With imagery, the reader is given the possibility to obtain a mental picture; such as when it came to the nun whom was looked as a great prioress. As well as the mental picture, Chancer believes in right action and uses imagery to demonstrate his value of integrity through action of the character.
With such techniques, the readers themselves are able to understand more of the characters and connect with them.