End of Upward Bound 2010

About blogging, what I didn't like was how you couldn't really write personal things because you would end up sharing them with everyone. I like keeping things to myself, so I just don't like putting my life out there. I could say that was the only thing I didn't like, but I also didn't like blogging because it's kind of boring. What I did like about blogging was how we can comment on our friends post. I remember commenting on Wendy's post because she a close friend and I felt like I could tell her something regarding what she wrote about.

During the rest of my summer, I'm not sure of what I want to do. One thing that I actually want to do is go to the walk through theatre on 28Th ST. There showing only one movie called "The 99." It seems kind of fun so I'm planning on doing that this week. I also want to go to the Ionia Fair which starts on the 21st of this month. There's many things I want to do, but I don't know if I'll get to all of them. I'm ready for my Summer to begin, but I'm not ready for school at all. Hopefully the rest of the Summer goes by slow because I want to have fun. Well, I'll try to have fun.

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My favorite candy is the Pelon Pelo Rico, it is a tamarind flavored candy. It's made by the Hershey Company in Mexico. I don't know why I like it because I don't really like natural tamarind at all. I guess the candy is different because it's artificially flavored. Every time I go to any Hispanic store I see them there and I just have to buy it. The only part about eating the candy that I don't like is when I have to squeeze it out. Sometimes it's hard to squeeze it because it's sticky, but that's pretty much the candy that I would prefer.

Monday*July 12, 2010

Last week of Upward Bound, we forget about work and start to have fun. I'm so excited to get out of here and do what I please. I didn't want to come back at all, but I found no reason to stay home now if we're almost done. Fortunately, I felt like this summer went by fast. Anyways, my weekend wasn't good at all, but I understood because I know that not everything could be joy at home. On Friday, when I got picked up I just went home and took a nap. Later on during the day I went to the mall with my boyfriend and my mom. I was trying to buy something, but nothing really convinced me at the moment. If I have to buy something, I have to go to the mall for more than 2 hours and I need to be by myself. Whenever someone goes with me they get frustrated because I never choose something quick. I also went to church on Sunday, not something new because I go every weekend. After church we went to this new restaurant they opened, but I didn't like the food. It was small and that just gave me the hint to never go back. I don't know, maybe it'll change later on and I'll go back, I doubt it though.

Friday*July 9, 2010

Friday, finally, I'm ready to go home, I need to be with my family. My mom called me two nights ago to give me some bad news. We are going through a rough moment right now, because we just lost a family member. My dad is pretty upset even though he tries to act strong around us. My mom was crying when she called me and i couldn't hold it in. I've been putting up with it since two nights ago. It's moments like these that I would love to be home instead of being away and receiving some new like that. Other than that I'm not pretty excited for my weekend anymore because I don't know how the atmosphere in my house is right now. I don't really feel good at this moment, I've been having some pain since yesterday, and then i slept wrong last night. My neck hurts when I try to move it. It's very uncomfortable, I wish I could go back to bed and wake up to a happy day. The good thing is that today is our last Friday, next week is our final week. I have many plans for the rest of my summer I don't know if I'll get to them all, but I'll try.

Wednesday*July 7, 2010

I'm pretty sure everyone had a great weekend, but now we're back. Everyone looks extremely tired today and I'm guessing it's because of the heat. Our dorms are very hot, the fans we have don't even help. In my dorm we have 4 fans and it's not helpful at all. We were all tired last night but the heat kept waking us up. It's like we couldn't find our comfortable way to sleep. My roommates woke up late even though the alarms went off 3 times. We've been told that this week is going to be hotter than other weeks, so I'm so not looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to going home and sleeping with the air conditioner on. My eyes hurt so bad, but i have to deal with it. The other thing I'm not happy about is having class on Friday. On the other hand I'm happy because we only have 2 more weeks left and our summer will officially start.

Thursday* July 1, 2010

July 4Th is coming up, we get a long weekend. It sounded good at first, but when I found out we have class on Friday it's just the same thing. No difference, but I guess. We have a volleyball tournament today which is going to totally suck because I don't know how to play volleyball and I'm pretty sure that people who are competitive are going to get mad. I don't play sports at all and they know that so we'll see what happens today. I'm a little tired not as much as other times. I stayed up studying for my Spanish and anatomy test. Tomorrow we're going to Western for our college tour. I would of preferred staying here because the lower classman just stay for study table and then they get to go home around 11. That would've of worked out perfectly for me but it's not happening. I'm hungry, I didn't eat anything for dinner yesterday because the food didn't look appetizing. I haven't had anything until now.

Wednesday* June 30, 2010

I woke up on time today, received a phone call from my parents wishing me a happy birthday. It was nice but too early. Last night, the TCs decided to visit me and wish me a happy birthday in their own little way. I turned seventeen, feeling a little old but those are the rules of life and to start my great morning Ms. Smith decided to sing to the birthday people. Her voice was so great it hurt my ears. Eclipse came out last night at midnight. I so wanted to be there, but it was just impossible. I would of been there if I didn't have to be here. Can't wait until Friday, so I can go watch it and get excited again. Besides that, I'm happy because it's Wednesday, tomorrow Thursday and then home on Friday. I'm counting down the days so we can be done with homework, teachers and work.

Tuesday* June 29, 2010

Eclipse comes out tomorrow, Wednesday. I'm pretty exicted because I think it's going to be better than New Moon. More action and new characters. My birthday is also tomorrow. I"m not so excited about that because I have to spend it here at Grand Valley. I can't wait until the weekend so I can go watch Eclipse, celebrate my birthday, and watch the fireworks. I woke up late today, but other than that my day is starting out good. I've noticed that we don't have that much time left here, the days are going by fast and then we'll be done with Upward Bound. Our Summer is short weeks away until we can get it started.

Summon

1.) In writing future paper, I believe Summon would be real helpful. If you would write a paper on a school subject Summon would be a perfect source. Everything you would read would be educational and true. You wouldn't find random things like on any search engine.
2.) If I could use Summon to look up anything, I think I would look up information regarding a paper I have to do or if I want to find out more about a certain subject. I would look that up because it would give me true information, and information that is supported. I would also look up history to know what I wasn't able to hear on the news or what I didn't know about. I'm pretty sure that I've missed a lot. A certain subject I would look up would be Ancient Greek, it's pretty interesting to find things about that.
3.) I liked Summon because it limits my results to certain info and I can always check a book out about what I look up and it provides me with as much information.

Wednesday*June 23,2010

The weather doesn't seem good at all. Hopefully it'll just be for a while. The bad thing is that we'll have to walk under the rain if it's not over by when class ends. They could of let us stayed in today but apparently they don't like the idea. One of the things I most hate is lightning and thunder. I'm slightly scared because some times the thunder is louder than others and then lightning just freaks me out. I never know what to expect. But hey besides all that it's Wednesday, once again one more day of class tomorrow and we're off for the weekend. These days have been going by fast so I'm glad about that. I always get excited when the weekend comes around.

Tuesday*June 21, 2010

I couldn't really sleep last night. There was thunderstorms which I was slightly scared of. I get scared mostly of the noise and than what others are saying at the moment. My roommates and I slept on the floor, besides raining it was hot. So, we weren't comfortable in our beds. We grabbed our stuff, moved to the floor and put the fans facing us. Around four in the morning I got up and it was kind of cold so I moved back to my bed. The first alarm went of at 6:30 in the morning but we just turned it off. Than my alarm goes off at seven, we didn't want to wake up at all so I just got up and turned it off too. We ended up waking up around 7:20, we were late to breakfast so we didn't eat anything. There wasn't anything good by the way so it was good.

Monday* June 21, 2010

Monday, 5 more weeks to go counting this week. Not half way there but it's okay. About my weekend, it was alright. My sister had her graduation party, it was okay. I saw some friends from school there and I got to spend the day with my boyfriend too. The bad thing about Saturday was that my parents had me here and there. I had to go to the store, go to the banquet hall, and just to different things. I had to drop off and pick up things, I was running short on time but at the end everything turned out fine. I was happy of being back home and sleeping in my own bed, comfy. On Sunday my family went over to celebrate Father's Day. We watched the FIFA World Cup, Brazil against Ivory Coast. I didn't finish watching the game because I was too tired and I fell asleep, but I heard they won. That was good, I was hoping for them to win. Besides having my family over and watching the game, I still had to pack to come back here yesterday. That was the non-exciting part, but I'm here.

Thursday*

It's Thursday, last day of class today. Then tomorrow we just have to be here for a few hours and we finally go home. I think it's the day that everyone has been waiting for! I'm ready for my weekend, to see my parents, and that special someone. The bad thing is that we have to come back Sunday night. The summer everyone has expected, but we all knew it was going to be this way. The bad thing is that today instead of study table we're going to do a special activity. They haven't told us what it's about because it's supposed to be a surprise, but for us their surprises are always disappointments to us. The other bad thing is that we have to take three quizzes today, our anatomy quiz seems like a test because it's longer than the others, so it seems like it. I really didn't study, I just read over my papers once and than I put everything away. I'm not used to studying because I tend to forget what I just studied. The most difficult quiz for me is going to be Spanish, I think, we were supposed to study some vocab, but the words are to long and I can't even pronounce some of them. Remembering the definitions is just not what I'm good at doing. Putting all that aside, I'm just ready for my weekend to start.

I found a blog I absolutely liked. I love twilight, especially Taylor Lautner, not just because he's hot, but I like the way he acts. The blog I found talks about how he doesn't like taking off his shirt unless there's a good reason behind it. He doesn't like to "air out his abs."

Wednesday*

One more day of class without counting today so that's good. That's the first thing that comes to my mind. The weekend. Today's our last study table for the week since they say we're doing an activity tomorrow so we'll see how that goes. I'm wide awake today. Yesterday, I went to Kirkhof (not quite sure of how to spell that) and played pool and guitar hero. I think I'm getting better at pool because I can hold the stick better now. I'm just learning how to hit harder. Dinner wasn't good yesterday, we had some type of salad with bread sticks which I didn't enjoy. I'm ready to be over with this week and go home and eat some real food. So far, I've been doing good with homework, it hasn't been hard. I'm not good at writing without a topic, I tend to change subjects a lot or just talk about random things.

Tuesday*

Tuesday morning, and everyone around me seems to be tired. Even Wendy who's sitting by me, yawns constantly. I'm tired too even though I went to bed early but I guess it's just a thing during the summer. We're mostly tired the whole time here well at least I am. Nothings really on my mind at this moment. I could say I'm ready for Friday to be here because I miss my family, my bed, my mom's food, and my home. So far, I know I'm half way there because it's Tuesday already and we have Wednesday and Thursday to go only. It still seems like a lot but that's what helps me concentrate on what I do. I tell myself this will soon be over with even though we just started. I'll be getting used to it later on, I should be used to it because it's my third year here, but it always takes some time again. I've noticed that not every one's in a good mood today. In Breakfast it was actually quiet today and they didn't have problems dismissing us.

Blogged before?

I have not blogged before. I didn't even know I had an account but I guess I'm going to need it so that's good.