The Last Day of School

What do you think of the new background? There are some new backgrounds and I wanted to try some of them out. But now that I've changed it, I can't figure if or how to can change it back. So, grass it is. Dots were so yesterday, anyway (literally). Sorry if you liked the previous background or got used to the look.

On a different note, it's now summer!! As you can see, I used two exclamation points; I've been waiting for school to be over for about a month. Yesterday was the last day for the high school, and it was quite fun. I got 100% on my biology exam and my final project in computers, which were the two classes I had yesterday. Still no word about my other classes, but I'm sure they'll be up soon enough. Actually, the scantron (paper where you mark your answers in multiple choice) for biology marked that I had one question wrong, and it was one I asked about, as well. So, my teacher figured that she'd better check and make sure that her answer key was correct, and sure enough, she had marked false (B on the scantron) instead of the correct answer, true (A on the scantron). And thus, I got every question right and I hadn't even studied (except making up the note card). I still won't get to sleep in really late because driver's ed is 9 to 11 AM, Monday to Thursday, for 3 weeks! Yes, I want to learn how to drive, but getting up that early is going to be hard. Although, it is fortunate that it takes place at the beginning of the summer instead to the end, but still.

After school got out, two of my friends and I walked downtown and ate lunch and desert at the Yum Yum Tree, which is a local restaurant. I got a cashew chicken panini and a turtle sundae with praline pecan ice cream, and both were excellent. I don't think I've been there in at least five years, I didn't remember how good the food was. When waiting for my friend's mom to pick her up, my mom went into this store to look around and found this framed picture by a local photographer that she really liked. She also thought it looked really familiar, and when she brought it up to buy it, the cashier told her that it was one of the top 15 pictures in this photo contest in the Smithsonian magazine, where my mom had seen it before, and liked a lot. Isn't that coincidence interesting?

Then later that night, my parents and I went to Ann Arbor to see To Kill a Mockingbird at the Michigan Theater. Next month is the book's 50th anniversary of being published, so after the movie, they had this discussion about the book and the movie afterwards. Before we went to see the movie, we ate dinner at Zingerman's, which was soooo good. I split a Ruben sandwich with my dad, and it definitely hit the spot. I usually don't like dressing on my food, but this sandwich was delicious. Back to the movie...this was the first time I have seen the movie (in the Michigan Theater of all places!), and I can see why it won a lot of Academy Awards. The book discussion was really interesting, as well; I got to see what other people thought about the book. Some of the things talked about was how far have we gotten since then, and about who some of the characters might have been based off of. I wasn't going to go with my parents, but I'm glad that I did. It was a nice end to the day.