Um yeah, about updating more often... Anyway, I have a lot to write about, so you better be prepared for the long haul. Where did I leave off? Oh yeah, Homecoming. Well, everyone except my mom went to the homecoming game on Friday, October 1st. I sat with my friend and her family. My dad was all alone, which I kind of felt bad about. If I'd known he was alone, I would have invited him to sit with me! It was actually a pretty exciting game. We were losing for the whole game, until the last minute, when we tied it up at the last second. From there, we went into overtime, where we lost. But the most interesting part wasn't the game, but some guy running across the field with no shirt on. The police ran after him, but he jumped over the fence. It was pretty exciting. I heard later that he was caught. The introduction of the homecoming court was pretty funny. Almost all the girls said that shopping was a hobby, and one even said that she enjoyed being tan. No joke, that's what it actually said! By the time we got home, everyone was pretty exhausted and my sister and I had to get to bed because we were going to the Tech Day at University of Michigan the next morning.
On Saturday, we had to get up about 6 AM. Yeah we got to sleep in for 15 minutes! Apparently the program was offering breakfast for the girls attending, which we went to. It was actually pretty good - much better than I expected. From there, we were split into groups and joined the people who hadn't eaten breakfast. The first thing we did was listen to this lady lecture about getting into college. She kept on saying that if we didn't do so or so, they didn't want us, which was a pretty interesting thing to say to prospective students... Anyway, we then went on a tour around North Campus. The next thing on our schedule was a building contest. In advance, let's just say that my team failed. We broke what we were going to use, which wasn't that good to begin with. So, we were given a few extra minutes to figure something out. We actually did pretty well considering (not last place!!). It was just too early for thinking. After that, we were left to our own devices to look at the different displays that were set up about different degrees you could major in and clubs. My sister and I went around with a few people that we had met there and some we knew from school. We were done early, so we ended up talking with random people. They offered lunch, but we had just packed it. But unfortunately, my mom had our lunch because we thought we were going to eat together. It turned out that we weren't, so my mom had to figure out a way to get it to us. Let's just say that lunch wasn't fun, seeing that we were outside and it was about 50 degrees out and sprinkling. From lunch (which seemed really long) we went into different groups, depending on what degree you had signed up for. My two were Chemical Engineering and Civil/Environmental Engineering. Chemical Engineering was interesting; we toured the labs. They talked about their experiments of using algae as a fuel source. Unfortunately, though, they went over 15 minutes, so I missed being taken to my second part. So, I never got to see Civil/Environmental Engineering.
We drove as fast as possible home, because Saturday was also the Homecoming Dance. I went over to my friend's house, where I got dressed and put on makeup. Then all the parents came over and took a bunch of pictures. You know the spiel. There were two people there, that I didn't expect and didn't exactly know why they were there, but no matter. The dance itself was fun, and the dancing was much less disgusting than last year. They still had to turn on the lights several times during the night, though. Although I was dancing appropriately, it still cramps my style, so to say. If no one can see who you are, then you can dance as weird as you want. I enjoyed myself, still. Afterwards, we went back to my friends house and hung out and ate desert. When we got home, all the dads were downstairs playing Rock Band, which was kind of disturbing.
On Sunday, I had to wake up early once again because we were driving to Midland to tour the house of the famous architect Alden B. Dow. It was very modernistic, much like Frank Lloyd Wright, which Dow studied under. It was also huge; I would have gotten lost, if there wasn't a tour guide to take us around. My favorite room was his office, which was partially underwater. It was very relaxing. Overall, the house was very interesting. Afterwards, we went into Midland and ate lunch at Cafe Zinc, which is part of group of buildings that are owned by Dow Chemical Company. The hotel is called Hotel H (as in Hydrogen), there was a bar called O2, and another restaurant called Table. I thought that was really cool. The town itself was weirdly deserted. We were walking around and some guy told us that they had the best food in the universe as we were passing that restaurant. It was quite funny.
Now fast-forward two weekends (nothing interesting happened between October 4-15). Last Saturday, my sister took the PSAT in the morning. She had to get up early, so I was awoken by the alarm at 6:45 in the morning. Not fun. When I woke up around 9ish, I started working on my Honors English project. The part that I was working on took forever. I was working for 3 hours straight, with no breaks! Once my sister got back home, we went out and ate lunch at Panera Bread. We were going to go to Ritter's Frozen Custard, but my sister decided that it would be better to eat it later. We eventually decided to skip dinner and eat ice cream instead. Around that time, I got a call from my friend, and when we were done with the ice cream, I went over to her house for the first time. It was 7:30 PM, but what does time mean? I stayed to about 11 PM, and had a lot of fun.
Finally, we get to Sunday. Yesterday, the whole family went out again to Parshalville Cider Mill and the pumpkin patch. At the cider mill, we got 2 dozen donuts, some fresh apple cider, and 2 bags of apples. Man, oh man! Those donuts were soooooo delicious. With a capital D. It's kind of our tradition to go to both the cider mill and pumpkin patch, but last year we missed it. After the cider mill, we picked out our pumpkins. I've decided to carve the pi symbol onto mine. And that's pretty much it. Whew! If you've made it to the end, I applaud you! Until the next time I remember to write!
Happy Halloween! But before I start talking about today, I have to recap the past week or so. Well, on the Friday before last, my family and I all went up to see Monty Python's Spamalot in Flint. It was hilarious! For those who don't know, Spamalot is based off of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We drove up a few hours early, so that we could eat dinner at this restuarant called Fudruckers. We go there after every Science Olympiad Regionals event, which is why we knew about it. Their specialty is their hamburgers, which is what I ordered, along with a cookies and creme shake that was so big that I shared with my sister. When we were done eating, we plugged in the address of the theater, and drove for a few minutes until we found it. I thought that Flint wasn't very well off, but we drove past some really nice homes. When we finally got to the theater, we were probably an hour or so early, so we just waited around. My mom bought me a t-shirt that had the Black Knight on the front and "It's Just a Flesh Wound Tour" with all the cities they are going to on the back. When I wore it to school on Monday, all my friends (except the one who had never heard of Monty Python - can you believe it?) loved it. Anyway, the performance was wonderful and very funny. It was nice to actually see it after just listening to the songs over and over. The only problem was that the person who sat next to me kept on swearing when there was anything funny and there were some people behind us that would stop talking and laughing really loud. But other than that, I enjoyed the play. I thought that the funniest part was when King Arthur asks Patsy, his servant, why he didn't tell him he was Jewish, and Patsy replies that you don't really tell that kind of thing to a heavily armed Christian. I had a really good time.
