Today was one of the many days that we have off in the month of November. This time it was for parent-teacher conferences. Both my parents went, and, no surprise, my teachers were glowing about me. My french teach practically loves me; she even said that when I ask questions, I anticipate what she's going to teach. I'm not sure that I remember that, but okay... They all said that I was quiet, too. Is that really a bad thing? Do they really want loud, rambunctious kids? When my dad was talking to me about it he wondered how they thought my sister and I were quite. We just laughed. But even though I had the day off, it seems that I didn't really accomplish anything. I have been working on my honors homework all day (surprise, surprise). We had to answer a bunch of question about our personal concepts of Transcendentalism, like "How do you demonstrate that you are an individual" or "How are you affected by nature?" Very philosophical stuff, which is the kind of stuff that I don't really like. But, what are you going to do?
Last weekend was kind of busy, but interesting, as well. On Saturday, we had the usual Science Olympiad practices all day. After everyone left, my family and I went out to Target and the grocery store. I swear, commercialism has taken over Christmas. Target was fully decked out in their Christmas decorations, and I wanted to scream. I hate all these Christmas songs and decoration even before Thanksgiving. Christmas should stay in December!!! If you haven't already noticed, this is kind of my pet peeve. At Costco, they had Christmas things out before Halloween!!! I know, it's crazy! Anyway, on Sunday, I had piano for the second week in a row so that we were totally free during the Thanksgiving break. Usually, we go every other week, but not this month. We were going to stay in Ann Arbor because we had tickets to see the Anonymous 4 concert in a church in Ann Arbor, but we decided to go home, and then come back later. For those ignorant of what Anonymous 4 (as I was a few weeks ago...), it is a group of four women singing medieval songs/chants. When I described it to my friend, she said it sounded like a cult, but I swear, it isn't! The concert was pretty cool, although it was in Latin and the church pews were really hard - my but hurt afterwards. After the concert, we went to Zingerman's to get some half priced bakery goods, and then walked around a few stores around there that were still open. I got to drive home.
Now that we are done with past events, let's talk Harry Potter! As you probably know, the first half of the last movie is coming out this Friday, and we are going to see it. My dad is taking off work early so we can go right after school gets out. My parents wouldn't allow us to go to the midnight showing, which some of my friends are going to, and I wouldn't really want to anyway. By the time everything is said and done, you only get a few hours of sleep, because we do have school on Friday. If it was over Thanksgiving break, then I might have considered it. As you can tell, I'm super excited!!!! I can't wait - I'll make sure you get all the details of that momentous (too strong a word?) night.
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