Fish Camp

Here's a brief run-through of the past two days...

Yesterday, all the fish had to carry around the Senior's books to their classes. My senior was one of the ones who kidnapped me, and I had to scream "MOVE!" to anyone in her way. Marial's made her excalaim, "All hail {enter senior name} the great!" at the snap of her fingers. That was fun.

Also, our class was SUPPOSED to wear orange, but we planned to all wear blue. We got "punished" and had to have x's drawn on our forehead and cardboard signs around our necks. That was less punishment than we thought we should get, but whatever.

We decorated our black t-shirts, which were all supposed to wear, and I got to do Marial's because she didn't want it. Let me tell you, that shirt was AWESOME. I didn't have a shirt until last night, because I forgot, so I went home and did mine....

Now...for today. Oh cheese...

Today was fishcamp...but fishcamp started at lunch. At lunch they were *record-scratch* Wait a second...let me start at the beginning and work my way up....

Ok, so I get out of the car this morning, with my gym bag, dressed in my "clean clothes". About five steps away from the car, I realize that I had forgotten my packpack. Ok...great...typical Bonnie move. I get into class and everyone's excited and wearing their t-shirts and all, and then I'm like, "Oh, Mrs.S? Can I change my shirt, because I was brainless and put 'Fish Camp '09 ' On my shirt...and it's 2008!!" So, I somehow got it to look kind of right. In short, my morning was just one of those "Yeah, I'm stupid, but who cares, because I'm happy and hyper and that's just the way I am, SO LOOK OUT SENIORS!" mornings...if you know what I mean. Any sane person doesn't know what I mean, but I'm not sane, so ha. ... ya know? <--that's for Rae Rae, if she ever reads my blog...

Ok. So we do Bible, somehow. Then at the end, Mrs.C comes in and tells us we'll be performing some football halfgame show like synchronized swimmers and we have to make up a routine. Uh....wow. It was completely CRAZY trying to get a group of freshman to do as much as TURN together. That's how Spanish class went. Next came Biology and Health. Now, Mrs.C is our Healthy and Bio teacher, and she also happens to in the seniors' homeroom. And, of course, we're the awesomest fishies ever, so in those classes, we cover the seniors' lockers with orange caution tape, ribbons with 'freshman' on them, stickers, balloons, caution tape, and pictures of fish. It was a work of art.

Word got around school FAST, and everyone came to admire our artwork. One senior {my senior book-carrying-person} was just like, "Ok...that's cool...you just wait till fish camp." Another charged me and nearly ran me over. Interestingly different reactions there.

Ok, now it's lunch. Oh cheese...so sometime during lunch we see two people from Student Council kidnap someone...then I walk with my friend Rae Rae and they obduct her too! I run to the classroom, where there's like 3 people, and tell them. We decide to hide. Me and my friend...uh...Winnie...yeah...Winnie...hide under the teacher's desk. A few seconds later, a senior barges in. They find us but they don't capture us, so we re-hide. Of course, then I pick a bad hiding spot and the people come for us and take me. *rolls eyes*

They took me behind the building where all the other captured people were. A senior dressed in purple sitting behind a table asked me, "Who is the 9, 008, 078, 563th person born?" I stared at him and replied, "Me!" He pounded a gavel into the table top and said, "You are guilty of being a fish!" I was lead behind him and had my face painted with gold and purple {school colors}. Then I got in line with the other fishes. Soon they had all of us and we watched as people tried to escape. That was like...the best part. Almost. Idk what the best part is, yet...

Once they had everyone, a senior announced what our first task was. We had to duck-walk down the deck, in front of all the school. {For those of you who don't know, duck walking is a kind of walk where you squat down and waddle that produces aching thighs.} Of course, we couldn't do it right, so halfway through they made us go back and start over.

After everyone was done, we headed over to the football field for a waterballoon toss. It was predictable but still unfair that the freshman had to use a dinky napkin to catch and toss with and the seniors got tablecloths. Even though we cheated, they still ended up winning, and they threw balloons at us. Yo, someone hit me in the eye so hard I thought I would go blind. No joke, true story.

I think then we headed over to the slab, behind which was a tarp with spriklers. It was wet and slippery. They gave us a rope and we played tug-a-war against the highschoolers. We broke two ropes and a hose, but hey, we were strong. When they finally gave us a thick rope, freshman conquered. Of course...when we didn't, we all slid across the wet piece of plastic, but that was fun.

Hm...what else did we do...oh yeah. Sometime during the day, we were on the field and we did relays, but the seniors won that too because everything in fish camp is rigged to make them win. We bought snowcones and hotdogs. YUM! Then we played football *makes face* But it was still funny. The seniors took off their flags but we got in trouble when we took ours off...go figure. Go fish. And then we did our little half-time dance thing. That was interesing...they made us do it twice because the first time we were too far away. Then we got punished and had to do more duck walk.

The grande finale was back at the wet tarp, where we got into lines {each line was a class} and the first person in each line would slip and slide onto the tarp and wrestle for a bar of soap. It was hilarious and so much fun to watch, as well as participate it. I didn't know people could fight so viciously until I saw our highschoolers fight over a bar of soap. Somehow I ended up getting some Freshman spirit award thingie. Guess what it was. A hat! :D They announced who was on student counsel. Then we had to dry off {which was impossible}, change into our clean clothes, and wait around till it was time to go home.

And that's about it. Ta ta for now, folks!

~ Captain Bonnie Spinner, a fish

First day of HIGHSCHOOL

Hey! Ok, I'm really happy-hyper right now, so warning: extreme randomness may occur. This is probably going to be a long post, so if you don't read it all and just post a comment like "Gee. Great post. Thanks for sharing." I'll know you didn't read it all, but that's ok, because it's long. *stops rambling* Let me shtart from teh begginning: {yes, I meant to spell de vords vike dat}

I had a dream last night that for some strange reason I was late for the first day of school, and I got there at the nick of time and had to get the worst seat. For some reason, when I look back and try to remember what that was, the only thing that comes to mind is a seat in the front of the class squished between two suma wrestlers....that's a little weird....

So this morning I got up and answered like three texts {I missed Marial's wake up call because my phone was on vibrate~ HA!!!!} and soon we were on the way to school. We being myself, my dad who was driving, and our carpool person. I glance at the car's time and it reads 7:56 when we pull into the school's parking lot, which means we didn't have to run. However, we were still late and I STILL got a front-ish seat! AHH! But anyway, it was good being back with my peeps. We were all excited and wouldn't shut up. It's funny, because later this week, we'll probably be like "Uhhhhh....school......." but now we're all hyper. :D

When we got there, we went to the auditorium for a brief intro or whatever then we got our books for Spanish with our homeroom teacher. OOHH!!! Our room is the senior room, so we have LOCKERS! The only downside is we don't have our combos yet so whenever we closed them we realized we need to get a teacher to go open em again. :D See, this day we didn't DO anything really except for get our books and schedules and everything like that. Ok, then we went to um um um...oh! Health and Biology! Which is with Mrs. C from last year. They're back-to-back classes in the same class room. Then we went to ... hm .... where did we go after that? I really don't want to get up to look at my schedule...

I think we had lunch next. Ok, so we're officially highschoolers now, so we can sit outside on the deck. BOOYAH! We're all excited and everything, so we get our lunch boxes and food stuffs, open the door, and step outside to be blasted back by a wave of heat. Halfway into lunch we discovered sitting under the sun in black shirts when it's 96 degrees isn't a good idea and so we used our new roaming privileges.

We visited a few of our fellow highschoolers' rooms and eventually I stuck with a senior and my friend DJ. I had pulled this little crossword puzzle thing from her purse and was working furiously to figure it out as they walked around the deck, up to the office, and back again with me in tow. Soon the bell rang and the senior left and DJ went to advanced math.

Wait...I wasn't in advanced math....I was in Geography...I blinked and stared at my schedule, then had to ask someone for help, and we both glared at the schedule. The schedule claimed that Geography was in the advanced math class room at this time...but that couldn't be right....so where was I going? Eventually we figured out that we were reading the schedule wrong and I was in the class next door. I walked in to the cries of my last name {my nickname} and laughter. :D LOL!! It was so funny. I had to explain that I had gotten lost in my own school that I've been attending for - what - seven years? No. Nine years. {why did I say seven?} To make matters worse, the class was GEOGRAPHY...where you learn about maps....which help you NOT TO GET LOST. Lol, it was hilarious. :D Anyway...

Then came Algebra 1. Now. We had taken the first half of this book last year. A nice pace for me. Half a lesson each day. I'm slow in math...that was refreshingly helpful. Now our favorite math teacher has left *sobs* {we scared her away....} and we find out we're doing the whole book! All of it! Starting at the BEGINNING! Why? Because of some smart 8th graders who are taking the class. *banging head* ARG! Why they gotta be so smart, huh? I wasn't this smart...they shouldn't be. {jk} Anyway...we did little easy lesson one {just for that I'll probably miss like 5}, which she assigned odds to. Halfway through her lecture, when we were all working ahead, my friend who came back this year whose last year was 5th grade asks me for help on question 10.

"Uh...Garbanzo bean...we're doing odds," I said, as we bursted out laughing and immediately hid our faces, trying to duck our heads behind the people in front of us. lol! Poor bean...but I had started doing all of them too...so....yeah...what came next....?

OH! English came next! And the teacher doesn't seem that bad after all. Sure, I say that now...
I found out that summer reading wasn't actually REQUIRED and I did all that work for almost nothing! I SPEND LIKE THREE DAYS OF MY VACATION ON THAT!! ARG! So...I'm not sure how it's all going to work....about the reading...but anyway...mo...

Then was Study Hall. Good ol' study hall. I think this is the period when some days we'll be taking electives...but we haven't gotten that far yet...soooooo then we all went to the pick up lines, I hitch-hiked with some goober who took me to some place where I went through lots of pain. Oh, the goober is a highschooler from school, that place was the gym, and lots of pain would be the two-thirds of a mile that we ran, which was sad because that means we're out-of-shape; we can usually run a mile.

Ok...so...that was my first day of high school and I think it went rather well. I'm so looking forward to this year! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man! Oh man! I can't wait! WOOHOO! All my friends, all the activities....I LOVE MY SCHOOL!! :D Ok, so all y'all who haven't blogged bout starting back, you should. Chair...that means you. Seriously. How was it?!! And um...oh yeah. Thanks for reading this horribly long and most likely boring post all the way through. :D

~ Captain Bonnie Spinner

School starts tomorrow

Well...I'm not sure how to feel. School starts tomorrow. I'm kind of excited for multiple reasons, one of them being we have like 4 new people in our class and one girl that's coming back from 5th grade. :D I can't wait to meet them! I'm also excited about just being in High School. Lunch on the deck, Student Council, Fish Camp, pranks that we'll create that will go down in history...I can't wait! But on the down side, we have a teacher that everyone says is reallllyyyyyyy hard. She scares me. So we'll see how that goes.

Hmmmm....what else.....Oh! We had volleyball tournaments Friday and Saturday. We lost all our matches, but won two games. Somehow the scoring is different and we still lost, but I'm so excited for this year!!! I can't wait to play more! We have a game Thursday and a tourny this weekend...weeee....

Ok. Now then. I think there's some tag that I'm supposed to be doing. Something about summer...but...I really don't have many priorities....I guess....but here I go! *plunging into memories*

My top Summer Memories/Favorite Summer Experiences:

10. Uuuuhhh....blogging....yeah....
9. Writing, I think.
8. Bonding with my friends and having lots of summer sleepovers and parties. :D
7. Working out at the gym with Marial and D {ouch...}
6. Going to the Bible Studies with Chair and holding my favorite baby in the whole wide world...
5. Helping the L's. :D
4. Chilling and not having to go anywhere or do anything for a while
3. Volleyball practice
2. Vacation!!
1. Hanging out with all my blogging and real life friends. Meeting all you guys in person, definitely. That will be a memory I will always hold on to, and possibly laugh at... ;)

I hope y'all are happy. Well...there will most likely be a post about the first day of school tomorrow...

Btw, Render, Flint had a really good idea: You should be multi-render orders food @ Micky-D's!! {That's McDonald's...for all you slow people like me out there...}

Well...Ciao and have good days!!
~ Captain Bonnie Spinner

Abduction

Aka, one of the most fun days of my life. Seriously. Let me paint you the beginning scenario:

Marial, D, and I are innocently sitting around my kitchen table after volleyball practice, laughing and being ourselves, when all of a sudden, two crazy weirdos with umbrellas jump out of my living room and state in disguised voices, "You're coming with us!" We blink, taking a moment to process the figures clad in black with sunglasses, hats, and bandanas over their faces. Then we burst out laughing. Dad snaps some pictures. Soon our arms are tied behind our backs and we're blindfolded. We're led swiftly through the door and into a car. Well...not swiftly. When you're blindfolded, you tend to stumble more...anyway... If this is what abduction is like, I'll gladly be kidnapped by them any day!

Throughout the whole car ride, we three chat like crazy, probably annoying our captors who still refuse to talk. We design the car we're riding in, wonder where we're going, and soon we've figured out that our captors are two seniors {my favorite two!} from our school. Marial had an uncanny nose that can sniff out anyone. We're still laughing and grinning behind the bandanas when 30 minutes later they pull the car to a stop and lead us out. I didn't have my shoes on, so they tried to get me to wear flats, but I couldn't walk in those so they gave up. They led us over concrete, not too carefully {poor D has a cut on her leg from when she didn't hear them say "step"}, and eventually the blindfold slipped and I saw a huge building and parking lot.

"You guys, I have no idea where we are!" I exclaimed. Then...they got in trouble with mall security and had to untie us. We were at the mall. We met up with all the girls from the ninth grade and senior class inside, then went to a different mall. We talked a bit about how long they had planned this and I eventually found some shoes, but they didn't tell us anything about the rest of the day. Arg. How frustrating. We got to the other mall and they told us we were going on a scavenger hunt. YEA! We got into teams with lists and bags and set out on an adventure.

Can you imagine groups of high school girls running rampid in the mall, unsupervised? Yeah. That was us. It was CRAZY!!!! {I usually don't like going to malls, but we weren't shopping}. My group finished the scavenger hunt and met up with the others, who had also finished everything on the list. Piling back into our cars, we went to one of their houses and hung out, playing a game or two and eating all their food. They had this dip stuff for carrots and chips called "veggie wedgie" and it was SOOO GOOODDDD! I think they had to add the sour cream to it, though. One senior had gummy worms and all the ones she didn't want were given to me. Yum!! Forgetting about swimming, we talked and played an M&M getting-to-know-you type of game, then glanced at the clock and got dressed for dinner.

They were going to take us to Cheesecake factory!!! Ahhhh!!! We were really happy and excited, but then we got there...and they told us an hour or hour-and-a-half wait. Psh! Scratch that! We went to TGI Friday's instead. I had a Chicken Caesar salad and some other stuff from my neighbors...you know....extra fries that would deteriorate and go to waste if someone didn't eat them. Then we called our parents and had them pick us up. It was SOOO MUCH FUN! I love our seniors! Our seniors are AWESOME! I can't even express their awesomeness. They're so much fun to just be around, you know? I hope we're crazy like that when we're seniors.

It's a tradition now. Every class that gets kidnapped has to kidnap someone else. *evil grin* So when I'm a senior, all those li'l fishies better watch their tails!! The sharks will devour them!...then take them on a surprise day of fun. :D Oh my goodness....yesterday was so awesome. It was completely insane. I love our class, I love the seniors, and I love veggie wedgie dip. G'night, everybody, and watch out for ninjas with umbrellas! {They couldn't find their toy guns. :D}

~ Captain Bonnie Spinner

Stuff

Woop!! It rained! I love tropical storms!!! It rained today!! Woohoo! I went outside and stood there, letting the rain speckle my skin and run down my face. Then I started running and spinning and the stuff you're supposed to do when it rains. So...I'm really happy today. I love rain. Ok, enough of that. Here's some totally awesome pics mom and I dug up of Chair, Will, and me.

*giggling* That's Will...I think

*grinning* That's Chair. She's so cute!!!! ... I think she was holding her breath or something...

And then there's this pic. Y'all will be able to know who the others are. *grinning* Lookit the J's!! I am on the left and Will is on the right. :D We're so cute!! Ahhh!

Ok, soooo that was a nice little walk down memory lane...Hope you enjoyed those. :D Ciao and have good days!

~ Captain Bonnie Spinner, the rain watcher