Proof for Laura

So the other day Laura asked me "If you could have only one finger which one would it be?" I told her the index finger. Today I took this quiz and it's my proof that I was telling the truth.

You Are the Index Finger

You are ambitious, driven, and capable.
You aren't afraid to take responsibility for your actions - or place the blame on whoever deserves it.
You are honest, free thinking, and objective. You see things in your own way - and you aren't afraid to let everyone know about it.

You get along well with: The Thumb

Stay away from: The Ring Finger

Adieu, Adieu, To You And You and You

Marysville Pilchuck High School's production of Disney's High School Musical has come to an end. I loved doing all the chereography. The whole play (despite the cheesiness) was fun. It's taken up somewhere near 3 months of my time. I haven't been able to get it out of my head!! Now that I have free time again I can't focus on my school work. It's really wierd almost like I do better under pressure. Anyhow, now to explain the pictures. I'll go from left to right starting at the top. The first picture is of Matt and Ally who played Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez. Next is a picture of Blakely (Sharpay Evans) who at one point in the show gets a cake shoved in her face hence the frosting. Below her is a picture of Joe who was her costar so to speak. He played Ryan Evans. I just like this picture. I think it pretty much sums up his character as well as his personality. The next shot is of our director, Mr. Klem. He puts a lot of hard work into the shows. He's a nice guy and understanding if you talk to him before hand. If you don't, he can be really scary when he's mad, but hey most people are. Beside him is a picture of Andrew and Kelsey. They played Chad Danforth and Taylor McKessi. Okay I spelled that last name wrong. Oh well. Shane is the boy covered in frosting. He played Zeke Baylor and on closing night he ended up with cake in his face too. It was hilarious. He started eating some of the cake during a scene but his hair is so long it kind of got in the way. It's kind of gross to watch someone pull a long, curly, frosting covered lock of hair from their mouth. Hmm tasty. And last but not least is a shot of Blakely and Joe again because they're cool like that. Blakely will be going to Disneyland this summer for an internship. She gets to be Belle. Congrats to her!!

We did eight performances of the play (4 more than usual) and gained a lot of money and hopefully fans. We can use all the fans/drama kids we can get our hands on. The drama department has great chances of suffering and coming close to disappearing all together. The first time we worried about losing drama was after my freshmen year. The high school was being dumb as usual (funny thing is I can't remember what they were doing exactly but I'm pretty sure they were doing something) and basically our drama teacher left. The school had a hard time finding a new teacher and there was lots of talk about losing drama as well as the other arts related departments. The arts are always the first it seems. I don't think people appreciate them as much as they should. Anyway, I won't get into that. Mr. Klem took the job though and got us back on our feet with "You Can't Take It With You" and "Beauty and the Beast." Now our school has come up with another brilliant idea called small learning communities. Under normal circumstances I suppose I can see how learning communities can be beneficial. But the school district is basically trying to force kids starting in 9th grade to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives. Then they have to take classes that pertain that field of study. In most of the communities, that includes electives to. For example, in your bio med community, possible electives include forensic science or AP biology. Sounds like a good class to take a load off your shoulders.... Anyhow, part of the reason Klem chose to do High School Musical was to get people interested in drama so we still have the program in a few years. So that's that.

Bowling Deaf Style

As part of my ASL class this quarter (which I love!!!) I have to do three different deaf activities. One was to go through a fast food drive through. Another was to go to a foreign restaurant. The last, which I did today, was to go bowling. Take note that I had to pretend to be deaf in all of these activities. It's pretty scary to be honest. Thakfully, I was able to go with some of my ASL buddies to the restaurant and then bowling today. My mom and dad came with us and were essentially the only hearing people in the group. My mom was able to communicate with me a little bit, but mostly us three ASL kids stuck to talking with each other. My friend, Robert, brought his Gallaudet (the only university for the deaf) dictionary so dad was thumbing through it. He learned two words today: helicopter and ugly. Who do you think he called ugly? That's right. It was me. How rude!! Obviously my daddy loves me.

I could have danced all night!

Yesterday was prom day. Hooray!! That's me in the pink and my friend Kaitlyn in the black. She drove us to Seattle where we first at Dick's before heading to pier 56 to board the Argosy. It had three decks: the bottom was for dancing, the second was for games, and the top was for drawing oddly enough. It was cold outside so we didn't spend much time outside. I loved seeing the Seattle skyline as we sailed around the Puget Sound! We spent most of the night on the secon and third decks just because the music wasn't that great (there was only like one slow song and the rest of the music was more or less gangsta rap) and the style of dancing wasn't that great either. So we played classic card games like slap jack, california speed, and bologna sandwich. Basically we hung out for three hours. It was fun. Andrew Wilcox was crowned Prom King and Julianne Mack was Prom Queen. I was thinking how in most movies anyway after the naming of king and queen they usually share a dance or atleast get to choose who to dance with and become the center of attention for one slow song. Isn't that how it's suppose to work? Well, after the royalty were crowned, the DJ just continued with his gangsta rap.

After prom, Kaitlyn and I walked a little ways to get back to the parking garage where we had parked. When we got there, we were shocked to find that a fence was now blocking the way in. It appeared as if there was no way to get to our car. There was a flight of stairs next to the garage that a group of kids had gone up and not come back down so I was thinking maybe we should go up the stairs. That's what we ended up doing since they appeared suddenly on the other side of the gate and told us to go up the stairs. So we walked all the way up to level six, hopped into the elevator, and pressed the button for floor one where the car was. When the elevator door oppened it was outside of the garage still. So I hit the 6 again but then I thought we should probably try going to level two so we didn't have to walk so far. But it was too late. We went back up to floor six and then down to floor two. We walked to the car and began driving up to the six level where the only open exit was. Everything seemed to be going fine until we made it to level five and somehow ended up back on level four. We went back up and noticed that the only way out was block by a huge gate. We were thinking that there was no way out and we'd have to spend the night in Kaitlyn's car in a random parking garge that we were trapped in. Then some people showed up on the other side of the gate and told us to drive forward. Lo and behold! the gate went up and we were finally free!!! It was very nice to get back to the freeway and actually know that we were going to make it back home.

You gotta love adventure.