Saturday, February 20, 2010
Yesterday, Friday, February 19, 2010—I went to KW, it was fantastic. I went to the front office first to get a pass, but they wanted me to get permission from each individual teacher beforehand in order for me to receive a visitor’s pass. After deciding that such was far too much work, I went to Emma’s Japanese class and waited for her and Sensei to arrive. Sensei walked in and looked at me blankly for a moment, and then got a brilliant expression of realization as she remembered my face. “Hello, Sensei, it’s Carlin! You probably don’t recognize me because of my hair…” I got a hug ^_^
I sat in on the first block Japanese 3 class, and in the class I knew Emma, Serina, Alexi, Kegan, Rachel-san and Dan – half the class. Epic.
After Japanese, I ditched Emma (English? ugh!) for Serina and Kegan and went to Drama II. On the way there, I saw an Orlando Bloom clone. No exaggeration, Will Turner was walking the hallways of Kelly Walsh. He had the hair, the eyes, the facial structure, and a black leather jacket – hottest thing I’ve ever seen in a high school, and I’m including bunsen burners. Apparently his name is Nate.
Once in the drama classroom, Mr. Stedillie and I had a splendid conversation about my new school, New York, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Masque in general. I was invited to see the run-through of Grease that afternoon, and I wrote cast member’s names on envelopes containing raffle tickets – lots of envelopes. Lots. Let me tell you. Additionally, I was hit on by a really odd guy who gave off the air of one who would chase anything with legs… that was weird. I politely but firmly rejected his offer of a telephone number. Thank goodness for the ability to say “no”.
Afterwards I went to lunch with Kegan, and glimpsed hottie Orlando Bloom again. I grabbed her arm and whispered the story to her, the end of which was apparently overheard by Nate himself. “Are you talking about me?”
*rapid turnaround*
“Yes, actually, I am talking about you! Seriously, you look exactly like Orlando Bloom! Wow!” Wholly embarassed, but not about to show it, I turned back around and pretended to be a part of Kegan’s conversation with another guy, who she called Minion, and who looked a lot like the little brother from Wizards of Waverly Place on Disney.
James sits with Emma, Alexi, and Kegan, apparently. He claims that I’m one of those people who changes a lot over time (according to a whole bunch of people, I suddenly got gorgeous during the time I’ve spent in New York! Not complaining… It’s great if you want to think that :D). After lunch, instead of heading to Math with Alexi and Emma (>.< No thank you!), I went to the mall with James. That was awesome, we went into Hot Topic, where we made fun of the people who are willing to spend $70 dollars on a trench coat just because it has a Tripp label, and I bought a Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief t-shirt for Rick. We then went to the bookstore, where I got a couple books for my return journey and thought I lost my money. I didn’t lose it, but on our way back to school to join Serina and Andrew for lunch, James decided to do a donut on the unplowed roads. I freaked out, and had my allotment of scares for the day…
Second lunch I saw Andrew for the first time (even cooler than when I moved, wow), and hung with James and Serina again. I’m not even going to recap any of that conversation… Not at all suitable for young viewers, nor even me!
THEN was fifth block, and French with Alexi! Andrew had to show me where the French room was, as I’d forgotten which wing of the building it was on (which was silly of me, really). Madame was really happy to see me, said I looked “très Anglaise” with my cloche hat (irony? heh heh). I gave her her textbooks back and she thought it was hilarious that I remembered, as she had not.
In Casper, French III is the end of the language teaching, and French IV is French history and culture, taught mostly in French, with French textbooks, etc. I sat in on that and understood most of what was said, and it was fun. Catherine Medici was a wicked, wicked Queen who was fond of poisoning people she didn’t like, and tapestries are awesome – this is what some of what I learned in that ninety minutes.
After French, I went down to the band room and hung out with Andrew and Emma, James, Christy, the funny kid whose name I was told and don’t remember, and the twins, whose names I was not told but found out anyway (Barrett and Braxton – if I’m wrong, blame Andrew.). The twins are the most awesome people I’ve newly met in a long time. After a fun time filled with a stolen hat, a sexy encounter with Christy in a corner (during which we switched sweaters), and some awesome jokes, I went to go watch the Grease rehearsal. The twins followed me, claiming they didn’t want to walk home yet. They live up Snob Hill – I don’t blame their reluctance. I walked up 12th from KW with a backpack once… never again.
Grease was fantastic, and it was nice to see and talk to Gordon again. When I talked to Christy afterwards, I learned that the theme for the Peach Basket dance is “Loving the Eighties”. Oh good lord.
When I got home, Danyel called, wondering when I would see her on Saturday. We ended up having a sleepover at her house, which was awesome! Her home is gorgeous, and her animals are fantastic – By Xerxes, I actually like her dogs! We watched Mrs. Doubtfire, which was a great movie, and slept, although really that didn’t happen until…
(post was written on Saturday, because I didn't have access to my computer until then... hence the "yesterday" at the top)
