UGH! It's been a hectic week. After seeing my friends, I had to study for an entrance exam called 'ISEE,' which is Independent School Entrance Exam. I think I'm going to go into Westbury Christian School, but not sure yet. I also tried in another school called Incarnate Word, which is an all girls high school. I didn't need to take an exam, only make an essay. If I get into Westbury though, I won't be going to Incarnate though, since Lynel and I could go 2 d same school.

Okay, I want to apologize once again to five certain people again for not saying, "hi" or anything, and for (maybe) making them feel like I had forgotten them, which I didn't! Now, I have time to go on the computer, but only for an hour and only three times a week.

So,throughout the whole week, like I said, I studied...So I studied for two weeks. On the day of the test, the morning was hectic. When I woke up, I didn't take a shower right away, so when I did, I had only about an hour to get ready. When I finished, my parents and brother needed to take baths too, so it took half the time we had. I needed to get to the testing site, at school, by 8:30am, and it was already about 8:15am. We ate breakfast at Mcdonald's and then a really annoying event happened. Milk spilled all over me! The stupid milk! My mom had opened the bottle and didn't take off the cover. So, I had thought the bottle was still closed, and shook it like it said to do. It was about 8:22am, and we needed to get to school...fast! Unlike the Philippines, the US is kind of strict on time. So, events will happen if your not efficient in getting to the place. We didn't have time to go back home, so luckily, my shirt dried on the way to the school. After it dried, I went inside the school to sign in. My parents went back home to get me a shirt. While I waited in their auditorium/cafeteria/gym, I noticed something shocking. I had on the wrong shoes! One shoe was black Audios with the pink design on the side, and the other was a black Vans shoes with a pink and black checkered design on the side. Luckily, both shoes were black and had a pink design. If anyone asked, I would just say it was a style or just for luck. Still, I hoped noone would notice. My mom came back with another shirt before the group I was put in was to go to the testing room. So, I took the test, and it didn't seem so hard.
After that, I had to wait for my parents for an HOUR until they picked me up(they were stuck in traffic). We went out to eat, and then at around 4pm, I went to Elisabeth's house. I had already surprised Elisabeth the week before, so now I was going to surprise Maria, who was fortunately there for a sleepover. Earlier on, Elisabeth had told Maria that her "cousin" was coming over to her house, so she had to stay in Elisabeth's room. When I went in, I opened the door a little and stuck my head in saying, "Yo!" Maria gave a little gasp and stuttered, "Oh my gosh," over and over. I went into the room and Maria got up from the seat she was sitting in. She hugged me and started crying. She was really happy to see me. We exchanged hugs for a while and said how we missed each other, and blah, blah, blah. Elisabeth was renovating her room, so she gave away her Pokemon stuff to Lynel and a HUGE stack of manga to me(^-^ I love you, Ellie!Thhank You!!!!). So, I got to replace some of my manga and gained a whole bunch of new stories. My Fruits Basket collection went up all the way to ninteen and got Tokyo Mew Mew books(which I missed reading sooo much. Thanks again, Ellie!^o^). Anyway, I had a fun time with Elisabeth and Maria, and tried catching up with all we missed. We spent most of the time talking, watching music videos of Gazette and Dir En Gray(two Japanese rock bands), eating pizza, and played volleyball(well, only Ellie and me). I stayed until 9pm and then left for home.

So, that's basically what happned the whole week. By the way, the above events happened all in one day, Saturday. Well, I have to go now. I still am not allowed to go on the computer for so long due to my eye problem, and it's been about over an hour. Anyway, I miss all my friends in the Philippines and I am happy to see my friends back here in the US. Until whenever, see ya!^-^

+ Sunny @ Monday, May 18, 2009

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Before I begin, I want to apologize to my friends in the Philippines, especially Kai, Jeanne, Tin, Min, and Myrt for not updating this thing...They're probably upset for not contacting them in a while...Hehe, my bad...

Well, so I'll talk about my trip coming back to the US. For my friends in Texas who actually read this, sorry I lied(^-^). I didn't really spend my vacation in Japan, but I did stopover there before I came to the US(surprise!XD).

Dad's and my first stop was Manila. We took a ship called "St.Peter." It was alright, but I didn't really enjoy it for some necessary reasons. We had to share the cabin room with two other people, but I was glad that they were females(a lola and the helper). I kept having really bad stomach aches because I'm colic. As usual, the pains subsided after applying some manzanilla oil(=P). So, I spent most of the day asleep. We were only on the ship for about 15 hours(we stayed overnight) when we arrived in Manila at around 4pm. My dad had brought out our stuff to the ship's waiting area and I had to keep an eye on the stuff while my dad had to look for his sister who were going to pick us up. While I was waiting, I was freaking bored! After watching the ship workers do a dance(really funny!XD), there wasn't much to do but wait. While I waited, I just kept staring at my blue backpack that was next to me. All of a sudden, the most wierdest thing happened! Someone placed their hand on my backpack. At that second, I was alert, and looked up. The person just passed his hand, but the back that I looked at looked oddly familiar. I know it's almost impossible, but it looked like Gino! I didn't see the face, but I tried to. He walked like Gino, his hair looked like Gino, and he had the same skin as Gino(at least that's what it looked like)! I wanted to make sure and tried calling out his name. Obviously, my cursed quiet voice didn't help, so he couldn't hear me from all the commotion going around. I kept staring as he walked away, wondering if it really was Gino. After a while, I let that go and just assumed it wasn't since it's very less than likely. After, I spent the night at my cousin's house and got a new book from Ate Cecil, entitled, "Veronika Decides to Die."
The next day, I woke up at 3am and got ready to go to the airport. The next stop would be Tokyo, Japan, which would only be a stopover.

In Japan, it was awesome! I didn't really go outside of the airport, but Dad and I had to take a bus to the terminal. So, I at least got to know how the weather in Japan was. It was cold(XD)! The landscape of Tokyo is really cool, too. There's a river that looks like a snake that goes through and everything is really flat. I saw Mt.Fuji which was really pretty, especially the sakura(cherry blossom) trees that you can see. There are sakura trees in Washington DC also, but the trees in Japan seem more nicer. So, that was about it...

When I finally landed in Texas, my mom's friend, Tita Judy, picked us up with Mom. My brother, Lynel, was sick at home. Basically, what I did the whole week was look for a school I would go to and visit my old school, which Lynel goes to now. I also visited some of my friends at schools and people I seemed to run into. I visited Ellie at her house and surprised her(she had thought I was going to vacation in Japan). It was really great to see her again. I went to a party on Saturday, so I got to hang out with a bunch of my old friends again.

Well, that's what's happening so far. I miss everyone in the Philippines, now. LoLz, it's funny how I can miss my friends in the US when I'm in the Philippines and then miss my friends in the Philippines when I'm in the US. Well, I still can't go on the computer or any electronics that needs the eyes to see. So, I'll go for now. I'll update another time though. See ya!^-^

+ Sunny @ Thursday, May 07, 2009

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