English?!

So, basically I changed my email and with this thing requiring a gmail email it kind of has to change to. I mean its not that anybody ever reads this thing but... pretty much I'm starting another rambling site elsewhere but really strictly for English and then maybe in the future I can continue it more.
It's
www.starlia3.blogspot.com

I'm sure the first part is familiar and all.
Anyway.
Check it out.
There's nothing really there yet though!
Loves.

School Has Started!

Hello my friends! So guess what? The first week of school is over. And the first day of the second week has begun today (wow that sounds kind of confusing.) Well anyways I don't think I have any pictures to post on here today... yeah not many interesting ones.

The first day of dancing has also begun too! I'm so excited. I love dancing soooo much. But it's going to be hard to juggle in with school with Pre-Calc and AP Human Geo and Biology those are the classes I am much worried about. On another note, I got 100 percent on the AP Human Geo test this Friday on all the countries in the world and where they are. So yay me! It was a 150 point test, so I do give myself some credit.

Pre-Calculus is so hard. Agh. Getting into the habit of math isn't turning out so well. I was determined to do good but in an class full of smart people not so much. I only took Algebra 2 cause my friends were taking it and so I can get ahead, but honestly, I'm really not that smart at all! I know, smart move. I just got done with pre-calc homework that was supposed to be EASY and I'm just staring at it not knowing what the heck and to top things off I got in trouble in Pre-Calc today! For not working hard enough. So I will be like Boxer from Animal Farm! I will work harder! And I'll keep doing it until you send me to a glue factory. Tehe. Oh yes, AND I fell down the stairs this morning. That's what started it all. I was walking down the stairs to grab my dad's laptop when suddenly kaboom I don't even know what happened! And I'm sliding down the stairs with my backpack on dragging me down and mind you I have HARD WOODEN stairs. It was not pleasant thank you very much. And then this morning we had the WORST AP Human Geography test that I completely failed miserably at. That teacher sure knows how to make people feel so good about themselves, stupid hard test. And then I got in trouble in Pre-Calc while not even understanding any of the information while it's supposed to be EASY. Gah. Today wasn't good. Though I did dance, that was good.

I'm going to start reading "The Tipping Point" its one of the insisted summer readings so I guess I'll read it, it might help me understand Geography more which I so happen to suck at. Well, I think that's all I have to say for now.
Clue in tomorrow for what I have to say! Not that it's interesting at all much haha.
Peace out.

ALPS Reunion!

So last Saturday we had an ALPS reunion for everybody who was in ALPS from grades 1-6. Not a lot of people went but it was nice seeing people I haven't seen for almost 3 years! I met some of my elementary rivals and enemies and guess that grudge is over haha, we're all such good friends now. I wish we could do this again! I'll post some pictures.


Me and my one of mah best frenns! She still goes to my school though =] Tehe.


Group Picture! Smile everybody!


Nick, Georgiy and Trevin!


Yes! Only girl on the roof! Climbing onto the pavilion roof was so much fun! Nick started doing cartwheel and it freaked me out and then Kelsey started getting all worried too. All the guys except me and Trevor jumped off the edge, we had to scoot off haha.



Good ol' Dallin taking a "dump" on the roof. Haha.


Trevor refused to get off the roof. He didn't know how. That was a site to see! Haha.


Nick wearing Jenny's stunna shades! Ooh smexy haha!


All in all it was a fantabulous day!

Guess Where This Blog is Coming From Again?

Yep. Where I work. Lovely, no? It's just that I'm such a great worker that they run out of things for me to do haha.

Anyway so everybody. I'm BACK. From Italy! Didn't you miss me? Haha I know you did. So don't even bother saying it. =]

My travels were amazing, I promise you I did not want to leave at all.
The cruise ship was sooo fun. I met lots of new friends. We were aboard the Noordam and just wow. I mean I've been on cruise ships before but really it was just amazing. Everything's All-Inclusive so everything really just free. You walk up ask for it and they give it to you! Pure enjoyment. And everything about Italy is just soo. Wow.

I'm really actually not supposed to be here... so I will rant later and give you FULL detail.

On another note I got a haircut today. It's brilliant and I love it. I got two inches off and a whole lotta hair. The lady thinned it out SOOO much. One pony tail is less than my old pig tail. It's real scary. I wonder what pigtail braids would look like haha. But it's good. Good for summer. =] And I love the bangs. They're side sweep bangs, medium. I love em!

Peace out for now then.

Italy - Say Hello to the Jessie!!

No Pictures Today

I normally have a lot of pictures, but I'm actually not posting from my laptop!! Gasp! No, I'm at work with my Aunt because my dad is making me work for my Italy trip (which I will rant about later) and here I am on the work laptop since everything I need to do is done and I don't leave for a while. Actually I wouldn't be on here except the work laptop blocks everything that amuses me. Like all emails are blocked except for the office email and YouTube and games and whatnot. And I was browsing and I was like hey they let me on this site! Pretty cool I know.

Play by Play?
Okay, so I decided since I don't have anything better to do I'm going to give you all a play by play of my missing blog days, sound fun? Read more.

9th Grade Lagoon!
Okay, so before school ended they had a day when all the 9th graders went to Lagoon. Kelsey, Jenny and me felt otherwise. As 8th graders we skipped school and went to Lagoon. Course the 9th graders objected but hey. It was pretty smoking. Haha. Yes. I just said smoking. The lines were okay, they were pretty long and it started raining and I didn't break a sweat shirt or any product of clothing that has the ability to sustain heat so I was pretty cold. But it was fun, it was for sure, a lot better than school! I also have some pictures from this day I'd like to post if I remember!

Last Day of School
So, on the very last day of school, June 4-5-6-7? One of those days, it was quite bittersweet. It was the last day of school, but it was the last day of school. I wouldn't be able to see some of my friends for a long time, but I deepened a friendship that brought new oppurtunities this summer. So what really happened? On the last day of school I invited Chelynn (I love you!) to hang at the mall with me afterwards since I just really didn't want the day to end. Sam (love you too!) joined us and we squished in the back of my aunt's car and drove to Fashion Place, so happens it Chey and Sam invited Aaron, Curtis and Savie (love you all!) and we spent pretty much the rest of the day at the mall messing around. And no, I did not buy anything. We all just became great friends.

End of School PARTY!
Okay, so Sam decided to throw an end of the year party and this consisted of many people and many new friends! I have some pictures that if I feel like I'll post later! Okay, so let's see who was there. Chey, Sam (fer sure), Leslie, Sedona, Alicia, Savie, Aaron, Curtis, Kenyan, Casey and there was someone else... his name started with a T? Anyway we started playing Truth or Dare and then, me, Aaron, Leslie and Curtis sneak off suddenly and go into an empty (well empty of normal things, filled to the brims with junk) room and sit in a circle and begin singing Kum-Ba-Ya and joining hands. It was pretty hilarious. And then suddenly everyone else comes into the room and Kenyan comes up to Leslie takes her arm and LICKS it. Yep. Me and Aaron fall on top of eachother laughing and I wish I had my camara to take a picture of Leslie's face although she would have made me delete it. That day was great we had soo much fun. We walked to Macey's and bought ice cream and it really couldn't have been better. Thanks Sam for throwing such an awesome party!

Lagoon Again? You betcha.
So for Aaron's birthday (Happy 14th!) he invited the lot of us to Lagoon! And wow. That was the best day too! I might have some pictures of Curtis, Aaron and Savie on Go-Karts I want to post up later too. Despise the fact that it was one of the hottest days in Utah, the lines were SHORT. We went on the Wicked 3 times and the Samurai twice. We'd only wait in line for 20-30 minutes for ones you normally wait 3 hours in! It was the best. We also met up with Ahrahka, Morgan and Stacie there and a lot of ditching and rejoining happene haha. The only downer was that all the wet rides were closed. This means that they closed down Rattlesnake Rapids and Cliffhanger. On the HOTTEST day. So instead we decided to go on the Log Flume. It was funny because normally when people go down the hill they produce a huge wave and it goes around them getting them somewhat wet. The heavier you are the bigger the wave, the more likely you are to get wet. Well Aaron and I went together for one and when we went down we didn't even make a wave. It was kind of pathetic really. But it was fun. During that line my Italy chocolate melted all over my bag and we went to Arby's to clean everything off it was so nice everybody helped!

River Rafting in Colorado!
So the very next day after Lagoon, me and my dearly beloved and still alive mother went to Colorado for some serious river rafting! We only knew one person in the group but we quickly made friends with everyone else. The drive was 4.5 hours long and honestly it killed me but I lived! We arrived roughly midnight at the camp. My mom and me slept in the car that night. The next morning we packed everything up again and put them on the boats and set for the rapids! We had water fights and wow. The water was COOOLD. The river was also going a lot faster than usual so we made it to the campsite in record time! We set up camp and hung around for a little bit, then we hiked up to the waterfall. It was beautiful! I spent a long time there just swimming. Then Mac, one of the 14 year old boys there (actually the only one) found a frog or toad thing. I kissed the frog but no luck this time. It was real cute though, we took a picture of one of the girls kissing the frog and then was replaced by her husband! Mucho cute! The next day (after torment of bugs, insects and heat) we packed up once again and headed for the RAPIDS! The water was going very very fast. During one of the fastest rapids (Skull) we went aorund 40-50 mph! I was up in the front with Brenda and Steve just diving head in from the waves, otherwise the boat would taco. The water was cold but it was soo much fun. I was holding onto my hat and sunglasses most of the time and sqealing my head off. Steve and Brenda were also just bailing the water out of the boat but really we were going so fast than usual that there wasn't any time and by the time we got out of the rapids the water was up to our knees. When the water calmed down me and Steve jumped into the water and let the boat pull us. Brenda fell in from "Rapid Dee" (She was pushed in by our boatsman :)) The water was soo cold and took a while to get used to but it was fun fun fun! Then we pulled up into the cliff jumping area. We would hike up onto a cliff and jump. The usual drop they said was 40 feet but because the water was so high it was only a 20 foot jump. I didn't jump because the current was so fast I would be washed away. And the water was really cold. But it was fun watching people jump. And watching Sarahi trying to jump. =] All in all it was a great 3 days. I want to do it again minus the bugs and heat!

Italy cries: Jessie we are ready for you!!
So guess where I'm going tomorrow? Yep. You guessed it. Italy baby. And I won't be coming back for 10 days. I will be on a 7 day cruise and then 3 days in Rome. (Aaron- Curtis - I know, you hate me and are mucho jealous) I'm going to be going to Florence, Pisa, Cicily all those major cities (Naples, Livorno) I'm soo excited. And then ROME! I want to go to the Collesseum (spelling) and just take pictures everywhere! You will most definitely hear from me when I get back. Why not during the trip? Because internet is quite expensive on the boat and in the hotel (go for 10 dollars a day) and why not texting? Because even though I have unlimited texting its 35 cents per outgoing text! And 5 dollars per each minute. That means a 5 minute conversation would sum up to 25 dollars. Think of what I could buy with that! So I'll be back friends, with sunburns, pictures and experience. If you guys want to keep in touch with me I can email from my dads email, just tell me if you want to. If you do keep in touch with me during my travels though its more likely you'll get a souveneir haha. I love you all. And I'll see you again in 10-11 days.
Ciao America!

Okay. More flowers if you haven't gotten bored yet. If you dont' know what's going on, scroll down!

Tree. With a shine. I loves those things. =]


Inside of a flower with some of the petals.


And another one. (This is for your Rachel)


I call this picture "Out of Proportion"
There's a huge lamp. Huge tree. And over grown flowers. =]


And just another picture of a spider web over some leave/vines.
Hope you enjoy.
That's it for today.
Peace out.
Starlia.

More flowers cause the file is too big

A little flower with a bug on it! I didn't even realize there was a bug on it until I was taking a picture of the other flowers besides it.


I made one of those bird houses. It's just a little pretty scene =]


A flower with it's buds. Tehe. Buds.


This blue flower took me forever to take. I have like zillions of pictures of it cause at first it wouldn't focus right, and then I kept moving my hand when I took it so it would be all blurry and then when I did hold it still it would be off center. This flower is about the size of half a thumb nail. Or maybe the size of your ring finger nail.


Same as above for the blue flower.

I'll post more later. The files are just huge and I'm much lazy. Don't feel like waiting if you know what I mean.

This One's For You Rachel!

Sh. I know nothing has been written on here since forever.
But I have nothing interesting to write about, but now. I'm going to be posting many a pictures. But I'm going to start with my recent ones first and work my way to the ones before that.

So like yesterday I think? I found this sweet setting on my camera that allows you to magnify things. So I decided to take pictures of flowers around my garden/backyard. I'm going to post some of them here. Do tell me what you think.

This is actually a tree... with flowers =]


A spider web on on a rose. =]


Inside of a rose. A flower. How beautiful, no?


This is the yellow rose.


This is just a flower. Very pretty no?

Bitter Math Counts

Yes, I know it's been what? Forever? Since I last posted something.
Yeah well the reason to that is being because nothing interesting is happening. Come the end of March (which is coming very soon) there'll be lots of talk and posting. Not to mention that I'll be going to see my cousins over Spring Break which will have lots of talk and pictures there to (cause we're going to Six Flags!). And finally meeting one of my friends I haven't seen in such a long long long long time!

So today?
What happened today that made me write so diligently here?
I'll tell you. Math Counts.
Yes. I, Jessie, has been asked to attend Math Counts. No joke.
Now stop laughing. It was really fun. Even though I did really bad on the test... it was still really fun. I got to miss a whole day of school and spend it at the U of U... and doing math.
In th end my score was 6/120.
Yes you may laugh now.
But whatever. It's the experience that counts right?
And anyways the people in my team... well see all the other girls in their team were eliminated so they needed two more girls so they picked me and my friend so I hadn't been "trained" shall we say. If I had been training and studying-- oh you know that I would have rocked that.

And on another note since I haven't really mentioned it... about Federation.
Yes can you believe it?
I thought I totally messed that up.
I thought I started an octave to high and stumbled over my notes.
But it was a grand piano.
And compared to my piano well I guess I wasn't used to it because guess what rating I got?
SUPERIOR!
So that put me in a good mood.
Yep.
But Math Counts score brought me down...
Oh well.
Next in line is the Science Fair.
You'll be hearing from me about that.
But you'll probably hear about California and Six Flags first.
Ciao for now!

Drop dead tired

Hello and welcome again.
Nothing exciting has been happening around here lately. The History Fair is on March 31st and the Science Fair is on the 26th and 27th so that'll be fun. I can't wait to see who goes on. It'll be exciting. For History Fair I get to go to school when there is no school for the Regional competition and then for Science Fair I get to miss a day of school. Yay! I guess they kind of make up for each other. Also Federation for piano is coming up this Saturday. I'll tell you how it goes but I already know. I haven't been practicing because of dance and I don't know why they decided to put my in Federation but I guess I am. And you know what? It's probably going to suck. Oh well. Piano is fun I love it.

Anyway I just was reading one of my friends myspace's profiles (because yes I do have a myspace, but I don't talk to strangers mind you) and I stumbled upon this little thing she put in her profile and I loved it. I'm going to put it here for you to read because I know it will touch your heart like it touched mine =]

Heavenly Father, help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.

Starry Starry Night

So today I'm really really busy, but I haven't posted anything so here I am. Yesterday was the Starry Starry Night Dance Concert, you should have seen my face. I had to put black eyeliner around my lips and then paint it with red lipstick and then put glitter everywhere. If you've ever seen The Wizard of Oz my mouth looked like Dorothy's shoes. My eyes were caked with make up and to add an affect- fake eyelashes. I swear there was like 4 different eyeshadows and 2 eyeliners on my eyes alone. And then bronzer, foundation and blush. Geez and taking it off was the hard part. I was dancing yesterday from 11:45-9:00. I didn't go home once either. Talk about life of a dancer. And now I have so much homework to do. Because tomorrow on Monday I have dance class from 4:00-8:30 and I can't leave homework to that day.


Here's me at the recital not practicing my dances-













Look it's my closeup!! See my shiny red lips and fake eyelashes? Gyah. I think I ended up swallowing most of that glitter.

Oh and on another note, on Friday me and some of the girls from my dance studio went to BYU and watched the Cougarettes dance. They were amazing. Just looking at them makes me think... well I got a long way to go.

Here's my life:

If you have ever watched a dance performed and muttered "wow" under your breath. If you have ever set foot in a studio and felt at home. If you have ever felt a feeling or emotion, and longed to express it using your body. If music and rhythm reaches you on such an emotional level that you can't help but put that emotion into creative movement. If you have ever worked so hard, just to see the other team win, but knew you performed your absolute best. If you have ever willingly applied a tube of bright red lipstick and smiled the cheesiest smile you could muster. You are a dancer. This is your life.

Just so you know I spend 15 hours a week in my dance studio. Dance studio? First home. Where I sleep? Second home.

Well I really have to do homework and stop procrastinating.
Updating later!
Ciao for now.

For now...

Today for now I am just typing something here to see how it comes out.
This thing on here seems pretty nifty and I hope to get used to it.
Today has been an interesting day with it's ups and downs.
The Science Fair was today. It's worth 500 points of our grade. Kelsey and I were partners and we got first place so yay I guess. Our project is called "Shy or Sly: Body Gestures Tell You Why" It was about seeing if body gestures could relate to personalty type.
Also not long ago the History Fair took place at my school. My parter, Pierce, and I won first place on that too. We did a website on the Korean War it's actually pretty cool. The Region/District competition for that is around the end of third quarter which is well now.
I guess I can talk more later.
I'm just in a very hectic state right now.
Ciao for now.