People these days

I'm finding that as I get older, I push myself to step out of my comfort zone if it's for a good reason/thing.

And yesterday at an assembly, this girl was being just plain ugly about everyone. One girl had a very thick accent with a high pitched voice, another girl had a lisp, a student who we should've been proud of because of what he accomplished was called "just as fat as his mom."

After I hear, once again, the girl behind me go, "Ugh I hate people with lisps"('Cause I'm totally sure they love their lisps!!) I turn around and go, "Why are you being so mean to them?" She didn't look at me (although her friend saw). Again. No response.
So I poke her, thinking maybe she couldn't hear. Instead of answering my question she just looks at me and says, "Don't touch me. I don't know you!" with this disgusted look on her face(really does wonders on how you automatically judge someone's appearance with personality). I said something about how rude her comments were and the people up there were trying there best, then turned back around.
According to my friends, I turned around but was meanwhile being called some choice words and threatened to get slapped. Oh. Well, if slapping someone and getting a lonesome suspension makes you think about how you talk, then so be it. I won't hit you back.

Just please remember, don't embarrass your parents by how you talk, nor make fun of people with stuff they can't really help. There's a different boundaries with friends than someone you don't know and don't like because of how they talk.

Off to go give a speech! Bye y'all ~

Happy Holidays!!!(Late)

Ahh sorry I've been sleeping, watching City Hunter, drinking tea, and hanging with family haha
Oh, and eating!!
Blogilates will be my best friend once school starts again =x

Hope yall hada good holidays though^^ I got the City Hunter Boxset, a pound of Teavana Chai tea, a yoga mat, and some other random stuff...so mostly been procrastinating nad having no life past few days =D

Dyed my hair a dark brown and I really want it to go lighter, so I think I'll give an Ash Blonde a try and pray my hair doesn't turn out bad.

Scott Lang: Professional mirror holder upper

Yesterday, as part of band council, we went to a leadership workshop by Scott Lang.

This man's an inspirational genius..but a major nut!

However you can learn a lot from this man, as he's good at what he does. He had me almost crying(he lost his twin brother to cancer, and since I'm a twin I can only imagine what that was like) then laughing the next minute. The guy's hilarious, but when he's serious is when you learned the most.
Here's what I get from my notes from his lecture yesterday:

~Three life principles only taught in band (by public school systems):

      1. The more you give the more you get; the more you GET the more you have to GIVE.

      2. Life is a WIN-WIN or a LOSE-LOSE. NOT a Win-Lose. If the best helped the worst, where would we be?

     3.Never give up. Not till it's okay. Not 'till it's good. Not 'till it's great. Until it's perfect. Then do it perfect again and again.

~ If you CAN, you MUST

~Never leave a trombone sectional unsupervised

~Go ALL the way. Put 100% effort into EVERYthing

~Don't judge/choose what's right or wrong for others. Do that for yourself. Make the best decision YOU can in that very moment.

~Our mind works in multiples of 3's,4's, and 7's. Ever wonder why your cell phone number is 000-0000? 3+4=7

~It's not WHAT you do, but HOW (Kinda like "It's not what you say but how you say it", etc.)

~It's how you start it. You can judge a 7 min show/performance on the first 7 seconds.

~The only one who can change you, is you

~In every group/room/class, there will be a person who does not want to be there. They're not bad people, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. As a leader, it's YOUR job to fix it.

~Marching Band student leaders aren't picked because they've shown leadership. They're picked because they knew how to follow directions faster and better. It's your job then, being totally unprepared as a leader, to get others to do the same - to be a follower as well as you are. To do so, you have to go that extra bit to maybe whisper "Don't move at set!" to the guy next to you, etc.

~Marching Band, in essence, is the dumbest thing anyone coulda invented. But it's the life skills you learn from it that make it valuable.

The world ends...again?

Hehe apparently tomorrow the world will end with an earthquake at 6pm.

Well, it's judgment day tech., so sinners will be killed of in a span of 5 months. But then something about an earthquake...

I have to say, this time people have gotton creative about it.

Wish everyone the best of luck! I'll be partying (contrary to normal haha, I'm normally sitting on tumblr, watching dramas, covering dances or something of the sort) so atleast I'm going down happy. hope yall do too.!

Mississippi River flooding and effects of it

Hey yalll, if you don't know, our Mississippi river is flooding. Levee (man made(normally) walls that keep out the river) have been dropped in order to let the river flow into it's flood plains - all over Missouri and the rest of Americas "Bread basket"

So how does this affect us?
-Aside from people losing housing,(btw, I hope everyone is safe and grabbed their needed materials), the farmland has been flooded. If that doesn't raise alarm, then hopefully this will - nearly 50% of our food from there is gone.

We can predict that this will cause an increase in food prices. Espiecially grains, from what I understand.

I've been told to stock up- with scientific proof backing up that much farmland has been lost. So food prices going up is a sensible prediction.

With gas prices sky high as well, I'd reccomend stocking up on your SPAM, canned foods and lucky charms!

Late Pact

Hehehe

For all those people that have classes on opposite sides of campus and 5 minutes to get there, don’t you feel like there’s this mutual agreement of “hedge we’re both screwed (after the minute/tardy/warning bell rings) sorry hope you make it in time”?

Like, the bell starts to ring and you look at the closest person next to you , both of your eyes bug out and you start running like the devils behind you haha

and if you run into someone, a simple shake of your hand excuses everything

and you try to help each other by like holding the door for an extra second because you feel their pain.

Just me? Oh well, I still feel like that type of feeling is there

Girl Code when sharing a room

Last weekend, if you follow my tumblr you'll know, I went to DC on a band tripp =D

Of course though, this means 4 people of the same gender share a hotel room with 2 beds (and if you're a highschool guy, you're too not smart to share a bed 'cause it's "gay", smh ).

This also means you'll be changing in front of each other (different corners of the room, and whether this is acceptable depends on comfortability levels with the other people)

However, there are some rules:

1.) KEEP YOUR UNDERGARMENTS ON WHEN CHANGING. my poor friend...

2.) If you're chaperoning, and in a towel - pleasepleaseplease don't invite the student in and tell them to wait a few minutes. please, it's really awkward for the student

3.)Yo stuff don't go anywhere you want it. Claim different corner - and that is your "crap corner"; or atleast warn people in advance.

4.) Yall are a unit. don't wake up 5 minutes before breakfast, go oh snap! and not wake everybody else up. that's just rude

5.)Don't be too high mateniencefor the trip, I'm glad your hair looks nice but you don't need an hour in the bathroom when people need to shower (and it's like 1am) and you don't need to wake people up that have gotton 5 hours of sleep to the sound of your hairspray. please..Sleep isn't thought of in most school trips; it'd be appreciated to be as low key as possible.

6.)Rotate shower turns. Try splitting morning/night showers and orders in which you go. this will induce much less arguing.

7.) On the last day if you see something that isn't yours in the room, but you think itmight be somebody elses- DONT LEAVE IT THERE. Bring it and ask; geesh.

8.) Lastly, what is told in the hotel room stays in the Hotel room. which sounds slightly dirty, but you know what I mean hahaha

You are a family for however long you are rooming together - soo please.!

Idk how many of yall have to share rooms with siblings; but same rules -_-

Haha, if some college kids ever come across this I'm prob. gonna get called that "weirdd highschooler". oh well, no one reads this anywayy

Peace.! Off to Guard nationals.! Hope we make finals!!