Last School Official Blog Post: Goodbye Spartan Nation

Four years ago my friend from kindergarten showed up at my house both with our skirts to long and our backpacks too big. It was the first time i hadn't ridden a bus to school, hadn't gone to school with my best friend, or had to wear a uniform. I remember I hadn't written my name in any of my books so my homeroom teacher made me pile all of them up on my desk. Every other kid had only a book or two and i had twelve. I remember sitting in the theater (a place that would become a second home to me) thinking about how i had to wear this awful uniform every day. We had field day i didn't officially know anyone in my homeroom except i had heard of Ellie so we both clung to each other. I got home went into my neighbors and new classmates kitchen (he would later become my best friend) and mispronounced the word both. I want it to be summer to stop worrying about homework and exams. I want to go to college to be out in the world out of my parents house. I just don't really want to leave St. Marks. Don't get me wrong this place drives me crazy. I mean no eating in the academic wing, i cant buy pop tarts anymore? The people here go on and off from being crazy to great. This place is still my home. I know how to get underneath the stage i know where the good paint and the old paint that is probably 40 years old is. I know the wood we use to build the set is probably from the first production of bye bye birdie. I know which teachers sit next to each other at mass. I know the mass has not ended until deacon bill has yelled it at us. i know Mrs. DeAscanis despises clapping at mass. I know that if you don't actually read the book you will fail Ingrams quizzes or you know if you do read them you will still fail. I know Mr. Carlton will literally make fun of everyone and still keeps alive that ancient projector. i know you need to say thank you to cookie for your fries. I know you can't get reception on the first floor.  i know so many more things about this school that i can't even mention right now. I know i have to leave i know its not going anywhere its solid concrete. I will always be a spartan and I'm so happy i showed up that first day coming to school everyday was not easy but i will always be thankful for my teachers and class i'm not going to say i love you all cause that's ungodly cheesy but thank you for making me the person i am now because i am so different from that kid that showed up four years ago.

I don't wannaa waaait for ooour liiiiiiives to be oveeeeeer

I have a confession to make i have an extremely bad guilty pleasure. My favorite show ever has to be Dawson's Creek. I know i know teenagers who can't get over anything that use too big of words. Honestly i like the big words bring it on Dawson with your thoughtful quizzical looks. i also like all of the 90s references where they use cassette tapes and VHS. I being an extremely big fan of supernatural found out Jensen was in an episode i watched it then continued to finish season six and watching the finale and cried like a baby. Then went back to season two and the rest is history. To anyone who says that show has no substance that show has every thing so many things happen and its not overly obnoxious well maybe but not as bad. Plus the characters get so much better as time goes on. Can we also mention how terrible a lot of their lives were i mean Jen's parents kicked her out, everyone hated her, her grandfather(the only one who loved her) died, her terrible satanic friend dies, her grandmother kicked her out, (senior year was not that bad) then she gets cheated on, then her best friend leaves her, then gets cheated on again, then her grandmother gets cancer, then she gets knocked up, then she dies. Oh and also her one soul mate is her gay best friend. That is a terrible life if all of those things happened in my life i would use big words too. The show does have some pretty terrible love connections literally everyone has dated each other but come to think of it they pretty much do that in every show. That 70's show all the couples get shuffled around. Almost every guy except Eric has dated Jackie  In How I met Your Mother Robin just keeps jumping from Ted to Barney. I swear to God if she gets back together with Ted i will kill someone. Back to Dawson's creek i think the love connections are just awkward because they bring it up all the time and the have literally tired every combination Joey+Dawson, Joey+Pacey, Joey+Jack, Jen+Dawson, Jen+Pacey, and they even tried Jen plus Jack after he was out of the closet. I know you were drunk at a ski lodge but really i mean yes people wanted them together but it just doesn't work. Fine yes they can be soul mates i know its kind of sad that they won't ever be together but every great show needs that a connection between two people that doesn't involve them together and it might cause them to be together but is not the main focus. I don't want to tune in because of the will they won't they but to see two characters work together perfectly and not romantically. And yes Dawson's creek has the sappy romance but enough sass and bite to be entertaining.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: the actual movie

I think Li Mu Bai wanted to teach Jen so strongly because he saw that she was gifted as a fighter but since she was following the wrong path she wouldn’t reach her full potential. She was so disrespectful every time she did everything and she took advantage of the Wudan masters. Anyone else would want to kill her But Li Mu Bai sees something in her and this is why he wants to teach her. Honestly I did not understand this movie at least the ending. I understood that they needed to be true of heart and respectful and all of that. Plus the fighting was amazing and extremely interesting to watch. Why did she jump of a cliff that possibly seemed like the most pointless thing to me ever? Li Mu Bai just died for you and Shu Lien gave you your life and you decide to jump off a cliff. Did you learn nothing? This entire movie you fight and take from these people and they give you your life and you screw that up too. If you want to prove your true of heart jump off a tall rock not to your death. Her love interest just watches too like oh you’re gonna kill yourself that’s cool at least your true of heart. No! You love this woman at least jump off with her. Why couldn’t they have just gone back to the desert? Shu Lien told you to be true to yourself in whatever path that doesn’t mean end your path. Go be true to yourself in the desert

Wait For It

My last blog was complaining about lost and to be honest that’s really all I’ve done this week is watch lost so I’m going to complain about how the creators of lost crush peoples hopes and dreams or really TV shows in general. People love to watch a buildup. Who is the murderer? What is that thing? But when the answer isn’t satisfying it can be a little disappointing. This made me think of lost because there were a lot of questions but I didn’t like a lot of the answers. In season one they find two ancient skeletons in the cave. People speculated who they were and since time travel it was always an option that it was some of the main characters. My favorites were always the couples Jack and Kate or Sawyer and Juliet. It ended up being characters essential to the plot but we didn’t really get to know them they were only in one episode. It’s like someone killed a tiger and everyone was all excited to find out how and they guy was just like I shot it….. That’s it. A small let down was in the finale of Season 6 Supernatural where you find out Bobby recognizes the beast who escaped purgatory. I wanted it to be someone really close to them but it ended up being the random dragon lady. This wasn’t too much of a letdown because you found out she slept with bobby but I’m still angry we never learned what kind of creature she was. Another build up let down I can think of is How I Met Your Mother. The shows is finally at the end and were supposed to find out who the mother is but we won’t really have an attachment to her and I think whoever it is we will be disappointed. I'm not sure if this will be a letdown I think I’m just being pessimistic about it and it probably will be awesome but either way I probably will cry.

Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon

I started rewatching Lost. I forgot how amazing this show was. The fact that most of the characters changed drastically, I guess they didn’t really change but the more we found out about characters the more they seemed to change. Take the character Sun. In the beginning she seems like this tortured wife with the bad husband. Her husband Jin seems volatile and controlling. This idea stays until you learn that Sun secretly learned English. At first you’re kind of rooting for Sun because you’re like yea go against your evil husband. Then Jin starts interacting with the other survivors and learns that he’s not a bad guy he’s just defensive because he can’t understand what’s going on around him. By season two or three you learn the real story that Jin was poor and Sun was unhappy so she volunteers her husband to work for something like the Korean Mafia. He then becomes upset that his new job is to beat people and goes a little lax on the husbandly duties. Give the guy a break you forced him to do this why are you getting so pissed Sun you knew what would happen. Instead Sun decides to start sleeping around, great way to work out issues. Jin becomes angrier. This was a great plan Sun let your new volatile husband find your new fling that will really fix your marital status. Eventually after some time apart and getting stranded on a mysterious island they work out their issues. These facts do change your opinion of Sun forever so that instead of being the poor wife she seems like a selfish (insert work I’m not sure I’m allowed to say in a blog for school). A bunch of other things happen in lost like polar bears and giant statues with four toes but that’s not important right now.

The un-climactic ending

In world religion we just finished learning the story of the Buddha or Siddhartha. Long story short is a prince gives it up and starves himself only to realize the way to salvation or nirvana is through moderation. The big climax is when he wins against the god Mara touches the earth and is enlightened but the ending of the story is when he dies of food poisoning. Food poisoning people! I’m sorry but I feel like the story just should have ended with enlightenment. Plus it wasn’t like he was attacked and poisoned he knew the food was bad and his friend accidentally fed it to him. He didn’t tell his friend because he wanted to be polite I feel like the friend would have felt a lot better if you had just told him instead leaving him with the memory that you killed the Buddha. If I was the friend I would have drowned myself in the Ganges, to live with the fact you killed Buddha would have been too much. If Buddha felt it was his time to go he should have just walked off into the sunset instead of letting his friend take the blame for the final blow. That ending would have been acceptable, it would be like Gilgamesh who did not die climactically but had a rather poetic ending after following his destiny to the end and dying of old age. I guess it’s not that Buddha’s ending wasn’t climactic it is that his ending was just lame. Gilgamesh did something great before he died so he was essentially allowed to die of old age. If he died for a lame reason like a bolder fell on him I would be writing about a post about him too. My perfect Buddha ending after leading many people for years he realized that he was no longer needed so at sunset he went off to meditate alone but did not return. Later his robes were found under a fig tree and his people realized he had died. See that’s a good ending filled with symbolism of sunset being the end of days and the fig tree as a reference to when he reached enlightenment.   

Unbelievable

After receiving this assignment I dreaded it all week, I didn't want to write about my life journals and blogs are about books and movies where I get away from my life. Plus I was convinced nothing exciting has ever happened to me I have lived in the same house for the past 15 years and the only vacation we go on is the beach every summer. My life is not unbelievable but there are a lot of amazing moments that to me are priceless so I guess amazing could be a synonym for unbelievable. Like I said I have lived in the same house for 15 years, we moved in when I was three and only old people lived here. When I started middle school the old people passed on and a bunch of kids my age moved in and these people are still my best friends to this day. It is a unbelievable that four kids with no more than a year age difference were all living within a block of each other. I still don't understand how we all ended up together. In fifth grade a girl and her family moved in four houses down from me. At first we started off a little rocky as in she told me she had enough friends and I ran home crying. I was a mature eleven year old. Fast forward seven years and she is now my best friend she comes over almost every day (my dad pays her to grade his papers but I like to pretend she comes for me). She puts up with the fact I can talk for hours about a TV show and even watches them with me. She fuels my supernatural addiction, over winter break we decided to watch all of season five. Thinking back it was possibly one of the best times we laughed, cried, and drank a lot of energy drinks but those twenty two hours were a little crazy. She actually just asked me to give her adjectives of what I think of her for her school project but I couldn’t think of any. At first Jared Padalecki comes to mind and ice cream. This may seem like I am a terrible friend but I think of Jared because we both get crazy obsessed about things I tell her about how Misha Collins renewed his vows in drag and she tells me Jared dressed his son up as yoda for Halloween. I think of ice cream because we know each other’s routine so well and she is so comfortable in my house it is like her own so she does steal all our ice cream.  She’s the kind of friend you go to when you need a shoulder to cry on or to be told it’s all going to be alright. When something seems like the end of the world or it is turning your world upside down she says alright and that she might not understand but she is always there and is reasurring and compasionate.  A month later another girl moved in one house away she didn't start of making me cry but she thought I was real weird. After a week of her moving in I showed up in the world’s puffiest magenta jacket welcoming her to the neighborhood. We have had a rough relationship but now it feels almost perfect. We do the strangest things around each other like I have caught her singing and dancing for her turtle (I know I only listed strange things she has done but my classmates read this not hers).  She’s actually the one who started calling me KattyKakes. It was one day this summer she comes on the family beach trip with us every year. She was sitting in the back of the car and I get in the front and I hear "was sup Katty Kakes?" I just start laughing and said what did you call me? She explained that was my name in her head but she had never said it out loud and it kind of stuck. Now ever adult at our church calls me katty kakes plus there was much debate on how it was spelled eventually we came up with this. She is like that though she is never afraid to walk up to a complete stranger and say you see that blonde girl call her this. I never worry about bringing her to meet new people because she almost immediately strikes up a conversation like they have been friends for years. She is possibly the strongest person I know and not she has been through a lot but because that’s her personality to go with the flow and knows that you can either fix the problem or deal with it. She can be stubborn and knows when things need to get done or she can spend an hour snap chatting instead of writing the five page report she has due the next morning. I need both these girls one lets me escape reality when I need it and the other helps me face it. Now the fourth member to our little gang is a little different. We’re not just a street filled of estrogen a whopping seven houses down lives a boy who has been here for as long as I have but I didn't meet him till seventh grade. What can I say seven houses is a long way when you’re a kid. He is my best bro and yes bro not brother or friend but bro. We even have bro night were we watch strictly action movies most of which containing Jason Statham and eat bacon burgers. Bro night also contains challenges usually containing food like can you fit this whole donut in your mouth or will you eat the mozzarella stick that fell on the floor. We once found some bungee cords and decided that if we hooked them up to his pick-up truck we could use the bed as a launch pad and tried to fling this stuffed bear. Eventually the bear ended up only four feet away and went straight into the pavement but it was a valiant effort. He’s my friend who is vulgar, indecisive, and frankly a stupid boy at times. He can be sweet and will help you out if you really need it. After I have had a terrible day where I have just given up on the fact I will never understand death and dying he'll look at me and say it’s okay to feel sad sometimes. I’m pretty sure he got this from a movie but it just makes the day better and the unbelievable become believable. So these are my strange neighbors, we walk into each other's homes steal each other’s food and crash on each other's couches. They are my unbelievable story the fact that somehow fate has brought us all to our little neighborhood where we all help each other survive the unbelievable.