This week is being really rough on me so far. Have you ever had one of those teachers who will just not stop picking on you? My advanced orchestra teacher will not leave me alone this week. She likes to call on me every day, more than anyone else in the class. I'm a naturally quiet person. It's just my personality. And for some reason she will not stop asking me questions she knows I don't know the answers to. I've only been playing for sixteen months, so this class is already a little hard on me. But she still refuses to call on anyone else in my section, and would rather torture me instead. It's really hard for me to get answers wrong in front of the class. This is my hardest subject. That's why I usually don't participate. Because I don't know the answers. You'd think that she'd get the hint. See what I mean? Okay, mini-rant over...
   Yeah, I've had a lot of work this week. That's basically all I've been doing. So I'm a little crazy right now. But at least I have some time to go online and take a break for a while. But anyway, I'm really looking forward to second semester. I'm dropping one of the classes I really don't like that causing me some of this stress, so I'm excited. But unfortunately, the class isn't orchestra.
   Have a better week than me...

   Similar to Best Books of 2007, except these are the best movies that I saw in 2007. I have to admit, I go to the movies a lot. That's one of my favorite ways to spend my time ( besides reading, writing, going on the computer and other time wasters). So I tried to refresh my memory from the beginning of the year as best as I could.
  1. Bridge to Terebithia. I loved this book and I thought the movie was really good. From what I remember, I was really excited when it first came out.
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It wasn't the best out of the Harry Potter movies, but I still liked it a lot. 
  3. Hairspray. I usually don't like many movie musicals, but I thought this one was fun to watch.
  4. Enchanted. Again, it was really funny. 
  5. The Golden Compass. I had never read the books, but I liked the movie. It made me want to go buy all the books as soon as I watched it.
  6. National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. Just as good, if not better than the first one.
  7. August Rush.  I really liked this one. The music was really pretty.
  So there it is. Maybe I'll think of some others later. Right now I'm really dreading going back to school, so I made this list instead of studying. ;)
  Enjoy the rest of winter break!

   I just barely finished reading this book today, and I absolutely loved it! The reason I read it was to get extra credit at school, but it was really a good read. It is more of a book for younger kids, but it is still really good.
   It has a lot to do with Greek mythology, and it's about a demi-god named Percy who goes to Camp Half Blood, and then goes on a quest to retrieve Zeus's master lightning bolt when it is stolen. The author is hilarious and it's really fast paced and a quick read. I loved it. I can't wait to read the next one in the series.
   Also this week I finished my fairy tale for school, and had to type the whole thing this weekend. I typed for exactly two and a half hours, and at the end it was fifteen pages with a 12 font, and 3,801 words. And I'm still not really happy with it. When your teacher expects you to write a whole fairy tale in one week, you have to move pretty quickly. Since I had to write it so fast, I really didn't get to spend a lot of time on it, or put in all the stuff I wanted. I think I'll really go back and rewrite it someday.
   Still surviving with my braces at least. Now I can chew soft foods, instead of nothing at all. ;)
                 Have a great rest of the weekend!

   I got my braces on today, and my mouth is so sore! It's been hurting all day ever since I got them on, and when I tried to eat something it was so painful I had to stop. *Sigh* Only a year and a half more to go.

   I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving yesterday! Mine was pretty enjoyable. I saw Enchanted which actually turned out to be pretty funny and cute. So I'd definitely recommend it if you're looking for something to do. 
   Today I went to Barnes and Noble too, and got two new books that I'm really excited to read. I got Rebel Angels and The Luxe. I got the latter mainly because of all the good stuff I was hearing about it from other people. Hopefully I won't be disappointed. But I'll have to read them fast because I already have two other books I need to finish, one from First Look, and one for school. 
But I'm really excited to read them so they should go by really fast. :)
   Have a good weekend everyone!

   This weekend I reached my goal and finished the two books that I have been reading these last couple of weeks. 
   Saturday, I finished A Great and Terrible Beauty. It was so good! I absolutely loved the time period and place that it was set in. I loved every moment of it! The story was so interesting and I couldn't stop reading! Definitely one of my new favorites. I'll have to go to the bookstore soon and buy Rebel's Angels.
   And then today I finished Go Figure. It was okay, but definitely not the best book ever. The story was really nothing I could relate to,so I found it really hard to sympathize with the main character in some parts. So overall it was okay, but not one of my all time favorites. I sent in my review for it to Pulse It, so I hope I get my next book soon.
   So now that I'm done with all those, I can finally start reading The Sorcerer King! I'm so excited. I started to read a little of it tonight,but not very much because I have to get ready for school tomorrow. At least this week I only have to go for three days because Thanksgiving is on Thursday. It's funny, Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet and today we already started decorating for Christmas. :)
   Hope you had a good weekend, and have a great week!

   I was so mad when my books didn't come again today, that I practically threw all our mail on the floor! I have some anger issues apparently. I am just getting tired of waiting for so long. It's been eight days now!
  Also if you've ever seen that TV show, Are You Smarter than a Fifth-Grader?, you would be excited to hear that today my school did, Are You Smarter than a Seventh-Grader?. It was basically the teachers against a bunch of seventh graders and since I'm not a seventh grader, I was rooting for the teachers to win, but unfortunately none of our teachers are smarter than seventh graders. All of them lost. That is really sad.
   I have now officially named Tuesday my least favorite day of the week. Tuesdays and Thursdays, but at least on Thursdays the week is almost over. Sigh. Now must go and do homework. Hopefully will have more luck with the books tomorrow. Have a good rest of the week!

   Happy Halloweeen everybody! I hope it has been enjoyable. I hate to go to the dentist to get  the molds done for my braces. It was horrible! The stuff tastes so disgusting and got all over my mouth and chin and the dentist was making fun of me that it could be my terrifying Halloween costume. I also had to get x-rays done, with these really strange machines that take the x-rays of your entire head. They have the strangest stuff at dentist offices these days. Well anyway, that mold made me feel really sick so I didn't go to school today. Now I'm kind of nervous that I'm going to have a lot of stuff to make up so I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. It seems like the longer you don't go to school the more you don't want to go back. And I really hate missing days too. I hate missing stuff and not knowing what to do, and having tons of homework you have to catch up on. It's really dumb. That's why I usually try to avoid it, but I figured I wouldn't miss too much because it is Halloween, and the end of the quarter.
  Today has been so horrible that I forgot that it was Halloween until I saw this guy dressed up as a pirate walking up the street. At least some people are having fun. I used to love Halloween, and got the best costumes! I once was The Little Mermaid and I wore this bright red wig and this really cool mermaid dress. That one was my favorite by far, even though I've liked several others. Now that I think about it they were mostly Disney princesses, even though I was a witch for three years in a row. But this year I didn't get a costume so I think I'll just do some school stuff at my dad's house. Really fun, huh? Anyway, have a great rest of the day!

    Sorry if it seems like I haven't posted in forever! I've been really lazy the last couple of weeks, and I've been doing mostly school things. 
    And I hope everyone had a good teen read week. I won two books. Ana's Story by Jenna Bush, and Jinx by Meg Cabot. I'm really anxious to receive them because I have been running out of things to read. Even though I've devoted the last two days to re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. If you haven't read it for a second time you really should. It is so much better the second time around. And even though I had already read it, there were some parts that I had forgotten about that surprised me all over again!
   And as we all know, tomorrow is Halloween. I will be spending it watching scary movies at my dad's house and doing homework. I know it sounds rather boring, but I went to all my Halloween parties over the weekend. And you know what's also sad, I have to go to the dentist again on Halloween! The only good thing about it is that I get to miss the first half of school, so that should make it a little better. My sister is going trick or treating with her friends which I think is kind of weird because they are so old. It kinds of bothers me seeing teenagers trick or treating out on the street. It kind of spoils it for the younger kids, but I don't want to offend anyone who still does that. ;).
   And can you believe that October is almost over! Times flys but I'm looking forward to the new month. Everybody keep your fingers crossed that I get The Sorcerer's King from First Look!
   Have a good Halloween everyone and a great week!
                              Anna

   This week ( October 14-20) is teen read week! If you don't even know what teen read week is look here I was hoping that we would celabrate it at school, but we didn't. But the main reason that I'm excited is because a lot of websites are giving away free books. Seize the opportunity while you can!
   Harperteen is giving away free books here. And also girls life magazine is giving away books too! Just go to the teen read week blog on their website and get instructions there, since the website isn't pulling up on my computer right now. It does that sometimes. It is really annoying.
   Also today at school I found out starting next month, we're going to be doing this thing called Fun Friday, where each teacher does some kind of class. Today we got to choose which classes we wanted to take and there were a lot of choices. I couldn't even decide! In the end, I chose Book Club 1, which is this book club where they discuss Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. The second one I chose was Book Club 2, which was just regular books. Then for my third one, I picked the French class. They had a creative writing one, and I was debating whether I wanted to do that one, but I decided I didn't really want to. I probably should have though. I just wanted to take the French one, because I knew I really liked the teacher and that's the language I signed up for last year, but the class was cancelled. But that's another story and I won't bore you with it for right now.
    But there were a lot of other cool ones too, like a yoga class, photograhpy, web design, animae, jewelery making, basketball, soccer, learn about exotic places, Spanish, and tons of other ones that I can't think of right now! It was really hard to decide. And my school usually doesn't do things like that. It's just this year they've been doing a lot of weird things. Like adding this extra TA class, and blasting music in the hall between classes, and all this other weird stuff. I can't decide whether the changes are good or bad.
   So anyway, be sure to enter to win some books. And also if you've thought of any more story ideas, please comment! Thanks and have a good rest of the week!
                               Anna