LA

hello! i am in digital photo and there is absolutely nothing to do, so i will update! shocking, right? i am SO GLAD school is almost over. my classes are fine in themself, but i'm just kinda getting sick of going to school every day. it's getting kinda stressful. anyway, let's focus on something exciting!
last weekend i went to LA with my choir. imagine 5 choir girls in a van with my parents. it was AMAZING! so so fun. :) we got there late friday, and all saturday we worked with clinicians, musicians, and other choir members. the clinician was super nice and was from venezuela. she gave us advice on how to improve ouselves (aka SMILE FOR ONCE!!!) and then we went to watch the american boy choir. oh. my gosh. it's a all boys boarding school for grades 3-7 and none of their voices have changed yet, so they can sing sooo high. they were pretty amazing! i was so impressed. and jealous. i wish i could sing that high!
anyway, after that we went to a rhythm and dancing instructor named carlos... something? he was absolutely HILARIOUS. he taught us to seperate our body from our mind... the pat head rub belly type thing.
next, we had mass practice. oh man. it was NOT good. no one knew our part. but somehow, we managed through the performance and mi madre said we were good. i don't know how accurate that it. but whatever. we survived. fast forward to the actual concert -- the LA choirs were quite good, but one of the choirs... oh man. there were two amazing opera singers, but the rest of the choir was catastrophic. part of the thing was that it was small and they couldn't hold their parts. i felt bad... afterwards, we went to a restaurant called yang chow (after yang bee chow, our director :D) and stuffed our faces with chinese food and oranges. they also had very accurate fortune cookies. :)
it was a great trip, and the funniest part was that the car rides were the best part, we sang, we made up a story for 2 hours about purple pigs and aretha franklin and we made up a rap. and talked. a LOT. :)
of course!

oh and by the way my friend steven says hi! :)

One OHHH!!

As high schoolers put it.
So, it's been like two months! Time for an update!
I've been really busy with all my classes, hence the no writing. They're okay, boring of course, but okay. Luckily my fifth period I do nothing in (it's digital photo ;D) except talk and do homework, so I can catch up there.
Soooooo Christmas was fun. I got some really random stuff and I liked it all. Thanks to Amy, I loved the book and purse! <3 (I already thanked everyone else, so :P)
Man, I'm not much of a details person. But I guess I'll try. Christmas seemed to fly by. It's as if it almost never happened, minus suddenly having tons of new stuff. :) We never even finished decorating our tree. Christmas eve we went to the Bronson's like every year, and I was the angel in the Christmas skit. The whole skit was made up of teenagers and older, since we're all grown up now. :)
My presents that I have also seemed to be a success. Don LOVED the movie I got his, Indiana Jones (okay, he despises the movie with a fiery passion, but the look on his face was priceless!), and Dad wore his "My Teenaged Daughter Thinks I'm Cool" shirt I gave him today. I gave a lotta other stuff but NO TOO LAZY TO WRITE.
Err, that was kinda out of order.
But anyway, my winter break has been fun in general. I have the blessing of having extremely random friends that love to have good clean (but totally random and weird) fun. I did gingerbread houses with Krista (she did a BYU dorm, I did a U of U one), played a lot of pranks (innocent!), went to a couple parties, and just had fun. For new years I went to my friend Cassi's party. I would list the people, but it'd be kinda pointless because you guys don't know them, though I wish you did! Well, you know Peter Nyholm. Peter was there. Haha. Still friends since preschool. You know you have entertaining friends when playing Pictionary causes you to cry of laughter and Sardines can't be played because no one can shut up well enough. Ahh, good times.
Of course, I had homework over the break, but it was a group project about Macbeth. A video. (Sound familiar, Nikol? ;D) I spent today filming this masterpiece, complete with a dance scene to the tune of Oops! I Did it Again. I have a feeling we're going to get an A. :)
That about wraps up my life right now. DREADING going back to school, I don't like learning. :( I jsut like to talk in all my classes. :D I'm such a teenager, but apparently a cool one, according to Don.
What do you think?
Not that I care, I am a teenager after all. ;D
<3 Aubrey

Hobby Ideas?

Soo, I want some new hobbies. Something fun, to keep me busy. Before in my life, I loved having spare time, but now I HATE being bored SO MUCH. It makes me incredibly grumpy. I'm thinking of teaching myself a bit of piano again... Or starting art again. Just doodling and stuff... And of course there's crocheting, but I was thinking something a bit more like... something I can improve on. hence the piano and drawing. But you got any other ideas? Any ideas would be great. As long as they're not too crazy. ;D Thank youuu!

So let's see. I know I just updated, but why not fill you in on the FUTUREEE?!
This weekend I'm going to the pumpkin patch with Krista and Audrey, where apparently there is a GARGANTUAN pit full of unpopped pop corn. That has GOT to be epic! :) Then I'm going to a beach house for Cassi's birthday. This all should be great.

As far as the FAR future goes... Mom's been lately bringing up college a lot. WHAT!? Why are people thinking about college already!? That's so weird to me. I'm too young for college... Not ready, physically, mentally, emotionally. And some of my friends, like Krista are SO pumped for it, so I feel a bit behind the times...

...Considering I have no idea what I want to major in or have as a occupation. :/

Well, I've finally caught the bug that's going around at school, so I'm home for the day, which is both good and bad news.
My classes at school are really overwhelming me. I mean, I'm surviving, but I've got a lot of challenging classes this trimester, and I don't have the best grades. But I'm trying to not get discouraged. I'm trying to just focus on one day at a time... One class... But I'm not going to lie, I'll be extremely relieved when this trimester is OVER and I get to have my FUN class, digital photo! :)I'm very excited for that.
I guess you could also say that I'm just kind of... bored with school. This year, I can tell it's a lot of busy work, or it's too much work presented in one way. Too bad, so sad. Also, I think last year I was so immersed with new people, and I loved it. I LOVE making new friends, and this year it seems like I'm not making as many, because I already have a large group of friends. So I keep trying to reach out to random people I'd usually never talk to. Success several times though. I've made a good friend named Chris who's grandparents are apparently Mormon and his mom is supposedly inactive. I'm not sure about this, but I'd like to hear more about his family, and it seems like he wants to learn more about the church. He's a really nice guy, and I'm happy we clicked because then I introduced him to the rest of my friends and they all accepted him with open arms - more like flailing, frantic arms... They're girls and he's cute. Haha. Gotta love high school.
So in order to maintain my happiness level, I've discovered I ALWAYS MUST be getting to know a person, or meeting someone new, or just making a new random friend. It's like new people are my drug. They're so... interesting.
What else is new in my life? I'm switching rooms, to Amy's old room! Hope you don't mind, Amy ;). I'll treat it well. I'm also SUPER SUPER excited to be an AUNT to two more kiddos! Ahhh! They're gonna be adorable, I know it.
Woo.

Randomness #4

Once upon a time, I was me. Once upon a time, I could honestly say that I was completely original. Now however, I am many people. I’ve gathered bits of pieces of personalities from friends and families, and created a mosaic of myself. When looked at from afar, I appear to be me, and only me, but if you look closer, get to know me, I am just fragmants of events, memories, laughter and tears. So honestly, is complete originality a good thing? Once upon a time, I was me, and only me, but once upon a time I was alone.

(: ILY.

The hardships of being in high school...

...is that all your friends do stupid things.

Ugh. Makes me so frustrated I don't even wanna write about it.

But I still hold strong. So ha. (:

SOPHMORE YEAR!

So! Sophmore year is pretty intense! I have World History with Mr. Gunn!, Spanish with Mrs. Moyer!, PE, Algebra 2, and English.

World History- So, I keep hearing so many stories about how absolutely amazing Mr. Gunn is, and he is really funny when he's not teaching, but the class is BORING. And I made the mistake of not taking honors, so it's really easy, which I guess is good, since I have so many other hard classes. But aaauuuggghhh. Boring!

Spanish- This has got to be my favorite class and my worst subject. I'm seriously TERRIBLE at Spanish. However, I have the best. Seat. Ever. I'm surrounded by friends. First off, my good friends Anissa, Dana, and Holly are all in that class, but I don't sit next to them. I'm surrounded by my friends Tyler, Nick, Brandon, Clay, and Jose. We are all terrible at Spanish except for Nick, and we always make fun of him for his smarts! (In a good way. (: )It's amazingly fun. :)

PE- I'm sooo lucky I have one of my best school friends in this class, Stella. I made tons of friends in this class, including my beastly water polo friend, Debbie. She's so cute and nice and thoughtful. We're in a basketball unit. It's pretty fun, actually. The teacher is Rashe, who has the reputation of being a perv, but I think every one is stupid, and he is just very nice and friendly. :) I like him.

Algebra 2- Blehhh. This is a terrible class. The teacher, Mrs. Adnani, is okay at teaching, but she's so so so mean. She calls us stupid all the time and says we're all going to fail our class. One guy almost broke down crying. BLEHHH.

English- Our teacher is so tiny and cute and her voice is sooo high! It's quite a fun class, though we have TONS of homework. The whole class is basically friends with each other, and I sit between two awesome people I always talk to, Katie and Eddie. :)

School is bearable enough, can you tell?