No School

No school today, don't really know why. They say it's because of a storm warning, but I don't really buy it. I mean, this is Canada, where you're forced to go to school even in a blizzard or icestorm. And it's not even rainning outside. I think it's because of that thing about the government changing pension plans or somthing. Don't really care. I'm just happy there isn't school. Plus I had two tests that I was supposed to take today, and din't study for.

A.T.

Intellegent thought? or just rambling on as always?

Hmmm... Maybe I should think of something that somewhat resembles something intellegent, to write. But that would be hard considering I have trouble even spelling words right.

But I have been thinking about the life a celebrity. Why? Simply because there are so many tabloids today that tell us the tiniest details of a celeb's life. And many times those "facts" arn't even real. So now I'm wondering why we are so emamored with the life of a celebrity, and seems to all want to be them. Okay, i shouldn't say all, becuase I certainly would not want to be one. I mean think about it, why would you want to be constanly followed by paparazzi, and random fans. Is fame and money reallyt that important to you? I mean seriously. Just think about how many celeb car accidents are caused by them trying to get away from the paparazzi. And do you really want a by passer with a camera phone to take a picture of you itching your bum?

Now lets look at the other aspect of celebrity life. Or more correctly love life. It seems that people, mostly women, are always gushing about which celeb is dating which. But is it really that important? Half of them will have probably gotten married, divorced and met someone new by the time I finish this blog. So what if Angelina is having Brad's bably. If she is, we'll know in like a month, and if she's not, she's not. And please, I really don't need to know anything about Paris Hilton, or her love life...actually just her life period.

It seems that these days, what is happening in a celebrity's life have become for important than world news. I mean are they really that interesting? By now, who ever is reading this is probably thinking, man does she have a grudge or what? But that's not really true. I like watching movies, and some of the stories about celebs are harliarious, and I think Ryan Gosling, Orlando Bloom, and a few other Male actors are really hot. I just don't think that it's nessisary to learn about every single detail of their life, or moon over their every step.

But hey, that's just my opinion. You are welcome to dissagree.

A.T.

New year!!

Sigh, another year gone. Time passes way too quickly in my opinion. Okay, so I'm only dreading the inevidable violin exam on the 9th.

Instead of me complaining for paragraphs of my woes, I shall type down my New year's resolutions.

1) I shall pass my violin exam
2) I shall get 90+ in all my courses
3) I shall strive to become a life guard by the end of 2006
4) I shall complain less
5) I shall pass my violin exam
6) I shall try my hardest to be come a better person
7) I shall pass my violin exam

Okay, I will try really hard to achieve all of this. If I will remember to is another story. But I promise to try really hard.

A.T.

Holiday

The holidays are finally here, thank goodness. I don't see why we even went to school day, it was so pointless. we were almost falling asleep in our seats in math. It was so boring. But eventhough the holidays are here, i can't really relax. Why you ask? Because I have a vilin exam on January 9th, only 2 weeks away. I'm really freaking out right now because i am so not ready for it. Gulp. Just my luck to have an exam on the first day of all the exams at RCM. Ah well, at least i get to miss school for a day so i can practice. Don't know how much that will help though.

I've got to go to bed now, I have a long day tomorrow. It will be Christmas eve after all.

A.T.

Fingal

Just arrived home from Fingal, which is a camp just outside of London, Ontario. We were to spend sometime there receiving workshops with music professionals, and to build as a group. It was freezing when we left for it yesterday. Loading all the equipment and luggage was painful. And since we had to ride school buses, it wasn't exactly a fun ride. After dinner, we promply got lost and had to back track many times before we finally found our way. When we arrived, I don't think it was exactly what we expected. We were given a performance by a jazz group, and they were pretty good. They talked a little about the music and style of jazz and did really cool things. After that we divided into groups and played some games. The night all in all was pretty fun.

The next morning (this morning) we were woken up at 7:00, so we can get ready and go to our workshops. The funny thing is that the conducters for the strings were my old conducters in the Forest City Suzuki school. It was cool. They are great conducters. That was basicly our whole morning. Ofcourse being highschoolers most of us didn't go to bed until well past midnight, so we were pretty much ready to keal over by lunch time. Thank goodness lunch was very good, unlike our breakfast which included cold coffee, soggy ceral, and burnt toast. After a huge clean up of several buildings, and a long wait for our insturments to be loaded, we finally left for home.

As a result of too little sleep, most of the people on my bus were falling asleep right and left, and some on top of each other. Really, i'm being perfectly serious.

Well i think that other than better playing skills, this trip have showed us that we are incredibely spoiled. Maybe not to the extrem, but spoiled non the less. I mean after one day away from home, we were complaining about every little thing, and were crying for home. That's kind of pathetic don't you think?