Back from New York! Busy School!

Actually, I was back from New York a while ago, I've just been sick and busy XD

So, New York was FABULOUS. Actually one of the most amazing places ever. I'm going to give day overviews of the trip, because I'll just ramble forever if I don't.

Day One was mostly driving. I mean, from London to New York isn't exactly close ESPECIALLY if you need to stop in Niagara Falls on the way. We played a concert in this really amazing elementary school. Like, it's bigger than my high school for sure! They had ELEVATOR's and not just the kind we have for people in wheelchairs, nope. Actually fancy elevators and flat screen monitor's in their computer labs. I bet their computer labs don't over heat in the summer because they're hunky rock monitor's are left on. Poo. Unfortunately I had lost my voice and I had to sing top alto in the small choir, BY MYSELF. Because my partner didn't go on the trip. That was bad... But overall , a good concert. After that we preceeded to spend the rest of the day driving. Which was epic. Me and my friends played cards. We got to Jersey City (were our hotel was) around 10 that evening. It was pretty epic.

Day Two! This was like, epic tourist day. We had a four hour tour in the morning on our bus (it was step on, step off) so it was pretty cool. We had this SUPER funny tour guide. He made everything awesome XD. Then we went on the ferry and went by the statue of liberty. It was super cool. We stopped at Ellis Island and went to this museum about American Immigration... I personally thought it was annoying and decided to spend time outside. It was a beautiful day. Then we went back on the ferry. WHICH I hate. Not when they're moving, but when they're rocking and they're docked, I really hate boats. Grrr. Except paddle boats, those are cool. That evening we went to see Mahler's 3rd Symphony in D Minor. WHICH WAS POSSIBLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINK EVER. Me and my friends couldn't stop talking about how beautiful it was.

And here's where the adventure started.

It's 10pm and the symphony has finished. Cool, right? So my teacher decides that she REALLY wants icecream. So we walk three blocks down the street in downtown Manhattan and we go to an icecream vendor. Please note that I AM lactose intolerant. But I REALLY wanted icecream. SO I had to take like... 6 pills so I could eat it. And it was awesome... Anyways, so we go back to meet the buses at Carnegie Hall and you know what ARN'T there?
The buses. That's right. So we figure that it's no biggy, we'll just wait because maybe they're stuck in traffic. So we wait.... and we wait... and we wait. And it's 11:30 and there are STILL no buses. They sent one girl back to the hotel with a chaperone in a taxi because she was sick that night. And then we all waited. That's when the teacher's made their decision.
"Since the buses don't appear to be showing up. We've decided to give you the true New York experience. We're taking, the subway."
At this point I screamed I was so excited. Now. This is the funny part.
Please note, there were 75 students waiting outside the hall. And 9 chaperones. That's what, 84 people. Now getting those all on the subway at once and getting off at once.
Hoe mans. This was funny.
So we got on the first subway for free. It was awesome, they were super nice when we explained waht had happened. So we get on the subway and we're split over 2 cars. My car, decides to get off, because we thought that we were supposed to. Even the teachers did. Only to have another chaperone yell, "NO, GET BACK ON! WE'RE NOT GETTING OFF"
That was scary shit, lemme tell yea. We all made it back on before the subway left. Thank GOD.
We got off two stops later with all chaperones and students still with us. We waited about another half hour before we found out what we needed to do next. We had to take the PATH train, which runs between NY and NJ. We walked over to Penn station and waited. They actually HELD the train for us, and then cleared and entire car. It was awesome. They were super nice, NY transit I mean. We met some really racist people, who were totally anti-canadian. But whatever.
We got back to the hotel at 1am.

Day Three, we were supposed to do NBC tours, but it ended up we were late because of the night before and we all slept in. So only one group went and everyone else was given 2 1/2 hours to shop in TIME SQUARE NEW YORK. Which was great. There's an M & Ms store. Three stories of M&Ms stuff. Whoa. It was crazy. We also went to the Phantom of Broadway which is a NYC tourism stop. After that, we all met up and went to a NY Mets game where they were playing the Pirates (of some city I don't remember). The Mets totally kicked ass XD It was pretty good. I thought I wouldn't enjoy it but I really did! Then we went for a super yummy meal at a chinese restaurant! They made us a special banquet meal! Unfortunately my friends were tools and totally didn't save me a spot so I had to sit at the reject table. But it was cool cause I spent the evening talking to Julia, who I havn't really talked to that much.
After dinner we saw THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on BROADWAY! OMG.
IT WAS AMAZING. I was speechless about it. Just speechless.
OMG.
... =D

Day Four, we packed up to come home. We stopped at an outlet mall where I bought a pair of 70$ shoes for 13. And this really awesome bag.
The rest of the day was driving, we got home around 9.

Overall it was a very exciting trip! I REALLY hope I can go back again. It was amazing! (Minus the smog.)

Anyways, school is getting busy. I have independant study projects for like...everything. It sucks. On top of that I'm practicing for my piano exam.
I'll try to keep on top of updating! I'm super behind in french class because I ended up missing 4.5 days of school (half a day before New York because of illness, two days for new york because we went over the weekend and monday and tuesday because I was still sick xD) I wasn't going to let being sick stop my trip! So I was super sick on Monday xD.

Some really sad stuff happened at school too. And really happy stuff.
But see, I have this teacher. She's amazing, and she's currently married to another teacher at our school (they're actually both female! which is awesome!) and she recently told us she was pregnant. She had to have gone through a lot to get pregnant. and you know how they say pregnant women shine? She was glowing, like, super glowing. She was just SO happy.
I got back on Wednesday last week and she wasn't there. She was at a Rugby game (her wife coaches). Then she was gone Thursday. We figured maybe she was sick. I hade questions about a project and realy needed and extention. I planned on asking her the following morning, before school.
She wasn't there. And my only hope was "just let there be nothing wrong with the baby."
We got to fourth period, which is my class with her. A student stands up and says she has an announcement. She wanted an extention so she left a message for her with her phone number.
My teacher called her that evening and said it could be handed in on Tuesday (because it was a long weekend.) and that she hadn't been there because she had a miscarriage.
I was crushed, in fact, I wanted to cry. I didn't have words to describe how I felt. I just couldn't believe it. She must have been crushed, she was just SO HAPPY.
She still hasn't been at school, but her wife said she might be there tomorrow. So I'm hoping.
We made her a card, and all signed it. I'm just hoping she tries again, because.... she was just glowing, she was so excited.
And actually, I wanted to cry. My entire class just didn't know what to say.
IT was just whoa....

I just had to say it, I've been bundling it up inside because It's just so sad to talk about ;_;

On a much happier note, the school year is almost done! although I hate summer vacation, I have big plans.
My show runs in late july/august outside in the rotery reading garden. Alice, where I'm the Mad Hatter, I'm so excited! I'm goign to be spending lots of time with my sister too, and maybe I'll go to camp.
Then it's all uni prep. Ugh.

I'm off fornow, I should probably try to catch up on work.

(and whoa, my typos just got worse the longer i typed.(

New York!

So, I leave for new york tomorrow :)
With the music department, it kinda sucks because it's supposed to rain the whole time. But that's okay! We're seeing Mahler's Third Symphony and Phantom of the Opera!
So I'm going to be gone Thursday through Sunday night.

It's getting warmer, there are so many bugs. Gugh, I hate bugs.
They're just so...icky.

I don't actually have much to say right now, but I'll be sure to talk all about my trip when I get back!

Baby Jesus

I don't mean to offend anyone by this! But this is an interesting joke that's evolved between my friends!

SO! Basically two nights ago (So... Tuesday Night!) I had this REALLY trippy dream. First, I was pregnant. Not so trippy, there's been a lot of pregnancy talk IRL between my english teacher and a couple french novel's we're reading. Anyways, it was trippy cause I was like.. a month and a half pregnant but I had this stomach. Like you could tell! It was a really weird dream! And I hadn't had sex so I was all "I can't be pregnant, this is impossible!"

So, I told my friends about this dream and the IMMEDIATE reaction is, "Toni, you're the virgin Mary! YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE BIRTH TO BABY JESUS!" And they all touched my stomach and it was weird. Anyways. Today CZ made the joke again and she was like, rubbing my stomach and it was super awkward. And Audra did too, but then WORST OF ALL. CHRIS walks by and CJ points at him because he's stopped in mid walk with the "WTF" look on his face. Priceless.
So we're all, "It's a joke about a weird dream" but he just walked away with this look of "omg" on his face.
In hind sight, we decided saying, "It's exactly what you think it is." would have been more fun. But whatever~ XD
Anyways, That's an interesting tid bit of my life. Along with how Ian definitely almost choked on a whopper three times today and we had laughing fits that even the music teacher's couldn't handle XD

In other new, NEW YORK IN ONE WEEK! Hopefully they don't cancel it because of the new strand of Influenza. Poo, it's stupid
ANDDDD...
I'm making cupcakes this weekend for my vocal teacher, it's his birthday on Monday XD I might post pictures if they turn out to be cute!

Believe.

There are three things that really bother me.
1) People who tell other's they can't do something.
2) People who tell people their goals are impossible.
and
3) People who won't accept help from anyone and continue to complain they can't do it because they've TOLD themselves and CONVINCED themselves they can't.

And all three of these things have come up in the past week or two for me (even two of them today!)

Issue One: People who tell other people they can't do something.
I hate this. This is almost like saying you can read a mind. Just today my friend was all, "I'm going to teach you guys how to mix paint, because you guys will be screwed next year." I know how to mix paint, so I tell them and they're all "No you can't." and I say I can and they just keep telling me I can't. This is a wtf moment. Seriously, you're capable of telling me I don't know how to mix paint just because I've never taken an art course? Suddenly because you're going to an art college means I know nothing.
I would like to make reference to the lovely piece of art currently sitting on my wall. I had to make water colours out of the extra thick acrilics and I had to mix colours so they would match an original sketch.
DID I DO THAT?! YES I DID!.
You know what that means?! I can mix paint.
That's why I hate when people tell you that you're incapable of something that you know you can and insist you can't. Kind of brings you down.

Issue 2: People who tell people their goals are impossible.
I'm talking people who say, "Don't bother trying, you're not good enough." This happened to me twice now. I'm dream to go into music. Both my private lesson teachers have told me I probably wouldn't be able to.
Those are the people you say "Screw you" to and try anyways. Especially when it's based on something stupid.
Me, my sister and my friend have all been told we couldn't go into music because we weren't good enough. Yet, my sister having not played in YEARS goes to a NEW music teacher after already going through uni and now has a teaching job is told ,"Why didn't you go into music?"

And the third is just, don't complain that you can't do something and keep telling yourself you can't. Cause nothing will get fixed. *COUGHstupidchickinvocalsCOUGH*

Anyways, aside from these issues, life is good. I'm leaving for New York next Thursday, I'm super excited!

Anyways, I just needed to rant. Tata for now.

Don't Know You - Song

Song I wrote, inspired from someone's Facebook Status:

I’m staring into photos
Of the best times of my life
And I wonder who I’m standing next to
And holding tight
I realize that it’s you
Or what you used to be
My best friend, my last hope
Just how I wanted you to be.

I don’t know you anymore
And it hurts me.
I don’t talk to you no more,
And it kills me.
I wish that I could tell you
Exactly who you were so you could see
It’s not just me.

The way you talk is different
Don’t great me in the hall
All your old friends see it
As we gossip down the hall
It’s all his fault
His slang and slurs
Have changed you for the better
Or maybe the worst.
But there’s one thing for sure

I don’t know you anymore
And it hurts me.
I don’t talk to you no more,
And it kills me.
I wish that I could tell you
Exactly who you were so you could see
It’s not just me.

Because I look in the photos and I scream
Because you and me were happy before this misery
We were closer than a knot
We were sewn to each other
But then something happened
And you ripped the seams
And you kill our dreams
And now I don’t know who you are.
And I wish that you could see
Through those fogged eyes you constantly look through
Because it’s lonely everyday
When you’re not standing beside me
My best friend forever
Or no more.
My best friend forever
Or no more.

‘Cause I don’t know you anymore
And it hurts me.
‘Cause I don’t talk to you no more,
And it kills me.

And I wish that you could see
Just what you’ve done to me each day
Since you closed yourself away
And pretend it was fake

Your friends and me are sitting at the wall
We’re gossiping just down the hall.
Cause we just can’t believe
That we don’t know you, anymore.
No we don’t know you, anymore.

Spring Cleaning

Spring has arrived and this the arrival of a new blogger site that may actually be maintained, (shocking, I know.) Although I must say, spring has been odd ranging in temperatures from 3 - 31 degrees Celsius. I figured it's be a good time to start my blogger site back up. Posting works of writing, rants, current issues, and just exciting things.

I'm going to try to keep this up to date as much as possible. But no promises, life is busy. Anyways...

Today we had one of 'em 10 minutes severe thunderstorms. It was one of those "wtf?" moments because basically it arrived with heavy rain and wind. But now it's all done and it's cooled off and peaceful. Weird. That's total contrast from this morning / early afternoon. Me, Dani and Audra were walking from the mall and it was still windy but warm and the sun was shining and the sky was clear as a bell. 'Cept it was stupid hot.

On another hot note, casting came out for Alice in Wonderland at Original Kids! I got cast as the Mad Hatter! I'm so excitied, it's the biggest role I've ever gotten in a musical. Woohoo! Not that I'm excited or anything. And on another very hot note, OK Go is releasing a new album this summer. Thank you music lords.