I just graduated high school two days ago!

No more Shakespeare, wooden bleachers that hurt my ass and no more annual school marathons!

I'm off to college in 3 months for an English course since after 2 exams could not get into the course that I wanted. Best thing is, I'm on a waiting list! College here I come!!

Prior weeks- Mostly worked, played Pokemon Pearl and my new Diamond game, did homework and got my first term report card

Report Card

English 12-  C (61%)
Law 12-  B (73%)
Japanese 11-  B (76%)
Family Studies 11-  B (73%)
P.E. 11-  B (75%)
Foods 12-  B (79%)

Pokemon Pearl
- Captured Phanphy, Tyrouge (after a LONG ASS time), Cresselia (With an ULTRABALL), Surskit, etc...
- Traded a Cherrim and Carvanha for a Charmander and Squirtle
- Evolved both into Charmeleon and Wartortle
- Almost took out lv. 50 Mespirit with a lv. 50 Haunter. Had to restart the game
- Caught a shiny Misdreavus only to lose it when a lv. 51/52 Banette snatched an item from Shinichiro (my Luxray). Yeah, the item was pretty valuable...
- Caught a shiny Staravia
- Evolved an Eevee into Umbreon
- Evolved another Eevee into Glaceon
- Hatched a Pidgey and battled it until it evolved into Pidgeot

So in 2 days I have a day off from school and next friday is the last day before xmas holidays. Already got my xmas lists for both my parents and am already hoping my grandparents don't screw it up partially by bitching at each other and about anything...

Well this week wasn't really blog worthy except for today. Yesterday I worked for 4 hours and was actually a quick work day compared to my other days at work. I got in some chat time with my favorite coworkers and that's about it...

I went out for dinner with my mom at IHOP a few hours ago, I had fish and chips with garlic bread and coca cola. I liked the fish although they could have been better...

Today was rather uneventful. I mostly stayed indoors trying to do some internet searching for English class and did some adventures on Pokemon Pearl. Found a new catch in the Trophy Garden (Minun- and it already freaks me out), can't say much for the day's newscasted Poke Swarm. At least yesterday was something I didn't have previously. Until tommorow, I'll rely on my PokeRadar (not the most effective in finding post E4 Pokemon, I'm still looking for Tyrogue and Phanphy) and fishing rods...

Today I went on my field trip to the movie theatre. Dunno how long it took us all to get there even though we took a long way to the theatre. We all got there about 5-10 minutes early for the film Passchendaele. So we all used our free pre movie time to go buy drinks and snacks at the food court. I stopped at New York Fries and got jumbo fries and a large root beer to have since I didn't bring any lunch. Had to get into the theatre at 12:15 since the film started around that time. The movie wasn't listed on any of the rooms in the theatre, so the one that we went into said High School Musical 3 above the doorway. For a minute, I thought we were going to see HSM3 but thank god that wasn't the case. I had to sit through HSM2 last year thanks to some relatives, Disney and the Family Channel and I wasn't about to sit through the next one. So the movie was great despite dragging on in some areas.

Haven't done much else for the rest of the evening...

I couldn't write yesterday because my internet connection was down last night. Last night I watched the Japanese film Spirited Away (Japanese: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, Trans: The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro). It's one of my Intro Japanese 11 teacher's all time favorite movie. I thought it was a great film, it had a story line I had never seen in my life and the artwork was great. Mind you, I watched it in Japanese with English subs.

Today I went on a field trip to UBC's Canopy Walk and Botanical Garden Tour. I had to walk across all these bridges that were small in width and very wobbly for the Canopy Walk. The teachers told us that the bridges were suspended 300 feet above the ground- which scared the crap out of me because I'm somewhat scared of heights. I just imagined it as one bridge that went from side to another with a huge width. Turned out to be 7 wobbly bridges with very small width. So wobbly I actually thought at one point it would tip over on one side and I'd fall out. Thankfully that didn't happen. After that we all went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch and we all ended up having the Spaghetti special with bread, salad, spaghetti, pop and ice cream. The meal was okay even though I don't really like spaghetti much. Then we went ice skating- something I hadn't done for about 6-8 years. I managed to catch onto that very fast. I did wipe out though once. Alot of guys were using the trainer equipment. I did use the trainer equipment, but only for a few minutes...

Then I went home tired off my ass...

I wrote this for English 12 class as a part of a rewrite. I emailed it to my teacher a few hours ago. I hope she likes it

The Theme Statement of My Life

The theme statement of my life is Dorothy's lesson from The Wizard of Oz "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard- because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with". The message of the statement is don't go selfishly go off in search of something because it is already there. But we don't know this because we never bother to look within where we are because it is easier to go and find it elsewhere (and sometimes in the wrong places) rather than find it where we already are (within home). There are times that I wish I lived elsewhere or wondered what it would be like if I had a different family (sometimes I do wish I had a different family but not different parents) because I might complain about how much I don't like a certain aspect or two about my current life but when I read and see things about different people around the world, I start to realize how much luckier and better off I am right now than those people. Even if my family is dysfunctional, I wouldn't trade my parents for anyone else in the world or my family. I've already got a good family who loves me thanks to my parents, the less dysfunctional parts of my family and some of the dysfunctional people in my family. I already have a good education, even if school can be difficult and feels unfair on some levels. I don't always need what I don't have because I already have it in some ways than none.

Today I had to go for a hair trim and then I went all over the place to find any used GBA games at any store that might sell them. I'm looking for Pokemon LeafGreen/FireRed to update my National Dex in Pearl. So far, no luck...

I've started looking for video game store addressess on google maps...hopefully that will bring something...

Watched The Wizard of Oz on DVD, I've seen it so much over the years and it never gets old for me. The best part? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard- because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with"

 Today I spent most of my gaming time Poke Radar-ing, my daily Swarm and Pokemon Mansion checks. So far, I bagged a Pidgey (lv. 51), Ariados (lv. 52), Pinsir (Lv. 52), Bagon (lv. 26) and Hoppip (lv. 6 or 9)

I had to work today and tommorow I have a quiz...

Lucky for me, I don't work again until the 20th so I can relax all week and get whatever done...

I have a day off next week (tuesday), a short day (wednesday), an all day grade 12 activity day (thursday, yay!) and I have to go see a movie for school (friday)...