Hey y'all! Just watched The Notebook on the flight to Italy. My sister made me watch it with her. Didn't really want to see it, but now I'm feeling all sentimental. It brought tears to my eyes! Imagine that! I think I like it more than The Princess Bride. If I could find love like that one day I will be eternally happy. Have a nice spring break all! Enjoy Day 80.

Day 80

This morning Rafi was talking about how he went to sleep at 5:30AM. We breakfasted on cream of wheat, cinnamon toast, and hash browns. In History Matt, Sam S, Kemi and I hit Phoebe with rubber bands, and Kit entered to find us still laughing. I got kicked out, and in the ensuing study time did not find anything much more interesting. In the free I continued my English essay, but a power outage made that difficult. I occupied myself with playing Cat Planet forwards, and then backwards.

After Precalc, wherein we learned about sigma notation and I looked for a way to do sigma stuff on my new calculator that Freddy gave me that isn't mine but will have to do, the power came back on, and I finished my essay. Jack won't like it that much, and it bothers me that I haven't had a really good essay topic in a while.

Lunch was fried rice with vegetables, you might call it pad thai, and leftover pizza. I went to the final reflections planning meeting and was feeling the Remicaid blues. Jake, Rafi, Jimmy, Zoe RA, Matt, Hallie, and a few other people were there; Brigitte and Dan proctored. During Science Hike Pat explained the E. Sci. final exam (it won't be too hard; we get notecards for the site description and the other things we've already done), and then I went to the kitchen for some chocolate milk. Charlotte roped me in to cooking with her, which I did. I made the crusts for some brownie pies sunflower-esque. (BTW, earlier, maybe 2^nd period, Charlotte and I had a shoving fight, me pushing her out the door and such.)

David was in the kitchen too. I helped Pam and Charlotte make crusts for pies, and a cake for Claire's month-early birthday (it's actually in June, apparently). It was fun. After that, I wrote in my journal with Phoebe, ate some of Adrija's strawberry-rhubarb pie, and went to Spanish class, reading listverse.com instead of working on my project.

In E. Sci., Phoebe and I just sat in class listening to Cat Stevens (who is a man, apparently. Definitely a girl's name) and talking about torture and stuff. I was on digg. Dinner, which we barely arrived in time to, was beef stroganoff. Tina asked what it was (or someone did... maybe Steph), and I conconcted a story about Germans being inspired by spaghetti to create their own spaghetti after WWII, but instead it came out fat and is now called beef stroganoff. In my story, beef stroganoff was German for Cow Spaghetti. That was fun...

Steph told another story about a 5^th grade trip to a boat, and the horrible sleeping conditions there: the chain hammock above her was only a few inches from her face. Maddy was at the table, as was Dan and Megan K. After dinner I went back to the E. Sci. room and played music (Hendrix, Iron Maiden, Rush, the Who) with Isaac, Phoebe, David, and at the end, Jake, Aidan, and Katja. Sarah got us to play one game of knockout; people are getting quite good.

After knockout, Isaac and I talked about music; I did some math; I wrote in my journal, did shutdown, and had a nice conversation about conducting in the dorm. Laughs were had all around. Also, earlier, Hallie commented on this journal. She would like to read it. Oh, and how could I forget: science books were returned today. How grand. Some people had extensive "about the author" sections; I did not bother with such nonsense. Miles had a humble today: Taylor read a humourous log of the events of last night, much to the chagrin of Alden, who made an announcement about not staying up late and how he was proud. Before dinner, Rafi and Sam P gave a ramen demonstration. That was nice. Tomorrow I go home; I'll see everyone! And Arya!