May 24, 2010

Today is the last day of regular classes and its a final review for our exams that begin tomorrow. Our first two exams are English and French. I'm not to stressed over those becaue English is basically 20 multiple choice questions on grammar, and then we must write two essays. Fortunately, our teacher gave us the two topics so we were allowed to prepare for the essays. French probably won't be too hard either but my memory of vocab will definitely be important. On Wednesday, we're taking the Math and Science exams. I'm not sure of what to expect out of those two exams but I don't believe that they will be too challenging. On Thursday, our final exam will be World Cultures, which is the exam I'm most worried about. I'm generally stressed over this subject because there is always so much information and facts to remember. But once I'm finished with that, my summer will begin! So hopefully my studying will pay off this week!

Blaire 5/24/10

LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!

Today is my last sunday school night; what a relief. This week will be my final four days of freshmen year! Our exams begin Tuesday and end Thursday around noon. I'm so happy this year has finally come to an end because it's felt long at times and been very stressful at other times. Anyways, I began studying this weekend for my exams which has gone alright. Half the time I've been catching up on sleep or having dance rehearsals. But I feel much more rested which will be very important when test time comes up. My dance recital is now a week away and I'm really excited to finally perform all the hard work my studio has done this year! After that my summer begins! Can't wait!

blaire 5/23/10

May 17, 2010/ Cheer Tryouts

I'm happy to say that this week is our final week of regular school! It will be a final week to review and next week will be exams and the start of summer! Yesterday was the first day of cheer tryouts. There were about 30 girls trying out, and overall everyone did pretty well. The only concern I see is technique when it comes to motions for jumps and cheers. We first learned the fight song, which is simple for most of us, but it may have been difficult for girls who will be new at our school. Then we moved on to jumps which was fun for some of us. Then we broke off into groups based by our grade level and learned three different chants and the main tryout cheer. After that, we moved on to the dance section, and learned two short combos that we will perform in the tryout. Today will be a "mock tryout" where we review over everything and practice a "run-through" of what our tryout will be like. The tryout begins with our entrance/"spirit" on, where you have the opportunity to tumble, and chant however you'd like. Then you come to the center of the court and show your jump sequence which consists and four jumps and two of them are required to be toe-touches. Then you and the other two girls in your tryout group will chant two of the three chants you learned and then you will all perform the fight song, tryout cheer, and both of the dances together. It's exciting and makes me a little nervous but I'm looking forward to it!

May 13, 2010

Today I finally finished my web page for my teacher, Ms. Patterson. It was actually a fun project but it took lots of time. The week is almost over which means there are about 10 days of school left! Next week will be our "dead week" so lots of reviewing and studying will begin. Then the following week will be our exams and then we are done!! Summer is so close and I can't wait! This weekend cheer tryouts start and I'm super excited! I can't wait for football season to begin, because I love performing at the games. My dance recitals are coming up soon as well and we started having dress rehearsals yesterday. Our first one went well so hopefully the rest we be good too. Then, in a few weeks I will be off to Florida with my family and Carolyn. These last few weeks have gone by fast and I hope that exams go well for everyone!

Blaire 5/13/10

May 7, 2010

I'm happy to announce that today is my final day of lacrosse practice. It's been a long season and our season ends this weekend with the state tournament. We're scheduled to play St. Andrews first, a team we've previously beat, and from there on each team will be harder and more challenging for us. We're all pumped and confident for our games and hopefully we will have a good outcome. After that I have no more sports for the year except for cheer tryouts which begin next weekend. I'm really excited for tryouts except I'm slightly nervous since I haven't had much time to practice and prepare but I'm very excited for the season to start. This past week was Parent Observation at dance, which means your family can come see all your classes to see the progress you've made. You also receive your costumes for recital which can be good and bad. It's good when you get a really cool costume that you like, but it can also stink when you get a really ugly costume like I did for one of my classes. But overall, I'm really looking forward to our recital because everyone has made a lot of improvement this year and I think all our dances look great! Well now there is about 3 weeks of school left which is exciting and kind of hard to believe. This year has gone by quite fast but I enjoyed most of it and I look forward to summer.
blaire 5/7/10

May 3, 2010

I'm excited to say that we now have 3 1/2 weeks of school left. Lacrosse is about to be over which I'm happy about and cheer tryouts are coming soon! I haven't been able to prepare much for tryouts but I'm going to start working hard these next few weeks. My dance recital is also not too far away which is great but I hope we'll all be ready to perform! I'm hoping that exams won't be too much of a struggle and that they will go smoothly. A lot is happening this month so hopefully I'll be able to stay organized and prepared for everything. Last weekend the seniors threw their final party, the Blackout Blowout, and it was pretty fun. Everyone dressed up in black except for the seniors who all wore crazy neon colors. In a few weeks there will be some graduation parties that should be fun as well. Summer is so close and I can't wait for it. In about 4 weeks my family and I will be heading for Florida to spend a week at the beach which should be great. Hopefully these few weeks will go by quick!

blaire
3/3/10

SPC

Last week our lacrosse team competed in SPC and did pretty well. Overall we came in 4th place, but we played very well as a team. Our first game was against was on Thursday St. Andrew's and we won 20 to 13. One girl on their team was yellow carded for yelling at the ref which was pretty amusing. Later that day we played St. John's and we didn't do as well. We lost unfortunately but St. John's has a very well rounded team. On Friday, we were all irritated to hear that we would be playing Hockaday for the FOURTH time. We were tired of playing and losing against them so we knew we had to make some sort of comeback this time. First half went great and we were in the lead while Hockaday struggled. Our defense had them stuck and they were unable to score for a great deal of time. But during second half they came back and beat us 12 to 9. We were slightly disappointed in the loss but we were really thrilled at how well we played overall. This following weekend will be our final weekend of lax as we play for state.

blaire 5/3/10