Just wanna dance to "Valentino"
by Diane Birch.
Man, that song is so good for moving around. The first few seconds are practically DRAGGING you out of your seat and onto your feet (oooh punny rhyme ahaha). "Whooo oooh, whooo oooo."
I really like things that change over time, I guess, even though I don't really like big change and wish that I lived in Victorian England. But then I remember the INTERNET and COMPUTERS and YOUTUBE and feel content here in good ol' 21st century USA. Anyway, what I'm saying is that I like watching movies and listening to music and watching dance performances because they're ALIVE and MOVING and just so much more here than stable things, you know?
Take Alexander Calder's mobiles, for instance. If given enough breeze, they'll change shape every minute! They're always turning, twisting, moving up, down, or sideways and turning into myriads upon myriads of thought-inducing shapes.
And dance is just fun (and by dance, I DO NOT MEAN the type of dancing at school dances, where all you do is wiggle yourself to the beat and maybe jump up and down a little). Especially when you LEAP across the stage or floor or room.
Music is also moving across the realm of time. And so do movies and plays and other performances.
Time is the most precious resource we have. Don't you even dare waste it, but it's good to slow things down for a little while and JUST DANCE, IT'S GONNA BE OKAY.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Music will SAVE THE WORLD or at least hopefully our orchestra teacher
Darn budget cuts. My orchestra teacher might be laid off at the end of the school year because of those accursed things (she was hired on only as a part time teacher this year). >:-P Uncool! She is the best music teacher I've ever had in school! Well, all three of them so far were really great, but, she's just so cool and awesomely good at music and you can't just fire her!
So what did the upper (i.e., better) orchestra do? Oh yeah, they took ACTION against this dastardly possiblely-happening deed. Yesterday, in the parking lot outside of the school board meeting, a few of the kids from the better orchestra arranged their own mini-concert right there, in the parking lot, with stands and a student conductor and everything! They even had a sign up that said: "SAVE [insert orchestra teacher's name here--no personal info will be typed]!"
In the ideal world, the school board would've been moved to tears by their awesome playing and agreed to let our orchestra teacher stay for as long as our orchestra teacher liked, and that the budget cuts regarding music and school lunch would all be reconsidered and relooked at.
But, in the real world (oh phooey, we live in the REAL world? shucks.), all the school board said was: "If we don't let her go, someone else will have to go." Which also isn't really good.
Speaking of budget cuts, my Spanish teacher is being transfered to a middle school next year. Gosh I hope she doesn't have to each 8th graders. Y'all should know how despicable some 8TH GRADERS can be. I should know. I was one (no DUH, Jinny, now get on w/da rest of da post, wouldja pleeze?).
Another thing that'll be changed by the budget cuts will be lunch time. This year we got an entire period to eat our lunch, which was very useful in certain cases. Next school year, we only get 25 minutes. Which isn't that bad, but still--waiting in line for half that time and then scarfing it down in 5 to finish homework for the last couple of periods? I don't think so. Which means that I might have to start regularly bringing my own lunch. Gah must get up earlier.
Also, I'm going to try to get more involved in school for my sophomore year. This year all I did was tennis, an Asian drama-watching club (ahahaha I know--how typically Asian of me), and "JV" on Science Olympiad (meaning I didn't actually compete, but still helped out and got to see how everything worked.
Next year I'm headed for tennis, Speech team, Science Olympiad ("varsity"! I will compete next year! Hopefully.), Honors Orchestra, MAYBE the school play and HUGE DOUBLE TRIPLE MAYBE softball. ABSOLUTELY HONKIN' HUGE MAYBE on that last one. I mean, spring is the time for AP testing and finals! I don't know if I would be able to fit in a sport in spring, even though I like softball.
Oh well. We'll see how the end of THIS year passes first!
So what did the upper (i.e., better) orchestra do? Oh yeah, they took ACTION against this dastardly possiblely-happening deed. Yesterday, in the parking lot outside of the school board meeting, a few of the kids from the better orchestra arranged their own mini-concert right there, in the parking lot, with stands and a student conductor and everything! They even had a sign up that said: "SAVE [insert orchestra teacher's name here--no personal info will be typed]!"
In the ideal world, the school board would've been moved to tears by their awesome playing and agreed to let our orchestra teacher stay for as long as our orchestra teacher liked, and that the budget cuts regarding music and school lunch would all be reconsidered and relooked at.
But, in the real world (oh phooey, we live in the REAL world? shucks.), all the school board said was: "If we don't let her go, someone else will have to go." Which also isn't really good.
Speaking of budget cuts, my Spanish teacher is being transfered to a middle school next year. Gosh I hope she doesn't have to each 8th graders. Y'all should know how despicable some 8TH GRADERS can be. I should know. I was one (no DUH, Jinny, now get on w/da rest of da post, wouldja pleeze?).
Another thing that'll be changed by the budget cuts will be lunch time. This year we got an entire period to eat our lunch, which was very useful in certain cases. Next school year, we only get 25 minutes. Which isn't that bad, but still--waiting in line for half that time and then scarfing it down in 5 to finish homework for the last couple of periods? I don't think so. Which means that I might have to start regularly bringing my own lunch. Gah must get up earlier.
Also, I'm going to try to get more involved in school for my sophomore year. This year all I did was tennis, an Asian drama-watching club (ahahaha I know--how typically Asian of me), and "JV" on Science Olympiad (meaning I didn't actually compete, but still helped out and got to see how everything worked.
Next year I'm headed for tennis, Speech team, Science Olympiad ("varsity"! I will compete next year! Hopefully.), Honors Orchestra, MAYBE the school play and HUGE DOUBLE TRIPLE MAYBE softball. ABSOLUTELY HONKIN' HUGE MAYBE on that last one. I mean, spring is the time for AP testing and finals! I don't know if I would be able to fit in a sport in spring, even though I like softball.
Oh well. We'll see how the end of THIS year passes first!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Biology: the fun class where you get to watch AVATAR
Bad blogger! Bad! Inconsistent posting! Too much time between posts! Ahem. Self-beration will now cease and desist.
I feel like blogging today, and will try not to make this a filler post.
School happenings: State science tests this week. Bleh. What in the world is a cladogram? Apparently we have to know that for the test. Meh. The state's only been administering the science tests for a couple years, and already they're a drag. But with testing comes a few good-ish things! In biology we're watching AVATAR which is AWESOME (well, the first 50 or so minutes is. And have you noticed how cool Avatar looks when it's all in caps? Like the A and V are making this secret tribal hieroglyphic code or something. This makes sense in my mind). And we are actually taking our comprehensive all-year final this week, instead of the last week of school. Which means one less final to study for (yay...?).
I have finally checked out Confessions of a Serial Kisser from my school library! Which means I'm going to procrastinate on studying the abovementioned state science tests. Not a good thing.
Boy, when Ms. Van Draanen said that she was going to write a book about kissing, she sure went all out. Evangeline, the main character, seems to be entirely focused on one goal: getting her "crimson kiss". And she does the most outrageous things in her search for it!
P.S. The avatars in Avatar are MUCH MUCH HUGER than I thought they would be. I thought that they would just be blue versions of normal humans. WRONG! They're about twice as tall and yeah. HUGE. Short people like me are afraid of HUGE things. But it's an awesome movie! So far! Hopefully until the end! James Cameron likes his 3-hour long movies, doesn't he? [Titanic, Avatar, etc....]
I feel like blogging today, and will try not to make this a filler post.
School happenings: State science tests this week. Bleh. What in the world is a cladogram? Apparently we have to know that for the test. Meh. The state's only been administering the science tests for a couple years, and already they're a drag. But with testing comes a few good-ish things! In biology we're watching AVATAR which is AWESOME (well, the first 50 or so minutes is. And have you noticed how cool Avatar looks when it's all in caps? Like the A and V are making this secret tribal hieroglyphic code or something. This makes sense in my mind). And we are actually taking our comprehensive all-year final this week, instead of the last week of school. Which means one less final to study for (yay...?).
I have finally checked out Confessions of a Serial Kisser from my school library! Which means I'm going to procrastinate on studying the abovementioned state science tests. Not a good thing.
Boy, when Ms. Van Draanen said that she was going to write a book about kissing, she sure went all out. Evangeline, the main character, seems to be entirely focused on one goal: getting her "crimson kiss". And she does the most outrageous things in her search for it!
P.S. The avatars in Avatar are MUCH MUCH HUGER than I thought they would be. I thought that they would just be blue versions of normal humans. WRONG! They're about twice as tall and yeah. HUGE. Short people like me are afraid of HUGE things. But it's an awesome movie! So far! Hopefully until the end! James Cameron likes his 3-hour long movies, doesn't he? [Titanic, Avatar, etc....]
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