My grad DRESS

SO, I bought my grad dress! Well... actually I bought it a couple months back... In December-early January i think... They had to order the dress in my size, so that's what took so long. I bought the dress at Prima Bridal, on Victoria St. in Kamloops. It's a size 2!!! I didn't need to get any fittings either. :) So happy... I absolutely love it!

mmm... spare block

Well, this semester I'm lucky enough to have an ACTUAL spare block. I love it! It gets boring at times mind you.
I'm supposed to be doing the grad video during this block... well I've had this block for almost a month now, and I have not done any of the video...
Why?
BECAUSE NO GRADS HAVE BROUGHT IN ANY BLOODY PICTURES.
Well, thats not true. Amanda and Mellisa has brought some.... but I still do not have enough to even think of starting the video.

Now, I know that alot of grads are in this Class... So... PLEASE if you read this... BRING IN SOME PICTURES.

Oh, I would also like suggestions for songs for the video... has to have no swearing etc.. (which totally ruins almost all the good songs out there)

My cousin...JASON!

Back in November... I posted my blog about my cousin. (He's on the left of the picture)

Jason Lamont is a medic in the Canadian Army, stationed in CFB Edmonton. He has served time in Afghanistan, and has been awarded a medal for his actions. The medal he won was the "Medal of Military Valour"... which is 2nd to the Victoria Cross.

On Monday, he was FINALLY formally awarded this medal by the Governor General.

Jason was interviewed by CBC (again!) and the link is http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/19/medals-valour.html

Jason said this about receiving the medal.

"Honestly, words cannot even describe the feelings," Lamont said. "I don't know if I deserve it more than anybody else. I'm just a representative."

There were 6 soldiers awarded this medal... and here are the reasons why (Jason's is bolded):

1)Fletcher, of St. Albert, Alta., led his troops by foot from enemy fire, while giving first aid to wounded colleagues.

2)Tower, from Sidney, B.C., assumed leadership of a military operation when his commander was killed, leading the troops safely out while under enemy fire.

3)Fitzgerald, from Morrisburg, Ont., drove a burning vehicle off a road so other vehicles in the convoy could escape enemy fire.

4)Denine, from St. John's, NL, manned his vehicle's exterior machine gun when the main cannon and machine gun malfunctioned, driving away enemy attackers.

5)Prohar helped launch a successful September 2006 counter-attack against the Taliban while working with U.S. special forces in southern Afghanistan.

6)Lamont, a medic, ran through enemy fire to check on a wounded colleague when his unit was ambushed in Afghanistan's Helmand province in July 2006.

Lamont joked that his height gave him an advantage.
"The shorter you are, the more bullets can go over your head," he said.

Once again Jason... Congratulations! We're all proud of you!

geez... my hair is short...

Before... on the left

After... on the right

Well, on Sunday, I went to Kamloops... and I got my hair cut... and short too!
When I first went in, I wanted her (my hairdresser) to take off... about 5 inches I guess...
That would be about a inch or so below my shoulders.
Did my hairdresser do that? NO. She cut my hair TOO short. It's right at my shoulders at the longest point... at my chin at the shortest point...

Now, she said that this length looks really good on me, and I think, yeah, it's alright... a BIG change from what I had, mind you...

When I got to school, everyone was surprised... I got alot of ... "it looks cute" ... Made me think... are you just saying that to be nice?

Well... It grows back right? hahaha... so, come June (four months and 10 days till GRAD!!!) hopefully my hair will have grown two inches or so... it should! My hair does grow pretty fast... It grew about four inches between September and February...

Lemon Meringue Pie!

Well, in our foods class today, we made a Lemon Meringue Pie! And...damn does it look good!... I don't even like lemon meringue pie.

Hahaha... Remi and Zanna made the pastry crust, because I totally suck at making pastry dough... and I'm even worse I rolling it out. Thank God Zanna did it!

I made the filling (that was interesting...), Did you know the yellow part of the filling is not from the lemon? It's from the egg! Haha... kinda gross.

I also made the Meringue part of the pie. I liked making the swoopie parts of the top. I think ours looked like one of the best! haha.. Should be interesting when we eat it tommorow... Zanna and Remi were sure upset about not being able to eat it today... Poor Babies!

Valentine's Dance

Well, on Saturday February 10, the Grad class held a Valentine's Dance.

Since we were hosting it, we were allowed to go! Remi was my date. Don't we look gorgeous?

Remi didn't stay the whole dance though.. she felt sick, and left. So me and Tonya were left to face... Alex.

Now... I can rant and rant about Alex for god only knows how long. I bet anyone in the school could. But, damnit, he really got on my nerves at the dance and at school on Monday.

At the dance, he told this 40 year old guy all about me. Lets just say... I was more then a little creeped out, and wanted to more then strangle Alex.

Besides that... The night went pretty good! Danced a bit... sold some balloons (even though i was called a a balloon whore, and Alex my balloon pimp from his drunken boss). And the Grad Class made over $2000!

Yet again... BATONS

I sure write alot about batons, don't I?
Haha... well, I absolutely hate the fact, that now that I'm a senior twirler and one of the better ones in the group, I have to teach the little kids! I get no fricking time to practice my own routines..

Like.. HELLO? Me and Sam are supposed to do a Duet (different from Pairs)! We have not even started it... because Miss Martin does NOT give us time. What are we supposed to do? Does she expect us to have EXCELLENCE, and move up to BI if she doesn't give us time to practice? Does she expect us to do EVERYTHING on our own time? Look, I don't fricking care, I'm not a coach. I should not have to do all their routines.

Baton... Workshop...

This weekend... was long...
We had a baton workshop this weekend. And boy.... did we work hard... REALLY HARD... after the workshop was done... I counted how many new brusies I had... my count came to 39 (most of which are on my legs and back)... and thats not counting my wrist which swelled to three times it's size (your fault Jane).

We first worked on our major group routine, Lady Hawke. It's a 8 minute routine. We changed alot of it... and gave me a FOUR baton trick. COME ON... do you know what they called it? My four baton is called "The Kill Chrissy Trick"... and it's SCARY. Also, in this routine, there's a short dancing part... hahaha... we were trying to teach Jane it... and Kassy had to yell out.. "NO! Don't THRUST!" ... we all almost died from laughing.

The next thing I worked on was my little girls' team Super Girl. Totally awesome!!! They have to do the Moonwalk! But... it is a little easy, so I might change some things.

After that, we worked on my Freestylem, She's Got the Look. Now... that's SCARY as well... There's this trick where I toss, spin, do a leap, turn, and catch under my leg in a kick... I caught it though! It looks great, but it's SCARY. I do some other freaky things as well... But I guess it won't be so bad after I have some time to practice it.

My pairs (with Sam), You Can't Stop the Beat, came next. It is soooo fast, we're probally going to pass out half way through it. And... for Sam... really scary! She has some pretty scary tricks, with my supporting her. There's the cartwheel... and theres the roll over my back... Hahaha... I guess it's revenge over the "Kill Chrissy Trick" *evil laugh*

The next day... We worked on they Senior team Stayin' Alive... some of that is scary as well... but not that bad... There's this scary exchanfe in which Kassy (not looking) throws behind her, and I fall to the ground, do a fan roll, then catch. I haven't caught it yet, but at least I'm not a litte chicken **** like Pheadra, and I at least try.

My last thing for the work shop was Life is a Highway. We didn't quite finish it, but we added alot! Some of that is fun... I have to do some pretty wacky tosses into it... And the cartwheels are interesting. It's really fun! I love this routine.

Well... that pretty much sums up our baton workshop... We'll be having another one next month... Which is scary!

Kindergarten

Kindergarten!! Yeah.. after Pre-school, we went to Kindergarten for our Family Management class.

I enjoyed going to this class, because I knew alot of the kids, and we got to play with them!

AS seen in the picture... theres me in the middle... Brenden on my right.. Topanga behind me... and Brent on my left.

Brent is the cutest little guy... and no matter what KASSY says, He's my boyfriend, not hers.