^ I found my circa 2nd grade Spice Girls cassette (not a CD - a
cassette . Herra old school.) and it's become my soundtrack as I learn how to drive. Spice Up Your Life is possibly the most fun song ever.
And yup, I've gotten my permit (only three questions wrong, whoo!) and am learning to drive. Sometimes I turn too far out and I still can't 100% tell whether I'm too close to the curb or not, but overall, I'd say I'm pretty good at it. I've been learning down at the Harbour Bay Business Park - my dad teaches me how to park at the Peet's headquarters, and I like to roll down the windows so I can smell coffee while I badly attempt to parallel park.
My memorial day weekend was relatively busy and pretty fun. Friday night, I kicked it back old school at the dance with Steph H, Leena and Javier. I had no plans of going at first, but Steph kept on trying to convince me to go. Somewhere between her dancing outside Spanish class mouthing "
BAILE?" and her affectionate pestering, I decided, hey, it's the last high school dance ever (besides prom). I'm in a dancey mood, and if it sucks, oh well, it's only one night wasted. And I actually ended up having a blast. Probably because I haven't been to a school dance since 8th grade, but just letting go and dancing the night away was really fun. Not to mention they played "Don't Stop the Music" - that alone was worth the $5 ticket. Afterwards we hung out at Tapex (as Ben West tried to explain a mathematical proof to me that he was working on, haha).
Saturday morning, I woke up bright and early with Lila, Janice and her sisters to be a few of the first one hundred people in line at the official grand opening of the Alameda Theater. As a future architect (ha, pretencious much?), I don't approve of the outside design - the newly built section doesn't go with the original building at all. But inside is pretty great. We watched The Wizard of Oz in the giant screen, which was I liked. It was my first time watching it, and although I didn't think that the ending was too great (they go all the way to see the wizard, only to have Glinda tell them how to get back in the end? Hm.), but I thought it was a good movie overall. Afterwards, I headed on down to Mel's to work on
eating cookies our video on the nitrogen cycle.
Sunday, in a direct contradiction to my money woes in the last post, I went shopping in San Francisco with my mom. Although I was definitely more aware of what exactly I wanted, and which things I could live without. Monday, I had a meditation session in the morning for Meditation Club. It was really relaxing - just listening to calm music, breathing deeply and nothing else.
-Wendy
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Hey hey, I started learning how to drive there too! Maybe we'll race someday. You me Lila and Steph... and maybe David. VAN RACE!!