Man I am so late in blogging and I'm so sorry!

Ok so on May 24, I graduated from Kamehameha Schools.  Yay me!  I graduated from a class of 439 students.  Holy crap right?  But oh well.  I'm happy that I graduated with the friends I did.  That night, right after graduation, we went to Hawaiian Waters for our project graduation.  How stupid is that?!?!  The entire class knew where we were going and the teachers still kept it a secret.  WHAT THE CRAP?!?!?!?!?!  And the great part was there were about 3 or 4 rides open for about two and a half hours.  Honestly, if you take a group of 439 recently graduated high school students the first party of their recently graduated lives, wouldn't you take them somewhere more FUN?  Honestly people Dave and Busters would've been a lot more fun that the Water Park.

Then on May 25, my wonderfully creative Fictional Writing teacher turned 20 all over again.  Yay Mrs. Burbridge!

Then on May 27, I celebrated my first day of being an official adult!  Hee hee I'm officially 18 now.  YAY ME!

Now on June 6, I will be having my graduation party.  It will be a lot better if I knew who was coming or not.  I did get some replies but most of them couldn't come b/c most of my friends are of islanders.  :(  But I do plan to have a good time anyways.

Congratulations recent graduates of 2009!  May your life be successful and filled with joy.

LOVE!!!!

Ok I think the emotions are starting to hit.  I'm ready to cry.  This is my last official day as a senior of high school.  Where did all the time go?  It feels like only now that I started kindergarten.  Time flew by so fast.  I didn't realize how fast it went by until now. 

FATHER TIME WHY DON'T YOU JUST TEAR OUT MY HEART ALREADY?!?!?!?!

Man....

Ok I was supposed to check out earlier but couldn't because I didn't have my letter with my parents signature.  So I gave my braclet giving seniors the right to free dress to my friend telling her I would wait for her until she finished, got distracted by going to help my other friend but he didn't need me b/c his teacher was there, so then I went to Midkiff, which is our library.

Ok that long winded intro is outof the way.

So I walked into Midkiff just when the Concert Glee guys were singing.  Now, if you heard any of Kamehameha's guys sing, you would know what kind of beauty I'm talking about.

These guys sang with such a passion that made every fiber of my very being relaxed.  For a moment, I forgot about my stress, forgot about my sorrow, forgot everything negative that built up inside of me.

I didn't know what they were saying because they sang in Hawaiian but they sounded beautiful.  This was the second time I heard a group of young men with raw talent sing so beautifully.  Nothing could match them.  Well, our senior boys could top them, but that's besides the point.

I wish I recorded everything.  I could've shown you it, but I didn't.  But if you want to see our Senior men's song, just youtube it.  I can't post our song here, but just go to Youtube.com and type in Kamehameha Schools 2009 Senior Men.

I think I've been drained of all emotions.  I feel nothing.  No stress, no sorrow, no happiness, no excitement, nothing.  I should be studying, which I am, but I feel no stress.  I'm sure I'll feel it the day of the finals and graduation, but not now.

I'm honestly scared for two finals.  That's probably the only emotion I have.  Math final and Hawaiian History final.  Math because I've forgotten most everything I've been taught.  Hawaiian History because I suck at history.

Ok so I apperently have a really bad ingrown toenail which turned into an infection.  I have had a history of ingrown toenails mostly because I cut my nails really short and I've both my big toe nails a few times.  So I'm currently taking antibiotics, well since Saturday, and the doctor said that if it didn't improve on Tuesday, I'll have to go back to the doctors for a checkup.  It hasn't gotten significantly better, but it did get less red and a bit less sore. 

Terrible English, I know.  I dont' care.  Suck on it.

Anyways, I might need surgery for my toe to get the ingrown toenail out.

School is about to end soon for me and already I missed a due date for an assignment but it's ok because I'll get partial credit for it if I turn it in before next week Monday.

I am almost finished with a commercial for my advanced speech class.  We were given a project where we had to create a product that would benifit the community.  I was paried with two other girls and we made an educational program that twould help stimulate the high school mind and hopefully do much better in their studies.  It's called Education Enhancement and it is a technology based education that is taken home on CD's with elaborate step by step examples when needed.  All of this is due tomorrow.  We start our speeches sometime this week.

I also have a project for Haqwaiian History due this Friday and didn't even start on it yet.  EEP!!!!  It's on Hawaii's process of becoming a state.  I'tll be easy.  It has to be 3-5 pages with sources in the paper and I need at least two books for the project, so I'm not stressing.

I also have another Hawaiian History project due on the last day of class.  It's a cultural immersion project and I decided to do Hawaiian art.  We have to have at least two hours working on our projct and it has to somehow reflect who we are as a Hawaiian.  For my project, I am making a pot with flowers on the upper part, my aumakua (spiritual animal), which is the shark, in the middle, and the Hawaiian triangles on the bottom.

I decided to use those images in that order for many reasons.  I put the flowers on the top because when I am out and about, I have this happyness that people can sense, even though they may judge me on how I look. 

I chose the shark not only because it's my aumakua,  but because I believe that sharks are powerful creatures who are willing to fight for something they want.  Even though I am not that kind of perosn, I am making progress.  I am, however, strong in a family sense.  I am very protective about my family and those close  to me and people will find that out sooner or later.  I put the shark in the middle of the pot to show that I have a strong center.

I chose the Hawaiian triangles becuase they represent a strong base.  I was raised to honor and respect my elders and to not lash out to anyone.

Hey everybody, I forgot to ask a question earlier.


Does anybody want to have any specific manga posted up?  I'm going to be starting a manga page.

Ok this week I really have to crack down on the homework.  I have two projects due next week, one for English and one for Hawaiian history.

The English project is due on the 28, next week, and it is a Historical Fiction paper.  For it, I chose to do the Japanese Internment camps during World War 2.  I mainly chose it because I don't know a lot about it and only until recently learned about a period of history that I didn't know exsisted.  Which proves that FDR is a sexist and racist.  Sexist because he didn't do jack when the women of 1920 wanted equality, racist because he put the Japanese into camps not knowing if everyone put there were loyal to Japan or not.

The Hawaiian History "project" is due on Monday.  This was told to us by our teacher that it was going to be held on a high standard just because it was a group assignment and because we'll have two and a half full days to work on it.  I swear my teacher is nuts.

We also have another two projects for our Hawaiian History class.  One that is due May 8 and the other due on the last few days of classes.  The one due on May 8 is a paper that we have to write a "thesis" paper that reflects a certain part of Hawaiian history.  I ended up choosing the statehood of Hawaii because it seemed like an easy thing to write about.  Now that I think about it, I think I have a good idea of what to write about.  YAY ME!  :)

The other project is a cultural immersion project where we have to submerse ourselves in a Hawaiian mentality and do something that relates to Hawaiian history.  I'm going to be doing artwork that reflex who I am as a Hawaiian.  I'm actually real excited about this.

I have a speech project too and it is broken up into different due dates.  We start doing our speeches the second week of May.  Its a product speech and we have to have a speech, podcast, movie, and powerpoint.  Crazy no?  I don't mind this because it is broken into different due dates.

Well I best be getting started.  Lots to do and little time left in doing so.

Ok so two days ago, I went to a "Tea Party" where people like my family revolted against the taxes that are being raised.  I had a lot of fun and my siblings had fun as well.  We all ahd made posters and listened to the people who gave speeches.  We even saw some of our friends there.

I was happy that so many people went.  I heard a couple hundrend came.  There was a live stream tv to www.overtaxedhawaii.com and the local news stations were there too.

The best sign that I saw that wasn't ours was the acronym for Obama and it was One Big Ass Mistake America.  It was funny.

The best two signs that my family and I made were for my baby sister, who is seven, and my second oldest youngest sister, who is 14.  My baby sisters sign was At 7 and already in debt.  My 14 year old sisters poster said "My American Heroes" and had the founding fathers on it.

Some people took pictures of our signs.  I felt weird.  There was also an open mic for whomever wanted to say something.  I ended up going, scared out of my mind.  But I said something and got a big applause because of it.

I hope we're going to go back on May 8 to reprotest.

YES!  So our song contest is THIS FRIDAY!!! Whoo-hoo!  I am super excited because it's my first, and last, song contest.  I watched the one last year, wanting to go to Kamehameha so that I could sing with them.  Well, here I am now, two days away from my wish.  And our class sounds wonderful.

This years theme is the songs by John  Kameaaloha Almeida.   Our co-ed song is Maile Swing and our womens song is 'O Ku'u Aloha Ia 'Oe and our mens song is Iseu o Kanaka Waiwai I believe.  Our songs sound great.  I heard that the juniors and sophomores songs are going well too.  I'm super nervous though.

On another note, my friend is coming to Hawaii for a week from Portland, Oregon.  I'm super excited to see her because I haven't seen her since last years school let out.  I just hope that we get to see each other before break lets out.

I also hope that I could meet up with friends with my old school too.  Some left the school like me, while others stayed at the school.  I'm planning to have an "outing" with them soon.  :)

And I finally get to see one of my newer friends over the break.  :) Hopefully.   We met via a teacher we had/have.  Then we started talking on Facebook and we became really good friends.