maybe I should leave this blank, so I don't make myself even more of a dork
Today was quite fun. I wore my custom vans to school today and my new checkered sunglasses too so I matched, it was cool. Well anyways my friend in Geometry, Irfan, wanted to try them on. I let him of course and he loved them, he asked if he could borrow them for the rest of the day and I let him, they really did look like they belonged on him. So then in english I walked into class and my friends David and Diego were being asked a favor by our teacher that required the retrival of 3 large tvs from Mr. DePizzaza. So since there were three tvs she asked if I'd go too in case he asked us to carry them, so I naturally accepted, to be honest I was waiting for her to ask. So we go to his office but he isn't there, but he had like all kinds of jars with goodies in there! So Diego and I each took a little tootsie roll, it was tasty when I had it later. So we were going to walk back and tell our teacher that Mr. DP.(DP, I like that) wasn't there but once we walked out of the office David said, "Isn't Mr. DePiazza the bald guy with the mustache?" And I said that I thought so, and David replied, "Then he just walked right past us!" So we went back in and told him that we were from Mrs. Gould's room and right away he knew about the tvs. He was so nice, he like friendly-ly said, "Come in here, boys!" and stuff. So we loaded the tvs on a cart(thank goodness our class was downstairs!)and we took them back to class. Along the way Diego and David switched off the positions of steering and pushing the cart while I steered and was the cart's bodyguard. Like when we came near a wall/water fountain/tight corner I stood in front of the object so the cart wouldn't hit it, just me. So when we got back to class with the tvs Mrs. Gould asked us to put two in a storage room across the hallway and take the other one to Mr. Kern(he was my english teacher last year) but to make sure that when we went we made a disturbance so when we walked in the door I said, "WE LOVE YOU MR. KERN!" and then he took the tv and as we were leaving I said, "Remember, WE LOVE YOU MR. KERN!" I think the mission was accomplished. So when we were taking the cart back to the office Diego told me that I should ride on it, so I did for about 10 feet, and some adults looked at me strangely when I did, I honestly love getting that look, it kind of gives me self confidence and even more joy then the fact that I'm having a lot of fun with my friends riding on a cart. After school I kept asking my friends if they wanted/could go to Dairy Queen with me since I had been craving it all day. No one did until Brandon pretty much had to since he didn't have a ride home and needed help carrying his stuff for the fundraiser that came in today. So we went to Dairy Queen and in a way I paid for him, except not really, since it was his money, I just forgot to give it back to him at lunch today, so it all worked out well. I helped Brandon carry his stuff up to his house then his grandmother gave me a ride home, and now I'm here. Now I'd like to sum up some other recent events, I think I'll start with this past weekend, starting Thursday.
I got an excuse to miss Friday's marching band practice because I was going to Six Flags Magic Mountain for a concert with my church, I didn't tell Ms. K that though, I told her I was going on a religious reteat. Which was basically true. What's funny though is that she probably thinks I'm like Jewish now since it was a Jewish holiday, and everyone calls me "The Jew" because I have a "Jew 'fro" and I happen to have a yamika too. So anyways, the Thursday night before I had to leave we had a football game, I did pretty good playing and marching and stuff, which is definately good. I had a lot of fun too, I even stood up to someone who was being mean to me and Brandon! Unfourntunately she was one of my first friends that I got when I moved here, it sucks when people change for the worse. But that was the absolute beginning of the game so by after halftime I was like having so much fun. One of the band traditions is we always march into the stadium before the game and play "Star Spangled Banner" and our fight song and then we always march out of the stadium when the game is over while the drums play their cadence. Well the week before last we(the sousaphones) really started having fun with how we march back, before we just did the tuba dance but now we started like raising the roof, spinning, and other stuff. I even skanked! It was great, and one of the older sousaphone players said, "Check out Josh!" and "We should learn to do that!" which made me really happy because that's like always been my dream ever since I learned how to skank. Continuing on, the next day I had to wake up at fourinthemorning to get ready so I could get to the church before 6 to go on the trip. So I get there on time and everything and pretty much the only people there that I was already pretty good friends with were Frank and Phil. Well Phil was going to hang out with his girlfriend, Diane, as much as he could so that killed me being able to spend the day with him. So I decided to get on the same van as Frank so I could establish the ablility to hang out with him the whole time. But while I was waiting for us to go the guy(I forget his name and I feel bad because of it) that was going to sit with Frank and me on the ride up informed me that someone wanted to sit on the van we were on because she didn't know anybody or anybody on the other van or something, so I gladly took up the offer. When I was trying to get out of the van since we were in the back seat I decided I'd hop out the back door since it was closer and he(the guy that I forgot the name of) was holding it open so I tried but really, I just fell out the back, it was pretty funny really. There was like a collective gasp from the van then a mixture of laughter and "are you ok?" I said I was fine and walked over to the other bus. Once I got on I incidentily got in the exact same seat as on the other van, I didn't know any of the kids in the same seat as me except that the one kid was the one who pointed me out to someone one time when I was playing bass during worship. They didn't talk to me for a while until that kid(his name's Christian, coincidentily) asked what kind of bass I had. I don't think I ever really joined in on any of their convorsations until they were talking about moshing and and stage diving, so I told them about when I croud surfed. Once we got there we had basically all become friends(Christian, Zack, Travis and I) so I spent the day in their group. They're all really good, fun guys. I only threw up once during the day, but it was really quick and easy, and I felt a little better after I did it, lol. Plus I didn't even get anything but the groud dirty,not even me. I'm quite proud of that actually. The fact that I didn't get anything but the ground dirty, not the fact that I puked. Did you know that Shakesphere(sp?) was actually the person who invented the word 'puke'? I know that was really random but that's one of the things I learned from 8th grade english that really struck me as important. So I hung out with them all day, pretty much the only time I wasn't with them was when I was when I couldn't find them because I was stupid. It was after Pillar played(which was an amazing show, way better than the first time I saw them, I mean, Rob's screams, they were just terrific) and I was going to buy some of their merch but I saw the t-shirts were 25 bucks! I mean they're an awesome band and I really wanted to have that shirt but not for that price, I mean, I probably wouldn't have been able to eat the next day if I had bought that! So I got out of line and looked for them, but I didn't see them anywhere around the merch stand(which was stupidly the only place I looked)so I figured they went to the Kutless show(for those of you who are wondering, the line up for the night was Thousand Foot Krutch, they were awesome, I actually cried during "This is a Call"; Pillar, as I mentioned before, awesome; Kutless, I didn't get to see them, but I really did care much to anyways; Relient K, naturally, awesome, they were my favorite due to some natural bias that I possess)so I started walking that way. We weren't allowed to be walking around with less than 3 people in a group so this really was a big no-no, it's a darn good thing I didn't see Pastor Drue, lol. But I did see Frank and Amanda on the way. Amanda said that she was going to go look for Stephanie(Travis' sister) partly because she would know Travis' cell phone number so I could call and at least let them know that I'm really not lost or kidnapped or dead or something. Well we were right beside a restaurant so I told Frank that I was going to get something to eat and he asked me to get him a water since he was really losing his voice from screaming all night. I forgot to mention that Frank was actually standing in line for the upcoming rk show and to get it out of the way, he ended up getting VIP passes for the show so their seats were front and center. Well I missed all of Kutless just because I was in line for my food for that long. Travis and them said they went over there but left because there weren't seats or they didn't really care for them too much or something. Well Frank offered for me to come sit with them, which would have been awesome because I would have been right there and would have actually been able to see Dave Douglas, since he is pretty much my favorite, but I declined and went with Travis, Zach, and Christian since being with friends is way more important than where I sit for a concert. Plus if I had went with them, I wouldn't of had so much fun prior to the concert. Like we hung out with some other people we knew from church, they were all Jr. Highers but I really didn't care, I'd been hanging out with Jr. Highers and it's always wonderful to escape all the stupid drama that high schoolers always seem to get wrapped up in. Hehe, ever since we were in line for TFK I started just asking random people to high five me and I continued with it all night, I eventually got Travis and them to join in and even some other people farther back in line started doing it, it was so fun. So once we got inside the venue this kid saw me and we looked so much alike! We had curly hair, glasses, apparently even our faces must of matched. Some of his friends really wanted a picture of us together so we stood beside each other and both did thumbs up while one of his friends took the picture, it was great. Also, these two girls behind me kept talking to me. What was amazing is in a way I kind of made the first move. Basically before the show they both screamed really loud, it hurt my ears! So I turned around and in an awestruck manner said, "Wow." After that they tapped on my shoulder and said, "I like your hair" I said thank you and turned back around since I really had no idea of what to say after that. Then they tapped my shoulder again and kept making common convorsation, it was really nice. It's good to know that there are nice girls who care in this world. It gives me hope. Even though that's not my concern right now, it's just nice to have that comfort now so I won't have to be concerned about it, if that makes any sense. That night when we stayed at the hotel I stayed with Travis and them so that was cool. So that was pretty much the most eventful events of my recent times, other than getting emo glasses, which is pretty much why Leland is mad at me, which is kind of funny really. Also I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" once, it's a really good book, I definately recomend it, I may buy it actually. I'm reading it for the second time though since at the end it reveals a part of him that even he didn't know about and it really can change the reader's outlook on parts of the book. I think I'm going to read a seperate peace, and try out the band The Smiths, they've sounded like they'd be pretty good before but this book really made me want to listen to them, lol. Alright, well happy updatings?
I got an excuse to miss Friday's marching band practice because I was going to Six Flags Magic Mountain for a concert with my church, I didn't tell Ms. K that though, I told her I was going on a religious reteat. Which was basically true. What's funny though is that she probably thinks I'm like Jewish now since it was a Jewish holiday, and everyone calls me "The Jew" because I have a "Jew 'fro" and I happen to have a yamika too. So anyways, the Thursday night before I had to leave we had a football game, I did pretty good playing and marching and stuff, which is definately good. I had a lot of fun too, I even stood up to someone who was being mean to me and Brandon! Unfourntunately she was one of my first friends that I got when I moved here, it sucks when people change for the worse. But that was the absolute beginning of the game so by after halftime I was like having so much fun. One of the band traditions is we always march into the stadium before the game and play "Star Spangled Banner" and our fight song and then we always march out of the stadium when the game is over while the drums play their cadence. Well the week before last we(the sousaphones) really started having fun with how we march back, before we just did the tuba dance but now we started like raising the roof, spinning, and other stuff. I even skanked! It was great, and one of the older sousaphone players said, "Check out Josh!" and "We should learn to do that!" which made me really happy because that's like always been my dream ever since I learned how to skank. Continuing on, the next day I had to wake up at fourinthemorning to get ready so I could get to the church before 6 to go on the trip. So I get there on time and everything and pretty much the only people there that I was already pretty good friends with were Frank and Phil. Well Phil was going to hang out with his girlfriend, Diane, as much as he could so that killed me being able to spend the day with him. So I decided to get on the same van as Frank so I could establish the ablility to hang out with him the whole time. But while I was waiting for us to go the guy(I forget his name and I feel bad because of it) that was going to sit with Frank and me on the ride up informed me that someone wanted to sit on the van we were on because she didn't know anybody or anybody on the other van or something, so I gladly took up the offer. When I was trying to get out of the van since we were in the back seat I decided I'd hop out the back door since it was closer and he(the guy that I forgot the name of) was holding it open so I tried but really, I just fell out the back, it was pretty funny really. There was like a collective gasp from the van then a mixture of laughter and "are you ok?" I said I was fine and walked over to the other bus. Once I got on I incidentily got in the exact same seat as on the other van, I didn't know any of the kids in the same seat as me except that the one kid was the one who pointed me out to someone one time when I was playing bass during worship. They didn't talk to me for a while until that kid(his name's Christian, coincidentily) asked what kind of bass I had. I don't think I ever really joined in on any of their convorsations until they were talking about moshing and and stage diving, so I told them about when I croud surfed. Once we got there we had basically all become friends(Christian, Zack, Travis and I) so I spent the day in their group. They're all really good, fun guys. I only threw up once during the day, but it was really quick and easy, and I felt a little better after I did it, lol. Plus I didn't even get anything but the groud dirty,not even me. I'm quite proud of that actually. The fact that I didn't get anything but the ground dirty, not the fact that I puked. Did you know that Shakesphere(sp?) was actually the person who invented the word 'puke'? I know that was really random but that's one of the things I learned from 8th grade english that really struck me as important. So I hung out with them all day, pretty much the only time I wasn't with them was when I was when I couldn't find them because I was stupid. It was after Pillar played(which was an amazing show, way better than the first time I saw them, I mean, Rob's screams, they were just terrific) and I was going to buy some of their merch but I saw the t-shirts were 25 bucks! I mean they're an awesome band and I really wanted to have that shirt but not for that price, I mean, I probably wouldn't have been able to eat the next day if I had bought that! So I got out of line and looked for them, but I didn't see them anywhere around the merch stand(which was stupidly the only place I looked)so I figured they went to the Kutless show(for those of you who are wondering, the line up for the night was Thousand Foot Krutch, they were awesome, I actually cried during "This is a Call"; Pillar, as I mentioned before, awesome; Kutless, I didn't get to see them, but I really did care much to anyways; Relient K, naturally, awesome, they were my favorite due to some natural bias that I possess)so I started walking that way. We weren't allowed to be walking around with less than 3 people in a group so this really was a big no-no, it's a darn good thing I didn't see Pastor Drue, lol. But I did see Frank and Amanda on the way. Amanda said that she was going to go look for Stephanie(Travis' sister) partly because she would know Travis' cell phone number so I could call and at least let them know that I'm really not lost or kidnapped or dead or something. Well we were right beside a restaurant so I told Frank that I was going to get something to eat and he asked me to get him a water since he was really losing his voice from screaming all night. I forgot to mention that Frank was actually standing in line for the upcoming rk show and to get it out of the way, he ended up getting VIP passes for the show so their seats were front and center. Well I missed all of Kutless just because I was in line for my food for that long. Travis and them said they went over there but left because there weren't seats or they didn't really care for them too much or something. Well Frank offered for me to come sit with them, which would have been awesome because I would have been right there and would have actually been able to see Dave Douglas, since he is pretty much my favorite, but I declined and went with Travis, Zach, and Christian since being with friends is way more important than where I sit for a concert. Plus if I had went with them, I wouldn't of had so much fun prior to the concert. Like we hung out with some other people we knew from church, they were all Jr. Highers but I really didn't care, I'd been hanging out with Jr. Highers and it's always wonderful to escape all the stupid drama that high schoolers always seem to get wrapped up in. Hehe, ever since we were in line for TFK I started just asking random people to high five me and I continued with it all night, I eventually got Travis and them to join in and even some other people farther back in line started doing it, it was so fun. So once we got inside the venue this kid saw me and we looked so much alike! We had curly hair, glasses, apparently even our faces must of matched. Some of his friends really wanted a picture of us together so we stood beside each other and both did thumbs up while one of his friends took the picture, it was great. Also, these two girls behind me kept talking to me. What was amazing is in a way I kind of made the first move. Basically before the show they both screamed really loud, it hurt my ears! So I turned around and in an awestruck manner said, "Wow." After that they tapped on my shoulder and said, "I like your hair" I said thank you and turned back around since I really had no idea of what to say after that. Then they tapped my shoulder again and kept making common convorsation, it was really nice. It's good to know that there are nice girls who care in this world. It gives me hope. Even though that's not my concern right now, it's just nice to have that comfort now so I won't have to be concerned about it, if that makes any sense. That night when we stayed at the hotel I stayed with Travis and them so that was cool. So that was pretty much the most eventful events of my recent times, other than getting emo glasses, which is pretty much why Leland is mad at me, which is kind of funny really. Also I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" once, it's a really good book, I definately recomend it, I may buy it actually. I'm reading it for the second time though since at the end it reveals a part of him that even he didn't know about and it really can change the reader's outlook on parts of the book. I think I'm going to read a seperate peace, and try out the band The Smiths, they've sounded like they'd be pretty good before but this book really made me want to listen to them, lol. Alright, well happy updatings?