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Saigon South International School. Wow.

Last night I began the necessary preparations. I painted my fingernails a smashing emerald green, laid out my Marrano heart neckalce and my rainbow chain link earrings, and tried to sleep. No success, I couldn't pursuade myself that worrying was a futile excersize.

This morning I awoke to Anne asking me if I was "among the living." Haha, I pulled on the slightly scandalicious skort and the not at all scandalous polo shirt, pulled my hair into the ever popular French twist (fancy name for jsut clipped it to my head) and went downstairs to eat a bowl of Applejacks and leave for school.

On the walk to school, Anne kept taking pictures. Gag, here I am trying with all my might not to turn around an drun home and she has to document it. agh.

Upon arrving at school, I headed for the office and was intercepted by the guidance counselor. I was immediatley grouped with Nicloe, another new student in my grade who was born in Singapore and has spent the last however many years in a boardong school in Australia. Wow. She and I had different homerooms, but the same lunch and many of the same classes.

My first class was a double block of Spanish. OH MY GOD. I thought myself fairly talented at Spanish, but NO. I know NOTHING. The class, imagine this, is held in ALL SPANISH. And some bright young chica decided to have some fun with the new kid. I had to come to the front of the room and demonstrate just how much of an idiot I am. Theys all got to ask me questions, and then I had to ask all of THEM questions. AGH! So yeah, that was that.

Next was a break. This is a foreign concept to me. I am told you get twenty mintues to just sit in the cafeteria and talk. Odd...anyway, I spent my break running around trying to find books. Anne helped with that. It is a good thing to have her so close. A girl from my Spanish class whose name I could not spell to save my soul came with because the math teacher told her to. She was really nice. That's one thing I noticed today, everyone is so outgoing and nice. They all know what it's like to be the new kid. It was really cool.

Anyway, Algebra 2 followed break. It was basically a blur. Haha, I learned that not only is stupid Mr. Coleman stupid, he was also behind. It gives me no small satisfaction to note that my new class is miles ahead of my old one. This might cause me problems later, but for now it is amusing. Highly amusing. HAHA!

Double English followed A2. Mr. Klar, the teacher I met at the dinner party, was glad to see me. The other new girl, Nicole, was in that class as well. It was really good to have an ally, especailly since neither of us has read Lord of the Flies. The class watched the movie today. I think I really must read the book, because I was confused.

Lunch was next. I sat with Nicole and this other girl Nicole met earlierr in the day. I didn't eat, because I was intimidated by the line. Nicole apparently was too, because she didn't eat either. Anne came up to me during lunch and told me how the line works, so I'll be better armed tomorrow.

Brief break after lunch, Nicloe and Ihung out in the computer lab with some other girls. Then the much anticipated DRAMA!

Wow again. What a cool class. I found out that only myself and this rather attractive boy called Adam had ever done any serious drama before. We did an activity to learn names and break down barriers. We each had to touch each other in a different way. Don't be gross, think elbows and feet. The limits were set down before we began. Oh! I almost forgot. Haha, my drama teacher in the States was Mr. Glenndenning, a.k.a. "G". My new drama teacher is Mr. Graziano, a.k.a. "Mr. G". Haha

Biology followed. I heard some kid whining about how weird Mr. G is. I chimed in that duh, he's a drama teacher, he's supposed to be weird! Bio seems like it will be much easier than anything Flemdawg threw at us. Bio went quickly. Sooo..now I must dash to my homework. Bye Bye loves!
OOh, RENT moment
"Goodbye love, just came to say goodbye love...goodbye.
Just came to say goodbye love..."
Haha