S-S-SUmmer

I am slightly allergic to cats. I usually don't pet ours and hold my breath in the garage where they live. But today I had the morning to myself so I went outside to lie in the sun for awhile and Tish wandered up and I made the mistake of petting her. She would not leave!! I was out there reading my bible and lying on my stomach, and she walked around me-against me- about 7 times. Purring...meawing...being a cute little kitty. She walked under my chin and pushed up her back to rub against my face and I tryed pushing her away and she just sat down on my bible...then she got up and climbed onto my back and attempted to balance by digging in her claws..haha.. then she sat at my feet and reached out her paws and stretched so her claws came out and touched my legs just enough to prick... That was o.k....but then I looked back at her and noticed hair all over my shorts and on the towel all around. Up until that I was dealing with it because she's cute..but the hair is what drives me crazy. That cat smell too. When I was at Kev and Sarah's last saturday I was sitting in one of our lawnchairs from home and I said to a few people that when I sat at that side of the circle I could smell cats... It wasn't until I got home and opened my trunk that I found out that it was the chair, and that the cat had really drenched it because it absolutely reeked. What's worse is that even though I removed the chair, I can still smell it when I turn on my air conditioning. siiigh.
Colour class at school is finally over. The test yesterday went fine. Last week, I was studying every free minute, and so was Qimei, but she was scared about the test because she doesn't speak or read English so well. Natalie didn't study at all. So on friday Natalie was scared, and Qimei was so scared she didn't sleep the night before, and I wasn't scared at all. Big surprise when both of them got better marks than me. Qimei mostly guessed but got 98%. only 2 questions wrong. I was so amazed because she told me she didn't read the whole question, just enough to make a connection with one of the answers (multiply choice) and then she picked it. (!!!) Natalie got 92% and then I got my paper back and it said 88% !!!! I was like " what!!" But then I checked with my teacher because Natalie got 4 more wrong answers than I did so it didn't make sense. Turns out I got 97% so I'm happy I said something. In Highschool I never would say anything, even if I didn't agree with the mark. All nerves I tell you. grr

Dah Dah daaah

Gloria at school- bad sentence start- There is this woman named Gloria at school, and she is older, from africa, and was a hairdresser there, and had already taken the color class once in my school, is taking color class with me. But she doens't know or try to know any thing about color, she just comes over to my station and gets me to say word for word what I wrote so that she can write it down. She came over and moved my book from on top of my notes and copied what I had written. It won't help her, because all the formulas are different depending on the natural color of the hair to begin with. But it's frustrating...the other day she got into class late and my teacher was telling us what to highlight in our textbook and gloria got behind, so she comes up to me and says, "here, you fill it in for me, I don't know what she said." and she dumps her book in my lap. She is the only other christian at school, and she knows I am one, so I feel like I have to watch what I do even closer with her than with anyone else. Which could be good, but not when she takes advantage..right? Whatever. I've seen her do that with a lot of the other girls, so I started telling her to "go ask the teacher, go ask the teacher, go ask the teacher"

Katie and I ran around in the rain tonight. Soaking. Have you ever noticed how everythings feels closer when it's raining? We were out on our circle in bare feet and it was raining so hard that that's all we could hear, but we could see everything perfectly and it was like being in a movie, or a walled in area. So much action around us, but all the houses were still and there was no one out but us. It was so cool. Katie pointed out the 'wangdoodles" dancing all around us. :)

Tomorrow we are coloring our mannequins. ooh..I have such a good idea for mine. It's going to be smokin'. Hopefully Gloria can do her own without help. I enjoy helping Qimei, because I can understand why she needs help. Gloria just comes across as lazy to me. Qimei has to look up every other word in her chinese/english dictionary. She's so cute- we went shopping at Suzy tonight but they only have these sizes: 00, 0, 1, 3, 18, 22, 34, 50, 82 I'm not any of those.haha..Qimei picked up a t-shirt that was off-white and said, "Bleach you think? 10 volume? Ask Miss?" HAha..
(Uhhh, just so you understand that;
we have a black and white dress code, so off-white doesn't qualify;
we are learning to bleach hair;
volume is what is mixed with the color just before applying to the hair;
and Miss is what we call our teacher. )

This is why people don't explain inside jokes, you just really have to be there sometimes.

Anyway, I'm going to bed
TIP* don't inhale Marvel hairspray

My Weekend

I'm downloading pictures off my camera and I'm transferring three times to get the photos into different categories. There must be an easier way.

On friday night I went to Crabby Joe's with some old highschool friends. I had coconut shrimp...and wow..try it...you don't get a lot for your money, but it was amazing. You have to like both shrimp and coconut to like this(just so you know:). We went to Angela's after and walked to her barn in the dark. 7 girls and one flashlight...that was fun. I was wearing Angela's Dad's rubber boots and the rubber was so thick that my legs bounced back when I bent my leg to walk. Pretty funny-too bad it was so dark, it probably looked funny too.

I took a picture of Katie napping in the van on the way to Grandma's on sunday. If I was that mean I'd post it. It's one of those nostril view pictures. :D

Saturday Evening was the praise night. It was good and bad. Bad because I wasn't in the right mindset-it was a huge mental battle for awhile. It's so great to see so many people come out though. Every time we have it I wish I was more involved. But guitar really didn't stick, piano didn't either, and my singing is average at best. So I just watch. But there's a lot of stress involved, so when I see that I'm glad I'm one of the people who just comes. I think the living worship team does really well, even when there are emergencies like no drums. :) I won't try to tell the story behind that because I'll get it wrong!

On Sunday we went to Grandma's for Mother's Day. My Grandpa tried to get me to go to their youth service so I could meet "some young guy" but I told him I wasn't interested and that boys are trouble. He seemed alright with that. He pesters me to get a boyfriend until something actually happens- then it's all warnings about being too young and 'is he good enough'. It's nice to understand your grandpa. Grandma's flowers and cats are flourishing. I think 17 cats in the shed at last count. I get scared that some day they are all going to attack her when she's bringing their food...they are so wild. At least she doesn't have them in the house.

I was sad that there was no GBS/MC last night. I think I probably needed it. Wah.

Oma

My Great Grandmother (Oma) died today at age 91. Needless to say it hasn't been a great day. I don't have a lot of experience with getting that sort of news. It was right during supper and I finished eating after awhile but it really didn't sit well. My whole family is so thankful for the way she went. It was simply old age and the things that come with it, so praise God! Mom is thankful also that she got to see her last week before things got bad.
My Mom and Dad and I went to the AOC finale tonight, even though we had just heard the news, and it was a beautiful concert. I was moved by that concert more than I have by any choir concert in a long time. The only thing was I kept getting teary eyed because my emotions were right there waiting for something to set them off. bad bad... A youth leader had a slight tremor in her voice from emotion... and I was crying, Ryan talked about the song he wrote and why he wrote it and I was crying. I even cried during the thank yous. :S

My day started wonderful and went downhill, but at the moment I'm feeling really good. This morning I drove around for 2 hours trying to find a way through the protest in Caledonia ...oh man..long story. Basically I chose the wrong day to be heading that way, and I talked to the wrong person about directions on how to get around. He was a genius I tell you!

Anyway, if anyone who saw me tonight thought I was quiet and maybe a bit green, you know why. Ha! It was a great concert though, I saw a lot of people I don't see very often anymore. I saw a guy I know who lives in Dundas and while I went to school there I saw him often as I was walking to my car after class and we'd walk by eachother and I could tell he recognized me so I smiled at him every day, but he never said hi. I didn't either because I wanted to see if he would be able to place where he'd seen me before. Never happened. I said hi tonight and he seemed scared/confused so I didn't push it.

Julie-see you saturday:)