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Hollaaaaaaaa.

Well into the month of May and it hasn't fully hit me that I have so little time left of high school. What is this blasphemy?! Can't I fail and stay one more year? Oh no, that'd defs ruin my prospects, hahaha.

AIGHT. So lots of stuff has been goin' on and I can't even bother to remember it all. The only thing that sticks out is THE VANCOUVER SUN RUN! :D Hehehe. It was my first ever, and definitely not my last. My parents were all worried that I'd get lost and things would go wrong since thousands of people turn out for this but it was CAKE! My time could have definitely been better but as this was my first time I allowed myself to take my precious time and snap a few (or a lot) of pictures along the way and just bond with mes amis. NEXT YEAR, I'll run and aim for a better time than the one I got. Originally we had all planned to dress up as 80s girls and boys but we all freaked out 'cause of the cold morning weather on the forecast and backed out (BUT HEY, I STILL WORE MY YELLOW HEADBAND). I personally didn't want to, but everyone else chickened out, what losers. Anyway, I woke up at 7:30? in the morning for this, which I think is totally wrong seeing as I'm running on so little sleep already, but again, this was so worth it. We skytrained all the way to Burrard and was one of the last waves to start, I think. Walking/jogging and running the last kilometre to Stadium? Pshhhh, EASY PEASY. Well, definitely not as hard as some people think, but still some serious cake people. CAKE.

The day before that I went to Kimb's house for some chillage, Superstore run for some OJJJJJJJ and then we went to zee mall. I went and ate at TOGO SUSHI! :) What a success thaaat day was!

Hummm, dunno if I mentioned it before but I received the B.C. Secondary School Summit Entrance Scholarship from SFU a few weeks back (oh now I remember writing about it), and just yesterday I got in the mail my notice that I had won the SFU Surrey Entrance Award as well! I left school early 'cause of spare and was in the car driving home when I opened the envelope. I was sooo happy 'cause I honestly thought my application was rejected, but turns out that it 'twas not!!! I submitted my application MONTHS ago, seriously - must have been in early January? I put together my letter of recommendation, my nomination form, the application itself and the essay about why I deserved it and before I knew it I was handing it in to the SFU Surrey offices, and I thought about it almost everyday until the last few weeks. I pretty much thought I didn't get it since my friend Jayna who won it last year said she found out she won mid-April, and mid-April was long gone. Just sucks that SFU only lets me keep one scholarship, even if you get multiple ones from them. Since I received the Summ Entrance Scholarship and now the SFU Surrey Award, they will definitely only let me keep the one of higher value now, and that would be the Summit Award. All that time writing the essay and putting my application together for the Surrey Award gone to waste I suppose, but not really!! Since I still am invited to their Banquet for the award winners and I get free food/prizes/a picture with the director of Explorations, which is the program I was accepted into at SFU Surrey :D Very excited for that indeed. And now I am reminded that I must still RSVP to the banquet before May 21st, hahaha. I SHALL GET ON THAT AFTER I WRITE ALL THIS. I am still very bummed though that technically I should have raised at least $5200 in scholarship money, but oh well. I have the knowledge that I won, and knowledge is power!! Yes, yes it is :).

Today was a LOVELY day, thanks to my LOVELY double spare <3 Three hour break spent at Hawthone park, sitting on Kimbo's pink picnic mat chillin' like a villain, the ultimate defintion of CHILLAX. The sun was so awesome today, and the wind was there too so we weren't baking - UGH, we totally need more days like this before school ends. And since Genina and Donald were in charge of food it was even more chill. The sprinklers at the water park even came on while we were driving away, and we totally made Donald back the car up so that we could run around beneath it :) Soaked ourselves a little bit in our good clothes but after the 30 second run around the water we rushed back to Doe's car and got his seats wet a little, but OH WELL, TOTALLY WORTH IT :) The sun beating down on us and the skies so pretty, where are days like this when we need them most? HMMM?

BTW!!!! This week, my school TOTALLY HOSTED THE BEST SPEAKERS. We had a Holocaust survivor come and talk to the Socials 11, History 12 and a few other classes in the community building, and that was INTENSE. This guy is either really lucky or truly blessed. It's both of course. He was seperated from his sister by the gestapo, sent to "labour camp" after labour camp, and then was ultimately sent to Auschwitz (the worst Nazi death camp) with 4000 other Jews. Of the 4000, only FOUR survived, INCLUDING him. Talk about slim chances. God bless him and all the souls lost during this terrible event the world hosted, I pray it never happens again, truly!! Btw, his name was Peter Parker, and no Spiderman jokes! I just think that's awesome.

The other guest speaker we had was Kevin Brooks, he went to Lords Tweedsmuir, which is a high school in my district. He's paralyzed now, and has been for almost ten years, because he was drinking and driving. It was the weekend of his little sister's graduation and was partying the whole time, got into his car with a friend and totally wrecked his car and his life - it was such an inspirational, moving speech. He may be paralyzed, but his friend died in the car wreck, and now he has to live with it everyday. He told us everytime we think life sucks, to wiggle our toes, and we'll know life isn't alway as bad as we think. I know I felt like bawling my eyes out every once in a while during his speech, but I held myself, and I'm just glad he made EVERYONE in the gym aware. Please guys, don't be stupid enough to drink and drive, or get into a car with someone you know was drinking. You risk not only your life but someone else's, which is the worst thing of all. BE SMART KIDS, or I'll send Kevin Brooks to you myself and he'll tell you what's up.

Anyway, I have had quite some homework these last few days. And I thought this would be a chill semester, huh? For the most part it has been but I literally have homework everyday, and when I finish it one day, I get some MORE the next. It's seriously a never-ending cycle that is really starting to frustrate me because I never have a moment where I DON'T have any homework. At least this happened once in a while last semester, but it's non-existant in this one. What oh what have I gotten myself into!

Anyway, I seriously should get started on my homework (which of course, I have plenty of), and RSVP to the SFU Surrey Banquet. Okay. I should probs learn how to breathe since despite winning these things I'm still pressing my nose to the books, hardcore man. When I look at it like this, then I cannot WAIT for summer. But knowing I'll never go back, sometimes I'd want summer to never come at all :( HIGH SCHOOL, WHY ARE YOU SO INTENT ON LEAVING ME SOON? UGH.

Appreciate the time you have left in high school, be good, and wiggle your toes!!
See y'all laterrrrrrr :)
- Gee ('cause I'm so G, mwahaha).