The last day evverrrr!!

So, today was the last real day of school! Hooray! However, I have exams for the next three days :(. Once I get through with that then summer is here! This year has truly been torture, chemistry and geometry have been my WORST ever! I have my AP U.S. History exam tomorrow (APUSH) then, I have my chemistry and english exams on wednesday followed by my latin and math exams and then I am done!!!!!! YAYYYYY :D

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Gloomy weather affects the best of us.

Summer in the heart of Alabama. I know what you're thinking, "oh, how lovely, I bet it is extremely warm with a nice summer breeze flowing through the air, making it a perfect day". WRONG. This has been the rainiest year I have ever known. This year during football season, the Rockettes (my danceline at school) were made to dance through the downpour, slip on the muddy field and live with mildewy smelling flags. Man, I guess I must sincerely love to dance to have put up with all of that nonsense. Now, on the verge of summer, instead of a lovely day it rather looks like the end of the world is coming. This type of weather tends to make me a rather downcast, unsociable person.

Hope to God you catch me on a sunny day.

Blogging?

Well, as this is my first ever blog post, I would like to make it somehow comical or witty but alas those things are unlikely to occur as this week marks the end of life as every high-schooler knows it. EXAMS. Yes, the very word should cause any redblooded American who has somehow come out of high school unscathed to shudder. I am quite perturbed that I am spending my time making this blog when I should be acquainting myself with the materials that will likely be sucking my soul out in the ensuing days; however, I tend to find I am quite the procrastinator. For a self proclaimed nerd such as myself I find this extremely perplexing.... I guess I am a more picky nerd then others. I would rather dramatically (and quite poetically might I add) throw myself off an extremely high cliff in England (preferably the one Keira Knightly stood on in Pride and Prejudice) than spend an inkling of my time working out a math or far more horrifying, chemistry problem. However, I would be quite content to stay in my hovel of a corner reading countless books and creeping out of my spot only when food and water became imperative to my continued life. Oh, the smell of a book. For some, it brings along the dread of opening a school book that you are forced to read; indeed, most of my peers would rather die instead of reading. I find the aroma of books to be quite soothing, especially the great ancient ones which you know must have had countless hands hold them and experienced the live's of countless people. Yes, these books with a story must be the best. Every time I take my copy of Pride and Prejudice in my hands (obtained from the Jane Austen House in Bath, England) I feel a smile start to creep up onto my face, as I start to imagine wildly unlikely stories that tend to express my girlish fantasies. Oh, how cruel to have been born decades, perhaps centuries too early. To have lived in the 1940's or to have been in England when Jane Austen lived... I might have died with happiness. I like to imagine being a young girl then, of proper marrying age and having the most intensely handsome stranger enter my life, and sweeping me off my feet and pursuing the most proper of courtships ending with marriage and happily ever after. Of course, there must be some protest, maybe my father disapproves or there is another suitor making problems but the happiness must always shine through. I always tend to skip the possibility of sadness in my dreams of an impossible life. One can always hope, though. Sadly, I will have to continue dreaming of the possibilities of a more ancient life. I must be content with the cards I have been dealt. I find this increasingly easier to do as I grow older and am able to experience more of the world. Having been all over Italy (the land of my forefathers) and most recently, England, I find that globe-trotting suits me. I am perfectly happy to just explore cities that have had a glimpse of the past, and the interesting character's that I meet along the way make me even more content where I am. Indeed, the possibilities are endless for a hopeless dreamer and romantic like myself.

Until next time, Valeo amicus.