first of all, this just, ahh, cant really quite describe it. i said to myself i would never get one of these things, but i think it will really help. i finally brought myself to do one of these, and i just hope my friends think im a hypocrite, thats the last thing i need. lately things have been extremely stressful, im not going in to detail. i figured id describe myself a bit for this first entry. my name is andy, and im a highschool sophomore as of now. 16, finally, my birthday was a few days ago. i enjoy school because i like learning but my teachers can be a hassle. im in band, marching band, jazz band, symphonic band, and i was even in a ska band for while. Im lead trumpet, yea i play trumpet woot, in our second jazz band. Hopefull ill get good enough for next year to be lead in jazz one, which is number 1 in the state. but dont get me wrong im not a complete bando, as we like to call ourselves. im in drama as well. my first play ever this year, a winters tale by shakespear, gave me a lot of experience. in fact, its going to NATIONALS in nebraska, how cool is that. one of ten from some european countries, japan, and the US. gosh its so exciting. my role was Florizel, prince of bohemia. so yeah im also a theatre junkie, as i like to call it, or rather a bitechtual, cause i enjoy being a techie also, building sets moving props onstage, stuff like that, and acting too, wow that was a run-on, but screw english now. as of two years ago i was a "jock" as they call it now, baseball was my passion, i made the school team in 8th grade but the guys didnt like me much so i didnt try out the next year. ive always enjoyed sports and im pretty good at most of them. also, im in the IB program, international cant spell the rest, baccelureuate or something, i dont feel like looking it up. so yeah its basically all AP classes with some variation. im only taking it because im not in the boundaries of the school i go to. but then again i enjoy it, its a great challenge but it can be stressful sometimes. supposedly it looks good on college aplications if i can get the IB diploma. anyway i want to point out that ive moved quite a bit, and im glad ive settled down in highschool. been to about 7 differnt schools, a different middle school each year, but thankfully only two states. i lived in az, had good friends, but then moved to cali, made friends there, then had to move again, but ironically i moved back to the same town in az, and i saw all my old friends, but they forgot about me, which really crushed me. but its been 2 years now and im happy with the friends i have now. bandos, theatre kids, IB'ers, or just average kids. so thats my opinion, i have it pretty well, but ive experienced some bad things in life so it isnt like im stuck up, or conceited, or arrogant, or whatever, i hope no one got that from what ive said, ive done a lot of things and so ive experienced a lot, and i can relate to so many people, but it seems like hardly anyone i know can relate to me, thats mostly why i decided to start a diary, also so i can vent on it and not at my friends ....and thats just me, the life of a drifter.