hey dudes, sup? hmmm...where to start with today?! well i woke up, got ready for school and looked purty good. then when my mom got home from taking my bro's to school she decided to drive me down to the bus stop that way i wouldn't have to wait in the rain. the bus came, i got out of the van and started walking toward the bus. all of us were walking and then all of a sudden a big bolt of lightning struck the sky and after that a humungous clap of thunder came. it was SOOOOO loud and everybody like ducked and laughed and i said 'that was awesome!!'. lol. all day it rained on and off. there was this really fun part tho. well idk if i've told ya'll, but my team has to be out in the portables instead of in the building. so anyways...it was lunch time and it was just POURING down rain! so my teacher eventually sent us 3 at a time to take off down the sidewalk, up the stairs, and into the building. i had on my highheel/sandals so i had to take those off and run barefoot. all along the sidewalk there were huge puddles and especially at the bottom of the steps! so i got my feet all wet with sand and crap and the bottoms of my pants were SOAKED!...i was laughing my butt off the whole time i was runnin' tho. lol. so then we got to lunch and yeah we were just all soaked while all the others were dry and purty. but i still had fun. then at 1:30 we left to go to our recognition ceremony. we had to wait in the hall for like 30 min. while they got all the parents seated and everything so that was kinda boring. then finally we got to go into the gym and take our seats and as we entered there was 'flash flash flash flash' everywhere! and the whole gym had parents on the bleachers and it was really cool! first we did the pledge, the band played the star spangled banner, and we even had some ppl go down the isle thingy with the american and s.c. flag and those big white gun things. it was cool. then they did all their boring speaches....and it was until they started calling ppls names that i found my mom in the audience. :-) when it was my teacher's time to go up on the stage and call out everybody's name from our team, i was shakin' like crap. then she called my name and i stood, and my mom took a pic. that was basically it tho. then we went outside and talked a little, even tho we were supposed to be gettin' to class, lol. then i noticed in the sky that there was a line like the bottom of the sky was lighter than the top so i told everyone that it meant rain was CLOSE!! so we took off runnin' after i told them down to the portables. it was funny. we got there just in time too cuz it started rainin' not long afterwards. for a present we got some mugs and our certificate. the 8th graders got to leave class early and go wait in the gym so we could get to the buses before everyone else (6th and 7th graders). on the way there we went outside and had to run AGAIN cuz wind was blowing EVERYWHERE and it was rainin' like CRAP!! but it was fun again :-D. oh yeah...the rat i was talking about, storm, well we put her to sleep. idk if i told you but she had a huge tumor and it was just gettin' hard for her to move around...so we decided to go ahead and do it. when i came home from school we wrapped her up in paper towels and went outback to bury her. the good thing is that i'm gonna probably get another rat this weekend! i'm even gonna try and train her (we are not gettin' another male! they pee too much!) to do stuff and it's gonna be fun. rats are like little doggies...they can learn to do tricks and they give you kisses :-). i like to sit on my bed and read a while...and then she comes up and licks me on my face, it's funny! it feels good to know you have an animal that loves you...2 that i've had (emma, and ginger) always gave me kisses and i knew that they loved me. :-) so i had a pretty exciting and nerve wrecking day! i wish chelsea was there...but she had to stay home to go to a wedding. well i gots to go, lyl, bye!! :-D