I promisethat someday i will :
- do lots of traveling
- develop the thousands of pictures on my computer
- take some sort of recreational class

Today during history, we all snuck into a truck, pressed buttons and wore headphones. It made me feel excited and like a newsreporter. Except the lady was vicious and barked at people.
toodles.

Black friday. i love it. we woke up super early and went shopping.
I got some nice things.
Why do i feel so festively christmasy this year. (but thats a good thing)
I had a strange dream where i stood by a coffin and stared at this man laying there, for a long time. Next to him was this head in this glass tube. I have a feeling that part is from watching too many epsiodes of futurama.

Last night.

i feel miserably bored and tired.
one of those gloomy days when you do absolutely nothing..
but i did make this.

hi.

Leah's post from last year's trip to New York inspired me to post pictures of this summer's China trip. Overall, it was pretty fun. We saw Mao Zhe Dong's preserved body, celebrated my mom and grandma's birthday, went to a planetarium, the mountains, a concert, some shows, The forbidden city, lots of shopping places, night markets in the streets, met a little old lady with binded feet(tramatized for a while but was later distracted by cookies),and took the bus just about everywhere.

mountains. we also went on a boat ride on the lake.

forest in the mountains
tianamen square

streets of wong fu jing

buddhist temple/buildings

Happy Thanksgiving!

The communist cupcake.
I thought alot about communists today for some reason.
also, just in case you were wondering-Boleyn is actually "Bullen" but the first one just looked fancier so it was changed.

cover of Horizon, A magazine of the Arts, July 1960

something about his face and posture reminds me of Hitler

As i skimmed through my blogs, i realized everything was all slightly random. I dont really like that, so from now on, each post will have a specific "topic".

I have this fossil of a number of trilobites and i've never really looked at it carefully before until a few days ago. Then all these thoughts came to my mind and i wondered how old they were, how they died, and what exactly were they? So i did some reseach in my A Short History of Nearly Everything and discovered some new things. They existed more than 300 million years ago, there are lots of different types. It got me thinking of how exciting archeology is ... I imagine myself wearing brown shorts, a green shirt, and a backpack with a camera, brushes, a handy pocket book called" A HANDY POCKETBOOK FOR ARCHEOLOGISTS" exploring the dangerous mountains of Peru. Then i'd be world famous for discovering lost cities, artifacts, new species of dinosaurs, and a strange breed of penguins..etc.

This exact piece of rock existed at the time of just about everything.

oh and:
"Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take. But as for me give me liberty or give me death!"

we made nice little3-d geometric shapes by cutting and gluing them and then finding the surface area. then we took a not so nice little quiz.

at lunch, we had a nice feast of cheesy bread with marinara and garlic sauce!

1999.
1999.

and she sat in the coconut shell waiting.

I must say, i do like bell peppers. At costco a few days ago, my mom and i were grocery shopping. So im sauntering around the freezing vegetable room and then there it is. A transparent bag full of red,yellow, and orange bell peppers.-looking like oversized christmas lights. I also like the green ones.

As i was organizing my bookshelf, i found my Little House on the Prairie book!(only the best book ever..) I felt nostalgic looking through it and the pictures. It brought me back to my obsession with pioners from 3rd- err it never really ended. Anyways ellen and i would dress up as pioneers and pretend we were pioneer girls. There was a log cabin near the playground but the door was sized for a midget..or perhaps 3 year olds too. But the cabin was filled with centipedes,ants and other unpleasant things. So we'd take the logs apart and build our own cabin. After berrypicking, mushing preserves, gathering bark, sand, flowers, lemons, and water, we'd start playing. We would often go to town(the playground) on our "horses" aka scooters and purchase daily nessesscities. Bandits often attacked us and rode our horses away.

"in a valley the wagon stuck fast in deep black mud.Rain poured down and thunder crashed and lightning flared. There was no place to make a camp and build a fire

ho ho ho.

never have i wasted more time in one day-yesterday.
This morning after i awakened after my strange dream, i ate triscuits. Then i spent 30 mintues sharpening colored pencils and that resulted in blisters.
I cant wait till winterbreak. We're(ellen,leah,and i and some others) hitting the slopes with snow, hot chocolate, and all that other good fun-ness.

drew these back in 1998 or so. The first one is arthur, you know, the ardvark cartoon character on PBS. Apparently he's holding a juice box and a carrot and has hair ribbons.
this is suposed to be a horse.

i wish i had a tree house

where i can read
with chimps who live in the tree

with a big wooden swing

with a telescope

and toucans

singing and sqauking.

Saturday was dandy. It was the Make-a-wish pancake breakfast. Hiroki, Michelle, and I sat at a table with crayons and "face sticks"(for face painting) and we painted little kid's faces. I made a list of options with Pikachua, a christmas tree, a sun, a snowman, a heart, and a butterfly. This little girl pointed at the pikachu so i began to draw on her face but her face was so tiny i couldnt fit anything on! We all painted 4-6 faces and had trouble painting some peculiar things they wanted us to draw. So to sum it all up, little kids are adorable and pancakes are good.

crazy poptart boys screetching like jaguars while we're walking through a dark foresty trail is not pleasant.

boo!

i sometimes scare myself too.

everything feels so gloomy now. even when its sunny.

after school ellen and i made ramen.

we were bored outta our minds.

-playing with her wooden train track with the navigatable trains and painted animals wasnt as fun anymore.

we used to spend hours doing that 6 years ago.

worldly llove

send a smile my way
someone went wrong during his creation.

hallelujah.

I lololove my new Futurama Season 3 dvd and my shiny new book.
Saturday- spent the whole day doing homework.
Sunday- Maggie's sweet 16th birthday party. Rollar skating. Disco balls. Colors. Candy. Cake. fun fun fun!

It feels like christmas.

Maggie :)

Andrea+Vannie

la de da. it took 10 mintues to develop!