reviews

Because I follow John Green's video blog I read Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Its about life and people in a Mumbai, India slum. Its non-fiction but its told like a story and I got kinda bored in the middle and then I remembered it was non-fiction and then I started to like it. Books like this make me so thankful I live in such a wealthy, beautiful, clean country. Corruption has a different name in India- its all government. The two are synonymous. At least in America we still fight it and talk about it. It shed light on a very real people- it didn't romanticize the poor in any way. It was raw and I liked it. It was hopeful but not in american-cookie-cutter kind of way. The hope was that they were still alive, still struggling to survive in a world that did nothing for them.Yesterday I read (in yes, a single day) The Da Vinci Code. It was a nice breather literately after the intense reality of Btbf but it was a different kind of intense in that I could not put it down and did my fair amount of screaming in my pillow. It was like reading an action movie. I also think I will now see pagan symbols in my daily life but it was super interesting. The chalice and the sword symbols were so cool (especially when they became the star of David- that blew my mind) and a lot of the facts presented were stuff that I already knew- like the fact that the Catholic church incorporated pagan stuff (Dec 25 for winter solstice and Christmas), that the Bible is highly edited and revised but this book took it to a whole new level. I also have heard the possibility that Christ and Mary Magdalene were married and I know that the catholic church had a monopoly on the information and that there were very corrupt people that were in power. The unity/ yin and yang of men and woman in the pagan symbols was fascinating. I think there is some truth in it but mostly it was just interesting to think about. Major food for thought.

Graduation

SEMINARY GRAD

More bucket list stuff

MIM? Check.

School

So I realized that you can miss 9 days a semester and I have only missed 4 so this week I missed Monday and Wednesday to wakeboard and Friday to go hiking.
BEST WEEK EVER

PROM- part 1

DAY ACTIVITY- We went shooting and I shot my first gun and that was cool. The hand gun was my favorite. I AM JAMES BOND. Haha jklol I shot the target once

And on a totally unrelated note I went to the wanted concert last night
The Wanted is like 1D's cool older brother- he is kinda cool, but they are from the same family

It ended up being a lot of fun-we went for Kate's little brother Cole who is autistic because they are his favorite. Plus we went to In-n-out afterwards so it was all worth it

This had better be worth it....

I got my nails done form prom tomorrow and I CANT DO ANYTHING. who said this was beautiful?! what a random refuse part of culture that having white tipped glued on plastic on your finger nails was cool?! I would like to egg their house. I do feel quite fancy though and a, having issues not calling everyone darling.

Also this my my frosted flakes for dinner. ignore the face.

Again ignore the face, the camera was not loving me today but  DO NOT LIE THIS IS THE COOLEST SHIRT EVER.  It finally came! I love it.

Anyway prom is tomorrow and frankly its stressing me out because i have to look pretty and my nails are done and we are going shooting for the day activity and I HAVE TO WEAR LIPSTICK and its just a lot.

 I am spontaneously going to The Wanted concert tonight with Kate so that should be fun and tomorrow is going to be crazy and then next weeks is ap tests and personal finance and biology final. And a choir concert. But then I just have my ap gov test the next week and that is basically it for the whole rest of the year.