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If anyone watching me still wants to watch me, go watch that account!

And if you don't want to watch me anymore, then don't watch that account XD, but I hope most of you still want to watch me XD.

See you at my new account! Adios, amigos! :3

I also got my laptop! FINALLY. So I figured it would just automatically hook up to the school's wifi, right? RIGHT? 

WRONG -_______-

The school's wifi is so secure, it makes life a pain for the people who are SUPPOSED to have that wifi XDXD. 

BUT that is also NOT the point of this journal either

Oh yeah, I've also started reading Homestuck. Wish me luck, world. I'm about a 160 pages in... still have a LONG way to go...

I REALLY NEED TO STOP GETTING OFF-TOPIC NOW XDXDXDXD

So, about my novel XD. I've finally decided on there being ONE narrator! And I'm in the middle of my 6th attempt at the prologue, which I think will end up being the FINAL prologue! (I'm typing it on my laptop, yeah, the one that doesn't have wifi. But if it still doesn't have wifi by the time I've finished typing it, I'll just transfer the document onto a flashdrive and put it on a computer that DOES have wifi and post it XD) Yeah, it really took me SIX different drafts to be satisfied. That is the life of a writer XD. It starts out with a short note from the Narrator, then it jumps to 3 different points in time, only minutes apart from eachother, and Walter (AKA the Narrator) is present in each of them. The 3 main protagonists are also mentioned in those 3 points in time, but don't appear in those points of time. XD I know it sounds confusing now, but you will understand soon, I promise!

Anyway, I've also made some decisions about which characters are going to get more of a spotlight. These decisions were based on who I think the readers would be most interesting in, and whose plot had the most conflict. The more conflict there is, the more that readers will care about them and get invested in the story. I read about that in "Writing the Breakout Novel"

MIBS is still one of the main protagonists XD he's such a great kid. His plot sure has a ton of conflict too, but I'm too lazy right now to list all the details. And I don't want to give too much away anyhow, so I'm going to be annoyingly vague!!!

Vanity is replacing Envy as one of the main protagonists. I got bored of Envy's character, which is awko to say but it's true XD. I've also changed Vanity's backstory A LOT from what it originally was 1, 3, 5, and 9 months ago. She has changed A LOT but now I think I've finally decided on her character XD. Let me just say that back when I was first planning this story, literally like 9 months ago or something, she was the villain. Let that sink in. Eeyup, she's jumped from villain to protagonist all thanks to me . Well, she's more of an anti-hero. IDK .

I think I told you guys a little bit about Chad and Espa a few journals ago, and I was planning on putting them at equal importance, but I have been enlightened XD and instead I am making Chad WAY MORE IMPORTANT than Espa because his side of the story has much more conflict than Espa's. Trust me, it really does. And Espa is also a really "dark" protagonist (she's not insane or anything, she's just depressed), and "Writing the Breakout Novel" warned against using protagonists that are super dark. It can be done, but it's super hard to get dark protagonists to be liked. Well, Chad is kind of dark too, but I think, for a variety of reasons, that he would be liked more than Espa if I was doing this the other way around . (Actuallybasedontheconflictifthiswasn'tafantasynovelthanEspawouldbelikedwaymore,butthisisfantasyguysandcrazyshithappensso

I'mmakingthiswaymoreinterestingandmakingtheguywhowouldnormallybehatedbelikedomfgthisiseithergonnaworksuperwellandeverybodyisgonnalovechadorI'mgonnafailmajorlyXDbuteitherwayIcanatleastsayItried ) 

Sssssoooooooo yeah. That's about it. I've changed the narrator and the importance of some characters and that's about it. OH OH WAIT... I also know what the theme is now!!!! That is MAJORLY IMPORTANT! Hurray for theme!

What?! Of course I'm not giving away the theme yet! You have to figure it out for yourselves!

I haven't quite figured out the whole sequence of events yet but I really am happy now because everything is falling into place (for my novel, at least XD)

Then there are the REALLY ANNOYING mean girls. Yeah, there are mean girls. And there's a mean boy too >< . There's "Lacy", who is at least tolerable, "Georgia" (who is unfortunately MY roommate -________-) who is snobby but knows when to keep her mouth shut, and the worst of them is "Laura" (GOD why does everyone's name here start with L ???? I kept the first letter of everyone's names, but changed everything else) who literally had the AUDACITY to say my dinner smelled like old feet (it was my after-fencing dinner of past with red sauce and cheese), threw one of my balloons outside (my mom brought in a bunch of balloons for my room to celebrate my moving in ) which I didn't actually see with my own eyes but saw my balloon outside and figured out what happened, AND when "Shannon", "Alice", "Laura" and I were in the bathroom together (which is SUPER TINY by the way. There's only 2 shower stalls which are really small and your constantly bumping your elbows into something, one toilet stall, and one sink), here's what happened:

Me (at the sink) starts talking to "Shannon" and "Alice" who are both showering

"Laura" walks in and says "Hi, (insert my name here)"

I say "Hi" back and continue talking to my friends

"Laura" asks who else is in the bathroom with me and walks into the toilet stall

I say "Shannon" and "Alice" are with me.

With the door to the stall closed so I can't see her, "Laura" goes right out and says, "Hey, fatty."

My friends and I are stunned silent for 10 seconds or so.

Then we change the subject.

"Laura" flushes and I move out of the way to let her use the sink, and then she walks out.

The three of us silently sigh with relief.

I assume "Laura" was talking to "Shannon" when she said "Hey, fatty" because "Shannon" is a heavy-set girl, but it's a family trait that got carried down to her, I believe, because I've seen both of her parents before and they are also heavyset. Still, that was SO NOT COOL >________< (BUT I had my revenge! Or should I say, poetic justice!!! The next day, I left a note of "Laura"'s door that said, and I quote:

"Is that the best you can come up with?

Sometimes I think your brain is a thing of myth

Have a nice day

Even though your attitude is not okay"

And I signed it with an anagram of my full name which I can't even remember the anagram of because it was so complicated XD.

I was leaving "Katherine"'s room at one point when I saw "Laura" and her crew all huddled around her door, and I was thinking "Oh shit!" and I ducked into my room and closed my door. From outside, I could hear "Laura" say, "Who left this note on my door?!?!?!?!". 

This is our little secret, Internet > XD . But seriously, that was a warning. If she does anything like that again, I'm telling the principal.

But wait, there's more! About the mean boy, who will be called "Alan" in this journal, who is unfortunately in most of my classes (actually, a lot of my classes have more boys than girls in them because although the number of freshman boarding boys and freshman boarding girls is about equal, there are only TWO freshman day student girls (including "Lottie", my day student friend), and a lot of freshman day student boys. Anyway, when I was in my Physics class, we got assigned in partners to do this thing called the Lego Challenge, where we had to build something with a set of legos and write down the exact steps of how we built it so another group could build what we built. Trust me, it was harder than it sounds. 

I was partnered up with one of the international students, who will called "Janice" is this journal, and she came here all the way from China! There's a big number of international girls, most of them are from China, and another freshman girl who is on the cross country team with me is from Taiwan (did I mention there are like 12 boys on the cross country team, and only THREE girls on the team including me, and all of the girls are freshmen? We don't have the strongest girl's team in the world, in short -________- ) "Debby", the Taiwanese girl, recently sprained her ankle at our first meet, and her friend "Eloise", who is from China, walked with her the whole way after. "Debby" has been sitting out of our practices for the past few days, and "Eloise" has 0 running experience, so I've kind of been carrying the girls side of team XD. Fortunately, we have a female coach who keeps our spirits up, and us girls are very supportive of eachother :3 ) 

Anyway, I went off topic. So "Janice" and I are doing the lego challenge, and I'm letting "Janice" do the building and I'm writing the steps because her english skills aren't very good yet. It's just hard to understand her accent and she doesn't know too many words yet, but her grammar is actually pretty good . Then, when we had to build "Alan"'s model, I had her read the directions to me (so I gave her a little challenge, but not too much yet ) and I built the model. 

The funny part was that "Laura" and "Georgia" had to build the model "Janice" and I wrote the directions for, and I constantly used the word "vertically" to talk about how the pieces were positioned, and when we saw their finished project, they obviously didn't know what the word "vertical" meant, because they put all of the pieces HORIZONTALLY XDXDXDXDXD fail.

Okay, but now for the serious part. After we finished building "Alan"'s model, we were pretty inaccurate with it too, and "Alan", who happened to be sitting next to "Janice", while I was also next to "Janice", wasn't very happy about that. "Alan" started giving "Janice" this look.... it's kind of hard to describe... but it was like he was shooting telepathic missiles and daggers or something, and at first we thought he was joking. I asked "Janice", "What is he doing?" and she said "I don't know!" and we started laughing and I waved my hand in front of his face. His expression didn't change, but he looked away after a while. After a few moments, he looked at her again, but his expression was a little different. His eyebrows were raised, like he was trying to say, "Are you really this stupid?". At that point, I knew he wasn't joking. I'm not sure if "Janice" got the message or not, because I was just looking at him, and I'm not even sure who looked away first, because our teacher started talking and we had to pay attention to him.

When we left the room to go to our next class, I saw "Alan" as he was walking out, and he put his hands next to his head in a position that looked like he was shooting himself. Gee whiz, dude. She's still learning english! Give me a break!

Anyhow, the people there that are mean are pretty mean. But the people that are nice are REALLY nice. Including my friends, but also my teachers. First off, my math teacher is FREAKING AWESOME. She seems really enthusiastic about what she does and really patient and considerate and has a good sense of humor and all that good stuff. Thank God, a teacher that can make math tolerable! If some of you don't know already, math is not my greatest subject. My math teacher last year was also awesome, and this teacher is probably just as awesome if not even more so! 

My English teacher reminds me so much of my Dad, I'm not even kidding! And I love my Dad, so naturally, I also love my English teacher XD. He's really serious about people getting along, but he is also bombastic and wacky and goes off topic sometimes, but knows how to make a boring story interesting too. Hurray!

My History teacher (aka World Civilizations teacher) also seems like a cool guy . He likes to be sarcastic sometimes and has a great sense of humor, and he has been giving us some interesting assignments so far, so I don't think I will get bored in his class either XD. Oh yeah, and when he gave the class a two minute break a few days ago and "Katherine" and I were looking at her phone, she pulled up a picture of blob fish. If you don't know what blob fish looks like, it's this really weird looking fish that is kind of pasty pink/white, looks slimy, with black beady eyes, and a big round nose and drooping mouth. My History teacher asked us what we were looking at, and "Katherine" showed him blob fish, and his face lit up with a wide smile and he laughed and asked, "What is that?!" 

My Physics teacher and Spanish teacher don't seem very impressive, but their not horrible either XD. And my skills and academic support teacher seems nice (skills and academic support is pretty much a study hall with benefits XD), he's from Germany and has this weird name that is pronounced in a strange way that only I can pronounce XD (because I'm also German )

The campus is really cool, there's this big pond in the middle of it and ducks usually bathe in there :3 . And it also includes the biggest and oldest spiral staircase in New England . It's a neat place, to say the least XD. (I'm sorry, I don't want to go into too many descriptions and things because I'm super tired XD and I've already spent like an hour on this journal >_____< )

Yeah. I'm WIPED. Absolutely TIRED AS HELL. Cross country every day, fencing for 2 and a half hours three days a week, first week of boarding school, social insanity... it all took A LOT OUT OF ME. When I came home for the weekend, I was so exhausted, you have no idea. On Thursday's fencing practice, I kept failing in my private lesson because I was so tired. I was late to my first class on Friday because I had lost track of time. On Saturday, my eyes were hurting ALL DAY. From morning 'till night. My mom was gonna have me mow the lawn but then was like, "Nahh, I can do it." She said I looked like shit XD. I was speaking slowly and wasn't walking at all, really, I was just zombie-walking XD. I was supposed to go to a fencing competition in New Jersey today and wake up at 3 AM in order to get there, but according to my mom, she COULD NOT wake me up XDXD. So I'm still at home today , that's how tired I am, but I do feel a lot better today than I did yesterday XD.

Well, I gotta eat lunch now XD. That's a wrap. (My mom also just gave me a shoulder massage, it was PAINFUL. I was SO TENSE it's NOT EVEN FUNNY. But I do feel better after that too )

So, I don't know when I'll be back. The latest I'll be back is probably Friday, September 13th O_____o , but that's only if they don't allow us to use the computers at the school for "non-educational purposes". But I think they'll expect boarders there from out of state and out of country who can't return home on most weekends (like I can , but this weekend nobody can because it's closed campus, that's why the latest time I'll be back is NEXT friday) who will want to access the interwebs, so I think they will allow time to do that.

BUT my phone is still broken, so I won't be calling anyone for a while >________< . "Broken" as in I'm out of minutes, which is weird, because I never use it, but I wanted to start using it blahhhhhhh hopefully it'll get fixed soon. My new laptop is also broken, so I'll have to rely on the school computers.

Anyway I really have to go like right now to carry my luggage for school down, and yeah, I'll be back as soon as I can! 

On Tuesday, I am going to my second ever Competitive Training class and my first ever cross country practice for my private high school. That will be one exhausting day

On Wednesday, I am going to move in to my dorm room (It's right next to the lounge! Heck yes!) and meet my roommate. She has a cool name, but I don't wanna give it away here, so I'll just tell you it's a cool name and I suspect she is either latina or african american . (Thank God  because I was SO WORRIED it was going to be another white, blonde girl like I am because I don't normally get along with other white, blonde girls.  I know I shouldn't be prejudiced, but all of my present friends aren't white, blonde girls.) And then I'm going to cross country practice again.

On Thursday, I'll be doing cross country and competitive training again.

On Friday, Orientation will commence! And I will see all the classrooms, meet my classmates, and my teachers! (Though they just had a meet-and-great dinner for new and returning students last Wednesday, and somehow, at the table I was at, the 9th grade Science, Math, and History teachers all decided to sit there O_________o . And there was a dorm parent there too! All of the other tables had like 1 or 2 teachers, or 0, but my table had FOUR teachers! 

Then I got to meet my English teacher for a little while! He seemed like a cool guy... actually, all the teachers that I saw (and every teacher was there and they all introduced themselves) were all YOUNG and HIP . Seriously, 95% of them were in their 20s or 30s but had at somewhere between 7-10 years of prior teaching experience! It was CRAY-CRAY XD. So, I met the English teacher and I told him that my favorite class was English and that I wanted to be an author someday and that I read 7 books for summer reading instead of the at-least 4, and he asked me what my favorite author was, and I thought, "Umm.... Lemony Snicket! Have you read his "Series of Unfortunate Events?" (I've been binge-reading the series lately. I read books 1-7 all in a row, but I was missing book 8, and then let me borrow book 8 and book 11 so now I'm going to read books 8-13 all in a row, and I'm on book 11 right now . No worries Aki, I'll give you back your books asap .) And he said that he read "The Bad Beginning" (the first book in the series), and I thought that he decided not to read anymore of the series so I was a little bummed, but I told him anyway that I loved the series because of the way Lemony Snicket wrote it and always found new ways to portray the Baudalaires' misery XD. But then my mom was like "Hey, we should get going!" and I was like  and then we started to leave, when we bumped into the the president of the PTA and he said how he was so interested in fencing and how he would love to hear about what I'm doing (another staff member told me this earlier, and I was like wow, you guys are enthusiastic and curious!), so I talked to him a little bit about it, and then my dad was like, "Hey, we should get going!" , and I was like mkayyyyyy, so we left XD. My parents don't exactly agree on everything. My mom is dyslexic, so she isn't as enthusiastic about English as I am, and my dad is constantly worrying about fencing taking over my life (for good reason, I'm afraid. School was not a happy deal for me last year), so he isn't as enthusiastic about fencing as I am. And those two are divorced anyway, but my dad really wanted to come all the way up from Florida for the dinner, so he did, and we did it XDXD pretty painlessly actually. 

I must say that fencing is NOT my top priority, of course, and that I am more fond of english and writing and stuffffffffff, but I am still fencing partly because I want to excel at a sport, because I mean who doesn't want to excel at a little something athletically? AND because I want to keep my mom happy, but mostly for the first reason. 

BUT I'm still gonna be talking to my dad on the phone while I'm at private school, and sharing my novel with him to make him happy. And I'll sharing my novel with Nana to make her happy. 

My life is all about making people happy, because I am the only child on my mom's side of the family, and one out of two children on both sides combined. I have a mom to keep happy, a dad, a stepmom, two grandmas, two grandpas, two aunts, two uncles, and a ton of family friends. 

People tend to say that only-children are selfish, and because I am the expert of only-child-ness because I myself am an only child, I think I can safely say that I don't think I'm selfish because I devote a great amount of my time to visiting my family and making them happy. Sure, I get a truckload of gifts every Christmas, but I am always thankful, a little overwhelmed, and although I sometimes just want ME time, I am perfectly happy 99.9% of the time to talk to or see my relatives .   

So that's the story of my life. XD I'm sorry, this journal was really pointless XDXD, but sometimes it just comforts me to write stuff down (or type it, whichever way works )