Monday, February 27, 2012

Scariest thing ever!

Having to take all of your music off your phone/ipod/mp3 player and put it back on hoping it will all work out just fine. Well guess what, it did!!! So now that my phone has lost 50lbs (metaphorically of course), I feel much more at ease...although I kind of gave up on the organizing thing towards the end, but all that will take is making a few more folders. So no biggy.

Well...I hope everyone has a good...whatever.

OH! French tomorrow....and he'll be there so it will be a fun class :)

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Well then maybe you shouldn't review it.

So, I hate it when I'm on Amazon looking for some books to read and one of the reviews says "I DIDN'T GET IT--DON'T BUY IT, IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY" (mind you these are the books that cost like 99cents so I'm not sure what money they're talking about).
If you don't understand something, your opinion doesn't matter. I want to read a review by someone who understands the book enough to write an educated response. If you really think $.99 is a waste of money....well then, you really shouldn't be buying books. You should be saving your money. Even if you don't like it, IT'S 99 CENTS! It isn't going to kill your bank account.
And it's even worse when someone is like "I only made it through the first chapter." If you don't read the whole book, you shouldn't be telling people that it's a bad book. It's one thing to say "I couldn't get into it." It's another thing to say "I only read the first chapter and I think that this book is stupid and you would be stupid to buy it."

So reviews should be written by people who:
-Read the ENTIRE book.
-Understood the book.
-Don't feel like it's the end of the world to spend $.99 on a book.
-Respect that some people will think it's a good book, so therefore you shouldn't bash it. You can still give your opinion, but in a respectable manner.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Day Made. No, weekend--Scratch that...Month made.

My tweet:
"Exhausted, tummy hurts....but in other news it's the weekend! :D And it seems that @MerwanRim has been quite talkative."


@MerwanRim's tweet:
@paigenicoleO_O 😉


Now if only French boxes meant something to me.... :( So it's a win lose. But mostly a win. 

Saturday, February 18, 2012

New Background and Colors

So I was going to go with this really cool interactive layout, but it wouldn't let me have any sidebars. Which caused a problem because when I was trying to go to edit the sidebars and everything (mostly to get any links that I had in the links menu) and it wouldn't let me access that portion of the designing tab!! It was VERY annoying and frustrating. So I gave up and went back to this layout. I might take more time to get the other one to work (it WAS pretty awesome), but for now this is good.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

YAY!!!!!!

Awwww yeah! Today has officially become awesome! 1,000 views!!!! I'm so proud of myself for keeping this up. Even if a lot of the views are just random people who probably never come back. But that's ok because I've kept something that is pretty much a journal.

Ok, so today was Valentine's day. Aaaaand no. I did not have a valentine :/ But I gave my friend a card that I made in French that said "Our friendship is marvelous and strange...I'm marvelous and you are strange!" So that was fun ^_^ And I did get some cookies and candy from friends. My mom tried to make my sandwich into the shape of a heart this morning...but she gave up haha.

So it was a pretty good V-day. Oh except I saw my test score....scary O.O (I got a C).

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Playin' around with the layout

Don't be surprised if the blog completely changes over the next few days... Just a warning.

New poll :)

What are you doing this Valentine's Day? Is love in the air, or are you just treating it like a normal day?

Pour qui votes-tu?
How do you vote?

Friday, February 3, 2012

Today turned out....

Amazing. So this morning I was really nervous because I have NONE of my script memorized and I was tired and really didn't feel like dancing. But when I walked into dance our teacher told us she's sick and so we just watched Newbies. Which I really want to see. I wasn't really paying attention. None of us were. But it was a nice relaxing way to start the morning. And I got to play with--ahem--use this really cool thing to score some paper to make it easier to fold (for vocabulary foldables that she is going to have her classes do). It was such a simple task that it was pretty relaxing.
Then in Spanish we played musical chairs. I wasn't looking forward to it. But it turned out to be really fun!
Psychology was pretty boring...as always. Except when our teacher took a kid out into the hall and hit him with a stick (ok not really, but we were learning about different conditioning methods and he was using that as an example of punishment; they went into the hall and the teacher hit the stick against the wall and the kid "screamed in pain").
Theatre, was just awesome. We had to help our teacher with his homework by playing this game called "Click." What you do is you are in pretty big groups and you have to tell a story with freeze frames. They usually end in disaster just because it will make people laugh and it makes the ending obvious. So we spent the first bit of it discussing what our Click would be. We were all over the place. First he told us we didn't have to keep it confined to the auditorium, which opened up a TON of possibilities. So we were going to get some wheelchairs from the nurse and/or nursing class and have a wheelchair race. And then our teacher suggested that everyone has some type of disability. And then it went to being a special ed. class playing dodge ball and someone asked "What's the worst that could happen?" to which I replied with "We walk into the gym and the special ed. classes are in there playing dodge ball." So that idea was dropped.
We finally decided that we would be an unruly class who gets into this huge brawl whenever our teacher turns towards the board and we would be perfect angels when he's looking at us. It was pretty awesome. We were all dead in the end. My favorite part was looking at the pictures and in the first one we are all smiley, then we are all taking notes, then we are smiley again, then we are annoyed and making bored faces, then the fighting starts, then it REALLY starts, then we are back to being perfect angels...except for the fact that a bunch of people are in new seats :)

Oh, and I finished my book that I've been reading for like the last month. It was amazingly emotional. It's called The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister. If you like reading history books/memoirs/books about the Holocaust, I highly recommend it.
Then I read another book (it was really short) that was such a nice quick read. It was about this little old lady who lives in China near this bridge that is thought to bring good luck. But because of the bridge's reputation there are a lot of kids who are abandoned there (their parents think that leaving their kids there will give the kids a better future), and so she always takes them to the orphanage. Well one day she sees this little boy and he is blind. Then in the two days that he stays with her they become pretty attached to one another. So a week after she takes him to the orphanage she goes to check up on him and gets really upset by how he's being taken care of. So then she becomes his foster parent. And it's just a really sweet story called The Bridge by Kay Bratt. If you are looking for a quick read, it's a good one to check out. But there were a few tiny grammatical errors, and one that bugged me where the author calls the old woman's daughter "Jing" which is the old woman's name. That was the only reason I didn't give it five stars.


FINALLY, Merwan Rim's new music video for "Mens-moi" came out today. It's a good one. I shall post it. And the song is really pretty. But the music video brings a lot of emotion to it and kind of hints at what the song is about. I'll also post a link to the lyrics with a trustworthy translation.


Lyrics: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/mens-moi-lie-me.html

So yes. It was a good day :)
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Now backtrack to yesterday. In French class I learned that my teacher grew up in the same town as one of my favorite French singers, Pascal Obispo ^_^ So I tweeted about it. AND HE RETWEETED IT :O :D Now I know what you're thinking "How stereotypical teenager of you to get so excited over that" but you don't understaaaaaand! I had just been thinking about how weird it is to think that everyone in the world is connected by people they truly know (not just Facebook ''know''). Like, if you think about it, I know my French teacher, she knows a ton of people who live in her hometown. The chances of one of them knowing Pascal Obispo are pretty high. So hypothetically speaking, he and I share a link that is probably around 10-20 people long. Which is pretty small when you think about 1. I live in the US, he lives in France. 2. I'm an ordinary person, he's famous. So to have that close of a connection with someone like that is pretty amazing! [Not to mention that that means I can just add one to however many people connect us to find my connection to Christophe Maé :) I had to get his name in here somehow ;)] So just imagine how connected you are to you're favorite actor/singer/whatever! Just know the right people and it's like your entire world opens up.
Ok back to the retweeting, so in my opinion, that makes all other connection chains unimportant because he noticed one of my tweets which counts as an interaction between the two of us which means....OMG IT'S LIKE I MET HIM ONLY NOT! Ok, my fangirlyness is done...for the moment. Because I have some much sadder news.

So there's this kid...in my French class...and he used to sit behind me but now he doesn't because this stupid annoying freshman who can't shut her big mouth had to be moved so that she would shut up and just MAYBE (though I highly doubt it) get some work done. So now she sits behind me and poor *guy that shall remain unnamed* sits one seat over, in the midst of a gaggle of freshmen girls whose conversations really get on his nerves. Now it isn't that big of a move...but it's so sad :( He's like the only entertaining one in that class. I would get so bored if he wasn't there. And we always partnered up for the partner reads and games and such. And now I can't just discretely slip him the AP Bio homework when he asks for it (ok, maybe that one was a little dramatic, I mean it's only one seat over). But the fact is, I don't like change. I like him though.... :)

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Song(s) of the day....French...

(My songs of the day will probably mostly consist of French songs because I don't listen to the radio so I'm way behind on popular US music...the radio is just too broad for me.)

Ok, the first one is a...you guessed it....Christophe Maé song. I've had it stuck in my head all day. So deal with it. But it's a really sweet song and he actually wrote it for his little boy, so the last few lines always make me think "awwwwwww." Well the whole song does really, but especially the last few lines.
I'll include the lyrics and a translation that makes sense (not google translate). I found this website where people who are fluent in different languages actually translate songs. You can post a song and request translations (with a free account) or just look up songs. They have a pretty big data base. It's called www.lyricstranslate.com. I highly recommend it. Ok, LYRICS:
French:
Mon P'tit Gars

J'ai pas vraiment le temps de jouer à la poupée
Alors mon enfant, ne m'en veux pas
Je rattraperai ce temps-là, je te promets
Mais en attendant, ouvre le tiroir du bas
Tu y trouveras au fond, bien cachés
Quelques-uns de mes vieux soldats
Mais attention, tu n'as pas le droit de les casser
Ces soldats veillent sur toi

(refrain)
Et je te vois comme un grand guerrier
Qui ne tire pas de peur de blesser
Et je te vois comme un grand guerrier
Qui rit aux éclats devant toute une armée

J'ai pas vraiment le temps de corriger tes cahiers
Mais mon enfant, ne t'en fais pas
Si ce n'est pas parfait, je serai là pour gommer
Mais en attendant, lis cette histoire-là
Tu découvriras la vie du Petit Poucet
Qui a peur de se perdre dans ses pas
Mais pour toi, pas la peine de semer
Je l'ai déjà fait, c'est comme ça

(refrain)

Pour demain je souhaiterais qu'une chose
Que tu laisse tomber les soldats
Finalement pas grand-chose
Que tu restes un bon p'tit gars

(refrain)

Et je te vois
Et je te vois comme un petit écolier
Qui ne se bat pas de peur de blesser
Et je te vois
Et je te vois, mon pote, mon enfant
Mon p'tit gars, mon confident
Je te vois mort de rire dans la cour de récré
Oh, et je te vois
Je te vois, bras dessus bras dessous
Auprès de celle qui t'éloignera certainement de moi
Et je te vois

English:
My Little Boy

I don't really have time to play with dolls
So my child, don't be mad at me
I will get that time back, I promise you
In the meantime, open the bottom drawer
You'll find in the back, well hidden
Some of my old soldiers
But be careful, you're not allowed to brake them
Those soldiers are watching over you

(chorus)
And I see you as a great warrior
Who doesn't shoot for fear of hurting
And I see you as a great warrior
Who roars of laughter in front of an entire army

I don't really have time to correct your homeworks
But my child, don't worry
If it's not perfect, I'll be there to erase
In the meantime, read this story
You'll discover the life of Tom Thumb
Who is afraid to get lost in his steps
But for you, there is no need to sow [basically "there's no need for you to worry about your future"]
I already did it, that's the way it is

(refrain)

For tomorrow I only wish for one thing
That you leave those soldiers
After all not that much
That you stay a good little boy

(refrain)

And I see you
And I see you as a schoolboy
Who doesn't fight for fear of hurting
And I see you
And I see you, my friend, my child
My little boy, my confidant
I see you dying of laughter in the playground
Oh, and I see you
I see you arm in arm
Near the girl who will probably take you away from me
And I see you



Ok. Next song. This song is by Captain Samouraï Flower aka Pascal Obispo. He is a pretty cool guy. When you see him he looks a little intimidating but then you hear him play the piano and sing these really sweet/melodious songs and it's like "hmmm...." But I really like this song. We've been working on translating and learning this song. It's pretty catchy. (I can't find the song on lyricstranslate so I'll translate from what we've learned in class. I'm pretty sure we learned the whole thing so...)
French:
Le Drapeau :

Sans étoile, ni couronne, ni fleur
Que dans l'air, flotte une même couleur
Couleur
Chants d'amour, chants de bataille

Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 2)

Un signal, un emblème vainqueur
Sur nos dérives et nos erreurs
Prends le monde et prends tes armes
Prends soin du lendemain qui arrive
Qui arrive
Cherche pas d'autres batailles

Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 4)

Avec moi et l'armée des fleurs
On rêve aussi du meilleur
Chants d'amour, chants de bataille

Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 2)

Chants d'amour, chants de bataille

Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Tous le même drapeau (x 5)

Il n'y a qu'une guerre à faire aujourd'hui
Tous avec le Captain Samouraï Flower

English:
The Flag

Without stars, nor crown, nor flowers
That in the air, floats one same color [color here having the meaning of flag]
Color
Songs of love, songs of battle

There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x4)

A signal, an emblem of victory
On our drifts and our errors [drifts here meaning when you don't really know what you're supposed to be doing]
Take the world and take your arms [weapons, but not necessarily killing weapons]
Take care for the tomorrows that arrive
That arrive
Don't look for other battles

There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x4)

With me and the army of flowers
We dream also of better things
Songs of love, songs of battle

There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x2)


Songs of love, songs of battle

There is only one war to do today
Today
All the same flag (x5)

[This part is where the little kid sings]
There is only one war to do today
All with the Captain Samouraï Flower

The lyrics are a little weird if you just read them. But the video kind of explains it a bit more. It's basically saying that we need to come together as one world to protect our planet so it will survive for years to come.




Ok, these next ones won't have translations. I just like them. You might recognize a few people in them ;)



 



Ok, so those guys are Les Enfoirés. It's this huge group of musicians/actors/other people with influence in the entertainment industry who all come together each year and put on this fantastic show to raise money for this one charity. It's kind of like a bunch of live music videos. But they also make actual music videos for some of their songs. These songs are some of my favorites. Though in one or two, don't remember which ones, there are some voices that I don't really care for. But overall these guys are great!


Monday, January 30, 2012

-.-

SIGH. Don't you hate it when you find out that someone you...like...having in your life might be moving across the country?!?! Gahhhhhhhhh! :'( [Gracie, I haven't told you about this yet. So if you'd like more info....you know how to contact me]


Well, others than that it has been a good....how ever long ago I found this out. Oh, except for the freaking NRJs on Saturday. (NRJ music awards is a French music awards show.) Merwan Rim didn't win, even though he totally deserved it, and Christophe Maé didn't win, even though he also deserved it. Instead all of these people I don't care about won. Well, Adele (International Song of the Year for Someone like You) is pretty good...And Shakira (NRJ Award of Honor), too. But then they had to go and give the male Award of Honor to Justin Bieber. I mean really? In my opinion, he hasn't been in the business long enough! Sure it's nice to see newbies rise to the top...but he's just this little tween sensation. He should be getting Nickelodeon awards. Not and "Award of Honor."
HUFF. Well...that's my complaint for Saturday.

Hmmmm....Let's see....what else....Well I can't really complain much about today. Except that I have a math test tomorrow and have to have a scene memorized by Friday when I just got it today...Thanks Beets. Thanks.

I just can't wait for this week to be over. Actually, after tomorrow's test it shouldn't be too bad. Anything else that I've forgotten? Well if I think of it later I'll tell you.