Dance Fever

On Monday at dance practice the dance team found out about learning a dance in one week.  To tell you the truth it is really hard and VERY frustrating because if you don’t have the move down you think to yourself, ”I’m I going to get this down before the performance on Friday?” It brought a lot of tears to the dance team, because we rushed and really couldn’t get it down, so some girls got worried. Learning a dance just this week has me screaming on the top of my lungs having negative thoughts like, ” I’m not going to get this down by Friday, Ha I’m going to mess up.” It’s also weird cause I think all the girls are good at the dance, but they don’t think that. Hopefully we all do good on Friday and the sweat + the tears pay off!!

On Sunday me, my mom, and my sister were at my grandmas just hanging out with the family. My sister decided to put on her pajamas. I glanced at her pajamas and she had this piece of  lint  on the back of her shirt, my mom saw the lint and said ” J (J=Jailyn) you have a bug on the back of your shirt!” AAAAAAAAH was all my sister did, she also jumped up and down panicking telling my mom, ”MOMMY TAKE IT OFF ,UGH, HURRY!!!!” My mom told her to stop moving so she could take the bug off, but she didn’t do that, she ran around  the chair  yelling ”Take it off”’  My mom then said ” J why are you running around the chair, the bug isn’t going to come off with you going around the chair.” Everyone was laughing including me, but I sure did feel bad at the end. Finally my mom took it off and told her it was just lint. My sister started laughing and whispered in my ear ” I ran around the chair to see if the bug would fly or jump off of me!” Now we can use lint as bug so she can do what she is told, instead of getting frustrated constantly telling her to do what she is told!!!! CONFUSUSING, BUT ITS GOING TO WORK!!!!

This is a real big surprise to me and others who found out. The big surprise is that T.I is coming to El Paso and well there are some very popular guest. Well so far the popular guest that I’ve heard are Plies and Young Jeezy. Some of you are thinking that it’s just some R&B singer well, not really he is very popular, and most popular singers don’t really come to El Paso so it is something big. When I found out he was coming I started asking my mom if we could go, she busted out laughing. Then she said that she was going by herself, but the weird thing is that she does that, and she surprises me with tickets (HOPEFULLY FRONT ROW!). The next thing she said made me laugh and get mad at the same time this is what she said, “you have all his CDs right, then you have your concert right there!” I told her I wanted to see him LIVE. It still didn’t help. If   I can find a way to get my mom to buy tickets before they sell out, I would do it but I haven’t found one………………. Another big surprise is that Buckcherry is going to Las Cruces TOO BAD I CAN’T GO, although my mom is going.

Two weeks ago I went to go see The Unborn. The Unborn was really good except, to me it wasn’t that scary. Well I went to sleep without waking up in the middle of the night. So I woke the next day fine until the following school morning. I was laying down in bed at5.20 in the morning and I thought I would just wait for my mom to wake up, so I could get up and get stuff together before I got in the shower. I was laying there thinking about one part in the movie where the little boy pulls the covers over and pulls her stomach apart. As I was thinking about it I felt someone trying to get on my bed slowly. I thought it was my crazy sister, thinking that didn’t make me want to turn around and actually  see what was getting on my bed or who was. I finally stopped hearing the little noises (the noise someone makes as they are trying to get on your bed) so I had a feeling  I needed to turn so when I did I heard noises like someone got on your bed real fast. When I felt and heard those noises I got real numb. It was weird, but I guess it was my imagination!!!!!!! ;D

Well the two hour block is way different then I thought it would be. It is different because of the activities we do, but then when I do the different hard activities I notice how good it helps me understand. Like our class is reading The Cay, so what we we’ve been doing is answering questions on the book and the strategies really help me understand and refresh my memory. There is one thing I do like about the two hour block. I like how we do reading and writing at the same time because I can tell how both reading and writing go hand and hand, well for these couple of weeks I can sort of see the connection. The thing don’t like (I think everyone has complained about this) is when our class is talking, so we have Ms. Baker constantly yelling (which takes time away from learning) and at the same time we are  disturbing Ms. Martinez’s class. Like I said in the two hour block I sort of see a connection but I would have to do more lessons and strategies to see what the connection really is. What I really hope is that I can get a lot of the two hour block because I’m going to need all this education in the future, especially if I am going to dance!!!

Well for my  birthday I got 50 bucks from my uncle. Well when he gave the money he said to buy something good because he worked hard for that money. When he said that I felt like I needed to give it back to him cause he worked hard for it. When I tried giving it back to him  he would end up putting it in my jacket, so I ended up with the $50. I was happy I finally had money but I didn’t know what to spend it on. I didn’t know what to spend it on for about a month, well when I finally spent it, it felt good cause I would just grab and at the end I would see if I had enough sure enough I DID. I spent 50 dollars on three good c-ds, Brutha, Paper Trails ( TI), and Take the Lead (the sound track). My favorite c-d that I bought was Brutha because I like how they all worked together as brothers. They are from their show called Brothers to Brutha well in their show they show all the problems that they have come through and making their album. They kind of inspired me because they came through a lot of problems with their dad so watching their show and listening to their music inspires me to go and  complete my dream without the problems getting in the way. As for the sound track I got it because it has this song that has a cool beat to dance to ! I got TI’s c-d because he had really good songs on it and + my mom wanted it too!! I just got bored having money and not spending it so I spent it on 3 GOOD c-ds.

Yesterday as we all know we had the two hour block well, it wasn’t something I expected. It was all because I missed Ms. Ward. I couldn’t concentrate on my work not only cause the class was kind of on the talking side, but because I missed the class messing with Ms. Ward and seeing that big smile that just popped out of now where after a long dorky stare!! I also missed seating in front of her and copying the things she did when she didn’t notice ( TO BE EXACT SHE HAS NEVER NOTICED) The main thing I miss is her teaching us writing, I’m not saying that Ms. Baker doesn’t teach writing good it’s just that I am use to Ms. Ward teaching the class writing. The way she teaches writing makes you think and I like that because she makes us depend on ourselves not on others. SO MS. WARD YOU GET A TEACHER GRAMMY AWARD!!!! Thank you Ms. Ward for what you have done for me and the class , especially with the whole dad situation!!

Yesterday was the first day we did the 2 hour block schedule it was different because I was used to Ms. Ward teaching us writing.Yesterday was frustrating because everyone was talking about how we didn’t do that in Ms. Ward’s class just all this complaining about the different stuff that was new. I think the two hour block will get us ready for middle school and all the stuff that we are going to be doing there.The reason for that is because most of the time we aren’t use to what is going on so we get confused, mixed up, and very frustrated just like yesterday. Another thing that it might help us on is listening more to Mrs. Baker and being more patience with her just being with her more, it is like a girl having a friend and hanging out more to where she can trust her. So it will help but, then again it is going time to get use to the change!

This week our band had a concert. Monday night was our first performance,  we kind of messed up, but we learned what not to do the following morning when we had 2 more concerts. We performed for the parents first because if we messed up they would still say ” YOU GUYS WERE AWESOME!!!” I wasn’t really nervous about performing until we played in front of the 6th graders because I was scared I would mess up in front of my friends because if I messed up they would make fun of me, or even my band friends would be made fun of if they messed up. Believe it or not, our performance for the upper grades was the best performance out of all 3 performances. The song that pumped up the crowd was our opening song Jingle Bell Jam, the woodwinds were in the band room while the brass was at the back of the cafeteria. Which led us to walking out in a line while the brass was playing and then when the brass started to walk to their seats the woodwinds played, I think that song brought out the confidence in all of us. The next song that was performed was performed by three girls which all played the clarinet Giselle, Brionna, and Laura. They played My Country ‘Tis Of Thee. The best part of the concert was when Gillian sang Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer, she amazed everyone by her amazing voice. The next song was God King Wenceslas, that was when each section played. Another awesome part was when percussion played Up On The House Top.The two last songs were the slow Jingle Bells and The LETS GO BAND. The rest were nothing but sing-a-long songs. After all this hard work it turned out to be fun.

Being separated from my dad is pretty hard. I have been separated from my dad more than 3 times. Well I began to see my dad again in the beginning of 2007, when I started to see him I was kind of thinking if i would get hurt again or if I was going to see him for the rest of my life. Unfortunately I was right about getting hurt again, two weeks ago I was ignored by my dad (sort of separated) because of what he was doing and what my mom had said. It all started with my dad saying “ Call your mom and see where she’s at. Ask her what she is doing for Christmas because she is going to have to add you in her plans.” I just looked at him and turned away trying to hold my tears in. I called my grandma instead of my mom, I told her that my dad and my step mom weren’t doing good (weren’t talking) and my dad wasn’t going to do anything for Christmas. Then my mom found out when she went to my grandmas and asked, ”Why are you here early? What your dad didn’t want you for Christmas?” I looked at her then responded in a teary voice ” No there’s just stuff going on.” She didn’t believe me, that was when she came out with ” YOUR DAD DOESN’T WANT TO SEE YOU AND YOUR NOT GOING TO SEE HIM ANYMORE” Those last words made me beg for that not to happen. She shook her head no, so when I broke the news to my dad he got upset. He came over to spend thirty minutes with me thats when I got the best hug from him, when I hugged him he told me to stay strong. When he said that I let out some tears, but what really broke me down was me seeing his 1st tear slide down his cheek. The following day my mom said I could still see him, I called a couple of times, but no answer. I called everyday no answer, it meant he was ignoring me. That means we aren’t going to see each other for a long time!! I just have to stay strong.