Officially Break!

It is now officially our 10 day break!! I still don't have any plans. My class was thinking about taking a trip to some island here. Yesterday was a somewhat bad and good day to start a break. My classes weren't boring and it felt like the day flew by. We got to watch the Bourne Identity in government class. That was the good part of the day the bad part was that I was 5 minutes late to one of my classes because the teacher had moved to another room and I didn't know it. If I had just walked into the regular classroom I would have seen a note on the board that told me where to go but I didn't go into the classroom. I ended up running up and down the 6 floors of the school looking for my class in the computer labs and places I thought they would be. I went to the front desk and asked someone if they knew where my teacher was. They took me to the third floor computer lab and my teacher wasn't there either. We asked someone if they had seen her and it turned out my whole class was in the next room over to the third floor computer lab. I felt so blonde because I didn't go into the regular classroom and see the note that would have saved me the time and effort of searching for my class and teacher. Then on top of that after soccer practice Jen, Sarah, and I caught a bus to come home. We got off too soon and started to begin the long walk home. After many phone calls to our parents explaining what had happened and where we were Sarah's mom called and said that she would just pick us up so that we wouldn't have to walk all the way home. Then we got home and our restful and peaceful break began. Well, I have to go do my chores.

Upcoming School Break!!

Tomorrow is our last day to attend school before the 10 day break. We get to be out of school for 10 days because of the Turkish holidays and stuff. It is awesome. I have no clue what we will do during our break. Most of my friends have plans or some idea of what to do. The only thing I have planned right now is sleeping in and relaxing. I may try and go to the guy's soccer game that is coming up. I have completed most of the homework that is due after the break so that is great. We go back to school on the 7th of October and then that weekend (11th-12th Oct.) we have our high school retreat. I can't wait for that either. Well, I have to get to bed I have school tomorrow.

Tiffy's Birthday Party

We celebrated Tiffy's birthday finally this weekend. Her birthday was August 25. She invited 5 of her friends and had a sleepover. We played lots of games and had heaps of fun. We played twister, musical chairs, birdie on the perch, the foot game, hot potato with a giraffe though (the theme was giraffes), we also played American Idol on the PS2. I think Tiffy had a great time. We all watched Ella Enchanted and then some Home Improvements. Her birthday cake was a giraffe and we had this totally awesome fire-hazard candle. It was a flower that you were supposed to light then it was supposed to open up and sing happy birthday. It did everything but sing. It opened up in a big flame then died down and started to melt the plastic petals. We had to blow it out quickly. I have finally got some pictures to put on here. I found my camera cord so now I can load all my pictures onto the computer.

Soccer Games

I had my first soccer game of the season. We played against some British school here in Istanbul. Unfortunately we only got to play 35 minutes because we arrived a little later than expected. We played a good game and we won two to one. The girls team managed to go undefeated last year and we are hoping that we can manage to do the same this year. It was awesome. I was center forward. After the game the coach made us stay on the field and practice a little more. That was fun also because we had a small game amongst the team and it started raining. We got on a bus afterwards and it took us over an hour to get home because of traffic. It felt almost like everyone on the bus had just gotten back from a girls sleepover or something. It was cool. Then today I went along with some friends and Jen to watch the guys play. I not only went to support the school but also because my two yearbook partners were playing and I had to support them plus try and get some good pics. The guys played the same British school as we did and they also won!!!! Way to go Lions (schools mascot). They had a longer game of about an hour and won five to two. They played well and made us proud.

The First Week is Over

The first week of school is over and there are many weeks left to go. It was a good first week. I had homework every night that took me until past 10 pm to finish. I got homework in every subject this weekend except in one class. I have enjoyed most of my classes. I have made some new friends too. I think that Jen had a good week too. Jen and I are on the soccer team and we have our third practice this Tues. Then we have our first game on Wed. There were a lot of girls that signed up for soccer so we are going to have to have two teams. I am guessing that our coach is going to alternate between teams for games. So, I do not know if I will be able to play in the Wed. game. I hope that this next week will be good but less homework. I will try to post something new as soon as possible and I will try to get some pictures next time.

First day of school

Today was the first day of school. Jen and I are attending the international school here. IGA is the name of the school. We got on the bus this morning and left for school. It was our first time going to school in a bus. Everything went well today. My class was very welcoming and I met a lot of new people. My classes are Church History, Biology II, Grammar & Composition, SAT Prep, Yearbook, Painting, PE, Pre-Calculus and Comparative governments. I like most of my classes so far. I got homework in 3 of my classes today. I didn't attend two because of the schedule that we had today. All in all it was a good first day and everything went well.

My New Blog

O.k. here it is my very first blog. I am new at this and it may take a while to get everything organized. I am possibly thinking about just doing a blog instead of doing my monthly newsletters. I will try to keep this as updated as possible. O.k. I need to get to bed because it's getting pretty late