Meeting with the big cheese tomorrow

Tomorrow I have a go and see my princapal at 12:15!!! I'm going to talk to him about my up-coming exchange trip and I have no idea what I'm going to say besides I need to fund raise and money!!!! I started selling candy and bought some more today and I kind of afraid that he is going to say you can't sell that in school because I don't think I'm aloud to in the first place. I'm still working on getting a job, I need my new working papers which I think I'm just going to fax to the doctors because the paperwork I was waiting for from ASSE still has not come in. I need to have a yard sale and I'm running out of weekends, but that's okay I like fall so I don't care if its a little cold. Rehearsals are now going to be picking up, everyday till 4:30 or 5, none on Tuesday, and sometime on Saturday!!! I'm excited to work on this show and work with this cast! I know this show is going to be awesome and special in its own way, my last fall play with Masque and Mime! Aaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! That's kind of scary on its own!!!! I know Masque and Mime and all my friends I have made through it is going to be one of the hardest things to say goodbye too!! But I'm not going to think of it because its a while aways :/ Well I'm going to do some homework or maybe just procrastinate some more, and I will most likely inform you what happens tomorrow!! Wish me luck!!!

school....

Day 11 of school and everything is going so slow!!!!!! Classes, the week, Masque and Mime, the day, the week, everything!!!!!! ahhhh!!!! its killing me!!! I want to go and do something, but i can't just go some place during the week with all my homework and having to stay after till 5 everyday. Saturday is homecoming which I'm going to so I'm kind of excited for that because its my first and my last homecoming :/ its really weird to think of it that way, but its true. I want to go to Italy so bad!!! but I didn't want to miss this year. I know I'm going to miss all my friends, my family, and Masque and mime, but i just want to leave!!! I know I'm just repeating myself, but I'm just filled with so many different thoughts. Like how its going to be in Italy, what i need to do this year, make sure I do this and see this person and go here. Italy doesn't seem real yet because I'm not accepted into ASSE Italy yet and its only September!!!! and I would be leaving a year from now. This girl who is there now left the day my school started!! I would have if i left after school started! I would have to go with friends and sit in the class with them.

I started selling candy today is school to start fund raising and I only sold like 5 candy bars!!!!! This is going to be harder then I thought. Maybe once people realize that I'm selling it it will be different. I need to do some massive fund raising so I might talk with the principal but I'm not sure because i don't think i should be selling candy in school because its not for a club or anything, but for me. I will try and hopefully I will get something and permission to do something start raising money. So as of now I have $9,295 left to pay for Italy and supplies :) yay!!!!

MASQUE AND MIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Masque and Mime is my school's drama club, which I am very actively involved in, and started again today for the year. Today was the first general meeting, which was really fun. I got to see all my friends from last year and I was able to pick out the freshman haha. By the way there are A LOT of! About half way through the meeting Jake asks me to go and make copies, and as ASM I am oh so happy to do! After I return with the copies the director is naming the ASM's a.k.a. Me and my best friend Saadia, yay!!!!! I'm so excited to be working with her and Jake this year. I love being ASM, well almost all the time, I have had so much fun hanging out with Jake and staying really late for lighting. Oh boy where to I start.....
Any ways, I return with the copies and sit down and finish listening to what the officers had to say and finishing my history homework. With that all done another person asks me for copies, no problem! That one is done and when I return the director asks me to make copies of the script for people auditioning. Sweet!! I love the copier! I go and make copies and my fellow ASM joins me for some fun copying! Trying to make these copies were rather confusing. They way they were marked, numbered and organized was difficult to figure out at first. The copier did not want to work right, and having to wait for four teachers to use the copier while i was there, I was able to go back down and see that the meeting was over and everyone left and were waiting for the buses. Whoops :P I organized the sets and put them away and left. Kristin and my mom were wait in the car for me and it was almost 4pm. I explained to Kristin that this normally happens because I need to do things and I normally don't finish in time to make the late bus.

I just wanted to share with everyone how the first masque and mime meeting went for me and all the trees I wasted :(

Still no news from ASSE. I did not receive the new paperwork yet, but hopefully that will arrive in my mail box soon!

MAIL!!!

I love getting mail and letters from my friends in the mail. Sure emails are fast, easy, and really helpful, but when you get a letter in the mail and you start to open the envelope and you hear the paper tear, you get excited!! There is just something about opening real mail and reading it on paper and holding it makes letters so much fun! I am still young enough that I don't have to worry about getting bills so I like getting mail and opening envelopes and just tearing out the paper to read whatever it says.

Today my mom brought the mail in after work and I decided to check the pile to see if there was anything for me. I was not really expecting anything, maybe the new forms from ASSE to complete, again, but I figured they would be in a larger envelope like the size my application came in, and because I did not see any that size, I didn't worry. However! There was an envelop from ASSE and at first I was not sure if it was for Kristin or for myself, because two times this month Kristin had received two letters from ASSE. I looked down for who it was for and to my surprise it was for me!!! At once I knew what it was!!

"Dear Alyson,
I was delighted to receive your final application packet and confirm that you are being considered for a scholarship.

ASSE scholarships will be awarded in early April. You will be notified as soon as the recipients have been chosen.

Good luck and welcome to ASSE!"

Whoot Whoot!! I already knew that I was accepted but still opening the letter and reading the paper with the official signature of the Eastern Regional Director, Chantel Bartlett, I become even more excited for Italy!!!! This is it!! I'm in and one more step closer to my dream!!! I wish to go to Italy, but there are also many other places I would love to go and study. And sometime in April I'll be blogging and telling you either I have a scholarship or not, but lets not rush that, well maybe a little :)

Other exciting news, Italian class!! Today my teacher handed out the syllabus telling us about what we are going to be doing this year. She was telling us how we will be learning about Italy, the culture, the regions, doing projects and lots of hands on work, improving in speaking, working together and she is going to try to find some cool Italian music (Sonohra!!) and some cool Italian videos and stuff like that. We are going to take the Italian we have been learning and using it and applying our Italian skills to everything we do in the class!! This is like the perfect Italian class to be taking right before Italy!! YAY!!! I really want to improve in Italian and I love the language and just about everything about it! And I can't wait!!

First day of school

Nothing to exciting happened today, rather the opposite. I went into some of my classes thinking alright this is going to be fine just take one day at a time, but after listening to the teachers and thinking about the work and the subject I realized that I do not want to take that class what so ever!!!!! If I had to stay in those classes I would shoot myself and I don't want to do that now, seeing as I was accepted into ASSE!!! I know guidance will be busy these first few weeks, but I NEED to get out of those classes there are maybe 2, but really 3, that i don't want to be in. I didn't really want to take these classes and I told my guidance counselor this, but no!! she decided to make schedule for me! And now that she didn't "advise" my decisions to not take these classes and picked the "right" classes for me, I have to change. She told me these classes were good for a four year college and for the advanced diploma. Yes I know that I am very capable of getting the advanced diploma, but i really don't care. All it means is that I took more regents, wow! go me! NO!! I want to take the classes I need and I like!!! The teachers seem really nice and all, but I do not want to take the class. I take other classes instead of those and still meet my requirements! So why don't I do that you may ask, but really you need to ask my guidance counsel er, who now has more work to do now instead of during the summer, which is unfortunately over!!

Hopefully I will be able to change these classes and keep in mind my goal and to stay on track!

ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats what I need to think and keep that in mind and just push through. One thing I know for sure, this is going to be a long thing and I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad one.

Ciao Ciao!!

ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!!!

No not the movie, even though Justin Long is amazing, but Yes!! I have been accepted into ASSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So today I called ASSE because they said I would find out last week if I was accepted and I didn't hear anything from them so I waited till the middle of this week to call. I talked to Hanna, the one who answered some of my questions and interested me in hosing again this year. I asked her if she knew anything about my application and she said that I had been accepted into ASSE!!!! Which made me super happy!!! But then she also told me my application was missing two things! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I had everything and was done collecting paperwork for a while, i guess not. I asked her what was missing and she said my parents W2s and the doctor filled the health form out wrong!!! Way to leave it to the doctors to screw it up, again!! I'm not to worried because Hanna is just going to mail me another form and because I am applying so early in the year I know I have time to get it done (again) and mail it in. Scholarships are not awarded until April so I'm not sure if i heard her right but she was saying that if i get a scholarship great, if not i need to decide if I will still go with out a scholarship and then they will send it to Italy, but that seems a little late in the year to start looking for host families. I don't know, I might just have to call again and ask to explain it again to me, but I will wait a few days cause I have to start packing for vacation!!!

Just think, this time next year I will be blogging to you from Italy!!!!!!!!! SWEET!!