Poisson d'avril!!!

in other words - April Fools! it's that day again. and, like every year, I completely forgot. good thing we talked about it in French this morning.....apparently in France, school children stick paper fish to each other as discreetly as possible. then you walk around with a fish stuck to your back while everyone laughs. so our teacher started doing this with two paper fish in our class during partner-dialogues.....and eventually they'd made it around pretty well and my friend Heather stuck one on her. which was hilarious because she didn't notice - until she turned around to write on the board and the whole class started laughing.

Photography is pretty awesome. and we haven't really even learned much of anything yet. but I'm having fun taking a lot of pictures, and my teacher is really funny. I've decided I really like school. every day this quarter I've seen people I know - from co-op, church, or previous classes. It's taken me two quarters to settle in, but I'm finally doing it. it's actually kind of tiring just being that girl who reads and never opens her mouth. that being said, I still prefer homeschooling. but at least school isn't that thing I just tolerate anymore.

today it snowed hard core and it was sticking to my hair....and I got really happy. somehow, I always get this glowing feeling inside when it snows, and my cheeks turn red. I feel prettier when it snows. I'm not sure why. but thouh I love snow...I am ready for it to truly be spring, not just masquerade like it's Narnia and winter's never going away.

so I walked in the door when I got home and headed for the kitchen to make some hot chocolate (because that's what you do when it snows), and I could hear my mom talking on the phone. so I listened for a few, but couldn't figure out who she was talking to. so I asked.
"Cosima!" she half-whispered.
and of course I freaked out.
so this morning, I talked with our future German exchange student for almost 45 minutes. and she sounds soooo sweet! I think we're going to get along really, really well. And I'm incredibly excited because she's going to turn 16 here, and I'll be turning 18 a couple of months later. two big numbers like that deserve two big parties....





yesterday my mom and I saw A Tale of Two Cities at SCT. it was AMAZING - definitely my favorite performance I've ever seen there. and - Anna I'm sorry but this will make you jealous - Connor Toms was Darnay. which was awesome because that's a hard role to play, in my opinion, and Connor Toms is really cute. but the guy who played Carten was absolutely amazing. (and they looked a lot like each other too, which was cool). having only read the book once, it was really cool seeing the story when you know the end. All Dickens' books are like that though, because there's some big twist and the whole story is twice as incredible when you know it, even if it's not as exciting.
the play was very well cast, and they were creative as always with the set. scripting was good (though I think a lot of it went over the little kids' heads), and the acting was fantastic. and I cried through pretty much the last twenty minutes of the performance - from when Carten goes to Darnay's cell all the way to the end.

so, let's add another person to the list of people I want to marry who manage to end up dead. *verysadface* :(

but seriously, if you can manage to see it this week, GO - it's totally worth it. my mom and I both loved it. and you'll want to read/re-read the book when you're done.



*sigh* I <3 Dickens. majorly.