Scoliosis: My Story

Chapter 38

What's up. Guess who's still alive.

So I have some updates for y'all.

My sister no longer needs her brace. Yay. (I may or may not be a little salty.) She got it off April 5, meaning she had it for 1 year, 1 month, and 5 days. I'm happy for her obviously, although it did make me a little sad. By now she's gotten more used to life without a brace, but she does say that her back hurts sometime.

The back pain is what I'm scared of. I've had this thing for 3 years, 4 months, and 6 days. Every time I bend the rules and take my brace off for longer than I'm supposed to, my back hurts. I guess its cuz my back is weak, so I guess when the time comes I'll have to take my time to get used to life and not be to hard on my back. 

June 11. On June 11 we're gonna see if my growth plates have fused. On June 11, I'm gonna find out if I'm really gonna be 5'2 forever. I'm kinda excited, but anxious. What if I still have to grow? If they tell me I still need to wear this thing, it'll probably be the worst day of my entire life. I'm SO over this shit. I wanna go shopping and buy whatever I want without having to worry about whether or not its to tight. I wanna bend down and get a pencil without having to get completely out of my stupid chair. I want to NOT get x rays all the damn time cuz I swear my mom gets mad every single time because "your are to slow" and I'm tired of having to strip and then redress. 

I really hope I don't have to wear my brace anymore. And June 11 is the perfect time, summer will be here, and maybe I won't be drowning in heat all the time.

AP testing is over. For me, it started with AP Spanish Language and Culture bright and early on May 7 at 8:00 am. It sucked. My twin and I spent the entire night using the restroom and throwing up, so we showed up to the stupid test with literally barely any sleep. It went from a little before 8 to during lunch, so after 12:25. I didn't wear my brace because y'know, my stomach was still upset, so if I had to go, I wasn't gonna be like wait let my take off my stupid brace first. After the test we went home, but that took a while because my twin, and about half of my testing groups had issues. For the test you have to record yourself following a conversation prompt and giving a brief presentation, then you have to save it to a file and blah blah blah. Long story short, midway my twins and some other girls thing stopped recording, then when half the class tried to save it, it went "poof" and ta-da that part of the test got deleted. So now those people have to retake Section 2 of the test on May 24, which includes the hand written email response and the essay. And of course they're gonna get different prompts then the original one. My test went smooth (kinda I was sick) so thats nice. The whole time my back hurt I thought I was gonna cry, and those dumb chairs didn't help. When we got home we (tried to) ate and took a nap, meaning we didn't study for AP Euro.

Wednesday. May 8, 2019. 12:00 noon. We took our AP European History exam. It went from 11:30 to 5:00. It was a long test, and I swear my hand was cramping. It wasn't as bad as I had originally thought, and hopefully I pass. Since we're finished 6th period became fun. So far we've watched "The Zookeeper's Wife" (almost made me cry lol), "Hidden Figures" (yesss it was great), and we are in the processing of completing "Europe for Aliens" (I think thats what its called, not bad).

Thursday. May 9, 2019. 7:30 am. This one was AP Spanish Literature and Culture. I didn't actually have this class, my dumb AP Spanish teacher signed me and a couple of other students from each class for it. Definitely not passing. I totally made up the FRQs since I had no idea what the content of the class even was and my teacher sucks. I took the test with absolutely no preparation lol.

Friday. May 10, 2019. 5th period. I took my dumb AP Biology final that I didn't study and got a 66% on. Still higher than my twin and me best friend tho. They got a 63.

Monday. May 13, 2019. 8:00 am. The AP Biology exam. The grid-ins were easy, but on one of them it asked for a whole number and I friggin put the decimal version. Screw Hardy-Weinberg lol. Did all but 1 of the 8 FRQs. On the others I answered most of them, I took forever on the second long essay FRQ and didn't do part e.

And now. 

I'M DONE YAYYYYY.

We'll see how I did when July 8 rolls around.

I guess I'll update you guys around June, or I might wait till July.

We'll see.

On another note, Its JayDiamond1 and I's birthday July 2nd. Can't wait lol, we'll be turning 16. Dang. I feel old lol. If anyone was wondering, I'm older. By one minute. We have this cute tradition that started a couple years ago where we stay up in JayDiamond1's room until our birth times. Mines at 1:30, my sister at 1:31. We say Happy Birthday, our dad calls from wherever he's at and sings, and our mom comes into the room and says Happy Birthday. Then we fall asleep lol. However this time our dad won't be calling.

For the first time ever folks, our dad is gonna be here for our birthday. We're gonna go on a road trip this summer, late June. My dad is gonna take a 2 week vacay. Meaning, HE'S GONNA BE HERREEEEEEEE. Usually, since he's a truck driver he'd come on the day of the party, which is nice but we've always thought it'd be nice to have him here on the actual day. This time around, since we already had our Quinceanera, we've decided we no longer want birthday parties. So, my dad will be here for our birthday AND for his and my moms anniversary AND we're going on a road trip. YAY!

Hey i dunno if I told you guys but I broke the bf.

I m tryna remember what else I was supposed to say. I'll talk about IB.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am apart of the International Baccalaureate Pogram at my school. This is the reason why I took AP Human Geography and AP Computer Science Principles (my twin and I got 4's on them last year!) freshman year, and the 3 AP's this year. Next year, Junior year, I'm going to take Pre-Calculus, AP US History, IB English SL, IB Spanish SL, IB Psychology, AP Physics, and Theory of Knowledge (TOK) as 7th period 3 hours a week 2nd semester. Yay. I had to drop Graphic Arts so I could take IB Psychology and AP Physics. FML. On the bright side I'll have 2 electives Senior year!

Do I look Asian? Well I guess y'all wouldn't know. Literally my whole life I've people ask if I was Asian, and when I say no that get super confused lol. I've had people ask me why I don't speak Chinese and then get super shocked and surprised when I tell them Spanish is my first language lol. Then I tell them to guess what I am. And of course the next guess is Mexican lol. Then I tell them my parents are from El Salvador and Guatemala, and I get the watermelon and guacamole jokes. OOOooo storytime.

Ok. This is my twins story. So, in AP Spanish you can guess most of the kids are Latino and can speak Spanish and its probably their first language. And most of them are Mexican. So, some kid called my sister a beaner. Now, it was a joke, since most of the kids are Mexican, and the racial slur is more aimed specifically towards people that are Mexicans, or at least people that look Mexican. Now, my sister doesn't really like this fool. And its annoying always having to tell people you are in fact, not Mexican. So she tells the fool that he can't call her a beaner if she's not Mexican. And he says that if your parents are Mexican, so are you. Then my sis says that well yeah but my parents are not Mexican. Then he asks where they're from. Then she tells him, El Salvador and Guatemala. Then. this. fool. insists. THAT THOSE COUNTRIES ARE IN MEXICO. He was adamant. But obviously they are 3 separate countries. Just thought I'd share.

I had someone tell me that my eyes make me look Asian, and I guess my glasses don't help. Ever since I keep looking at my eyes lol. Don't mind me having an identity crisis.

I think thats it.

If I have any typos, ignore them lol,

Sorry this got a little lengthy.

Ooooo

One more thing.

I always say that under peoples usernames, on their profile, some people had an  @something that was different then their username. I always wondered how they did that, and recently I learned. I introduce to you guys, RainbowElie. I chose that name cuz rainbows and the Elie is short for Elephants and Elephants are my favorite animal. So ya.

Till next time.

Bye!!!!!!