December (2014)

Day 4

Whenever I think of the possibilities that my aunt or my cousins would ask me "How many friends do you have?", I don't really feel like saying more than I should be having. Like seriously, I make friends with people too fast that I can't even remember how did we even get to know each other. I can remember a few, but not all 50+. Like a human. So I don't really know what to decide on whether I should go talk to A2's girlfriend, J and her friends about the previous night of the expedition or not. I was basically just trying to establish a bridge of connection between my friends and hers to let her know that we are not scary people just because we are the students of the school that does all kinds of stupid things like hanging bicycles on top of lamp posts. We are literally just a group of friends that each of us are experienced in our won way like Fluffy who is the genius of our group, L the artist and we even got the gamer JT in the house. We all love the internet culture and we watch all kinds of things. 'Pitch Perfect', 'This is the End', 'The Fluffy Movie' and 'Scary Movie 3'. You name it. And it just shows that we don't all do the same thing because we got our different ways of lifestyle that we apply to and I think its awesome to have a very diverse group. So given for a young girl with a slight misunderstanding, it might damage our reputation of our school. Plus, we didn't even intend on doing anything scary in the first place so I don't really see why we would be scary. But then again, she is young and so different people think differently and it always be based on their mindset. Not that I have a problem, but I love the people in my group of friends, so I don't wanna make things go for the worse. It was funny the first time when I was informed that she thought we were like them ghettos and come up to people, pop their asses on them pendehos. Because honestly, we are all just a group of stupid people that chases dreams and have your average common sense (minus one of the people, who is basically that one brain dead person but you know you gotta have at least one of those dumbasses to make it balance).

So I went to have a chat with J and A2, along with Al and some of J's friends on this week's Wednesday. It wasn't awkward, because it wasn't the first time that I met them. She complimented about my drama skills, just like those people who always did and of course I appreciated the compliment and the same thing happens just like what I mentioned in Day 3. I complimented her and her friends on the choir performance and everything went by smoothly.

The first period of Citizenship started and I was ready for some bad grades. Now first of all, I wasnt expecting any high grades. I knew I was gonna fail it because I never needed it anyway. Although, the test was supposed to be easy because it was technically common sense. I guess I don't have any when I got the test back with an F grade. I find Citizenship lesson as like one of those free lessons where you just do minimal work and go on YouTube for the next 50 minutes. The lesson itself is practically a joke. I never really try to put an effort in the lesson and would always find myself on Reddit getting updated in LoL(a game) news. I don't really see the reason behind such a useless subject when I could be revising for Maths and also do my homeworks during the lesson. But I guess having the ability to watch YouTube videos all you want during a lesson is quite cool as it also lets you relax and chill during the early morning.

Computing was next, and there couldn't be anything more to be said because the lesson was literally dead. Computing Teacher just gave us past paper questions and that was it. Spent my time trying to hold an auction to Il whether he should consider on buying a jacket from me for 68 riyals, in which we kept arguing back and forth when he refused to give 68 riyals but 67 riyals instead. If you think about it, 1 unit of money can change everything. It could change the difference of choices between life or money. And I wasn't gonna give in until I get the 68 riyals. Which was humorous to hold a conversation as we hold an auction what price should the jacket be. Like come on, I gave him 25% discount.

Maths started and we were handed paper 2 of the mock exam. We were informed about having to do the 2nd paper on this Wednesday, but I couldn't get the thought of the Talent Show auditions that we are going to have in the afternoon because I was thinking about the possibilities of getting beaten by the other dance groups. And I know I didn't sign up for this crap. So I wanted to be mentally prepared but at the same time focused on the Maths exam. The exam was pretty easy at first, getting harder as I pass by the questions but because we had only 1 period of Maths, we are gonna have to continue it on Sunday. Which is lucky for me and the class as we now know some the things we haven't done in the test and have something to revise on for Sunday. The lesson pretty much ended after 40 minutes and I was on my way to Literature.

There isn't much to mention about Literature as well. We just played a little game where one has to go up to the front of the class then given a character from the stories we have studied on and the audience asks questions based on the character. I didn't do much other than observing my classmates getting along with the activity while I sat there waiting and wondering how am I gonna make Day 4 a good one.

After Literature came Chemistry and before I go any further, I am in love with Chemistry. Why? It is just one of those subjects in school that you understand very well about and you become more knowledgable about the subject. I have also been getting a lot of As in Chemistry and pretty confident on passing. Not only that I love the subject itself, but this year I have an amazing teacher who is very friendly and gets along with the class very well. The Chemistry Teacher have pretty good teaching methods and helps me to understand everything with a bit of fun. We also sometimes be given 10 minutes before the lesson ends to grab some food for the after-school session of Chemistry, which is fantastic for me to go in the classroom without an empty stomach.

I did not attend the after-school session however, because me and my dance crew had the auditions at 13:50pm, but then was delayed because there was a football tournament so the people who were involved in football that signed up for the auditions had to go first. Now here is where I got a bit annoyed. I thought we already had everything sorted out with the clothes and dance, except for one thing. The music. A1 was supposed to put the music in a USB so we could play it on the audition but forgot to do it, which I was pretty salty as it was common sense to do it before the audition and didn't really ask him if he did it because the last time we went in the talent show audition( as 3A),I had the music put on a USB already. Now I was literally on the verge of giving up on the audition as I tried to transfer the music via Bluetooth and Email from A1's phone(the main source of the music) and couldn't get both to work as the file couldn't be sent via Bluetooth and the file was not appearing in the email. This was done literally 5 minutes before the audition, only to get the music successfully sent onto the email at the very last second.

The audition started. We were in positions, the music played and the art expressed itself.

I guess you could say I came in salty and came out salty. The reason why is because one, we nearly got disqualified from the audition and two, I couldn't perform on my full potential. Which may have reduced the dance's chances in getting in the Talent Show and embarrass myself as a leader to not being able to dance at his best. The judges were impressed and one of them said that "I really liked it", which relieved some of my stress and only to realize later that we were the first dance group to audition for the day. So I was thinking that the judge could have said something better to the dance group that are auditioning after us. And I kept thinking about different scenarios in my head, thinking what to do and decided that in the end, I did what I wanted to do. I got my ass off for my friends, I put my efforts into choreographing the dance and worked hard on managing the crew. I said to myself that it doesn't matter if we don't get in. Its not the end of the world. At least I tried, and that kinda let out the stress of overthinking. I did what I wanted, and as long as I'm happy with what I've done then everything would be fine. So my mood went positive after listening the harmonizing voices of L and the most amazing voice I've ever heard, Eli.The combination of the normal tune from a male and the harmonization from a female made their song of choice a heavenly and remarkable rating. So I cheered up. Eli kept on trying to cheer me up as well, and I didn't want to make people to be more concerned about me so I started thinking positive. I saw our rivals, and had a friendly chat with the leader, Din about the dance(which she begged me for 5 seconds of the dance. I refused though, because it was 'leaking' information) and wished good luck in their audition. Of course there was the other dance act, which was the duo and I personally think that they were pretty good so they deserve a compliment and I felt excited in having a much larger challenge for this year. After it all ended, we all went home and the day ended before I even knew about it.

Day 4 was really crazy, but it was fun. This is absolutely not the end of the days of the year of 2014 and many different events will keep happening in all of 2015 because life is a never ending cycle. And thus I claim the end of this mini diary of December 2014 as I await the results of the auditions and the wishes I make for my first WattPad story to have a successful review and be an interesting story to read. Cheers to those who read this book and I wanna thank all the support given from my friends, because my world would never be complete without them. Remember kids, don't do drugs, stay in school and most importantly, Believe.

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