I See It Around Me, I See It In Everything

Haven't written in a while. I always think about writing as the day winds down, but I end up getting too lazy or distracted.

The last few days have and haven't been exciting.

I visited the old high school on Wednesday. I only visited Mr. Bermudez (Math) and Mr. Roberts (English) though. Melissa really wanted me to go to journalism, but I had not mentally prepped for that. I'm weird like that. Like, I liking to plan/think ahead of time what's gonna happen when I go somewhere. That day, I had only planned on visiting those two classrooms. I'm weird like that. I guess I just don't like when things don't go as I had mentally planned. SO, I stuck to my plan. Sorry, Melissa. Haha.

Bermudez was cool...I waltzed in, sat down next to him, said "Whats up!!" Haha. I had my backpack too, so I blended in with all the other kiddos. I wish I could have talked more to Bermudez, but he was busy I guess. Every time I try to visit him, he acts quite busy! Like, I'll try to talk to him about more personal things but then he'll just ignore me or be distracted by something else. So I mostly used his computer and talked to Melissa during 4th period.

So after 4th, I went to lunch with Melissa and her peeps in the senior gardens. That was kinda nice. I didn't eat anything, but I got to talk to them and catch up. This kid Alfonso is the nicest guy! He's Danny's little brother, and Danny is Janet's boyfriend, and Janny are some of my closest pals. =) I headed to Roberts' class with Alfonso. Melissa contemplated ditching journalism and coming with us, but she ended up going to journalism.

As we walked down the hall, I saw my cousin Jeff saying sup to all his vatos or whatever, so I surprised him and did a little fist bump thing or whatever. "SUP!" "You go to this school now? Since when?" Haha. I told him I had just enrolled. We're such kidders.

Roberts was happy (?) to see me? I can never tell with that guy. He greeted me pretty warmly though. I told him I was there to sub. Heehee. After his 5th period class we got to talk a little bit. I helped take down a lot of his old posters and postcards since he'll need to start cleaning up for his retirement. I took some select postcards, but a lot I left for other students to peruse and take. Too bad most of them came from Ms. Saxton...that was pretty anticlimactic. I thought there was more of a history behind the postcards, but they mostly contained notes asking Bill if he had x number of copies for whatever book, or some dry erase markers. Lame. I guess you can't judge a postcard by its cover. HA.

While I was there, Roberts mentioned that he can't remember ever seeing so many pregnant girls at school. That was really upsetting to me. It's so frustrating that our school board is so completely naive that they won't even allow sex education to be taught. Like there's no connection between the high pregnancy rate and lack of sex education?? Damn it. We still offer home ec/cooking classes, but no sex ed. Ain't that lovely. Here, learn how to cook since you're bound to get pregnant soon.

Moving on.

Thursday I babysat my brothers in the afternoon until my mom got home from work. I decided to take them to have their first ice cream cones. =) I put baby Fernando in the stroller, and Henry and Jonathan each grabbed a side of the stroller. It was super adorable. We walked over to the ice cream place and I ordered them two chocolate ice cream cones. I told the lady not to put too much ice cream, but she didn't understand. Ugh. So I gave Henry and Jonathan a giant cone each and they made a huge mess. But I still loved every minute of it. "Mmmm, rico!" Haha. I got some cute pictures on my camera phone.

Later that evening Janet's mom picked me and Vinnie up to drive to Santa Barbara for Janet's graduation. Yay!! We had In N Out before we left and it was freakin delicious. My first In N Out burger of the summer. Epic.

The drive wasn't too bad. Vinnie and I were freaking out about the Laker game. I kept getting Google updates, and the score was always so close! We weren't too happy to hear they had lost, but whatever. At least they won the next game. Janet's mom was pretty entertained by our making such a big deal out of it though. It's the playoffs though! She can't judge us.

Anywayyyy, we got to Janet's around 9:30 that night. Her and Danny have a very nice little apartment. It felt very home-y. I slept on the top bunk of the bunk bed, Janet and her mom took the bottom, and Vinnie slept on the couch. Danny slept over at a friend's house because he was afraid of what would happen if Janet's dad showed up and saw him sleeping there. He worried over nothing! Her dad didn't show up until much later than he said he would.

Albert, Sammy, Pam and Rochelle arrived Friday morning for the graduation. It was nice to see all of them, especially Pam since I don't get many chances to really talk to her. That afternoon we walked around SB. We went to the beach for a little while and walked along the shore, then we went to a playground near Janet's apartment for Rochelle to play at. Omg I raced Rochelle down the slide. Not gonna lie, that was pretty fun.

Toward the end some of us were playing on the monkey bars. Albert got on them, swung himself with one hand, and fell on his ass! It was the funniest thing I've seen in a while. I vividly remember it in my head. I wish I could have a .gif made of it. Oh wellz.

The time finally came around for Janet's graduation. The ceremony was very nice and short. There weren't too many graduates, so that was a plus. When Janet's name was said, her entire family and all of her friends cheered loudly and proudly =). Afterward we were supposed to go to Outback Steakhouse, but the restaurant didn't have our table ready. -__- But, there was a pizza parlor across the street glad to accommodate us, so our gang of Mexicans migrated over there. The pizza was soooo good. PLUS, they were showing the Cleveland-Orlando game on a big screen television. OMG that was the craziest game. Freakin' LeBron James and his three-point abilities. I was pretty heartbroken that Orlando didn't win.

Anyway, it was still a nice meal. Rochelle was a little diva the whole time! She likes having everyone's attention.

I came home Saturday. Yousaf's mom Gracie was nice enough to let me ride back with her, little Abraham, and the grandparents. Abraham was really entertaining. He kept saying "There's traffits!" Hahaha. Kids mispronouncing things is so entertaining. Like when Henry calls Jonathan "Jotanan" Awwwwww. It melts my heart.

Anyway. The car ride wasn't too bad. I was afraid it might be awkward because Yousaf's grandma sometimes puts me on the spot about things. But she was really quiet! I didn't understand why she talked so little. I think most of us were exhausted though, especially since most of the festivities were a little rushed.

To be continued...