I had a Physics quiz this morning in third period, which starts at 9:35, and was then supposed to meet Cynthia and Melissa at Melissa's room at ten to go over our dialogue. I had forgotten about the quiz when we made the plans, but didn't really care to change it. I figured I'd just do as much of the quiz as I could in the time I had, and then take off. I usually finish way early anyway. here's a really good system to taking the quizzes and tests in Physics. If you copy down the sample problems in the chapter onto your cheat sheet, there will be many problems that are almost identical. Along with my background from high school, I can do really well very easily. That happened on this quiz. It was exactly like a sample problem. It took only five minutes to finish and I'm almost positive that it will be my first ten out of ten. That's awesome. Plus I made it to Yulee five minutes before ten. What luck!
After I locked my bike on the rack, I walked over to the double doors where Melissa always meets me. I told Cindy where that was yesterday in class because Yulee is a pretty big place. Melissa walked out just as I got there. We talked for a few minutes, and I told her about what happened in computer. We then went walking around looking for Cindy just to make sure she wasn't lost. We ended up walking back to the doors, and she came up just as we did. I wore one of the new shirts that Jonny gave me over Thanksgiving. It's a brand new thick canvas shirt with red, green, black, and white stripes running up and down. Mema had just bought it for him and it still had the tags on it. It's really nice and I was going to save it for possibly a date, but it looked so festive that I decided to wear it sort of for our dialogue.
We went up to Melissa's room and did our dialogue a couple of times. We kept screwing up and laughing. Melissa asks for popcorn in the skit, so I had her pop a bag. It was mainly since I didn't have any breakfast, because I figured that we wouldn't use it in the dialogue anyway. It was good. I then said that one of us would probably end up choking on popcorn as we tried to speak our lines. The three of us ended up walking down to the little store and buying Cokes before class. We kept doing our dialogue as we were walking around. We were being pretty loud, and it would have looked like we were actually having a real conversation to the many people walking around us. It was funny.
In class, Elaine actually brought us doughnut holes and Nicole brought some kind of drink. Elaine was speaking in German about having a party and us bringing food. At least that's what I picked up. I knew that mostly everybody wasn't sure what she was talking about. I told Melissa that I thought she was just rambling again and she laughed. We had our drinks and popcorn to eat as well. I told Elaine that we were going first, and she said OK. A few minutes later, after all of the groups had written their new words on the board, Fran‡oise's group got up and started getting ready. We looked at each other and said oh well, but then Melissa and I half-jokingly complained to Elaine that we were going first. I stood up and told Fran‡oise to sit down, and they actually did. It was funny, but we did get to go first. I did get a bit nervous, my lower lip was quivering, but as Melissa and I put it, we kicked the dialogues ass!!! I made no mistakes and was loud. We did awesome!
It was fun the rest of the period because we didn't have any time to get nervous and we just got to sit there and eat and watch the other dialogues. I believe that ours had the least mistakes, if any. Elaine said that we did very well when we asked at the end of the class. Melissa gave me the bag of popcorn, and I kept the two of them well fed. After a while, I sat the bag in my lap, and Melissa continued to stick her hand in getting popcorn. It might not of looked to good on her part, but I liked having her hand where it was. I know for a fact that some of the guts across the room noticed. I quite often catch them looking at her, and am glad that I'm the one she sits with. I love being the guy with the cute girls in that class. All but Nicole, who I could have easily had if I had only tried, but I quite possibly could have forfeited Melissa, so I'm glad that I didn't!
Our exam is Tuesday night at 5:30, and I asked if we are going to walk over together. She said sure, and to come over at five. I started getting sentimental at the end, and joked with Melissa about it. We also talked with Pong and Fran‡oise about how it was a great class and we're definitely going to miss it. I definitely am.
Melissa had to go to the computer lab after class, but first had to go back to her room to get her disk. I decided to go with her just to be with her. I used the excuse that I wanted to print something up anyway.
Then came the clincher. Her grandfather was on his motorcycle yesterday when a seventeen year old kid in a Cherokee hit him. Her grandfather is now in a coma, and has a large blood clot in his brain as well as internal hemorrhaging. She loves him like a father, she had told me this before as well. Now she's going back to Tallahassee over the weekend to see them. She won't be allowed into the intensive care unit, but she's worried about her grandmother as well. She showed me a picture of them on her TV before we left. She told me that I am the first person she has told this to. I told her to make sure and call me when she gets back and tell me what's going on. I also told her to make sure that she drives carefully. She said that she will on both accounts. She told me how her father called last night. She said that he never calls her at the University, so she asked him what he wanted. The way he told her is that he guessed her grandfather is cured of his little motorcycle habit. That pissed her off. It did me, too. I want to know what this guy's problem is? She did also tell me that she realizes that once an old person goes through something like this, he won't ever be the same.
She has been keeping a good outlook though, and has been pretty jovial. She continued on this way the entire time I was with her. We tried finding her a computer but couldn't. She told me that she was just going to wait in the room until one became free. I then went and printed up a couple of things on a vax machine, and then returned to her. I told her that my stuff is printing out. Even if it was ready in five minutes, I was in no hurry whatsoever. A computer soon became available and she got on it. I pulled up another chair. We talked about a lot of things while we were there. She had to print forty pages so we had plenty of time. It wouldn't start printing because the online button wasn't pushed. When it didn't start printing she asked me what's wrong. Instead of her having to go ask a circa worker how to fix it, I just leaned over and fixed in no time. It was good to feel useful by her.
We looked at her thesis for a few minutes. She had an appendix with many classical Greek names in it. She told me to imagine naming my kids any of these. We were then going through them picking out names that would sound cool for a kid to have. It was funny. We were also talking about dreaming again. She said that her dream really did scare her enough that she needed to call me and talk to me about it. She was in my dreams last night. I told her that, but I didn't tell her that she had a new boyfriend in my dream and was kissing him in front of me. After a while she told me that I don't need to stay with her if I don't want to. She already knew that I have the rest of the day off, so I told her that I could either go home and dream about her, or stay and actually talk to her, and I vote for the later. It was funny.
I was then looking in my notebook. I had taken all of the stuff that I might want to show Melissa and had stuck it in. I let her and Cindy read my article that I wrote for the Tampa Tribune. I also showed her my little pen pal stuff and she liked those. I asked her if she will write to me as soon as she gets settled in over in London. She said definitely, that she really likes to write. I said that I do, too. She also asked me if I wanted anything from London. I first asked her to bring me my pen pal, that I'd like to meet her, but then said that I'd worship anything English that she sent me. I wrote down both my address here and my permanent down in Tampa. I also gave her the phone number for each. She later did the same for me.
She also asked me about my wanting to go to Mannheim. She said that if it's this summer while she's in Athens, then we should definitely get together sometime in Europe. That blew my mind, it would be unbelievable!!!!!
We were also talking about graduation. When she found out that I'm really staying, she seemed somewhat happier. She was telling me about the really nice dress she has along with a pair of platform shoes. She joked that she will be the only girl up there in platform shoes. She mentioned about how now her grandparents won't be here for graduation, so now it's only a formality. I told her that still I'd have to take a picture or two and mail it to her in London. She laughed and said no. I then joked that she'll have to smile really big and poof out her hair. She laughed and said, 'Say dunkelbunt!' and we both cracked up. She also turned to me and said that she really does like my shirt. I had told her about Jonny's accident and all, and told her that it was my birthday present from him.
I also asked about Busch Gardens and she said that she still definitely wants to go. She said that she's wide open all of Christmas break. Any other girl and I would have made a perverted joke but I held back. That's another reason why we have each others' phone numbers. I asked her how we are going to do this, and she said that she'd drive down. That will make it better. I don't want her to have to drive that far by herself, but there aren't many other options. It will be fun though. Possibly it will turn out that she spends the night at our house. Hmm. She is truly my best friend right now!
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