Bye Lexington, hello Winnipeg

Today's my last full day in Lexington, MA. Tomorrow we're leaving at around 8:00am. We're going to drive back and were stopping at Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Saute St. Marie and then finally Winnipeg!

As much as I miss Winnipeg, I really don't want to leave my friends here. You could say it's a dilemma. I can't wait to play French Horn again at Acadia and I'm going to practice hard volleyball because I'm hoping to make the grade 8 volleyball team.

I really do like Lexington and the surrounding areas. We've almost toured around every state in New England! (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont) We visited lots of place in Boston, Cape Cod, Acadia National Park (ME), Newport (RI), South Kingston (RI), New Haven (CT) and drove through New Hampshire. Sadly we didn't have time for Vermont. Heck, we didn't have time to do soooo many things! Apart from those we also went New York City (I love that place!) and Washington, DC. Wow, that's a lot. And that's plus school and homework :(

I'm really excited to go back but my friends in Winnipeg wouldn't have seen me in 6 months! Looks like I'll have to get another session of friend making - ish. Since I didn't visit Hannah after we came from Australia and New Zealand, she made me promise that I would visit her first. Oh well, that's Hannah. When I'm back, I plan to call all my friends. If I have their phone number, just in case they forgot I existed. :O That would be bad......

Friends in Lexington

I'm only here in Lexington for 1 more week. We got here in March and we're leaving on July 24. Since I went to school here, I made a lot of friends and I really like the school. And we're leaving. I'm really going to miss my friends. I came in the middle of the school year and they took me in as their friend. I'm so grateful. We had so much fun at school even though I didn't know most of the stuff they talked about the past. Last week Charlotte, Bella, Zoe, Sneha, Katie and Sara M. had a goodbye potluck party for me which was sooo nice! We had so much fun. We had a watergun fight on the trampoline, did karaoke, watch some Harry Potter and hardly ate any food. We mostly ate the desserts. :)
We also went to the movies to watch Despicable Me which was the funniest movie ever! I got there late so my friends were already inside the theatre. Since it was so dark, I couldn't find them until I bumped into Bella accidentally. I only missed the commercials so it was all good. We watched the movie which was about two villians against each other but the main villian (Mr. Gru) who wants to steal the moon adopted three orphaned girls so he's a villian who has to be a good dad. After the movie we said our farewells and hugged for a long time. I'm really going to miss all my friends in Lexington. I'll send them lots of emails to keep them updated on my life in Winnipeg.

My First Song

Well, I already got started on my first song! I'm pretty sure the title is going to be "Because of You" I wrote down all the lyrics already but I'm still gonna make changes. Plus, I'm still in early stages. I don't have a melody yet either. Those things will be for later.
Here's what I have so far:

When I saw you
I didn't know what to say
My mouth wouldn't open
So I treated you like any other stranger

You said hi to me
And I said it right back
You told me your name
And then you helped me meet new people

I was no longer lonely
You came to me
I didn't know what to do
You helped me through

You meant the world to me
And because of you
Everything was okay

I didn't know where the classrooms were
You showed me
I didn't know anyone
You told me

I followed you around
Annoyed you with my questions
But you didn't shake me off
You were always by my side

I was no longer lonely
You came to me
I didn't know what to do
You helped me through

You were the world to me
And because of you
Everything was okay

Because of you
I made friends
Because of you
I belonged

Because of you
I had fun
Because of you
Everything was okay

I was no longer lonely
You came to me
I didn't know what to do
You helped me through

You were the world to me
And because of you
Everything was okay

Because of you
Everything was okay

My New Interest!

My mom always tells me that I'm never intersted in anything. Math is boring, violin is boring, writing is boring... all the so-called important things in life I have no interest in. The problem with this is that my mom still makes me do all these things cuz she says that these things will be useful eventually. She always says that. It's just that it's kinda hard to believe what she's saying is true because I don't know what will happen eventually. I can't read the future! Right now all I think is that these important things in life eventually are just plain boring. You get what I mean, right?
Whenever my mom or my dad tell me to do something like math, writing or violin, I tell them it's sooo boring. That's a bad move. Every time I say that, they catch me and go on about this lecture about having a positive attitude even though I don't like it blah blah blah... They always end with the question "If you're not interested in any of these then what are you interested in?" I hate that question. They've asked me that, what, a thousand times already. I answer "Rhythmic gymnastics, volleyball, reading, playing outside travelling, surfing etc". I give them all these answers but apparently all of them require knowing these "important things". Argh! I ge sooo frustrated!
Last week I went to a summer camp called Singapalooza cuz I thought singing was pretty fun. Before going I thought singing was just fun and nothing else. But, after signing at that camp for the whole week I discovered that loved singing and I was good at it! I started to think: Hmmm, maybe I could be like Taylor Swift (my favourite singer) and write own songs and become famous! I know that's a big dream but my dad did tell me to dream big. Now I really really want to be a famous singer when I grow up. I don't take singing lessons and I don't play guitar but I will start to write song, shape it up, sing it for people and hopefully my parents will finally see what I really want to be!