These kids are good!

A bunch of elementary school kids singing VIVA LA VIDA and MAOZ TSUR. Just one question... what happened to looking at the director?

HILARIOUS

Unfortunately, this is for real. I feel bad for those 2 guys. REALLY funny though. Click HERE to watch.

Week 3... RHYTHMICS!!!

This weeks gymnastics vid is a montage about rhythmic gymnastics... and it is amazing! For all of you who don't know what rhythmics is, you do now! And for those of you who think rhythmics is for wimps, you are WRONG! Watch and be amazed!

Click HERE

Don't even try to tell me it isn't cool. Freaky I'll except. But...WOW!!!!!!

Gymnastics, week 2

Well I was planning on posting gym stuff early in the week...that didn't happen. So here is your week 2 of gymnastics! This week it's a montage that includes both mens and womens artistic (that's what most people think of when you say gymnastics-why it's called artistic I don't know), rythmics, trampoline, and tumbling. I don't feel like typing out the whole embedding code like I did last time, so I'll link to it HERE.

Enjoy!

a lot of stuff...

Wow. Yesterday was long. First I had the first concert of the season. We were singing at the CityLit festival. It was a REALLY bad performing space. We didn't have microphones and it was really loud, so bad combo. Of course, it meant that no one new when we messed up :) Oh and grandma came for the weekend :) :) so she go to hear me sing.

Then, me and mom were off to Columbia for homeschool stuff! Science fair + high school. First was the high school workshop. The kids session was led by Jean, who is the director of the high school program. It was really useful and interesting, and maybe convinced me to homeschool all the way through. Then was the science fair, and WOW long day. I talked to so many people! I was showing the straw bridge stuff, which meant that I had zero work to get ready :) Good thing, because I only knew I was doing it a few days before. But it's a good thing I had water with me!

I don't know if anyone cares, but Georgia won NCAA gymnastics nationals. (Yey!) This was their 5th straight year winning! (I think that's a bit crazy) Their coach is retiring after this year, so thats a pretty nice goodbye present :)  Also Courtney Kupets won the all-around for her 3rd year! (She missed last year with an injury, so that means she won every single year she competed!) She also broke to many records for me to count, so I won't even try.

So that's what's been going on with me. I know I'm not that great at updates, but I try. Really. Yeah, I know you don't believe me. Oh well...

Oh yeah, I have another concert next week, and then another the next week, and then a week off (still have rehearsal though) and than another concert! And then the cabaret  is going to be sometime after that, but I don't think I can perform :( Again. :( :( And then the spring is almost over!!!!!!! Ahhhh the year is going by fast!!!!! Oh well, can't wait to see everyone from MARS again :) and 3 whole weeks with Rachel and Selena :D :D :D But OMG then it will be next year!!! Help...

Week 1 of gymnastics!

Ok, I've decided to do a weekly gymnastics feature. I'll post montages and routines that I really like. The only thing is that I can't paste into my posts, so embedding videos is a real pain. So I'll normally post links to them until I figure it out.

This weeks video is a montage of Shawn Johnson by AshleyakaFlipper. It's one of my favorite montages EVER. Since it's the first week, I'll type out the code to embed the video and hope I don't mess up:)

So people, watch and comment comment comment!

followers?

well i know i have 3 public followers. and at least 2 private followers. if you follow privately, please leave me a comment (anonymously if you must) so i know how many followers i have. and please consider following publicly. because it makes the blog look  a lot better. and comment comment comment. thanks.

Braces...and other stuff

I'm getting braces in a few weeks :(

They might be the kind without the colored bands, but if they are colored i don't know what to get. So vote in the poll! If you have specific suggestions leave a comment (now Icy Reactions).

And I've added this "what do you think?" thing below each post, so use it!

btw, in my last poll I only had 7 votes, but 4 people said they read my blog because they found it interesting:) 2 said I made them come here and 1 said they have no idea why they're wasting their time, but that was my little sis, so I don't care.

Anyway people, COMMENT, COMMENT, COMMENT! Even if it has nothing to do with the post, COMMENT ANYWAY! And suggest posts for me to write. Current events, old events, future events(???), animals, sports, books, art, music, random questions(!!!!), anything else you can think of. And COMMENT!

Also, I added Olympic picture of the day below connect 4. And Icy is cool/awesome/wow.

BYE!

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Over 10!

Well I have more than 10 posts! This would be the 13th (aahhhhhh! the monsters are coming!). I know that's kind of depressing for almost two months :) btw, Ilona just got 50!

Connect 4

I am REALLY obsessed with connect 4 right now! I added my fave connect 4 gadget at the bottom of the page. Just to warn you it's pretty good. So have fun playing!

awesome video

ok, so i can't copy and paste when i write posts (any help on that??????) which means i cant embed videos. So i'll link to this really awesome music video that you should all watch. if you read Ilona's blog you might have already seen it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the straw bridge challenge was today and...

WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ best written report!

Yey!

Out of 30 points for the written report we got

29!!!!!!!!

I was really scared that our bridge wouldn't hold up, but it did!

Barely.

It was scary!!!!!!!

Our oral screening was whatever. It was really weird though, because 2 years ago the asked us how building under the roadway can make the bridge stronger, and today the asked us how building above the roadway can make the bridge stronger! Weird.

So then we got into the oral report, and we were first. It was... good. I think. It wasn't bad.

So then we had almost an hour, so we went outside a bit, then we came in and saw a blacksmith working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which was awesome. Then we went over for awards, which they said would be at 1, and were actually at 1:20. But I thought the were going to be at about 2 or 3, so it was really fast compared to last time.

There were some really interesting bridges today.

Like there were some

with arches,

with really tall trusses on the top,

with ramps down to the roadway,

with really tiny triangles everywhere,

with quintuple (or maybe more)-enforced roadways,

with loads of straws going down the the lower ledges,

that weighed 1.1 oz.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it was a fun challenge. But there were a lot of bridges that looked like they were supposed to fit in the hazard differently, so now I'm wondering if their hazard was different then the specs they gave us.

Ours didn't fit exactly right, but it wasn't as bad as some of the others! It was scary.

Oh yeah, and basically half the teams were from Fredrick! They all had the same t-shirt and everything.

We were the only team to qualify for the oral report that wasn't from Fredrick!

So I'm going to end this post with a huge shout-out to my awesome team-mate and friend,

Wren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You were amazing Wren!!!!!!!!!!