Graduation Time!

It's graduation time bitches! Yes, me, Natalie, has finally graduated from high school. Whooo!

To be honest, I'm not that excited. It doesn't seem exciting to me really. It never has. Graduation for me was always just a sort of land mark. A place where I had to get to to start my real  life, the ones you see on TV shows and wish you had. Yeah you know what I'm talking about. Those little apartments in New York City like in "Friends" and have that weird job that is slightly growing on you with those people that are more like family than friends and finally finding that person that you truly really love and want to spend the rest of your life with. No? Just me? Allllllrighty then lets continue.

Well graduation came by fast and honestly the only portion of schol that I'm really gong to miss is my band family. As much as I hate their guts sometimes ( like when they do not put their marching uniform back correctly on the hanger and I have to do it grrrrr) I really do consider them family because, seriously, if you have stood in the sun for say 7 hours with the same group of people for 4 days a week for 4 weeks, you bond. Pain, heat, sweat, dehydrated and inappropriate jokes, but you bond. Hopefully one day we can "get the band back together" and party and have fun. These people have impacted my life one way or another and it has been great marching next to them this year. All 20 of them haha. Best Marching Band in Southern California for the win!

The teachers: The three teachers that have had the greatest bond with in all my 4 years were the following:





Mr. Guerrero. He ( Mister ) and we call him, was my first high school teacher. And one of the best actually. He has taught me so much about music from sitting up start and putting the curse of not crossing my feet EVER in the band room to learning how to actually count my music and realizing where the music we play comes from. I thank this man for his dedication to the band and all that he does for us. Seriously, he slept in a parking lot for a week for us so I think we really owe him.

 Mr. Clark: I met Mr. Clark this year when I took Physiology. And really that was one of the best courses that my school offers. In his class I was able to dissect a sheep brain, a heart, and the most important, a cat. Because of this teacher I was able to go to Prom. He motivated me every day ( sine he was my 7th period ) for 2 months and I finally talked to my dad and was able to attend. I bonded with him and trusted him and am pretty sure if I ever need advice, he'll be there.

Ms. Quezada: She is on of the most influential people I have ever meet. She will go to the end of the world and back for her students. Ms. Quezada was my AVID teacher and my AP American History teacher. From cramming for the AP to writing essays and my personal statements, she was always there. For her we owe all our excellent grades we earned because if we ever got senioritis she would throw a "chancla" or better known as a sandle at us. Seriously, she has a huge one on her wall. She is also the reason we had a better chance of getting into college.Thank you Ms. Quezada for being on our hineys all freaken year but not for giving us that dreadful AVID project. Those were headaches I really didn't need haha. Bring on the college!

I am now free from school and have nothing to do now. Whoo for growing up. Time to start my future. Let a new chapter begin!

-Natalie
PS: Everyone needs to post graduation selfies. NEED ;)

A Snap Shot A Day 10/16

So this week, which was like really two weeks ago ha ha ha *sigh* damn college apps, was really eccentric. School, parades, House of Hades, Parties, and more. And I say I have no life geez.

L-R:

1. Waiting at a parking lot before the El Monte Children's Parade
2. My sister and i at a Zumba Halloween party. She's Cassie from Dragon Tales (Love that show! It was my costume prior to her wearing it)...
3. Me Dressed in my Halloween costume. I don't know what I am honestly.It's a costume inspired by a painter. 
4. My bf dressed in his Halloween costume that arrived in the mail that week. Peter Pan!!
5. HOUSE OF HADES!! I am super obsessed with the Percy Jackson series. I have already finished it and it was amazing!! Thinking of doing a blog post just about this...
6. South El Monte Mighty Eagle Marching Band at the El Monte Children's Parade. That first rank step though ♥
7. Me reading House of Hades because I know I was going to blog about it ha ha
8. My little sister wearing my old dress. How weird huh. Who wears it better?
9. My feets during Spanish 3 AP because I was cozy and that class was particularity boring that day
10. Ben and me teaching his children (band lower classmates trumpets) SO much work huh
11. After our Friday football game that we LOST! just kidding I don't really football much less because out team sucks.
12. Playing catch with a water bottle during lunch. I almost got hit in the face -_- whoop haha
13. My Asian and me. We both suffer during Physiology so much 0-0

And that was my week. Till next time, which might be a while....stupid college apps.... It better be worth it.

-Natalie ♥

You should go watch Zoellas's Video with Baby Glitter. Soo adorable!

It's That Weather Again!

The sky has darkened, the clouds have set in, the cool wind is blowing, the rain is coming down: Its that weather again. And I absolutely love it. Its time to bring out the big sweaters and the hot coco. So now that the sky has changed color and the leaves are falling unfortunately another thing comes in hand: the stuffy nose and sore throat. I always get sick so easily. Boo. (I'm a ghost) Bad thing is I always end up getting massive fevers and lose a ton of weight when I'm sick. My stomach basically caves in. (eww) But any who Yeah I'm super excited to try the new Pumpkin Spice coffee thing at Starbucks. I know I sound like a total white girl stereotype but hey! I never have coffee (even though I adore it sooo much) much never the less Starbucks. I've had it about only three times.

So yes! The month of October to me means Parade season for us band geeks and UC applications open and Halloween and Candy! A busy month for bands in southern California because we have parades and band reviews. Honestly it makes me proud that my band is known as "the small band with a big sound" because we literally march twenty. We compete with people of 40 people and up and still score. Heck yes. Next come the UC applications for colleges. Damn they take forever but its worth it if I get into one. SO REDUNDANT. Jeez. And last Halloween! So excited because this year my boyfriend and I are going to dress up as Peter Pan and Wendy! I just got my costume today thanks to my best friend Alicia for ordering my costume for me online! Its so shinnnny. I'm going to attract stupid birds - ~ -And Alicia and her boyfriend are going to be Tinker Bell and Captain Hook! Yaaay we match. Oh the joy haha. 

So that all for today. I hope this October brings fortune and is memorable like the last (and no birds poop on me)

-Natalie ☾

So this is the song I'm currently in love with. I love the vocals and the beats. ♥

L.A. County Fair!

This Wednesday I went to the LA County Fair with my high school marching band. And it was amazing! Before the we even left for the fair though I was busy everywhere helping my best friend (Alicia also the head drum major) get everything ready which includes hemming pants, sorting uniforms, polishing shoes, and combing the guy's hair. Yes I said guys. They all look like they belong in a boy band which means trouble for me. I'm the band's unofficial hair dresser so um yeah. I actually had to cut two kid's hair off because it wouldn't fit in the shako (our head gear). If I can't fix it, its to the scissors. Regardless I had so much fun. Our marching was crap though. Mega crap. But at least now our new freshman know our standards are high and better get off their bums and get serious about band. Either way it was crazy fun. I ate King Taco (Which are the best tacos in the world! Or at least in Southern California) and bought anime related stuff. Even our band director had fun which is eye opening for us. I bought me and Alicia matching Pokemon eveelosions necklace because were freaken awesome and completely nerdy about Pokemon. Annnnd by the end of the day I was so tired I knocked out in the bus.

My sister's first time marching

Moi is very photogenic

This is my last year competing in the fair with my band at the fair and it was amazing. I wish it could have lasted longer but I'm returning next year to help out. There not getting rid of me that easily >:) I'm defiantly not gonna miss the sweat after marching and defiantly not that smell on the us on the bus. (we smell like butt)

Love always, 

          Natalie ♫

School Is On A Swing

 So instead of doing my Spanish AP homework I'm writing a blog post because why not. School is well on its way, the first month done (finally!) Buuut now comes the harder part. College Apps O.O Yes the benefits of being a senior mean doing all those dreadful applications and having that nerve-racking feeling of "What if I get rejected from every school?! No one wants me T-T" Oh just me? Okay.

Luis =^o^= He no like pictures xP

Anyways my thoughts so far of senor year are somewhat positive. I mean no matter what way you put it its still school. We're still lock up in a place for almost eight hours and forced to do what the teachers tell us even if we think it is completely useless in the outside word, eat semi-crappy lunch, and be denied the liberty to speak your mind with the consequence of being punished for it. But ya know, Go school! So all my classes are pretty alright with the exception of English 4 AP. THAT CLASS IS COMPLETELY DREADFUL. My teacher in that class is completely clueless in what he is doing and saying. This course (being AP) should be vigorous and difficult to pass right? Nope. We're not even on the leave of the regular English classes. We're below it. Yeah that bad. I have not written a single essay in that class while the other classes have written about three. Its horrible to the point where I can text my friend (Luis ^.^) in the same class while I sit literally in front of the teacher and he sits three desks back. That bad. Yeah. But the rest of my classes are all up to there standards so I mean there has to be a bad apple in the bunch. I just hate that it's English =__=

Since I'm in band, I've been going to all the football games at my school. Yaay *note the sarcasm*  Don't get me wrong, I'd love to go to a football games...but where I don't have to freeze my ass off and play in the band. I love the band, wait that's going to far, I can stand half the band and not murder them, but still I'd like to go to a normal football game where I can be a normal teenager and dress nice and enjoy an outing with my friend. Just once. But no I live the band lyfe. 

Yesenia, Kira, and the Asian (Diana) 

Matt being loved. He no like

Andrew likey

My flute girls Emily, Asian, and Kira

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Emily and I


That pretty sums up my life up until now. Personal Statements are waiting for me. There haunting me, chasing me from the shadows, bloody little twats. But all worth it for a better happier life. The future awaits ♥
Love,
           Natalie ♫

School Memories

As summer comes to an end and senior year come into a start I began reflecting on all those difficult but amazing years I have experienced. School has never been a challenge for me and I actually enjoyed all the time I spend in school. School is a second home to me whether it was in the depths of the library or out sitting on the grassy field. It is a place I have always felt safe, never bullied, never tormented, never had a single worry. I have always been quite good at school so I really never had to study. It was all fun and games for me. I'd like to share some memories I have of my school life that made it so memorable.

In my kindergarten class I met my future best friend Alicia. Of course, at that time I had no intention of making friends, just excited that I was somewhere that was not my house or my front yard. ( I was dark as a child ) I specifically remember one day where since it was Doctor Seuss week at my school ( a week where we celebrate Seuss's legacy and works crammed into five days ) and we made green eggs and ham. I thought it was amazing that the eggs turned green. I didn't eat them in the end but I had fun poking and watching my peers eat them. I though they were pretty disgusting but in that time I really had no opinion on anything. You know how children think: food, sleep, FUN.

Next memory I'd like to share is later on in my third grade year where I went back into my second grade class to mentor the little kids there. My teacher, Mr. Melendez, loved me as his own child. He gave me a nickname that I still use today: Nat-Ram, a combination of my first and last name. I stayed and read to the class and helped them answer questions. At the end when I had to leave because lunch was over, I ended up being about ten minutes late to class. I of course got in slight trouble but was okay because I was on my teacher's good side.  

Still best friends. Still dorks

Next was the time in seventh grade when our PE teacher at the time made us do physical training inside the class because it was raining outside. Now this consists of jumping jacks, sit-ups, push-ups of all kinds, squats, and the dreadful lunges. And this was the first time I had ever done this type of workout. The next day after this horrible workout, as you guys can imagine, were were sore as heck. I fell out of bed because my legs wouldn't support me. My friends were the same. Every time we sat down it was the worst pain in the world. So at lunch  my friends Alicia (Above), Marcia, Brisy, and Isaiah and I decided to get rid of the pain. By running. That was the worst pain I had ever felt. My muscles refused in every way possible. But I could move again thank Jebus. I will never forget that pain. So now I do exercise very often to never feel that pain.

Isaiah, Marcia, and Alicia; My childhood friends

Lastly I'll share the story of how Alicia and me broke our band director's podium. Ahh freshman year. So we just came from a band concert at a neighboring school (which we totally rocked the best) and we stuffed the podium in a bus seat. When we got to our school we loaded everything off the bus and the late idem being the podium. When Alicia and me were pulling it off the seat, one of the legs were stuck under the seat. so we jerked it the podium up and well, you guessed it, it snapped. We started laughing like crazy and walked to the band room still laughing. The director wasn't mad but we still felt bad and super glued it back. 

I hope you enjoyed laugh at my little stories of my school days and will continue to read my blog. 

To good memories, 

Natalie ♫

Those Little Details About Me

Salutations young people. Obviously you've managed to stumble upon my blog here. Welcome! :) So since I'm new at blogging and have somewhat of an idea of what I'd like to post about (working some ideas in my head that if I don't write down are doomed to be forgotten forever in the black hole that is my head) and am going to start with sharing a few things about myself that aren't very grand but make a huge difference in trying to express who I am and I believe that is important to share (that are not in the About section. Yes. I am aware I have one. I created it :P).

So lets begin with the basics! 

• My name is Natalie. Natt for short. I am seventeen years of age and am a senior in high school. I live in Southern California, a couple of minutes away from Los Angeles. I am five foot six, right about average height and weight one hundred and twenty pounds. I am the oldest of four children (Though it seems like there my own little annoying swarming children) My future major is Forensic Anthropology. (like the show Bones!)

• Throughout my life I have done a few things that I am proud of such as being to say that I have been dancing Folkorico for fourteen years. Yes that's right. I have been dancing since I was three. (Let me have my moment pleeease) Dancing is a passion that runs through my veins. I will always dance if I have the chance. I was going to audition to a dance high school but then realized dancing isn't really what I would like to pursuit as a future career. Maybe as something on the side, as a hobby. 

• I also have been in band for nine years. I play a hand full musical instruments; flute and guitar being my two main instruments. I also play the piano, some violin, and used to play the accordion. (Yes I am aware how hilarious that sounds. It wasn't my choice but still got something out of those lessons...no I didn't) I am in marching band. I am proud to say my band is ranked one of the top sixty bands in southern California. Yesssssssss. We attend every major parade in Southern California including Arcadia Band Review, a major milestone for my director and my school. PS. My best friend is Drum Major! Yay Alicia!

• I am also in a mariachi. Where I learned how to play guitar was in a little dusty garage with a 22 year old quirky lady. Her older sister teaches violin. And their youngest sister takes lessons from both of them. I play an instrument called a viduela, a smaller higher pitched guitar. We get gigs every once in a while and get our fair share of money out of it. Its a pretty sweet deal. I ended up creating a little family there for it was my sanctuary for some time. You know how family is: the loved sister, that hated person you never want to talk to, the know it all, and the rest that are too distant you really don't know all that well. Go figure.

Now this pretty much sums up my life up until now. These hobbies and school work take up all of my time really. (Which means I have some what of a life. Hooray for not being a total loser!) Now that I've told you wonderful people a bit about myself and completed my first blog post, like the procrastinator that I hate I am at times, I now must attempt to finish my summer assignment for my English AP class. Oh the wonderful life of an AP student. The Wuthering Heights here I come. Please be pleasant! *crosses fingers* 

Till the next time we meet lovely people <3 

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