Dark Era 14
I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. I sat up in bed and pulled the covers back. Then I remembered something- the Art Competition! I quickly got up and brushed my teeth. I walked down the stairs and met my mom who was smiling widely. I only then noticed the great breakfast she had prepared.
There were feash muffins with orange juice poured into two champegne glasses, with a vase of daisies in the middle. "Wow mom! This is great! But what's the occasion?" I asked in feign curiousity. Mom grinned and said jokingly, "I dunnno...I just felt like giving you a suprise..." I laughed, "Seriously mom. It must have taken you forever! I haven't even won it! If I'll even win...anyway, thanks!" "Faith, even if you loose or win, you'll still be the best artist in my eyes." Mom said quietly.
Suddenly we heard my parents' bedroom door close. My dad walked down the stairs. When he appeared into the kitchen, he froze at the door. He looked at the table, then at me and mom. "Phew." he said. "For a second I thought I'd walked in on the wrong house or something..." We all laughed loudly and sat down to eat breakfast.
When we walked into the school hall, I spotted Katie. Who was waiting impatiently for me by the door. She ran over to me and tugged me to my painting saying, "The judges are coming at 11. And it's only 10, so we can see all the other artwork." She paused, "Well unless you wanna stand around your piece to see what people say about it..." I considered, "How bout we walked around for the first half hour? Then we can stand around my work, and see what people think about it?" "Sure. Let's go!" Katie answered.
We'd looked around for about half an hour when we headed over to where my 3 painting hung. We stood around and pretented to look at other paintings while really eavesdropping on some of the conversations about my work. Several people called my work 'almost proffesional', while others had called it 'amazing, so full of soul and feeling', and one person even exclaimed my work 'complete genuis!'. Me and Katie struggled to control out laughter when the guy then told his wife, "These paintings are wonderful! They will win the top prize for sure!". Everyone had given my work only compliments so far and I'd heard no negetive critisism. My heart lifted, only slightly though. It was really what the judges thought about it.
At 11 I stood nervously by my painting. Katie told me they'd been standing at my classmates', Eddie, work for longer than the others. I fidgeted nervously, 'Were they going to like it? Would they think it ametuer? Or inexperinced?'
Katie reported to me 15 minutes later they were walking down the aisle. 'Obviously mine would be the last they'd see.' I thought. I saw the judges, and they stopped at the first 3 paintings. I'd seen them earlier, the collection was all oil colors, and all flowers. I stared stunned at first, the flowers almost looked like you could reach in and touch them!
The judges had finally finished the whole aisle and were walking to my stand of 3 paintings. I smiled nervously at them as they scanned my paintings and made notes on their clipboards. The tallest judge looked me in the eye and smiled. Whether it was good or bad I didn't know, but I smiled back shyly. Afterwards he said, "The winner will be announced on the Monday morning, during assembly." I nodded and wondered if he said that to everyone or just me. They examined my 3 paintings a little while longer, and they walked down the aisle.
I leaned against the wall, took a deep breath and watched them leave the hall.
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Weekend (music videos & blah)
Nothing much this weekend.
Saturday-Went to MegaLife, Crystal was there. The sermon was cool...cell was normal.
Sunday-Had this thing...so I couldn't rara.
HIGHLIGHT 1: Vikki came runing over, telling us -the whole band- that my, Natalie's, Darren's & Joy's photos was inside a magazine. I remembered the photo thing, I'd forgetten to tell Nat & Nic about it...The whole band came over to see. Nat's mom, only expecting Natalie was stunned. She just opened her eyes wide and let us see the magazine... LOL
HIGHLIGHT 2: While walking to church we teased Vanessa and Chee Yann. Considering Vanessa talked with him for more than 20 min on the same subject-musicals.
HIGHLIGHT 3: Watched some kinda music vid competition entries on CY laptop. REALLY FUNNY!
HIGHLIGHT 4: I went to Natalie's house. We played this computer game, and played piano and talked for a while. Then she went to pick up her sis at my house, and I went home...
So ends the weekend. Oh yea, I didn't come home till like 12:30 on friday! My parents decided to go out for supper with a cell. And since only I was there, it was ok. But I was really tired on saturday morning...
Amberlie-J
I'm back!
Hey people! I'm ba-ack! The trip was so fun! It was cool, like outta this world! Here's what happened:
Day 1-Went on the plane. Went on the high speed train. When it comes you feel this HUGE gust of wind. The inside was nice, and I basically stoned most of the trip, cause it was so late.
Then, afterwards, we got out. We met Mr & Mrs. Park. They had the Doulos van -one of eight- and we headed to the ship. They have 2 kids: Ji Yoon & Enchel. Ji Yoon and Zoe get along real well, so did Reagan and Enchel.
Day 2- We went on a tour of the ship, like MEGA COOL! The engine room is loud, and they only had 1 generator on! Imagine all EIGHT running! The engineers have to wear ear plugs all the time!
Day 3- We went sailing. From Ghao xiong to Hua lien, and man was it rough! As soon as we crossed the tip of the island, the whole ship was tossing INSANELY!! I was on the top bunk, and because I had gotten dizzy I went to lie down. I was holding onto this wooden thing for dear life. LOL!
Day 4- We arrived at Hua Lien, and we went onto the ship. As we were coming in, this fireboat came to guide us in! It was spraying water and everything! Then there were these traditional dancers on the keyside, and we watched them as we came in.
Day 5- Official Opening of the Doulos. Me & Reagan joined the school for art class.
Day 6- Open Day! With exhibits, games and more cool exhibits! LOL! I was awestruck by this one guy. He was showing us some of the stuff the Deckies (people who work on the deck) use and he was a Deckie himself. (TAKE NOTE OF THAT) He picked up this big, metal link and held it like it was nothing. He told us it was one of the links for the anchor, an old one that had rusted so had to be replaced. He let mom try to hold and she staggered, luckily the guy grabbed it before she dropped it! Then he saw me staring and let me try. He was still holding it...and I slowly sank to my knees from the weight. He took it back before I fell. PHEW!
Day 7- Went with Isabella to Salt Co. a kids group. They play games and stuff. Yelling, screaming & laughing was heard through out the whole ship (jkjk).
Day 8- Went to the Toroko Gorge with the Park family. Really cool! We went hiking, then we went and drove around. It was soooooooooooo B-E-A-UTIFUL!!!!
Day 9- We left. Ending out trip on the Duolos.
Fun, exciting, scary...btw, Eunchel, if you read this. THAT WAS SO NOT FUNNY WITH THE SCARING THING! SO NOT!!!!!!!!!
Amberlie-J
