Before I begin, I have to apologize for not updating you guys for a while! I was kinda lazy and didn't finish this when it just happened so here you go guys!
Oh my gosh! The week of Sun Oct. 21-Sat Oct. 27 was a super awesome week!
Sunday October 21, 2012 I told you that I woke up to try to see a meteor shower but that didn't happen and also must have been excited about the week ahead of me.
First on Monday, October 22, 2012, it was the beginning of homecoming week and everyday was a spirit day. That day was America, so I dressed up in red, white, and blue. Also, that day was Zac Hanson's 27th birthday, so I wore a salmon colored plaid-like long sleeved shirt that I left unbuttoned so I would look like a drummer. Then after school, it was our last practice before district finals. I went home and packed up my bag so I would be ready for district finals.
The next day was Tuesday, October 23, 2012. That day was twin day. All the girl cheerleaders wore their blue tennis-like practice outfit so we all looked like twins. During English class, my back started hurting me. I carried on but then after school when we had to go to the dance room to wait to go to the bus to go to districts, my back started KILLING ME!!!!! Aw man. It was so bad that you could tell by my face I was in pain (I don't really display pain through my face unless it was too much)! We got to the school and we put our stuff down and then we went to practice. Aw man!! I was in soooo much pain! After we practiced, I went to the trainer to get ice to put on my back. I then got changed and laid down on my stomach to keep the ice on my back. I then got my hair and make-up done. My felt an eensy bit better when we went to processionals. Afterwards, we went back to the locker room and I put the ice on the floor, laid down on top of it, and then rested my feet on the bench. I laid down on top of it for like about 25 minutes. Then we warmed up one last time. We then performed really well, except that one stunt fell, but that was it. We then went to the bleachers on the other side of the gym. Some of our parents came. All the JV and Freshmen cheerleaders as well as the JV and Freshmen coach came too. Some of our friends from school came. As we were sitting in the bleachers, I saw a familiar sweater. I realized that it was the dude-that-I-like! I then told my best friend on the cheer team and she said to me, "I invited him." I told her thank you so much and I will make here that hat because of that. The coaches got the scores back and they looked REALLY happy and cried happy tears! I kinda knew then that it was a very good sign. All 8 teams (including us) went to the mat to hear the results. We knew who 6th, 7th, and 8th place were so that didn't concern us. Then they announced 5th place. IT WASN'T US!!!! I got so happy cause I knew then that we made it to regionals. Then we heard that 4th AND 3rd place wasn't us! We got 2ND!!!! OH MY GOSH!!! We knew then that we compete during the 2nd round. We then performed even better than before and we found out we TIED for FIRST PLACE. But the tie breaker (them dropping the highest and lowest score) caused us to get 2nd by HALF A POINT! I have to admit, I was a little disappointed, but I was still very happy! The dude-I-like came down after along with a lot of others to congratulate us. I asked him if I could hug him, and he said yeah and he hugged me too! :3 It was the 2nd best day of my life!!!
Then on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, it was tacky tourist day. I dressed up in my shirt that I got in Des Moines, Iowa the day after the best day of my life (My first Hanson concert! :DDD). In Geosystems, I had to leave early cause I had my last IEP meeting. I was excited to tell people about districts!!! We then started practicing for regionals and I was still sooooo happy!
Thursday, October 25, 2012 was theme day. In case you forgot, this year's theme was Disney movies. Freshmen got The Little Merimaid, sophomores got The Nightmare Before Christmas, juniors got Toy Story, and seniors (us) got Peter Pan. I dressed up as the crocodile and it was a good thing because I was the only one who did. However, trying to get all of my costume off to change into practice clothes took a WHILE!!!! Haha. I went to my brother's football game and I heard about Hurricane Sandy.....
Friday, October 26, 2012 was Class color day, the pep rally, the Homecoming parade, and Homecoming game! That day was also Eid, so a lot of people weren't in school that day. Because of that (and also that the bleachers were wet), the pep rally was INSIDE!! Wow! I think it was meant to be that way because the previous day, we were struggling on spacing on the field cause we were going to perform our routine at the pep rally. The band and cheerleaders got dismissed early and the mats were already rolled out. It was the best pep rally ever! We performed our routine very well. One of the JV cheerleaders and one of the varsity cheerleaders got freshmen and sophomore princess respectively! And plus the principal the director of student activities, and the senior class president mentioned us and how well we did at districts! We then got ready for the parade and it was fun except that I was dying of thirst. We went home, got changed into our old uniforms, and came back. We then got football jerseys to wear. The team we were playing against coicidentially, was the team we lost to by 0.5 points. Haha....So on our way to say hi to them we kept muttering to ourselves, "point 5, point 5, point 5." Well it was ok, except that we lost 14-35.
Saturday, October 27, 2012 was Regional Semi-Finals and the Homecoming dance. I woke up early and got ready. We went to the school and we practiced quite a bit and then we went to to the school for regionals. Before that I prayed to G-D that the hurricane wouldn't be that bad and that one of our teammates would be able to compete with us at regionals and I told Him that if He did that, I swore that I would give up cookie, chips, and goldfish crackers for two weeks. Since we were the first team there for our session (There are two sessions. half of the teams from each district who made it to regionals went the first session at 2:00 pm and the other half went at 5:00 pm. We got the 2:00 session.), we got OUR OWN locker room! That was sweet! We practiced our routine and then we had some food and got ready. It was awesome! We performed our routine and it was good. Not great but good. We got 7th place out of 8 teams in our session, but hey! We still beat another team! I then went home, took a shower, chilled on the computer, and then went to the Hair Cuttery to get my hair curled for Homecoming. I went home to get changed to go to the dance. I arrived 6 minutes after it started. The DJ said that we could request songs and so I went up to ask him if he could play a Hanson song and he said he had two songs: "MMMBop" and "Where's the Love." I requested the latter and he said he would play it. I then started dancing a lot and at about 9:30, I saw my best friend from cheerleading and I told her that this year would be the year that I would dance with the dude-I-like and she said, "Don't worry, I got you." So I knew that she was up to something. I danced like there was no tomorrow and at about 10:30, I asked the DJ when he was going to play my request. He said that the song choice was "broken." I then asked about "MMMBop." He said that it was broken. Personally, I think it was because he just didn't want to play it.....I don't care if I got humiliated! You should never be ashamed of something you love! Then a few minutes later the dude-I-like came up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance. That actually happened! I triple threat swear! Well, of course I said yes! And so I danced with him for a bit! It felt so awesome! It totally made up last year's dance regret (I didn't ask one of my best friends if I could be in her Homecoming group cause the dude-I-like was in her group and...yeah)!!! I told one of my best friends about it and I think she was happy for me! When my dad picked me up, I texted my best friend from cheer and thanked her and told her because of what happened, I would make her a scarf as well! When I got home, I had to take 2 Advil pills cause my back was killing me.
Oh, in case you were wondering how she got it to happen, I'll tell you: The next day (Sunday, October 28, 2012), I texted her and asked her how she got it to happen and she said that she suggested and he said yeah. I then asked how she suggested. She told me that she was like, "Do you think you'll dance with...tonight." and he was like "Yeah." But just that HE ASKED ME TO DANCE WITH HIM made it feel so awesome! I still get really happy thinking about it!
