Jojo369369's Journal

I feel kinda crazy. I'm reading A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. The first thing I realized is that he spells his name really funny. We can't read an easy translated version, we have to read the real thing. My friend Liyan borrowed the book with translations on every other page from the library ahead of time, which I think is cheating. She knows the whole story, nobody else in my class read it yet, and I'm only on Act 1, Scene 1. I bet everyone else read scene 2 by now.
On the bright side, I've been getting pretty good grades in my classes. As far as I know, I have a 4.0 average. I just need a 3.6667 or higher for the first grading period to get 50 bucks from my uncle! And the first grading period isin two weeks, then the trimester grades, I think, then the semester! It's gonna go by just great.
And I only have to work half as hard for the East Coast Trip! It costs, like, 2,000 dollars to go. My dad offered to me that if I could make up half the money, he would pay for the entire thing and that half of the money would be for me to spend on the trip! A thousand dollar spending spree sounds great! But having to make the money is the problem.
To be able to go, I have to keep up my grades of course, and maybe I can talk too someone about getting a job. Don't you only have to be fourteen to get a job? So I figure the minimum wage in California is $8 per hour I think, but I don't know the hours I would have to work. Plus the whole "working permit" thing, and I have a history of not doing my work. But assuming I work about 6 hours per week minimum, that's $48 per week, but I'm not sure if that's enough. And I don't know how many places are willing to hire a minor. I would have to hope for the best. I feel bad for my friends, they have to work harder than me, and I still have to work pretty hard. I wonder if some of my relatives would buy things from me to help me go on the trip.
Sorry, kinda worked up on this whole thing. I'm really worried about it. Give me some tips if you can. The only money I'm spending now is pocket change. Nothing else will be spent until I have a thousand dollars.
When I break that I'll tell you.

See ya for now!
3 Jojo

I am really stressed out. Sorry for not updating since May,I gotta work on that. But let's start with school.
School's been alright, I guess. In history, people realize I'm there, but I sit next to one person I'm okay with, the others are perverted. Just today, the kid next to me, Samson, found a waterbottle on his desk. It was from David, the guy across from us. He drank part of it. When David saw, he was disgusted. He explained thatt he wanted Samson to "waterfall" the water, not drink it straight from the mouth. David thought he could get an STD from that. Most of the class time was spent talking about this.
In Science, they think I'm an Angel. The people around me are always talking, and I don't want to bother them unless I know them. I wouldn't want them twisting what they think of me into the pissed off devil. They gave me a 4/4 in all teamwork categories. I felt like a god.
We have to split the Orchestra class because there's 81 of us so far, even some people with no experience. They should just leave, they aren't cut out for it. We haven't even brought our instruments yet and it's the third week of school!
Math, oh the horror. Mr. Davis, my math teacher, is Satan, and his classroom is Hell. That's where I'm gonna go when I die. He has this stupid system involving folders that I don't get, and he gives us about 8-13 problems a night. But the real pain in the ass is he makes us write the problem and the instructructions, only giving us ONE FUCKING PROBLEM PER INSTRUCTIONS! IN THE TIME IT TAKES TO WRITE DOWN THE PROBLEM I COULD HAVE IT DONE! WHAT THE FUCK IS HIS PROBLEM!!?? His classes agree behind his back. Going into that room is definitely entering hell. My friend Liyan is gonna make a voodoo doll of him. I hope both classes do.
PE isn't a big deal anymore. Not much to talk about.
English. Mrs. Shrager-Cole must have sensitive hearing. We can barely without her hearing it, which sucks because I'm so damn distracted. I try to stay focused in her class.

The other thing that's really stressing me out is Akapaka66. He texted me witht his thing saying to describe him with a word that starts with the same letter as the first in his name. His real name starts with an "E" So I put "Empathetic". He doesn't have a computer at hime, he uses public ones, so he didn't know what it meant. I only told him that he wouldn't like it if I told him. So I didn't tell him. He got upset at me calling him something that he doesn't know the definition of, which I was told meant "Dramatic" which he is. We just push him arround a little bit, and he goes emo until we promise with a straight face that we're sorry. I'm sorry, but I am fed up with this. I've only been his friend for two years, and I seriously hate his attitude. I don't want to ask his forgiveness anymore. I don't want it. If he's just gonna do it again, one little mistake doesn't need to be forgiven. If it does, is it really a friendship? No, I don't think it is. By the sound of it, he doesn't want me for a friend anyways. I don't want the forgiveness of someone who doesn't want me for a friend anymore! It's not like I have no friends, I have forty friends. I'm not desparate.
Message me and tell me what you think I should do about the Akapaka problem.

Gawd, I wish it was break already.
3 Jojo

please disregard that last enty, it was incomplete.
So recently, my friend,Victoria,went on an early vacation to Europe for TWO WEEKS(well, seventeen days, but still)!!! She left us all alone to kill each other while she's gone. Victoria is kind of the centerpiece of me and my friends' lives. She's what we all have in common.
I'm the kind of person who is loyal to people that I've know for a long time. My friend Bayley, who isn't involved in this, and I have had so many fights over the four years that we've known each other, but in the end, things always seem to work out. I knew Victoria as my best friend in Kindergarten, then we were separated by the school we went to because they were tearing it down. Seven years later, we both end up at the same middle school in orchestra. It was some reunion. She even has a picture of us and my little sister when we were in kindergarten to prove it. I have pledged my loyalty to Victoria because she is the absolutely best friend there ever has been.
Anyways, me and my friends have all kind of pledged our loyalty to Victoria. She gives good advice, has a sense of humor, will comfort you, encourage you, she's the perfect friend. On top of that, she's beautiful and smart. Her only flaw is that she has diabetes, which worries us, but doesn't bother us. I wish I was that perfect. We all trust Victoria, and if we want something to happen, she hads the final say.
But with her gone, we're hopeless. We've been falling apart. One of my friends, Calli,has been getting really moody, but I've been shruggin it off, it's probably PMS. But my other friend, Marilyn, and I were working on a project with Calli, but she kept hitting us in the head when we were off topic. I know, we should have just quit her group, left her alone, but the thing was, we don't fit in with everybody else. And everybody already had their groups. Another problem bwas that we couldn't just make the two of us a group. Groups consisted of four people, and we were already one person short. We had no choice but to work with Calli until the end of the project.
What I hate about Calli is her childish-ness. She is obsessed with pokemon, has no taste in music, and acts like a five year old, whining all the time, having that wierd cheerfulness, like, peppyness and stuff is okay with me, but Calli cries on the closest shoulder she can, and it's like she just doesn't get the world. I just plain don't like people like that.
Marilyn was absolutely fed up with Calli's behavior, her thinking she has control over us. I have more patience than Marilyn, that's for sure. I can barely survive Calli's unacceptable behavior. Marilyn would rather commit suicide than try to survive. Without Victoria there to talk us out of dropping Calli like a hot potato, or have her talk to Calli, or something, we were going to explode and throw Calli like a football. Then Calli would tell on us, or something, to Victoria when she comes back, or to a teacher or Counselor, saying she's depressed or whatever, that it's our fault, so we have to meet with the teacher or couselor. The only reason they call the meeting is that whole 'self-esteem raises grades' junk. Then, at the meeting, you have to tell them what they want to hear.
Option 1:
It was all a misunderstanding. We did(make up a story simalar to whatever caused this rift, make the story sound like your friend took it all the wrong way.) The teacher will reassure your friend that you don't really want anymore that she just took it wrong and the meeting is over. The only way to avoid another meeting is to talk it out with unwanted friend or to confuse them by being their friend sometimes and giving them the cold shoulder/who are you/angry/making fun of you at random times everyday until they leave you alone.(4/5 stars ****^)(Recommended especially if the unwanted friend is not at the meeting)
Option 2:
listen with fake attentiveness, take the speech your tacher/counselor is giving, and deal with it. Just give the unwanted friend the cold shoulder until they get the picture.(2/5 stars **^^^)(not very good method)
Option 3:
don't go to the meeting, keep postponing it, or saying that you don't trust whoever is the mediatior is. They'll recommend you see a counselor, don't go to the meeting unless it get's you out of class. Then, follow methods 1 or 2. The method 1 won't work very well at all if unwanted person is at the meeting.(star rating varies from the best to the worst, can result in ineffectiveness)
So, there's one thing that needs to be taken care of in my life, one very complicated thing. It's been five days, so onlytwelve left to go. I can last the weekends, but school is going to be hell. that leaves ten days of hell to last. and to think this was bad, it only developed over three of those days. I would hate to see what else happens when Victoria's gone. Too bad, I guess if she's gone, I'll appoint myself leader in her absence! Maybe things will go smoother.

I'll try to update often,
until then,
See ya!

~Jojo369369

So recently, my friend,Victoria,went on an early vacation to Europe for TWO WEEKS!!! She left us all alone to kill each other while she's gone. Victoria is kind of the centerpiece of me and my friends' lives. She's what we all have in common.
I'm the kind of person who is loyal to people that I've know for a long time. My friend Bayley, who isn't involved in this, and I have had so many fights over the four years that we've known each other, but in the end, things always seem to work out. I knew Victoria as my best friend in Kindergarten, then we were separated by the school we went to because they were tearing it down. Seven years later, we both end up at the same middle school in orchestra. It was some reunion. She even has a picture of us and my little sister when we were in kindergarten to prove it. I have pledged my loyalty to Victoria because she is the absolutely best friend there ever has been.
Anyways, me and my friends have all kind of pledged our loyalty to Victoria. She gives good advice, has a sense of humor, will comfort you, encourage you, she's the perfect friend. On top of that, she's beautiful and smart. Her only flaw is that she has diabetes, which worries us, but doesn't bother us. I wish I was that perfect. We all trust Victoria, and if we want something to happen, she hads the final say.
But with her gone, we're hopeless. We've been falling apart. One of my friends, Calli,has been getting really moody, but I've been shruggin it off, it's probably PMS. But my other friend, Marilyn, and I were working on a project with Calli, but she kept hitting us in the head when we were off topic. I know, we should have just quit her group, left her alone, but the thing was, we don't fit in with everybody else. And everybody already had their groups. Another problem bwas that we couldn't just make the two of us a group. Groups consisted of four people, and we were already one person short. We had no choice but to work with Calli until the end of the project.
What I hate about Calli is her childish-ness. She is obsessed with pokemon, has no taste in music, and acts like a five year old, whining all the time, having that wierd cheerfulness, like, peppyness and stuff is okay with me, but Calli cries on the closest shoulder she can, and it's like she just doesn't get the world. I just plain don't like people like that.
Marilyn was absolutely fed up with Calli's behavior, her thinking she has control over us. I have more patience than Marilyn, that's for sure. I can barely survive Calli's unacceptable behavior. Marilyn would rather commit suicide than try to survive. Without Victoria there to talk us out of dropping Calli like a hot potato, or have her talk to Calli, or something, we were going to explode and throw Calli like a football. Then Calli would tell on us, or something, to Victoria when she comes back, or to a teacher or Counselor, saying she's depressed or whatever, that it's our fault, so we have to meet with the teacher or couselor. The only reason they call the meeting is that whole 'self-esteem raises grades' junk. Then, at the meeting, you have to tell them what they want to hear.
Option 1:
It was all a misunderstanding. We did(make up a story simalar to whatever caused this rift, make the story sound like your friend took it all the wrong way.) The teacher will reassure your friend that you don't really want anymore that she just took it wrong and the meeting is over. The only way to avoid another meeting is to talk it out with unwanted friend or to confuse them by being their friend sometimes and giving them the cold shoulder/who are you/angry/making fun of you at random times everyday until they leave you alone.(4/5 stars ****^)(Recommended especially if the unwanted friend is not at the meeting)
Option 2:
listen with fake attentiveness, take the speech your tacher/counselor is giving, and deal with it. Just give the unwanted friend the cold shoulder until they get the picture.(2/5 stars **^^^)(not very good method)
Option 3:
don't go to the meeting, keep postponing it, or saying that you don't trust whoever is the mediatior is. They'll recommend you see a counselor, don't go to the meeting unless it get's you out of class. Then, follow methods 1 or 2. The method 1 won't work very well at all if unwanted person is at the meeting.(star rating varies from the best to the worst, can result in ineffectiveness)
So, there's one thing that needs to be taken care of in my life.