Quarter 4, Week 9

     I have so much to rant about this week, whether it be towards a specific person or about an event that just happened recently. For one thing, awards night was cancelled so I didn't have to really worry about that, but 2 other incidents stuck with me during this week that I'll forever remember and hold some sort of grudge against. For one thing, aloha dinner happened this week, and as it happened on Friday (An MTSS day), we were the first period and had to help out with setting it up. The task Mr. Ing assigned us was really simple and only required 2 people, specifically the older ones Leilani and me. We had to carry some walls for the background of some photo shoot area. In order for said walls to get to where we wanted them, we had to go to the I-Building and transfer it to the cafeteria. Both buildings are parallel from each other and are on opposite sides of the entire campus. In other words, it'd be a little difficult to carry a wall that weighs more than I from a distance that long. With that in mind, what better option than to use the golf cart. The plan was to load the walls vertically (the long side facing up) in the trunk, in which one person had to drive the cart (Obviously none of the kids did it), while another person sat on the passenger's seat to hold onto the wall. The THIRD person had to sit on the already occupied trunk to stabilize the walls from the back, otherwise they'd tip and fall off with the slightest movement from the cart. I volunteered to hold it from the back and at first didn't really mind it, I just leaned against it with my back and wandered about mentally. However, we took the smallest ramp from the parking lot that transitioned into the campus's path. Apparently, I didn't really care about my safety at the moment, so I completely ignored physics and how somebody who didn't even weigh the same amount compared to the wall, who on top of that, didn't even cover most of the wall with my heigh and leaning my back against it. All I can say is, I felt my back arching and one of the walls was coming down on me. I did some quick thinking and quickly jumped off the cart because the trunk door was open and hid my head under said trunk door. All I could say was that I was scarred in some way, talking to Mr. Ing and Leilani about the situation, all they could say was that they saw me disappear, and Mr. Ing asked where I had gone. After that experience, I got on it again, and did my best to use on arm to cover at least 2.7/4 of the wall while having to arch my back like a "J." With this in mind, I used one arm to grab the sides of the trunk to stabilize myself, however it was raining pretty hard, meaning that it was slippery, and I almost fell off once or two times at least. We made it to the cafeteria with myself intact, and Leilani won't stop taunting me about the incident. I should've volunteered to be in the back seat, otherwise I wouldn't have a sore back, neck, and head as I write this. me having to hold the wall up with my head as it was tilting over the trunk didn't hurt my thought process thankfully, but it will still leave a remnant of some emotional scars. With that out of the way, the next thing that came was Aloha Dinner. The start was fine, being introduced to the event, getting some dinner, being mouthed as a f****t by specific someone from behind that I can't expose because I'm not like that. The moment there was a little embarrassing, and it didn't help that the two people (My mom and stepdad) that overly obsessed with the things that I hate that had to be presented at the dinner. A few of these things included the interview, both retreat and school wise, and the dance. Speaking of the dance, it wasn't bad, all but one person remembered the dance (it wasn't me), and people liked to see some random Asian kid break dance on stage for live entertainment caused by forceful management. Aloha dinner was a great experience as it also allowed me to open up with the speech, speaking of speeches, I clearly made the best one out of all these people. It also allowed me to banter about a few people, including calling Mr. Ing scary and the alumni old. I really hope that everybody enjoyed listening to me speak, and I hope the alumni doesn't procrastinate about mortgage like how they did with their schoolwork. Overall, great and busy week, I hope next one isn't as bad as now.

A picture of the Aloha Dinner

    One high this week was the speech I gave, it allowed me to open up to other people and present in a tone which was meaningful and bearable to listen to. One low about this was almost dying to the wall, I also hold a sincere grudge against Leilani for laughing at me like that. 

    A moral I learned this week is to always be aware of what happens around you, I've learned it the hard way by almost bending like a foldable table. Be careful of what happens and remember that safety is more important than anything else.

    Also, I'm not sure if the alumni read these, but Mikka, I was at the graduation for Campbell, and you were a good speaker. Crying is an appropriate response.