Competition Saturday

Well I just got back from competition from Laredo. It went pretty well, I think we did a pretty good job. We didnt stay for the awards ceremony though, cuz we had to come back :(, but I hope we get good news come Monday morning. I dont want to get high hopes of winning something, but I do hope we get something.

The following pics are from after we competed. :D with a couple of friends.

The Female Color Guard! Whoohoo!! :D 

Chuy, Alex and me 

Chuy and me :D 

Ines and me 

Presenting the Colors to Headstart

Today we presented the colors to an Annual Headstart Conference for Fathers. It was really nice and cool. We presented the colors to alot of important plp here in the Valley that attended that conference one of them being Congressman Loyd Dogget. I think it was really nice.

In other news, we have competition again tomorrow in Laredo. sigh, I hope we do very well, and we bring back something. I have high hopes and I think this time we can do it. I dont have much pressure anymore cuz they postponed an important inspection that we had this coming Monday to the 15th of next month, so that was a big relief for me.

The Crosswalk Señor

Every day on my way to school, I pass by Austin Middle School, and I always noticed the crosswalk man. He reminded me alot of my grandfather, Benito Olvera, que descanse en paz, cuz he wore a cowboy hat and my grandfather always wore one too. Well its been about a week or so and he hasnt been there. Its another lady. I'm wondering what happened to that crosswalk man, he always brought a smile to my face cuz he reminded me so much of my grandfather.

Nice things that put a smile to ur face :D

Think about them one at a time BEFORE going on to the next one... IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end.

1. Falling in love.
2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.
3. A hot shower.
4. No lines at the supermarket
5. A special glance.
6. Getting mail
7. Taking a drive on a pretty road.
8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer.
11. Chocolate milkshake. (or vanilla or strawberry!)
12. A bubble bath.
13 Giggling.
14. A good conversation.
15. The beach
16. Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter.
17. Laughing at yourself.
What happened to #18?!?! How about "Sharing a good bottle of wine."?
19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours.
20. Running through sprinklers.
21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
22. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.
23. Laughing at an inside joke.
24. Friends.
25. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.
26. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.
27. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner).
28. Making new friends or spending time with old ones.
29. Playing with a new puppy.
30. Having someone play with your hair.
31. Sweet dreams.
32. Hot chocolate.
Frozen Hot Chocolate rocks, too...
33. Road trips with friends.
34. Swinging on swings.
35. Making eye contact with a cute stranger.
36. Making chocolate chip cookies.
37. Having your friends send you homemade cookies.
38. Holding hands with someone you care about.
39. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change.
40. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you.
41. Watching the sunrise.
42. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day.
43. Knowing that somebody misses you.
44. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply.
45. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think.
46. Lying next to a fire after being outside running or riding in the cold.

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

A Salute and thanx

Yesterday we had a parade here in the City of San Juan, and I think it's one of the ones that will forever stay in my mind. We took the five man color guard just to give other plp a chance to participate in the color guard too. Before the parade started, my team and i were getting ready and we were putting on all the equipment and stuff. While we were doing this, the police officers walked towards us and thanked us for helping them out with their presentation, and they joked around with us for a while and stuff which was really nice. After that the parade started. For the past three years that i have done color guard, ive had the honor to hold our Nations Flag. I have never really paid attention to anybody before because I always look straighforward or the flag is always in my face, so I just never thought of staring at who was on the street looking at the passing parade. Well yesterday i decided to pay attention. I saw one of the nicest things that I have ever seen. I saw so many senior citizens stand up, remove their hats or caps, and salute to the U.S. Flag before we even passed them. There were even little kids who would stand up and put their hand over their heart, every which way that i turned it was the same thing. I told my friends that were with me in the color guard, and they had these huge smiles on their faces and everytime they saw this, they would tell each other in a low voice "mira para tu left, o mira para tu right!" I guess my instructors also saw this and they had these huge smiles on their faces too.

Starstruck

Today was the coolest day ever...well not really, but it was. hehe. My friend, my cousin, my sister and me were at the mall today eating at subway when all of the sudden all we hear is this lady screaming and pointing to this plp stading in a line and we were like "WTF" what is she staring at?. We heard her say "Miren ellos son actores Mexicanos, han salido en muchas novelas y estan haciendo una obra de teatro!" So we turned around and we saw these actors standing in line waiting to get food. We just sat there staring at them and staring at each other and started talking all at once, recognized one of the two but we didnt remember his name. Then another one walks in and the lady starts screaming even more, and she called the man over and he walked over to her and he was being really nice to her and was talking very nice to her. I still cant remember his name, i know that he came out in that novela "Los Sanchez" for about a week or so. The funniest part of all this was that he was standing right next to our table and he was talking to the lady y mi hermana tuvo que meter su cuchara en su conversation, and asked the senor what novela he had come out in, and he laughed and smiled and told her which one he had come out in. I thouhgt he was the nicest of all the three of them that was there, he even told us that there was another actress with them too. The actress is the one that comes out in "Las Juanas" as Juana Valentina. I still cant remember his name, but he was a very nice man.

Too fast...

This week went by really fast! Not that i'm complaining, cuz i'm not, i'm happy I guess that it went by fast for me. I guess its cuz I finally got out and shopped with my mom, spent some time with my cuata y mis amigas. :D Something i hadnt one since before my sister got married and I guess the fact that i've been looking forward to something that i never received. :( kind of sux, pero ni modo.

Cute pic that gets plp mad! :P

Cute Picture!! 

a question?....

I'm wondering is it possible to love a person and have a small "crush" on somone else? Or maybe not be in love with that person anymore and love the other person...love is so confusing!!! ': just a thought.

Revelaciones...

I'm not the type of person who loses their temper very quick, I keep calm for a while and it takes time before i completely let loose and start screaming at plp. Today wasnt the exception. Theres too many plp who are real cabezones that after a little over a yr of putting up with their shit...I'm finally speaking whats on my mind. They rarely see me pissed and when they do they cant believe it that, the quiet person who never says anything is actually defending herself and bi*c*i*g at plp. :) Es que me les esoy revelando poco a poquito. I've learned not to stay quiet anymore, and just be out there and speak my mind. ahh how fun this is gonna be.

Tambien, REBELLING!!! I find that rebelling back to my parents is fun! yeah its stupid, but hey now i can talk back!! Whoohooo!! Soy mexicana, and i was taught never to talk back, but now that i think about it, its fun!

Making it look easy

Today during our 3rd pd class (JROTC) we stayed behind to keep on helping the police officers post the colors. It was very fun and nice teaching them. They are very nice and down to earth plp and they didnt treat us like if we were any less than them. And of course my friend who is in the yearbook staff took this time and asked them questions about underage drinking. Since we live so close to the border they said that underage drinking had very close ties to the border and that now the Mexican government is cracking down on underage drinking by teens and carding plp at clubs and bars for an id. What this means, i dont know, I dont know if it might fix the probelms of underage drinking.

V-day

My Boyfriend is such a sour person when it comes to Valentines Day, for the past four years (yes its been that long), he has never gotten me anything, and this yr wasnt the exception. Oh well I guess i'll never now what its like to receive a flower, ballons or a rose for v-day. He says its a waste of time, and that V-day is stupid cuz of all the stuff plp sell just for this day. :( I dont know what happened to the nice and sweet guy I once knew.

I am Happy because yesterday was my B-day!! and my parents are doing a cena for me tonight, with friends and family. It was kind of a surprise so this is very nice.

Tienes el Nopal pintado en la frente...

I am very disappointed in myself!!! I cant believe that I am forgetting my spanish,....i feel like crap and i feel so bad and stupid and theres simply no words to describe it. I mean i dont know how....my parents dont speak one word of English, nor my grandparents and i seem to somehow manage to talk to them, even if a stutter, speak in both languages, talk "mocho", incorrect Spanish, Spanglish or whatever it is that u want to call it, but i always find a way to communicate with them and they seem to understand me. I had already noticed it before, and most of my friends are the same as me, they are forgetting how to "Correctly" speak in Spanish. Its like my boyfriend says "Tienes el nopal pintado en la frente", and i know that, and i still dont know how i'm forgetting it. I am from mexican decent, and used to speak fluent Spanish, not anymore, but i still do.

And today was when i had my major reality shock that i am so stupid, and dumb and i'm so angry at myself. We went on our annual recruitment project to middle schools and i saw my friends stuttering to speak in Spanish, so here i go, to her rescue when to my surprise i couldn't speak to these girls in Spanish. I was struggling, and had to pause for seconds at a time to try and gather my thoughts to try and speak to them...cuz they didnt know any english...why o why am i coming to this point? Me siento tan mal...

just 2 more days!!!

Whoohooo!!! Just two more days and i turn 18! freedom at last from my parents, i think...

Teaching the officers a little something...

For the past two weeks we, as in the Female Color Guard, have been teaching the San Juan Police Department Honor Guard, how to post the colors correctly. Which I think is pretty cool and nice, cuz we get to know our P.d. a little better and we get to joke around a little bit with the officers, who by the way are pretty nice plp. So its nice that we get to this kind of stuff to help out our community and make our Police Department look sharper and nicer.

Tsunami Aid

My boyfriend's brother works for The Brownsville Herald and he invited him over to play soccer with him today to help out the plp who have been affected by the Tsunami. All the money that was being raised is being sent for aid. The game was made up of four teams which where The Brownsville Herald, La Frontera, Noticias 48 from Univision and some other team, which i cant remember what it was called. I thought this was a very nice thing that these two newspaper, and tv companies did it was a great way to show that the valley cares. :D

To my Seniors

To my Seniors. tear, tear.

A TOAST

Raise your glass to the sky
With hopes and dreams held high.
To the graduates I toast...

Here’s to the friends we’ve lost and gained,
And the people we’ll never know by name.
To the bonds that we’ve made and albums we filled,
Memories that may fade but never be killed.

Here’s to the phone calls filled with tears,
And to the hours spent talking away our fears.
To the people we thought deserved our hearts,
whom now we bash and rip apart.

Here’s to the pictures in frames with stories to say,
That we will be sure to pack when we go away.
To the football games we have watched beneath the lights,
And our cheers and chants drifting into the night.

Here’s to proms and dances,
And high school romances.
To homecoming games,
With all the wins in our name.

Here’s to the late nights we’ve spent cramming for tests,
And mornings were coffee made up for the rest.
To the dances and events we took months to create,
The night before worries that came too late.

Here’s to the tears we knew we’d cry,
To the people and places we say good-bye.
To the wild and bizarre things we’ve done,
That we will remember to be the most fun.

Here’s to the letters we left unsigned,
May our identities be revealed all in due time.
To their relationships we wonder how we ever lived without,
And the crushes we look back on and laugh about.

So now it is time to place our glasses down,
Put our caps on and turn our tassels around.
Listen for our names and let them echo through,
And realize how fast these fours years just flew.

Sarah Watroba

Go Class of 2005!

Whoohoo!!!

I'm so happy and excited because for the first time I beat my boyfriend at something. I beat him at playing Air Hockey at Mr. Gattis.hehe. It was so much fun and I have a sense of pride in knowing that I beat him. He isnt the type of person that takes losing very well, so this was so nice for me....and he felt bad cuz he had been beaten by a girl, and worst by his gf. hehe.

Being a "True Friend"

Well needless to say, my friends, the ones that got drunk, got into alot of trouble. The girl that had the vodka bottle got charges pressed against her, suspended from school, got sent to an alternative school and after she goes to court is going to get sent to the Juvenile center or to some Mental Institution in San Antonio. One of her lifelong dreams got shattered along with the mistake she did, now she cant join the Army. Our A.I's talked to the Army recruiters about what she had done, so now she cant join the Army, ever.

The guy that got drunk with her, well nothing happened to him because his best friend, covered for him and took all the blame and said that he was the one who had gotten drunk with her. I had stopped believing in best friends, and our A.I. once told us that we didnt have friends. They were all acquaintences until one of them was willing to take a bullet for us. Well I think this is the same thing as taking a bullet for someone. These two guys have been together for along time and have stuck together trough thick and thin so I guess it was no surprise to me that he did this for him. He is what i can say a "true" friend. He is now facing charges, and is being suspended from school to an alternative school.

Drinking

It amazes me how so many problems that my friends have gone trough have been b-cuz of drinking. And today wasnt the exception. I was in JROTC my most dreaded yet fun class that I have and I saw that one of my friends cheeks were pink and that he didnt look to good. I was thinking to myself, "Nah a lo mejor anda malo," so I just blew it off. We are doing this thing called Cadet Challenge, so we were running...and they had us in a line and I saw him run, and he didnt do that well. So I paid more attention to him, as he walked, talked and ran. It kind of shows that he wasnt doing that great when you know that this is they guy that always likes to bother me and gave me a kiss in the cheek to get my boyfriend mad....which was pretty funny. That this is the guy who is two yrs younger than me and who likes to make my whole company laugh...so of course i took notice. Newayz i knew there was something wrong with him and it had to be one of three things, 1. he was drunk, 2. he was drugged or 3. it was both. As we were nearing the end of class i pulled him out and i asked him what was wrong. He started mumbling and screaming so much crap that didnt make sense and he looked as if though he wanted to cry..so I pulled him into one our teachers office and he explained everything to me again. Well it turned out that I was right about one thing....he was drunk. He had been drinking since he got to school with a friend of his and a friend of mine....they had gotten drunk on vodka!! Ah que ninos tan mas cabezones. I asked if he was ok and that i could pull him out of class and take him home or just simply drive around with him until he felt better and he said that it was ok that he felt better. and thathe needed to talk to his gilfriend about the stupid things drinking had caused him the whole day. Like treating his gf bad and doing some other stupid crap like making out with his best friends girl who was also drunk right in front of his gf.

I still dont understand why he drinks.....the last time he got drunk he ended up in the hospital...besides hes under age and isnt supposed to drink...which really annoys the hell out of me...why am i saying this? I have a great care for this guy....as a friend..nothing else...