We went to the pool today – last day of summer and all!

I ended up finding out that this super hot lifeguard at the pool, the one I’ve been lusting after ALL SUMMER LONG, GOES TO RIDGEWOOD ACADEMY!!!!  He’s in theater and my mom told him I’M going to be in theater and so he talked to me a little bit about it.  I got a chance to ask him some questions and I found these things out:

Academics are at the beginning of the day.  We have all our school classes and lunch before 1pm.

Our art comes after that.  Depending on the day, the classes change, but I’ll be with my theater class for all of it.

Theater usually has LOTS of rehearsals after school.  He said LOTS.  Apparently a lot of the actors do their academic homework during rehearsals.

He also said the teacher that was at my audition has apparently left this year and no one knows why.  Nobody knows who his replacement will be yet.  That makes me sad.  He was nice at the audition.

Anyhow, now I know an UPPERCLASSMAN going into school!!!!!  So I definitely feel less alone going here now!  I just realized, all my friends are going to Atlantic Meadows Upper, so everyone I know will still be together but I’ll be someplace else.  I really like the someplace else that I’m going to be, but I’m going to miss my friends.  BUT NOW I’m already starting to make NEW FRIENDS.  (HOT new friends!)

Ahhh!  I’ve already picked out my first day outfit.  My backpack is packed with 6 folders, paper and sharpened pencils.  We’re not allowed to bring phones but my mom wants me to have mine – JUST IN CASE – so I’m supposed to keep it off and in my “pencil pouch” all day, unless I need to call home.

Sooooooooooooooooo excited!

Love you!
Aubrey!

So I’ve found out I’m not the only kid from Atlantic Meadows Elementary to be going to Ridgewood!!!

Today my mom went to a parents orientation and I have no idea how it came up but there will be the kids from Atlantic Meadows coming in with my class: me, some kid in art and a girl in music.

Since I was the only person I knew in the theater audition, I kind of just assumed I was going to be the only person I knew in the school. Maybe a dumb assumption but you know what they say when you assume… 😉

Anyhow, my mom said she went to talk to the other Atlantic parents and it was a Mrs. Wang and a Mr. and Mrs. Smith.  I think Mrs. Wang HAS to be Tommy’s mom. He played in band, so it pretty much makes sense.  I can’t think of anyone I knew named “Smith.”

Yup.  Time is moving soooooo slow.  Can’t wait!!

Oh, yeah, and my mom came home with a couple Ridgewood t-shirts and a pair of black stretchy “dance pants.” I’m supposed to wear them for my first class on Monday.

TTFN!!
Aubrey!!!

I received my list of classes today!!!

I’ll have two blocks: academic and MY ART!!!

I think everyone accepted into an art takes the same classes together, but they sent my academic class list:

English I
Algebra
Biology
Civics
and PROGRAMMING 1?????

I’m so super psyched.  I got a chance to talk to Jessika today – she’s the one I know from dance school.  She’s obviously attending for dance – she is so awesome!  She said she got a shopping list for dance shoes and a class dress code, but I haven’t gotten any kind of list yet.  I don’t know; at our audition they asked us to wear “something that moves” and sneakers, but then we took off our shoes, and ended up sitting down a lot, so who really knows???

Anyhow.  I’m getting anxious.  The countdown is T minus 3 days!

I’m trying to keep my mind on anything other how excited I am about starting school.

Puppies.  Kitties.  Butterflies.  Ice cream.  Rainbows.  Clouds.  Sunlight.  Beaches.  Swimming.  Dog paddle.  Puppies.

They had us do an exercise like this at the audition.  We stood in a circle and did what they called “Associate words” while the teacher said one word, then someone said something that the word reminded them of, then someone else said something else THAT reminded them of, then someone else said something else, and on and on and on.  We were somehow supposed to bring it back to the teacher’s original word but that didn’t always happen.

Plus there were these boys who kept trying to say “poop” and “fart” and “diarrhea” every turn.

HELLO!  I’m sorry, but there’s no way you can link the word “poop” from “unicorn.”

….

Unless they were thinking of unicorn poop?

HAHAHAHA, I bet that’s rainbow colored.  Like rainbow sprinkle turds.

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I can’t believe I wrote that.

OMG.  I WONDER WHO ELSE GOT IN?  There HAS to be someone else from my audition that got in!!!!  Omg, I hope it’s not one of those boys.  They were sooooooooooooooo disruptive.  How can you take an acting class seriously with someone bringing it back to “poop” all the time?

Anyhow, more later!  TTFN!
Aubrey!

OMG.

So yesterday I was running errands with my mom and we ran into a girl I went to dance school with a few years ago.  SHE’S GOING TO RIDGEWOOD ACADEMY TOO!!!!!!!

So that means I won’t be alone on my first day!

This is good, because I’ve realized just how apprehensive (this is my word for the day, did I use it okay?) I’ve been starting to feel about starting at a new school.  I’d been at my elementary school since I started kindergarten a million years ago!

What’s it going to feel like meeting all new people?  Are they going to like me?  Are they going to hate me?  All my friends at my old school know everything about me – that I’m really great at reading, that I won our first spelling bee and that I am super afraid of spiders.  The teachers called me “Shane” – my last name – and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM taught one of my brothers.  I hated that, but what’s it going to be like having a teacher who DOESN’T know an “older Shane?”

Am I going to love my teachers?  Am I going to hate my classes?  Are my classes going to be too hard?  Or maybe, even worse, TOO EASY?????

I can’t wait!  I can’t wait!  I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!

These next five days are going to be the longest of my life!!!!!!!

HELLLLLLLLLO!

So I’m incredibly excited, in case you couldn’t tell – next week I start my first year at the prestigious Ridgewood school!  It’s a charter magnet school, so I had to apply, take an exam AND audition, mooooooonths ago, apparently like you have to do for colleges!  Anyhow, I got the letter in June that I was ACCEPTED and next Monday is my FIRST DAY!!!!!!

I have no real idea what my first day will be like so I guess there’s no reason to write about that.

So I’ll write about myself.

HI!  I’M AUBREY!

I’ve lived in Greenville my entire life.  My dad was a USMC Marine and my mom does something with computers and I like to dance.  I have a three older brothers and three beautiful dogs.  Well, technically only one of them is “mine,” but they all live in the house and they all like me best because I’m a girl.  Plus, I give them treats when no one else is looking.  🙂

So YEAH!!!!  Next week I get to start at RIDGEWOOD ACADEMY!!!!  It’s sort of new and it wasn’t around when my brothers started Upper School so I get to be the first in the family to go!!! AND I won’t have to hear “Oh no, not another Shaaaaaaane” ever again!

More later!  I’ll let you know how it goes!!!!!