In The Mall…
Alvy and Sofy:
(This is Alvy)Yesterday, Alice, Sofy, Silvia and I went to the mall, it was just to celebrate my birthday with some kind of reunion. We met at the cinema, and I had to pick Alice up, because her father couldn’t bring her to the mall at that time. There was no interesting movie without any explicit content passing, so we bought tickets to a movie that did have explicit content, and had to be for people over 16. When we were on the way to the movie, Alice was insecure if she really wanted to watch it (by the way, the name is “Perfume, the story of a murderer”) So, when we had sat on the comfortable cinema chairs, we looked up at the screen and Alice didn’t want to watch it, but I told her to wait, and give it a chance. Bad decision, the movie was repulsive, the boy’s mother gave birth to him under a fish-selling “market” and she cut the umbilical cord with a dagger and just stood up to continue selling the fish, but she was accused of trying to kill her son, so she was killed. The rest of the movie was just DISGUSTING, like when the boy picked up a dead mouse and smelled it, and the screen went inside the rat and showed a bunch of larva eating the rat up, it was just sick. Alice was protesting all the time, and I was always saying: “Alice, give it a chance,” but I ended up giving up, the movie was just repulsive, I just hoped that Alice wouldn’t be mad at me for making her watch that movie.
We decided to walk around the mall. Like always, we bought candy in a store called “Honey Honey” and went to a store called “Saraiva” and that’s a store that sells books, CDs, DVDs, etc… Alice bought me a DVD, which I asked for, and it’s called “Date Movie” so, if you have the opportunity, you should watch it! So, back to my world, I really needed to go to the bathroom, so while Alice and Silvia were in the perfume store, I DRAGGED Sofy with me to look for a bathroom (Sofy added the dragging part, because Alvy would never admit that. He did drag me, though)…We were walking with the crowd until we found this lady that had this HUGE mustache, Sofy and I kept on looking at her, no matter what, I think we even drooled. When she was out of sight, we laughed like crazy. When I got out of the bathroom, Sofy told me that this woman came inside the men’s bathroom and came running away, saying: “Was that the men’s bathroom?” well, duh! and a little BOY was coming in with his father, and his father brought him in, but the BOY exclaimed: “But daddy, this is the men’s bathroom!” we laughed so much!
We were at the food court, I looked ahead and aw McDonald’s, until I saw this very familiar hair, and that hair’s brother, OH MY GOSH, IT WAS THE TOK & STOK ROLLER SKATER GIRL! Alice began talking to her, but she didn’t even notice, and she just vanished after she bought her lunch. She’s just plain weird!
Also, while Silvia and Alice were in the bathroom, Alvy and I (It’s Sofy now.) went to this place that had something to do with that Night at the Museum movie. It was like this stand/room/whatever thing, I’m not sure how to describe it. We wanted to go inside, but there were these bunch of people screaming and yelling from inside so we got scared. When Silvia and Alice came back out of the bathroom, Alice, since she’s SO, well, outgoing, went up to the lady standing in front of the stand/room/whatever thing and started talking to her as if they were old friends. The lady explained that they weren’t letting people in anymore, and the stand/room/whatever thing had closed. Alice kept trying to persuade her to let us in, and then, as a last argument, we (except Alvy) were like: “But it’s his birthday! Come on, you have to let us in!”. And the lady didn’t let us in, but she did call these two other girls up and told them it was Alvy’s birthday, and they started jumping up and down like crazy drugged people and singing happy birthday.
And then we left cuz Alvy was embarassed.
And before, while we were in Saraiva, Silvia and Alice were up buying Alvy’s DVD and Alvy and I were looking at other stuff. I don’t remember why, but for some reason we started laughing really loud, and Alice was like “What, are you guys five years old or something?”, and we nodded, still laughing, and this woman beside them said “No, they’re four.” Alvy didn’t hear it, only Silvia and I. I was so pissed. Who did that woman think she was? So what if we want to laugh out loud, it’s not our fault that you’re PMSsing or that you’re like sixty-seven and still single! (probably, since you’re so damn mean and bitchy. No guy would ever want to date you.) (I could say some pretty meaner stuff that would make Alvy and Alice laugh a lot, but I think that other people like Ms.C and maybe someone else from school are reading this, and besides, I’m bigger than that) I would never do something like that, she was so rude. It’s not as if she’s our mom to tell us what we can and can’t do.
But anyway. We were looking through the CDs, and there’s this place on the wall where there are like, the top selling CDs in the store, like 1 to 100 I think. the 1st and 2nd “slot” were empty, so we chose these really crappy CDs, like Marcello Rossi (is that how you write it?) and this Domingão thing, and put them in there while no one was looking. Then these two boys were up there looking and the CDs and the youngest one pointed up and said “Wow, Marcello Rossi!!!” It was so funny.
The last funny thing that I can remember was when we were at this other store, I don’t remember what the name was. It had these model rooms, like Tok & Stok, and we went into the model bathroom. I sat on the bidet, Alvy sat on the toilet, (that sounds to weird) Silvia pretended she was taking a shower and Alice was in the tub. (They had this awesome tub. I want one like that) I bet it was the most hilarious scene to anyone passing by. I had this empty package of fries, and I asked someone to go look for a trash can with me. But Alice just grabbed the package out of my hand and stuffed it under this towel on the edge of the tub. We laughed so much.
We had the most awesome day, I wish it had been longer. But by then it was like ten o’clock and our parents were picking us up already. But I got a call from Alice awhile ago, and she invited me to go to her house to watch some movies. Alvy, Gio Antoniazzi, and maybe Marina (this girl that’s also our friend, who left school some time ago) and Thais are gonna be there. I can’t wait. Now I have to do my homework because I don’t know if I’ll be home on time to do it later, and then I have to get ready. We’ll write about how it went. And maybe we’ll convince Alice to make a wordpress account and then she’ll also be able to write in our blog.
Birthday = Normal Day
Alvy:
Today is my birthday, but I just discovered that the only time you actually feel like it’s your birthday is when you get the presents, the rest is pretty much usual daily life, in which is boring and I hate it. Today, I couldn’t even wake up, and my parents and my sister’s friend were singing “Happy Birthday” to me, and it’s not pleasent all the time, hello, I was sleeping. But the good thing is that I got a new iPod, with 80GB! and the best of it is that it’s white, and it’s mine! I just have to buy the first, second and seventh season of Buffy the vampire slayer, and my birthday will be complete. So, as I was saying, a birthday is just an ordinary day, in the real life, but it shouldn’t, people are supposed to pamper me, and fill me with expensive presents and money, but right now, my father is watching television, my mother is in the telephone, and my sister is somewhere in the planet earth, where is the attention, and pampering? I fought with my mother before, but it wasn’t even a fight. We were in the car, coming home from the restaraunt, and she said that we will be going to church and thank god for my 13th birthday, so I said: Now? and she said yes. After some time, I was thinking about the church, and about history class, in which I remembered that the church had appolagized many times for sinning, so I asked my mother: did you the church sinned? and she though I was saying that I didn’t wanna go to church because it had already sinned, so she started to scream and cry, I felt so guilty, but later on, I explained myself, and we are no longer mad at each other. She just said some beautiful things to me and gave me money to go to the mall… I love her… she’s the best mother ever… now, I just hope I get to spend the money.
Homework, Homework, Homework, Chips
Alvy:
Homework, what is homework? do teachers do that on purpose to make us hate them? I just can’t stand homework, isn’t it already enough that we have to stay in school for 7 straight whole hours? Come on! we still have to do work at home? I have a personal life, am I doing something wrong for them to feel that I don’t? It’s like the third day of school and we already had homework since the first day. Today, for example, Ms. Coggio gave us homework to look in a website and draw a weird flea, and answer some questions because we didn’t have time in class, and guess what, since we only had the piece of paper with us in the lab, I don’t know where I put it (Well, at least I did the “business letter”) and I will be lucky to find the worksheet, because the way that our locker is organized, (The locker is mine and Cary’s) I’m sure I’m never gonna find it. (Sorry, Ms. Coggio) Well, I have this thing, to me it’s called a consience. Whenever I don’t do any kind of homework, no matter if it’s worth one out of a thousand percent of my grade, I feel extremelly guilty, I just don’t wanna have a bad reputation towards other teachers, I’m supposed to be the “perfect” student. If anybody ever watched “Buffy the vampire slayer,” there is this vampire, Spike/William the bloody, that he had a chip implanted in his brain and that made him not bite anyone, or he would end up with a terrible headache. He couldn’t even point a toy gun at any human being. That’s almost the same thing that I have, but the “chip” I have makes me wanna kill myself whenever I miss a homework assignment. (By the way, I have no chip implanted in my brain, I meant that it felt like as if I had one)
The End of Vacation
Sofy:
I got back from the beach yesterday, and I hurt all over. I was in a skating accident. Not really an accident, like, it wasn’t serious or anything. I just fell off. One Billion Times. It’s like, at the beach there was this skate shop, and there were lessons. I had skated before, because my cousin loves to skate so he taught me a little bit. But I sucked. And I still pretty much suck. I had this really nice teacher, Clau, and she was funny and outgoing and didn’t mind that I was shy and didn’t talk much, because she did all the talking. When I got there I couldn’t even go down the ramp, but now I can go down the ramp, up the other ramp, and back. All alone, without my teacher holding my arms. I think it was some serious progress for one hour of lessons. I’m so proud of myself. But now I’m all bruised. I have this mark on my knuckle, as if I punched someone, and a bruise on my hip and on my thigh. And I can barely get up from my bed. I hope this is gone tomorrow, cuz school is tomorrow and I have to get out of bed.
But the best part was when, after the lessons, when we went out for dinner at night, my mom hugged me and told me she was proud of me, and when she was watching me she felt so excited that it was as if she was up there herself. And then I looked at a picture she took of me, and it was of me falling. And everyone thought it was hilarious. But it wasn’t funny. That was my worst fall, too.
I also got two tattoos, one on my hip (not on the ugly purple one where I fell) and one on my arm. And I got burned by something while I was in the water with my little brother, and now there’s a burn on my cheek. And I ate a lot of seafood and I think I got three tons fatter.
My iPod case got here and so did the earphones, but not the book I ordered, which is bad because I really want to read that book. I don’t get why bookstores here don’t have any good books in English. Then I have to order everything online, and it takes a decade to get to Brazil. And the library at school doesn’t have many of the kind of books I like.
Tomorrow I have to wake up at six thirty. In the morning. Big change. Today I woke up at nine, though. I’m recovering. I’m going to have history and geography in Portuguese tomorrow. My dad was talking to me about my grades, and he said that this had been my best semester in middle school so far, (I’ve only had three, so there’s not much to pick from) and I told him that the one that’s gonna start isn’t gonna be good cuz I have social studies in Portuguese, and he said he would help me. But I don’t think it’s gonna (I think I say ‘gonna’ too much. It’s just that, like (I think I also say ‘like’ too much) ‘going to’ takes so LONG to write. See? That was just three seconds of my life spent writing ’going to’. What a waste) work, because my dad is at work until late at night so I don’t see him much, and besides, I don’t GET social studies in Portuguese. It’s hard. And the teacher writes too much. And he gives hard tests, and I don’t like hard tests. I like easy tests. He’s boring and tries too hard to be funny. And hates me. Seriously.
But on the bright side, I’m finally getting to see my friends, who I miss soooo much.
Also, I loved skating. I’m going to continue to take lessons. Starting next Saturday, me and my little brother. I’m gonna (there it is again) try to convince Cary to go with me, because she said that she wanted to learn how to skate.
Uh-Oh…
Sofy:
I just dyed part of my hair blonde. (Does blonde have an E in the end?) By ‘part’, I mean only a little part. In portuguese, it’s called a “mecha”, but I don’t know what it’s called in English. You know in X-Men, the first one, where in the end that depressed girl that likes Wolverine gets taken by that metal dude and he puts her in this thingy thing that makes her hair look all weird? Well, I didn’t even dye that much.
Actually, it’s not finished yet so I don’t know if it’ll really be blonde. So far, it’s a lot lighter than the rest of my hair, and I don’t like it very much. I think it was a mistake. I think I’m gonna look totally stupid and dumb. I hope it won’t work.
I’m not sure why I did it, I just felt the need to not go back to school looking exactly the same. Yeah, I know, why couldn’t I be like most twelve-year-olds and cut my hair or get a belly-button piercing thing (seriously, a girl did that last year). But actually, this is pretty normal for me. I wanted to dye it purple or pink instead of blonde, ask my mom. But I decided to go for something safer. And besides, I thought it would look too emo.
In two minutes, I have to wash my hair and see how it turned out. I just looked at it and it’s, like, golden. Sort of green, actually. I think I left it for too long.
Also, I think I should’ve worn gloves or somethin, cuz my fingers are all white.
Why Is Gwen Stefani So Cool?
Alvy:
That question has been asked so many times, but it was never answered, since Gwen Stefani has no reason to be cool she’s just cool. As soon as I came out of the airplane to miami, I felt like listening to Gwen Stefani, I had downloaded her first Album from the internet, so I had it in my iPod, and in our first day here in Miami, we went to Target to buy some medication for my sister because she felt a really strong headache. I don’t know why, but whenever my mother gets in a big store (Like a supermarket) she discretely runs away and gets lost in the crowd while she looks for stuff to buy. So, my father told us to go look for her, and I used that statement to get into the music section of the store and just take a glimpse at the CDs that they had for sale, until on one of the shelves, I saw an album that a woman had a wig with bangs, a platinum blonde wig with bangs! I then noticed that I knew that album, it was Gwen Stefani! it was one of the albums I wanted even before it was released, so I took it, the cover was broken, I took another one, the plastic was torn, and I took another one, perfect. I asked my father if I could have it, and he said yes! I loved the songs in her CD, so I bought her first one, even though I had downloaded it (Yeah, I don’t do illegal stuff). So, about the question again, “Why Is Gwen Stefani So Cool?” well, that is a pretty good question, although Gwen doesn’t have a totally revolutionary voice (Like Christina Aguilera’s voice) she knows her good features, and that’s what makes music better, and the best thing is that her voiced is not “computerized” like thoes “High School Musical” actors. Well, if you feel like buying a cool album, you should check out “The Sweet Escape” by Gwen Stefani, and “Back to Basics” by Christina Aguilera!
One Week to Go…
Sofy:
You know, vacation has been great so far, but I think I’ve had enough. I mean, I’m sure gonna miss being able to sleep late and wake up in the afternoon, but I really want to see my friends. I miss everyone SO much.
Yesterday, my older brother was watching the Golden Globes all day and my little brother now has a computer in his room, so he just stays in there all day. (He’s gonna get real fat soon.) So I had my parents all to myself when we went to Iguatemi at night. I desperately needed to go, because I needed to spend the gift card that Cary gave me for Secret Santa and I needed to buy presents for both her and Alvy. (Cary’s birthday was on the tenth, and Alvy’s is on the twenty-seventh) Alvy, you will be very proud to know that with the gift card that Cary gave me, I bought…Back to Basics! (Christina Aguilera’s new CD, for any of you totally-unaware-of-what’s-going-on-in-the-real-world people)(Does anyone else think I sounded like Alvy when I said that?) It’s so awesome. I’ve also decided that I’m giving Alvy his present on the first day of school even if it’s not his birthday, because I mean, why wait? I bought it already.
I don’t have much to do now. So mainly, my schedule is sleeping, eating, sleeping, using the computer, sleeping, playing Ragnarok, sleeping, watching Friends, and sleeping. I sleep all day. Remember when I said I always thought sleeping was useless? Well, that was bullshit. Sleeping rocks. I go to sleep at two AM and only wake up and two PM. Awesome, huh? I actually tried to go to sleep earlier, but I can’t. I told my dad that, and he said that I can’t sleep at night because I sleep most of the day. But what he doesn’t understand is that I sleep during the day because I can’t sleep at night.
I have watched a bunch of movies, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th season of Sex and the City (I don’t have 5th and 6th, and I’m too lazy to rent them), the 5th season of CSI (I only have the fifth season), 1st and 6th season of Friends. I am now working on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, but with all the sleeping, I doubt I’ll ever finish. I have nothing to read, either. I finished Prep, as I’ve said, and I also finished Memoirs of a Geisha. (I think that was the book that it took longest for me to read. Three months or maybe even more. That can’t be good…) I ordered this book called Brave New Girl, but it’s only getting here in like two weeks.
Well, after tomorrow I’m going to the beach, where I haven’t been with my family for about three years, which is pretty sad. We went to Bertioga for a field trip, though, and last year I went to the beach with my friends Silvia and Lais. And I’ll come back on the twenty-first, and then it’s only two days till I see my friends. I can’t wait!
Cary, if you’re reading this, lift your ass out of that chair and call me right now, like you said you would like five freakin’ days ago, you traitor! Now we can’t go out because today I certainly can’t, and tomorrow I’ll be getting ready to travel! (Oh and are you havin fun with your new guitar? Happy Birthday. Love you.)
This Year…
Alvy:
I am now in Miami, Florida in my apartment (Well, actually it’s also my mom’s, my dad’s and maybe my sister’s apartment, but I don’t care) And I took some time to reminisce on some events I passed through the year of 2006. So, here is what I came up with:
New Addition To Our Family: 1 (Crystal)
Enemies Made: 1 (Renato)
Friends Made: 2 (Sofy and Ms. Coggio)
Friends Maintained: 2 (Cary and Alice)
Shakespear Books Begun To Read: 1 (Romeo And Juliet)
Blogs Made: 1 (On Our Way…)
New Singers Added To My iPod : 4 (Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Lily Allen, Paris Hilton)
Live Performances: 1 (Internacional Day)
Great Memories: Countless (Do I Have To Specify?)
Bad Memories: Countless (Do I Have To Specify?)
iPods won: 1 (iPod Video)
Celebrities Worshipped: 1 (Christina Aguilera)
Terror Movies Watched During Field Trips: 1 (The Grudge)
Trinities Joined: 1 (Alvy, Sofy, Cary)
Cats Disappeared: 1 (Prince)
Best Year Of My Life: 1 (2006)
So, As you can see, this year has been very full, I would like to thank Cary, Sofy, Ms. Coggio, and Alice for this great year! You people mean a lot to me! You guys have prepared me for 2007 in a way that I know that you will always be there for me, no matter what. So far, my vacation has been very nice, but I can’t wait to come to school and meet with Cary, Sofy and Ms. Coggio! But the only problem is that since Alice is not in the same school as we are, so Alice and I will have to schedule some time to go to the mall.
New Year
Sofy:
Christmas was awesome. I had a fight with my older brother, but I almost always have fights with my older brother. And anyway it doesn’t matter, because Christmas means presents and I got a lot of those. Well, not a lot like a LOT, just a reasonable amount, but what matters is quality and not quantity. I got a DVD called Soul Man, and book called Prep, jeans, a shirt, a bag, chocolate (of course), and a new iPod case and new ear phones (!!). Neither of those are here yet, because we ordered them online, and they had to come all the way from the US cuz Apple sucks and they don’t have stores here in Brazil. (Okay, Apple doesn’t suck, of course. Apple is the best. But they suck in this aspect. I mean, iTunes is the ONLY place where I could buy the new CSI episodes that haven’t aired here yet, but I can’t, because they don’t sell to Brazil)
Christmas I spent with my mom’s side of the family, and this weekend we went to this place called Rio Preto to spend New Year with my dad’s side of the family. My aunts and uncles and stuff always rent this big house for New Year, to fit the whole family and all. I think it’s nice. But renting a house so that every single person could have their own room would be too expensive, so the five of us (my parents, brothers, and me) had to share a room. It was weird and I didn’t like it much, because I’m used to sleeping alone. And one night, they made me turn off the light while I was reading, because it was too late and they wanted to sleep, and I would never do that even if it was too late and I wanted to sleep, because as I’ve said before, I hate being in the dark. But at least since we were all together I felt sort of safer, I guess. So it wasn’t that bad. The problem was that the book was so interesting…
But overall, I didn’t like the weekend. I didn’t like it because I had no one to talk to. There were like millions of people there, but I only felt comfortable around my parents and my brothers, and they were too busy talking to other people. I only see this side of my family once a year, so I’m not really close to any of them. I’m not really friends with any of my cousins, and I didn’t try to be friends with any of them, because, as surprising as this might seem to my friends, I’m sort of timid when it comes to meeting new people. So all day, for three days, I stayed inside our room, watching Friends, the end of a movie called Requiem for a Dream and reading the new book I got. And during New Year itself, I kept imagining what my mom’s side of the family would be doing if we were there. My uncles would probably open champagne in that way that a little jet comes out when they opened it, and they would spray it on the kids. And everyone would be hugging and my cousins and my brothers and I would go turn on the TV or the video game or maybe even jump into the pool, and say things like “Hey! I’m the first one to turn on this TV in 2007″ “I’m the first one to turn on this video game” or “I’m the first one to jump into this pool in 2007″. I sort of feel guilty about doing that now. I mean, I guess I could’ve enjoyed it more if I’d tried.
But it wasn’t that bad. I got a couple more presents, a little notebook and a top. And my cousins and I actually played cards at one time, but only for a little while. And I played foosball with my little brother and won, and then I played with my mom and lost. And the food was really good.
I also finished the book I got for Christmas. It’s one of my favorite books currently, but I always say that. It’s awesome, though. But I’m not even going to reccomend it, because I’m sure that if Alvy or Cary read it, they would rate it as “pornographic”. (It’s a looooooong story) (And the book is not pornographic, just for the record. It’s just a little too “describing”) (And actually, I think only Cary would say it’s pornographic. Cuz Alvy watches Sex and the City and he likes it, and what could get more pornographic than that? Not in a bad way, though. Sex and the City is great.)
And my New Year’s resolution is to get to the top of the climbing wall in P.E class. I don’t think I’ll do it. I’ll come up with better resolutions later.
Happy 2007!!!
P.S- I asked my brother if I could watch the beginning of Requiem for a Dream when we got home, and he said no and said that it was too “strong” for me. I don’t get it, I mean, It can’t be THAT bad…I mean, the part that I saw was just this old lady being electrocuted, this guy with a strange blackened arm that had to be cut off, and this woman putting on makeup and then going to this really weird club and having sex with another woman in the middle of this circle of people (which was SO gross and made me uncomfortable because I was watching it with my mom). It showed some stuff alright, but nothing that bad…Sex and the City shows way more. I know it’s got something to do with drugs, and it’s my brother’s favorite movie. I’m going to watch that friggin’ movie, if only to find out what my brother meant by “strong”.
