Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Sofy:
We have come to a very important decision. Ms. Coggio, today in English class, had a talk with some of us about blogs. This whole confusion started with Renato’s blog’s name thing, which led to people, including us, leaving rude, insulting comments to each other. We have all already appologized, but again here I am, saying sorry once again, because we know that the things that were being written here were mean and hurtful.
I’m sorry Renato, for making such a big deal out of something like that, and you know that we were just very upset because anything to do with our friendship is very important to us, even when it might be immature to others. But that’s no excuse for the things I said to you. And I’m sorry Ms.Coggio, for making you feel the way you did. Like I said in class, I’d never thought of it that way, and I know that I would feel SO incredibly guilty if you got in trouble because of us. I’m lucky to have you as my teacher. Any other person would have gotten us into trouble with Davi or something, but you talked to us and worked things out. That’s why you’re so great, Ms.C. You understand us and give us a chance to explain our side of the situation. You know that we not only consider you a teacher, we consider you a friend. So I’m sorry.
Well, our little talk with Ms.C made us realize that maybe this blog thing wasn’t working that well. First of all, this was supposed to be Cary’s, Alvy’s, and my blog, but now Cary isn’t writing anymore. Also, we were writing about some things we shouldn’t be writing about and causing fights. So our conclusion was that we shouldn’t write anymore. In this blog, anyway.
As you people know, I want to be a writer when I grow up, and I absolutely LOVE writing. But the way I like to write is when I’m not being careful about everything, afraid that someone will read it. In the beginning, I told Cary I didn’t want to tell people the adress of our blog. She convinced me in the end, anyway. I write more freely (if that’s a word) when I don’t have to be thinking “Oooh, that teacher might read it” or anything like that. So this is all for the best.
Alvy:
As Sofy said, we will no longer be writing. We felt very embarassed in our meeting with Ms. Coggio. After that meeting, I asked Sofy if she really wanted to continue this blog thing and we decided it’s not worth it. We aren’t really getting anywhere with our blog, who wants to know about the lives of sentimental 7th graders who only care about themselves anyway? We also decided that deleting the blog would be too extreme, therefore, we will leave it up here for people to see our memoirs since the time we made it until the time of the fight (And the post of the fight is no longer here, it was limited edition post, well, tough luck…) I don’t know how I would write ever again in this blog, after Ms. Coggio’s speech, I’d be shameless by writing more, especially because it’s a hobby, and not something I ever want to work on, it’s a thing that has no future for me, so it will be easy to give up on. I hope you have fun reading about happy and sad times in our lives, since it’s all you’ll get from now on. I guess this is goodbye… thank you everyone for everything and even though we have stopped writing, keep commenting, we’ll still answer your comments and we’ll keep checking back, although our decision is permanent… So let these words be the last written in our blog: “Goodbye, and I think we’re finally on our way.”
I Apologize…
Alvy:
I’m sorry, Renato for being so angry with you previously, you showed yourself to be a very mature, sentitive and friendly person, I’m sorry for writing that offensive post and having 39 comments just talking bad about people… you don’t deserve all of that.
Although, I have discovered how some of you are bad friends and people, so I am now thanking you, Renato for opening my eyes… I was being very rude and only thinking about my rage (I’ll never apologize for only thinking about myself). Lorraine, thank you for being polite and expressing your opinion with a nice and friendly discussion, I appreciate that. I also wanna thank Sofy, for standing up for our blog in my absence and who also helped me to open my eyes (I mean, how much farther can my eyes open? soon they’re just gonna pop right outta my face)
Once again, sorry, Renato, and thank you, Renato, Lorraine and Sofy, you are very nice friends which I don’t want to lose with such havoc as in this blog’s name, just make this a lesson: nobody ever messes with “On Our Way” again, and if anyone does, I would gladly love to know… Thank you everyone… You are now survivors of the “Holonourwaycaust”… One of the worst periods of time in our lives… But also the one who helped us gain so many friends!
But…But She’s Too Pretty To Die…
Alvy:
I think that everyone knows that Sarah Michelle Gellar is my all-time favorite actress, she’s just amazing!
Sofy and I went to Cary’s house to watch a few movies and have fun, and we SO did, but the only thing that bugged me is that fact that Sarah Michelle Gellar dies in every movie that she makes. Cary rented “I know what you did last summer” and “I still know what you did last summer” and I almost cried when Sarah Michelle Gellar died. She escaped so perfectly wisely and prettyly from the hook fisherman dude, and I was just so nervous because I’d hate for her to die once again, since she’s so pretty and charismatic to die. But then after she saw her sister dead, she jumped off the window and onto the streets. She saw this parade going on and she was going there to run away from the assassin, and be with the crowd so she wouldn’t be murdered. When she was almost there, the lights faded, she looked back to see if the assassin was there, but as we all expected he was right in front of her when she looked to her front again. he got her and threw her in the middle of all these tires right in front of the parade and nobody heard her, and they were practically watched her die, he was massacrating her with his hook on her head, beating her with it continuously, non-stop with no mercy, while she would scream and wave her arms in the desperate attempt to wound him. I almost cried, I mean, I so was looking forward to see her in the other movies of the series, she escaped so wisely and so many times, just to die in the middle or right in front of a parade, that’s just too much for me to handle, she’s…but…but she’s too pretty to die, I mean, she dies TWICE in Buffy, and another time in the grudge 2, again, she escaped so many times from Kayako and then when she’s in the hospital, she dies… OH MY GOD!! that just makes me so angry, I love her movies and she brightens up every movie she’s in, and I wish there would be at least one series of movies where she would not die, just like Sofy loves Alyson Hannigan, I love Sarah Michelle Gellar, but I guess that Alyson Hannigan does not die in every single movie she makes.
Eyes Wide Open
Alvy:
Today was one of the worst days of my life because of the fact that for the first time, I actually realized who my classmates really are.
To start off, nothing to do with my classmates, I can’t reveal what Silvia told me, but I discovered one of my friends have suffered a great loss… So that already made my day worst, I felt so sorry for that friend, you know who you are, it must be so painful to you… I’m sorry.
Later on, in science class, this girl, Thais was copying the english homework from Victor, it’s already awefully wrong that she is copying homework from somebody, but from Victor? I mean, he gets F’s in every subject possible, even for the ones that don’t exist! I felt so angry at her that I could just jump at her, pull all of her hair off and rip her neck apart from her body with my teeth. Poor Ms. Coggio, she just wanted us to do our homework well, and then this girl just comes along, watches TV all day long thinking to herself: “You know what? tomorrow I’ll copy from somebody right before class.” Some time later, during english class, after we corrected our homework, she even lied about it, I corrected Victor’s homework and he got a 15, when Ms. Coggio asked her what she got she said that she got a 17. That totally made me angry. I told Ms. Coggio the truth and she talked to them. The first accused person was Daniel, until Talita told them both. I felt relieved, poor Daniel, imagine how he would get rejected by everyone if people thought that he did it? people only don’t hate me now because everyone loves me. I would love to tell Thais first, but Talita took care of it, I would just love to see her face. Ah, I just love being evil.
There are these stupid boys in our class that just think that everything is linked to sex. A teacher does anything and they start to gossip and laugh, they are just so irritating. Well, Ms. Coggio is an exception since she knows only a little bit of portuguese, but all the other teachers should get hearing aids, they just say all of these awful sentences, words and shout out disrespectful songs in the middle of class. I loved the day that we were discussing the rights of women in the middle ages and when Ms. Coggio asked them what they thought about it, Augusto shouted out that they belong in bed, I wish I had knife there just to cut off his neck verrrrrrry slowly for him to suffer while the rest of his body is paralyzed, but Ms. Coggio just made an espression that totally intimidated everyone, Augusto finally got what he diserved. I know I seem a little exagerated, extreme and troubled, but it’s just extremelly disrespectful to women.
Today, this classmate that said he was gay several times just said that he liked a girl. Suddenly, all of the other boys just surrounded hime and started to say that finally he was a man, or “macho” and one of the boys, Italo started to ask if he was gay and all, that angried me as well, he was just so homophobic, he said how he was worried and all, come on, as if he ever felt sympathy towards him, he only wants to make fun of him, I interupted them and asked: “And what does his sexual issues have to do with you?” He whispered to himself and left to his “group”
Today was just so one of the worst days, these event were only some that happened today, but today was the day that I finally opened my eyes to who the people in my class really are, I am now absolutly sure that I have the best friends a person could ever have, Sofy and Cary are the best people anyone could have as friends, I was lucky on not being influenced by the others who still have the courage of calling themselves “people.”
Buffy… Christina Aguilera… Witches?
Alvy:
I am a very unstable person. Everytime I have these new interests, sometimes I’m interested in books, games, music and other things, and when I’m in my interest mood, I only think about THAT thing, only. Now I’m in my “Salem Witch” interest phase. The only bad part in being me is my shyness, believe me, if I didn’t have a sister to do everything for me and be my personal slave, I don’t know what I would do, or maybe it would help me more outgoing, I don’t know, so I’m sometimes shy to ask my parents for things to update my interest mood. When I have no interests to focus on, I am pretty vulnerable, anything can interest me, this time it was during english class. When I saw the book cover of my favorite book club book (In which I wasn’t picked to join) I totally got interested. The book is titled “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” and it takes place during the late 1600’s when the witches were pursecuted and all, and that’s exactly what I wanted to read about since I was enough to figure out what I actually liked, but I only read books on modern versions of witchcraft, so it was then that I felt like using that book to search for some others and order these books from amazon. The only problem is that my parents have a hard time keeping up with my natural changes of interests, before it was easier, since the only interest I had was Christina Aguilera… but now it’s more complicated, which means more amazon orders. I only asked them yesterday if they allowed me to order the books on the period of the 1600’s and they said yes, so here I am, waiting for them to confirm the order, I mean, they just have to fill in the requiremets, is it so hard to do that? but I’m so excited, the titles of the books I ordered are: “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” “A Break With Charity” “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” “The Witchcraft of Salem Village” and “Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of The Salem Witch Trials.” After I read these books, or at least some of them, I’ll re-read “Gallows Hill” because it has so many things that have to do with the salem witch trials and I had no idea before, since I was in 4th or 5th grade when I read it… I just love all the suspence in the books, I did some research in the internet and found out some things about the witches in Salem, I just can’t wait to read the books (Or at least for my parents to checkout the books at amazon)
Sofy is Sensitive for Sugar
Alvy:
Today was a weird day. The cantina food was finally fantastic today, the juice wasn’t bad, they had cake, cotton candy, popcorn, and pastel (It’s a very famous food here, and it’s real good!) and unfortunatly, Sofy had cotton candy. It was just like in my sister’s party when she got drunk, but this time, it wasn’t one gulp of wine, it was a whole cotton candy thing. She got weird all day long, only because of the damn cotton candy, she got totally sugar drunk, and even started to talk weird to the teachers, like she came to Erika (Our arts teacher) and asked: “Erika, may I pee?” and I had to tell every teacher that it was the sugar talking.
I asked her if she wanted to be a pregnant slave for my History project but she said “no”, aw, who in the world doesn’t want to be a pregnant slave in a soap opera for a history project? I’m going to have to ask her tomorrow, oh no, coz she’s gonna have a hangover, so i’m gonna have to ask her monday, and if any of you guys see Sofy eating candy again, tie her to a chair and eat the candy right on front of her so she would suffer… Muahahaha! no, just kiding… just laugh now that you know this.
Why Are Villans Villans?
Alvy:
I don’t understand, why can’t villans be heroes? Again, referring to the Tomb Raider Legend game in which is so cool, and I can’t stop playing it. There is this girl, Amanda Evert, who was Lara Croft’s (The main character’s) friend. They went in this archeologist thingy, and this demon guarded the tomb they were researching, the beast brought them both to this chamber and Amanda took this stone off the wall to save her life, or at least try, it worked, but she was trapped in the room, a bunch of rocks fell on her and she “drowned” when water flooded the place. A few years later, Lara discovered that she was alive, and she didn’t understand, how come she never told her? Turns out she felt deep hatered towards Lara, for not digging her out, and then she became Lara’s enemy.
Amanda got this cool haircut, a few tatoos, and dyed her hair platinum blonde, and from flower-filled shirts and simple shorts, she was now using leather tops and pants, she is so much cooler when she’s Lara Croft’s enemy… it will be terrible when I reach the part of the game in which I have to kill her, I mean she’s so cool and all, and if all the girls looked the same, they would look like Lara Croft (In Tomb Raider Legend, since the first version of the series made Lara a little too “evolved”) well, the villans have so many better reasons to be villans than heroes have to be heroes, although it actually depends, I agree that I can’t generalize everything… I love both, every villan and every hero have their ups and downs… or downs… or ups…
Avril, Alvy, and Sofy
Alvy:
In my trip to “Monte Verde” I only listened to Avril Lavigne, and it really made me reminisce on the past…
In 2002, she released her first album, “Let Go” and by that time, I was like 7 or 8, and although being so small, I totally loved her, and as always, I had to drag Sofy with me, and we grew up listening to her, from the beggining of 3rd grade to the end of 4th grade, I’m telling you, we were total fanatics. So, we listened to “Let Go” and her 2nd album, “Under My Skin” a lot together, and then 5th grade came, we seperated classes and we hardly ever talked, and then I started to walk with Carol and some other girls who introduced me to other kinds of music, such as Hilary Duff, so I started listening to Hilary Duff more than I listened to Avril Lavigne, so Sofy and I started to loose interest in poor Avril Lavigne. Sofy and I even sang some of her songs in past talent shows, we sang “Sk8er Boi” and “Things I’ll Never Say” and we were so little and all, I still love “Things I’ll Never Say” but I don’t know how I ever liked “Sk8er Boi,” it’s just so… noisy. Well, 2 years later, after improving my singing skills, A LOT, Sofy and I are much more friends than we ever were and Avril Lavigne is again, one of my favorite singers, worth of being place in my iPod, after her release of “The Best Damn Thing,” we listen to her a lot now, she’s an amazing singer!
Freezing In “Monte Verde”
Alvy:
Anyway, we spent friday and the weekend in this hotel in “Monte Verde” named “Floresta Negra” in which is also a farm, and it’s so cute, because instead of having ordinary rooms, they have these cute little houses with two bedrooms a fireplace a bathroom and a kitchen, and it’s so tiny and I, I love it (Well, the only part I didn’t love is the part in which I had to sleep in a bunk bed and even worse, in the bottom, because my sister was too bitchy, and she just wanted the top one, damn it, I am 1 meter 74 cm tall, is she stupid enough to know that?) although most of the time I spent there was playing “Tomb Raider Legend” in my PSP and freezing to death, it was cool, the hotel had beautiful sights to look at, and not enough to see in 2 days, it was cool to make the fire place thingy and warm up while we watched some television (Or in my case, play “Tomb Raider Legend”) We also bought beautiful clothes for my mother in mother’s day (And can you believe that she is such a perfectionist that she tried on any clothes we had in our hands just to see if it’s the right number, and she gets the right size? She’s just like me *sniff* I’m so proud) Well, it was a great weekend with the family, but it was a cold weekend with the family… anyways, it was worth it.
Antisocialism is Bliss
Alvy:
I HATE it when there are these group activities when you have to act, or do anything in front of the class other than present a project or something like that, I’m telling you, I’M NOT A FRICKIN’ ACTOR!
This semester only had these activities. SOme time ago for english, we had to act two lines from “Romeo and Juliet” and guess what, I had Sofy as a partner and one of us had to be Juliet and the other Lady Capulet. I chose to be Lady Capulet, because to me she is less girly than Juliet, and how can I act out lines that have no point? I just hate everything about it, especially being so antisocial, like I am.
Today, In portuguese class, we had to make up this interview and we had to decide who we were going to be, it could be a celebrity, or you in 20 years, and of course, I HATED the idea. And to make it even worse, Sofy asked me if I wanted to be Christina Aguilera and I said NO, but then, her sound filter filtered it wrongly and she heard YES, so she asked Cida if I could be her, and everyone just stared ate me, I wanted to get Sofy by the hair and throw her out the window, so I protested, and told the trust. Sure, I like Christina Aguilera, but I don’t want to be her. The rest of the class, everyone tried to convince me to be someone famous, professions such as “Movie Director” and “Show Biz Something” showed up, and then Carol mentioned Justin Timberlake (And why is she comparing me to him?) and “Marlim” (Or “Marlin” or something) from Nemo, I mean, where does she get these ideas from?
So, I’m going to have to, either choose someone/something/what to be for tomorrow, or not choose anything and let Sofy get an F, and me too (And I think that’s the one I’m choosing for now, who told Sofy to humiliate me in the middle of class?) But anyways, I hate these socail activities ANYWHERE, and I WILL hate every teacher that forces me to do such a thing.
