oh....... hello

HELLO !!!
school starts
tomorrow.
how I feel about that:
- excited
- excited
- excited
- wait, we're gonna have homework again.
- fuck.

also I just ate: a blueberry cereal bar. one egg sunny-side up. one glass of orange juice. and a chocolate chip cookie dough SlimFast bar. (hmm shoulda eaten that before I pigged out.)
Summer reading? what summer reading?

I'm looking forward to Life Drawing. but i haven't drawn much this summer... OuT oF pRaCtIcE
K C-U GUIZE TOMORO!!!!!!!!!!

xoxo
Layla

guyz

guyz. i think we should all hangout before school sometime. i'll be on the vineyard until sept. 5 and i probably won't be able to hang out that day so it has to be the 6th, 7th, or 8th. do any of those work for you guys? i'll call talia myself since she doesn't really check diss blog.

O HAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

WOW SUMMER OH NINE IS ALIVE N KICKIN

HERE IS MY SCHEDULE:

ENGLISH : SIPORIN / MONDAY SIXTH

MATH : WALKER / TUESDAY FOURTH

PHYSICS: PAUL / MONDAY SECOND

HISTORY: HABER / MONDAY FOURTH (AURELIE WE ARE IN THE SAME HISTORY CLASS)

FILM ANALYSIS : DALE / TUESDAY SIXTH AND SEVENTH

ARTS: DRAWING + PHOTO

FREES: MONDAY FIRST + THIRD , TUESDAY THIRD, WEDNESDAY FIFTH, THURSDAY THIRD (PHOTO FREE) + FOURTH, FRIDAY FOURTH + SIXTH + SEVENTH

WOW I PRESSED SHIFT FOR THAT WHOLE POST

I MISS YOU GUYS AND CAN'T WAIT TO GIVE YOU BIG BIG HUGS ON SEPTEMBER NINTH

- YOUR FRIEND LAYLA

OH MY GOD

just a reminder that

NINJA'S BIGGEST DANCE PARTY EVER

is tomorrow. in case you wanted to go.

-see we be ballin (crtrn)

this is spinal tap?

you GUYS! My summer just keeps getting more EXCITING.
the latest:

i complained to my mom that my knees had been hurting so...
last night my mum looked at my knees and said that they look...deformed.
so then she felt my kneecaps and said that there was a lot of fluid underneath them. yum.
So sometime soon, I 'm going to see the doc and they're going to perform a spinal tap...on my KNEES. what? yup. you heard me. it's called joint aspiration. but whatever.
Then they're gonna test the fluid to make sure that I don't have an infection and hopefully all goes well. but I'M REALLY SCARED because i HATE needles (i always feel like i spell the word needle wrong) and i have a super low pain tolerance.
And according to yahoo answers, it's really painful.
On the other hand, maybe I could get out of sports for a while...

EEEEEKKKKK.
anyway. I'm done for now.

Aurelie

PS: there's a haitian guy on top chef this season. REPRESENTTTT. you should all start watching.

mah brutha frum anutha mutha

I'm getting a brother you guys!
No, my 50+ single mom is not having a baby but her best friend's son from switzerland is coming to live with us (and learn english/study music and stuff) for....

THREE MONTHS.

I mean his mom is like my second, long-lost swiss momma(She sends me care packages and postcards and calls me on my birthday! What a fine figure of a woman.) but i never pictured her sons as my bros. Now our parents keep emailing saying,
"Oh, Aurelie will be the sister he never had..."
"Oh, Corentin will be the brother she never had..."

But yah. It's exciting stuff (!)
His name is Corentin, he's 21, speaks french, and doesn't eat fish.
That's about all I know.
Oh yah... he plays the tuba and euphonium and worships Bob Marley.

He's coming on SUNDAY. which is like...super soon and I'm excited and freaked at the same time. Hopefully he's cool and not awkward. But I'm assuming he's cool and awkward. He's a momma's boy.

I will keep you posted....i guess.

Aurelie
PS: way to change the title caleb, i guess this blog will go ON AND ON AND ON AND ONNNN. until we die.

X CITED

First of all, Layla and Talia really need to post something. WHETHER ON OR OFF THE MAINLAND.

Second of all, I am unbelievably excited for math this year. On sept. 8 Mr. Sherry, Mr. Riahi and I are all meeting about it. YAYYY also you all know about my little math club (of which xander unfortunately will not be a member). Anyway I really can't wait.

Also they moved the lounge to the fourth floor? What the fuck?? I talked to some of the kids who planned on inhabiting that room last night and they are all PRETTY DISGRUNTLED, going so far as to plan on staying in the Dartmouth lobby (!). We'll see how this unfolds....

-- Caleb

?

i don't get it.
i can't find ANYONE with a similar skedge.
actually, talia and i will be partyin' it up in latin and bio2? i think?
does this mean i'll be in classes with those who don't have facebook....like RUI?!?!
oh, jk. facemoss and i have english together. faaaaabulous.

on a brighter note:
i have ABSOLUTELY NO CLASSES WITH EMMA BDUBS OR JOSH!
now that's what I call maaaaaahhhvelous.

aurelie

HAHA

So far I know that gautam mooo han, facemoss and big dee raevsky are going to be in history with me. yayyy.....

da skedgeyouwull

so i don't have a functioning camera at the time so we will do this old skool:

english: DAVIS!!!!! b-a-l-l-i-n-'-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(tuesday 3rd)

us: HABER!
(monday 4th)

empires: budding
(no one takes this class but me, danny, russell, marielle, facemoss, tili and some others....joy.)

latin 3: CONOLLY!

bio 2: MECHABER!

intro calc: sherry
(monday 2nd)

photo: RUSTY!
(tuesday 5th [visit me!])

FREES:
monday: 1st, 5th
tuesday: 4th
wednesday: 2nd, 4th
thursday: 1st, 2nd, 5th
friday: 2nd(photo free), 4th, 5th


!!!!!
this is exciting.

--aurelie

schedules

post your schedules

:(

Hiya every1.

So Layla and Talia already know this and Aurelie this is kind of really out of context but I figured I'd write it anyway since this blog in its capacity as a history of this summer would be incomplete without it: Anna and I broke up today. We were going to anyway before she went to go to college but we decided it would be better to do it now. So thats really sad. And I'm really sad. That's it.

this is more of a facebook wall post but whatevs.

i visited college.
it was booring.
i saw maad poser kids.
philly's a cool city btw.
i sat on a stoop in bed-stuy for four hours, didn't get shot, listened to music on a huge ass boombox and felt really cool. actually i was really cool. but i wasn't wearing colorful sneakers which diminished my coolness by 2.5 points.
i also watched a spike lee movie called "do the right thing" which takes place in bed-stuy and it was really good. so ya better netflix dat RIGHT now.
also, i haven't done like ANY summer reading. fml.
and people need to stop talking about health care. NOW.
oh and i saw this chinese movie called "lust caution"
gotta love dem raunchy espionnage thrillers set in the 1940s. it was good. don't watch it wit ya 'rents.
and i need new headphones!

caleb, i'm really proud of your badass 'real life' experience!
a

Rest of the Summer

so since new york and in the time between new york and peru ive basikly been chillen with xander n josh a lot and david and layla a little and talia a little and hella amounts with suzy freeman which is kinda cool. she's a nice gurl in my opinion. o and hella hella amounts with anna swartz obv.

ALSO ive been hanging out a lot with this girl sana jamal who is from QATAR and whom josh and zack and david met at the beginning of summer on the street and have been hanging with since.

so yeah THATZ pretty much it ill write more of i think of it.

New York

OK New York was equally balllllllllinnnnnnnnnn. basikly i stayed in my grandpappy's apartment as planned but for a week instead of three days with anna swartz and we had a good time chillin around new york and in the apartment. we watched a 16 and pregnant MARATHON which was pretty cool. i wont elaborate on everything we did but here's the facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=132450&id=518367994

Peru

wow OK so basically summer went by or almost since i last posted which is kinda WEIRD TAH THINK. but anyway here's the deal:

Peru: goodtymez all around. here are som excerpts of messages i sent home during that period:

"OK so heres what happend. basically xander suzy, benzo and i went out into lima to get us some camilles ex bee eff and so basically we hung around this one place and found some thuggy lookin kids and asked them what was up with the sitch. so they took us in and one of them guided me and xander to the slumz of lima and was tellin us about how we shud be careful cuzz his friends walk up and down this street and mug kids and there are little kiddy gangs with guns and sabers and shit but its no big deal and so then he went off to buy some drugs and xander and i chilled and contemplated the epicosity of sitting ina real live slum where there was a real live risk of being fuckin knifed and stuff. but o the epicosity just increased. so the guys dealer wasnt there so he led us to an even slummier area and called over this adultish dood who kept shivering and smaking his forarm and then some other adultish people glommed on and we were all walking in a pack and then i dumbly took out my iphone to check the time and so one of them was like o u guys rich? and we were like uhhh.... and then the junky came up behind me and put his arm around my neck and then i fuckin pulled him and myself to the ground and then the three other guys converged on us and i was kiking around ont he ground desperately and then the guys ran off and we were left shaken but they didnt get anyhting so its all good and basically we had a really epic life experience."

"xander and i went into gautam and russels room where peter hall and sylvia were just for kicks and we asked whatt hey were talking about and peter was like "female anatomy and menstruation and stuff" and xander and i ran away and they looked madd embarrassed.

ALSO today was camilles birthday and jason went through madd struggles trying to light the candles with his lighter and someone had to do it for him and it was hilare."

"ALSO today jason was being an asshole to alex droznin israel and rui wang turned around and incongruously shouted "SHUT THE FUCK UP" and it was hilare. and jason relly got salted.

ALSO ALSO we were in lima and some little peruvian biddys acostd xander and made him pose in a photo.

ALSO ive gotten madd insight into suzys relaysh with josh. ill tell you all about it when i return."

THERES SO MUCH MORE

"ALSO today i got some wine with my lunch and xander and i sipped it and smoked a cigarette inside this restaurant while the whole lot of us (every1 from the day before plus dylan) talked about how solitary confinement fucks people up and i quoted extensively from the new yorker article on the subject and felt really cool. "

"ALSO our tour guide Fredie is a professor of tourism and yesterday his whole class put on this elaborate show for us and afterward we got into small groups for a "cultural exchange" during which i attempted to explain in spanish the complexities of racism in america and we discussed popular music. WHICH WAS REALLY AWK because they asked about the J broz and we were chuckling talking about how only little girls listen to them and THEN these five 20 year old men admitted squeamishly that THEY LISTEN to the J broz TOO. mayjuhly awkward."

hello world

or hello to you 3.

remember when this was gonna be the novelest idea of summa oh niney?

yah me too.

well here are my great efforts to keep it alive:

COSTA RICA:
too ballin' for words except these:
too ballin' for words.

ORCHESTRA CAMP:
ballin' but tirin'
highlights:
1. Awesome, loud, red-pants-donning, Italian conductor.
2. Wry, funny, scary, skinny, indie conductor.
3. Mahler Symphony No. 1... youtube dat shiiit noowww.
4. funny kids to hang with.
5. good food in town.
6. 3 hrs of rehearsal erry day.
7. the town was filled with POSERS... all the kids were wearing dunks, flare jeans, and ripped up wifebeaters under flannel plaid shirts with long hilbilly hair. ewww.
8. bad food on campus.
9. DANCE DANCE DANCE PARTY PARTY PARTY. break.it.down.
10. we rocked the concert.
11. i saw ms. grant. whoa
12. i saw ms walker. whooaaa.
13. cooool teachas
14. weirdo/cool roommate
15. goood musika
16. more facebook friends/pics!
17. good sushi place in town with drunk sushi man. goood udon noodles. mmmmmm. and tempura everything!!!
18. dumbass counselors who tried to enforce dumbass rules.
19. skippin curfew!!
20. overall just BALLIN'

NEW YORK:
1. goood foood
2. cousin's first bday partayyyy...included a pinata so it was def awesome.
3. seein da fam
4. left ny to go to new jersey?? new jersey= family that lives princeton, nj but also means....princeton college visit=WTF.
5. gooood wifi!
6. da cityyy. funfunfun.


that's all for now.
i hope you guys read this and like write a little sumthin' sumthin'...


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∆

so, the first part of my 3-part summer is over. I just spent June 4-June 29 at my dad's house, and now I'm at my mom's house, writing this in the room I've been sleeping in since I was like 6 or somethin. CALEB AND XANDER WENT TO PERU and they're back now but Xander leaves tomorrow to go to France for a WhOlE mOnTh!!11! June was chill and relaxing for me... July should be boring (cause my mom doesn't let me stay out late) until I leave for France on the 23rd. I'll post some pictures from France here so you can see the glamorosity of the 93rd District.
I MISS YOU GUYS VERY MUCH! AND I wanna hang out with you guys! I hope your summers are going wonderfully and are fun and amazing.

XxoOoxoOXoxoxOXoOxo
Layla

My Lack of Organization

hey y'allz
yup so no summer plans... but I'll keep you updated! It looks like my parents might consent to NY, so woohoo! maybe.
Talia

YO

OK they're gonna be even MORE impressed with this. I actually looked up bus rides from Boston to NY. I shopped around and we would take the Lucky Star bus line which leaves every hour. It would cost 30$ roundtrip for each of us. We would depart from boston at 11:00 AM on June 8 and from NY at 3:00 PM June 10.

Also if they want info on my grandpa: he's Jewish, born of Russian immigrants. He graduated from NYU in 1948. He was a doctor until about ten years ago when he retired. He leaves alone since my grandma died six months ago.

Here's a picture:

OK OK

OK OK. looks like this thing ain't goin down. BUT just in the effort to convince y'all's parents I wanted to make two suggestions:

1) Tell them they can talk to me!

2) You should appear very informed, like you're totes on top of everything and have lots of contingency plans. So THAT MEANS you should have in mind a very specific itinerary.

OK here's the specific itinerary to use, we can obv modify this if need be but just having one is what's important for now.

So. Let's suppose the trip is June 8-10. We would all gettogetha at the greyhound bus station at around noon on the 8th. We would take the bus for four hours and take a taxi from the bus station to my grandfather's apartment. (we could also take the subway if they're comfy with that). We would stow all our stuff in his apartment and then spend the rest of the afternoon and night in Park slope. (we'd be on a budget so we could buy food at an outdoor market and have a picnic in the park before sunset) and then right around sunset we would go back to the apartment and chill and plan out specifics for the next day. OK then the morning of June 9 we would have a quick breakfast and get on the subway for manhattan, we would spend the morning at MOMA and the afternoon on seventh ave. (we would have maps etc.) that night we would see a movie in time square and immediately afterward (say 9:30 to keep it "safe") we would take the subway back to the apt. the NEXT day we would pack in the morning and say goodbye to my grandpa and then bring all our stuff by taxi to my mom's friend's house in manhattan. we'd go from there to the guggenheim and then have lunch in time square and then shop sommor around time square then go back to the friend's apt. pick up our stuff, go to the bus station and go home!.

BAM. so remember that and pitchit to ya parents.

AND REMEMBER 2 emphasize that we'll be adhering to a VERY specific set of plans + maps and stuff.

fromage!

k hi so I'm gonna be in France:

23 July - 13 August

Also going to New York for me is sort of... uhh rejected by my mom but maybeee we can work something out with my dad or somethin.
and going to Canada might not happen for me, because apparently the dates were randomly switched to the last two weeks of July, but my mom didn't know that so she went ahead and bought these tickets. She found a smashing price!
And also for the month of June I'll probably be doing community service four hours a day/five days a week for two weeks, so I can get my 40 hours done.
k, bye

≠layla

NEW YOHK

OK so, here's the deal. I talked to Talia and it looks like our only overlap is the week after school ends (June 5-12) and a week in August (23-30). I think it'd be better to go sometime during the former week so that we could do it again in August if we wanted and because I might end up having plans the latter week. Sound good? If so, consult your parent(s) and check if you'd be allowed to go and when works. Say we'd be going for two days between June 6 and 12; we'd stay in Park Slope (very safe/family friendly) in (unless y'all can suggest somewhere else) my friendly grandfather's apartment. On excursions we would keep to crowded touristy places and walk for the most part (as opposed to taking the train.) We'd take a bus to get there. (we can budget things out once we know it's ON).

IGHT. you got all that?

-- Caleb

Numero Trois

SO. This is so exciting!

here are my summer plans:

June 17-26: Orchestra Tour to Costa Rica (ballin' + swine flu)
June 28-August8: Music Camp (ballin'?)
August 8-August 14?: New York (ballin'!)
August 15-School: Home!

I won't be near computers most of the time but it's all good. I'll just write super long posts each time. yah.

!!!
aurelie

OK so Caleb told me to take post 2's vagina-ty so im doin it.

This summer
I think I might be gone for the month of JULY and for the beginning of August
probably a few random days during the other months I'll be goin to like New York n stuff
n stuff


--- Layla

Yah OK here's the first post

SO you know that message I just sent you? Well I haven't sent it at the time of writing. It is currently MAY 4! OK? I don't plan on sending that message for a few days which means I am currently inside of a TIME CAPSULE. OK for posterity I'm going to make a few historical notes: 1) Everyone is going to die of swine flu. 2) Anika is on the market. 3) My right shoelace is sort of loose.

You all are going to look back on this in a few days and marvel at how things used to be.

Now my summer, as promised. I will be away during the following intervals:

June 13 - 28
August 16 - 23
August 30 - September 6.

PEACE
-- Caleb

(^Crewin' it up right there^)