Today is Halloween and Allie will not let me forget. She is dressed as a hot dog on a picnic table and its probably the most creative costume I've ever seen. She keeps screaming "IM A HOTDOG ON A PICNIC TABLE!" In crazy accents, but that's just your typical Allie; she's crazy. Allie helped me pick out my halloween costume (as I have previously mentioned) and today I came to school totally decked out in brown wearing antlers. Yes, I was a deer. Everyone loved it. When we got to school the first bell rang telling us that school was starting in 4 minutes. I'm not used to bells in the slightest. I'm not sure you can call the bell at PMHS a bell because it's just three weird beeps over a loud speaker, but its so unusual to me still. No matter how much I make fun of them though, one thing is for sure, they are really useful. Because the bell tells you what time class is over every teacher lets their students out at the same time. That's never happened at MV and because of that people are late to class all the time. My first class today was US history with Sarah and I was so curious as to how the teacher, Mr Larson, was going to teach. Was he going to be just like an MV teacher? I was really hoping so. It turns out Mr. Larson was kind of like an MV teacher because he seemed passionate about his subject but he just wasn't very good at keeping the kids engaged and because of that no one was paying attention. I felt bad because he was trying really hard. I think none of the students were paying attention because of the lack of phone policy at PMHS. The kids text and take pictures all during class. After US history I had AP Lang with Allie. Lang was just like MV. The teacher, Doc, was a mix of LK and Dr. Carr. The kids talked a lot with each other about The Scarlett Letter and they seemed to be able to analyze things very well. Next was chorus which was hilarious because everyone was dressed in full Halloween costume. Alive stood in the top riser wearing her hot dog hat, Sarah was on the bottom in a white flower dress because she was a flower child, and Michael (who's costume was my favorite) was standing on the left flailing around his hook hand because he was dressed as Buster Bluth from Arrested Development, one if my favorite t.v shows of all time. After chorus I went to voice class and started the process for picking out a song to perform in front of the class next week. This is my first time taking a class like this so I'm nervous to perform in front of these serious musicians. It's going to be so much fun though. Lunch was, as usual, the best part of my day. We took pictures with each other and made as much noise as possible singing and laughing. Occasionally Allie would remind all of us that she was ' A HOTDOG ON A PICNIC TABLE!' And everyone in the lunch room stared at us but we didn't care. I took a picture with a kid dressed as black mail. He made me laugh so hard. It's nice to have to ability to be myself at a new school even though being myself means being totally crazy and out of the ordinary. Post-lunch classes were the art classes where I made ceramic birds and pots as well as drawing pictures of Dylan and Natasha in full costume from the play we did last weekend. I'm really getting the hang of this school and I haven't gotten REALLY lost yet so that's good. After school Allie took me downtown to a coffee shop that was like bigbys but bigger and more artsy (if that were even possible). After we went to the coffee shop we all went over to Sarah's for a Halloween party. I had my first piece of buffalo chicken pizza (or buff chick as everyone here calls it). It was so good, especially covered in blue cheese (thanks Sarah!). Tomorrow I have school again and I just can't wait to go to Voice class and see all of my new friends again. I also start voice lessons at Eastman tomorrow so I'm excited for that as well. This place is truly amazing. Michael keeps telling me I just need to stay forever and everyone agrees. I love my new friends.
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