Pictures, pictures, pictures!!!

Okay, so to start with, (no, you don't get your pictures right away, hang on, and you'll get some) while at camp I got a job.  You can either be a server, a waiter, a bathroom cleaner, or a dishwasher, and I don't know if you get paid for being a server.  Anyone want to guess what my job was?  I was a bathroom cleaner!  And yes, I unfortunately had to clean the guy's bathroom too, and it was DISGUSTING.  So disgusting.  Plus there was a point in time where I was out of the foamy cleaner stuff, and I had to use bleach.  I almost passed out because of the fumes.  I hate bleach.
Anyway, I got paid 50 dollars.  5 of which went to tithe, and 15 of which went to paying for the room I shared with my cousin, and best friend, and the rest went to school stuff.  Pens, pencils, binders, paper, erasers, and new boots.  Although, I didn't have enough for the boots, so my kind wonderful, loving cousin helped me out.  He said it was my birthday present, although my birthday isn't until November.  It was awesome.
And I found out that I'm related to one of the board members, which is pretty crazy!  See, he's my dad's mom's cousin.  Pretty cool, huh?
Anyway, I've also been preparing for school by figuring out some updos I can do that won't give me a headache, and are fairly easy and fast to do.
To start with, here's a few pictures of my new boots:

 That picture was kind of dark, so I took another one.

See, you can tell what color they actually are there.

There's a picture of them on my feet.

And there's a picture of the kind of outfit I would wear to school.  I have to have sleeves below my elbows, my hair up, a long skirt below my knees, and closed toe, and heel shoes.

This is my new dagger in its sheath.  I love it.  A lot. 

This is my dagger out of its sheath.

Me holding my dagger, smiling hugely, and looking cheesy and creepy. 

This is me looking less creepy and cheesy, but loving my dagger none the less.

This is me with my hair wet. 

This is my hair up in a new hairstyle I came up with. 

A semi better picture of it. 

I redid it, trying to keep it from slanting up.  It looks huge right there.

A sock bun, however, I see that the sock is seen.  Bummer....  I need to work on making the sock unseeable. 

Another picture of the sock bun. 

The updo I'm practicing for today.  I kind of like it.  If you want to know how to do it, what you do is you take your hair, and put it into two ponytails, then you braid your ponytail into several different braids, of different sizes, then you just twist it all together, and around the base of your ponytail, then you pin it up like a normal braid.

And there is a rather blury picture of my mommy :) 

You know how I said I bought new binders?  Well, here's the one that I had last year.  Yes, I decorated it all myself.

This is my schedule from last year, all up close and personal. 

And this is a close up of the hand I had on my binder. 

My English class binder for this year. 

The title, "English" on my binder. 

A close up of one of my favorite quotes. 

I figured that this would be a good Bible verse to put on a school binder. 

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My Bible class binder. 

A close up of one of the sayings I put on my Bible binder.

This is a quote that they have in the back of the tabernacle at camp. 

A close up of the title, "Bible" and John Three sixteen. 

One of my favorite scriptures.

My name, which I will be putting on my locker :) 

And this is my schedule for this year!  See the difference?

We've even got three new teachers!  My friend Lee's mom is going to be teaching first and second grade, because we had first and second grade teacher problems last year, because the teacher had to leave after the first semester.  Sad huh?  And then they had two first and second grade teachers for the last semester.

Then we have a new 7th and 8th grade teacher, and the former 7th and 8th grade teacher is going to be teaching English, and the former English teacher is going to be teaching Bible.  However, she's still going to be teaching Computers.  BUT she won't be teaching Journalism.  The former Bible teacher ran off and got married, which is really upsetting.  She also taught Heath/P.E., and Evangelism   We no longer have an Evangelism class, but, our other new teacher is going to be teaching Psychology, and I think Business Math.

I would have taken Psychology, but Mr. Brewer doesn't like me, so he decided to put Choir and Psychology at the same time.  I'm taking choir again this year, because I don't want to have to take Art. Not that I have anything against the art teacher, it's just that I can teach myself to draw just fine by myself, and I like to sing.

I'm also going to try to join a deputation group, because I...um, again, I like to sing.  I just hope I don't end up with a bunch of people I don't like.

And apparently we have a new girl in my class.  I should be super excited, but I'm not really.  I mean, for one, what if she ends up being one of those annoying girls who only thinks and talks about boys, hot actors, clothes, and hair.  I mean, I talk about that too, but I also talk about cats, and dogs, and horses, and movies (the actual movies, not the actors) my dreams, my books, see, I have much more to talk about than them.  And what if she's not quite like that, but she's snooty?  And, besides, now that she's here, I'm less unique!  I mean, seriously, how many non-homeschooled people can say that they're the only girl in their class?  Not too many.  And now I can't either.

I can't wait to see who the other new students are though.  It'll be really exciting.

I'm actually pretty nervous though, because I haven't had a first day of school before.  Because my last first day of school, it wasn't really my first day, because I came late.  I was about a week late.

If anyone has any updos that they could recommend to me, please let me know, because I really want to have different hairdos, but I'm not too good at updos....  Anyway, I must depart.  Farewell!

~Katie :)