I see the rainbow!

Today was the last day of school. I was SOOOOO excited that I would get to sleep in pretty much every day for the next two and a half months, but at the same time I was kinda sad that the school was getting demolished. Even if it wasn't, I still would be missing a lot of my friends from The School (which will now be referred to as The Middle School, since I'll be in high school next year. THAT will take the title of The School.) since many of them are going to The Rival School or some other hipster school that I've never heard of. I'm number 80-something on the waiting list for The School now, since I'm technically enrolled in The Rival School at the moment.

There's a reason for that, actually, and it's quite a funny story.

Back in March, my parents faxed in my transfer papers to enroll me in The School. I checked at the end of May, and I wasn't on the waiting list, while all of my friends who live near me were number 4 and 11 and they had turned their papers in probably a month after we did mine. So we printed out a copy of my papers and headed down to the district office, and had a little talk with the man at the desk. He said that they had never gotten the papers, and this was because sometimes the faxes turn up as blank pieces of paper. That was us. So we gave him the papers, he fussed with other papers and folders and files and a computer, stamped something, stapled something, and told us that I was to be number 84 on the waiting list.

WTF.

But that aside, It's been a pretty good few weeks.

Stephanie is part of an organization called Rainbow Girls, which is a fancy, upper-class (yet still somewhat cheap) community service program. They do catering and sell stuff, all that jazz, and there are lots of events, like going camping or going to Gameworks or the zoo. They wear ballroom gowns a lot. It seems pretty fun.

So I told Stephanie that I want to sign up, and she FREAKED OUT and said, "OH MY GOD!!! That's so AWESOME!!" and started right away at getting me a petition and stuff.

So today I went with her to a meeting. I was immediately accepted, not only into the community, but also fundamentally into the group. Since I haven't been initiated yet, however, when I attend the meetings, I get to sit on the west side of the Worthy Associate or whatever, which is a fancy way of saying "second in command of the second in command"; after that there's Worthy Somethingorother and then the Something Mother. I haven't really gotten it all down yet, but everybody's extremely nice and I think I have a lot in common with some of them. It should be an interesting experience, and as a bonus, I get community service hours toward high school graduation and college. I don't even know what I'm going to school for, but wherever it is, community service hours will definitely help toward getting in.

So there's my update. See ya.