summer track meets

Summer track meets are both fun and not fun at the same time. I get really, really nervous before these meets, and then after the race, I feel great, even if I don't do too well.

The main problem I have is that these meets completely infect my summer fun schedule. Every Thursday I pace around the house, with ten insane hummingbirds flitting about in my stomach. I wait on tenterhooks for my carpool to arrive, and at the meet, I warm up as much as I can. ( to my dad, i seemingly never warm up enough )

I run the mile and 800. My coach says I shouldnt run both of them at the same meet, but my parents force me to :(. However, I am reasonably good at both of them, my records being 2 ;17 and 5 :03 in the 800 and mile respectively. I have another meet coming up tomorrow....I can feel those pesky hummingbirds hatching already.

Au revoir,

Rohan

deathly hallows p2

We watched the Harry Potter midnight show. It all ended. Jealous? I would be too, but then, I was the one who watched. To put it into words...it was FABULONGOOSHOMARVELISHLYWONDERPIPICAL. Yes. It was.

The midnight show attracted a LOT of people, mainly crazed HP diehards like us.Everybody was dressed up in costumes, from owls to snitches to Draco to Dumbledore to dragons. It was amazing. We stood in line for seven hours, but it literally seemed like 10 minutes. We hung out with my friend's family so we could have someone to talk to and play with, and we walked around, looking at people's costumes. ( we took some awkward pictures with other weirdly dressed people)

Finally , the movie started. We had to wait in the theater for two hours while we watched the same set of ads about forty times. It was fun......

But the movie blew everyone away. It was SO much better than the random mishmosh from the Order of the Phoenix and the action sequences were really well done. It was only missing one or two things, as opposed to the full chapters missing from the previous movies. I wished that they hadnt underplayed when Harry killed Voldemort...he just dissolved. If he had crashed dramatically to the floor, the crowd would have cheered, just like we did when Neville killed Nagini. I also had wanted to see when Harry talked about remorse and explained to Voldemort about why Dumbledore died, and all about Snape, and so on. And then Harry randomly snapped the Elder Wand. :(

In total though, this was by far the best movie out of all 8. The midnight show experience was amazing, and I don't think a midnight show will ever be interesting again after this one.

Au revoir!

Rohan