But what was really cool about our hotel was that usually -- 'cause there's five of us. And me and my sis- -- three sisters, or, um two sisters, we all share a bed. We can all fit on one bed. But, at that time I was actually sick with just like a cold, and my parents, they were, were kind of thinking about how they could have us sleep in one bed if I'm kind of sick.  But -- so we walk in and there's two beds. My parents are like, "Where's the third bed? Is it a pull-out couch?" But we didn't see any pull-out couches. There was just two beds. So there was a sink, a really nice, really look- -- expensive looking sink, there was a shower, there was a bathroom, and there was two beds, and then there was just this flat wall with like these shelves in the, in the walls, which was pretty, pretty neat. So just this empty space. And then the guy that was driving the golf cart, he was helping us out, he was like, "Oh!" So he moved the tables out of the way where that empty space was. And then, you know what he started doing? He started opening up the wall and the bed came down from the wall into a bed! And I was like, "This is my first time seeing this type of bed!" And I was so excited. And it was actually bigger than both of those two beds. And that was so cool.

Oh, yeah today I went to a church event with one of my friends, family friends, kind of. And there's a pie eating contest at the end. The pie was like a whole pie and not just a pie slice. It was it was interesting because we just finished dinner a while back and there was this one guy who had a can of whipped cream. He was just spraying it over everyone. I got a little bit on my hair, but I washed off later. And I was just grabbing fistfuls of cherry. It was cherry pie. So I was just grabbing fistfuls of cherry and eating it. I got quite a bit down, but I was pretty full at the point. I still ate quite a bit, but it was a lot of sugar. And that one guy who was spraying everyone with whipped cream, he got pied in the face by another contestant as revenge, so that was funny. And there was, there was one guy who just sat there and was like, "I can't do this," and just ate one piece from the top and just stopped. That was funny too. And there was a lot of things funny about that contest. Apparently, everyone like left to wash up and stuff, but my little brother was the only one left, even though he didn't eat that much, so he just got the -- he technically was the winner because everyone left. But he ate a lot of dinner, so he actually didn't eat too much of the pie.

I finished a music composition just with digital, like, instruments for a project I'm doing for s- -- I guess I can say I'm doing it for school. It's a graduation requirement for our school. So I -- well, my group at least for this project -- I'm also doing another CAAS project with another group, but for this project, this CAAS project -- Or CAAS means creativity, art, activity and service, and it's part of the IB program. So for this CAAS project, my group wanted to make a Webtoon. So there's some people in charge of drawing and storyboarding. I'm kind of helping with the storyboarding, but I'm also making mu- some music on the side for background music. So I finished the composition background music for the prologue. We're probably just gonna have the Webtoon run for a couple of episodes, not too many, and then, yeah. I finished that on Thursday.

My family went to Chicago this past weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July and it was really nice 'cause my cousins live there and stuff so we don't really get to see them that much 'cause it's a couple hour drive. And they have this super cool rooftop. It's really nice 'cause my aunt is a e- -- she's an engineer and my uncle's a lawy- lawyer. So they, they have a decent amount of money and they could get a nice place. So we were sitting on their super nice rooftop and I've never seen like the Fourth of July in a city 'cause I live in a suburb. But it was so cool because there were fireworks like all around the entire rooftop. Like the entire skyline was filled with fireworks, and it was just -- it was such a beautiful thing to witness. And I'm really glad I got to spend that day my cousins. But there was a little bit of an interesting mishap that happened while we were watching that fireworks show. I was eating some popcorn and it was just normal popcorn with like cheese and truffle sauce on it. And then my lips started swelling up and I'm like, "Oh my gosh. I'm having an allergic reaction." So I took some Benadryl and it was fine. I was a little bit loopy after but you know. It all worked out.

Oh! I got a job this week, I think. So, I've been looking for a job for the past few weeks like going around to places in person with my resume and being like "Hey, are you hiring?" But my dad told me to go on Indeed, which my mom was really resentful because she was like "Indeed is so dumb. You don't need Indeed." But I went on indeed and I got two interviews and one of them was for Panera and the other was Jimmy John's. And I went to Panera first and they were like -- it was barely even an interview. They just gave me a form to fill out and they asked me some basic questions. And then I filled it out, brought it back in, and today I got the onboarding info and like the Jimmy John's member handbook and stuff. So I guess I'm -- I don't know. I mean I like I gave them my tax info. So I think I might be working there. Like no one's actually come right out and been like "You're hired" but also they've given me so much like personal -- I've given them so much personal information that it feels like they must be hiring me. Like, I don't know. And then I didn't even show up to the Panera's interview. I canceled it. ‘Cause that was today, and I assumed like, you know, I'm probably working at Jimmy John's -- like it seems weird for me to give them my tax info and like all of this private stuff and not be like -- and I'm not be hi- -- being hiring me.

I will have 36 hours of flights and layovers to try and troubleshoot it. But I guarantee, I guarantee on the way back, I'm going to be such a mess, I'm going to be crying in NAIA. I'm going to be crying in the airport, in the terminal, in the plane. Last time I flew back from QC to Grand Rapids, I literally -- I was sat next to this grandma. And they gave -- they were passing out this like Haagen-Dazs ice cream. I don't know. I don't feel like -- at the beginning of the flight like Haagen-Dazs, and I was crying, like I was sobbing in my seat quietly, but albeit very, very distressed.  And this poor little lady, she looks at me, and she does not speak any English -- I do not speak any Thai, because she spoke Thai. And I just -- I was just like looking at her, and she looked at me, and then she was like going over to like the, what is it? What is it called? What are they called? Stewardess? I think that's -- flight attendant. Flight attendant. And she's like, she's like gesturing for like more, and so she got like all these Haagen Dazs, and she gave them to me, and I was like, "No, no, like I'm lactose intolerant, it's fine." And she's like, "No, no, no, no take it, take it." And I was like, "Ope," so then I just had all of this Haagen Dazs, and it was kind of a beautiful moment. But I also was like, I feel so bad whenever I feel distressed in public that I'm like visibly, visibly crying, because then I feel like people are like, "Oh you poor thing, like, how can I help?" And I genuinely don't know, like, I genuinely have no idea. But the Haagen Dazs, the Haagan Dazs was a very nice surprise. She was so sweet. She was so sweet. Um, I just wish in the future, can have the same kindness in the airport. Otherwise, it may not be as enjoyable as a journey.

So I got my stuff, I put it into the microwave, and I put it in for -- either it, it was either two or three minutes. Think it was three minutes. And I put it in there and then I left to go do something. So I was like, "Oh, it's just microwaving, it's not like anything bad's gonna happen." And then I come back like a minute or two later, and I look inside and there's soup all over like the rotating disk, and I'm like "No!" I freak out, and I'm like, "Oh my gosh!" And so I stop it because apparently the heat of it was making the soup bubble out of it or something like that. I didn't really understand it. Either way, it was not working well. So much soup was all over the entire rotating disk and I was freaked out and so then, "Oh my God, I gotta go clean this up." And so I went -- I went to the girls bathroom because I was in the cafeteria and there's a cafeteria -- there's a bathroom inside the cafeteria. But that bathroom only has -- what's it called? Dryers. No, uh, towels. And so I was like, "Ah!" and so the closest bathroom was pretty far away, and I didn't want anyone to see the mess I had made, and so I had to run, run, full sprint there to go get some towels. And then I got 'em and then I wiped it, but there was still more soup and I was like "Ah!" So I ran back to that bathroom, got more paper towels, and I finished it all up. And then this time, I was like, "Okay, I learned my lesson. I'll get -- I'll get more paper towels and I'll wait for this thing to cook and I'll watch it cook." So I watched it cooked -- so I watched it cook, and it was still experiencing the same problem. It was so dumb. And so I kinda -- I think I layered it with a paper towel on the bottom so all the soup would go on to the paper towel. Either that or I just waited for it to be done so I could just like clean it. Or I would like, stop it every few seconds to like make sure it didn't get too…

Oh, you know what else I did today? Today I started three -- four -- five fires today. I was very proud. We were doing chemistry and we needed to light a Bunsen burner, but I didn't realize the Bunsen burner I got sucked, like a lot. And so I kept on trying to, like, turn it on. So you would -- here's what a -- you would take the Bunsen burner and then there was like this little, uh, tube. You insert one end of the tube into the gas nozzle and then you light a match. It's important that you don't turn on the gas nozzle until you've lit your match. And so I lit my match and it was really easy. Like, when we had to do, like, our fire unit, like, at the beginning the school year, it was really hard to get the matches. Like it was crazy hard. I was like, "What?" It was so hard for me. And then a few -- like a month ago, I had to -- I decided to do a training course for Wilderness Survival club. And they trained me on how to start a fire with flint and steel and it was really hard and I even had lighter fluid and it was still really hard. So now just, like, lighting a match felt like the easiest thing in the world 'cause it did not take that much effort and it was great. And so we were -- you would get the match, and then you would, as soon as your match is on, you turn your Buns- -- you turn the gas nozzle and then you put the match over the Bunsen burner. And the gas will come out of the Bunsen burner and into the fire and it'll catch fire and it's great but ours didn't work. So I had -- I tried, like, three times to get the thing to light on fire but it didn't light on fire. And one time it was extremely close to, like, uh, what's it called...? Oh, burning my fingers off, which really sucked. But nothing happened, it was just really, really close, like, maybe a centimeter away from my fingers. And then our teacher noticed what was happening 'cause we called him over to ask him about it and he got us a new one because he…

My sister's boyfriend has a little brother. And he is best friends with my boyfriend. And their friendship is a little bit more than friendly a lot a bit of the time. Like, there's jokes that everyone thinks that they're dating, and it's kind of a wreck and it makes me feel really awkward. So over the past couple days -- my boyfriend completely lives here again -- I saw a heart get added onto this other kid's contact. And we were like at a thing together and he was texting him. He keeps bringing him up. And my boyfriend also stopped getting, like, defensive when people made jokes about them dating around me. Like he's just totally cool with it now, and like my sister's boyfriend'll be like, "We know who the real third wheel is." And, um, my boyfriend doesn't deny it. He just lets me go on feeling like I'm a third wheel, which is so uncool. Like, what the heck! So now I'm like, "I don't know what to do."

So I was downstate at my great aunt and uncle's house for a swim meet, and I was trying to figure out their shower and I couldn't. So I decided, "Okay. I'll use their bath." And I really couldn't figure out how to like, turn it on and keep the water going. So I just got like a little bit of water, and it wasn't very like warm and I couldn't really figure out how to adjust the temperature or how to adjust anything. Like, I couldn't even figure out how to get the shower to work. And I'm just like taking my bath and like messing around with different like buttons and stuff and blah blah blah, and all of a sudden I see like these black, like, big fly-looking things that are just like, like three of them or something that are like, around me, and immediately I just got up, freaked out, and drained the bath. And I wish I could tell you what those were, but I don't know. I was like freaking out, and I was like, "Okay, I'm gonna forget about this," 'cause it was like night time and I was shivering and I was super scared and I didn't get a good bath. And so I just left and I didn't try to figure out what the big black things were. So I know that you want, like, a better ending to that story, but like I have no idea what they were and I never figured out how to properly use that bath. Actually, I did the next time I went there, but I used -- learned how to use the shower because I did not want to take a bath again.