I PASSED!

YAY! I'm sooooo happy! I passed my in-vechicle test! YAY! What does that mean? It means, quite simply, that when i turn 16, I show the people a piece of paper, and they give me my license. I don't have to take the test ever again! And I passed! YAY! I can drive! (well, I have to wait 'til I'm 16, but I have a license waiting!) YAY!

(On a lighter note, I opened a bank account today. I will have my own atm card in a week!)

more drivers ed

Today in driver's ed was better.... we did interstate driving! YAY! This was my first time driving on the interstate... and it was in a car with four strangers (teacher dude and 3 students who are all cheerleaders). I did better today (I only got corrected once!). When we were about to get out of the car, he told us tomorrow we would do city driving. I was excited; I wanted to say, "Wow! We're going into a city tomorrow?" But I didn't. I don't think I should mess with people who live in a small bubble and think Auburn is a 'city'. (You really can't call it that, because downtown consists of a street.)
I went to the gym this afternoon... I ran on a treadmill like crazy. Do you relize how funny those machines are? You run and run and run, but you never move! That right there blows my mind (not a difficult feat though, mind you). Then I got to drive my daddy's car home. His car is sooooooo big, it was harder to turn and stop. Plus, it was raining. I drove to the neighborhood and practiced a 3-point turn. I totally did it! YAY! The song "I will survive" was playing... my dad started singing, "I hope I will survive." Not funny! Then when I pulled in the driveway he said, "Yes! I did survive!" My daddy is awesome!

NYC!

oh my! Sooooo many things happened, I'll probably forget most of them! So, I'll introduce them piece by piece in other blogs, but as to what I can remember now, here goes!

• We had pizza for almost every meal. I don't care what other people say... New York has the best pizza (way better than Chicago's)
• We stayed at 2 different hotels. One had two rooms, and I even had my own bed! (It also had a fridge, so we made a run for cokes!) The other was much newer and had 49 stories (1st had only 4), but the elevator system was wack. You typed in your room number and then it told you which of the 10 elevators to go in. With 10ish elevators, you'd think it be fast... but it assigns everyone to the same elevator! It took at least 30 min each time to get an elevator.
  
• My daddy took us to see a broadway play. I was sooo excited; he even let me pick which one! I choose Chicago, which was a good thing because the other two I wanted to see (Spamalot or Phantom of the Opera) were sold out. The play was sooo good! Wow... it had more songs than the movie, plus a HUGE twist... (involved gender confusion! AHH!)
• rode the subway many times... my dad actually asked for help and directions many times on these trips!
• went to statue of liberty (made a live report/recording on my phone from here, I'll try to get it up!).
• visited Little Itlay for lunch, than Chinatown for shopping (have a report from here too!).

That's all I remember for now! I'll add more to my list as they come to me!
TTFN!

driving update!

I drove to Kroger's today... yay! (this was with my mom). I did very well, and she says, "That was better than before, at least we only nearly died once." Lauren called me while at Krogers, I told her this... she said to tell my mom at least we didn't actually die....
Later my dad took me driving...downtown. Today was the first day I left our little neighborhood area, and my dad was like, "kerri backs up bad." Well, I have only practiced in a neighborhood! Backing up out of a parking space isn't done there! That's ok though... I drove to Smoothie King... It made life better...

I can drive a boat!

whoa, so cool! Driver's ed classroom part is now over (i have to go to drive the week of 27-30). Yesterday we learned about boat safty and, if you passed the test, you would recieve a certificate for a boat license. I'm not sure when I'll get it, but I totally have a boat license. I was planning on telling ya'll yesterday, but my crappy internet wasn't working... so sad. I went shopping yersterday! woo-hoo! I got a t-shirt that says 'I love Carbs', flip-flops from the gap, and two new bras {people do not know how thrilled I am! These are hard to find... kerri is tiny... :( } My mommy sorta promised to take me on a loooong driving lesson today. I'll try to post later with how it goes! :P

driver's ed and ice-cream party

I'm sorry about the all around lack of posting. It's mainly due to drviers ed. what a crappy course. you have to sit there for like 4 hours, while learning nothing! First day of class, the teacher says, "This is not a class to teach you how to drive." Ok, question: what is it a class for?!?!? Oh well... the whole thing sucks. funny thing today though. We are supposed to get out at 12, but the idoitic movie is lasting over. So this guy gets up, walks past the teacher, and leaves! Movie was over 2 min later. 2 min! Teacher was pissed btw.
Now as for ice-cream, I went to an ice-cream/pizza party last night at CYO. It was fun (only one other 10th grader though). I hung out with mainly 7th & 8th graders.... sad... we did play a fun game though called "Catch Phrase". Basically, it gives you a word people have to guess.... so much fun! too many stories about that, and they are really not important, so let's move on! Moving on, me and alex got into a play fight over what color my mom's car was. She promised it was blue while I insisted it was silver. I personally don't see why a person would argue about the color of another person's mother's car. wouldn't that other person know? Oh well.... it was fun!

TTYL!

In the jungle with no ice-cream cones...

Today, while sleeping, I heard the phone ring; thinking like in my dream, that I was at a hotel. I actually said, "Will someone please get that?" Then I realized I was at home and actually went to answer the phone. I believe, it was early people, that it was Cristina on the phone. She told me, actually told me, to come to church today and help decorate for VBS (life a safari/jungle type theme). I went. We painted a mural and made really ugly trees out of butcher paper. Then they told us to hang up the animals. I proceeded to run around the room naming all of them. Here is my list:

• baby elephant: Ellie
  
• bigger elephant: George
  
• Zebra: Ezra (like the awesome child's song)
  
• Giraffe: Ed
  
• Rhino: Eli (pronounced letter "E" then lie)
  
• and finally the Hippo, whose name was hippo, 'cause he was cool like that...
  

My sister came and picked me up... just as I was riding around the room on Ezra's back. Oh well, she already thought I was crazy. We decided to go to the blue shack. This is a neato place where you can get ice-cream for like a buck fifty. I went to the guy and said, "Can I have a dipped cone?" He then told me that he had run out of cones (HOW CAN AN ICE-CREAM PLACE DO THAT?!?!), but that he'd give us the ice-cream with chocolate stuff in a cup. This was good. I think we got more ice-cream AND more choclate that way. It was yummy. But now I've got to go do my ten vocab words a day, and then tonight I'm going to watch 'Bend it like Beckham'. TTYL!

~Panera Bread~

Panera was funny. Lindsey had an interview there at 2:30, so we went to have lunch before. I ordered, and just as I was filling up my drink, I remembered that I didn't tell them what to put on my sandwich. Now, this might not seem like a big deal, but to those who really know me, they know I'm a picky eater. Anyway, I get the sanwich and it has it all. It had onions, pickles, lettuce, mustard, and mayo. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I was not going to eat that... so, I told a little lie. I went up to the guy and asked him for new bottoms (i could pick off the stuff, but the mayo and mustard was on the bottom). He looked at me funny, so I told him I needed new ones because I was allergic to mustard which was all over the bottoms. He looked shocked and went on to say, "Oh, I'm soooo sorry! I'll make a whole new sandwich for you! Don't worry, I'll take care of you sweetie!" I was moved. This was like a college kid saying he would do anything to make it right and better... and I had lied. In the end, I got a new sandwich with nothing icky on it. Yay!