Horrible plays and amazing books.

I left my running shoes that the Civic Center >.<
So today was the day of our play. Oh you didn't know I had a play? Yeah that's for a reason. Not many people knew about it because we are just so horrible. I myself actually TRIED. Everyone didn't really care about the show. So it was terrible, but funny. Everybody forgot their lines. I was right on cue and everything. Ugh... just so stressing.

But we got through it...
Alive that is.

I finished a fantastic book today. Like I said Ellen Hopkins came to our school and talked to us and I got a free signed book from her. Well I didn't have anything for reading period. So I brought my Burned book to school and started it. It's written entirely in verse which I found annoying since it was narrative. It kind of gave me a migraine, but the story was amazing. Those of you who read my blog, which is no one, that want to read Burned by Ellen Hopkins, do not read any further in this paragraph. The story is about a mormon girl who lives under the roof of her alcoholic father who believes that women are beneath him. He keeps having children waiting for a boy. They have 7 children, later on the mother gets pregnant again with a boy. But anyways Pattyn, the mormon girl, was a typical goody too shoes mormon girl, until she met a guy and he got her drinking. The drinking took the pain away and she eventually got drunk with him often. Then they were about to have sex when her dad caught them. So he threw a fit and sent Pattyn home and threatened to kill the boy. The next day at school, the boy dumped her because of her crazy father and from there on out he began to ignore her. She was so pissed she just picked up her backpack and threw it... which was in the direction of the library windows and broke them. Then there was a new girl dating the boy who dumped her and she punched her in the face. This got her suspended from school and embarassment in her family. So her dad decided to send her to Ely with her aunt. She went to Ely and her aunt was awesome. She knew of her brother's violent and alcoholic ways. She pretty much served sanctuary for Pattyn now. While she was in Ely she met a sexy awesome cowboy and fell in love. They got closer and began making love often and Pattyn felt less and less of a mormon and more free willed. Eventually her father called and told her she had to go home. She found out that her little sister had been taking beatings from her father as well and was furious. She didn't want to go home, so she begged her boyfriend to take her away when she turned 18. He promised to come get her. She went home and one of her little sisters had started her period and accidentally left a pad in the toilet and it overflowed. The father found out and he was furious. He asked who did it and before her little sister could fess up, Pattyn said that she had did it and was sorry. Her father began to beat her. That night Pattyn lay in bed and thought more about it. She realized it's been 2 months since her last period and she was nervouse. She took a pregnancy test and found that she was pregnant. She was scared, but happy to have a little bit of Ethan (her boyfriend) in her. She called him and told him everything and he said that he was coming to get her now. He picked her up from school and a boy that she had rejected saw them and wrote down Ethan's license plate number. It was snowing and icy out and they began to drive away. They noticed police lights come on behind them and Pattyn begged Ethan to go faster. He began to go faster but then realized that they were going to wreck. He put an arm over Pattyn and the next thing Pattyn knew, she was waking up in a hospital. She asked where Ethan was at... and they told her that he had died. She lost the baby too. Pattyn was heartbroken. Her father had disowned her and told her to get out. Pattyn couldn't go back to her aunt's because her aunt's new/old boyfriend was the father of Ethan and she couldn't face him. She took out the gun that Ethan had given her incase her father ever became seriously violent, and killed everyone that had hurt her in her life. I was amazed with the ending. It was seirously astonishing. I loved it so much. I would have done the same thing in her shoes. I know how she feels... not exactly, I mean my father would never beat me and I don't have as bad a life as she, but there are similarities between me and her. Hers are far beyond intensified of what I have to go through, but I understand her looking like the bad girl for just being normal yet everyone insists that she's a rotten apple. Nobody listens to her. Nobody cares for her. She's disrespectful just for standing up for herself. It's amazing. I began to cry when Ethan had died, but an instant smile reached my face when I learned that she was going to kill everyone. Just Amazing.

Okay other than the book.... I got nothing. Anyhow.... goodbye?