I don't know how to explain it, it just happened one day. She realized that she loved him. It was after New Year's but before Valentine's Day. It had to be sometime in January, they were only going out for like a month too. This guy meant more to her than anyone ever had. He was funny, sweet, sarcastic and he loved me, the real me.

I want summer, I'm not just saying that either. I need summer. I need the very beginning of summer, the first day you are out of school and feel so free and alive. I need the first night when you realize that it's summer, you can do anything and stay up as late as you want. I need the feeling you get when the warm breeze is blowing on you on a midsummer night. I need the feeling you get when youre walking your dog late at night and you realize that this is truly tranquility. I need the stars in the sky. I need to remember what it is like to wish on a shooting star wearing hip-hugging jeans and a tank top. I need the beach. I need the warm wind and the water coming up to my feet as my friends and I talk for hours on end about everything that happened that past year. I need the silence, that always happen, when my friends and I are thinking about things that have happened that past year and just need to be reflected on for a little while. I need the moon, the big, bright, full, beautiful moon that has a gravitational pull on the waves. I need to go running on a summer night and then jump in the pool right afterwards and do laps. I need that aching feeling after you do too many laps on top of a runner's high. I need so much right now. I need the rain. I need that dark, dreary day when the sky is full of clouds that look ominous and the sky is completely gray. I need the rain that comes from the clouds and the steam that comes up from the streets because the difference in temperature that occurs so suddenly.
I need to go back in time.

I need you like a heart needs a beat, you know it's true

My Reflection

This class hasn't really helped me better my writing but it has helped me open up and write what I actually feel. In the beginning of the year this class was just to fill in a spot in the curriculum (i dont know how to spell). After the first quarter Dr. Hillman made it evident (to everyone) that I put up a barrier when I am writing. It's mostly because I dont trust anyone.
This class has exposed me to different types of writing. Such as Dylan who writes to try to confuse people, or Lauren, Steph, Kat and Brittany who write amazing beginning of little stories.
I can honestly say that I look forward to reading people's posts at the beginning of class and then discussing them.

Sometimes we'd never know what's wrong without the pain
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
- The Fray

Retreat sucked. I think it's amazing how pointless it was and i also think it was really interesting how SOME people were with every single opne of their friends while others had only 2 or 3 of their friends with them.

I know I promised that I would blog later but I really can't think of anything to write.

sorry havent posted in a while
promise to later

I went to my town council's meeting last night. One of the main reasons I went was because of the casino and I wanted to get my vote in that it shouldn't be there. First of all there would be much more traffic and the crime rate would increase...yea that's cool..not. Anyway they didn't even get to that issue. The main issue that was talked about for two hours was the raise in the budget for the school department next year. I technically live in West Warwick but im also on the borderline of East Greenwich. Actually my neighborhood asked to be annexed into East Greenwich but that got declines...whatever that's not the point. The point is that West Wariwick has the highest taxes and most of the money paid to taxes goes to the teachers in the West Warwick school department. The West Warwick School teachers get paid more money than any other school in Rhode Island and that excluding benefits. Of all the people in West Warwick 355 people attended that were registered to vote. Out of the 355 people 207 approved the increase of 2 million dollars bringing the grand total to 43 million dollars to fund the West Warwick schools. Now I looked around the auditorium and saw who was favoring it...most of those people were teachers. I think it's really sad, not to mention stupid, when people of your own friggin community doesnt go to a meeting where they can change something.
In my own opinion this just proves that your vote doesnt count at all