PSAT Survival Guide??

Last Saturday I spent most of my day at a random library in the middle of nowhere taking the PSAT. The questions were fairly easily, but it was just a very looooonnnggg test. Here is my survival guide for taking the PSAT, SAT, or any kind of test that your future depends on.

1) What To Wear.

Pants that are comfortable to sit in- for extended periods of time (not sweatpants though.. thats sloppy).

Hoodie, because for some reason they put a giant fan in the room that you are in, trying to freeze you out! Wait.. maybe that was a distraction test.. hmm.. >.> Well bring a hoodie anyways!

And where ANYTHING thats lucky. Lucky sneakers, bracelet, necklace, hoodie.. whatever works. I don't care if your superstitious or not just wear them anyway.

2) When You Get There.

You should always wear glasses of some sort.. even if you don't need them! :O They make you look really intelligent and make other kids nervous. >:)

3) Where to Sit.

Sometimes there is assigned seating, and there's nothing you can do about it. However, if there isn't take this to heart: NEVER SIT IN THE VERY BACK. Why not sit in the very back, you ask? In todays culture it is common for girls to wear low cut jeans/pants and guys to just let there pants droop everywhere. But most people don't realize this, but when they sit down people behind them get the FULL VIEW OF EVERYTHING. My eyes were burning. I swear i think nearly everyone was "cracking a smile" at me. 0_0

4) Taking the Test.

Okay this is actually the easiest part of the experience.. and the most fun. XD UNLESS you happen to be very good at taking tests and you finish 10-15 minutes before the timer is up. >.<>

5) During break time.

Bring a very large hard to read novel or book for some "light reading" to intimidate your fellow test takers. Or you can pull out a notebook and start drawing out a plan that looks similar to the "Italian Job" (bank robbers) and when people look over you shoulder to see what you doing, hiss and say that they mustn't know or you are going to hafta kill them.

6) The Test Is Finally Finished

Thankfully, if you finish the test before the time's up you can leave, and not wait for everyone else to finish. XP Then to get all the energy that was stored up after the 3 hour long test, burst out of the building screaming "FREEDOMMMM!!" :) Then run around doing the chicken dance.

PSAT Survival Guide: Part 2

1) Listening To The Princeton Review

Okay, when you come back to get your scores you usually hafta sit there for about an hour listening to some Princeton Review representative talk about its okay if you fail because its one stinkin test.. blah blah blah... >.<>

2) *scary music* SCORES

Okay just to be clear, its okay if you don't do that great, because most likely you went into this test cold and didn't have a clue what was going to be on it. Even if you didn't do great simply mutter to yourself loud enough for your neighbor next to you "Dang it, i didn't make my goal of 2400 points by 200 points :/". Just to intimidate them... its especially funny if they thought they did good and they only got 1500.. XD.

3) ITS FINALLY OVER

Leave casually, then go show parents scores. But before you leave say out loud nonchalantly- "Not bad for doing this in my sleep". Thats pretty much it. XD

Leave a comment telling me what you think of my little PSAT survival guide that i threw together for ya'll.. I'll probably add on to it later on.

~M

Avril Lavigne in Wonderland

Hey guys, here is the new single from Tim Burton's remake of the classic: Alice In Wonderland. It's called Alice and its sang by Avril Lavigne. :) What do you guys think about it? :D

~M

Hungover Cat..?

On my previous post i talked about Open Season and spastic squirrels. Then that reminded me of one of my favorite characters of all time: Roger. He shows up in Open Season 2. He says the most strange things.

Spastic Caffeinated Squirrel

See- humans aren't the only creatures on the planet that will have their coffee and down 5 cups a day too. This picture makes me think of Open Season, a movie about woodland animals that attack the hunters and commit arson...

This is the best song ever:

Heliotrope Jackalope

Yes, i have not posted anything in forever... well actually last year! :O I just realized i haven't wrote anything new on here since 2009! Even though 2009 was like 3 weeks ago.. >.>
A very late new years resolution of mine is to start posting stuff on here again. I'll try my best to do it weekly, but between school, skating, and watching tv i don't know if i'll be able to fit it in! :O Okay maybe i don't HAFTA watch the new episode of White Collar or Castle or Bones.. what am i kidding? Of course i hafta watch those. ;P

Anyway I shall be posting the most random stuff possible later on this week.. maybe on sunday. I would tomorrow, but most of my day is taken up because I'm taking a practice SAT test.

Au Revoir,

Mikaela

P.S. For your enjoyment here is a picture of some fanart Harry Potter anime.. i didnt draw this. I found it on the internet.

Peregrination - Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7

After two weeks of recovery, Serena stated everyone well enough to return on their Peregrination.

This time around they went around carefully through out the woods, with Weather and Anneliese as their guide.

"NO! We need to go this way! The land will lead us straight to the desert if we cut through here!" Anneliese said arguing with Weather.

"But if we go that way we will run right into Nettle Thistle nymphs! Do you value your life at ALL?" Weather replied arguing back.

"UGHHH! It will be quicker this way!"

"It will be safer this way!"

"SERENA!!" They yelled in unison.

"What?" Serena said cautiously.

"Which way should we go since your the leader?" Anneliese said, gesturing towards the way she predicted to go.

"Umm, well we want arrive alive don't we? Even if it does take longer." Serena said slowly then blocking herself a ready to attack Anneliese.

"HA! Told you, Annie my friend! This way we go boys!" Bosted Weather as she leaped towards the long way.

Anneliese gave Serena the evil eye for the longest while while traveling..

They approached many challenges during their expedition through the woods, encountering disturbing dryads, of which Bard got hypnotised again, and nearly got lead off by a nymph. It took them 2 weeks to get to edge of the forest, where it meets the desert.

"We made it through the forest, ALIVE. Who knew," Serena said out loud to herself. When entering the forest she had had her doubts about making it through alive, or just backing out completely to go home. But she knew this mission she had to complete, or die trying. However, she would prefer not dying. What is in store for us now? What sort of dangerous will we come upon in the desert? All we know that lives in the desert is the faeries, great wyrms, and the world portal. It's oging to be nearly impossible to find the world portal, even if we do we are going to need a faeries help to navigate through it.

"Serena," Eric asked, interrupting her thoughts.

"Huh, yes? Sorry, I was just trying to organize my thought process for the moment there." Serena said.

"Forgive me for interrupting, but what shall we do now? It seems like we are at a dead end even though we have the whole mass of a never ending desert in front of us."

Serena had yet to consider what to do yet, she thought that at first that they should go quickly to find the mountain, on which, the faeries reside on. Then again, maybe they should visit the Great Wyrms, because they could be useful later on. "Lets camp here tonight, so we can discuss our options."

After the had prepared a meal of plants (that were safe to eat), and everybody had pretended to eat the strange looking salad, except Weather who ate it up. They sat around the small camp fire they had made and started to debate upon what they should do next.

"I think we should go to the Great Wyrms and ask for their aid in combat and their wisdom in other such matters!" Eric stated, Bard agreeing with him.

"We should find the faeries! That way we can go straight to the world portal!" Weather argued.

"Who knows how long it's going to take to find them?" Anneliese replied.

"May I suggest something, my fellow travelers?" Serena said clearing her throat to gain their attention. The group quieted down to listen. Standing up on a rock so the group could see her clearly she said: "We shall go visit the Great Wyrms, that way we can gain their alliance, and possibly they will have an idea where we can find the faeries."

"I Second the notion," Eric stated standing up.

"Me too," Bard said getting up to stand by Eric.

Anneliese also stood up to go stand with the guys. Weather however was still sitting, pondering whether or not to go along with. Slowly she got up, saying: "Only because thats whats everybody is going to do anyway, so I might as well go with it."

Serena smiled, "Atleast we have came to a conclusion, let us depart tomorrow morning. Good night."

~.~

It was a very solemn morning when they set off, not that anyone was mad at each other or anything they were just very tired. The silence of the group seemed very peaceful, so nobody wanted to be the one to break it first. So no one even spoke until lunch time.

"Does anyone have any idea where we are going exactly?" Weather asked, of course she would be the one to break the calm silence. The group looked at each other shrugging, when they turned to stare at Anneliese.

"What?!" Anneliese said, who was in mid bite of her jerky.

"Your suppose to be out navigator! Do you know where we are?" Eric enquired.

"umm, yeah. We are approximately, like..." Anneliese started as she pulled out her map collection. Thumbing through several maps she found the one she needed. Going along the map with her finger she passed the Forbidden Forest, going down along a dark brown area. "We are about an eighth into the desert, so we should be headed near the area where the Great Wyrms inhabit." Anneliese finished, wiping her brow. Whew, she thought, for a moment I thought I had gotten us lost.


The group continued on into the desert, after lunch, everyone started getting tired and grumpy, quibbling was soon to take place.

"UGH! It's so hot!" Serena complained, Anneliese agreeing with her.

"This is the usual weather for me," Said Weather, leaning her head back as to soak in the heat.

"Hey! Remember we live by the ocean so we are use to cooler weather!" Bard said.

"Boo hoo hoo, you wimps! If you can't take a little bit of heat, who do you expect to be amongst the dragons? They are HOT!" Weather laughed.

Oh yeah, Serena thought, I forgot about that. Wyrms, breathe fire. Of course they are gonna be hot.

"Wow, guys you know something?" Weather started, beads of sweat starting to form on her forhead. "It is kinda hot out here.." She said starting to breathe hardly.
Then everybody started to notice it too.

"Wow! Why is the heat even mroe intense than usual?" Eric said as he started sitting on the ground, becoming drowsy with the heat.

"I think I know why," Weather said who also sat down on the hot dirt. "DRAGONS!!!!" She yelled pointing ahead of us. And sure enough there was a dragon, not one but 3 of them!"

There was a reason the dragons were called Great Wyrms, was because the were great! In size that is, they had yet to prove themselfs in wisdom. The smallest of the dragons were atleast the size of 3 elephants. The largest of the group was about 3 times the size of the smallest, so 9 elephants.

As the group drew closer, the heat became nearly unbareable.

"Ugh.." groaned Anneliese, as she started crawling on the ground to become closer. When she started coughing from all the sand.

"We hafta keep going guys!" Eric said as he and Bard took off their shirts which were drenched in sweat.

I hate you, thought Serena over and over in her head, since obviously she was drenched in sweat and couldn't take off her shirt. But that thought soon left her head when she felt something, almost like a cool breaze. She looked around trying to see where it came from, when she saw the dragons blowing cool air onto them allowing them to get closer. Slowly the group got up, they started walking to the wyrms cautiously. When suddenly Serena heard something, but she didn't hear it with her ears, but it was as if it was in her brain.

Why do you come here, Serena, Dauphiness of Oceanus?

Whoa, yep, I'll give them credit for being wise too. How could they know my name? Serena thought staring at the dragons, trying to guess which one said it.

Are you going to answer my question or not? Said the voice again, when out of know where a higher pitched voice came in.
Hey, Marty! Your scaring the kid! Hey sweetheart are you coming to ask what we think your going to ask?

What the-? Serena thought, then she shook that out of her mind, then she thought: Yes, probably.

Well then come with us then, said the friendlier voice.

Okay, thought Serena.

"Hey guys! They want us to follow them!" Serena said guestering to the dragons.

"Are you sure they just don't want to eat us or something?" Weather said, shivering at the thought.

"No! I'm serious! Come on guys!" She finished as she trotted off after the dragons, who were not to mention pretty fast for their vast size.

Peregrination - Chapter 6

Chapter 6

"Serena! Eric!" Anneliese cried as she and Bard ran into the room.

"Oh my gosh, you guys, how did you escape? Are you all right?" Serena asked excitedly as she jumped at them.

"Well once Anneliese was caught, I started cutting off the Scares, a large one attacked me at my leg pulling me off. Thats when she became slightly concious again and cut the rest of the vines off her and came after me. It was terrible! Once we got set free, we followed the blood trail inti the woods, we saw where you had hit your head on a tree root!" Bard finished. Wow, Serena thought. Everybody since the day of this journey has been injured. It's only have been three days! Should we continue on? We have to! Oceanus is depending on us. Plus, how would get back anyway? We have come to far into the forest, plus I'm pretty sure Anneliese isn't quite sure where we are.

"Serena," Anneliese said. Serena shook out of her thought process to turn her attention to their guide.

"Yes?"

"Are we going to continue on? I thought I knew where we were going, but the forest is constantly changing so its hard to mark."

"Yes, we must. Tarigot is counting on us." Serena replied.

Anneliese bowed and went back into a different chamber, with Bard tagging behind. Eric started to stir, then his eyes popped wide open.

"WHERE AM I??!" He said sitting up, then falling back down on his bed again in pain.

"Oh no he popped his stiches!" Weather cried running over to put them back in.

"What happened?" Eric asked painfully, squiming from the new stiches Weather was sewing in.

"You were lead by a nymph into the Scares where you were attacked, and luckily i was there and i got you back to the dug out." Weather replied.

"What about the others?! Bard, Anneliese, and Serena?"

"We are fine!" Serena said as she walked over to where Eric was laying. "A nymph that disguised itself to look like you lead us into the Scares pit! We were all attacked, Annliese and Bard not quite so much. We are all fine."

"Those scars on your face.. did those plants did that to you?" Eric asked.

Scars? On my face? Serena hadn't even looked in a year in the past week, much less today. She ran over to a small piece of mirror and saw all these smal white scars that covered one side of her face. She gasped.

"The vines got a hold of your face, when you hit your head leaving an open wound. They would have attacked your brain if we hadn't gotten there on time."

"These scars will go away won't they?" Serena said checking herself for any new scars she seemed to miss.

"No, scars that from the Scares, stay forever. Thats how the Scares got their name. I'm sorry to say but you seem to have a lot of them. Especially on your back, leg, and face." Jareth said melancholy.

Forever scared. These scars will be a constant reminder of what had happen to all these people. Because of my urge of this peregrination. Serena thought blaming herself. Weather came up to her saying, "Don't worry though! They will fade away on you eventually, leaving just tiny lines!" Trying to cheer her up.

"It's not me, it's them now they are scare too!"

"Serena," Eric started as he tried sitting up once more. "it's okay! Really! Besides the scars make me look more dangerous don't you think?" He continued showing off his arms, where large white scars stood out amongst his tan skin.

"I shouldn't have forced ya'll to come with me!" Serena said her face turning as white as the fading scars on her face.

"You didn't force us!" Bard said butting in.

"We came on out own will, because you know I wouldn't have come if I didn't want too." Anneliese said. "And honestly, Serena, in the beginning I was coming only because of me because my father had me betrothed to an old duke and I didn't want to marry him, so I came along on this journey to get away from it all. I think we all did, and we would have never thought about coming if you hadn't came in and made it happen." She said finishing.

Serena sat down on her cot thinking about what has all been said. Then replied, "As soon as everyone has recovered fully we shall set off again, no matter what sorts of carnivorous plants we come upon." Serena said laughing at the thought of being eaten by a plant.

"And I," The pixie like voice jumped in, "am coming with you! What if you guys DO get into another sticky situation like that? Who is going to get you out other than me? I know these woods better than anybody (except Jareth of course) and have lived here for 2000 years!"

Serena started to object, but new it was no use. Who has ever been able to change a pixies mind?