Restaurants in Dallas!

My mom is a very good cook so usually we just eat dinner at home but occasionally we get to go out to eat and these are a few of my favorite restaurants:

Shin Sei(possibly misspelled)
This is one of the most amazing asian restaurants that I have ever been too! They have sushi and other traditional asian food YUM. I tend to get shrimp tempura rolls at restaurants if it is on the menu and their shrimp tempura rolls are amazing! They also have very good fried rice.

Mango Thai
Another of my favorites this is a more casual environment than Shin Sei but equally delicious! They work mango into a lot of their dishes which is one of my favorite fruits so I really like this! The citrus duck is absolutely wonderful and so is the tempura green tea ice cream.

The Mint
Another asian restaurant that I love! It's the small version of Asian Mint which tends to be much busier and harder to get a table at. The entire inside is blue which is very cool. I recommend getting the peppermint water(its very refreshing), orange chicken, fried rice(best in Dallas in my opinion), and green tea ice cream cake.

Toulouse
This is a very good French restaurant in HP. It really looks like a real French bistro! I frequently get french onion soup and the pomme frites but if we go there for Sunday brunch I get the eggs benedict. The lemonade there is also very good!

HP pharmacy
This is an old fashioned soda fountain type lunch place. Its very casual but I have yet to have a better grilled cheese or vanilla milkshake than available here. They also have root beer floats and chocolate sodas that are really good!

Pass It On

I think the Pass It on ceremony is a wonderful school tradition! In case you don't know what pass it on is, a senior lights a candle and then uses their candle to light an 8th graders candle and then they walk down the isle together. It is supposed to be symbolic of the seniors leaving and the 8th graders moving up to high school and it was especially special for me because my brother passed the flame on to me. I think it is a really original idea that only our school does which is partly what makes it so special!

Summer time!(almost)

I am super excited for this summer! I will be spending a few weeks in Colorado with my family which we do every year which as always will be really fun! I also am going to camp for all of July which will be a very nice escape from the 105 degree weather here in Dallas. Camp is always the highlight of my summer because I can see all of my close friends again for a whole month! I also plan on spending a lot of time by the pool and my goal is to start working out more and possibly joining a yoga or pilates class at the YMCA. Of course I will have to spend a good bit of time doing summer reading, which is to be completed poolside while I enjoy a strawberry smoothie. I have enjoyed this year but as always around this time I become much to anxious for summer! What are your summer plans?

Exams!!!

Exams are easily the most stressful time of the school year for me!I did well on the exams at the end of first semester but I'm worried about these exams because I have so much more information!!! Especially world cultures that exam that I am certain will be the absolute death of me! I really hope I have kept all of my WC tests together!!! This whole weekend I am sure will be spent working on gather my exam study materials... GREAT

This Weekend

I have a really busy weekend! On Saturday I have a full dress rehersal for my ballet performance next weekend, I plan on watching the Kentucky Derby, I may be meeting a friend for lunch, I need to do some shopping for spring clothing and on Sunday I am singing at Church with the cast of Godspell, a musical which I was in at my church a few weeks ago. Sometime this weekend I have to get together all of my exam study materials and I would like to relax for at least an hour this weekend and workout on Sunday so I am clearly very busy this weekend!! Because I have so much to do I have decided not to go to the dance at school on Saturday because a lot of my friends aren't going to go and I am just way to busy!

Kentucky Derby

This Saturday is the Kentucky Derby! It takes place every year on the first Saturday of May. Every year I watch the TV for the two minutes when the fastest horses race eachother. I love seeing what people wear to the Derby. I have always envied their wonderful hats!!! If I were to go to the derby I would wear a Lilly Pulitzer dress and a pretty and extravigant hat!

Busy Day!!!

So today is going to be a very busy day! After school I have to hurry on over to lensCrafters at northpark to pick up my glasses, then while at northpark I am going to pick out some white jeans, I also must find a black top to wear to the Blackout party on Saturday that I am going to wear with my black skirt. Then I am going to ballet for an hour and a half, after that I must scurry home to eat dinner with my family. So I will start my homework around seven thirty which doesn't seem that late but I like to finish my homework early usually so its late for me! Anyways I hope I have enough to time to fit all of that in!

Glasses Update

So I found some glasses yesterday at lensCrafters at Northpark mall. They are cute I guess, well as cute as glasses possibly could be I suppose. They are Ralph Lauren frames and are tortoise shell which looks nice. I am going to pick them up later day but I cant wait to get contact lenses!

Project Update

For our project Annie, Ellie, and I are working on our French page! A French teacher at our school is our client and we are making a page that she can use as a resource and study page for her students!The page contains verb conjugations, verb tense endings, reflexive verbs, common phrases and expressions, situations like shopping in a department store in France, etc...It is a really fun project! Ellie made the logo and it is SO COOL!!! It is a red circle inside of a blue circle and the Eiffel Tower is in the middle! I must say I am very impressed by her amazing logo design skills! Ellie is working on the actual design concept and Annie is getting information on French culture. We have divided the work really well between us!

GLASSES!!!

So all of my life I thought I had amazing eyesight but recently I went to the eye doctor and I have to get glasses!!!!! I'm not thrilled about this...AT ALL! I have yet to find any glasses that I like on me. Seeing that my whole life I have never had glasses I think it will take some getting used to. But I don't like the way glasses look on me so I will most likely end up with contacts. I am going back to the eye doctor to get contacts but I am concerned that I will not like touching my eye. Any ways hopefully I will get used to it!

Ideas for Project!

For web design class we have been assigned to make a webpage for someone at our school other than ourselves. We can do it with a partner so my friend Ellie and I would like to make a page for our French teacher. The page would be a classroom resource page but would not need to be updated. We would have information like a list of common verbs and translations, irregular verb conjugations, verb endings and stems, and maybe some links to helpful websites! We could have a lot of fun with this page and use the colors of the french flag as our color scheme and put whatever else our teacher wants on the webpage! I think this will be a really fun project!

Hero or Villain?(Steve Jobs)

In web design class we watched the movie Pirates of Silicone Valley. It was about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and how they got started in the computer business. I never realized that at first the computer wouldn't be widely accepted because I'm so used to it now. In my opinion Steve Jobs must not be the nicest person! His girlfriend was pregnant and he abandoned her and refused to help support his daughter. He also seemed to think that he was better than everyone at Apple including his friend and co-founder Steve(the other Steve). I think he is a very successful person but I guess this proves that success is frequently powered by someone with an iron fist. I think the computer that Steve jobs created was one of the best inventions that can be used all over the world but I think his personality causes him to fall into the category of a villain!