Right, so this weekend has officially been ruined. First of all, had District Honor Orchestra this weekend. Missed school on Friday- good thing. Had to play violin for at least 6 hours, nearly consecutively, on very uncomfortable chairs while it rained for the first time in ages- bad thing. Then when we were leaving to get back to Apollo, the rain started coming down really hard. We had to run from the auditorium at Moon Valley to where the bus would pick us up. And go figure, we get there and the stupid thing isn’t even there, so we’re standing in the rain, selves and cases getting soaked (my shoes still aren’t dry). Then, when we get back to school, Lynn gave me a ride home. It was murder getting to the car. The puddles were so bad, the place where the lunch area patio ends and parking lot begins, there was this HUGE puddle, around maybe 4 1/2 or 5 feet long, I’m guessing around a foot and a half to two feet deep. I needed to get over it, so I tried to jump. Didn’t want to jump to much, because I was afraid I was going to slip and fall flat on my face in the nasty puddle. Well, I made it about half way, my pants were completely soaked, at least half a foot up them. Then there were puddles all over the parking lot, and when she tossed me the keys, and everything was so slippery, I dropped them. So it took me a couple minutes to get in the car. Then the ride home…the water was really deep everywhere, there’s really bad drainage for some reason. Normally she turns at the park to take me home, but the water was so bad there, we thought it was best to take a street up. But they were all bad, so finally we drove all the way up to Mountain View, near my old elementary school, and turned there. So then, with everything but my shirt soaked (I had my sweatshirt on, so that was soaked), I ran into the house barefoot, because I didn’t want to wear those wet shoes.
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