Not all Treasure is Silver & Gold

EL SALVADOR.

2008-05-11T17:05:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends!
I am leaving tonight for El Salvador to do some relief work with my dad.
We will be visiting kids in impoverished areas with a group called compassion international. They will be helping to sponsor my dad's book tour this summer and are hoping that in return he will help to gain 100 new people to sponsor children in third world. So, they thought that he should see first hand what it is like in a poor country like that, dad asked if I could come along, they said yes, we got a passport and all of the required shots and immunizations, a plane ticket and we're set. This is a big trip for me (even though it isn't long, I'll be back on Friday) because it is my first time ever out of the USA, I am a little bit nervous but mostly I am very excited. I'll have a chance to help kids in another country, I'll get to meet a lot of people, I'll get to practice my spanish and learn a lot about the culture in El Salvador.
I promise to bring back lots of stories of my adventures!

Wish me luck!

HaileyBug

More Writing by Me.

2008-05-09T12:10:00.000-07:00

This is a poem I wrote at my Nature class, enjoy. . .

What is this teaching me?
By Hailey Joy Scandrette

Trees, Silence,
The grass, Patience,
The leaves, Change,
The birds, Freedom,
Roots, Process,
The earth, Trust,
Flowers, Beauty,
The winds, Grace,
The sun, Warmth,
The clouds, Mystery,
Bumblebees, Confidence,
My friends, Loyalty,
People, Love,
My life, Wonder.

PS. I wrote "bumblebees, confidence," because I was thinking about how scientifically bumblebees can't fly, but the bee doesn't care so it goes right on flying anyway. That is, in my opinion, a wonderful example of true confidence!

Advice.

2008-05-09T12:04:00.000-07:00

DOs and DON’Ts about girls and relating to girls for boys.
By Girls (DUH)

I am quite sure that many boys have often wondered what girls actually do and don’t want you to do, and believe me we often wish to tell you! Well this is a short list of things that many girls of my acquaintance really would prefer that guys didn’t do, and don’t say that none of these things happen, I have seen or had all of these offences occur in my presence at least once. I also realize that there are some girls who wouldn’t be offended be these actions, but it is always better to be cautious and polite until you know someone, so if you feel you know the girl well enough to judge for yourself then by all means do what you think best, but really I have yet to meet a girl who thinks that there is anything wrong with a guy acting gentlemanly.
So without further adieu, here is a list of don’ts for you all to take into consideration.

DON’T . . .

1. Treat her like an object. We HATE this!

2. Touch a girl's chest. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!!! (I cannot stress this enough.) Even if it was an accident, it is better to apologize and be awkward then to pretend you didn’t notice/it ever happened. (Also, have you ever been playing a physical game like tag and had a girl suddenly snapped at you while playing? Just watch where you tag/push/hit. There is a reason she's annoyed.)

3. Tell her that she would look good in a bikini/shimmying/other such thing. If she wants to display her body she can do so without you telling her to.

4. Point out any physical imperfections, particularly those having to do with acne or curves. This is just plain rude.

5. Ask her about her weight. It may be a sensitive subject, deservingly or not.

6. Compare her to other girls. No matter what you could end up putting someone down or making someone feel bad and that is just mean.

7.Make references to the fact she is over/under developed.

8. Flirt with her unless she is flirting with you/other guys in the area. Again, if she wants to do such things she’ll start it. Playful teasing, however, is O.K., but keep it PG!

9. Make overly pervy or off-color comments and jokes. This makes some girls (not all, but some) uncomfortable.

10. Talk about male puberty around her. We really don't want or need to know.

Now we really aren’t all that hard to please so to help you understand us even better here is a short list of things that we really do like and that we may even find flattering. (Though please do remember, everything in moderation . . . otherwise you could just end up acting rather strange.)

DO . . .

1. Have conversations with her, because, if you haven’t noticed we like to talk. Books, movies, music and interests are all good starting topics.

2. Compliment her on things like a poem she wrote, a medal she won or any other kind of achievement that deserves to be celebrated. Especially if she is really excited about it.

3. Respect her boundaries. This means listen to her when she asks you to stop doing something, and don’t do things that you know could make her uncomfortable.

4. Do little favors for her. It is, of course always nice when someone decides to be a little extra nice to you for no reason or benefit to him or herself. Try not to over do it though, that might weird her out a bit.

5. Listen to her. We like to talk and so obviously we like to be listened to and whether we’re telling a story or expressing our opinions it is always nice when someone takes the time to listen to us. And who knows you might even end up understanding us a little more (or at least appreciating the fact that we are so complex that you will never understand us, one of the two☺).

I know I have applied this list mainly to girls but I think that many of these things should be taken into consideration when dealing with other people in general. Then maybe we’d all understand each other a little more, and that could go a long ways . . .

Hallo!

2008-04-30T21:28:00.000-07:00

Hi my dear readers, not that anyone actually reads this any more but I don't care so, yeah, Whatever!
Just so you all know I AM still alive, I did not vanish from the face of the earth I am merely a flakey blogger! Hehe.

I have been very very busy lately, I am in a musical performance of 'Narnia' (an adaptation of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe') at the marsh theatre. I am enjoying it a lot though I am very nervous because our show opens on Saturday!!
I know, it is so exciting!
Wish me lots of luck!

:)

So Sorry. . .

2007-11-23T12:17:00.000-08:00

Sorry that I haven't written much lately! Life has been rather busy since classes started up ect.

Oh right. Happy Thanksgiving! And happy Halloween! and just in case I do not write untill then Merry Christmas!

I'll TRY to write more soon!

d;B

(that is a rabbit by the way)
(It has its tounge out)
(and it's winking)

:)

sigh

2007-09-17T14:36:00.000-07:00

Alas I did not get a part in the show. I did get a call back, so I spent 3 hrs at the theater in pcifica. But I didn't get in to the show. It was the kind of place where if you have taken classes there before you are bound to get a part but if you are new even if you have been taking classes other places for ages you hardly stand a chance. It seemed to me like they judged by resumes not talent. :( I am quite disapointed.
Oh well. . . *SIGH* there is always another time.

I am planning on being in Dickin's Faire and that should be fun. . .

*sigh*

Ooh! GUESS WHAT!!

2007-09-13T14:54:00.000-07:00

I almost forgot, I finally got a copy of the movie I was in when I was nine!
It is an independent film called "eyes of a child" I received it on Aug. 28 and I just remembered to write about it!
It is SO funny to watch! I love showing it to my friends!

YAY!

WISH ME LUCK!!!

2007-09-13T14:43:00.000-07:00

My audition for 'Oliver!' is at 6:00 tomorrow night!
Eeek! I am very nervous! I try not to get my hopes up but. . . I want to get in SO badly!
This would be SO SO SO SO SO SO SO fun!

I really really really REALLY hope I make it! Call backs are saturday from 9:00-12:00!

WISH ME LOADS OF LUCK!!!
(I'll be needing it!)

Long time no write!

2007-09-10T15:29:00.000-07:00

First of all we're back from MN which was quite fun, though I must admit I was sure ready to be home when that time finally came! I hadn't slept in my bed more than twice in the month preceding our return home. That was two weeks ago.
I still am quite glad to be home!

We started school last week, I am the top of my class! I am the example student, as well as the chief mischief maker and the teacher's pet. . . Oh did I mention, I am the ONLY student in my class! (I am homeschooled :) So far 8th grade isn't much different than 7th, except it sounds SO much older!

On Friday I'll be auditioning for an 'all youth' production of 'Oliver' at spindrift theater in pacifica. I am so nervous, mostly because I'll have to sing with an accompanist in front of the director and 10 kids i don't know who are auditioning in the same time slot! Wish me LOADS of luck! (I'll be needing it!)

I am so sore! Yesterday i got violently mauled by a wave! It was SO scary! The wave held me under for almost a minute! OW!

I'll write more soon.

:)

My Sweet Shoes!

2007-08-06T12:30:00.000-07:00

Aren't my new shoes so cool?! I love'em!

CUTE!

2007-08-06T12:14:00.000-07:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE CAMP OUT. . . again!

2007-08-06T12:08:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter 7 is SO good! I won't say anymore, I don't want to let anything slip.

The camp out was amazing! Jonahmygosh! (You'd get it if you'd been there.) We went rock climbing, swimming, We had hot coco theatre, marmallow wars. . . *sigh* it was so so so so so so so so so so so so so FUN!!! I miss it a lot! I'd write all about it but, I type so slowly, it would take forever!

:)

The Dance Thingy. . .

2007-07-17T14:23:00.000-07:00

The dancewas really fun!
They taught some quite delightful dances and the caller was from England!
I went with my friens Eva and Sara and we had a great time!

Only 5 days 'till the camping trip!
I'll write more soon!

-Hailey

I AM CURRENTLY HYPERVENTHILATING CUZ I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!

2007-07-12T18:37:00.000-07:00

OMGGM!! (oh my goodness gracious me!)

THERE IS A PRIDE AND PREJUDICE DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT AND I MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO!!!
THAT WOULD BE SOOO FUN!!

We have to see if it would work for my dad since friday nights are date night for him and mom, but, you know, he can't deny me this!!!

I WANT TO GO SOOO VERY MUCH!!
IT WOULD BE SOO FUN TO LEARN ALL THOSE DANCES AND STUFF!!
AHHHH! I THINK I'M GONNA EXPLODE UNDER ALL THIS EXCITEMENT AND SUSPENSE!!!

I CAN'T WAIT!! (that is if I am going). . . eeeeeeeeek! *sqealing and manic giggling is heard*

I sound like Kitty or Lydia Bennet or something! Oh well!

Ooooh! I so hope I'm going! I so hope I'm going! I so hope I'm going. . . .(I am trying to hope it into reality!!)
eeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaoooooooh! I am crossing my fingers so hard that it is being hard to type!

AAAAH!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!! Diaaaah!

I should go now or I might hit the computer while I am jumping up and down!

WISH ME LUCK!! YAY!!

AHHHHHHHHH! TOO MUCH SUSPENSE!!! I. . . AM. . . GONNA. . . SPONTANEOUSLY. . . COMBUST. . . ANY. . . SECOND!!!!!!

BOOM! Oh there went my sanity!

Pretty Bag

2007-07-11T21:01:00.000-07:00

I made my friend Mattea a bag for her birthday. . . TAA DAA!
Isn't it beautiful?

Camp out and Harry Potter!

2007-07-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

I am very excited about this camp that Noah, Jonah, and I will be going to on the 23rd!
I cannot wait! Noah and Jonah went last year but I was at Shakespeare camp. It sounds really fun! It is organized by the Riekes center, same place that does Nature Studies. Our instructors from NS will be the instuctors for the camp out as well.
It will be so fun!

Also I cannot wait to see Harry Potter 5 or to read Harry Potter 7! Though I'll be leaving 2 days after the book comes out and anyone who knows me knows I do not read that fast at all!

My friend Quinn wrote from her camp today, it was very nice to hear from her.

I do not know what else to write. . .

HI!

2007-07-03T17:16:00.000-07:00

Halloo! I feel like being random!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I like PIE!
I miss my friends who are not here!!
LALALALALALALALALA!
DOO DOOO DEE DOO DEE DOO DAA!
I miss Pie!
I feel like singing!

LAAAAA! LAAAAA! LOOO! LEE!

Sorry about my randomness!
I am actually trying to figure something out but it is not working!!
UHG!

I'll write again soon!

HaileyBug

Shakespeare Camp is over. . .

2007-07-03T14:46:00.000-07:00

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Our performance on Friday went very well (I think) the mistakes that we did make were easely covered up. Our friend who also had a daughter at camp got the perfpormance on film. I am very glad that she did 'cause many of my friends had wanted to come but couldn't. I really enjoyed Shakespeare camp this year, ( last year really wasn't so great) I made many friends who I hope to stay in contact with for a while, I haven't been able to say that about the people who I've met there other years.

I am so excited 'cause we will finally be getting a copy of the movie I was in when I was nine sometime in the next 2 weeks! YAY! There are so many of my friends and family who never got to come to a film festival or any other showings of it and therefor they've never seen it! It is so funny to watch my little nine year old self playing a tottal brat! Partly because I am not a brat (at least I really hope I am not a brat) and I was deffinetely not one at age nine. And partly becuase I was only nine! I was still a little kid! My director had people come up to her and ask where she found such horrid girls to play those mean bratty rolls. she would have to explain that we weren't really like that at all! I guess that means we did our job well!
I cannot wait to show it to my friends! They will laugh so hard!
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A Story I Wrote. . .

2007-06-25T21:39:00.001-07:00

A Friend of Mine
.
By Hailey Joy Scandrette

“Ella!” A loud shriek broke the quiet of my afternoon as I walked along the stream.
“Ella!” The voice echoed through the patch of woods where I stood, up from the edge of the town where stands our house. I knew it was my little sister calling me. I knew I should go help Mama make dinner. I knew, but I didn’t want to leave my sanctuary by the stream.
“Ella.” Now, I also knew that Annie, my nine-year-old sister, was right behind me.
“Ella! Your hem is covered in mud. Mama already has enough laundry to deal with! And-“
“What is it, Annie?” I asked, cutting her off.
“Mama wants you to help make dinner,” she stated primly.
“What about you?” I asked.
“Mama wants me to work on my embroidery. Come on, she’s been waiting for you for ages.” She had already started walking back toward our house, lifting her skirts delicately. I ran back to our house. Mama was waiting at the door.
“Eleanor Francis Lockwood!” she began. I knew it was coming. “How on earth did you get so filthy? Where have you been? Go wash up quick and help me. Dinner should’ve been ready half an hour ago,” and with a tremendous sigh, “Why can’t you be more lady-like?”
Two days passed before I could go back to my favorite little patch of forest by the stream. On Friday afternoon I seized my chance. Annie was visiting a friend. Margaret, my five-year-old sister, and my twin two-year-old brothers were napping. Mama was having tea with Auntie Francis. I crept out our back door and ran up into the woods.
Climbing my favorite tree, I looked down at a small path I’d worn by coming up here so often. I discovered this haven five years ago when I was eight. I came up here whenever I felt happy, unhappy, lonely, afraid, or just bored. It was a place all my own. At least, so I thought. Lost in my thoughts, I hadn’t noticed a tall, dark-haired boy around my age meandering up my trail. His voice shook me from my reverie.
“Hey, you!” he called. “What on earth are you doing up there?”
I looked down at him, startled, and then said calmly, “I am climbing this tree.”
“Girls don’t climb trees!” he said incredulously.
“I’m a girl,” I said, hopping down, “and, as you see, I have just climbed that tree. So, obviously girls do climb trees.” I grinned at him and his lips twitched. “I am Ella Lockwood,” I said, curtseying clumsily. “What’s your name?”
“Nathaniel Martin,” he replied, “but most everyone calls me Nat.”
“Where do you live, Nat?”
“Over there,” he answered, pointing to our town. “We go to the same school, you know.”
“Oh, yes.” I recalled the scrawny boy who sat in the back of the classroom last spring. He’d grown nearly a head taller since then. “Well,” I said into the awkward silence. “Why did you come here?” I demanded abruptly. “Are there no other boys you could be playing with?”
“They’ve all moved this summer,” he stated forlornly, “to some new farming country or other.”
“Oh,” I said, feeling suddenly very sorry for him. I could tell he was even more lonely than I. “Hey!” I said, brightening up, “Why don’t I show you the salamanders, the squirrel’s hole or the owl’s nest? We could go wading in the creek or we could catch some grasshoppers.”
He looked up and smiled. “I’d like that,” he said happily.
At that moment, “Ella!” It was Margaret’s voice this time.
“Oh, no,” I breathed. “Sorry, Nat, Mama must want me for something. I’ll show you the owl’s nest tomorrow, okay?”
“Okay,” he sighed, “I’ll be here.”
“Bye,” I called over my shoulder as I tore back to my house.
I finished all my chores extra quickly the next morning. “Where are you going?” Mama called as I tore out the door.
“I’ll be back to help with dinner,” I yelled. Nat was waiting by my tree, his eyes sparkling and expectant.
“So,” he asked, “what first?” I showed him everything from the fuzzy grey owlets to the ripe blackberry patch and the smooth skipping stones.
“You know,” he said as we waded in the stream, “you are certainly the oddest girl I’ve ever met.”
“I know. Mama says I should be more lady like.” I laughed and splashed him.
“I disagree,” he said laughing and soaking wet.
“You do?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he said, grinning. Pretty soon I was soaked, too.
“We better stop,” I giggled. “Mama will be angry if I come home dripping wet.” We got out and dried ourselves best we could. The rest of the afternoon was one of the most wonderful I have yet spent. Although, one of my bootlaces broke while I was racing Nat to the tree. (I won.) One of my short blonde braids came undone while I climbed into the tree. My dress ripped in two places as I climbed down. (I hope to mend it before Mama sees.) And I stained my apron while eating juicy blackberries. I hoped to sneak into our back door and change quickly without Mama noticing.
“Bye, Nat,” I called, running home, “see you tomorrow.”
He waved, grinning. I pushed open the back door. Unfortunately, there sat Annie, playing dolls.
“Ella!” she yelled, “What did you—” I clapped my hand over her mouth, but too late.
“Eleanor!” It was Mama’s voice now. I looked up guiltily. Mama looked livid. The storming rants about my dirty clothes, my muddy face and hands, my twiggy hair, and the multiple rips and stains on my dress seemed to last forever. When it was over, I wasn’t allowed to leave the house, except for church, for a week.
On Thursday night there was a knock on our front door. Papa was out to dinner, I was confined to my room, so Mama answered the door, “Hello,” said Mama
“Hello ma’am,” replied a polite voice. It was Nat. I listened. “Is Ella home?” When Mama said nothing he added, “She’s a friend of mine.”
A friend of mine. . . I had never been referred to as a friend of anybody’s before. None of the other girls ever wanted to be associated with me, fearing that their mothers would not approve. I had been the friendless oddball. I hadn’t really cared until I was about eleven and then how I had longed for a best friend, just like everyone else. I felt a warmth spread through me, Nat considered me his friend!
“Um” said Mama, “She’s busy right now.”
“Oh.” Said Nat I could hear the disappointment in his voice. “ Alright then. Good evening ma’am.
“Good evening”
I heard the door close. He’d gone.
“Mama,” I called “Why didn’t you invite him in?”
She was standing in the doorway to Annie and I’s bedroom.
“ I don’t want you playing with that boy anymore. He’s the one who gets you into all this trouble. Your dress would be clean and mended if it weren’t fore him! Besides it is improper.”
“I don’t see anything improper about it! And he didn’t get me into any trouble at all! None of this is his fault!” I yelled. Mama had already left shutting our door behind her.
I threw myself onto my bed. Mama thought everything was Nat’s fault, she’d never allow me into the forest alone again, she’d never even let me out side alone again! This was horrible. I fell asleep and woke again still thinking. I’d had a real friend for two days. Now I didn’t know if I’d be allowed to see him ever again! I had to do something! So, I did.
I climbed from my bed, scribbled a quick note to Nat, and listened. No one else was awake. I looked over at Annie’s bed. She didn’t stir. I crept down the stairs, out the door and out towards the trees. I began to run. I don’t know why. The situation seemed desperate. Any moment Annie could wake up to use the outhouse and realize that I was gone. I’d be in such trouble, but I had to contact Nat.
Suddenly, I lost my footing, tripped over the hem of my dress and, falling, hit my head on a tree branch. I tried to get up but everything went dark, even the stars, and I sank into a heap on the ground. I am told that Mama woke up at 5:00, realized I was gone and woke Papa at once. Papa gathered a search party, but they didn’t come to the forest.
Nat, however, hearing the news, did. It was him who woke me.
“Ella,” I heard as though from the opposite end of a tunnel. “Ella,” I heard my name louder this time. Nat was shaking me. “Ella, everyone is looking for you. Your family is in hysterics and you’ve been out cold for hours.”
“Nat?” I said, bewildered. Then it all came rushing back to me. “Oh, Nat,” I said, “Mama thinks that you—“
“Come on, Ella. Your Mama thinks that you’re dead. Can you walk?”
“I don’t know,” I replied, trying gingerly to stand up. “Ow!”
“You may have broken your ankle. Here, lean on my shoulder.” Clumsily, we made our way back to my house. Nat, still supporting me, knocked on the door.
My mother opened it and cried, “Ella, where have you been? What were you—oh, that doesn’t matter now. You’re safe.”
“I’m sorry, Mama,” I whimpered. “I know I shouldn’t have.” We were in each other’s arms.
“Say no more about it,” she said, holding me at arms length. “Are you badly hurt?”
“Just my ankle. Nat said he thought it might be broken.”
Mama looked at Nat. “Oh, dear! Thank you so much! You found her, didn’t you. Dear me! How can I ever thank you enough?”
“We should get someone to look at her ankle, Ma’am,” he said awkwardly.
“Dear me, yes!” Mama said quickly, her face tear stained and relieved. While Nate ran to get the doctor, she propped me up in bed and very soon I fell asleep.
Months later, after all was healed and mended, my sisters would demand to hear the story over and over. One of these many times, I broke away and ran to the forest. There stood Nat under the very tree where we first met five months ago. So much has changed since then. Mama has decided that, in my own time and in my own way, I will eventually become a lady—a strong-willed, independent lady, but a lady nonetheless.
A slightly more spunky Annie can be seen frequently walking through the forest, though never wading in the creek. Nat has continued to grow, and I feel he will never stop. None of his old friends has moved back, but he doesn’t seem to mind. And I have a friend. As we walk up the stream, laughing and talking and splashing, I realize just how lucky I am.

The End

Sorry (if anyone still reads this) that I haven't written for. . . FOREVER!

2007-06-25T20:37:00.000-07:00

HI!
I haven't written for SOOOO long!
Sorry!!
I hope someone checks this someday to see that I have not wholey givin up on blogging!
I am at Shakespeare camp again this week and I was last week.
It is very fun! We are doing Comedy of Errors, this year, which in my opinion is absolutely hilarious!
The group of kids is really fun this year (they aren't always). I've met some great people who I hope to stay in touch with.
So. . . YEAH! Shakespeare Camp is totally awesome this year!

Papa finished the book (Soul Graffiti)! (Woohoo!!)
The bathroom is FINALLY getting finished!

Noah, our best friend, Jonah and I are going on a sleep away camp with reikes center on July 23. I CONNOT WAIT!!
It will be SOOO fun!!

I promise I will try and blog more often now that Papa has is finished with the book (Woohoo!!) and now that we have a new computer that only me, mom and the boys (my brothers) use.

I'll write more soon (tell me someone if anyone is reading this!)

:)

-Hailey

Picture of Moi!

2006-09-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

ACT :(

2006-09-30T14:05:00.000-07:00

The bad news is ACT had no more financial aid to offer, so i won't be going.

The good news is it's the nature studies campout in two weeks!
Also our good friends Damon and Alice are getting married in about a week!

AND i'm going to Great America (which is an amusement park) with my best friend, Veronica on the 8th of October!

So over all there is much more good news than bad!

I'll write again soon!

-HaileyBug

ACT!

2006-08-27T14:23:00.000-07:00

Hi!
Guess what!
I'm applying for a class at ACT (American Conservatory Theater) I hope I get in!

Wish me luck!

Gotta go!
Hailey

Cousins + Palm Springs

2006-08-20T14:40:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!
Sorry I didn't write anything for so long! I was away on vacatoin in Palm Springs!
I think my favorite things we did were, going to the $1 theater (of course we went on half price day) to see "Over the hedge" it was really really funny!
I also enjoyed going to a really amazing oasis, it actually had a running and cold creek!
It was awesome we went swimming (of course) 'cause you know Palm Springs is in the middle of the dessert so the temp was somewhere around 107!
those were my favorite parts of the trip!

Then we got home on Thursday night and unpacked and stuff on Friday. On Saturday we went to a wedding for our Friends Mick and Elizabith, it was a really fun wedding!

That night my cousins arrived (my cousins are 2, 4 & 6, really fun ages)!
The girls slept in my room (by their request)and their brother slept in my brother's room. It was like having little sisters (which i have always wanted)!
This morning all of us girls were playing 'house' and thier little brother came in and started playing to (but he is so little and he was really tired so he just lay his head on my shulder and called me 'mama', it was so cute!)

Oh gotta go, Judah is here!

camp!

2006-08-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

Hi all! I am done with camp!
It was REALLY fun!
I did the most AWESOME play called "The Tempest"!
It was a musical and it was REALLY FUNNY! We have never done a musical before so . . . WE . . . ARE . . . ORIGIONAL! Shakespeare camp is so coo, and I will miss it . . . but it is over now.*sigh* *oooo**** I **** Like *** stars
See ya!

Three!!!

2006-07-21T15:58:00.000-07:00

It is only three days 'till Shakespeare Camp!
I may not write for a while 'cause I'll be 'you know where' :)
But I'll tell you when I know what play i'm doing!
I'm so nervous and excited (mostly excited)! Wish me luck!
Bye!
Hailey

Amost to the single digets!

2006-07-14T14:56:00.000-07:00

Only 10 days 'till... well... 'you-know-what'. 10! Just 10! Tomorrow it'll be 9 days, on Monday it'll be a week! And... and... and so on and so forth!
Ok, ok I'll stop!
On Wensday we washed the car- and each other 'cause mom started a water fight- it was pretty fun actually! We were soaked by the end of it all- and thankfully the car was too-!

Today we went Over and played with Judah. Who's three, adorable and use to live in our downstiars unit, with her parents of course! It was pretty fun!

I'm dying- not literaly or I wouldn't be able to type- to see 'Pirates of the Caribbean' 2, but I must wait for Isabel!
I know many of you will have given up reading my Blog cuase it is a little too much about Shakespeare camp, I don't blame you! But hopefully you'll start reading it again in the fall when stuff is hapening, other than car washing, playing with friends and Shakespeare camp! :)

I'll write more soon!
-Hailey
(written with my fingers), Hasiley (written with my big toe), Haioley (written with my nose) and Hail,msesy (written with my lower lip:)

Less than 2 weeks!

2006-07-11T12:14:00.001-07:00

Less than 2 weeks 'till 'you know what' (Shakespeare camp)!!!
As you know I'm dying!!!
Waaaaaah! 13 days is still too long!!!

Ok, ok, I'll try and contain myself...

Um... Oh! Yeah! I'm writing a play right now! I don't know what it'll be called yet. Well how could I? I've only written 3 scenes! But I shall go all the way with this one! There are only 6 other people in it other than me, so the cast won't be hard to manage, and that's what I always have the most truble with! So, often I'll give up, but not this time. I'm writing the play myself so it wont be too long, too short, too complicated or too "boys are the heros and girls are princesses", no! It is going too be the kind of play I would go see!
I'm begining to get really excited now!

But not so excited I'll forget Shakespeare camp! :)

bye (for now)
Hailey

Dreaming...17 days...no... too long... can't wait... at all!

2006-07-07T15:22:00.000-07:00

I know you're probably totally sick of hearing about SHAKESPEARE CAMP! So in this posting I won't write about it at all! I won't tell you that I had the weirdest dream about it last night, nor will I tell you it is only 17 days 'till it starts, I wont even confide in you how much I'm dying to know what play we're doing... Oops! Sorry!

Let's see ah... right something totally un-shakespeare camp related... er my foot hurts, it has a really bad bruse! Um I'm hungry... I like pie. Ooh! My mom makes the best Toll-house pie I've ever had!
Oh 'Pirates of the Caribbean' 2 came out at midnight last night!

Sorry if nothing I've been writing has been very intresting! That is what I hate about summer! My dad is writing a book so we can't go on vacation 'till August, right after all my friends get home! And there are no classes or activties to keep me entertained except for that thing that camp wich I said I wouldn't mentoin!

Oh! 4th of july! It was so noisy! I had a really hard time sleeping... but that might have partly been the fact I was having a sleepover :) no honestly we stopped talking after mom told us to! And it was loud! People in our naighborhood enjoy setting off illeagle fire works and those are the loudest!

Better go now!
Hailey

Only18 days!!!

2006-07-06T18:28:00.000-07:00

Only 18 days 'till SHAKESPEARECAMP!!! I cannot wait! But you alredy know that don't ya? So what can I tell you that you don't know? Ah ha! We were at a friends' house today and they had the cutest kittens! I love kittens! But my dad is allergic so...
i'll write more soon!

24!

2006-06-30T16:34:00.000-07:00

Still 24 days 'till Shakespeare camp! Too long!
I am dying to know what play we're gonna do!
Here is a picture of my friend Isabel at Shakespeare camp last year!
We performed 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'! It was so fun!
I played the part of 'Puck' who is servent to the fairie king 'Oberon' and a trickster:)!
My friend played 'Helena' who is in love with a total... well, idiot!
I hope we do 'Twelfth Night! It is hilarious! I read it with some of my friends!
I hope we don't do a tragedy. Comedies rule!

25! +swimming!

2006-06-29T20:24:00.000-07:00

25 days 'till SHAKESPEARE CAMP!!!
Today we went swimming at a lake. The weather was fantastic! The water was cool but not cold!
And I had a friend along! So it was perfect, well almost... I wasn't at SHAKESPEARE CAMP so... it was not totally perfect! By the way SHAKESPEARE CAMP is only one of my favorite activities the other ones are hanging out with my friends and family, and NATURE STUDIES! which is out for summer :( too bad! it is so fun! One of our ...well, I guess you'd call them instructors, but that is not what they call them selves, sometimes we just call them our wackoes in chief or our nature nerds in chief! Anyway, one of them (the one who's been there the longest) left at the end of last year, we were all very sad to see him go!

The name 'nature studies' makes people think we spend the time there memorizing plants and animals or something. I mean it is great if we do but mostly we learn awareness skills which come in handy anywhere! We also learn tracking and wilderness survival skills. I'll write more about it when it starts up again.

I'll write more soon. --Hailey

26!

2006-06-28T10:57:00.000-07:00

26 days 'till SHAKESPEARE CAMP!!!
there is no way i can wait! it seems such a long time 26 days, or something like 620 hours or 37405 minutes or 2247300 seconds! too long!

ok i am fine now....i can not wait!!!

Yay!

2006-06-27T19:32:00.000-07:00

well i am glad to see poeple are enjoying (or at least reading) my Blog!
i'll have some new pictures soon! i do not have oison poak, i mean poison oak!
yay!

only 27 days 'till the first day of SHAKESPEARE CAMP!!!
i can not wait... at all!

July!

2006-06-25T15:48:00.000-07:00

Hi! July is gonna be a very exciting month for me!
#1
I can not wait 'till july 7th! That is because that is when "Pirates of the Carribean"#2 comes out! I'm not going to see it 'till after the 15th though 'cause my friend who is taking me will be on vacation! My brother Noah & I are both very excited about it! Right after we saw the first we went through a total pirate phase! As you can see he even had a pirate b-day party! He actually wore a costume!
I am the one who always does but he does not really like to! The party was real fun!

#2
SHAKESPEARE CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starts on the 24th!!!!!!I am sooooooo excited!!!!!
Can you tell? WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHAKESPEARE CAMP rocks!!!

I am so ecited it is too much to think about... so I won't!
BYE!

WARNING: CONTAINS RANDOM-COMENTS! SUCH AS: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

2006-06-23T21:39:00.000-07:00

Hi! what's up doc? What would you like me to write about? What would you like to know about me? Would you like to read something I have written?

Itchy...scratchy....itchy....scratchy...must...itch...must...scratch. I think I have poison oak!

Caving!

2006-06-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

HI everyone who bothers reading this since you most likely alread know moi!
Before you read this next paragragh i want you to know i'm... not... ah...i'm not very good at spelling!

Last week we (my family & our friends & some of their friends) went to Lava Beds!
We went spelunking ( a fancy word for caving) lots! It was fantastic! Our friends, my brother Noah & i, went into the most difficult and longest mapped cave "catacombs"!
It was really fun but really hard! There were places where we had to belly crawl 'cause
the ceiling was only 10 inches high! Cool huh?

gotta go!

Hi! i'm Hailey!

2006-06-14T17:04:00.000-07:00

well, i don't really know what i want to tell you allabout myself, where should i start?

this is an (ok i guess) picture of moi!
that was taken (last December) right after the first showing of the independent film i was in when i was nine!
I love acting! I would love to be in many more movies! The title of my blog is even a quot from one of my favoerite movies ("Pirites of the Carribean")!I have a very good memory for that kind of thing-- book or movie!

Speaking of books i love reading! Some of my favorite books are "the two princesses of Bamarre", "the thief loard", "Ella enchanted" ( the book not movie, which i hated!)
and...ah...there are so many others i couldn't possibly type them all (without my fingers falling off, that is!)
I also enjoy singing and my very good friend and i, recently wrote our first song! It turned out unexpectedly well, considering it was our first!

This summer i am excited to be going to Shakespeare camp! I went for my first time last year and it was fantastic! I can't wait:)
Just to warn you, i love all things funny as well as being funny! So if you despise funnyness i would advise reading a more serious blog! Yet if you are one of those rare (not) people who love to giggle and laugh, then stay!
I shall write more soon as i can!