DC was pretty sexy, but i dont feel like posting a rundown on that now. i have until feb17 to make up my spanish semifinal, and i dont need to take gov immediately. if theres anything i learned this year it's the fact that skipping semifinals week is pretty bitchin. on the flipside, in choir we have moved onto singing in german, as though cuban folksongs werent enough. but my last 37 posts have been on school, so im going to skillfully transition to another subject. senior retreat. it was pretty awesome, maybe not lifechanging in the traditional sense of Bam-enlightenment, but lifechanging in the sense that everything is subtly lifechanging, and then some. the school decided that it loved us and decided to get us pimp buses to ride in to the site of retreaticity, pimp buses from hell that is. buses with bathrooms should be banned from modernized societies, and the only other difference separating these 'better' buses from normal buses was the fact that there was carpet, on the ceiling. so we're rolling along and we take about an hour to get to the hills where the site is, and bam. our buses are too wide to get to get up the path. so the people with authority decided to have this one minibus take some people up the hill, come back down, load people, shift and repeat, except each trip took 30 mins so the busdrivers decided that life is overrated to drove up the hill, which was pretty much madstorm of delight except for the parts where we almost flipped off and plummeted into the ocean. luckily enough my bus driver was king of bus drivers and actually made it to the camp without killing anyone, even though he was driving backwards for awhile at one point. so we're at this campsite, this jewish campsite, and we find out that the buildings had for the most part burned down, and that all that was left were the living quarters, so pretty much everything involving a building took place in one of two flamingly large tents. and now ill tell the rest of my senior retreat tale through pictures. many photos courtesy of cousin paul

it's been two months of wild abandon.