Well hey there. Long time, no see!
I haven't been able to write this week for a variety of reasons: 1) school 2) school and 3) school. So, you could for sure say that school consumes my life. And I. Don't. Want. It. To. Do. That. Can you just go away, school? Pretty please? Pretty please with sugar on top?
Yeah no. That's not gonna happen. If school went away, that would be illegal. And I don't like being illegal.
But, I digress. You may have noticed the title of this post. It's in French. I like French. The whole world should like French because it's pretty. But what does it mean? Hmmm?
It means "my friends, they are incredible." And they are. I love love love my friends. And because of school, I haven't been able to really hang out with them in forever. But actually. It's making me upset. I need some girl time. I am in dire need of a gossip session. Yeah yeah yeah, gossip shmossip, but it's apart of being a teenage girl.
The fact that I haven't hung out with all my friends since before school started is a depressing statistic. Earlier tonight, I video chatted two of my friends. Oh my. I missed these girls so much. Yes, I see them at school in the hallways, but at school, I'm in school mode. Not friend mode. And I really miss being in friend mode. I miss laying on the couch, eating Italian ice, and watching the Olympics, too.
In eighth grade, my friends and I went to get our pictures professionally taken. I am SO glad we did that. First of all, mostly everyone has braces and it's really fun to look back at our baby eighth-grade-selves. There's one candid picture were we're all on piggy-backs and in the middle of laughing at some forgotten joke. I absolutely adore that picture. It makes me realize really how much I do love my friends.
You know what? I want to go back to eighth grade. Eighth (you have no idea how many times I had to type "eighth" to finally get it right) grade was such an easy year. And I saw my friends all the time. Literally. We were all in the same Language Arts class. We all had the same lunch. We had our specific spots at the table. I still remember where mine was. We could always hang out every Friday. But now we can't, because everyone has AP Euro study sessions, or sports, or they want to catch up on TV. Back then it was so easy. Why can't it be easy now?
We can do anything together, and it would be fun. I remember one time we were at one of my friend's houses and we had nothing to do. Naturally, we decided to have a grape war. You see, her island in her kitchen was lopsided, so you could put anything on it and it would roll to the other side. So we took some grapes and we had races to see whose grape would win. In eighth grade we played Scrabble on picnic blankets while drinking tea in someone's kitchen. We have our little mutual obsessions such as One Direction and Bones. We have Christmas parties in the winter time. I love my friends, I love my friends, I love my friends.
I've done so much with them. The memories are endless. I had one of my first stomach aches that led to my diagnosis of Celiac disease while at a campout in a friend's backyard. We traveled to DC and Disney World together. Obviously, we go to school together. We shop together, eat together, laugh together. My friends are an essential part to my well-being.
Keeping friendships is tough, especially with our favorite person, also known as school, trying to get in our way. But we manage.
Yes, there's drama sometimes. But we get over it. And I'm really glad. Because my friends are incredible. They are. I wouldn't be who I am without them. Elles sont incroyables. Plain and simple.
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