Tofu Toes

o.O I bet the title got your attention, i'll mention that later.

-So we had a fencing tournament. It actually wasn't as painful as I anticipated, me not being a very competitive person. We split into two groups, epee (eh-pay) and sabre people, (we got to chose which one we wanted the day before). I was epee, same with like lets say 7 out of the 20 kids in the class. We had the assistant person, who was going into like 10th grade as our director while the other group got the teacher. The teacher was cool, but the assistant dude was really funny and cracked up when we showed our inadequacies, he wasn't all like "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. RAWWR." so that was cool. There was this REALLY obnoxious guy who was really good (why do the two always go together in sports D:) who was really good and beat all of the people. Then it was my turn so I was like "le crai" and this girl was like "you have to beat him" and I gave her a skeptical face. But then I beat him 5/4! wahahahahahaha. jerk. he flourishes his sword too much.

-Going back in time, thursday fencing was epic. During one of the thankfully long breaks, a group of cool people, naturally containing us, were sitting by one of the big industrial sized fans. This one girl, Sophie was planning on world domination. It was AMAZINGLY LIKE SSC. Like even down to the fact that somebody was like "Oh! I'll be part of the propaganda department!" brain-washing much? Except for this was more of a hostile take over than like corporate take over. So we kept on questioning her like population control, environment, assigned jobs, etc. So she was sort of a huggy person and was like "group hug!" and I was like "The first thing you do when you take over the world is-" she interrupts "YES! WORLD WIDE GROUP HUG, THE CURE FOR WAR!" 0.0 I was actually going to say outlaw group hugs, just as a joke, but that works too. I surmised that northern africa would be the best place. but I find that posativealoutely hilarious.

-More awesome conversations-that-gave-me-a -spark-of-hope-that-the-world-isn't-such-a- dark-stoopy-place-afterall: We actually managed to branch our conversation into the fact that God didn't exist without offending anybody. Some of us were slightly agnostic but all was fine. Sophie started brainstorming religions like ones worshiping darkness, or nothing or whatevs. And we talked about religious conflicts. Then the talk of war and darkness made sophie giddy so we had another group hug. But these two brothers that were really awesome left before friday D: Saying goodbye to people that you'll never see again is so sad. I've given and received more hugs than like evar this summer. As emily posted on her blog, everybody got a gynormous hug on the way out of improv D: Anyway another cool conversation was one of the brothers was talking about socialism. And I was like ZOMG. He was talking about Sweden in particular. whenever capitalism gets me down for one reason or another i always promise the world i'm moving to Sweden. to hear somebody else talking about that made me happy. So we had this whole conversation about life expectancies based on latitudes and econ system.

-Hot. and that concludes fencing...

-My dad was hosting this debate barbecue thing and tried to get me interested in speech again, but there is this one kind of it that is somewhat interesting. It's called storytelling, it's like party in the box except for no box and only 30 minutes of prep, and i'm not sure how big the teams can be. Something to consider, not as time consuming as debate. Moving on to the title of this post, I ask my dad if there's anything I could do as the party was starting, I was thinking something like "move the guacamole outside" but actually"can you cut this tofu into cubes then skewer them, like four to a stick" "yeeesss... or I could do that." Anyway it was impossible, and I decided that the grossest feeling in the world was when I dropped some on my foot. Tofu=ickblehgrahss. So I ended up with only four skewers and a whole plate of tofu carnage. (yaaaay) hence the name.

Note: second grossest feeling from yesterday was swimming when it was dark, and picking up a live cricket from the pool, thinking it was a leaf, then having it be a squirming cricket. needless to say i yelped and threw it ^_^ but i saved it with the skimmer. yeah...

So yeah that's pretty much it. I have my cousin coming soon blah blah blah. See you guys at the world-wide group hug.