Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in Berkin's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
6:23 pm	Senior cut day So tomorrow's supposed to be senior cut day, but I don't think i can do it. It's okay, cause a bunch of my friends can't either. I think we're gonna decide on another day to do it, but when? and more importantly, what are we going to do? I'm open to suggestions, so post 'em. Here's some ideas that I have: Plan A Skip school on Friday, May 20. Already, it's a 3 day weekend. Here's the kicker! We start the fun the day before and see Star Wars at night! Now i know that sounds kinda dorky, but it should be fun. And seriously, not seeing star wars?!?!? That's ... that's ... that's un-American. What do you think the cold war was really all about? The next day, Friday, we sleep late and drive down to 6 flags. aww yeah! Who's gonna be there on a Friday morning? IDK, my friend Tom was very skeptical of my logic. OR Plan B Wait for a sorching hot day in June, blow off school and drive down to the beach. aww yeah So what would you do? Got any other ideas? Current Mood: creative (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 22nd, 2005
9:32 am	Washington DC Trip First off, i'm making this update from school, and it gets even better. While everyone is re-writing their research paper, I'm chillin' cuase I got an A+. ANYWAY... Back at winter convention, I found out that the concert choir trip overlapped with spring convention, which is by far my favorite convention and my last, I was heartbroken; I think I may have even cried. But pretty soon, I realized that I should just throw in the extra couple of hundred and go back to TEXAS. (btw, i'm in my UT shirt right now. hehehe) National Mid-Winter was absolutely amazing!!! The best part was probably seeing all my friends and playing frisbee with my midwesties. I have no regrets. ANYWAY... (Damn, I can't stay on task today) So we leave right away on Friday; there wasn't a single moment of education. mmm so awesome. Current Music: Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 14th, 2005
1:30 pm	IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! Yep... 18. It doesn't feel that much different, but today is a fun day. I'm really enjoying it. People have been super nice and singing happy birthday to me; it just makes me feel so good. Thanks. I think I actually appreciate all the extra attention more than the gifts that I'm getting (I guess this means I'm growing up). I like all the cash too, so dont' think about taking it back, cause it's not gonna happen, but just seeing people look at me with their faces shining, eyes wide open, and singing happy birthday, wow. It's simply marvelous! I think it call all be summed up simply what happened at the end of the day. The bell rang, everyone's running to get home, and Alanna Raffel stops me in the hallway. We have anatomy together, but we don't talk that much. So she calls me over and she says, "David, Happy Birthday." Just so simple, so quiet, but it meant something to me cause it was just that little extra. She didn't need to say it; she already said it and sang it in class. Either way, I'm really glad she did and everyone else who also wished me a happy birthday. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: The Beatles - They say its your birthday (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
8:40 pm	Senior-itis is in Full Swing Today was the most beautiful day of the new year, thus far. It hit 80 degrees today and I knew I needed to take advantage of it. The smallest changes in my daily routine, such as wearing short sleeves or walking outside to class, leave me with the biggest smiles. At lunch, we eat outside and soak up the sun, then kick back and toss around a bee. I love it. Today at 4 o'clock, about 20-30 of us got together and played frisbee in the park. it was beautiful. I played like crap, but it felt great to get out and run around in the sun without my shirt. I may have even gotten a little burned on my face, but that's great. It means thats summer's coming. I'm ready to move on and get out of here. BTW, we're gonna play every wednesday from 4-6 in the park, leave one if you wanna join. Half of it is just that i feel so done with school. I don't feel like learning or doing any more homework. I feel burnedout. Who doesn't? I'm taking forensics now and i don't know why. i really don't care about forensics, at all. LOL, its hard work too; hard work that i'm not interested in doing. I think the teachers are feeling it too. For about 2 weeks or so, i haven't gotten any really hard or big assignments, nor have i gotten homework in all 3 of my real classes on the same day. I'm not complaining, i'm enjoying. So, leave comments if you wanna play frisbee, or if you just can't wait to graduate!!!! Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Weezer - Surf Wax America (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 27th, 2005
5:35 pm	I'm a lean, mean, dancing machine! This weekend I'll be performing in the 54th annual Israeli Folk Dance Festival in New York City. We're performing to "Inyan Shel Zman" and "Ma Od Nevakesh." Rehearsals for these dances have been going on for a couple of months. We're pretty good actually, but not nearly as good as the other groups. As for last night.... Last night was Merichelle's "Ballroom dancing extravanganza!" I learned so much: Cha-cha, salsa, merengue, waltz, a little hip-hop, and some other stuff. Most important of all, I learned that if you don't know what to do, you simply "move your feet and shake your ass." It was so much fun. For some reason, a lot of the other guys were being lame and wouldn't dance, so an amazing thing happened; I had women fighting over me. :-) Tonight, I plan to use what I have learned and party it up at Abyss. I'll let you know how that goes. Leave comments with your predictions!! Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Eric Prydz - Call on Me (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
9:29 pm	A Bad Day Well as you may expect from the title, this isn't going to be a happy story. And it sorta sucks that my first entry is going to be so negative, but i'm hardly ever like this so, expect lots of cool things in the future. Thursday, March 24, the last day of school before a "flippin' sweet" 4 day weekend. I just feel so anxious to get through the day and start the fun. I have 2 tests today and one is on "Hamlet," so this could be rough. Anyway, i trudge into school, grab my books, and head to my first period class. On the way, i see this sophomore kid who usually hangs by my locker with his g/f. He's opening and closing this locker over and over. As i walk past him i jockingly say, "999, 1000, 1001..." You know like he's lifting or something. And he tells me to "fuck off." I whip my body right around and shout, "what did you say!??!!" and he just walks off. Now i'm not a violent person as you guys know, but here's this punky little sophomore in a "def leppard" shirt with black spiked hair thinking he's the shit, telling me to fuck off. He's like 5'5" 125 lbs. max, his arms are tiny as hell. He has the same muscle tone as a veal and he wants to start shit with me, David 6'0", 200 lbs of rippling muscle ( or something like that ;-)) who loves to lift weights. Basically, i didn't want to be told to fuck off at 7:20 in the morning by some punk that i was trying to be friendly to. What an asshole. I wanted to beat some sense of respect into this kid, but it would have meant 9 days out of school suspension. Just so this kid knows, if i ever see him out of school, we're gonna have a little "talk." So i'm not going to let some little sophomore ruin my entire day, am i? hell no! Especially when i'm supposed to 'hit up the club' tonight. i've never gone really gone clubbing before so i was excited. I had made plans with my friends to go on monday, and i was telling people about it all week. How excited was i? I was about to go shopping for new clothes with my friends, just for the occasion. That is probably the girliest thing i have ever said in my life!! So i get home at like 2:30 and sleep til about 7:30; by far the best part of my day. when i wake up, i call my buddies about tonight and no one picks up. I call their houses and find out that they're at someone elses house, probably playing poker. They aren't the coolest bunch of friends, so i kinda thought that they may back out. They call my back and say, "yea, we don't want to go anymore. its only 14 year old sluts there." Which is totally untrue!!! And i ask how did you find out about this, and he gives me the "everyone says so" line which means its 100% untrue. Ugh, i hate that. So here i am; all by myself on the first night of vacation doing nothing. Even if i wanted to do something, i can't cause i'm stranded, no car. Frankly, this blows. Current Mood: angry (2 Comments |Comment on this)