Geeking Out.

It just took me an hour to do the history reading for tonight because at the very beginning it has the poem about the statue of liberty with an allusion to a Greek statue that I remembered reading about somewhere and it said the name of the statue in the footnotes (The Colossus of Rhodes), so I googled it and it was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and that's where I got way off track.
The seven wonders are:

The Colossus of Rhodes
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

You should know that I loveloveLOVE Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology and that's what most of the wonders were about (I alos like cool old places, so that got the rest of them.)! So I spent a good half an hour wikipedia-ing them all and becoming quite sad when I remembered the Great Pyramid is the only one left. I would have loved to visit all of them! Especially the temple of Artemis and the Statue of Zeus and the Colossus. Sigh. I'm not completely out of hope though because there are still the 7 new wonders of the world! (The wonders of the modern world are boring.) The new ones are:

Chichen Itza, Mexico - Mayan City
Christ Redeemer, Brazil - Large Statue
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan - Ancient City
The Roman Colosseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India

I've been to the Great Wall, but now I want to go to all of the other places! Top 3: Roman Colosseum, Macchu Picchu, and a tie between Chichen Itza, Mexico and Petra, Jordan.

See, this connects to school because me history reading caused this geekery.

So English is a little better. I think the teacher is a little unorganized and she was gone for half of the first ten days, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of things pretty soon. We get our first essay assigned on Friday, I'm a little nervous, but my teacher told us it's supposed to be hard. Great.

Oh yeah, track starts on Monday I have only run three times since XC, but I've been stretching and doing ab workouts and stuff. I'm still going to suck though haha.

Going to go think about traveling and wonders of the world instead of English now!

-Emily