RVA, 6 times 7 and a Four Person IM Session

All my Rift Valley Academy friends are back! They go to Kenya from Yemen to RVA, a boarding school, and I get to see them three times a year or so. It is a really sad system, I lost nearly all friends to the abyss. I lead a sad life. I live in Yemen, away from my friends in America, and then I make friends with all the kids who then vanish into the dark regions of Africa... Oh well, I will only have to go to college in another year or so and have to start all over again... I am really enjoying my time with them while they are here though.

After AP Chemistry yesterday (shivers) I went over to Jeffrey's house where I took tests. I had my blood pressure and pulse measured ten times during the afternoon, and I took a series of multiplication tables. Since I am in more advanced math courses, I haven't practiced my multiplication tables for years, and I had forgotten that six times seven is forty two. The interesting thing about the blood pressure and pulse deal was that I could feel my pulse, and I tried to control it. I am one of those people who likes to be in control of himself, if not the rest of the world around him. With more practice, I might actually be able to control my pulse, but I doubt it.

Just today, I had a four way instant message conversation with Andrew, Abraham, and Peter. Unfortunately, I and both my brothers were on the same computer, so we had to put our initials after everything we said. I think Andrew has consigned me to the loony bin, but then I probably deserved it.

Easter, Battlefront, and Dubabs

Happy Easter everyone! Sadly, I only have today off, I have to go back to school tomorrow, and I had school yesterday, but hey, a day off I would take any day. At any rate, we woke up at 5:30. Bleagh. I am not a morning person, neither am I a late night guy. My preferred state is sleep. After the sunrise service our family came home and finished Captain Blood, and if you like adventure and buckaneering stories, this is a must for you. I won't ruin it, it is by Rafael Sabatini, and you can look it up at many books which I have linked.

After lunch, I headed over to Jeremy's house and we played Battlefront back and forth. Battlefront is a very realistic first or third person shooter, where you are dumped onto a battlefield, given several hundred allies, and told to get as many enemies as you can before going under and having to respawn. You can switch sides and continue, so that is what Jeremy and I did. One death each, back and forth, unfortunately we were on his laptop, and when the power went out and didn't come back on his computer went into hibernation and the match was undetermined...

On the way home I got on a dubab, (a long van that runs a bus rout that you can get on and off anywhere along the rout) one of the easier methods of transportation in the city, and if I am not in a hurry and I am next to the door, one of my favorites, because (if you get a good driver) he goes whizzing in and out and hanging out of the door can get you a nice adrenaline rush... (I am a hopeless adrenaline junkie.) unfortunately, I was in a hurry, I was not next to the door, and the seats were about half as long as I needed them: my knees stuck up over the seat in front of me by about six inches. I had no idea that the blood source to your feet is located in your shin, but it apparently is. When I could stretch my legs again, my left one was gone. I shook it, and it tingled so bad it hurt, so I just left it, and eventually it went numb, before biting me again. My shins are not going to forgive me for a while.