Tour and Freaky Friday

USD Chamber Singers Tour 2012 has officially begun! Our bus has wifi so I can talk about every single moment of it. We are currently headed to Sioux City to do our first concert. I'm really nervous for this one because we haven't run the entire concert from start to finish yet. So this concert could be really spectacular or a train wreck. Fingers crossed that it goes well!

Adrian and I are sitting in the very back of the bus and it is nice and quiet. I'm really glad that it turned out this way. We are by Lee and Amy and the Tuvee's and I really wouldn't have it any other way. I see this as the best way to avoid and conflict or drama as the tour progresses. I'm hoping that there won't be any conflict or drama, but I'm glad we are positioned well away from the possibility.

I finished Switched last night. It was really interesting and I'm glad that it is part of a series. The ending was kind of...lame. There wasn't really a cliff hanger. It didn't make it clear that there were more novels to come and it didn't make you want to read more. The story had so much content but not a whole lot of character development. The conflict of the book came out of nowhere and was over really fast. Wendy is a 17 year old girl who has always felt a little different. When she was a child, her mother insisted that Wendy wasn't her daughter and tried to kill her. She was then sent to live in an asylum. She is then raised by her aunt and brother. She has trouble in school and ends up getting expelled a few times.

When we catch up with Wendy, she is started at a brand new school and trying to fit in. She meets this guy named Finn who stares at her and follows her. At first she is a little freaked out by it but then she realizes that she likes it. Eventually, he tells her that she is a troll or Trylle. He tells her that he ability to persuade people to do her bidding is all part of being Trylle. After she is attacked by strangers, Finn takes her back to her people and she tells her aunt and brother that she's never coming back. When she gets to the town where the Trylle live, she finds out that she is a princess and is the heir to the throne. She is told that someday she will rule the Trylle. After some crash course princess training, Wendy realizes that Finn likes her as much as she likes him and then he decides to quit so that he won't compromise her position. If she were to take up with Finn's kind, she would be banished from the kingdom. They share a steamy kiss and he takes off. Next comes the conflict. They are attacked by a rival group of Trylle and they try to either kidnap or kill Wendy. Finn shows up and saves the day and the whole conflict is over within one chapter. Finn gets to spend one night with Wendy to say goodbye and then he takes off again. Wendy decides that she and her friend Rhys are going to run away and she goes back to her aunt and brother. And that's the end. No threat of more conflict to come. No indication that anyone is coming after her. Nothing. I was left hanging a bit. I will keep reading because I think the characters have potential so far, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Beings that I would like my blog to have more of a point, I've decided to have themed days. I haven't figured them all out yet, but I think Freaky Fridays would be good for today. So on Fridays I will dedicate my time to something that freaks me out. So! Kids freak me out! They are loud, and smelly, and rude, and can't communicate, and I can't stand them. The way that kids behave now is completely foreign to me. I never would have screamed in the middle of a crowded store like that without having to run for my life later. Disciplining children is such a sensitive topic these days and everybody thinks that they know how to raise kids best. You can't spank them, you can't yell at them, you can't withhold privileges. These are all seen as forms of child abuse now. Which makes me ask: What can you do? How are you supposed to raise your kids if you can't tell them that you're wrong? And because of this new-age form of discipline, kids don't know how to behave. They have no consequences and aren't held accountable for the thing that they do. There are exceptions of course and I'm very glad for parents that have raised respectful children. I don't want to have kids and my mother can't figure out why. It's because the kids I see at work everyday are little monsters. Scary little monsters that really freak me out.