Ballet is definately still learn-able at your age! Realize though, that by age 17, many girls have already been through the "make it or break it" stage in their professional careers. Im not sure how else to put it. But no worries, its not like you are trying to become a professional, but I just wanted to throw that out there.

It is imperative that you take lessons from somone who is well-trained. I took lessons from a woman who taught me a few things all wrong, and it really screwed be up later. So just find a studio with teachers that have alot of professional experience under their belts.

The lessons I take are not too expensive, They are about $150 dollars per semester per class which ends up to be less than $10 per lesson. (But this is in American Dollars, and I know things are much more expensive in Canada!)

So what I would do is just look "dance studio" up in the phone book, pick one that is near your house and has a reasonable fee and trained teachers, and call them up. Tell them that you are seventeen with no experience and you want to start ballet. To give you a fair warning, you might be in a class with a bunch of 9-yr olds. On the other hand, my ballet studio offers a class called "Ballet for beginner adults", Which my mom took while I took higher levels for kids. Also, you are old enough probably to take the beginners adult class because I took "Tap dance for beginner adults" when I was 13. So whatever you prefer.

I wish you good luck and dont chicken out! Ballet is such a beautiful art, you will not regret learning it!

One day off your diet is not going to set you back 10 pounds. What I suggest you do now is drink ALOTTTT of water... because you consumed a crapload of sodium today, so you may end up very bloated. All I can say is go on a walk or jog or bikeride today, work out a little of possible, and drink like four large glasses of water from now untill you go to bed. (Im not kidding about the four waters, at least... space them out but drink constantly)

But no, this day is not going to ruin it all... you just havn't gotten any further. Do better tomorrow, and its in the past now.

Well, if you are Catholic, then yes, technicly it is only for reproduction. I am Catholic and this is what I have always been taught by my teachers. That is why married Catholics are not supposed to use ANY form of birth control, even things like condoms, because then you would be having sex without the intent of reproduction.

hahaha, I am sorry. I don't know. Are you talking about AP World History? I took that last school year and that seems like soooo long ago I cant even remember. Try googling it?

My mother sprays hers first but she has short hair that first she sprays, curls it, then sprays again, basically into a hard crunchy, bob. I have tried to convince her to go easy on the hair spray (not before AND after) and let your hair move a little bit so it looks more natural, but she insists that she must do it this way for the curl to hold all day. I, on the other hand, have longer hair so i curl it all and then spray it so that it is able to move and looks like natural curls. So the point is, if you want to totally freeze your hairstyle or have hair that wont hold a curl well, spray before. if you want it to be natural but posisibly begining to fall by the end of a long day, spray after.

i have used one. my hair holds curls and straightenings well, so it worked just fine on my hair. i kinda thought though that it would give me big waves, but it was more like little crimps. still really pretty, but not what i expected. it is also pretty easy to use.

If you dont want to talk, this sounds crazy but, what I do first would be to look at him more obviously, more deliberately. Dont just glance at him, and dont just look from the corer of your eye, but really look at him. If you know he is looking at you, its obvious that he is thinking about you, so a straight look in the eye and holding it for a couple of seconds will say more than anything you could stammer out at an akward confrontation. But really, give him an obvious look in the eye, not like your eyes met for a second. Then after he really acknowledges your look a couple of times, like after a few days of doing it, next time you lock eyes do a really gentle smile. No teeth, just raise the sides of your lips slightly in a way that says, "Hi". Because, if you give him a slight smile, he knows you are no longer feeling mad or akward or anything about what happened in the past, and that you are ready to be friends again. After a few days of this, try a bigger smile or a head nod. Make it look like you are slowly starting to grow on him, or starting to enjoy your speachless encounters. What ever you do, move slowly, and step by step, gradually getting more and more attatched to seeing him. Because, its not like one day you are going to walk in after 3 years, and give him some longing 10 second stare that portrays, "ohhh my god I miss you so much come over here and talk to me because I am dying for your contact"-- that would just be really weird. Move slowly so it seems like you are trying to say, "Wow, every day i recall a little more and a little more about the good times we used to have, and I miss them."

So basically what I'm saying here is that if you are sure that you dont want to talk to him, (which I actually quite understand), you are going to have to master the art of facial expression and body language. I know it is a slow process, but after a few weeks the two of you will probaly feel like you are getting to know eachother again, even though you haven't spoken. But honey, It sounds like he does miss you too, because I feel like he wouldn't be looking at you at all if he didn't... he would just be completely avoiding eye contact. so go for it, and eventually you can pluck up the courage to say hey or somthing, and start up a converstaion. hope I helped, give me some feedback please!

I am in chemistry 1 right now in high school, and my teacher teaches that it does not matter the placement around the element name, just that there are the right amount. Your teacher may say somthing different though.

I think the two times you texted him and he didn't answer were just accident. I mean, two times only? Seriously, guys can be lazy, they forget things, maybe he just didn't have his phone on him! (he was sick!) And since you guys aren't even dating, I wouldnt be worring about two missed text messages. Then, you ask him if hes mad at you, and hes probably thinking, "Mad about what? What would I be mad at her for?" He probably dosn't even know about the texts, so when you asked him that, he probably started racking his brain for things that he WOULD be mad at you for, (like, "was she going behind my back about somthing and now she thinks i found out?"), and this led him to ask you if you were up to somthing.
So how should you get him to come to you? Well I'd have to say your first step would be to quit driving him AWAY! I mean seriously, you're not even dating and you probably already appear really controling. You are already questioning him about two unresponded texts, and most guys are not interested in girls who are going to question them all the time (especially about tiny things!) I'm sure he is only imagining your unpleasant response when he forgets your first month anniversary or your birthday. Secondly, He already dosn't trust you. You are questioning him about somthing trivial, which leads him to question you back about you whereabouts. So really, this relationship has started off on the wrong foot. You need to start over with a fresh attitude, and keep this "talking" situation casual. If you keep pestering him about stuff like this, he will never come to you. You need to at least appear to understand what a casual relationship is and not seem like you're freakin' out all the time. Then maybe he will come to you.

I agree with above, many students at my school went to speech therapy in middle school to get rid of lisps or to improve their pronunciation of R's or the CH sound. Also, I myself used to have a slight lisp, although it was never bad enough that I had to go to therapy. I sortof grew out of it, but now and then it comes back, and people laugh a little and imitate me, but my friends (guys too!) tell me that they think its charming.

Only you know what you look best in. My first tip- wear somthing comforable. Too-tight clothes will just bug you, feel aweful and make you feel self concious- which leads me to number two: wear somthing you feel confident it. If your somachs not that flat unless you suck it in, then dont wear somthing tight. You will feel self-concious the entire night if you feel like you are holding in your stomach the whole time. Number three: Dont get somthing new. everytime I get somthing new... it never turns out well the first time I wear it. (examples: I leave the tag on. I dont realise you can see my bra right through the top. people make strange comments on it. It just never is ok) Four: Wear somthing really cute, but not necessarilly attention grabbing. I mean, you dont want to walk in and have him thing "woah what in the world is she wearing, you want him to think, wow, shes lookin cute tonight.

So basically, wear somthing you already have that you know you look good in. Like your favortie outfit. Make sure its clean. Somthing Tried and True.

You are pretty tall (relative to me I guess) so wear somthing that flatters you and make sure your hair and makeup if you wear it looks nice too!

ahh. agree with the person above me, but also:

"The Catcher in the Rye" -J.D. Salinger
a classic, a great read for all ages, (haha well not younger kids) and one of my personal favorites.

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.


"Special Topics in Calamity Physics"-
Starred Review. Pessl's showy (often too showy) debut novel, littered as it is with literary references and obscure citations, would seem to make an unlikely candidate for a successful audiobook. Yet actor and singer Emily Janice Card (a North Carolina native like the author) has a ball with Pessl's knotty, digressive prose, eating up Pessl's array of voices, impressions and asides like an ice-cream sundae. Card reads as if she is composing the book as she goes along, with a palpable sense of enjoyment present in almost every line reading. Her girlish voice, immature but knowing, is the perfect sound for Pessl's protagonist and narrator Blue van Meer, wise beyond her years even as she stumbles through a disastrous final year of high school. Card brings out the best in Pessl's novel and papers over its weak spots as ably as she can.



"Sidhartha"- Herman Hesse

In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river.

other titles I reccomend: Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, The Kite Runner, The Book Thief, The DaVinci Code.

what you have to do is make an account. after you make it, you search the song you want, and look for users who "have" that song. Then you go on to that persons profile thing and ask them to send it to you. They will email it to you with the sheet music adobe reader file attached. Some peope will send you anything, but some people only want to "trade", and wont send you anything unless you send them somthing. But most people will just send you whatev you want.

i use pianofiles.com

i put herbal essences scrunching gel. I take showers at night, run it through my hair and then go to bed with damp hair. then I wake up and curl it. (if i plan to straighten my hair the next day, i skip the gel.) The thing is though, I already have a little bit wavy hair, and my hair holds styles really well. What i would suggest to you is when you do your hair, spray on some curl-enhancing spray stuff, (i have suave and it works fine) then hair spray it ALOT. people these days do not understand the importance of hairspray... why do you think they invented it? because most people's hair will not hold styles! so yeah... tons of hair spray. I like aussi brand.

ok i just looked them up on the webiste.
first is the flat iron, which was only about 25 bucks at wal-mart.
flat iron:
http://www.conair.com/ultra-slim-ceramic-straightener-p-63.html

I really liked the flat iron itself, but one time I dropped it on a tile floor and it broke into two peices, and I bought another one just like it. So its a good straightener, just not the most durable. (haha) keep in mind that I had the thing for like two years before I broke it, so i guess thats not that bad. But its nice because it has automatic shut-off, and im stupid and always leave it plugged in, so my house never catches on fire. haha

Both my curling irons are conair too. I have a one inch barrel iron and a two inch barrel one. They both just say "Conair Instant Heat" on them. I like them because they are super fast to heat up. I got one at target for prob. around $20, and the other one I got as a gift so I estimate it was about that much too. Hope I helped!

At our school, both juniors and seniors can attend prom. So most people go both years. If your school only has one prom, maybe they mean its thier first AND last prom!

All the kids I know with names spelled "Stephen" still pronounce it SteVen.

Putting blue over medium brown hair will just tint it blue. The darker your hair, the less it will tint. For example, if you had black hair, it would just have a bluish shine. If you had blond hair, it would be pretty vibrant. Since you have somwhere in between, it will be blue but not true color. AND... I agree with the other person, manic panic is not really the best dye out there, and after many a trial and error, my favorite is called "Color Feind" semi perm dye from hot topic.

I agree with the person below me. My two curling irons and my straightener are conair, and they work really well. My moms curling iron is Revlon I think and she really likes it.

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