Spirit Week Day 3

Day three was Halloween it's self. There were tons of awesome costumes. If you want to see more than I have on here, there might be more on facebook under Conserve School's photos.

Spirit Week Day 2

Day two of spirit week is dress like a teacher day. I dressed up as Nancy the art teacher, Genna dresses up as Dylan the grad fellow, and tons of other people dressed up too. I even sprayed my hair white this morning and when people saw me at breakfast, it took them a second to recognize me.

Spirit Week Day 1

Day one of spirit week comes to a close. It was Black and White day, and mostly everyone dressed up. There are only ever a few people who didn't go black and white. Kate and Olivia went all out and painted their faces black. The whole of Bobcat wing just drew with black and white eyeliners on their faces. It was a fun day.

V for Vendetta

The power of unity is a great and powerful thing. Watching this movie reminded me of this to the extent of missing it. The power of protest is one of the greatest powers of the world.
On Monday, February 14th 2011, something started in Madison, WI. I was lucky enough to be there with all my friends, family and everyone else in the city. Watching this movie reminded me of these thrilling times.
In case you aren't aware of the happenings in Madison during this time, I'll catch you up. Wisconsin's Governor, Scott Walker, was trying to illegally pass the "Wisconsin budget repair bill." This bill was cutting funding for education, teachers, union workers and more. Walker was basically shitting on the heart of Madison, our education system. The Madison Metropolitan School District is, in my opinion, one of the best school districts in the state. Our campus in just on the end of the center of the capital.
Anyway, he was trying to pass this bill that would lower income and retirement funds for almost all the parents of my friends and most of the people living in Madison.
The protests started and people began to unite. There were tons of school walkouts from middle school to high school to people bringing there toddlers to the protests. Everyone had creative and/or meaningful signs and we circled the capital. Then we got inside and occupied the capital square for the next almost year and a half. We started in February 2011 and pushed through the winter after that and through that next summer.

We made history!
We are on Wikipedia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests
My friends and I were in the heart of it, helping it!
People from around the world... from India and Germany and France, etc.... sent money to Ian's Pizza so the protesters would have food to get through a full day!

For photos of these great times vistit http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-best-protest-signs-at-the-wisconsin-capitol. (Jenny my piano teacher is number 65.)

this scene in the movie is a fair representative of what happened. Some people even had V masks. I wish we had done exactly this, it would have been a great statement.

Costumes

I think I may be a little too excited for Halloween. I never before thought this was possible, but here I am. Dressed in my Autumn Fairy costume, sitting in the house meeting, I am pulling up my new arm warmers (made by me from torn of pieces of the original costume). You would think everyone else would be looking at me weird, and some are, but there are also about 4 other people who are dressed up and more who were before the meeting. There are two huge princess dresses that the two Meg(h)ans are wearing, Brooke as Pebbles, Ella as the evil mother from Tangled and me as a fairy.
So this is where it may be too much, I have 2 different full costumes and 6 total. The whole week is like a Homecoming week, but a Halloween week and I have thought through costumes for each day as well as a group costume for the contest on Saturday. This will be the best Halloween ever, besides the fact that there's no trick-or-treating. For a truly great Halloween/ half birthday, tons of candy would be great.
So gather up all the extra candy you don't want from tric-or-treating and send it up
PEACE,
Kaia

How much I love Jackie

how much I love Jackie
poem by Kaia Rubin

I love Jackie
like bees love those turquoise flowers
like an elementary school kids like good food
I love Jackie
like the trees like the feel of wind against there bark
like Cheese likes Mac and Mac likes Blue
I love Jackie
more than old people like fake teeth
more than silent films like organs
but most of all
I love Jackie like I like writing on my legs and arms with sharpie
actually I really like writing on my legs and arms with sharpie a lot
but it's pretty close

that a poem for you Jackie,
thanks for the idea of what to do on my blog.

English Class

Yesterday was the day my English class became better than any English class at East. We came in and heard the beautiful songs of Jack Johnson. Then Jeff, our teacher, tells us we have to write a paper on a Eddie Vedder song. We all shouted Yeah! and threw our papers in the air as celebration. No that didn't happen, but our assignment was to write about how Eddie Vedder's music relates to Into the Wild. :)

New Kicks

Yesterday, I realized that these sneakers I had since freshman year, weren't dirty yet. You would normally expect a pair of shoes to get dirty in a month or two, but not these. These have stayed neon white and glow in the dark green for over a year. I'm the type of person that doesn't really like white shoes, especially when you can see only your feet when you walk around in the dark. So to fix this problem, I decided to paint them. I sat in the student apartment during the debate last night and painted my shoes with acrylics. At first the designs were all over the place and no one part of the shoe matched another, so I kept painting, and this is what I ended with so far.

If you know anyone who would like to purchase these fine kicks, they are a US size 8.5 and EUR size 40.
Around 50 or 60 dollars is a good min, but I'm up for bargaining.

Going to Denmark

So, as you know, I am going to Denmark next semester, but tuition is expensive. To here more about this amazing experience vistit my fundraising website.
Thanks,
Kaia

http://www.giveforward.com/studyabroadtodenmark?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fb_share_send&utm_campaign=dashboard_supporters&og_action=hug&t=3&fb_ref=389448&fb_source=message

Solos Site

 I was on a beautiful site for solos. The night and day alone was a nice experience filled with reading and sleeping and taking pictures. Though we couldn't wander far, where I could go was wonderful.

Phenology

 

These are pictures from my phenology spot I'm working in for science class.

 

 

 

Beautiful Skies

Last Friday, we went to our English teacher, Jeff's photography show an hour away from Conserve at this little college. Jeff's daughter went to this college and he told us a little about it. It was very pretty and nice. 

The show was amazing. We got Jeff to tell us how he did some of the abstract pictures. There were a few where he put tie-dye shirts behind ice and photographed that, or he put a clear pan with water in it and the tie-dye behind it. He'd then add oil drops and photograph it. It looked like planets in a pail sky.

After we looked at all the pictures, he gave a talk in the little auditorium. He told us stories of his travels along with his experiments with photography. It was very interesting.

On the way up there, there was the most beautiful sky I have ever seen though. It looked like the sky stopped at a wall. The clouds went from grey to yellow and orange and pink and then just stopped, in almost a straight line across the sky. My camera wasn't the best through the window, but I tried to capture the beautiful moment.

Crazy Hair Day

Yesterday was the day everyone dyed their hair. But lets start two days ago when I started my dreads.
I was bored of my hair, which happens about every two months, so I started dreading it. Twist and tear, twist and tear. After school that day, people started saying it looked cool and gave me tips on how to do it for real. I started back-combing and twist-tearing from the left side of my head to the right. I haven't gotten to the right side yet, but I have all of my left side started to a fair point.
A few weeks ago, Mei-Jing and I had bought some red hair dye (for dark hair). If finally came and we planned on doing it Saturday (yesterday). Yesterday was also the day a bunch of people went on a trip to Rhinelander. Bleach and red were bought by some people. So that night there was a huge hair dying party. Now a bunch of us have dyed hair. Kasey dyed her whole head a darker auburn, i dyed my tips a bright red, Mei-Jing got red highlights, Shawn bleached his tips and so did Garret, Kai got a skunk stripe, etc. It was a great time. Garret also got me some old dull sweaters, they're so comfy.
Hope everyone had a great weekend too,
PEACE,
Kaia

Coming Out Day!!

As some of you may know, today is International Coming Out Day. In spirit of this, Garret, Mei-Jing and I and some others, wrote NO H8 on our hands and drew on our arms. You can believe when I say, our arms were covered and only with beautiful drawings. That's all for now I guess. Have a nice night. There's snow up here. Thanks to Mei-Jing for the photo.
PEACE,
Kaia

Autumn Colors!

   The beautiful oranges, yellows and reds of the tress greet me every morning now. The leaves cover the ground as I walk to my classes and are there waiting more me when I get out of school. Danielle and I realized what the multitude of these leaves truly meant: leaf piles. That day during English class, we were outside discussing the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, so generally, Danielle and I dropped our bags and started rolling in the leaves that surrounded us. The rest of the class, including Jeff, joined us in playing in the leaves. Jeff took pictures of us all and eventually we sat to continue our discussion of the book, but this time in much more comfortable conditions.

   Though the leaves were plentiful during English, we didn't stop there. After school we got a hold of a rake, picking up Garret and Kai along the way, and went to the swings. We started raking and in no time there was a pile, that Danielle and I were a large part of, and more leaves kept piling up. Of course everyone knows that if there are lots of leaves, you have to have a leaf war, so we did. I spent as much time as I possibly could outside in the leaves that day. The beauty of it all enthralled me so much I didn't want to leaf.

   While I was in the leaf piles, I didn't have to think about work or stress or anything in the modern world, I just lay there in peace and accepted it. I learned to appreciate the beauty and peace of it.
PEACE,
Kaia

Poi

Kai just got new LED poi today. Mei-Jing and I have been practicing different types of styles, and I was trying the new ones today. The thing about poi is that when they're new, they are very dense and hard, so when you swing them around, they hit you. Normally they don't leave bruises, but because I was using the new ones, it's a possibility I now have bruised legs and a black eye. Oh well, all in a day of learning.

Koolaid!

My roommate and I attempted at dyeing our hair last night. We decided that red and purple Koolaid would be a pride idea, so we mixed them all up with water and conditioner and found out exactly how well it worked. Our fingers are stained red, especially around the nails. The bathroom had red Koolaid mixture splattered all over the floor and counter. We decided, since it looked like we very gruesomely killed someone, we should clean up. I kept my dye in for around 40 minutes and Kasey kept her's in all night and showered in the morning. Neither of ours worked. My nails are still surrounded by red and Kasey's hands are red, but out hair is still the normal color.
If your looking to dye your hair, invest in a $7 box of semi-permanent hair dye and don't bother with Koolaid or Jello.
It was a fun and exciting learning experience. I would never change in that night for anything. The joy of watching New Girl while putting streaks in Kasey's hair without gloves and laughing the whole time, is a memory I'll have forever.