I finished my history class, just wrote three pages of essay; only After watching three days of Columbine, Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, black tapes of the World Trade Centers destruction and families last phone calls, Presidency scandals, teenage suicides, and in all just lots of depressing. (*sigh* I bet this class has a high suicide rate)
Cross Counrty running has officially begun (yesterday) I'm working as a soccer referee after practices, and i'm art club president, and school starts up again on the 31st. In other words, my sleep and free time are hitting an all new low, so I'll see you when I'm a zombie

As for Alaska and California:
California will try to over feed any person they can get their eyes on, have lovely vineyards, very smoggy towns, and white elaborate weddings are not all their cracked up to be, unless you want to be spoiled past all logic, and leave being rolled out of the room.
Alaska: unless you ccan with stand societies "normal" people I really suggest going and becoing a hermit, that lives very high up in a tree!!! A grizzly bear attack less than 3 miles from where I was just a day before i arrived (>1000 lb angry male 15-20yr.) and another was seen sitting on my porch less than two weeks ago. and the fish have at least half inch long teeth, and so do the locals, so don't try escaping to the water or town. However, the coffee and fish are definetly almost worth it. I went up to 9 cups a day (hehehehe oh the beloved insanity)