The most horrific, local, current place is a public swimming pool, according to a poll of one person (me - sorry, there weren't many options...). Actually, I've decided that if I go swimming in one again, I'm not putting my head underwater. The reason for this? A week ago, I went swimming with my little cousin, and within a matter of days I got an ear infection, an eye infection, and a throat infection (I still had the ear infection on the first day of school, which was why I hated all my classes. Today I loved them). Maybe it was all a coincidence, but I don't think so. Anyway, that's my announcement for the day.

So onward... I went to Las Vegas and saw Phantom of the Opera!!!!!!! (extend exclamation points off the screen) IT WAS SO INCREDIBLY AWESOMELY AMAZING! I even got my dad to get addicted to the music, which is saying something. It was great, the theater is built solely for POTO, so the effects were unbelievable. At the beginning, there are sheets all around the walls so it looks old and worn down, and the chandelier is in pieces across the theater. Then during the overture when the auctioneer guy takes off the cloth over one of the chandelier pieces - BOOM, all the pieces start moving around the room and put themselves back together! And the sheets on the walls get sucked up into the air and there are fake people in old-time garb in the fake opera boxes! It was probably the best thing I've ever seen in my life. I ended up crying so much, though, at the very end with the monkey box thing and at the part where the Phantom hears Christene and Raoul singing together and he's saying, "You betrayed me after I helped you..." and crying. I felt so sorry for him, because he kept trying to block out the sound of them singing All I Ask of You together and he looked like he was in such agony, I wanted to give him a hug or something. It made me cry so hard.

*abrupt end of journal* I feel like I should have something else to say but I don't... so here are the lyrics to the part that made me cry:

I gave you my music, made your song take wing
And now, how you repay me
Deny me and betray me
He was bound to love you
When he heard you sing...
(crying)

-POTO Andrew Lloyd Webber

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~zeph