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WOW!!! It's been a long time since the last time I've blogged! I have been very busy and am not home very much anymore. I'm the football manager and am at football practices everyday! I also have games on Thursday (normally Freshman games which don't go very late, but a couple weeks ago JV and Freshman were home so I had to go to both), and the Varsity game on Friday nights. I get home from practice at different times each day, Freshman games I get home around 5 or 6, which is about the time I get home from practice. Varsity games are a different story!!! The away games I don't get home till around 11 or 12 depending on how far away the game is, I went to a game a couple weeks ago that was 4 hours away! We left school at 11 in the morning and had a couple of rest stops on the way, then we hit the road at 11 for about a mile to Wendy's for the boys to get food. We didn't get home 'till 3 in the morning!! (we only had one rest stop on the way home) Thank heavens for the charter bus! :)

This last game was home, however being in Oregon it was pouring down rain. As a result I've gotten a little sick.... and all the games in this month will more than likely be rainy. This week Varstiy is playing Home on Thursday (Freshman(home :) yay!)/JV(away) on Wednesday) because we only have a 3 day week. Then next week we have a game in Newburg :( they don't have a turf field and their field is HORRIBLE!!! It will be very muddy! Then the next week we have our homecoming game, then the next week is our last game in Canby(on Haloween). So I have a very busy schedule. I will also very soon be working on our second fall play, then our spring musical, I'm in a couple of clubs, I'll be managing Track and Field, and I need to get to work on all the scholarship and college apps, and senior project! So I am a very busy person and if you don't hear from me for a while that is why! :)

2nd First Day

All right so yesterday I got to go to my Day 2 classes. My first class was English 12. I like the teacher so far and I am actually looking forward to that class (except for the paper and senior project and senior speech).
My second class was Weight Training. It's the 3rd time I've taken that class. I keep taking it because it's fun and he uses a program that shows us our improvement and we kind of compete with other people too so it gets us motivated. Also he's constantly walking around helping you with your technic and visiting and motivating. He's awesome! He is also the head football coach at my school and I got to know him pretty well last year. His wife is the Drama teacher and since I work on the plays I also know her pretty well. And I also know their daughter, :) I don't talk to their son because he's a jerk, but I kind of know his whole family and it's kind of funny!
My 3rd class was Government, and that class is going to be so easy! I'm really excited because it's going to be a fun class, the teacher seems nice and I've heard a lot of good things about him, also I have a lot of friends in that class.
Then I have early realease. This time I just hung out with friends who didn't have class either and couldn't leave. It was fun I also got my pass so that if I do leave the school like I'm supposed to I can leave with no problems. This time my friends and I got talked to a couple times by the administrators telling us to get off campus, so we just went to places of the school that they wouldn't be for a while and kept moveing to stay away. :)
Then I came home and got ready to go to the football game! It was away and against Rex Putnam, it wasn't at their high school though, it was at their middle school. The middle school used to be a high school and the field is terf so they always use that school. I went with my friend Mandy, and I looked up the directions on Map Quest. I'm never using Map Quest again because it took us to a residential area with no school. So we ended up at a Fred Meyer and went into customer service for directions, we weren't too far off, but enough to get lost because it was in the Portland area and it's very confusing! We got to the game by the 2nd quarter. We won the game!!! We totally creamed them! It was a really exciting and fun game! We ended up getting home just fine, Map Quest wanted to take us the long way, but Mandy knew a faster way so we got home with no problems! :)

SCHOOL!!!

I started school and seminary today!!! I'm so happy that it's started! This year I have my license and mom and dad are letting me use the car to take to seminary and school. :) So this morning Jackie and I went to seminary at our church building. My seminary teacher won't be here till Monday so for today and tomorrow my class is combined with the Juniors. It was fun!
Then I we headed off to school. It was great seeing all the friends that I hadn't seen all summer! For those of you who don't know my high school is on block schedule. I really like that because we have more time in each class, so more time to learn and do homework with your teacher there to help! Today I had Algebra 2, Economics, Medical Terminology, and Early Release. Algebra was ok, it was mostly introducing ourselves to our teacher. My teacher seems to be pretty cool, but I've never heard anything about his teaching just that he's really cute (yeah he's younger and the majority of the girls at school are drooling over him.... honestly he's not that good looking).
For Economics I have the same teacher that I had last year for 20th Century. I'm really excited because he's a really good teacher and makes it fun. Like today we got to play with play dough and other things to make an invention that we think would help our economy. It was fun and something that go us thinking.
Medical Terminology will be a very hard class. The teacher is nice and he's a really good teacher. I had him last year for Anatomy and Physiology. We also have new text books for that class and they're really nice! I'm excited for that class also.
For Early Release I'm supposed to go home... however Jackie doesn't want to ride the bus so I stick around. Today I hung out in one of my old Health teachers rooms, and that's where I'll be for all of my Day 1's. She's really fun and I love talking to her. So while I'm in her class I study and if she ever needs help I will be her TA for that class too.
Tomorrow is like another first day of school because I have 4 different classes. I will have English 12, Weight Training, Government, and Early Release. I'm really excited!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today is my mom's birthday!! She didn't get to do anything fun. :( We all worked today and then tonight she has to go to the Young Women's Activity. She decided that she wanted chocolate chip cookies, so while mom, dad, and I were working Jackie and Emma made her the cookies. I love you mom, and I'm sorry that your birthday wasn't the funnest and that you had to work, hopefully tonight you'll have more fun, or get to do something later (like you did on your anniversary).

Cannon Beach

Saturday was REALLY HOT, so my friend Mandy and I decided to go to the coast, and we met a wall of traffic! :( We ended up going to Cannon Beach, because the majority of the cars were not going that way. :) However when we got there, there was no parking spaces open. :( Here are some pictures of all the cars and people.




Here's a picture of Mandy as we're looking at all of the cars and trying to find a spot to park.
Some people were even breaking the rules to get a place to park.

They parked on such a narrow road in front of the "NO PARKING TOW AWAY" zone that I guess they thought they were safe. Who knows.
We finally found a spot, and three elderly people were walking past us as we were trying to parallel park Mandy's truck, and they helped us! We were really greatful cause she has never parallel parked her truck before. :( Then we finally got there!!!
And I've never seen it so crowded!
The weather was really nice, but the water was so cold it hurt, so we just walked around and layed in the sand! It was really nice!

Youth Conference

Friday and Saturday I went to Youth Conference!! It was a lot of fun, even though it was close to home. We had it at Pacific University. It's a really nice campus, and we went all over the campus for classes, meals, and activities. We also went all over Forest Grove for our service projects.

The first day we started at 1:00, and met at the new stadium. It was really nice, but really hot and they had us all running around for a couple of hours playing games. Sadly I had to stop playing the games to find the First Aid room. :( I wasn't too surprised when I was the first one to have to get a band aide! Red Rover is a dangerous game :). Then after the games we started our classes (mine was on modesty and feeling the spirit) then we had dinner and a fireside, then went home. I had a lot of fun!

We went back to the campus at 8:40 on Saturday and we started with a devotional, then we went to do service. Some groups stayed at the campus to do quilts and hats for premature babies, another group went to the Beehive Center (a retirement home) and sang to the elderly, Jackie's group went to Harvey Clark Elementary School to clean up garbage, and my group went to the Tom McCall Upper Elementary Schools (there's two of them) to clean up the grounds, forestry area, and parking lots (all together they said around 3 acres of land). My job was actually easier than Jackie's. Tom McCall is better taken care of than Harvey Clark. Then we went back to the campus for lunch, then on to our other 2 classes (mine were act and not be acted upon and resisting peer pressure) after our second class we had a 10 minute break then had a testimony meeting with our group. Then we went home from 4-7 to get ready for the dance. Jackie and I went home to change and then went to a friends house for pizza and to hang out till 7. Then we went to the dance from 7-10. The dance was SO FUN!! It was an outside dance at the stadium. I thought with the breeze that it would have been a lot cooler than it was, but by the end of the dance my friends and I were all sweating and tired!! This was probably one of the funner dances that I had been to. Sorry that I didn't take any pictures!

The picture above is one I found on the Internet. :) I think that it's actually one of the buildings that I went into for a class.

Midnight Showing

I went to the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight" with some of my friends. So now I'm going to give you all a little movie review! :) "The Dark Knight was REALLY good! I was kind of worried it wouldn't be that good because it's a sequel..... and normally sequels to movies are HORRIBLE! However "The Dark Knight" is totally worth seeing! It had a lot of action, and humor, and so I was jumping and laughing throughout the movie.... kind of an odd combo! :) The movie was good... oh here's a heads up... don't stay after the credits, there isn't a short little clip at the end. We stayed through the really long credits, nothing plays after the movie. Another little FYI, this is not a movie for little kids! The Joker was really, really freaky! Also Harvey Dent has something happen to him... and he gets kind of deformed, and that is kind of freaky looking too, something little kids will have nightmares about! This movie is worth seeing in theatres!