Busy with School

Sorry it's been awhile since I've posted here. I've been extremely busy with school and all that, which is going pretty well. The biology is great (well at least it is before the dissection kicks in :) ) but right now I'm bogged down in Heart of Darkness. It's a good story, but let's just say that it takes me about 45 minutes to get through one section. (That is a big deal considering how I'm a pretty fast reader. :) ) But I'll get through it eventually I suppose. If I don't die getting through the literature questions first. haha. Since school's back in,I might be posting some of my creative writing stuff on here sometime, so watch out for it. Or avoid it. :)

Well that's it for now. Except for the fact that is overly hot here. (Really that shouldn't be a surprise to me by now. ) I guess if I die of heat stroke you'll know soon enough. ;) haha

Back in School

The first day of school was yesterday, and I actually have a pretty good attitude about this year. :) I'm doing 20th century World History off a computer program which is very different to say the least. haha. In science I'm doing biology which I absolutely love (I'm actually thinking about majoring in biology when I get to college) and I get to read two books at one time this year, so as you can guess I'm loving that too. :) haha. I'll let you know how good they are after I finish them. Some of the questions for history are kind of tedious, and let's just say analogies and language arts are no picnic, but other than that it's all good. :)

Well that's about it. I'm starting driver's ed at the public school in about three weeks, so I'm pretty nervous about that. Well not too nervous, but who knows what'll happen when I try to park the car or when I'm riding in a car with a bunch of other kids. :) haha. I'll be sure to let you know what happens with that.

Evangelism Linebacker

Another funny video for you called "Evangelism Linebacker." I got this one from Godtube. Haha enjoy.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7d102c52231bf62b8a67

Nancy Drew Game Review

Here is my review for the 15th Nancy Drew computer game entitled "The Creature of Kapu Cave." In this installment you play as both Nancy and the Hardy boys as you attempt to discover the reason behind strange happenings on the peaceful island of Hawaii. Nancy spends half her time helping an insect researcher with her frass charts (that got extremely tedious) and trying to find out more about the strange Hilihili Research Center. The Hardy Boys stay on the mainland and try to discover more about the tourist guide "Big Island Mike" and his daughter Puma, as they believe they are involved in something illegal.

Overall, I really enjoyed this game. It was really fun getting to play as both Nancy and the Hardy Boys, and the puzzles were still challenging, but not overly difficult to make you want to pull your hair out. :) However the game was extremely short, and the ending was quite a let down. At the end you might be left with the impression, "This is it? There's no more?" So overall I liked the game, but it was too short, some of the puzzles were a tad bit too easy, and the plot got a little bit tedious at times. :) So I give this game 3 1/2 stars out of 5.

A Surprise Party and Other Things

Last night our youth group had a surprise party for our youth minister who is leaving after this week. We actually managed to pull off the surprise (at least that's what we think haha). It was a tad bit complicated as all the youth told our minister that we were going to the coffee shop, when really we all drove over to another youth group member's house. Then we stayed there for about three seconds, and then we all headed over to another member's house where the party was going to be held, and snuck around to the back door and surprised him in the basment. So yes it was pretty complicated. And lets say that when I was riding with one of my friends to the house, I had to hang on pretty tighly to the car door. :) Don't worry she wasn't really a dangerous driver. Just a little excited I guess. haha

Well school starts back one week from today. I'm actually pretty excited about it as opposed to nearly every other kid in America. :) I'm going to have soo much work though and I'm a bit worried about doing geomotry. (Math has never been my strong point.) I am looking forward to most everything else. Especially biology. Well I'm not really looking foward to the dissection part of it now that I think about it. :) Don't worry though I'll try to spare you from long gross descriptions of it on here. :) Can't make any promises though. haha.

Eight Reasons

Check out this hilarious video I found on YouTube called "Eight Reasons Why I Don't Share My Faith". Besides being pretty funny, it does have some interesting points.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5EAFj5WTVt4

Really Tired

Well the busyness of this week has finally come to an end. (Thank goodness.) Not that I didn't have fun, but I'm just really tired. I've been waking up every morning to the sound of my cell phone going off. (Every time I put a calendar event on my phone, it beeps to warn you about it until you click OK.) It can be quite annoying to say the least. :) Anyways, the rest of VBS went pretty well. Some of the kids got extremely annoying at times, and I neared exhaustion just sitting around in the foyer waiting for them to get done with music. (haha)

The rest of the business course went well. Wendesday we had a health speaker who almost no one agreed with. I agree that we should try to eat healthy, but she was basically saying that the Bible says we shouldn't eat meat, dairy, wheat, or anything else. (Supposedly she lives off of fruit and vegetables.) To prove her point she only used verses from the Old Testament, and never any verses from the New. Jesus, Himself, said not to pronunce anything God made unclean. So basically this woman is consistently following Old Testament rules that Jesus said aren't necessary anymore. Well each to his or her own. Not sure what that speech had to do with business in the first place anyways. Ah well. :)

That's all for now. Hope everybody is having a great week, and is managing to stay cool. Right now it is 100 degrees here at 8:16 in the evening. Sad huh? My mom is even allowing our pet cat to stay in the house at night time since it's so hot. It must be pretty darn hot for my mom to allow an animal in the house. :)

Pretty Busy

This is a pretty busy week for me as 1: I'm helping out with my church's VBS which started last night (it runs till Wednesday), and 2: I'm taking a business course for high schoolers at my local college. (It started today and runs through Thursday.) The first night of VBS got off to a rambunctious start when my mom found out that instead of teaching one grade like she had thought, she nwo had to teach three. (Luckily she ended up only doing two because they had to move one of the grades into another group.) I ended up helping her, and the kids were pretty good I suppose. Most of the boys probably wouldn't listen if their lives depended on it though, since all they seemed to want to do was play games. Hello. That's what recreation is for. *sigh* lol. But at least I don't have to help out by getting on the stage with some of the other youth and going through the songs and motions during the beginning rally. Now that's something I wouldn't do if my life depended on it. :)

The first day of the business course went pretty well. I was pretty nervous at first cause I didn't know a soul there, but I ended up making several friends so I was pleased about that. :) The speakers were pretty interesting, and one of our projects is to make jewelrey and sell it on Thursday during the final lunch. Hopefully we'll be making some good money off that (like that's going to happen. :) I really enjoyed it though, and the main message was very motivational. It basically said that as long as you study hard and have a good attitude about education and think, you can have any job you want. Makes you feel kind of guilty after having a whole summer doing almost nothing with the brain though. haha.

Pictures

Here are a few picture that me and my brothers took while on vacation. Enjoy.

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Well I've got to go get ready for youth now. We're playing Ultimate Frisbee which I stink at (as a result I don't get passed too very often. :) but it's not too bad. At least we're going out to eat afterwards. That better make up for it. :) haha