Homecoming!

Homecoming was the greatest!

With my school's Key Club that I am secretary of we planned Homecoming! The theme was based on a song called Loving Me, so we based the decorations on a silluotte of a couple and romeo and juliet. We apparently got the best turn out in 6 years for a homecoming dance at my school, it was awesome! I went stag with a few of my friends and we partied it up in our short dresses and high heels! After we went bowling it was way fun! Here are a few pictures from the night!:

Being 17 and much more!

Wow! I haven't gone on here for awhile. Lets see since then school had started, at has been almost a month of school now and it has been crazy! There has been a lot of homework, and crazy planning for Homecoming! Which I have to go decorate today in about an hour. I have also turned 17! Crazy! I am now 17! Which is pretty exciting! It was a great birthday that included a wonderful surprise of my friends waking me up in the middle of the night, midnight on Saturday the 13th with a cake and poppers and them singing Happy Birthday! Then after that we ate some of the cake and then they took me bowling! It was quite fun, and I actually bowled pretty well. Last night was way awesome too, it was my school Hillcrest High School, burning of the H pep rally. It was way cool with men's drill doing a amazing and funny performance and the candle light ceremony with the conclusion of many fireworks and the burning of the H that sent a huge fire ball into the sky! Tonight is the Homecoming football game and then Saturday will be the dance. Which I am actually not really going with anybody, me and my friends are just going stag! It will be fun! Well there is an update of the crazy life I am living and I shall get back to you some other time!
Lots of Love!

Start of School

I can't believe that school starts in a week from today! It is so crazy, it seriously has felt that this summer has only been like a week long! I am not sure how I feel about this coming school year, in some ways it will be really fun to see everyone again and go to school activities. In many ways though, it is going to be extremly hard. With the start of the major ib classes I will be taking I am going to have to be studying a whole lot more this year, and working twice as hard. Though I am excited for dance both at school and at Virgina Tanner that will be starting up. (Audrey I hope you have signed up this year!) No I did not just talk to myself, I am talking to my other friend Audrey. Anyway, I hope ya'll are okay with school starting, it is kind-of excitng, who knows what the new year will bring along! Feel free to write what your schedules are like or what you are nervous or excited for in this upcoming, very fastly approaching school year, in my comments! Have a great year everybody!

Magnificent Michigan

Every year my family and I go to Michigan to a smaller town called Traverse City, which is the cherry capital of the world so they have a bunch of stores that are all based around cherries and make jam, salsa, and multiple different spreads out of cherries! Both of my mom's sisters and there famlies join us and it is pretty much one big famliy vacation that lasts for two weeks. It seems after many years, ever since I can remember that we have gone to Michigan that I would get sick of it but I don't. Every time we go we do mainly the same things like go to the little towns near by and shop around at the cute little stores, and go to the Suttons Bay Art festival, and many other things like that, but each time I get something else out of it. Sure sometimes spending that much time with the family can be intense and at times you just want to scream and go running from the cottage, but really those times I spend with my family are some of the best. Here are some of the things we did this year:

Swimming in the lake at night!

Have a campfire with s'mores at my aunts house.

See my aunts new little dog Biff! One of the cutest things ever!

Hiking the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes to Lake Michigan

Celebrating my Aunts B-day!

Celebrating my grandpas b-day 88!

Riding in the motorboat we rented, waterskiing and tubing behind it. Also floating in this cool balck tire my aunt bought.

Also we went shopping at a bunch of cute little shops, went to the Suttons Bay Art Festival, went to the North West Michigan Fair where we got air brush tatoos, and old fashioned pictures taken. We also got a lot of sun and I tanned a little, and we went out to dinner a couple of nights. It was a very fun vacation and I was sad to leave, Michigan I will miss you until next year! -Audrey

Memories

Do it, you know you want to....1. Add a comment on my blog and leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot just do anything you remember!2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

San Fransisco Mission Trip

This past week I went to San Fransisco on a mission trip with an organization called CSM or Center for Student Missions. We had a wonderful city host named Mckenzie. We drove a long 12 hours to get to San Fransisco starting at 5:00 am on the 29th of June. The city itself isn't very big but there are many people of different cultures and many buildings packed together. We stayed in an Baptist church in lower Haight. On the first night we went to a Honduran resturaunt called La Piasa Resturante and had burritos and tacos that were delicious with some bannana plantains. On the second day we helped out at the Salvation Army and helped with their kids camp. We did a skit for them and my brother brad dressed up as a dog named Cooper. We went to the park with the kids and played with them their for most of the day. For dinner that night we went to a Tai resturaunt called Zen Kai. After that we went on a prayer tour where we saw many districts of the city. Some of these districts were in poverty and some were very wealthy. We went to this one point in the city where you can see a view of the entire city! The next day we went to a place called St. Vincent De Paul Society, where we served food for lower income and homeless people. After that we drove to Berkely and did a thing called Meet a Need. We got $20 and we could use it in any way to help a person or a group of people. We meet many cool people in this park called People's Park and ended up buying this guy named Ken some movie tickets, because it was something that he really wanted to do. We also handed out giftcards to people that we had brought along with us. After that we ended up walking around the Berkely campus, which was really beautiful. For dinner we went to a Indian Resturuant called One Dollar Curry House. The next day we helped out with the San Fransisco Rescue Mission, we helped with preparing food, sorting clothes in a thrift store, and helping with a church service. That night we went to an Italian resturaunt in North Beach called Pasta Pomadero. After that we went to Fisherman's Warfe and Giradeli Square. The next day we helped out at the Alameada Food Bank, where we sorted about 4 tons of oranges. Then we went and did a thing called a City Search, where we only got two dollars for lunch, a bus ticket, and money for a phone call. We had to leave other money, watches, jewelry, phones, etc., behind. We did this in the Haight Ashbury area. We ended up combining our money and buying a pizza and sharing it with this homeless guy in the park. That night we ate at the Baptist church and had burritos from a place called Azteca Mexican. Then we had a worship service with everyone there. The next day we went and passed out peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches to people in this square of San Fransisco. After that we went to a hospital called Luguna Honda and helped with the residents there. For dinner we went to this Chinese Resturaunt close to China Town. After we walked around China Town, where I bought a Komno. The next two days we spent time in Taho and stayed in a cabin on the lake. We got back yesterday at 6:30. It was an amazing trip!

"A little peep of myself"

Tres Algres (joys)

1. Mi familia


2. Mis amigos


3. Bailar (dance!)

Tres miedos (fears)

1. aranas (spiders)


2. muy enfermaria (getting really sick)


3. payasos (clowns)

Tres metas (goals)

1. Bailar Compania


2. IB diploma


3. viajando alrededor el mundo (traveling around the world)

Tres corriente obsesionantes/ coleccionars (current obsessions/collections)

1. Bailar


2. esquiar (skiing)


3. Musica

Tres sorprendente hechos de mi (suprising facts about me)

1. Yo soy una gemela. (I am a twin.)


2. Yo construi una casa en Rosarito, Mexico. (I built a house in Mexcio!)


3. Me gusta yoga. ( I like yoga.)