Too many..

I took way to many pictures yesterday. It was just amazing. Everywhere we went was more pictures. But i want to complain about the heat in the school in this blog. Standing in line for the pormanede was horrible. It got so hot. People were standing against the wall trying to cool down. It was so terrible. It was such a nice day and we are all standing here sweating in our dresses before we see the public. Then at the dance i thought some people were going to faint after a while. It got pretty hot. You wouldnt even imagine. I think the school shoud maybe invest in a fan. Thanks that would be great.

Prom...

Such a big deal. Although fun very stressful. My first year of prom has officially ended and it has been good. I am completely tired and ready for bed but no i have to do homework. Sweet Life. The dance was amazing and so much funn. I love getting to dance with all my friends i think for almost five hours. Then i totally crashed at the sleepover. Today we went to the Water park of America and the mall of america. That was pretty fun, but the thing is that once you are all together for awhile you get vrabby with each other. And no one wanted to leave early so i have to stay up and do homwork now, which im not to happy about which is why im ending this blog now.

Relationships?!

In high school it seems that all everyone does is look for love. I will admit that i have done it to. It is always on peoples minds. It's the does he or she like me? Should i talk to them? Do they just want to have sex with me? These questions are constant. It seems like everyone has a whole in them until they fill it with someone. In high school it is hard to tell people that you love them. You can't just say it after two weeks, which is what most people do. Then you think about it, some people have been together for years and then college comes. It doesn't matter if you are in the same grade or not it is hard. You don't get to see each other everyday like you are used to. It is hard to stay together. Then you look back and say wow i wasted my high school years on this one person. When i could have been having fun and not caring who you flirted with or anything. That way no one could have the power to control you or being very clingy. I think its just better that you have friends. I will say though that if you have something special in high school you will have the strength to get through college. If you are meant to be it will happen.

My weekend of pure enjoyment :)

It all started on Friday when i left school early. and yes Mr.Worth i had a pass to leave. No parents for the whole weekend. It was a Whitney and Macy trip. We had a dance competition in Maple Grove. It was interesting getting there with Whitney driving through rush hour. But we got there and had some food. Then we had time to kill. We started driving and saw a wal-mart so we all said oh lets go there. Well turns out we were the only white people there... We got stared at alot from many people. Like what are three white girls doing here. After that experience it was time to dance. In ballet we got second and in jazz we got first. We were very proud of our performance. The we have another ghetto place... Our hotel. We were the only white people yet again. We got to our room and stayed in there and locked it. It was pretty creepy. The then next day I had to dance again and we didn't do so great but that was okay and then we went shopping! After all of that Whitney got to experience me driving home from the cities for the first time.

Dinner Party!

What a great time had by all! Getting there at five and spending time with a different group of people is always fun. The night started out with all the cooking. Sam Stanley is a amazing chef along with the help of her minion. That would be the rest of us. :) We all sat down and ate together, then Colleen's mom tried to take a picture. Evan now was chewing i think in all three pictures. After this we all changed into comfy clothes. We played outside for what seemed like hours. Colleen has a zip line and a swing and so much more. We had fun the the swing giving people crazy rides and such. Then after awhile of being outside her dad started the fire. It was probably the biggest fire i have ever seen. It was super hot to! We were having a contest who could get the closest. It was pretty epic! Then somewhere in the we started swing dancing! It was super funn. And now i now how to swing dance. :) Then the night went on and we played truth or dare which was pretty epic! Then came the night games. That was interesting, and winding down the evening with a movie. Great Night with Friends! and Family?

The Last Song

DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN!
The title means more than people would think. I recently went to go see the last song. Omg it was such an amazing movie. I will admit i was a little hesitant to go see it as being Miley Cyrus was in it and i wasn't sure if she would ruin it for me. Turns out she was a way better actor in this movie than i thought she would be. The way she played her character was unlike anything she has done before. But anyways, the movie is all happy happy in the beginning and it goes on like a normal divorced parents situation. Then towards the middle/end of the movie they drop this huge bomb on your lap. Her dad as cancer. Now why does ever movie have to end with the dad or someone having cancer. These are the movies that hit me the hardest as i have been personally effected by a loved one with cancer. This makes the tears well up in my eyes and i get a lump in my throat. I was holding back tears for much of the movie. I just cant stand to see it. In the end i wont tell you what happens because i don't want to ruin the movie more than i already did. But go see it as you will not regret it.

Thank You!

Its our spring break finally. The weather is nice and super pretty outside. Its so great! And the reason my blog is entitled thank you is because all the teachers were so nice and didn't give any homework over break. Now i have nothing to worry about and i can spend time with my friends and family. Its just a great day now because i don't have to take my science test because it doesn't work. I'm going to have a great break. Sorry these blogs were lame and super short.

hmm....interesting

So, I'm just sitting here in the computer lab. Waiting to take my bio test that i am super nervous for. The whole class wen to the website and there is no test assigned on the website. We are waiting for assistance. ha. Everyone is just talking away and I'm sitting here writing my blog so that i don't have homework over break. Now that we are still sitting here, i am worried that we wont have time to finish the test. But if we don't have to take the test today i will be super excited. I will get more time to study over break. But hopefully someone will fix this soon so we can take it. But it looks as if we don't have to take the test today. Lucky us! We dont have to take it!!

Dance Competition.

All i feel like i do with my life is dance. I do love it but there comes a time when i want a break from it. But after a long weekend of tigers roar we had a dance competition. It was in the cities. We only had to do a trio. I did a ballet one and a jazz one. We didn't really like the scores we got. We got high silvers in both. Only people in the dance world would know what that meant. But i thought in jazz we didn't do so good and the score did reflect. But, the ballet one at least for me was amazing. It was my personal best performance. Hopefully when we got to our second competition that we will do better and try to improve until then.

Tigers Roar

Wow! What a week. I feel like i haven't been home at all. Everyday after school was tigers roar practice. Then the show actually came and don't get me wrong it was a lot of funn. We got to do show choir and then a drastic change came for me. I went from being funn and happy to being creepy and scary. I had dark eyeshadow on and we walked through the fog. Our dance was pretty amazing and i got a lot of good comments from people. I think i may have scared some of the younger kids at the show though. But i thought that every night went well for everybody performing. It was just an all around amazing show so you should have been there.

Short Day :)

On Wednesday this week as we all no we had a shortened day. Which i took to my best advantage. I spent it with Kelly (aka Jelly Bean). It was such a needed time because we haven't gotten to hang out for awhile. We didn't because of everything i was doing. It took up most of my time and i never got to hang out with friends. Besides the friends that i was in things with. But i finally got to spend time with Kelly, so we were starving and went out to eat. This is quite funn because for some reason people think i look like people they no. Then afterward we just drove around for awhile and talked about much needed things. Then it was back to my house. We watched Gossip Girl. I was so much funn to do that again. We were good girls to and did some homework together. It was just such a great time.

Dancing with the stars!

This past Saturday i danced for dancing with the stars. It was really very funn. I got to see all the amazing dancers from around in the area. I also got to perform when the red cross was tabulating all the scores. I was an awesome experience. The first show i don't think we were as excited because well...it didn't go so great. For me at least. There were a few times where i had messed up and i shouldn't have. But i guess we are only human and we do make mistakes. Then the second show was absolutely fantastic. Everybody got the dances and was having funn. I did a ballet duet with Whitney and it was so good. I think everybody in the audience liked it to. But overall i had a funn day and an experience. I really hope i get to do it again next year.

Hosting...

This past Saturday was Albert Leas show choir competition. I was hosting with Morgan and Stacia. We had North St. Paul. We all were a little nervous because we had heard that there director wasn't very nice. But we were keeping our hopes up. As it turns out she was at a funeral. Which was sad but in its own way very reliving to me. Because i didn't have to deal with her all day then. For awhile we just sat in the room and didn't talk to anyone but as the day went on we met more people from there choir. They were all very nice. We met a guy named Jake we was super awesome. The is all i need to say about him. But they made the finals which was completely sweet. We stayed with them all day and will probably visit Jake sometime is this year!

Just another blog about Mock Trial.

Well this past week we went to the state tournament for mock trial. I had a great experience with all my team mates. I think we are probably the funnest mock trial time there and the least dorkiest to. ha. So i decided to stay up really late on Tuesday night. Till around a little after one. It was so much fun though. I did pay for it the next day though. Then when we got up we all were just in sweats. When we get done there everyone is in the court attire. It was probably the best thing ever. We got some really funny looks. After the awards ceremony i think everyone was a little disappointed in what we found out. We had lost all three trials. We though we had for sure won the first one though. As it turns out we did. We didn't win on points but we won on ballads which counts more. So i think it was a fairly good way to end the season and step up our game for next year.

AHHH!!!

I HAVE TO WRITE THIS BLOG IN ALL BOLD BECAUSE THIS IS HOW EXCITED I AM!...........GOSSIP GIRL STARTS AGAIN ON MONDAY. It is supposed to be one of the best seasons so far. And they are pretty hard to top because each and every episode is so good and full of drama going on everywhere. It is truly a chick show and i will admit that right here. Some people say that Gossip Girl pushed it to the limit this season, but i don't think that at all. They just Incorporated things that happen in real life to there show and some of the characters are very blunt about it. This is what i love so much about Gossip Girl though. You never know what is going to happen next and I can never wait for the next episode to come out. Sometime I go through with drawl if i haven't watched it in a long time. I think right about now i need to get to watching it. So, Bye!

Yet another blog about show choir...

Again this weekend we had a show choir competition down in Iowa. We had to get up in the morning and practice before we left. Then it came time to leave and this bus ride was only two hours instead of three which was a lot less painful to sit through. But I sat with Stacia because we always know that we sit with each other. This time we got the table spot. But anyways to the competition itself. We had a fairly good performance. We still got last place but i was happy with how we did. There was only one spot where we majorly screwed up. And it wasn't just one person but the show choir as a whole. On the very last song to, but we pulled through it and ended with a bang! Then we get to sit and watch some amazing show choirs who I'm sure by the looks of them spend a lot of time on there set. It pays off for them to. I do wish we could put more time into our show and have the people who don't care not be in show choir because they are the people who bring us down.

Show Choir Competition!

Waking up at 5:15 to get ready for the long day ahead of me. Then my mom has the curl all of my hair. This was a workout in itself. That took longer than expected but i made it to the bus on time. We got there after a 3 1/2 hour bus ride. We settled in for the day and got ready to preform. Our performance went way better than anyone had expected. We did take fourth though but we were happy with our performance which is what counts i think. Then the rest of the day we spent watching other show choirs and some of them were absolutely amazing. Granted they probably have a very large budget. But after awards i was ready to go home. It was only like eight but i think everyone was just ready to leave. We couldn't leave right away though because the fire alarm decided to go off during the middle of awards. But after a good bus ride home i got to go sleep. :)

State Bound :)

Mock Trial is going to state this year. It is only the second time Albert Lea has gone to state. We steam rolled through our first two trials, then on the third found some difficulty and the same on the fourth. As we entered the court room for finals the nerves were high. And it didn't help that the court room liked like a hospital room. It had gray walls and dim lighting and after sitting in there for three hours it made you feel sick. The room would start to spin at times. But we pulled through and were successful. I think the whole team is still in shock. It hasn't sunk in at all. During the trial though there was one part that will probably be a joke for awhile. The opposing lawyer gave Aaron a piece of paper and a pencil. I was sitting there and just smiled like i cant believe you just did that. But like any witness would do he ran out most of there time. That was there worst mistake. But we are going to state because of it :)

Dress Shopping.

I just need to let so of my disappointment out on my blog. Every time we go prom dresses shopping i find nothing. Nothing at all. And i don't have anytime what so ever to go out and have a lot of time to find a dress. And then if i do find a dress it will be to expensive for my mother. She will tell me its other your sophomore year of prom. I understand that but the money she wants to pay is not enough money for anything. I don't really no what to do. I mean i want to go but is it really worth all the stress?
You have to:
1.Find a dress
2.Get a group
3. Find the person willing to have the punch party
4.Figure out where your going for dinner
5. What you are doing after the after prom party
6. Where you are eating breakfast
7.What your doing the next day

I'm just not sure its worth it all.

Can Drive!

Yesterday i finally got my licence. I was so nervous and scared for if i would pass or fail. I worried all day. Then when it came time to take my test all the nerves just simply went away. I got in the car and did the test. After i was done with all the parking i was home free. There was no way i could fail now. It was so exciting when you told me that i had passed. He was kind of interesting. It seemed to me that he hated his job. But anyways i drove a lot yesterday just because i could drive without a parent in the car. Overall i would say that was a great day!!!!

My Birthday!

I am officially 16 years of age now. Since yesterday. I don't really feel any different though. It was just another day because i was on the show choir retreat so i never really got to celebrate. Which was fine because i did the day before. And with my friends we had such a good time! But working on dances on my birthday wasn't how i exactly wanted to spend my birthday but it turned out to be okay. The show choir children made me feel special about it being my birthday. Especially Sam and Morgan. Those guys are to nice to me. Oh and i also got flowers grams at school. :). But the best present is one that will sit in my driveway. I love it. My parents bought me a car! Which was so nice of them to do. And the best part is that its just a tad bit nicer than my brothers first car! :)

Show Choir Retreat :)

Hmm...well the show choir retreat was pretty epic this year. We worked our butts off so hard, so i really hope it pays off. Everyone singing happy birthday to me to was pretty amazing i would say. You have so many talented people singing to you is pretty cool. But anyways we had 1/2 hour break and we practiced from like one to nine. Everyone was totally wiped by the end of dancing and singing all day long. I had people tell you that you practice all day and i just thought they were just saying that but i guess not. It was actually very very true. And then the next day we got to clean everything. Lucky enough sophomore girls got the bathroom. Thanks so much guys. Ha. It wasn't to bad but i would have rather cleaned a cabin. Overall the trip was a success!

Trust. Honesty.

Trust and honesty are such big things in the world today. I don't understand why so many people lie. You will just have to tell another lie to cover up the first one. Don't people understand that lying hurts people? The one person you thought you could trust, then you find out they were lying to you. It doesn't matter if the lie is small or big it is a lie and nothing can take that back or fix what you said. Because now that trust that you thought you had in that person is gone and never coming back. So everyone just be honest and when you are honest, you can be trusted. It really is a great feeling to no that your friends and family trust you enough to tell you secrets. It shows me that they can really trust me.

Yet Another Blog About Mock Trial...

Well our season has not come to an end yet. Which is so exciting. We beat Century in our last round trial. Now its on to sections. Feb. 18th is the first round of sections. And we are going to bring it! We are so determined to make it to state this year. We want it so badly that we will try our hardest to get it. I like writing blogs about mock because no one ever knows what we do or how hard we work because we are not a sports team. I would really like to get recognized for something that we do. Either in the paper or the Alahasa. It would be nice to have people know what we do and how we do it. I'm sure if we make it to state that we wont get a pep rally or anything like the sports teams do. I think that we deserve one out of all the hard work we put into it. Yes it may not be physical endurance but we do put in a lot of thought. I think its finally time for us to get some credit for what we do!!!

Recap of Jan. 30th

Wow having to wake up early for the second day in a row is really hard. Your so tired and yet you have to wake up and get out of bed. But i was glad i did. In the morning we had solo ensemble. Show Choir was first and we did alright. It wasn't fabulous. Which is to bad. We took the judges critique very well though and did what he asked. We got an excellent. Which is okay and not okay at the same time. Then shopping for a suit coat for mock. I got a really pretty one. If you can have a pretty suit coat. ha. But then back to solo ensemble for my solo. It was went amazing. I got a Superior to! That totally made my day. Then Morgan and Whitney came over to get ready for winterfest! So much funn! The dance was pretty fun to. Average i would say. But you gotta love it. Then sleep over at Rachel's. What a fun night. Sam and summer thank you for watching t.v. all night and then when i wake up in the middle of the night thank you for that. ha. Wow id say it was a magnificent day!

Mock!

Well..wow this year for mock trial has been crazy. Absolutely crazy. But funn in a way. So now that we got our new teams. We have been doing really well. Extremely good. We had our first round trial against Waseca. We pretty much blew them into dust. There were many things that we did so good at. We won that trial by 42. Then the second round trial was with Waseca again. Which we were very pumped about it. We had to wait till one to do our trial so we sat in a conference room and had some funn. We played catch phrase which is a blast. Watching them try to explain there word is very funny. But then we had our trail. It went very well. We crushed them again winning by 41 points. So.....were going to sections!!! We would have to lose by 80 points not to go to sections and i really believe we will win our third round trial. We are so very very pumped!!! Great job this year guys!

Oreo Balls :)

So last night me and Morgan decided to make Oreo balls. So we go out to Hy-Vee and get the stuff to make them and then head back to my house. We have been planning this for awhile now. They are super good! So now we start taking the cream out of the oreos and put the oreos in a bag. Then Morgan starts mixing things together while i crush the oreos. I was having a lot of funn and then i picked up the knife to break them up even more. Well that was a bad idea because i broke the bag.oops. oh well. So then i pour the oreos into the mixer. Then i was like good like Morgan. cause she has to mix it. After that was all down it was time to dig in. We had to roll them into balls. The feeling on your hands was gross!! It really felt like rubbing poop together.( not that i would no what that feels like.) Morgan quit and washed her hands so i had to finish. Then it was time to freeze them. Then this morning my mom dipped them in almond bark. And it turns out we made them a little to big. ha ha. oh well they are still so good!!

DaNcE!

Its my passion. Its my life. Dance. Its what helps me escape the normal world. That makes me forget all of my problems. I never want to stop. There are just times when you are moving your body, trying to keep up with the music. But the best times are when your body is moving you. Just flowing with the music. Its what i call dancing with your whole body not just movements you are doing. They have a purpose to fulfill. Such as happy, sad, angry, hurt, confused, excited. Just about anything you can think of. Dance is so much more than what people think it is. It takes skill and endurance and most of all passion. I'm never going to stop and i don't even think i have the power within to stop. It is something that i love!!

Winterfest?!

I'm on student council and we are so be hide right now with the planning. The two days we had off in the morning was not a good things for us. But then anyways this year I'm not really sure if i even want to go. I mean why go through all the hassle of getting a dress. Then having to go tanning and getting your hair done. Its also the same day as solo ensemble so who nos when we will get back. In a since i want to go and probably will. I guess I'm just not sure about the whole thing. It doesn't seem as funn where i no i could be having fun else where. But I'm going to go for Whitney because it might be the last school dance i can go with her to. Not unless i get asked to prom but that is highly unlikely. So we will see how the cookie crumbles.

GRR!!

I am using this blog to vent my feelings for the second round mock trial judge we had. Everything is just going wrong. My team is all there but the other team is short a lawyer. So we start and someone walks in. He does a direct then leaves!! Oh and they never even got to finish there opening. Then a girl on there team asks to use the bathroom during trial!! What is this team thinking? So trial goes on for a little bit longer and we object. The opposing council is trying to say her way out of it. We no what is the rule out of it but she clearly doesn't. So the judge goes are you talking about party-opponent? Well she trying to but doesn't no it and you just cant give it to her then!!! Its totally not fair. You cant give it to them. Then through out the trial he is giving advice..you cant do that. So finally the other lawyer comes back in from being who nos where and gives a cross. He is assuming things that have happened during trial! But he doesn't no. So then at the end its time for the critic. I love to hear what i have done wrong or need to improve on so i can get my things down for section play. But no the judge just sits there and yells at us. None of us no where this is coming from because he looked like he was sleeping the whole time. So he were sitting there while he is yelling and he tells me something that i cant say in my closing statement but i clearly can and i no that. It was the worst trial i have gone through. Then on top we lost and that is something that i will ponder forever.

KNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KNN stands for something. Only some people might be able to figure it out. It means something or i should say someone special. Well ill tell you that it stands for Kelly Nicole Nelson. My best friend. She just recently received that title. This girl will listen to everything i have to say. And then actually tell me the truth on her opinion not just oh that's great. That's one thing i love about her. She will tell me as it is and that's good sometimes. The other thing i absolutely love about Kelly is that we can do anything together. Except maybe jump off a cliff because one of us would probably end up pushing the other off and not going together. She is up to doing just about anything. And shes not afraid to be or do anything stupid and i love that.We have some many good memories together already and I'm sure more to come!! There is so much more i could say about Kelly but words and letters can not express how much I LOVE HER!!

It's over

Our Christmas break has come to an end. I find it as mixed emotions. So many things happen over break. And i don't want to say goodbye to staying up late and sleeping in. The rest was much needed! But now its time to go back to school.... Even though i don't really want to, i want to see all the people i didn't get to see over break. Get some more social interaction. That would be nice!! Oh but what a good break it was i hope to have more good times in the future. :)

Everything and More!

I'm sure that everyone is writing about New Years. The fact this that we all think of it differently with each of our own experiences. New Years Eve was spent with friends for me. What good friends i have that are up to doing anything. Even if it means going out at one in the morning in the freezing cold to go sledding and just play in the snow. Its really a great feeling that your friends aren't afraid to have fun. Also when you all pile into your friends bed and just sit there for an hour and talk. These are the best times with your friends. What would we do without them. They made my New Years all that i could have asked for. :) Thanks girlies!!