THIS SUMMER

Summer should be a time of relaxation. A time to just chillax (relax and chill at the same time) and enjoy the freedom. For me, however, this is not how my summer is going to roll. In June, I'm going to three different camps: One three day camp, one five day camp, and one week long camp. I'm excited about all of them, but it is kind of depressing that I have to wait until July to stay home and do nothing. I'm sorry, did I say do nothing? My bad. I meant have friends from Mexico stay for a week and do stuff with them, have four football practices a week, have youth group events every Wednesday night, and whatever else my mom decides to sign me up for.
Back in my last post, I mentioned that I was going to take some placement tests. I'm trying to get into a physics class at Ivy Tech, but I have to score high enough on a math test to take the class. Well, supposedly almost no one tests into the class. Guess who did this time?! Nope, not Hitler, guess again. Nope, not Santa Claus. Me! Gosh, took you long enough to guess. I tested high enough that I not only can enter the physics class, but I also got a high enough score that I could take their Calculus class if I wanted too. I feel like Einstein, minus the crazy hair.
So expect a lot of posts from me. Since I'll be gone most of June, the posts will be spaced out, but I'll probably spread each camping adventure into several posts so I don't bore you with a post so long it'll make the Lord of the Ring Trilogy look like a children's book.
And with that odd metaphor still messing around with your brain, I shall end this post.

SAT

Okay, so you probably freaked out because I said that if I didn't post my scores, then I didn't do well. Worry no more. I simply forgot to post them immediately (funny how even when I don't have school to worry about, I still forget to blog). Anyway, here are my scores:
Math- 690
Critical Reading- 740
Writing- 650
Total- 2080
Not to toot my own horn, but I must say that I'm pretty smart.
Because I beat a senior in my youth group (he scored a 1700), my youth pastor is taking me out to lunch. We're going to Mongolian Barbecue! I love that place. You can make just about any combination of foods that you want.
That's all. I don't know when my next post will be. Maybe tomorrow. I have some tests I'm taking today to see if I can get into a college class at Ivy Tech or IUPUI.
Wish me luck!

SIXTEEN

Yay! I am now sixteen years old! I'm so proud of myself for having made it this far. Of course, I had help from my family, friends, teachers, youth pastors, and of course, God. Thanks guys!
I had tons of fun this past weekend. On Friday, I had two of my best friends over for a sleep over. We played Xbox and went to see the new Robin Hood movie. It was pretty good, although the plot wasn't what I thought it would be. Still a good movie. Then on Monday night after the co-op's performance I went to another sleep over at another friends house. We walked in a huge circle through some fields. Since it had rained, it was like a mud pit. We ended up taking our shoes off so we could actually make some progress. Then we stayed up watching movies until 4ish. The next day we rode our bikes to Frosty Boy. Yum!
Today, I am going hiking at Turkey Run with some friends from co-op. I've never been, so I hope it's fun.
I get my SAT scores today. If they're good, I'll tell you. If I don't tell you, well, hope my parents haven't killed me yet.

THE END

Yesterday was the last day of co-op and it was awesome. First, we had this huge test in physics. It actually was only twelve questions long, but they were tough. At least they weren't as hard as our teacher could have made them. I know I will only get partial credit on two of them because she mentioned a couple mistakes right after I turned my test in. Oh well. Too late to change anything. This week we have part 2 and part 3 of the test.
Drama went very well. The first run through of the play was not so good. Several people forgot their lines. Come on! It's the last practice before dress rehearsal! Know your lines already! Anyway, second rehearsal went really well. We had only one minor mistake (on my part). Yes, I know I just said that we should have our lines memorized, but my line is really a string of short sentences ("Uh-hu. Thank you. Thank you very much"). I accidentally said Oh yeah instead of Uh-hu. Since I'm supposed to say it like Elvis, I threw myself off track and had to cover by saying something different. At least it wasn't a total flop.
then I drove (yes!) to Starbucks and got a half price frappuccino. Then we went to Caleb's baseball game in which they won by infinity to like, seven. Plus, since it was cold, I ran around the ball park and scored my best time for running a mile: 6.5 minutes! Yes!
That's all. Hopefully once school ends, I will have more time to do things blog worthy.

GOOD GRIEF!

Good grief! I haven't posted in ages. My life isn't very busy. It is (or, was) just school, school, and more school! Not anymore though.
First, I took the SAT. I hate tests, but I hate tests that last more than three hours. However, I believe I did pretty well. I don't think I made any huge mistakes in my essay, my critical reading seemed easier than usual (hope that's a good thing, not a sign of total failure), and the math went very well. I only left four or five questions blank on the whole test, at least three of them math questions that totally stumped me. I hate graphs, did you know that?
Anyway, I have better news to tell. Guess. No seriously, guess. Ha! You're wrong! I am definitely not going to China with a purple elephant as a buddy. Good try though.
Actually, I am going to (play fanfare here)... The Naval Academy for a summer camp! Woohoo! I applied early March and I've had to wait forever to see if they accepted my application. They had to check our grades and our activities outside of school to see if we had the right qualities. I guess I passed the "test" (I hate tests, especially ones that take two months, did you know that?). At the week long camp, we'll learn about engineering disasters (such as the titanic), cryptology and code cracking with computers, computer programming, and robotics. We also get to go to the Air and Space museum in D.C. I'm totally pumped. I'm leaving June.
That's pretty much it. Once June comes around, get ready for a stream of posts. I'll have so much to talk about. And you have all summer to read my posts. Isn't that exciting?!

HE IS RISEN!!

Woohoo! He is risen!!! I love Easter. And not just the candy and the eggs and the fluffy bunnies. I love how Jesus rose from the dead. It's like a slap in the face for Satan. Haha, you loser! Jesus beat you! I mean, Jesus already had taken away our sins by dying on the cross. We'd already been saved. So rising from the dead is a double whammy. Go rub some dirt on it, Satan. It'll stop hurting after, say, infinity.

So anyway, I'm so excited for spring break. I've probably had a total of three or so hours last week of free time (not including Saturday). I can't wait to wake up on Monday and not have a paper to write. Wait a minute! I do have a paper to write! NOOOOOOO! I guess that I'll have to put up with school a couple more hours.

Besides school, not much else has happened. I think that that my life is (or rather, was) stuck in a rut called a "non-spontaneous/interesting/fun event zone". Until this weekend, when my Grandpa came down, I didn't have anything blog worthy.
That's all. Go celebrate Easter!

DRIVING, BEING OLD, AND NAMES

Finally! After a year of pleading with my dad, at last we've started the process to be able to drive. First, we have to complete two and a half weeks of online studying. It's only going to take that long because we can only do one lesson per day, when I easily could do three or four in a day.

Besides that, nothing else is going on. I'm studying to take a test to become an umpire at the organization my brother plays for. The rule book is about as interesting as Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Obviously, it isn't exactly a gripping book. There are cliff hangers though. Often I feel like hanging myself off a cliff! But I won't do that, because then I'd miss out on lots of stuff.

I found out what job I want when I'm done working in the military. I'm going to help research and create a machine much like the one in the movie Iron Man. They've already got a good start: look up the XOS Exoskeleton. Right now. Before you finish the post.

Doesn't it look sweet?! That's my dream job right there. Except maybe working at a donut shop when I'm old. I've decided that I'm going to be one of those old guys that doesn't live in a nursing home but hangs around a neighborhood. Instead of acting like the guy from UP, I'll be the old man who is crazy and does things that might break his back or cause a heart attack. Which I guess is what the guy in UP does. I'll just do it without being mean. Maybe, when I know my life is almost over anyway, I'll go bungee jumping. If anyone wants to come, be my guest.

Last night was great. I once again proved to my family that I am the funniest guy in the house. The other siblings had no chance against my sarcastic and witty remarks. I don't know why I love being funny. I guess I like making people laugh.

Last thing. I looked up the meaning of names yesterday. I went through almost the entire co-op that I go to. My name means "bright fame", my brother Caleb's name means "faithful" or "dog", and my sister Rebecca's name means "servant of God". I won't go through everyone's name, but I did find out that Cameron means "crooked", "crooked nose", or "bent nose". As to my two best friends, Garrett means "to watch" or "bold spear" and Casey means "brave", "observant", or in the Polish root, "proclamation of peace". The best one was Gavin, which means "little hawk". I looked it up in Spanish and now I'm going to call him that.

That's all.
P.S. If you want to watch a great movie, watch The Emperor's New Groove. Awesome and funny Disney movie if I ever saw one (which I have).
OK, now that's all