Today was an excellent day. I first went to get my power chain on my braces hooked back up. It slipped off two days after it was put on about three weeks ago. Plus, not long after that, the end of a wire started poking holes in my cheek. Now I have this spot that's all calloused and hard and it feels weird. Anyway, it got fixed.
Then I went over and babysat. I usually babysit three kids, but today I only had the two younger kids (by younger I mean that the toilet is a foreign object to them). It was great. I got paid seventy bucks for six and a half hours of work. Not bad. I think I might have to go shopping again soon.
Finally, I went to a friend's graduation party. He goes to my youth group and just got out of torture school (High school). I have a lot of respect for him. He loves God and has a great personality that shows it. He makes it into the top ten people I respect the most. I hope that he keeps his faith during college because that time in your life is like a faith killer. I've seen and heard of so many people going into college a Christian and coming out believe all this junk about evolution and atheism. It's really sad to think about it.
One last note. My grandfather got me a book of jokes for my birthday. A late gift, but a late gift is better than no gift at all, am I right *wink*? So expect a joke at the end of every post. Plus, I'm going to try and post an interesting, not so well known fact. It's to further your education and it's good for you.
I haven't gone through the joke book, but I do have a fact for you:
Gregor Mendel, "the father of genetics," twice failed the certification exam to become a high-school science teacher.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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!
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!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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.
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.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
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?!
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?!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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!
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!
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