Not Much Happening

Greeings,

I would just like to say that the title is a complete lie. So much has been happening. I can only cover the big events. Maybe I'll mention some of the other points of excitment later.

I guess I'll start way back at March 9th and 10th. The speech tornement went very well (despite the fact that it was rather small) and I think everyone enjoied themselves. I was entered in persuasive and impromtu (did I already say that?). As usual, our club (AOSDA) basically swept everything. One guy won 1st place in impromtu and homurous duo. By the end of the awards ceremony, my hands were so tierd from clapping that it hurt to turn a door knob. Afterwards, we rearranged everything in it's correct place and headed over to Marmon Valley Farms for the after-tornement fellowship, which was fun.

On March 13th we had a boy scout troop meeting election night. I'm now the SPL in my troop.

Moving right along: on the 17th I got my driving permit. All beware. I do have to say that some of the questions on that test were pretty silly. Such as: Who has the right of way when two cars pull up simotaniously to a 4-way intersection? Answer B was "The person who honks his horn first."

19th: My Eagle Scout Board of Review. That was fun. No, really it kind of was. Basically, three guys sit around and ask me questions about scouts.

23th and 24th: The first campout of the year. Isaac probably has more about this on his blog. The couse of events was get there on Friday evening, sleep, do an orienteering course on Saturday morning and hike 7 miles with 50lbs on our backs in the afternoon. This event really deserves another post. I think I'll have to write up a different one just for it.

Today: Went to church. Pastor just finished going through Song of Solomon. I'm helping out in the 1st grade class which is lots of fun. The kids are so fun to work with. This week we were studying vineyared workers in the Bible. We talked about Ahab and Naboth's vineyard. The teachers weren't trying to go this way, but we wound around to a discussion on the death of Jezebell. All the girls were pretty grossed out. Enjoyable.

A Post

Some (or maybe just one) of you were (was) asking for a new post.

Here it is.

Good night.

more later...

My Weekend is Almost Over

First, an explanation of the title:
At 6:30pm tonight, my weekend will be as good as over. Time will fly from that point on. Everyone in our house has spent the past months or so preparing for this weekend and it's going to be a blur. At 6:30 we leave for GCC (my church) to set up chairs and tables, I don't expect to get back until 9:30 or so. By then, I will be in need of and willing to receive some much needed sleep, because at approximately 5:30am my alarm clock will begin its annoying routine. After that it's a game called "How fast Can Everyone Take a Shower, Brush Their Teeth, Eat, and Put a Suit (and for me put on a tie)" I'm expecting the tie part to take the longest. Any s reading this have no idea how hard it is to get those things the right length.
After that the most likely schedule will probably go something like this: (I know I keep putting up schedules, but right now, my life is just on big calendar)

7:00 - Jump into the car as the last person as Dad is just starting to back it out of the garage.
7:45 - Arrive at church and begin the process of introducing myself to people so that I can help them when they need chairs moved
8:00 - Register and get my name tag
8:30 - Meet with the rest of my club for prayer
8:45 - flood into the sanctuary with everyone else for devotions and announcements
9:30 - Head off to watch the first debate round (note: by now my stomach will most likely be complaining)
9:45 - arrive at first debate round (I'll probably watch the team that won the novice division last tournament)
10:45 - after being bored to by stats and arguments concerning illegal aliens and ists and pilot's licenses, check in with Mom for any tasks and if none, head to watch one of our club's JV students
11:00 - Watch a JV (Junior Varsity) IE (Individual Event)
12:15 - LUNCH!!!!
2:00 - (yeah, really long lunch break) watch debate again

Anyway, that just keeps repeating until 8:30 or so, when we will have closing announcements and prayer. After that, I'm going to be on the general clean-up crew. After everyone else has left, my speech coach and her son are going to spend the night at our house (on Friday), so as to save driving time.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. We're going to eat supper sometime AFTER we get home. Hehehe. (My stomach s these things.)

I would give you the schedule for Saturday, too, but I'm really starting to run out of time. So, I'll stop here and give you a review sometime on Sunday night (maybe). But whenever I get the next post up, I will (Lord willing) have pictures along with it).

That's all for now. Hmmm... That explanation was kind of long. O, well.

A Busy Week Ahead

Greetings,

First, I would like to apologize for not posting in a while, but a lot has been going on recently.

For starters, there is a speech and debate tournament (which I am participating in) at my church this Friday and Saturday, being as the rest of my speech club lives about 45 minutes east of here, my mom has been put in charge of a lot of the organization above and beyond what we need to do normally to prepare. I have no doubt that this week will be hectic. The following is a schedule for my week.

Monday: Prepare for speech tournament, work on room diagrams, practice persuasive and impromptu, try to get some school done (didn’t happen)

Tuesday: Prepare for speech club meeting, go to speech club meeting (leave 10:15am get back 5:45pm), eat supper (and man, I’m glad I crammed that in there)

Wednesday: Prepare for speech tournament, maybe do some school if I get the chance, prayer meeting, probably practice humorous duo with partner at church

Thursday: Last minute frantic preparations for speech tournament, school? (Yeah right), help set up at church for the tournament, go to bed early

Friday: wake up at 5:00am to go to the tournament and run around in a suit trying to get chairs to the right people, hang out with whoever from my club comes (with the addition of bumpas), and probably watch a few of the Jr. Varsity speech rounds, go to bed early

Saturday: wake up at 4:30am to go to the tournament and present persuasive speech and impromptu, talk to friends, play cards, and relax in between rounds, crash.

Anyway, that’s what I’m looking at for this week.

Other than that, I just have a couple of things to mention:

First, on Saturday, my sister found out that see had gotten a really big collage scholarship. Praise the Lord. He was undoubtedly working in that situation. Besides that, she also received another smaller (but still substantial) scholarship. Like I said God is working here, but this part’s even better: There was one scholarship that my sister was for, my mom mailed the package from the post office about a week ago (two days before the sent-by line). Yesterday, it came back to us in the mail without a stamp. Note: this was not our fault; the post worker had forgotten the stamp. Anyway, my dad called the people giving the scholarship and they were very nice and let my mom take the paperwork up there almost four days after the line! God is great!

And secondly, some of you will most likely be interested to learn that I have finally seen Pride and Prejudice (yes the A&E), well at least the highlights. Watching the movie, I had three thoughts, 1) Man, my pastor was right, this is a chick flick. 2) But it is pretty good. And 3) I’m going to memorize and use that first proposal by Mr. Darsey (ok, well maybe not use, but I thought that was one of the most interesting scenes).

So, anyway, I have lots to do.

Good bye.

Same Old and Blue Skies

Friday the 3rd of March 2007 was a typical Friday for me. Mom and two sisters went shopping, I stayed home, watched the rest, and did school. Had a chemistry test today, as I said, I like chemistry. Dad got back from England, we ate supper, and watched the Colgate Comedy Hour with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Yes, it is old, but the comedy was still good. Especially the add-libbing and line-forgetting and ing up. Live TV was so much fun. The commercials were kind of a joke, a mean, the "Halo- it glorifies your hair" line really started to get to me.

One thing I really have to mention about today was the weather. A week ago, I was bummin' because Winter's over so soon, but today was so warm! And the wind... Ah.... perfectly blue sky, scattered clouds, a bright mass of gas blinding me with rays of light... You just have to wonder, if there are days like this in a sinnful world, what will Heaven be like?

Here are a few pictures I snapped to try and capture this heat-wave:

Right now, I'm... well, writing a blog, but I have been working on learning JavaScript. :>)

I hope to be able to use some in my troop's website, or maybe here. hmm... I have to look into that.

Anyway, I'll be writing...

Man, you guys weren't kidding about fits with the blog editor.

Random Thoughts on School

For my first real post, I’ll share some random thoughts on the topic of school subjects. Maybe this will help you get to know me better.

I like algebra. Some people think I’m totally weird for that, but in a hectic life like mine, there are few things that are as predictable as math. Yes, God is my only constant, but I can’t understand Him (He wouldn’t be God if I could). Right now, I’m working in Algebra II and it’s lots of fun. The course I’m using is well... let’s say systematic (if not a little slow) so I haven’t gotten to hyperbolas yet, but I think they’ll be lots of fun.

I like chemistry. Some of you are choking right now. But really, I think it’s incredibly interesting. I love the way everything just fits together, especially the units. Hertz is really cool. I mean, what cooler measurement could there be besides 1/second! Hmm... Come to think of it Joules/grams*Celsius (the unit for specific heat) comes pretty close. If there’s a downside to it would be the memorization (particularly the ions). I not big on that, but I’m having fun with it; I’ve written the names of the 14 most common polyatomic ions on the front of index cards and the chemical formula on the back. I took all of these cards and taped them on furniture around the house, for example, the microwave is Ammonium (NH4 +), I’ve got a poster that’s Dichromate (Cr2O7 2-), and the book shelves are Phosphate (PO4 3-).

I don’t like grammar. I mean, I speak okay already. I don’t need to know that “have run” is past perfect tense. I simply cannot see any practical outworking of this subject. Yeah... Not much else to say about that.

I like literature (mostly). I like reading most books and learning about the background behind them (is that redundant?). Of course, there are some books like The Tale of Two Cities that put me to sleep. I think that was mostly because I couldn’t keep track of the characters. The cliff notes made much more sense.

I don’t know how I feel about speech. I’m not big on practicing the same memorized persuasive speech over and over and over and over... and over. However, the tournaments are lots of fun (well, until it’s my turn, but that’s not so bad any more). I really enjoy talking with friends from my club between rounds. Watching debate is fun, too. Oh, by the way, last tournament, a debate team from our club won first place for novice debate. The two on that team are probably the two people I hang out with most at speech, so I flipped when they won.

Well, those are the biggest school subjects I have right now. Hmm... My stomach says I should grab some food, now that I’ve spent half of my lunch break writing this post.

I’ll be writing...

Hello World!

Greetings!

This is the first of hopefully many posts. This blog will attempt to tell the story of the work of God in my life.

I do not guarantee any regularity in the posts, but I will try to keep ya'll up to date. Anyway, I'll be writing...