Friends

Throughout highschool I have made an endless number of friends. I feel very luck to have so many. Even though many of them have gone to college we remain friends and still get together whenever we can. I've gone through some rough times, and without my friends I'm not sure if I would have made it. I'm not one of those people who, being a girl only hangs out with friends who are girls. In fact this year you will most often find me with my friends Colton, Scott, and Tyler. I am the odd one out, and they don't let me forget this. Sometimes it does bug me a little, but looking back on this school year, I wouldn't have had it any other way. Those guys are hilarous, and we've had some pretty ridiculous times. When the Christmas decorations went on sale for 90% off at Dollar General, we bought out the supply of spray cans of snow for window decorating. For about two weeks we snowed two or three peoples cars a day, and sometimes each other. We also bought pool noodles recently, tore them in half and used them to fight with. That was one of the best days of the week by far, maybe even the best days of the semester thus far. People may think it odd that I hang out with a group of guys, but honestly, I'm not too worried about it. We're all friends, we're having fun, and thats all that matters. I'm not saying that these three guys are the only friends I have, or that they're the only ones I hang out with. No, that's not how it is at all. But there are days that if it weren't for these three guys, I wouldn't even worry about coming to school. They've made my senior year a memorable one, and so have so many of my other good friends. For that, I thank you all, and I owe each one of you a huge high five.

Speech

Yesterday was the district speech contest and I had high hopes. Being a senior, I knew that this would be my last year to make state and show everyone what I have learned being a part of the speech team. At the beginning of the season I had a great deal of finding a script. For anything. Having had a great deal of success in Humorous prose all through high school, I wanted to find a great humor script and just kick major but in humorous. I found nothing, and was left greatly disappointed. As disappointed as I was I did not become discouraged. I was the team captain and the only senior on the team, so I had to show my team mates that even though you might stuggle and hit some road blocks, if you have determination you can still succeed. And i did succeed. I threw together an entertainment last minute before a meet and place at two meets with it. Before conference I picked up a simple humor speech, not at all what I was looking for, but I placed at conference with it. Christie and I also picked up an amazing duet script that looked very promising. We did great with it. The duet became my only hope to make state, and even though I have school and work to worry about, I worked on that duet in the mornings with Christie, and worked on my lines alone when I could find time.

I was very nervous yesterday for the meet. I was so afraid that I was going to choke, and let Christie, Coach Lee, and the entire team down. Christie and I walked into the room out of breath and nearly sweating because we had just lugged our heavy table up 3 flights of stairs to the third floor of Perkins County High School. We were first up to speak. We had to take a minute or two to catch our breath and then we were ready to go. This tiny classroom was full. There were people standing along the back wall because there was no more sitting room.

Christie and I looked at each other, checked the judges, and then we began. I was so nervous about my lines I was shaking and felt sick to my stomach. Going first in a round is often very intimidating, but I'm glad we were first. We rocked it. Both of us nailed our lines and performed great. I felt very confident that we placed well and hopefully qualified for state.

At awards we were standing awaiting our medals and all the nerves returned. Christie and I recieved fourth place and did not qualify for state. Now, I know my opinion is a biast one, but honestly I felt as though we had beaten every duo in that room, and to recieve fourth was an insult. Districts is very different than the rest of the season and anything can happen. As dissappointed as I am, I feel as though I had a very good senior season.

Seattle bound?

Ok. So college is staring us all in the face. Its pretty much invading each and every one of our bubbles, and I'm not gonna lie, I'm really kind of scared. Don't get me wrong, I am hardcore excited to get out of the house and make a worthy attempt at making it in the real world on my own. I think I'll be able to handle it, I've pretty much been doing well on my own since the beginning of last summer. But its not being on my own that scares me. Its where I want to go that scares me. I want to go to the Art Insititute of Seattle really bad. I have this evil plan to attend there, get my Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts for graphic design and take over the world via advertisments. Just kidding. Anywho. I've lived in the panhandle my entire life. I've moved 3 times, but never have I once moved out of the panhandle. It's sad I know. I've also always lived in the country. I sort of lived in town this past summer....but only sort of. So a move to the ginormous city of Seattle would be quite the culture shock for me.

I think, however, that the change would be good for me. I mean I want to get out there, see what the real world is like for myself. And, I suppose, if that means diving headfirst into a city i don't know, then so be it. I think that the landscape would be very pretty up there. I like rain so that factor won't be be too much of a problem. Hopefully there will be somewhere that I can longboard. If not I'll go crazy. And I think the music scene up there is supposed to be pretty sweet.......

Anywho, I'm really pretty scared about the whole situation....