Senior Spring Break

This could possibly end up breaking the world record for the longest blog post EVER because I have so much to say!

About five hours ago I got home from the best trip of my entire life! It was unbelieveable! I have NEVER had so much fun before and I am so upset that it all ended so fast!

Last Wednesday, I went to school, but it wasn't like every other day. After lunch, the Chambers singers and Chorale seniors, 37 in total, and 10 Chaperones went to the airport and borded a plane to Orlando. I had no idea just how much fun I would have for the next four days!

Thursday was our first day in Disney World. For half of the day we were allowed to go to any park we wanted, but at 4:00 Chambers performed in the park. Me and a few of my best friends decidded to go to Magic Kingdom, which by the way, is the most amazing place on Earth. I want to live there. Seriously. Everything was amazing! Everywhere I turned, I saw somethng exciting that made my heart glow! The attention to detail was unbelievable and made everything so interesting. My favorite rides in that park were Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain, both really exciting roller coasters. Around 1:00 though we had to leave and get ready for our performance. We performed at the Galaxy Theater in Magic Kingdom. It was a really awesome experience and we did really well. That night, the entire group of 47 met in Magic Kindom to watch the fireworks at Cinderella's Castle and the Spectromagic Parade directly after. Both were absolutely amazing!

On Friday, My group of friends and I went to Hollywood Studios, where I experienced the scariest moment of my entire life. This terrifying, but exciting and exhilerating moment was caused by a little ride called...The Tower of Terror. That was the scariest thing I have ever done, but I love it. I went on it twice and after the first time, I shook for about fifteen minutes! But, it was a lot of fun! My favorite ride of all, however, was in this park and it's called Rockin' Roller Coaster. It's completely dark except for neon signs and goes to the music of Aerosmith. At the start, it goes from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds and it twists and turns, corscrews and goes upside down! It was amazing!

Friday night, everyone was supposed to meet at Epcot to watch the fireworks show there, but it was raining so we didn't have to. Two of my friends and I decided to go anyway. We had soooo much fun running and dancing in the rain, going through all of the countries, and riding rides! And the fireworks show was oustanding! I'm not gonna lie, we all had tears in our eyes by the end!

Saturday, we returned to Epcot with the rest of our group of friends and had some more fun. We didn't stay long though. For half of the day we were at the hotel swimming and tanning by the pool! All of us got a little burnt that day...well a lot. That night, everyone met at Hollywood Studios to watch the show Fantasmic, which was fantastic! All of the big, nightly shows at Disney World are breathtaking!

Our last day was Sunday, and it was by far the best! One of the best days of my life! In the morning all 47 people went to Animal Kingdom to do the Safari first thing. After that we split off. My group went on a new roller coaster called Expedition Everest twice in a row! It was soooo fun! It goes in the light and the pitch dark, forwards and backwards, in the hot and cold! Amazing! (and there's a Yeti) After that, we went and saw Finding Nemo the Musical. It was a really exciting show and very interesting because it was a musical, so it was different from the movie in that sense. I liked it a lot. Following the show, a bunch of us traveled to Downtown Disney to eat lunch and do some shopping. Since it was our last day,we decided to splurge and have a nice, sit-down meal, so we went to Planet Hollywood. It was really cool and very tasty...but also pricey. That night, Magic Kingdom was open until 3 am, but we were only allowed to stay until 1. Last night was probably the best night of my life!! We were so wound up and it was non-stop laughing all night!! I was practically in tears through parts of it! I had so much fun and it was the absolute most perfect way to end the most amazing trip in history!!!

I'm Back!

Sooooooo.....
It's definitely been a little while since I have written. And by a little while I mean about four months, but no worries...i'm still alive!

Basically I've just been trying to survive senior year. Throughout this process I have officially been self-diagnosed with senioritis! I thought I could avoid it, but it hit me, and it hit hard. I am finding it almost completely impossible to stay motivated, but I'll live. After all, there are only 80 days until graduation!!! (Not that I'm counting down or anything)

But, what I'm really looking forward to in the near future is Spring Break! In 13 days I will be on a plane with all of my friends, going to Disneyworld!!! It's going to be amazing and I am soooo excited!! There are a couple things I should do before I leave though:
1) Find my digital camera (which has been gone for months)
2) Lose 10 0r 15 pounds (or maybe I just won't go to the pool)
3) Buy an entire spring wardrobe ($$$)

So as you can see, the next 13 days might be a little busy for me, but I will just focus on the fact that soon I will be in the sunny, warm weather of Orlando!! Because I've about had it with the sub-artic temperatures and weekly blizzards in Kansas.

Anyway, that's pretty much all that's been happening over the last four months. Very exciting. I know.

Senior year so far...

Okay, so I know it has been over two months since I last posted, but I have been extremely busy since school started!

So far, senior year has been very fun, but also very hectic!! It seems I get more and more homework everyday and it is hard to balance it all with work, dance and extracurricular activities, as well as battling senioritis! I am trying as hard as I can to have a bit of a social life, but it is not working out very well! Even if I spend a couple hours with my friends, I get behind.

I have taught my body, however, to live off of about 5 hours of sleep a night, and it works out okay, except Monday's are especially difficult! And every now and then, on special occasions, I get about 2 hours of sleep!

Somehow, with everything that is going on, I am still able to enjoy life and have fun! I just hope that things will calm down after a little while! (but it's not likely)

Back to School

Well, I haven't written in a long time, so here is what has been going on. On August 3, my mom, my sister and I went to Florida to visit my grandparents for ten days. While we were there we drove to Miami on August 6 to get on a 4-day cruise to Key West and Cozumel. The cruise was amazing! The only problem is that there was way too much good, food. And it was all free! We have been off the ship for a week and I am still afraid to weigh myself! Anyway, we got home from Florida late Sunday night.The next day we started practices for Chambers. For three days we had to go up to school for two hours and work hard! By the end all of us were worn out and dripping with sweat. It was really disgusting. After that, school started on Thursday and I have to say: being a Senior is GREAT! I love it! This year is going to be so amazing! On Friday, Chambers had to perform our first two dances for the freshman. It was really fun, and the freshman loved it, which is good because they usually laugh and make fun of Chambers on the first day. Oh, one more exciting thing. Next Wednesday, the big production that Marissa and I are in from dance gets to perform at halftime at the Wizards' game! I get to go on the field at Arrowhead!! Overall, life is pretty good this month!

Branson

Last week, my mom, my sister and I took a five-day trip to Branson for a National dance competition. When we weren't dancing, we were shopping and eating (a lot). My sister and I were in the same three dances. Our jazz got a first and lyrical got a top-first. Our last dance was a production with over fifty dancers. It got a top-first and third overall. The top five dances in each category performed Saturday in the Gold Group Challenge. Our production made it and in the danceoff, we got third. (In case you were totally confused about the last five sentences, I'll clue you in: we did VERY well)! So, anyway, now competition teams are over and we just have technique classes throughout the summer. Oh wait! One more thing! Every year at Nationals, all of the competition teams in the dance academy get together for a pizza party and the teachers give every single dancer a little award they made out of construction paper and markers. Most of them are silly, inside-jokes, but some are actually awards, such as Most Improved. Which, out of all of the top teams, I recieved this award!! It was great! I felt so special! OK. Now I really have nothing else to say except BYE.