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.

World's Of Fun

Yesterday I went to world's of fun with my Chambers group for nine hours! There were 18 of us and it was crazy!! We had so much fun riding rides, eating junk food, joking around, and getting soaked over and over again on the Monsoon! I am so excited about Chambers next year because this group is amazing! The people are so much better than the people last year, and all of us are friends! The day was so great, but I was extremely tired afterward. I slept great last night!
Our next Chambers outing is the Hairspray movie on July 20.