Steadily Improving ... : -D
so since i last posted i have done a few things. i started my summer reading. lol yea i know way boring but i have to do it. actually idk if i really have to do it since i will be taking college engish next year ! thats rite !!! i talked to mi madre about it and she didnt have a problem with it. lets hope it stays that way :-D . so yeah even if i dont have to do work in my high school english class it will still be a good read. lol speakin of which i ve only read like < 10 pages in a week :-( not that ive been busy just that im gettin lazy. but anywhoooo things have escalated from just fine to excellent. one thing helped this happen : Rice Quest Scholars Conference ! at first mom was skeptical and thought that it actually was a waste of time. she said a lotta things i didnt agree w/ but what was i to do . i was still going so i guess i humored the situation. all i could do was pray that she changed her mind about the whole thing when we took the whole thing in. lol it started off funny. we were like the first there .. arriving at 6:45 to make it in time for the 7:15 registration. it was a long walk and if things did not improve mom would be reluctant to stay. luckily i read the campus map well. soon this guy came over and was lost too. still it was early and dark out especially under the shadows of the trees but he made things brighter. lol he was lookin for a way back inside the building and the door locked behind him . his grandmom was stuck inside and we all joked about her . and so we made our way to the entrance and he went off to find his grandmom. inside i registered, took my pic, and got ready. we all went to the conference room. i saw some of the ppl from the forum including Fatema and the guy who is known as timultuous vorsago who id just talked to 2 days earlier on aim. then i saw jackie and jenny and we talked for a while. we all split up and did our workshops, tours , and counseling. i was very fortunate i would think . i got to talk with all of the college board members from Yale,Emory,Stanford,Princeton,Scripps,Swarthmore,SMC,Amherst, and a whole lot more. That was a once in a lifetime thing for me. W/o this experience i would not have been able to do that.when i took a look back i realized that i had fulfilled my goals and so much more. i was more active than most there. i even got one on one from one this years winners. she really helped me. i still felt so dimwitted for not coming up with more questions but hopefully she wont look at me as one w/o that courage. i dont want to be seen as that person especially since it is not true. i really think i got to show my personality and charisma. i hope i left a great impression on everyone including the students there. hopefully the next time they see my face be it picture on my college application or otherwise they will remember it. yes the day was overwhelming but i took it in stride. at lunch i talked a lot to the student who i met earlier that morning. i was scared to at first but as soon as i made it over to him we hit it off. then a lotta other students came over n joined in. i loved it. towards the end i met up with the Yale rep . he really stated some great things and i left knowing that i wanted to go there. think about it .... YALE !!! me at YALE ! that would be so great !!! for everyone actually. i stayed up all night thinking about it and when i fell asleep i dreamed about it. now Yale is where i aspire to be. i have doubts but if by some miracle i do get in i would just be sooooooooo very very happy times a billion trillion. and for me to even have a chance to get in makes me elated. b4 the conference i only thought of going to University of Miami or quite possibly a state school despite my wanting to leave texas badly. Yale would be a great new start. so now i am really focusing on getting there. its is my dream now and by december i will know if it had been fulfilled. hopefully i will.