I've made it.
It has been 365 days since we officially moved to Rapid City South Dakota.
this is my retrospective of the past year...it'll be long, so fasten your seatbelts.
August pretty much sucked. I was abosolutely miserable, as was the rest of my family, I hadn't started school yet and knew absolutely no one. I joined marching band in august.
September was the first month of school. Again I was miserable, Andrew LaFrance was pretty much the only person who talked to me on my first day, well, him and Meagan. I tried not to show everyone here how miserable I was, but I was crying myself to sleep on a regular basis.
October things started to look up. Caiti Casey and I became good friends, I met Shane in Mr. Siebrasse's room and began to appreciate my drama class. On the other hand, we had our first choir concert in October, which SUCKED, although everyone said that they loved it. I missed Ms. Schatz and Mrs. Knutson more than anyone else I think. Halloween I met miss Felicia Jones...yeah...
November...I was starting to make friends, and my grades in English began to really slip...I decided to switch English classes mid year. I basically hung out with Caiti all the time, we lived off of little caeser's pizza and movies. November 23rd was the first time I saw Rent. completely amazing experiance, I loved it so much.
December...I was so busy with concerts I couldn't breathe. I was going insane about the inexcusable lack of preperation we had for the civic center concert, and had an emotional breakdown that morning at rehearsal. the holiday season was making me homesick for our traditions and rituals we had built up through the 10 years we lived in Sheridan. We went back there for my 16th birthday, and the people who helped raise me threw me a surprise party.
January, things began to get stressed between Caiti and I, unbeknowst to me there was conflict rising in the ridiculous and convoluted church politics that I was thrust into. I was basically trying to make sense of my life and begin to actually enmesh myself with Rapid City, instead of just settling in.
February marked the start of Lutheran Youth Musical and the disentigration of the friendship between Caiti and I. I had my second experiance with a friend abandoning me because of who my father was. I felt really stupid because I had made only one true friend in Rapid City, and she turned around and stabbed me in the back.
March, I auditioned for Cyrano de Bergerac, and didn't get in. The night that Mr. Siebrasse posted the results I went home and cried for hours. I think it the combination of losing Caiti, and losing a role in the play that did me in. I then believe I did the best thing I could have done, I shook myself off and began to do tech, which was one of the most challenging and rewarding things I've ever done.
April, from mid march all the way through April and May I was completely overtaken by theatre. The night after Cyrano closed and we struck the set rehearsals started for the musical Baby. april was basically me juggling school and rehearsal every night of the week.
May. we had a 3 week run of baby starting may 5th. I was completely consumed with performing. one week I had Baby on sunday, a pops concert on monday and tuesday, and baby on wednesday through the next sunday. I was happy. really happy. At the end of may some old friends came to rapid city so my dad could marry them. Jason came from georgia to be in his dad's wedding, and it was the first time I'd seen him in about a year and a half.
June was incredibly busy. right after finals I left to go to synod assembly, then the night I got back was graduation, we were leaving the next morning for a mission trip, and that week was caiti's birthday, so on a whim I decided to bring her a birthday present, hoping it might mend some bridges. it didn't. I got my job in June and started working at DQ
July, basically working at DQ and hanging out at home. I didn't do much of anything
August I worked. and worked. and worked. we put my dog to sleep, and I quit my job on friday, my last day is August 23. I still sometimes get homesick, but for the most part, I'm happy, I really am.
Love Peace La Vie Boheme
Sarah
this is my retrospective of the past year...it'll be long, so fasten your seatbelts.
August pretty much sucked. I was abosolutely miserable, as was the rest of my family, I hadn't started school yet and knew absolutely no one. I joined marching band in august.
September was the first month of school. Again I was miserable, Andrew LaFrance was pretty much the only person who talked to me on my first day, well, him and Meagan. I tried not to show everyone here how miserable I was, but I was crying myself to sleep on a regular basis.
October things started to look up. Caiti Casey and I became good friends, I met Shane in Mr. Siebrasse's room and began to appreciate my drama class. On the other hand, we had our first choir concert in October, which SUCKED, although everyone said that they loved it. I missed Ms. Schatz and Mrs. Knutson more than anyone else I think. Halloween I met miss Felicia Jones...yeah...
November...I was starting to make friends, and my grades in English began to really slip...I decided to switch English classes mid year. I basically hung out with Caiti all the time, we lived off of little caeser's pizza and movies. November 23rd was the first time I saw Rent. completely amazing experiance, I loved it so much.
December...I was so busy with concerts I couldn't breathe. I was going insane about the inexcusable lack of preperation we had for the civic center concert, and had an emotional breakdown that morning at rehearsal. the holiday season was making me homesick for our traditions and rituals we had built up through the 10 years we lived in Sheridan. We went back there for my 16th birthday, and the people who helped raise me threw me a surprise party.
January, things began to get stressed between Caiti and I, unbeknowst to me there was conflict rising in the ridiculous and convoluted church politics that I was thrust into. I was basically trying to make sense of my life and begin to actually enmesh myself with Rapid City, instead of just settling in.
February marked the start of Lutheran Youth Musical and the disentigration of the friendship between Caiti and I. I had my second experiance with a friend abandoning me because of who my father was. I felt really stupid because I had made only one true friend in Rapid City, and she turned around and stabbed me in the back.
March, I auditioned for Cyrano de Bergerac, and didn't get in. The night that Mr. Siebrasse posted the results I went home and cried for hours. I think it the combination of losing Caiti, and losing a role in the play that did me in. I then believe I did the best thing I could have done, I shook myself off and began to do tech, which was one of the most challenging and rewarding things I've ever done.
April, from mid march all the way through April and May I was completely overtaken by theatre. The night after Cyrano closed and we struck the set rehearsals started for the musical Baby. april was basically me juggling school and rehearsal every night of the week.
May. we had a 3 week run of baby starting may 5th. I was completely consumed with performing. one week I had Baby on sunday, a pops concert on monday and tuesday, and baby on wednesday through the next sunday. I was happy. really happy. At the end of may some old friends came to rapid city so my dad could marry them. Jason came from georgia to be in his dad's wedding, and it was the first time I'd seen him in about a year and a half.
June was incredibly busy. right after finals I left to go to synod assembly, then the night I got back was graduation, we were leaving the next morning for a mission trip, and that week was caiti's birthday, so on a whim I decided to bring her a birthday present, hoping it might mend some bridges. it didn't. I got my job in June and started working at DQ
July, basically working at DQ and hanging out at home. I didn't do much of anything
August I worked. and worked. and worked. we put my dog to sleep, and I quit my job on friday, my last day is August 23. I still sometimes get homesick, but for the most part, I'm happy, I really am.
Love Peace La Vie Boheme
Sarah