craziness...craziness...craziness!

[strawybears]

well...homecoming was so much fun! the seniors so won the float building contest! YAY seniors! and everyone on the homecoming court look amazing! it was awesome! it was quite a busy day though...choir rehearsal for christmas concert :-D...then to school...and hung out there for the rest of the day, till four at least...came home, i got a letter from baylor saying: congratulations for being accepted! YAY! now, if i can only convince my mom to let me go there for college, this would be great...still have to come up with a decision on two things: basketball and uc/cal state apps...so confusing...but, sometimes this world does make me laugh...we go around in circles trying to make our lives go the way we want...and then God does something totally differnt...and we are so foolish and don't pay attention......i keep forgetting to bring michelle the bob carisle cd...tomorrow is church, i hope my voice is still around and not lurking around in the shadows of grace church? wouldn't it be odd if our voices could actually run aroudn and hide themselves? that'd be crazy...crazy crazy...i'm reading a book in spanish, that's interesting...i was trying to read in spanish while mr. vonbusch was talking in english...hard and most definately challenging...at homecoming today, i didn't feel like a senior anymore, because all the old seniors were there...i thought, "yes! i'm not a senior...off the hook! none of this college gunk!" and then i realized..."oh man, i am a senior....and this year is going by so fast...and it's going to be done before i know it...and i am not off the hook..." it was neat to reminsce w/ cherry though...and it's nice to know that other people who arent even seniors are nervous about moving on in life too...one of the songs we're singing for christmas concert is the little drummer boy...i saw that and thought, "how ironic...i sang that in a christmas program at VPS in kindergarten...and i'm going to sing it as a senior..." except this time i won't have a paper drum...oh kindergarten...those were the days: five pieces of trash...tether ball...four square...jumping rope...that crazy bell at vps that was so loud and the teachers rang as loudly as they could...betsy ross report...sitting on a carpet with circles and traingles...dressing up like an indian for the thanksgiving feast...observing passover in second grade...pe w/ mrs. reiser on wednesdays...10 pieces of trash...the time we all had to get under our desks b/c a man was loose with a gun...having mrs. chevalier for second grade...getting tummy aches in kindergarten...playing with play dough...learning to read...oh man...those days were fun! and then ncs...trying to fit in...being the only girl...mrs. bruno wanted me to teach 3rd grade...subbing for the kindergarten teacher in 8th grade when she had to help someone who was sick and my teacher didn't know where i was...singing at graduation...learning spanish...going to in-n-out and ordering "una hamburgesa con queso, con todo, papas fritas, y un refresco mediano..."...life skills 101 w/ mrs. paris...mrs. howard's science class...those funky microscopes...playing with the little kids...being a team leader..."do it nice or do it twice"...oleo...jog-a-thons...having to do cheerleading in pe...surprising teachers on their birthdays..."looking" for the birthday studnet...dad-led chapels...practical arts...the mile run...mrs. gill got cancer...brady harasick was alive and well...chasing brett bralley around the playground...music w/ the bralley family...helping with the 2000 election at the republican center..."living for Jesus" and "make me a servant"...christmas "parties" packing boxes and boxes and bags of beans for needy families...learning that others are more important than me...the school brought us dinner when my mom had zachary...teachers who cared so much...mrs. enos was so faithful in praying for my aunt when she had breast cancer...she just let me cry and gave me a hug...losing fingers and toes...all those crazy long homeschool days...having to homeschool mel and samara, watch zachary who was 2, and do all my work in 8th grade...making snowflakes for the jr. high classroom...mrs. paris took us on all sorts of fun field trips...graduation rehearsal when jason and joel started jumping up and down when they got to the back of the gym...we were a class of 3...mrs. bruno said, "oh look, just like husband and wife aruge...they're aruging too!"...science days...Bible dress up days...open houses...that huge cake that we all helped make...playing knock out at lunch...mrs. howard came to graduation the day after she got back from khazikstan...mrs. isomaki taugh DE...joel always turned red when he talked in class...jason wanted to write a report on quantum physics...we decorated our class in a space theme...mrs. casparian taugh math...there was a dog under the trailer and it hit its head and barked...helping my dad set up the school...we decorated the class rooms when it was a teacher's birthday...playing Bible baseball...nick gave a little girl a concussion when he threw a basketball...the jr. high boys wanted to start a b-ball team...it never worked...singing at convalescant homes...field trips...graduation...walking down the aisle and having to give all my past and present teachers a hug...breaking into tears in the process as everyone sang living for Jesus...and that was the end of the community school years...then to LAB and all that has been for the past four years...wow...it all seems so long ago...but it hasn't been all that long... yay for reminiscing...back to the real world...;) and college apps! a few lines to think upon:
i have not been called to the wisdom of this world,
but to a God who's calling out to me,
and even though the world may think i'm losing touch with reality
it would be crazy to choose this world over eternity...
may i remember to keep God as my focus in this crazy, stressful time!