Lacrosse

Yesterday I joined the Lacrosse team at my school.

Today was our first game (an probably our only game).

We held up pretty well for a team that hasn't practiced all that much together.

We ended up losing 3-0.

It was SO FUN though! I hope that we have a chance to play another game (slash I hope that wasn't our first AND last game of the season)

Brains

Dissected a Sheep brain today. NBD.

Pollywogs

Yesterday me and Habunta went and caught Pollywogs. We were right down getting dirty in the pond. We managed to catch one. We also saw a turtle. The End

email@hot.com

today my dad was taking the email from a customer:

JINSERTNAME@HOT.COM

While he was trying to explain that the customer was "Jay-Underscore....at Hot-dot-com). Instead of an underscore the J was underlined. Instead of lowercase letters, all the letters were CAPS lock. I also discovered that rather than "--@hot.com" he meant "--@hotmail.com". We cleared it all up and the email was sent and received on the other end:

j_insertname@hotmail.com

Dad. You make me smile. I love you.

No time like NUN time

So Last night was the last night of Bell choir for this semester and to finish off our year we had our last performance at a Nunnery slash Convent.

I was excited for this for a variety of reasons:

1) I had never seen a Nun in real life before

2) Nun's are referred to as "Sisters". This makes me smile because in Kentucky we would always refer to each other as "Sister" or "Brotha" in a Kentucky accent

and 3) Of course, I just love Bell Choir (whether its a practice or performance; Convent or "Nun" (hehe...punny joke)

When we first arrived, I was struck by the beautiful grounds of the convent. The grass was green and the gardens were beautiful. The Convent was a tall, stone building. I was surprised by how big it was. I thought that it was going to be a small building with 10 or so retired Nuns living there, but we learned that retired nuns from all around the world come to live there. There was one from Germany and England. I'm not sure how many actually reside there, but I would say around 50 nuns came to hear us play.

When we walked into the room where we were going to be playing, there were a few nuns there just hanging out. There were a few on the computers playing Solitare and one was playing Bejeweled. This made me smile. Many of the nuns that came were not wearing their Habits (this is the head piece) but a few were wearing them and their uniform.

The performance was the best one we have had yet! The nuns were all so cute and appreciative. They loved that we could come. Elizabeth always asks the audience if they have any questions. The Nuns asked very good questions and several of them came up afterwards and tried out the bells.

My very favorite part was when the Nuns sang us their blessing after we were finished.

Several things I learned were:

1) I have probably seen a Nun before because they look like any other senior

2) I want to become a temporary nun sometime because I think it would be an incredible experience bonding with these women who have dedicated their lives to the Lord. I want to Marry Jesus and I want to hear the stories of other women who did too

3) I'm really going to miss bell choir next year.

Bell choir is always looking for new members... :)

Such a Season

What a good Season! Boston Rob won.

Boston Rob played the game with such (side note: i love the word 'such' because it is 'so much' wrapped up into one little word 'such) strategy. Rob had SUCH strategy.

He deserved to win. I think he earned it.

Not to say that other people didn't play a good game or deserve to win.

I would have loved to see Matt win. It was so cool to see a man so in love with the Lord playing the game of Survivor.

I'll add that there were many great moments in the reunion show: seeing all the cast after they have watched the entire season waiting to find out who won, seeing David propose, seeing Rob and Amber with their two daughers (I remember the season Amber won! haha), hearing more about Phillip the ACTUAL federal agent...but maybe the best part of the reunion show was when Russell and Rob shake hands. Everything is all wrapped up...it is now completely clear who is the stronger player between the two (Ange, I threw that comment in for you especially) I don't think Rob will be back. I do think Russell will be back. Is Russell a changed man? If he returns, can he win?

O Survivor. Thanks for such a great season. Such a great one.

Rebel

Decided to be a rebel today and skip biology class:

200 people were missing from my school today (from a school population of less than 500 you really notice). Many people were missing from each of my classes. So...

Families Class: Work Period

Chemistry Class: Work Period

Biology Class: Watching a dumb movie that has nothing to do with what we are learning about (Mr. P was gone...so that was the extent of what he left the substitute with "Planet Earth" Videos)

I had so much other stuff that I could have done during this time (for instance Chemistry homework). I decided that my priorities did not include going to biology to waste my time.

So I skipped.

You could call this a rebel move. The first time I ever skipped a class.

But I texted my mom saying,

"I'm skipping Biology...Just thought I would let you know"

Maybe not so much a rebel move. HAHA.