I Need To Be Put In A Protective Bubble

Every year on New Years Eve and during the summer my family visits our family friend's lake house with the owning family and another family. We have done this since ever before I can remember and this past weekend we made the trip once again. A downside of going to the lake during the summer is no air conditioning. All they have in the house is a window unit in the basement which is completely crazy might I add. The basement will remain relatively cool and the first floor of the house stays the same as outside which is awful in 100 degree weather. We drove the hour trip up and arrived early Friday afternoon. I got to see my four close family friends that are around my age, which is always completely wonderful because I love them all  for the most part. Anyways on Saturday, I was helping carry down the tubes to the lake so we could go tubing. I was carrying the back of one of the tubes and walking backwards down the hill from the house and being the graceful person I am; I fell backwards and twisted my ankle. It didn't really hurt that much and I shook it off. After coming back from tubing and later that evening went to go play Bocce Ball and when I was walking to the other side of the Bocce court (for those of you that don't know, you play Bocce in the grass in a roped off area), my ankle locked up and gave out. Now that I think about it, it makes sense because I was really stressing that ankle because I was trying to shake off the first ankle twisting. Anyways, that second twisting really did me in and I was in so much pain that entire evening. It was made worse because the rest of my family had already gone home so I couldn't leave if I wanted to. I really wanted to stay, so I just hobbled around everywhere. Moral of the story: I am extremely clumsy and I tend to hurt myself. I've sprained my ankles so many times that this didn't surprise me one bit.
(Picture from overtons.com of the tubes we were on!)

Meeting the Shecks

Last Tuesday I met Ryan Sheckler. I am not an extremely big fan or anything and I must admit that I only like him for his looks. (: For those who don't know who Ryan Sheckler is; he is a professional skateboarder who skates for the skate company Plan B. The latter I only found out through my little brother. I went to the signing and I came out with four different things signed: my cell phone, two posters and a skateboard as well as a fabulous picture of the both of us and a hug. My friend and I also had him call our other friend who could not be there. He was a lot sweeter and cuter and person than I expected! It was a lot of fun! Second famous person I've met. Who have you met? (Second post today. Yay!)

The Inception of My In Car Driving

Where I live, you must complete a two week Driver's Ed course, six hours of in car time with an instructor and 60 hours separate of that on your own time, ten of which hours must be completed at night. Just the other day, I had my first in car driving lesson with the instructor. I arrived to find a person from the state's department of motor vehicles there to observe my instructor as she observed me. No pressure at all. I could also tell that she was extremely nervous, so of course that made me more nervous than I had previously been. Thank goodness the lesson was extremely easy stuff like making turns and stopping correctly at stop signs, etc. We also drove through a neighborhood and my instructor acted like I knew the area (which I didn't because I don't live by the driving school at all) which was kind of annoying. She kept looking at me strangely as I asked which way I was turning. She finally realized after I mentioned something about where I live that I live a good 10- 15 minutes away and never drive up that way. All in all though the lesson was uneventful. The most exciting that happened was while I was attempting to back into an alley way and pull out was a grasshopper making it's way into our car. I tried my best not to scream. Naturally I was unsuccessful. It was also a tad awkward because the observer sat in the backseat for the full two hours without saying a word. At the end of the lesson though, he asked me a few random questions about Anti-Lock Break System on cars.
I also wanted to take a moment to say a word about the new movie Inception! It was absolutely amazing. I recommend you go see it if you have the opportunity. I saw it last Sunday and it was even better than I accepted. I won't say much about the plot because I don't want to ruin it for those of you who haven't seen it, but there are many plot twists and it plays with your mind. I am also a long time Leonardo DiCaprio fan and he was great in this movie!

The Fearful Freshmen

In the beginning of August, through National Honor Society (which I am Secretary in, woop!), I will have the pleasure of giving tours of my school during Freshmen Orientation to all of the nervous, wide-eyed rising Freshmen that will be consuming our halls next year. I am so excited to be giving the tours, that it is actually kind of funny. I get to do 12 groups, 6 groups of girls in the morning and 6 groups of boys in the afternoon. I get to tell them what I think of my school and they have to listen to me; it's wonderful! I was given a list of things to talk about including HSA testing (our state's high school standardized tests), discipline, attendence, scheduling and guidance, clubs and athletics and showing them where everything is around the school. In all reality it isn't that difficult at all. However, I don't understand why we are supposed to talk about some of the items on this list. For instance, PSAT testing? You typically take the PSATs as a sophomore when they are paid for by the school and then a second time as a junior to qualify for the National Merit Scholarships. Furthermore, when you are a sophomore at my high school you have a really big meeting with your guidance counselor and you go over all of that kind of stuff and you get mutliple notifications sent home with you. So, I don't get it. Also, they make it sound like if you miss more than nine days of school it will be the end of the world. Last year I missed 12 and absolutely nothing happened to me. I just find it kind of funny because the things that are on the list of topics are kind of contrary to the actual goings of our school. The above is a picture of one of my very best friends and I our freshman year!

The Beautiful Bucknell

So I would like to start off by apologizing for my absence in the past week or so. I have been so busy and tired with Driver's Ed, yoga and etc., so I have not had the chance to write! Also, nothing much interesting has really happen so I didn't want to bore you with the random ramblings of a teenage girl. However, this week something has happened which has made me excited. Story time. (:
On Monday, I made a meeting to meet with my guidance counselor to discuss the billion questions I have. I am the type of person that if I don't go over things or get my questions answered that it will drive my crazy. My guidance counselor's amazing though, so she doesn't mind at all. Anyways, on Monday I met with her and discussed my questions I have about applying to college and also this conundrum I am in because of requirements for applying to Bucknell. I have to have two consecutive foreign language credits of the same language. At first, I was like oh, of course I have that. I completed Spanish I and II in middle school as high school credit/work and then Spanish III my freshman year of high school. Apparently though, Bucknell's policy has changed and those classes must be completed in your actual high school years, no exceptions. Now, I will be signing up for Latin I and II in August online and take those classes in addition to my classes at school. If I did not do this I couldn't apply to my dream school. Which would completely devastate me you see. Hopefully this will show initiative and Latin should help with language comprehension, writing and english and that is related to my major and sort of what I want to do. I'll fill you in this year on how I will be dealing with five AP classes as well as two classes outside of school! So much for a chill senior year, but I still certain it will be a fun year. Hopefully!

Oh, The Irony

Recently I have been finding the many things ironic, or rather, noticing many things around me that are ironic! Like for instance, the fact that I must clean my room so that the cleaning company can come and clean my room every other week. I don't understand that at all. My mom calls it "straightening" for the cleaning service. I call it cleaning. Also, just random topics I have been discussing have been coming up all over the place, (I would say college, but that is in like every conversation I have these days). 

And exciting new ladies and gentlemen! I no longer completely hate Driver's Ed. It's true. I'm am now 'eh' with it. I actually started to talk to a few other people so I do not feel completely lonely like before so it makes me feel a lot better. I can occupy myself now as the instructor drones on and on about turn signals and signs.  I have also done some pretty great doodling during class that I find quite amazing. My favorite is of the man running into the tree. I have also decided that I now have a quite unhealthy obsession with iced tea. I have already been obsessed with iced green tea for quite some while. When my family was at the beach my mom joked and called me Juno because at the end of the week I was walking around with a big gallon of green tea in my hand. Today alone I have probably had at least 32 oz. of tea. Yay antioxidants! 

Pay It Forward!

I feel extremely bad. This is going to be such an awful post. I don't really know what to write about today. I didn't have yoga and I'm still sore from yesterday. I went to Driver's Ed per usual. It still sucks as does the large group of friends that insists upon talking and laughing obnoxiously throughout the entire three hour class. I really want to scream at them all. Today we talked about road signs.  Oh! Also, during break I went into Subway and I forgot my change and the man behind me ran up to me and gave it to me while I was filling my drink. I'm pretty sure it made my day. It's nice to be nice as my friend's dad says! (: 

Now as I ponder school related items I am happy to say that I have crossed a few things off of my million item long list, which excites me so. I only have 999,999 things to do now! A new development has been made though and I will be visiting Disney World in November! My parents finally got that all taken care of and we will be going for our fourth year in a row I believe, our second year staying on property which I love. Last year we stayed at Port Orleans - French Quarter and this year we have upgraded to the Wilderness Lodge. I love Disney World with all my heart. I am such a little kid when I go there and it is always a really nice break from school whenever we go. It will also be one of our last "doable" family vacations because once I am in college it will be harder to coordinate going on decent vacations. Enjoy my picture of Rafiki in Animal Kingdom from last year's vacation! So I think it is safe to say that I love Disney World and Subway tons. Oh and Stephen Jerzak, listen to this and look him up. He's my absolute favorite.