Graduation

Graduation is getting closer and closer. As each day passes by, i get more nervous about graduating. My senior year has been a hectic one. It's weird. i keep remembering things that my friends and i used to do when we were in elementary school. we used to have sleepovers. We were huge fans of the spice girls. we used to pretend like we were them all the time. we even performed a spice girls concert! (it's hilarious to watch, but there's not any real raw talent there) During the summer when school was out, becky and i would go outside and have music countdowns. we were obssessed with the backstreet boys, and we used to pretend that we were their girlfriends. we watched the kid's choice awards and the teen's choice awards. i remember watching the amanda show, ahhh! real monsters!, hey arnold, and Rugrats. they don't show those shows anymore. we've all grown up and our tastes have grown up. becky and i still have similar tastes in music still, but there are bands that i listen to that she doesn't. she listens to linkin park and i listen to the cryptkeeper five. we don't have sleepovers that often anymore. we used to have a little tradition where i would stay over at her house on new year's eve, but we broke that this year. Becky and I are two totally different people. She's the party girl; she always wants to party, and she always goes to parties that i don't approve of a teenager going to (even though i am a teenager). i wouldn't go to them. i'm the conservative one. i don't like to speak my mind, i always have to be talked into doing risky things (that's a pretty hard task to tackle), i don't dance or sing in front of people because i know that i can't sing.

i look back on all of those memories, and i can't believe how fast the time has gone by. soon i'll be leaving chilhowie and going to college. as a matter of fact, i haven't even started college, and i'm already homesick. Even though it scares me to go off to some big, scary place all by myself that i know i'm not just staying a week and then going home. I'm staying semi-permanently-i'm not staying forever, but i'm not leaving anytime soon.

Senior Trip

Every year Chilhowie High School goes to Washington D.C. for the senior trip. I was on my senior trip last week. I love D.C.! It was the second time that I had been there. There were a lot of funny things that happened. Beth fell down at Arlington Cemetery. An officer came out of his post and yelled "Get behind the line!" It was funny. The trip started out pretty rocky. Everyone was homesick. It was really hot up there the first two days. The third day we went to Inner Harbor in Baltimore. We toured Camden Yards, where I fell down. Only a few people saw me fall, though. I love the Orioles. My dad took me to an Orioles game when I was a baby at the old Memorial Stadium. I had never been to Camden Yards until last Thursday. We went to the new Newseum. I thought that it was really interesting. I wish that I had a camera so that I could've taken pictures, but I used all my film up on the first day when we were at Udvar-Hazy. I wanted to get pictures of all the planes. I wish that we had gone to the Holocaust Museum. I asked Mrs. Hill why we didn't go and she told me that they had taken one class to the Holocaust Museum, and it took them a whole two hours to get through it. That sucked. Out of all the museums in D.C. I wanted to go to that one the most. Our tour guide took us down Embassy Row and showed us where the vice president lives. We also did a tour of the Capitol Building. We didn't get to take a tour of the White House, because our representative couldn't get it for us. Oh well. We also didn't get to go to the International Spy Museum. That place was fun the first time I went. The only thing that sucks about that museum is that you can't take pictures.

I'm really excited about this summer. I'm taking a U.S. Government I class at Virginia Highlands Community College and doing Bridge Scholar with Upward Bound. On June 23-25, I have to go down to Carson-Newman College for Orientation. Then, I get to go with Upward Bound on a musical tour of Nashville and Memphis. We get to go to Graceland! Then, in August, I have to pack all of my things and move into my dorm room at Carson-Newman College.