The Reason to My Madness

So, most of you realized that you couldn't access my blog. And you are right, I had temporarily blocked it so that nobody could read it. My family couldn't, my friends couldn't, nobody couldn't. Multiple times people had commented negatively on something that I had blogged about, and enough was enough. I don't blog to make people happy. If you find happiness in reading my blogs well then good for you. But that isn't the point behind this. I don't appreciate when people take my stress-reliever methods and judge them. Do you? If you, for instance, swim or run or whatever to relieve stress, do you appreciate people telling you that you aren't going fast enough? That you aren't doing enough mileage? No, you don't. The same goes for me, blogging is a stress reliever for me that as you all found out, doesn't have to be publicized. So don't judge what I say! PLEASE!

The blog is, as you know, back online. I had a friend from camp comment about how she found hope through my status' on facebook, and would have loved to read my blog if she knew I had one. I realized that I rely on the same things too. I love it when somebody puts up a positive facebook status that snaps my perspective back on what really matters. So, I feel very hypocritical by taking that opportunity away from other people who get the same thing out of my random thoughts.

So my blog is back. Read it if you want, ignore it if you want, I don't care. Just don't judge what I have to say. If something that I say makes your day better, well then that's awesome. I'm happy that it does. Feel free to tell me that, just please don't criticize my thoughts or tell me that I'm wrong. If we are openly having a conversation that's one thing. But this blog is for me, and for my thoughts. Not anybody elses negative remarks about my thoughts.

Thanks guys. Sorry for the ranting, but after multiple situations I had to address this. Now I'm off my soap box. Welcome back to my blog :)

The Reason I Blog

I'll come flat out and say it. I don't blog for you. I don't blog for my friends who read this, and I don't blog for my family that reads this. That isn't why I created this blog almost a year ago. And if you don't believe me, then you go back to blog post number 1. I blog for ME. Not so that you can pick apart the words that are formed into thoughts flying around my head. Not so that you can judge what I say. Most of the time what I blog, I don't say in real life. I blog for me. So for all of you crazies out there who think that I blog so that you can get a daily laugh out of my life, you're wrong.

This blog was intended for me. I had told one of my friends about it at the time because I knew she could relate to me in almost every topic, and I knew she wouldn't question my thoughts. I didn't tell anybody else for a reason. I didn't want to have to be conservative about what I blogged about knowing that people would read it and wouldn't approve of my thoughts. Therefore, I'm done. This blog is for me, and now only for me. Nobody else is getting a key into my thoughts anymore.

I should have known...

It all started at 1:57 AM...

I hear an alarm go off, so I get up, go to the bathroom, put on work out shorts and put in my contacts. Lazily run a brush through my hair, brush my teeth. Then wander back into my room to grab my phone and my iPod and find my pink flip flops (since I remember the outfit I picked out the night before had a cute pink top). I grab my backpack then as I glance back at my room while turning out the lights I notice my alarm clock. It's 2:10. AM.

The alarm going off was in my dream. Wow. By 2:15 I'm back asleep.

4:50 the alarm goes off. Snooze. Snooze. Snooze. Heck, I fell asleep with my contacts in after getting dressed, all I have to do is roll out of bed. Literally. By 5:30 I'm out the door. 5:45 I'm starting on my 2.5 mile run for swim practice. Wow. I haven't ran in weeks. My back was throbbing the entire time and still is tight now. That was horrible.

9:10 While heading to the attendance office I get stopped 3 times asking why I'm in the hallway when CLEARLY I have a pass. Annoying!

9:15 I finally check out at the attendance office to head to the ortho. I'm the only one in the ortho office. There is only one lady working. CREEPY! She takes an impression of my bottom teeth (yes the stuff that hardens to make a mold) and then gets distracted. Whoops! She left it on too long. "The gunk left might not come out for 24 hours or so" she says I get ready to leave. Um. That's not gonna work for me.

10 minutes of brushing my teeth and I finally leave.

Hmm... Jack n' the Box is on the way to school. Yum! Did you know that they do have ice-cream ready at 10:20 AM? YUM!

10:30 back at Falls. Hide milkshake in backpack to sneak it past the attendance office and 4 other AP's that try to stop me for being in the halls. What, is today "Massive Hallways Guarding Duty" or something? Luckily, that didn't turn into a cold disaster.

Calculus. Oh yay. Test tomorrow. Hallmark didn't give a review in class because he didn't feel good. AWESOME! Only 3 problems on the test. Oh great. Miss one and your fail! Awesome.

Anatomy. Didn't do anything. Well, took notes, but whatevers.

English. Ha. Timed Writing about something TOTALLY irrelevant to the book we are reading, but yet we have to connect it. Our entire class is just laughing through the entire timed write because we all know it's not gonna turn out pretty. Hmph.

JV Swimming. Get out of class to go to Walmart with Mina. Buy 200$ worth of gift cards (we had been collecting $) for a teacher who's house burnt down. Pay the guy who doesn't speak English with a bunch of 1$ bills because that's all we have because that is what people were donating. Ha ha. Then run into Coach Jon. AWKWARD!

Finally get home. Have a massive headache, and realize I have not ate any real food for 24 hours. Had half a slice of pizza and a cinnamon stick for dinner last night at church. Had 2 mini muffins for breakfast. Had a milkshake for lunch. Hmm... so I begin to eat Peanut Butter out of the jar. Yum!

Study. Study. Study.

My head hurts. What's for dinner?

Oh pancakes when everybody gets home.

Mom gets home and asks how my day was. I tell her.

Dad gets home, asks how my day was. Mom goes "Please don't ask. And if you do, go to another room. I don't wanna hear her tell it again". Wow. Thanks Mom! Hmph.

Learn how to jump my dad's car in the rain. I have 23094820394 other things to do!!!

Dinner. 2 Pancakes. Umm.... I'm hungry!

Now, back to studying calculus. And I need to find 5 articles and rewrite a thesis for English. ALL I WANT TO DO IS BANG MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL!!!

I need Thanksgiving NOW. Not tomorrow at 2:30. NOW!!!!

SO GOOD!!

My first real lesson went... AMAZING!!

The kids were SO unbelievably and incredlibly excited. It was like they had never seen Beanie Babies before! They paid such good attention during the story because they knew they had to in order to play the "game" at the end of the book. They all wrote beautifully (well... for kindergarteners that is) and they are so excited for their book tomorrow!

I guess "when you grow up in a kindergartener's world"... :)

First Ready Set Teach Lesson!!

Tomorrow is the day!

Coming with me to the elementary...

• 2 Hula Hoops
  
• 2 Labelers
  
• 25 Beanie Babies
  
• 25 pieces of paper shaped like a barn
  
• What If? by A.H. Benjamin and Jane Chapman
  

I'm so excited!!

First off we are reading the book What If?. Then each child will get a Beanie Baby. They will have to sort their Beanie Baby into a hula hoop, either "Animal is in the book" or "Animal is not in the book". Once all the animals are sorted, the children will then get a piece of paper in the shape of a barn and write a story about their animal. All the writing will eventually get made into a classroom story!

It's pretty simple, but I'm really excited :)

Update TOMORROW!

Chovember Fest!

I know, I know. I talked NONSTOP about Chovember to my friends and family for the weeks leading up to last Sunday. And now, a week later, I have yet to blog about the marvelous festivities of Chovember Fest.

IT WAS AMAZING!

Then again, what is involved with Cho-Yeh and isn't amazing?

We all got to Grace Presbyterian around noon for set up. Camp had brought the gaga pit (if you don't know the miraculous of gagaball... check out this youtube video) the dunk tape, the pile wall, all the inflatables, etc.

Once everything was set up, campers would go around the the games and would play the games in return for a bean. Once they got 10 beans (which took an all of probably 15 minutes), they got to choose a counselor to "send to the pie wall!". I ended up getting pied by 2 different campers (one who was never even my camper, I just know from Team YES). Getting pied isn't too bad at camp, when you aren't wearing makeup, where your hair is already gross and sweaty and disgusting, when you are wearing nasty clothes, when there is a water cow to dump on your face... but when all you have is a towel to get rid of the whipped cream... oh it's nasty.

It was really good just to be in that camp atmosphere again. To be with people who you hadn't seen in 4 months and be able to pick up on the relationships right where they left off. It was so awesome. I can't wait till Midwinter Madness. And this summer :)

As I said when I was leaving, Cho-Yeh will always be my 2nd home and family :)

CRAZY week!!

Sheesh, this week has been crazy! BUT this weekend is going to be awesome!

This afternoon I'm working on all my homework (which luckily is basically just reading and planning a lesson) and probably going to Kole's baseball tournament.

BUT the best part of this weekend is going to be tomorrow... CHO-YEH'S CHOVEMBER FEST!

As the entire world knows, Cho-Yeh is my favorite place on Earth, and the people there are fantastic. Cho-vember fest is essentially a "family reunion" where we are setting up games and the campers get to come and hang out with their camp-friends and counselors. I saw some Cho-Yeh staff people last Month up at A&M, but I'm looking forward to seeing a bunch of my friends and people I worked with this summer again. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Another Essay...

I love essays where I can just be myself and blog...

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all other professions” (author unknown). I found this saying a few years ago while fulfilling my uncanny passion for quotes. At that point, I had no idea what I wanted to do once I graduated high school. Now diving further into my senior year, it is that very same quote that inspires me to pursue a career in education.

As my senior year continues to keep rolling along (although sometimes very slowly), I am extremely excited for the future that lies ahead of me. Four years at a university that I have fallen in love with. A career inspiring students and encouraging them to be their absolute best at all times. Passion filled years spent teaching the generations to come. All of that makes up what is contained in my future plans.

I will be attending Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and will be majoring in Elementary Education. I will learn how to become the most effective and the best possible teacher that I can be. Spending time in the classroom, as well as in college classes will consume a majority of those four years. At A&M I will also be a member of the Women’s Water Polo team, where I will continue to develop the team and leadership skills required to be an excellent teacher. I will graduate as the loudest and proudest member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 2015 with a degree in Elementary Education. From there I will begin my career.
I want to teach kindergarten in a school where I will have the opportunity to make a child’s first encounter with education a positive one. It is in kindergarten where a child either falls in love with learning, or “falls through the cracks” as children’s book author Carolyn Sollman puts it in her book Through the Cracks. I will be that teacher whose students leave kindergarten and move onto first grade having a passion for learning, those students who will then be the next President, the ones to find the cure for AIDS, the ones to end World Hunger and bring about World Peace. The students who will know that they can do and become anything that they set their minds to. I will be that teacher who graduating seniors looking back on their past thirteen years of schooling will think about and say “it was that kindergarten teacher who started it all”. I will be that teacher.

When thinking about careers, there are easily thousands to choose from. My peers will choose to become a lawyer, an engineer, a doctor, a sports medicine trainer or a business man or woman. Some will choose to go into the armed forces and serve our country. One or two may decide to run for a future presidential election. Those thousands of possible careers are all so different, but share a common thread. Every person in those careers has at once had an education. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all professions” (author unknown) and I firmly believe in that. Without teachers, none of these other careers would be remotely possible. Therefore, I will be the teacher to educate the future generations, so that they can follow in my peers’ footsteps to become the next greatest lawyers, engineers, and doctors. Teaching is my passion and holds the key to my future and my dreams.

It must be a Kylie thing

I have found my mini-me. Her name is Kylie as well. But that isn't the only thing we have in common....

We are both involved in Team YES!
We both prefer IM over freestyle and constantly ask if we can do IM instead.
We both love to talk.
We both (and only us) come to practice on our birthdays.
We both wear lime green caps.

I know there is more, but I'm tired.

Oh! A quote from coach Kris... "I finally almost get rid of you by sending you off to college, only to get another you in 9 year old form!"