Stupidly Bad.

It would be a very bad idea to...

1) jump off of a bunk bed when the ceiling fan is running.
2) not study for a quiz because you think you will have a snow day.
3) touch a plate of a hair straightener when it is on.
4) attempt to sled down a hill in a trash bag.
5) ride a bike off of your roof.
6) jump from one moving boat to another.
7) ski using bare feet and no skis.
8) tie yourself to the train tracks.
9) drink rubbing alcohol.
10) wear bows and funky clothes to a serious event.

Gymnastics Competitions

We are in gymnastics season now, I got gymnastics fever. Always in the gym, and last weekend I did the best floor routine of my life, I had good tumbling passes and dances. Here is a video about it, the first tumbling pass is the two front pikes, This is the first time I have ever landed this pass in competition, and the second time I have EVER landed it period. Haha, and the full (back flip in a laid out position with a twist 360 degrees) I had a mental block on since my surgery, for some reason after all the medicine when I went back to practice I could not remember for the life of me how to twist my tumbling. Finally one day last week my coach found a way to make me more confident in myself with this pass, resulting in competing it this weekend. It was awesome! Other then the fall on my head during warm ups for bars, yes I did say on my head. This meet was a success. I had a pretty bad headache and was extremely dizzy after my fall on bars, I finished the routine by pure memory of where the bars were with doing the routine so many times. Afterwards I laid there on the mat for about 30 minutes making the crowd, namely my mother and friends panicky. In the end, Josh said I didn't have a concussion that he could tell of, but he was worried about me, at the end of the meet (bars was my last event) he carried me to my mom to make sure that I did not get hurt walking off the floor, since we didn't want any injuries for the next weeks meet. Gymnastics can be dangerous, and yes you can get hurt, but I have decided that it is worth it for that one second you feel like you are flying when you successfully complete and  skill at a competition.

Gymnastics. Again. :D

So the year is continueing and I am getting into what I guess would be called the "meat" of my gymnastics season, the one where every day is practice and every weekend has something to do with gymnastics. For example scedule for the next two weeks: Monday coach gymnastics/workout, Tuesday: do gymnastics for 4 hours, Wednesday: two hours practice, dinner with coach and visualizing training, Thursday: 4 hours, Friday: 3 hours, Saturday: competition...! crazy stuff really, I mean that is almost 20 hours of gymnastics a week. I love it thought I mean I guess its worth it, but it certainly takes dedication and passion to succeed in gymnastics. I have started getting new skills which is very exciting news! In the past month, I have been much improved on the events. Beam: I am solid on every skill with every routine being pretty successfully, give or take those terrible days. Bars: I am getting more stamina and I suppose that even though they still aren't great the skills are getting better. Floor: I have gotten three or four news tumbling pass I am extremely excited for the next meet because I have three new tumbling passes in my floor routine :) Vault: My vault is getting much closer, yesterday I actually over rotated rather then landing on the butt. I mean that is always a plus! So I will let you know how the next two weekends go shortly!

Paff Day :)

So yes today is the well known world wide event known as PAFF DAY! Okay well maybe that was a little exaggerated but seriously PAFF DAY is the newest thing. It is where all the yearbook and US History classes dress like the teacher with the most style, who of course is Mr. Paff. Today I am wearing a black button up collared shirt, and a tie with khakis and sperrys. Pretty classy right? Haha. But also people will be wearing sweaters, sweater vests, mismatched ties, bowties, khakis what ever else they can think of. It is one of the most fun days of the month, and it is always on the 1st and 2nd of every month depending if you are on white day or blue day!

Going to your Car in school!

I am just blogging today to let you know about the procedure and how much that you have to do during school to go to your car to retrieve something that you left behind, in my opinion it is a little rediculous! I left a two page essay in my car that I needed for third block! In order to go to my car and get those two small sheets of paper, I had to go to the office and get a note filled out, since I was going during third block (lunch time) I had to get it signed by a principal or the dreaded TT! haha, after that I walked half way through the lunch room thinking o my gosh I need my keys, me and Luke Camp who had so nicely agreed to let me back into the school then went back to the room to get them. We then asked Kaitlin Bash if she would trade places with Luke who desperately wanted to work on what he said was the blog of the century. So Kaitlin went with me to let me back in, it was blistering cold, so I ran like a maniac to the back far corner of the parking lot where I had to park because of how late I got to school today. Then I ran back and she opened the door, I then for the third time of the day knocked on Mrs. Matthews door for them to let me in with the essay proudly in my hands.

I'm gonna be a ROCKSTAR!!

Yes you read right, I said "I'M GONNA BE A ROCKSTAR! :) My church is hosting, a dinner theatre performance type deal with singing, playing, acting, and eating, I mean seriously come on what can be better then that! But I am singing in it, a full song, all alone, with just the lights, the microphone, the stage, my voice and everybody's eyes on me. I am also singing a song with my sister, and singing praise songs with the worship group! I am so excited because this is part of what I want to do when I get older and this is a time for me to shine!! ( :

APOLLO'S SCHOOL SPIRIT STINKS!

 

Come on, APOLLO; Where is your school spirit? I mean there is none, like zippo, like nada... and anymore words that you can think of that mean none. It seems as if over the years that our schools spirit has gone extinct. This week is SPIRIT WEEK, should be fun, right? Well I mean yeah you would think so but at Apollo it seems as if the kids could care less. Now don't get me wrong, my friends and I always dress up for these crazy days (Tuesday: Twin Day, Wednesday: Nerd Day, Thursday: Safari Day, and Friday: All out school spirit day!) and it is a lot of fun for us, but we are like maybe thirty or fourty kids out of the schools population of a thousand. If you are like me you are probably wondering what has caused this decline in school spirit and I don't know but if you ask me it is kinda sad!