You Know, I'm Going to Miss it

This past year I have worked hard and spent many hours with Timpanogos Student Council. At a few moments during the year I thought I couldn't handle it. I made certain decisions to not run for my Senior year. When I saw everyone scrambling to get everything done for elections I was very glad I didn't run.

However, since school got out and Student Council is over I realize that I will definitely miss it. It was hard, but we were a family and I loved it.

9/11

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the attacks on 9/11.

We all remember, we all were impacted.

No Choice

....but to admit that summer is over and school is tomorrow.

Shaundra will be moving out.

Summer is over. (in 4 hours)

I thank all that made my summer good :)

Ohahgh

No, it's not a Hawaiian word.

• It's a written representation of the sound that came out of my mouth after the day I've had.

• Being at three different schools today wore me out. 

               UVU for District "Celebration"....
               Timpanogos for more Student Council stuff. (30 min bike ride in August heat BTW...)
               BYU for Closing Night of AIDA. (I am so sad it's over..!)

Summer basically ended today, and I wasn't prepared for it.

It's as if you baked cookies and, as you're getting them out of the oven, wish you would have put another ingredient in it.

Yes, strange metaphor, but it gets my analogy of summer : cookies across.

And, as I'm writing this, I realize that my comma usage is good yet, I see many Passive Verbs and Second Person Pronouns that I will begin to weed out of my academic vocabulary.

I leave you now with a close understanding of my current mind.

Girls' Camp

*Disclaimer: Sorry for details....this is for my journal too*
Drive to Heber Valley Camp for the first time ever.
 Electricity? Carpet? Hot, running water? Window Blinds? Bunk Beds?
               This is not the Girls' Camp I'm used to.
It's a weird experience because I'm now a Youth Camp Leader in a ward I've never had camp with...I don't even know all their names.
We set up camp. We got into our three different cabins and saw that there was a backdoor. There we saw a deer, butterfly, and cocoon. Gotta love the outdoors :)

Sadly that night it rained and there was lightning....but don't worry, we know the safety crouch! Then we played bingo until every number was called.
Throughout the week we made a variety of crafts including lanterns, bracelets, necklaces, and embroidered pillow covers.
I had to leave for two nights because of Aida rehearsals but I was able to be there for all the days.
We had two birthdays during the week...so we had two celebrations (lots of sweets...)

The water front was fun but the hike there was long and hot (thank goodness for leaders who drive you back though!)
The Challenge course was different than I was used to but it was a great experience!

I'm sorry to say we did not sing a lot of camp songs....we did however, sing Disney songs on the night hike (moose, and snipe sightings cause a break from singing). The sunset from the overlook was so pretty and letters from home were comforting.

The camp people (missionaries and other workers) were surprised that our ward hiked together on every hike, but I was glad we did :)

It's Mount Timpanogos in the background.

Thursday was hot, but thank goodness for these delicious things!

I had to leave during the service project...and miss out on Bishopric night and Testimony meeting but I'm happy I got to go for as long as I did!


P.S. The Laurels ate the Chocolate.... :D

TV Time

I spent a while mentioning books last time so why not the complete opposite and share some favorites of a child glued to the television set? OK I was not glued, but I did enjoy me some great shows. Lets see what they were.

Out of the Box

These were some of my favorites. I do remember one more but I can't find a reference to it anywhere. It was about this girl who became friends with this pink-squiggly-blob creature. I know it exists and I can prove it because one time when I was little I put in an old family video in and then recorded a part of the show on it by accident. So I have some of it but I have no idea how to get more info about it.

Can anyone help me with my dilemma? 

Too bad kid shows now are strange and not quite as good as they were then.

Story Time

Here are some of my favorite books that I read while growing up. If there is a movie made out of the book, I most definitely read the book first :)

I Loved these books and I know that there are many more. I remember a certain book that was about a little lion cub who's parents went out to hunt and he was supposed to stay home. However, the lion cub disobeyed his parents and went outside. He was confronted with many scary obstacles such as crocodiles and other animals. Once he found his way home, his parents sent him off to bed without dinner. I cannot remember the name of this book but I loved it. If anyone knows the name of it let me know!

The Joy of Laughter

It lifts any burden you could be carrying, even for just a moment. There are bonds made through the best times when friends see you at your worst: rolling on the floor, red in the face, mouth hanging wide open, and that horrible gasping sound from trying to breath. The memories of something are thought of as happy when there are times of laughter to remember. 


Doesn’t it feel good when your abs hurt from laughing? I love it because I know I have friends
who love me and make me happy. This is brought up from the great times a girl has with her friends in a show such as FOOTLOOSE in the dressing room. It’s some sort of magic that everyone there are all best friends! The silly moments during “intermission” or with the random gestures that makes it almost “paradise”!

Let's Go on With the Show!

After 2 months of rehearsals, 14 performances, and 2 stages "Annie Get Your Gun" is all over. It was hard to think that after all the time of being with this cast and crew that it could end. On Saturday I think I had some kind of with drawl. I thought of one of my friends I made and panicked because I didn't know when  I could ever see her again. I was reassured somewhat by the invention of facebook. It's an easy way to keep in touch on a regular basis. It's hard to think that at one point I dreaded going to rehearsals because I didn't know very many people and rehearsals were very slow moving. After we were done learning the show it was easy to love it more. Since I was in the ensemble, I had time during the show I could sit and talk to people and get to know them. It also helped that I had to be there 2 hours before the show started to chat.

As the last performance at the SCERA Shell came, I was very sad to not have concession drinks, food and the half hour of time where we sat on top of the hill and ate our food. I would miss the out-door atmosphere...but not the bugs. I would miss being able to belt at the top of our lungs 'Old Fashioned Wedding'. I would miss the dressing room tents that required extra lighting so we wouldn't have trouble in the dark. I would miss the stars. I would miss the lightning during the show. I would miss the fresh air.
However, it was exciting to go to BYU and perform in the deJong theatre at the HFAC. It was exciting to have a HUGE green room. It was exciting to watch the show on monitors backstage. It was exciting to have mirrors that could change angles. It was exciting to be indoors. It was exciting to have clean smelling bathrooms. It was exciting to be squished into one women's changing room. It was exciting to find our way through the maze of stairs and doors to stage and the greenroom. It was exciting to receive loud applauses. It was exciting to have strangers shake everyone's hand in the cast. It was exciting to get flowers. It was exciting.
I would NOT miss the amount of hairspray I inhaled. Or the result of what hairspray combined with 400 degree curling iron did to my hair.
I would miss fawning and fighting over Frank Butler. I would miss my umbrella. I would miss backstage dances. I would miss the effort put in to not crack up laughing when we're Indians. I would miss the LONG ballroom scene. I probably won't miss that dress that didn't really fit. Or how my feet hurt and the end of the night.
I love my dear cast mates and the crew and the directors.

It's What I Thought I Saw

It's the end of my ninth grade year (hurrah!), and life has gotten so busy. This new post includes a new look to the blog.

Last week was my Seussical Jr. production with General Ruckus at the SCERA. I was a bird girl and I realized how much I learned from doing GR this year. It seemed that I was the oldest and one of the only "normal" people. I had a hard time through the year being happy with where I was. Doing Seussical I was able to get to know so many more people. These people were the ones who I thought where extremely weird and immature. I realized that first impressions can be the most inaccurate views people can ever have. I now either LOVE! the people I was able to get close to, or at least respect them and not be put off by their presence and comments.
Monday and Tuesday (yesterday), I was in the SYT Broadway Revue. I had the chance to be in the opening number with Acting Up and a few kids from other SYT classes. We did three Seussical numbers, Friendship (from Anything Goes), and the closing number This is Our Story (from Shrek the musical).
This was a great learning experience also. Compliments are true. Accept them. No one would lie to your face when they give you a compliment. Attitude is everything. Attitude makes memories sweet, bitter, enjoyable or forgettable. Lets make all our memories the best.