Hypothetically speaking...

Okay. So let's say that, hypothetically speaking, our volleyball team makes it to state. That's a big deal, right? And, hypothetically, we can ride a pep bus to the game to support them. Well, hypothetically, one teacher says that their students aren't allowed to go to the game.... hypothetically, the teacher says they are gonna take points off the students' grade if they go to the hypothetical game and don't get back in time. Yet after hearing this, hypothetically, some of the students decide to go to the game regardless... Hypothetically, this hypothetical situation is not going to end well...

Scary movies?

When I was little, I absolutely hated scary movies. I refused to watch them until about 7th grade. But now, I love them. Scary movies are my favorite! The first scary movie I ever watched was When a Stranger Calls. I remember exactly where I was and my reaction to it and everything. Taylor Keller, Katie Killman, Haleigh Millay, Brianna Oelze, Kaylee Wilhite, and I went to Taylor's aunt's house in Evansville for Taylor's birthday party and stayed the night there. When a Stranger Calls was one of the movies we watched. I remember we were all sitting in the dark living room and I had to sit on the end of the couch. Beside me was a little table with a lamp and a cordless phone on it, remember that... About half way through the movie when it was starting to get pretty intense, Taylor and her uncle got up and went into the kitchen. I didn't think anything of it except for maybe they were going to get a snack or something. A couple minutes later Taylor comes back in the living room and whispers something to everyone but since I'm on the end of the couch, I was last in line to hear what she was saying. By the time she had told everyone I asked to know and they all shh'd me and said they couldn't hear the movie. So I just dropped it and forgot about it. About 10 minutes later in the movie, the phone rang and at the EXACT same time the cordless phone beside me started ringing and I jumped. I looked over and saw that the caller ID said "unknown number" and shortly after the lit up phone began "floating" towards me... I jumped up, screamed, and jumped on the other couch and buried my face into the back cushion. Everyone started laughing so I looked up to see Taylor by the lightswitch and her uncle laying on the floor beside the couch I was on before I jumped up, holding the cordless phone. It was probably one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me! But now its really funny :)

Eaglefest?

So this year's Eaglefest was NOT our best.... I didn't think as much thought was put into it as there has been in the past years. I mean, yeah, being awarded and recognized for your achievements is great, but for the people that didn't get awarded anything, it was probably pretty boring. There wasn't even any fun stuff this year like there was last year, like the teachers dancing in tutus or the seniors dancing in togas. Some people in my class even said they felt like they dressed up in all out blue and white for nothing. I think Eaglefest should've been planned better than it was, but that's just my honest opinion.

Not enough time!

My weeks are starting to become hectic! I'm always doing something, whether it be something for school, work, church, or hockey/tennis. By the time I get home every night I just end up going to bed straight after doing homework because I'm so worn out. Somedays all I wanna do is just stay at home and watch a movie!

AYL, minus the newbies.

We had our first actual AYL meeting for mentors and trainers last night. We talked about what we're doing for the parent meeting next week and at the retreat in November, which I'm super pumped for. Chase and I have to speak at the parent meeting about last year's retreat and about the book we study, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make. I'm really excited to talk to the new first-years about how much fun the retreat is and what we learn with the book. I've actually used what we've learned with this book, it's not just useless information we study to pass the time and make our club seem influencing. It's honestly helped me realize how much these 6 decisions you can make in highschool (school, friends, parents, dating, drugs, & self-worth) can affect you for the rest of your life. I also volunteered to give a "teen talk" at the retreat, which I'm kinda nervous about. A teen talk is a speech you give to the members in AYL about why you joined it. Talking in front of people isn't hard for me, I'm just nervous that I'll mess up and won't do a good job in explaining it. But oh well, hopefully it all goes good!

AYL is seriously the funnest school activity I've ever been involved in. It provides you with a group of people to rely on that have the same values as you, as far as peer pressure goes. I'm really glad Langley chose me as one of the people to come back this year and be a mentor, I'm seriously so excited! :)

School spirit,

I'm not gonna lie, our student body's school spirit sucks. I've been to a couple games this year and there's been hardly any students there. My 8th grade year, there were always a ton of people at the football games, football games were the place to be Friday nights. We don't even have a student section or anything like that for the students to get more involved in, which is probably why a lot of people don't go to games anymore. For example, I went to the Sadie Hawkins game against Catholic and their student section was packed while hardly any students were there to support Apollo, the only reason people from Apollo were there was to show off their skanky outfits, not to cheer on their football team. And this week is spirit week and hardly anybody is dressing up. Spirit week used to be a huge thing! I mean, I don't go all out but I at least try to dress up a little bit, some people don't even try to. Apollo's school spirit has gone wayyyy down since my freshman year. It doesn't even seem like people are excited about dressing up and looking silly to show spirit anymore. It seems to me that students could care less about winning or losing, and we should care.

Stress.

Work. Hockey practice. Tennis practice. Praise band practice. Church. Filming for ENL. Stories for ENL. AYL meetings. Projects for NHS. Hours for Beta. Good points for Student Council. Studying. Traveling out of town for hockey tournaments. APUSH. Chemistry. Memorizing lines. Spanish 3. Homework. A different class schedule EVERY DAY. 

High school hasn't been stressful for me until this year.  I'm officially stressed out. I feel like I never have enough time to do anything and when I do have time, all I want to do is be with my friends, boyfriend, or just lay down and take a nap with my dog. I think I need to learn how to balance my time better. Ughhhh, stresssssssss.