That's right folks, after a nearly three week absence, your favorite 5'2" international traveler is back in country. I'd write a long post about how great the trip was, how much I've changed in such a short time, and how much fun we all had, but seriously, it's 4:00 AM in Czech and I could probably fall asleep at any time without warning. I'll take my pictures to get developed ASAP and post about them soon.
It's great to be back...
Friday, July 29, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Updated Blog? Czech!
I know I've been promising an awesome post with lotsa cool pictures of myself and my various travels, but my scanner wasn't playing nice with me today, so unless it gets over its little attitude problem before I leave tomorrow, you, my adoring public (ha ha) will have to content yourselves with mere text.
I leave for the Czech Republic in less than twenty-four hours. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about that. Part of me is totally excited, and the other part is screaming "Don't make me do it! Noooo!!!" Yeah, I think that's the drama queen part of me talking right there. Anyway, I'm sure this is going to be an awesome experience for me, but there are certain things I'm sort of nervous about, and I know there are some people I'm really gonna miss.
Since I want to wait until I can get those pictures scanned in and everything before I post about recent events, I'll just say this: I"m really excited about the work we're going to be doing with the Czech students, and any prayers, good wishes, or happy thoughts you could send the teams' way while we're gone would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, I almost forgot! We might get to stop at an internet cafe toward the end of our trip when we're in Prague, so I'll either post on this site, send out a mass e-mail, or do both. I'm sorta leaning toward posting here, but 'ya never know.
Bye everybody! Love ya!
I leave for the Czech Republic in less than twenty-four hours. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about that. Part of me is totally excited, and the other part is screaming "Don't make me do it! Noooo!!!" Yeah, I think that's the drama queen part of me talking right there. Anyway, I'm sure this is going to be an awesome experience for me, but there are certain things I'm sort of nervous about, and I know there are some people I'm really gonna miss.
Since I want to wait until I can get those pictures scanned in and everything before I post about recent events, I'll just say this: I"m really excited about the work we're going to be doing with the Czech students, and any prayers, good wishes, or happy thoughts you could send the teams' way while we're gone would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, I almost forgot! We might get to stop at an internet cafe toward the end of our trip when we're in Prague, so I'll either post on this site, send out a mass e-mail, or do both. I'm sorta leaning toward posting here, but 'ya never know.
Bye everybody! Love ya!
Friday, June 10, 2005
'Nuff said.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
California, Here I Come
I know I promised a post with pictures from my birthday party and all that rot, but life's been cah-razy lately so I haven't had much time for simple pleasures like bloggin'.
list 'o' recent events
- I got an A+ on my last Beaman final.
- Jared N. and Jenell D. stayed at my house until 4:00 AM the night of my party. We just sat on my couch and chatted and made horribly pathetic jokes.
- I pulled my first all-nighter working on my scary research paper for Mr. Beaman's class.
- I sang a solo at Wrap Up and made friend and family cry (tears of happiness).
- I ran for choir president or vice president and lost both.
- I went on a retreat with my Czech team and had an awesome time. We did a ropes course up there and I, being as afraid of heights as I am, was a little freaked out. Thankfully my team was there to support me and we all worked together to get through our fears. I think we all learned a lot about ourselves; I know I did.
- I got an A+ on a Principles of Technology test I thought I would fail.
- I got an A on that scary research paper for Beaman and he wants me to present my paper to the Young Historians conference next spring. Almost every time I see him lately he says, "Great paper, Lynsey!" Now I don' have to worry about this last final so much! Yay!
- I got another haircut! This one is shorter, but sorta similar to the one I got before. After this weekend I'll post a bunch of pictures and you can see my new "do."
I'll bet you're probably asking yourself, "Self, what is Lynsey going to do to celebrate all of the cool things that have happened to her lately?" Well, dear reader, the answer is simple: I'm goin' to Disneyland! Yep, that's right, in twenty-four hours I'll be in the magic kingdom having a blast with all of my choir buds. We only have about half a day's worth of actual music competition, and then we spend the rest of the time just playing in Disneyland. Awesome. That's all I have to say about that.
I'll try to post pictures and stories from Disneyland shortly after I return, but now I need to go pack...hehe...
list 'o' recent events
- I got an A+ on my last Beaman final.
- Jared N. and Jenell D. stayed at my house until 4:00 AM the night of my party. We just sat on my couch and chatted and made horribly pathetic jokes.
- I pulled my first all-nighter working on my scary research paper for Mr. Beaman's class.
- I sang a solo at Wrap Up and made friend and family cry (tears of happiness).
- I ran for choir president or vice president and lost both.
- I went on a retreat with my Czech team and had an awesome time. We did a ropes course up there and I, being as afraid of heights as I am, was a little freaked out. Thankfully my team was there to support me and we all worked together to get through our fears. I think we all learned a lot about ourselves; I know I did.
- I got an A+ on a Principles of Technology test I thought I would fail.
- I got an A on that scary research paper for Beaman and he wants me to present my paper to the Young Historians conference next spring. Almost every time I see him lately he says, "Great paper, Lynsey!" Now I don' have to worry about this last final so much! Yay!
- I got another haircut! This one is shorter, but sorta similar to the one I got before. After this weekend I'll post a bunch of pictures and you can see my new "do."
I'll bet you're probably asking yourself, "Self, what is Lynsey going to do to celebrate all of the cool things that have happened to her lately?" Well, dear reader, the answer is simple: I'm goin' to Disneyland! Yep, that's right, in twenty-four hours I'll be in the magic kingdom having a blast with all of my choir buds. We only have about half a day's worth of actual music competition, and then we spend the rest of the time just playing in Disneyland. Awesome. That's all I have to say about that.
I'll try to post pictures and stories from Disneyland shortly after I return, but now I need to go pack...hehe...
Saturday, April 23, 2005
< / blogging hiatus >
Since I'm waiting for my flat iron to heat up, I guess I have some time to post.
April 3-4 I went to the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) state conference, in Jantzen Beach. I had two events I was signed up for: Desktop Publishing and Business Communications. I arrived on Sunday with my friend Rachel Ames, we got into our room okay, and went to the standard boring opening session complete with a scary rendition of the national anthem and a long-winded keynote speaker. After opening session I headed back to my room to hang out and wait for my Desktop Publishing partner to arrive so we could go take our group test. For a while I was worried she wouldn't get there in time, but she made it and we pretty much got our test done as quickly as possible.
When I got back to my room I changed from my business attire and got ready to go to the dance. After waiting with Rachel for the rest of people from Reynolds who were going to the dance, we headed downstairs to get our respective "grooves" on. The music was dumb (and sometimes nasty), it was hot, and some creepy guy tried to dance with me, but I persevered (and ignored the creepy guy). I stayed for about an hour, then went back upstairs to shower and just hang out, then the bad news arrived. After months of preparing and practicing, our Entrepreneurship teams didn't make it to the second round. It was really sad and a lot of people from the teams were upset, including Rachael.
The next morning Rachael and I slept in a bit and went for breakfast at Starbucks. At first I considered skipping taking the Business Communications test in order to stay with Rachael and try to cheer her up, but I finally decided that I would just get the test over with and then spend the rest of the day cheering up Rachael. I didn't think I would do very well on my test because everyone takes that test, and it's hard to place in it. I pretty much took the test and forgot about it.
After I got back from open testing I went with Rachael and the rest of our roommates to the Mongolian Grill for lunch and stopped by Target (I got the cutest shirt!) before heading back to the hotel. the rest of the afternoon was spent in the hot tub, watching Monty Python, and pretty much just screwing around. At dinnertime all of RHS FBLA went to Chuck E Cheese for dinner. We played dumb games, at tiny/less-than-fulfilling pizza, and crawled around in those plastic tunnel things. Ah to be six years old again....
Though the conference was ending the next day with a long, boring closing ceremony, I decided to go home early so I wouldn't have to miss Mr. Beaman's class. It seemed like a pretty good Idea until I found out what happened the next day. There I was sitting in Mr. Beaman's class participating in a discussion about whether we should've dropped the atomic bombs in Japan during WWII when Anna Fenton says to me, "Oh, Lynsey, Andrew (Rolfe) sent me a text message saying you got first in your event."
(Me) "Huh!? Which One?"
"He didn't say."
"Uhh...okay..."
After history I hurried over to math class, trying to think of some at the conference whose cell phone number I had so I could call and find out what really happened. I ended up getting Jessica Vining's number from Jenell and was practically screaming into my cell phone so she could hear me. She told be that I'd gotten first in Business Communications and fourth in Desktop Publishing! I qualified to compete in the national conference in Orlando, Florida! Add that to my trip to Disneyland for choir in May and Czech in July and these next few months are gonna be an absolute blast!
Other stuff has been going on too. the Harrison's now have a family plan from Verizon, so as my birthday present for this year I got a cool new camera phone (which are only slightly against school policy). Speaking of my birthday, it's next Thursday! I'm gonna be seventeen, cah-razy. I'm gonna have a big, awesome party on the 7th of May (since prom is once again on the weekend on I would normally have my party). It should be lotsa fun.
Oh yeah, Jenell ran for class counsel again this year and lost again, boo. The sad thing is, there were apparently some people who voted more than once, one of the new counsel members probably got elected because it was funny, and there are five people on the counsel, and Jenell had the sixth highest number of votes. Thankfully, my best friend rocks and she's not too upset about it. I love that girl!
Well, I guess my flat iron is plenty hot now since I've been working on this for over a half-hour. Heh heh...
April 3-4 I went to the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) state conference, in Jantzen Beach. I had two events I was signed up for: Desktop Publishing and Business Communications. I arrived on Sunday with my friend Rachel Ames, we got into our room okay, and went to the standard boring opening session complete with a scary rendition of the national anthem and a long-winded keynote speaker. After opening session I headed back to my room to hang out and wait for my Desktop Publishing partner to arrive so we could go take our group test. For a while I was worried she wouldn't get there in time, but she made it and we pretty much got our test done as quickly as possible.
When I got back to my room I changed from my business attire and got ready to go to the dance. After waiting with Rachel for the rest of people from Reynolds who were going to the dance, we headed downstairs to get our respective "grooves" on. The music was dumb (and sometimes nasty), it was hot, and some creepy guy tried to dance with me, but I persevered (and ignored the creepy guy). I stayed for about an hour, then went back upstairs to shower and just hang out, then the bad news arrived. After months of preparing and practicing, our Entrepreneurship teams didn't make it to the second round. It was really sad and a lot of people from the teams were upset, including Rachael.
The next morning Rachael and I slept in a bit and went for breakfast at Starbucks. At first I considered skipping taking the Business Communications test in order to stay with Rachael and try to cheer her up, but I finally decided that I would just get the test over with and then spend the rest of the day cheering up Rachael. I didn't think I would do very well on my test because everyone takes that test, and it's hard to place in it. I pretty much took the test and forgot about it.
After I got back from open testing I went with Rachael and the rest of our roommates to the Mongolian Grill for lunch and stopped by Target (I got the cutest shirt!) before heading back to the hotel. the rest of the afternoon was spent in the hot tub, watching Monty Python, and pretty much just screwing around. At dinnertime all of RHS FBLA went to Chuck E Cheese for dinner. We played dumb games, at tiny/less-than-fulfilling pizza, and crawled around in those plastic tunnel things. Ah to be six years old again....
Though the conference was ending the next day with a long, boring closing ceremony, I decided to go home early so I wouldn't have to miss Mr. Beaman's class. It seemed like a pretty good Idea until I found out what happened the next day. There I was sitting in Mr. Beaman's class participating in a discussion about whether we should've dropped the atomic bombs in Japan during WWII when Anna Fenton says to me, "Oh, Lynsey, Andrew (Rolfe) sent me a text message saying you got first in your event."
(Me) "Huh!? Which One?"
"He didn't say."
"Uhh...okay..."
After history I hurried over to math class, trying to think of some at the conference whose cell phone number I had so I could call and find out what really happened. I ended up getting Jessica Vining's number from Jenell and was practically screaming into my cell phone so she could hear me. She told be that I'd gotten first in Business Communications and fourth in Desktop Publishing! I qualified to compete in the national conference in Orlando, Florida! Add that to my trip to Disneyland for choir in May and Czech in July and these next few months are gonna be an absolute blast!
Other stuff has been going on too. the Harrison's now have a family plan from Verizon, so as my birthday present for this year I got a cool new camera phone (which are only slightly against school policy). Speaking of my birthday, it's next Thursday! I'm gonna be seventeen, cah-razy. I'm gonna have a big, awesome party on the 7th of May (since prom is once again on the weekend on I would normally have my party). It should be lotsa fun.
Oh yeah, Jenell ran for class counsel again this year and lost again, boo. The sad thing is, there were apparently some people who voted more than once, one of the new counsel members probably got elected because it was funny, and there are five people on the counsel, and Jenell had the sixth highest number of votes. Thankfully, my best friend rocks and she's not too upset about it. I love that girl!
Well, I guess my flat iron is plenty hot now since I've been working on this for over a half-hour. Heh heh...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
I Guess It All Evens Out...
Case 1: I got sick over spring break - I played Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door lots and went to Eric Little's birthday party
Case 2: I didn't make it into Bach Fest - I got an A on my Beaman final!
Case 3: My sickness caused me to lose my voice and not be able to sing - I'm in Expressions again next year without having to try out and we're learning the song Kiss the Girl for when we go to sing for the elementary and middle schools (*heart*).
Case 4: I had to go back to school after break - I got 100% on my AP Writing 122 test!
Good Times...
Case 2: I didn't make it into Bach Fest - I got an A on my Beaman final!
Case 3: My sickness caused me to lose my voice and not be able to sing - I'm in Expressions again next year without having to try out and we're learning the song Kiss the Girl for when we go to sing for the elementary and middle schools (*heart*).
Case 4: I had to go back to school after break - I got 100% on my AP Writing 122 test!
Good Times...
Monday, March 07, 2005
BF Doesn't Always Stand for "Best Friend"...
Sometimes it stands for brain fart. Yeah, district solo and ensemble contest...Lynsey had a major brain fart. My first piece, Sebben Crudele was really quite tragic. I started the very beginning of the song in the wrong place. So sad. Anyway, it went okay after that; I got a 91/100, (a.k.a. a 1). No state contest for me, but there's always next year. In other news, this summer sounds like it's going to be an absolute kick in the pants! (I love that phrase!)
Last Saturday (March 5th) I auditioned for the Oregon Bach Festival. For those of you who don't know what that is, just think of it as a choir camp where we sing music by pretty much only one composer. My audition went quite well (no brain farts!), so I'm really hoping I'll be accepted (only 80 students will make it out of all of the people who audition!). If I am accepted I'll be down in Eugene at U of O (where the event takes place) from June 25th to July 5th, yay! But that's just the beginning....
That's right, not only do I have the opportunity to be involved in awesome choir stuff, but I'm officially going to the Czech Republic on a mission trip with GSCC from July 11th to the 29th.
We'll be working with a youth group from Bohumin to help run a week-long conversational-English camp in the eastern part of the country. I'm already excited about going! Hopefully there will be internet access from the camp (which will probably be more like a big, old hotel) so I can post about what's going on every once in a while. But in case I don't have internet access, here's our itinerary:
July 11th: Leave the states from PDX
July 12th: Arrive in Prague
July 13th-14th: Training
July 15th: Travel to camp (by train)
July 16th - 23rd: Camp
July 24th-25th: Follow-up
July 26th-27th: Travel to Auschwitz/Prague
July 28th: Sight-seeing in Prague
July 29th: Fly home!
After I get home, I have less than a week before Nathan leaves for England, then only a month of freedom before school starts back up again. Joy!
Okay, so now I need to go write a rough draft for Writing 122 and study for my History 202 final. Fuuun...
Last Saturday (March 5th) I auditioned for the Oregon Bach Festival. For those of you who don't know what that is, just think of it as a choir camp where we sing music by pretty much only one composer. My audition went quite well (no brain farts!), so I'm really hoping I'll be accepted (only 80 students will make it out of all of the people who audition!). If I am accepted I'll be down in Eugene at U of O (where the event takes place) from June 25th to July 5th, yay! But that's just the beginning....
That's right, not only do I have the opportunity to be involved in awesome choir stuff, but I'm officially going to the Czech Republic on a mission trip with GSCC from July 11th to the 29th.
We'll be working with a youth group from Bohumin to help run a week-long conversational-English camp in the eastern part of the country. I'm already excited about going! Hopefully there will be internet access from the camp (which will probably be more like a big, old hotel) so I can post about what's going on every once in a while. But in case I don't have internet access, here's our itinerary:
July 11th: Leave the states from PDX
July 12th: Arrive in Prague
July 13th-14th: Training
July 15th: Travel to camp (by train)
July 16th - 23rd: Camp
July 24th-25th: Follow-up
July 26th-27th: Travel to Auschwitz/Prague
July 28th: Sight-seeing in Prague
July 29th: Fly home!
After I get home, I have less than a week before Nathan leaves for England, then only a month of freedom before school starts back up again. Joy!
Okay, so now I need to go write a rough draft for Writing 122 and study for my History 202 final. Fuuun...
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