School Activites

Holy Cow. I haven't posted in forever. Perhaps my life is just too dull. Or maybe that's the problem, it's not dull enough that I have enough time to post. Idk. But I'm posting now. Things have been extremely boring at school. Let's see, we've already had the first two events that the Leadership Class does. The first was the Bondservant Auction, which is basically the "Chrsitian" way of saying "Slave Auction." And yes, it is what is sounds like. A bunch of upper class men put out posters promising all sorts of great things for the people who buy them and then on the Friday after the auction, they have to be their slave all day at school. This year, Hannah Whitehead and I got together and were sold together. We went for $150, which was the second highest buy. We had 5 masters and it was a ton of fun. We had a sleepover the night before, and it was extravagant fun. We played games, watched movies, painted nails, ate tons of food, and did a lot of girl-talk. It was great. The next day, after a dutch brothers run, Hannah and I were forced to carry all of their stuff to and from classes, take notes, do their math, sing 'Jesus Loves Me' between classes, buy them pizza from Pizza Hut, and s;urpees from Seven Eleven. It was a blast.

The other event was the Lock-In. Which, is basically, an all night party. all. night. long. But I did end up sleeping for about 10 minutes, which was about 9 minutes longer than last year. There were a lot of tournaments going on; table hockey, basketball, volleyball, doge ball, ping-pong, karaoke- ok so maybe that last one wasn't a tournament, but it SHOULD have been. I would have won... HANDS DOWN. :) I spent a lot of time in the bathroom with a large group of my friends. We were having a "G.P" which actually stands for a 'group poop', but in our case it was a group party. It was so awesome. We danced (gasp!)and sang in front of the mirrors, and we chatted about boys, and all the important things in life--like; our nails, and our next shopping trips, and "OMG can you believe Sara....." At one point we were all doing the Macarina to the song "Hot 'n Cold" by Katy Perry. It was the bomb-digitty. We had about 4 or 5 "G.P.'s" that night. Once I tried to escape, because I was exhausted from all the dances, but Brenna spotted me, and she returned with that whole group who just picked me up and carried me back. It was fun. There were like 15 girls at one point in there. It was AWESOME!

Basketball started on Monday. I was so close to not playing this year. But I found myself going to practice a bit reluctantly on Tuesday, telling myself that this will be good for me. The part that is going to drive me absolutely crazy is the Saturday varsity practices. I am glad I made varsity, although, it wasn't really all that hard.... but getting up at the butt-crack of dawn to go and get sweaty while running a million suicides doesn't sound like all that much fun.

Lastly I must talk about the wretched Annual Fall Banquet that took place last night. I was so super excited because I am in both the choir and the ensemble this year, and I play the piano for one of the choir songs that we sang. It was our first performance, and I was stoked! I knew that the choir was going to be good, and I wasn't really all that sure about the ensemble, because I think that we are progressively getting worse, regardless of what Mrs. Grove says. But was the ensemble the problem? Noooo, I got up there in front of God knows how many people, and totally humiliated myself by totally screwing up the song I played.OMG, it was awful. I could have cried. I really expected someone out of the crowd to just stand up and shoot me in the face. And I think that probably would have been less painful than that awful awkward silence that happened when I went back to my place between Katie and Brenna. Oh well, I suppose I will have plenty of opportunities to redeem myself. Like, say, when we go to the WOU festival, when we go the Liberty to sing, when we got to Musicale, when we sing in front of our school... who knows, I might actually get it right!