I've come to the conclusion that by posting every once in a blue moon it makes all the people who read this anticipate what i'm going to say more. :) kinda fun if you're in my shoes...

  So today the "Capt. Wirz" trial began and i was the 10th witness  to be put on the stand for the prosecution. I had so much nervous engery that, during the recess that we took immediately before i was called, i was jumping up and down and dancing around singing...hehehe.So finally i was called to the stand....and thankfully (for my grade's sake!!!) i did a good job and defended myself well against the defense's cross examination. Now all i have to do is observe the rest of the trial

  Oooh guess what!?!!! A cool thing happened to me this past week. Okay, so i was listening to the local christian radio station on Monday and they mentioned that  Kutless, Barlow Girl and Stellar Kart were going to be in concert in Culpepper, Va on Wednesday, March 9. So being the inquisitive person that i am, i called up Bryan to see if he was planning on going to the concert (since he knows the Barlow Girls' Daddy and gives them prolife shirts..). Bryan ended up calling Mr. Barlow and getting us and my friend, KeriBeth, on the guest list. So we took a little roadtrip out to Culpepper and we got escorted "backstage" in the highschool were we got to hangout with the bands all evening....gosh what a sucky way to spend an evening<----- lots of adorable band boys! teehehe whats a girl to do? (the Kutless guys are all married....but not Stellar Kart! *scampy smile*) Bryan ended up giving all of the bands lots of merchandise and they in turn gave KeriBeth and myself $75 worth of stuff each!

   With all of the hanging out with (boy)bands, doing prolife stuff, getting free stuff and lots of great company....i'm thinking tour this summer is going to be a blast!!!!

    I apologize profusely for not writing but maybe once i'm finished you'll understand! I am sooo stinkin busy!

    In my history class we are retrying Capt. Wirz from the civil war so i've been busy researching the prosecution witness that i am acting as.. Basically Capt. Wirz is being charged with war crimes for harming POWs. I am *ahem* Sgt. John Ransom and i kept a daily journal of the time a spent at the Andersonville prison...so i get to be a star witness because my journal is a primary source! Anyways, the trial starts tomorrow and i still don't know what questions my attorneys are going to be asking me so i'm kinda freaking out. Not only is Capt. Wirz's life on the line but so is my grade .

    So i have been killing myself over the trial but i'm also working my rear end off on the National Mothers Day Baby Shower that Stand True is working on. It's a frightening amount of work! So far i've gotten permission from my principal to do a presentation on it during chapel and then beg people over the intercom to get involved every day *yay*. So i'm all scheduled to speak in chapel in less than 2 weeks and i'm feeling a bit rushed not knowing what i'm going to say and also being busy with a million other things.

Recap: Trial and Baby Shower

    HOMEWORK. How did i manage to forget about that? Last week i studied  a bunch for my Chemistry test and i felt so prepared and everything and i thought i got an A (for the first time in Chemistry mind you!) on my test....of course i come to find out that i got a ahhhhhhhhhhh 73!!!!!??? So my teacher-for once!- is letting my class take it over again since 20+ people failed the test. The retake is tomorrow and somehow with the snow and everything i forgot to bring my books home to study with!<--- so i get to get another seventy something on it! Oh but wait it gets better. I also have my first Apologetics test tomorrow. The test question is "Is there a God?"...i have all class period to write a paper on that question. (and no, the answer cannot be simply "yes"!) So i still don't know how to develop all of my arguments so i need to figure that out SOON.

    Also, i'm an officer in my schools ministry club and we are preparing to do chapel in a few weeks. We've hardly done a thing mind you and i believe we have 3 weeks until the deadline. So by Wednesday of this week i have to get together all of the stuff for the topic i'm in charge of and pray that the other people in my group do their work too. And we are brainstorming  ideas of different things we can do for the National Day of Prayer and some other activities....Oh, and because the club is fairly new we still haven't written our constituition and we have to elect a new Pres. in a month!!!!! Deadlines! Deadlines!

Recap deux: Trial, Baby Shower, Chemistry Test, Apologetics Test, Chapel, NDP, Constitution, Other stuff.

Did i mention its been a long week???

      Okay, so cool i'm back from Massanutten all geared up to spend the next three nights all by myself in a big empty house. I'm retarded and acting like a baby but as soon as i walked in the door and realized how "alone" i am i burst into tears and cried like a spoiled brat for a while!

      Massanutten was lots of fun. The Superbowl "party"(<---- what party!?) totally sucked...i watched the game with a bunch of oldish men! gross!...not to mention the Eagles lost *sniffle* However!, i am pleased to announce that this past Monday i fell in love with snowboarding! It has got to be one of the most painful things to master..but good golly its fun!!! I must have crashed into the snow a few hundred times during my eternal snowboarding lesson (i repeated Level 1 three times!). But it was a blast and during my last hour of lessons i got stuck in a private lesson (by default) with a very nice looking  male snowboard instructor <-- oh shucks! After my lesson was over i went up the lift with my Daddy and managed to take an hour coming back down for the sole reason that i fell every ten ft.. The second time i finally got the hang of it** until**---> i hit ice and fell in such an awkward position that i was unable to slow myself down before i managed to shoot UNDER the fence that is supposed to keep skiiers/snowboarders from flying  straight down into a12 ft. ravine with boulders at the bottom *cheesy grin*. But because God loves me soooo much, teehehe, i managed to grab a root that was sticking out the side of the "cliff", right before i got smashed into little bitty pieces, and hang there until some guy from the lift came and rescued me. Sooo then i *ahem* boarded the rest of the way down and i am now swooning over the entire experience.

        I apologize to Sam and Tim for my mommy shipping me home before i got to hang out with y'all...even though i think i'm the one that is really bummed out. Some day i'll go with you guys<--- after i practice some more!

        Perhaps its a mistake but i'm writing this even though i'm in a terrible mood! The last fews days have been annoying and stressful. Brilliant me got in a car accident yesterday morning on my way to school...ohh but it gets better! It was a 3 car pile-up that was (mostly) my fault and then another accident happened right next to us. But wait i left out the best part! <--- I ran into the back of the Superintendent of MY SCHOOL!!!!!!! *sigh* But really it wasn't completely my fault! Before i hit my SI. there was another girl from my school in front of me. she though she was going to hit the SI. so she swerved around the two cars infront of her...after she had moved i realized that the 2 cars in front of me were completely stopped and i was still going 35+ mph...so i slammed on the brakes and slammed into my SI. causing him to hit the Jeep in front of him! Everyone was really nice about it except the cop go figure...i got a ticket for driving too closely and i have to go to court for it in April. Praise the Lord my SI. is a Christian because otherwise he would have shot me! He even called my parents and told them that he was impressed at my *ahem* maturity and how responsible i was for calling the Insurance company and making sure i  got everyone's info..(HUH!?). He told my Dad that he is going to go with us to court and be a character witness for us. Whoa, God must love me...So thats my only adventure for the week i hope.

     I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to spend 4 days at Massanutten (skiing, snowboarding, tubing place) with my insane family. So i'm not going to get to go to ANY of the 4 different Super Bowl parties i was invited to! I'm going to get dropped off ay home Tuesday evening and then my Mommy is going back to Massanutten while i do time in school! I have to spend 2 nights by myself in a big, scary, dark house. But wait!--->I'm not allowed to go anywhere other than school or do anything. So basically at 3 o'clock i have to go home and spend that whole time in solitude!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHH. I like people too much to be in solitude scared to death and about to pee my pants! GOSH

    The sad, sad story of my life.

  Random fact for the day: Within the last week i fell in love with Dashboard Confessional *dreamy sigh* Yay!!!!<---- just in case you were wondering

    I just now decided that it is extremely vital for you to know everything there possibly is to know about the Doulos Program at Headwaters Lodge that i have spent the past 3 summers of my life participating in!

     First of all the word Doulos is Greek for Bonservant or Slave. Soo the Doulos program is basically a discipleship program based on slave labor! The program is usually made up of 5- 12 teens who participate in Biblestudies, team building exercises, and most of all WORK. The work can be anything from building houses (helping anyway) to kitchen duty to gardening and washing cars. Even when i describe it i wonder why anyone would spend a month of their summer hauling lumber and scrubbing mildew from behind toilets (yup, i did that!). But the whole point of the program is to become a servant to all or "Pond Scum" as the rest of the staff affectionately refers to us doulos. As exhausting as working all day is its been one of the most beneficial things i've ever done and i have learned tons about myself and my peers

      However, the work isn't the half of it. On "Doulos-days-off" we party! Over the past 3 summers i've done everything from "dirt cup wars", fed cows, rolled down a HUGE hill wrapped in a blanket (and landed in a cow pie!), kissed Ronald at McDonalds, did the "butt dance" <---not quite as bad as it sounds!, got chased by a bull, caught "sucker fishes", catapulted myself through a window on to a stack of matresses, and made a video entitled "When Doulos Snap" ( it includes a picture of me being hung).....yeah Doulos know how to have fun. So that is the very brief summary of my past 3 summers. I will not be returning again this summer for the sole reason that God has new plans for me, but i love H.W. to death and perhaps the following summer i will return as a Pond Scum leader....NOT!