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| 5 days!!!!!!!!!! 5 days until I leave Indy for 6 weeks! I've never been gone from home this long and it's kinda weird! I gotta start working on packing and such tomorrow. I need to get a new Ipod before I leave. It would really suck not to have one for the plane rides! I wonder if they'll show a movie. I'm a little nervous about flying to Europe by myself....I'm glad I've traveled by myself before, otherwise I'd be VERY nervous about all of this! I'm honestly not sure of what to expect when I get there. I hope I improve my Spanish while I'm there. I would love to become fluent....that would be neat. Maybe I'll move to Ecuador and get good at it that way.
This week and weekend have been crazy busy! VBS was incredible!! It's so awesome to see the kids get so excited and to watch them really start to understand the things that you're talking about. Three of my kids asked Christ into their lives. What an awesome thing to be witness to! It's neat to see the whole church get involved too. Seriously I think every person in our church is there doing something at least one of the nights. It's pretty impressive! AND.....the kids brought in $2,039 to help out a family in our church that is going out on the mission field. Think about that....130 kids raised over two thousand dollars!! Make you feel guilty about how much you've given lately? Definitely made me think twice. Am I allowed to admit that I kinda like the songs? I know they're kinda goofy and stuff, but they're fun! Especially the one this time where we got to do a little bit of fake line dancing!  It was freaking amazing!!! And then there was the tea party today that we did for the old ladies in the church. It was a lot of fun!! It was a lot of hard work, but it was totally worth it all! Those ladies are so wonderful!!! And they have some great hats! We asked everyone to wear their favorite hat, so it was neat to see all of the different hats everyone had. One of them had a hat with a picture of each of her grandkids on it. It was so precious!! I really enjoyed it! And I think they did too....A lot of them were saying how we should make it an annual thing or something. That'd be neat. All right, that's all for now...goodnight!
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| Well, graduation went wonderfully! (I didn't even trip!) So I'm excited to be done! It's sad, too, though. I was just thinking today about how my group of friends will get harder and harder to get all of us together since we'll be so spread out. I can't believe how fast the last four years have gone. It really has been an amazing experience! I'm interested to see who I'm still friends with and talking to on a regular basis in 10 years or so. I wonder where I will be living and what my life will be like then. For that matter, I wonder those things about next year....what the heck am I going to do?? I have no idea what job to take, where I should go.....
On a different note....the future I do know....I'm getting so excited about all of the stuff going on this summer! I'm excited to be more involved at church. I'm also excited for my trips to Orlando and then Europe! My mom got the tickets yesterday!!! So we're for sure going to Italy because we're flying out of Rome. And I'm really hoping we go to Le Cinque Terre. It's these five little towns in Italy that are along the Mediterranean coast. They're about 6 miles apart (altogether) and you hike between them on the coast. I think it would be so amazing! So we're all supposed to get together this weekend and talk about our official itinerary. I'm also excited about teaching English! I think it will be such a great experience!! And it will be fun to live with a host family. I'm a little bit nervous about that part, but I trust the missionaries in charge. So I'm sure it will be fine. I'm totally unsure of what to expect with this whole thing. I guess that's probably a good thing. Expectations are always bad...too easy to be disappointed then.  LIFE will be a lot of fun too!! I'm excited to see all of the people again....and being involved in that conference is always a special opportunity. It's awesome to see all of the things God does in the lives of those youth through this conference. Not to mention all of the awesome bands and speakers!! So basically my summer is going to be incredible!
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| One week from graduation....I can't believe it! I could say it's gone by so fast, which it has.....but then again I remember the times when it seemed it would never end. I'm excited to move on to the next chapter in my life....even though that means making some of the biggest decisions in my life thus far. Up until now, I haven't really had to decide anything major....Yea, I had to decide what college to go to, but that was easy. I'd wanted to go to Taylor for a very long time. My major, what dorm to live in, those kinds of things that have certainly affected my life. Those were nothing compared to this, though. It's kind of exciting really! We'll see what happens...
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| So I'm in fifth grade now....I didn't think I'd like it, but surprisingly I'm loving it! Our class is a little crazy, there are moments I feel like I might go insane, but overall they're a really fun class and I enjoy it so much! I'm not going to say much because it's not very professional to talk about it on the internet. So instead I'll talk about how excited I am about this summer! I'm going to Spain for 3 weeks to teach English to elementary kids. I don't really know exactly what it will be like or what to expect, but I think it will be awesome!  I'm going straight there from LIFE in Orlando....which will be loads of fun as well! I really need to figure out what I'm doing with the rest of my summer....Oh yea, and not to mention what I'm doing next year...you know, getting a real job and all. I still haven't figured out where I want to go....any ideas? I'm considering Honduras....I'm also considering places around here (Carmel, Fishers, Lawrence, etc.) Marion is still an option also. Part of me wants to consider another state...like Colorado or something, but I don't want to be out there all by myself. (I realize that sounds a little funny in light of the fact that I'm considering Honduras, but that's different!) Maybe I'll see about Austin where my aunt and uncle live. That would be neat...I like it out there. If you have any other ideas, I'm open to them!! I'd rather be somewhere that I know someone though. Oh, and let's say I'm considering Kalamazoo also. Ok, I have to go to the doctor now to get some antibiotics so I can stop being sick.
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| The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with educations.
He argued, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his
best option in life was to become a teacher?"
He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers:
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." To stress his
point he said to another guest, "You're a teacher, Susan. Be
honest. What do you make?"
Susan, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied, "You
want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever
though they could. I make a C+ feel like the winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor. I make kids sit through 40 minutes
of study hall in absolute silence. You want to know what I
make? I make kids wonder. I make them question. I
make them criticize. I make them apologize and mean it. I
make the write. I make them read. I make them show all of
their work in math and perfect their final drafts in English. I
make them understand that if you have the brains, and follow your
heart, and if someone ever tries to judge you by what you make, you
must pay no attention because they just didn't learn." Susan
paused and then continued. "You want to know what I make? I
make a difference. What do you make?"
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