Senr. Night Parents 

Senr. Night Bros 

Senior Night Seniors 

Well its been an exciting week everyone! its been quite awhile since i last posted, in which i described the dreaded process of standardized test taking! anyway, quite alot has happened since then! ill start off with a few of the minor highlights, like beating the 2nd best team in the conf. 5-2! it was one aweosme game! everyone was soo stoked! which is ironic since we actually played south stokes! it was an aweosme game, especially with my crazy soccer moves (while being sick). school is the same as always, and life goes on. Anyway, from the pictures below, as well as the title, you can probably guess the subject of this post. yep, friday night me and shaylon went on a double date with sydney and kelsey. most of the pictures were from before the game in a local wal-mart. me and shaylon each bought a disposable camera, then sydney and kelsey each got to pick out two outfits for me and shaylon to try on. i didnt post the pictures, but let it suffice to say spaghetti straps arent my style! and a purple hat really doesnt go so well with shaylon either! after we did that, we just took goofy pictures from around wal-mart like the four of us trying on some crazy haloween costumes. this one lady in wal-mart was following us while we "cross-dressed!" it was hilarious because she even asked me why i was trying on girls clothes and i just responed (with a slight lisp) "i just like the style!" it was sooo hilarious! after the wal-mart incident we headed to the game to watch the "war eagles" beat whoever the other team was 37-24. it wasnt quite as exciting as seeing one of my own football games, but it was still cool. after the game we went to kelseys house and watched the grudge. it actually wasnt as scary as i thought, and was kind of an interesting movie. the plot was crazy and kept u guessing almost the whole time. however, a warning to the faint of heart, it was pretty scary/intenese, but with no real bloody or gory scenes, just scary music and people jumping out of nowhere! after the movie, i lost repeatedly in fuesball, until kelsey joined my team as we dominated shaylon and sydney! and to wrap up the night we played a little ping pong, where no one actually won! sydney had some dominating serves, but when i pulled out my chinese ping pong skills, the game was over! actually not really, but it was still pretty fun. thats really about all that we did, and let it suffice to say that my parents werent thrilled with me coming home a little late. in the end we had a talk and i think ill be more careful with curefew and such. in the end, its all good! well im out for the night, as i must finish my calculus homework (that stuff is like the plague, but the plague eventually died out...calculus doesnt!) eveyrone have a great night, and i will try to stay a little more up to date with blog posting from now on, as well as commenting more often on others blogs! eveyrone have a great sunday, and keep it real!

Bunny Hop II 

Bunny Hop 

Hamlet Style 

Prince and Princess 

 

This should be a quick post today, but i wanted to see what everyones favorite quote is. I've included some of my favorite quotes below. Some are scriptures and others quotations, so hopefully there are some good ones in the mix! Enjoy the quotes!


“The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.”
-Alma 48:17

“And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.”
-2 Nephi 25:26

“And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.”
-Ether 12:27

“Love is when one person loves the qualities that the other person hates about themselves”
-Kim W.

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
- David Viscott

“Never live in the past but always learn from it.”
- unknown

“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln

“The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We live by admiration, hope and love.”
-William Wordsworth

Better late than never, that my attitude toward posting! my blog has slowly transformed from an constantly updated journal to a picture book journal updated fairly randomly. anyway, i just wanted to give a quick update on my SATs this morning. ive officially decided i...strongly dislike standardized testing! how boring is it to sit in a room for 5 hours taking just a dumb old test! i actually think i liked the ACT better. i had less time on the ACT, but the SAT had some of the most retarded questions ever! the bad thing about the SAT was that some of the problems were just random thinking questions. you know, who really cares how many one and two pound bread loaves your carying in a truck if it weighs forty pounds and the bread loaves weigh a combind total of 24lbs. that should come in pretty handy, wait, ive got a solution....COUNT THEM. cant tell the difference? well...my guess is that the 2lbs. loaves are bigger than the 1lb. loaves. dude, im seriously a math revolutionary! some would argue that these problems teach important solving skills that are applicable in other situations, but it's still a dumb problem! the essay was pretty good, and again i think i nailed that part. on my last SAT i didnt do really well on my essay, i didnt finish it and plus i totally zoned out during that part and couldnt concentrate for some reason. this time i think my only mistake was writing too much, i shouldve left out my second body paragraph, but i finished out with a banging conclusion, so im hoping that will boost my score! thats about all thats going on right now, ive got church meetings tommorow, so it could be a long day, but hopefully ill be able to keep the posts coming! sinara everyone, and remember, stay away from those standardized tests!

East Surry Game 

Court of Honor 

Those in the blogger world may have noticed my recent abscence from the land of blogs and what not. Not to make excuses, but so much has happened over the past (nearly) week! Between school, dates, soccer, and family, i'm still trying to schedule some breathing time on my calendar! anyway, ill start with some of the events of the past week and give a brief synopsis of "whats up." i cant remember exactly where i posted last, but ill tell a quick story about my last soccer game. it stunk and i dont like loosing. story over. thats about how i felt last thursday when we lost to bishop mcguiness (a private catholic school) 5-0. i consoled myself by quietly reminding myself that theyll get their just reward in the afterlife! im just kidding around...but still, i was just depressed after such a terrible loss! it stunk since last time we played them, we tied them before loosing in overtime. this game was just a shutout! however, probably what everyone is dying to hear about is this weekend! (well, at the veyr least, im excited about telling it). i went up to kims for a weekend and got to hang out with her...plus gen. conf. with her dad, which was cool of course! i had a really aweosme time, and me and kim mostly played around at a park, while pitching some, playing soccer (which kims knuckle ball is just aweosme) and of course good ole' basketball! kim def. showed me up in soccer, while i beat her in basketball (complete luck...im not exactly sure how i won that game), and of course pitching is just fun. after we did that we got to play on the play ground! it brought back the great memories of the crazy days of recess and such! overall, i had one awesome weekend! i wish i could type more...but ive got hw to do, as well as a game tonight vs. east surry! to sum up, i just cant wait to see kim again...which in case anyone wants to mark their calendar...it should be towards the end of october...and as much as i miss her...i guess ill just have to wait a month...lol! anyway...eveyrone have a great night, take it easy, and enjoy yourselves!

Before the Game 

its getting pretty late here, and im not in the mood to write a huge big thing about the game...suffice it to say, the 8-3 win was much needed!! trevor scored 4 goals, while alex contributed with 2. for the game i had one assist...lol...but it was quite possibly the most important assist ever...i mean come on! seriously though, it was aweosme to finally win! i think the whole team is ready for the next big matchup against bishop mcguiness this thursday...at bishop! thats about all for tonight, stay tuned tommorow for some new pics and such from the game, and some other random odds and ends! have a great night everybody, and thank goodness for North Stokes Soccer! (as a sidenote, we play north stokes for senior night on 10/20/05, so you better be there)!

It's that time of the year again, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and high school seniors are taking 4 hour tests in order to go to college! yep, i just completed the ACT test plus a 30 minute essay question. i went to sleep last night kinda late (somewhere past hour number 11) so i was fairly exhausted when i woke up bright and early at 7. AM that is. anyway, i got ready, the picture i posted below is AFTER the ACT...haha...not actually...but thats definitely how i felt! i made it to the school about 750. i checked in and seated myself in room 12. the test went fairly well, i felt confident about most of the answers, although i felt like i didnt quite have enough time to finish each section. on almost each section, i had to guess on the last 2-5 questions because i didnt have enough time to figure them out before time ran was up. anyway, there were some crazy grammar questions, and the science part was totally foreign to me, since im used to the old SAT way of doing things. finally i got to the essay part. the essay was on whether or not social skills should be taught in school. that essay was the one part that i think i really did well! mom and dad thought i took too serious of a standpoint on the issue, but i still think i did a good job. i made an intermediate score on the SAT essay, which i knew i did bad on, since i had a bad intro, a slight better body, and then i stopped in midsentence before i reached my conclusion! on this one, i only wrote about a page and a half, but i covered the point completely and finished with a really strong conclusion, which i think will give me some extra points, since a conclusion can make or break an essay. probably the funniest part of the essay section was in the instruction page. the intructions were "to write an essay in 30 minutes in English." WELL....duh! i mean come on...whoops...i almost wrote a spanish essay! whew, close call there! anyway, i think i did well, since my essay was legible and in the correct language! i should get several points just for doing that! to finish up, it wasnt as terrible as i made it out to be, although it is alot different from the SAT. the SAT requires a lot more logic and reasoning, whereas the ACT seems to be more a measure of what a person knows. personally, i think the SAT does a better job of measuring student performance, but im not complaining if i get a really high score on my ACT. plus, a high ACT score can even count toward giving someone credit in certain classes (mainly in utah though). overall it was an exciting morning, and im glad to be done with it! the only bad news, is that in two weeks, its back to the grind, with SAT number 2 on oct 8! so for all u standarized test takers out there...take it easy and make sure u always use a soft, lead number 2 pencil.

ACT Terror 

It's been quite awhile since my last post; i'm sure my public is clamoring for some new insight into the life and times of your truly...lol! im not one to keep the public waiting, so i will proceed with a quick update of whats been happening since last sunday. a major low point of the week was the scheduled tuesday game vs. south stokes. south stokes is around 30 minutes from MAHS and im not a big fan of the long drives on a bus to get to away games. anyway, the match was scheduled for 7, and we beagn warming up at 6. it was fine, except for a short, minor downpour halfway through our warm up. we stopped about 650 to give everyone time to put on their jerseys and finish final preperations for the game. the refs came on the field, saw a distant flash of lightning, then told everyone there would be at least a 30 min delay until the game started. it wasnt a big deal, the soccer team and i went into a nearby health classroom to wait for the storm to stop. the refs waited until 800 before (finally) calling the game. how frustrating?! i really didnt enjoy all the waiting just to be told that the game was going to be rescheduled! anyway, that means that next week i have 3 away games! we play south stokes monday, north stokes tuesday (this game should be a joke, last year we won 8-0), and then bishop mcguiness thursday! the bishop mcg. game is probably the biggest of the week, since last time we lost in OT to them 6-3. we also have a day of rest inbetween, which should be nice to give everyone a chance to recuperate. to finalize things up, the first 6 weeks ends this friday, and it will probably be one of the most crucial grading periods! but i will keep eveyrone updated on soccer, school, and any other important events that may come up! thats all for tonight folks!

Last night was the historic event of...my first stake dance! actually thats not entirely true, its not my first stake dance, but it felt like it, sicne that was my first stake dance in over 2 years! it was pretty interesting, since my last memories of a dance were when i was 14 or maybe just turned 15. i remeber feeling soo young! oh man it was too crazy! now at this dance, i felt like one of the oldest ones there, ranking in at the big 1-7! anyway, shaylon wasnt there, and none of the dobson crowd showed up, so i mostly hung out with zack and the mt airy crowd. i also have to say that last night was probably the most fun ive ever had at a stake dance! i think thats mostly beacuse i used to be soo uptight about if girls liked me or not, u know, the usual stuff! this time i felt way more at ease, which made the dance 10 times better. so, on to the "juicy details" as kristen would say. i got to the stake center about 4pm to help decorate for the dance. some people began moving chairs and tables to clear the gym floor, while others hung up brooms to show off our "big sweep" dance theme. i left about 430 with sister gage to go help get refreshments for the dance. it was hilarious since we bought out sams club of all their freezy pops (we got 330 total). this mother and son were trying to pick out which kind of freeze pop to get, so me and sister gage go in a rake out a shelf full of them! then we picked up 2 boxes of the 24 packs of popcorn and finally three enormous bags of chex mix. we mad it back to the stake center and i helped unload all the refreshments and stuff. fastforward to the supper at 6. we ordered 80 papa johns pizzas, so there was PLENTY to go around. i only ate a couple of slices, but sister gage gave me a whole box to take home to help keep me awake (since ive got the longest drive). that was really nice of her, and it was cool being on the "inside" of the stake leadership circle...haha! finally, the dance started. i goofed off, just being my crazy self. there was some comedy, especially these two dances i had. i danced with this one girl who looked like she was 16...nope...14! just perfect!...wait...for ethan that is! (just kidding ethan...well partially :) she was nice, and it was still cool, just it felt funny to be sooo old! then another dance was with this one girl who it was her 2nd dance...ever! she was only 14! and she looked 14 too! i think she mustve been really nervous, because she was like afraid to look at me...idk...maybe im just that scary?! anyway, the only question she asked was my name! it was tough just trying to make conversation!

adam: so where are you from
girl: kernersville
adam: cool place, do u like it there?
girl: yes
adam: excellent, so have u lived there your whole life?
girl: yes
(awkward pause)
adam: are u a freshmen this year?
girl: yes
adam: do u enjoy it?
girl: yes
adam: do u like middle school or high school better?
girl: not sure
(awkward pause, song not even halfway over)

well...u get the idea! but it was...interesting! that was about my dance night! oh yeah, one other minor detail, was that after the dance and people were cleaning up and leaving, me, kelsey, daniel, david riska, and i think zack were standing around in the gym. if anyones seen the matrix, i always try to do the "run on walls" thing on the soft padded mats underneath the bball hoops at the stake center (and at dobson). anyway, daniel was bragging about how well he could do it, so i was just getting bored, so i decided to make a fool of myself and try it. however, the cool part was that i actually did it! i ran all the way up the wall and touched my should to the backboard! it was sweet! everybody was just like "woah...that was soo cool!" then daniel tried it and fell halfway though...lol...i felt bad for the kid, but it was still an aweosme feeling! now...if only i had a picture!