School: A Pain and a Blessing

I feel the need to bow for an applause right now. That may be due to the fact that I just finished my first day of school as a Junior (I know, I know. You may now applaud. ) or it may be for the fact that even though today was only the first day of school I still had to take TWO tests (yes, you heard write. TESTS!!! Haha, did you get my little pun there? Write and right? Okay, never mind, back to my story). Now let me tell you, these tests were crazy hard. One was a Latin test that was supposed to asses how much latin we had retained over the summer. My teacher laughed when he collected our papers and said he expected that most of us would only score five of the questions right. Great. The second test was seventy-four stinking questions. And the whole thing was over complete nonsense that know one knew the answers to! Most of the questions asked us to solve for complex equations about the periodic table and other gibberish. I will be absolutely surprised if I get even ten questions on that test right. Today was a day of highs and lows that's for sure. I started the day with Show Choir at 6:50 AM this morning, then went to Latin 2, AP US, Chamber Choir, Lunch, and finished with Chemistry Honors and my teacher's horrible pre-test. Overall there were some good moments throughout the day; seeing my latin teacher goof off like usual, getting to sit next to my best friend in AP US, hanging out with all the awesome choir kids, seeing Nathan getting ready for his first class at Rock Bridge. All sweet moments in an otherwise hectic day. Ahhh... did I mention I have homework? Homework that I should probably finish now before it gets too late. Alrighty folks its time for me to sign off so I'll just end with a little forewarning to all those about to start school. Make of it what you want but remember, school is only as fun as how much work you put into it. Good luck!

Love,
Kelsey

Hello Again

Well here I am, blogging. Again. By now I am actually quite proud of myself for sticking out this long. Even though this is only my second post in a five month gap I think I deserve a pat on the back. Haha, in reality though I've been wrestling with myself all day trying to commit to write another post. It's 11:09 PM right now which makes it quite clear that I've been putting this blogging stuff off till the last possible moment. I tried giving myself a prep talk earlier and even went as far as googling writing prompts to help me think of something interesting to blog about...that didn't work out. Instead of blogging I ended up watching Johnny Lingo. Guilty as charged. Anyway, nothing really exciting happend today. Except that my mom got a new car, but we won't go into details about that tonight (especially since I'm a little on edge about it...don't ask). Other then that juicy piece of news I spent the day watching Stargate with Chase. Only two more days till school starts...ouch. Just thinking about it gives me a headache. I'm really NOT excited for school this year. This year doesn't have the same feeling of adventure like last year. Instead it feels like just a bunch of work, which is weird for me because I've never considered school to be work. School is all about learning which I've always enjoyed. Guess I had to grow up sometime or another. Anyway I'm ready to sign off for the night. Hope you enjoyed this dull little post because I didn't. Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Love,
Kelsey

The Resurrection...of this Blog

Alrighty folks, this is about the third time I've had to resurrect this blog and things aren't looking so good. In a perfect world I would be a pro at blogging right now. Every week the number of views this blog would get would triple, or at least double. However, the lack of attention to this blog isn't my audience's fault...or lack of an audience's fault.  So there's no one to blame but myself and my inability to commit to something so simple and easy. Now before I start babbling about how busy I am and how hard it is to even find the time to write (with all the Facebook stalking I do and all) I think I'll just skip to the part where I fill you in on what's been going on in my life in the past five or so months.
Let's see...where to begin? For all those who don't know, I'm finally done with AP World History (hoorah!) and am happy to say that I earned a respectable grade (double hoorah!). AP World was at times super stressful, but I'm extremely grateful that I took the class anyway. I leant so many valuable things from that class that I can honestly say it has helped shape my future not just academically but also on a "global-awareness" level. Also concerning AP World I may now congratulate myself on completing the AP World Test which I took in March. I just got my score back last month and can say that I did super well for an AP first-timer. I was a little nervous getting my score back but not anymore; AP is definitely not something to fear. It's more of like something you grudgingly admire. Enough about AP World, lets talk about SUMMER!!! My summer was extremely-almost-ridiculously-busy. In just two months I went to Young Women's Camp, Utah, Arizona, Youth Conference, Alabama, and had some summer school thrown into the mix. I feel like I've only had a week or so to just veg like I usually do during the summer. Not that I'm complaining or anything, going to all those places was a blast. From weddings to family reunions to youth activities to hanging out at the beach with a friend, I enjoyed it all...or at least most of it. And now with summer coming to an end I feel as if a little piece of my soul is dying-- the part of my soul that has a life and no worries. Worries that especially don't involve this crazy class schedule I'm having to deal with. My junior class schedule hates me. Actually, it loathes me. That's why it decided to ditch the classes I had originally requested (i.e. AP Art 1, Latin 2, AP US, Chamber Choir, etc.) and stick me with all the classes I put down as last resorts (i.e. Creative Writing, Fitness Walking). Now with all the timing issues at Rock Bridge I am faed with the impossible job of choosing between AP Studio Art 1 and Latin 2. Pray for a miracle. I love both of these classes and can't decide which one should get the cut. Ohhhh, poor, helpless Kelsey. Poor, poor girl. What shall she do? Guess you'll find out my choice in a couple months when I post the next addition to this blog. Hahah, I probably won't get around to checking this thing until Winter Break... but hey, maybe I'll get lucky and blogging will become a daily habit. That however, is most likely to only happen in my "perfect world scenario."
TTFN Internet Surfers
P.S. If you're a grammar nazi don't read this blog.