You are Beautiful

I think it would be a fun project to make create pieces of art that say you are beautiful and post them up in random places in the school and in the surrounding community. If somebody found it it would brighten their day. My friend did something like this last year. People would take them down and keep them. I think its a good way to positively impact the community and boost peoples self-esteem. I'm going to ask for some paints for Christmas so I can get started. I think this is going to be really cool. I want to see people's reactions.

Umm random thought... I donno

11 Oclock. and yet there is still so much to get done. It’s a never-ending pile of work that is added onto everyday at this place I go to. It’s the job of every teenager. Go to school. Go home. Do homework. The stress placed on the high school students today is so great. I ponder the implications. How does this stress affect these students in the long term? It can’t be compared to the stress that veterans have undergone during their time of service. The stress that leads to many veterans developing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). It has become socially acceptable for teenagers to stay up extremely late working on homework. Teenagers have begun to brag about how late they stay up working on projects. The later you stay up, the more committed you are too school. How and why has this developed? And yet, teenagers are still getting more and more homework to deal with. There is so much stress placed on grades and academics that one can forget that they do not always reflect a person’s potential.

I should probably stop writing this and start working on what I need to get done:

-Extended Essay

-Way too many college Essays

-English Essays

-Review for English Commentary

-CAS reflections

-History Internal Assessment

-TOK Essay

and last but not least this weird Trialogue thing that’s due tomorrow in Physics ... huh ... maybe I should get started on that ....

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (that was an extremely boring movie btdubs, maybe I should try watching it again ... it might be better now that I’m older and more mature)

Blahh

First day of school tomorrow at Inglemoor. Kind of nervous. Hope it goes well. I like my schedule although I'm taking a full load of IB classes which means I'm going to be extremely busy this year. Yay! No senior slack for me, blahhhh. I have a feeling it's going to be a good year, although my feelings are only sometimes right. I'm not a psychic (although that would be incredibly awesome). People always wish to fly as their superpower or they want to be able to be invisible or something like that, dude I want to have psychic powers. I could see into the future and read minds. It'd be so tight. I also think it'd be pretty cool to know when people are lying and what they actually mean. There's a movie about a girl with that power. It was a ...... decent? .. movie. I'm not sure if that's the right way to describe it or not. It was well-made... I enjoyed it. But it was kind of extremelyy cheesy and unrealistic. But of course your going to get that with that kind of movie. I really like cheesy movies though. They're always fun to watch. Especially with other people. I should probably go to bed though. It's getting late......

My Summer

So I am kind of wondering what do people do during the summer? For the past few summers I have been canoeing in the middle of nowhere with five-six other girls. This last summer it was six. I go to this YMCA camp, camp Menogyn. It sends out canoeing, backpacking and rock climbing groups. I started going six years ago. I slowly went on longer and longer trips. This last summer was my last summer as a camper. My group did a fifty day whitewater canoe trip in Nunavut, Canada on the Dubawnt, Kunwak and Kazan rivers. We were in the sub-arctic tundra. Throughout the school year, my heart longs for the simplicity of trail. I find myself longing for some of the amenities I have at home, while out on trail. I constantly find myself reminding myself to live in the present and to enjoy where I was while I was there. I learned to appreciate the beauty of where I was. I think the thing that really hit me while I was on trail, was how much I missed my family. I realized that I had gotten much closer with my mother this past year and how much not having my father around hurt me. I became very homesick. I was very happy to return to my family even if that meant leaving the wonderful and gorgeous lands of the tundra. I miss Nunavut very much, however, the mountains of Seattle are providing a wonderul escape to the scenery of the great lakes. It's a very different perspective, extremely different landscape. I traded incredibly flat lands and endless skies for tall, never-ending mountain ranges and the gorgeous snow-capped peaks along with the beautiful hikes and views I will experience while I live here.

I just need to remember to live in the moment. That is my only issue. Live in the moment. Don't take beauty for granted. Believe in myself. Don't bother with some of the amenities of life today. The style of life we lead in the present is extremely hectic, complicated and stressful.

Shopping

I've never really liked shopping. It takes a long time and I can never find clothes that look good on me. I went shopping with my mother yesterday, it was actually quite fun. We found clothes that looked good on me and it helped that I didn't really have a price limit. It was also very nice mother-daughter bonding. I'm excited to wear my new clothes!

Home is where the heart is

I just moved to Seattle (the rainy city, yay!) for my senior year of high school. I tried out for the volleyball team at my new school and made varsity. (Exciting!) I'm still trying to get used to the idea of calling this townhome "home". It's going to be a difficult transition, but I'm really glad that I get to be with my dad again. I really missed him this past year. I've always heard the saying "Home is where the heart is," and I think that's true for a lot of people, but personally, I find it only partially true. Although, I feel at home living with both my parents again, I find myself longing for my old home in Minnesota. The home I had lived in my entire life prior to this move. I hope to eventually get more integrated into the lifestyle of living here, however, I sincerely wish that I won't lose that sense of home that I find in Minnesota. And whether I keep that or not, I believe depends on my lifestyle here in Seattle.

My First Post

Hey, I don't really know why I'm doing this blog, I guess for personal reflection, maybe a little bit. But blogging is kind of like publicly journaling, I don't know why that's important. I don't know why I want a blog. I guess I just want to be able to make my opinions and thoughts open to public ridicule and critique. Because I know I have many different ideals and I'd like to be able to understand other viewpoints and ways of living.

I really hope I'll be able to keep my entries daily/ as frequent as possible, however I know I'm going to be insanely busy so I don't know how well I'll do with that aspect.