A poem-finally!

Well, I'm at JJC, so I can't just use one of my poems that I've already written since I didn't bring any. Here's one that I thought of while I was here:













Ok, honestly, I had one, but I'm totally blanking out. Maybe I'll just make up a new one.

JJC is super fun,
I go there every day.
And even when there is no sun,
It's still a joyful day.

So, really short and kind of lame, but it's a poem!

One Last Christmas (celebration)

       Yesterday we had our last Christmas celebration; next door with Grandma B, Uncle Nick and fam, and Uncle Rick and fam. We had a grab bag, and I put a couple things in it as a sort-of gag gift. I don't think anyone else thought it was as funny as I did; you be the judge. The first thing was a canvas inspirational saying that said, "Believe you can, and you are half the way there." It's attributed to Teddy Roosevelt, which I found out by googling it. I also put a 1000 piece puzzle in there. Get the joke? Only 500 pieces to go... 499... 498... You get the idea.
       Well, tomorrow I start school at JJC, and I honestly can't wait. I've kind of been getting cabin fever and lack-of-peoplitis, whatever that is. And a little bit of I don't have anything to do, which isn't exactly the same as being bored. All this adds up to me thinking for a really long time, like an hour, about something that I probably don't need to worry about anyway, and then if I forget what I was thinking about, I have this 'unresolved brain conflict!' alarm that goes off and keeps me from being... normal? I don't know, maybe I'm over-thinking this whole post...
Poem to follow, hopefully later tonight after I appease my younger siblings by letting them get on the computer.

A New Year

Well, I obviously haven't posted on here in a while, but I'd like to begin again. There's absolutely no way I can catch up, and I'm not planning on trying to keep up with everything I do from now on either. Right now my goal for this new year is to post a poem and something about life once a week in different posts, probably with the poem on Sundays and the other stuff on Saturdays. I'm obviously off to a great start, having missed the first weekend, but I'm not going to let that get me down! I guess today I'll say something from my life AND a poem, to make up for last week.
    Today at supper, Mom was going to cut some cornbread for herself, but she realized that there was some at her spot. She inquired as to how it got there, and Kristian said, "Your sweetheart gave it to you." Sure enough, Dad had given it to her. That child surprises me almost constantly.

Aaaaannndddd here's my poem:

                                                Winter's Night
Look into the night,
See the pretty snow.
Watch the flakes fall down in the town.

Every flake unique,
Shapes untold abound,
Masterpieces float to the ground.

Toasty fires ablaze,
People safe at home,
Every one as different as the snowflakes.

Special every one,
Made by Father's Son,
Holy Spirit; three in one,
Boundless Trinity.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

On Friday afternoon I went to audition for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat produced by Small Town Theatrics in Coal City. Today, I discovered that I have been cast as 'Gad', one of Joseph's brothers. I'm very happy with my part and content with who was cast for the main characters. Here is the cast list.

Skiing

On Friday I went skiing. I had to wake up at quarter to six to get ready and go to church by six thirty. At church we embarked for Michigan, all the boys in one car and the girls in another. The trip to Swiss Valley Ski and Resort was uneventful but enjoyable. After we arrived, we had a private group lesson. First we became accustomed to being in the skis and moving in them, and then we headed over to the bunny hill/ rope pull. We walked most of the way down the hill and then our teacher demonstrated how to stop; snowplow style. Then we skied down the hill and over to the rope pull. After learning how to ski straight up the hill holding onto the rope pull, down the hill, and stop; our group proceeded to learn how to turn, which took me quite a while to 'master'. Before long, our lesson was over, and a few of us headed over to the 'real' hills. First, I went down the easiest blue square hill, which is intermediate (the resort didn't have anything between the rope pull and intermediate). Next, I went up the ski lift (surprise!), which didn't actually scare me at all, even though I kind of expected it to; then I went down another blue square hill. I didn't fall once before lunch, but I did afterwards. My first real fall was on the biggest blue square hill. I tried to turn too sharply and landed on my head. Eventually, I was convinced by my friends to try the black diamond hill, the hardest at the resort. I made sure that I was not last in line, so I couldn't chicken out, and I flew down and had a blast doing it. I ended up going down the black diamond hill at least seven times. However, when I went down a smaller black diamond hill, I didn't have such luck. First, I tried to go down the hill at an angle and stick in a snow drift to slow me down. Instead, though, I ended up going over the drift like a jump and landed in the snow not standing up. I got up and went down the rest of the hill, whereupon I wiped out on some slick snow/ice at the bottom. I ended up losing both skis, a pole, and my glasses and then I face planted into the snow. It hurt even more because I was sunburned, which I was unaware of. Nonetheless, I had fun, and even went down a few more hills after that. Now I totally want to go again. 

Wahoo!

Today Mom and I went and I (finally) obtained my drivers license! After I acquired it, Rebekah asked me to take her to Le Mouton Rouge, which I did, so I've already driven without an adult in the vehicle. I'm really excited but also nervous about not paying enough attention while driving and killing myself. I'm going to try to ease myself into it before taking a long trip by myself, even though those are the times when I'm more excited about because I was less likely to convince someone to drive me.

So, apparently the bison are actually at Buffalo Rock state park and not Starved Rock.
Today we had school and it went pretty well. Later I have rehearsal and then I'll hopefully go to the dance.