School!

So again...it's been awhile.

I hope everyone started school off well! And if you haven't started yet...well you just stink.

Let me be the first to say that my sophomore year absolutely ROCKS so far. I really like all of my classes (and I don't dread going to any of them...it's actually quite surprising). My favorites so far are Photography and English. My English class is massively huge, we fill up all of the desks, and my teacher is especially "vocal", and our whole class gotten into some really off-topic (but very interesting) conversations so far, I love it. I have Photography first bell, and it's so much fun. We've already taken pictures and are in the process of developing. Okay, funny story time: In order to develop, you have to take the film out of the camera in a completely pitch black room so the film won't be exposed, it's not like a dark room where you can actually see somewhat. So you have to open the camera, take out the film canister, take the film out of the canister, unroll it, then load it into a NEW big canister (thats the very tricky part), then put it in a light-tight jar. All in complete darkness. So this girl named Amanda and I decided to attempt doing this daunting task. Let's just say it wasn't pretty. In an attempt to load the unrolled film into the big canister I sort of...broke it, then had to put it back together in the dark. I'm going to refrain from typing the multiple "exclamations" that were said by both of us, because this is a blog on a church website, after all :) I also have yet to fall asleep in any class...again, quite an accomplishment. I always seem to be really sleepy right after lunch, I don't know why. It was kind of a problem last year, when I had my most boring class of the day then, hahaaa. But this year I have Chemistry after lunch, and we light things on fire, it's sweet. We lit these 3 different powders, and the flames all turned different colors (one turned MAGENTA, it was awesome!).

Other than that, cheerleading has been taking up my life. I adore my squad this year, we have like 5 new people, we all get along really well and have tons of fun together, haha =)

I'm also doing Color Guard (we call it CoGo, so thats what we're talking about if you hear that name mentioned). It's a ton of fun. We basically stink like no other, but we still have the best time together, and our coach is pretty much the coolest person ever, I adore her!

I feel like I haven't had time to breathe since school started. I've been so busy, it's insane. But I'm having a good time so far, and I hope you all are too!

VI wise, we have so much going on. Student Leadership has officially started, and all the new ministries are up and running. Get ready for an AMAZINGLY AWESOME year at VI!

We have Event-In-The-Tent/Student Auction coming up on the 9th. Please come, it's so much fun! SGM and Breakfast Club start soon, I'm not sure of the dates for those. SYATP (See You At the Pole) is on the 26th (more details to follow), and the greatly-anticipated Lock-In is on the 28-29th! I'm so excited for this month, it's going to be great.

So I think that's all I have for now. I hope everyone is doing awesome, and good luck at school! I'll see everybody tomorrow =)

Lots of hugs,
<3 Hold-That-Line