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Saying goodbye

So the end of school is near, and it’s time to say goodbye. Say goodbye to the teachers, your peers, the school you’ve been coming to day after day for the past and last four years of “being a kid,” to the homework, your coaches, and the questionable cafeteria food. It’s time to leave the safe, and venture to the unknown. Time to meet new people, get a job, fall in love, and discover yourself. Some will move, some will stay, some you won’t see til your 10 year reunion, and some you’ll never see again. For some, it’s time to say goodbye to the best times of their lives, they peaked in high school, and some will be saying “see ya later, I’m moving on.” For a little while, it’ll be sad, not seeing everyone, not being able to slack off, but eventually we’ll move on, graduate college, get married, start a family, become famous, and we’ll slowly start to forget all we did back when. So wether it’s only for a little while, or forever, goodbye to ghetto Hillcrest, teachers, staff, and peers, hope you make your dreams come true, and good luck in life!

I know it’s been awhile, but oh we’ll.

Man it has been a busy couple of weeks. Ever since we got back from Hawaii it’s been crazy! That first week
I had three soccer games out of town so we weren’t getting back until late. Then I had scholarships due that week too that I hadn’t even started to fill out. Thirdly, it seems like our teachers thought we missed them, so they gave us a bunch of homework. Also this week I had three games.
On the up side though, I saw 21 Jump Street last weekend and it was hilarious! I’ve never seen the original, but this one was awesome. This weekend I’m going to see the Hunger Games, I know weird I haven’t seen it already right? and going prom dress shopping. Then I should probably get started on my final essay for English, but I just don’t feel like it. My senioritis is bad, but can you really blame me? I mean I’ve been in school for 13 years, and 3/4 of this stuff I’m never going to use! Like what am I going to use graphing and quadratic equations for? Balancing my checkbook? Or learning what a beaker is and memorizing the element table? Sorting my laundry? Let’s be honest here for a moment. Most of the stuff we learn in life is going to be completely useless, ad in reality we just wasted most of our lives on things we will never get time back for.

Also what is up with our senior class getting ripped off?! We only get out two days before everyone else, we don’t get a senior BBQ (not that I was planning to go anyway), and our whole end of the year got messed up. Instead of getting out the 17th and practicing graduation and having the BBQ the 18th, we now have finals that Friday. Then the BBQ got cancelled, and we have to come up here the day before everyone else gets out, the day of graduation, but the point of having a graduation is we don’t have to come back to this school, not be up here that morning. And if they make our practice at 8 A.M., I am going to be royally ticked. I’m done with school, and that means done with getting up at 8 A.M., to come here! I’ve done my four years in this prison, why would want I want to add another day on?! Last time I checked too, it was just Hillcrest that was doing this, unless they recently changed that, but considering everything else about here, it wouldn’t surprise me.

On the upside again, I made a goal in the Camdenton game the other night! For the first time we didn’t mercy out, we lost 10-1 :) which is at least better.

Back Again

Christmas is over, a new year has come, and now we’re back to waking up early, doing homework, and listening to teachers nag about finals. It’s so depressing, and I would go on about how I have senioritis and I don’t want to do anything, but let’s face it, I’ve had that since 7th grade. It’s just worse because I’m so close to being done, but it’s just out of reach. 

Anyway there’s so much to do now. College and scholarship application deadlines are coming up, basketball is just getting into conference games, and then there’s working to try to raise money for Hawaii in March. Also, there’s the Buzz-A-Thon in a month, and I’m actually pretty excited. I’m hosting with Jodie though I’m not that funny, and I’m in charge of the financial stuff, so that be a little stressful. 

Time seems to be a precious thing now. Everything’s always going on at the same time, and it’s hard to find time to just sit down and relax, or do the things that you really need to do. I feel like I’m going to blow up one of these days, just combust suddenly. New Year’s resolutions were never really for me, but this year, I hope to just enjoy it. It’s my first year of being of legal age, I’m graduating, and starting college. It’s like a new beginning, and I intend to make the best of it. However, for now, we’re back in school, and I’ve just got to make it through the next 5 months. 

So Christmas break is supposed to be a time to relax, catch up on hanging out with friends you’re always to busy to see, sleep in, and just have fun away from school. All I’ve done so far, is basketball, basketball, cleaned, and worked. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job, and my room did need to be cleaned, but seriously, can’t a girl catch a break? Every spare chance I get, I’ve been working on my homework that we just had to get over break, or doing laundry because I need my uniforms clean. The only two days I’ve gotten off was Christmas Eve and Christmas. Otherwise I’ve had practice or games. Ugh! Life. Seriously sucks. Lol but on the upside, next year I won’t have to worry about basketball or anything and I’ll get a whole month off for Christmas, so I guess that brightens my life a little bit for now. :)

Giving Thanks

Yes I know, another Thanksgiving blog, so cliche, but get over it. Anyway on with the blog…
I love Thanksgiving! Seriously I don’t know if anyone else agrees, but I love eating. Yeah you give thanks, and tell your family how much you love them ad are thankful to have them in your lives, blah blah blah, whatever! The best part of Thanksgiving is all the delicious eating you get to do. We have ham, turkey, stuffing (ok that’s gross but whatever), deciles eggs ( those are nasty too), baked beans ( my moms are to die for), rolls, mashed potatoes ( though I eat the potatoes before they’re mashed), crackers, chesse, green beans, salad ( which I always pass on too, seriously who likes to chew just a bunch green crunchy leaves?), corn, cookies, apple pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, cheesecake, and sooooooooooooo much more. I love it! You get to eat til you get sick. It’s the best time of year, except birthdays and Christmas of course where you get to eat even more, but also get presents. Plus thats the day that Christ was born, so I mean really, nothing can top Christmas even if it tried. Oh and you can’t forget Black Friday shopping, oh the joys of pushy people, no parking spaces, getting trampled, and then after all that, you find out the stores selection sucks and don’t even end up spending anything.
Yes I believe Thanksgiving went great this year! :)

Team Feem!!!!

Repetition

It’s unbelievable how repetitive school is. You come in day after day, or in a way, every other day after every other day, and go through the same schedule, same classes, same people, etc, etc, etc. And it’s not just this year, or because of senioritis, no this has been going on for the last 12 years of my life. I mean what’s the point of learning about prepositions in 5th grade, or how to multiply in 2nd, if we’re just going to learn it now, in our senior year? Every year teachers complain that they don’t get through all the lessons in the textbooks. Well hello, if it didn’t have the same stuff in it as it did when I started Kindergarten, maybe we could get somewhere. But unfortunately, no, we’ll just keep learning about and keep learning and keep learning about it. So for those of us that wish to soar above and beyond the redundant, mundane lives of those around us, I’m sorry to say, there’s no hope. Unless you have the time to scurrage through the library at night after doing the same homework sheets you probably did three years ago, and search Google til you’ve gone through all 3,000 pages, than you’re probably not going to amount to anything. Oh wait, there’s just one minor detail I forgot to mention before you start panicking incessantly…. NODODY CARES!!!!! Unless you plan to be one of those creepy, reenactment guys that hang out at the shady parks on the weekend playing Knights and Dragon, or whatever it’s called, it’s not going to matter if you knew the job of the white knight or miller. Unless you’re going to be a marine biologist or a germiphobe, it doesn’t matter if you know how many atoms are in a cell. It’s not like you walk around going, “oh there’s two million atoms of silver in that table over there.” And I doubt in anything you do in life, unless you plan on majoring in Know-It-All 101, NOBODY is ever going to ask you to graph a parabola, or find log of 2 then add 1/8+6/7 then times it by the 62% of that number then find the inequality and finally graph it as a function. Or tell me why we spend hours and hours, weeks and weeks, years and years learning how to do a sonnet or a elegy or even a epithalamium form, (yes these are all real). I don’t plan on becoming a poet or really ever reading poetry again, so why am I wasting my life away learning about useless knowledge? 

Just a little side note as well. If I didn’t like coming to school from 8-2:45, why in the world would the school board think I would want to add 14 more minutes onto my day? Because you know, that’s doing soooo much to my education. 

!!!! Random!!!! Trip!!!! (blog I forgot to post for some reason)

Omg Louisville is AMAZING! Right now we’re listening to Paulina rap to Nicki Minaj. It’s hilarious!!! I’m so excited right now and hyped up, and have no intention of going to bed soon. This trip has been so awesome and a great experience. I am so glad I got this opportunity! Tomorrow I am going shopping for some last minute gifts and also because I haven’t really gotten myself anything. I’m really sad this trip is coming to an end. I’ve been having so much, and I just don’t want to go back to Missouri. Lame. I think we should do a west coast bus tour next! Right coach?! School starts in less than a month :(, but it’s senior year :), and it’s going to be weird having a month to do a story instead a day to shoot, and a Dayton edit. It should make it easier, but I know I’ll probably just get lazy! I’m a slacker, I know. Lol. I’ve been to so many places I never knew existed. Like Urban Outfitters (store), Sticky Fingers (restaurant, which made me sick), and a lot of other places. The rule for the trip was we had to eat at places we can’t just go to at home, and to save money to only go to shops we don’t have. I even figured out I like Gumbo, never would have guessed that. New Orleans had the best. And I got to see my first famous person ever in real life, instead of just on my tv screen. I got really excited about that! I hope everyone keeps up with our blogs after this trip, and continues to watch our videos, but even if I never do anything do anything in journalism or broadcast, the people and experiences I had, was with it. I’ve learned so much, not just about broadcast, but life in general.

Back Home

The trip is over, and now I’m back at home. No more living on a bus, hotel rooms, or out of a suitcase. I have my own bed, my own shower, a washing machine, and clean pj’s. No more eating out all the time, though we don’t do home-cooked meals around here often, I don’t have to share a room with people or the bathroom, I can lay in bed all day if I want, instead of having to shoot stories or do a quick- clip. But, even though, I’m glad I don’t have to watch how much cash I have left, or use the hotel’s bland, scenting shampoo, I miss it.
This trip has shown me and taught me that wherever you are, somebody has a story, whether big or small, everyone has something that’s interesting about them. Sometimes you have to search, and keep searching, not everything will be handed to you, but eventually you find what you’re looking for, and make an feature. Sometimes you think you’ve found something, but it turns out to be the opposite, and you have to figure out how to twist into a story people will want to watch. I learned that with the ghost tour story we did in New Orleans. It was super boring and lame, so we turned it into a humorous feature. I’ve also learned that just because you get along with people, or you are best friends with someone, being together in close confinements for 10 days, will definitely test your patience. Thus, I learned more people skills. And though it’s hard sometimes to hold your tongue, like in Louisville, because it seems most of the population there is rude, you can still find those sweet, slightly creepy cab- drivers to haul you around, or those over- energetic coffee shop workers to give you directions.
As for what I saw, big cities may be polluted with thousands of chemicals and toxins, but you can’t deny they’re beautiful! I never knew the boonies in Tennessee could be so enchanting. The countryside was lined with fields and rich, green trees. The skies were clear, and the sun shown proudly. In Jacksonville, I wish we could have stayed there, the scenes there were incredible. The bridge over the glistening water, fountains could be seen spurting water from the other side, restaurants and hotels lining the riverside. It sounds so little, but the view it gives is breathtaking. And being so close together for so long, I believe that everyone got closer, some more than others, but it was a great bonding experience and I think it will definitely have an impact for this next year, or even beyond that.
I’m thankful for the opportunity to go on this trip and be apart of it with everyone. I’m excited for Hawaii, and to see what this year brings. I got to go to places I’ve never been, see things I’ve never seen, and meet people I probably never would have met. I may seem like I’m excited about a lot of things, or act like things in life are awesome!, but I’ve learned and took from this more than people realize, and this experience is something I won’t easily forget.

Sha_awtee

To say, to say, what to say. What to say about my day. Well……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

It was interesting, amazing, boring, annoying, sporadic, intense, mind-blowing, scary, thrilling, okay, tiring, calming, hot, and cold. 

Once again, Jess, Paulina, and I were the first ones down, ready to go this morning, well technically Brenda Putman was, but for all intense purposes, she doesn’t count right now. Sorry Brenda. We were supposed to be down at 6:30 to load, and leave at 7, but all these other fellow HTVer’s decide they aren’t included in that little tid-bit. We ate breakfast and I put my straightener and pillow on top of Paulina’s suitcase, and she was all like “will you take that off when we go to the bus, it’s going to burn a hole on the top!” Yeah yeah blah blah whatever whatever. Moving on. Then Jess was all like “Guys I hate how I’m always so prepared.” And then I was like, yeah it sucks, and then she was like yeah. So then we loaded the bus and was off!

While we were on the bus, I slept. Then I woke up, but then I laid down and slept again. But the next time I woke up, I got my Nerds and Pringles down. I asked Jodie if she wanted some, she said yes, but then she started complaining because they weren’t opened. But I was like “Dude, just open the package,” and she was all like, “Okay, but I’m taking one of each.” And then Dylan was like “me too.” 

We rolled into Gatlinburg, and everyone was amazed. The scenery was beautiful.It looks so awesome. It’s like a smaller Branson, but cooler. Dylan and I saw these Sky Lifts and said we wanted to do a story on that, at the same time Mehleena came back and asked us if we wanted to do it, and we were like, “we call dibs.” So that’s how we came by that story, but it ended up falling through. But me and Dylan still ended up getting discounted prices. It was cool. 

We went to dinner with Davis, and Ali, and Mehleena, and Ali and Mehleena did this weird producers video with the menus, pretty much they just embarrassed themselves and us. But our waitress made us late to the meeting Davis set up. 6 o’clock news starts at 6 lady! The food was good though. I had the sloppy joe, cottage cheese, and mac n’ cheese. Then me and Ali shared the chocolate cake, it was delicious.

Jess, Brennan, me, and sometimes Paige got hit on by every wanna-be ladies man in town, while we made a late-night McDonald stop to watch Brennan eat. It was entertaining.

Now we’re laying in our hotel room, it’s the best night ever. I love you Jess, sometimes Paulina, and Dylan. 

So far this trip has been amazing! A big thank you to our sponsors!