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nobody ever comments on blogs anymore because everyone has a facebook!!!! :)

Busy...

Working at school!! Haha!! I was gonna do concessions tonight, but cancelled and now just found out I have sectionals for French Horn after school.

Friends

Have you ever looked at an old friend you haven't talked to in years and just know that your life was a lot more fun when they were your very best friend in the world? I have.

Do you ever go hang out with a friend who brings their friend along and all of a sudden you don't exist? I have.

Do you ever go somewhere and see a friend that you've known since you were two, but you were never really friends with them, yet when you see them one more time and look deeper than the outside of them you realize you've been missing out on a really great friend? I have.

I've been going to the same church since I was born and I have friends that I've been i the same class with since birth and we were old enough to be friends we were. Although some of them have been in the same class as me, but I never noticed them. In the month of May, school was settling down to a close and one Tuesday my youth pastor said we were having a clean out the dungeon (the name of the middle school meeting place), so I went, but only one of my friends showed up. So I was helping this one girl. She's my age, gone to the church since birth, and really incredibly nice. We hit it off immediately and I couldn't believe I'd never talked to her before. I mean maybe we've talked before, but I never was friends with her and now that I think about I have no idea why we never did become friends. Now we are really close and she's one of my best friends.

A new girl started going to our church around February and she's just a great person and we are best friends. Another new girl around March, now we are really close. Yet, some of the old friends I had, well we're drifting I'm trying to stay lose to them, but this year I really started talking to God a lot more and really letting Him take me where I'm supposed to be. Now that I'm doing that, my eyes have really opened and I realize that some of the people I was friends with were not people I should be hanging out with. Yet I think He's showing me new people that are amazing and way better than any of the friends I would've thought to hang out with. My life's a ton better and I'm really happy where I am in life. If you let God take control of your life and watch what He can do for you, you'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel and how much your life will turn around. I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and that everyone's safe. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Merey

Summer! Not.

I am so bored! My friend that lives down the street from me is out of town and I really don't have any contact with my other friends and my other street friends aren't home and my brother is leaving to go to CAC with his friends so it's just me and my dad. He's working at home today. Ugh... boring. Well I have to go practice soccer (again for the third time today).

Art

Did any of you now adults draw when you were a teenager? You know random drawings that never meant anything. Well, I draw things a lot. I draw what I see, what I'd like to see, what i may have thought I saw, but didn't, or things I make up in my mind. One drawing i drew was just words, but instead of just writing them I sketched them in colors. It says Love Never Ends. I have a couple drawings that match up to some sort of poem. For example, on the edge of my front yard I have one small tree and a couple feet a way id the sidewalk. THerefore, I drew the one tree next to the sidewalk just in pencil and wrote, 'Life can have many lines that end bare. With roads that have no ending in a world full of lines. But they might also have no ending to excitement.' Weird right? It really doesn't even make sense, but it's what I felt about the one tree. Oh and the Love Never Ends sketch has one too. 'Love starts at the beginning of one point in life. So don’t get me wrong it’s not as easy the fife. Love is kind, Love is patient, Love does not envy, nor boast. For the one that you choose, you must love the most. Love could go on forever meaning Love never ends. For there are no swirls, curls, twists, or bends.' Again no sense whatsoever. Well, anyway I love to draw and was just blogging about it.

A Movie To See...

I just watched a great movie. The Uninvited. Wow! Very unpredictable, scary, and definitely met my standards. You need to see it right now. Stop what you're doing right after you finish this blog post and go see it. It's awesome and at Blockbuster. Have a great week, and keep praying with me that my mom gets a great job! Thanks!

Mere

Soccer and Swine

My week went well, not! The week of April 20th, my school, Shadow Ridge Middle School, had tryouts for the school soccer team. I played soccer for six years and so I thought maybe I can make it. I signed up fully confident this tryout I would actually make the team. Volleyball, Basketball, Track, Cross Country. I tried them all and didn't make the teams. This time I'll make it.   I kept telling myself this over and over. Well tryouts started on Wednesday the 22nd. I ran my mile in a little over nine minutes! My last mile I ran was a fifteen minutes. I was so proud I'd made it under ten minutes this time! So proud, well, but the mile wasn't the only thing that made you make the team obviously. So next cone dribbles. Ok, now this may sound easy, but I haven't played actual coached soccer in a little under a year because I had to quit for school sports last spring. I walk up to the cones with a ball, and luckily my name is right in the middle of the alphabet, so I got to hang back and watch some of the really great soccer players do it first. I got the hang of it, and when it was my turn I was glad to say I'd done pretty well. I had only missed a couple of cones in the process. Ok, well the last of that day's tryout was to scrimmage and the coaches said to just pick the most comfortable spot for us and I dashed to the goal to play my best personal spot goalie. I only let in 4 goals out of about 12 for just my turn. Good for the day.

Ok next day, next tryout. Today we would have to do cone dribbling again, but in wider spaces and time it. I did kind of well until we got to using just our left foot. Whoops! Guess I didn't practice that. Well I still had only missed a couple cones, but it was kind of disastrous. :) Then scrimmaging again. I went to the goal, but the coach moved me to play forward. I protested because I was never a great forward, but whatever, I guess I had no say. Well, it actually turned out great. I made the first goal and got the ball away from the best player which made coach impressed she said, "And you didn't wanna play forward!" I replied with whatever and walked into the locker room to change.

Last day of the week, last day for tryouts. All we were doing was corner kicks and scrimmaging. My corner kicks both made it to the right score-able person. 2 points if you make it to the right person, 1 point if you got it close, and zero if you completely missed. I got 4 points both to the right person! I was so glad! Ok last thing to do scrimmage I played goalie and only had to stop one goal because I was on the team with the best players! I was so excited! 

Last thing to do: make the team. 

I walk into the locker room and change and everybody's waiting for the list and for the coaches to make up their minds. Ughhhh..... 

The coaches door opens, the list is up... I go and look and there's my name. RIght there on the list. Oh my gosh! I did it! Wow! Cool! I grab a schedule and run out the door to my mom's car! I tell her she says congrats! I say thanks! REally super cool.

Well guess what decides it wants to come to America? N1H1 Type A influenza. Of course. UIL says that no other school can come to our campus and we can't go to theirs'. Then they decide we can't stay before school or after that means no Band and no soccer. UGH! So the one team I make is BOOM not happening. Cool huh? Well at least I did make it. By the way I really want my mom to get a job soon so can everyone just be praying with me to help her. I want her to have her own classroom and a job, because she's worked so hard for so long and so she deserves it. Plus she has to take are of me, my brother , and our animals, too. I just want her to be happy in a great job. Thanks. Hope everyone has a blessed week off. :)

Love,

Mere