Busy Mid-Winter Break

Thursday: Had an awesome night with Kristen and Alexandria at Kristen's beautiful home. When we first arrived, we at Little Ceasars pizza. It was pretty much awesome! Later worked some on our controversial issue project, listened to music, ate some delicious peaunt buttery ice cream and talked.

Friday: We woke up around 8:30 to get ready and then head to GVSU! :) There we talked to a counselor lady about different questions and important info we need to know about next year while attending this awesome college. Then we took a tour of the campus (my first, and Kristen and Alexandria's second) which was extremely cold and too long. It helped me a little more since I hadn't taken it yet. Although, my sister Kirstie has given me a brief tour when I went to the campus on a visit earlier, and she did a pretty good job. :) Later in the afternoon, we did a little shopping at Walmart and then Kristen took Alexandria and I both home.

Saturday: My mom, my sister Kaylee, and I all woke up around 5:30 am to be at my grandma's house in Hesperia by 7:00am where we would then hitch a ride with one of our dear friend's, Jenna. We then left and were on a 3 and half to 4 hour ride in order to get to Oscoda High School. Here the Hesperia Wrestling team had a tournament. I haven't been to any of theirs this year, and since I am a senior, I decided that it would be nice to watch my cousin, Zack Yates, (a freshman at Hesperia High) wrestle a little bit before I graduate. They all placed (about 11 in first and 1 in each of the second, third, and fourth places) and all did an awesome job. It was a very exhausting day, however, as we didn't arrive home until midnight. It was a lot of fun and I'm really glad I went. :)

Today (Sunday): As of our last day of break, it was more relaxing at first. My dad and I then worked on my mousetrap car for physics (your welcome Andy Brozek) for about an hour and a half. Then around 3:45 we went to meet up with my sister, Kirstie and her boyfriend Bobby at the Main Street Pub in Allendale near to her apartment. We ate out for the Valentine's weekend and just to see each other again since my family hasn't seen her in over 2 weeks. We had fun, and of course we all got full. It was sort of depressing though because they were out of deep-fried dill pickles (their the best!) and sweet potato fries. :( It was good anyways. We then arrived home after making a quick stop at Walmart and Goodwill where I baked a Valentine's cake for my design class and worked on some other things. Now here I am telling all of you about my busy, exhausting, and fun-filled 3 day weekend. I hope you all had just as much fun (and sleep) as I did. See you all tomorrow! :)

(I don't think I really could have waited any longer to post this. :) )

Bummer...

Well this weekend wasn't the best. What better way to spend the midwinter break than sitting at home doing nothing... good job Andy, Brian, and Dom friday even though you guys lost your slides.......... and that's my blog for the week.
Stay classy Shelby!

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sooo im thinkin that I dont like the new book as much as I thought i would, or atleast not yet. im sad i misses the issue friday hopefully it all went good im looking forward to the topic this week! sooo spring break needs to get here asap so we can be that much closer to graduation(:

Yeah Yeah

Well, our controversial issue didnt go exactly the way we wanted to but whatever. Stuff happens. I'm just watching the grammys. Pretty entertaining. The new book is pretty good. Well I'll see ya tomorrow.

ready to graduate!

From working on last minute applications and scholarships to narrowing down my choice of college has made me ready to graduate! High school has gone by extremely fast but I am ready to start a new chapter in my life!
I am very grateful for this class in preparing me for college courses.
GRADUATION PLEASE COME QUICKLY! :)

College life

Sam, Christopher and I went to MSU this weekend for the ADS competition. We had so much fun! I kind of felt like I was in college with freedom for a whole weekend. Sleeping in a hotel room with a roommate was like getting a new college roommate (and mine was really awesome, btw). I think I'm going to love college.

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im so glad that we got to have a three day weekend! but man am i tired. i should be doing productive things but cant bring myself to do it. i better go and get my homework done (talk about the last minute.) ready for another long week of school... :(

I hope everyone enjoyed are small break.  I had a great time I was able to hang out with some friends and go for a nice snowmobile ride.  Its nice to start getting some warmer temperatures im kinda bummed that the snows all melting but cant wait for the things ahead this summer

Lots of Stuff on My Mind

I had a really fun three day weekend. On Thursday I went with Kristen to Chelsea's house and we hung out for a while, then we went over to Kristen's house where we all spent the night. After eating some pizza and ice-cream of course. And then we all woke up super early and headed to the most amazing place on Earth. And of course I am talking about Grand Valley. All three of us have basically decided that that is the place we're all going to be next year. I was looking forward to visiting my brother, but I found out two days before we left that he was going to Washington D.C. for that weekend, which means I don't get to see my brother! Then I decided I wanted to visit my brother's friend (Kirstie) but she got the flu and didn't want to get out of bed. So we went to Kristen's admissions appointment and then went on a tour. It was Chelsea's first official tour and Kristen and I's second official tour. Afterwards we did some other stuff. And then Saturday I got to be lazy, I accidentally fell asleep in my living room Friday night (my mom hates when I do this). And woke up and 5 in the morning, then I went upstairs and fell back asleep in my bedroom and woke up around 11ish. I really didn't do anything all day except work on our Controversial Issue PowerPoint. I got a lot done with that. Then I fell asleep around 1 or 2 in the morning and woke up at 8 o'clock because my dad was supposed to pick me up and take me shopping around 10ish. So that's what I did today. I went to my dad's house and ate breakfast, then I went shopping (I got a dress and some new Converse), and then I went back to my dad's and his wife made me a cake for Valentine's day (the cake was heart shaped red velvet with cherry frosting and heart sprinkles on top), and now I'm at home working again on the Controversial Issue project and FaceBooking and texting and playing Freecell (game #9211 the only one I can win).

Great

This was a great LONGGGG weekend, i hope everyone enjoyed it. Uhm i hope we did alright for our presentation thing i think we did. Anyways i dont know what to say really?

New + Old = ???

I'm really starting to enjoy this class. It's making me accountable for projects and assignments that might not be mentioned in class, which helps me to stay on top of what we're doing. It's probably a good habit to get into, which is part of the reason I took College English.
Johnny Got His Gun is certainly an interesting piece of literature. It's so metaphorical and leaves you in the dark in so many places that you have to think about it in order to understand what you're reading! I love things that make me think, especially a book, thats part of reading.
Well, my groups Controversial Issue is fast approaching and I'm looking forward to putting it together and presenting. It will take alot of time from everyone in our group, but each of us has so many good ideas that it won't be any problem at all :]
Senior Portfolios are also coming up quick! I'm surprised at how time flies, especially when you have a deadline... :/ Most of mine is put together and ready to go, but I still have a couple parts to add to it. I really like looking over what I've done through the years, even though there aren't that many of them!

College English in general

So this three day weekend has flown by! Of course, that might be because I spent friday being sick like the rest of my family...nasty little flu bug! YUCK!! Anyway, on to things englishy in nature! Johnny Got His Gun is starting to get really interesting! I really like the way Trumbo wrote this book. The only downside is that flipping back and forth from reality to memories can get quite confusing. Hopefully as the book keeps going things will begin to settle down as Joe realizes where he is and what's really happening! On a more depressing note, my portfolio isn't doing very well at all. I can't seem to figure out how to make all of my pieces match in tone or find a good way to lay them out and present them...gr. Maybe just maybe inspiration will fall out of the sky...here's to hoping!!

Weekend!

This weekend has flown by, but its been a good one! The portfolio is coming along and falling into place. Im looking for a good $$$ summer job, any one have good ideas?

:P

This weekend has been great. Friday I went to GVSU with Chelsea, and Alexandria. Even though I have already been there, we decided to go back to show my dad. I think I have finally made the decision (it took forever!) lol. I am still working on my portfolio and its coming together very nicely. I've had a lot of fun with it!