Easter

STOA Boerne Tourney

We just finished a debate tourney this week end :) I got 9th in TP speaker (Debate) and 10th for our team in debate. I placed like 21st (out of 49 kids) in impromptu, and 2nd in persuasive! I was really excited about my persuasive!!!!! Here is a picture of one of the tee shirts I got for awards.

Apologetics Box

Well I finally got my apologetics box set up!! YAY!! (One day before ACTION officially starts :P HAH) Anyways, I choose a different kind of set up, but it works really well for me!! I am super excited. I am a very organized person and I cannot stand loose cards in a box! So I had to put some vocab cards in the back to fill it up :P (Just until I get all my apol. cards done)

For those of y'all who don't know apologetics is a speech category in the NCFCA. It is basically 100 questions that you have to answer and defend your faith. So here are the pictures... =)

Speech and Debate

I don't know if I really talked about this last year, but I am in a Speech and Debate club called ACTION. (Advancing christian truth in our nation.) This is going to be my second year participating. Tomorrow I have a speech workshop taught by a national champ, its going to be awesome!

Today after school I went shopping with Mom to buy some clothes to wear to the tournaments. I was really happy with what we got!! I got a really cute skirt, and some very nice dressy pants. (I am WAY to small to fit into suits :P) I also got several cute shirts that looks very good with them. I will have to take some pictures of me actually wearing them.

1st day of School

School has officially started!! I am excited but also dreading it... :P Very mixed feelings. This morning I got up at about 6:30 and wrote a 2NC for debate, and then I did chores. After that we ate breakfast.

Then came the treasure hunt!! I got a TobyMac and Newsboys CD, some school supplies, a new towel, and some books. After the treasure hunt we started school.

I am almost done as of now, I still need to take a shower, do spanish, and do my reading assignment (Read a book on Egypt for 45 minutes) Yesterday we went to the library and got a TON of books on Egypt. The first 30 days we are studying Egypt. We are also studying Rome, Greece, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember. =)

We are doing AWOA (a world of adventure) and SOS (switched on schoolhouse). I really like both programs but my favorite is probably SOS. Oh yeah, I am in 8th grade this year. I can't believe I will be in high school next year!! :O That is soooo scary..... AHH!!

Well I gotta go finish school. I will blog again sometime soon....

Count down!

Well I am getting really excited/nervous. =) My first meet (its at our gym, with like 2 or 3 other gyms invited) is June 31st. I am excited but I want to have like one or two months to clean up my routines...lol... I have 18 days left. I am going to get a training video up soon. I just have to get all the video's togather lol :P

Vault is one of my stronger events in level 8, I am actually competing a level 9 vault. I am alternating between a pike and a layout chanko. Right now I am flipping them into the pit with a hard mat in the pit to land on. Our gym decided that we are actually going to flip into the pit for the meet b/c the other gyms don't have the vaults ready yet either. I believe next week are flipping onto hard ground. I am excited!

Bars is steadily improving but it is my second worst event. I am having a really hard time with my straddle cast handstand on high bar. I have a really good one on low bar but I can't do it good on high bar. My giants are getting a lot better but I still am bending one leg slightly when I am coming up.

Beam is my WORST event.... I still don't like doing my bhs bhs. Ever since I fractured my wrist doing one, I haven't liked doing them. So what I am doing right now, I warm up bhs stretch jump, and I just go for it in my routine. Thatway I don't have to do very many of them. Other than that I am okay though. My switch leap neads to be landed more consitently and jumps could be higher etc... But I have a while to work on that.

Floor is my best even. My passes are fairly simple and I am a pretty good dancer so I feel very confident. I am doing a full, punch front to round off bhs lay, and front handspring pike or layout if it is feeling good that day.

I think that is everything for now........ I really have to go. Bye!

Pic of Serenity