A Little Piece of Inspiration

Hey, crap happens.

Think of it as fertilizer and grow from it.

school.

well yesterday was the dreaded first day of school. what?? i thought i was just in school? summer went by so fast! by it was super fun! i'm just glad to get my junior year over with and then i'll be a SENIOR!! yay! and i also love not being a sophomore anymore. i feel so much older than all the new little squashmores at mvt!

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so my first hour is student council, nothing new. it felt so normal to be there, since the last couple weeks of summer i was there practically every day for hours. i knew my teacher and her expectations and everyone in my class, so that was super nice.

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then i go to second hour, right down the hall. spanish 4. why am i taking it? i. don't. know. but i've heard it's a super fun class with lots of fiestas! now, that i can deal with! i met my teacher the day before the first day of school because i was helping teachers get their rooms together for student council. right when i told her i was one of her students, she started going all off in spanish! i didn't understand it at all! i just mumbled out "no comprendo... es el verano". (translation: i don't understand... it's still summer!) haha so i'm hoping my spanish memory kicks in... soon!

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third hour is on the other side of campus, but i don't care!

i love it so much! it's algebra 2. now, i would normally hate math. but, i have two of my best friends emmy wright and cami shreeve in there. and i found out that one of my favorite sophomores is in there too, and i sit right by him! we don't really have a seating chart, so i'm thinking i'll be pretty chatty in that class! but so far, it's easy and i've heard great things about the teacher. i'm excited to see how this goes!

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fourth hour is anatomy. i really love the teacher! she's down-to-earth, and completely understanding. she said she was warned about me (haley?)... i don't know what that means! i'm already studying for that class's vocabulary test on monday! also, today we had a preassesment test, just to see if we knew the basics. well guess what. i didn't know the basics at all! great. when i got to the part that said "name all the systems in the body and their functions" i was like "yes, i know one!" and then: my mind went blank. of course! and what is the only system i can remember? the reproductive system. it's function? how else to say it then "to make babies"? so my paper was pretty blank when i finally turned it in. and right after class, i remembered the rest of the sysytems. nice.

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fifth hour is seminary! i love it already! i saw some of my favorite squashmore friends in my hour and i was really hoping they'd be in my class, but of course not! but i love my teacher so far. tia had him her senior year and loved him too. i'm really excited!

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sixth hour. ap junior english. the first thing my teacher says to our class is "i am certain this is the single hardest class at mountain view". what did i get myself into? she then proceeded to tell us that our ap test at the end of the year consisted of writing three different essays with a 60 question multiple choice part. in 4 hours. three essays with an additional test in 4 hours? seriously?! and then she said the national passing rate is 50%. but her classes' passing rate was 92%, a little more promising. i won't get into details about the rest of her hour-long lecture, but it was pretty scary. today i was scared out of my mind when she said we were having a graded discussion about our last night's homework, and "you need to say something intelligent in order to receive your points in the discussion". as she says that not everybody will get called on, i repeat please don't call on me. please don't call on me. please don't call on me. "and cassidy will begin our discussion!" thanks. somehow, a comment somewhat intelligent came out of my mouth, and my teacher really like it! score! i'm starting to like her. a little.

this year is going to be so much fun! stressful and busy, i know, but a blast!

Yep, I did it!

My hair is back to short!

this summer, i've seen more movies than the whole school year combined! there's only been a few bad movies, but hey, i'm not complaining!

{especially when the main character is a major hottie!}

KNIGHT AND DAY

with this guy:

Tom Cruise is, i'm not gonna lie, pretty attractive for his age.

overall, the movie was pretty good, and surprisingly pretty clean. it's one of those brainless movies. you know, one you don't even have to think about. sweet. INCEPTION leonardo dicaprio. need i say more? okay now you're going to definitely need your brain for this one! this movie was crazy. bizarre. i'd even go as far as insane. but, it was awesome. i mean a-maz-ing. i'm dying to go see it again because i know it would be even better the second time. i definitely recommend it to everyone! and then there's... Charlie St. Cloud with, of course, zac efron. i.love.zac.efron. so, i saw the midnight pemiere with cami shreeve and a bunch of other friends. i was sooo excited for this movie. much to my disappointment, i didn't like it. at all. let's get real here: zac efron was great. the movie was not. it didn't hold my attention and in all honesty was a little bit creepy. but, i think you should still go see it (even if it is just for zac efron!).

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i don't know if you've noticed, but it's august now. august! school officially starts in ten days. a week and a half. wow. and for me, school starts tomorrow. toro links meeting from 7:30-1:00 and then stuco meetings from 1:30-5:30. at school... all day... for the last week of summer. yay.*

*heavy on the sarcasm

Recap

sorry for not blogging for the past month, but i've been really busy... and i love it!

anyways, here's a recap of the last 4 weeks.

GIRLS CAMP

girls camp was way fun- a lot more fun than i thought it would be! i loved my girls, my ward, and my other ycl's. unfortunately, though, i didn't take any pictures. not a single one. but, i still had a blast! ASPEN GROVE

every year i have loved aspen grove, and this year was no different. i LOVED it! it was so much fun to be with my cousins 24/7- not many people can do that. but i learned so much about my cousins, and got to know them all a little bit better.

thank you grandma & grandpa for a fun vacation!

STUCO CAMP

yesterday i just got back from an AASC student council camp for schools all over the state. i had a blast! i was really scared to go, since haley and tia had both gotten sick up there, but luckily i didn't had such a fun time! when ms. scott told us it was going to be an emotional roller coaster, nobody had any clue what that meant. but, she was 100% right. we went from laughing, to crying, to smiling, to bawling, to laughing... and then all over again!

we had to scream as loud as we could for food (not a highlight!), live and be in councils with nobody you knew, dance like crazy all the time, make up cheers and skits, break 1" boards with my fist, stare into the eyes of almost 500 complete strangers for 20 seconds, tell your council your innermost secrets, get hopefully 4 hours of sleep, write anonymous love letters to random guys, share 3 bathroom stalls and 8 showers with about 80 girls, and make lifelong friendships and bonds with council members and mvt stuco members. it was definitely an amazing and unforgettable experience!

i know it's 12:30 a.m. and i could be doing a lot of things that need to be done right now like packing for girls' camp or sleeping, but i really wanted to blog right now! and i probably won't be able to blog for the next while! i'm going to girls' camp on saturday. i have mixed feelings about this. every year i end up having a blast, but i just hate camping. and dirt. and bugs. but, it's a new adventure this year. i'm going to be a ycl for some 3rd levels. i'm super excited, but i don't really like the idea of being away from my own ward. they're like my family... so i'll be a little ward sick. overall, though, i know i'm going to have a great time!

two days after i get back from girls' camp, i hit the road for utah. i seriously love utah (only during the summers, though!) i love staying at the condo with my family (although the circumstances this year will not allow it), and walking to the creamery on ninth east on a daily basis. i'm not kidding when i say they have the best ice cream. and i'm not even an ice cream fan! i love roaming the byu bookstore and i've always loved the bean museum. gosh, i've had some great memories in utah. like the summer carie broke her jaw (okay, not really a great memory, but a memory nonetheless), or the summer haley and i spent a week with the snows and then a week with the esteses for byu gymnastics camp. and one of my most favorite memories of all is aspen grove! i love, love, love aspen grove! we've gone with the brown family two times, and now this year we are going with the whole clark family (minus the snows)! i'm stoked! i haven't had a bad experience yet. *knock on wood* i'm really excited to just have a week to relax and catch up with my cousins. after aspen grove, we're having the meldrum reunion that my grandma's in charge of. i'm excited because those are always fun. then, i'm hoping to meet up with a friend going to byu, and then i have a date lined up! crazy, crazy, crazy!

later this summer, i have stuco camp, toro links meetings, stuco meetings, and hopefully a trip to nyc with my mom and haley. the boys are going on the 100th anniversary boy scout jamboree for about three weeks. my mom talked about my dad possibly meeting up with them while us girls go to nyc. i really, really hope it all works out!

well, pretty much i love summer so far. i feel like i've been kinda lazy, but i really want to do some crafty projects, so we'll see how that goes. i already made some really cute headbands for me and the girls i'm ycl-ing for. one of my favorite things to do during the summertime, is stay up late (hence, the late-night posting). haley and i have that in common, which usually results in late-night "heart-t0-hearts". just the other night, we stayed up til past two a.m. talking in my bed. we just lay down and talk about the randomest things. this last one was particularly interesting. tia was sitting outside our room, and told us the next morning she could hear us yelling and fighting with eachother, and then suddenly start busting up laughing! we tend to do that a lot. fight then laugh. but i guess there are worse alternatives!

well seeing that tia's demanding her lap top, and it is now close to one, i'm signing out.

good night!

SUMMERRR.

i know this post is way past due, but...

it's SUMMER!

So far this summer I've done a whole lot of:

watching movies

doing online history (8 hours straight one day!)

swimming

trying to get somewhat of a tan

sleeping in

watching HGTV

so i'd say that summer has been pretty productive lately!