Giants VS Patriots

Yep! Giants won against the Packers, and I cannot wait until Febuary 3rd!!!!

Go Giants!!

Church Hopping

Tests are over, for me anyway, and I now have an entire week off. I'm happy, because now I can catch up on sleep again...

Okay, so there is this little prayer group called "Spartans for Christ" that meets every Monday in Mr. Mody's room. I've been apart of this group for a few months now, and I really like the people that are apart of it. It started sometime in mid-October, and once I heard about it, I started going I think after only a few weeks. It's inexpressibly nice to know that there are other Christians that have my back.
We've done a few projects within the school, but we've been limited to a few things because we need around a good solid 20 people to start coming regularly. Right now there is only about 11 or 12 or so, which is pretty decent. One of the projects we're thinking about doing is going to each others youth group, or church hopping. I really like this idea for two reasons:
1. I would love to see other youth groups. I haven't been to another in several years.
2. Northway is above and beyond traditional churches, and I love bringing people (and seeing their expressions.) No matter how much I may disagree with a few things, it's been my home for 3 and a half years.

So I can't wait till we actually carry out this little project, and I can't wait for more to come!

Mid-Terms & "Pre-Regents"

Yep. We're halfway through the year, and how do they reward us? Tests!
Figures, right?
Here's my schedule for the rest of the week:

Tuesday:
2nd Block: Huge Global Test... Besides that, a Normal Day.

Wednesday:
1st Block: English Mid-Term (Easyyy)
2nd Block: Global again (No test though)
3rd Block: Gym (Swimming for over an hour. Yeah baby.)

Thursday:
1st Block: French Mid-Term (Cake)
2nd Block: Keyboarding Mid-Term (Ridiculous, I think)
3rd Block: Science "Regents" (GAH) It's not counting as a "Regent Exam", but it's a test that my teacher made, and it's in the style like a regents exam. She calls it "Pre-Regents". Still kind of intimidating.

Friday: (Half Day)
1st Block: Math
2nd Block: Study Hall (Gay, I'm trying to switch that class for Art 2D or something. Anything could be better than wasting your time and credits in an 100 minute Study Hall)

All those classes are about 100 minutes long.
Blocks are pretty much the order my classes are in. It should be self explanatory.
My science teacher gave me this site to prep for the "regents", and I guess it's alright.
http://www.regentsprep.org/


In other news, last night was United, and it was quite fun. I had a blast. =]

Music & Other Subject Matters.

Since I've gotten a new iPod, I've been listening to pretty much the same stuff I listened to last year.
Anberlin, FF5, Angels & Airwaves, Cartel, TFK, Kutless, Flyleaf and the list goes on.
They all aren't the same songs. New albums have come out, or I just discovered they have older ones that I didn't know about. But the majority of my songs are rock/alternative with a little bit of pop randomly mixed within.
I've found good artists like Graham Colton, and Landon Pigg. But both kind of edge toward the softer side of the Pop genre. (Actually, Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg is so mellow, I actually fall asleep listening to it. It used to be the Symphony of Blase by Anberlin that put me to sleep.) I'm kind of picky in what I listen to. It can't be screamo, metal, or anything that I can't understand, or anything too vulgar or explicit like most rap. I like some r&b or whatever, but I've yet to find anyone besides Rihanna that I like. I have yet to find out what SKA is all about.
I, obviously, like rock/alternative.

Still, I've been buying my songs this year. I haven't used Caroline's or Jon's music, and comparatively, I'm seriously lacking in the variety of my music. I can't even remember half of the artists I had last time. Except some bands that are a far cry from today's music, like Rage of the Machine, or Stryper. Regardless, I still owe them for the bands I know and listen to today. Plus my dad (and a few others), because he's the one that got me listening to Linkin Park. I probably wouldn't be listening to rock if it wasn't for him.
So if anyone has any new music they'd like to share with me, that would be appreciated.

On another note, this coming week is Mid-Terms/Regents for me, so I'll probably be studying whenever I can get the time in, or doing anything I can so that I can pass Science, and get higher than an 80 this quarter in Math.
I'm kind of stressed.

Wow!

Has it seriously been since MAY since I've last posted?

Holy crap.

I guess I have some catching up to do, huh?
Since I cannot possibly blog about my life since May{?!}, I'm just going to start with the biggest event of the day...

Today was our first day in gym that we were supposed to go swimming. Me and the rest of my class being freshman, we've never swam for gym before, and everyone knows how clean our school pool is. Not. I have gym 3rd block, which is right after my lunch, but almost at the end of the day. I feel horrible for anyone that has gym 1st block.
But all I can say is, that it was really, really, really cold, and anyone that can swim for a sport, I give kudos to.
I also played with my iTouch toward the end of 4th block, and I found out something that I'm not at liberty to say here, but I probably could of lived my whole life without knowing. My curiosity always gets the best of me.

I don't think I'm going to be able to post everyday, because of track, but I'll try when I get the time...

Nervous!

Yeah, so this weekend has been fun!
Although I only want to blog about Sunday, because I can, and this is my blog. =P

So like I do every Sunday, I worked the two services which went fairly well. I still have issues with songs on the key, and having to come up with telling the camera people what to do in split second thoughts...So THAT didn't go too well, but the services over all did. Thankfully we only did the Happy Girl song in the 1st service, not in the second. =P After the services I went with Nic and Ben, with my mom and sister following in the other car, to IHOP, to meet up with the rest of the crew. We ate pancakes, duhhh. Although some losers didn't...heh. When most of us were done and stuffed with carbs, we headed back to CP church, and then played sardines and hide and seek for a bit, and played capture the flag as well. After all that lovely stuff, we did this game that I have no idea what it was called, but we had to pick someone in the group, and tell them how they encouraged us or something like that. I thought it was pretty neat. Then we had bible study, and quite honestly, I can't really remember anything except for Jon reading a letter he wrote to Brian about his year in youth ministry, what he's learned and stuff, then him talking to us about NYC, then him explaining that CP is going to have it's own Vertical/Nine12. Which I already knew since like, January, but it hasn't been official, ever. But...It still doesn't have a date to start either, but I mean, I already knew that when it opens, I'm going to have to be there to help out. No one ever had to ask me to go, I just knew.
After that was over, we played another fun round of sardines. Then I stood at the windows after everyone left, and waited for Jon to lock up and such with Nic. I went to their house, and walked down their "driveway" with Jon to feed their new duckies they have while he was explaining stuff to me. It wasn't till after we fed the ducks, and walked all the way back, sat down on some VERY stiff chairs, then I started getting it. He started talking about CP, and vertical production team and getting up, and "GOing". THEN he told me that I was supposed to lead, and create my own vertical production team for CP...
Yeah, I did like a double take. I think my jaw dropped too. I'm pretty sure my voice went up a few notches as well when I said, WHAT?!

I'm going to stop there, because I don't really want to go into it anymore, but like, 50 billion things were in my mind.
What if they have vertical in Malta the same night as CP does? Will I get to see anyone from there anymore? I can't do this! What happens if I don't know what to do, or if I freeze or something. What if I fail at this? What if I don't find anyone to be on the team? What do I do if [or when] I screw up? What if they don't respect me? I am only 14 [15 in august] y'know, I'm not some 27 [almost] year old guy that knows what he's doing, and has about 89798745345235643 times more leading experience as me. =P

As you can see, I'm quite nervous about this...

Blueee

I started writing this earlier this afternoon, right after I got off the bus, and put my dogs out to do their business. It took from about 2:45 to 4:15. I was bored, and I like being outside. I've never just sat down, watched, listened, and written before. It was some-what relaxing. It's not really well written, or exciting for that matter. I just jotted down a lot of stuff. Well here you go...

As I sit here writing this, I see the brilliant blue sky all around. Slowly fading as navy blue/dark gray storm clouds that start to cover it from the southwest. No sun. Layers and layers of clouds. I feel a breeze against me. It pushes a storm closer. I see the trees sway with the breeze, with a random bug flying across my face. More clouds. It gets darker. I feel the occasional raindrop here and there. I close my eyes for a few minutes, just to listen. Chirping of little birds. Crows farther off. The heavy panting of my scared little dog. Passing of cars, trucks and motorcycles. The soft, threatening, rumbles of thunder in the distance. Soon to be over head, I predict. I open my eyes. Darker. A bumble bee whizzes by, as a jet overhead screams across the sky. I hear no more birds, besides a squeaky chirp here and there. A squirrel sprints by. I look up. I see a bird fly overhead. I examine the newest buds on a tree. A bright flash. 15 seconds go by. Thunder. Right overhead. [I brought my dogs in at this time.] The wind picks up some more, but not that much. A dandelion seed? I do not know, but it's white, and in its glory as it slowly, then faster, glides to the earth. Another flash. 14 seconds pass. Rumbles in the sky, more to the south now. But no less threatening. I leaned back. I screamed. I flicked an ant off my arm. Ew. More birds chirping. Another flash and more rumbles. It's more to the west now. The wind picked up. The rain drops are getting bigger, but more or less frequent? I couldn't tell you. 2 crows flew by. Now I sit frozen solid, as a bumble bee flies by casually. I relax now, as it goes away. Another ant. The world got brighter. The clouds are thinning to the south. Though no blue in the north anymore. Cars go by. Silence. Another car. Sometimes I wish there was someplace I could without man made noise. Just to sit, watch and listen. Thunder. It came somewhere from the distant west, and became louder. Rain. Now the drops are heavy enough to make a dot on my stone porch. Becoming more frequent. No wind...Silence. Now wind. Gusty. A honking car. Someone yells. I look to the sky. Pale yellow to the northwest. Rain. It's sprinkling now. Cold. A quick cold needle, as though a prick to the arms and legs. Huge thunder. 2 actually. 1st in the far west, then another, closer, but in the east. A fly buzzing around my legs. 2 red squirrels chasing each other on a tree branch. More thunder. Weird formation of clouds. A thick streak of white, contrasts the now dark royal blue/dark gray sky. Thunder. Rain has let up for now. Flash. 11 seconds. The roll of thunder goes on for like, 10 seconds. Making its way from the east, to over my head, to the west. More thunder. Birds chirping. 2 red robins in the distance. Rain drops. Thick, heavy, cold raindrops now becoming more and more frequent. Faster. I try to shield my paper. The thick White streak, now just a small hot dog shaped cloud. Floating. Cold rain drops. Another jet. Another Red robin flies across the yard. Rain stops again. The temperature is going down. Was 80, now 75. Blue sky! To the east. Thunder. Not very loud. Rain. Sprinkling. Never mind. It's raining pretty good now. Thunder to the south. Blue sky slowly being swallowed by dark gray clouds. White. Blinding white clouds mixed with gray to the northeast. A Bee flies by my ear. Thunder to the west. Spots of blue.

15 minutes later...[I had to eat sometime. I would've starved =P]


Blue. Brilliant Blue. Sun, still hidden but reflecting off of the little white careless floating clouds. Bees. Chirping. Still the random thunder. I doubt we'll get anything for a few more hours anyway. Blue. I love the color of the sky. Thunder.


{Picture taken by me!}