If I were to do high school over...

fFor me, it's been awhile since I've blogged. So here I am blogging.

First order of business: ORU.
ORU was fantastic. I came back in such an ORU high, I have absolutely no motivation to finish high school. However, I only have 2 more months left, so I think I'll manage. I loved being there, though. I have no doubt in my mind that I am supposed to go there next year. The competition itself was a little hectic; they didn't have me on the list for whatever reason, so they had to shuffle me around into wherever they could put me. It all got worked out though, and I got the interview and essay and met some wonderful people in the process.

I got to hang out with Rachel today as she just came home from break. We went to theMill Sunday school which is a breath of fresh air in midst of fake Christianity. Joe Kirkendall has really challenged me and it's great. I will definitely continue to go. Plus, they had free Panera bagels, so I will definitely continue to go. ;)

It was also very refreshing to hang out with Rachel. She and I have had a long friendship history, since 7th grade when we got paired together in Coram Deo before the Jamaica mission trip with jv_tag. We reminisced by reading all of our journal entires to each other, and saw how much each of us have grown and at the same time, how much we've both stayed a lot the same. We laughed at how I still don't like the same foods, and all the boy problems we considered so monumental at the time.

I admire Rachel a lot- in her genuine love for God, and her humbleness in who she is. She has grown a lot since the last time we talked, and it's very refreshing to be around her, as if we had never stopped talking. We had so much fun.

We went to wal-mart too, and I found out my weakness: girl scouts selling girl scout cookies.
I can pretty easily refuse the people who ask for money for various charities... but I can't refuse a girl scout who wants to sell me cookies. Their eyes are so innocent and I feel like if I refuse them I kicked a little puppy or something equally as sweet in the face.
Also, I once was a girl scout who wanted to sell so many boxes that the world would explode in girl scout cookies.
All I really wanted was the gigantic teddy bear I'd recieve after selling 200 boxes.

All that to say, I bought a box.
It's sad to me I buy girl scout cookies over helping the local animal shelter, but I just don't like animals that much. (Sorry animal lovers, such as my mom...)

I watched a movie last night called "Never let me go". I am unsure what to think of it, still. It was really interesting. It was like a mix of "Minority Report" and "Black Swan" or something, plus some random romance. It's in redbox. I'm still trying to figure it out, because I didn't understand it completely. You should rent it and tell me what you think. I often miss crucial plot lines... So I need people like you movie-watching people to help a sista out.

I started thinking the other day about high school hallways and how awkward they are.
There are those certain people who you never know if you should say hi to or not. Every time you see them, it's always a thought process, will I make eye contact with them? Because if so, I have to say hi. Will they say hi? Maybe I should just start texting, or distract myself in some way...
And then you get to that point where you either look at them and say "Hey!" or just keep walking, but someone has got to take that initiative, and that always depends on their mood.

Now, written down, it's really pathetic, but it happens every day. And then there are those people you see all the way down the hall and you shout their name and run up to them.
If I were to do high school over again, I'd somehow make hallways less awkward. Here are the things I want to do in a hallway:

Set up a picnic in a free period, and anyone who is wandering the halls, I invite them to join me.
Walk backwards.
Skip.
Check myself out for an abnormally long period of time in the trophy-cases.
Start a flash mob.
Cry spontaneously just to see how people react.
Wave to people I've never met, as if I met them, just to see if they'd play along.
Start singing to people as they're making out in the hallway.
Obviously stare at people who are making out in the hallway.
Throw things at people who are making out in the hallway.
Pretend to swim.
Start counting 1...2...6...20! Ready or not here I come! And then be pissed off when everyone is just standing there.
Start a game of tag.
Start "honking" when people in front of me are going too slow.
Hold up traffic signs; red lights and green lights so people from the pods could cross into the rest of traffic.

That's all I've got.
You should add to it if you've got some good ideas.

BED!