Today we had a map test over East Asia. It wasn't that hard, and I don't think i missed anything which is good! Earlier this week we had a packet to work on and physical and political maps due. Oh, and we have our LAST test of the year next week!!!! It's exciting that it'll be our last test for the WHOLE year, except finals, but I still wish we were done with tests....
So, this summer, I'm gonna be swimming at 6:30 every morning the whole summer at Bartholomew (i don't know how to spell that sorry) with my club team, Lost Creek. I'll probably end up carpooling every morning with someone else. After that practice, I'll have summer league practice, but that should be a LOT easier than the first one. A week after school gets out, I'm gonna start drivers ed, even though my birthdays not till July 7th. Also, Anderson swimming tryouts are on July 7th and they last a week. Later in July I'll be going to South Padre for a week with church, and I go to Camp Longhorn for two weeks in early August. Somewhere in there my mom and step dad want to go to the beach for a few days, so that should be fun!

This weekend I have a long-course swim meet. A long course meet is where instead of the pool being the standard 25 meters, it's 50 meters. I swim mostly sprints, so this weekend I'll be swimming the 100 free, 100 fly, 50 free, and 50 fly. This will be my first long-course meet so I'm pretty excited!

This week our Asian meal projects were due. I thought the project was pretty easy, except it took a long time to get all the data from this one website that was very slow. We also did 3 chapters of guided readings, which i split up with some people in my class to make it easier. The guestion for this week is what is the number one place you want to visit out of all the places we've studied, and why? Well, we haven't gotten there yet, but I really want to go to Austrailia. The Great Barrier reef would be an amazing place to dive. Or, really, anywhere in Austrailia or New Zealand would be a good place to dive...

i just heard this song today and i think its really fun and WOW that guy can hit a high note!! the video is....odd...but i like the song, so check it out if you want
oh the song is grace kelly by mika
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWsWzUgcXE

So the required post for this week was what do you want to be when you grow up? I haven't thought about this a LOT seeing as it changes like, all the time, but right now i think it would be fun to be like, a realtor or interior decorator, or a youth minister. And i know a youth minister sounds crazy, but when i look at my leaders at church who are youth ministers, their work weeks consist of bible studies at starbucks every morning, going on mission trips all around the world, year round, skiing in colorado, tubing in the summer and going to south padre for 2 weeks, going backpacking in the rockies, and doing all sorts of awsome stuff all the time. and i dont know about you, but that sounds like my kind of job!

This week we also went to a religion panel where experts from all the 5 major religions came and spoke about their religion. The Buddist monk and the Catholic preist were a little hard to understand, but they said some really interesting things. It was really cool to see what the monks wore, and how the Hindu expert dressed. And the Jewish rabbi answered my question, that was pretty cool.