Back To The Future

This is a speech that I did at youth group last night... I was going to re-write the beginning to make it more like a blog post before I put it up here, but I couldn't think of an alternate way to start it off. Oh well.

Anyhow, without further thought, here is the speech! Even though since your reading it, it's strangely un-speech-like o_O lol. (oops, did I say without further thought there earlier? I meant with out further thought after this :-) )


Yes, yes, here I am. Another day, another speech. I guess that's high school for ya. Projects...projects. And elective subjects. There's one I currently am working on called "College Planner". Ever since I've started it I feel like my life's half over! I'm a freshmen... I apparently am supposed to begin thinking of the future. Several years back had I been asked to start planning for the future I probably would have said something along the lines of "Well let's see... there should be flying cars, cities in the sky... and maybe I'll meet the Jetsons!" . Now I'm apparently supposed to respond with something more along the lines of what school I shall be attending for a higher learning experience. One word: Yee-ikes!

I never really have been a good one for planning things in advance. At least not since I've become a teenager. When I was a little kid, oh boy, yeah, I had it all figured out! I still remember when I was young and mad that I had to go to bed. I had a plan for my future and I made it known at that instant: "When I grow up I'm gonna stay up late and eat as much ice cream as I want!" Yeah, there ya have it, my superior plans for the perfect life. Of course over the years I've discovered by trail and error that this may not be the best thing to do with the rest of my life.

As Senator Bob Dole said in a speech once, "The future is right in front of us." ... of course I fail to see how it could be anywhere else. A funny thing I've realized though is what is the point of planning for the future? The future will never get here because...well, it's the future. By the time it shows up it will be the present and a moment later it's just going to be another addition to the pile of events in the past that some highschool student like myself will have to write essays on 100 years from now.

With that being said, is planning for the future just a waste of time? I wouldn't say that. By the time the next portion of the present rolls around, you'll be happy to have planned ahead. One thing to remember though is don't obsess over it. God is there to see the big picture and has tomorrow all planned out for you. So no matter where you're at in life, just be happy where you are with what you're doing and leave the rest to the Lord - after all, you're always going to be right where He wants you!

And Yet Another Week in The Life

Too much to say yet not enough... So many things to do and so little time to get them done in.

Yep.

School projects to do, tests to get done, chores to finish... And I'm also working hard on designing the PCHE yearbook cover, putting together another movie, keeping my youth group's website updated... Yes, and Ultimate Frisbee, youth group, and my volunteer job at the library are all piled up on Wednesdays. Not to mention I have drawings to work on, books to read, and the CCYG video of the year to make. Oh! And guitar practice. And this weekend we're traveling to my grandparent's house to visit them, my aunt & uncle, and two of my cousins and their wives.

Then in between that I still have emails to reply to and bike rides to take (hey, gotta enjoy the spring weather while it lasts... before long it'll be 90 to 100 degrees every day!). Of course I also can't forget about IM conversations with you Camp Hopies :-) The days just wouldn't be the same without chatting with my favorite faraway friends! I believe I shall now take this time to also thank any of you who provided distraction to me via gmail during the writing of my history report yesterday, if it weren't for you I may possibly be completely insane. ;-)

Yeah, my life certainly wouldn't be as great with out the awesomely awesome people that I know.

Field Trip!!

My home school group went on a really cool field trip to the Palouse Discovery Science Center on Friday... here's a link to some photos! http://picasaweb.google.com/Beware.of.optimist/AnAwesomelyFunFieldTrip?authkey=oxC3ZqWdEUY

The video below is of the 6th through 12th graders showing their superior intelligence =)

(the quality is pretty poor 'cause it was taken off my mom's camera)