Happy Easter(From the Airport)

Today, my spring break vacation officially ended :( I had so much much spending time with my family.

Anyways, airports and plane rides. They are always such a bundle of joy, now aren't they? I was reading this book on my first plane to Seattle (layovers suck) and listening to music, like a normal person does on a plane ride. But, the guy next to me seemed very displeased about being on that plane, he kept falling asleep, and he would twitch his lips, talk in his sleep, and jerk all around. While he was making these absurd movements, I tried to contain myself the best I could by trying to laugh out loud because this guy next to me was fighting dragons in his sleep, or something.
When he would wake up, I could feel him reading over my shoulder, but when I would look at him he would pretend that he was sleeping, it was the oddest thing. Plane rides never fail to give me a "unique" person to sit next to.

My second flight was in Seattle to Portland, Oregon (my hometown.) While in the airport waiting for two hours, I was on instagram and everyone kept posting about Easter, so I took that black and white photo above saying "happy easter from an airport.) Always a pleasure in an airport, especially when the wifi isn't working.

When I got on the plane, the guy I sat next to told he me enjoyed all the faces I was making, trying to decided what face I was going to actually take a picture of. He lived in Hawaii, and also fell asleep on the plane, also he ordered apple juice as his beverage.

When I got home from the airport, I found this lovely little banner for me on my drive way. My best friend Danica made this for me to welcome me back into Oregon (it was 75 degrees today!!!) She made it out of cashews and chocolates.

Happy Easter everyone, and I'm sorry about the majority of us going back to school either tomorrow or tuesday.

Weird Things Happen

I have a funny/weird story. My friend Nick Brye sent me this picture this morning of the Nevada sun rise.

Him and I were best friends when I was in middle school, we talked all the time and hung out too much. Of course as time changed we grew apart, not talking to each other as we separated into different highschools.

The last time I remember actually talking to him was when I was dating Grayson and he was dating my good friend Camille, we both saw each other at some Homecoming dance. 

I’m a junior now, and of about 3 years we have barely noticed one others existence because our lives have been so busy and we had other things to do. 

But, just recently, we started talking again. I don’t know how it came about, it just did. It’s sorta nice to try and reconnect with an old friend, despite all the things that happened in our tween friendship. 

This is where it gets weird: For spring break, we are both in Nevada. We are 2o miles away from each other. We end up doing the same things at the same time, but in different places. He passed by UNR when I was touring UNR. I was in Fernely when he was just living Fernley. We both were on our way to Reno at the same time. We both had lunch at the same time. I was passing Spanish Springs as he was playing golf in Spanish Springs. 

We have yet to run into each other. This is surprisingly nice to be in the same place. Nick is a great guy, bound to great things. Super glad that we started talking again. 

P.s. Isn’t that sun rise beautiful?

Today, I went to the longest good friday service ever with my Grandma, because I am so sweet. When I got back, I decided I should do some painting because I had to argue with the airport security to let me take my paints on the plane. It was actually really stupid. Anyways, I felt really inspired, and I ended up starting 3 paintings, I only had time to finish one though, I'll finish the other ones tomorrow.

It was so beautiful outside! the sunset was perfect, and the lighting made everything look amazing. I really love painting with lavender, because I feel like it goes with so many colors, I use this color in almost every painting I do. THEN i realized that the painting matched my nails. It was a really cool moment, while the sun was setting. Oh, today was relaxing.

While painting, I really love to listen to music. Today while painting, I had "Welcome Home" by: Radical Face on repeat. I high recommend everyone to look up that song, even if you aren't a huge indie fan. It is a beautiful song.

Nevada to California

Still lusting on about spring break! I'm staying in Reno, Nevada, but my grandparents decided that they wanted to take a trip over to California for the day. It was about a 30-45 minute drive from where my grandparents live, and we stopped in Truckee, California. They had a ton of cute little shops. Knowing myself, I had to hold back not to buy everything in these shops. They had so many cute clothes and accessories, plus it made me so excited to go to college when I can decorate my own room, and have my own little touch to my dorm room.

The very first picture of the book, it completely represents me. I wanted to buy that book so badly, but I knew I could find it online for cheaper, and not have to pay sales tax on that little beauty. It is a must have to my room though.

The only thing I bought when we were looking at the shops was that little yellow glass blown hippo. I collect hippos, and it is always so rare when I find one, so when I have the chance, I buy it in a heart beat. It came in this little box, which was so adorable.

Over all, the day trip was successful! We found so many great things. I also get inspired when I go to a new place, so my thank you cards to the people who sent me money in the mail to go to Berkeley. I had a really good bowl of chilly, but my grandma has this delicious caprese sandwich, since I can't eat gluten, I got to be jealous of her great looking sandwich.

All I can say, is when I go home on Sunday, I am not going to like it.

The last two days before spring break I was able to go to Mount Hood Community College to compete in a brutal tournament. National Qualifiers for Speech and Debate. It is probably the hardest tournament the whole year, mostly because it is just so emotionally and physically draining. Everyone put every ounce of effort they have into this competition to either succeed and make it to nationals, or to fall short and et eliminated from the competition. It's actually a depressing thought to some, but all that hard work shows something worth being proud of, regardless if you make it to nationals or not!

The first row on the left: My great friend Olivia is hugging our speech coach and almost in tears because her and her partner, Q$ made it to nationals in Public Forum Debate!! Olivia has worked so hard this whole year, while sticking strong to her belief system, and I believe that this is a perfect reward for her dedication and faith. Olivia is such a great girl, and I couldn't be more excited for her.

The first row on the right: JONAH!!!! (the little boy with the glasses and braces.) This boy has grown so much a as a person, not so much in height, but in maturity. He made it to nationals as well in Humors Interpretation! He was so excited when Mr. Curry called his name to come get this award. Our whole team jumped up and started screaming because it was such a proud moment, and he started crying. Jonah is one of the most animated human beings I have ever met, so him doing an HI is just perfect. I truly believe that he had the best performance out of that whole final round, he went straight ones in the final rounds from the judges. Oh, I love Jonah.

The second row on the left: Little Jonah again. He really loves that drink and gets super excited every time he buys it at a Speech competition. Just look at him.

The second row on the right: Danica brought an umbrella hat, so I wore it around while collecting statistics for my "AP Stats project." I'm actually not in AP stats. I just had to make up a project so I could figure out if this guy was really from Pakistan or not. This guy in a debate round said that he was born and raised in Pakistan, but my friend who went up against him didn't believe him, so I went around and asked people where they were born, it turns out he was actually born in Pakistan....

The third row on the left: Aujalee(on my left), Zoe(on my right) and I(in the middle) went to go get lunch after our individual events(IE). All of a sudden it just started hailing really hard, so we went and ran for cover, thinking the hail would only last a few seconds, in reality, the hail actually got bigger and started hitting us. Our motto became "We make it hail on dem hoes." Zoe ended up leaving and Aujalee and I went to go get really gross mexican food.

The third row on the right: Some mystery person wrote on  flow pad all the quotes people say from our team, most of them were from a interp someone does(like an HI.) The very bottom one says, "I want to be inside of Daniel Silberman." Everyone on out team knew it was Blake Gesik. Daniel is a guy who graduated last year from Sprague, and is now attending UCLA. I guess he was a wizard in debate, because the first year he ever did it, he went to nationals with his partner, Nizar. Everyone always went to him with debate questions, or how to form a question/contention. Most of the guys on our team just really wanted to become the brand new Daniel and Nizar. But, they also fail to remember that most judges hate Sprague based on the fact that they were so belligerent during the debate round, haha. They were very talented though, go them.

The fourth row on the left: My best friend Aujalee covering herself from the hail, and pouting because her shoes were full of water.

The fourth row on the right: All of my friends talking to walls, practicing their events. Speech tourneys is the only place where you can talk to a wall, and seem completely normal. It is the most interesting thing, also it's really funny because people get so into it, and start making extremely interesting faces to the wall.

The last picture: I made this picture when I was sorta bummin, and I thought the whole team could use some words of encouragement.

This team is the greatest, and I couldn't be prouder to be a captain.

Long Lost Family

It's spring break!!!! My spring break started a few days early considering I had Nat Quals for speech and debate. Now, I feel as if that was more stressful than school. Anyways, I went to go visit my grandparents in Reno, Nevada. I've been doing a bunch of things while I'm here for the short week, but by far the best part was visiting these cuties. The last time I saw them was when Zoe(the one on my left) was about 4 and Ashlyn(the one on my right) was about 6 months old. It was so great to see them! I had dinner at their house, and they were arguing about who I was going to sit next to, we resolved this dilemma with me just sitting in the middle. After dinner we played hide and seek, and Ashlyn's favorite hiding spot was in the washer. After a long game of hide and seek we have some strawberry shortcake, but I, being gluten free, just had a bunch of strawberries. Zoe just started playing volleyball, so we went out back and I showed her how to do some hits, because I used to play volleyball. Then, before I knew it, it was time to say good bye to these little balls of enjoyment. Until next time little cousins. Love you.