Friday, May 11, 2012

Batonga 30 Day Dress Challenge: Day Eleven




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TODAY WAS OUR LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL.

We did the senior run down the hallways, slamming lockers and shooting people with silly string and water guns. It was amazing.

It still hasn't hit me yet that I'm done with high school. I don't think it will even hit me when I walk across that stage and am handed a piece of paper that I worked for twelve years to receive. It will probably hit me when I get on the airplane to go to college, but that's not for a few months.

For now, it's summer! I'm working on getting a list of summer goals together so that I'm not entirely bored for four months. What are your summer plans?

Also be sure to donate to the Batonga Foundation, which gives girls in Africa a full education so they can live better lives. Any amount helps!








Thursday, May 10, 2012

you can stand me at the gates of hell but I won't back down




day 131


Finally! A creative-ish photo! This marks my second to last day of high school. I'm excited and sad and cannot wait for the future. Heck, every moment is the future.

photo dump


I'm doing a 365 project, where I take one photo a day for an entire year, and while I have in fact stayed true to that, I have about a week's worth of photos to upload. Things have been pretty busy with school and the 30 day dress challenge that by the time it came around to 365 photos, I didn't have any energy left. Usually I post them here, and I'm getting back in the swing of doing that.

Today's photo will be posted a little bit later. Until then, here are photos from the past week.



day 130
may 9

This day held senior chapel and the drama awards.



day 129
may 8

This was our senior prank day. I'll have a big post about this after graduation. But it was seriously the most exciting and exhausting day I've had in a long time.



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may 7

Random photo of me because I didn't really feel like doing anything remotely creative.



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may 6

Another random photo of my face. It's funny because when I first edited this, I really liked the crazy colors, but now I'm not quite sure I like it.



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may 5

I went to my friend's wedding shower and this little boy loved munching on the candy bars ... still in their wrappers.



day 125
may 6

My dad texted me, saying that I should take this photo. He was in the room next to mine and could have easily yelled.



Whew! Finally updated. Sorry for the major photo dump. And again, tonight's photo will be up in a bit. So thank you all so much for your support, you don't even know how much it means to me. You are the best!




Batonga 30 Day Dress Challenge: Day Ten



the dress: as shirt // button down: thrift store // skirt: forever 21 // shoes: target



Can I just complain about something that I totally should not be complaining about at the moment? It's this little thing called marriage. Okay, maybe not exactly that. More like getting engaged, specifically in high school. The second person I know in my grade (little ol' senior) got engaged today. I have mixed emotions about the subject. First, there's the initial aww how cute and precious feeling because honestly, anything even remotely cute makes me go all super girly. Secondly I feel a bit skeptical, just because of how young people are. Come on, do you really know that's the person you want to spend the rest of your life with? And unless you're planning on having a four year engagement through college, how are you going to support each other? There's still so much growing up to do ... but at the same time, do we really ever stop growing? That's where the emotion of jealousy comes in. Matt and I have been dating over a year. (We want to get married but my mom says I shouldn't write stuff like that on here ... so let the record show that parentheses means I didn't really say it. ;)) My own parents dated less than that before they became engaged. While I do think it might possibly not be the best idea to get married right out of high school, when I hear that one of my peers is now engaged, well it makes me feel a little bummed that I don't get to have that now.

Eh, thus is the life of being a girl, I suppose. I am glad that Matt and I aren't doing anything crazy like that and choosing to wait it out.



Haha well this ended up being a venting post. It probably didn't really sound like I was venting, but trust me, I was. Well, now this is like the awkward silence after someone yelled or something, soooo ...

wow. I can even make my blog awkward. Well then.

My grandparents came into town for my graduation, and as my grandma would say, this is just my senioritis coming though. Perhaps that's true. I took the AP English Test today and even though it really wasn't all that bad I'm milking the "badness" for all it's worth, so I blame my strange train of thought and lack of good sentence structure on that test. But hey, only ONE DAY LEFT OF HIGH SCHOOL!!!!

Anyways, I'm doing this dress challenge to raise money for the Batonga Foundation, which helps girls in Africa receive a full education, so that they too can be excited about graduating and go on to get jobs and live better lives.

You can donate by clicking on the button below! Thank you so much!