Soccer September 30

Today we were supposed to have a game against New Testament, however it was cancelled because one of the members of their team broke their leg in a game about 2 days ago. So today we are going to have practice again. For the last few days I have been sitting out of practice because of my knee. It still does not feel right and is still swollen, even though I have not been running lately. I am in the process of making a appointment with a physical therapist so i can see what is clinically wrong with it. Today I might practice just to see how i feel

Miracle Party September 24

Over the summer i worked every single day, some days I worked two jobs. It made it impossible to do anything with the camp over the summer. I came in contact with Kathleen and told her about my schedule, she told me to e-mail her when my schedule freed up. I kept in contact but it got to the point that it was starting to look extremely unlikely that anytime would free up before school started, which is exactly how it ended up. I recently sent her an e-mail telling her that because of my wonderfully rigorous school program I would not be able to attempt anything else untill later in the year. I have yet to get a response and now I have to figure out where to go from here with this activity.

Miracle Party June 1

There was not enought RVSPs for the event Sunshine Sunday to take place. I have been in constant e-mail with the other people in charge of this event on now this is some issues about where to go from here. In order to continue on with the gold award I have to stick to something that helps this organization. However everyone in my group has extremly conflicting scheduals so at the moment we are deciding if instead of keeping this a group project, that we should work indivdually. I persnally do not want to work individually since i do not know the camp well enough to make as large as a contrubition as my other partners could, and as i could too with thier help

Horseback ridding September 27

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For some reason my blogs got deleted, and i'm not really sure why. Over the summer I only rode about once a week because my work schedule was extremely crazy. I helped to train one of the school ponies named Rebel. He does not have any experience with dressage and I helped to try and teach him new dressage methods. I have also been ridding my friends horse who never comes to the barn, his name is Parker. Parker is a more advanced horse, tho not as advanced as Danny. Since he does not get ridden often he does not always behave wonderfully. Today I rode Parker and worked extremely hard on trying to get his canter to where a more experienced horse should be. His canter became extremely straight, which is very hard for Parker to do. It was a huge achievement and everyone at the barn was congratulating me for it. It was pretty awesome. One of my friends jokingly said i got the gold star for the day.

Soccer September 25

Today we had a game against South Shore Christian Academy. We lost the game 4-0, and overall the effort on our team was very poor. I wasn't playing my best and i couldn't figure out why, I was just off. I had been in the game the whole time until the beginning of the 2nd half when coach called me off the field because i was limping. My knee was extremely swollen and I had to ice it and sit out for the rest of the game.

Soccer September 24

Today I went to practice but my knee, which has given me problems in the past, was extremely sore and slightly swollen. I decided to sit out of practice, but help out and watch the best I could. We have a game tomorrow and I did not feel like pushing my knee and injuring so I would preform not to my usual standard in the game tomorrow. Tonight I am icing my knee and I went out and brought a new knee brace hoping that will fix the situation.

Art Portfolio

September 24-

This is the one of my dresses i have created for my art portfolio. It is made completely out of recycled materials and is something I am extremely proud of. This is a dress that I have decided will most defiantly go into my portfolio. For Parsons i have to complete a 'challenge' along with my portfolio. For the challenge I must take something in my everyday life and show it in three different perspectives. I'm thinking about doing some type of nature inspiration for that. Since this dress was clearly inspired by trees in nature i'm considering using it for the Parsons challenge, because I feel so strongly about it. This dress I made as more of a costume design then a fashion design. I decided if i were to do a costume out of recycled materials I would be able to take more creative licence with it and show more of my artistic skills, while showing I have an eye for fashion. It is hard to see from the pictures but the dress is detailed with spray paint designs and is all completely hand painted to add to the artistic element that I tried to add to it.

Soccer September 7

This year i re-joined the soccer team, since i did not play in my junior year. It started about two weeks ago and one of my main problems is the fact that i have not ran since sophmore year. This weekend was the first weekend since school started and i went for an 45 minute run to make sure i keep up with my exercise over the weekend. This way i wont lose any of the cardio i have build in the last week of soccer. I did alot of sprinting work, but had to walk a little bit. I plan on running once a weekend and making sure i walk less each time.