i cannot believe im a senior now. well, i guess it becomes official in august..i dont care.
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| 2010 swim season |
it's made me ask myself a few questions about my high school years. Have i done what i wanted to do in high school? have i turned the world around me upside down? have i reached out to people and loved them? 'cause i only have one more year to do it.
well, i haven't done all that i've wanted to do. thank God i have one more year to accomplish it.
but there HAVE been some things i have done that i wanted to do before i graduate.
like...
learn to surf.
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| A&R tour, 2010 |
- get direction with where i want to go in life. <---this has actually been coming the whole four years, gradually. it's really REALLY cool now that i look back.
- i've encountered His love in the best way ever.
- i've devoted myself to serving more and more.
- i made it to districts in swimming, this year my hope is to get to state. big time training is coming my way.
- my life was changed in Liepaja, Latvia, my first missions trip.
- i saw snow
- i learned how to play guitar
- im in a band.
- i made pretty good grades the entire way so far. A's and B's aren't nothin' to turn your nose up on..
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| Sept 2010. first board |
the list goes on and on. the last three years have been really awesome. one more to go. a few more college classes, one more season in high school swimming, few more high school classes, hopefully a job to get, and im outta here.
There have been some things i totally regret that i did the past three years...
- i got in a car wreck. though it wasn't bad, i still regret it
- i got a ticket. on my way to the beach...the waves were good.
- i said things i didnt mean.
- i let my heart get tied to someone.
- i made a fool of myself more than once.
- i didn't spend enough time with my family; i didnt visit my sister enough when she was living on the beach.
Despite these things, i am ironically still loved and trusted by lots of people. Why my Mom trusts me with a vehicle, i dont know. My own stupidity has definitely not been something im proud of.
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| 2009 formal, Gaylord Palms Orlando |
im satisfied, so far, with my high school experience. home schooling through it hasn't been bad. i do wish, at times, that i could have gone to THS and just been in it. so that i could get a group of friends to pray at the flag pole in the morning. so that i could just understand what YOU experience fully. but i think that if i had, i wouldn't be who i am today. i wasn't as strong as i am now in the Lord at 14. i think i would have been pushed around a lot, and i think i would have been run over by my peers. now i see a totally different person compared to then.
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| 2010 A&R tour [Rick Pino] Jax beach Fl |
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| 2010 horse camp |
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| Liepaja, Latvia. 2008 |
This last year of high school, i am determined to make it the best yet. it's going to be full of Jesus. family time, looooottts of friend-time. lots of surfing. and im sure swimming will take over my life for a few months too, haha. ill be planning to move away. whether that is to Costa right away or Jacksonville, i dont know. whatever God says. ill get certified to be a lifeguard so i can enjoy my job. ill grow my hair out. [so yeah..ill be going through an awk stage my senior year. haha way to go, Lisa.]
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2009 CO ninja trail
And, last and not least, this year i turn 18. wow.
That's insane. but im not going to do something stupid
on my 18th. im going to do something productive.
surf. :) |
im going to try my very hardest to get out of this country one more time before high school's over. Costa Rica. :) we'll see how that one flies. im going to take a trip to the Ramp. and if EPIC surf ministries doesn't go ahead and plan themselves a trip there, im kidnapping some people and going to Hamilton :) haha.
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| the CALL Orlando, 2008 |
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2008, Amy's beach house
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