Thursday, May 19, 2011

the past three years of my life...

i cannot believe im a senior now. well, i guess it becomes official in august..i dont care.

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.
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..


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.


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. 
2010 A&R tour [Rick Pino] Jax beach Fl


2010 horse camp
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.]





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. 


the CALL Orlando, 2008

2008, Amy's beach house


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