PROMMM!!!!!!!!!

Prom was a huge success!!!!! we got completely setup except for the baloons which came late. I could blab about how much fun i had but that has nothing to do with the committee....

most fun yet

I think this last hike was the most fun yet. We saw som old light houses. We got to walk along 70ft cliffs desperatly hanging onto protruding shrubbery as the ground kept falling from beneath our feet. We got to run throgh 1.5 miles of bushes which tore my legs to ribbons and covered my ankles in ticks. We got to walk in the rain and through an incredibly creepy abandonned army base that scared me. We got to be followed by swarms of mosquitoes for a mile and come up with funny nicknames for eachother. We got to run on the beach and chase seagulls. All this we did while making great time, with me at the front 90% of the time until... The last 100 ft noah just started runnin and then miles started runnin but i wanted to win so i started runin, but we were on sand and got tired after 25 ft. and continued walking another 25 then run 25. Then we get to the bottom of this last hill to the patrking lot and i was in third with noah in first so i started running and passed him but then he passed me again so i grabbed his backpack and threw him backwards into miles who apparently in the process odf falling pushed noah back up so that he ran the last 10 ft and beat me. but im the real winner.

an unhappy ending

I guess the year is gonna end on a down note for EFA. I feel that I have failed to lead this group and manage my time for it in an effective way. We have raised over $100 of our goal of $1000. These past 2 weeks I have failed to notify group members of their tasks and to get an announcement out for the video showing which will be the starter for next year. We didn't have and awareness night. We did do the mother's day baskets but that didnt sell so well. we will finish the year by selling food at final exams. I feel like I should have given more but it was just so hard with the lack of support. We never used key club b/c they were so busy with their own stuff. But I guess this maens that next year we can just try all the harder. Ms carmen wants us to join her advisory so we can have regular meetings but noone likes the idea, we all chose our advisories because they had something to give us. I feel like, and I feel awful saying it, astronomy is more important to me than Efa because it's what I'm considering as my future career. I love what I'm trying to do and I'm sad to realise that it has to come second. I tried so hard and it came down to so little, which makes me think I need to work harder, but I don't know if I can really give much more. I tried and sometimes it's good to fail because then you can learn from your mistakes. I learned that it's much easier to be like 2nd in command than 1st.

Field Day postponed

Field day was postponed due to the weather. This means that all the food and stuff had to be frozen or tossed. Mr patterson has been unable to get a hold of McD's this year for the soda machine and large cooler. We haven't had a meeting yet becaues we keep waiting for the day before field day....

Mcas Prep...

I was teaching freshman MCAS prep for science. It was really cool to teach, I taught a class of 15 Mondays and Tuesdays at lunch. At that point I was going a little crazy because I had no free lunches. I made it through the first week but then this past Monday Mrs. Gallo notified me that she had received a complaint from a parent that the class was being taught by a student and not a teacher. This went she would have to sit in on every class and the whole point of getting a student to do it was so that she could get other work done. So we decided it was pointless for me to continue with the teaching since she would probably get more done and I didn't need the CAS. I'm grateful for the experience because I'm considering teaching science as a proffesion, but more at the university level.

student council volonteer

Mr. Sturgis was a huge success. I sold tickets that day at lunch and helped set up before the show and the I sold refreshments. It was hard to have everyone work together without Grobs there but we managed. Now we're planning field day which is next Wednesday.

Three Cups of Tea

Our last project was selling mothers day baskets last week. We sold about 20 tickets so we made $20 because Mary's mom donated the items. We were supposed to have a meeting yesterday but I had a guidance counseler, and unfortunately none of the other members could find each other. I feel bad because I feel like this is such an important cause we're working towards, but we're not making very much progress. I feel like it's my fault because I'm the one who's planned and initiated this activity. No one has seemed to mind the location of where the schools are being built, so there hasn't been any ethical complications. I think we just need to keep trying our best because I'm sure any way we can help is still much appreciated. I feel like I need to work on my leadership skills, but I hate being a leader, I feel more comfortable as second in command or a leader's assistant.

prom committee

It has been mostly the same situation during the past week, getting in decorations and putting stuff together. Last weekend I folded the invitations and put them in the envelopes, but I couldn't help out after school yesterday because it was my last tennis practice. I didn't realise that most of the work was in the beginning with fundraising.

Hiking

We hiked from Dennis to Brewster last time, it was the best hike yet. We start out on our usual terrain and it was a beautiful day. Then we got to the Brewster flats, so we got to walk along the beach for a good while, it was beautiful. Then we followed some normal terrain for a while again before switching to the marsh, dum dum duuum. We had to walk across this huge expanse of marsh land and we couldn't cut through because it was so wet in the middle and every time we turned a corner there was another stretch waiting. So since we definitely weren't gonna lose each other in that place I just started walking really fast, just to see how fast and far I could go, I was really booking it, I was even outwalking our guide so I had to keep stopping and waiting up for him so I could check that we were supposed to keep going. I definitely did the best on this hike out of any of the others, it has gotten easier every time since I started.