Untitled Due to Lack of Creativity

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I'm involved in a production, I guess you could call it, called "Bethlehem Live!" at our church. There are basically "stations"--the marketplace, Mary telling Elizabeth she is with child--all of it. Last year, they had 2 000 people come! Wow! It runs this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, and I'm going to be thief. *evil laugh* :D I'm excited...what happens is people who come to see it are taken by a guide to each station, and at one station, the thieves lurk *evil laugh again*...in the darkest and most mysterious corners of the churchyard. :D Anyway, we basically will be in the shadows, and the thieves (us) will jump out and try to rob the guide, but soldiers will come and fight us off...and yeah....I'm really excited. 

Anyway...I have to go and decorate my friend's quiz book for her. Have a great Sunday afternoon, everyone!

{emily.sue}

12:45 PM ○ Nov. 22, 2009 - comments {3} - post comment

Not Much Goin' On....

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Hi, everyone. I had parent-teacher interviews yesterday, and all my teachers had pretty good reports, thank goodnes. Sorry; I'm not trying to brag...my marks are pretty good too; Geography, 90%; English, 84%; Religion, 94% (talk about an easy credit); and Math, 70% (horrible...).

This night has been a bit weird...James and I (the oldest boy; my younger brother) were a bit...hyper. Crazy. Out of our minds. I was putting some marshmallows on my ice-cream, while James was scooping some more. Anyway, he was pretending so shove me over while whining, "Move over!" So then I'm like, "I will not retaliate. Here; have a marshmallow." So he took it and ate it, then I joked, "Ha, ha! I drugged it." Explaination for erratic behavior: I am tired.

Anyway, I think that's it...have a great weekend, everyone!!

{emily sue}

7:41 PM ○ Nov. 20, 2009 - comments {2} - post comment

Quizzing

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Some of you may or may not know that I'm involved in Bible Quizzing, an...activity, I guess you could call it, for Alliance church youth (other churches do it a bit too, though). We basically memorize Scripture verses in the New Testament and then get quizzed on them weekly at church. Then, every 2 - 3 months, usually, we get together with, like, 15 other churches (at least in my district; about 250 - 300 kids). It's so fun...BeccaTheGreat posted about her quiz meet last weekend or the weekend before (I'm not sure...), and you can read it here. Anyway, I did okay at my quiz meet...the level of success Becca had was really good; like, above-average (in our district). I didn't do nearly as well; eight questions in the morning, which is one less than the most possible, but only one in the afternoon...blah....At quiz meets, we have three quizzes in the afternoon, and three in morning. In our district, we have 15 questions per quiz, but Becca has 20. Quizzing out is when you get three questions right in a quiz (in Becca's district it's four), and if you don't get any wrong during your process of getting three right, you quiz out with a bonus. But you can error out, too--that's getting three wrong. For some people, the rules can be very confusing; they are confusing for me, quite often. This is my second year quizzing. I'll explain about teams; then I'll stop annoying you! Okay, each church divides all their quizzers into teams of five at the most. Usually the smallest teams are three quizzers, but most teams have four. Now, four can quiz at once, but it's always nice to have five on your team because if one team member quizzes out, they can get off the bench (we quiz on individually-seated four-seater benches with seats that go off if you jump) and sub-in the fifth quizzer. So that's your lesson on quizzing for today. Lol....

Here's something I typed up that briefly describes quizzing.

Quizzing is...memorizing five verses at the last minute late Saturday night or on your ten-minute drive to church

Quizzing is...having the best time of you rlife with your friends and people from other Alliance churches

Quizzing is..."sleeping" at billets' houses, getting spoiled with junk food, and, of course, being on the bus to and from quiz meets

Quizzing is...honoring God in everything we do, say, and memorize in effort to glorify Him.

Have a blessed day.

{emilysue}

8:23 PM ○ Nov. 17, 2009 - comments {2} - post comment

Tag

     Hi, all. I've created this tag....I might tag you with it. Prepare for it!! Of course, you can just take it, but please let me know if you do/did, so that I can just keep track of how popular it is. As if, huh?

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1. How many syllables does 'supercalifragalisticexpialadocious' have?

2.  Do you play either the piano, guitar (any kind), trumpet, or the flute?

3. Have you ever had a baby live (at least a week) with you in your house?

4. Is this the first time you have seen this tag, or are you doing it awhile after you saw it on my blog?

5. Do you prefer Word Searches, Crossword Puzzles, or Sudoku best?

6. Would you rather have five new fluffy decoration pillows on your bed, or the new comforter you've been admiring for weeks?

7. Would you rather read a good mystery story including ghosts, a story about pioneers settling the American West which ends tragically, or a sappy romance story that is too good to be true?

8. Would you rather be weeding the garden on a cool spring day, or be inside most of the day cleaning?

9. Are you content being homeschooled, or would you like to see what "real" school is like for a day or two?

10. If you wanted a word to stand out in a paragraph, sentence, etc., would you bold, italisize, underline, or completely capitalize it?

11. Do your friends ever call you computer whiz, geek, etc.?

12. Would you rather spend a Saturday relaxing, reading, and maybe doing an enjoyable handcraft or baking, etc., or go and play a sport with all of your friends until dark?

13. Do you wear jewelry on occasion, regularly, all the time, or sort of?

14. Have you ever NOT wanted a pet?

15. What is the craziest dog name you can come up with? What's the craziest cat name?

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     Feel free to take it; just please let me know if you do. It was a bit random...but 'random' seems to be everybody's life motto these days!! :D

..emily..sue

6:23 PM ○ Sep. 22, 2009 - comments {6} - post comment

Yes! I Am Back! (if any of you missed me...)

     A lot has been happening lately. Youth started last Thursday, and I went again last night at 7:00pm. I really like it; it is a lot of fun. James, my 11-soon-to-be-12-year-old brother has just started Junior Youth (I'm in Senior) last week as well. He and a friend are going to each other's churches, trying them out. I think James likes our church's better, while his friend likes his better. I wonder if they are having loyalty issues . . . ?

     Quizzing has also started! Yay! I'm memorizing 1 Corinthians 1 and 5...and my two best-ish friends at church have the same as me. My one friend, Josh, purposely got the same as me and Bethany. Oh joy. He and Bethany are . . . competitive. Deadly competitive. ' ' Here are pictures of my quiz book, before and after--sorry they are sideways:

Before . . . .

And after . . . yes, that is Snoopy dancing

on the front. If you want it clearer, click on

the picture and it should open a new win-

dow . . . .

     So those are the pictures of my quiz book. On the back of the 'After' one, I stamped (I stamped everything on it) "With God all things are possible - Matthew 19:26". I really like it. After the picture was taken, I added a five-strand-braid bookmark which I taped in the front so it can be used anywhere in the book and won't get lost. I especially like the Snoopy stamp. : ) Here are the first three of this week's verses, 1 Cor. 1:7 - 12; tell me if I'm right!

7 - Therefore, you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.

8 - He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 - God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

     Am I right? Please leave a comment! By the way, I'm memorizing with the New Internation Version--the NIV.

     My birthday was also this past Monday, on the 14th--I turned 14, so it was my 'Lucky Birthday', according to a recently-made-up family tradition. :D I got:

- A Scientific calculator (from my parents and Tante Wilma--I'm not really sure who payed for it, etc.)

- A little decorative tin flower pot(from Tante Wilma--I'm using it to keep my MP3 stuff in)

- Enough money to buy myself a Sony MP3 (from Mom and Dad and my brothers)

- A 60-pack of pencil crayons (from Tante Wilma)

- A new watchband--my old one was literally falling apart (from Mom and Dad)

- One my grandpa's old pure silver Dutch cufflink made into a necklace (from Grandma and Grandpa)

- A knitted doll that looks like me (from Grandma and Grandpa)

     I think that's the bulk of it; I also got a new recipe book from Melissa (K.) when I went to her house this past July. I can't believe it's soon going to be October! Well, in two weeks . . . .

     Also, it's my friend Bethany (Anneke)'s birthday this Monday, so if you could wish her a joyful birthday, I'm sure she would appreciate it.

     I think that's about all my news for now; I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted! It seems like just a few days. I guess it's 'cause I've been rather busy.

May God be with you,

..emily..sue

5:41 PM ○ Sep. 17, 2009 - comments {6} - post comment