This Saterday our church's youth got together with those from several other churches and played an awesome game called Angle-Ball. It's basically a mix between ultimate frisbee and basketball. Each side is defending a ball on top of a pole. You pass around a third ball and try to knock the other teams ball off the pole. Here are some pics.
Sorry for leaving you all so long. . Just blame school...
Speech and Debate club meetings have started:
Our awesome new president Ben S.!
Paul H., one of our amazing debate coaches.
My debate partner, Daniel G..
Mine field game played at the debate workshop(unfortunately I wasn't there) :(
Kathryn C. dressed as a pirate(not, actually waiting for her turn to try out the mine field game when we were trying it out the week before the workshop).
I'm in a hotel outside Los Angelos, now. We flew in last night. It was an awesome flight. We had an insanely tight connection in Denver but we made it.
This morning was my cousin's barmitzvah which was in the house of a Habbad Hassidic Orthodox Jewish rabbi who was in his early twenties. The service was really cool. Mostly in Hebrew. The chanting was really neat, a lot like our Orthodox Christian chanting, done at monestaries and some churches. The service was really cool. It felt sorta wierd wearing a yamacha and huge prayer shawl, but neat. No picture taking was allowed because it was the Sabath. :( Oh well. Maybe I'll get some tomorrow. It was a good day. We wento my Aunt and Uncle and two cousin's house after. My other Aunt and Uncle and baby cousin from Florida are also here a couple rooms down and so are my grandparents. Twill be fun. KG, you always prophecy correctly. ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!
I'm back from the Regional speech and debate tournament in Arlington. Our club did amazingly well, including getting 1st in debate!(yay Toni and Brian)!!! My partner(Daniel) and I got 16th place in debate(one win away from nationals :( ). And Anna and I got to semifinals in our duo interpratation of Dicken's Christmas Carol. For more check out our club's blog here.
I don't got pictures yet, but here's a slideshow I made of the last pre-regional tournament that we went to at the begining of last month in Arkansas.
I just got back last night. I had a lot of fun, getting 5 hours of sleep each night and running constantly all day.....for four days. It was awesome! I didn't break in debate this time, we went 3-3, but we won all our affirmative rounds so our case remains undefeated! Yay! We were matched against a lot of hard teams including Harding-Pinero who ended up winning the tournament. Me and Anna broke to semifinals in our duo of the Christmas Carol! yay...and I did really well in all my limited prep speeches, but there were so many people competing in them that it was really hard to break. I was happy though. A lot of improvement. Anyways it was a ton of fun, I made a lot of new friends and met a lot of new people who may become more new friends. :) I can't wait until the Arkansas tournament!
Me and my little sister, Elizabeth, went to a coastal wildlife expo in a nearby town today with our friends the Maisanos, Clarksons, and Thelens. Interesting and pretty fun. I got a massive sun burn though... :( That's not supposed to happen in winter. I suppose people are getting bored of picture-less posts...I didn't have a camera though. :( maybe next time.
I didn't mention in my last post that before I went to Peter's basketball game I had been staying with my good friend Paul S.(the Black Prince on here when he comments) for several days. Besides having an awesome fun time, Paul had his Eagle Scout court of honor on Sunday afternoon, which I got to go to. Me and Paul have been friends for a long time, since I was nine and it's been awesome to watch as he works his way through scouts and the rest of life. I got to work with him on his eagle project this summer when he built a retaining wall at a horse-therapy place. It was a lot fun and good hard work! :) Congrats Paul!
Sorry I've abandoned my blog for so long everyone! But I have resolved to come back to it harder than ever before(I know that's not saying to much but bear with me). I hope to post at least three times a week if not more(except when I'm away at debate tournaments). So please forgive me. I'm back! Last night I went with Beth, KG, Joseph, and Paul, to watch my friend, Peter Thelen's, basketball game. It was awesome. Peter was just baptized last week, that's even more cool! Anyways had lots of fun I can't get the pic on for some reason...I'll have to work on that. Anyway we went to Chick Fil-A after and had free meals that Paul Hastings gave to us...awesome!
. Just blame school...
