In the Life of Me - Halle

Aug. 5, 2007 - Catching Up

Sorry I haven't written an entry in FOREVER. I suppose I'll start first with VBS. The experience itself was very interesting. It's mostly trying to help the kids with their crafts, cleaning up, sitting or standing around, getting something and handing stuff out. There was a little bit of trying to keep the kids in line, but other than that, it was quite easy .When I wasn't working, I talked to my friends Alaya and Chip (the girl from Dallas/Fort Worth) or looked at kids' work and asked if they needed help.

I was so happy to be working in arts/crafts. Art is just my thing and I knew that it would be one of the easier jobs. I was even happier to be working with my best friend Alaya. We've been friends ever since we were seven years old and mostly volunteer together. We both love the color purple and are teacher's pets/goody two shoes in classes and take dance lessons from the only two dance academies in our suburb. I see her almost every weekend at church and even live in the same neighborhood.

The theme this year was Avalanche Ranch. Nearly all the kids bought and were wearing the same maroon shirt that volunteers wore. It was practically a blur of maroon.Over all, this was one of the better VBSs. I'm anxious to see what's going to happen next year.

Later at church, I went to the Real Youth Service for the first time. Qiute a few people talked through the service, but I was still able to listen and understand most of it. I have a few friends and peole that know me there, but I know more people than they know me. Real Youth has a lot going on, like their dance team which I plan to join this month.

Next we went to Fiesta Texas. The rides and just the way it looked was very cool. Some of the lines were quite long and slow, but most of them were worth it. It was the usual walking around a theme park, riding the rides, but getting a little bit hot and sweaty.

We got to see a show with dancers dressing up and dancing as Latin dancers. They did an amazing job. They had to dance and shake to music quite fast and change into different costumes for each dance in five minutes or less.

One ride was probably one of the scariest rides I'd ever been on. It was one of those rides that goes very fast with high drops and big loops. I got so scared just watching the people in front of us leave out the station or whatever you call it.The name of it was the Poltergeist. My mom just wanted someone to come with her on it and she said I could keep my eyes closed through the ride (which of course I did). I tried to open my eyes, but I was too scared. It was going so fast, for a few seconds I even lost my breath and was a little bit dizzy after getting off.

Tommorrow, we'll be back from Georgia. The first two days we were at a black homeschooling convention called the National Black Home Educators. My mom sold her books and I ,made some friends at the teen sessions. One was a girl named Hannah Clark from Minnesota. I had a great time with Hannah and the other kids. All last week, we cleaned my Aunt Juanita's house. IT WAS A TOTAL MESS! You could barely get through the office and dining room. She easily had 100 pairs of shoes and 500 pieces of cosmetics. Her refrigerator was the worst. It had stuff dated as far back as 2002. Yuck! Thank God we got that and some other rooms cleaned up. Plus, we got to see more family on Friday at Dave and Buster's. It was very noisy, but very fun.

Well that's about it and thanks everyone for the comments. Also, if you haven't noticed, I changed my blog title. Like it? Let me know. By the way, I promise that the picture slideshows will be shown next time. Promise. Bye

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Aug. 6, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by anaje

I love art too it sounds like you had a great time.

ana***

p.s. wanna be friends?

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Aug. 8, 2007 - Hey!!!!

Posted by leopardlover

VBS sounds like it was a lot of fun. Whenever our church does VBS I always do the music station. Fiesta, Texas sounds like it was tons of fun!!! I LOVE spinning rides and roller coasters, so if I had been there your mom could have gone on that ride with me. I can almost never get people to go on rides with me!!!! The only person who can handle all the rides I like is my Grandma and she lives in New Jersey, so that's kind of hard. I'm glad you had fun!!!

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Aug. 9, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by popstargirl94

I like your new title...A LOT!!!

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Aug. 13, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Catcher818

THAT SOUNDS LIKE SO MUCH FUN!

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Aug. 13, 2007 - Hi!

Posted by Kekoa

Thanks for commenting. : ) We use to do vbs but we moved to a differt church. I havent ben on the computur lately so thats why I havent commented in a while.

Later, Kekoa

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Aug. 14, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by sugarandspice