Highs and Lows and Girl's camp

High: Girl's camp, laser quest, rode in a convertible with the top off on the freeway, and got myself a tiger T-shirt and a Beanie Boo giraffe named Safari.

Low: I was tired, had a few arguments with my friend, and I miss Catfish, Sea Horse, Sea Princess, Polar Bear, Lone Wolf, and Monarch (the lifeguards), and I'm sick now.

Well thanks to Sister A., my friend and I made up. It wasn't that big of a fight, but still. I love you Sister A.! You're tall, sweet, beautiful, and great!

The theme for Girl's camp this year was FBI. Finding Beauty Inside. It was SO fun! This year was my greenie year, or Cadet year. We even had a cabin cheer. Here is the lyrics and video of me singing it alone at home:

We are new but don't treat us snooty

We are here to find inner beauty

Don't disrespect cause we know our duty.

Let's go Cadets.

We got and made many souvenirs. I will post a picture of them all later.

We also got and gave secret sister gifts which is where you get to go and give an assigned person a gift you bought for them. You had to pay 5$ or less (I think I did a little more) But you have to do it secretly. It was so fun! I got gum, and a Justin Bieber poster, and more!

This camp had canoeing, rifle shooting, archery, a pool, a campfire, that was just lamps around a little fire area with no fire, and even a place where they put makeup sometimes! Canoeing was fun, I got all 5 bullets in the 3 middle black circles for the rifles, archery was difficult, the beauty parlor was OK I guess, the pool was fun, and the campfire was fun sometimes. I even went on a 3 mile hike that led to Santa Barbara's water source. We were not supposed to touch the water but some girls did, and I did too, on accident. There we saw ducks ( I think ) and even Vultures! I also saw a dead mouse I think on the way back up. And we also had to jump over rocks and that was fun!

My story and Highs and Lows

Sorry I didn't get to blogging last week. I didn't feel like it. Well here is part of a story I am writing. One of my friends helped me edit the first part which is in red.

1st part: is red

2nd part: is purple

3rd part: is pink

I'm not sure what to call it yet, so for now I am going to call it:

Life or Death

Slowly, Susie and Elizabeth walked down the street. Susie was giggling. "Oh Elizabeth, you're so funny... even during this time in our life!"

Susie looked around. Her heart sank. It was world war 2. The sky was gray and filled with clouds of rain. Susie and Elizabeth had to walk slowly to make sure they don't step in puddles. Mostly though, because they wanted to be together and they were dreading what they might see when they got home. It was a sad sight. Everyday the Nazis' were taking jews from their own homes, sending them to concentration camps, separating families, and killing innocent people. All because of Hitler, who seemed to be the harshest ruler in the universe. Susie had been taught to love everyone, but that just didn't seem possible with Hitler. She and Elizabeth could come home any day now and find her family gone. Just because they were Jews.

"What's wrong Susie?" Elizabeth asked.

"Well... It's just... well..." Susie said stumbling over her words, at the verge of tears. "We can come home any day now and find our family gone! There I said it" She said starting to cry.

"Susie, that's probably not going to happen for a long time. But, if it does, we'll be ready with the emergency plan that our parents made." Elizabeth said calmly.

"What if it doesn't work! I mean open your eyes! We're Jews! Soon enough, they'll be coming for us!" Susie said, starting to yell.

"Suzie, listen..." Elizabeth said panicing a little.

"NO! Just leave me alone, Elizabeth! I know your trying to help... b-but it's n-not working!" And with that Susie took off sobbing.

She ran right home running through the door. She had managed to tear off the star she was supposed to wear as a Jew. She wiped her eyes. "Mom!" She exclaimed. "Mark, Marie!" No answer. "Mom, Dad!" Her words seemed to get swallowed up in the darkness. "Dad!" Susie switched on the light. She wished she hadn't done that. She gasped at the sight. It was like walking into a surprise death party. She wished she could say it was anything but what she was seeing. Her house was like it had been shaken by a giant. Her family's table, couches, beds, were all everywhere. Some on their sides. Some on their backs. Then this thought ran through her brain: "The Nazis were here! What if they're still here?!"

She heard a rustling. "Huh!" she exclaimed. "Who's there?" "Nazis put your hands up!" Susie saw her family with them. Little bags of their things were hanging from their hands. The Nazis had their valuables. "PUT OUR THINGS DOWN!" She screamed running toward them. BANG! the Nazi put his gun down. Susie's mother screamed. "SUSIE!" Susie was sprawled on the floor. "Huh?" she whispered very faintly. "Susie!" her mother exclaimed dropping her things and kneeling next to Susie. The Nazi pointed his gun at Susie's mom. " Go back where you were or else you die now!" Susie's mom hesitated. BANG!

"Honey!" Susie's dad exclaimed in a very shocked voice. He looked down at her. She was OK. The Bullet hadn't hit her. "Did you just try to shoot me?" she said in a oh no you didn't kind of tone. The Nazi Pointed the gun again. Susie's mother quickly got up, picked up Susie and walked back to her family. "OK now what are you going to do?" The mom challenged. "Well..." the Nazi hesitated. "Your just coming with us!" he bellowed in a very VERY and I mean VERY low voice. The Nazis pushed them out the door with their guns. They all got into a cramped car. The Nazis turned on the sirens. Susie woke up. "Huh?" she questioned. "Where are we?" "There there" Susie's dad comforted. "It's OK he whispered. Susie's family, cramped and uncomfortable, covered their ears. The wailing car drove through the streets. It suddenly stopped. The house before Susie's eyes looked really familiar. Susie gasped. She now knew why it was familiar. That's because she went to this house once a week. The Nazis ran into the house, knocking down doors, while shouting: "Nazis put your hands up. Susie turned to her mother. "Mom, t-that's ELIZABETH"S house!"

Highs and lows this week:

Highs: I watched Harry Potter 7 part 2 this week in theaters, we had the pioneer day celebration, and I got to chat with one of my friends online.

Lows: While I was cleaning the church yesterday I got a blister in a really weird spot on the side of my foot, and I didn't get popcorn while watching the Harry Potter movie.

High and Low This Week

High: I went out to eat at a restaurant called BJ's. It was good!

Low: Church is so early in the morning! And we don't even switch off every year because the singles always get the afternoon session. I mean our ward has to wake up families, if they have a baby get the baby ready, make breakfast (except for fast sundays and I hate those to!), and go to church. The singles has to get up eat breakfast and get dressed. Who do you think should get the afternoon session. Ah ha. US!

Frozen Fire

I talked a little bit about Frozen Fire by Tim Bowler before but now I am going to write a review.

This book is full of mystery and suspense. It starts like this:

Mysteriously, a boy phones a girl named Dusty and told her he's dying. Confused, she realizes that he is saying things that only her brother, Josh, who walked out 2 years before would have told her. As she tries to find this boy she encounters many different surprises. Pick up this book and your heart will go on a ride of its life!

Well thank you for reading!

4th of July

This 4th of July we celebrated 3 ways. The first way was the 4th of July parade. It only took about 15 minutes and I think there was more old classic cars then there was anything else! The second way was I went over to a member's house and ate and swam. It was fun! Then we watched fireworks. The member that we had linner (or dunch) with found us and parked there car next to ours. We watched from our car. I also saw a bunch of coyotes when we were watching fireworks. Well we had an exciting 4th and I hope you did to!

This Week's Update

• Well here is my weekly article. Our house roof just got fixed so we have a brand new roof. And it's black! I love black! That is why my blog is so black... Grandpa!
• When I went to Disneyland with the Honor Society, I got a new baby Bambi. Here's the picture:

• I was really bored the other day so I decided to make Hemi a new dog toy. It's a heart with a big H. It's dirtier now then in the picture.
• Lately I have taken interest in Anne Frank. I am reading her diary right now. I just can't believe what Hitler did! It's like going up to you and saying hey I hate you and if you don't come right now you'll die now or probably later. Either way your probably going to die! Isn't that sad?
• There is a heat wave going on right now, so yesterday I went on my slip N slide. It was fun!
• In Young Women's (YW) we do something called Highs and Lows. So if I remember I will tell you my highs and lows each week. High: I watched Gnomeo and Juliet. It's really good! Low: It's fast sunday! I love my breakfast, 2nd breakfast, lunch, 2nd lunch and dinner. But now I just get dinner. :(
• I was pretty disappointed with my report card this year. I had straight A's all year and 4th quarter I had all A's except 1 B+. :( You might feel like :| :o that's a good grade but I was still disappointed. (Note from Mom: Despite her disappointment, she still made the 4.0 Honor Roll this year! )

Well I think that's all. Bye!