This year, my Christmas blog entry is a little bit different. I'm posting from my new iPod Touch. That was the main thing that I got for Christmas.
This Christmas was very fun. I'm going to brag a little bit first, of corse, but I'll try to leave a good message in the end.
So oher than the iPod Touch, these are the things I'm interested in that we got for the family. Beatles Rock Band, LEGO Rock Band, Wii Sports Resort, and Wii Music.
It has been fun playing with those games, but the actual real thing (truley, not just to sound nice) was that I was constantly looking for oppertunities to do service. This is the thing that brought me the most happiness. This is the time to try to help others. I will look forward to this for a lot of years to come.
<P>In web design in school, I learned how to write HTML code. It is fun to use, at least for me. Web design is an <I>easy</I> class, but it is one of my favorite. Maybe it is one of my favorite because it is easy.
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One of the things that I'm doing on my own with HTML is using it to create the "Computer Wide Web" on my Windows 98 computer that isn't connected to the Internet. I have so far made the "Internet" homepage, my page, another blog that is attached to my page, and my parody of Google, Gargle. It even comes with an "I'm Feeling Chunky"button. This is my favorite page. No matter what you type in the search box, if you click the "Gargle Search" button or the "I'm Feeling Chunky" button, it will come up with a "Your search did not match any documents" page. It is my pride and joy of my Computer Wide Web.
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I am really glad that I took this class. It has helped me understand web pages more.</P>
So far my first year of high school has gone pretty well. It is way better than junior high, and it is way different, too. I am liking my classes a lot, and have some pretty awesome teachers. I also like how we can carry backpacks to our classes. It makes it very useful, because I won't have to carry two textbooks at a time. Also, everything I need is just right on the ground next to me. I think that chemistry is going to be fun and hard, but other than that, it should be a great year.
I have decided to stop with Project 365. I just think that it isn't helping me get better at photography anymore because it's not "Take a good picture every day", it's "Hurry! Snap a quick picture of Sparky before I go to bed!"
I am still going to post pictures on my blog, because I love sharing pictures with everyone, but I am not going to take anymore Project 365 pictures. I will hopefully get around to posting the rest of June and the most of July's Project 365 pictures soon.
I still can't get over Trek. It was such a great experience. I had the best time there, and even though it was very hard, I had a great time, and I'm glad that I went. I think that one of the things that hit me the hardest was the women's pull, and how I had to just watch the women come up this hill that was about a mile long, and I couldn't do anything to help them. The leaders told us not to help the women pull the handcarts up the hill until they were at the top. I remember how hard it was for me to watch every one of the women come up the hill. I think back on it now, and I compare it to our Father in Heaven. He sees us struggle, and he is helpless. I can't take away our pains. He just has to sit there and watch us through our trials. I compared a lot of Trek to the Plan of Salvation. Almost everything that happened there could relate back to something spiritual. I remember when I got my letters from my parents during lunch on the third day, that when I was reading them, how I felt the spirit, and felt almost the same as when I got my Patriarchal Blessing. I am so glad that I was able to have a great time there.
I had the opportunity to go with the Mount Mahogany stake on Trek. I loved Trek. It was hard, fun, and I gained a stronger testimony. I had a chance to bear my testimony three times, and I took all of them. I could spend hours talking about Trek and the experiences that I had there. I had the best family that I could imagine, and my Ma and Pa were great! I heavily suggest that whoever is old enough to go on Trek will go next time their stake does it. I am very exhausted since I came home today, and I want to update everything later. Right now...sleep....
This past week I have been in a place called Llama Casa Grande with my family. It is a double wide trailer, and we stayed in it because we were going to have fun at the Grand Canyon. I can tell you already, I had a great time. The double wide is called Llama Casa because there are llamas that you can go see, pet, and feed. The llamas are about 100 feet away from Llama Casa. I got a few llama pics, and I will be posting at least one on Project 365 when I get the chance.
I also had a fun time at the Grand Canyon! I'm sure that you will be seeing pictures of it on Project 365 also. I am worn out, and glad that I am home.
My fifteenth birthday was on the 26th of May. It was pretty fun! I had a great birthday, and I got my learner permit during lunch on that day. Everyone was joking just like I did to them about "stay off the sidewalks, because they have their learner permit!" I got a t-shirt along with $5 on the sunday before my birthday from my grandparents, I got kettle corn and a Wii Zapper on my birthday, and on the 28th, I got Rock Band 2 drum cymbals. It is much funner to play Rock Band 2 now that I have three cymbals. The cymbals make different noises than the toms in not only freestyle practice mode, but also the riffs in songs and the Big Rock Endings. I really have enjoyed all of my birthday presents, and I thank my grandparents especially for the shirt. I had a great birthday!
This last night was the orchestra concert for all the orchestras. It was pretty fun, and I think that we all did pretty good! During the advanced orchestra's performance, I got to go up to the tech booth for a little while. It's nothing special, but I had never been up there before! I don't get why there is a sink up there, but I'm sure that there is (or was) a reason! I did actually have a good time!
One of my favorite formations that I saw at the Grand Canyon was this pyramid.
Amazing formations are in the Grand Canyon!
This is why the double wide we stayed in was called Llama Casa Grande.
