So today was, umm...interesting. How many posts do I start that way? Too many to count I guess. My wrist is on ice again but today is worse than usual, and I only scored five points during my match, all in the last four holes. I can't chip for anything, and I'm missing putts less than (and definitely more than) two feet out. So I was still #5 on the team today, but that's just because I got lucky after Tuesday's match (translation: other people sucked worse than me). So I'm looking down the line as we get in order for introductions. Each team lines us across from each other, and I'm counting down the row to see who I'm partnered with - does she look nice, good, bad, happy, upset, etc. One, two, three, four, fi-oh crap.....Katya Case.
This is only one of the best girls in the state.
Tell me again how I got paired with her???? I've heard from everyone on my team who's played with her that she is very good, and very intimidating, also not very nice. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but the butterflies in my stomach suddenly started breeding and breaking forth from their cocoons all at once. I didn't score any points my first five holes. none at all.
BUT, I just found out that I can golf my home course for free any time during season, no catch. So Dad and I are going out Saturday, and probably a cousin too who loves golf. We're gonna get there like an hour early and just chip and putt on the practice green for a looooong time. I need it. I sure wish I knew what was wrong....
I also got a new driver. *big cheesy grin* *big smile* It's a Callaway..... ;) :) ;) :) :P :-) ;) ;P ;-)
My cousin gets all these weird trading deals on golf clubs quite often, and I guess he managed to sneak a Callaway Great Big Bertha Warbird into the most recent batch. *wink* It's a lot smaller than mine, but that means that I can swing it faster so the ball will go farther. and hopefully straighter since...never mind, it's kind of complicated. anyway, it may be better, so I'm gonna try it out on Saturday. It will be really nice to just golf for fun again.
Sorry I haven't been on at all lately guys!! You all know I've never played sports before, so life is kind of upside-down lately, doing school, piano, chores, golf, home for dinner and then a tiny bit of relaxing before bed. This is really my life right now. I just haven't been on late like normal, because I know I need my sleep since I'm getting up earlier than I'm used to. Lots of good stuff has been happening though. Please keep praying for the India trip - the information meetings are this weekend and next weekend, and I'm not sure which one my aunt is planning on going to, but I've recently had some confirmation from another Christian who also feels that I'm called to go this year. I'm soooo excited to go back, and I personally would really like it to be this coming January! but I'm trying to want God's will more (if you've ever tried it, it can be really hard!)
I know why I like my coach so much. He totally is the same as my dad. exactly. they click together pretty well too, but I know exactly how he's working, because I'm so used to it with my dad. He's a cool guy - teaches Civics to Sophomores. He reads contemporary lit. (really likes Fahrenheit 451, lol Sam), listens to talk radio and lives for sports. He used to teach the JV boys baseball team for the high school, but he likes football even more. and golf of course. He's been married about a year....he's just really neat. Today after the match we each gave a little treat bag to someone who's name we had drawn on Tuesday, and yesterday it dawned on me that no one had done anything for our coach, so I threw something together, and added this really silly poem about golf, as a thank you. He smiled - he's not the kind of person to get really excited (neither's my dad, ha-ha), but he smiled, and I happen to know that he was really ticked at the time at our whole team for playing about as lousy as me, so getting a smile made me happy. Oh, are we gonna catch it tomorrow though......
I'll shut up and stop talking about golf now. But I want to tell you guys what my life has been doing lately, and that's basically it. Oh, I started piano lessons though!!! after summer break I mean. I play about two pages of Claire de Lune and she's like "that's good, now look at this..." She says I'm ready for constructive criticism. I wish I wasn't, but apparently I am. Anyway, she pointed out some really good stuff I completely missed (funny how that works, no?), and we're also doing the cannibal song from Pirates 2!!!! It's SO hard to do the beat ONE and two AND three AND four and, over and over again, trying to do a tremolo in the right hand. Perhaps, I just can't play? naw.... Also picked my recital song for next year. I guess I'm to the stage where I have to pick my songs and work on them for like eight months so they're ready in time. We're doing Tarantella, which is an amazingly cool piece that will be really fast when I'm finally done with it, next May or so.
We finished Tale of Two Cities yesterday, and as soon as mom closes the book we sit their looking at each other trying not to cry. Are we pathetic or what? But I really really really loved the ending, Lucy Manette notwithstanding. At first I'm like, oh, we're gonna drug Darnay and he can't go with any dignity? but of course he wouldn't have gone if he was awake, he's too much of a gentleman, so it was really the only way. And you can't help but fall in love with Carton just as much at the end....anyway, today we started the Scarlet Pimpernel, which I've really been looking forward to for a while. I hope it lives up to my expectations! I never knew it was written by a woman...
I could use some prayer right now. I don't really want to go into details, but part of my life could be kind of, changed, soon - hopefully for the better, but you know how much I love change (haha, NOT!) so it would just be another big difference and time-consuming thing that I would have to get used to. Life is busier than I thought it could be right now, mostly just because I haven't been talking or emailing or blogging lately so I feel a little disconnected from you guys. I'll try and be on when I can though. :) Miss you guys!!!
September 20, 2007
September 14, 2007
this isn't the really long post that is forthcoming,
sorry. it is the really short post already here that will tell you all something you may congratulate me on.
I'm on Varsity on the golf team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is almost half as exciting as Anna going on tour!!!!! But seriously, after only scoring one point on my first match and being in #3 JV, #9 overall on the team, I scored nine points at my second match, bumping me up to first JV and #7 overall, and today I scored nine points again, which makes me I think #5 on the team!!!!!!!!!!
*goes crazy* I never thought I'd be on Varsity this quickly. now I just have to stay there.
So Wednesdays are heaven. Wednesdays are amazing. I live for Wednesdays now. and Coach. I think I would do anything to make Coach happy. okay, not really, but golf-wise that is. on Wednesdays, we go to the driving range. Coach analyzes my swing when I ask for help, of course nothing goes wrong when he's watching, and he praises my shots and tells me I have a good swing that's coming along. I discover he likes classical music; most of the girls have never heard of classical music. Am I really the only one on the team who knows who Phil Mickleson is? Coach knows I'm not that great of a golfer, but I know golf, I know how the swing mechanics should be, I know who's hot on tour and who's not, I know etiquette, all I really lack is practice. After blowing my first match it's hard to look him in the face, but will nine points suffice? He says he likes consistency, so I'll give him nine points again. and again, and up the ladder we go. *mutters up up up up up the stairs we go...*
I won the chipping competition on Wednesday. All my chips were horrible - too long, and I kind of won by default, since basically no one else got on the green, or they were just bad shots that weren't (thankfully) closer than mine. I thought about putting a sign on my bag, "will compete for candy" and when Coach bought my my Twix prize he said 'good job.' I corrected him and said I had no idea how I'd won, my chips had been horrible, but he said they were consistent, and he values consistency.
I hope I can be consistently good.
Why did he only see the mishaps today? the first hole when it took me three strokes to get out of the sand, or when I stepped in the other girl's putting line, not realizing it? But he still had high praise later, and I was on mountaintops by the time I got home.
*grins* I'm on Varsity!!!
But I could use your prayer. I banged up my wrist at my first match last week (I think I hit a rock while hitting out from under the trees, but it was just under the dirt) and although it's getting better, it's still rather sore and I have to keep it wrapped up for extra support when I'm golfing. I think I can play even better when it heals, but my parents think I'll have to keep it wrapped up till the end of season. I've been icing it though, and it's feeling better every day.
oh, and I almost got eaten by a spruce tree today. Never try to climb through a spruce tree - just take my word for it, it doesn't work. and swinging your 6-iron is not the brightest idea either if you have bare arms.
:)
I'm on Varsity on the golf team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is almost half as exciting as Anna going on tour!!!!! But seriously, after only scoring one point on my first match and being in #3 JV, #9 overall on the team, I scored nine points at my second match, bumping me up to first JV and #7 overall, and today I scored nine points again, which makes me I think #5 on the team!!!!!!!!!!
*goes crazy* I never thought I'd be on Varsity this quickly. now I just have to stay there.
So Wednesdays are heaven. Wednesdays are amazing. I live for Wednesdays now. and Coach. I think I would do anything to make Coach happy. okay, not really, but golf-wise that is. on Wednesdays, we go to the driving range. Coach analyzes my swing when I ask for help, of course nothing goes wrong when he's watching, and he praises my shots and tells me I have a good swing that's coming along. I discover he likes classical music; most of the girls have never heard of classical music. Am I really the only one on the team who knows who Phil Mickleson is? Coach knows I'm not that great of a golfer, but I know golf, I know how the swing mechanics should be, I know who's hot on tour and who's not, I know etiquette, all I really lack is practice. After blowing my first match it's hard to look him in the face, but will nine points suffice? He says he likes consistency, so I'll give him nine points again. and again, and up the ladder we go. *mutters up up up up up the stairs we go...*
I won the chipping competition on Wednesday. All my chips were horrible - too long, and I kind of won by default, since basically no one else got on the green, or they were just bad shots that weren't (thankfully) closer than mine. I thought about putting a sign on my bag, "will compete for candy" and when Coach bought my my Twix prize he said 'good job.' I corrected him and said I had no idea how I'd won, my chips had been horrible, but he said they were consistent, and he values consistency.
I hope I can be consistently good.
Why did he only see the mishaps today? the first hole when it took me three strokes to get out of the sand, or when I stepped in the other girl's putting line, not realizing it? But he still had high praise later, and I was on mountaintops by the time I got home.
*grins* I'm on Varsity!!!
But I could use your prayer. I banged up my wrist at my first match last week (I think I hit a rock while hitting out from under the trees, but it was just under the dirt) and although it's getting better, it's still rather sore and I have to keep it wrapped up for extra support when I'm golfing. I think I can play even better when it heals, but my parents think I'll have to keep it wrapped up till the end of season. I've been icing it though, and it's feeling better every day.
oh, and I almost got eaten by a spruce tree today. Never try to climb through a spruce tree - just take my word for it, it doesn't work. and swinging your 6-iron is not the brightest idea either if you have bare arms.
:)
September 3, 2007
he has filled our hearts with wonder/so that we always remember/you and i were made to worship...
Amazing. God is absolutely amazing. Occupation: Creator. And He made us just to worship Him. And even after we blew it, He didn't smash us like a piece of flubbed-up pottery. Instead He decided to fix us, and the only way was through a huge sacrifice that was anything but fun for pretty much everyone involved. But now we can see that He's amazing. Let's just tell the whole world how amazing He is!!! But why don't we? How can we possibly be afraid to proclaim from the rooftops what has happened to us? How can we be silent?
I was thinking about Muslims today. I think God might be giving me a special heart and passion for Indian Muslims. That kind of scares me...for lots of reasons. I don't even really understand most of them. See, for a long time, I've been trying to figure out my specific calling, beyond just country (India). Children, Untouchables, Hindus, slum-dwellers, street-children, Muslims? The list is endless, and while of course I want to reach out to all these people, I kept feeling like something was missing. There needed to be a specific focus for me to pour my energy in, otherwise I felt too vague, too...helpless. Seeing how excited this man from my church is about his passion for the middle east has really made me focus on my own perspective. I have a lot of learning to do.
I keep feeling this promise from God that I'll be going back to India this coming year. There is so much I need to prepare for, and I just think that's where I'll find....illumination. or something.
I could use some prayer for my spiritual and academic life right now you guys. I need to stay focused in the first (what's new right?), and as far as school goes, I need to make some pretty big choices this year that will impact my future years. sometimes it really sucks being in high school. I'm realizing how far I've come now, and how little is left, and just wondering where it all went and how I actually got here. I want to put a lot of focus on missions, and preparing for BCOM, but now it seems like my spiritual life and academic life are coming to a vertex (to borrow a geography term); they keep growing closer together, and I expect that at BCOM they'll meet completely and school will become service to God instead. So much of what I want to study this year is really prep for the future - Hindi, english/writing, reading missionary biograpies and stuff like that. Then there's some other things that seem to have nothing to do with my life as an adult, so I'm kind of struggling with that and what to do. unschooling (loosely-structured homeschooling, sort of) is amazing, but sometimes it's hard for me to discipline myself.
there's another thing too. I'm really struggling with the whole Calvinist/Arminianism/middle ground thing again. I don't want to bring this up again as debate, I could just use some prayer that I'll be able to find the answers I need in the Bible, and in as unbiased views as I can find in my searching. I know my pastor is a Calvinist, and I greatly admire and respect my pastor, and of course all of you my best friends too! Maybe I'm just getting the whole thing mixed-up in my head? Anyway, I'm going to be looking around to try and find out what I really believe in the next few months, so please just pray that God will open my eyes and my mind, and that I won't be biased about anything either.
I guess I should tell you about the rest of last week and this weekend, since I kind of disappeared! My cousins took me out to Olive Garden Thursday night, and we had a really really nice time just hanging out and talking. My cousin had a five-minute sentimental moment just kind of looking at me and we were reminiscing about when I was little and stuff. It was pretty sweet. He's very romantic that way, ha-ha! They asked several questions about the India trip, and I think they are semi-considering what them, or one of them, going would involve. My mom and aunt are still thinking/praying about it, and if none of them can go, then there's a chance that one of the women on the team maybe......we'll see what God says. He sure makes me wonder sometimes. Oh - never ask God for patience. You will learn how to have it the hard way. ;)
Friday we drove back up home, and Nancy and Richard stayed the weekend, coming to church with us this morning. Yesterday we went to Mowich Lake on Mt. Rainier, and then hiked up to Spray Falls together, and my grandparents came along too. It's a two-mile hike one-way, but don't let that fool you. I think Goat's Peak wasn't much longer than that. yeah - straigh up. Okay, so it was actually quite a bit easier than Goat's Peak, but then again Goat's Peak didn't have a waterfall at the top that you ("you" being me and my dad, just call us the two musketeers!) had to hike up to the base of, and then go up on this little cliff thingy with very few handholds near the bottom and take pictures of the rainbow that can only be seen from right there!!!!! Yes, that was pretty amazing. I'll post pictures if I ever can, but I can show most of you at the sleepover of course. that will be much better!
;)
well, I'm gonna go work on my daily schedule of all the amazingly cool things i want to do during my normal school day this year. I start next Monday - how about you guys? gosh, 24 hours is just not enough in one day....
I was thinking about Muslims today. I think God might be giving me a special heart and passion for Indian Muslims. That kind of scares me...for lots of reasons. I don't even really understand most of them. See, for a long time, I've been trying to figure out my specific calling, beyond just country (India). Children, Untouchables, Hindus, slum-dwellers, street-children, Muslims? The list is endless, and while of course I want to reach out to all these people, I kept feeling like something was missing. There needed to be a specific focus for me to pour my energy in, otherwise I felt too vague, too...helpless. Seeing how excited this man from my church is about his passion for the middle east has really made me focus on my own perspective. I have a lot of learning to do.
I keep feeling this promise from God that I'll be going back to India this coming year. There is so much I need to prepare for, and I just think that's where I'll find....illumination. or something.
I could use some prayer for my spiritual and academic life right now you guys. I need to stay focused in the first (what's new right?), and as far as school goes, I need to make some pretty big choices this year that will impact my future years. sometimes it really sucks being in high school. I'm realizing how far I've come now, and how little is left, and just wondering where it all went and how I actually got here. I want to put a lot of focus on missions, and preparing for BCOM, but now it seems like my spiritual life and academic life are coming to a vertex (to borrow a geography term); they keep growing closer together, and I expect that at BCOM they'll meet completely and school will become service to God instead. So much of what I want to study this year is really prep for the future - Hindi, english/writing, reading missionary biograpies and stuff like that. Then there's some other things that seem to have nothing to do with my life as an adult, so I'm kind of struggling with that and what to do. unschooling (loosely-structured homeschooling, sort of) is amazing, but sometimes it's hard for me to discipline myself.
there's another thing too. I'm really struggling with the whole Calvinist/Arminianism/middle ground thing again. I don't want to bring this up again as debate, I could just use some prayer that I'll be able to find the answers I need in the Bible, and in as unbiased views as I can find in my searching. I know my pastor is a Calvinist, and I greatly admire and respect my pastor, and of course all of you my best friends too! Maybe I'm just getting the whole thing mixed-up in my head? Anyway, I'm going to be looking around to try and find out what I really believe in the next few months, so please just pray that God will open my eyes and my mind, and that I won't be biased about anything either.
I guess I should tell you about the rest of last week and this weekend, since I kind of disappeared! My cousins took me out to Olive Garden Thursday night, and we had a really really nice time just hanging out and talking. My cousin had a five-minute sentimental moment just kind of looking at me and we were reminiscing about when I was little and stuff. It was pretty sweet. He's very romantic that way, ha-ha! They asked several questions about the India trip, and I think they are semi-considering what them, or one of them, going would involve. My mom and aunt are still thinking/praying about it, and if none of them can go, then there's a chance that one of the women on the team maybe......we'll see what God says. He sure makes me wonder sometimes. Oh - never ask God for patience. You will learn how to have it the hard way. ;)
Friday we drove back up home, and Nancy and Richard stayed the weekend, coming to church with us this morning. Yesterday we went to Mowich Lake on Mt. Rainier, and then hiked up to Spray Falls together, and my grandparents came along too. It's a two-mile hike one-way, but don't let that fool you. I think Goat's Peak wasn't much longer than that. yeah - straigh up. Okay, so it was actually quite a bit easier than Goat's Peak, but then again Goat's Peak didn't have a waterfall at the top that you ("you" being me and my dad, just call us the two musketeers!) had to hike up to the base of, and then go up on this little cliff thingy with very few handholds near the bottom and take pictures of the rainbow that can only be seen from right there!!!!! Yes, that was pretty amazing. I'll post pictures if I ever can, but I can show most of you at the sleepover of course. that will be much better!
;)
well, I'm gonna go work on my daily schedule of all the amazingly cool things i want to do during my normal school day this year. I start next Monday - how about you guys? gosh, 24 hours is just not enough in one day....
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