Go Hawks!

So..today has been crazy! I went to the Blackhawks Parade, which was a huge adventure. First, I woke up at 6:30 to catch the train at 8:20. But..there was a long line for the train so we missed the first one. When we finally got downtown, it was packed! I was with about 8 or 9 other girls and in order to stay together, we literally had to hold onto each other. We got kicked out of a lot of different places we tried going to see the parade. We were running all over the place and pushing through hundreds of people, just to see the parade.

Well, we finally saw it. It was so worth it! Then there was a rally for the Stanley Cup and it was even more packed! People were throwing beer everywhere, which I was not a huge fan of. It was crazy and we walked at least 5 miles downtown Chicago. My feet hurt now :/

Oh but that's not even the whole story. After that, we went to Union Station..and that's where the fun really begins. We thought it was hot outside...and then we went to Union Station. No air conditioning+thousands of people=mass chaos. And we found out that everyone in the building were all going on the same train we were so as soon as it got there, it was every man for himself until we got into the train. The 2:30 was packed by 1:50 and had to leave early. We found out that at least 2 million people ended up going downtown to the parade today!!

Anyway, I'm home now and everything is calm so I'm happy. I'm gonna get my horse blanket and cuddle up with a my new book North of Beautiful in my big comfy blue chair. Life is good :)

Who needs regular school when you can go to a school for spies?

So my friend Maggie told me that she read this amazing book and always talks about it so I thought I'd give it a shot. Cammie, a member of a legacy that has traveled the world-and not just for fun. Her family is a family of spies. She is a member of the Gallagher legacy-one with generations of spies. The Gallagher Academy is a school that on the outside, looks like an ordinary boarding school for snobby rich girls. But on the inside, is filled with secrets and elite spy training for the smartest girls out there.

On her first training mission, Cammie meets a boy that she instantly falls for, named Josh. She wants to date him and fall in love with him, but there's just one problem...she's not allowed to. So she makes a fake identity and sneaks out whenever possible. In the book, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, by Ally Carter, a young girl is being trained to be a spy and handle every situation she is faced with, except for one-love. No, she isn't taught a thing about guys or love. Why would she need to know that stuff? She goes to an all-girls school. But when Cammie meets Josh, she almost immediately falls for him. But what does she do? Will she continue to learn about the world of love and dating, or choose her school life?

I really enjoyed the book, not only because I'm a romantic, but also because I simply couldn't put the book down! It's now on my favorites list because I absolutely loved it! Very rarely do I find a book that I would read more than once, but this one just happens to be one of those. I would highly recommend that any girl who reads would read this book!

The What of Pooh?

"While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and

Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates...Pooh just is."

In my Humanities class, our teacher asked us to recommend some sort of a humanity for everyone else in the class to read, see, etc. I recommended my favorite book The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson (I would highly recommend it). A girl in my class recommended a book that especially caught my eye, called The Tao of Pooh. So I went to my library and read it. It was a quick-read and I simply adored it. For those of you Pooh lovers, and don't deny it because I know you all are, Benjamin Hoff makes the book a story of Pooh and his furry friends showing the world the secret to the wisdom of the Taoists by showing that Pooh just is.

I really enjoyed the book because number 1, it was a quick-read. And number 2, it depicted such a good knowledge of the world through a beloved children's show and collection of books. This philosophical book explains how you have to go through life and let things happen, and "to be", and find happiness. The author explains through different stories of Winnie the Pooh, how to just "be". It actually made me stop and think about my life and the way I live it. So go out to your local library and pick it up! It'll give you great words of wisdom that can really change the way that you look at things.

We Are the World

So I knew the original version of We Are the World was written by Lionel Richie awhile back. But I had no idea there was a new version of the song for Haiti! Listen to it! I love it!!

Things That Are Making Me Happy

-Converse

-rain

-Maggie

-Ingrid Michaelson

-the thought of summer

Street Wars!

So I'm in this game with a bunch of people in my youth group and some others around the area called Street Wars. Basically, I am given a target that I have to shoot with a water gun. Once I shoot them, I receive their target information and it keeps going until nobody is left.

But there's a catch. I also have an assassin. Everybody in the game does. This person has me as their target and is out to get me. To go along with the two high school's hours that are involved in the game, from 6:14 until 3:07, nobody can get hit and legally be out (to be more fair). So far, I got my first target and am on my second. My first was easy-it was a girl on the varsity soccer team at my school. I waited until she left the locker room and basically chased her down. She claimed that I was on school property but that rule only applied until 3:07. This was fair game...so I'm still in!

However, my next target is really difficult to get because they don't go to my school and are really good at the game. I don't know how to get them because they're more difficult to find :/

Anyway, keep up with me as I'm playing this game! I'll post everytime there are any updates in the game!

Update!

I've been gone for quite some time...but I want to start posting again to let you guys keep up with me this summer! Be looking for new posts and craziness all around!

I may not post as much because I have finals coming up, though. Oh, finals. I wish I could just skip right through them and pass them all. But it's not that easy :/


I've been studying like crazy!! But I'll start posting again regularly soon! I'm looking forward to it!