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Hmmm so I guess almost a year in lack of updates suggests its about time to give this thing an update!!!

Where do we start? Well I guess it would be useful to go back to the last post. Since then, Karisa has graduated from high school and now attends the University Of Saskatchewan studying engineering. So far so good on the front. I have finished grade 10 and just started my second semester in grade 11. For those of you keeping track, that means only a mere 14 school months until I too graduate from high school! thats an exciting thought!

July was a very busty month for me. We started off with the Loewen family cruise to Alasks. That was a ton of fun! It was the first visit for us and we had a really fun time! July was also when I started my first summer working at camp. That was by far the best part of my summer. I was working as a CIT at Rosthern Youth Farm Bible Camp. It was amazing! I had a great time with the rest of the Jr. staff, met a ton of new people, and had a really awesome growing experience with God. What a great way to spend the summer! I worked for 4 weeks total. Two weeks were at kids cam, and two weeks were at Adult Special Needs Camp. I deffinately enjoyed working with the ASN camps a little bit more enjoyable. There was a nice slow pace to them, and a flexible schedule that was a very nice change from the crazy kids weeks!

uly was also the month I FINALY got to go for my driver's license. I passed first time around and have been happily enjoying the privillege of driving for about 7 months.

I am still Student Council VP and I was also chosen last year to represent our school in a Student Advisory Council with our school division Board. We meet three times a year and use that time to give student input on education and student engagement in schools. I am also a member of a Learning Sub-comittee that is trying to change how students learn in classrooms. We are looking at how students interact with their teachers and the classrooms and what we can do to modernize education. So far its been a lot of fun, and I really enjoy it.

Hopefully this update doesn't seem as choppy to al of you as it does to me. Trying to get 9 months of information can get a little scattered!!

I will leave you all with a few snapshots of whats been going on!

Have a good week all!

tons to report

The first piece of news: If anyone is interested in an evening of semi-professional drama, our senior drama will be doing an encore preformance of our play "Competition piece" on Wednesday May 6 to raise money to help pay for our trip to Provincial Drama competition on May 7 and 8. Anyone interested in more than welcome to come. The preformance starts at 7P.M. at the high school. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $5.00
In other news, I have been accepted to work as a CIT this summer at Rosthern Youth Farm Bible Camp. Its really exciting and I am definately ready to try my hand at councelling. Also exciting: a trip to Europe next April! The school has started a travel club that will be going to Western Europe for 10 days over the Easter break next year. Its a really exciting operatunity.



More to come in coming weeks!
have a good week!!!!

Regional Champs

So this weekend was the regional Drama Competition is Rosetown. This was the first year that our school has gone to regionals and there were lots of REALLY good performances and they were all pretty intimidating. There were eight schools and they all performed really well.
We managed to walk away with seven awards including my award for spirit of the festival and our school won the best overall drama performance! It was so surprising and we were all really excited. Now in May, we are going to Regina to do Provincials! WE have lots to do before then but the excitement should take us till May.

overdue update

It's been a while since i've updated so I'll try to give you all a quick rundown. Today is a really exciting day because our senior drama cast is going to Rosetown to participate in Drama Regionals. We have been rehersing since February and we preformed to the school audience on Tuesday and to the public Wednesday night. Both preformances went well so we are all hopeful about our first expierience at regionals. Aside from regionals, next week is our last week of class before the Easter break. Karisa will be taking off to travel around France for the break and I will be going to see The New Kids On The Block. You may say they happened "before my time" but my friend and I have commited to seeing every boyband we possibly can. The rest of my break will be spent thinking about working at Rosthern Youth Farm Bible Camp over the summer, finding a job, and figuring out how I'm going to pay for a school trip to Europe next April. It's going to be a busy few weeks and months, but I'm ready for anything!

Starting Again

So this is the first fullweek we have of classes since our new semester. We wrote finals last week and they went good. Now we are just waiting for report cards to find out how it really went :P So far the new semester is going good. Thats about al I got for right now. More to come soon

New Year!

Happy New Year to Everyone!!

New years was great for us. we had some family over and had a great time! Wishing everyone a wonderful 2009!!

Wirlwind

Madness is the only word that comes to mind if I try to think of the last few weeks! SChool has been rediculous with the last few days leading up to Christmas break which officially started today! Mom and I went to Miniappolis just in time for mass chaos at the Black Friday sales the last weekend in November. We got some good deals and got some Christmas Shopping done as well. Other than that, Christmas has been the biggest time consumer! More to come!