Past week or so...

Hi! It's been a while....

We've had a lot of homework lately.... :P But a lot of the time we do things before they are due, so things get out of the way quickly and it's not as hard to fall behind. :)

We had a fun fun cross country meet on Saturday! It was in South Whidbey and it was our first 5K of the year! My time was 23:48:10 and 42nd place out of 145 and Sarah's was 23:41:64 and 36th place! We both felt that it was a good race and we were really happy! It was suuuuuper hot out, though, but we were happy that our race was first, at 10:35.

The course was really good, it was nice and spread out. We did a lap around a field and then went out into the woods and there was this BIG hill. Sarah was awesome going up there! She was so fast! It was great. :)
You did a little lap in the woods, too, and then you went across a baseball field... this was probably the worst part in my opinion. It was really mushy and you lost a lot of your momentum in the dew-y grass. Then you were back on the field and had about 1000 meters to go. Then you got on the track and you finished it off. :) Our coach, Kevin, said that me and another girl, Shauna, did really well, "AWE-some race!! Keep it up!" :D and then at the end, he was yelling at me to pass some girl in front of me, and I did and it was really fun. :)

Well, then on Sunday, it was our dad's birthday! We had celebrated it a few days early because our mom left for Malibu and wouldn't be here on the actual day. But anyway, we gave him a cider-press and so that Sunday we made.... APPLE CIDER! or apple juice. It's really good! A little tart, but it's good all the same! It was really fun to put it together and wind the wheel and chop up the apples and EVERYTHINGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!! It was really fun. :)

We made about 1 and a half gallons!!! :D

Anyway, better get ready-ish for bed now. :)
G'night! :)
-hANDs

CROSS COUNTRY INVITE+ sLeEpoVEr!

Yay! Lydia came over for a sleepover after Sarah and I had a XC meet on Saturday!

The course for the meet was really hard... this year and last year. :P We went around Civic twice and the entire length was only 2 miles, but still, it was pretty hard. And there were around 1000 total runners there from 30-ish schools!

Sarah and I were running together for about the first mile, but then a hundred meters in or so, I wasn't able to take in full breaths! I got really tired, and a ton of people passed me, and I made these terrible noises while I ran that I just couldn't stop making. It was not fun.

But then, right at the end, I was on the home stretch, still pluggin' along, when all of a sudden, I realize there's a girl right behind me! I told myself to make sure that she didn't pass me, but she was soon right next to me!!!! I then put on my really mean running face and whooooooosh.... I pulled ahead. :)

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit."

Even though the run was hard and I didn't do as well as I wanted, it was still fun to be there, and Sehome Girl's got 2nd place! Boys got 1st, and combined, Sehome won the whole invite! :D Yay!

At dinner-ish time, Lydia came over and we made these awesome tie-dye shirts! We all weren't sure how they were going to turn out, since we were going to try doing them in a spiral, but it worked out really well and they all look SO COOL!

Top: Lydia, Hannah Bottom, Sarah

 Lydia came to church with us and then we went to Harris Avenue Cafe and ate lunch. :) It was good!
The first weekend of the school year was a good one. :)
-hANDs

School, school!

And so, 10th grade has begun!

It's a significant amount of homework (for the first week!) but I'm sure we'll adjust and find time to do all of it. AP World History will by far provide the majority of our homework... but I think that as long as time is managed, we can be on top of it.
Our Classes:
-Algebra 2 (which we have together!)
-Honors Chemistry
-French 2
-Advanced Orchestra
-AP World History
-English

 For me, all my classes are good! We got some new orchestra songs today. Hard. :-/ But I know that all songs end up easy eventually... just takes practice. English is a little hard to stay focused... my teacher talks for a while, so my mind will wander.... Oh well. :)

We made a REALLY great video called "A hobbit, a princess, a tribute"-- obviously about Lord of the Rings, Beauty and the Beast, and Hunger Games. IT'S AWESOME. It was so much fun to dress up as Gaston for B&theB! and my Katniss outfit for Hunger Games is so REAL. Hannah did a great Peeta and Gale, too. heehee.

Well, g'night.
-hANDs

Fare thee well, Summer.

Well, only one more day of summer left.
Was it quick? Was it slow? That's a little hard to tell right now... I mean, the summer felt long, and I know that's weird, but it feels like the stuff we did three days ago was three weeks ago. And the things that we did felt fast while we were doing them.
It has been a great summer. We've done so many things!
-Kalaloch
-Malibu
-Camano Island
-Vashon Island
-XC practice and XC summer runs
-Driver's Ed
-And all the little everyday things, too.

Kalaloch

Camano Island

Malibu

Vashon Island

Happy Bubbles

See you in the Fall!