SLE

So I've started my Senior Learning Experience. I'm working in a few different kindergarten classrooms in the Denver Metro area. Here is the link to my blog all about it if you're interested...

http://kindergartenerintraining.blogspot.com/

College

So I have a 100% acceptance rate. How exciting. I've been accepted at Utah State University, Northern Arizona University, Brigham Young University- Idaho, and Oklahoma Baptist.

I was offered $15,000 from Utah State, plus an additional $400 housing scholarship. They also kept telling me to apply for the honors program. And they sent me really nice chapstick.

Northern Arizona didn't offer me anything. But they keep sending me crap. And they have a whole bunch of cool speakers and events on campus.

BYUI was super frustrating. First, back in October it took them 3 weeks to find my ACT scores, which were sent along with my transcripts. I emailed, called, and chatted with them and each time they told me they weren't there. I even paid ACT to send BYU the scores. So I had my school call, and what do you know? There are my ACT scores behind a piece of paper. Now my application was complete, before the early decision deadline. I checked the application status once a week until the 4 week mark, then I checked every day, since they said 4-6 weeks. Once day, around Christmas - when everyone I knew who applied had already heard - I checked it and it no longer said they had my transcripts and instead said they needed my GED. What the heck. I'm still in school, earning a degree, I don't have a stupid GED. So I called and they claimed I didn't go to a nationally accredited high school. Yea right, my school is one of 7 schools "accredited with distinction" in the state of Colorado. So the director of my school called and talked to the admissions and they told me I have to talk some test. The Compass test, which is basically the ACT. So I had to spend another $50 on a stupid test. Plus, the day it was scheduled was a snow day because it was negative something outside. Coldest day of the year. It broke records. And I had to take the light rail. In the end I exceeded the scores they wanted me to get. They wanted 22 math and 70 reading, I got 42 math and 99 reading. Waste of my time.

A couple days later I was accepted. I didn't care. They were too frustrating. At this point everyone that was accepted was getting track assignments. They were all getting fall/spring. That is the worst track ever. Who wants to go to school for a semester, go home for a semester, then school for a semester, then break for a semester. I decided that I would go somewhere else if that was the track I was assigned to. Thankfully I was put on the fall/ winter track. If BYU wasn't so cheap I would definitely consider other places more seriously.

Oklahoma Baptist sent me one of those, "Send us your name and your grades and we'll let you know if you're in deals" No essay, no fee, why not? So I did it. They offered me like $14,000 in scholarships.

So yea. The end. I'm a whiner.

Senior Pictures!

I just got my pictures done last month or so, Landee did them, I love them. She is amazing!

Last Crew Trip Ever.

This past August I went on my Senior crew trip. It was so much fun. It was sad at the end though. So all the seniors drove up together in a car while everyone else was stuck on a bus. This is how it turned out. I was the only one awake besides Rachel who was driving.

We then hiked up to the hut. We got lost and turned around. Then finally found it. It was a super nice hut.

I put together a 1,000 piece puzzle. We were missing one piece though.
Here is the puzzle making team.
We stayed at the Polar Star Inn which is a part of the 10th mountain division huts. It was really pretty up there. It was also the nicest cabin I have stayed in through the 10th mountain division.
Here is the whole crew. We hiked to this meadow and played music memory.

We had knife throwing competitions. It later turned into blade throwing after it broke. I was really good at it in case you were wondering.
We also played boy vs. girl pictionary. The boys here won. By a lot.
I didn't take a lot of pictures so that is the end of it. We had the senior roast the last night. It was so sad. I cried like the entire time. I could barley say anything for Dane, I had to stop halfway through Tessa and talk to her later, and I didn't even say anything for Shepherd cause' I was trying to keep it together. I was a train wreck. Anyways everyone was super sweet and all us seniors slept outside together the last night and reminisced. I love my crew, especially the seniors, I've loved spending my four years of high school with them. I am going to miss them for sure.

Junior Prom

This happened way back when in May but I need to catch up. So anyways...Prom was super fun. Before hand I went and had dessert vat the Brown Palace. It was super pretty.

I just went with a big group. We took a party bus, it was so embarrassing. they are the biggest things ever. After prom we went bowling til' around 3 in the morning. I was super tired.