It seems like I never write on my blog until I get prompted to by my lovely friends. Why is that? Perhaps I find myself getting swept up by everything else that's been going on? Goodness gracious! It's almost the beginning of my Senior year! That's right folks.... last year of homeschooling for me.But now the beast has arisen from it's lair and ACT testing is coming up along with all the essays for college. Thank god for the common app. I mean really..... who ever came up with it.. I love you! Well I haven't really used the program and ti seems like it shouldn't be too bad, but I keep hearing horror stories and I a already exhausted. Wanna see what I've been doing?
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| Elanna my orphanage sister watching the waves come in. |
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| Sunset on Edisto Beach |
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| I found almost 100 sharks teeth in a week! |
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| Yi-Shan hanging out on the jetties despitt he signs that say "DO NOT CLIMB ON JETTIES" |
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| Oh, did I forget to mention that I use Instagram now? |
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| The road to my second home... Edisto Beach |
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| Elanna, Yi-Shan, and me |
So that was the Edisto trip that I went on this past month. It was great since we hadn't been in quite a few years. Elanna is my orphanage sister and we have been going to the beach with her and Ruth (her mom) since we came home from China. That's a long time! I already miss it. When I am at the beach I feel like there' nothing to worry about. Most people think that the beach is for drinking and partying and partying up. I like my vacations a bit more relaxed. Envision lazy morning with coffee, greasing up with sun tan lotion to go to the beach for several hours, coming back to eat food when we are hungry, a good dinner, card and board games, music, dancing, walking on the beach in the evening to see the sunset or the stars (or both), and then back to the house for more lounging and sleep. Then do it all over again. It might seen monotonous to you but I can't ever get enough. It's the only place where I can consistently say that the moment I get home I am ready to go back. Do you know what I mean? Even though you miss some of your vacation spots or in my case Conserve spots when you get home there's a sigh of relief that you are home.... well it aint there because Edisto is just that great!
So what else have I been up to? A ton of things? In July I was luckily chosen to participate in a field research program called Ocean for Life sponsored by NOAA and Jean Michel's Ocean Future's Society. 15 students came from the United States and 15 from the middle East! Our catch phrase became a quote from Lilo and Stitch: "Ohana means family, family means that no one gets left behind." Check it out!
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| Taylor from Oregon and Justin from Atlanta |
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| The Orcas on the Channel Islands |
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| Dua from Pakistan (my room mate) and me |
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| Corrine from Lebanon one of the Orcas adult leaders |
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| Lana from Qatar goofing off at a media camp meeting! |
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| Ayyad from Lebanon |
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| Courtney from Mississippi and me |
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| Peter from Brooklyn |
The 30 of us were broken into 4 groups: the sea stars, blue whales, narwhals, and my group, THE ORCAS!!! More pictures to come later! I'll also be adding an article that was published in the East Atlanta Patch online newsletter.
Even earlier int he summer I went up to the Yates' with the lovely Maeve!
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| Mattie |
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| Moi |
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| Maeve |
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| Maeve and me chilling in the evening |
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| Matt again |
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| Ruth |
As you can tell the trip to Columbus, NC was full of forest wanderings and lots of intense badminton and pingpong games! All the photos were taken by the always awesome Keller :D
Well this post might be getting a wee bit long so.... thanks again for tuning into Conserve My Brain! I wanted to say a special thanks to Dexter and Zeki. I was talking to Dexter today and blogs came up and he told me that I should write more on mine because he though Zeki might be missing it. So here you go you two. Stay cool my nerfighters! DFTBA (Don't forget to be awesome to you all you non john green fans).
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