Saturday, June 18, 2011

June Party!

We, the outbounds of 6220, got together for a party! Only about half of us ended up showing up but thats okay because it was still tons of fun. We all went to Tori's house for the weekend, she lives on a small lake and we went boating, swimming, and tubing. For some of the outbounds it was their first time ever tubing which was pretty intresting considering we all live so close to the Great Lakes! We had enough food to last us a week atleast! Emma made some absolutly AMAZING bars. They are brownies with melted marshmellow and then a rice crispy, peanut butter, chocolate mix for the top they were so good I ate atleast 7 by myself! We played a game called eat poop you cat. I had never heard of it before and I am sure many of you haven't either but it is sort of like telephone but with drawings and paper. One person draws a picture, the next person writes a sentence and the next person draws a picture until you get all the way around the table. You get them back and then read them, and well not everyone is a great artist so sometimes the final answer is greatly changed from the original. We also went on her speed boat which is so much fun and it goes so fast. Lauren, Pj, Mrs. Miller, my mom, and I all went in to Minoqua for a walk around the town while the rest of the outbounds vegged and watched The Green Hornet, which I fell asleep in the first five minutes and I had no idea what was going on when I woke up so I went to town also. The town was really cute and quite busy which I guess was because it was camp week or something. This town atleast doubles in size in the summer from all the summer residences and tourists. Anyways the weekend was overall really fun, but when is Rotary not fun? I can't wait to see everyone at Grand Rapids but it is so weird that that will be the last time we will all see each other again until we get back! We are planning on doing another get together like this once we are all Rebounds. Rebound. It is such a sad word right now. I feel like it must be so depressing to be a Rebound, you will never be exited for your forms, your family, to leave again. I feel like we will all have so much to share as Rebounds though and our stories are going to be so much fun to listen to and talk about. Time should really just slow down right about now. I know since now it seems like my exchange is never going to get here but now it just feels soo close! I mean the first one to leave leaves in less than a month! crazy.

Anyways,
I should really get to bed considering I just drove all the way home from Minoqua using a stick shift<-- which is at the moment super impressive considering I have only droven that thing on backroads and such!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Summer!

Well tomorrow is the last day of school! Yippee! I am pretty upset that it is June 1st and I still haven’t heard any more news about where exactly I will be or who is going to be my host family. I have a few towns picked out that I really hope I am put it but anywhere will be great, I mean I will be in France and that’s all that matters. 6 months ago I had no idea where I would be, in fact I thought I would be in Thailand since I heard a lot of people get the chance to go there and it was my second choice. On the brightside of things I have to have my guarantee forms back by June 30th for my visa stuff. I got an e-mail about my visa and looks like I have to do a lot of more paperwork. I thought a 20 some page application would be it for the paperwork... I guess not. I am getting really exited to get out of school since I won't be back in American school for more than 365 days which is a really awesome thought. I also bought my bus ticket for the Grand Rapids conference which I heard is tons of fun and I cannot wait to meet all the people going to France and see all of the outbounds one last time before we all leave. So yah I am getting super ready to get out of school and I only have 3 more exams to take before I am out! Wahoo!