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Graduation!
So my high school career is over! I am officially a graduate of Faith Christian School-I have joined the ranks of 125 allumi! As I embark on a new journey and time in life, I must say I will miss deeply the chapter I have just closed. See, my class is the best group of people you will ever meet! They are 34 of the most amazing people I know and I will deeply miss their influence in my life and their daily laughs, smiles, and words of encouragement. It was a bitter sweet day! I am so excited to be done with high school. Like a wise now college sophomore told me-“it’s so much better on the other side!” But I can’t express how much I will miss my class. These people have helped shaped me into the person I am. They have offered countless words of advice, opportunities to grow, and times to look back on with laughter and tears. And then there is my family-those 3 people in my life who I can always count on. They have given up so much of themselves and allowed me to do so much in high school-I honestly don’t know what I will do next year without them. and my church-I love my church. I love the people there, my pastors, and my youth leaders. They will be hard shoes to fill in whatever church I find down in Evansville. But before you think I am totally dreading college-I am so excited!!! I can’t wait to make new friends, gather new experiences, grow up a little, and learn the joys and woes of being a college freshman! Hopefully I will still be this excited come August! Overall, the past four years have been amazing and I am sure some of the best in my life. Graduation was a day I looked forward to and a day I will never forget–I mean who could forget a graduation that lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. 🙂 I will continue to write as I enter a new chapter in my life. I am so excited and thankful to all those faithful who still read my blog! I love you all!
Just some thoughts..
Amanda -
Finishing Well…
“Finish Strong”
Those two words have been uttered more in the past month then I care to count. But what does finishing strong or well look like and mean? Does it mean just doing what you are doing? or stepping it up? And honestly, it’s hard to finish strong when you are in one sense finished. I am admitted to college, basically done with my classes, and 12 days out from graduating-so why are these last few days so important?
Because that’s how people will remember me. Yes, I wish it weren’t true..but I have the ability by my actions in the next few days to leave either a good impression on my school or a negative one. Do I feel like finishing strong..honestly, no. I would like to throw in the towel and be done. But I know God has called me to more then that. His word says to do all to the glory of God-even finishing up high school. So, that is exactly what I am going to do-in my relationships, classes, speech, and attitude over the next 12 days I am going to glorify God. No, I’m not going to be perfect, but I am going to strive to finish well. I want the next 12 days to be some of the best-both with my friends and with my God. And as I embark on a new journey in life I want to be able to look back and have no regrets about how I finished out my time at Faith. And to my fellow seniors, I know it gets so old and we are all tired of hearing it, but we really do need to finish strong!
I love you all..
Just a thought..
Amanda -
Senior Trip ’05
Deserves a book, not just a post..but since I only have a post and limited time this will have to do. First of all, I just have to say I love my class! They are seriously some of the coolest people you will ever meet. I got to know a lot of them a lot better and it was awesome. Things you never knew about people until you live with them or spend 12 hours on a bus with them. I also must say I am going to miss them so much next year..it’s hard to think we are graduating soon and never again will I see all of them in one place at one time.. but enough of the sad moment..
There were so many memories made..who will ever forget Brittany’s good morning routine..haha..:) Well, actually-other then Jordan and Rebecca no one will remember it.. I laughed so many times so hard.. My class is hilarious..but you can all ask us about the funny moments if you want.
God taught me so much on the senior trip..and you all should def. look forward to it..it is awesome!! one of the things I learned was the importance of not letting failure get you down. Your whole life people will point out your failures, but the righteous man falls 7 times and gets back up..so the key is to get up! I also realized how many freedoms I have and how often I take them for granted. So many men and women died for me to live in the land of the free and so often I don’t do anything about it.
well..enough for now, i must move to more important things like finding a hairstyle for jr.sr…ugh..
love ya all
amanda
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I’ve been tagged
Mr. Harmless tagged me and so now I am joining in. It’s a meme-no clue what that is, but anyways..the idea is there are 18 different occupations below and you are supposed to choose three and write a sentence finishing the beginning thought. then you are supposed to tag 3 other people and they are supposed to do the same thing. So since Mr. Harmless tagged me and he is quite possibly the coolest blogger ever I thought I would join in. you can find his post here.
If I could be a scientist…
If I could be a farmer…
If I could be a musician…
If I could be a doctor…
If I could be a painter…
If I could be a gardener…
If I could be a missionary…
If I could be a chef…
If I could be an architect…
If I could be a linguist…
If I could be a psychologist…
If I could be a librarian…
If I could be an athlete…
If I could be a lawyer…
If I could be an innkeeper…
If I could be a professor…
If I could be a writer…
If I could be a llama-rider…
If I could be a bonnie pirate…
If I could be a service member…
If I could be a photographer…
If I could be a philanthropist…
If I could be a rap artist…
If I could be a child actor…
If I could be a secret agent…
If I could be a comedian/comedienne…
If I could be a priest…
If I could be a radio announcer…
If I could be a phlebotomist…
If I could be a pet store owner…
If I could be a computer programmer…
If I could be a police officer…If I could be a missionary, I would go to Africa and work with aids orphans. I would love to be a missionary someday. This is something God has impressed on my lately, but someday I would like to go to a foreign field.
If I could be a writer, I would about dating. So many books have been written on this topic and I have read most of them. But it seems that they all say the same thing in different ways and none of them are very helpful. Not that I know the answer, but maybe if I studied I could figure out something that would help people.
If I could be a doctor, I would want to find a cure for cancer. I think that would be a very good thing to find. Plus I have decided lately that I want to do something great with my life. I don’t know what, but I want to do something.
ok..I have finally finished my part-now I have to tag three other people.
So will your tagged
Angela as are you
And lastly, I will tag Stephanie.
thanks ya’ll