BYC Just got there this morrrrning

Alrighty, so Sunday through Friday I have been at the most awesome, cool, amazing camp ever! BYC!  So despite any sadness or problems I have had this summer BYC was able to instantly turn that into happiness and love.  BYC stands for baptist youth camp and takes place at Laurel Ridge, North Carolina.  This camp is so welcoming and excepting you could be anyone and feel like you were at home.  The camp starts by playing ice breakers, breakin the ice games, which of course aren't the funnest but they weren't horrible.  Although I probably didn't make any life friends while standing in a group with the same shoe size as me it was still a fun way to start the week.  Ahhh I don't even know where to start!  Well the food I guess, it made me sick on several occasions, but I think it might just be the grease is most of the food.  They do have salads!  After dinner every night we would go to worship.  Worship was very spiritual and made you feel happy every day.  You would take your shoes off and sit on blankets and have an amazing time.  It was also very emotional as people would talk about their sadness they had experienced. Now to a different subject, the cabins. So everyone walks in and I'm of course like TOP BUNK and so is my frieeend Sarah. So later every one's talking about the new mattresses and how they are dark green so I dramatically flip my hair and look at my bed. And guess what?  IT'S LIGHT GREEN NOO!  Yes I had the only light green mattress and ya know what that means? No, you don't unless you are Anna.  Let's put it this way every morning when I woke up too early for the others I would be holding my breath to be quiet...of course my stupid bed was like eeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhh urrrrrr when I got up or moved an inch. So I would just awkwardly smile when every one's angry eyes stared at me.  The showers also had some gorgeously large spiders...that didn't make sense ahh I'm tired, OK?  OKAY so we had exodus groups every morning after worship and announcements. We would read scripture and sometimes play a game. It was usually not super fun but I met some cool people.  Like Coke.   Okay so Sarah and I were watching a game of basketball and were giving people nick names and one guy was wearing a coke shirt so we called him coke.  Hehe he was my age so yeah he was in my exodus group.  I'm such a creeper...in a uncreepy way.  After lunch we would go to an interest group we had picked out. I picked Fun with Fur. And it was some serious fun! I got to dry felt, wet felt, spin yarn and cover a bar of soap in wool haha.  And may I say this week made me love photography even more!  I definitely want to make a living doing that.  Here's a picture of broccoli, it's at the top.... its good though, right!?  Well anyways after interest groups we have 3 hours of free time where I would mostly write letters to people and play games with my friends.  :)  Okay so we had a activity after worship every night like a talent show, bonfire, sundaes, skits, stuff like that. My favorite was the talent show! It was really fun and I loved a lot of the acts.  One boy sand Yound Wild and Free! It was HILARIOUS!  He was a small sixth grader and he asked if he could cuss hahahahahaa.  He was all "I'm 17 and I got peach fuzz on my face and so what if we go crazzzyy" it was awesome!  Bottom line is I met awesome friends and can't wait to go back next year!

Summer 2012

Okay so a friend has finally inspired me to write a new post...you know who you are.  Well summers out but middle school drama always finds a way to leak into everyone's lives somehow, right?  Not going into detail on that either cause most people who bother looking at my blog would know.  Sorry creepers who wanted to find out more about my life...don't cry.  Well my life has been pretty good, the age 13 is a little complicated sometimes but if it's possible I'm okay with that.  I'm gonna start running for cross country tomorrow so hopefully I won't have to start awkwardly speed walking. So I volunteered at VBS last week. Okay so am I the only one that thinks we shouldn't even TRY relay races with 4 year olds? Okay well for some reason we did and I'm not sure if it's my lack of being able to tie a stupid tool belt around a 4 year old fast enough or if it's just the kids lack of understanding but we lost every single race.  Well the kids weren't focused on anything but doing exactly the opposite of what I told them to do so I don't think they noticed.  So hey only one fail this summer so far right? WRONG! Many more!  I can't talk about everything because you know some people I'm talking about read this and don't automatically single yourself out because it probably is you! Just kidding.  Okay so what else HANG ME UP TO DRYYYYYY YOU'VE RUNG ME OUT TO TO TO MANY TIMESSSSS.  Okay so what the heck does that mean? What is it laundry singing or something? I shall reference the googles.  Okay so it means emotionally done and just through I guess like a wet towel....I can totally relate sometimes! Not like in a depressed way but in some situations it's like ughhh I'm done with you or this!! And not like a wet towel.  Okay moving on got a little side tracked there.  Lets see um so this makeup stuff is pretty crappy...hehe random but seriously are we girls supposed to put this rainbow stuff on our face to be beautiful? Um I think not? And then look like a demented rainbow when you shower? I double think not! And I triple think not about it because girls are using it to be gorgeous and please guys when it can increase skin cancer! Parabens uh hello!!!  Guys really need to understand they have it WAY easier than girls. Okay so one more thing on my mind then I will be done.... umm how bout music haha.  Oh yeah great idea there. Well lets start with some lyrics that are stupid okay "Hey I just met you and this is crazy but here's my number so call me maybe" this song is encouraging creeping! Are seriously buying these songs! Yes I bought this! We should not be encouraged to give out numbers to possible murders!  Yeah that's all I have on music not gonna lie...although that Nicki Manaj definately should NOT be famous...lets go to the beach each lets go get away they say what they gonna say?  Umm okay yeah I think not.

Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!:D AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR:) 2011 was mostly amazing:D

Not that I won't be posting anymore this year!!

Snorkeling 12/22/11

Today was super cool...! Except I had to wake up early which to my school friends would seem crazy because for school I wake up at 6:30. Today I woke up at 7:30. ( Maui time meaning at home it was 12:30) It was worth it though because we went on a snorkeling cruise! We got on the boat at 8:30 am with 70 other people which might seem like a lot but the boat could hold 150 people. We had breakfast on board while we drove to our first snorkel destination (molikini). I was kind of freaked out about how deep and cold it was because it was already windy outside the water. Also I thought sharks might be there even though the only shark you would see was a reef shark probably. Snorkeling was fun there it was deep and weird that the fish we so far down but still really cool. We saw Yellow Tang, Parrot Fish, and Triger Fish. All the fish were swimming around in schools except for the Yellow Tang and Parrot Fish. ( I guess the bigger fish were solo) We were snorkeling for about one hour there and when we got back on my dad shared TIGER SHARKS had been spotted in that area 20 ft long! Nice time to share that lovely story. When we got back on the boat we sailed for an hour and a half to our next snorkeling area. On the way there we saw DOLPHINS they were adorable! They were Spotted Dolphins and they jumped into the air and followed the boat around:) I love dolphins:D Once we got to Lanai our second snorkeling place we swam around the edges of the coral reef. We saw some eels here but mostly some of the same things as Molikini. Lanai was calmer though and less busy. Bill Gates also got married on Lanai:] People still live there but I think it's mostly resorts now. Once we got on the boat again we returned our snorkel gear and got ready to head back. It was rougher on the way back then on the way in though. Shortly after we left Lanai the captain turned into a large cove and said he saw spinner dolphins! They were so awesome the dolphins jumped into the air and flipped! They were apparently resting in the cove....doing flips? Later on our way back we saw whales breaching, I'm not sure what kind they were and they were further away than the dolphins had been though. Once we got back we came home and ate pastaaa:) Today was super fun!

Sadly I could not take pictures because my camera was digital and would not survive if it was underwater. Also the whales, and dolphins were too fast for my camera. However I have videos that I may post on ISABEL'S MAGICAL KINGDOM:)

December 21 2011

I don't really have a whole lot to write about today. We woke up late, left the house late and by the time we really did anything productive it was 12:30. At 12:30 we ate Taco Bell:D I personally love 7 layer burritos. ( and Brisk iced tea:)

After we ate taco's we drove to a beach, I'm not even sure what it was called because they have a LOT of beaches here. At the beach we waded in the water a little and read on the beach. After the beach we went grocery shopping at Mana Foods! Well before I bore everyone to death I'm gonna stop writing because frankly I'm boring myself..................... :)

My day December 20 2011

Soo I already posted today but that had absolutely nothing to do with Hawaii!! Today my parents went to this time share presentation thing. You are probably like what the heck, why would they do that? Well we are going snorkeling at Molikini in a few days and you have to take a boat to get there. By going to this presentation we get a discount for some reason. Like do they really think anyone's going to hear about getting a Time Share cause I'm pretty sure they weren't! I don't think it was amazingly fun for them though because all they did was sit and listen to sales people talk for two hours........ BUT HEY..... they had rice crispy treats:) While they did that Gabe, Amelia and I sat at Starbucks and read and did math. After we went to get sandwiches at a.... sandwich shop. We sat and ate at a park by the beach and looked at the tidepools after. THEN we got frozen yogurt (froyo)!

TaDaaaaa!

New Stuff

It's been...... let's seee.....8 months since my last post. So now I will proceed to tell you everything that happened in the last 8 months. Surprisingly it has been the most interesting 8 months of my life probably but I haven't done one post. So first over the summer we had a foreign exchange student stay with us. Her name was Svenja she was with us for about 3 weeks and than Amelia went to stay in Germany where she lived for 3 weeks. Since I have a lot more stuff to get through that's all I'm gonna say about summer vacation. It was very fun though. In August I started running or conditioning for running Cross Country because I decided to go back to public school. I started school in September and ran Cross Country for most of the season which I absolutely LOVED! Then in October at one of my meets a mosquito bit me and gave me a virus. Only I didn't know that when I was feeling super tired and sick for 10 days. I kept running and going to school for a few days but then I was too tired to go. I went to the doctor and they told me I had an ear infection and gave me gigantic pills to take. They didn't know I was going to have a seizure in 2 days though... and a stroke. I don't remember a whole lot of the first week at the hospital but getting my fingers pricked a lot. The second week I woke up for a little longer though and some of my friends visited. My walls were decorated with posters and I had a gazillion cards. We went outside sometimes and had yucky cafeteria food but mostly I think I just stared at the parking garage next door. The third week was the most productive because I was moved to the rehab level. There I had physical, occupational, and speech therapy, school and massage therapy. Everyones like OOOHH you got massage's but seriously even that I hated when I was in the hospital. I was absolutely thrilled when I was discharged from the hospital. When I got back Candice, Amelia, and Zach and Seth came over and through me a surprise party! Just about four days after I got out I went back to school. It was actually the beginning of the second semester so I didn't start in the middle. My classes were switched around and I had extra study halls because I couldn't take Physical Education. I went to physical and speech therapy once a week for several weeks though. About one week after I got back they started conditioning for Track and I joined that. Everything is about back to normal now though. I love running track with my friends and now I'm doing most of the things I was doing before. Now it's Christmas break and we are BACK IN HAWAII! Where I started this entire blog. I could probably make about 50 posts about the last 8 months but so far in Hawaii we have shopped, gone swimming, snorkeling, and gone to a lavender farm. Yesterday dad and Gabe went biking down Haleakala and dad tore his shoulder and now we are going to Barnes and Noble.