Getting Started

So this is my first blog entry ever, how exciting is that! For this entry I'll cover what has happened in my life in the past five or so days

Last Wednesday, after school, I got a letter in the mail from the ACT testing place and I had received my scores. My mother rushed down to my room which is in the basement of or house to see the scores I had received. I achieved a composite score of a 32 on the ACT! As of right now I have decided that a 32 is good enough that I probably do not need to take the ACT again to get into the colleges that I may plan on going to. My first choice for a school is the University of Connecticut because I really like that area of New England.

This brings us to New England. I have moved all over my whole life. Originally I was born in Delaware. I resided there for three years of my life. My mother ran a home day care and my father worked for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. When I was three my dad was transferred to Sikeston, MO so it was our first move. Since I was so young, I remember nothing at all about Delaware. After living in MO for eight years my dad was transferred again to a Good Humor Breyer's Ice Cream Factory in Framingham, MA. It was extremely unfortunate to be transferred at the start of 6th grade but I was sure that I was going to get by. I loved it up there which is partially the reason that I want to go to Uconn. While in MA I went to the beach and I got really good at skimboarding. Skimboarding is a sport where you run along th shore of the beach holding a really thin board that is made either of wood or plexiglass material and you run and drop the board in very limited water as the waves are retreating back to the sea and jump on the board. Once you are very good you can do spins and tricks. I even got good enough that I could ride out into the water and occasionally turn and catch a wave so I could be brought back to shore. Also I loved skiing in New England. I own a two pairs of twin tip skis. These are skis which have raised fronts and backs, allowing you to ride forwards and backwards, which makes them an excellent pair of trick skis. I was good enough to do some rails and the occasional 360 on skis. And then, tragedy struck. My dad was transferred again. Although he still worked for the overall company of Unileiver, he was now working for Ragu Sauce instead of Ice Cream. I was coerced into moving to Owensboro, KY at the beginning of my Junior year of high school. Not only was I going to leave a ton of friends behind but also I was forced to leave the girl that I had been dating for 4 months at the time. Everything has worked out though and we have been together long distance now for 10 months, bringing us to my last couple days.

On Thursday I woke up with my bags packed and went to school. I could hardly concentrate knowing what was to come. The day could not have gone by any slower but finally I my 4th block Physics teacher got the call and I was dismissed half an hour early from school. From the school my mother and I drove to the Evansville, IN airport and took off on our flight to RI. We hit the connection in Atlanta, GE with ease. At Atlanta I went to the Atlanta Bread Company to get my dinner and then it was off to RI. Once we landed in RI my mother and I rented a car and drove the hour to Hopkinton, MA. By the time we got to MA and the house we were staying at for the night it was already past midnight but there was still someone up waiting for us. The next morning I was woken up early by my friend jumping on me. From there I went to my girlfriends house and it was an awesomely romantic reunification. There we hung out all day at her house and just chilled. Overall the whole weekend was amazing and I spent a lot of time with my girl as well as my best guy friend. My best guy friend is pretty cool and we just screwed around and caused all kinds of trouble.

When it was time to leave I was extremely emotional and there were tears flying but, I was able to get through it in the end and got on my plane to Atlanta.

In Atlanta our flight to Evansville had been canceled so we were going to be stuck in Atlanta for atleast 24 hours and I was going to miss school the next day. But, because of some quick thinking by my mom we were able to get on a flight to Nashville, TN and we got my dad to come pick us up at about 10 PM. We also gave some people that lived in Owensboro a ride home who got stuck in the same situation which my mother and I found ourselves in.

All and all it was a fantastic time.