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Posted 2017-09-24T17:48:51Z

Musicale

I was a choir nerd for four years of high school, and I looked forward to the annual spring trip to "Musicale" where all the regional Christian high schools sent their choirs for adjudication and a mass choir performance with the same five songs we'd all learned through the year. I really had no idea what was going on the first year I went, but I followed my classmates up on stage and sang along to whatever song we'd picked for our performance not really caring about the end result. I was in it for the experience. Aside from the near death experience from a cross contamination close call where nuts might have found their way into my food, I loved every bit of the festival with my friends and looked forward to it every year after.[...]

Posted 2017-09-16T20:33:34Z

Paralysis Sucks

I'm not lying when I share the sunshine in my life. I really do love the opportunity I have to teach bright, intelligent, inquisitive students. I also celebrate the chances I have to make physical improvements like walking with Hunter this week from my house almost into the center of town without my braces. We took off a couple times to see how far I could make it, and the first time I was excited to have good form all the way to Grüber, and the second time I thought I wouldn't make it as far but blew past there almost all the way to the hardware store. I relish in the chance to tell you these things.[...]

Posted 2017-09-10T20:58:19Z

Ab Workout

I just spent the last half hour listening to various songs on YouTube to see if I could come up with one with lyrics to create a theme for this week's post. I failed. Well, I enjoyed myself, but I couldn't find the perfect song to encapsulate the belly laughs I had this week. There's just not space for the context of why the senior baking cookies in my house yesterday told me, "I have pretty white boy hair," or why one of my sophomores in advisory got a consolation package of soup mix after his brother inadvertently withheld an invitation to Taco Tuesday.[...]

Posted 2017-09-01T21:53:12Z

International Ice Cream Shop

"If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be?"

Our student body president asked the audience this at our opening ceremonies Wednesday. He went on to emphasize the importance of getting to know people as individuals - unique and flavorful - in his fabulous speech. Today during his study hall, he elaborated more with the yearbook teacher and I. "It's not just your favorite flavor - it's something more than that that determines what flavor you would be if you were ice cream." [...]