and so it begins.

first day of grade 12. wow, i cant believe that i am almost done high school forever. its a bittersweet feeling. it felt like just yesturday that i started grade 10 and how i excited i was to be with the big kids. and here i am, the big kid now.

heres some pictures of my best friends and i on our first day :)

ECHOOOOOOO

woot woot! one of my best friends is taking me to echo for a few days! i have never ever been! its gunna be a good way to end the summer before school starts up again :)

hmm..

today has been an interesting day... it was both happy and sad and im feeling mixed emotions right about now. i went to church with my mom like every normal sunday and in sacrament meeting they released the young women leaders. i have been with these same women since i was like 14 and have grown so close to them. it was devastating releasing these women. then out of the blue, (while i was still tearing up) they called my mom to be the new young womens leader. what?! MY mom?! i was shocked. of course i am happy for her and wish her all the best but this is gunna be an interesting last year of young womens for me... we will see how it plays out.. wish me luck.

--jwood

girls camp

so the last couple of days i was at girls camp. haha ya, it was quite interesting to say the least. this time was different. whenever i was at girls camp, i was always the youngest. but this time, i was one of the oldest. it was so weird, seeing all the little beehives running around, thinking i was just like them 5 years ago. i hope i wasnt that annoying when i was their age. but i realized, i have one camp left and then i am done forever. so camp pretty much went like this, we got up, ate food, and then went and swam in a really discusting lake. but we did it anyways. and we repeated that for the next 3 days. so it was really longggggg and really hot, like 25+ weather everyday. it was great. well at the end of camp, as always, we have testimony meeting. all the laurels got up in a row and it was amazing to see all the older girls be such great examples to the younger ones. i hope i am an example to them in every way possible, just like they are examples to me.

i miss this

to miss: fail to see or have a meeting with someone or something.

i miss europe.
i miss my family.
i miss my dog.
i miss being a kid.
i miss elementary school.
i miss basketball.
i miss my friends.
i miss the sun.
i miss your smile.
i miss how we used to be.

theres so many things that i miss, but life moves on, and so should i.

:)

school is almost out! i'm so ready for summer.

sorrento, italy

sorrento! oh my gosh, probably my favorite place because it was by the mediterranean sea. right as soon as we got there we went down to the beach. and of course, the only day we get to go swimming, it was raining! it was still a but chilly but when are we ever going to get another chance to wim in the mediterranean sea? i was a bit scared to go in, and one of my friends decides to throw me in! it was a bit colder than i thought it would be, but i can say i swam in it! all the italians were looking at us like we were crazy, but who cares! we are canadians!

after that we played a little bit of beach volleyball and later went down into the town to do some shopping and eat more gilato. 


since this was such a short post, im adding capri in here. capri is a little island of the coast of italy. its about a 50 minutes boat ride to get there. and it was so gorgous. we took a little boat tour around the island and had a tour guide to tell us about all the cool things that happen there. did you know that bill gates and mariah carrey go there alot? crazy eh?

the water there was soooo blue. ive never seen it that blue before! after our little detour of capri. it was back to rome, and then back home. it was a once and a lifetime expeirence that i will never forget, but nothing beats home in the end.