Happy Leap Year!

Does anyone else find it strange that we don't do anything special for this day? I mean, it only comes around once every four years, you'd think there'd be something to honour it. Maybe that's just me....

So, what's up with me? Wouldn't you like to know? All right, I give in.

Let's start with the most persistent: I am scared to death about the missions trip that I am leaving for in....FIFTEEN DAYS!!! It just makes me so uneasy because I honesly have no idea what to expect. I mean I know the general outline of what we might be doing down there, but really, I have no idea what I'm getting myself into. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally looking forward to it. I know it'll be an awesome experience, and my team has some pretty amazing people on it. I just feel so unprepared. (ew, this is a really ugly colour, remind me never to use it again...what is it called, do you think?)

So that's that...um, my dad broke his elbow. But that happened a couple of weeks ago, and his cast is off. Still can't do much with it, apparently, but yay for no cast. That equals improvement. I still want to get a cast. Maybe I've not shared this desire with you. I want to experience what it's like to have a cast on. Of course I'm not really hoping for excruciating pain or a shattered bone or anything like that. Maybe I can get a doctor to put one on me just for the hey of it. What do you think my chances of that happening are?

Did I tell you about my new semester? Oh. I think I left off saying I would update you soon on how that's going.... well, I think a month is about enough time to make up my mind about it. Just had to be sure, you know....

It's been pretty good over all. I decided to drop Math 12 for German 11, so that's been good. We're working on a rather difficult/time consuming project right now. He's "given" us each $3000 and we have to plan a trip through some German speaking country visiting certain types of places and junk. I guess it's not that bad. It just sucks because I'm looking at all these places and "planning" where I'm going to go, and I wish I could really go there. All those cathedrals and castles...so pretty...

Spanish has been good. I love it, as always. We got to choose our own seating plan, too, so I'm sitting next to friends. Happiness.

Bible is interesting. I chose World Religions, for those of you who don't know. It's good to learn about all these different religions and why the do what they do or believe what they believe. We've only gone over a few so far, but it's been good.

English. What can I say? Is there any subject I could love more? I'm in the accellerated English class, so we're doing English 12 stuff right now, and we have the same class we've had for the past two years, and our teacher this year is awesome. We have learned a lot alreadyl, but it doesn't really feel like it because it's so much fun. We don't take millions of notes, it's mostly discussions about all the topics. It's great. I love it.

Course selection for next year was due today. I'm pretty happy with what I chose. Let's see if I can remember....Bible - I chose "Life Issues" for that one. Um.... Comparative Civilizations, English Lit, Spanish, Sewing, Psychology, P.E., and that ever-beloved "study" block. Hehe. We'll see how much studying actually goes on. My two alternative choices are Law and Family Studies.

So, I think that's it for this month. Thank you very much for being curious and nosy about the happenings in my own life.

I appreciate it more than I can say.

Hope you enjoyed today's report. Until next time,

Kaeli