on friday i didn't have to go to school b/c i took the apush exam. overall, i thin i did alright. multiple choice and the DBQ weren't horrible, but by the time it came for the open responses, i was drained. so for the question about how the relations b/w american indians and european settlers shaped the different cultures, i pretty much made up things about thanksgiving and pocahontas. the second open response was on the south post-reconstruction and i was really general and wrote horrendously
after i went home, i watched too many episodes of america's next top model andd then we to church. at lyf, i lead small group discussion and i must say that i do love small group chocho. although we all have ADD, we all genuinely care about each other and are friends. to be honest it was challenging leading b/c i hadn't read over the lesson and christine asked me to lead right after games. we talked about social justice and myanmar. it was hard b/c i don't know if i truly have a heart and compassion for the people there.
i think this goes with raising money for 30 hr famine. i haven't raised anything yet, but i plan to go all out tomorrow haha. but i realized i need to have the right heart and mind set. that i'm not doing this b/c it's a nice thing to do/i'm obligated/everyone else is doing it, but it's want God's called us to do. we're called to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give shelter to the homeless. our lives our for Christ and if everything is "for His kingdom's cause" i think it changes how we live and i guess how we raise money too!
so i had social celebration of my 17th year on saturday. first, christine, katie, alice, faith, and karen met up at my house and we went to boston to meet up with esther and the victorias. we shopped at downtown crossing and fanueil hall, then we made cards with mai ib and yee, and after we had food. thenn we watched 27 dresses :) being the ridiculous characters we are, blair, victoria lee, and i made a scandalous video jk. just a crazy/silly one where we attempted to be AGG. then v and i saw the "sunrise" in my backyard in sleeping bags. with the 40 degree weather, it was a pretty good time. after going on a bit of a cleaning raid, i crashed at 7. waking at like 2 hours later, i had some delicious pancakes and went to church.
after church, i had lunch with matt and eunice at panera. then we went prom dress shopping :) it was pretty painless. i walked through the mall and only bought a clutch. haha so eunice got a wicked bad foot cramp so matt got a wheelchair for her. when i was wheeling her around, i noticed people were especially nice to us. our final stop was david's bridal andd i only tried on two dresses. the dress i wanted originally didn't like as nice in person :( the color was really dark and the dress is reallyyy poofy. soo i ended getting this dress that might be a bridesmaid dress, but it was on sale and it was green (two pluses)!
my mom's in canada so we didn't really get to celebrate mother's day, but we went out for mexican as a family :) i pretty much got 10 hrs of sleep to make up from the previous night andd took a 2 hr nap today so i'm holding up alright.
going back to school wasn't too bad, it's so much more relaxing without calc and history :) i can't wait for summer! alright off to homework.
