Going to Lyss

Here is a video of me and some of my friends going to the big city of Lyss. Hope you enjoy.

Threadless Voting

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Painting

Here is a painting I just finished up (or I think I’m done, we’ll see). I apologize it’s not really a good photo.

I think this all I’m going to post tonight. Well I’ll put in a song how about that?

Sunday February 13, 2011

Nothing new exciting is happening right now. Track starts on monday and play practice will most likely start to pick up. Singing the national anthem with the choir at a basketball game on thursday. Monday night I have a band concert.

In essence my schedule is starting to fill up which means less free time. That isn’t really normally a big issue but my brain is starting to overload with so much on my mind. All the stuff previously mentioned on top of not being sure what I’m doing after I graduate yet, prom (why is prom bouncing around in my head already?), a couple of bible studies that I have to make sure I have time for, and a ridicules AP art studio project that I hate but have to do anyway.

I can’t read anymore because when I do sit down to read because my brain is to busy thinking about many things none of which are about the book I’m reading. This is frustrating to me because I can’t relaxe anymore. I can’t even sleep all the way through the night.

I’m mentally stretched way to thin right now.

Something that is getting me down right now is that my before school devotional has kind of flopped due to a lot of people be involved in things before school. I don’t know what I should do about it because I need a ministry to the students of Lisbon High School, thats why God has placed me there, I just don’t know what to do. I need to take a day and just be still and do nothing but listen to God. That would be good.

On a happy note today a lady I met at church is going to bring me some homemade tea today!!! I’m rather excited for it.

My brain is the subwoofer at a rap concert. Pushed to the limits it pulsates dangerously.

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick

Today I found out that I have an F in my AP Art Studio. And I’m really not that upset but I have my open campus taken away which normally isn’t that big of a deal but today of all days I had a bunch of arens to run that I need to get done really badly. Ugg why do grades have to matter so much. They don’t show how smart you are or how stupid you are. My brother has a genius level iq yet he is failing like three or four classes. Does that mean he is dumb because he can’t succeed in our american school systems? He honestly will go on and be a very very successful person in whatever he does because he follows his passions passionetly. How many people do you know that you can say that about that have mediocre grades, even good grades.

I’m personally not as smart as my brother even though I deny myself that fact all the time because I don’t like to be one upped. I however still don’t value my grades very much because I know they aren’t a true reflection of my intelligence. The only way I see them making a difference is scholarships to get into colleges, but seeing as I don’t think I’m being called to college right now they matter not a bit.

I have a friend that dropped out of high school because he wasn’t doing well in school. He went on and scored at the 98% rate in his GED test, got into the college that he wanted to get into, and now is earning a business degree and has started a band that honestly if they got signed will do very very well. His grades? He failed spanish three times, and didn’t do exceedingly well in the rest of his classes.

All I am really getting at is that we put to much emphasis on grades in this stage of our lives. They dictate how some people see us. Why is that? Why do we need to have a grade represent us at a college without them even knowing us or who we are.

Sitting from a pedestal I criticize only to realize I am at the lowest pedestal with no credibility while God looks down on me with sadness in his eyes.

List

I enjoyed the Superbowl for the following reasons:

1. I got a bunch of really tasty free food that was made by very nice people

2. I got to see some people I haven’t seen in a while

3 I got to hear a really cool testimony from a very interesting man

4.  I reconnected with an old friend that I have been trying to get closer to

5.  Found more evidence that supports that I am sub consciously attracted to brunettes gals a lot (thats a really weird thing to say, but since I’m working on being transparent I guess I won’t delete it)

6. I did something really obscure that you probably have never heard of and wouldn’t understand it if I told you (so I won’t)