Confusion

I was sick as a dog during the release week of tobyMac's new album. I had planned to go with Sarah to Best Buy on the day it came out, a Tuesday, to pick up a copy. I miserably stayed home on Monday and forced myself to come to school on Tuesday. Months ago I had planned to buy Toby's album on the first day and being sick wasn't going to hinder me. Sarah and I left school around lunchtime and made our way to Best Buy. We both bought copies of Portable Sounds. I then payed for our lunches at McAllister's. During the afternoon, my fever came back and I was miserable. I was thankful when I went home later on and didn't come to school the rest of the week.

So Sarah is leaving for the Air Force on May 1st. We are both hurriedly trying to finish our Accounting. In a couple of weeks, we are going to work together on the practice sets. The practice sets combine the information we (supposedly) learned and apply that to real Accounting work. Miss Kay said that they could take 40 hours each to complete--and we have two practice sets. Sarah said that we'll order a pizza and make it a party. We both laugh about that. We're having a graduation/Air Force going away celebration for Sarah during the last week of April. She and I both need to move on, but I do feel very sad that this is the end of what we had in high school. When I first came to this homeschool group two and a half years ago, there were seven high schoolers, including Sarah and I. There were expectations that at least half of these students would stay at Miss Kay's school and graduate through her program. One by one, they all left, either by dropping out or by going to another school. By the end of the Spring semester of '06, Sarah and I were the only ones left. We became very good friends within my first semester at this little school (Spring of '05). So being the first graduates of Miss Kay's school means a lot. We also share a plethora of memories. Whether it be walking to the duck pond, walking to the gas station or even the mall (the last of which we did more often before Sarah got a car), we have walked and talked a lot over the past two and a half years. Back in the first semester of this year, I had a ride from Marshall who would take me to a gas station in the mornings. Sarah would pick me up most of the time. We would have a grand time laughing at the absurdities of the outside world and picking up donuts. We still go pick up donuts now. We've picked up the occasional pizza, we've run errands for Miss Kay, we've gone to Books-A-Million, we've eaten lunch at the mall, we've had loads of fun at the gym, and we've whined about accounting and math and whined some more. The point is this will all be gone on May 1st and it will never come back. The chances are that we will see each other very little over the next four years. But we are both moving on to better things and we had the grandest of times.

Speaking of moving on to better things...about three weeks ago, my mom called me during school to tell me that she had received an e-mail from Hardin-Simmons University which revealed that they wanted to give me the tuition exchange scholarship through ETBU. I had recently just accepted that I would be attending the local ETBU for hopefully no longer than a year. I didn't think that any school would give me the scholarship without first receiving my transcript, which I am aiming to send to HSU next month. I was overflowing with joy when I heard that news. I discovered that the next audition for music scholarship consideration was two weeks away, so I got busy preparing for that. My mom and I are hoping we can get some money to take care of room and board expenses. We spent the night before the audition at my sister's house, which is a little over three aways away from HSU. My sister took us over to Abilene, Texas the next day. After leaving the big Fort Worth metroplex area, we entered a long stretch of two hours of land. Miles and miles of nice land, with not much else in sight. Welcome to West Texas, I guess. Abilene is supposed to be nicely sized, with a population of 100,000 +. The proof of that didn't show much on the Hardin-Simmons part of town. As we were searching for a place to get food, we happened upon another university, Abilene Christian University. It looked bigger and nicer than HSU. After passing by ACU, we began to enter a more promising part of town. Perhaps we were getting closer to downtown. There wasn't much time for exploring because I had to get to my audition. We also didn't do any exploring afterwards. If I end up going next year, I'll get to do lots of exploring. Things are a little hectic right now. I'm trying to graduate and figure out how to get the funds I need for HSU next year, among other things. Anyway, I did like the campus of Hardin-Simmons. It's not a very big school, but I think I'd enjoy myself there. I think I'd also grow a lot more as a person there than I would at ETBU. I'll probably be blogging more often if I go there. I'll buy a laptop and it's likely that I will write little posts on a more consistent basis, even though I know I will be very busy with all sorts of things. Enough of this post...this is just a broad review of what's going on with me right now.