Drinking and Driving End in Dismay.

On April 28, 2010
Van Meter High School's NHS team set up an amazing story about a Drinking and Driving accident and touched the hearts of students. Tears were sure to come as the sad tale went on that day.
Nick L was the drunken driver who hit a car with the mother, and two daughters. The mother was instantly killed and the daughter in back lost all feeling in her legs.
The drunk driver got a few scratches but his friend in the back was killed as well. 2 killed and 3 critically injured. Drunk Driver walked away fine.
Ambulance's and firemen, police officers and medical assistants showed how to process is done when an accident such as this occurs.
30 minutes of long waiting and screaming from the "injured" ladies in the car and they finally got to them and had them taken out of the car and rushed to the hospital.
A hearce pulled up and the firemen got the "dead" mother from the driver seat pulled her on a gurnie, put her in a body bag, and took her away to the morg.
Not much to say when you see your friends are being drug out of an accident all blooded and in such agony.
Tears flowed from eyes everywhere as the dead body of Eryn S was drug out of the driver seat her sister who didn't know about this set up was in worse tears then we could have imagined. Watching her sister's "lifeless" body being driven away to her resting place.
What would you do if you saw where and how your family member died? Someone you loved was so tragically taken from you so quickly and all because they made a decision to drink and drive?
Not much to do.
But cry the tears and hope they are in a better place.
Later that day there was a funeral for Shayla the friend of the drunk driver and Eryn the mother in the activity center and it was for all to attend.
As the little gym filled up with friends, students, and family to watch the service of the two casket baring women taken too quickly, even more tears poured from faces of the morning people.
No one could have done a better job of showing the consequences of Drinking and Driving.
But lets all hope if you drink you make better decisions

Mystery Magic

Sooo
I was told to bring my camera to school today, and I still don't know why!! But I am excited to find out! Imagine someone tells you to bring your camera something your pursuing and to help you they give you a project that you don't even know what it is!!
It might be a lion it might be tiger it might be a flower it might be a student! WHO KNOWS?!?! Because I sure don't.
I am told to be going @ 10 to receive my project. And I am enthused to see what it will be. I heard it will be an epic and emotional project. So hopefully not tearful emotional if so well i'm glad I do not have makeup on!
But that is my story for today. Mystery Project here I come!

Weekend Mayhem (:

This weekend was probably thee busiest weekend of my LIFE! Naw... (:
But lets go thru everything that has gone on in the last few days that may or may not have interest to anyone shall we (:
Well on Friday after we got out of school, life was pretty much normal, waited for my little sister to get out of Track then when she was done with that got her and my other sister drove home and did homework.
Waited for the parents to return home later that night and we talked a little with the chit chat thru the day and discussed things like normal.
Then the parents went to go see a movie (jealous!) and we stayed home and I pretty much talked on the phone all night debating whether or not I should draw something for Art Fair that is coming up soon things where supposed to be in last friday but I sorta kinda got an extension.. not really I'm just procrastinating. ooo I spelled that right!!
After the long night of talking on the phone and messing around with my mom's friend's camera stuff she let me borrow I finally went to bed around well late.
Saturday morning got up early because I had my ... ADOPTION SHOWER! woo yah that's right if anyone knows me, I am adopted 2009, 12, 23.
(:
Best day EVA.
My family and I met up with a bunch of girls and friends of my mom as well as some of the family. Got great gifts! Yoga classes, spa packages gardening tools (: mmm!
Excitingggggggg!!
After that we all went out to a late lunch @ On the Boarded sooo good! I had thing one stuff not sure what it was but it looked like potstickers. But they were DELIC!
After that we went home and my sister and I packed up for an epic night out at our Best Friends house.
We got there late afternoon and watched movies all night including.....AVATAR!!! Boo yah I know you're jealous!
Then after all the fun and mayhem from that night we all went to bed, and got up a little later then I intended.
I had to get rushing I had a big day planned for my sunday.
I was meeting my boyfriends grandparents while going to his Choir Concert which was absolutely amazing!! <3
Loved it! Then we went out for dinner at Apple Bee's which was very delicious! I had a Salad and barely made a dint in it before i felt like I was going to explode!
Our waiter was quiet funny! Hope he got a good tip ;)
After all the family fun @ AB we went back to his house and we all chilled out and watched movies but I made my mister go down stairs so I could take pictures. And I got some really amazing ones! I can't wait to put em on some printing paper!
Well that was my weekend (:
Hope yours was just as good!

Art, school, power (;

Hoot!! Hoot!!
Sooo guess what my fellow bloggers! One of my moms closest friends has a photography hobby and she is lending me her camera, and everything that goes with it. 
There are different lenses, filters, and everything more! 
I will be messing around with that for a good many reason hah.
thee most important ones right now are that I have to start practicing for the prom photos i will be taking as well as the yearbook photos.
(need to get on it!)
and the other reason is that i have to have some art fair stuff in for monday and i have nothing i want to send in right now.
so my weekend is pretty full right now, so much fun and so much work, but i enjoy the things i work on.
Photography, Art (:
Ugh love it so much. 
I am a pretty creative person. I love to draw little fun lines. They never really connect but they most of the time come out really pretty. 
When I do draw I can not always draw from my head I'm not that good, I don't practice my drawings. 
So when I want to draw something I usually find a google image and start drawing from what I see. I don't trace it. But I don't come with most of my ideas.
I have drawn 2 people's tattoo's and I plan on doing more. Including my own when I am old enough. 
(:
I enjoy drawing it helps me relive stress just like working out does as well, yeah I'm a pretty healthy person. 
But meh... I like to lay on the couch just as much as the next guy.
(: 
A good sleep in every once in a while is needed for my cluttered and busy brain. Sometimes I just want to flush everything out and be blank. Who wants that!?! 
I like to talk as well, as I am sure you can see. (:
I babble.
Well to stop boring all of you readers I will head on out. School is almost out, don't worry about me getting in trouble for blogging during school, its a requirement believe it or not. (: 
hehe. 
I'll go tho!! 
Have a great day and PS look at the person next to you or object and smile. (:
Did you do it???
i hope so..
Because now I feel powerful hehe 

I love to learn (:

Who woulda thunk!?!?!
I just thought about this today, with the changes that we have made here @ van meter we have made education a lot more interesting! I can learn so much more and so much quicker, if I don't understand something in a class I can easily contact the teacher and have them explain to me better or use a different search engine and learn it a way I think might be easier!
It's really unbelievable!
I sit here and I think, there is this amazing world .. and it's right at my finger tips. I have job opportunities, connection opportunities, learning opportunities.
Everything more!
It's amazing once you think about it, people or different educators may not think about how much it would change or how it would help, but it's amazing. It really is.
No one can experience it the same as we can of course. They may get the 2 hour tour of our school and how we function in this small school.
They will never understand how it may have changed many people's views on education, some kids that may not enjoy learning, such as I last year, enjoy learning so much more!
I never thought I would say I love learning.
I have made this huge incline in my education that I love it and I want more and more!
That's all I have to say!
Have a great day!

Yearbook Photographer?!?!

Okay, if my friends know me as much as they say they do, they don't see me in the lunch room very often I am usually hiding up in the library because I like to chat with my bestie about how the day is going and then finish up a homework assignment i generally don't do @ home. 
I don't know something about it just doesn't seem right. haha! (Jay Kay) 
But this week their is testing this week so the library is sometime closed. 
Today it was closed ):
So I had to go to lunch in the lunch room.. ick. haha 
But I came down on my favorite day! So my day was getting good! I think it might have been fate how I went down to the lunch room. Becauseeeeee
If any of you know I have been invited to go to prom and take pictures! And I sent out a mass email to all of the Prom goers to see if anyone wanted me to come with them to get pictures of the before the prom process. 
And yes some replied! Still no information thooooo. 
But anyways a women who does the yearbook photos saw that I sent that email and asked if I was interested in joining the yearbook committee!! 
I was so excited!! And I said YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Haha So thru this year 2010! I will go out and take pictures! It's a good thing I have pictures from homecoming as well! Those will look quite beautiful in the yearbook. This year was a major win if anyone keeps track of our Football team. Woot!! SO INTENSE! I was there because I am a cheerleader! hehe. 
GOOOOOOOOOO BULLDOGSS!!!

For today...

Holy cow.
Well I haven't had time to go out and mess around with my camera quite yet! Prom is getting closer and I am running out of time! So I suppose I better get to it. I am looking forward to the photographer who might be coming to my school and helping me learn a little more about my flash, it's greatly needed! I don't quite understand how to use it yet.
I have not found any good websites that give me great advice but I am probably not looking hard enough. I am sure there are amazing websites I am missing.
I am still making more and more connections thru twitter but none that really are uhm.. talkative. I probably should pursue that assumption but scared too! I probably should not be scared since the career field I desire so strongly to go into is quite the social activity and requires me to be uh, talkative. I can do that!
Haha!
Well this is short but I am sure there will be more where this came from!
Enjoy your day!

NO SHOES to RAISE AWARENESS! 1 for 1

Today tomshoes.com is raising awareness about children that don't have shoes. It's sad to think about but it's all over the world and worse in other parts!
Facing reality is sort of a hard thing to do these days, business people most of the time caught in their work trying to make a living, and others are trying to make a living finding work.
Its a continuous cycle that not a lot of people try to stop.
I want to help make a difference.
Today I am taking my shoes off in every class! May not be allowed to but I do it! Just a few minutes can make you see that without shoes you're a little "germed" out.
Think... take a moment and think..
A child .. no.. HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS of CHILDREN!  Go without shoes every single day, 24/7 365 days a year.
How would you feel if that was you? Bet you would make some changes.
Your life would be totally different.
Now go ahead and join the hundreds of people around the world who are taking a few moments out of the day and throw your shoes in the corner.
Visit tomshoes.com
or
onedaywithoutshoes.com
(:
Possibly buy a pair of shoes?
When you buy a pair A CHILD gets a pair.
1 for 1.
Make a difference... change a life.