Deaf Awareness Week

Deaf Awareness Week is really in September, but my school teacher is doing it this upcoming week, so I will too!

To advertise Deaf Awareness at school, we are making posters as a class and also advertising on the morning announcements with trivia questions!
This next week, I will do the same on my blog. The first question will be on Monday morning!

But for now, this is a great article I found about the Winter Deaflympics which will be in Slovakia, Russia in 2011.


Stay tuned this week for more fascinating information into the Deaf world!!

singing telegrams

so at our high school we have this thing called singing telegrams. it's when any group any size (but not too big) can get together and audition to go around and sing to people for valetines day. it's a great fundraiser idea!
so this year, a few of jazz choir people decided to get together and sing some songs. so we auditioned and made it! so we went around today and sang to people because valetines day was sunday and we had school off the whole next week. only a few people bought us cause they didn't know about us but it was super fun! we went around to our friends classrooms and sang to them even if they didn't buy us.
we also went to my little brothers classroom and i swear he is gonna beat me up when he comes back from school but i just couldn't resist singing love songs to him :)
this is our school commercial for us (that they never played!! another reason why nobody bought us) : http://www.schooltube.com/video/b242723e611db14c6f7c/Jazz-Gone-ACAP
(and i know my hair is super goofy, it was having a bad day)

this isn't everybody but it is most of us!

THAT'S US ON THE BOARD!! :)


**look at below post

Jazz Choir at the Kennedy Center

This is a performance of our Stone Bridge Jazz Choir at the Kennedy Center on February 22nd 2010!!
It was super dee duper fun and awesome that it was broadcast live and put on the internet!

ENJOY

http://kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4137&type=A

(it's being a little silly with uploading right now, but hopefully it will work soon...)

FINAL DECISION

BYU it is!!!

So i'll be using all of you (bryan and katie especially) for class, housing, meal recommendations in the near future.

What made my final decision was this: I just could not see myself attending Utah State. It was the weirdest thing. I was trying to picture myself at both schools to see which one I liked better and I just could not see myself going to Utah State. And it's not that I forgot what it looked like or anything.

So I guess maybe i'm supposed to go to BYU!


BUT if I don't like BYU or something after my first year, i'll consider transferring to Utah State :)

decision made?

so i think i've made my decision on where i'm going to go to college.
but i'm not gonna announce yet.
i'm gonna wait till i know for sure.
so i will announce my final final decision like sunday night.

thanks for everyone's support!

NOW FOR THE DECISION

I GOT INTO BYU-PROVO!!!!

So now the real difficult part begins. Here are some pros and cons of both school I am struggling between:

BYU-Provo

Pros: excellent nursing program (if I got in), family surrounding me, friends I know who are already there and who I know are going there, great school, cute mormon boys

Cons: no scholarships (that I know of), following the standard mormon traditions :)


Utah State

Pros: scholarships adding up to about $16,400 for tuition and housing, somewhere between $2000 and $2500 in cash to spend (because of scholarships), get to know new people, the aggie ice cream, good nursing program through Weber State, also has a great education program if I wanted to go into teaching, cute mormon and non-mormon boys

Cons: don't know anybody (I mean, I know a few people, relatives and some friends but nobody close you know?), cold weather, the "typical" college campus (i.e. drinking, smoking...yadda yadda)


Any suggestions or other pros and cons for either school??

snow storm of 2010

one word: WOW
it all started the week of february 8th. we already initially had no school on monday so we had school on tuesday. that night, the first hint of snow came so school was canceled for wednesday. thursday was back to school but the snow started around 4:00 canceling all after-school activities. later that night we found out school was canceled friday as well. what a great weekend!
now friday was the mega day. throughout the entire day we accumulated around 30 inches and on into saturday it continued.
that weekend was gloriously filled with food and movies and tv. approximately 10 hours total of tv/movie time was accomplished for those few days.
saturday we found out that they were already canceling school on monday and tuesday because of the extreme amounts of snowfall.
tuesday we found out that they were canceling school for the rest of the week because of the continuous wind and snowfall. just imagine my ecstatic-ness!!!
there is no school on monday because of presidents day and we are expected to get around 2 to 4 inches on top of the ice and snow we already have. no school tuesday??? :)

a new found obsession

as many of you know, i tend to obsess over many things.
and as many of you know, i tend to obsess over one artist (music) at a time and continually listen to the same artist for weeks.
well i have found a new obsession.
his name is..... JUSTIN BIEBER.
now for those of you who may know him, don't freak out. i know he's only 14 years old, but he is REALLY GOOD. and it's not just his looks :)
when i first heard him i was like "yeah, he's good. whatever" i figured they just "automated" his voice or whatever to make it sound like it does. but then i heard THIS and realized that he really is very very talented! and i have since then become thoroughly obsessed with all of his music.
the only funny thing is that he's canadian, white, and young and he's singing about love and uses lingo like "shawty" (for those of you who know what that is) and basically just tries to be a G (gangsta).
but i love his music anyways.

a tempting offer....

so today i got a letter in the mail from Utah State University.
i had already received my acceptance letter so i was curious as to what this would say.
i took it to my room to read in private and upon opening it found out that i had received the "dean's scholarship" which is a 2 year full out-of-state tuition scholarship.

woah...


i was pretty excited. mom even started crying.
so this is a huge con in my scale balancing between usu and byu-provo (saying i get in...)

we'll see what happens.
OH and i'm taking pictures tomorrow for sure of my hair so they will be posted very very very soon!! :)

what a happy day!

and now exam week begins..... blegh

Coulrophobia (REALLY not for the easily scared)

Definition of Coulrophobia: Fear of Clowns

Many people in this world are afraid of clowns. I happen to be one of those.
Now I'm not talking about "ooh oooh they're so scary!" type of afraid. I'm talking more the "Holy crackers get me out of this place my bladder is bursting!!!" type of afraid. Even seeing a creepy picture of a clown sends shivers up my entire body.
So to have my older brother, Bryan, scare the living daylights out of me with clown pictures was enough to send me over the edge:

a long long time ago i was telling my darling brother bryan about how i don't like clowns and how having a dream about one would scare me. he decided to plan out how my dream would commence. and this is how it went: "you are asleep. you wake up for some odd reason, so you are laying awake now. you see a shadow go by your window. 'that's strange' you think. so you close your eyes to try and fall asleep. you open them again because you feel a little thud. at the end of your bed you see a figure. yes, it's a little clown. 'hello,' says the clown 'my name is mr. marbles. catch the knife!' and that's the last thing you see." now imagine being a young innocent child and hearing this. yes, it scarred me.

AND SO...

around the year 2005, we were all living happily in our little townhouse. then one day, it all changed. bryan knew that alison did not like clowns, but decided to scare his darling little sister anyway. for those of you who know bryan well know that he is an exceptional artist. which can be both good and bad. in this case it was bad. bryan drew a creepily good picture of this fated mr. marbles and placed it under her blankets. so when dear alison pulled back the covers to get into bed, boy was she surprised when she saw a scary clown grinning evilly back at her. she grabbed the paper and tore it to bits crying the whole time and screaming. apparently not enough though. for alison's little brother decided to staple the picture back together which only made it that much more frightening. what evil brothers this poor alison has.

so all in all, clowns are not a good thing.


p.s. i was going to put up some pictures to illustrate why people should not like clowns but i think i am going to have nightmares from looking at them so i will not pass that on to others. i highly recommend NOT typing anything about clowns in google images unless you want nightmares.

THIS however, is hilarious and inspired this entire post.

"abbrevs" and other lingo

from my last post it has become clear to me that many of you out there in this world may not be familiar with the "new and hip" lang that we 'kids' have these days. so it will be my privilege to update you all.

first, there is text language. meaning that you basically take out the vowels of a word to shorten it or take the first letters of a saying or sentence.
examples:
lol = laugh out loud
btw = by the way (also b.t.dubbs for fun)
brb = be right back
rofl = rolling on floor laughing
lylas = love ya like a sister
and many many others

second, there is a language called "abbrevs" meaning abbreviations. so basically you abbreviate every word you say.
the most common word used is "TOTES" as in totally.
some more examples are:
obvi = obviously
lang = language
and any other word in the english language that can be shortened. it's really quite fun.


annnnd don't worry, pictures will be coming up soon of my new hair!! :)

b. t. dubbs

i totally got my hair cut. nicole siri cut it but i wanted it shorter so i had mom cut it even shorter when we got home. i had to practically force her to.

i used this picture for reference and it's about like this and i really really like it a lot. it's soooo much easier to handle now and i wear it down a lot more! maybe i'll put up some pictures or something soon. i haven't done that in a while....


anyway, there is another post beneath this so keep reading :)

more collegiate junk

i got into UTAH STATE!!

now i am working on getting on my scholarships and stuff in and let me tell you, it is not as fun as i was hoping.

also, audition for byu-i = not cool. i have to send in a video of me singing two songs. so scary. and it has to be there by feb. 1st so i need to get a move on!

:)

A New Year

2010.
what a large and significant number. things to (hopefully and maybe) happen this year:


- GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL!! thank goodness...

- get a haircut. i'm thinking short... suggestions?


i really like this length and style of hair, too short? (this is a girl from One Tree Hill who's hair i have admired ever since i first saw the show)

- get muscular. i have never really ever "worked out" before but now that we have a treadmill, i am hoping to run more and maybe get my health up.

- go on the trek for youth conference. i hope we get to chop off chicken heads and wrestle pigs!

- either go to "take your child to work day" or go on a business trip with dad. he goes to really cool places and i want to go with him sometime.

- get my $500 for not kissing any boys in high school

- start college (don't know where yet though...)

- visit utah over spring break!! for a whole week :)


Now for some goals I want to accomplish:


- already mentioned, but i want to get more fit.

- pass my AP courses with at least B's and maintain my GPA

- sing a solo in choir. or maybe a duet... but if i do a duet, i want to sing this song


well that's basically it.
what are some of your new years goals?