High School: Sophomore Year

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Thankful Thursday: Turning the Pages

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I'm feeling nostalgic and so grateful today, here:)

AP tests

I am taking both the Language and Statistics AP tests tomorrow and slightly freaking out. I would really appreciate if you could keep me in your thoughts and prayers!

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Thankful Thursday

Hope you've been doing well! Sorry, life  has gotten the best of me!

Happy Thursday:)

The Most Memorable Senior Prom

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Senior Prom. A night that you envision in your mind as a little girl filled with an amazing dress, beautiful flowers, pretty makeup, magic, fun, friends, a limo and just perfection.. Right? Almost. The night of my senior prom my makeup wasn't evenly on my eyes because the lighting where I was sitting made it hard to get it perfect; I had to take it completely off twice. I was having a hard time staying calm because little brother was stressing me out since he was to pick up his date in 20 minutes and still didn’t know what exactly he was wearing. It was hard keeping my cool with my sister who was helping me with my hair that I hated the first 2 rounds of it trying to do it. I was frustrated that it wouldn't work the way I wanted it! Time was quickly running out and I had to take it out, and start all over again. Finally, I got it to work- even though it wasn’t exactly the way I had envisioned it. I thought that that would be the most of my worries of the night. As my date and I zoomed off in a fancy red sports car for the night, I was proud of myself for getting through such a hard ordeal just getting ready. Little, little did I know about getting through hard things.

Day Date: Jump On It!

Get ready

Pictures: Capitol Building

Dinner: Benihanas (Water, Lemonade, soup/salad, Chicken/Shrimp, rice, veggies)

The story: We were at the dance for about half an hour when my head started to feel like it was being attacked by needles. Put it off but as I went to go rest for a minute I knew something was wrong so I ran to the bathroom- lips tingling and hand itching. In the bathroom, lips were 3x their normal size, I started rashing, sweating, crying, hyperventilating, and I couldn't breathe. Chaperone called for backup and I couldn't control my body- pain, pain, pain. Tongue/lips swelled, took Benadryl and threw up, twice. Lost my sense of vision, had to take my dress off, couldn't think.. a plethora of problems. Ambulance came, carted me out of prom, got hooked up to steroids and IVs, thought it was drugs, food poisoning or an allergy. At hospital lot more bad things happened but I survived and today, we know it is some sort of unknown allergy. Will know upon more testing. 

It would have been impossible to get through this entire thing had it not been for all the amazing people that rallied behind me. Truly, the prayers worked and I was able to gain so much strength from those around me. So thank you!! From the bottom of my heart, I love you and will forever be indebted to you. 

In the end, maybe I didn't get the ‘typical’ prom experience; However, I honestly did have such an awesome time except for the last 2 hours of it. Obviously both my date and I will remember that night in a slightly more scary way, but I am so confident that this was supposed to happen and things were as they were meant to be, so I am content with it. I have a sure and strong knowledge that there is a much bigger plan for me in store, so I’m not bitter or angry. I was supposed to live and I’m here on earth with this experience so I hope to find the lesson in it when appropriate so I can maybe help someone else or do whatever it is that I’m supposed to do with it. My makeup got smeared off with my tears, my hair looked absolutely horrendous, and my little brother ended up ditching his date to meet up with his sister at the ER. But, if anything, I have been greatly blessed because I know now that I am so much stronger than I thought, I have a greater understanding and realization of the purpose of my life, and above all, I know I can do hard things.

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