I have been nominated for student of the month in english for October... I personally am happy, but was just a little bit confused, I am not the poet or straight A 100% student or the one who teachers always seem to adore, but I am happy to feel all cool and stellar about it. I guess I made an impression, I thought I had made my lack of knowledge clear with all online things and all, but maybe not. Anyways, it really sounds like I am complaining, I really am happy though, I was just really surprised at first. It actually like kind of made my day today to find that out.
So the good news was the student of the month thing, oh and that I focused REALLY hard during swim today. I really was focused on a set of 2 500's on 8 minutes each, if you don't know what that means, it just means swimming a lot, but I am not sure how long it would usually take me to complete the set normally, but longer than that I assume. Anyways! So I kept track of the set alot better than I usually do, I usually forget and ask someone, but I kept track of everything and passed everyone it seemed like. I was doing pretty well, but I was so focused and some people wouldn't let me pass them and I was only thinking about where I was and breathing, that someone did a flip turn and kicked me in the face.
When he/she kicked me, it shocked me and my goggles came off and I was thrown off my wack I guess. I was suprised and my head hurt, but I really wanted to rest at the end of the set and I was at 350 or 400, so I put my goggles back on and started swimming as fast as I could again. Within the next 25 I passed most of the people who had passed me when I was recovering from the shock for a second, and I was about to pass one more person, but they wouldn't even move over a little or slow down! So I started to just swim around them, which was fine and dandy, but it was close to one of the walls (the same wall I had just been kicked on), so somehow I was kicked again! This kick hurt a LOT more though. my goggles came off again and I had a hard time breathing for a second, so I stopped on the wall to rest for a second so I could breath, but I still really, really, wanted to make the set with extra time, so after gasping for air and assuring the people behind me, who probably though I was crying, that I was okay, I started swimming just as hard.
I got to the other end again and did a flip turn only to realize everyone was getting out, so I stopped and got out too. When I stood up my head felt really light and airey, and I didn't feel like I could walk in a straight line, but I didn't want anyone to freak out, considering the last two days, so I just ignored it. I came home, still with a headache, looked in the mirror, and saw that I had like a green bruise on my eye. I really did look as bad as I felt, and still kind of feel.
So today has been great and painful, but right now I still have a killer headache, so I am going to go to bed early (for me, you all might go to bed at this time usually)
p.s. Please ignore any grammer, spelling, etc. errors :)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
My Week
I have had a weird week! I guess my person who I usually talk to has been drugged with some experimental cold medicine all week (don't even ask..). Which means that I have had a LOT of talking stored up, so be prepared!
Monday was My birthday, I got some cool stuff and when out to dinner. I got nail polish, I tried painting a little section of hair.. Don't try it, it doesn't work. but it works enough to make your hair that color for a minute and if you happen to also have glow in the dark nail polish then it looks cool with the lights off. Sadly it wore away, so no more green hair now.
A girl at swim yesterday had a seizer and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. It was scary, but it happened when we were doing starts. If it had happened at any other time during practice she could have drown. She was out of the water for starts, and she started shaking then passing out and shaking more. An ambulance came and took her to the hospital. What scares me is that she could have drown, if she had stopped in the pool no one would have noticed, until it was too late maybe. Another problem happened today, though not nearly as bad. I would explain, but I think I'll just sleep instead. goodnight!
Monday was My birthday, I got some cool stuff and when out to dinner. I got nail polish, I tried painting a little section of hair.. Don't try it, it doesn't work. but it works enough to make your hair that color for a minute and if you happen to also have glow in the dark nail polish then it looks cool with the lights off. Sadly it wore away, so no more green hair now.
A girl at swim yesterday had a seizer and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. It was scary, but it happened when we were doing starts. If it had happened at any other time during practice she could have drown. She was out of the water for starts, and she started shaking then passing out and shaking more. An ambulance came and took her to the hospital. What scares me is that she could have drown, if she had stopped in the pool no one would have noticed, until it was too late maybe. Another problem happened today, though not nearly as bad. I would explain, but I think I'll just sleep instead. goodnight!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Hey! It's my birthday and I have NOTHING to do. (I know you are probably getting sick of all caps, but hey, that's how I talk too, so get used to it I guess) I have nothing to do so I am just sitting here wasting time. (sorry this was from yesterday, but I guess I will post it even though it really tells you nothing. So yeah, I'll write more later I guess, see ya!!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
MY BIRTHDAY!
One more day until the greatest day of the year! My birthday is tomorrow and I am really excited. I have always been over excited for my birthday, in the past EVERYONE has known how long until my birthday thanks to my daily and sometimes hourly reminders. This year I don't really know if anyone will know, but either way I will probably get skittles, so it's all good. I decided not to tell my family what I wanted, so I am not entirely sure what I will get. I just really hope I get something cool I guess.
A random fact about me is that I have three birth certificates, and I can technically get one more. I guess my parents were unsure on what to name me, so they just named me "Baby Girl" Templeton. I am not sure how long after, probably a week or two, they decided to actually name me. They got a new birth certificate that said "Sierra Nicole" Templeton. So that was my name... Until princess Diana died and my mom wanted to give me another middle name. So now my name is officially "Sierra Diana Nicole Templeton". And about the last one, I was adopted, so I can now get yet another one that has different parents on it.
My friend has a little brother who has the same birthday as me. He is in 7th grade this year, so now I can go up and shout at him about "GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS?! just like old times. I used to do that when ever we saw each other in the month of September, but I really haven't seen him too much the last two years. I have missed that, because no one is ever nearly as excited for the 26th as my Lukie is (except me of course). So he had better be prepared for seeing me tomorrow.
I still haven't even gotten to book to study for my permit, so I guess I won't be driving for a while, which I am actually very ok with. Everyone is so excited to have a permit and to drive, but I honestly don't have any desire to drive. Oh well I guess, I will probably be excited by the time I actually can get a license, but for now I will stick to getting rides.
My birthday is on an A day, which the last two years has been my preferred day, but this year I kind of wish it were on a B day. My B day is a lot more exciting and fun. I have Biology (which isn't my favorite, but I have some cool people in my class), English, Seminary, and Studio Art. Seriously though, Seminary, English and Art vs Gym, Math, and Geography. Its not a hard choice. But I have a couple of my best friends in a ton of my A day classes, so it all works out okay.
It is kind of weird that I am going to be swimming tomorrow, but I am kind of hoping I can use the fact that it is my birthday to beg one of the coaches to let me do my favorite stroke. I am not sure if he will listen, but I am hoping he will.. I guess I will have to tell you how it goes, next time I get on to blog.
That is all I really have to say for now, so goodbye I guess.
A random fact about me is that I have three birth certificates, and I can technically get one more. I guess my parents were unsure on what to name me, so they just named me "Baby Girl" Templeton. I am not sure how long after, probably a week or two, they decided to actually name me. They got a new birth certificate that said "Sierra Nicole" Templeton. So that was my name... Until princess Diana died and my mom wanted to give me another middle name. So now my name is officially "Sierra Diana Nicole Templeton". And about the last one, I was adopted, so I can now get yet another one that has different parents on it.
My friend has a little brother who has the same birthday as me. He is in 7th grade this year, so now I can go up and shout at him about "GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS?! just like old times. I used to do that when ever we saw each other in the month of September, but I really haven't seen him too much the last two years. I have missed that, because no one is ever nearly as excited for the 26th as my Lukie is (except me of course). So he had better be prepared for seeing me tomorrow.
I still haven't even gotten to book to study for my permit, so I guess I won't be driving for a while, which I am actually very ok with. Everyone is so excited to have a permit and to drive, but I honestly don't have any desire to drive. Oh well I guess, I will probably be excited by the time I actually can get a license, but for now I will stick to getting rides.
My birthday is on an A day, which the last two years has been my preferred day, but this year I kind of wish it were on a B day. My B day is a lot more exciting and fun. I have Biology (which isn't my favorite, but I have some cool people in my class), English, Seminary, and Studio Art. Seriously though, Seminary, English and Art vs Gym, Math, and Geography. Its not a hard choice. But I have a couple of my best friends in a ton of my A day classes, so it all works out okay.
It is kind of weird that I am going to be swimming tomorrow, but I am kind of hoping I can use the fact that it is my birthday to beg one of the coaches to let me do my favorite stroke. I am not sure if he will listen, but I am hoping he will.. I guess I will have to tell you how it goes, next time I get on to blog.
That is all I really have to say for now, so goodbye I guess.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Hey!!
I haven't been able to come up with anything really cool to say, so I am just going to start writing anyways. So now I guess I will have to find something interesting to say..
Okay maybe I need to start with explaining my blog name and username. My blog is called Space Rabbit (as you can see). It is called this because my favorite animal is a rabbit, and I have gone to space camp for the last 3 years. My user name is skittles because I could eat skittle all day everyday. I actually like skittles because of space camp strangely... Anyways, yes, there's no deep meaning, but it was the best name I could think of.
I was thinking of doing like a topic of the month or something, it may not last very long, but I figure it's worth a try, right? So a topic for this month is Space Camp, because it explains both the Space part and the Skittles part of the title and name.
Space camp is a week long, and is really, REALLY intense sometimes. See, you go from 7am to 11pm most of the time, but it's in alabama, so theres a two hour time difference. So it feels like its the middle of the night when you wake up and looks like it's the middle of the night when you go to bed sometimes. So you don't get a lot of sleep as it is, but once you get into your "habitat" (room) you say up forever. After a few days of no sleep, things sometimes get a little weird.. When I went in last June I was on a top bunk and I figured I needed to go to bed, so I tried to get down so I could charge my phone, but I missed the ladder to get down I guess, because I hit the floor like really hard and it made a huge crashing sound. All the girls in my room started laughing at me until a counselor came in and yelled at us, so I thought that was the end of it. But I was on the third floor, so when the girls started talking about it the next day, one of the boys in our groups was like "ohh! that's what that crash was last night?!" (the floors down). So yeah, that's part of why things sometimes get really crazy there. Also, you get comfortable with some of the people after after days of being together 24-7;
All the girls this year were really close, and also the boys, but yeah, not exactly the same. We had 11 people in our group. The girls were me, this girl named Nari, Maddi, and Jinni. The boys were: Chris, Austin, Matt, Sasha (yes he is a boy, it was a nickname), Buster, Zach, and Sawyer. Nari was the only girl that i actually met there, but she was so nice. She actually scared some guy off after he got mad and grabbed my arm. She was really pretty, but got really homesick by the end. Maddi is one of my best friends and she is probably the one that I talk to the most out of everyone now. Jinni is wonderful too, she actually also helped me a lot there. Chris was my best guy friend there, he was really funny and we talked non-stop for most of the time at camp I think. Austin.. well Austin was cool, but I never really talked to him, so this is all I have to say about him. Matt was quite, so I didn't talk to him a ton either, but he had a great smile! Sasha I did talk to, he was like a anime nerd, but super funny. He had a pocket watch that he carried around with him, and he always wore orange goggles. He was funny partially because when I asked him to do the Macarena in front of a camera that was streaming to everyone else in our group, he just said yeah danced with me without worrying what everyone else thought. Buster was not too bad, but again I didn't talk to him too much. Zach and Sawyer were... umm.... ANYWAYS! Those were the people in my group. I will post more later, but that's all for now.
Okay maybe I need to start with explaining my blog name and username. My blog is called Space Rabbit (as you can see). It is called this because my favorite animal is a rabbit, and I have gone to space camp for the last 3 years. My user name is skittles because I could eat skittle all day everyday. I actually like skittles because of space camp strangely... Anyways, yes, there's no deep meaning, but it was the best name I could think of.
I was thinking of doing like a topic of the month or something, it may not last very long, but I figure it's worth a try, right? So a topic for this month is Space Camp, because it explains both the Space part and the Skittles part of the title and name.
Space camp is a week long, and is really, REALLY intense sometimes. See, you go from 7am to 11pm most of the time, but it's in alabama, so theres a two hour time difference. So it feels like its the middle of the night when you wake up and looks like it's the middle of the night when you go to bed sometimes. So you don't get a lot of sleep as it is, but once you get into your "habitat" (room) you say up forever. After a few days of no sleep, things sometimes get a little weird.. When I went in last June I was on a top bunk and I figured I needed to go to bed, so I tried to get down so I could charge my phone, but I missed the ladder to get down I guess, because I hit the floor like really hard and it made a huge crashing sound. All the girls in my room started laughing at me until a counselor came in and yelled at us, so I thought that was the end of it. But I was on the third floor, so when the girls started talking about it the next day, one of the boys in our groups was like "ohh! that's what that crash was last night?!" (the floors down). So yeah, that's part of why things sometimes get really crazy there. Also, you get comfortable with some of the people after after days of being together 24-7;
All the girls this year were really close, and also the boys, but yeah, not exactly the same. We had 11 people in our group. The girls were me, this girl named Nari, Maddi, and Jinni. The boys were: Chris, Austin, Matt, Sasha (yes he is a boy, it was a nickname), Buster, Zach, and Sawyer. Nari was the only girl that i actually met there, but she was so nice. She actually scared some guy off after he got mad and grabbed my arm. She was really pretty, but got really homesick by the end. Maddi is one of my best friends and she is probably the one that I talk to the most out of everyone now. Jinni is wonderful too, she actually also helped me a lot there. Chris was my best guy friend there, he was really funny and we talked non-stop for most of the time at camp I think. Austin.. well Austin was cool, but I never really talked to him, so this is all I have to say about him. Matt was quite, so I didn't talk to him a ton either, but he had a great smile! Sasha I did talk to, he was like a anime nerd, but super funny. He had a pocket watch that he carried around with him, and he always wore orange goggles. He was funny partially because when I asked him to do the Macarena in front of a camera that was streaming to everyone else in our group, he just said yeah danced with me without worrying what everyone else thought. Buster was not too bad, but again I didn't talk to him too much. Zach and Sawyer were... umm.... ANYWAYS! Those were the people in my group. I will post more later, but that's all for now.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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