Beach!!

Surprise trip to the beach?  Yes, please!!!  Gotta love the Daniels family!!  I'll publish pictures later!

North Carolina

So i cannot believe that the summer is almost over!! I move in a month from yesterday! I'm so excited, but really nervous! I'm in north carolina now with my mom visiting family! We're going shopping at some vintage shops today! I can't wait! We're eating lunch now, then hitting the town for some vintage stuff! I really wanna find an old picture frame to make into a cork board for college! Wish me luck!

Disney

I left for Disney World the day after graduation.  It was pretty fun.  I'm super glad that Kayla got to come with me, because only having guys to hang out with would have killed me.  But yea, it was pretty fun.  We stayed there for a week and went to all of the parks.  Here's some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Orientation

I had freshman orientation for the University of Memphis on June 2-3.  I was expecting it to be super fun, because that's what I had heard from friends.  They lied.  It was very awkward and very boring.  We had to sit through hours upon hours of boring information sessions.  It was very informative,  but still boring.  It was super exciting to get to stay in the Living Learning Complex, aka LLC, since that's where I'll be living as of August 25th.  I am so excited to move in, but I'm scared and I'm gonna miss a lot of things.  I recently realized that I will no longer be able to take Ricky to and from church of Wednesdays and Sundays, since I will live 30 minutes away from him and he lives 30 minutes away from the church.  It'd be worth it, but I can't afford the gas.  I might just spend some wednesdays at home, so I can still take him home from church.  The 30 minute drive to and from church is very sentimental to us, because that is how we first go to know each other and fell in love.  I am going to really miss it, but we will still see each other. I'm  really going to miss living only 10 minutes from him, too, but it could be worse.  At least I'll only live 30 minutes instead of 3 hours.  It will be a major change, but we'll survive... hopefully.

Summer

I'm officially at the beach! I love it! It's so peaceful. I really just wanna go sit on the beach under the stars and watch the waves crash against the shore. I get to swim in the ocean for the first time in 2 years! So excited! This summer is going to fly by. It feels like just yesterday it was graduation, but now I've got disney and orientation under my belt. Disney was pretty fun. I'll write a post about it with pictures later. Orientation was insanely boring, but I got to stay in the dorm that I'll be living in this fall! That was pretty exciting. Now I'm just ready to move in, though, I will miss my family and my Ricky SO BAD!! Anyway, now i'm at youth camp, aka meltdown, in gulf shores! Yay! I'll post more soon, it's bed time.

Graduation

The most important day of a high schooler’s life... Graduation.  It is the mile marker of your entire high school career.  You wish for 4 years that it would get here, but then it just ends.  It ends in a flash.  Before you know it, high school is over.  You'll never see most of the people from your graduating class, and you’re moving out and going off to some foreign place for college.  It’s a whole new experience and it’s scary, but exhilarating all at the same time.  You have a whole new life.  You can reinvent yourself.  You don’t have to be the person you were in high school, you can change your style, your attitude, or even your name.  You may move out, or live at home; know 100 people or 1 person, but you will have at least one thing in common with every other freshman there.  We will all be scared to death of this new experience.  It’s gonna be new to all of us.  No matter how many books and blogs your read to prepare yourself, there’s nothing like the real thing.  We’re all gonna be in the same boat, just try to remember that.

Last Day of High School

Today, i woke up early, studied for my Sociology and AP Environmental Science exams, got ready, and headed to school.  It felt like any ordinary day at first.  I finished my Sociology exam in record time and finished reading Dear John after the test.  Then, I took my AP Environmental Science exam and I finished it in 5 minutes.  Then, I got my mom to email the attendance officer so I could leave early.  As I was walking down the hall to leave, I realized that I would never walk down those halls again.  It was a very bittersweet moment.  It is insane to think that I am done with high school forever.  Even as I type it, it doesn’t seem right.  I feel like a freshman still, but I’m not, I am soon to be a high school graduate.  Oh, and did I mention that graduation is in a week? I can’t wait.  Ricky will finally be all mine.  Then I leave and go to Disney World the day after graduation.  When I get back from that, I have orientation at Memphis, then church camp with Ricky, and then family vacation.  It’s all gonna fly by.  It’s already summer, but before I even realize it, I will be moving my things into my new dorm and getting ready for classes at the University of Memphis.  I’m scared to death, but I know it’ll all work out fine.  As you can tell from my pictures, I'm insanely excited!