Saturday, October 18, 2008

a scarry threat to our suburb

a few days ago in my choir class, our director told us some news that the school administration wanted to keep quiet: there was an incident on campus not too long ago that happened to her son, that deals with a new gang in surprise called "the juggalos". her son is on the football team and while waiting by the locker room, he noticed a kid standing by the gate wearing a white hockey mask. this kid started walking toward him until the head football coach noticed and threatened to kick the kid's u-know-what if he didnt leave the campus ASAP, so the kid turned the other way and left.
it sounds pretty stupid, i know: some kid tried to look all bad and scarry by putting on a hockey mask. but trust me, its much more than that. our director told us that the kid in the mask that approached her son was part of the juggalos, and that if he would have actually reached her son that it couldve gotten violent.
every gang has their signature way of killing, and this one is beyond belief. a member of the gang will walk up to you, completely silent, and just stand there in front of you, and tilt their head to the side, staring at you. they just stand there silent until you say something about it. as soon you say ANYTHING they pull a hatchet out from behind their back and start hacking at your neck! isnt that HORRIBLE!!!!!!?????? i cant believe that people would actually do that kind of thing!!! when i moved out here, there seemed to be no trouble with gangs at all, but every year it gets worse and worse.
the gang traveled here from california and is spread all over arizona now. some of my friends had a personal run in with three juggalos tonight in tempe. our theatre troupe was participating in a fundraiser and awareness project for leukemia and lymphoma called light the night. after collecting money for a few weeks for these diseases, you get to do a walk around tempe town lake along with all the other participants from around the state. they were all having a good time until the end. my friends shelbey and mandy were walking with their group from our theatre troupe when they saw christian and brandie book it past them. they look behind them and saw 3 people wearing ski masks pretty close behind them, so shelbey and mandy sped off to the other side of the street where brandie and christian went! they caught up with another of the groups from our school and they tried to calm them down. they all explained everything about the gang and another girl, laura, said that when she went into the bathroom, she saw a drawing of one of the masked people with a dagger on the wall! they all made it out of tempe just fine but it was still really scarry that they were almost approached by a whole group of them!!!
so im DEFINATELY glad that our choir director decided to not listen to the administration's orders to not tell any of the students. christian and brandie are both in choir as well as theatre, and if our director hadnt told us about the juggalos, then they, as well as the other kids in their group, couldve gotten hurt!!! i can understand why they would want to keep us sheltered, but when the situations out there in our small city concern our LIVES, then we should be informed of whats going on!

Friday, October 17, 2008

college

so for the past few years, college has been a major thought floating around in my head. where to go, what to study. ive really wanted to go to the university of arizona for a while to study either photography or nursing, but today in seminary, another option opened up. as most of you know i am involved in the theatre at my high school and i LOVE to perform, so taking college theatre classes is something i am really interested in. but the adult world of theatre isnt as safe and sheltered as high school theatre is. there is violence and bad language and questionable content that u cannont choose to sit out on. you either study the required work or you get a bad grade for not participating. i soon put that option out of my mind. but in seminary today, we had a morningside where we watched a movie about institute and lds colleges around the US. one college that cought my eye was BYU-I. yup! BYU IDAHO. i had never thought about it before, but the campus is really pretty, the class sizes are small, and it looked like a fun college because of the activities they listed off! if i went to that college, i would be able to study nursing because of the GREAT program they have there, and i would also be able to study theatre because ITS A MORMON COLLEGE!!!!!! yayyyyyy!!!!!! no risk of questionable material there!!!
i told my mom that i was considering going to this college, and she got so excited that she kept cutting me off just to tell me how much fun id have if i went there!! (as if she knew...lol)
if you have any thoughts about my two choices: the U of A or BYU-I. , PLEEEEEEEEEESE let me kno

Friday, October 3, 2008

FINALLY!!!

so after a very long and tedious process of creating a blog, it is DONE! WOOT WOOT! im really excited, probably more than i should be...oh well!
since this is my very first blog entry, i guess ill start off with the basics:

  • i live in surprise arizona, moved here about 3 and a half years ago. moving out here was the best thing that ever happened to me, because ive had so many wonderful opportunities open up to me!!!
  • im a very active person. i used to be an athlete but i am choosing to give it up this year so i have more time for the musical (which will most likeley be footloose)
  • i am the choreographer for my school's musicals. so far i have choreographed Aladdin and a couple other dances here and there for various things
  • i am also in choir and am one of two historians, so basically i take pictures during choir activities
  • a hobby of mine is to take pictures. i hope to someday be a pro =) ill post pictures later when i feel i have more patience
  • i am planning on going to U of A in tucson (is that how u spell it??) to study something or other, ill let u know when i find out
  • when i graduate high school, i will hopefully already have a year or two of college already complete, through the AP classes i am taking right now

anything else you wanna know, just ask me!