Life

This week is a collage holiday called spring break. Since I attend Kirkwood in the afternoons I don't have class all this week and since it is spring break my cousins came up for the week from Kansas. Saturday night when they got here we ate dinner then went cosmic bowling.
Golf season also starts this week, but since its so wet and not all the snow is melted yet the golf course isn't open yet so we have to condition by walking. When we are not walking we are over in Monticello at Eastern Iowa Sports Facility hitting into nets. My feelings about golf this year are bitter-sweet. The pro is its my favorite sport and I want to do my best for a man that taught me what I know. The con is I don't want it to end, and end it will much faster than I want it to, there is nothing I can do to stop it or to even slow it down. It will be over before I know it.

Graduation

I am looking forward to being able to choose my classes according to what I want to do with the rest of my life. I am also looking forward to not having to play pomp and circumstance over and over for what seems like two hours straight for band, it gets rather annoying after playing it once or maybe twice. Mostly I am looking forward to just having a voice and a choice in how I want to live my life.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

My book is about a young boy who is trying to fix an automaton that his father found in the attic of a museum in Paris. The boys name is Hugo. He lives in the walls of the train station and keeps the clocks in the station running. To fix the automaton Hugo steals toys from an old mans toy booth. I chose this book because it looked interesting. It is 525 pages long but it is half pictures. To understand the book you have to look at the pictures as well as read the text.

Christmas Break

My Christmas break is bound to be a memorable one, after all it is the longest one I will ever have, and my family is hosting a foreign exchange student this year so we have to include her in everything too. My break has already started. I take a Kirkwood academy in the afternoons and Kirkwood's break started last Friday. This past week has been amazing and horrible at the same time. On Monday nothing big happened, Tuesday I was pulling my van into the garage at home and one of the tires hit the loader bucket of my dads tractor and the tire went boom. Wednesday nothing exciting but on Friday I get to miss school to go to the dentist in Iowa City to have my wisdom teeth extracted. Then Saturday I have a family Christmas party to go to, hopefully I'm not in too much pain. Then to make my break even better I get to go down to Kansas to visit my uncle and his kids, only problem with that is its an eight hour drive. Only to have to come back less than a week later because mom has a meeting she has to go to. I am bound to remember my break. How about you? What are you going to do over Christmas break?

Lessons Learned

Some things you just can’t learn from your parents. Majority of teenagers don’t like to think of their parents as right, even if they are. We have to have proof to be able to believe it is possible for them to be right about something, even if it’s as small as how old the family pet is. I have learned a lot from people other than my parents.
One specific person that sticks out in my mind is Jim Brus. Jim taught me the right way to play golf, he helped me learn and memorize multiplication facts, and he helped me learn how to spell better. Since I met Jim he has been like a second grandfather to me so his death was rather difficult to experience. The date on his death certificate is different from the day I remember because the day he was declared legally dead and the day I lost him were three days apart.

"Hero"

I have chosen the book "Hero" by Mike Lupica to read and blog about. Today I read to chapter seven. So far its about Zach Harriman trying to go back to living his life after his father died in a plane crash.

Hello my name is Molly. I like to play golf, hang out with friends, and watch movies. After high school I want to be an architect, design a house for someone to build. I also want to be a photographer. Next fall I am going to collage to major in architectural design with a minor in photography.