SWIM CAMP BYU

Ok well, I meant to do this two weeks ago when I actually got back, but I had NO pictures...cuz I took all of them on my phone :P I know I was dumb. I still don't have the little doo-dad that gets them from my phone to my computer, but heres the basic gist of what happened.
I got to swim camp at noon monday the 8th. I was assigned to sleep in the Merril building, which to my obvious luck was RIGHT next to the canon building (the cafeteria!) !!!!So that was good thing number one. Good thing number two was that my Room mate (Dallin) was the coolest kid ever! When I first met him I could only talk about where I was from, it wasn't till later that week me and him really warmed up to each other.
There was a super awsome samoan boy who dormed across the hall from me. Lovingly nicknamed "T-Shipp" because his name was Tanner Shipp. The T-SHipp was a bahemeth tank of muscle, but he was the biggest teddy bear you every met! Even though there was the time he pummeled me and held me down while another roomy hog tied me with my excersize elastics. The hog tie-er was a bleach blonde Fremont boy named Jackson. He was definately the heart of the party! The kid could make any situation funny (and or awkward) and could dance like you wouldn't believe! Granted alot of it was dirty dancing, he had some moves! We called him Sunshine (pic at right) because of his bright colored hair. Sunshine was an enormous flirt, even bigger than me (and to those of you who know me, that is definately saying something) His main "Flirtee" was a viewmont swimmer named Taylor(pic at left). The half spanish blonde could move dem hips you have no idea! For this rather attractive feature Taylor became "Tay bay-bay!". She was an excellent addition to our crowd and made the two dances we had fun.
WE had kids from all over the country, some even as far as south carolina! One of the boys we hung out with was an Alabama boy named Kent. The kid looked like like a dude barbie doll...so you gester he was then known as "Barbie".
Then...there was Ten Pack (pic at right). Ten pack had a set of freakishly defined abs! His only flaws.....the kid was way to humble and could not dance to save his life! We (sunshine, tshipp and I) tried for two days and finally gave up and DANCE LIKE HIM INSTEAD! (if you can't beat 'em join 'em) We now have a penguin like dance we call "the ten pack" ironically it feels like an ab work out.
We had to wake up every morning around 6:45am to get to breakfast on time. Then we would go and do our morning work out. After 2 hours of grueling practice we let our muscles recooperate during a class session where we discussed aspsects of swimming. Such as nutrition, lactate tolerance etc. We would go to lunch then return to the class rooms and then talk about a specific stroke (freestyle, backstroke, breast stroke, butterfly) then we would work on that stroke in the pool for another 2 hours. Here we filmed our stroke and then critiqued it so we could get better.
The last day we had a meet. Coach Powers (the man in charge of the camp) Made me a team captain with Kourtney Harris (layton girl). We voted our team name "the swedish fish" and did a picture of a ripped fish that said "now you're our snack!" hehe. Our team ultimately won and I smoked everyone in my races except for the fifty free. Barbie (pic on the left) got me by 00.3. That kinda sucked. But ah well. I'll get a 21 second fifty my senior year and shock the crap out of everyone.
I learned so much at that camp, and I miss it so much! I loved having my friends so close all the time, but I also learned alot about leadership, responsibility and hard work atop the numerous technical aspects of swimming.
I think I will owe much of my success this next year to this camp....

ART

I dont know if any of you noticed, but theres a slide show of all my art work at the bottem of my blog. I recently added some stuff I did in art class this last year. Go check it out tell me what you think.

School Year Reminisce

I can't even begin to say how much fun this School year was. I made some of the biggest steps in my life this year. I accomplished so much in swimming, music, scholastics, and the arts just as I had planned and had so much fun! But this year, I would have to say my biggest regret is that I rushed into things to much. I felt the urge to get the things I loved doing done and over with as soon as possible because some how I felt I was under a time limit to get the fun stuff done. Wiered right? You'd figure I'd be in a hurry to get the hard stuff done, and in a way I was I guess, I lived from weekend to weekend like a lot of Highschoolers, but I didn't savor. I do a TV news broadcast at Davis High, and I recently did a story on "Senior Advice" fore the last days of school and a common word of wisdom was "Have fun and participate". I participated and I had fun, but....I somehow feel I didn't live it to the fullest. Dont get me wrong my Junior year rocked! I just think I should have relaxed a little more, gotten out more on weekends and taken it upon myself to go and have fun rather than depend on fun happening to me. But, overall I made great relationships this year, I have fantastic friends, a promising future and a fun filled summer ahead.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes!

Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear, in

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes, how

Do you measure, measure a year?

You measure in love.

I loved this year sooooooooooooooo much. Learned to love my friends even more. Loved living. Loved working. Loved the experience. Loved the Journey. You measure in love.