Well, Hello Again!

Wow! It has been a long time sine I last posted anything! I only wrote one blog post fr my entire senior year of high school!!!
Anyway, as you could imagine, quite a bit has happened since my last post. We had the homecoming football game and the coronation dance at my school. My date was one of my best friends, Hunter.

Me and Hunter before the Coronation Dance

Spirit Week - Would You Be My Friend? Day

Me and Carolyn on 80s Day

Home Coming Pep Rally!

Then, for a kind-of, sort-of, early graduation present my Aunt Judy, Aunt Kas, and Ladala (my grandma) took me to England. It was over Thanksgiving break. So, once again I was outside of the United States for Thanksgiving, but it's not a big deal.. We were in London most of the time, but we also went to Salisbury and Bath. I loved England! London was gorgeous! We walked the streets, saw the sights, and drank tea - it was lovely.

Kensington Palace

Inside Kensington Palace

Being Royal

Kensington Gardens

Big Ben!!

Me and the Paddington Bear

At the Roman Baths in Bath

Throw a coin in for good luck

Aunt and Grandma reading info about Bath

The Bath Cathedral

Stonehenge

Salisbury Cathedral

221 B Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes Museum

Tower of London

Me and  a Beefeater

London Bridge

Buckingham Palace

Then it was Christmas! I got back into the family traditions this Christmas with my blood-related family again, unlike last year when I was with my Norwegian family. It was great, because some of them I hadn't seen since I had gotten home from Norway in July. One of the best Christmas presents that I received was a round trip ticket to Norway! I got to go back to one of the two countries that I can call home and see all my friends that I had to say goodbye to six months earlier. It was fantastic, I got to spend New Years there also. New Years Eve is just celebrated better in Norway than the US.

Candy Cane Lane

Church on Christmas Eve

Me and the Sister on Christmas

Off to Norway!

Oslo Airport

my friends

Me and Katinka - reunited!

Then, it was all the college stress. All the college applications had to be in by January 15, 2014. I didn't apply to any schools in California (because that would be boring) and only 2 on the West Coast. Spring Break was filled with college visits. I visited Allegheny College in Middle-of-No-Where, Pennsylvania, University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. I had to choose by May 1, 2014 which college to attend. I chose...drum roll please...University of Delaware!! Yeah!! The only Division 1 school with a female mascot (The Blue Hens) and the first school to offer study abroad opportunities. I still don't know what I will study though... Fun!

Senior Steps Photo

Committed to DelaWhere?

I joined an improv team at my high school, called Comedy Sportz. We had a few games and were entered in a tournament that was at the professional stage in Hollywood. We didn't win, but we did make it to the second round in the tournament.

My comedy sportz team

improv...

Then there was prom! One of my best friends, Sarah, asked me to prom and we shook our groove things till the midnight hour. It was a lot of fun. I have completely stopped caring what anyone thinks of me, especially in El Segundo and the people at EL Segundo High School. The theme was Masquerade and it was a some ball room in Downtown LA. We didn't rent a limo, we had one of my friend's cousins drive us in a pretty sweet mini van.... No after party for us either, we went to a restaurant called The Kettle and had muffins and tea or hot chocolate. That's my kind of party!

Sarah and I

me and my sister

Me and ASHLY

Next was graduation. After weeks of stress, no sleep, and a surplus of coffee and tea I finally graduated from El Segundo High School! It was good. Graduation in and of itself wasn't exactly fun. It was a lot of sitting, a lot of listening, and a little walking when your name was called. I am just happy to be done. You could say it was bittersweet, but it was a lot more sweet than it was bitter for me!

Me, Kira, and Payton - Best Friends since 6th grade

On the morning after graduation I had a dentist appointment at 8:30AM, then I met one of my friends in Beverly Hills for lunch. She is from Norway, I met her when I was an exchange student, this year she was an exchange student in Illinois, and she was on a tour/vacation with other exchange students on the West Coast. So I met her for lunch at a place called Olive. I had a green tortilla wrap, and it made me feel like a stuck up Californian with a lemon in my water glass...
Because of my lunch date, I was almost late to the bus for Grad Nite! But I made it...barely. Graduation took place on June 12, 2014 and Grad Nite took place on June 13, 2014 at Disneyland. Sarah, my prom date, was my guest at grad nite too. It was fun. We spent the day at Disneyland and the night at California Adventures. It was a long day with a lot of people and a lot of walking, and for some reason there was sand in my shoe... But I had a good day.

Me and Malin in Beverly Hills

Then me and my family went on a cruise out of Long Beach. It stopped in Catalina and Ensenada, Mexico. After the weeks of what seemed like endless stress, it was nice to go on a vacation. We rode electric bikes on Catalina Island and went zip-lining and sight-seeing in Ensenada. I was going to practice my Spanish (which I received an extra sash for at high school graduation), but I never got to it and they laughed at me when i said si instead of yes. On the last day we were at sea and it was my sister's birthday. We celebrated both hers and my birthday since the whole family was together and they wouldn't be on my birthday.  I got sick on the last day though. I don't know what it was from or how I got it, but I was in bed for the following 3 days. I missed my last Comedy Sportz game because of it. But my team found a replacement and did well anyway...

Electric Bike Ride

Carnival Imagination

Getting ready for a formal dinner. I am ever so happy...

Then my sister had her birthday party on June 21st. It was supposed to be my party too, but I had 3 friends that came and she had 15. So it was her party that I made the food for. We just had a backyard tiki party with friends. :)