So, starting from the beginning, 10th grade really hasn't been all that exciting. I moved up a rung in the social/grade level ladder, and I'm doing okay :) Not much to descibe. But I did take my PSAT back in October, and I scored pretty well. Lately I've been getting a whole bunch of goofy letters and emails from different colleges around the US saying things like "Kasey, you are on our radar," or "Kasey, you've caught our attention," but we all know that they're really saying "Kasey, you should really come to our college/university because we want your money." xD Not that I have anything against that, I just think some of the wording they use is funny. I'm really excited though, my mom and I have decided that we're going to go on a college road trip, probably within the next year and a half! For general places, we're thinking Montana and California with several stops on the way :)
Volleyball season went really well, I made JV team captain! No, it's not varsity, but the only times I ever got taken off the floor was if we were winning by a whole bunch. That's something I never would have gotten if coach had put me on varsity, which she even told me. She basically hinted that I'll make varsity this coming season, but I'll still have to work really hard for it. But that's what I do best, working hard :)
So now, (usually) the most exciting part in every teen's life, we come to the license! You're already thinking, did she pass it her first time? No, I didn't :( Laugh if you want, but I'm perfectly fine with it. I was really nervous, and hey, it only took two tries for me to pass it right? :) Leading to my car...Which actually has a kind of funny/amazing story behind it. So I'd been car shopping with my parents for a couple months, but I just hadn't found it yet. Considering I was paying for the car myself, or at least most of it, I wanted it to be the right one, but I didn't want to be too picky either. So when my parents told me they "found a car, but it's kind of an ugly green color, but hey! It runs great and it's got low miles" I thought I might as well go and see it because what the heck, the worst thing that could happen is I didn't like it and I went home without a car. So we all get ready to go and we're taking the dog's outside to the back yard behind our fence before we leave. I'm kind of lagging behind trying to put my coat on, so they're yelling at me to hurry up. When I finally get back to the area behind the fence, my jaw drops. To the ground. There, sitting in front of me, with a big bow on it, is a beautiful red 99 Olds Intrigue. Oh yes. And it was all mine. I found out later how "I" had been able to afford it. Initially it probably would have been out of my price range at about four grand. What my dad did was really awesome; he used the money that I was already going to put towards the car and then paid for the rest, but we got a really good deal on it because my step-dad knew the dealer! So because of how much of a "Gem" my car was to find, my car's name is Gem or Gemma :) So, long story made short (if that's possible with me xD ), I am now my dad's personal maid to pay off my debt ;)So because I have a car now, I obviously needed a job to pay for it. So guess where I'm working? H&R Block! Very random, and a little obscure, I know, but it pays well, everyone is really nice, and I like the job. Except when you get an angry customer, but it doesn't happen often enough to be a problem ^.^ Anyway, I just got my second paycheck which just about had me jumping up and down because it was a pretty hefty sum :3 Haha, and it's enough to pay for a new graphing calculator because mine was stolen -_- But enough of my griping, as stressful as it is, it is really nice to have a job and be, as my friends have named me, "the international business woman of America" ;)
Well, that's pretty much it for today, and hopefully I'll actually post again in the next year!
~KJ
