I bet all of them are excited. Hope you all have a safe trip. Bundle up, though.
I'm pretty excited for these two plays. Especially the school showing of Bang, Bang, You're Dead. I think it will really get to a lot of students' core. I started rereading a book I own written by the mother of a teen who was killed in the Columbine shootings. The teen, Cassie Bernall, was killed in her junior year. Cassie's description reminds me so much of myself: A born-again Christian who was given a second chance. She led a spoiled-brat type life as a child, and then hit reality hard in middle school and made friends with the wrong crowd. She got into drugs, alcohol, and self destruction. Now, I wasn't that bad, but certainly I wasn't the person I am now. But she changed when she found God. At first, she still kept her old image, but went completely straightedge. She left her old friends for her new ones, and even transferred to a Christian school. She grew closer to God everyday, and by the time of her death she had turned her life around 180 degrees. She died as a martyr, too. As she crouched praying underneath a table on the fateful April morning, one of the gunmen put the muzzle to her head and asked if she believed in God. Without thinking, her classmate who survived described, she answered, 'Yes'. The gunman shot her. Reading this book has definetely helped me develop character and see the seriousness of this show. I'm not saying that I think there are potential killers in our school that would do such a thing, but it really makes me appreciate what I have and the sanctity of life, very much appropriate for this week.
Anyway, the dinner with my mom and sister went really well. I hope the two of them can start getting along. At first, one could cut the tension in the air with a knife, but they both relaxed and talked like the good old days. And of course, my sister and I bickered about boys and highschool and work. Like the good old days.
I guess I'm taking a break from the dating scene for now. I just haven't really had time, nor do I see any need, to be dating or talking to boys. It's a revelation for me. That is, unless a certain select few decide to come around. Which would be pretty cool, but I'm not looking for it, and therefore, think I will be single for Valentine's Day. Cool.
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it was a blast!(see email and blog post, which actually say the same thing;-)) i have that book! it is so good! and hey we can always get a group of happy single girls for vday;-) together and watch chick flicks our boyfriends would hate!!!!!
haha- yes- it was a blast!!! i would like to read that book!!! man it sounds good!!!! im glad you and your mom and sister had a good time!!! Let me know when you do the single v-day thing...if im still single that is ;-)
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