District Conference

On Wednesday I left school at 11:30 to got to my Beaverton Rotary Club meeting. I then came home and packed for the Rotary district conference. I arrived at Willamette University in Salem at about 2:30. We had speech competitions. We had three rounds. I only did the first round. After dinner, the students who weren't in the second or third round of the speech competitions had free time. We soon went to bed. On Thursday we tried out for the talent show. I tried out with my other group from and going to Thailand. We sang the Thai national anthem. After lunch, the people in the talent show went to the Salem convention center and ran through it. We had dinner and Karaoke in the park, hosted by North West Natural. Got to meet Rotarians as well as dance and sing. On Friday The talent show people had a run through, went to lunch, and then did a dress rehearsal. We had dinner with Rotarians, did a flag ceremony, and half way through dinner, did the talent show. It was a ton of fun, and I'm glad I did it. On Saturday our percents come to pick us up and go through some preparation for us being gone. I had a ton of fun with all of the inbounds and outbounds. I am super sad that they will be gone and I won't get to see the inbounds, maybe ever again.

After I came home, I took a nap, and then went to a friends house. I was going to prom later that night, so she offered to do my makeup and hair. I had a good time, and here is the result:

My hair!!!!! 

Thank you!!

I also had a ton of fun with these lovely lades at the dance!!! Thank you so much!!!

~FRS

New..

So, I started dragon boat practice on march 30th, and the team is looking great. Between the caller and the coach yelling at us and the radioactive murky river water splashes, I feel like this will be a great year. The timing need work(like it does every year) but the captains said that by the third day, it seemed like everyone had been doing it for one month. I have been moved up to the front bench a lot lately(thats a good thing, means my timing is good). One thing though, is that our after school practices are later at night, so it is dark. But, when I'm in the front bench, I get to wear a light.
I am also thinking of going to a swim practice for high schoolers after school two nights a week. It will be fun, and I have heard that not many people are doing it.
I am also thinking of changing the look of my blog..should I do it?


~FRS

Asian Dinner

Last night I participated in an Asian dinner with my rotary group. Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Turkey and India were there. Thailand served green curry, fried chicken wings, and some shrimp soup. Everything was amazing, and I had a great time cooking it. We spent half an hour in the kitchen cleaning up. Then we played hide and seek and stayed up until 1:30. It was fun getting to know my fellow exchangers!!!

Shrimp and mushroom soup

Fried chicken

Green curry

~FRS

These are some pins I made for my exchange. We need to make some pins, and so here is some that I made. YAY!!!! I plan to make tons more!

~FRS

Thai Meal

Today I made made a Thai dish of shrimp, curry, cauliflower, sweet potato and rice. I don't think we could ever repeat it. It was yummy.

We also made some rice with mango and coconut milk. It was yummy!!!!!!!!

~FRS

Dungeons and Dragons

On Saturday, I franticly worked on my friends birthday present that I was attending later that day. His present was $20 in origami.

(From left to right) a pyramid, and armadillo, a starship enterprise, a swan, a frog(it jumps. really)
 a fish, a butterfly, a F-18, a shirt, an elephant, and a flower. 

It was hard work. At the party(all guys) we played a game called Dungeons and Dragons. (D and D for short.) D and D is a role playing game with a bunch of people. You must have a dungeon master, who serves kind of like a god. He or she(in my case a he) basically controls everything. What kind of monsters we run into, how a person dies or gets hurt. He basically makes the game interesting. When you start a round you role a 6 sided die(D6). This will tell you when it is your turn. When it is your turn, you can announce if you are going to attack, and with what. then you role a 20 sided die(D20) to see how much damage you give that monster. If it is a low number, then you end up missing the monster. It it is a high number, you hit it. If you get a 20, you kill it! If you get a 1, you some how killed yourself on accident. The DM just will add color and blood/gore imagination to the game.
After that, I went to my G2CS reunion. Not a lot of people showed up, but it was still fun.

Last night I had my Swim Team Banquet. I got two plaques, one for best attendance, the other for most detected, I lettered, and I got an award for raising over a hundred dollars for the swim-a-thon, and getting to go to the second day of districts. I got lots of pictures with my friends and coach. I am going to miss everyone next year, so much.


~FRS

....Continued

I was still nervous as heck. At one point I felt like I was going to fall over. We(the outbounds) were facing the officers and inbounds. The officer from Denmark came up first. There was a lot of competition for that country. The inbounds wandered throughout the the crowd, giving people weird looks, giving others hard stares. They would then sneak up behind someone and give them a welcoming hug. The suspense was death. When My friends got chosen to go to their first choice, I was so happy for them! I almost cried. All the tension almost made me buckle as I was so happy for them. They went through the countries. About half way through, Thailand came. The two girls before me got chosen, and three slots were open. They inbounds kept circling a guy, trying to build the suspense up. I was preparing my self to not get chosen for the country. Then suddenly, one of the girls, Eve, came up from behind and gave me a huge hug and dragged me from the crowd. I was shocked. I hadn't processed what was going on. I could feel the tears well up in my eyes. I ran up to my country officer and gave her a big hug. I was trying to hold it back, I was so happy. THAILAND! That is where I am going. Everyone else got their country chosen. The officers announced that we could stay up till one to dance and then go to bed. That is what we did. every time I thought about Thailand, my eyes would well up. We danced until one, and then rolled out our sleeping bags on the hard wood floor. I didn't go to sleep until about 2:30, and woke up at 6:00. I was sore from snowboarding, dancing and laying on the floor for the past three and a half hours.  We packed up and had breakfast. We all sat and waited in the lunch room, ready to go home. Then, one of the officers anounced that the roads were too dangerous and that we would be spending an extra day in cove. I was really hoping to go home that day. As much as I loved this weekend, I was ready for some quality sleep. We all loaded onto the bus and headed back to Cove. They gave us two hours to unpack, and take a shower. After that we talked in groups to our country officers about the countries and learned a little of the language. We then had lunch and headed out to watch Monument Men. It turned out to be a lot better than I expected. We then head back to the pizza place for an hour or so. At about 19:30, we headed back. We got to go to bed early, witch was nice. We woke up the next day to good news: we were going home! We packed, board the bus, and headed out. We stopped at McDonalds for lunch and then headed all the way home. In the end, I was glad I got to spend an extra day, but I was glad to be home.



~FRS