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So the surgery date is set. May 18. I know its a small one, but im still nervous with anything that mentions the words kelsey and surgery in the same sentance. At least I get to finish out my season. wich we are not doing to great in, but any season that is better than my freshman year( we didnt win any games) is a good one. Right now my team is in 4th, and it does not look like we are going to playoffs. Which frankly i am okay with. I dont like play off games becasue we NEVER win. ever. I cannot remember the last time I personally have been on a team that has won a playoff game. so really it is not that big of a deal for me. My dad on the other hand. I have no idea what he is going to do when Im done with sports. It seems like his whole life revolves around my sports. Seriously. Its what brings him joy in life. Get this, Last year I joined the team late and my coach didnt give me a letter, but I played in every season game. My dad went insain and is still trying to get my letter from last year, personally I dont care. But he does. so whatever gives him joy.
Ugh... all this senior stuff is getting so stressful. This buisness project is going to be the end of me. I just cannot wait till its all over. I barley have to deal with any of it, yet I still feel the stress in the class. We are all counting down the days to where we never have to deal with highschool again. Although I am not looking forward to basically doing nothing from september to Febuary. That time is going to be so boring, while all my friends are busy in school, I'll be at the gym 24/7. I seriously cannot wait until I leave. The Lord is really teaching me patience. and I guess all I can do is sit and listen. I am excited about going to Texas. Mainly just because of who Im going with. I know I can always trust her and I can tell her absolutly Anything. I know she will never judge me and she wants the best for me. I love my friend. :) so stay beautiful ya'll.

Fresno, Gloriana And Taylor Swift.

Last Year I went to a Taylor Swift concert and we saw a band that opened for her called Gloriana, I had no idea who they were and I had never heard of them before. Well this year we went to Fresno to see Taylor Swift and Gloriana was opening again. This year I knew who they were and I absolutly love them. I met Mike the cute blond guitar player and talked to him, hes so cute. I told him he was the real reason I went to the concert and he blushed. I had a ton of fun at the concert and got a t-shirt signed by them. On our way to Fresno we stopped at this place called the cheese factory, there were donkeys, a parrot, and really good mac&cheese. :). Needless to say the concert and the entire trip was so much fun.

(pictures coming soon)

Adventures around Europe. Well some of it....

So this last two weeks I have been in Europe with 15 members of my Senior class following Easy Company of the 101st airborne division. It has been absolutly amazing and eye opening. First things first. The food. It was so delicious and fantastic. All the crepes and nutella, so yummy. The pastries were also to die for. We visited London, Cantebury, Normandy, Rouen, Paris, Bastogne, La Roche, and Munich. All the cities were so beautiful and my favorite would have to be Normandy. Although we only got to visit Omaha, and I would like to visit all of them someday.

The way I would describe London is, full of tradition. Seriously, those british hold on to tradition like no ones buisness. All thier funky hats and wierd ways of marching. My favorite part of London was all the history behind it and learning what they all went through. During WW2 they were attack by what is called the blitz, the germans would bomb the hell out of London and no one really felt safe. I loved learning about thier view of how things happened in WW2.

Normandy was my favorite. The way the american cemetary is aligned and looks so perfect and serene. It was so beautiful. That was a place I know I could live and just spend time. The beach, so peaceful today but at one time 70 years ago, it was full of guns. There is really nothing else I can say about Normandy.

Paris. The city of love. The city that is competly filthy. It is a very dirty city, but what major city isnt? it was over crowded and beautiful at the same time. The eiffle tower makes everything look so small. That little piece of history that should have been torn down 100 years ago still stands tall. Paris, the city that gave themselves up to save thier own history. The Louvre was an excelent museum. So many beautiful paintings and sculptures. I loved it, along with versilles.

Bastongne, The town that absolutly loves americans. They are so grateful for what the men did over there. The one thing that hit me was that the town was completly leveled, yet they are so grateful that the men of the 101st didnt give up the town. They actaully have a square named after General McAuliffe, you know the famous nuts guy. They also have a resturante named Le Nuts and really good ham.

Munich, well the only real thing we did in munich was go to dachau. Dachau was something else. It was so peacful and so beautiful. It made it hard to imagine that 70 years ago it was full of hatred, sorrow, and death. While I was there looking at this spot where two men were executed a butterfly flew by and landed on the plaque. It was so serene, so odd, and so out of place. Here was this place that was so sad, and a little butterfly is fluttering along. It made me think that there were probably butterflys fluttering along when the camp was in buisness. They didnt know what was going on, maybe a prisoner had the same experiance I did right before they were shot. Maybe they got to see a little guy just like the one I saw. All I know is that I do not want to go back there. It was so overwhelming, maybe I was the only one to feel that, and maybe I was just over tired, but it was so sad.

The trip ended with Munich and shopping. Shopping seems to make things better. It was an amazing experience and I recomend that every willing and able american take a trip to some part of Europe. maybe to get a diffrent view on the second world war like I did, or maybe to just unwind and eat amazing food. All I know is that I am deffinatly going back.