Debate Room After School

This is what the debate room looked like today after school. The two boys on the left are deeply in love... I mean, "very good debate partners". They often flaunt there skills, I mean, "help the younger students", with various after school work session. The three beautiful looking children at the table are trying not to fall asleep... I mean, "learning the ways of effective speech giving". The two angelic figures at the computer with the colorful bottoms are myself and Savannah. We don't, haven't ever, and will never participate in a debate. Instead, we call ourselfs "forensics students". We happily choose to compete in interp. events only. It's kind of like acting, only not. I guess you could refer to us as drama queens.         
             The purple shirt wearing guy at the back of the room is our coach, Mr. Pittman. He's kind of a big deal, and this is his last year as a debate coach. He plans to retire and open up a women's fashion line (or so I've heard). Notice how he is standing next to a swirly vortex of doom. Often times, the tension in the debate room gets so bad, you can literally see it looming around, ready to choke anyone who dare go near it.
Today, this tension was caused by none other than myself, as I sit at the computer, creating this very picture of the events you see before you. Needless to say, waiting for my brother, who was working on his own debates for two hours, made me extremely bored.

That Awkward First Blog

In my almost 18 years of living I've discovered the answers to many of the questions we ponder as kids. Through trial and error I've realized the following 8 things: 

1. Boys, you've been right all along. Women are the inferior gender.You are smarter, stronger and more superior than all the women of the world.

2. Ladies, it's best to just let men go on thinking what they wish. It's not worth arguing with creatures who have pride the size of elephants and brains the size of the peanuts they're fed.

3. If you're single, its not because nobody wants you. It's because you're waiting to find someone who deserves to be with you. (Now repeat this statement approximately 37 times until you actually believe it.)

4. It's okay to enjoy reading. In fact, most schools encourage this ancient activity stating that it can increase students ability to think, communicate, and even become productive members of society.

5. When living in Northwest Missouri, there is no reason to go tanning every Monday-Wednesday-Friday to try to achieve that ultimate glow. (You should save your money to perhaps purchase some pride instead.)

6. The girls who don't have to wear make up to feel pretty are the ones we should look up to. For the rest of us, make up should be used only to enhance features that already exist. Do not try to paint on a face that isn't really yours. (People will notice...)

7. Folk music is the best. (Period.)

8. The problems that you think are problems when you're a kid, seem like nothing at all when you realize you're becoming an adult. Instead, you realize your parents were always right, you shouldn't judge people before you truly know them, and you're probably not going to marry the first person you date (or the second...or the fifth...or the tenth...)

Please note that there are many things I've learned in my short time on this planet. The following were just the first to pop in my mind.