Where to Start....

Lets start with swimming (or should i end with it because....) IT'S OVER!!!
The joy I am feeling is overwhelming:)
The season ended well though....we had fun at sectionals and some girls made it to districts. After sectionals the concessions ladies let us eat everything that was left and drink all the two liters (so of course we had to have a chugging contest in which i came in second with Meghan as the champ). So after pigging out, we went to Don Pablo's as is tradition. We ordered HUGE strawberry daiquiris and got way too much food.

FM HOMECOMING: the day began with me getting up to eat with my mom and then going home to finish doing my nails. While i was making small corrections to my nails i looked at the clock and realized that i was going to be late to swimming. On my way to the YMCA i had the air on full blast trying to dry my nails as quickly as possible. When i got to the YMCA ben helped me get all my senior night stuff in while i daintily picked up one of my bags. After tons of pictures i swam my one event (50 free) and set my personal record. Senior night came next. They announced all our names, clubs, etc. and the same with Arcanum. After that was over, i rushed into the locker room, took a shower and headed over to zach's house to get ready for the dance. Zach and i met up with the 20+ group at Tumbleweed where we ate. We got to the dance a bit late, but just in time for them to announce the homecoming court and all that jazz (pretty much our entire group made up the court). The dance was fun even though the DJ wasnt all that great. Afterwards we all went out to Zane's house for some games and movies. The night/morning ended around 3:30am as i headed home dreading the fact that i had to wake up for church in a few hours.

DARE TO SHARE: was the best it has been since my freshman year. The speakers were great as usual, but the skit and the setup of the program was just really good. The outdoor outreach was not quite as fun, but still a good experience. It was super cold and windy, so after 4 or 5 houses, we'd all pile into a van and warm up....that is, until one of our vans broke down and had to get fixed. Despite the cold, we collected probably 5 times more cans than we usually have in past years, and part of our group had a chance to share the gospel with someone. Unfortunately, because of the cold (and that fact that everyone had a dog or two), most could not bear to open up their doors long enough to have a meaningful conversation with us. Overall, a good weekend though.


SNOW DAYS: we've had so many lately! My anatomy muscle test has been postponed like 3 times! One day we decided to go ice skating on Liz's creek. It ended up being a game of vicious ice hockey in which people and sticks and pucks were thrown and or lost. Most of us took off the skates after about half and hour and just ran around with boots on. Well some of us could only try to run...logan fell flat every time he even thought about moving.

Whirlwind

Staying home on a Friday night never felt so good.

I have been running around like crazy lately...getting about 6 or less hours of sleep per night, waking up early, going to swim practice, working right after school until closing time, and all my home time is spent studying for anatomy. So tonight i decided to stay home. It feels wonderful...AND i get to sleep in for the first time in soooooo long!

Tomorrow should be a great day. Get up around noon, make clothing for my spanish project, make senior night posters for swimming, go ice skating, come back home.

DANCE OFF --> 2006

THE RESULTS ARE IN:

Marissa & Logan: are amazing.... struck everyone speechless
Jennifer & Bret: hmmm....I don't think you could PAY Lance to give them private lessons

notice how poised and confident logan and marissa look
notice how inexperienced and frightened jennifer and bret look

( now if you want to see how bad the boys were before jennifer and i took over...see me for videos)





see ---> so sad

Time flies when you're having fun...

My saturday was crazy!
The morning started off with teaching swim lessons at Versailles from 9-11:15 then going home and rushing to get ready to go to work at Broadway Joe's. When i got to work, nate, baker, and zach were sitting there waiting on me to say hi (i had said they should come and do so friday night, but didnt think they actually would!)...so then i worked for 4 hours and couldn't wait to get out of there and get to zach's house to see the second half of the game. Little did i know i was going to have to road-trip it home to clean the bathrooms (thanks mom). So i finally got to zach's quite a bit later than expected but we still had fun after i was through ranting to jen.
After the game, we all headed to the Night Sky to see nate, kelsey, brittany, and alison play for a half hour while we drank coffee and saw how many seconds we could slurp smoothies until we got the worst brain freeze of our lives. Gotta love jack and his bright ideas:)
THEN we all went back to nick's, grabbed our cars (there were almost casualties during an airsoft shooting) and began our long trek to alex's house for a bonfire/hayride. That was a lot of fun because i got to catch up with all the people i had met this past summer with alex. After last night, i pretty much never want to see a kernel of corn again! long story....
Next week jen, me, jansen, and logan are going to test our tennis skills (we are making jansen play right-handed so logan and i won't get crushed quite as hard). Until then!....

I lied...shame on me

i was looking at my posts from last year and i notice one in particular where i had decided that i would not swim this year. Oopsy...i lied. Swim season officially started a week ago and yes, i am swimming again.
Once again i will wake up at 5:00 am every morning, once again i will share 4 shower heads with 18 girls, once again i will smell like chlorine for 4 months, once again i will have icky hair, once again i will go without oxygen for extended periods of time, once again i will inhale large quantities of the most disgusting water each morning, once again i will go without shaving my legs for as long as i can stand, once again i will rely on coffee to keep me functional, once again i will have dry skin, once again i will wake up at 2 am with calf-muscle spasms (because i hate bananas), and once again i will probably complain all about swimming in my blog.

why do i swim, you ask?

i dont know either.

Sadie Hawkins Dance (in my hole-y jeans)

Friday night was my first (but not my last) Sadie Hawkins Dance. This one was at Franklin-Monroe but hopefully we will have one at greenville in january as planned. The night started out in Jennifer's (freezing because she forgot to pre-heat it) barn, taking pictures of everyone in their "country hick" outfits. My date definitely had the hick thing down. He's the one in the suspenders on the left with his jeans rolled up. Zach fisher is the party-pooper on the right who didnt dress the part. I was very impressed with George's ability to dress like an american country boy considering he's from Slavakia (middle, green shirt). Now, as good as these boys look, you've got to admit....us girls looked mighty fine as well! I suppose you can't really judge our outfits because we pretty much all looked the same.....super cute:) Finally after making sure everyone got a picture with everyone, we headed to the dance. Now, for me, walking into the cafeteria where the dance was held was like walking into a dance held in my anatomy & physiology classroom. It was tiny! AND, no one was dancing. I quickly learned that FM dances are as fun as you make them, like most school dances. So, we decided to make it a blast....and it was! We all started dancing and pretty soon almost everyone in the cafeteria was dancing too. After 2.5 hours of solid boogie-ing, we all headed to applebee's in troy for some half-priced appetizers. Mmmm........... The rest of the night simply consisted of lots of chatting and driving my date home (hello is was a sadie hawkins dance....girls take on the guy duties). Everyone had lots of fun and now i can't wait to have a sadie hawkins dance at greenville!

Yes, It's True...I'm Out Of My Mind

I have four jobs.
and anatomy & physiology.
bah.

Heroic Homecoming 2006

Homecoming week was so much fun this year. Since it was my senior homecoming i decided to get involved in everything, which made it a lot of fun. This picture is of me and my favorite Chief Greenwave candidates (javi, dave, and rudy). Congrats to Brandon and Amber by the way who won chief greenwave and homecoming queen. Although the weather was AWFUL for the parade, it was still tons of fun, especially with the whole "bringing-back-of-the-spirit-barrel-thing." Seniors, of course won the award for most spirited float in the parade. We also won fall festival and touchdown showdown! And on thursday we plan on winning the powderpuff game as well:) Watch out Juniors! To the left you will notice our senior float. Ooooh baby we look tough huh? Our spelling skills however need some work...its supposed to read "Super Seniors" instead it says Spr Senors....some of the guys started a "gimme a _____ (letter) cheer" and tried to spell seniors, seiors or seors. I blame the english teachers at our school that dont give spelling tests anymore:) below is our group for the homecoming dance last night. It consisted of Krysten & Dan, Allison & Jordan, and Me & Kyle. We ate at Jordans (his mom cooked for us and it was delish!) and then watched some OSU football until we realized that it was already 9:00 so we scurried off to the dance just in time for door prizes which none of us recieved. The music was pretty bad this year i must confess, but we all still had a fun time. Jen came by to take some pictures with Kyle and me and then took off to have some of her own fun.

Dont' MESS with the Stripes

Don't I look tough (check out the muscles!)? Probably tougher than our team has been looking lately...7-48 last night...ouch. Well boys, you have next friday to prove yourselves...we still believe in you! So this is a picture of my first time EVER painting-up for a football game! It was quite exciting i must say. However, about 30 min. into the game, Lindsey and I were freezing so at half time we decided to de-paint ourselves and put a sweatshirt on. This picture isn't the finished product though because LJ and I spray-painted our shirts and put "wave" on them with sponge letters. It was soooo fun! After the game we got our groove on at the dance which was not the best one we've had, i'm sorry to say. But i suppose these after-game dances are as fun as you make them.


huzzah for my first non-dominican post in forever! (hey jen: the huzzah was for you :) hehe)

DR (days 7-12) readers digest version

Sunday was our day to sleep in, take a walk, do whatever until church at 3:30. We had team time plus elyse and jamie while on our 3 mile walk. Church was really neat. On some of the songs we all sang in spanish, but only if we could remember the words because there wasnt a hymnal, overhead, or anything to help us out. One other songs, the dominicans would sing in spanish and we would sing in english at the same time. The message was really good too...it was about "feeding" our spiritual lives so that worldly activities become less of a desire in our lives.

Day 8: today we set up at Juanchy's church which was an hour uphill on a rocky road, way into the mountains, but at least it was cooler up there. Another doctor from Puerto Rico came to help out today and bring us some new medicine. The bathroom consisted of 4 pieces of metal sheeting and a rock with a hole in it...i was brave enough to try; Jen however...

Day 9: Today we folded gauze for 10 dominican minutes...A.K.A. 2 hours!!! Then we went into Jarabacoa to eat lunch where we met a man that Alba usually gives her leftovers to after lunch at the clinic. I felt so bad for him. The rest of the day we helped Alba organize her messy office and package up some supplies to leave at Casa Tranquila. We also had a really fun team time tonight just playing games and lauging our heads of. Jen, welcome to the "spuh" club.

Day 10: Jen and Jamie were sick today, so it was me and alison doing the work. We had to take blood pressure the old fashion way b/c the electronic cuff was too
slow:( That night we had the children's outreach which was a lot of fun. A little girl named Angeli clung to me all night like a leech...I wish i could have taken her back to the U.S. with me! Isaac was our clown and he was hilarious...see jen for the video! Kaitlyn and i did a Gospel skit and we ended with some more games. A pretty fun night minus the awful mosquitos.

Day 11: today at the site was a day of many new culture experiences...thats all i will say about that...today's Bible study was about humility and i was trying to think of a way to show humility at the Medical site today...God sure answered that prayer. First you need to understand something about me....I DETEST feet...ugh, hate them...and guess what my job was today. I had the priviledge of washing all the people's feet as they came to the site. Not only washing though, cleaning dirt (among other things) out of the toenails, clipping the toenails and scrubbing away anything else on the feet. These people walk around without shoes most of the time in this community and many of the people have toe fungus and toenail fungus. Pretty picture eh? Yes, and i washed them...quite a stretching experience, but i was glad i got to apply the lesson of the day to my work site. Tonight we all shared our tesimonies in our room. I felt so close to all the girls/women in our room after we all shared...we just had this deep spiritual bond between all of us and i began to realize how much i would miss elyse and jamie and the closeness the ladies in our room shared.

Day 12: We had a late start getting to the site today because we had to stop at the hospital for 1/2 an hour only to figure out that we had to go down to the pharmacy to get medicine later in the day. We got to Rescate and there weren't too many people there, but soon enough they piled in. I handed out soap to the people there, but we didnt have enough. There were at least 30 people on the front porch of the house and anytime they saw one of us Americans, we were hounded with questions on how to cure this and when can we see the doctor...it was madness...Alba and i saw a record 40 people in only two hours WITHOUT cammy who was busy taking care of a girl who had been sick from JMU for over a week. Unfortunately we had to leave before we could see everyone...at least 10 people waited over an hour and never got to see Alba. We had to rush to the pharmacy to get medicine for Amanda (then we played a very funny joke on Alba) and then we headed back to the base. Tonight after the banquet i kept tearing up on the way back to the base. I did NOT want to leave the DR...Comming on this trip made me sure that God has a plan for me that includes missions...whether or not it will be full-time i don't know yet...The idea scares me and excites me at the same time...right now i am just waiting patiently for a definite answer.

DR (days 4-6)

day four: this day was quite rough. We set up the clinic at a woman's house named Nancy. She asked if a couple of us girls could go over to her father's house to help bathe him. Her father was very old and close to the end of his life. He was completely skin and bones with no use of his limbs and could not speak because of his disease. He also had sores all over his body from laying in the same position day after day. It was very overwhealming at first, so much so that alison had to leave the room and ask someone else to come help. However, the hardest part was understanding Nancy and her mother as i tried to help them. They talked on and on and knew no english at all. Alba had told them that i spoke good spanish so they just kept on going. At first i was lost, but then words and phrases began to come back to me and i could understand almost all of what they were saying to me. That was such a relief. God once again showed me that He can use me just the way i am. Jen had a hard time with other things that day:) That night we ate dinner in the community with a family that Alba knew. Mayra cooked mangu (mashed plantain) and chicken in this amazing sauce that we mixed with the mangu. After dinner we played spoons to see who had to wash dishes. Mayra's sister lost. As we were waiting on our ride back to the base a car drove by that was blasting music and we all started dancing in the street. That night i also learned that if a kid wants your attention they always tap your butt. That happened a lot during the two weeks.

day five: On this day i realized that the crowing rooster here is like God...no beginning and no end! Throughout the day one of the songs in morning worship stayed with me. It went..."may the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be pleasing to you, pleasing to you, my God. I desire to be your servant, i desire to be a blessing, in your eyes." At the site today i really got to talk a lot with the kids which was fun. I had a misunderstanding with a woman though. I thought she was asking me to take her daughter's blood pressure so i told her that i was not allowed to take the pressure of anyone under the age of 18. She started to get very upset with me and i kept saying "im sorry im sorry, talk to the doctor." Finally she reaches over me and grabs a number to see the doctor, puts it in front of my face and says "teeket" (ticket). I pretty much felt really stupid. That night Jen was all about getting in the shower FIRST. Ha. To her surprise, about 2 min. into her shower she was greeted by a little friend, who she claims was a big friend, but come on jen we all saw it:) So she starts screaming "ahhh thaaahht soo grohhhoos! ahhhhh ah ah!" basically a scream/cry/laugh... quite hilarious if ask me. At random moments the rest of the night someone would start laughing we all knew what it was about. Jen would just say "shut up you guys it was not funny!" Boy was she wrong:)

day six: white water rafting day! Well as ellen told everyone in church on sunday, our trip was quite the adventure. Our guide was very onery and would try to get us thrown out of the raft. During the first 2 min. of the trip, my mom and i went out at the same time--feet over our heads right into the water. Later on mom fell out in the middle of a rapid and hit a big rock. At one point we stopped and there was a big rock about 30 feet high with another ledge about 20 feet high. Most of us jumped off and it was a lot of fun! That night we went shopping in Jarabacoa and ate dinner. That was the first time i had seen little boys begging on the street before and it was so sad. I gave one of them part of my coke and some other boys about half of my waffle
cone. I wish i could have given them so much more because it made me really sad knowing that i never go hungry and our group may have given those boys the only meal they had that day.

days 7-9 to come!

Dominican Republic (days 1-3)

When we first arrived on Monday, June 12 around 7 pm we got a short orientation and then went to our room to await the rest of the group that was coming from James Madison University. Eveyone else in my room woke up when the two other girls that joined our room came in. But i was sound asleep!

the next day consisted of sitting in plastic chairs listening to Nate and Kevin talk about what we'd be doing, what to expect each day, and the dominican culture. The major differences in culture are the ways they express themselves. If they dont understand something, they scrunch their nose at you; if you walk into or out of a room you greet each person by touching cheeks and kissing the air; and they dont point with their fingers, they use their lips to point. The most surprising part was when they said that dominican men see american women as easy and to expect them to whistle, make comments, and look at us in that manner. That definitely happened too, and sometimes it was a little scary.

Around 2 o'clock that day, we had orientation with our ministry sites. We went to the clinic to meet Alba and she told us what to expect each day, taught us how to take blood pressure, and then we talked and prayed the rest of the time.

That night two of the dominican women from the education site taught everyone how to merengue. My partner could use some practice:)

The third day was our first day actually in the ministry site doing missions work. I was really excited and and little scared about my responsibilities. Alba chose me to help her with the patients first (she thought i knew a lot of spanish..ha!) I actually understood a lot more than i thought i would. It was a little overwhelming at first, but after only 2 hours i could figure out what disease the patient had just by the combination of medicines that Alba gave them. It was really fun feeling like a doctor. All the patients saw us as doctors so they would talk to us instead of Alba because there, if they get an american doctor, they think they will get better treatment. So it felt cool when adults would come up to me as i was playing with the kids and start talking to me about their symptoms and where they had pain and ask me what to do and all this stuff...then i felt really stupid when all i could say was "Uhhh, no sé. Necesitas esperar por la doctora." (Uhhh i dont know. You need to wait for the doctor). After my first day, i couldnt wait to go back!

days 4&5 next!

If You Give A Marissa Enough Credits, She's Going to Want to Graduate Early

Well, as you might all guess, graduation was yesterday for greenville and instead of studying for my two hardest exams tomorrow, i am updating my blog. I have realized that my GPA will still be over a 4.0 even if i get D's on all my exams. Sweeeet! Not that i still wont try...anyone who knows me knows that i am definitely type A perfectionist.

Back to graduation...(by the way, that will be me next year!)
HOWEVER, i want to graduate now. High school is just not my thing. Some people love it and good for them but i cannot wait to leave. I can already hear the advice coming from those of you who are out of college....."enjoy high school while you can because you cant go back"...... (this is the part where i put my fingers in my ears and sing "la dee da dee da.") I'm sure if i was a drama queen then i would just LOVE my high school....but indeed that is just not me. I get sad when i think about leaving all my friends, but then, i'll just make new ones in college and hopefully still keep the ones i have now! If it wasnt such a chore to graduate early, i'd probably do it. Thats enough complaining out of you, marissa.

Today was mi primo's graduation party and i got to see my favorite cousin....darah! (ps: She is like #1 hilarious...ha). That darn girl just cracks me up... and i got to catch up with julie who i havent talked to since...probably 6th grade basketball summer camp with uncle gary (alright?..OK!!...OK?.. alright!!). ahhh the good ol times.

Choir-o-rama was an overall sucess even though i got soooo nervous (as im sure everyone could tell) up on stage. I seriously, no joke, drank an entire 24 oz. bottle of water every night before going on stage for "I Will Survive." Then, once i stepped on stage, my mouth went dry. Don't you just hate that...sheesh.

Since im being so positive (as always) can i just ask a question? Is everyone else changing except me? Am i so old fashion to think that certain things are still so very wrong and yet it seems i am one of the only ones willing to stand up for my beliefs on this issue? Should i feel so alone? I thank God for the girl that has gotten me through with many long phone venting sessions, but why is she the only one my age who understands? It must just be one of those things that i cant shelter my friends from, they can learn from their mistakes and then I'll just be there waiting to support them when they need it. Its hard being the one who has to sit back and watch people mess up knowing that the minute you say something, you could damage a friendship. Its hard being the one who isnt having all the "fun" because you are so worried about your friends and what they are doing to themselves. Dont get me wrong, I am in no way better than anyone and i am prone to mistakes as well, but i only hope that my friends will confront me when they are concerned about me and that i will be able to respond in a way that shows i value them. I think that that is one great reason to stay in touch with God. He may want to speak through someone else to get to you, so we cant be quick to say "oh you're judging me." Maybe He wants to see if you'll listen to Him. I dont know, these have just been my thoughts the last few weeks. I dont have it all figured out, nor will i ever be able to discern the workings of God, or the minds of people. Heck, i dont even understand myself.

Boys....need i say more?

Why cant they just act mature? Why is it so cool to make fun of girls and put them down? Why do they think that they are so smooth when all they can ever say to a girl is "...so what's up?" Why is it cool to joke about getting trashed after we have just had a very serious assembly where college aged guys talked about their best friends who were killed from drinking accidents right before graduation? Why is it so funny to put down immigrants in our school, or people from different ethnic backrounds? Today, these things just made me so angry i could have cried (or punched the guys saying this stuff). Can someone explain to me why some guys are so stupid?

Bad Week

I have had a cruddy week and i hate to be negative but im afraid that choir-o-rama week of "you know what" isnt going to be much better.

It all started with my big brother coming home. Don't get me wrong its not like i hate him or anything, its just that ryan being home means the sharing of the car has begun. Ryan also got a job. This means that every day i have to get up 30 minutes earlier than usual so i can ride in to school with my dad. I cant drive to lunch, i cant go home right after school, i have to wait for someone to pick me up now like a little freshman and i am just not very happy about it. I feel sort of selfish for expecting to have a car all to myself, but its just hard because every single one of my friends has a car at their disposal and its not like they want to drive 7 miles out to my house to pick me up so we can hang out. So that part stinks.

Then there is some stuff going on with many of my friends that i just dont understand. I feel like i dont even know half of them anymore. They have become totally different people recently and its like im the only one who isnt changing. Ps: thanks jen for being there.

Then there's choir-o-rama coming up...call me a choir nerd or whatever but i obsess over making choir-o-rama perfect and people in choir have just really been getting on my last nerve. First there's the people who goof off all the time and never learn choreography or vocals. Then there's the people who get really upset with those people and all you hear from them all period and during rehearsal is "shhhhhhhhhhh" and "can everyone just shut up?" One particular girl happens to stand right next to me or behind me in every segment that i am in for the show, she's loud and off key and she is a senior and it makes her mad that i am in front for all the songs and she is stuck behind me and cant be seen from the audience. Most of the drama at greenville starts in the choir...pathetic i know.

Then we have teachers. Thats all im going to say.....that and one other word.
Yearbook.

And on top of all that...every night this week i have been losing about 3 hours of sleep and i cant figure out the problem. I just wake up around 2 am and cant get back to sleep. So that doesnt exactly help the fact that im not a morning person in the first place.

I'm done ranting.
this just makes me mad all over again.
shoot...im so good at that

PROM...PROm...PRom...Prom...prom

yes it's true...im not going!
afterprom, yes, but not prom prom
instead i get to hang out with jeni! and the rest of the people from FM who still actually like me. I have my reasons for not going to prom so dont anyone ask me anymore...no more nagging and no more telling me that i just HAVE to go, cuz that makes me not want to go even more! (now chelsea and susie are wishing they hadnt nagged me so much...ha). I'm still making my contribution as a junior and working hard on decorations blah blah blah...i just didnt feel like going anymore

so i hope everyone who IS going has a good time even though ill be having a better one!

I love Jen(i)!!

this girl is CRAZY!

For the sake of Updating...

Spring break has been pretty sweet i guess...

Friday: bonfire and playing who-knows-what-game-we-were-playing in the woods with half of greenville + jeni and logan from FM. Definitely a good time until i had to leave at 10:30 (!!!!) so i could rest up for the ACT (grrr).

Saturday: TONS of fun with some of the FM'ers (zach, jeni, logan). We went to starbucks for some free coffee! Yay for coffee! Then back to jeni's for an entertaining game of trampoline football and hiding of a certain person's wallet (but neither jeni or i did it!...wink wink). The picture to the left is sorta what zach and logan looked like after they had been defeated by jeni and me (well, mostly me) Then we did probably the most corny thing in the universe....looked at the stars! Haha...im guessing thats how the date rumor started. hmm

Sunday: Church and an impulsive decision to go see "Take the Lead" with my mom (good movie!)

Monday: Work work, blah blah blah

Tonight: Another bonfire at Susie's (yippie!) which = more sweet times to come!

I'm Convinced...God Did Not Create the ACT

The ACT should die....
along with all other standardized tests....but mostly the ACT
This statement totally contradicts what i put in the writing section of the ACT last time i took it.

Reasons why i hate tests:
1. I am NOT a good test taker
3. They make me nervous
4. You have to wake up way to early to take them (my brain doesnt function that early)
5. Afterwards you are completely brain dead b/c you have sucked out all the information stored in there and thrust it into your answer booklet so you basically have to regain your IQ over the next several days.


GRRRRRRR.....

Living for the Weekends!

Well, no pictures to post here b/c my big brother had to take the digital camera away from me and he is @ Miami at the moment....darn

But, last night was pretty sweet anyway...
Basically it was me, emily, kip, matt, chelsea, erin, austin, zach and others that went bowling at McBo's in Versailles. Then we went to China Garden where i had chinese for the first time! (i even got a cool box to put my food in! but i left it in emily's car!). Then we all headed to Roger's for some good ol ice cream. Then it was back into town for a movie. I never knew i could have fun with a bunch of freshmen and only two people my age! Ha! Whadda ya know.

Friday's dance was awesome as usual! I did so well at the limbo! I was mighty proud of myself until the next morning when the pain hit me square in the back, abs, calves, you name it....everywhere (a combination of volleyball the night before and dancing my legs off). The only bad thing was the couple of guys who felt the need to strip their shirts off on a particular song (i think you all know the one). That just doesnt need to happen! But it was still a blast just so lindsey and dani know:)