a glimps of my life...

i feel like I have so much to tell...and yet i lack the ambition to convey it all into words, so bear with me. first off, i think i should explain a little about one of my activities and why i am headed to europe in a little less than a month. so i mentioned that i show dairy, well i also judge them through 4-h, like we analyze groups of 4 and place them in the order that we feel is correct, from best to worst. then we have to give oral reasons on why we placed them as we did. quite a task and lots of time investment to get any good, but i've been doing that since i was about 7, and this year my teammates and i won our district and state contest. so from there, we headed to the national contest...where we astonishingly won again (and i was 3rd overall i'd like to mention...this is my site...I can brag if i want to!). so the next level from there, and a reward in itself, is a contest in Scotland, with some touring in london, paris, Belgium and Germany. so...it is for that reason that i'm headed to europe on june 22nd-july 6th. so, up until that time, other than the week of the 11th-18th that i spend working at a camp, i will be practicing and getting ready for another contest. we've been in many papers and magazines as a result of our win, and monday night we had an interview with another paper. quite an interesting thing...posing for pictures, pretending to judge, was quite funny. i think we may have overwhelmed that poor lady when she started asking us questions. we shut up pretty quick when she whipped out the tape recorder though...it's just scary to think that they could go over what we said again cause i felt like dumb things were pouring out of my mouth up until that point. then tonite we had to go to a boring dinner cause they had given us money for our trip, so we had to go say thank you and what not. then i've got practice tomorrow night...ahh...too much time invested into one activity in a 4 day period. let me see...anything else to talk about...oh, yes, another hilarious encounter with my college roommates creative mind. But, since this is a public site and i don't know if the person from whom we derived our entertainment will read this, i'm not going to post. inquiries will have to be done personally. well...until something else happens in my life...bubye!
~melanie