Cheerleader U!

Ok so there's this show on WE. It's called CheerleaderU. Last season it followed the University of Kentucky. Basically Kentucky dominates in college cheerleading. They've won 16 nationals championships since 1985. They've won eight championships in a row, and they're extremely good. However, their eight-title streak was broken at the 2003 Championship by the University of Central Florida. UCF also took the title last year at the 2007 Championship. Cheerleader U premiered their second season last night that is following UCF this time to see if they can defend their title. The video is of their winning routine at the 2007 championship. I really like this season so far, there were two episodes on last night. I actually like it better than the Kentucky season. I think because UCF is more of the "underdogs". They've only won two national championships in their whole history of their program, and Kentucky has been dominating on the national level for over two decades. The team consists of the best 8 girls and 8 guys cheerleaders in the school. They work extremely hard and do things that I sometimes think are impossible. Their extremely talented athletes and it's amazing what they can do. Its just amazing how hard they work.



Ok so there's another cheerleading show as well! Haha. It's called Cheerleader Nation. It actually follows a high school team from Lexington, Kentucky called Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Their cheerleading program has won the UCA high school cheerleading championship for the past 5 years in a row. The show premiered when they won their 3rd championship. Their absolutely amazing for their age and the fact that their in school all day. The video is their 2008 routine. There's rumor that there's another season coming out but who knows! Jenna Moody, if you know her she's a freshman and she was on varsity at our school for football and basketball! She's moving to Dunbar for her junior year to cheer! She's ridiculously good and if she wants a chance to cheer at a really good college like Kentucky or somewhere around there she basically has to move down south because they take it way more seriously. It's only her and her mom after she sister goes to college and they decided to move there around next summer! So that's wicked cool:).



Ok so this team does have their own TV show! Haha. But their a high school team and I stumbled upon it a couple months ago and think their wicked good. I actually think their stunts are actually better than Dunbar's :X At least their sequence in the beginning! But their really good and thought they deserved the recognition! :)


Ok so I think I'm all caught up on posts. If not Kriegs let me know cause I'll post away! Thanksss!:)

I'm not dying!

Well lately the biggest argument in my house has been about my room. I actually have a really nice room. I live in whats called the "attic" at my house. It's finished and it's not really that big, it's pretty decent in size but it's not like it's a whole entire floor. I have two walk-in closets and a queen size bed that I just got a couple months ago that I love! I have a futon, and a TV, and just a bunch of basically all cheering stuff on all my shelves. I actually moved up there in 9th grade, however I came back downstairs two weeks later because I thought it was way to scary and I hated being up there by myself. But then in 10th grade I moved back up there. Might I add as well that I have put a lot of time into that room! Throughout the past year I completely redecorated it. The walls use to be wood and were a woodish color, but over the summer I painted them brown. My dad actually did it but that's not the point. Then I did like a pink tan & brown color scheme. That's the color of my bedding, and I have a lamp that matches it, and the walls go really good with the color. I had to save a lot of money to do all of it, and my TV and all the furniture I bought as well. Now to the argument. My sister seems to think that I am being a "completely selfish self-centered little brat" if I may use her words, for keeping the room while I go away to college. She thinks that it's a waste to keep all my stuff in there. I'm actually really pissed about it. I'm not dying I'm just going to college! Ill be back for all the breaks, and since i'm just in Syracuse I could come home occasionally on some weekends and I'll need my room!. My arguments to her are that I worked really hard for that room and deserve it. I'll be home enough that I could definitely be allowed to keep it especially considering I'll be home for the summers. She's NEVER in her room and she's a complete slob so the room would just go to waste anyways. AND she's going to college in two years anyways, so then who decides who gets the room them? All in all, I'm keeping my room. My parents agree with me.:) Even though I love my sister she is being completely absurd by thinking I would EVER give her my room:)

Catching up!

Well if I did my calculations right I missed about 3 blogs. And since I SUCK at every other subject in school:), I really want to catch up on these cause I really need the grade. Plus blogging is awesomee:) But for this one I'm going to blog about RYLA. RYLA stands for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference. I went to it last June in 2007 and it was held at Hartwick College. I would like to add that the campus there is absolutely horrible when it's humid and gross out. It's so hilly and takes forever to get to the dining hall and dorms. But anyways, the juniors are getting interviewed for RYLA 2008 soon which makes me super sad cause I would LOVE to go again. Plus, I got a letter in the mail today about the RYLA 2007 reunion at the end of this month. Let me just start with how amazing the conference was. It was probably one of the most rewarding weeks of my life. I had so much fun and learned so much about myself and made so many good friends. I still talk to my roommate at least three times a week to this day. It actually was her birthday yesterday!:) I would go back in a heartbeat if I could. I could seriously write about this for a lifetime. It was just a week for learning about leadership skills and communicating with other people. The first day we were separated into "small groups". Mine was called the "Barber Shoppe" because our counselors last name was Barber. We met with the small group at least twice a day for an hour or two to do activities and talk about the day. There was at least one guest speaker a day, and might I add that they were all HILARIOUS. They were really open and some cursed like it was their job and said probably TOTALLY inappropriate things haha, and that wasn't why it was so funny or cool it was just how they tried to relate to us as much as they could and get us to open up and not feel awkward considering we were with a bunch of people we had never met before. We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day in the dinning hall and each meal was like two hours long so we had at least an hour to go back to the dorms and hang out in the lounge area with everyone. We had a dance one night, and a RYLAthon, which we competed with our small group against all the other small groups with physical activities they required teamwork and leadership. Then the second to last day was a whole day of doing all these crazy things with your small group. Like we had a group of at least 13-15 people and we all had to be standing on this tiny block so like I was on some one's shoulders who was one someone elses shoulders. It was crazy, it was like dangerous what we had to do! Haha but it was so much fun. Then every day for an hour we met with an "interest" group that we chose on our own. I did public speaking. Then the second to last day there was a public speaking contest for everyone who was in the group and I won! :) The cool thing about it was public speaking was totally not my thing, I'm actually a HORRIBLE public speaker as you could tell in class, but my speech was about something I truly believed in and I put my heart in the speech and it was definitely rewarding. Then the last day we had a banquet with our parents. Because I won the contest I had to recite my speech at the banquet. I didn't tell my parents and they were wicked surprised! It was so sad to leave. We all sang a song together at the end and it was wicked corny but we all opened up so much during the week we had so much fun doing it. I still to this day talk to a ton of people from there. I have the job I have right now because of a person I met from there too. I absolutely loved it and I missed so many things but I don't think I could describe everything in words. It was absolutely amazingggg and I wish I could go back!

The high of high school

I guess I postponed blogging this last time because I've had a really hard time deciding what I'm going to say about high school. Ya know, do you talk about the drama, the athletics, the academics, the clicks? Do you say I can't wait to get out of here or I can't wait to start my next journey. Because in reality their the same just different interpretations. The snow days, vacations, delays, games, exams, heartbreaks, friendships, memories, was it all worth it? Was the past four years of madness defining yourself worth it? Did you make it count enough? Did you embed those memories in your mind so you won't forget them?

When I read through a lot of the girls posts most of them said high school equals drama. Thats only true if you let it define who you are. So many people are wrapped up in having the last word, being right, being the center of attention. But is it worth it? In 20 years is the manager of a major corporation during your interview of a lifetime going to ask you how popular you were in high school? I sure hope not.

I've seen a lot of people change in the past four years. Change friends, change personalities, change their style of clothing. I'm a prime example. I don't have the same "group of friends" that I did when I was a freshman. And my best friends now, we lost a few a long the way. But Marie, Nalia, Kathleen and Victoria have become a huge part of my life that I could never describe on a blog. But in the midst of seeing everyone else change around me, I found myself. I found the type of person that I am and who I want to be. And that's the point of high school.

It's not the drama. There's no drama unless you make it. And if you're one of those people that posted about how much you hate high school because of the drama and you cant' wait to leave, then you should really look back and see how many times you caused the drama, or how many times you could have stayed out of it but instead decided to become involved and then blame it on the drama itself. Everything is what you make of it. And while I believe that during the past four years I found myself, I believe some others lost themselves. And I worry for those people, and hope that their next journey leads them in the right direction.

The past four years of my life have been unbelievable. The laughing and the crying, the arguments and the memories, it's such a high I don't know why anyone does drugs. You have to live in the moment, and pray to god that you'll remember it forever. Because these are the days of our lives, and your throwing away a lifetime if you can't wait for it to be over.

Response to Nick's Post

Well since it's March, and it's the season of Kathleen's birthday, so I decided to post about something that many people probably are unaware of. I have personally thrown or participated in throwing Kathleen three surprise birthday parties. I know, I know, crazy. One was thrown at my friend Elizabeth's house, one at my house, and one at Marie's house. I remember the one at my house I had a Barbie birthday cake, trick candles, and I gave her gag lotto tickets. Then the one at Elizabeth's house, I lied to her and told her I was going to my friend Cassie's house for the night on her birthday and asked her not to hate me. She was pissed and thought I was like a horrible friend when in reality I was at Elizabeth's house setting up for her party! :) Then when she got there, my two friends Elizabeth and Kelly brought her downstairs and she was talking about her bra and everybody downstairs started laughing but we were able to say surprise! Haha. Thennn the one at Marie's was a pretty eventful entrance. We told Kath we were going out to dinner but we brought her to Marie's instead and said we had to go downstairs to give her her frame (we went through a phase where every birthday we gave each other a big collage frame), and Stephanie fell down the stairs lol. But I think Kath was still surprised even though we were pretty concerned about Steph! Haha. Ok well there it is, my devotion to Kathleen's birthdays. The End. :)

Here I go, Scream my lungs out

My blog today is about how I absolutely love Yellowcard. Their definitely one of my favorite bands. I did my record review on them earlier this year. I think my favorite thing about the band besides their music itself is the fact that they have a violinist. I think it's really unordinary to see that in a rock/punk band. They've developed a lot since their first album in 1997. I think the violin really set their music aside and caught the attention of many of their fans. Even though I have a picture of the cover of Lights and Sounds, Ocean Avenue is definitely my favorite album of theirs. Their on tour right now with Secondhand Serenade, whom i love! My friends call them secondhand smoke and make fun of me for listening to them but hey thats ok! I would love to see them on tour buuut the they play in New York on March 15th which has two problems. That's Kathleen's birthday, and their already sold out! Oh well, hopefully I can see them in concert soon! Plus I recently just heard the acoustic version of Only One. It's been one of my favorite songs for a wicked long time and I don't know why I've never heard the acoustic version but it's so good! Check it out!:)

Mandatory Post!

After looking at everyone else's post I kind of caught on and I think I'm suppose to blog about another blog. Well I don't know if this works but I had a tough time finding a blog to post about. Then I found one on the Le Moyne website. It was actually wicked cool. It's a student blog from a freshman, and his major is pre-med which is what I'm doing next year. He talks about the food at Le Moyne, why he chose to go there, a typical night at Le Moyne and a lot of other cool stuff that I didn't know about. There's like 4 other blogs from students on the website I just chose this one cause he was a freshman so I figured I'll be going through what he's going through right now just next year. But I'm definitely going to check out the other ones!

http://www.lemoyne.edu/blog/tyler.asp