Well…. WOW!!!!

It has been a really really really really long time since I have posted to this thing…. and I always makes some kind of promise that I will post more… haha,  but this time I will not do that… and I will just say,  I WILL POST WHEN I CAN!!!!  lol

So I graduate this friday… 8 p.m. at my school’s football field…. it’s kind of a bitter sweet feeling.  I am leaving a lot of the people I care about, and have to sit through a 3 hour ceremony of people that I really dont know a lot about.
I will however be going to college!!!!!! YAY!!!!!  I am going to Columbus State University with a music scholarship!  I am totally excited about this change… however, I am kind of nervous about it as well!  I think it will be a growing experience…

I have already met my roommate and suitemates.  They are all really amazing guys.  I think we will all be a good match for each other…  it should make for quite a fun year!

It’s really sad that I have had this blog for probably about 2 years, maybe less… and I have only written 50 posts. But this is my 50th so… YAY…. but it is surprising to me that the thing that brings the most people to my blog is a picture of a Ham Sandwich…. I get about 80 hits/ day from one post, and more importantly the picture that is in the post. I am the top of the list when you search for an image of a ham sandwich haha…

Well in a previous blog, I wrote about how the Mary Persons High School Class of 2009 all banded together to get the entire school pumped up for the annual Toy Drive: “Kids Yule Love”.  This post is going to be all about the art of giving (just in case you forgot what the title of the post was), and how one should not expect to recieve anything in return…

So there is a new show on FOX, it is called “Secret Millionaire”, have you heard of it?  No?  okay well let me tell you just a tiny bit about it….

These “secret millionaires” and there accomplices go out to impoverished community, and live the lives of “poor” people for one week, and meet all these people, and hear all these stories about people who are giving back to the community in some form or fashion…  My mom is absolutely mesmerized by this show.  I just think it is a poor representation of the “art of giving”.  These people are able to be on National Television showing how they have helped the poor, and they think that they are able to say that they have lived the lives of poor people.  I am sorry, but one week of working in a grocery store, is nothing compared to the daily Hell that these people go through….  Allowing these people to be on national television is just not cool, and it represents the fake portion of the American Upper Class.

I mean there are other things that are great about this show, such as people who are actually trying to better society being helped by the most fortunate people of said society.  However, I dont think we should award the rich for helping the poor, it should be something that is just supposed to happen, but nope, thats not the view of American Society, everything has to have a gimmick.  I am aware for all of you people calling me a hypocrite, that I have made my accomplishments known to all, by whatever means necessary.  However, now just for this show, I am going to make an honest effort to try and humble myself…
Trey

While many of you may know that the title of this blog post is shared with the title of a very popular TV show on ABC Family,  however, I regret to inform you that what this show portrays teenagers as is absolutly ridiculous.

I am taking a break from studying for my AP Statistics Exam to write this blog, and just relax for about 15 or 20 minutes…

I am sorry, but I do not think that teenagers are all that secretive, especially with the wildfire of rumors that are always going about… This girl who is pregnant is portrayed as a whore, she had a one night stand at Band Camp, which brings a whole new meaning to that phrase which I shall not post here, because it is a HUGE cliche.

I have been having an incredibly hard time recently with trying to take on to many things, and thinking that I can handle it all on my own.  I am beginning to think that i am going to need some help, there are people who always say, “just turn it over to God, he will take all you troubles away”.  Well they may not phrase it exactly like that, but it has the same general meaning.  I just have a lot of trouble giving all my problems, and stress to someone else, and just letting other people try and run my life is challenging enough.

Random, but I am having a really hard time trying to decide which college I want to go to.

I have always been the guy (since 8th grade) who knew exactly where he wanted to go and exactly what he wanted to do there and for the rest of his life…  However, that is all beginning to change.  I am suddenly the guy who doesnt know where he will end up next year.  I have been accepted to 5/11 schools, which is AWESOME, but still there are a lot of things that have to go into consideration before one picks a college.

Well, back to studying….

Well today has been a big day for a lot of people… and that includes me…

Today we celebrated the joy of Children in the halls of Mary Persons High School… It was the annual Kid’s Yule Love Toy Drive.

The Senior Class is responsible for: creating boxes, posters, flyers, and raising money for this AMAZING Service Project.  This project has really put a lot of things in perspective for me. It has made me realize things that I have never taken the time to think of before….

Nonetheless, This years toy drive was just as successful as last years… The class of 2009 did a great job with coming up for ideas for the assembly, and most importantly helping give the under-privledged kids of Monroe County a Christmas that they will never forget.

As I sat down on the gymnasium floor, I was astonished at how much has changed over the last 4 years of my life, (if not a sobby person, STOP READING NOW).

I was sitting there just looking at the Freshman, and seeing them sit in the same spot that I sat in just 3 short years ago.  It was amazing to me how much our class has risen to the top at Mary Persons High School… 1 semester is now over with, and another will begin, it will be my last in the hallowed halls of MP, unless of course I end up teaching there.  This entire year has just seemed to be a blur, and it has also been mysterious, I never know what crazy thing will happen from day to day… On May 29th, 2009 I will leave Mary Persons, go on to a school, learn how to be an educator (amoung other things), and miss all my friends.

Okay I think I going to stop writing now….

Trey

Well that day is finally here….

Sorry I haven’t written in a while, just been incredibly busy trying to let things happen haha….

Well tomorrow (Oct. 26) is my birthday, I will be turning 18.  This is conceivably the scariest thing that has ever happened to me….  I know if probably wont be very much/if at all different from being 17.  I will be an adult (according to psychologists)  Today I spent the day with a few of my AMAZING friends, I don’t know what I would do without them….

We spent the day just hanging out, we went to Taki ate our brains out (that prolly didnt make much sense).

We then went to the movies and saw High School Musical 3: Senior Year.  It was a very emotional experience for me haha… as this is my senior year, seeing a bunch of people that have been apart of my life (in a movie sense) go through their senior year and go to senior prom, senior musical, and the ever important graduation, it got me thinking, “what in the world am I going to do without these people (my friends, not the cast of HSM).  They have been my backbone, and they mean the world to me.

My Life!!!!!

We went to Marble Slab, and ate some wonderful ice cream, I am very full…. Taki+IC+3 hour movie = stomach hurting haha….

Overall my childhood has been great, other than the fact that I lost my father, and had some interesting things happen to me……………..

I am ready for the next phase in my life, I just don’t want this phase to end, and I don’t ever want to loose the people that mean the most, my friends!!!!

So on friday night, I was planning on going down to Valdosta to the Governors Honors Program final concert. So the plan for that ended up not working out, which really kinda made me sad because I was looking forward to it for about a month or so, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE!!!!

But anyways! I instead went with some of my music friends to my first Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert!!! IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!! they played somethings that were very predictable and overplayed but some things that I have never heard of….

After the concert we met up with some of my conducting mentors friends, and I met a Trombone player that is in the Symphony! He was pretty cool, but I wish I wasnt so freakin scared to talk to people lol… so our conversation was kinda pointless haha! Then we went and ate at this place called Tap, it was pretty loud but cool! I got the only thing on the menu that looked normal, it was called the “pub burger” but I got it and it was not normal…. The bread was not a bun, but it was an English Muffin…. WEIRD!!! and the meat had sweet pickles and onions inside of it…. You would think they would list something that drastic on the menu…. but I was happy and I at most of it anyway…. it was really hard to eat it though with the smell of Muscles protruding from all sides…..

After that we began a rousing game of “guess” it is an annoying awesome game in which one persons thinks of an object and the people have to ask yes or no questions in order to figure out what the object is! So it was Amanda’s turn and her object was something… i dont remember what…. I think it might have been a pencil… but it took us all 20 questions to get it…. Then it was my turn and I choose to do the ever important sponge lol…. IT TOOK THEM FOREVER, partially because of my inability to answer the questions and partially because they asked the dumbest questions EVER!!!

but overall this was an amazing night/experience lol!!

AMANDA, KEI, KYLEE, if I left anything out let me know bahaha!

So Kei just reminded me about one of the most important aspects of our trip!!!!

RANDOM CAR GAMES!!!

We played the “I’m going on a trip”  you say “I’m going on a trip, and I am bringing (something that starts with an A) then you do that for each letter of the alphabet but you have to say the previous persons item….. This was fun until people just tried to use items that would trick people,  it was mostly Kei, he wanted to bring: Dream-Catcher, Ocean Mist Spray, and a Uterus lol!!!

Then we tried this random ‘beat’ game.  You say, ” You say (random Item) I say (something that relates to random item) and the next person says, “you say (something that relates to the last item), I say ( something that relates to the related item)  any way this was really confusing and fast and fun, even though we had to stop alot because 2 certain girls couldnt think of things fast enough lol!

So many of my readers will recognize the title of this posting as a line from a very good song from the Hit Broadway musical WICKED!!! However today it has another meaning…. i really want to know what this awful gut-wrenching feeling that I seem to have all the time is. So as everyone already knows, I got into some mess at school which did not allow me to go to the 2008 Governor’s Honors Program, but then I just had to deal with everything and go with the flow, so i had no time to feel anything about it or do anything about it….. and due to the incompetent people at the Monroe County BOE and mainly one person at Mary Persons, who is completley unwilling to work with anybody on anything, I feel as if I have been cast aside by the school system…. in case anyone doest remember I was one of the people that kept everyone enthused about the Fine arts program while it went through the worst 3 years of MESS that it has ever gone through…. I am the 2nd person to ever make all state( represents the school in a very good way) the 2nd to make GHP( represents the school in a VERY Big way!) but since I made that one stupid mistake they have just cast me aside like I am one of those kids who constanly cause problems! They have made it hard as mess for me to take the classes that I need to get into the colleges I want to get into. I know what I did was wrong, but do they have to continue to make my life a living heck? Is it necessary? I think not! So the whole reason for me writing this blog is mainly because I havent been able to sleep for quite sometime now and I have finally figured out the reason… it is because I should not be sitting down doing nothing about all this… i think I should do something big that would change all this! Because who knows, I might have to go to another tribunal for representing MPHS in another activity that would make them look good but that would give them a reason to make my life more stressful! When I was first caught, i followed all the proper procedures! I sent many an apology letter, I called many people, discovered partially who my real friends are. Realized that one mistake can set you back a thousand years! Most importantly I made a new life track and mapped everything out the way I wanted it to go…. but they were unwilling to work with me at all so I had to get officials involved who would make them work with me! But now I have this overwhelming feeling of guilt and despair!

on a much happier note!!!

I LOST 3 PANT SIZES!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!! YAY FOR PIPPIN AND RUNNING AND 2 MEALS A DAY!!!! AND WATER!!!!