Howdy Ya'll!!!! its me!! your one and only Tessica!!! my mother hasn't said anything so I have decided to tell you how my year has been.... it was fabulous!!! I have so many things to tell ya'll!!I'll tell Ya'll list style... :)
- first off - I placed for the veterans of America writing contest, I meet some amazing veterans thru the whole experience, it was awesome!!

- I got a part in the school play, Soda shop angel. I was a 50's bad girl named Star, I was kinda mean at first, but I turned out good in the end and I got the guy :) it was fun and I meet some amazing people that I wouldn't have if I hadn't have come out of my comfort zone, and because of it, I got to know the play director better and I am now one of the drama department apprentices. I love it! also, since then I have been in two other school productions.

- this year I took choir as one of my elective classes. The only kind of singing I had ever done before this was when I was in the shower or driving the car...by myself! so when I had the opportunity to take the class I said sure why not. well, soon after the first semester, my director decided that we were ready to start competing, I was all like wait! I thought this was just a class! well my group put together an amazing fundraiser, singing valentines! and we raised almost $500 when we only needed $100 to enter in to the festival! when festival finally came it was crazy!! there were some groups the that had almost 50 people and we had only 9!! and I'm not going to lie, we looked kinda silly up on those huge risers. but when we started singing man no one was laughing anymore!! out of 2 days and 44 choir only 3 superiors were handed out and we received one of them!! I was kinda proud of us after that :).... well we were soon asked if we would sing at school events, sport events and even local nursing homes. and for the last concert of the year I got to sing a solo, which was the coolest way to end the year in choir.... I cant wait for next year!

-At my school we have what are called May Awards, which are a BIG DEAL. no joke. May Awards are in May (kinda obvious) and the whole freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes have a night were every student gets up and speaks about what was the most educational experience they had that year, every year about 350 - 400 people show up and you get graded by the principle :) and at the end the teachers give awards to students who have excelled in their class studies, and there is an award for every class, Math, English, and so on and so forth... yeah its a big deal. well I gave my speech on my experience in choir. It was the best speech I have ever given! I got an A+ on my speech and to my surprise I got awarded in my Career Studies class! I was shocked! it was pretty cool!

- I have been in track since I was a freshman as a shotputer and discus thrower and my school started its track program my freshman so I was learning as I went because I didn't have a coach. but this year has been amazing! I qualified for the state track meet in shot put. And my team won the district meet! boys and girls! when i got to state I didn't place, but i have made it a goal to place next year no matter what :).But the our boys won state for 1A schools i was so proud of them!! anyway at the qualifying meet for state I meet a coach from a northern Idaho school that told me about a camp called Ironwood Throwers development Camp, located in Spokane Washington at Witworth university. It is the nations largest and best throwing camp with the some of the the best high school, college and professional coaches in the U.S. and if you wanted to get better at any throwing event that that's the place to go. the only problem was it was almost $600 not including transportation fees. but this coach had watched me throw and told me that he thought that I had good potential and that I should apply for one of the 12 scholarships offered for the camp. after that state track meet, I decided to apply, why not right? about a week later after sending in my application papers I call a call from my mom when I was at a play practice, I got a scholarship!! I ran around waving my arms on stage telling the whole world!! I was so excited!! soon after school was out I was on my way to Washington, with my Dad who got to come with me so he could train to be my coach. I was one of the coolest things that I had ever done! there were kids and coaches from all over the country even Canada! I got to meet 2 Olympic gold medalist - Stephanie Tafton Brown, Beijing 2008 and Mac Wilkins Montreal 1976 - and the U.S. woman's shotput record holder Ramona Pegal. and I got to work with both Stephanie and Mac when I was at Discus Practice! they had us going from 7:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night! I had two 3 hour practice sessions during the day and then another three hours of lectures in the evenings and it was from Sunday to Friday...it was so intense but I loved it! so did my dad, he loves sports ad this was perfect for him! the coaches were amazing and I made some great friends, it was so hard saying goodbye to my coaches. but I hope I get to see them next year and I hope I get to tell them how I placed at state! :) that is my ultimate goal! I have improved so much, and now Tru is saving his money so he can go with me next year.

Well my Friends, I'm sure you have concluded that is has been a great year for me and I'm hoping to keep it going! :) I am unable post any pictures now, but I wont let you down! it will happen soon! I love you all and I will talk to you soon!!

love,
Tessica