I miss swimming already…I went to the State trials today to cheer on my team and man, I AM SO MISSING SWIMMING!!!!! all my new friends are gonna almost like.. vanish!I went from spending 5 hours a day with them, to 0 hours a day… I knew them as family… well, i knew them BETTER than i do my family.. isnt that crazy? we shared everything with each other and it was a close knit family… and now, it is veryy wierd!!!! Update on my reading: I’ve gone through like 5 200pg+ books in this past week….. Blue Like Jazz, Alien, Looking for Alaska, Being, and Inexcusable… i am really getting into reading and I just love being in another “world”.. wow
it’s great.
So, As of Saturday swimming is finally over! It has come to my attention that my life of swimming, eating, school, sleep has come around to more than that!! I now don’t have to stay at school every night until 6:30pm. Therefore I can once again assume the normalcy of my life (or what it was). I do however have to get more hours at work because my bank account is slowly depleting!! I’m just hoping to be able to hang out with friends from LP once again.. It’s hard because I’m all the way out in Portland and it feels like the Portland bridge is like a “disconnection” to society.. Ben Adams always joked that no word ever makes it over the Portland bridge and therefore he was always “left out” of stuff.. I kinda feel the same way. It seems like no one “remembers” me.
Anyways, Last night at LP it was really amazing to see all the kids and adults worshiping.. What a cool experience to get parents involved in LP and such. It really seems like LP is getting bigger and better (and i thought it was the best years ago) I’m really excited to see what goes on there and I’m glad I can start coming again. I just hope that I can build up what I once had relationship wise.. It seems like now with everyone we’re just “friends”.. when I felt like they were my family when i went there before…
Anyways, I need to go — school is almost over and we’re cleaning out our swim lockers after school. Be good, stay safe.
Chow fo’ Now.
So I got back from Florida around 12 noon today..
Let me tell you how incredible it was.
The Temperature? Mid 80’s, so AMAZING.
What did I wear? Flip Flops, Shorts and Tee Shirts all week… I stepped off the bus today in Connecticut with those on and let me tell you I was SO incredibly sad =(
We practiced twice a day, averaging about 13,000 yards (that’s ALOT) normally here in Connecticut we average about 7,000 a day.. Our schedule went like this…
7:00am, got up ate breakfast
8:00am-10:00am, hit pool water and swam for 2 hours – it was averaging a temp. of 75 btw =)))
10:15am, Got out of pool went to go get food
11:00am-1:15pm, lounged around and sun tanned
1:30pm-3:45pm, swam.. sucksssssss
4:00pm-9:00pm, Hung out, went traveling…mall,beach,food,friends, etc.
10:00pm, sleepy time.
It was so amazing, we went to the beach, mini-golfing.. it was so nice getting into the ocean in FEBRUARY and actually having the water nice and warm, how amazing is that.. Up here in Connecticut it’s like Polar opposite.
I really got to bond with a lot of my teammates even more, it was just incredible and I’m so glad I went on this trip.
Here are some pictures.


(the bathroom after my hair dye…)

(the beach, the sun came out later in the day and I got sun burned)

(my pink hair, and sun burn)

This was a sign for a hotel, It was RIDICULOUSLY bright and no one could see anything
That is right. We pwned them.
The biggest meet of the season, Middletown vs. Farmington — we killed them.
We took their gypsy tears!
We wore our heart on our arms and swam like no one has ever seen us before. It was the most charged up, electrifying meet that Coach Baldwin (35 year swimming coach) has ever had. I feel bad to whoever wasn’t there to see the incredible feat we pulled off. The final score? 98.5 to 88.5
Even better? it was there senior night, meaning it is their last home meet of the season and they commend and congratulate all the seniors swimming — NO ONE wants to lose on their senior night. But anyways, I broke some of my best times which was great.. I better have, we shaved out bodies for it because it was soo intense and we needed any amount of lead we could get. Anyways, I can’t wait for Florida.. less than a week!! I’m going to Sam’s Club tomorrow and stocking up on crap to bring down there. YESSSS
