The 5 week trip to hell and back

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OK, so it wasn't exactly to hell. It was just to Illinois, then Colorado and finally to Bethany Beach.
We started out in Illinois, where we stayed at our Uncle's house, then we went to the "Geneva" house. Then to a campground, where my grandparent's live ( they live in a RV).
Then Me and Grace went to Colorado. We were with our grandparents and the last night we were at our uncle and aunt's. Then we went to the Tillapaugh's house, where we were with the rest of our family. Then we went back to our Aunt and uncle's. Then we went to a think called DAR. And there i learned that i was in chaos.
Then on to Bethany Beach where i started chafing. Then it was just a 2 day drive back to NY, where after about 3 second's from getting out of the car someone saw us and ll of a sudden the whole neighborhood knew we were back.

In Colorado i got my cousin's electric guitar, and in a week a amp should come in the mail.

I have to go eat now.

Becca

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I would just like to write, that i was just talking to Becca on the phone and she told me that she can not comment on my post's because i write in a seal passion and because I'm writing about stuff she's also going through (she gets sad). Even though to me my post's seem simple to me, to you they touch you, its just another thing that show's that everyone is different. Becca I had fun talking to you.

My hair

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I have some horrible news, we have to CUT MY HAIR. It's for school, it's part of the uniform. I'm going to donate it to people who have cancer. I can almost not write this. That's pretty much all. were going to go ask some people about advice for a new style. Oh yah, it has to be a natural color. Please comment any ideas of color or style.

Our house and what i do in it

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Our new house is at 668 Ogden Parma town line road. Its very nice, and we have good neighbors. All i seem to be doing is reading the ninth Pendragon book, playing a new DS game called guitar hero, that my grandparent's got me and jumping on our neighbor's trampoline. Beside that we go do stuff in town.I have a reading list, 1. the ninth Pendragon 2. the tenth Pendragon 3. treasure island 4. the call of the wild 5. Thomas Jefferson. That's pretty much all.

America

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Im finally going to post that post you've all been waiting for. The post about moving to America. I'll go back to my birthday. If this were a movie it would look like someone dropped a rock into some water and we would hear some freaky music. I woke up in the hotel (Malenovice) and got out of bed, put on my clothes and gave my mom the clothes i slept in. I went down stairs thinking about my birthday. There is some group of people at the hotel and so we had the big breakfast out. Matej a friend of ours was there and he wanted to get a picture with us. After that Mrs. Patty gave me a present, it was all about the past. There was a spidey comic book ( we used to read those) 3 different chocolate bars and a bionicle ( we played with those all the time). I also got a nice letter from Claire, in it was 5 dollars, thanks Claire. We had 2 cars, one was the Patty's car and one was the Michalik's car, there a family that goes to our church. I got in the Patty's car with Nicholas and Caleb. When we got to the Ostrava train station we met the other group and dragged our luggage to the train there we said goodbye and got on our train. It was a long way to Prague, where we would stay the night and get on the airplane. we got there around lunch-ish. And we went to Mcdonald's to tide us over until we could get lunch finally we were there we dropped of our stuff at the hotel and started to celebrate my birthday. We had dinner at Bohemia Bagels (try to guess what they sell), I got the hot dog and fries, i know i was at a bagel shop but still. Then we walked over to Charle's bridge and opened my present's I got a pair of red converse sneaker's from Becca some napkins with converse on them from my mom and a new nano (project red ipod from my mom and dad!!!!!! Then we went to starbuck's and my mom said i could get whatever i wanted. Lets guess what size I got. I got a vinti caramel frapucino wit caramel drizzle down the side the cup and on top. With no whip cream. We told the guy's working that it was my birthday and they gave me a gift too. They gave a whole bottle of special caramel drizzle. Aren't I special. The next day we woke up and got taxi's to drive us to the airport. I would like to write that i took one last breath of Czech air before went, but I actually forgot about it, I was concentrating so hard about getting on. Oh yah, we got on first. We had my mom's cello with us so we were the first people on! We should take that more often. we had a 8 hour layover in the second worst terminal ever. JFK. The worst is Paris. We got to rochester at midnight. I'll right more about our house in a different post.

Grades

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I am right now sitting at school and i jus got my grades!!!! Im so excited, i got 3 C's 2 B's and the rest are A's!!!! Its waz mbetter than half a year ago. Last time i got 2C's and 4B's. Anyways i hqave to keep working.

Thistle Rock

Nathan's Mom again. We had Greg Strock over for our last family photo shoot in Czech last night. We took photos as a family and our family with Becca. I'm sure you'll see them soon on our family blog and prayer letter,

We also needed individual photos of the kids for our Missionary Debrief program this summer - so Greg did individual shots. Nathan has a nice one - but this one is more fun. This is our Rock Star Nathan, glamming it up with a wild thistle. (He needs to practice his guitar to more to be able to pull off his rock star lifestyle!)

This picture was also appropriate for him because Eeyore always eats Thistles in Pooh and Nathan was in a HUGE Eeyore mood yesterday due to school. Only three school days left and he's walking around in a slump...So maybe this is photo is Eeyore singing the Thistle Blues!



Another shot with the thistle...play this song in C Minor...

A Proud Mom

This is Nathan's Mom. I had to write and let you all know how proud I am of Nathan. He was a wonderful JV Kid this week. He is a great friend to so many JV Kids and they love him a lot. A bunch of JV Adults love him too! Here is a picture of us on the big photo day. There is also a photo of us with Johnny & Brooke. Johnny is the Frog's counselor at camp and he loves Nathan a ton.

Nathan's Mom Out

The end of JV

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The last day at JV was a sad one, ill skip the part's that's in "the movie". at one point in time Alice pulled me aside and told me something that i think should stay between us. Later I'm fine, not crying until i got hugged, each time someone hugged me they "squeezed out my tear's" One by one people left, and hugged me and made me cry, all the way at the end there were only a few of us left that they could be counted on 2 hands. They all are going to go to attend the intern training at the time when we will be there, so it wasn't so bad. I went home and was sad. The next day i had to go to school. It was terrible! I was tired most of the hours, then last hour we were out side playing soccer, when people were treating me like i was a complete idiot. It's now 6:12 and the day is getting better. But my parent's didn't let me go outside and shoot "people" in a rain storm! Let's hope it keep's getting better.

The movie of my life

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What you are about to read is a movie, the movie of my life with Blake Patty.

At the bottom of the screen you see the words Monday 5.10.2009 day that JV conference ends. You see a lot of people in a room, everyone of them is a JV kid or a person who went to camp. Becca is in the middle talking ,people start to cry, there's a lot of hugging, then people leave to go to lunch. the camera zooms in on 2 people, you recognize them as Nathan and Blake, the 2 main character's of the movie. as they walk to lunch they talk about camp and school. At lunch they sit outside, where they eat lunch, just the 2 of them. They start to do riddles. Then Blake changes the subject. "Do you miss the way JV used to be?"
"not really, im too young to remember it.
"oh"
"I didn't cry when Becca was talking"
"Me neither"
" I think that my brain has already left"
After this they leave to go hand in their plates, after that they meet Mrs. Patty, who starts talking to Nathan. She tells him that he's the kind of friend who they would send Blake to meet me again one day. She hugs him and he starts to cry. He was wrong about already feeling like he was gone. Mrs. Patty gives Blake and Nathan money to buy a ice cream, they both buy chocolate noggers. They go outside to say goodbye to people. Blake's car leaves first. He gets in the car after saying goodbye to Nathan. By now Nathan wonder's if he'll ever see his friend again.

Now the screen darkens and a new scene starts. the words 10 years later show up. You see Nathan in America, in a tux and Blake at the door. Blake too is in a tux. You ready to get married? Yah, thanks for being my best man. The rest of the movie is not important, what we want to see is what happened in the middle. Those are the year's I'm about to live through.