Yearbook, CHEFA

This year I joined the CHEFA yearbook team. We met once a month to hash out the details of the yearbook. We gathered pictures at every event, and made then brought them to class to pool our resources. At some of the meetings we just discussed what we wanted the yearbook to be. Other times we would sit down, and get to designing. We ended the year with a pizza party. In the start of the new school year we will give out the yearbooks people ordered and have a yearbook signing party. It's called the CHEFA kick off!
Billy :D

Shakespeare In The Park

I was invited to go watch Shakespeare in the park with a bunch of my church friends. We met about an hour before it was supposed to start, and had a potluck dinner thing. I arrived a little late so about when I got there we started packing up to go to the play's location. I hurriedly ate, and grabbed stuff to carry. We arrived at the site of the play about 20 minutes early, and found a spot to set up our stuff. We then proceeded to hang out until it started. While we were chillin, we saw some CHEFA people, and talked to them for a while. The play was funny, and was well acted. We had somewhat of a difficult time hearing as they had little, or no microphones. They did manage to make themselves heard anyway. We watched "The Merchant of Venice."

Billy :D

Modesto Convention

  This summer my dad, mom, and I went to the Modesto convention. Ricky would have gone, but he was up at camp Chawanakee with his boy scout troop. We drove there, listened to several talks, bought some books and went home. The second day we did the same thing.
   The talks this year were pretty good. My parents liked so many that they bought the entire recorded conference on mp3. This included talks from Voddie Bachum who is a well known conservative, home-school preacher.
   We bought some books written by Voddie Bachum, and some by Todd Wilson. Other than this we bought books on science, and government.
Billy :D

Dakota House

   This summer I volunteered at the Dakota House. This is a safe house run by a lady in Bembe named Jaime Barker. Dakota House is an inner city mission. It is an outreach to less than fortunate children. These kids come twice a week to play games, and have fun, but the main focus is to teach them about Jesus. They get taught about what he did, and why they should care. Also at the end of every meeting they have a prayer time. Where they go around a circle, and everyone who is comfortable doing so prays.
   In addition to the normal meetings they had several extra activities they did. Which the kids who got in trouble the least were picked to go on. Such as going to wild water, & a movie day at at one of Jaime's friends house. They also had a camping trip in August.
Billy :D

psca choir concert

Last month we had the PSCA spring concert. It was so fun.  I had a good time singing, but also being with my friends. After cookies, punch and returning uniforms etc...we went to Starbucks which is a choir tradition.

                                                                                                                  Ricky Vincent

Chefa Conference

  This year we went to the Chefa conference. Which in this case was more of a used book sale. The Chefa conference in years past has been much bigger, and I was somewhat surprised at this years diminutive nature. There were a few classes, but not many. Most of the time I stood outside, and hung out with my peeps. However my Mom did have a part in talking this year, so that was cool.
Billy :D

Shrek 4

 Since the beginnings of Shrek our grandparents have taken us to "the new Shrek movie" for our birthdays. We also go to pizza after the movie. This years movie centered on a twist of Rumpelstiltskin. I enjoyed the movie, and thought it was a clever way to twist the classic storyline. After the movie we went to pizza (cuz that's what you do after a movie) and then headed home.
Billy :D

Dam Diner & Lost lake

We have been trying to taste the food at the Dam Diner for years. This summer we finally managed to get to it for breakfast. We really enjoyed the food. After we finished eating we drove to Lost Lake. We rafted up, and down the lake (which is more of a small river) for the afternoon. At one point we ended up stuck and two drunk guys (who were really excited about life) helped us. Then we had a picnic dinner before heading home.
Billy :D

Movie & Game Nights

  The last few years we've been having movie nights once a month. Last year they ended up being a mix of games as well. I invited a bunch of people over, and we watch movies like hoodwinked, and then turn around next time and watch the Last Samurai! So we really don't have much of a genre. Oh yeah we also had everyone bring something for a potluck dinner.
Billy :D

Graduation Parties

  After the grad ceremony there were numerous grad parties I attended. In fact there were so many invitations that I had to choose between many parties. I did this by simply choosing the invitations that came in first. I enjoyed these parties a lot because they were just a gathering of friends there to celebrate the graduation of this person.
Billy :D

Chefa Graduation

  This years Chefa graduation was epic. I knew almost the entire class, and a lot of them were close friends. We went to the grad ceremony, and watched them all get told how wonderful they were by crying parents. It was a good night in that a bunch of friends are moving on in their lives, that they are commencing a new chapter. The sad part follows in the same wording!
Billy :D

TS3 & Jamba

  I am going back once again to the month of June. We went to see Toy Story 3 & had a jamba before we went in the theater. TS3 was a good adaptation to the first two movies. It had a deeper plot giving it a somewhat depressing feel. The movie was well done, and it followed the other two quite nicely.
Billy :D

Wgtb Camp

This summer I reinstated my career of teaching at we got the beat camp. I have been doing this for about 9 years, but I took a break last year. I came thinking I was only going to help teach, but Brenda (the camp director/my teacher) had other ideas. I ended up playing in three songs, and helping people all over the place! So it turned out to be a lot of fun =D

Billy :D

Scuba Diving

   It been a while since I've gotten on to post, so I'll be going back to the month of June. About mid-June I went Scuba diving. This time right off of Monterey. We could see the aquarium from where we anchored the boat. When I got to Monterey my Dad, and I just hung out, and ate lunch while we waited. When we started to see other divers we found Ed, (who is the owner of the dive shop I learned from) and asked him about the dive, and who he suggested I should dive with. He answered our question, and then set me up with an experienced diver.
We went diving twice, each time seeing a multitude of wildlife.
Billy :D