Only 47 more school days until the end of school!  I can't wait!  47 is also:

The atomic number of silver.

Is the number of retires Steeler's Hall of Famer Mel Blount.

A person uses approximately 47 sheets of toilet paper per day.

There are 47 occurrences of '47' in the first thousand prime numbers.

The weather is FINALLY getting nicer!  It was in the 20s and 30s all of thses past couple of weeks, but this week is supposed to be nicer.  We are supposed to get up to 70° on Thursday which is the day of my first track meet.  It will be nice to run in the kind of heat instead of the frigid cold.  For track today, we started out running a mile, and I got third in that.  I think I will do really good this track season, because I have practiced a lot before the season even began.  We live on top of a really big hill, which everyone in Farmington refers to as "killer hill".  That tells you how big it is.  Lots of times I will just run up and down it a couple of times, which is hard but fun, so track has to be easier than that!

Track

Today was the first day of Track!  It was pretty sick!  I just got new shoes yesterday, so I was able to wear them in today.  They are super duper comfortable and good fitting, which is what you need in Track.  I have a ton of friends that are also in Track, so it makes it more fun.  We only got to try out a few of the events, like the running ones.  Next time I think we will do the long and high jumps, the shot put, discus, etc.  Pretty cool stuff!  Also, Track is every single school day right after school until the beginning of June I think, so I get a lot of practice!

Congratulations March Madness!  That was the best NCAA mens tournament that I have seen my whole life.  It was a good bracket, but the champiosnhip game was AMAZING!  It was the best in years!  It was back and forth all game long, and it was a really fast paced and exciting game.  The last minute was the best, though.  When Marcus Paige made a big time incredible and impossible three - pointer to tie the game up for the Tar Heels with less than five seconds left... I went crazy.  But I new that Villanova would do something awesome too, so I sat back down on the couch after running around the room.  And then, in a great play by the point gaurd, Villanova passed the ball quickly to one of their best players who was wide open.  He shot a three pointer and ... SWISH!  The crowd went crazy at the arena, and so did I.  It was so clutch.

4th Quarter is almost here in school.  That means that there is a little over a month and half left of school!  I am so excited for school to be over.  But I am more ready for the westher to get nicer.  I would rather have an extra week of school where it was 90° all day long for the whole week, would you?  It has been on and off snowy and rainy but there have been a few nice days.  I am counting down the days until SUMMER!

NEW PHONE!

I finally got a brand - new phone!  It came out like last year and it is super duper sick.  It is an LG Escape 2 and it is so awesome!  And I got a really sick case to go with it, too.  It is a basketball case and it looks really cool.  The best thing about this new phone is that everything runs fast.  I have had 4 previous hand me down phones that were all really old, and 2 of them were flip phones.  They all took years to load something as simple as Google.  So to have a really awesome, working smartphone... Well it's awesome.  Also, the graphics are really sweet looking.  There isn't anything bad I can say about it.  Thank ps Mom and Dad!  It's pretty sick nasty!

60 Minutes is one of our family's favorite TV shows.  It is basically a documentary on a couple different stories for each recording.  Some are boring, but there was a really cool one we saw tonight. It was about St. Benedicts Highschool.  A monk re-started the school, and he came up with a new idea.  Mostly all of the students are poor, inner city African American, Latino, or other race kids.  The whole idea of the school was to let the kids who don't get freedom at home, run the school.  They don't make all the choices, but they make most of them.  It creates a lot of responsibility and leadership skills for those kids.  I think the idea is pretty sick.  I would love to go to a school like that.  Also, all the kids refer to their friends and other peers at the school as "brothers" and they love each other in a brotherly supportive way.  As ninth graders, they have a sort of boot camp thing, which teaches the new kids how to help each other and support them when they need help.

Heat

It's like weather doesn't like me.  It keeps teasing me!  One day it will be 55° and sunny, which is nice for this time of year in Minnesota, and the next day it will be 20° and snowy.  Why???!!!!??!!?!  I need consistency this time of year!  Next time it snows (it is projected to snow about a foot tomorrow for us in MN) I'm gonna March up to the nearest weather station and tell them to make the weather nicer.  I think a weather man should be able to do that.  That would be pretty sick, wouldn't it?

Track

Track starts in two weeks for me!  This is my first year in track, and I am hoping to do really good.  I know for sure one event that I want to do - the high jump.  I also think the long jump and the hurdles would be cool.  After running so much last summer, I feel ready for this track season, and it's pretty exiting.  Of course, Track starts after Spring Break, which is next week, so I am also looking forwards to Spring Break.  Man, I need a break from school!  I missed a couple of days because I was sick with something, but that doesn't count.  I'm counting down the days - only 3 left - until Spring Break!  

Braces

After a long time of waiting, I finally got braces!  These are just top braces, and I will get bottom braces soon.  They only hurt a bit, but when I eat is when they hurt.  Everyone at school said that they look normal on me, and didn't even notice at first.  I am glad to have braces, and even more glad that I can still have M and Ms,  The lady who put them on talked with me about what things not to eat, and some food that I like was on there.  Thankfully, M and M's are still an option to have.  It's crazy to think that I will actually get used to these weird things in my mouth, but I will.  I am always feeling them and running my fingers over them without even thinking about it.  But I am glad that I get to have braces.