Pageant

I've had a best friend ever since before first grade. As children, we looked identical, and we were inseperable. Last year she decided to graduate early, so she was a senior while I was a junior. She had occasionally done pageants, but decided to do one last one: Miss Gem. She definetly did not expect to win, however, she did, and it was definetly an amazing moment. She was utterly shocked, and she deserved it.



A year later, there's me. I've never done a pageant in my life, but my high school career is coming to an end, and with it I want to make sure I do everything I've ever wished of doing. One of these would be: participating in a pageant. Granted, it's probably a huge waste of money, and I'm pretty positive I won't win, but I think it would be a fun experience to have, and I don't want to regret not participating. It wouldn't be too expensive for me, because I could use my military ball dress in the pageant, as well as my accessories, and the only things I would really need to buy is my casual wear, and think up a talent. I'm trying to convince a bunch of girls to do it with me, just so it would be a fun experience together. Not quite sure who will, but I'm looking forward to it. I've asked my best friend to be my pageant coach, in which she was like "duh." lol. The pageant's not till early next year, but I'm already looking forward to it, and looking around for a dress that will accomodate both military ball and the pageant. If not, I still have my ball dress from last year. Anyways, short blog post, but just a decision I made lately that I thought I would share with you all. Much love and God bless! =)




Sarah Jane

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First Week as a Senior

So the day has finally come, I'm a Senior in High School. YESSSSS!! Right? .... NOOOO. My first week has definetly not been as I expected it to go. It hasn't been TERRIBLE, but it wasn't full of bliss like i was hoping it would be. To begin with, I had problems scheduling before school even started. I couldn't take all the classes I want to, and I had to play around with my guidance counsels through three sessions before I could finally get a schedule I liked. That being said, I had to take two courses online through virtual schooling.

The first week of school was probably the longest week I've ever endured throughout my own high school career thus far. Don't get me wrong, all my teachers are fantastic, and I have great friends, but I have senioritis all ready and it's just the first week. The first day of school I couldn't even get parking in the senior lot, and had to park in the junior lot. I guess I'm just ready for college to start. I know what college I plan to attend, I know my living conditions, I know my income, I know what car I'm going to be able to afford and buy, I know what furniture I want to get, and the only thing I don't know is what I want to major in, which I suppose is SLIGHTLY important. Plus since I'm the youngest of seven, and I'm the baby, my parents are nourishing ever possible moment they have left of my adolescent and choose to especially use their last whim of powers to make my life miserable.

With that being said, on my first weekend of being a senior I had a wreck. Now, let me back up and say, my first day of driving to school as a junior I hit a car. It wasn't a bad collision, but none the less, my liscense was taken that day and I couldn't drive to school for the next month. Now, let's go back to the present. I was on my way to my best friend's house, we were going to leave to watch a baseball game down town. It had been raining all day, but the sky had let up a little bit, so I made my way over. I was driving 5 UNDER the speed limit, but i had this insane itch in my foot that would NOT go away. I leaned over and quickly scratched it. In doing so, the car went off the side of the road. I turned the wheel to the left, and as my dad calls it, I overcorrected. The car spun to the left, and I turned the wheel to the right, but nothing happened, my dad says it was because i was already sliding against slick pavement. My front bumper hit against the guardrail, and it bounced off, where finally the wheels took a play, but not in the way i wanted it too. It flung me backwards, and I wound up in a ditch beside the guardrail.

Shockingly enough I didn't panic during the whole "accident" portion. I was calm and was trying to regain control of the wheel, and thank the Lord I had a seat belt on. It wasn't until afterwards when I realized that my little car was NOT getting out of a slick ditch that I started to get frazzled. I got out of my vehicle. The damage was actually not that bad. Some paint was gone on my front bumper, and there was a dent in the guardrail, but no dent in my car. "Good ole faithful" I've always called it. I was fine, and there was no one else in the car with me. A passing family called our state trooper, and a friend from school, ironically named Hope, and her boyfriend saw me about 15 seconds later and stayed with me throughout the whole time. I like to say, "I got in a wreck, but God sent me Hope...literally." My parents unfortunetly were an hour away and couldn't immediately come to my rescue, and because of my shopping trip yesterday I couldn't afford to have a vehicle tow me out. Thankfully, Hope's dad owned a 4 wheel drive, and pulled me out of the ditch, which let me just say, caused my stomach to churn. An hour later, the cops still hadn't showed, and my dad finally arrived. He told me to head on home and thanked Hope's family. At home, my liscense was taken away, which might I add, made me extremely angry because I wasn't speeding. Granted it'll be back in a week, but I'm a senior and already the first week of school my liscense is gone.

So that was my first week of school. Definetly, not like in the movies, although it'll be memorable. It didn't help that my boyfriend's friends told me they were proud of me and wrote songs about me "not being able to drive". grrrrr. Hopefully I'll look back on this one day and I'll laugh, but for not, I'm just irritated. It's five o'clock in the morning and I couldn't sleep, so I blogged instead. Anyways, ttyl.

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My Last JROTC Summer Camp

This past week has been one of the best, and also one of the saddest camps I've attended. It was one of the best because I had an awesome time, and made sooo many new friends. It was one of the saddest because it was my last JROTC camp I'll ever attend now that I'm a rising senior. It was a camp called JLEAD, a JROTC camp dedicated to teaching cadets how to be an effective leader, and the different types of leadership. It was a very good camp, granted, some parts were slightly boring, especially when we had 4 hour lectures on caldendar planning, but hey, that gives me notes to help you guys be effective at organizing =) However, the friends I made there were amazing, and I had soooo much fun.

To start with the basics, I was in Bravo Company, 1st Platoon, 3rd squad (in case theres anybody that went there that's reading this.) Me and one of my really good friends, Samantha, were bunkmates. We were told that we would have twin beds, and we both use Queens at our house. So we both had to look through storage and find our old twin sheets from when we were little. She managed to find her cute green sheets from when she was eight. I on the other hand could only find plain white.... and it lookedl ike a hospital bed. Wow. If you look to the right of the picture, the one with the two bunks, you'll see a broom. Yes, that half sized broom became a very important instrument. In our halways, we were told that at nighttime we had to keep our doors open, safety precautions about the boys sneaking over and such. However, I could have sworn that some of the girls on my hallway were guys, they dressed and looked like males, except they had boobs. So me and Sam used the broom to set up an alarm system. We placed it slanted against our dorm, that way if anybody walked into our room at night, it would clatter against the ground. Haha, yeah it wasn't very effective, my other friend ran into our room, and jumped over the broom. Sam was like, "what?! NO! kasey; your not supposed to step OVER our alarm ! go out & try this again" lol.

I made so many friends while I was there. There were friends that I recognized from last year when i went, and I reunited with them. There were tonsss of new friends. If you look in the picture to your right, the guy on the far left, and the guy on the left beside me were best friends, and had a Russian accent. They literally cracked me up every time I talked to them, and made the trip sooo funny. The guy being held up in the blue was sooo sweet and he was like my soul brotha, we were so alike. Ohhh and of course thats Sam right beside me. haha, I've never been complimented so much as I was that one week, there were so many sweet guys who told me how beautiful, funny, pretty, or smart, I was. It seriously makes you laugh and feel really good about yourself, because you're looking your abosolute worst with your hair back, and in a bulky uniform, and theres still cute guys telling you that you look good, talk about a major confidence boost =)
I know it sounds so corny, but i definetly made friends that I'll never forget. The two Russian guys were so hard to become friends with. (One of them is really Russian, but both just fake the accent.) They had a wall up and wouldn't really speak to anybody. However, during the camp, they took us to this place where there were tons of obstacle courses. It was during one of the last events that I bonded with the actualy Russian guy, his names Peter. We had to help each other get across the Low Ropes Course and it definetly helped us bond. Once I got through Peter, it was easier to get to Riley, his best friend, who really wasn't Russian. We all became good friends, and I was soo sad to see them leave.


In case I previously forgot to mention the major details, the camp was held at North Georgia State and College University. If you are considering taking the ROTC route in college, North Georgia is a great place. The barracks are decent, the food is pretty good, the facilities are really nice, and it's one of the six Senior colleges in the United States. (The others being: Norwich University in Vermont, Texas A&M Univeristy, the Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, and Virginia Tech) In case you don't know what a Senior Military College is, it means that you cant be deployed while you're in college. So you don't have to worry about having to stop during the mildde of school and being shipped overseas to fight in the war. North Georgia is ranked in the top 5 cheapest colleges in the US, and honestly i don't see how, because their campus is beautiful. It's a smaller to medium college with 5000 students if you're interested in that, and they have great scholarship programs. North Georgia also commisions more 3 star generals then even West Point, so that's a pretty cool fact.

Anyways, enough about the college. I had an amazing time there, and made so many great friends and memories. If you have a chance to go to this camp, you should because you'll meet so many amazing people and learn so many amazing things. Although this camp was very bittersweet, it was well worth the time, money and energy to go there. I hope this blog post wasn't too boring! I'll keep updating =)

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Trips Trips and More Trips

So if you've been following me on youtube for a while (www.youtube.com/stephallijane23) you probably know that I have a habit of going off on rants on almost anthing. Sadly enough this will probably be a habit that will never change, however, I'm going to view it as a positive thing. So instead of ranting away on my videos, I will do so on this blog (since that's what it's kinda made for), and my first discussion will be on all the trips I'm taking.

For me, summer has seemed extremely short due to the fast that almost every other weekend I'm headed off somewhere. As soon as school let out, I was shipped off to Girls State, which is a camp for female leaders. If you have the opportunity to go your Junior Year, you should totally take it, it opens sooo many scholarship oportunities and it looks great for college! I returned home for five days before leaving for D.C. on June 25th for JROTC Nationals for my Leadership Team in which I'm the Captain. I won't really go into the whole thing of what Leadership Team is, because it's hard to explain. I got to fly there, in which that's the first time I've flown in 10 years, and it was definetly VERY exciting =) I had the greatest time there and I bonded with the most amazing people who I still talk to.

After coming home from D.C., I celebrated my best friend's birthday. No "party party", I'm not the partying type, but a nice luncheon with frozen yogurt at the end and tons of hillarious girls make an awesome time =) The girl in the middle with the grey shirt was the birthday girl =)

Anyways, after D.C., I stay home for about two days, and then was headed up to Maryland. (This is actually the trip that I just returned from.) There's a Burmese church there (in which I'm half Burmese and half White), which has been trying to open for about ten years. My mother was on of the original founders of the church, so it was a big deal. I had a great time while I was there with; I'm not around asian people too much because they're pretty much nonexistant where I live, so when I get around them I get super excited haha. I had a blast while hanging out with my cousins, driving down the road with music blasting and watching fireworks in the back of their SUVS, definetly had a fun time. However, my poor mother did not. On the first night there, I got really sick and threw up, but we thought it was just because she was car sick. However, her illness continued throughout the second day, and we figured it was probably food poisoning. While I was out watching fire works, my mom was taken to the Emergency Room in which she was there for many hours because it got sooo bad. My poor mommy. She wanted to return home a day early, and we agreed.

So here I am, home once agin. My next trip isn't until July 20th, in which I have to go to another JROTC Leadership Camp called JLEAD, probably my least favorite of the bunch. So anyways, there's my life in a nutshell for the past couple of days. I'm going to try to get back into the swing of putting up more videos within the next two weeks before I leave. If you have any requests, leave them below, and spread the word about it!! Thanks for taking time to read this and God Bless! =)

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Introductions

In case you've stumbled across this blog and are unaware of the author, my name is Sarah Jane and I'm a beauty guru on YouTube. I asked my subscribers if they would read my blog if I started one, and of the answers I recieved, all of them were yes. So here I am starting a blog! It's a little weird for me to be doing this, I told them that this would be more diary based then again. The point of this blog isn't to share more makeup facts, that's what my beauty channel is for. Instead, this blog is to share more about my personal life if you're interested in it. I might mention a product here or there, but it won't be anything major.

To get started, I'll tell you a little bit about myself. As I've stated before, my name is Sarah Jane, and although I won't tell you what state I live in, I do live somewhere south in the United Sates. I'm seventeen-years-old, and I try to enjoy life to the fullest. I try to harmonize in mind, body, and spirit. I'm a complete nerd: I take challenging courses at my high school (in which right now I'm finally a senior!!!), and I work my hardest to make an A in all those courses. I run two miles everyday, and sometimes work out more if I'm in the mood. I also have Bible Study every night with my mother, I am a Christian, and I try to lead a good life. I am by no means perfect, however, I believe there's no harm in at least trying not to make mistakes.

Hmmm, what else to type? I'm not really sure, so if you ladies have any questions, just leave a comment, and I'll try to answer them. Thanks for taking time out of you day to check out this blog and God bless! =)

P.S. if you guys know of any way of making my blog look more fabulous, PLEASE tell me!! haha

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