what do rain storms have to do with tennis banquets?...well nothing really, i guess

yesterday was a day i will probably always remember, for two reasons. one being the intensive rain storm and flooding, which, as you may have guessed, causes august and i to do random things. the second reason being our tennis banquet.
i'll start with the rain. it rained a good part of the night and was still raining when i got up for school (yay!). by the time i got out to my car and began driving to school, it didn't lighten up as you would have thought, but progressively got harder. when driving down Palo Verde between South and 183rd, it was coming down in buckets and then entire street was practically flooded! it was impossible to drive in the right lane! turning right on 183rd really worried me with my car being so low and all. i seriously though water was going to start coming in...it was ridiculous haha! eventually i made it to school (the traffic back up was insane!) and tried to run through the parking lot to the shelter of hall D. luckily i found grace, who had an umbrella, at the cross walk and was able to take refuge under it with her. unfortunately, umbrellas do not protect against ankle-deep unavoidable puddles and wearing canvas-topped converse do not ensure dry feet...who knew? :) i left grace in hall D and then attempted to make a run for hall C without getting too wet. that did not work out too well. by the time i arrived to 1st period, my skirt, jacket and shoes were dripping and i am not exaggerating. just ask terisha; she began ringing out my skirt it was that bad. after sitting through two classes, feet freezing, (my cloths pretty much dried) august, who had the same feet problem as i did, and i decided to go into the bathroom at break and hold our shoes and socks under the heated hand dryers. wow and i've always dislikes those things because they take so long to dry your hands. it was pretty funny though...only with her would i do something like that. it didn't fully dry them, but it did help a bit.
later that night was our tennis banquet at my house, which was fun. we had dinner and then ms. admiraal talked a bit about the season, making us guess "who was most likely to____" on the team. for example, "most likely to go swimming unexpectedly at a pool party", and the answer was me. next were the awards.
MVP-alicia (totally deserves it! i'm proud of you, alicia!)
Sportsmanship-laney and jamie (also totally deserve it!)
Most Inspirational-me
Most Improved-sasha (she did improve and work hard to do so)
Coaches Award-me
after awards, brittany, alicia and i got to give coach her gifts! we were quite excited for this. she said she was scared to open them since we were so excited. her gifts included, a 24 pack of coke (yes feed her addiction haha), a gift card to both olive garden and yogurt land (we took her to yogurt land during season, so we thought it appropriate), a pair of footy pj's!! (bright red with a monkey on it and sock monkey feet! how awesome is that?!) and i also made her a scrap book (for a more sentimental touch). yeah we are the best captains ever! or at least pick out the best gifts haha :)
although, there was no crying this time, getting together with the team really made me miss tennis all over again. i mean, i miss everything about it! practice, matches, my teammates, ms. admiraal. i mean i know i can still play tennis, see people on the team and i talk to ms. admiraal pretty much every day, but putting all those factors together really makes something that i just really love. but, i've got lots to look forward to ahead of me. it's just that since i haven't experienced anything in my future(obviously), so it is hard to look forward to things when i don't know what things to expect. well, thats why God is in charge and i'm not. because as frustrating as not-knowing is sometimes, i truly believe that i would never want to know exactly what my future holds. for one, i might go crazy with all the thoughts that, that would cause and for another, what would be the fun in living life through if we knew what was coming? i will probably touch on this subject again sometime...for, now i'll just leave it at that.

i'll post tomorrow about my field trip that was today. twas fun!
until then...