GUESS WHAT?

Jenna!

Just wanted to tell you: I had this really spectacular jam the other day. It was Strawberry Rosemary. Sounds weird I know but it on an English muffin and it was so amazing.

Haha.

But I also wanted to say hi, of course. I miss you a lot and I really hope that you will come visit me while I am in college. I really wanted to take a road trip up there this summer but I don't know if I will be able to cause I have a bunch of other places to go. If I can't you must come visit me in Berkeley.

And guess what? I am going to prom! I know, the thought of ever going never even crossed my mind. But then I thought, maybe I should just do it. What the hell, I never do anything like that ever. Plus I can dress up. And if it sucks (which it probably will), then I will all the more grateful to head back home and sleep.

I am practically done with school! Just a couple hours spaced over this entire next week for finals (or at New Roads, portfolios).

I miss you so much! Tell Claire, Heather, Dawn, and Charlotte that I say hello.

Love, Justine

P.S. I haven't been watching much of The Office this season! Just one episode. But from what I saw, I loved it. You must watch them when you get back.

the Low-Down in Bert Town.

Just a little low-down on what's going on with the Adams family...

Mary is pregnant, due in early September. Mary Jayson and Elizabeth just moved over by SouthCove on West Lake Sammamish.

Maxine is Pregnant, due....october or something. haha. Maxine Will and Teah just moved today to Connecticut.

Ted..is not pregnant. BUT. he got his mission call yesterday, he leaves July 30th for the MTC, and he's going to the Washington D.C North Mission. Two years. Maxine and Ted should come back around the same time. maxine probably later. maybe a year later.
goodness.

other than thaaaaat....My mom is basically finished with two books now, My dad's company (Edge Wireless/Mobile and all the other hundreds of couple person companies he had created) sold to AT&T mostly. so technically he's unemployed?

so yup. that's, pretty much the low-down :)

just an idea of Teah and Elizabeth:







and, just for kicks, me in a dress!

ix-nay on the eve-stay.

Kassie Update XIV

afhajsdlhfjasdhfljkas
that's how I'm feeling.

but at the same time.
:)

and also sleepy.


and watching Juno!!! I like it so far :D

I don't think I'll be able to finish it though.
Because Steve called.


That's right. Steve.
From last semester.
That's right.
Finally seduced him.
muahahahahahaaaaaaaa.

Omg, now I have to go and shower.
but.
I want to watch Juno.
and take a nap.

But
see
since I've sucessfully seduced Steve
now
I just need to make him crazy about me.

Details later skipper ;)


STAY SAFE.
STAY AWESOME.
HUGZ AND KISSEZ!

--kassie

DALAI LAMA!!!

I ABSOLUTELY FORGOT!


Last Friday I saw His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in Seattle during his Seeds of Compassion campaign. I listened to him speak with a group of 6 panelists who are world renouned neuroscientists and psychologists on the scientific basis of compassion. How we develop compassion as human beings and ways to instill it into our children.

The focus behind "Seeds" of Compassion is children. Tomorrow my little brother is going to see him during the "Child and Youth" day and participate in workshops regarding compassion designed for children.

Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama... who's next on Emily's list?

PS.

Tell Heather about it! I know she'd love to hear.

ah, my lovely Jenna.

I suppose you're in Lima now. Every once in a while I'll pop up your TTS schedule to see where you are. Man Wata, I hope the southern stars are brilliant because last night the northern ones were. Yesterday, it got up into the 70's! I had a track meet so I was outside all day and I now actually have some color on my face!

April 3rd marked the date that we had been back from South Africa as long as we had been away so I thought it would be nice to call everyone to see how they were doing. The little one-on-one telephone reunions were... bittersweet.

I GOT INTO 2 OF MY TOP 3 SCHOOLS!!! Mt. Holyoke and Sarah Lawrence. Actually, Justine and I both got into Sarah Lawrence, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to go to Mt. Holyoke. it's in South-Hadley Massachusetts and a wonderful (gulp) all-girls school that has a lot of opportunities in my interests. I'm just happy that I have the choice to go to a college that I would prefer to go to. Some of my friends didn't get that chance. :(

I asked a boy to the prom last night. But he likes another girl. Oh well. I give myself big kudos for putting myself out there. I took it like a man, ya know? I told him that "it's no problem if he wanted to go with someone else. I just thought it would be fun if we could go together, but I would want you to do what you want to." I thought it was most important to make him feel okay, so he wouldn't feel guilty about saying no. I would feel really bad if I had put him in an uncomfortable situation. His name is Will, and he was my crush from 7th to 9th grade, so I thought it would be fun to go out with the boy it's taken me about 5 years to be friends with. :P

boring boring, I'm sure. You're life's spheric spectrum is at an all-time enormity - and what a glorious thing that it. I'm becoming more and more "okay" with the idea that it's just fine to live your daily life within the barriers of a 20 mile radius. That's how 99% of the almost 8 billion people in this world do it each day. And I've realized that it doesn't mean you're any less closer to God/an Enlightened state.

much love,

Emily

I think...no. i KNOW i must be a horrible person an absolutely horrible horrible horrible person for not writing anything sooner!!!

so i suppose all i can say is i am SO. SORRY.
don't think i've forgotten about you or something though. because that is DEFINITELY not the case.
i just...
could never figure out what to write :P
which isn't really a valid excuse but i can apologize again?

by the time you come home i think i'll have my six months up. i shall kidnap you peach and take you awaaaaay just you and me :)
whether that's a good or bad thing in your opinion...
doesn't seem to matter much right now. hahaha i can still have my dreams, can't I?

so what's new what's new....I have another new car....well not new. but...k. so, Maxine is moving to Connecticut later this month. Mary is moving too but they're just moving down onto west lake samammish. sammamish? samish. we'll call it samish. because joe called it that the other day. (YES. joe. that joe. myspace....awkward.) BUT. so maxine is moving to connecticut where there is, inevitably, MORE SNOW THAN HERE. so the civic and nissan weren't gonna cut it. my dad gifted his subaru to them, and i got will's 2002 nissan sentra, and my civic went to a family friend. which is okay because i was going to end up spending most of everything in my checking an savings account, trying to replace the exhaust manifold in the engine....which waaaaaas......is.....cracked in half. woohoo! SO i have a new car. i'm using caps alot
i'm done. :D

maybe.
I'm still working at mathews but now i'm a Helper Clerk, so i spend alot more time in back....i'm in charge of the cooler, the beer, the eggs, the pop and water....butter, cheese, juice...milk...some wine....stocking stuff....all that dandy stuff. so far so good, it makes me feel a bit less sick than standing in one spot twisting back and forth from side to side, after drinking alot hahaha

let's seeeee...i have a formal on the 19th! it's only a church dance but it's gonna be SEVEN stakes (most dances are only 3, if that gives you an idea) and it's only 16+ aaaand i have a formal dress and stiletto's (yes, i have crossed to the dark side, love) and it's going to be awesome :) i'll post pictures after the dance. i'm going with Will. do you remember him? you'll get pictures of him too. HA. and i'm forcing him to wear a pink tie. (my dress is light pink on top with black all the way down)

not much else is new. Jean (yes, drama instructor jean) has had two eye surgeries now, torn retina. OH. and Kael! you know kael has had epilepsy basically his entire life. well it hadn't bothered him since he was like 17 and he got meds for it. it's started mildly bothering him lately, and apparently last month i think it was, he was feeling really sick in the middle of the night...we're not quite sure what happened, but he woke up on the floor, laying in a big pool of his own blood, and retrospectively, alot of vomit too. he had to get twenty stitches in his head, he must have hit it on the way down. and he had like a grade 3 concussion. so he was out....

Kael is also the new School Director, basically taking Edith's place. he teaches English now too. Karen....is also in charge now too (big surprise) but i'm not positive her title. Brad is still off herding sheep and slack lining or whatever it is he's doing, i think he's still in alaska....and he did, in fact, build a raft and sail it (presumably to alaska but i'm not really....certain.)
but he should be back next year.
I can't believe next year is actually my last year at Hillside!
if you subtract this summer, and maybe the breaks i'll have next year, i only have maybe....8 months left of highschool :D:D:D
i'm SO excited to go to college. you have no idea. Ted should be leaving on his mission in maybe early June. he's in the BCC musical in May...A Little Night Music. by the same person who did Into the Woods, and it's most famous song is Send In the Clowns. but it should be good :)
Rich is still single, well...as single as rich ever really gets. Sarah, that girl i used to be really good friends with, then she started dating rich....
yeah she's getting married May 10th.
ohhhhhhh shucks, same night as the History (not) Feast.
(no food at the "History Night" this year. homo.)
My friend Jess is getting married May 24th, too...
it's honestly really, really weird to be 16 and seeing some of my good friends get married. i mean granted, they're older than me? but not that much. only like, 3 years.

it would be like Ted getting married right now. that's how old they are.
*shudder*

okay. well i can't think of anything else to say :P

I miss you tons and tons, and I can't wait for you to get back so i can whisk you away again!
against your will, of course.

i might actually be nice and give you a couple days to recuperate? but other than that?
you don't stand a chance, G.

:) I love you so much, peach.
je t'aime a tante, ma peche.
<333333 xoxo

<--cliche...but why not? iz frayyaaanch.
love you honey.

Kassie Update XIII

Heyyyy Jennnnaaaaaa :D

Bonjour! Bonjour!

So two weekends ago for my Fashion Design 1 class we had to do a photoshoot where we found a specific location and draped fabric on the model (i.e. a friend) in a way that was inspired by our surroundings.
Our model woke up vomiting the day we planned to shoot.
So I ended up modeling last-minute.

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES.




Hope you enjoyed! :)