And I'm back!!..... with EFY!

      Okay sorry for that EXTREMELY long wait. Honestly, I had kind of give up on this blog since no one was commenting. I only write for feedback. So if you want to keep this blog alive, comment! I'm continuing this blog once again only because one of my best friends decided to start up their blog again. So I will try to post on the 20th of each month so try to check back every once and awhile.

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         Just recently I had the opportunity to do something amazing. I got to go to EFY. I met so many wonderful people there. I made a good new 42 friends. Which is a little ironic to me since one of my favorite songs is "42" by my favorite band, Coldplay (Go down further to see post on the Coldplay concert).  Every person I met there had something in their eyes that I hope I had. Can you guess what they had? A love of being there. They didn't just come for new people or because their parents forced them to go. They went because they wanted to be there. I just hope I was looking like them.

        One of the best things to me at EFY, was rooming with my best friend, Alex Clawson (The one on the right in the above picture). Although I'm sure for him, I was just a nuisance (=D). One of the first things I did when we got into our room, was opening the window and saying "Girlllllls!!!". Alex quickly ran over to the window, pushed me out of the way, and shut the window. We think that will be a joke we use for a very long time. ^_^

        Well we decided to attend the Overnight Program rather than the Area Program. I personally would rather take the Overnight Program because then you can actually feel EFY sink into your life a bit more.

       At EFY, there is a talent show formally called the Variety Show. I tried out for this Variety Show with a piano version of "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay. I sadly didn't make it, but plenty of other good acts made it. Although when all the boys in my company found out I didn't make it, they tried to comfort me saying that I was way good at piano considering I taught myself. Thanks guys =). You're the best.

       However at EFY, there was something wrong. Apparently last week a giant case of Swine Flu broke out among everyone attending EFY. See, at EFY, the guys are supposed to escort one of the girls in their company everywhere they went. But since the Swine Flu broke out last week, all forms of touching were banned. Even high-fives were banned. So guess what this meant? No slow dances. However, we had the best session director ever directing our session of EFYL: Brother Robely. He talked to the board and convinced them to bring back the slow dancing! But still no escorting. That made all the guys sad. But we got through okay.

       Another thing that was a downer at EFY, was all the rain. It was crazy how much it rained everyday. The worst was on Friday night after the second dance. It rained so hard on us as we struggled to make our way to our dorms. I personally liked the rain as I got to run with the girl I was escorting (Chloe!! =D) all the way to our dorms. We were screaming and both grinning from ear-to-ear.

       But the rain wasn't all that bad. One of the best things at EFY were the two dances we had. Our first was on Tuesday night and it was a casual dress. As we arrived to the dance location, though, it started raining on us (Go figure)! So we had to move inside of the building and have our dance inside with the other session. There was barely and room to dance. You were seriously always touching someone. On Friday night, the dance was moved back outside and it was much better. Although 15 minutes before it was supposed to end, the giant rain/lighting storm hit. The lighting was very close to the mountain side and most of the kids decided to run to their dorms. But it was still fun. =)

       Well I think it's about time to wrap up this post, sadly. It was fun to write. Thanks for reading! Please follow and/or comment!! Thanks!  If you have any suggestions or tips, please contact me at connor@thinktankcc.com. Thanks again.

I'm so sorry!!!

I am so sorry I haven't posted in such a long time!!! A LOT has happened since.  I recently got a FaceBook so I've basically been doing all my posting there. 

Okay. The first is Christmas. I had an AWESOME Christmas. Can't really remember what I got, but I remember that it was good.  Lots of Coldplay ad Xbox 360 stuff though.

Second is sheet music. I have been into finding lots of good sheet music lately.  But I can't seem to find any.  So if you know of any sites that have good Hayao Miyazaki sheet music or and video game sheet music, please share them with me.

The third, is WiFi Friend Codes for Nintendo games.  The list of games I want are Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS), Mario Kart Wii or Mario Kart DS, either of the Spectrobes games, Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii), Animal Crossing Wild World (DS), Animal Crossing City Folk (Wii), Pokemon Pearl or Diamond (DS), Pokemon Battle Revolution (Wii), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Darkness (DS), and Endless Ocean (Wii).  Those are my favorite WiFi games so if you'd like to challenge me or just play with me on one of the games, just comment telling the game you'd like to play, your Friend Code for the game, and the other little information.

Well that should about do it for this post but I'm once again, extremely sorry I didn't post sooner. Bu I promise to post again soon!! Bye!

Stuff!

Lots of things have been going on lately but I just haven't gotten around to posting!

First is my Christmas bonus! I got $50 extra this month cause of Christmas! I love this!!  I am now going to get a new DS Lite with it cause my current one's top screen has fallen off cause Nintendo can't fix a darn thing!!! Seriously I have sent in this same DS at least 3 times and we just have to send it back in after abut 3 or 4 months with it!  But oh well. Whatcha gonna do?

Next is the sledding trip I had with my friends on Saturday! I had so much fun!!! I got to see my girl friend and many of my other friends! I even got to make a new friend from it!  His name is Bradon Taylor and he is the friend that Hudson brought along.

Well anyways, that's all that's really happened.  Well have a very merry Christmas!!

149 SONGS!?!?!?

I really have that many songs on my playlist!?!? Im probably done with adding songs for now. Anyways. I know I have gone a little overboard with my playlist but it's so much fun adding songs to it! I come home from school, do my homework (if any!), and then go down to my moms computer and spend a ton of time on my playlist. Anyways, apparently dinners ready so I gotta go! See ya!

My New Songs

Yes, you may have noticed that I have gotten "creative" with my new song selection.  I have really been into Animal Crossing: City Folk lately so I decided to find music from the game and put it into my playlist.  The words of the weird, high-pitched songs are not in a different language!  They're just Nintendo's language they chose for the Animal Crossing games.  So I went a little song happy for my blog.  ALL of the songs are from a Nintendo video game.  I chose some of the best I could find so here ya go!

COLDPLAY!!!!!!

I was yelling exactly what the title is of this post for almost the entire time of the concert.  I had SO much fun.  I went with my mom (which was the best I could get for this concert... No offense mom!) to it and had a blast.  In all concerts, there is an opening band that plays to get the crowd warmed up.  The first opener, was Sleeper Car.  They're from Texas and their music was a mix between Country and Alternative.  I thought they were really good for an opening band.  However,  the second one..... Not so much...  It started out with this guy (who every one thought he was part of Coldplay, which was why every one was cheering really loud when he came out) who walked onto the stage right up to a big electrical device looking thing.  This music started play and a few moments later, images and little videos started to play on this screen which was to the left of him.  Now, the music that was playing wasn't really all that bad.  It was the images that were.  Imagine a cross between like those erotic, Japanese anime movies.  The ones filled with all the gore and.... bad stuff... (you know what I'm talking about...)  So anyways,  a cross between the Japanese anime; an EXTREMELY creepy Dr. Seuss book; and mix it all together with M.C. Escher's pattern like images.  It didn't have any "bad stuff" in it, but it was definitely creepy... And after around 30 minutes of this guy,  he finally stopped.

Then we waited...  Kept on waiting... And even more waiting....  After 45 minutes of waiting, Coldplay finally came out.  They went in the Viva la Vida album order of the songs.  Starting out with Life in Technicolor, moving onto Lost!, and then Clocks!!!  After those we moved to Cemeteries of London (which was awesome!!), then 42, and then Yes, and then Speed of Sound!!!! I liked Speed of Sound and Cemeteries of London best out of that section.  Then we had a little 5 minute break.

When they came back, they played Viva la Vida!!!!  Sure it might have only been half of the song, but it was still the best.  Then they did Violet Hill, moved onto Lovers in Japan, and then Strawberry Swing.  Then they were done.... Or so it seemed...  We waited for about 10 minutes this time and while they were gone, they played like a Karaoke version of Viva la Vida on the speakers and they dimmed the lights way down.  More and more people gradually started pulling out their cell phones and swinging them in the air slowly.  It looked so cool.  With all the lights turned off,  the place looked seriously like how a starry night sky  looks at Lake Powell.  I'll post my pictures of the concert in my next post.

Then the best part of the concert happened.  We saw a single spot light go on and point to the band.  Then, they started walking up to where me and my mom were sitting...  Don't call me a girl for this, but me and her both screamed at a really high note.  Then, once they had finally reached their destination in the audience,  Chris spoke.  He said "now this is the section of the concert we like to call Play an Instrument You Don't Know How to Play...   Except for So-and-So (I forgot what the name was but it was the drummer) here."  Chris was on the Harmonica and the drummer and one of the guitarists were on rock guitars.  The other guitarist was on a Sitar, which is kind of like a guitar in India.  They played an awesome song, but I didn't catch the name of it.  I was too busy snapping pictures.  After that, the drummer sang a song where occasionally, Chris and the others played their instrument.  After that,  they went back down and a section of the stage lit up.  There was a lone piano in the light.

They all went down and the 3 disappeared... Except for Chris.  He walked right down to the piano and talked a little bit.  Cracked a little joke and told us he was going to play a song called The Hardest Part, which is in the X&Y album.  What was awesome though, was that it was just piano and singing the entire time.  Chris sang for a little bit and then another spotlight shown on the drummer and he accompanied Chris with is voice as well.  Then after about a minute, the spotlight went only to Chris again.  He finished up and THEN every one thought that the concert was over...  Which it originally was.  But we just kept on clapping, and a minute later, Coldplay came back out.

Chris spoke again saying "Well Salt Lake City.  You guys just keep on wanting more, so we'll play one more song.  It's one of our favorite songs.  It's called... Yellow."  Every one cheered.  The lights in the stage just went entirely Yellow and they started playing.  The song ended and so did the concert.

I just entirely loved tis concert and I can't wait until the next time they do another.  Even if my parents don't pay for me, I'm still going.  Well,  this post needs to get wrapped up so in conclusion...

COLDPLAY IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Me not posting for a while...

Sorry I haven't posted in a long time.  Nothing really exciting has really happened for a while...  Well I know there was that Halloween party and Halloween and the elections but Nothing is really worth posting about...  Well  let me tell you about the stuff anyways.  The party was pretty good.  I had invited maybe around 40 people but only 20 showed up.  But that's ok! It was really fun anyways.  It went for about 3 and a half hours.  Thing is,  only half left at that time.  The other 10 just came inside and played the piano, apples to apples and other stuff.  After everyone had finally left, it was about 10:15.  Two of my friends had decided to stay a little longer which after a while turned into a sleep over that lasted till around 11:30 the next morning.  Anyways, it was a really fun time and I wouldn't mind doing it again sometime.

Ummm Halloween was pretty good.  I didn't get very much candy but oh well.  I was at my friend Alex's all day.  Hehehehehe... That was fun.  Even after trick-or-treating, I still wasn't done.  Me and Alex decided to have a sleep over at his house.  This would be my second sleep over in a row.  Any ways... Before the sleep over,  we went trick-or-treating with Alex's girl friend and we stayed in her neighborhood.  Not many people were home so we didn't get that much but once again, oh well.   It was a good Halloween so I'm happy.

The elections I just really want to skip because I am COMPLETELY Done with these politics...   Even though McCain is the better choice!!!!!!