Halloween.

"Halloween is coming, the pumkins getting fat. Witches, and Goblins, will soon be back. Coming up the sidewalk, up to your door! Scratching on the window, stomping on the floor! But you needn't worry, and you needn't fuss; 'cause witches, and goblins, are really US!!"
Thats a little Halloween song my family and I sing during Halloween time. Its supposed to go slowly; as to build suspense. I can't believe Halloween is here already! Even though its Sunday, my family and I are going to the block party our neighborhood is having.
My friend, Emily Jacobs, invited me over yesterday to carve pumkins! I carved out Frankenstien's bride, and it looks awesome!!
This Halloween, I can't trick-or-treat because my dad feels strongly about keeping the Sabbath Day holy. I'm so mad I can barely talk, because I'm not allowed to trick-or-treat once I'm thirteen, so this is the last Halloween I could trick-or-treat and get free candy!! :P
Other than that, Halloween has been really fun this year!

Music.

Hey there. Mikah here.

I find that music can help and influence people a lot. How, you ask? Well, first of all, it can make you feel better in tough situations or when things are hard to get through. I'm talking from experience. This summer, I moved to Oklahoma. It was hard for me because I had to leave a lot of my friends behind, and start over again. Music helped me a lot during this time by telling me things I needed to hear, or reminding me that home is where ever I make it to be. It still feels sad and hard at times, and sometimes it just feels like a big fat vacation, but music helps me feel like everything will turn out just fine.

Music also helped me in a different form too. Not just listening to music, but preforming it. In school, I signed up for Choir as an elective. That really helped me make friends who shared my same passion for music. My Choir teacher, Mrs. Singleton, is one of the nicest and sweetest ladies I've ever known. We sing beautiful music all the time, and I'm beginning to learn how to read music! That was something I thought I would never be able to do.

The third way its helped me is not by listening or preforming music, but by dancing to it. I am a ballet dancer. About a month after we moved here to Oklahoma in May, I signed up for ballet lessons again. My teacher, Ms. Pamela, helped get me back into shape. I've been dancing since I was 5 (7 years) and its become a big part of my life. Dancing helps me express how I'm feeling and helps me forget things for a while. It also helped me make new friends and begin to feel comfortable here.

Music can be big parts of our lives. If you let it, it can become a great friend. Music is our very souls being poured out to the people all around us. It can make you relize you are not alone, make you cry when you need to most, or put a smile on your face. Music is strong, weak, happy, and sad. Music is so many things. But most of all, music is beautiful.

Aggggg!! Oh, *pant*, its just you.

I don't know how it happened. In fact, it snuck up on me so quietly, I nearly peed my pants when it finally pounced. Somehow, my mental development was fast-forward to my teenage years. Woo-hoo! Not.

The thing about it is, I feel so moody all the time, like someone just punched my grandma. I get really hyper, then I'm stressed or drained the next second. And then I feel like life is horrible, that the world is falling apart... but its not! Why can't I etch that into my fist size brain, why can't I understand that?! I really do wish I could be happy all the time. In fact, it kindof annoys me when peoples facebook statuses read; "Life sucks." or "I hate my life right now." Why can't the world just be a happy place? I hear people talk about how horrible their life is, when other people have bigger problems, like their mom just died or something serious like that.

To us teenage species, it feels way more serious than it is. Ha, its kindof funny; we're not taken seriously because we are too serious about things. Maybe we should loosen up. What do you think?? I think so. But, then again, sometimes we can be too loose, like when we don't worry about getting caught while toilet-papering a neighbors house, and the next second, we're cleaning it up and grounded. Its so confusing!!

So, all teenagers need to do is to be serious, but not a stick in the mud, laugh, but not be delirious, and not get caught when toilet-papering. Well thats just splendid. Maybe we can just scratch that whole thing and be irresponsible teens. Like someone important said; "To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.". All this just proves my point; being a teenager is a stupid and confusing part of life. Deal with it.

Courage.

Hey there. Mikah here.

Today, my topic is on courage. The trusty old dictionary says that courage is "the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, or pain."
Courage can come in many flavors; like ice cream! You can do something daring and brave like climbing Mount Everest despite your fear of hights, or go on an overseas voage to a distant land, even though your deathly afraid of water, and can't swim.

Nevertheless, courage can come simple and small too. It could be standing up for a friend, even though your friends might think differently of you, or not swearing, even when everyone else is. One of the parts courage can play in our lives is when we are faced with the desicion to stand up for what we believe in.

Sometimes it hurts to have courage to do what is right, but its worth it. When you have courage, you are telling yourself that you can do something despite your fears and pain. You can overcome what you fear most. Thats true courage.

Jesse Jackson said,“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” When we tell ourselves we can, we most certainly can. When we tell ourselves we can't, we most certainly can't. So next time your faced with the opportunity of a lifetime, or the small challenges that life gives you, try having faith in yourself. Be courageous.

School.

Hey there. Mikah here.

School is alright. Sweet & Sour. There are awesome parts of it, like Language Arts (believe it or not!), Art, Lunch, etc. Some of the stuff, not so much. I'm not saying I like school, but I don't hate it either. Its a mixture of good and evil, if you know what I mean.

One of the things I wish they would change about school is how much time we get to go to our lockers, get to our class, etc. I mean, I know I don't like to feel rushed when I have to take a tinkle break! Who does? My point is, maybe they could add a couple minutes on. Or, at least pursuade our teachers to be more sympathetic and merciful if we walk in a minute late becasuse we had to get there from the other side of the school! We deserve at least that, right?

Student Council elections are coming up. One of my friends, Sandy, is running for treasurer. I'm one of her campeign managers. I make all the flyers and buttons, hand out cards and candy and other doo-dads to the students, and make the people want to vote for her. But I've got competition. That, I'm not so exctited about. Maybe, just maybe, I might be lucky enough to make it out alive. Sure, I'm not the one running for the actual position- I'd never be crazy enough to do that - but still, there are some pretty mean people who do these things too!

Well, no matter the challenge, I'm ready to take it up (NOT!). Happy Campeigning!!

I Know, I Know.

Hey there. Mikah here.

Okay. So, I know that I already changed everything about my blog about five days ago, but I didn't like it! So, I changed everything up, again, including the backround, which is one of my old favorites. The 'Impact' font was just too hard to read, especially in that tiny writing that hides around blogs. I hope you will find the rest of these posts easier to read than before. :)
School starts in two days. Can you believe it?! Two days!! The problem here is that my brain still isn't in school mode... I don't know how I'm gonna wake up in the mornings!!! Oh well, better enjoy summer while you can, 'cause soon your gonna have a homework stack thats taller than you!! I decorated my locker like the beach. I made all the colors bright so that when its bleak and gray in the winter, at least it'll be colorful in my locker!! It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself!!

See you!!

Beauty in the World.

Hey there. Mikah here.

I hope you guys like my new blog backround!! I was getting sick of the old one; I thought I needed to jazz things up!!

Well, you might be wondering why my post title is 'Beauty in the World'. I was reading my friend McKenzie's blog (Hi McKenzie!!), and her post actually inspired it. She was talking about how much she likes to capture the worlds beauty in photographs. I was on my playlist listening to one of my favorite songs, when I relized that it was called 'Beauty in the World'. The song is by Macy Gray, and I love it!! So, if your reading this McKenzie, this post is dedicated to you to show you how much I liked your post!! :) If you want to listen to it, here's the address. I will put it on my Link List too, just in case!!

'Beauty in the World' by Macy Gray :

http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#Beauty%20in%20the%20World%3B%20Macy%20Gray/all/1

Love you guys!!