Africa was AMAZING!!!!

I don't know how to descirbe it to you, we will have to talk face to face. But i mean it started off the 1st day were rachel styffe and I were put on the spot and had to speak at a church1 ahhhhh Then we went to different orphanages were I fell in love with the kids!! Did confrences with the highschool group and went on a boat with some of them. Met people who servived the genocide! Met the president of rwanda. Had the prettiest view at the bethanie hotel. I will try to explain as you see the pictures..............

My African Friend! <3

The kigali city

My bff emmy!!! so cute i love her to death

Refuge camp amazing and overwhelming!

Baboon! it jumped on our car! scared us so bad (not a regular zoo)

Brea and Me taking a pic by the prettiest view

our small group watching Rick speak

Seeing the giraffes on the morning safari

Nelly and ange w/ my dad at the prayer breakfast

Brian the funky camra man

Rachel and the funniest person ever Tali

The houses at the refuge camp 18000 people live there!!

our view! sooo pretty

Me and two kids at an orphange

I'M in AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!

So I am using alyssas holidays computer adn I am here! me and rachel styffe have made it here safley!! we had long boring plane rides doing nothing and toured london! so far we went to a church and hung out with many kids from rwanda! amazing I love these kids they are sooooo cute and soooo funny! we played games sang songs and just loved on them! today we met the president of rwanda it was awsome! we are heading off to sleep me and rachel and wanted to tell you all that we miss you anD LOVE YOU!!

tommarow we are headed for the airport to pick up the highschool group! yah!! love you guys have a good week!!

I am leaving for Africa!!!!

So I am leaving today and won't be blogging or seeing you for two weeks! I will try to email if I have time but I am not sure. I will definitly miss you all and I can't wait to share stories! Love you all Talk later!!!

P.s I got glasses what do you think??

Cheer Boot camp!!!

Cheer is the Hardest, funniest, and weirdest camp to go too. Everyday we learned new stunts, dances that were to hard to remember, and cheers for games. I learned soo much that I can't even believe it! As some of you might know i am a flyer at tesoro. yah so i learned many things as a flyer as well hit my base in the nose, gave my backspot 3 dead arms! Overall I LOVE flying! It really fun but hard!! My team had so much fun we are now a bunch of best friends on one team. its so awesome!

Highlights:
- landing a twist cradle
- doing a toe-tuch in the air!
- eating ice cream
- living in a dorm room with a key
- dancing around with music blasting
- learning dances with my friends
- being initiated
- watching shows

Non Highlights:
- getting sun burned
- sitting in the sun the whole day
- breaking in my cheer shoes
- hearting my bases while flying! :(

Soo if you have ever been on a team sometimes they do what is called initiation. Your probably are saying mel what is that? well its were the seniors of the sport only them get to do really mean things to you. rumors were: we had to eat dog food, eat liver, run in mud. So on Sunday night we were all freaking out and were soo scared! the seniors pounded on our dorm and made us blind folded. we got pushed in a circle. i had no idea who's hands I was holding onto we just held on and stayed close together. then they pulled us up to a room squirting water and silly string at us!

We got scared for nothing! they were yelling at us and everything all for a little silly string! all in all i was mad at the seniors and can't wait to do my own initiation!!!!!
if you were there you would have been freaked out!! It could of been worse!:$!

Over all it was a fun hard boot camp!! glad I am back!





Our decorated door!~

me and audrea being our ninja selves before practice

Aweird picture of me and my bases (they still like me)

Jessica and i dressed for hollywood night!



Audrea's dollar isn't it cool!

I'm off to cheer camp!

I won't be able to blog for 4 days due to cheer camp. sorry! I will be back on monday with lots of pictures and storys! Have a good weekend and see ya soon!!
xoxox Melon

chocalte

i love it don't you?

Phil Wkiham oh how I love yor voice!

Phil was at the worship confrence that I went to. I Love his voice and his music its sooo good! I just can't describe it!! His new cd comes out sep.4th yah! I went to his workshop and he is as well really funny! he is just awsome!

O.c why are you so hard to live in???

So today my mom and I went to a consinment shop. Lets just say it was full of desighner this and that blah and blah. YOu know what I am talking about. I was like how do I live here int his crazy place without wanting it? its hard and i wish it didn't exist. I really hate it. So I walked out of the store manley flabergasted and hoping I can get away from it. I don't if I will be able to?

OK so basicly I am going to africa and hoping it changes my persepctive on this so called subject!

Am I that short????

So this weekend I sang in high school! tons of fun! We did the 4:30 service, which was different but cool. I just happened to stay for the prizes that they were giving out. Now he had these huge hats full of a bunch of candy.

Danny said, "tallest person run up here and you get the hat." or, "birthday closest to today."

So then he called out, "shortest person." of course I ran up there just for fun! and in the end I WON!

I WAS THE SHORTEST PERSON AT THE 4:30 SERVICE!! is that something to be proud of?

oh well at least I won! :)

Melon xoxox

Fear ............

We all live in fear, well alot of the time. Shawn talked about it this weekend in highschool. I thought it was good. I think its time for me to stop being so scared.