The Fourth of July & more

So far summer has gone pretty well. I have been working as a landman and have been able to do my workouts afterwards, though its been fairly hot here in Texas. I went to Amelia Island, Florida with my mom and my brother for a family reunion. We had a good time and we were there for about five days. I saw some family that I had not seen in ahwile so it was a nice to get to see them. I went to my grandparent's lakehouse for July 4th. We went on the boat, watched a good fire work show, shot off some fireworks and then saw a depressing Wimbeldon match on Sunday (Roddick should've won). I have enjoyed being home, but I know in a month I will be ready to go back to school.

Summa is Here

Conference Championships was a lot of fun. I had my best jump of the season on my first attempt and we were 6th in the 4x1. I had a great time in Tulsa and my mom, grandmother, and brother even came up to see me run. We were fortunate enough to have some great weather and none of the events was postponed. I have now been back in Fort Worth for two weeks. My brother and my cousin graduated this past Saturday. We all then went to lunch afterwards and had a good time. It seems just yesterday I was the one graduating. My cousin is going to Louisiana Tech to play football and my brother is going to Texas A&M. Why he is going to A&M, I will never know; but I guess there are stranger things. These past couple of weeks have been good. I saw my grandfather who I had not seen in awhile. I saw a ton of people at graduation, which I really enjoyed. I am also working as a landman for an Oil & Gas Company and hopefully I will be getting a waiting job as well, but we will see. I am definitely ready for another productive summer and I want to accomplish many things especially getting stronger and faster for next year. I am trying to gain at least 15 pounds, wish me luck. I will need it. 

 

 

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End of the Year

It is hard to believe, but my freshman year at Tulane is practically finished. I finished all of my finals last Thursday. I am now preparing for the Conference USA track championships on May 15 and 16. I am doing the long jump, 4x1 relay, and possibly the 4x4 relay.  I have had a great year, but it will be exciting to spend time with all my family again for a while. My mom flew into New Orleans on Mother’s Day to load all my stuff into the rental car; it was good to see her especially since it was Mother’s Day. We then ate lunch at this random breakfast spot a couple minutes from Tulane. I have met a lot of good people this year and I have fortunately been able to experience many things this year, which have contributed to my growth as both a student and a person. I hope that I will be working part time somewhere this summer, but you never know. I will continue to train during the summer for next year. Other than that, it has been a great year and I am looking forward to seeing old friends and seeing how all my new friends are doing back home.   

Ole Miss and LSU

These past few weeks I have been fortunate enough to go to some really fun and competitive meets at Ole Miss and LSU. Ole Miss fell on Easter weekend and our team left at about 12 on Friday to head down to Batesville where we stayed at a nice Holiday Inn. My friends Jared and Koplan and myself ate at Café Ole and we had some nice Mexican food. I participated in long jump and triple jump at Ole Miss. I had a personal best in the long jump, but fouled in the triple jump. Ole Miss has some phenomenal athletic facilities, plus I saw Jevan Sneed a fellow Texas native while I was warming up for my event in their indoor football facility. Our team did very well; we had a lot of team personal bests and one NCAA regional qualifying mark. For the LSU meet, I did the long jump, 100, 200, and the 4x4 relay. This was by far one of the most competitive and fun meets I have ever been to in my life. I did not do as well as I wanted in my first three events, but I made up for it with a decent 4x4 split. Richard Thompson who won the silver medal in 100 at Beijing ran the 100 later that afternoon, which was his first race of the spring. It was very cool to see all the many different talents at the meet. After the meet was over I was ready to get to my bed and I definitely had one if not my best nights sleep of the semester. Now I am focusing on finishing strong for the semester and doing well on finals then getting ready for conference.  

The tail end of freshman year

The pictures above are from a community service project I went to today. We went to Langston Hughes Academy to help build picnic tables, benches, wrap library books, and paint murals. My job along with some others was to build benches. It was a lot of fun, they gave us the pieces, nails, instructions and a drill then we did the rest. A friend of mine on my floor helped build it with me. As for the past couple weeks, I went home to Texas for Spring Break and enjoyed being back home. It was nice having the leisure to wake up whenever I wanted. I trained at my high school and caught up with some friends. Here at Tulane, we had crawfest yesterday, which was cool then I caught some final four basketball and worked on a Spanish paper. I have meet this upcoming Easter weekend at Ole Miss and on top of that some major writing and studying to do. I am eager to finish strong this semester and rely on God to lead me through it. 

Another day in the life...

Ok well it has been awhile since I have last written. I have been doing a lot of things lately with midterms, papers, and track; but everything has been going pretty well. I have been busy with TUknow, which was on Wednesdays for four weeks where anybody was welcome to have phenomenal meal and learn more about Christ. I also went to the Hornets and Mavericks game with a couple of friends, sadly the Mavericks didn’t really show up to play that night. I had my first collegiate track meet this past weekend at Southern Miss. It was a lot of fun and I did the Long Jump, Triple Jump, and 200m dash. I didn’t do as well as I wanted, but there is always room for improvement and I am excited for my next meet at Lafayette tomorrow. Today is the last day of classes and it is spring break next week. I think we are one of the few schools that have spring break on the last week of March. My brother and my mom are actually on Spring Break right now in Costa Rica and they get back Sunday. I am looking forward to going back to Texas and just hanging with the family so I am going to leave Sunday after the track meet. The weather recently in New Orleans has been great and I almost forgot what it was like to wear pants for awhile. Though I have a couple of assignments over the break, I am excited to just relax and unwind for a bit.

Mardi Gras

Well it is officially Mardi Gras here in New Orleans though I am sure in many people’s eyes Mardi Gras started on Thursday. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it; I was not here for the Mardi Gras festivities. I went home to see my family back in Fort Worth and since the Track season is fast approaching, there would not be a time for me to see my family until the end of the semester. It was a lot of fun to go back home see my family. These next two weeks there will lots of working and studying to be done, but I definitely believe it will go very well. It is hard to believe that the first track meet is only nineteen days away. The season should be a lot of fun and I am ready to start competing. There have been many exciting things going on around campus, these past two weeks I have been going to TUKnow and so far; the turn out has been good. TUKnow is a forum for non-believers to ask questions about Christ in a relaxed setting. We start classes back up again tomorrow so I am ready to get back in the swing of things and get back to work.