Presidential Scholar Award, and other news

Hey all
First the good news - I got a surprise in a the mail a few days ago saying that I was a candidate for the US Department of Education's Presidential Scholar program. Only about 2,700 candidates are chosen from 2.8 million high school students, or less than .1%; so I was honored and pleased. In March a boy and a girl are chosen out of the candidates from each state to fly to Washington D.C. with their favorite teacher. God, of course, has given me all my abilities and the glory for this honor goes to Him. We'll see if it's in His plan that I go to Washington.

The bad news is that this program requires a huge application - larger than any college app I did. They have a few pages of biographical information, 4 half-page essays, and a two page essay. It will take a lot of time to fill out, and right now I just don't have it. Life has been exceedingly crazy with basketball, and school, and life in general. I'm trying to prep for the Rennaisance Fair at Petra (maybe write a declamation, at least play music and do an oratory piece), work on the same piece of music and write a speech about apologetics for the Petra dinner, keep my grades up at Petra (and stay awake during class), do a bunch of homework for TeenPact, handle the house while my parents are in Australia, and compete in the state basketball tournament all in the next couple weeks. So yea. I haven't been doing any reading, getting minimal sleep, not really blog posting, my muscles ache, I'm falling further behind, and worst of all, the verb tenses in my conjoined phrases don't match. lol