Speech and Debate

Saterday 5:30AM I arrived at the school and got on the bus, We were headed for Mt. Pleasent for a tournament. As we were about to enter the freeway ramp we stopped and waited for a few boys who were late, it was funny to watch them hop the fence and run toward us, they looked like jailbirds. Once we arrived and got settled, we each got out number which we had to remember the rest of the day, I was P22, once that was done everyone was off to see when there tournaments began. I had three, 9:15, noon, and 2:15.

As I waited for my first round I talked to a guy named Aaron from a boarding school up by park city, he was cool. any way the Lincoln Douglas (LD) ppl were not done so we changed rooms. The first judge was pretty awesome and new at judging. I was up against Aaron and a girl from my class. My topic was Snowman. afterward we were off to await our next round. Durring that time I played some card games with Annie, Abby, and Brittney. I had a little snack and then Brittney and I played with my gold spinner for fun and so I could practice on my spins and jumps. it was funny to see people watching us with confused looks.

SECOND ROUND was against a girl and guy, the guy went first and then left cause he was double booked. then I went with the topic "Michael Jackson", I felt that I did better on that than I did on the one before. The girl went last and sadly she did not do very well, she didn't have much to even talk about. I returned to the commons and finished some lunch and then walked around a bit with Annie, at one point of time I shook my hair upside down and it went really poofy!! and then I was making funny faces, that's when Annie said I should give one of those looks as a pick up for guys, lol so then we all started making up poses.

THIRD ROUND before I went I walked up to this cute cowboy named Travis and asked for his number!! which he gave me lol. any way the round was interesting, the first girl did an amazing job and blew us out of the water. then two boys went, then me with the topic something like sick of being really really ridiculously good looking and want to know the real meaning to life. I did great on that one. As we returned to the commons and finished playing Mow someone said that Annie made it to finals! then they asked if I was P22, they said I made it to finals too, so of courrse I SCREAMED!! then asked what the heck is finals haha.

My pick up pose.

FINALS!! so the girl that did amazing me, a boy from my school, and two other boys went against each other, and several people including that cowboy were there watching, I went first with the topic Rodeo, and then was followed by everyone else. When we were done we went to the auditorium and got awards, I recieved a certificate for being a finalist, but that other girl got 1st place. It was a great experience and kinda fun but really time consuming!

Me screaming I made it to finals!

BYU game

My first BYU football game that i've been to. (visiting dad at work doesnt count in this case). I recieved an email from my cousin April saying they had extra season tickets. My dad and I and Uncle John all went together and then my Uncle Dick, Aunt Debbie, and April showed up!!! April and I talked alot. At half time My cousins Adam and Austin came to sit with us and April and I walked about the consession stands, where I ran into Mr Chilcoat from school... wierd. Any way, BYU won!!!! and I really enjoyed the game. The band, cosmo, color guard, and everything was amazing!

Honey Bee, and Ryan

HONEY BEE CAME TO TOWN, for thanksgiving break, all day long while I was at the BYU game I was txting her and we decided to have a sleep over! So once as I was packed I headed over and guess who was walking down the street! it was ESTER! I hugged her and practicly started crying I missed her so much, and I was surprised that she even walked over! We chatted and caught up and then started watching the movie "Pearl Harbor" till about 3:30 am and still got to church ontime! After church we hung out a bit and Wesly, Chris, and Camron came over as well. Also durring the week we did the usual just sit around do nothing but talk, and I sat there while her and Mokie (her boyfriend) hung out and she gave that floor guy my number, we went to see the schools play Henry the 5th, and at the end of the week we had another sleep over and stayed up all night, watching, "the Orphan" "the boy in the striped Pajamas" and "The Notebook", we also went on a drive and sang our lungs out to Mulin Rouge like the old days.in the morning I went to a baptism and returned intime to say goodbye.

Now not only do I have pics and memories but I have her blanket, pillow, pants, journal, nail polish etc... due to the fact that she is lazy and doesnt want to take them on the plain and the fact that her Aunt would shred her pants in a shredder the moment she got to New Mexico! I had a GREAT time with her and can't wait till Spring break to see her again.

A while back my friend Jake wanted to set me up on a double date, and like all the double dates with him my date is a blind double date. Well he told me this guy Ryan was 23 and mom said it would be okay, on our date he picked me up and we went to ihop to eat. (one of my fav places to go) after that we headed to jakes to polay a few games which his older brother ended up playing some with us. Eventually we ended up at Day's market to pick up some avacados for jakes brothers singles party which we went to. we made some bean dip on some seranwrap that was tapped to the table and then we played some games while we waited for ppl to arrive. We took lindsay home and then returned to play a game similar but funner than mafia. At the end of the night we started to watch the movie JI Joes, but I had to return home, which luckily he payed attention to the clock and got me home before curfew! that should make mom proud!!

Christmas Skating Show

Sneaking onto the ice

After lots of practice the christmas show finally arrived!! I skated to "Cool Yule" with 4 other amazing girls, who each worked there hardest. The show went great and we really enjoyed ourselves. I enjoyed doing this kind of performence,still I think i'd like to try a full solo perfomrance. Though in the mini solo I had I totally landed that loop!!!

I also helped the little learn to skate kids in there performance to "hippopatamus for x-mas". It was quite funny cause the kids messed up in the middle and the child I was trying to help keep up was so not paying attention and my attempts to get him to march forward ended up in him marching in place or barely moving forward, singing, and doing his own thang. It was quite entertaining.

some of the learntoskaters

about to bow

My coach Allison and I

Carrie Kwong and I

The Floor Guy

So we were getting new wood floor on tuesday before thanksgiving. I was running late to school and ran downstairs to leave totally bumping into this guy. any way when I returned from school I headed to hang out with Honey Bee. and as I took her bf home I jokingly said.. "I should have given him my number." Upon return to get my cell phone Honey Bee gave him my number!! later that night when I returned from New Moon he called!!! He said hi name is spencer and he was going on a mission wednesday but would be happy to take me on a date.

On monday i went and picked up Jake and Lindsay and returned home to find him chatting with my dad. Then off we went to mini golf where we met up with his friend. I really enjoyed golfing with them and winning tickets,with the tickets we bought spider rings, toy car and for me some rattle snake eggs :) lol those are the funnest.

Afterward we took jake and lindsay home and his friend went home as well. We arrived at the BYU bowling ally 5min before closing and they let us bowl, we were the only ones there and it was really sweet. On the way home we played 20 questions which ended up probably more than 20. It was a really fun laid back easy going date plus he was really kind and easy to talk to, which made it even better.

Drop of Faith

This is a poem I wrote pretty fast, it's supposed to be on my faith in Jesus Christ. keep in mind this is about a rain drop, becoming more then what it appears.

Out of many I am just one.
Discouraged, amoungst the storm
deep inside there is something more
I hold on knowing he cares for me.
With twist's and turns, not knowing my course
A rock or more blocked the way.
growing tiresome of the same routine
with strength I continue on
giving to others to grow in life
I now trust he has a plan for me.
though happyness still strives
these confined spaces break open
and Greater I stand.
11/29/09

-Tori Hill

Seminary

In seminary the past two weeks, we have had a BYU student teacher, she is peppy and fun. Well today at the end of class she had us draw a picture of someone we know who is Christ like, One person popped into my head and then as I thought about other options they just didnt feel right. So I drew a picture of my brother Maeser, but of course i just had to add things about him like; no hair (he does that alot), shoes (for his love of them), Pencil (his atistic skills), Camera (good photographer), and Lakers jursey (He's going to own the Lakers).
Off to the side I wrote down just a few reasons why he is christ like and they are; Caring, understanding, loving, unselfish (thinks of others), smart, strong, and I think I wrote a few others down. (I'll put a picture up when I get it.) In the long run I just wanted to say thank you Maeser for marrying my sister and being my brother and especially the amazing example you are to me. I look up to you greatly.

Yes I know I spelled it wrong.

Recording Studio

Lindsay has entered the 'Beauty is..' contest thing at school, where you send in something about beauty, song, poem, art etc. and had the opportunity to go get a song recorded, and I had the opportunity to tag along. Our friend Jake hooked her up with the recording guy. It was very neat to see how it is done, give advice, support, and hear her demo. Lindsay has such a beautiful voice, and just needs the confidence, but she is doing GREAT! I hope that someday she can get the songs she wrote on piano to a cd, because I love her music and I know she can go big with it. Lindsay is AMAZING. here are some photos... Oh and I swear i've been to this dudes place before but I don't remember when or who with, but i can only think of being there with Maeser and savanna but I could be wrong so if dave looks familiar to you let me know.

Halloween

HALLOWEEN! So this year I decided to go as Sleeping Beauty, I8 was gonna go in my Pj's and a crown but ended up in a dress, slippers, robe. I tried taking pics of people at school but there wasn't that many cool costumes this year as there was last year. My best friend Lindsay went as My fairy god mother, and she looked WAY better then me, with such a simple costume. At lunch they school did this really cool thing, where some students dressed as zombies in white and had blood all over themselves, and they walked all differnt and funny, getting in peoples faces and if you walked down the hall you could see random traces of blood, and no matter where you were you could hear someone screaming and then see them run by. IT WAS AWESOME.

On Halloween day I went on a date with Kevin Garcia, I had a GREAT time. He picked me up at 4 and we headed off to see the movie Paranormal Activity, totally expecting to be scared to death after watching but instead it was kinda a dumb movie sorta freaky but weird, then he took me to Applebees cause i've never been there, it was delicious. Afterward it was a random spur of the moment and went to crispie creme and got me a doughnut :p lol then off to his house we went, and he pulled out the ping pong table and I learned how to play, almost beat him too! once that was over we played guitar hero which i'm okay at, since i've never played rock band he let me try that and let me tellya it was fun but i dont think i'm good at the medium level and barely the easy level, Oh and he let me play on his real drum set. it was an awesome date.

tada
my slippers

Physics class

ZOMBIES

BFF

Movie

Playing Guitar Hero

Calling

Today in Young Women I was called to be the Second Counslor of the Laurels class, with Josie as President, Erin as First Counslor, and Annie as the Secretary. I am so excited to work with these girls!!! and Hope for the best.

Coping

"When I doubt there are things in life I just can't figure out, I trust that God is in control and I hold on to the things I know."

I know God knows each and every persons future, including all the people who come and go in your life and how they will benefit yours. Though sometimes I wish I could see ahead, I learned to have faith in the Lord that he can help me make the right choices in life, but only if I obey. This past year I learned a few things from the Lord.

I recently just lost a friend, no he didnt technicly die but he has to me. My elder made promises to me one of which was he would call me before and after his surgery. After waiting I realized he wasnt going to call, he wouldnt talk to me on the computer either, but he talked to everyone else. Then I noticed him and some girl (he is coming back this month to baptize her and she is 15) making lovey dovey comments to each other, I recognized the girls name from somewhere, I asked her how she knew him, he was her missionary and promised he would be going to a colege near cedar and they would see how their relationship goes. I suspected him writing other girls but this just didnt make sense to me. I told her i was in the same situation with the same man. She freaked out and told him, he told me to not talk to her, I left him a message saying that I was sorry for ruining anything and that I wouldnt believe anything till it came from his mouth. In response he said that we needed to just be friends and help each other out and date others yet he doesnt take anything back that he said before. This made no sense cause we have already discussed this. I told him that I was his friend and always have been, then I gave him time which he asked for. Well after 2 or 3 days it was getting hard especially with seeing the comments they would make on each others profiles.

On Sunday I was confiding in kasi (a friend he set me up w/ to tlk of mish cause we were in the same situation "in love" with our mish) told her everything, seh said she had sent him a message simply saying they needed to talk, he went off on crap and she told him he needed to tell me cause I needed closure and I deserved at least that. Then I recieve a inbox from him saying that this is how it's gonna go, communication between him/me me/his friends had to stop, he asked that i not post anything on his wall and he was getting crap from all my friends. I told him i did not understand, that they are my friends too then i told him what i was going through with all of this and reminded him I am still his friend. after sending that i noticed both the girl him, and both his sisters dropped me as friends.

Later I saw that this girl was mad so I asked if she was mad at me and she said no, then we got a talking, after hearing her say things that he was saying he told me I realized he was lying. He told her that he baisicly told me to go to hell and that i broke a commandment or something. Well I told her they were lies and then she said that he was going to call me, we said our goodbyes.

The phone rang "hello?" "who is this?" "tori" "What the hell?" "What!?!??" then he goes on to say that I called her a whore, "I never said that" and he was getting crap from all my friends especially someone named jessica "I don't know no Jessica that would be talking to you!" "Don't ever talk to me again bye!" "goodbye" after telling mom, I broke down when she started playing with my hair. I feel bad cause i kept shoving my moms hand away. Any way I didnt cry as long/ or much as I expected. not to long after the phone call and talking to mom I took off the ring he gave me, took down all the pics and things I had of him and put them in the drawer, He was gone, out of my life, and had died that night. Monday I did not go to school cause I didnt know how I would take it. I did quite well actually, It was Tuesday that was hard. Well on this past thursday I got a message from his 'mom' really from him saying "tori i told you once and i'll say it again. don't talk to me my family or friends goodbye" that didnt make sense cause I didnt talk to anyone.

It has been 8 days since he called and I am coping very well in fact I am surprised how well i am coping, how quickly I forgave him, and well just baisicly surprised at my self for the way I have been handling everything. I don't regret ever meeting him or anything that transpired in that year because I know the feelings/ promptings I had were true, it is where the Lord needed me to be, I don't know if i was ment to just help the elder or if it was for my benefit. I do know that for me it helped me become spiritually stronger, my eyes were opened to knew things.

I'm forever greatful and will continue to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

My best poem ever.

My Soldier

He's a man in the army,

Sent somewhere new.

Two years he will serve,

Along side of you.

No armor, a shield, or sword,

Appeared so grand.

A black suit, a tie,

With a book in hand.

I've seen courage, hope, faith, and,

Adore his strength.

Though heartache and pain,

Have gone to great length.

Great distances he goes by,

Car, bike, and feet.

Weary by night,

The sun he greets.

He's blessed others near and far,

Showing the way.

A light to the world,

Shone every day.

Months have passed, soon he'll return,

Never the same.

Now he arrives with,

Honor in his name.

This long journey he has trod,

Comes to an end.

What i'd give to see,

My dear soldier friend.

By Tori Elizabeth Hill

Ring

So Renae and I went shopping for Homecoming dresses and then decided to just look at some rings and the guy there let us try them on, he was fun to talk to and I found out her served a mission here in the Provo Utah area and he is from Pennsylvania... I think idk if i remember that correctly. Oh and we saw missionaries shopping at the mall.. that was strange. Any way, we tried a few rings on and we both ended up liking the same ring. It's $6,999 but I really like it. I loved all the sparkles. hehe. ;)

Mylee's Blessing

When we arrived we had dinner already ready for us. In the morning I met a guy named Ben who was staying with them from orem for an internship, he was pretty cool, that day we went to Mylee's blessing and there were like 15 dudes that blessed her. after ppl saying hi and taking pictures we headed out to a place called Crakers Co. or something but it was delicious!!! I had pankacks and their dessert was great too.

That night, Dad, Bailee, Maeser, Corbin, Ben, and I all drove to a paking lot place and waited for the Metro train, which we rode into Pheonix. It was my first time on a train and it was fun. as I sat I enjoyed watching Maeser, Ben, Corbin, and a guy I met Named Brian (who wants to be a surgeon) all play a game to see who could stand without loosing balance. it was a funny thing to watch. Once there we got our tickets and found our places. that was the biggest baseball field I have ever seen it was awesome. well the game was pretty cool, but didnt keep my interests for long which kinda bugged me.. well at one point of time the guy Pitcher for the Dogers threw the ball and the Batter for the Diamond Backs hit it right back to the pitcher where it hit his head and he fell down, so they had some ppl take him out, The Dogers were winning so we decided to leave right when we tied the game. haha. well after the game we went for some concrete Ice cream which is AMAZING.

On sunday, I went to church with Aileen and her family, I really enjoyed it at their church, after ward I helped make dinner and we had some missionaries come over for dinner and they gave us a short message, then savanna dad ect came for dessert and we played Catch Phrase, it was tons of fun! that's about all that happend but it was fun. On the way home we stopped maybe 4 times for Mylee, One of the times Bailee, dad, and I were playing out side of the car, it was kinda cute to see dad and her play together, when we finally stopped for lunch i was burping Mylee and she spit on the chair and it all started to roll towards my butt it was funny and then she spit allllll over my lap ewwwwwwww. lukily this car ride was more entertainig.