#17: I Wish I Was Great At...

#17: What is the thing you most wish you were great at?

There definitely are many things I wish I were great at. In fact, I can't even narrow it down to one. So here's a few...

1) I wish I was great at communicating with people. I have a stutter. I get nervous. And I hate confrontation. (Even with people I feel comfortable around... it's a problem.)

2) I wish I didn't have stage fright. Because if I didn't have stage fright, I would love to act in plays. It's a weird kind of dream, that I don't share with many people. I've almost convinced myself to take a minor in Theatre in university. (Like that's ever going to happen...)

3) I wish I was great at painting. I can paint a room, I can paint a fence, and I can stain furniture... but I can't artistically paint something. Believe me, I've tried. I can't even do abstract art. That's how much I suck. The best I can do is a Jackson Pollock type painting... but who can't do that??

There it is... things I wish I was great at.

#16: Greatest Accomplishments

#16: What are your 5 greatest accomplishments?

Golly, what have I accomplished in my life at all? Well, let's see... Honestly, as I'm typing this right now, I don't even have 5 in mind yet.

1) Graduating from high school
- Yes! I think this is an accomplishment. I know some people that haven't been able to accomplish this, therefore this is an accomplishment for me. I even managed to graduate with a laureate, a merit, and an honours in biology. (Which surprised me a little.)

2) Getting good grades throughout my life
- Now, I'm not gonna lie, I'm definitely not a straight-A student. But I always got a few A's, a lot of B's, and a few unfortunate D's. I think those are pretty good grades. (Let's see what university does to this track record...)

3) Saving up enough money to go on a school trip to Europe
- This was quite something. It wasn't that I actually saved it up, but I made monthly payments, which is still really hard to do when you only work part time and you're in high school. It was the best trip ever, made lots of close friends, and it was the funnest week and a half of my life.

4) Being a camp counselor
- Whew! Is this ever an accomplishment! Last summer I was a camp counselor at Cedarwood and it was, hands down, the best summer I've had in my life. It was challenging and incredibly stretching. I got to share Jesus with teens who didn't really know much about Him at all. It brought me out of my comfort zone more than I've ever been. I also got to do worship sometimes in the evenings, which also brought me out of my comfort zone a lot, but I very much enjoyed doing it.

5) Getting baptized
- Okay... this actually hasn't happened yet, but it will be happening in 3 days! I've wanted to get baptized since I was in grade 7. But being an immature Christian, I didn't really understand what baptism was or why a person gets baptized. Until after Capernwray actually, I thought that you had to have all your crap together in order to get baptized. But I realized that if I waited for myself to have all my crap together before getting baptized, I would never get baptized.

So there. I came up with that all on the spot! That's an accomplishment in and of itself!