Yesterday, we had a soccer game. We play in the Fresno Indoor Soccer League. We were winning 5-4 until the last 7 minutes. The opposing team scored two goals in a matter of 2 minutes. Even though we lost, we played as a team better than we have before.

Yesterday, during free time, I moved rooms. I moved from Side A to Side B of the girls' dorm. I am happy with the room I am in now. I love my roommates. The room we are in now is the Ascender Suite; it is a big room so there are four girls living in the room.

Today was weigh-in day for the girls. I did not do as well as I had hoped to, but I managed to lose 1.6 over the week. Also, today in Summit, I moved up to the Belayer level. After 2 months of being an Ascender, I finally felt ready, and I knew that it was right for me to move up. I am excited. Now I can apply for an on-campus job! I also have unlimited phone time. I have been working so hard, that I am very proud of my self for accomplishing this.

Also, we won the Ropes Group Challenge. Ropes Group is where you meet each evening with the people that live around you, along with a staff member, and you talk about how you did with meeting your program expectations that day - what you did do and what you didn't do. We also discuss the responsibility that you are taking for being where you are supposed to be, when you are supposed to be there. This month's challenge is "The group getting the least rappels, and the group that gets up on-time the most often." (A "rappel" is a temporary loss of certain privileges at AOS). There are 5 Ropes Groups competing, and each week the winning group gets to miss study hall and activity and watch a movie. As an added bonus, the winner of the entire month gets to go off campus for the day. The past few groups to win have gone to Six Flags Magic Mountain. For our viewing pleasure, we picked "Sixteen Candles", and we got to watch that in the boys' dorm (supervised!). It was almost like a pajama party - except I think all of us were in our 'street clothes', and no-one was actually in their pajamas. But anyway it was still fun.

I am still in frustration, but today I had a meeting with a BC and a few other students, and we talked about ways to "get over the hump" as Cara (another BC at AOS) said today. I am not allowing myself to slack-off. I want to show everyone how dedicated to this program I really am.

I figured my goal for today was not to tell myself that I am in frustration, but to put a positive spin on the way I see people and situations right now.