Here at GCI we have a talent night every once and a while called Coffee House. It's usually to raise money for our school or some kind of charity but this time it was to raise money for my three friends to travel to Kenya this summer! They are working with the Me to We foundation and if you want to learn more you can visit this website >> http://www.metowe.com/volunteer-travel/youth-trips/kenya/
It was great to see all the talent that GCI has to offer and you can tell some of the performers are going to go far with their music abilities! Not only was this coffee house special for me because it was helping my friends travel across the world, but I also performed! This was my first time performing infront of anyone other than my friends. My friends Andrew, Luc and I only had a few practicing before our performance and I was so nervous. I thought I was going to back out at the last minute but my friends told me it was not an option. They pushed me to perform because they knew I could do it and I'm glad they did. People I don't even talk to came up to me and told me I did very well. Now that I performed once I know I can do it again and I'm going to sing in another upcoming talent night called Under The Stars!  I'm excited to see if my voice is good enough to take me places.

For bookclub I chose to read The Glass Castle. I chose it because the description sounded intriguing and then first two pages got me hooked. After reading twenty pages this book seems very interesting and the family seems a little crazy.
     The first chapter is about this women (the main character) who sees her mom digging through a dumpster and feels guilty that she lives on Park Ave in New York while her mom is homeless. She contacts her mom insisting she helps her but her mom refusing and says she likes living this way.  
     The second chapter so far is a flashback to the main characters past ( I still don't know what her name is ). She was three years old, living in a trailer park, making her own hotdogs on the stove when her dress catches on fire. Her mom rushes her to the hospital but when her dad finds out he is not happy. He doesn't like hospitals so after a while he just steals his daughter from the hospital. In the middle of the night one night the dad says they have to leave right now so they pack up their things and hit the road. The main character claims this happens all the time because the bill collectors are on her dads case.
   Thats all I've read so far and I like the book. I just hope it's as eventfull all the way till the end as it is at the beginning.