i love patrick henry hughes!!!!!!

ok so i dont know if yall have heard about this guy but he is amazing! He is so inspiring to me and should inspire everyone that watchs him! here is a site where you can go see him! http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/2008/04/27/inspiring-video-of-the-week-patrick-henry-hughes/
for someone who is blind in a wheelchair he doesnt let anything stop him from doing something that he loves. he lets nothing, absolutely nothing! you might be asking how i heard about him and that answer is i was watching extreme makeover:house edition and it was about them redoing their house! i was just switching channels and it came up and i was like humm seems interesting! so i started watching it. by the end of it i was crying because it was so inspiring to me to do the things that i love and not let anything get in my way! now that i think about it! We shouldnt let anything get in our way of doing something that we love to do whether its someone telling us that we shouldnt do that cause its not cool or you are blind and in a wheelchair! My sister doesnt let her wheelchair get in the way of her doing anything( believe me i know) and i would not change it for the world! Life is too short to let anything get in the way of your dreams! I say no matter what you can never say that you can not do something cause it is important that you keep your head up high and have a positive attitiude! Dont let anything or anyone get in your way of things that you want to do! BE YOURSELF!!!!!!!

This is who i am

My name is Callie Brooke Nichols. Im 19 years old and i go to the u of m. Im an education major and i love little kids. Im in the marching band and pep band at college. I play the clarinet. And yes i will admit im not the best player but i try. I work at chick-fil-a and i have worked there for 5 years since i was 14. i dont like it there but it will do. I am a Christian and i go to Bartlett Woods Church of Christ. I love it there. I love cats. I have have one cat right now. Her name is tiger lily and she is my baby.I dont know what i would do if i didnt have her. She is the one that is always there for me. And yes i know she is a cat. I never said im not weird because i know i am and im not afraid to admit it. I have two siblings a brother and a sister. I love them to death even though they get on my nerves all the time. But i would not change anything in my life. My Friends mean everything to me. They are the ones i always turn to when i have a problem. There are two that have been here for me more than anyone and their names are Ashley Austin and Alyssa Michie. I dont get to see them much because of college but i know i cant do anything about that. I miss alyssa because she is all the way in chatanoga( yes i cant spell ) but what can i do she is getting an education. But she is coming down for spring break and im soooooooooo waiting for then cause im ready for her to be home. Ashley i get to see sometimes bc she is in memphis which if she went anywhere else i probably would go kidnap her from there and bring her to memphis. :> i dont know if i would be the same person i am today if it were not for these two bestest friends. They are everything to me. They are a part of me and im never going to change that!!!!!!!!! You are probably wondering why i am writing a blog all about myself. But here is the thing. People have been trying to change who i am and saying that i need to change to fit in. But here is what i say. I AM WHO I AM AND IF YOU CANT TAKE IT FACE THE FACT OR GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!!!!!! im sorry if that is mean but i am serious. Im not changing who i am. I love my life the way it is. Nothing can make me change. that is the end of it

i have found where i belong

ok my life has been...... how can i say it?....CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!! at least for me i really didnt have a place that i knew i belonged other that with my friends. i didnt feel right in my churchs youth group and i didnt feel right in my own family. its like i was just out there and i had no purpose in life or place that i knew that i........ felt like i was accepted. but everything changed when i came to the bartlett woods college group. we got a new minister and his name is seth and omg he is amazing( no not that way ) but in a way that makes you feel that you are loved by at least one person. yeah he likes to joke around and be silly but when it comes down to it. he really really really cares and not matter what you can always go to him for anything. and he made me realize why im here and what is my mission in this life..... it is to be a friend to every person that i see and talk to. if some one needs someone to talk to then they can come talk to me. he made me realize this by pulling me aside one sunday and said hey i want you to know that i have had so many people come up to me and say that brooke has changed there is a new light that has come to her face at church. its because i feel like i belong in that college group they help me stay strong in the faith and they help me when i need help and they encourage me to be myself. so that all i have to say right now

I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

ok so i need help and this is a difficult desicion to make. there is this guy we are going to name him billy and he is amazing and he is perfect he has everything that i want in a guy he: plays the piano, the guitar, trying to play the drums, he is a christian, he doesnt smoke or drink, he is prolife and he drives a motorcycle. He is the perfect guy and also my parents know that i like him i mean this is the first guy i told my mom that i like so this is serious cause i wouldnt tell my mom that i like him if i really didnt. So you are probably thinking what is the problem then if he is perfect and has all the qualities you want and need in a guy well the problem is there is a guy at school that i like and we are going to name him joe and he is really sweet and funny and everytime he comes around its like the world just stops and there is only me and him in the room and i get nervous around him and everything but i dont talk to him because im so nervous around him. I talk to billy like a regular person and there is no problem liking him but joe he drinks and he is nothing what my parents would like but i cant stop thinking about him when i am at school and when im ........ everywhere its so confusing and i dont know what to do. do i like joe or billy its so confusing how do i get them out of my mind its all i think about i connect everything to the guys what to do i dont know i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok so i watched this film in one of my class's and it hit me hard. It was about a little middle school in a city above chatanooga and they dont have many people in the city. well the teachers and the principal wanted to teach them about the holocaust in a way that could touch there hearts and make them realize the true feelings that the people felt. So they started talking and they realized that 6,000,000 Jews were killed by Hitler so they cqame up with a plan to collect something that was small and get at least 6 million of them. and some one came up with collecting paper clips. So they decided to collect 6 million paperclips to represent the Jews. So they got a groups of the middle schoolers and they made a club called " the paper clips". They sent out mail to everyone to send a paper clip in memory of someone in the holocaust. At the begining they got alot of response one person sent 100 thousand paper clips alone. But as it continued the paper clips stopped coming for a while they only sent one or two at a time. The principal was about ot give up hope that they could finish this but the students wanted to continue with it. So they kept it up and after a couple of years they reached their goal but the clips kept coming till they had 29 million paper clips. The principal didnt know what to do with all the paper clips so they decided to make a memorial. They got a box car that actually treansported the victims of the holocaust to the concentration camps. and they filled the car with 11 million paper clips. During this they had some of the survivors come and speek to the students and the residence of the town. They talked about how we should be lucky to live in America and how we are lucky that we have people around us. This presentation hit me hard. I want everyone to know that you are lucky to live in a country where you are free and you are not judged by you race or your ethnicity. You should be gratful that your parents and grandparents are around in your life and they are not taking from you. BE GRATEFUL FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU CAME FROM NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!