Job

So after like 2 months of intense job hunting I finally got a call for an interview. I totally wasn't even expecting it. I applied to Grocery Outlet just because, and didn't give much thought to it. Then last Thursday while I was driving to Stinson Beach with my friends the manager called me and invited me for an interview. My interview was on Friday and apparently it went well, because on Monday I got a call that I got the job, and I start Tuesday. So after my first day I can say that work is pretty hard. I came home after my 8 hour shift with a monster headache and extremely tired in general. I was put to work stocking shelves, and making all the product on the shelves look good, and appealing to the customer. I work from 8am to 4:30 pm every day this week so I get pretty good hours. So I'm making pretty good money, not complaining at all about that though.

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Apartment

So, recently, I was contacted through a mutual friend to rent an apartment at Davis instead of staying in the dorms. I have decided that i will live in an apartment for multiple reason. One, is that I will save a lot of money. The apartment will cost me almost a third of what the dorm will. Also I will begin college already knowing a couple of people instead of being a noob on campus. Actually I already know multiple people who go to Davis, most of them are going to be juniors or sophomores. The only downfall I think is that I would now have to learn how to cook, and I would have to take care of bills, and maintain the apartment. This will be a lot more responsibility and stress, and I'm worried it could affect my grades. My parents are really over protective, so I feel that with them gone, I wont be able to make the right choices, because they hve made every decision for me so far. Im just really confused, but hopefully it will turn out for the best.

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Baptism part 2

So, on Saturday, the day of my baptism, it was about 112 degrees outside, which was extremely hot. It was probably the hottest day we had so far here in Sacramento. I had to get up at 6am because I had to be at the river at 7am. The baptism went well and I was really happy because my girlfriend showed up. Afterward we had a semi after party at my church with food and we played soccer and volleyball. It was really fun, but it was hot for days, so we diet last long. After ward my friend Serge had a pool party at his house so that was pretty legit. Only problem was that it was 112 degrees outside so we were kinda dying out there. After a while the pool wasn't even refreshing anymore because the water heated up so much. We tried to correct it by throwing in 5 huge bags of ice. But it didn't help, and we couldn't even feel the difference. We had a barbecue at his house too so that was also really cool. People just showed up and at one time there was over 60 people at his house. We stayed out there till about 12 ish.

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Baptism

Baptism

So, I haven't really mentioned it previously, but I am Christian. And in my church, when one gets to be around 16-19 years old, if they feel they are ready to make a commitment to serve God their whole life, the get baptized. I feel like I am ready to make that commitment, so tomorrow (June 8th) I'm getting baptized. Honestly, I had a lot of doubts going into it. Originally I felt I wasn't ready, and I wanted to wait until next summer to do it. But then my pastor said, that if you feel that you aren't completely ready this year, how do you know you will be ready next year? This got me thinking that I didn't know, so I decided to get baptized. This is a really big step for me, in my personal life. When I get baptized, I am making a promise to God to serve him my whole life, and I am making a public statement, telling others about my decision. This means that whatever bad stuff, whatever sins I committed before, I will no longer do, because I have given my life to serve God. This wasn't an easy decision, to be honest. I had a lot of things holding me back. Different things that I did, that I could no longer do after baptism. But I believe that if I serve God, and give my life to him, I will receive eternal life with him, in heaven. Instead of burning in hell, for doing all the "fun" stuff. I will give a follow up afterward :)

If you would like to learn more about baptism, and what it means to Christians visit the link bellow.

http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/f/whatisbaptism.htm

-Vitaliy

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Parents/ Girlfriend

So, at my graduation, my mom finally saw my girlfriend, Julia (not her real name). Her reaction, was probably the last thing that I expected to be honest. Apparently she saw her with another guy about 3 years ago. So now she is thinks that this girl is a player and Im another one of her victims. Its really frustrating for both me ans Julia, because we both think this relationship is something special, not just an everyday fling. We both think we have a future together, and the fact that my parents dont like her is kinda huge. They havent been letting me see her for about 3 days now, which kinda blows. I have no idea what to do either, because Im not really close to my parents and I dont know how to talk to them about this.

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Graduation Part Two

 Graduation

Today was graduation and I'm not gonna lie, it was a really crazy day. When I came home from rehearsal, I had to iron my gown and my sash and wash my shirt, etc. The trouble with the gown is that it's made from polyester and it is extremely difficult to iron. For starters you cannot use a regular iron, because it can melt the fabric and you will be left with a sticky mess. To over come this, you either have to use a steamer, or using and iron on it but having the gown between two sheets to protect the fabric. The wrinkles in the gown are caused by the folds, so they're really deep and really hard to iron out. It took about 1.5 hours of work to get the gown to look presentable. And then about 30 minutes to make it look somewhat good. Since it took so long to get my gown all fixed, I was running late to get to graduation, and in the process forgot my cap and tassel at home. So when I got to Memorial Auditorium, I had to wait until my mom came an brought my cap for me. All this was extremely stressful and wore me out so much. The graduation went fine though. Afterwards when I exited the building my friends ambushed me and started jumping around me. Then they picked me up and started tossing me in the air. We then took at least 300 pictures, and then we went to this hipster ish cafe downtown to celebrate. It was pretty cool but we didn't stay for long, so we went to my girlfriend's house to have a some what party. It was really fun and I ended up getting home around midnight. I had a lot of fun at graduation. Although I do not feel that much different to be honest.

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Girlfriend

 So, there was a girl in my AP Economics class, lets call her Julia. I have been pretty good friends with her for quite some time now. Maybe 3-4 months. We really grew closer when I broke up with my girlfriend about 2 months ago. She really helped get through it all, and since then we have been pretty close. About a month ago, I started noticing that she seemed to like me as more than just a friend. At first I was hesitant to respond, because she had a slightly messed up relationship history. But about 2 weeks ago, I told her that I liked her too. We then hung out at lunch everyday for about a week and half. I noticed that I liked being around her a lot, and it made me happy. I asked her to be my girlfriend last Friday. It didn't change much tho, we are still acting the same way towards each other. I haven't kissed her yet, because I dont want to rush anything. We went on out first official date on Monday, Memorial Day. We went to see Fast and Furious 6. The movie was really good, and being with Julia was really fun too. We cuddled for about half the movie, and even though she was squishing me, I enjoyed it a lot.I had tons of fun, and just being with her made my day a lot better. On Tuesday she had school, but I didnt, so she ditched her second period class and we went to Starbucks. It was really fun, we just talked for about 1 hour and 20 minutes. We discussed some pretty deep topics, so it was some really valuable time spent together in my opinion.

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