Boda Bodas, Books, and Bananas

Hey guys! It's been a while. And yes, I am feeling a bit stressed out right now. Why am I feeling stressed right now, you may ask. Because it's November. And November means NaNoWriMo. And NaNoWriMo means writing a 50k word novel in 30 days. And that's stressful. To those of you who think writing is totally stress-free: No. No. No, it is not stress-free. It is incredibly stressful, especially when you have a deadline, and a word count to reach by that deadline, and school and church and youth group and horseback riding and trips to the library to do around it. Yeah. NaNo causes stress and exhaustion. But any NaNo-er will tell you it's worth it. If they deny it, they're not a true NaNo-er. Trust me. They're not. But, yeah. Other than that, my life has been pretty normal. Oh! Yeah, uh, I've started horseback riding on Mondays, and I participated in my first horse show (y'know, the kind where everyone gets a ribbon?). And be sure to check ou

Hey, guys! I'm back with another pointless blog post about my life. First off, the title has nothing to do with the post. I've decided to start using song lyrics for the title (mostly because my titles are really crappy), and they may or may not have to do with the post, depending on my mood. I'm in the mood for Metallica (and that line is awesome), so... Anyway, on with the post! Obviously, I should address the fact that we just moved first. Yah. We moved. From Uganda. To the States. Help. Culture shock. Only half a footlocker of clothes. Help. On the bright side,I met up with an old friend of mine, Danielle Gottfried, at her birthday party (which is actually in December, but she wanted a summer party, so...). Okay, one thing I have discovered about the majority of my friends: Fantasy writing. Me, Danielle, and Grace Hurd all write fantasy. How is it, that all the friends I'm still in contact with that I met in my early days as an MK and have know for almost ten yea

Hey, guys. It's been a while, and I figured it was about time for another boring blog post. Lots of stuff has happened. There was Educational Support Week, more commonly known as ESW or Homeschool Week. ESW is an annual five-day thing, where homeschoolers (mostly people from our mission, Africa Inland Mission) from all over East Africa (and some from farther out) come to the mission boarding school, Rift Valley Academy, to do standardized testing. While we're not in the computer lab testing, we're hiding in the library, hanging out on the playground or outside the cafeteria (which people usually call the cafo), wandering around getting lost, or eating (I misspelled 'eating' five times just now.). On Friday, us Junior-Highers followed someone in our grade around the whole school day because we didn't have testing. Normally, we would have presentations on Friday, but this year they separated the higher grades from the rest (because there were so many of us) and w

Yo, what up? Sorry for the long wait, my life's been kinda boring for a while, so... I'll start off by saying I've started writing a new book (I know, I know, I never finished Phoenix Rising, which I have now names Rise of the Phoenix, give me a break!), called The Antiquorum. xxx ^^ The link to the site where I'm posting it Also, I'm turning 13 IN A WEEK AND A DAY! AHHHH!!!!! And we move in July, which is only FOUR MONTHS AWAY!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Okay, I'm calm. Recently, I've downloaded an app called WriteOMeter. It's wonderful, and I've actually been writing whole chapters in a day. That's never happened before, believe it or not. Even better, the app was free! (To all you writers out there: GET IT OR I WILL GET IT FOR YOU!) (Ida Hunter's my pen name.)

It's been a while since I last posted. Mainly because the most exciting thing that's happened recently is my cat having kittens. I'm on the plane as I write, flying from Entebbe to Nairobi to be with my sister over midterm break. Normally, we don't see her for midterm because it's only two days and she goes to school in a different country. But, this is her last one, as she graduates in July. Then, it's off to America,  never to return. Just kidding, I'll probably come back some day. I'll get to see my friend and fellow writer, Grace, also known as Grace~Z~Artist. I introduced her in an earlier post, titled, you guessed it, Grace~Z~Artist, in which she messed up my post beautifully by pushing random keys. Yes, Grace, I'm out for blood. -Sam Enjoy a view of Lake Victoria,  the second largest lake in the world, topped only by Lake Superior in the northern United States.