Emily Rachelle Writes

Today I *should* be somewhere between Dominica and home, if all goes well.  Meanwhile, I've invited Kristen M of K's Journal to introduce herself and her brand-new blog.  I met Kristen when she visited my blog and asked for advice.  After reading some of her poetry, I've realized that she reminds me of the writer I wanted to be at her age.  But enough from me!  I give you the amazing Kristen, young writer and great girl.

Hi everyone! I'm Emily's friend, Becki Badger, from Being Becki . Before I begin, there are a couple things you should know about me that pertain to my post. 1) I'm sixteen. 2) I was homeschooled all the way through school. 3) I graduated high school in September 2010, two days before I turned 15. 4) I have four brothers, four sisters, and my mom is pregnant again. *squeal of excitement*

Hi! My name is Katelyn Marie, I'm a friend of Emily's, and I'm guest blogging today! First off, thank you, Emily, for allowing me to write this post. I am really excited about this being my first guest post! Anyway, my post is about once-in-a-lifetime experiences. I tried throughout the week to write about one life experience that was awesome and epic and something I'd never experience again. And, to tell the truth, I couldn't think of one.

I like seeing things from others' perspective - especially guys'.  Being a girl myself, I know well what insecurities females have.  We struggle with being happy with our hair, not obsessing over the marks on or shade of our skin, and focusing on being healthy rather than skinny.  I also know what females' opinions about guys tend to be.  European accents, the ability to play guitar, or the traditional behavior of a gentleman are attractive.  Then there's how we feel we're perceived by guys - we can't be too intelligent/serious or too ditsy/shallow, we have to keep up the natural look without 'letting ourselves go,' we have to be beautiful without being obsessed with beauty.

As you read this, I am either on a plane or in an airport somewhere between Georgia and the tiny third-world island nation of Dominica, where I will be spending the rest of July, along with twenty-one other teenagers and five adults from my church. We'll be helping the Cornelius missionary family host a VBS-style summer camp for native children, as well as helping around the church with services, maintenance, and anything else they need.

This week is the second to last of the challenge, and today I'm supposed to share my "hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days."  That's a lot of days to talk about, so I'll try to be brief. :) {via}

Imani, a girl new to the blogosphere, recently saw my interview at Wassup Girly?  and contacted me to see if I'd be interested in doing something similar at her new blog, Geekly Chic.   Considering my contact page offers to post about/help out other bloggers/teenagers/writers, and said previous interview was the first time anyone took me up on the offer, I naturally said yes.  So today I invite all my lovely readers to welcome another new blogger, this time a teenager blogging about what's hot and what's not for geeky girls, to the web. :)

I'm a very lucky girl lately.  Katelyn from  The Life of a Teenage Writer  has nominated me for yet another blog award! This one's called The Sunshine Award .

Today is not a normal posting day, but today is the first Wear The Shnorts Day  (aka WTS Day), a new official holiday created by Neville .  For details or explanations, you'll have to follow the links.  All I'm going to say is that it has to do with Frindle by Andrew Clements and is therefore a wonderful idea.  (My entire family adores Andrew Clements books.  I own all the ones we have, but I very rarely have them all in my possession, due to those strange boys raiding my shelves.)

I've been waiting for this one, mainly because it's the only one I knew exactly what to talk about the day I started this challenge. See, I have this nasty(ish) scar on my leg - my left calf, to be exact.  And you'd expect a scar that looks like mine to have some sort of bragging-rights-story with it. You'd be wrong.

I recently shared that Sarah at Inklined nominated me for my first blog award .  Well, today I'm happy to tell you that my friends Katelyn and Becki have nominated me for my second! It's called the One Lovely Blog Award, and I believe it was started by a teen writer whose name I don't know at This Page Intentionally Left Blank.

Some of my lovely readers may remember the character interview I posted a while back.  I actually wrote that as part of a blog chain.  Of course, I forgot to link to it!  Well, today I join the July prompt for the same blog chain, and I figure I'd better start with the link: http://teenscanwritetoo.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/july-2012-blog-chain/ This month's prompt: How has writing affected your perception of the world?

Hello, my lovely readers!  This week I interrupt the 30 Day Challenge to make an announcement: another first has just occurred in this blogger's life and I felt I ought to share it with you!

It's said that three is the perfect number, and everything comes in threes, and lots of other stuff about one of my favorite numbers.  Since I've written two posts about the Hunger Games (one a guest post and the other a list of my fave HG links), I thought it only fitting that I share one more.  :) I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not, but my friend Ashlee, two of her classmates, and I decided to go to the premiere of the Hunger Games... until we discovered it was midnight on Friday as in Friday morning, not Friday night.  Sadly, we were unable to make the premiere - but we did go on Friday night!

Hi there, lovely readers. :) As of this past Sunday, my family is on vacation visiting relatives in Indiana. I have posts scheduled for this Thursday, this Saturday, and next Tuesday and Thursday as well. However, I may not be able to respond to comments or emails. I'll be sure to check in as much as I can, though. Just thought I'd let y'all know. Anybody else going on vacation this summer? What are your plans?