Last night I went on my first date. I know, I’m 18 and out of high school, but oh well. It was a little awkward, but not as bad as I thought it would be. His name was John and he actually made to my house on time, almost no one manages that because it’s hard to find my house. The date started at 6:30, so I didn’t know whether we were going out to eat or not, figuring that we weren’t, I ate dinner before they came. As it turns out, we did go out to eat at Ruby Tuesday. The food was good, but I didn’t eat much of it because I’d already eaten. He didn’t tell me what we were doing before hand so I had no idea that we were eating. Afterwards we went to this place just outside of Lees and set up on the grass to watch the firework. While we waited, we played games. It was kind of fun, although he really isn’t my type. He’d come home from his mission in Mexico. He kept talking to people in other cars on our way out, and his sister(?) kept telling him to quit. We doubled with this married couple that was close to our age. I rather liked Tessa, the girl in the other couple, I think it’s because we are close to the same age. She is the one that kept telling him to be quite when it came to people in other cars. He enjoyed talking to these Mexican kids in Spanish on our wait out of Lees though. He really wasn’t my type, not into academics, very much into cars (which I know very little about, if I need info, I talk to my Dad and raid his Consumer Reports magazines). Cars are his passion. Today I went to the parade in Hyrum. It was ok, I liked the Polynesian food that I had after the parade. I think I need to get on with my life more though, somehow seeing all the girls in formalwear makes me sad. I try to be happy for them, but somehow I feel left out because I never did the formal dress thing to a dance. I know that Proms are over rated and all that, but still, it would’ve been nice to have gone to one. ~Amyelk Out