School and stuff

It's been forever since I wrote on my blog. I've managed to have a lot happen in my life but nothing that is earth shattering. I did pass my Physics class, with a "B", which is a miracle in itself. I enjoyed Physics tremendously, but I'll be darned, I had no idea what I was doing half the time. If it weren't for my passing all of my labs, quizes and homework with "A"s, then I wouldn't have even gotten the "B". My big tests, because they had math equations in them, I got "C"s and was grateful for that....so it all averaged out to the "B" which brought my GPA down to a 3.88 from a 4.0, however, it isn't the end of the world. I am also grateful that I got an "A" in
Twentieth Century France. It was all good. I love going to school and I love getting an education and especially following the advice from my Father in Heaven to get my education and to enhance my talents to emmulate the Savior. I will do all I can to accomplish this.
I have started to write again, and I need to get my act together to get some classes to help my art and my writing. This fall I am taking a writing class, but it is argumentative writing. I will need to show both sides of the argument in each paper I write.

My cousin John (Tompkins) Clement (he was adopted by his step-father) has paid for a plane ticket for me to come to Palo Alto to come and visit him and his family. I am so excited. I need to get away from home, but I also want to gtet to know John and his family more. We have not had a true family relationship, thanks to my mother and my father (Alan). Mom would not allow me to get close to any of the Tompkins side of the family because of her own reasons plus she said that Dee, my step-mother, would have done harm to me when I was very young. She said that this information came from my father's own mother (Grandma Linda). Eitehr way, all those years I wanted to be part of the Tompkins family and was denied that by both sides. Even my father didn't want to have a great deal to do with me and made no real effort to have a relationship with me. Anyway....I am going to see John and Phoebe on the 4th of June and come home the 7th. A very short trip, but I think a bonding one.