I took a look at my schedual for school on thursday and I realized there was no way I could skip a week of school and catch up in just one week and still be caught up within the week that I'm catching up in. I have too many huge classes in my first two semesters so I unfortunitly can't go to the nationals this year on my own decisions.My mother finally broke, but now I have rethought the whole istuation. I will be there next year though, I'll probably be there four a three or four day weekend, I wont stay there the entire week, because it'll be my junior year and I don't want to miss anything important. I'd rather worry about school then dog shows right now. Theres always a nationals next year so I'll just wait until then.... Plus st louis is right around the corner from me and I would have been driving for a year by the time the nationals come around next year. I'll just save the week for some other shows, plus I have the cardi nationals coming up in May and it'll be the only nationals I get to go to while I'm a junior. It's in kentucky. I'm leaving Friday morning with my mom to the cardi nationals and we'll just do a three day weekend and come back home Sunday night. I also am going to the Colorado nationals and hopefully it'll be the week before October 27th....thats my birthday....I want to compete in juniors so I want to be in juniors for at least two years at the nationals before I age out. I would rather worry about school anyway, I love showing, but schools more of a priority. A good education will take me somewhere and hopefully handling will too, but at this moment I don't know if I'll be the next Bart Bartley, Tiffany Bartley, Diane Brown, Kent Boyles, or Jimmy Moses I'll just hope for my dreams to come true and become one of them eventually, but I have to focus on school, especially with my crazy schedule I have for the first half of my school year. At least I have a seminar first semester. So, I'll just have to wait one more year to meet all you great people. Melissa ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================