Rachel: High School Version {Day 24}

So, just for fun (and b/c it's 11:27 and I have nothing better to say) I would like to introduce you to me--in high school.

There I am--in all my super posed, black feather senior picture goodness. Now...for the goods:

• My name was Rachel Briana Murbach way back then
• c/o of 1998--yes that was last century thank you very much :)
• My favorite band was the Newsboys & I was OBSESSED. I mean psycho obsessed. I knew everything about every band member. And I even touched Phil Joel's hair after stalking them & finding their secret bus hideout. And I thought John Jame's silver suit was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
• My 2 best friends were (and still are!) Aprile & Erin
• I drove a 1988 gold Honda civic--stick shift. The engine made a squeaky sound so we made up a story that a hamster named Paco lived under the hood.
• I had way too many boyfriends. And I was SO IN LOVE with all of them
• I also had an imaginary boyfriend named Alfredo Marinara. He was Latin & very smooth. But when I graduated I broke his heart and allowed my sister to start dating him.
• I was on the golf team & actually pretty good at it.
• The Gin Blossoms and The Fugees were also some of my favorite bands
• I was Secretary of student government my senior year. That's b/c no one was running & my AP Psych teacher told me I should run b/c the odds were really in my favor
• The first night that Aprile, Erin & I went out after I got my driver's license was insane. We were sent a note from a crazy guy at the restaurant that said "you make my heart want to explode...signed, the Unibomber"; we almost got flattened by a semi truck that I pulled out in front of & couldn't change gears fast enough; and then we almost got attacked by a truck-full of Mexican men that jumped out of their truck at a stop sign & started running at my car.
• I taught a Bible study on Thursday mornings
• My favorite class was English
• I took Spanish & French
• I wore birkenstock sandals and converse all-stars
• I also wore bell bottom jeans
• my eyebrows looked like squirrel tails taped to my forehead
• I surrendered to ministry my Senior year
• On the way to school every single morning my sister & I would play a game--whoever saw the time 7:11 and yelled "it's 7:11--that's a store" won the game. Yes we were very strange
• I had a crazy sound system in my little car & used to blast rap music until my ears hurt
• I was passionate about Jesus--and I let everyone know it
• I sat the bench all season long on the basketball team in 9th grade
• my high school principal died during my senior year. he was (and still is) one of my hero's & favorite people I've ever known
• My favorite class ever was 11th grade English where my teacher challenged me to write more
• My least favorite class was anything math related
• I always made my lunch and brought it, but always dreamed of eating cafeteria food instead
• I was president of the Christian club at my school--Youth Alive
• Youth group at church was my favorite place to be..my second home really
• I got along with my parents
• During the winter my sister & I would listen to Aretha Franklin's RESPECT in the car on the way to school and dance as hard as we could to stay warm b/c my heater didn't work very well
• My first kiss happened after the boy said (and no I'm not joking) "my mouth is dry...should we remedy that?" How on earth did I fall for that line? Sick. Makes my stomach turn every time I think about it :)
• I ate buttered Ego waffles for breakfast almost every day