I chose to free blog about a biking trip to the C&O Canal. My dad, uncle, and cousins had biked the C&O Canal when my dad was in the 8th grade. My uncle decided that out of tradition my cousins and I should bike the C&O Canal. So my 2 cousins that are the same age as I, my dad, and 2 uncles decided that this would be a trip that we could share with our children one day. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal is located along the banks of the Potomac River and is 184.5 miles long. We started in Washington DC and ended in Cumberland MD. The trip was done over 3 days, biking approx. 62 miles per day. We encountered lot's of flat tires and sore butts. I will never forget this trip and hope to do the same with my children one day.
For my free blog I want to talk about my trip to Philmont New Mexico. Philmont is a twelve dat hiking trip through the mountains of New Mexico. It is ran by the Boy scouts of america, and state funding; boys scouts all across the world come to go hiking because its a trip you will never forget. The scenery there is amazing, the mountains are beautiful, and when you go with your friends you get to know them more than you should. The friends I went with are closer than ever, besides on kid who was a total D-bag, and we still hangout out side of boy Scouts. At phimont you go from camp site to camp site, carrying 40 pounds of gear on your back, some camp sites are staffed, and some are not. At one point in my trip i drank unpurified water and had unpleasent trips to the bathroom if you know what I mean. But besides the aches and pains, Philmont is one of those life time experiences that you have to take advantage of and enjoy.
For my free blog today i will talk about snowboarding. Most people might not know this about me, but i love to snowboard. As everyone knows, winter is soon approaching, so that means snowboarding season is coming back! i absolutly cant wait. I have been snowboarding since i was about 9 or 10. I didnt really get to go all that much last year, so hopfully i get to this year. Its really fun, so everyone should try it.
hey for my free blog i was gonna bitch about how i couldnt give blood today cause u have to be 17 and ill be 17 in 4 days. im actully pretty exited because 17 sounds so much older than 16 and tommarro im going to dinner with my family its gonna be fun. last year we went to joes crab shack and my uncle told them it was my bday without me knowing and they tried to make me run around the restraunt on a horse sayin i have crabs. so i definatly didnt do tha. hopfully this year were not going there haha.
Many of you may know, however I'm sure most of you don't, that I love to snowboard. The reason I am talking about this is because snowboarding season is slowly approaching. I have been snowboarding fo a long tim (too long to remember), and though it's kind of dumb I passed the expert class at Alpine when I was 9. Now, however, I love to do rails and jumps. Sometimes I will just bomb the hill to get as much speed as poosible and go off of the big air jumps. That is probably my favorite thing to do. I can do many grabs and minor spins. I also love going over boxs and rails, specifically A-Frames. I can nose and tail press, although not that great, and it's so much fun. I also like just hanging out with friends like Zack Ruffin. I recently got a new board, boots, and bindinigs last weekend. I love my new board and I can't wait to try it out. It is what's called a rocker board which means that it has a negative camber which makes for easier rails and jibbing (if your lost seach google). It is a park board. I also got a brand new coat this year. Overall, snowboarding is one of my favorite things to do and I can't wait for winter to come.
Something that alot of people don't know about me is that I used to scrapbook. My aunt has a studio in her house that has a bunch of scrapbooking things in it. When I would visit I would scrapbook. Since she lives ona farm, it could get kind of boring so thats what I would do. I have 2 finished ones. I may not seem to be the person who has patience, I do. I'm also very creative so I'm good at it. I havent done it in a couple of years, but it would be nice to start up again.
What people dont know about me is that i may seem like i trust ever one but then agian i trust no one. I learned along time ago that girls just love to talk but never relly know the truth because they never realy knew me. Going to school and having friends is one thing but out of school im a differnt person. You go to school to learn and progess in life but the people there just keeping you company. Then you graduate and never talk to those people who you thought you ment the most too. You go on with life being who you relly are. And if those people are still there to turn too in your hardest times you honestly know you can trust them. I learned along time ago that you can only trust youself.
For my free blog I would like to talk about my favorite holiday, which is Christmas. Lately I have been thinking more about Christmas. I keep seeing commericals about the holiday season. I know its early, but I can't wait for Christmas time. Every year I have my relatives over for Christmas Eve. We eat a big dinner, watch Christmas movies, and open some presents. My family has a tradition where we watch A Christmas Story and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation every year around the holidays. Also, as soon as the 100.3 radio station starts playing all Christmas music, that all I listen to. My favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bells by David Foster. In conclusion, I love Christmas and the things that come with the holiday season.
For tonights blog im going to talk about my Achillies. Since i forgot to do the blog about it last week. Well i guess one of my weaknesses is careing about people to much, i know it doesnt sound like a weakness but when you care about people to much to do to anything about if they may hurt you, then you live a life of people walking all over you. I tend to do everything that the people close to me tell me to do. for example my dad is constintly always telling me bad things about my sister, and i dont have the gust to tell him to stop, because i dont want him to get mad at me. there are many other things that i do just to make people happy even if they dont diserve it. I guess i just like seeing people happy, but i dont really see that as a weakness. I just want to be able to set a limit.
When I come home from school everyday I do only one thing: sing. I love singing, and I hope to become a singer later on in life. I've never been in a choir except for in elementary school. At that time I didn't even know what I was going to do that day let alone what I wanted to be when I grew up. Over the years I've worked on my singing by myself, everyday. I get excited when I learn a new song or if I write my won song. It feels like Christmas day to me! Sometimes I just have such a good day that all I want to do is sing. The only problem with wanting to be a singer for me is that I have stage fright. I'll need to get over it soon if I want to be a singer. :)
One thing people don't know about me is I love adrenaline rushes. I love really scary movies, rollercoasters, haunted houses, and anything like that. For some reason it's so much fun. I hate heights and it's my biggest fear. This is why I love rollercoasters so much. It's like a safe way to face my fear. Although it's fun, I would never put myself in a bad situation though. I love haunted houses and scary movies when it's extremely suspensful then makes you jump. It's so crazy how scary some of those things can get.
For this free blog i would like to talk about the scariest moment of my life. July 6th 2008 my dad had a heart attack, at first i couldnt believe it because he was only 42 when he had it. I was in so shocked and scared i couldnt sleep for weeks. He is doing well today but when it happened it gave me a real reality check on how precious life is. Lately ive been thinking about the week of his heart attack and i came to the thought that i wouldnt know what i would do if i lost my dad. Especially when i was only 15 years old, what would i have done? Even though he is perfectly heathly today i still have nightmares about if i lost him. So now im being really health concious because i want to see my children reach their 16th birthday.
Over the summer, I went on a mission trip with my church to Kentucky for a project called ASP. A bunch of people all go down for a week and work on people's houses, making them warmer, safer, and drier. On my site, I was with 4 kids from my youth group and 2 adults. I thought I was close with the people when I went down there, but after the week was over, it was like they were family. Working together to get something done really brought us all closer and we knew that we had each others backs through the whole thing. I got over a lot of fears while I was on the trip, things that at the beginning of the week, I wouldn't even think about trying. I learned a lot about myself and got a whole new appreciation for the things that I have and sometimes take for granted because the people down there have nothing. They were so grateful and I'm really looking forward to going again next year.
For my free blog I'm going to talk about my scoliosis. Scoliosis is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine. I found out that I had scoliosis last year in the winter time. My dance teacher first noticed that I stood crooked. So I went to the doctor to get it checked out and they noticed it right away. I had an x-ray taken and they found out that my spine has a 37 degree curvature. my spine is kind of in an "S" shape because after it curves it straightens back out. Sometimes it hurts me when I dance or stand up for too long but the doctors said there is nothing else they can do about it and that I shouldn't be worried. I'm not growing anymore so the curvature cannot get any worse. It's weird knowing that my body is a little "off". I coupe with it regardless.
So for my free blog today i am going to talk snowboarding. Alot of people dont know that i love to snowboard. Winter is coming soon and i cant wait. i just learned how to snowboard last year and i think it is absolutly amazing. I am so excited for winter to get here so i can go snowboarding with my bestfrind bee. We go to a ski resort for a weekend and snowboard all day long. It is alot of fun and i think everyone should try snowboarding or sking atleast once in their life.
3rd Today I am going to free blog about how fast time flies. It sounds really cheesy, but it's true. In two summers I will be off to college, but the time seems like I should still be a freshman. I was just looking through old yearbooks, and everyone looks so young. Because you see yourself everyday you can't tell that you look older, but looking at old photos I look so young. When I am sitting in class waiting for it to be over I think that the school year drags on, but honestly high school has gone by so fast. In less than two months the year will be half way over. Looking back, my view of high school was completely different from what it actually is. I can remember being so nervous for freshman year, and now Lakeland is another part of my everyday life. In yearbooks people wrote 'I cant believe that we are going into high school!!' but now here we are as juniors. I miss out on a lot of things because I am waiting for the next day to come, and I realize that I should focus on the present, because soon high school will be over, and I'll be wishing I was still here.
For my free blog im going to talk about soccer. Most of everyone doesn't know that I love to play soccer. I've been playing since I was 9. Its the most amazing sport in the world. I went to the girls soccer meeting the other day, and I was very upset because of how much it cost. I decided I wasn't going to have my dad pay that much for it. Plus he probably wouldn't want to anyway. But anyways its just ridicilous how much it is. It shouldn't be so much. But yeah I just wanted to talk about how much I like to play it, since no one really knows.
For my fre blog, I decided to talk about a book I am currently reading. The book is called The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The book is about a college boy named Howard Roark, who is an expelled architect unlike any other. I have not read very far into it but so far it is extremly good. I have had it recomended to me by many people and have a lot of hope for it. The book has really deep pasages in it that are just fantastic. It about philosiphy of life in general and what matters in life. I have high hopes and can't wait to finish the book.
For my free blog I am going to talk about the Detroit Red Wings. The Detroit Red Wing are one of Michigan's most cherished sports teams. The Red Wings have won eleven Stanley Cups dating back to 1936. The Red Wings are also one of the original six. The original six are the first six hockey teams in the National Hockey League. The Red Wings have recently started their new season and their record is 7-4-3 and they are currently fifteenth in the league. I know that dosent sound very good but the season has just started and that could change quickly. Last year the wing had lost in the last round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and it was a big upset. With the new season starting im sure it will be entertaining and hopefully the Red Wings can redeem themselves by taking the cup this year.
For tonights free blog i will be talking about communications camp. Well my first impression of communications camp was that it was just going to be this little place where we just sat and talked. now part of it was that but it was so much more. In the 2 in a half days we were there, i reall y started to like the place. The dorms were fun and the activities we could do when we had free time were even more fun. I mean, ninja and catch phrase was the shit. I also shared stuff that i would of thought i would have never shared. It was such a fun time doing it and my only regret was not spending as much time outside with other people, instead of staying in the doorms and talking with my friends. I really wish that we could have stayed longer too. I was really starting to get to know peopl eand then we had to leave. I had the best time at communications camp and after we left and i got home i felt depressed and i wanted to go back. My edvice, is that everyone should do communications camp. It can help you if you are gping through a rough time and if your not then you can just plain ol express your self. The major key thing is not be afriad to laugh and express your self. If you dont you will not get much out of it and you will regret not sayoing anything when you were in your group. The group that i was in kinda became my family for that weekend. I really felt a stonge connection with theM. i made new connections and mad old ones stronger. Now when i am walking in the halls i can always have someone i can go up and talk to with out that akward get to know stage. I just really loved that idea of communications camp and i really hope that i get invited again next year. As you can see in this blog i could type so much more than this but i must go and play xbox haha. But communications camp was awesome and aas you can tell from being in class with me i love to talk, so it was easy for me to open up. For others it may nopt be but if you put something in to it you will definitly get something out. C. C. was the shit.
For this evening i will talk about my favorite holiday. Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love everything about this great holiday. I love the music, the lights, the movies, the cookies, the trees the presents and lastly but surly not least i love the general happiness seen by most everyone around you. Christmas is about these things, but recently are society has cared more about material items then the true meaning of christmas. I believe the true meaning of christmas is bringing family and friends together to spread happiness and enjoy one in others company. This is why me and my family host a christmas eve party every year to bring are family and friends together for good food entertainment and christmas spirit.
In this Free Blog, I would like to talk about the idea of trust. Trust, to me is one of the biggest faiths you can have in people. If you trust someone wiht your whole self, then there is no more. My whole life, I have had no problem trusting people. Telling them things that most people would be ashamed of and share with no one. So, off the bat it is easy to gain my trust. However, in my life I have been burned several times, for trusting someone too much. My dad. You see my dad is an Alcoholic, for those of you who dont know, but he tries to tell himself he is not. He would always tell me that he had quit drinking, and I trusted him. He would tell me that he could stop when he wanted to, and I would trust him. He would tell me that he really didnt have a problem, and I would trust him. Eventually, I stopped. Now, if I am at his house and I see alcohol I leave. If he drinks, I leave. If he was drinking, I leave. End of story. So, it is for this reason, that if you gain my trust, which is not hard, and then break it. You are going to have a hell of a time getting it back. Trust is a valuable thing, and if someone place it in you and you screw it up, then you should have to work to get it back. Dont take things like that for granted people.
For my free blog I am going to talk about Kozy Koffee. Kozy Koffee is this coffee shop by my house that just reopened. It shut down last year at the end of winter because it went out of business. Every Thursday my friends and I would all meet there for open mike night. I am really excited it just opened up again. We always had such a great time just going there and sitting around and listening to people play there music. I actually had never bought a coffee there until yesterday. That is probably a reason they went out of business. Everyone when there to hang out with their friends, not to listen to music. This place brings back many memories for me and I am happy they reopened.
for my free blod i am going to talk about life after highschool. I've recently just been thinking about college and its starting to freak me out a little. I've always wanted to go to college and always couldnt wait for it but as its approaching closer im a lot more nervous about it. just thinking that life as i know it will completely change. theres not going to be that class of 200 or so kids that know a bunch of stuff about you. and i'm not going to have my parents there. i've been thinking lately how dependent i am on my mom and what that'll do to me when i'm in college. she helps me with almost everything and i go to her for all of my problmes. its just kind of scary, i guess i'm just afraid of the unknown. I know things will end up fine but it just gives me that anxious feeling in my stomach.
For my free blog I am going to talk about last weekend or Halloween. Halloween was so much fun, I loved dressing up and seeing all of my friends. Actually Halloween is not technically a holiday but if it was that would be my favorite holiday. When i was really young I use to pretend I was a witch and that I could fly. so of course every Halloween I would dress up as a witch. I probably did this for a good four years before I switched up my outfit. Well this year I was a cowgirl instead of a witch and I still had fun on Halloween. I just like the idea of scary things and a day being based all around it. Anyways I had a lot of fun this year, and partied instead of trick or treating but it was still pretty fun :)
One thing most people don't know about me, is my love for photgraphy. It's always been something that has caught my eye. To me, photography catches the words that can't be said. I never leave my house without my camera, it's mostly attached to my hip! I always look at things like nature with a deeper meaning to them, its a photographer thing. I can be driving, and see something that would make a great picture, and I'll concentrate on the angles, and different ways to picture it, then actually pay attention to my driving. I want to travel the world just for photography. Photography is my way of letting go, and expressing myself in every way I am uncapable of. It says the things I can't say, it expresses the emotions I can't express, and it gives things a whole new meaning. Photography allows you to be in control of what the object being pictured will mean. Photography is my passion.
For my free blog, I'm going to write about the ACT that we have to take this year. Up until this year, I really didn't think about it much. However, now my mom is making me take an ACT prep class every Saturday, for two hours. When she told me about it, I was furious, I didn't want to take it. then she informed me that she signed me up to take the actual ACT in December. This made me ever more furious. Today was my second day of this class, and it's really making me realize that I am really not prepared to take this test. It's really scaring me. I really want to do well on it, because I have really great ambitions. On the bright side, when March comes and everyone else is stressing about taking it, I won't be as stressed because I already took it! [:
Also, I'm just going to add that I'm turning 16 in fourteen days! [: I'm really excited!
Today Im going to share how I got my middle name, Stephen. Well, I know that I was named after my uncle Steve. He died before I ever got to meet him in a tragic accident. He was really into riding his Harley and one day he was hit from behind by a large truck and killed instantly. I never knew my uncle Steve, my dad's brother. I cant imagine what it is like for my dad either. Knowing that his kids never got to meet his brother, and first and foremost that he lost his own brother at a pretty young age.
Well last night I decided to butcher up my deer. I have never done this by myself before and honestly it was hard work. First I needed to hang the deer. I rigged two hooks in the ceiling of Rob kellers garage. After 20 minutes of pulling the hide off we got down to the meat. I never really thought how much meat could be on a deer. It took over two hours to get the shoulders quartered and procesed. Next the back straps and tender loins. This part was the easiest plus we cooked a bit right in the garage (The best tasting meat ever). Another hour later and a break in bettween we started working on the legs. Each leg has at least 15lbs+ of usable meat. This part took almost three hours to clean and package all that meat. We got done last night at roughly 3:00AM. This was the biggest hunters challenge I have ever done and I would love to do it again.
I am going to do my free blog on respect for others. Respect is probably one thing that is most important to me. If you are friends with someone, you dont be disrespectful twords them. Like stealing from them. Telling them your going to "punch them in the face," calling them names. Thats all bullshit. You dont do that, you have to think before you act. Think if you were in someone elses position, the one thats getting things stolen from them, or the one thats being told that your gonna get punched in the face, Think how you would feel. I know that i hate being in that position. Thats why i try to treat people with respect. Another thing, if your allowed in someones house, and you dont clean up after your self. Thats sooooooo disrespectful. Like honestly i could go on and on about disrespect, cause thats pretty much what it all is about. If you have resprect for people, your going to be respected back, hopefully.
For my free blog I would like to write about how the yankees won the world series. O think that they should have won. They picked up so Manu superstars for this year. They are allowed to because they have the largest salary cap. This salary cap isn't te same for all teams it'd due to team revenue. They had the best team and the nest Pitching staff theyshoudve won. Personally I'm a phillies fan, but ithonk that winning in the first year of that stadium was good. It helped their city since they haven't won anything in a while after some rough seasons. This definately has kept the Yankees as the premeor baseball program.
Lots of people know that I was on the Pom team. Not many know that I used to dance, and most don’t know that I took Irish dancing. It was fun to take a different style of dance that not many do. It also wasn’t the easiest thing to do either. The dance teachers were sometimes really strict and wanted us to look better than any of the other classes. What’s sad is with all the practice I don’t remember any of it. I remember taking classes and going to dance recitals, but I don’t remember how to do it. I think I was pretty good. I always loved to perform, so when it came to a recital, I always made sure I did my best. I think that is why I love Poms so much. I love performing. I quit the pom team last season. I had my reasons, and I thought I would never go back. Somehow, that’s not what happened. Ever since I quit I cant stand watching the girls perform and not want to be out there with them. I want to perform and feel the thrill dancing in front of a bunch of people. I love dancing, and lets face it, I love Poms.
For my free blog i wanna talk about my night last night. It was pretty crazy. We started at allysons house. Then we went to adams house and sat at a bonfire for a while. They we went to some kids house for like ten minutes i was kinda pointless. they we went to some jordan girls house were conner and adam were at we got kicked out. Then WE had to leave and i had to drive with conner and i was scared, i thought i was gonna die. He realy isnt that good of a driver. they we all went back to allysons house and hung out side for a while, and they all these guys started showing up and they took conners keys to his car and messed with it. locked the keys in the car and i had to take conner home and then he got in trouble. and we went back to allysons house and fell asleep. and they todayy me hailey and jess rearanged our rooms and now were trying to find soemthing to do.(:
Today for my free blog i want to talk about my day today. Me hannah hailey laura and allyson spent the night at alyysons. So i plesently woke up this morning to allyson calling me and hailey bitches. No one was even in the room with her she just decided to talk to herself about us. Little did she know we were awake. what a retard. laura left and we went to leos looking completly outragiously descusting. after we left leos we went back to allyson and had a sudden urge to rearrange someons room, so we went to the twins house and reearranged their rooms. now we are getting ready and making plans withh conner or adam idkkk. cooll huhhh?
Since I have been having a pretty stressful week, I'm going to talk about how important my friends are to me. I cannot even explain what my friends have done to just help me through all the problems that come with life. This week I have been really stressed out. I had three hour pom practices, homework, tests to make up, and a big guy problem. I called a couple of my friends crying because of my stress level a couple days and they really helped. I rarely ever cry, so they knew I was really upset. I'm a pretty strong person, but these past couple weeks took a lot out of me. Getting H1N1 and all the other stresses of everyday life was a little too much the past week. My friends were there just to listen to my problems and tell me it was going to be ok. One of my friends even made a card for me and gave me a donut to tell me that she was there for me and cared. Another one gave me a brownie and the list just continues of the nice things people have been doing to try to help me. I realized that without friends to support you, life would be extremely difficult. Friends are what keep me going and help me deal with the stress of when problems build up.
My free blog is about the pressures of going into the military. I want to go into training in college, in the ROTC for the marines, and ive been trying to get fit to make it easier to overcome obsticles and push myself harder in every task im asked to accomplish. Im hoping to take the test for the military in march, but the problem with me is that i have asthma, and people with asthma arent allowed to sign up for the military. Freshman year when he marines visited the school i asked if people with asthma were allowed to join the military, and they said no, but a friend of mine said that when i walked away, one of the soldiers that were there said he had asthma. It turns out that there are more people in the military that have asthma than we, and they think. I've been asking recruiters if theres a test that i could take to see if i could sign up or not, with asthma. I'm hoping that ill out grow my asthma by the time i can sign up, but the pressure and mental toughness of being away from home for months at a time will prove to be very difficult for me.
For my free blog I am going to write about Communications Camp. I can not even tell you how excited I was when Mr. Pouliot gave me my invitation. The overall experience I thought was pretty fun and very eventful. However, I did feel like I did not get to share as much about myself and my life as I hoped to. I felt like in my group, as weird as this may sound, I needed to be more of a listener/responder than someone who just let it all out. I guess you could say, I tried my hardest to take almost a leadership role in regards to being there for everyone in my group. I tried my absolute hardest to encourage everyone to open up and come to me if they ever needed a fresh face to talk to in the future. To be completely honest though, I wouldn't take back a single thing about camp. I feel as though I am blessed to have been put in a position where I could build trust and be there for other people who needed me. Not only did it give me a purpose but it also helped me learn about myself. I know it has only been a week, but I still talk to everyone who was in my group. Some of my favorite parts about camp were by far meeting new people and the trust walk/ Mr. Kay getting us lost miles into the wilderness. I met a ton of new friends like Jordan and Amanda (part of my meal group, The Misfits) and I got really close to some friends I had already known. Prior to getting stranded from civilization for a few hours, I found the trust walk to be very interesting and fun even though my partner let me fall of a bridge. Getting lost wasn't bad at all, personallly I think it was hilarious and helped our group bond and experience something that no other group was able to experience. Overall, I think that Communications Camp was an amazing learning experience and I am so glad that I was fortunate enough to go, I just hope that possibly there is a chance i could go again next year. :) cough mr kay cough.
For my free blog I want to talk about something that people might not have known about me. Ever since I have been in 6th grade I have played paintball. I prefer to avoid the big team setup, and play speedball or woodsball with friends. I got a scar from playing paintball and getting shot at point blanke range. The church I used to go too used to play paintball every few days, and sometimes they would have a special where they would play from 11 pm to 2 am. My first paintball gun was a tippman 98 custom. I have modified it with a longer barrel, scope and new stock. I think this is a fun extreme sport to play.
I don’t like how early the radio has started playing Christmas music. I love Christmas for several reasons. I love it mainly for the good times that I had when I was enjoying the holiday with my relatives and my friends. Another is the snow that let’s us ski, sled, and have snow ball fights. Finally the gifts that I receive during Christmas time. Even though I love the season I don’t like rushing the season. Playing the music so early makes me feel like I am being rushed. We still need to take in the dock and put up the lights before it gets to cold. It puts a lot of stress on me because I have not purchased a single gift for anyone. Plus the fact that there are no new songs only remakes. So this drives me insane! Christmas music should only be played after Thanksgiving.
For my free blog im going to talk about how fast high school is going. I agree completely with Cherie in the fact that it feels like just yesterday I was on the bus going to the first day of school freshman year. Its a scary thought that in less than two years I am going to be on my own at college. Another thing I am worried about is getting into college. I'm afraid I wont be able to get into a college I want to and that's why I want to do so well on the ACT. A lot of people don't realize how fast our future is coming. But that is why I am enjoying high school as much as possible because I have realized how fast it goes by and I know one day I will want to be back in high school.
For my free blog i decided to blog about fears. Some people know this about me, but some dont. One of my biggest fears is clostraphobia. For me its feeling like im stuck in a place that i cant get out of or may not be able to get out of where i cant breathe. A story thats an example of this would be a car ride home from buffalo wild wings this summer. We were riding in my friends comaro which is a two door vehicle. I was sitting in the back seat, which was also a bucket seat not to mention my friends a wild driver. So, all of a sudden i got this overwhelming feeling that if we crashed there was no way i was making it out of the car. of course we werent in any real danger i just realized how small the space i was in was and it made me feel really uncomfortable. Anyways, i started freaking out and my freind had to pull over and let me out of the car. It was kind of embarrassing but i was glad we pulled over. So anyways, one of my biggest fears is clostrophobia.
For my free blog I fell like writing about how some people have no morals. I think this because when I went out bow hunting Saturday morning I discover that somebody stole a part of my treestand. They stole the climbing steps. Climbing steps are used to climb to to top of the tree where you sit. There are four steps that connect together which makes a total lenghth of 20 feet in height. This led me to believe that some people are jackasses and don't care about other people's property and think it would be fun to destroy or steal from other people. I can't believe that people think that it is a good idea to do this. Not only did the person steal from me but they also are illiterate, since they can't read a sign that tells them that they are tresspassing.
For this evening i will talk about hockey, Right now hockey is going pretty good. It is a lot diffrent from last year though since there are new coaches. Tooday we had our first scrimmages and we only lost once. I think that we should be as succesful as last years team. The only drawback of hockey is all the hard work that goes with it. It is all worth it though in the end. It all pays off when playoffs come around. I hope we make it farther though this year. We just need to be a bettter all around team. blanz
For my free blog I'm going to talk about some of my goals for the next few years. After graduating high school I plan on enlisting in the Naval Academy. I plan to study languages and human behavior. I've been interested in languages for a few years now and I want to learn more than parts of German. Such as, at least two dialects of Arabic and Spanish. Once graduating from the Naval Academy I plan to get more in depth with the languages and live in each country for 6 months. Then after that get a job with the F.B.I or some other organization.
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I chose to free blog about a biking trip to the C&O Canal. My dad, uncle, and cousins had biked the C&O Canal when my dad was in the 8th grade. My uncle decided that out of tradition my cousins and I should bike the C&O Canal. So my 2 cousins that are the same age as I, my dad, and 2 uncles decided that this would be a trip that we could share with our children one day. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal is located along the banks of the Potomac River and is 184.5 miles long. We started in Washington DC and ended in Cumberland MD. The trip was done over 3 days, biking approx. 62 miles per day. We encountered lot's of flat tires and sore butts. I will never forget this trip and hope to do the same with my children one day.
For my free blog I want to talk about my trip to Philmont New Mexico. Philmont is a twelve dat hiking trip through the mountains of New Mexico. It is ran by the Boy scouts of america, and state funding; boys scouts all across the world come to go hiking because its a trip you will never forget. The scenery there is amazing, the mountains are beautiful, and when you go with your friends you get to know them more than you should. The friends I went with are closer than ever, besides on kid who was a total D-bag, and we still hangout out side of boy Scouts. At phimont you go from camp site to camp site, carrying 40 pounds of gear on your back, some camp sites are staffed, and some are not. At one point in my trip i drank unpurified water and had unpleasent trips to the bathroom if you know what I mean. But besides the aches and pains, Philmont is one of those life time experiences that you have to take advantage of and enjoy.
For my free blog today i will talk about snowboarding. Most people might not know this about me, but i love to snowboard. As everyone knows, winter is soon approaching, so that means snowboarding season is coming back! i absolutly cant wait. I have been snowboarding since i was about 9 or 10. I didnt really get to go all that much last year, so hopfully i get to this year. Its really fun, so everyone should try it.
hey for my free blog i was gonna bitch about how i couldnt give blood today cause u have to be 17 and ill be 17 in 4 days. im actully pretty exited because 17 sounds so much older than 16 and tommarro im going to dinner with my family its gonna be fun. last year we went to joes crab shack and my uncle told them it was my bday without me knowing and they tried to make me run around the restraunt on a horse sayin i have crabs. so i definatly didnt do tha. hopfully this year were not going there haha.
Many of you may know, however I'm sure most of you don't, that I love to snowboard. The reason I am talking about this is because snowboarding season is slowly approaching. I have been snowboarding fo a long tim (too long to remember), and though it's kind of dumb I passed the expert class at Alpine when I was 9. Now, however, I love to do rails and jumps. Sometimes I will just bomb the hill to get as much speed as poosible and go off of the big air jumps. That is probably my favorite thing to do. I can do many grabs and minor spins. I also love going over boxs and rails, specifically A-Frames. I can nose and tail press, although not that great, and it's so much fun. I also like just hanging out with friends like Zack Ruffin. I recently got a new board, boots, and bindinigs last weekend. I love my new board and I can't wait to try it out. It is what's called a rocker board which means that it has a negative camber which makes for easier rails and jibbing (if your lost seach google). It is a park board. I also got a brand new coat this year. Overall, snowboarding is one of my favorite things to do and I can't wait for winter to come.
Something that alot of people don't know about me is that I used to scrapbook. My aunt has a studio in her house that has a bunch of scrapbooking things in it. When I would visit I would scrapbook. Since she lives ona farm, it could get kind of boring so thats what I would do. I have 2 finished ones. I may not seem to be the person who has patience, I do. I'm also very creative so I'm good at it. I havent done it in a couple of years, but it would be nice to start up again.
What people dont know about me is that i may seem like i trust ever one but then agian i trust no one. I learned along time ago that girls just love to talk but never relly know the truth because they never realy knew me. Going to school and having friends is one thing but out of school im a differnt person. You go to school to learn and progess in life but the people there just keeping you company. Then you graduate and never talk to those people who you thought you ment the most too. You go on with life being who you relly are. And if those people are still there to turn too in your hardest times you honestly know you can trust them. I learned along time ago that you can only trust youself.
For my free blog I would like to talk about my favorite holiday, which is Christmas. Lately I have been thinking more about Christmas. I keep seeing commericals about the holiday season. I know its early, but I can't wait for Christmas time. Every year I have my relatives over for Christmas Eve. We eat a big dinner, watch Christmas movies, and open some presents. My family has a tradition where we watch A Christmas Story and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation every year around the holidays. Also, as soon as the 100.3 radio station starts playing all Christmas music, that all I listen to. My favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bells by David Foster. In conclusion, I love Christmas and the things that come with the holiday season.
Becca Need
3rd Hour
For tonights blog im going to talk about my Achillies. Since i forgot to do the blog about it last week. Well i guess one of my weaknesses is careing about people to much, i know it doesnt sound like a weakness but when you care about people to much to do to anything about if they may hurt you, then you live a life of people walking all over you. I tend to do everything that the people close to me tell me to do. for example my dad is constintly always telling me bad things about my sister, and i dont have the gust to tell him to stop, because i dont want him to get mad at me. there are many other things that i do just to make people happy even if they dont diserve it. I guess i just like seeing people happy, but i dont really see that as a weakness. I just want to be able to set a limit.
When I come home from school everyday I do only one thing: sing. I love singing, and I hope to become a singer later on in life. I've never been in a choir except for in elementary school. At that time I didn't even know what I was going to do that day let alone what I wanted to be when I grew up. Over the years I've worked on my singing by myself, everyday. I get excited when I learn a new song or if I write my won song. It feels like Christmas day to me! Sometimes I just have such a good day that all I want to do is sing. The only problem with wanting to be a singer for me is that I have stage fright. I'll need to get over it soon if I want to be a singer. :)
James Richardson
One thing people don't know about me is I love adrenaline rushes. I love really scary movies, rollercoasters, haunted houses, and anything like that. For some reason it's so much fun. I hate heights and it's my biggest fear. This is why I love rollercoasters so much. It's like a safe way to face my fear. Although it's fun, I would never put myself in a bad situation though. I love haunted houses and scary movies when it's extremely suspensful then makes you jump. It's so crazy how scary some of those things can get.
For this free blog i would like to talk about the scariest moment of my life. July 6th 2008 my dad had a heart attack, at first i couldnt believe it because he was only 42 when he had it. I was in so shocked and scared i couldnt sleep for weeks. He is doing well today but when it happened it gave me a real reality check on how precious life is. Lately ive been thinking about the week of his heart attack and i came to the thought that i wouldnt know what i would do if i lost my dad. Especially when i was only 15 years old, what would i have done? Even though he is perfectly heathly today i still have nightmares about if i lost him. So now im being really health concious because i want to see my children reach their 16th birthday.
Will Michaels 2nd hour
Over the summer, I went on a mission trip with my church to Kentucky for a project called ASP. A bunch of people all go down for a week and work on people's houses, making them warmer, safer, and drier. On my site, I was with 4 kids from my youth group and 2 adults. I thought I was close with the people when I went down there, but after the week was over, it was like they were family. Working together to get something done really brought us all closer and we knew that we had each others backs through the whole thing. I got over a lot of fears while I was on the trip, things that at the beginning of the week, I wouldn't even think about trying. I learned a lot about myself and got a whole new appreciation for the things that I have and sometimes take for granted because the people down there have nothing. They were so grateful and I'm really looking forward to going again next year.
For my free blog I'm going to talk about my scoliosis. Scoliosis is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine. I found out that I had scoliosis last year in the winter time. My dance teacher first noticed that I stood crooked. So I went to the doctor to get it checked out and they noticed it right away. I had an x-ray taken and they found out that my spine has a 37 degree curvature. my spine is kind of in an "S" shape because after it curves it straightens back out. Sometimes it hurts me when I dance or stand up for too long but the doctors said there is nothing else they can do about it and that I shouldn't be worried. I'm not growing anymore so the curvature cannot get any worse. It's weird knowing that my body is a little "off". I coupe with it regardless.
Audrey
So for my free blog today i am going to talk snowboarding. Alot of people dont know that i love to snowboard. Winter is coming soon and i cant wait. i just learned how to snowboard last year and i think it is absolutly amazing. I am so excited for winter to get here so i can go snowboarding with my bestfrind bee. We go to a ski resort for a weekend and snowboard all day long. It is alot of fun and i think everyone should try snowboarding or sking atleast once in their life.
Katlyn Twigg 2nd HOUr
3rd
Today I am going to free blog about how fast time flies. It sounds really cheesy, but it's true. In two summers I will be off to college, but the time seems like I should still be a freshman. I was just looking through old yearbooks, and everyone looks so young. Because you see yourself everyday you can't tell that you look older, but looking at old photos I look so young. When I am sitting in class waiting for it to be over I think that the school year drags on, but honestly high school has gone by so fast. In less than two months the year will be half way over. Looking back, my view of high school was completely different from what it actually is. I can remember being so nervous for freshman year, and now Lakeland is another part of my everyday life. In yearbooks people wrote 'I cant believe that we are going into high school!!' but now here we are as juniors. I miss out on a lot of things because I am waiting for the next day to come, and I realize that I should focus on the present, because soon high school will be over, and I'll be wishing I was still here.
For my free blog im going to talk about soccer. Most of everyone doesn't know that I love to play soccer. I've been playing since I was 9. Its the most amazing sport in the world. I went to the girls soccer meeting the other day, and I was very upset because of how much it cost. I decided I wasn't going to have my dad pay that much for it. Plus he probably wouldn't want to anyway. But anyways its just ridicilous how much it is. It shouldn't be so much. But yeah I just wanted to talk about how much I like to play it, since no one really knows.
Katlin Gotshaw
3rd Hour
For my fre blog, I decided to talk about a book I am currently reading. The book is called The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The book is about a college boy named Howard Roark, who is an expelled architect unlike any other. I have not read very far into it but so far it is extremly good. I have had it recomended to me by many people and have a lot of hope for it. The book has really deep pasages in it that are just fantastic. It about philosiphy of life in general and what matters in life. I have high hopes and can't wait to finish the book.
Megan Kastelen
2nd hour
For my free blog I am going to talk about the Detroit Red Wings. The Detroit Red Wing are one of Michigan's most cherished sports teams. The Red Wings have won eleven Stanley Cups dating back to 1936. The Red Wings are also one of the original six. The original six are the first six hockey teams in the National Hockey League. The Red Wings have recently started their new season and their record is 7-4-3 and they are currently fifteenth in the league. I know that dosent sound very good but the season has just started and that could change quickly. Last year the wing had lost in the last round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and it was a big upset. With the new season starting im sure it will be entertaining and hopefully the Red Wings can redeem themselves by taking the cup this year.
For tonights free blog i will be talking about communications camp. Well my first impression of communications camp was that it was just going to be this little place where we just sat and talked. now part of it was that but it was so much more. In the 2 in a half days we were there, i reall y started to like the place. The dorms were fun and the activities we could do when we had free time were even more fun. I mean, ninja and catch phrase was the shit. I also shared stuff that i would of thought i would have never shared. It was such a fun time doing it and my only regret was not spending as much time outside with other people, instead of staying in the doorms and talking with my friends. I really wish that we could have stayed longer too. I was really starting to get to know peopl eand then we had to leave. I had the best time at communications camp and after we left and i got home i felt depressed and i wanted to go back. My edvice, is that everyone should do communications camp. It can help you if you are gping through a rough time and if your not then you can just plain ol express your self. The major key thing is not be afriad to laugh and express your self. If you dont you will not get much out of it and you will regret not sayoing anything when you were in your group. The group that i was in kinda became my family for that weekend. I really felt a stonge connection with theM. i made new connections and mad old ones stronger. Now when i am walking in the halls i can always have someone i can go up and talk to with out that akward get to know stage. I just really loved that idea of communications camp and i really hope that i get invited again next year. As you can see in this blog i could type so much more than this but i must go and play xbox haha. But communications camp was awesome and aas you can tell from being in class with me i love to talk, so it was easy for me to open up. For others it may nopt be but if you put something in to it you will definitly get something out. C. C. was the shit.
Zack Ruffin
For this evening i will talk about my favorite holiday. Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love everything about this great holiday. I love the music, the lights, the movies, the cookies, the trees the presents and lastly but surly not least i love the general happiness seen by most everyone around you. Christmas is about these things, but recently are society has cared more about material items then the true meaning of christmas. I believe the true meaning of christmas is bringing family and friends together to spread happiness and enjoy one in others company. This is why me and my family host a christmas eve party every year to bring are family and friends together for good food entertainment and christmas spirit.
Taylor Wattles
2nd
In this Free Blog, I would like to talk about the idea of trust. Trust, to me is one of the biggest faiths you can have in people. If you trust someone wiht your whole self, then there is no more. My whole life, I have had no problem trusting people. Telling them things that most people would be ashamed of and share with no one. So, off the bat it is easy to gain my trust. However, in my life I have been burned several times, for trusting someone too much. My dad. You see my dad is an Alcoholic, for those of you who dont know, but he tries to tell himself he is not. He would always tell me that he had quit drinking, and I trusted him. He would tell me that he could stop when he wanted to, and I would trust him. He would tell me that he really didnt have a problem, and I would trust him. Eventually, I stopped. Now, if I am at his house and I see alcohol I leave. If he drinks, I leave. If he was drinking, I leave. End of story. So, it is for this reason, that if you gain my trust, which is not hard, and then break it. You are going to have a hell of a time getting it back. Trust is a valuable thing, and if someone place it in you and you screw it up, then you should have to work to get it back. Dont take things like that for granted people.
For my free blog I am going to talk about Kozy Koffee. Kozy Koffee is this coffee shop by my house that just reopened. It shut down last year at the end of winter because it went out of business. Every Thursday my friends and I would all meet there for open mike night. I am really excited it just opened up again. We always had such a great time just going there and sitting around and listening to people play there music. I actually had never bought a coffee there until yesterday. That is probably a reason they went out of business. Everyone when there to hang out with their friends, not to listen to music. This place brings back many memories for me and I am happy they reopened.
for my free blod i am going to talk about life after highschool. I've recently just been thinking about college and its starting to freak me out a little. I've always wanted to go to college and always couldnt wait for it but as its approaching closer im a lot more nervous about it. just thinking that life as i know it will completely change. theres not going to be that class of 200 or so kids that know a bunch of stuff about you. and i'm not going to have my parents there. i've been thinking lately how dependent i am on my mom and what that'll do to me when i'm in college. she helps me with almost everything and i go to her for all of my problmes. its just kind of scary, i guess i'm just afraid of the unknown. I know things will end up fine but it just gives me that anxious feeling in my stomach.
For my free blog I am going to talk about last weekend or Halloween. Halloween was so much fun, I loved dressing up and seeing all of my friends. Actually Halloween is not technically a holiday but if it was that would be my favorite holiday. When i was really young I use to pretend I was a witch and that I could fly. so of course every Halloween I would dress up as a witch. I probably did this for a good four years before I switched up my outfit. Well this year I was a cowgirl instead of a witch and I still had fun on Halloween. I just like the idea of scary things and a day being based all around it. Anyways I had a lot of fun this year, and partied instead of trick or treating but it was still pretty fun :)
Taylor Dieck
2nd hr.
One thing most people don't know about me, is my love for photgraphy. It's always been something that has caught my eye. To me, photography catches the words that can't be said. I never leave my house without my camera, it's mostly attached to my hip! I always look at things like nature with a deeper meaning to them, its a photographer thing. I can be driving, and see something that would make a great picture, and I'll concentrate on the angles, and different ways to picture it, then actually pay attention to my driving. I want to travel the world just for photography. Photography is my way of letting go, and expressing myself in every way I am uncapable of. It says the things I can't say, it expresses the emotions I can't express, and it gives things a whole new meaning. Photography allows you to be in control of what the object being pictured will mean. Photography is my passion.
Sam Tedder
For my free blog, I'm going to write about the ACT that we have to take this year. Up until this year, I really didn't think about it much. However, now my mom is making me take an ACT prep class every Saturday, for two hours. When she told me about it, I was furious, I didn't want to take it. then she informed me that she signed me up to take the actual ACT in December. This made me ever more furious. Today was my second day of this class, and it's really making me realize that I am really not prepared to take this test. It's really scaring me. I really want to do well on it, because I have really great ambitions. On the bright side, when March comes and everyone else is stressing about taking it, I won't be as stressed because I already took it! [:
Also, I'm just going to add that I'm turning 16 in fourteen days! [: I'm really excited!
Alanna Nagi
2nd hour
Today Im going to share how I got my middle name, Stephen. Well, I know that I was named after my uncle Steve. He died before I ever got to meet him in a tragic accident. He was really into riding his Harley and one day he was hit from behind by a large truck and killed instantly. I never knew my uncle Steve, my dad's brother. I cant imagine what it is like for my dad either. Knowing that his kids never got to meet his brother, and first and foremost that he lost his own brother at a pretty young age.
Well last night I decided to butcher up my deer. I have never done this by myself before and honestly it was hard work. First I needed to hang the deer. I rigged two hooks in the ceiling of Rob kellers garage. After 20 minutes of pulling the hide off we got down to the meat. I never really thought how much meat could be on a deer. It took over two hours to get the shoulders quartered and procesed. Next the back straps and tender loins. This part was the easiest plus we cooked a bit right in the garage (The best tasting meat ever). Another hour later and a break in bettween we started working on the legs. Each leg has at least 15lbs+ of usable meat. This part took almost three hours to clean and package all that meat. We got done last night at roughly 3:00AM. This was the biggest hunters challenge I have ever done and I would love to do it again.
I am going to do my free blog on respect for others. Respect is probably one thing that is most important to me. If you are friends with someone, you dont be disrespectful twords them. Like stealing from them. Telling them your going to "punch them in the face," calling them names. Thats all bullshit. You dont do that, you have to think before you act. Think if you were in someone elses position, the one thats getting things stolen from them, or the one thats being told that your gonna get punched in the face, Think how you would feel. I know that i hate being in that position. Thats why i try to treat people with respect. Another thing, if your allowed in someones house, and you dont clean up after your self. Thats sooooooo disrespectful. Like honestly i could go on and on about disrespect, cause thats pretty much what it all is about. If you have resprect for people, your going to be respected back, hopefully.
For my free blog I would like to write about how the yankees won the world series. O think that they should have won. They picked up so Manu superstars for this year. They are allowed to because they have the largest salary cap. This salary cap isn't te same for all teams it'd due to team revenue. They had the best team and the nest Pitching staff theyshoudve won. Personally I'm a phillies fan, but ithonk that winning in the first year of that stadium was good. It helped their city since they haven't won anything in a while after some rough seasons. This definately has kept the Yankees as the premeor baseball program.
Lots of people know that I was on the Pom team. Not many know that I used to dance, and most don’t know that I took Irish dancing. It was fun to take a different style of dance that not many do. It also wasn’t the easiest thing to do either. The dance teachers were sometimes really strict and wanted us to look better than any of the other classes. What’s sad is with all the practice I don’t remember any of it. I remember taking classes and going to dance recitals, but I don’t remember how to do it. I think I was pretty good. I always loved to perform, so when it came to a recital, I always made sure I did my best. I think that is why I love Poms so much. I love performing. I quit the pom team last season. I had my reasons, and I thought I would never go back. Somehow, that’s not what happened. Ever since I quit I cant stand watching the girls perform and not want to be out there with them. I want to perform and feel the thrill dancing in front of a bunch of people. I love dancing, and lets face it, I love Poms.
Lauren Beattie
3rd Hour
For my free blog i wanna talk about my night last night. It was pretty crazy. We started at allysons house. Then we went to adams house and sat at a bonfire for a while. They we went to some kids house for like ten minutes i was kinda pointless. they we went to some jordan girls house were conner and adam were at we got kicked out. Then WE had to leave and i had to drive with conner and i was scared, i thought i was gonna die. He realy isnt that good of a driver. they we all went back to allysons house and hung out side for a while, and they all these guys started showing up and they took conners keys to his car and messed with it. locked the keys in the car and i had to take conner home and then he got in trouble. and we went back to allysons house and fell asleep. and they todayy me hailey and jess rearanged our rooms and now were trying to find soemthing to do.(:
Today for my free blog i want to talk about my day today. Me hannah hailey laura and allyson spent the night at alyysons. So i plesently woke up this morning to allyson calling me and hailey bitches. No one was even in the room with her she just decided to talk to herself about us. Little did she know we were awake. what a retard. laura left and we went to leos looking completly outragiously descusting. after we left leos we went back to allyson and had a sudden urge to rearrange someons room, so we went to the twins house and reearranged their rooms. now we are getting ready and making plans withh conner or adam idkkk. cooll huhhh?
Since I have been having a pretty stressful week, I'm going to talk about how important my friends are to me. I cannot even explain what my friends have done to just help me through all the problems that come with life. This week I have been really stressed out. I had three hour pom practices, homework, tests to make up, and a big guy problem. I called a couple of my friends crying because of my stress level a couple days and they really helped. I rarely ever cry, so they knew I was really upset. I'm a pretty strong person, but these past couple weeks took a lot out of me. Getting H1N1 and all the other stresses of everyday life was a little too much the past week. My friends were there just to listen to my problems and tell me it was going to be ok. One of my friends even made a card for me and gave me a donut to tell me that she was there for me and cared. Another one gave me a brownie and the list just continues of the nice things people have been doing to try to help me. I realized that without friends to support you, life would be extremely difficult. Friends are what keep me going and help me deal with the stress of when problems build up.
My free blog is about the pressures of going into the military. I want to go into training in college, in the ROTC for the marines, and ive been trying to get fit to make it easier to overcome obsticles and push myself harder in every task im asked to accomplish. Im hoping to take the test for the military in march, but the problem with me is that i have asthma, and people with asthma arent allowed to sign up for the military. Freshman year when he marines visited the school i asked if people with asthma were allowed to join the military, and they said no, but a friend of mine said that when i walked away, one of the soldiers that were there said he had asthma. It turns out that there are more people in the military that have asthma than we, and they think. I've been asking recruiters if theres a test that i could take to see if i could sign up or not, with asthma. I'm hoping that ill out grow my asthma by the time i can sign up, but the pressure and mental toughness of being away from home for months at a time will prove to be very difficult for me.
For my free blog I am going to write about Communications Camp. I can not even tell you how excited I was when Mr. Pouliot gave me my invitation. The overall experience I thought was pretty fun and very eventful. However, I did feel like I did not get to share as much about myself and my life as I hoped to. I felt like in my group, as weird as this may sound, I needed to be more of a listener/responder than someone who just let it all out. I guess you could say, I tried my hardest to take almost a leadership role in regards to being there for everyone in my group. I tried my absolute hardest to encourage everyone to open up and come to me if they ever needed a fresh face to talk to in the future. To be completely honest though, I wouldn't take back a single thing about camp. I feel as though I am blessed to have been put in a position where I could build trust and be there for other people who needed me. Not only did it give me a purpose but it also helped me learn about myself. I know it has only been a week, but I still talk to everyone who was in my group. Some of my favorite parts about camp were by far meeting new people and the trust walk/ Mr. Kay getting us lost miles into the wilderness. I met a ton of new friends like Jordan and Amanda (part of my meal group, The Misfits) and I got really close to some friends I had already known. Prior to getting stranded from civilization for a few hours, I found the trust walk to be very interesting and fun even though my partner let me fall of a bridge. Getting lost wasn't bad at all, personallly I think it was hilarious and helped our group bond and experience something that no other group was able to experience. Overall, I think that Communications Camp was an amazing learning experience and I am so glad that I was fortunate enough to go, I just hope that possibly there is a chance i could go again next year. :) cough mr kay cough.
For my free blog I want to talk about something that people might not have known about me. Ever since I have been in 6th grade I have played paintball. I prefer to avoid the big team setup, and play speedball or woodsball with friends. I got a scar from playing paintball and getting shot at point blanke range. The church I used to go too used to play paintball every few days, and sometimes they would have a special where they would play from 11 pm to 2 am. My first paintball gun was a tippman 98 custom. I have modified it with a longer barrel, scope and new stock. I think this is a fun extreme sport to play.
John Kent
11-7-09
I don’t like how early the radio has started playing Christmas music. I love Christmas for several reasons. I love it mainly for the good times that I had when I was enjoying the holiday with my relatives and my friends. Another is the snow that let’s us ski, sled, and have snow ball fights. Finally the gifts that I receive during Christmas time. Even though I love the season I don’t like rushing the season. Playing the music so early makes me feel like I am being rushed. We still need to take in the dock and put up the lights before it gets to cold. It puts a lot of stress on me because I have not purchased a single gift for anyone. Plus the fact that there are no new songs only remakes. So this drives me insane! Christmas music should only be played after Thanksgiving.
For my free blog im going to talk about how fast high school is going. I agree completely with Cherie in the fact that it feels like just yesterday I was on the bus going to the first day of school freshman year. Its a scary thought that in less than two years I am going to be on my own at college. Another thing I am worried about is getting into college. I'm afraid I wont be able to get into a college I want to and that's why I want to do so well on the ACT. A lot of people don't realize how fast our future is coming. But that is why I am enjoying high school as much as possible because I have realized how fast it goes by and I know one day I will want to be back in high school.
Hannah Aittama
2nd Hour
For my free blog i decided to blog about fears. Some people know this about me, but some dont. One of my biggest fears is clostraphobia. For me its feeling like im stuck in a place that i cant get out of or may not be able to get out of where i cant breathe. A story thats an example of this would be a car ride home from buffalo wild wings this summer. We were riding in my friends comaro which is a two door vehicle. I was sitting in the back seat, which was also a bucket seat not to mention my friends a wild driver. So, all of a sudden i got this overwhelming feeling that if we crashed there was no way i was making it out of the car. of course we werent in any real danger i just realized how small the space i was in was and it made me feel really uncomfortable. Anyways, i started freaking out and my freind had to pull over and let me out of the car. It was kind of embarrassing but i was glad we pulled over. So anyways, one of my biggest fears is clostrophobia.
For my free blog I fell like writing about how some people have no morals. I think this because when I went out bow hunting Saturday morning I discover that somebody stole a part of my treestand. They stole the climbing steps. Climbing steps are used to climb to to top of the tree where you sit. There are four steps that connect together which makes a total lenghth of 20 feet in height. This led me to believe that some people are jackasses and don't care about other people's property and think it would be fun to destroy or steal from other people. I can't believe that people think that it is a good idea to do this. Not only did the person steal from me but they also are illiterate, since they can't read a sign that tells them that they are tresspassing.
For this evening i will talk about hockey, Right now hockey is going pretty good. It is a lot diffrent from last year though since there are new coaches. Tooday we had our first scrimmages and we only lost once. I think that we should be as succesful as last years team. The only drawback of hockey is all the hard work that goes with it. It is all worth it though in the end. It all pays off when playoffs come around. I hope we make it farther though this year. We just need to be a bettter all around team.
blanz
For my free blog I'm going to talk about some of my goals for the next few years. After graduating high school I plan on enlisting in the Naval Academy. I plan to study languages and human behavior. I've been interested in languages for a few years now and I want to learn more than parts of German. Such as, at least two dialects of Arabic and Spanish. Once graduating from the Naval Academy I plan to get more in depth with the languages and live in each country for 6 months. Then after that get a job with the F.B.I or some other organization.
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