For the last blog of the semester, let us free blog. Again, no stupid stories about your weekend but make it something that shows that you have some worldly insight.
For my free blog i usually choose to talk about sports or family but being a new semester i have decided to talk about school. Every year i have found my self slacking at a much lower ability than i acctualy capable of. Every time a blog has came up in which we are to talk about our plans for the next term i have found myself making my own self promises, yet the sad thing is, i never have really lived up to those promises. Starting this new semester i truly feel it is really my time to step it up. Im not going to set down goals for my self but feel i shall go out and accomplish what im capable of. One of my biggest concerns and priorities in which i plan on doing is making my mom and dad both proud of me. In life theres nothing better than to see parents proud of there child for things. Personally im ashamed of myself when it comes to this cause i really cant say i see this alot. Going forth, i plan on reaching heights i know i am capable and able to reach. This plan is not set just for school but to also give a hard work ethic at other things such as sports.
For my free blog I'm going to talk about my sister coming home for the weekend. One thing I noticed is that the house is so much quieter when she's gone. It's sorta more relaxing too. However, it's way more fun when she is here. We are still really close and tell each other everything. We didn't used to be like that. That probually started when she was a junior. I was so sad when she left for college but I have so much stuff going on that I'm almost too busy to be depressed she's not here. She goes to college at State so she's still pretty close still. It's not like I only see her once a year. It feels like she's just away on a trip and then comes home every once in awhile. I'm glad she is home for the weekend. It's really nice seeing her again. Kristen Pauly 2nd hr.
Well first off i would like to ask you Mr. Kay to check your e-mail. I finished my rough draft and i have sent it to you. Please disregard the timing of it, i couldnt think of anything to write about and when i started writing i got stuck not being able to write enough.
For tonights free blog i want to talk about something that i need to get better at. Procrastination. That is a big issue for me that i have to work out. There are some days where i cannot focus enough to get something done. But since it is a new semester i am hoping to break that habbit in the following ways. Use class time better, ask for help when needed, and finally to get things done before the night it is due. Im tired of feeling rushed all the time when it comes to projects homework, etc. Things need to change fast or else i will not succeed.
I chose to do my blog on our writing assignment (narrative essay). It seem a little overwhelming at first; but once I decided what I was going to do it on it got a little easier. I decided to write about who I considered my hero. My grandpa was in the United State Army and after interviewing him for my essay, I was even more amazed. In his 80's he could still remember that he registered for the draft on board #4. He remebered details of all of his combats and we could have talked on the phone for hours longer. My grandpa went to the Philipines, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. I think it is important to be patriotic, and my grandpa definitely is. If we want our country to be safe we must all be giving and help out where ever we can. I hope when I am in my 80's I have great things to tell my grandchildren.
So unless you are completely oblivious, I assume you all saw my wonderful, but extremely ugly, sweater I wore today! I have been on a mission for like 2 months for some ugly sweaters, and last night, my mom and I took a trip to the Salvation Army. JACKPOT on the ugly sweaters! I couldnt tell you how many ugly sweaters i found! I basically had to beg my mom to buy me the one I wore today. She thinks it is the ugliest thing ever. Yet, I think its pretty much my personality in a sweater! It's crazy, and colorful. I think it suits me perfectly. :D
I think for my free blog i will takl about my goals for this next semester. Im doing pretty well in this class right now and i hope to keep it that way next semester as well. Im doing alot better then i did last year adn im proud of my self for that. I think for this coming up semester i want to get beter gades in my other classes. History for one, im not very good at that class so im going to study more. Im going to try y best to get a a in lit this semester too. I need a better grade in spanish also, i think i will study more for that class as well.
For my free blog this evening, I'm going to talk how I need to lighten up about my grades. A problem that everyone has is that they don't care enough for their grades. However, I care to much. I care so much, it completely stresses me out. I'm constantly worrying about everything and always freak myself out. However, I end up getting so stressed, I always make the people around me sad because I'm upsetting myself. This is trait that I'm hoping loosen up on. I still will care greatly for my grades, however I won't care to much, I'll care just enough. The reason why I care so much is because I know what I'm capable of. I have seemed to cross the line, so I'm going to try really hard, to still care a lot, just not too much.
For my free blog I'm going to write about Chalk board Football. The past two days of it has been crazyy. I like how we can learn something and play a game at the same time. Even then, Mr. Poliout can throw in twists that make the experience even better. It shows that learning history doesn't have to be boring. It really depends on how the teacher wants to get the information across to us. The team class is so much more relaxed compared to my other classes. It's nice to not have to worry about what is said in class, everyone can just be themselves.
Ok, so I think for tonight i am going to blog about the ineffectiveness of schools. Lets look at this for a second. If i had to guess at a statistic, I would say 20, maybe 30% of students at lakeland actually apply themselves consistently and enjoy learning. The rest of the kids sit back and enjoy the ride. Yet, teachers are expected to give the same amount of time to every student. What kind of bullshit it that. Why the hell do kids that dont even want to be sitting in a classroom deserve the same amount of attention as the kid sitting next to them who wants to learn. Now im sorry but that just isnt right. If you dont want to learn, then get the hell out. You know, in some cases kids just need a little boost. Someone to tell them that they are important and that if they apply themselves, they will succed. However, this is not always the case. I know you might ask what I think we should do instead, and I honestly have no idea. But honestly, the way I see it is that 60-70% of the money that schools get is going towards kids that dont even want to learn. I just dont uderstand it. If you dont want to learn, either get the hell out or sit down and shut up. Dont fuck it up for the rest of us. Now again, I am not really talking about the team taught class, because the majority of the kids in that class actually want to learn.
Where to start? I have been learning a lot of important life lessons the past few weeks, especially about the meaning of a true friend. A true friend is someone who is always going to be there for you, through everything, no matter what. Someone who understands and can sympathize with you. A true friend understands when you have a bad day and doesn't get offended or overreact. The best friend is the one who can pull you out of that bad day and make life feel worth living again. True friends are really hard to come by and many people can seem like a true friend. Time shows those things though. A true friend will be the person that always has you back in the end and you can trust not to be talking crap about you behind your back. What people say is true, in high school you really do find out who your friends are. I have been figuring this out recently and I couldn't have any better friends than the ones I have now. I am very blessed and thankful that they are in my life and I don't know where I would be without them. I am so lucky to have such wonderful, amazing people in my life. ♥
Two days ago, I received an email from the CYLC (Congressional Youth Leadership Council) about the NYLC (National Young Leaders Conference). I'm sure that many of my classmates have heard about them. This was a reminder that the deadline for registration was coming up. I read up on them a while ago when I first received my letter to attend this "exclusive" event. I started "Googleling" around about their name, and got very interesting results.
The New York Times was by far the most informative source that I found.
I also found several other pages that backed up exactly what was summed up in that article.
I decided to write them an email about this.
Here is the letter I wrote.
"I must say that I am very disappointed in your choice of marketing this program. It was exciting to see a nice carefully packed and sealed envelope from you. It all looked so good. You actually got me pretty excited about being THE representative of Lakeland High School. I got disappointed just about as fast I got excited. One student blurts out in class, "I got one of those letters from NYLC. I'm not sure if I'm going to go." This is then followed by a "Hey! I got one too!" which is of course followed by a subsequent "Me too." You have built me up, and torn me down. I am glad that my parents did not waste their money in this "exclusive opportunity." It is absolutely amazing how you can get away with this. While I am going to reserve some of my nastier words for other times, I would still like to let you know that your blatant misuse of our time, and money really makes me angry. I should have thought about the fact that, an organization that actually cares about our scholarly future would not have charged the large sum of money that you are charging. The program is "exclusive" to people who have money to throw at you.
"Have a wonderful day!"
I'm not expecting a response, however I did receive a nice automated message from their system.
"Thank you for your inquiry. This is a courtesy response; your inquiry will be addressed as quickly as possible. Please do not respond to this message."
For my blog I'm going to talk about high school drama. I think that it is totally overrated. I hate the fact that people assume things that aren't actually true and it ruins relationships. The best solution is to approach that person and talk about it. Sometimes I do this and sometimes there is really never an opportunity because the person is closing you out of their life. True, friends will come and go, but when you know this person is a good friend it's hard when you see them drifting away. I wish that they could just let me talk about it with them so we can get past it. Because losing a friend is never fun. When you have spent so much time and made so many memories with them it's weird to not talk to them everyday or even just say hi in the hallway. For some reason it seems that girls have a bigger problem with drama than boys. I really don't understand why. I wish I could. The world isn't perfect but there is such thing as peace. In some instances the two people will get over the struggle and others where they won't. This is unfortunate. You always have to remember the best way to solve a problem is to talk about it face to face if possible.
For my free blog I am going to talk about the future. Its weird to think that in a year and half I am going to be a college student. It seems like just yesterday I was a freshman in high school. Whenever people bring up the topic of college, I act excited to go some place new and meet all new people. But, inside I am terrified. I have been searching colleges and seeing which ones have good hockey teams and emailing different coaches. It is an exciting feeling to get responses back from them but it is also scary to think that in less than two years I am going to be in a different state where I don't know anyone. All and all I am excited to see new places and meet new people but I am also very nervous.
In the dictionary, the definition of trust is: reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing. When it comes to friendship, I personally would describe trust as the faith you have in a one 's loyalty. In my opinion, trust is something that you must earn and it is also something that can be lost. High school has really taught me a lot about trust. I have learned what it takes to earn someone's trust and I also have learned what is it like to lose someone's trust. I consider myself to be an overall pretty trustworthy person. My friends can count on me to always be there for them through thick and thin. This was apparent when a friend I haven’t talked to in a while called me in tears one day after school last week. Her asshole boyfriend broke up with her and she was in total dismay. I had plans to go hang out with my boyfriend, but I knew she trusted me enough to be there for her so I didn’t think twice before I ran to the store, bought some Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked ice cream and headed straight over to her house. It meant a lot to her that I cared so much but it meant even more to me that she trusted me in a time of need to be there for her. I think that it is obvious that trust is extremely important for all friendships. You should always be able to rely on a true friend to always be there for you during the good times and the bad times and never talk about you behind your back. Unlike most girls I do not like to associate myself with drama. This is why I think that, as heartbreaking as it is, sometimes it is just for the better to distance yourself from those who constantly abuse your trust. Now do not get me wrong, I do believe in forgiveness and I think that pretty much everyone deserves a second chance to regain my trust. In certain cases, some close friends may even deserve a third chance. However, one can not blame me for not easily handing out a forth chance to regain my trust, Right?
These past couple weeks, I have been shown again how much my family and my friends mean to me. My grandma has stage 3 ovarian cancer and has been in intensive care for the past couple weeks because she is getting so bad. She finally got sent to a hospice center and now it's just a matter of time. Just this week, a girl in my class started talking about how she had a dream. She said that she dreamed she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was going to die from it. She kept talking about it and I was breaking down more every second. She said, "Can you even get ovarian cancer?" Hannah just looked at her said in a really nasty tone, "Yea." It takes a lot to make Hannah get sort of mad about something, and I knew she was trying to hint to the girl to stop, but the girl said, "I mean how aweful would it be to die from something like that?!" Megan looked at me and saw me crying at my desk, and she asked me if I needed to go to the bathroom. She came with me and stopped doing her work that was due at the end of the hour to help me calm down and just avoid this girl talking about the same thing that was happening to my grandma. Hannah was back in class during this and was telling the girl that she needs to quit it and a few of my friends in that class basically told her to shut up and stop ranting on and on about her dream. I have a few true friends like this, and wow, I am absolutely blessed to have them in my life. I tell them this a lot, but I will never be able to tell them enough how much they mean to me.
For my free blog im going to talk about school. besides the first semester i am doing horriable in school. I finally got all my grades up passed a c. but im really not proud of that. I know i can do better and past years and the first semester has shown that. Im so sick of busting my ass off at the last minute to get my grades up. Im going to try so hard to get such good grades. I really just wanna do good in school. I wanna prove my parents wrong and show them i can do it.
Today for my free blog i would like to talk about school. Well its the last couple days of the semester, and im kinda freaking out. My grades arent up to where i'd like them to be. But yesterday i stayed after school to get some extra help in math. I had to re take a test a well, one that i got 20/64 on. I took the time to actually re learn the stuff, and actually tried. I got a 60/64 on the math test. I have never done that good on a test in math. I was suprised. it showed me how much potential i have and how good i can do. I gotta set the bar high, to do well.
Free blogs are an excellent way to get to know other people. Usually you give us something to respond to but with free blogs, we get to choose what we want to talk about. You can learn different things about people if you actually read their free blogs. I think these are important because they are a way for us to express ourselves. Blogs used to be a pain in the ass for me because I would always forget to do them. Now they are kind of part of my daily routine. Blogging overall is good for us to teach us responsibility and thoroughness.
For my free blog today I am going to talk about this year so far. So far the school year I have been doing very well in pretty much all of my classes. I have been setting goals that I want to reach, and I have reached alot of them. My grades are no longer poor and I am passing everything with pretty high grades. I wish that I would have worked harder in the beging of the semester so i didn't have to work up from where I screwed up. Lately I have been able to more things and have not been grounded in a very long, which makes me feel good about myself. I know I am very capable of doing more than what I sometimes show and I used to put on an act that something was really harder than it was. But now I am doing everything I am supposed to and it showing and my parents are happy.
For this free blog i would like to talk about sportsmanship. Sports are obviously a large part of my life and because of this i have grown to be a very competitive person. There is nothing i hate more than loosing. All sports have an unwritten rule called sportsmanship. For example in golf you don't talk during there back swing, or in any sport after winning or loosing a game you go and shake the opposing teams hands. Another good example of bad sportsmanship is running up the score when a team is already down by a sufficient amount. Last night the lakeland basketball team got there ass kicked to Mott. We were down by 20 and we started rotating are bench players in and they still kept there starters out there beating us very badly. It was almost like in boxing how you don't hit a man when he his down. They ran the score up to almost a 40 point deficit and the team and myself were very upset. This will surly be in mind the next time we face them at are own home court.
For my free blog I want to talk about soon being independent. It's our junior year and we just have one more year left. Im actually really excited to go off and start my life on my own. Its kind of scary thinking in just another year, I have to take care of myself. While i know my family will always be behind me, it's still never going to be the same. For the most part though I think it will be great. I'm so excited to meet new people, and live my life the way I want to live it. I'm going to miss a few people in high school, but you move on. You will always look back and remember certain people who made things fun in school. Well i just wanted to talking about how fast things are changing, and how they are already preparing us for college and the real world.
For my last blog of the semester, i want to look back on what ive been doing over the past semester. I really agree with what connor said in his blog. About how he always makes himself these promises that he never follows through. I do the exact same thing, alot of people do. Its hard to carry through on a goal when it requries more work than you want to put in, but i have to suck it up. So, like connor, im not gonna make a set of goals for my self that i wont want to reach. Im just going to tell myself that i want to be able to rub it in everyones face when i get kick butt grades semester. Last semester, i just kinda strolled along and didnt really try. Ionly got the grades that i did out of luck, and some hard work. But this semester, i just want to so my teachers, parents, friends and myself that i can 4 point my classes if i wnat to. So rather that make this a goal setting thing, its a pride thing, which usually works out much better for me. :)
For my free blog, I am going to talk about my future and my plans for it. There are only a few things I am sbsolutely positive I want to do when I am older. I know a lot of people say that they want to travel the world, but how many of them actualy do it? That is all I want to do with my life is travel. Visit different countries and learn new things. I do have going to college as a priority and have yet to figure out what I want to be, considering that I want to live in different countries. I have thought about becoming an anthroplogist, but I am not sure. I am kind of leaning towards being a pharmasist because they make good money. I am still thinking it over. There is so much I want to do, its just soemtimes I don't think I am smart enough. There is another part of me that wants to be an archtect but with that, you need to be good at math, which is my worst subject. I love designing structures and the look of architecture in general. I am still decided. I just want to be able to accomplish my dreams.
My free blog is going to be about my grades. This semesters grades were ok,not really the ones i wanted, but they were ok. They were better than last years for sure. The next semester my goal is to get all a's, last semester i couldnt put this goal into place because i was already halfway through the semester before i seriously started to care about my grades. After seeing how much a c can affect my total gpa, my goal is to get all a's because there wont be any effect on the gpa. I have also realized, that even that i dont like getting projects every week, theyre a good oppertunity to get my grade up high, because theyre worth more points than classwork, and they can really boost my grade if i get good scores on them.
For my free blog I am going to talk about school this next semester. I am hoping to pick up my grades from what they were this term. My goal for this term was to keep my grades above a C+, but I was not able to do that for some of my classes. So this time around I am going to try even harder to get good grades. I am also going to concentrate better when we have 100 point projects that I somehow managed to fail. I want to make my parents proud of me. I am going to give it my all and hope to succeed.
For my free blog I feel like talking about a new boat motor i recently bought. It is a 1948 Johnson Seahorse. It is a five horsepower. I only like the old motors. The reason I like the old motors better is because they are bulit better than any of the cheap chinese crap they sell now. Back then motors were built with pride and American hardwork. Plus these old motors are all about pure horsepower. Also nobody cared about trying to make an efficient motor and try to protect the enviroment while sacrificing horsepower. For example this one brand of outboard called the Scott-Atwater had a feature that drained the fuel in the carburetor into the lake. It wasn't very EPA friendly. Another reason while I like old motors is that you can work on them yourself, unlike the new motors. All of the new motors have a bunch of electronic crap in them, the old motors have just a few wires in them.
For my free blog ill talk about the personal narratives we just wrote. I think mine made me realize that im lucky to have role models like my parents. I didnt reallly think about it much up until now. They always help me with everything and deserve a lot of credit. Also, I think these blogs help when we have to write papers like this cause im use to writing all the time. The blogs help me devlolp my writing and make me better overall. Even though i dont like doing them all the time i know they do. Ive noticed also that the grammar section of the vocab quizzes help me a lot too. Its hard to admit but its definately true. Blanz 2nd
Well fro this free blog i am going to talk about friendship. This past weekend i have gone through an experience that i think i can learn a lot from. But what make some one a friend. Is it what they will do for you or how much the impact your life or you just like hanging with them. I think a friend is someone that you care for and will do anything for. Im not saying get them a tissue or get them a drink but when they are in some line of trouble, that you will help them. I've learned this weekend that one of my good friends i thought was a good friend is that great of a friend. Some one who lies to your face and kicks you out of their house is not a friend. I dont know if he was on his period or something but it really hurt me. I would never kick some one out of my house for no reason what so ever and i may lie to them but not to hide anything from them. To me a friend is some one who wants to be around you know matter what. They will put up with your flaws and deal with your annoyingness just because they want to be around you. Zakc RUffin
for my free blog im going to talk about school. i have done better. but only half better. half of my grades are good good and the other halfg sucks. i hate school i do try to do well but then i get fuserated and give up. or i get really setrested. i make promises that im going to do better but then i get sooo upset and give say forget it. my parents dont undersatnd how much schools have changed and how much harder it is. i am grounded 24/7 because of my grades. it sucks! i do try and i tell them that but they dont belive me or tell me i need to do not try. its annoying.
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For my free blog i usually choose to talk about sports or family but being a new semester i have decided to talk about school. Every year i have found my self slacking at a much lower ability than i acctualy capable of. Every time a blog has came up in which we are to talk about our plans for the next term i have found myself making my own self promises, yet the sad thing is, i never have really lived up to those promises. Starting this new semester i truly feel it is really my time to step it up. Im not going to set down goals for my self but feel i shall go out and accomplish what im capable of. One of my biggest concerns and priorities in which i plan on doing is making my mom and dad both proud of me. In life theres nothing better than to see parents proud of there child for things. Personally im ashamed of myself when it comes to this cause i really cant say i see this alot. Going forth, i plan on reaching heights i know i am capable and able to reach. This plan is not set just for school but to also give a hard work ethic at other things such as sports.
conman
For my free blog I'm going to talk about my sister coming home for the weekend. One thing I noticed is that the house is so much quieter when she's gone. It's sorta more relaxing too. However, it's way more fun when she is here. We are still really close and tell each other everything. We didn't used to be like that. That probually started when she was a junior. I was so sad when she left for college but I have so much stuff going on that I'm almost too busy to be depressed she's not here. She goes to college at State so she's still pretty close still. It's not like I only see her once a year. It feels like she's just away on a trip and then comes home every once in awhile. I'm glad she is home for the weekend. It's really nice seeing her again.
Kristen Pauly
2nd hr.
Well first off i would like to ask you Mr. Kay to check your e-mail. I finished my rough draft and i have sent it to you. Please disregard the timing of it, i couldnt think of anything to write about and when i started writing i got stuck not being able to write enough.
For tonights free blog i want to talk about something that i need to get better at. Procrastination. That is a big issue for me that i have to work out. There are some days where i cannot focus enough to get something done. But since it is a new semester i am hoping to break that habbit in the following ways. Use class time better, ask for help when needed, and finally to get things done before the night it is due. Im tired of feeling rushed all the time when it comes to projects homework, etc. Things need to change fast or else i will not succeed.
Will Michaels 2nd Hour
I chose to do my blog on our writing assignment (narrative essay). It seem a little overwhelming at first; but once I decided what I was going to do it on it got a little easier. I decided to write about who I considered my hero. My grandpa was in the United State Army and after interviewing him for my essay, I was even more amazed. In his 80's he could still remember that he registered for the draft on board #4. He remebered details of all of his combats and we could have talked on the phone for hours longer. My grandpa went to the Philipines, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. I think it is important to be patriotic, and my grandpa definitely is. If we want our country to be safe we must all be giving and help out where ever we can. I hope when I am in my 80's I have great things to tell my grandchildren.
So unless you are completely oblivious, I assume you all saw my wonderful, but extremely ugly, sweater I wore today! I have been on a mission for like 2 months for some ugly sweaters, and last night, my mom and I took a trip to the Salvation Army. JACKPOT on the ugly sweaters! I couldnt tell you how many ugly sweaters i found! I basically had to beg my mom to buy me the one I wore today. She thinks it is the ugliest thing ever. Yet, I think its pretty much my personality in a sweater! It's crazy, and colorful. I think it suits me perfectly. :D
yay for ugly sweaters! :D
Sam Tedder
2nd hr
I think for my free blog i will takl about my goals for this next semester. Im doing pretty well in this class right now and i hope to keep it that way next semester as well. Im doing alot better then i did last year adn im proud of my self for that. I think for this coming up semester i want to get beter gades in my other classes. History for one, im not very good at that class so im going to study more. Im going to try y best to get a a in lit this semester too. I need a better grade in spanish also, i think i will study more for that class as well.
Katlyn Twigg 2nd HOur
For my free blog this evening, I'm going to talk how I need to lighten up about my grades. A problem that everyone has is that they don't care enough for their grades. However, I care to much. I care so much, it completely stresses me out. I'm constantly worrying about everything and always freak myself out. However, I end up getting so stressed, I always make the people around me sad because I'm upsetting myself. This is trait that I'm hoping loosen up on. I still will care greatly for my grades, however I won't care to much, I'll care just enough. The reason why I care so much is because I know what I'm capable of. I have seemed to cross the line, so I'm going to try really hard, to still care a lot, just not too much.
Alanna Nagi
2nd hour
For my free blog I'm going to write about Chalk board Football. The past two days of it has been crazyy. I like how we can learn something and play a game at the same time. Even then, Mr. Poliout can throw in twists that make the experience even better. It shows that learning history doesn't have to be boring. It really depends on how the teacher wants to get the information across to us. The team class is so much more relaxed compared to my other classes. It's nice to not have to worry about what is said in class, everyone can just be themselves.
Ok, so I think for tonight i am going to blog about the ineffectiveness of schools. Lets look at this for a second. If i had to guess at a statistic, I would say 20, maybe 30% of students at lakeland actually apply themselves consistently and enjoy learning. The rest of the kids sit back and enjoy the ride. Yet, teachers are expected to give the same amount of time to every student. What kind of bullshit it that. Why the hell do kids that dont even want to be sitting in a classroom deserve the same amount of attention as the kid sitting next to them who wants to learn. Now im sorry but that just isnt right. If you dont want to learn, then get the hell out. You know, in some cases kids just need a little boost. Someone to tell them that they are important and that if they apply themselves, they will succed. However, this is not always the case. I know you might ask what I think we should do instead, and I honestly have no idea. But honestly, the way I see it is that 60-70% of the money that schools get is going towards kids that dont even want to learn. I just dont uderstand it. If you dont want to learn, either get the hell out or sit down and shut up. Dont fuck it up for the rest of us. Now again, I am not really talking about the team taught class, because the majority of the kids in that class actually want to learn.
Where to start? I have been learning a lot of important life lessons the past few weeks, especially about the meaning of a true friend. A true friend is someone who is always going to be there for you, through everything, no matter what. Someone who understands and can sympathize with you. A true friend understands when you have a bad day and doesn't get offended or overreact. The best friend is the one who can pull you out of that bad day and make life feel worth living again. True friends are really hard to come by and many people can seem like a true friend. Time shows those things though. A true friend will be the person that always has you back in the end and you can trust not to be talking crap about you behind your back. What people say is true, in high school you really do find out who your friends are. I have been figuring this out recently and I couldn't have any better friends than the ones I have now. I am very blessed and thankful that they are in my life and I don't know where I would be without them. I am so lucky to have such wonderful, amazing people in my life. ♥
Two days ago, I received an email from the CYLC (Congressional Youth Leadership Council) about the NYLC (National Young Leaders Conference). I'm sure that many of my classmates have heard about them. This was a reminder that the deadline for registration was coming up. I read up on them a while ago when I first received my letter to attend this "exclusive" event. I started "Googleling" around about their name, and got very interesting results.
The New York Times was by far the most informative source that I found.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/leadership-t.html
I also found several other pages that backed up exactly what was summed up in that article.
I decided to write them an email about this.
Here is the letter I wrote.
"I must say that I am very disappointed in your choice of marketing this program. It was exciting to see a nice carefully packed and sealed envelope from you. It all looked so good. You actually got me pretty excited about being THE representative of Lakeland High School. I got disappointed just about as fast I got excited. One student blurts out in class, "I got one of those letters from NYLC. I'm not sure if I'm going to go." This is then followed by a "Hey! I got one too!" which is of course followed by a subsequent "Me too." You have built me up, and torn me down. I am glad that my parents did not waste their money in this "exclusive opportunity." It is absolutely amazing how you can get away with this. While I am going to reserve some of my nastier words for other times, I would still like to let you know that your blatant misuse of our time, and money really makes me angry. I should have thought about the fact that, an organization that actually cares about our scholarly future would not have charged the large sum of money that you are charging. The program is "exclusive" to people who have money to throw at you.
"Have a wonderful day!"
I'm not expecting a response, however I did receive a nice automated message from their system.
"Thank you for your inquiry. This is a courtesy response; your inquiry will be addressed as quickly as possible. Please do not respond to this message."
Have a nice weekend.
For my blog I'm going to talk about high school drama. I think that it is totally overrated. I hate the fact that people assume things that aren't actually true and it ruins relationships. The best solution is to approach that person and talk about it. Sometimes I do this and sometimes there is really never an opportunity because the person is closing you out of their life. True, friends will come and go, but when you know this person is a good friend it's hard when you see them drifting away. I wish that they could just let me talk about it with them so we can get past it. Because losing a friend is never fun. When you have spent so much time and made so many memories with them it's weird to not talk to them everyday or even just say hi in the hallway. For some reason it seems that girls have a bigger problem with drama than boys. I really don't understand why. I wish I could. The world isn't perfect but there is such thing as peace. In some instances the two people will get over the struggle and others where they won't. This is unfortunate. You always have to remember the best way to solve a problem is to talk about it face to face if possible.
Audrey
For my free blog I am going to talk about the future. Its weird to think that in a year and half I am going to be a college student. It seems like just yesterday I was a freshman in high school. Whenever people bring up the topic of college, I act excited to go some place new and meet all new people. But, inside I am terrified. I have been searching colleges and seeing which ones have good hockey teams and emailing different coaches. It is an exciting feeling to get responses back from them but it is also scary to think that in less than two years I am going to be in a different state where I don't know anyone. All and all I am excited to see new places and meet new people but I am also very nervous.
Hannah Aittama
2nd Hour
In the dictionary, the definition of trust is: reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing. When it comes to friendship, I personally would describe trust as the faith you have in a one 's loyalty. In my opinion, trust is something that you must earn and it is also something that can be lost. High school has really taught me a lot about trust. I have learned what it takes to earn someone's trust and I also have learned what is it like to lose someone's trust. I consider myself to be an overall pretty trustworthy person. My friends can count on me to always be there for them through thick and thin. This was apparent when a friend I haven’t talked to in a while called me in tears one day after school last week. Her asshole boyfriend broke up with her and she was in total dismay. I had plans to go hang out with my boyfriend, but I knew she trusted me enough to be there for her so I didn’t think twice before I ran to the store, bought some Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked ice cream and headed straight over to her house. It meant a lot to her that I cared so much but it meant even more to me that she trusted me in a time of need to be there for her. I think that it is obvious that trust is extremely important for all friendships. You should always be able to rely on a true friend to always be there for you during the good times and the bad times and never talk about you behind your back. Unlike most girls I do not like to associate myself with drama. This is why I think that, as heartbreaking as it is, sometimes it is just for the better to distance yourself from those who constantly abuse your trust. Now do not get me wrong, I do believe in forgiveness and I think that pretty much everyone deserves a second chance to regain my trust. In certain cases, some close friends may even deserve a third chance. However, one can not blame me for not easily handing out a forth chance to regain my trust, Right?
These past couple weeks, I have been shown again how much my family and my friends mean to me. My grandma has stage 3 ovarian cancer and has been in intensive care for the past couple weeks because she is getting so bad. She finally got sent to a hospice center and now it's just a matter of time. Just this week, a girl in my class started talking about how she had a dream. She said that she dreamed she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was going to die from it. She kept talking about it and I was breaking down more every second. She said, "Can you even get ovarian cancer?" Hannah just looked at her said in a really nasty tone, "Yea." It takes a lot to make Hannah get sort of mad about something, and I knew she was trying to hint to the girl to stop, but the girl said, "I mean how aweful would it be to die from something like that?!" Megan looked at me and saw me crying at my desk, and she asked me if I needed to go to the bathroom. She came with me and stopped doing her work that was due at the end of the hour to help me calm down and just avoid this girl talking about the same thing that was happening to my grandma. Hannah was back in class during this and was telling the girl that she needs to quit it and a few of my friends in that class basically told her to shut up and stop ranting on and on about her dream. I have a few true friends like this, and wow, I am absolutely blessed to have them in my life. I tell them this a lot, but I will never be able to tell them enough how much they mean to me.
For my free blog im going to talk about school. besides the first semester i am doing horriable in school. I finally got all my grades up passed a c. but im really not proud of that. I know i can do better and past years and the first semester has shown that. Im so sick of busting my ass off at the last minute to get my grades up. Im going to try so hard to get such good grades. I really just wanna do good in school. I wanna prove my parents wrong and show them i can do it.
Today for my free blog i would like to talk about school. Well its the last couple days of the semester, and im kinda freaking out. My grades arent up to where i'd like them to be. But yesterday i stayed after school to get some extra help in math. I had to re take a test a well, one that i got 20/64 on. I took the time to actually re learn the stuff, and actually tried. I got a 60/64 on the math test. I have never done that good on a test in math. I was suprised. it showed me how much potential i have and how good i can do. I gotta set the bar high, to do well.
Free blogs are an excellent way to get to know other people. Usually you give us something to respond to but with free blogs, we get to choose what we want to talk about. You can learn different things about people if you actually read their free blogs. I think these are important because they are a way for us to express ourselves. Blogs used to be a pain in the ass for me because I would always forget to do them. Now they are kind of part of my daily routine. Blogging overall is good for us to teach us responsibility and thoroughness.
Cody
For my free blog today I am going to talk about this year so far. So far the school year I have been doing very well in pretty much all of my classes. I have been setting goals that I want to reach, and I have reached alot of them. My grades are no longer poor and I am passing everything with pretty high grades. I wish that I would have worked harder in the beging of the semester so i didn't have to work up from where I screwed up. Lately I have been able to more things and have not been grounded in a very long, which makes me feel good about myself. I know I am very capable of doing more than what I sometimes show and I used to put on an act that something was really harder than it was. But now I am doing everything I am supposed to and it showing and my parents are happy.
John McLean
3rd hour
For this free blog i would like to talk about sportsmanship. Sports are obviously a large part of my life and because of this i have grown to be a very competitive person. There is nothing i hate more than loosing. All sports have an unwritten rule called sportsmanship. For example in golf you don't talk during there back swing, or in any sport after winning or loosing a game you go and shake the opposing teams hands. Another good example of bad sportsmanship is running up the score when a team is already down by a sufficient amount. Last night the lakeland basketball team got there ass kicked to Mott. We were down by 20 and we started rotating are bench players in and they still kept there starters out there beating us very badly. It was almost like in boxing how you don't hit a man when he his down. They ran the score up to almost a 40 point deficit and the team and myself were very upset. This will surly be in mind the next time we face them at are own home court.
Taylor wattles
For my free blog I want to talk about soon being independent. It's our junior year and we just have one more year left. Im actually really excited to go off and start my life on my own. Its kind of scary thinking in just another year, I have to take care of myself. While i know my family will always be behind me, it's still never going to be the same. For the most part though I think it will be great. I'm so excited to meet new people, and live my life the way I want to live it. I'm going to miss a few people in high school, but you move on. You will always look back and remember certain people who made things fun in school. Well i just wanted to talking about how fast things are changing, and how they are already preparing us for college and the real world.
Taylor Dieck
3rd hr.
For my last blog of the semester, i want to look back on what ive been doing over the past semester. I really agree with what connor said in his blog. About how he always makes himself these promises that he never follows through. I do the exact same thing, alot of people do. Its hard to carry through on a goal when it requries more work than you want to put in, but i have to suck it up. So, like connor, im not gonna make a set of goals for my self that i wont want to reach. Im just going to tell myself that i want to be able to rub it in everyones face when i get kick butt grades semester. Last semester, i just kinda strolled along and didnt really try. Ionly got the grades that i did out of luck, and some hard work. But this semester, i just want to so my teachers, parents, friends and myself that i can 4 point my classes if i wnat to. So rather that make this a goal setting thing, its a pride thing, which usually works out much better for me. :)
For my free blog, I am going to talk about my future and my plans for it. There are only a few things I am sbsolutely positive I want to do when I am older. I know a lot of people say that they want to travel the world, but how many of them actualy do it? That is all I want to do with my life is travel. Visit different countries and learn new things. I do have going to college as a priority and have yet to figure out what I want to be, considering that I want to live in different countries. I have thought about becoming an anthroplogist, but I am not sure. I am kind of leaning towards being a pharmasist because they make good money. I am still thinking it over. There is so much I want to do, its just soemtimes I don't think I am smart enough. There is another part of me that wants to be an archtect but with that, you need to be good at math, which is my worst subject. I love designing structures and the look of architecture in general. I am still decided. I just want to be able to accomplish my dreams.
Megab Kastelen
2nd hour
My free blog is going to be about my grades. This semesters grades were ok,not really the ones i wanted, but they were ok. They were better than last years for sure. The next semester my goal is to get all a's, last semester i couldnt put this goal into place because i was already halfway through the semester before i seriously started to care about my grades. After seeing how much a c can affect my total gpa, my goal is to get all a's because there wont be any effect on the gpa. I have also realized, that even that i dont like getting projects every week, theyre a good oppertunity to get my grade up high, because theyre worth more points than classwork, and they can really boost my grade if i get good scores on them.
For my free blog I am going to talk about school this next semester. I am hoping to pick up my grades from what they were this term. My goal for this term was to keep my grades above a C+, but I was not able to do that for some of my classes. So this time around I am going to try even harder to get good grades. I am also going to concentrate better when we have 100 point projects that I somehow managed to fail. I want to make my parents proud of me. I am going to give it my all and hope to succeed.
For my free blog I feel like talking about a new boat motor i recently bought. It is a 1948 Johnson Seahorse. It is a five horsepower. I only like the old motors. The reason I like the old motors better is because they are bulit better than any of the cheap chinese crap they sell now. Back then motors were built with pride and American hardwork. Plus these old motors are all about pure horsepower. Also nobody cared about trying to make an efficient motor and try to protect the enviroment while sacrificing horsepower. For example this one brand of outboard called the Scott-Atwater had a feature that drained the fuel in the carburetor into the lake. It wasn't very EPA friendly. Another reason while I like old motors is that you can work on them yourself, unlike the new motors. All of the new motors have a bunch of electronic crap in them, the old motors have just a few wires in them.
For my free blog ill talk about the personal narratives we just wrote. I think mine made me realize that im lucky to have role models like my parents. I didnt reallly think about it much up until now. They always help me with everything and deserve a lot of credit. Also, I think these blogs help when we have to write papers like this cause im use to writing all the time. The blogs help me devlolp my writing and make me better overall. Even though i dont like doing them all the time i know they do. Ive noticed also that the grammar section of the vocab quizzes help me a lot too. Its hard to admit but its definately true.
Blanz
2nd
Well fro this free blog i am going to talk about friendship. This past weekend i have gone through an experience that i think i can learn a lot from. But what make some one a friend. Is it what they will do for you or how much the impact your life or you just like hanging with them. I think a friend is someone that you care for and will do anything for. Im not saying get them a tissue or get them a drink but when they are in some line of trouble, that you will help them. I've learned this weekend that one of my good friends i thought was a good friend is that great of a friend. Some one who lies to your face and kicks you out of their house is not a friend. I dont know if he was on his period or something but it really hurt me. I would never kick some one out of my house for no reason what so ever and i may lie to them but not to hide anything from them. To me a friend is some one who wants to be around you know matter what. They will put up with your flaws and deal with your annoyingness just because they want to be around you.
Zakc RUffin
for my free blog im going to talk about school. i have done better. but only half better. half of my grades are good good and the other halfg sucks. i hate school i do try to do well but then i get fuserated and give up. or i get really setrested. i make promises that im going to do better but then i get sooo upset and give say forget it. my parents dont undersatnd how much schools have changed and how much harder it is. i am grounded 24/7 because of my grades. it sucks! i do try and i tell them that but they dont belive me or tell me i need to do not try. its annoying.
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