The best board game ever made is Risk, beacuase its the game of global domination. Honestly, who could hate to play a game where you get to slowly take over the world one country at a time.  The computer version is even better because you can attack countrys from up to 3 differant sides, making shure that you win and take over that country. Best Game Ever.

I love you Taylar Kay

I have probably got way more to write on this topic than I should.  Or at least more 
than I wish I would.  When I was 11 years old I was in what I hope was the toughest part 
of my life.  I was pretty hard into drugs and drinking and about 2 months before my 12th 
birthday I found out I was pregnant.  As soon as I found out I quit doing drugs and 
drinking and decided to be as healthy as I could if not for myself then for my baby.  I 
carried the baby for 5 months and then I had a miscarriage.  This was probably the most 
tragic thing I have ever been through.  Soon after that I went to rehab and started 
counseling.  As if this event wasn’t bad enough, in the winter of my sophomore year I 
found myself pregnant again.  Yeah, second pregnancy at age 15.  As you could probably 
guess, I got a lot of crap from people about this.  Around 5 1/2 – 6 months I started 
having complications.  Something about something detaching from some wall.  I didn’t 
really understand exactly what was going on with me but as long as my baby was okay I 
didn’t care.  Well, she wasn’t.  My baby girl who was to be named Taylar Kay died before 
she was even born.  This was also incredibly tragic.  My doctors had warned me that they 
didn’t think the baby would make it to full term, but it still crushed me.  After this I 
was told by my doctor that there was a very, very small chance that I would ever be able 
to carry a child to full term.  

Dave, you may disagree with me in every aspect of my writing, but I am going to write about what my opinion is of the terrorist attacks that happened 5 years ago on 9/11/06.  People are saying that we need to get out of this war on terror.  I strongly disagree with anyone who says that, because 5 years ago we were ATTACKED.  If President Bush were a coward we wouldn't be in war right now.  We'd be DEAD!  We are making great strides in Iraq, eliminating such terror organizations like the Taliban and the Al-Queda.  I heard that not too long ago that Iraq started up their first softball league ever.  That doesn't seem like much but it proves that we are making great strides there.  I feel bad for the people whose kids die in action, but I hope they come to realize that there kids died for America, and no other death could be better.  As you can tell my family is a very republican type of family.  So I will say once again that you may disagree with me but I like to stand for what I think is right.  I'm not a big fan of muslims.  That may sound really bad, but it seems to me like you can't trust a muslim.  I know that muslims have there own way of thinking, and there own religious preferences but I strongly disagree with everything they stand for.  They believe that 7 virgins will be waiting for them in heaven when they die.  That is outrageous.  They must die in a terror attack to be able to go to heaven or something like that.  That is wrong.  Just plain wrong.  Terrorists are disgusting, and to this day I HATE all terrorists that plan to attack my country.  It is wrong that they would even think about doing something to kill people, and not expect to get it back.[  Un heard of, by America anyways.  I read one daily topic by a student about the terror attacks being fake, or something.  That is complete bullshit.  There is proof to the 9/11 attacks being traced to the al-quaeda and the taliban.  They even admitted to it.  So when I read that I just laughed.

Driving

Driving is a priveledge that one doesn't get to do until he or she is 16 years of age.  I understand that one has to be mature while driving, and can't drive crazy.  To be a good driver one has to drive defensively.  Act like while your going through a green light that the person that has the red light is not going to stop and wait for you.  Personally, driving is fun and a big priveledge right when you turn 16 but after that its more of a responsible thing than it is fun.  I'm 17 years old and I admit that I had more fun when I was a 16 year old driver.  I have gotten a speeding ticket exactly 24 days after I turned 16.  I had to pay $60 to go to stop class and sit all day in a classroom for 8 hours!  That sucked!  To this day I don't speed and I drive defensively.  I have never gotten in an accident(knock on wood), and I hope that I never do get in an accident.  So yes, driving is a priveledge that one must prove they are responsible enough to accomplish.  In some countries the driving age is 18 and the drinking age is 16.  Honestly I think this is a very good idea.  When people start drinking they think that its the greatest thing that ever hit them.  If it were legal at an early age, yes there might be the possibilities of some more crimes, but there would be less DUI's because once something is legal, its not that much fun after a year or so.

Invisable Wrench In The Gears

   I find it interesting how emerson's self-reliance essay contast everyting we have been taught in school since we were five. Emerson says that you should not try to impress someone. If you are bad, than be bad. It is so contrary to everything we have been brainwashed to beleve since preschool. Yet when I look at the people around me, they show little intrest.  
   If everyone praticed what Emerson preached, the public school system would colapse. The school theching Emerson is like putting somthing in this teaddy bear factory of a school. It would destroy the machine and free the people. If one person did this, they would be promptly destroed by the factories immune system. But if everyone die it, they could not be stopped.  
   It's paradoxical and borders on humerous. But because it is tuaght by the school, and uses language that is uncommon and hard to understand to todays student's. But if people took the time to really understand Emerson. Instead of leating it just go in one ear and come out the other as is the pratice know. But still, none of my peers seam to care. It is my belief that if the school system taught free-thinking and rebellion, that they would produce the identical teddy bears they desire. It gives you the spark to all and all be more than just another brick in the wall. yet knowone seems to care. How strange.

Summer 2006!!

I would give my past summer at 9 out of 10. My summer started off slow, the Wednesday after school got out I got my braces off :) and I also babysat for a few days and then on June 19th I went to a bible camp with my youth group. That was the experience of a lifetime. The guy that I had a secret crush on since February was there so i secretly watched him the whole time and tried to be everywhere he was. We finally talked and he seemed really cool, not to mension I learned a lot about myself and it changed my outlook on my life. I was really upset when camp ended a week later because I had made so many new friends that lived in Texas and I didnt want to leave them. After camp was over I became friends with my 'secret crush' we talked all the time and eventually went to a movie together. I really started to like him. One Friday, I had just gotten back from a vacation, I called that secret crush and he didnt answer so I told him to call me back so we could plan the next day so we could hang out. He finally called me back around midnight that night and the first thing he said to me was 'my best friend thinks you are really cute and he wants to meet you sometime' I was kind of shocked and disappointed cuz I figured that if his best friend liked me then he most likely didnt. After I hung up with him I called my best friend to tell her about our conversation and she said that she was on the other line with him and that she would call me back after they were done talking. An hour later she still hadn't called me back so I called her and she informed me that they were still talking and that they would hopefully be done talking soon and that I didnt want to know what they were talking about. She then called me back another half hour later and she told me that my secret crush liked her. I wasnt really surpised cuz I had a feeling about it all along. His best friend called me later that night and we talked for a little while and I told him that he could call me the next day so we could talk more. So he did call and that day we talked for over 3 hours. We had those long conversations for about a week until we finally met eachother. We both liked eachother and my old secret crush liked my best friend and she liked him. My new crush and I had hit it off, I was hoping that we would start dating. We never did and still havent  almost 2 months later. He has turned out to be one of my best friends because we can tell eachother anything and everything and we never get tired of talking to eachother. If I hadn't of gone to the camp with my church I would have never talked to my old secret crush and I defiately wouldnt have met all the wonderful friends that I have made because of that secret crush. Thats why my summer of 2006 was the best summer yet!

Self Reliance

Although you rely on others for a lot of things,you have to rely on your self the most.Every day you have to rely on yourself to wake up on time for school and to go to work.You also have to rely on yourself to take showers,feed yourself,and cloth yourself.

movies

the lord of the rings
coach carter
the longest yard
braveheart
saw2
fox and the hound

movies

The Longest Yard - Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is arrested in the begining of the movie and is taken to a prison where he is hated by everyone for point shaving at an NFL game. The hard choice in this movie is that the warden asks Crewe to play football. He has to get the prisoners to play against the guards so the guards could have an easy win. When there team actually starts to win the Warden asks Crewe to shave points once again so that the guards win.

hard choice movies

Behind Enemy Lines-  He has to Choose between saving his own career or saving the pilot
Hostage-He has to choose between saving his family or another persons
We were soldiers-has to choose who to save

Hard Choice Movies

1.Scary Movie 4: character has to choose if he wants to save himself or his family. 
2.Star Wars Episode 3: Anakin Skywalker has to choose between the light and the dark side. 
3.Saw 
4.Saw 2 
5:Star Wars Episode 6 

Hard Choice Movies

Lord of the Rings-who will take the ring and destroy it, will they betray each other, will they take for themselves

Amityville Horror-whether or not to buy the house 

Mean Girls-a girl chooses to either ruin her reputation and have everyone hate her or have the blame put on someone else

Lion King-Simba chooses between being a ruler or leave it to Scar

Shark Tale-Oscar chooses between telling the truth or lieing and becoming famous

movies

some of the movies that come to mind are 
 
1.donnie darko 
2.saw 
3.saw2 
4.bravehart 
5.back to the future 
6.fight club 
7.the sting 
8.the natural 
9.inside manwas born in Los Angeles to Hungarian parents, but relocated to Budapest at the age of seventeen to pursue a career in film. For his first feature, he revisited the concept he used for a music video for the awesomely named Hungarian rock band, the Warpigs. Shot entirely in the labyrinthine world of Budapest's subway system, Antal's Kontroll is the kind of genre-blend that might feel a bit overworked, but the film's fluorescent-lit look at Good vs. Evil is as engaging as it is inventive. Kontroll is, at its core, the story of a subway ticket inspector named Bulcsú (Sándor Csányi) who left his traditional life behind for a subterranean existence and hasn't been above ground since. Like many of those around him, you sense Bulcsú is just a couple shifts away from a complete spiritual death, until a string of suspicious deaths stirs him. Creepily, the idea that the violence appeals to Bulcsú begins to form, but when he becomes the prime suspect, he's reawakened by a drunken, bearish conductor (Lajos Kovács) and a non-drunk young woman (Ezster Balla) in a bear costume. It's not as Wes Anderson-y as it sounds, even with the handful of second tier characters adding their weight to the drama. For the better part of a year, Antal petitioned to shoot in the subway system, and permission was granted after he agreed to run a disclaimer before the film that his work was in no way representative of life as a Hungarian transit authority. It makes for a weird beginning, and perfectly sets the mood.

hard choice movies

Behind Enemy Lines-  He has to Choose between saving his own career or saving the pilot
Hostage-He has to choose between saving his family or another persons
We were soldiers-has to choose who to save

Saw 2

Saw 2 Is a good choice movie because te characters must make choices almost every step. They can either listen to the person whe kidnapped them and get out or try to escape if they dont do either they will die. 

Movies

Hostage-Bruce Willis has to decide to save his family or someone elses 
 
Enemy
of the State-Will Smith has to either surrender to the gov. or fight back. 
 
Blue Chips-a college basketball coach has to recruit players the illegally with money or
coninue to loose 
 
Civil Action 
 

Hard Choice Movies

1) Hostage-Bruce Willis had to either save his family or another family 
2) Man on Fire-Denzel Washington had to decide to either not save the daughter (Dakota Fanning) or trade his life for hers.
3) Saw 2-the people that are trapped in the house have to make these choices that could hurt them.
4) Inside Man
5) Glory
6) Remember the Titans
7) Dragon Heart 
8) Flight PLan
9) Walking Tall
10) Behind Enemy Lines        

hard choice movies

Behind Enemy Lines-  He has to Choose between saving his own career or saving the pilot
Hostage-He has to choose between saving his family or another persons
We were soldiers-has to choose who to save

Hard Choice Movies

Lord of the Rings-who will take the ring and destroy it, will they betray each other, will they take for themselves

Amityville Horror-whether or not to buy the house 

Mean Girls-a girl chooses to either ruin her reputation and have everyone hate her or have the blame put on someone else

Lion King-Simba chooses between being a ruler or leave it to Scar

Shark Tale-Oscar chooses between telling the truth or lieing and becoming famous

In my neighborhood

                   In my neighborhood there are some crazy drivers. Everyone thinks they need to fly around my corner going 50 miles an hours, risking hiting some one around the corner.  The problem is  when they turn the corner they really can't see around the corner for other cars because we have a cement wall that rises three feet followed by a fence so it kind of distracts certain drivers.  But with this they still seem to find the need to fly around the corner.  Because of this I have been able to witness four car crashes within the last two years of living in my house.  Thats averaging two crashes a year, one every six months.  You would think that people would be more aware of this by now but it just seems to keep happening day in and day out. So thats what happens on the corner of 48th and Spruce.

games & stuff

My all time favorite bord game is Monopoly.  I havent played it for over 5 years, but when I was little our family would sit down every once and a while and play it.  We havent done it forever since I moved here.  Another game I like is poker, but I havent played poker in a long time, however once and awhile my family will also sit down and play poker.

Games

I think the best board game is Monopoly. It can keep you entertained for hours and the whole family can play. It's fun to buy properties and put houses and hotels on them and make your family members pay you rent when they land on your properties. I also like playing cards. Mostly Texas Hold'em because it's easy to learn and you can make lots of money off of it if you good at it and have some luck. Chess is also a good game. When you first start it is kind of complicated once you play it some it becomes easier and more fun. It makes you think a lot and build strategies to beat your opponents. It can be a really fun board game.

Royal Flush

It was a cold winter night, but I was on fire inside.  It was a flaming hot game of poker every one had around the same amount of chips left.  We were playing texas hold'em.  Then all of the sudden the dealer fliped the last card it was a king.  I went all in so did everyone else.  We showed are hands then I showed mine and every body got angry with frustration.  That was the only royal flush I had ever got and probably the only one I ever will get.

GAMES GAMES GAMES

I like the games clue, life, monopoly, and trouble. Those are probably my favorite and i use to play them when i was little too. And i also like to play pick up sticks and i also like to play speed you know the cars game and thats just a few but i like alot more!:) 

My Sunshine

The beginning of my junior year I met the most adorable freshman I had
ever seen. Despite the fact that I had a boyfriend, I was so drawn in by this boy that I
only thought of him. Two days after I met him happened to be
my boyfriend and I's ten month anniversary. We had barely seen each other over the summer
and when he called me that night it wasn't a surprise when he broke up with me. I didn't
sleep that night, but all I could think of was that boy. I
didn't know his name, but I was determined to find out. I came to band camp the next day,
puffy eyed and depressed. My friends were more angry at my now ex-boyfriend than I was.
One even threatened him physically, but never followed through. And although the focus of
my desire wasn't aware of it, I quickly forgot about my ex-boyfriend and began in my
persuit of my freshman. Non-challantly, I found out his name
and what he played. From then on, I knew he had to be mine. His eyes were like the sky,
crystal blue with yellow in the middle...like the sun at noon. Six days later, my best
friend, the object of affection, and I went to the mall--not as a date-- but as friends.
After my friend had to leave for soccer, he offered to take me to play Glow in the Dark
Golf because neither of us had ever played before. He paid like
a gentleman and then proceeded to completely school me in miniature golf. That evening we
went our seperate ways but spoke that night online. I hinted subtly at wanting a boyfriend
for my birthday. He played the oblivious card, but by the end of the conversation we were
officially a couple. He and I have been together for over a year now and he has always
been my sunshine. Once every couple of days, I even sing the traditional "You Are My
Sunshine" song that my mother sang to me when I was a baby. In the past year, we've gone
through our ups and downs like the highest roller coaster in the biggest amusement park
but we've always made it through. He's my beacon in the dark, my sunshine when it rains
and I hope he always will be. We've been together through
thick and thin, he has become my best friend in the past thirteen months and it doesn't
look like that fact is going to change any time soon. Outside forces have tried to ruin
what we have but we have always persevered and overcome whatever the world threw at us. It
doesn't matter if we fight or what we fight about, we always make up. Sometimes it takes
time, sometimes it's immediately, but by the end of the day, we're always okay. He treats
me like a princess, like the only girl in the world. I can't say I mind a bit, but it has
caused some jealousy. I have had friends stop talking to me
because they can't stand the fact that we're always together. Some friends huh? It used to
get me down, but I know he's worth it. He's the brightest thing in my life, to the point I
wonder if I need sunglasses. As opposed to before, I practically needed a flashlight to
get through my last relationship. This gentleman is definiately the sunshine of my life.
He doesn't always realize it, but he is and always will be.

Terrorist attack or Government Conspiracy?

When 9/11 happened everyone was in shock and the population was quickly led to believe
that these attacks were the result of the terrorist group Al-Quaida. No one questioned the
origin of the attack at first since almost every experienced a loss either directly or
indirectly. After the shock wore off people started analyzing the facts and statements by
those in power. As the peices were put together the picture became blurred and people
started questioning the validity of the claim that Al-Quaida was responsible for the
hijacking. For one, reports came that an airplane hit the Pentagon and the burning jet
fuel vaporized the plane when it hit. The titanium composite used in jet engines is far
out of reach of the burning temperature of jet fuel. Also there have been other
skyscrapers that have been hit with airplanes and burned for hours and hours without
collapsing, yet we are expected to believe that after only 8-10 minutes the WTC lossed all
structual integrety and collapsed upon itself. I think people of this country need to
think for themselves and look at the facts rather than believe what our government feeds
to the media to report to us. Look at us now, five years later and we're still not done
with Iraq and won't be done until we can find someone to blame.

Word Searches, Crosswords, and Solitaire, how about dice games?

First, word searches, I really like to do them because i can find the words fairly fast. I also like number searches because it's more of a challenge. Sometimes i stay up late at night to do word searches when i'm waiting for someone to call me or i'm just bored. I don't enjoy doing crosswords, i'm not good at them because i can't think of similies or other meanings for words. Solitaire is probably one of my favorite card games. I sometimes play with actual cards, but usually it's just on the computer. A game i just learned not too long ago was Ten Thousand also known as *Sparkle* You have 6 dice and you roll all of them. You have to have a 5 or a 1 to continue rolling. If you have a 1 2 3 4 5 6 then that's a sparkle also worth 1,000 points. The point of the game is to get to 10,000 first. If you roll a 1 6 4 3 2 6 then keep the one and it's worth 100 points. if you have 3 of anything like 3 6's then that's 600 or 3 2's then that's 200 and every 2 after that is worth one hundred. It's a really fun game. I taught my mom how to play and she enjoys it too. You can play with as many people as you want because you each just take turns. It takes really long though if you have too many people. Those are some of the games that I like to play and spend my spare/down time doing.  

I like playing them at certain times.  There is a right time and a wrong time.  When your really board and your with all your friends then they are a good time.  There is a mood that i have to be in when i want to play those kinds of games.  I do like card games ALOT.  They are fun anytime you are at home or board.  Card games are fun to play during commercials when you are watching t.v.  My grandma loves to play card games so when i go over to her house we always play.  She is in a card club they play games like every tuesday.  They all get together at someone's house and play cards and eat snacks.  These games are good for the family.  I have always wondered though why do we play cards at parties?  I've always wondered who thought of playing cards while you are at a party.  Everyone gets out drinks and then starts to play card games.  People have even invented card game for parties.  Where when you lose you have to drink or take a shot.  Maybe it is fun when you are drinking but as the person who seats back and watches doesn't look fun.  Some of the games are fun.  The most popular one that i have seen is BS.  You have to lie and keep a poker face.  

Very Fast or Very Slow

Very fast is almost always lots of fun.  Driving Fast is usually lots of fun, until you 
hit something.  Speaking fast isnt always fun because nobody can understand you.  Also, 
fast is good because learning fast is great because the faster you learn something the 
sooner you can get done with it.  However, sometimes fast is not the best.  For example, 
if you work to fast you will not do a good job and you will get a bad grade. If you are 
older than you will do a bad job and get fired.  Overall I belive you have to have 
common sence and decide when and when not to go fast.

BFF'S

 My best friends usually make my day better and of course all my other friends. There super fun and i love hanging with them i usually do like everday or at least every weekend only if im not grounded but my dog also brighhtens my day!! She is the best dog ever even though she might die soon, which is really sad. 

getting older

When I get older i want to go to colleage after highschool and then major in something really cool casue i want a cool job when i graduate. And i also want to get married to a red hott sexy man and have some really cute kids and live in a sweet house. I also want to have a cool car/ whatever car i want and be rich hopefully. :)

Freeze or Let Go

My mom, my cousin Sam, my sister and I took our two dogs Milton and Wolfie to walk in the
woods up in Gretna.  This was the original place we found Wolfie and she has always had a
wild side to her.  Heres the thing, Wolfie will run through the woods and chase down deer,
rabbit, and sometimes squirrels so she usually disappears for about twenty minutes in the
woods.  Well as we were walking we noticed that Wolfie and Milton had been missing for
about an hour.  So my mom and I whistled for them, no response.  Finally Milton came back
but still no sign of Wolfie.  As we were crossing a bridge a lady in about her mid forties
and her big black Newfoundland crossed paths with us.  She could see we were in distress
and knew we were looking for our dog.  She informed us that a wolfish looking dog did
something she had never seen before.  She told us that it chased a whole herd of about
five does into a field and then it sniffed the air and came back to a thick patch of grass
where a large buck had taken cover. She said the dog began chasing the buck!  Now, little
did the lady know about Wolfie's past with deer.  She had killed four deer in the period
of time we've had her and each time she barely escaped with her life.  After getting
directions from the lady we began to hear Wolfie's impatient barks and yelps.  So I took
off in a sprint and the barking got louder.  Then as I came around the bend I saw the
biggest buck Ive ever seen!  Wolfie looked like a just a small mouse compared to this
deer.  When they saw me they took off into the woods and I followed them as close as they
would let me.  The buck was obviously injured or else fatty Wolfie wouldn't have been able
to keep up, and neither would I.  I got major side aches but the adrenaline wouldn't let
me stop the chase until we reached the end of the line, or should I say the end of the
land.  There was about a twelve foot drop into the deep, and cold Platte River.  By now
the deer had already jumped in and was well on his way to the nearest sand bar.  Wolfie
was pacing the cliff line deciding whether to jump or not.  This gave me time to catch up
with her and catch my breath.  I lurched forward to grab her by her fatty neck right as
she decided to take the dive.  I missed her neck, but snatched her tail.  There I was
hanging on to a ninety pound beast over a cliff.  What should I do, hold on to her and
fall into the freezing ice-cold river, or let go and hope that my dog doesn't drown or
murder another living creature.  My mind was rushing through the situation trying to
decide what would be best... I held on.  My dog and I plunged into the icy river. 
Immediately my body rushed into an intense case of the chills and Wolfie had started to
try to get to the deer.  I tried to grab her, but I was too cold and the water was too
deep.  I watched as my dog traveled to what could be her fate, and there was nothing I
could do about it.  I struggled up the cliff and just fell right back into the water. 
Finally I got just the right footing to climb up and out of the river.  I was so
determined to get my dog that I would've even taken a boat that didn't belong to me, so I
searched for one.  I found one at the bottom of the cliff.  It obviously was abandoned and
had a large hole in it.  I thought about the consiquinces of my decision and didn't care.
 Right as I was about to attempt to board the boat my mom, sister, and cousin caught up to
me and ordered me not to go.  I almost felt like crying, but toughend up and watched the
horror that ive seen twice before in my past.  Milton was even barking because his best
friend had left him.  Wolfie would launch at the deer and it would attempt to stab her
with it's antlers.  It got her once and she let out a loud yelp.  She wouldn't let that
stop her, she was to persistent.  They had been fighting for about three hours now and it
seemed as if the two had come to some sort of compromise.  They were both obviously
extremely tired and the deer was knelt over on it's two front legs we guessed one of them
had to be broken, and Wolfie laid down next to the deer.  Every time we called her she
would get up and pace the sandbar shore line wimpering then she would return to the deer
and lay down again.  The sun was setting and we couldn't leave her out here on her own
again, right back where we found her.  She was apart of our family and she cared about us
as much as we cared about her, which was a lot.  It was almost as if she wanted to show us
her great catch.  My sister and cousin gave up on her and just sat down and watched.  My
mom went to get the car to leave, but I kept calling and whistling to her.  A few times
she would get in the water and swim, but would just end up turning around.  Finally she
realized that we were going to leave soon and not come see her catch and she began to swim
back!  I was cheering her on the whole way.  But what if she got to tired from the fight
with the deer and the current?  She might drown.  Well she didn't and she made it all the
way to shore.  Another steep drop that I was left to handle.  I crawled down and put the
choke chain around her fat wet neck.  She was so tired that she could hardly stay
standing, so I dragged her fat butt up the drop off.  We did it just in time for my mom to
finally get the car and come back to see her beloved dog had returned.  My sister threw a
fit at me because I got her jacket sopping wet and muddy from when I fell on the water. 
Nightfall came and we were heading home with quite a story.  I looked out the window to
see all kinds of deer herds in the corn fields and it made me wonder if Wolfie had killed
that elegant buck.  I know she didn't kill it at the moment, but the fact that it was
stranded on the sandbar with no food and a broken leg, would that be the end of that
mighty buck?  I guess I will have to leave it at that and hope that it lived on.

My summer on a 1-10 rate

I would have to say a 4, Becaues I had to whach both of my tiwn seven yearold sisters ad somtimes my two year old sister. My best friend move to get away from his dad. Another went to Iowa to work for his uncels, and the othrs live across or out of town. No family vcations and my brother had a baby so we can't hang out so much. so that is why my summer was a 4 out of 10.

my summer

Well i would have to rate my summer as a 7. It was fun sometimes and really boring other times. So i usually got up around 10 or 11 then eat some food and call my girls and boys.Then I would hang with them go swimming sometimes and then have sleepovers  whatever. I  did summer league basketball which was pretty fun....well sometimes. And i went to see my grandma in South Dakota. And she is wierd! haahahahahaha ok so my summer was alright but i wish i would have done more things.

Rate your Summer

I think I would probably rate my summer as a 7 because it was not the best summer i've ever had but it definately wasnt the worst.  I did lots of stuff this summer as I do every summer.  First I went to houston where my dad lives.  We did lots of stuff like looking at cars, and seeing some of my friends there.  Then I went back to Nebraska, and the next day i went with the football team to Northwest Missouri State Football Camp.  That only lasted for a weekend but it was very intense.  We got up at 6:00 ate breakfeast then  played football until lunch, then we ate lunch. After lunch we played football again, ate dinner, and played again. Then we went to bed, got up, and did it all again.  I love football but it was borderline of being to much football.  After that I went to New Mexico to my dads cabin.  I spent about 2 weeks there, and did lots of stuff.  One of the main things I did when I was there was shooting stuff.  Just like every other time I go there, which is quite a bit.   I shot stuff.  We go to the desert and shoot Cyotes, Prarie Dogs, and anything else in the desert.  Another thing I did was I rode my dirtbike around there.  I rode around all day for awhile.  Then we rented jeeps and went offroading for a couple of days.  Then I came back to  Nebraska.  The next day after that I went to the Southeast Football Camp for Two weeks.  After the Southeast Football Camp, I went back to New Mexico.  I did mostly the same stuff.  Riding my dirtbike, shooting stuff, driving jeeps, and just sitting around and watching movies.  Then I came back to Nebraska and started two-a-days at Southeast.  Three weeks later school started.  That was the end of my summer.

Beast

I think the most dominating beast there is is the lion.  Its huge fangs hanging out of its mouth as blood stains his teeth.  Able to hunt in packs or go solo and kill anything it wants.  They kill if its for thier pack or for a little snack. So that is why I think the beast is the most dominating beast.

Last Summer

I give my last Summer a rating of 9.  It was a really fun Summer.  The only thing bad about my Summer was I got bored at times and couldnt find anything to do.  Also I had to go to alot of basketball camps that where very hard, well atleast the UNL basketball camp that went for 3 days and we played atleast seven hours each day.  But besides all the work I had to do in the Summer I still managed to have a good time.  I got to hang out with my friends alot and went swimming alot too.  I still played plenty of videogames though.  Overall my Summer was pretty good and I had alot of fun too.

my summer

 
I think my summer was good most of the time because i got to sleep in everyday. I would wake up at like one and take a shower then get online. Usually hang out with friends everyday if not i was probably sleeping. The only bad part about my summer was two a day football pratice. I would have to wake up at 8 in the morning and go to first pratice then go home for a hour and eat then go right back to football. Dont get me wrong i like football but 2 a days was jus to much. It also took out the last month of my summer so i really didnt get a whole summer. Outa my whole summer i would rate my summer as a 8.

My Summer Was a 9...

on a scale of 1-10 i would probably rate this summer a 9. many good things have happened this summer, but also many bad. but there were more good things then bad so thats why rated it a 9. most the things that are good, im not able to tell you. but some of the bad things include, im still on probation, i still owe my mom 1000$, i didnt get to go to michigan to see my dad at all, i didnt get a car, and i hate my job. so you can judge for yourself on how much fun i must have had this summer. i guess i could name a few, i had some good party times, i met ALOT of new people, i have a car even though it isnt mine, and i didnt do anything that i didnt want to do. so from sleepover partys in the camper, sneaking out till 7 in the morning, to having girls over at my house till 6 in the morning, i guess you could say i had the summer i always wanted. but im sure nothing can compare to next summer... im 18 and i graduate. fun fun fun. 

Last Summer

I would have to say that my last summer was proble a perfect 10 because I met a lot of people and had a lot of fun. My friend Alex and I would go out to Densmore Park and we would just go exploring in the woods. Alex introduced me to his friend Ben and he would show us a bunch of new places out there. We found about 30 places to hang out and some are funner then others but it is still crazy. We gave every place a name and the name vary from the Cove to The Porch even Widows Peak. The most popular place for all of us to hang out would have to be The Porch because it is like a two story porch out in the middle of the woods and it is just a great place to just go and relax. The Cove is real cool but at night it is kind of scary because it is just a place that isnt really  that easy to find unless you know were it is and it is just like a cove because it was made by water and it has tree rots hanging above it and if you were to put a tarp over the rots and then leaves over the tarp then it would be the perfict place to goto when it rains. Widows Peak is the funnest place to goto though if you have less people with you because it is just like the porch but half the size and twice the highth it is the place that me and Ben like to goto when its just us there. There is one more place that is out there but no one realy goes to but me and Broc and we still haven't given it a name but I think that I will name it the Shack and it is just like a shack but it is made with tree branches and it is prouble the best place to be when it is dark out because on night me and Broc ran away from everyone else and we were there for like and hour before everyone started looking for us and then when every did look for us they couldnt find us so we decided that it would be our place when no one else was there. That was about were I went every day and all the places that I went out there and all the place that were named and now that I have told you about it I think that we will go deeper into the woods and find some more new places to hang out at.

Too Fast

Something that is very fast is a cheeda.  They are so fast for an animal they are the fastest animal that lives on land actually.  Something that is realy slow is a snail.

Its a New School Year...

The beggining of the school year is hard for me. it seems as though ive forgot everything and how i used to handle everything (the year before). last year i used to stop by everyones locker pretty much and im the loudest kid in the 12th grade. but in the beggining of the year im the complete opposite. i have to have time to get used to the class and get used to the people in it. i have to have time to get back into the mood of saying hi to everyone i know. but also there are other differences in this year then last year, there are good ones and bad ones. one difference is this summer i started straightening my hair, not for any certain reason, but just because its way easier to handle and i find it way more comfortable. Thats a good thing because alot of people like it and think i look a lot different, other people are dicks about it and find it metro, which it is not. the summer changed me, alot of things changed and i feel like ive matured maybe just a little bit, but i dont find that a good thing because i think you should enjoy being a kid (being immature), because its only one time in your life. so throughout this school year i will change alot. 

I thought the book was all right. It was better then the other one... I liked it more becasue it was more relistic and it was a cute story but i dont like fish.

Terrorst

I dont really remember 9 11 all i remember was i was in a classroom and the teachers turned of all the tvs because they said it was to graphic. It was not really scary for me but i think the terrorsts should die but i dont know if we really should have gone to war for it.

Sheila Mant

 In The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant, Sheila Mant is a girl that the narrator has a crush on and she is kind of the snobby type.  She doesn't seem interested in the narrator or anything that he has to say, because when he asked her to go to the concert with him she asked right away was "You have a car?"  And she was talking about becoming a model and her figure.  I don't really care for this character.  I think she represents basically a choice either the bass or Sheila.  She is also one of those people who you think your going to spend the rest of your life with, but the result is something you don't expect.  I'm glad the narrator got over her because she was a snob.  If I were him I would smack myself silly.  I was mad when he let the bass go just to not get Sheila mad.  I thought he was going to catch the bass and she was going to gross out.  That would've been hilarious.  

Circles

Round objects draw on a piece of paper. Used for art and technicial drawings. Also in the desigh of many things

The Bass & River

I still did not like the story that much.  However, I thought it was a lot better than 
the last story we read.  Also I think it was kind of strange that he compared a girl to 
a fish.     
Still, I thought it was an ok story.  Another reason I liked it was 
that it wasnt as long as some of the other stories in the book.  Which was a lot eaiser 
to follow.  Overall I thought it was an ok story but not one that I would pick out.

The bass, the river, and shelia mant

I think this story was alot better than the cold equation, and it is alot more realistic too.  I think this story had a good stroy line because of the hard choices the main character had to make.  The stroy was fairly short to making it more enjoyable by not being so complex.  The only thing I didnt like about the story is there were a little to many descrptive words.  But overall the stroy was pretty good and highly enjoyable.

the bass the river and sheila mant

The naritor like a girl named sheila and he tried to impress her and everyday he swims laps in the lake.So he finally gets the guts to ask her out and sh says yes. S he picks her up in the canoe and starts to paddle off. They get on the topic of fishing and she says she hates it. Right after she says that his fishing pole gets a tug. He is thinking abotu what he should do, Get the fish or take the girl. He cuts the line and takes the girl to the fair. Sheila tells him she is going home in anoth guys vet. The naritor doesnt care and goes home by himself. He says he will never make the mistake of picking a girl over a fish again. I think he is dumb i would take the girl every time. He also should have just told the girl about the fish i am sure she would have hought it was exciting and enjoyed him pulling it out of the water.

The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant

If I had the choice between a big fish or someone I like that doesn't like fishing I would definatly choose the fish.  I figure that the person with me may not like fishing, but if they really liked me as at least a friend then it shouldn't matter whether I like fishing or not.  I think that the narrator made a stupid decision by letting the bass go because i'm sure he would have still gotten to hang out with Sheila Mant then and in the near future, but who knows if he would ever get a fish like that ever again.  

The element I chose to write about.

I chose to write about Sheila Mant. She is adored by all the guys in the little place they live in. The narrator is just like all the others but has a weird obsession. He watches her for so long he learns her attitude just be looking at the way she lays. He askes her to go to a concert with him and it ends up going to hell but he somehow makes it to there without bothering her. She calls him a funny kid and the story ends.

Driving

I turned 15 in December of 2004, at the end so almost 2005. My parents refused to let me get a learners permit because I am their oldest and I guess they didnt want to accept the fact that their oldest child was going to start driving. So about 5 months later, May to be exact, I finally convinced my dad to let me get it saying that I just wanted to have it and I didnt want to drive or anything. But, that soon changed because I always wanted to drive because I just loved it-ever since I was little I always dreamed of being able to drive, dont ask why! So when I turned 16 I was obviously very anxious to get my lisence because most every sophomore got theirs the day they turned 16, but not me. I didnt get mine until the day that my permit expired and the only reason why was because I didnt want to have to re-test just to get my permit again so I convinced my dad to let me drive for the people at the DMV because I hadn't taken Drivers Ed. I passed on the first try, my dad was very surprised. After getting my lisence my parents rarely let me drive on my own-only in true emergencies. I then got a babysitting job for the summer and the people wanted me to drive myself there so I finally got the opportunites to drive but only to work. By the end of the summer I was now driving alone everywhere because my parents realized that it was a lot easier for them to not have to make more trips than nessecary. When I first started driving I always went the speed limit but now I drive fast usually 5-10 over and even scream at people who go slowly because they make me very angry! I realized that I hate older drivers because they always go really slow and are extremely cautious.

EROSION

   The meanist thing that can be done is not a single event, but a slow process that takes an eternity. With one single, catastrophic event, it is esay to pick up the peices. You know exactlly what happened and how to fix it. But with a slower grinding curality, it is hard to know exactlly were to start.  
   It is the difference between a hammer strike and a file. The hammer has more breif, spontanious power, but the damage done by the file is much harder to fix. A big piece can be stuck back in it's place with relative ease. But what has been eroded can not be put back. It must be replaced. A proccess that takes quite some time. Even longer then the unassuming file.  
   It happens to all of us on a daily basis. The only question is how much damage shall be done. How long it will take to fix, if at all possible. But the biggest question is if there will be anything left at all.

When I get older..

When I get older I want to be a neonatal nurse, a nurse that works with premature babies. I have always wanted to be a nurse, ever since I can remember. I never knew what kind of nurse that I wanted to be though, I decided that recently because I thought about what each type of nurse deals with and i definately didnt want to work with older people and I know that I love kids so then I thought of a pediatric nurse but then I would have to deal with vomit and I hate that gross distgusting type of stuff that little kids deal with. Then I came to the idea of working with babies. Also, I would love to live on the beach in a really big beach house. I'd love my beach house to be in the East-close to my favorite city of Boston but I wouldnt mind living in like New Hampshire or Virginia because they are very pretty places. I would definately not want to live in Nevada or Idaho because they are in the middle of nowhere.

the most memorable thing for me last year was the seniors! i loved them and it makes me sad that they are all gone but i know that most well some of them are off doing bigger and better things. ricky went to mounntian college and ross is going to join him in january. ian is going to la to drum school in the spring and a few girls left but for the most part i still see everyone once in awhile. i just cant wait until people come back for visits!

drivng!!!!!!

im only 15 so i cant drive for like another year which sucks! and my sister sucks at driving so it bugs the crap outta me i can drive way better then she can and she is such a ditz and she gets mad at me for telling her she sucks and that i can drive better then her which i think when im her age i will probably be better then she was at her age now. so i cant wait to drive and i know ill be good!!

The sunshine of my life

The sunshine of my life are videogames.  When I play videogames I suddenely become happy unless I get stuck on a level or a boss.  But as long as I win I have alot of fun.  Playing videogames is like being in a different world with different rules where you can releave all of your stress.  Another sunshine of my life is basketball.  I like playing basketball alot because it is fun and a good exercise.  Also it improves my skill and it is fun at the same time. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Amusement Parks

I really like amusement parks the best because you can ride the rides as many times as you want and you don't have to pay.  I love Worlds of Fun that is the best and only amusement park that I have ever been to yet.  I don't really like heights, but I loved the roller coasters because I can scream as much as I want without getting in trouble.  You can also buy a lot of variety of foods(whatever you do don't get the turkey legs, they may look good, but they are mostly fat.).  My favorite ride was Cyclone Sam's because it spins you around in the air and it seems like that is what a tornado would really be like.  They really capture your imagination on some of the rides like Cyclone Sam's did.  They had these pictures on the wall of like a farm and different animals flying through the air and when the lights turned off they glowed.  And it was kind of cold in there to make it seem like it was windy.  Another one of my favorites is the Thunderhawk because you get soaked and it spins you around and hangs you up over the water.  The point is to sit in the front to get wet, because if you sit in the back you only get sprayed.  I hate it when they hang you upside down.  I recommend to space your ride so you don't get sick, especially the spinning rides.  I really love amusement parks because you can hang out there all day.  Just make sure to bring sunblock and drink plenty of water when it's really hot.  Oh! and don't waste money on the games where you can win prizes unless your bored. 

The Meanest Thing I Did

I was at one of my friend's houses one day with a bunch of my other friends and we were
just sitting around. Then my friend Madi asked if she could shave one of our legs. I told
my friend Eric that I would give him seven dollars if he would let her do it. So while he
was upstairs getting his leg shaved I grabbed one of his shoes and took out the money he
had in it which happened to be seven dollars. I took the money upstairs and handed it to
him. When he came down he went to put the money in his shoe and noticed there was no money
in there. It took him a minute to figure out that he was tricked into shaving his leg for
nothing and was kind of pissed. But after a while he didnt care any more. We always think
of that time and laugh. It was pretty mean though.

Driving

The first time I got behind the wheel I knew driving was going to be tough.  I kicked the
acceleration and I flew faster than the eye could see I kicked the brakes and then my head
flew forward and back giving me some sever wiplash.  I looked over my right arm seeing my
dad holding his head with his hands.  Then I tryed again this time a little more carefully
and I zoomed around the parking lot with ease.  After driving for two weeks in the parking
lot I finally tryed the real road.  I drove around somehow not hitting anything and I
actually did pretty good too.  And now I can easly drive around town of course I dont have
my license until March though.  But I cant wait until I can drive around freely without
someone breething down on my neck.

The meanest thing

The meanest thing that I ever heard of someone doing was a teenager slashing some other teenagers tires. I couldn't imagine what this person could have done to deserve having to buy maybe 1000$ or more worth of new tires, Plus how expensive it is for teenagers to get insurance.I bet it was just some small fight between people calling eachother names and someone got all pissed off and decided on this genious idea. Another mean thing I've heard is all the shallow people I see these days. All these teenagers judging by looks, refusing to date a ugly person, and getting rewarded with lots of money whenever they ask for it from their parents.

Mean

I hate mean kids. All they do is pick on other people for attention and were prob. picked on themselves. Then all he kids they pick on feal bad about them selfes and may not be compelled to do n/e thing because they dont want to go so they dont get made fun of. I remember there was one kid in elemntry school who got picked on all the time. so he got so mad at everyone he just started embarassing himself. One day he went to school and decided to put poop in the desks. It was nasty but he only did it because people picked on im so much.

i got lost in two places!!!

When I was like 8 or 10 I got lost in supersaver and It was scary and I was really mad I dont even know how I got lost. Ok anyway I was also got lost in target and my mom made the people there call my name over the intercom and I was soooooooooooo mad at my mom and it was so embarrasing im never getting lost again! It sucked!

Cold Equation

The Cold Equation story was ok. I didnt like the fact that they killed people who weren't supposed to be on the EDS. I also thought that the fuel issue was kind of stupid. Why would they only give the space craft just enough fuel to get to the destination? What if something would happen and they would go off course just a little bit? Other than that I thought the the idea of living on other planets was pretty creative. 

When You Get Older

When I get older I will have gone to college, have a good job, and have a nice house.  I
will be married and might have kids.  I hope my job is fun, as well as it paying a large
amount of money.  Also, I want to take lots of vacations like skiing trips, cruises, trips
to tropical islands, and just trips just to go and sit around and relax.  I hope to
someday retire and just chill and and relax.  I hope to still have enough money to buy
nice things even after I am retired.  I think all older people should be able to relax,
have nice places, and not have to work. will have gone to college, have a good job, and
have a nice house.  I will be married and might have kids.  I hope my job is fun, as well
as it paying a large amount of money.  Also, I want to take lots of vacations like skiing
trips, cruises, trips to tropical islands, and just trips just to go and sit around and
relax.  I hope to someday retire and just chill and and relax.  I hope to still have
enough money to buy nice things even after I am retired.  I think all older people should
be able to relax,
have nice places, and not have to work.

Fast or Slow

Alright well I know many things that go very fast and very slow. Something very fast for example is a racecar, they are extremely fast and very noisy. A thing that moves very slow, for example, is my school days. They are always very slow and it seems like classes go on for way too long. Although something that moves fast is summer vacation, for it is always a fun time, time goes by very fast and before you know it you're being dragged to back to school supply shopping and getting some new clothes your grandma bought you. Another slow thing is my grandma, she walks very very slow. Something that goes by fast is time on the computer. I spend so much time on the computer and its amazing how fast time flies when your talking to people and watching videos on You tube. Something that goes by slow for me is reading, I could read for an hour and it would feel like I'd been there for 2 hours. 

I would give this book a 5 out of 10, i didnt find the book very good but it had me interested. I didnt find the over all setting of the book to be very realistic, however the facts used in the book seemed accurate. The book was about a starship cruiser  heading for a far away planet with medical supplies for a station of men whos camp was hit by a tornado. The story really starts when the person controlling the ship discovers there is another body on board and he knows whne he finds it he is to rid of it immediatly due to lack of fuel, he discovers it is a female, somtheing that never had happened before. She still has to be killed so the others on the ar planet can be saved. I cannot really relate any of this to anything in my life.

Older

When i was young i didnt have a care in the world. I could do what ever when ever nothing to do no responsabilties. I always remember playign outside and swinning or playing baseball. Outside was my favorite. Then i went into school. School was horrible i had to be inside and be sitting down and actually think. My favortite past of school was recess. Playing outside on the equiptment and playing tag. Then i got into highschool. This place was the worst cause there was no recess and the only way to go outside was if you were a junior or older. When i get even older and get out of school i hope to be a architect and that pays alot. so after that i will retire so i can play with my grand kids so they can have as much fun out of school as i did

The Cold Equation

I think the cold equation was a decent story, but it was rather boring at some points.  For instance there was to much talking and not enough action.  The story was realistic for a science fiction story.  The main characters seemed realistic and like they could be actual people living today.  The only thing that I didnt like about the story was there was too much diolaug in the story and not enough action taken by the characters.  Overall the story was ok but a little boring.

To fast or to Slow

Some peope go way to fast and some people go way to slow. The people that go fast usually are in alot of extra things like sports or extra learning programs. They get to caught up in thieir lives and think they need more and more things to do. They usually hang out with friends every chance they get and go to bed late and wake up early ready to go. People that go to slow usually dont care. They are carefree in heir life and dont want to be included in activities. They like to be alone and are usually very creative. All in all its nto good to be a fast person or a slow person you need to be included but never over do it.

My dinner guests would have to be Al Pacino, The Gunny, Hugh Hefner, and Sean Connery...cuz all of those guys frackin rock. haha this is pretty lame..ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie i love pie

Summary of Cold Equation

Well, The Cold Equation wasn't exactly a great book in my opinion, but since I must do this for points I will summarize it for you. It is a science fiction novel written 20+ years ago. It starts out explaining how this man goes on a mission yadda yadda, he finds out a girl is somehow on the ship messing up the weight without him noticing. He informs her it's protocol to kill her so she decides its necessary to explain herself. She says she got on so she could visit her brother on his mission because she missed him etc. etc. Then he tells her sorry a bunch and then she talks to her brother over radio, writes 2 notes, and then gets killed. The end. 

Cold Equations...........

ok so i thought the book was ok well it was kind boring and judging from the way i did on the little quiz thing... i didnt really pay attention so i guess it just bored me and i dont like that genre of books but it was allllllllllll right i guess but it just needed more suspense more excitment and it was totally opposite in my opinion of course. but anyway from how i heard it this girl got on to this ship to go see her brother and was caught and had to pay the consiquences of dying kinda sad if you ask me but then in the end she got to write letters to her parents and brother and actually got to talk to her bro before dying and thats it. 

Driving

I think Driving is boring unless it is a manual transmission.  It gives you something 
else to do, and you have lots more control over the car.  Also you dont have as many 
transmission problems. Still, lots of people dont like them.  It might be that people 
are too lazy to drive, or maybe it is to hard in traffic. Overall I think most people 
dont want one because they are too lazy, or just dont think they can learn.

O and did I mention that there are some horrible drivers in Lincoln and they shouldnt be 
allowed to drive.  It makes me mad that insurance is more for guys than it is for 
girls.  I mean, shure we drive faster, and try to show off, but we are way better 
drivers than most of them.  They get in lots of accidents too.  You see all of these 
girls talking on their phone the whole time they drive, or texting people.   It may not 
be true but its just my opinion that you should be paying more attention while you 
drive.  Cars are expensive and I Had too pay lots for mine and I drive very carefully so 
I dont crash it.  Maybe it is the fact that I care so much about the car, or maybe I am 
just a good driver, but whatever the reason I think everyone should drive more 
carefully.  I also think they should raise the speed limit.   I like following the law 
most of the time so I follow the speed limit, but I know that most people dont so I 
think they should raise it so we all can go faster.  I also think that they should make 
it so there is no speed limit on the interstate, just like the autobaun.  Not that many 
people die on the autobaun.  I think it would give people a place to drive as fast as 
they wanted so we would have less people going dangerous speeds here in Lincoln.

My thoughts in the Cold Equation

My thoughts on this short story is it was an over all ok book. There were some things that were hard to believe, like how they didn't know that the girl was on the ship. It had it's ups and downs just like any other book does. I also thought that killing her was a bit harsh to say the least, all she wanted to do was see her older brother. I understand that the pilot didn't have enough fuel but couldn't they maybe have sent another ship to get her? There's a lot of controversy over this book, but I think that some of the things people say like this book was unrealistic and that this book was bad is kind of over exagerating a little bit. That's my opinion about this story.

The Cold Equation

This story is about a man named Barton on a ship called the EDS and his mission is to deliver medical supplies to a crew on a planet that got hit by a tornado and are in serios need for medical attention.  The problem is the EDS only supplies just enough fuel for the pilot and his supplies to make it to this new planet and there is another person on board.  With the extra weight of the other person the EDS won't have enough fuel to make it to the planet and it will surely crash and kill all people on board and without the medical supplies the six injured men will die also.  Want he doesn't expect is the fact that a girl is the stowaway and his concious wouldn't let him shoot a harmless girl.  Through out the story the pilot tries to find a way to save her, but it is nearly impossible and she must be  sent into space to die.  So she writes two letters to her loved ones and manages to get to talk to her brother on last time before she goes, and he was also the reason she boarded the ship was to see him on this planet.  So in the end she is shut in the airlock and cast out into harsh space to die.  The pilot and her family will never forget her.

MEAN TIMES

The meanest thing that I could do to someone would be to steal from them.  I think stealing is one of the lowest things that you could do.  Stealing really shows how much you care for someone even if you don't know them.  Stealing shows that you have no respect, if you steal I have no respect for you.  I have stolen before but I regret it so much after I did it.  There are all sorts of mean people in this world and I have seen some unbelieveable mean things be done to people.  The meanest thing that I have done was when I was about 12 years old.  I was being baby-sat and I was with some of my daycare kid's and all of us kids decided to go out side.  When we went out side we all figured out that there was nothing to do so we were going to go to Roberts Park.  There it was, a CRAB APPLE TREE.  The tree was glowing for determination to get rid of some crab apples.  First we started to pick the crab apples off of the trees and then we see cars going by.  We decide to try and see if we could hit the oncomming car's with the apples.  I think I was the one that threw the first crab apple, then all of my friends decided to join in.  About ten minutes later we see a cop car driving up on us and we all diped, most of my friend's went into the house but I didn't have time so I went and hid behind a garbabe can.  Of course the cop goes to the daycare and ask's where is the other boy that was with you, to all of my friends, they were like I don't know.  I knew that if the cop wanted to look for me then she would find me.  At the end my friends sold me out and I was the only one to blame.  They said I was the only one who was throwing the crab apples and they were the ones just picking them.  Nothing really happened to me after it was all said and done, I think the cop just talked to my mom and I of course got the shit yelled out of me.  I didn't care, I knew I messed up and I had to pay the  consequences for my action's.  I just thought it was messed up how I was sold out and my friend's kind of back stabed me.  Life is a Bitch Till You Die. Stick with that saying becasue it is true.

When i heard that m coach had the N***** word panited on his car.  First i didnt really think it was a big deal.  Cause i was kinda pissed at some of his choice of words he said to our team the night before.  I really started to think though and i really don't like that word and it should bever be used.  It shouldnt even be used by ANY race.  Who cares if you are black you dont need to say it, it's giving other people the thought that it's okay to say that.  Then coach said that a kid at the gastation saw it and so did his kids.  That was a big shock to me really.  It's very pathetic that someone would do that and if it is someone the team knows we have all decided to HANDLE it.  Everyone is not the nicest but that is no reason to do vandilism.  The thing that gets me is that he is not even black.  So what was the purpose of that.  It was very upsetting to me.  

    Since I have to wright about something, I will give a little advice to the new drivers out there. Stay away from any man 0ver 70 who is wearing a hat. Especially it it has ear flaps. And anyone who has kids in their car. They are inconcetorate for outhers and are not paying attention. If you hit them, they will sue even though it was probally their fault.

i was sitting in my class at greco middle school in tampa florida watching the second plane hit the towers. at the time i found it very sad and thought about all those peoples lives but now five years later i just consider it a part of history something that happened. the thing that i dislike the most about it is how our so called president handled things and that five years later the falling of the towers has done so much more to other countries then it did to ours and were the ones that were under attack. 

Where I was and What I think about the anniversery of the attacks

When September 11th, 2001 happened I was in 6th grade doing my science home work. When we
heard the news about the fist plane hitting the World Trade Centerover the intercome The
television was turned on to the news channel so we could watch what was happening in New
York. I found out later in the day that there was another plane that hit the Pentagon,
after the attacks on the Twin Towers. Since the attacks on September 11th, 2001 I've saved
an article or two about the event. Some of them have pictures in them. I don't think that
I'm to affected by the attacks. I also think that they over did the anniversery of the
attacks and that it shouldn't be a huge thing like they make it out to be. Since the
attacks our country has gone into over protection mode and its just going to get worse
every year that passes. I also think that Bush is an idiot and should be taken out of
office for reacting to this crisis, if you want to call it that, instead of leaving the
problem and dealing with it a different way he choose to go to war with inocent people.

there are many things and people that help me enjoy life! first of all i could not go a day without hearing music or having many songs running through my head. i love to eat and its my favorite thing to do because you can do it when you are doing just about anything else. my friends are one of the best things about my life. i keep the ones i trust close and they are the people i know i could depend on for just about anything. nothing comes close to my family though. my mother and brother are crazy and would do anything for me which is something i dont know my friends would do. i truely enjoy my down time when i have nothing else going on or when no one else is at home. during this time i do the things i love the most such as reading eating watching movies ( not a big fan of tv ) doing yoga or just taking a nap. i think it is important to enjoy the little things in life as much as the big ones and to take everyday as it comes. i have delt with many bad things in my life but there is no point in letting them get me down!

Remembering September 11, 2001

On September 11, 2001 I was 11 years old and I was in 6th grace. Everyday before school I would watch Good Morning America. So that morning after I was done getting ready for school I turned on the T.V. to see the first of the twin towers on fire. Puzzled and confused I told my mom what i saw and she thought that they were re-showing the attacks that were made to the twin towers in 1993 but I told her "No mom, theres a thing in the corner that says that this is Live". My moms face immediately got that paniced look on her face as she ran to the phone to call my dad, who works for the United States Department of Agriculture, a part of the United States government, because my dads family lives in New York City. As I watched in disbelief I saw the 2nd plane hit. I was scared. I could tell that this was making my mom un-easy but she just tried not to show it. She took us to school and when she dropped us off we started to get out of the car and she said to come back in and shut the door. We were all confused but we listened she told us that we needed to pray because they were attacking the government. After the talk with my mom my brother, sister, and I continued our day with school. I remember walking in and everybody was confused and had their T.V.'s on all day long. I remember being in art class-my teacher didnt have a T.V. so we listened to everything that was unfolding on it, we heard the pentagon being flown into, and when the 2 towers collapsed. We were all shocked. I remember walking back to class after we had heard that and we were all asking how the towers had fell, we all thought they just toppled over to the side but my teacher explained to us that it was not like that so he turned back on the T.V. for awhile but then we had to continue on with our day. When school was over I remember that my dad and mom had come to pick us up which was unusual because my dad was usually at work until 5. My mom told us that my dads office along with the rest of his building had been sent home for the day. September 11th is a day that I will never forget, I realize now that its a much bigger deal than it had seemed 5 years ago. I will never forget how scared I was that day and how scared my parents were. September 11, 2001, is a day that I will never forget...

Sunshine of the Day

The sunshine in my life is everyday when the last bell rings for school to get out.I go and hang out with my friends and decide on something to do.We usually just do the usual,but sometimes I have to go to work.Working is the most boring thing that you can do, next to sitting in school for 5 hours everyday.So when I have work, my day just turns into shit.     School is one of those things that you can't avoid,not to much anyway.But for the most part school isn't to hard at all.The only bad part is actually coming.So altogether my week goes by pretty good, with the exception of work.

Things that generally make me happy

Some of the things that make my day are the people passing me in the hallways smiles, I love talking to my friends that talk to me every day. Another thing that makes me happy and is the sunshine of my life is being able to sing and dance a lot of the time. I'm happy about having the classes that I do. My sister and her fiancee make me smile and laugh a lot that also brightens my day. I've learned to enjoy the smallest things in the world like some one just saying hi to me and also looking over at my friends and them just smiling at me. I really enjoy the fact that my friends and I all like to make each other laugh a lot. For example we like to tickle eachother and tell the dumbest jokes in the world to just make some one smile who's having a bad morning or day. There really isn't anything that doesn't make me happy or the sunshine of my life. I've had many things that make me happy in my life. I've enjoyed my laughing a lot, altough some times it hurts to laugh so much. My co-workers have made me laugh a crap load this month. Most of it was my friend Tony has been able to cause me to laugh for up to 10 minutes straight. Yet I don't mind laughing that much, altough it starts to make my abs hurt. Some one making me smile because I'm having a bad day or that I've got a sad or upset look on my face halps me feel better. 

I love to drive!  Driving is the coolest thing you can do when you turn 16, there are some other cooler thing's but who cares about those, wee are talking about driving.  I like to drive becasue it is some what of a stress reliever to me.  I like to go fast in my car, very fast becasue it gives me such a rush knowing that you can go that fast.  I like to give people favor's, like pick them up from school or something because when I couldn't drive my friends would always come pick me up and we would all go places together.  It was either that or we didn't hang out at all.  I drive a LS 400 Lexus, Perl White.  It is a beautiful car to have for a first car.  I haven't got any ticket's or nothing and I have been driving for over six month's or so, that's pretty good that I haven't had a ticket yet.  My dad would take away my car from me if I got a speeding ticket, maybe that's why I haven't got a speeding ticket.  I have a big yellow short bus for a car too.  Me, Dad, and some of my friend's all helped build the bus.  We toor all of the seats out of it and put carpet in it.  The bus has a $1400 stero system in it and it hit's hard.  Everyone loves my short bus, when I say everyone I mean everyone.  No one has a bus like mine in lincoln except the husker bus, it's a long one tho.  The bus is a bumpy rid I must say.  We take the bus to go camping and party in.  The bus is licenced as a motar home, so my dad can drink in the bus when I am driving, pretty cool.  I also have a FORD F350 diesel, which is a good truck for halling stuff. Then I have another F150 quarter ton, I like to go mudding in it, that's a blast. 

Not just DINNER!

At my dads house we ususally have lots, and lots of people over to eat becasue my dad makes damn good food.  We live at Thomasbrook Apts. right by Holmes Lake, my dad and I know a lot of people that live at the apartment's, some good, some bad.  Only the good come over to our house and eat.  I can't even start to think about how many people have came over to our house and ate.  Our friends don't just come over for dinner, they come for lunch, breakfest ( sometimes ).  I think the most people that I have seen to eat dinner, was at my grandmas house every year and especially at Christmas, that is when my Grandma & my Mom, plus all of her sister's and sister's in LaW, make some of the best tasting food that I have ever had in my whole life.  Sometimes I don't like having company for dinner although I do like having friends over all of the time, and I am usually with a friend all of the time.  The reason I like to eat by myself I becasue it gives me time to think and relax.  You have to admit food is GOOD! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARN'T COOKING!

9/11

I look back on the events of 911 with sadness and anger.  I believe we should have gone 
to war to kill them.  I also believe that we are doing the right things over here, for 
instance we are stepping up security at airports trying to prevent anymore attacks from 
the air.  I also think we should check people out more closely before they enter our 
country.  Im not one hundred percent for ratial profiling but muslims seem to be the 
only ones hijacking aircraft so maybe we should do more detailed searches on people 
coming from the middle east.  They arent too smart if they think they can beat us.  We 
are the most powerful country in they world.  We have the best miliatary in the world, 
and the best government in the world.  What are they thinking there is no way they will 
survive fighting us.  We will hunt them down and kill them all.

the story  was about the future and how they are so different and edvanced that it's spooky. They go into space and they have only enough fuel to carry what it's told to carry, and this fifteen year old girl desides to get on without telling anyone ( a stowaway) and the whole reson she wants to go is she wants to see her brother who she hasn't seen for a long time, and since he never has time to see her she thinks it's a good idea to surprise him. It all backfires when they are in space and there is a problem the ship is loseing to much fuel and they don't know why until they find the stowaway usually when there is a stowaway there orders are to get rid of it. Sadly they have to get rid of her and they don't want to but in order for that ship shes on to save 6 other members that need help, they have to choose between a 15 year old girl and 6 other members in witch her brother is one. So she has an hour to pass on in other words to get rid of her. And she desides that she is going to give up her life to save 6 others and shes ok with it. 
 
 
I liked the part were she remembers all those nice things her brother has done for her. And how she is thankfull for all the things that she has taken for granted. 

the cold equation

                    In that story I thought that they should have checked the ship for stowaways before they took off into space. I was kind of surprised when the pilot sucked the   
young girl out to space. I really thought that she was going to be able to get to the planet  
and be with her brother.When the story first started I thought the life form on the ship was going to be a man or maybe even an alien not a young girl, I was surprised.when the pilot first found the girl I thought he was going to launch her out to space right away, at first when they said that they had to kill the stowaways I thought that the man was going to have to shoot the young girl with a ray gun or something but I was wrong. When the story first started I didnt think that it was going to be futuristic I thought it was going to be modern day, so when they said that they would have to kill the stowaway I figured out that it was in the future.

Summary of The Cold Equation

The Cold Equation is a story about a girl, named Marilyn, who snuck onto the Stardust, to go see her older brother Gerry.  Barton, the person flying the Stardust to deliver medical supplies to a camp whose campsite got destroyed by a tornado, finds out there is a stowaway on the ship.  Marilyn is found out and has to be executed for sneaking onto the ship.  Marilyn has 1 hour before she has to die, and during that time she writes two letters, one for her mom and dad, and one for her brother. But before she is executed she gets to talk to her brother on the radio and they get to say goodbye.

just a few cool people

ok so if i got to invite some people to a dinner it would have to hotties! like andy roddick cause he's so cute and really good at tennis even though i dont like tennis . and i would invite some cool bands like the new edition to sing my favorie song to me ya know old school stuff our parents listened to i dont know why but it would just be cool and i would invite jack black cause he is so funny and will ferrel fo sho! i need my funny guys. and also maybe the two kids from the suit life of zach and cody they are so funny and hannah montana casue she just rocks my world!!! and probably like micheal jordan that would be pretty sweet casue he could teach me some skills even though im pretty good anyways so thats it for now  

Driving

I cant drive yet well at least legally i cant but i cant wait till i do. My dad is making
me learn on a stick shift and its not very easy to learn. He shifts i drive luckly we
havent crashed yet. One other reason i am excited is because my dad owns 5 sweet cars. A
BMW a TR7 a TR3 A MG and my favorite 1989 Porsha 911 that i will be driving all the time
except school  cause im not dumb someone will mess with it. My favorite part of driving is
goin fast  the fastest i have gone in the porsha is 120 and thats when my dad was racing
in the porsha club. 

Universal Studios

The best vacation of my life was when I went to Universal Studios.  It was so much fun I
had to go back one more time after that.  Well anyways this is my story of going to
Universal Studios.I walked up to the front gate my eyes focused on the other side seeing
all the rides and attractions.  We entered through the gate my heart pounding.  We walked
up to the first ride, it was King Kong.  We waited in line for what seemed like hours
until finally we got on the tram that guided the ride through the city.  We left the ride
then went on Jaws, Earthquacke, Men in Black and many more.  Finally the day was gone it
seemed like it went so fast, but I would be back tomorrow for more fun.  I woke up bright
and early at around seven  A.M. I think.  We ate, got dressed, and jumped in the car back
to Universal Studios.  This time we entered the gate across from the one we entered
before, this time we were going to Isalnd's of Adventure.  I stepped up to the front gate
and entered.  All of the sudden I was ingulfed by noises of fun and joy along with screams
from fear.  We started out by going Spider Man the ride.  There was a huge line, we had to
wait for ever.  But finally we made it to the front and got in.  We flew through the city
with Spider Man battling villians of all kinds.  When the ride was over we then went to
Jurrasic Park the  ride.  There was even a bigger line than there were for Spider Man.  We
got into the cart and it started up right away.  we drifted through the dinosaur habitat
on a raft.  Then a dinosaur knocked us off course and we were headed straight for the
carnivore section.  Raptors snapped at us from left and right trying to take some flesh
with them.  Then out of the darkness in front lights turned on revealing a T-Rex.  It
roared at us as it ingulfed us in it mouth.  We then splashed into the water after going
down a 100 foot straight downwards drop.  Next we went to the Incredible Hulk Coaster. 
There wasn't a huge line for this ride at least I coudnt blame them though.  I stood in
front of the heaping green metal as it looped people around.  I got into the car, the head
piece fastened over my arms.  Then all of the sudden we shot out faster than a bullet.  we
looped around the coaster so fast it was hard to tell if we were upside down are rightside
up.  It was over I stumbled out of the car a little dizzy.  We went on some more rides and
watched a few shows, then we left.  But it was not over yet, we were coming back tonight
for Haloween Horror Nights.  We went back to the hotel ate supper and headed back to
Universal Studios at 6:30 and arived there at 7:00.  Fog poored at of the front entrance
as I stepped through the front entrance.  I heard screams and chainsaws roaring in the
air, the perfect recipe for terror.  We walked through the park creatures of all kinds
trying grabbing us as we made it to the first haunted house.  I dont remember all    of
the haunted houses but they were pretty scary.  One haunted house was a house with mirros
inside  every corridor and room.  There were also many more that were just as good.  By
the end of  the night I was scared stiff.  We left a little after midnight.  Universal
Studios was over but Disney World was tomorrow.

Six Flags

Riding rollercoasters is one of my favorite things to do. A couple of summers ago I got to
go to Six Flags, Los Angeles with my uncle Eric to ride lots of rollercoasters. It was
probably the best vacation I ever went on. We rode so many rollercoasters I cant even
remember all of them, but the one that sticks out most in my mind was called The Goliath.
The first drop on that coaster was really high and we went down that hill at about 80
miles per hour. It was really scary but also really really fun at the same time. I havent
made it back to Six Flags but I will someday soon. I think my uncle and I are going to try
to go to the rollercoaster park in Ohio because some of the biggest coasters are there. 

The cold equation

This book was alright in my opinion but it was weird as well.Even though I thought the book was not so great the author still had an mind of imagination.The story line I thought wasnt so great because it was sort of boring and thety really didnt do much on the ship but really sit there and talk about what they were going to do with the girl.This book did teach me a lesson on somethings such as when she was told not to go see her brother for another year she didnt listen and got on the ship to go there and see her brother but since she snuck on to the ship its consiqence was her to kill herself by jumping out the cargo hold.At the end she just had to make everything better by ttelling her brother that she was going to die and just wanted to give her last words to her brother so that she died happy.

The Cold Equation

I did not like the book because I am not interested in that kind of material.  Also I dont think anyone else would like the book either.  I like books that are more realistic than The Cold Equations, and I thought that it was not very believable. Overall I thought it was not interesting, but it was not a horrible story.

The Cold Equation

The cold equations was about a man found a girl stowaway on his ship. If she was a man, he would've thrown her out immediately. But this was a different situation. This was an 18 year old girl who all she wanted to do was to see her bother. Barton didnt want to "throw" the girl out into space to die but he had no choice. Before hey would've reached the others, there ship would've crashed due to the weight. So he called records and gave them her information and identity. The Captain gave the girl 1 hour to live. She then wrote to letters to her family and brother. She also wanted to talk to her brother and tell him the bad news. Right before he was out of reach, he called in and she told him what had happened. He was in shock to hear her voice because he knew what was going to have to happen. Once the time came, she wasnt as afraid anymore because she knew what he had to do so they both didn't crash. He put her the the airlock, opened the door, and she was gone.

The Cold Equation Summary

The Cold Equation is a sci-fi story set in a futuristic time period where technology allows humans to live on planets and in space.  The story features a young woman who stows away on an EDS ship delivering medicine to a colony on Woden.  The young lady hears that the EDS is flying to Woden, where her brother is stationed, and decides to stow away to visit her brother.  Little did she know that stowing away on the ship would cost her life.  When the pilot first detects another life aboard the EDS he is prepared to find a man and either shoot him or make him enter the airlock.  He is shocked and unprepared to find a young woman and is hurridley trying to find out how he could save the young womans life.  He finally explains to her what it means to stow away on an EDS ship, that the ship did not have enough fuel to carry her weight, and the end result would be fatal.  The pilot has a decision to make at that point, allow the young woman to stay on the ship and let the group of six people on Woden die along with himself and the young woman or, at some point, make the young woman leave the ship. After contacting the Stardust, the pilot finds the girl has approximately one hour to remain on the ship.  The girl decides to spend her final moments writing a letter to her parents and to her brother.  The piolet tries to contact the young woman's brothers base on Woden and at first fails to get ahold of him. The girl spends some time remembering how her brother has influenced her and how he has been there for her.  Eventually her brother contacts them and the girl decides because their is nothing left for her to stay on board for, she would go to the airlock willingly and bravely.  

The Cold Equation

I dont the book was very exciting. I think the guy in the book was sexest and he should have treated the girl on the ship like everyon else. I also think that the technology would be good enough to detect the girl on the ship or there would b a security team guarding the ship. The man in the story should have kicked the girl off right when he saw her. He should have also not wasted fuel by letting the girl wait to talk to her brother or wast the time of letting her write letters to her family. I do not like the idea of compuers deciding how things happen in our life or having computers do our safty check because there could b a malfunction of a virus. They should also provide more fuel for problems or other thing that could happen on the journy. I think it was a sad story and the girl should have seen her brother or have been kicked off sooner. She should have not talked to her brother on the intercom and she should not have wrote to her brother. Even though she didnt know wht she was doing she shoulg have still been punished for her actions.

The Cold Equations

I didn't like the book that well because it was scifi and i don't like those kinds of books.              the whole book took place in space and i like different settings. 

The Cold Equation

I didn't like The Cold Equation.  I thought it was a dumb story.  It was also kind of boring.  I also didn't like listening to it because that just made the story even worse.  I probably didn't like it as much either because I usually don't like reading science fiction books anyway.  I think it would have been better if the girl ended up living or if it wasn't so dramatic.  The sory might be better if there was a better reader becasue the guy who read it had a flat voice.  I think there also should have been a way to detect extra weight on the ship before they left Earth.  If the story was different in that way then I don't think it would have been as boring and the whole situation would have been avoided.  It would have been more exciting if something good happened.  Like if they guy got killed instead or if they just left it and let her stay in the ship.  It took a really long time for the guy to kill the girl just becasue she was a girl, which got pretty boring because he just kept talking about her and how she was so young.  Inbetween him finding her and her being killed nothing really happened.  All they really did was talk and write letters.  They could have ended  the story differently by letting the girl live or by having the ship crash instead. 

Summary of The Cold Equation

The Cold Equation is a sci-fi story set in the future where the people have established space colonies. The pilot of an EDS is taking a shipment of medicine to a colony on a planet called Woden. An 18 year old girl stowed away on the ship hoping on being able to see her brother who was stationed on a different area of Woden. The pilot of the EDS discovered her and knew that he had to kill her. Had it been a man he would have immediately done his job but seeing as she was only a girl he stopped. He called the Stardust which was the ship the girl was supposed to be on headed for Mimir and they replied that they could not come to pick up the girl, they didn't have enough fuel. The girl had not realized that in stowing away on the ship she had sealed her fate. The EDS did not have enough fuel to carry her weight with it and if she stayed the EDS would crash and the six people waiting for the medicine would die along with the pilot and herself. She asked if she could talk with her brother before being jetisoned and they made the call to his area. Once they were in contact with him she had little time but managed to talk to him before the area went out of range. Once she had said goodbye to her brother she willingly walked into the airlock.

Driving

I got mi permit on January 17th and started driving in April. I was really nervous at first because my mom isn't an easy rider. So I was really nervous on how her reaction would be if I made a mistake. But i got through it and she promisesd that she wouldn't flip out on me if I did make a mistake. On the secong week of June when school got out, me and Courtney took driver's ed at Lincoln High. Our instuctor was really word and he always acted like he didn't want to be there at all. He was really boring and was kind of negative most of the tome adn tried to be funny. Joel H.P. was in our class too with Kayla Esslinger. We always we in a group when we had to stuff like look at traffic and see what people were doing wrong. That was REALLY boring and we didn't pay attentio. He let us have a 30min break everyday and all we really did was watch movies most of the time.  Me and courtney both passed and ready to get out car. In July, we got a white '99 Plymouth Breeze. We were really excited! So we've been driving everywhere with our parents (mainly our mom). The one thing that makes us mad is that we won't be able to drive it to school until next semester in January! 

The Cold Equation

The Cold Equation story is going to go deliver medical supplies. It is about this girl Marilyn Lee Cross's brother who is working and facing a crisis they just suffered from a tornado. So Marilyn sneaks on a ship and get caught. The ship is called EDS. Marilyn has been forced to leave the ship, but there is not where to go accept stay there. So Marilyn wanted to talk to her brother Gerry before she died. So they got him on the radio and they talked for a while. Her brother was a little upset at first but then he did not want her to die unhappy. She has one hour before she was going to die. The last person she talked to was her brother. While waiting to die, Marilyn has a memory of her brother that he replaced her kitten that had died. Before she died she also wrote two letters. At the end of the story Marilyn passes away. 

I have been driving for two years now.  I always thought that i would be a good driver and never get in an accident.  This year was a different story.  I was hit by a kid that goes here to southeast.  He was driving on a side street and going towards 40th and then he didn't even stop when he got to 40th just kept going towards the school.  I was going like 25 and he was going like 35 or 40. I tried stoping but it was to late he had already hit my bummper and tore it off. I was very mad.  I didn't have a phone so i couldn't call the cops so he had a phone and called them.  My friends pulled up and they had a camra so i took pictures of the wrek, and the street signs.  Then the cops got there and he took both our statements.  We both agreed that he was at fault. Then my boyfriend came and picked me up and took me home.  I was so scared of my mom.  when i called her she kept saying it ws my fault but it wasn't.  She met me at the car shop and was shocked about my car.  I still was very mad i was stuck with out a car for a while.  So the insuance companies totalled the car out and gave me the money.  

The day of 9/11 it was a normal day.  I went to scott middle school.  We all went to class and by 2 maybe 3 period TV's were taken out.  The news was getting turned on and no one knew what was going on.  Teachers made us got to our next class.  We rushed to our next class and a TV was there to.  Teacher had a sad look on thier faces and students just looked worried. The bell rigns and our teacher begans talking.  One airplane had run into the worldtrade centers then someone in the back of the room says "LOOK"!  Another plane went through the Tradecenters, the teacher looked very consirned.  The kids really didn't know what was the big deal.  Then as the day went on and we got more and more feedback from teachers.  We were informed it was a terrorist attack. The through the halls all day there were racist jokes about arbian people.  People of my age just didnt understand.  I went home just to make sure we didnt know any one who may have been there.  Luckly my uncle had just got back from Newyork that weekend.  For some many people it was not lucky.  Dads, Moms, Husbads, and Wifes were all effected by this.  We are all sympathtic for the ones who did not make it.  They make movies and write books so we remember or here their stories.  The truth is that we will never forget the day the time and the stories.  It put a big dent in our pride. Now we are more safe in airports and more structured fighting back.  When in the first place we should have been safe the whole time.  I really admire the people who fought back on the third airplane.  They had pride and loved thier country.  That is who i really remember when this day comes, is the people who stood up for each other.  What courage they had to know what was in front of them.  The people who also were having just another day in the office and suddenly their lives taken away in a flash.  Those people i grife about. What they suffered i want no other person to ever have to go through. I think that our country did need a wake up call i feel bad it was this way but that's what it took.  People dieing is what got our attention.  It's sad and I am very sympathtic for everone who was hurt and killed.  I pray for all and hope the best for all.   

Return

   Walking into the building again a sinking feeling came over me.  Another summer gone and another year at southeast staring me in the face. Another year of the same classes. Another year of the same rude people who don't care about their education. Another year of wathing the public school system erode around me. Another year in this prison. 
   Ever since the 80's the public schools have moved the slow kids and the smart kids into the average kid classes as part of reagans mainstreaming program. The overworked and underpaid techers spend most of their time helping the slow kids. Because of this the quality of education for everyone else declines. People alwas complain about our public schools but refuse to shell out the few dolars it would take to fix this mess. To them I say who will pay for your retirement. Their company pensions will freeze or fall through if current trends keep up. Placing the responsibility on their children.  
   I am thankfull that I only have two years left until graduation. I know know how the prisioner feels carving tally marks into the wall day after day. I just hope I can make it out of here with my good GPA. My sanity and my life. But at this point, I know I can after surviving this long. 

If I could have anybody over to my house for dinner it would be with the Boston Red Sox-David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Jason Varatek, Curt Schilling, Johnathan Papelbon, Gabe Kapler, Wily Mo Pena, and many many others. I would love to have them over for dinner because they are my favorite baseball team players and it'd be really cool to sit down and have dinner with them. I'm not sure what we would eat though but i can say that it would be really good. We'd talk about how good/bad the team is and how much we hate the New York Yankees :)! That would be who i would have over for a special dinner!

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9/8/06 
There s many famous people id want to eat at my dinner table ,but there s one  that is  not that I would. People that have passed away some were not dear to me ,and some that were. Recently a close friend of the family has died he was only 23 who played in the hockey world.The hockey world to let you know is like a family it's the people who share a passion for the game ,but not to an excess they just plain out love being around it. It's the friends and family watching you who family knows another family so on and so fourth. The hockey world bring many younger people to gether ,you could have friend all over the U.S even in different countries some even in your backyard there everywhere its to hard to explain ,but if you haven't experined it you need to if possible. Now , our dear friend who died was only 23 had a girlfriend ,a close family of two sisters and two married parents. He was killed in a work related accident and it stunned everybody encluding the hockey world. I am here in Lincoln now ,and guys on my team even heard about it even though not having played with them and not even knowing who he was ,but through friends in the hockey world. My dad who is close friend with joeys ( who had died) dad had a gift to give to joey it was a puck. To some this is igsificant to others this would mean the world ,but honestly only the die hard hockey world could understand the puck and the words my dad wrote on that puck. My dad wrote upon the puck “ On perfect ice, the eternal game , you will be missed my young friend to all that new you” , I think what my dad meant by all that new you was the entire hockey world that stood by his side. This puck was placed in his casket ,it was close later that day and people will mourn his loss. One thing that sticks with me that I d only wish his family could of seen was that of a bird flying right over the tent that lie over the casket. The thing that got me was that the bird was circling around the very top of the tent just after his father had spoke poir to lowering joey into the ground. I like to think that was him and he listened to every parting word that his family had to say ,but when his dad finshed saying his goodbye the bird flew off into the distance. After those days seein how familys react to a loved one who wasn't ready to go was an eye opener I relized how precious life really is. Another thought ill leave you with , Life isn't about how long it was , its about what your experinces are in that time. One person could live 100 years being a normal person , but another who was young could have traveled the world see many places won awards and loved like it was your last first love. Joey lived that life a life full of experiseces in 23 great years.R.I.P JCC 
 

My dinner guest...

 
I would invit owen wilson, adam sandler, and will ferell.  It would be so funny.
They would be crackin jokes like the whole time.  I would have some much fun and laughs. 
I would make them margaritia's and me a virgin margaritia.  I would also have suchi food
from the Blue Moon (a good china resturant). I am not a very good cook, but i am a good
party hostessse.  Then we would talk about all there movies.  Well i would also wan them
to tell me about their families. Then i would make sure I get an invit to their houses. 
After the dinner date we would all go to the club. We would dance my favorite thing to do.
I would call my favorite guy in the world to the club which would be Vinc Von.  I love him
he is so funny.  If you have seen wedding crashers then you know that he is a good dancer.
 So he would dance with me then we would all go back to my house and have a sleep over.

Birds, Bugs, Beasts of the Field-08/31/06 
 
	I love animal’s………………….love to shoot animals.  Just kidding.  I love to be out in the nature, get away from the city.  I like to go camping with my friends, in fact I just did last weekend.  Me and four of my friends went out to Kansas to go four wheeling, rock climbing, and dirt bike ridin.  All of us had such a blast. We went to our extremes.  I slept in the back of my pickup, three of the other’s slept in this little Toyota, and then, my bud Toben slept in the cab of my pickup.  Now this topic is about bugs, when Bret was riding his 4 wheeler, I came up to him on my 4 wheeler and I saw this yellow spot on his eyebrow.  I asked him what was on his face, he didn’t know what it was, and then he realized that a bug hit him in the face.  Bret thought it was just a peace of dirt of rock, but a yellow bug actually hit him in the face, I thought it was pretty funny.  I like little bunnies just because there are so fluffy, and I also hate them because they run faster than me, I don’t like anything that can run faster than me.  There are certain bugs I like, I don’t like spiders and I don’t like bee’s, I think it’s because they make me cringe, I might be fobic of something’s but I just don’t realize it. 
 
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When you get older, what do you want to be? –09/06/06 
 
	When I get older, I don’t really care what kind of job I have as long as it pays good.  The main thing that I want to do is go to the navy because you get to see the world for free, and you get paid as you do it, then they pay for 5 years of your college.  I have many job’s that I would want to do, like being a chief.  When I was younger I wanted to be a vet, just because I love animals, and it would make me feel good saving a animals, life.  The main thing that I want in a job is great pay.  I never want to be in debt, that would not be fun.  Just recently I wanted to become a FBI agent and work with the government, like AREA 51, I would be able to see things that no one has or will ever set their eyes on for the rest of their lives.  I thought about being a police officer at one time in my life because I think it would be fun to pull over drunk driver’s and make them take the sobriety test and watch the people fall over and all that good stuff.  Another job I would want to have is when those chefs make all of those candy sculptures out of hard candy that is edible.  I would totally eat my cake, I don’t think I could resist.  The last job that I would like to have would to become a teacher. I would totally like spoil the kid’s, and I wouldn’t make the kid’s feel like they cant talk in class but I would make the kids understand that they aren’t going to talk when I am talking and if they do then I would just assign them more and more home work until they get the point, that would straiten up the kid real quick. 
 
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There have been many times when I have gotten lost now that I have been driving for about 6 month's.  I almost neee a navigation system because I don't know my direction's worth a darn.  The most things that I have lost in my life time has to be pencils and pen's, becasue they are so easy to loose, cause they are so small.  My friend's are a lot better than me on NOT loosing things, becasue they are somewhat smart about where they put their belonging's.  I couldn't count how many thing's I have lost throught my life.  I bet I have lost hundreds and hundreds of thing's, including little nicknacks.  I have absoultely no sense of direction, nothing at all.  I don't like not having a sense of direction but I can't seem to get the hang of knowing where I am going.  It's not just me  that get's lost, I seem to get lost with my friend's, and then they don't know where they are going so it's a loose loose situation.  I don't like direction's.

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State Fairs, Circuses, Amusement Parks-08/30/06 
 
	I love to go to the Nebraska State Fair.  I wouldn’t go to the state fair if I didn’t have any friends to go to the State Fair with.  I like going to the state fair and eat funnel cakes, corn dogs, and caramel covered apples.  I like to go on the rides, and Look at all of the animals.  My family sometimes makes it to the state fair, if their show calves make it to the State Fair but that is if they get a purple ribbon.  I like circuses too, they are lots of fun, more for the little ones, like 10 yrs. Old and younger.  I would have to say amusement parks are the most fun of all.  The reason I like amusement parks more than any of the others is because I love riding the rides, the loops, the spins, the dives, it is just such a rush to me.  I have been on the fastest, tallest rollercoaster in the world, it is called the Top Thrill Dragster. I believe the roller coaster gets up to 113 MPH. and it is 400 some ft. tall.  I think the best Theme Park that I have been to is Cedar Point.  It is the biggest Theme Park that I have ever been to, and maybe that is why it is my favorite also.  There are so many rides, some slow, some fast, some for little kids.  There a lot of game places that you can win all sorts of goodies. 
 
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Beginning the School Year-09/05/06 
 
	Beginning the school year suck’s for everyone, like the first month or so but after that first month you start meeting new people, and new friends.  I don’t like school my-self but I always have in mind that there are only four day’s until the weekend that really help’s but then when I do that the day’s take longer and longer and longer, so I just try not to think about it because nothing can make it go faster besides a polar eclipse.  I wasn’t  looking forward to school, I wanted to go back and I didn’t I wanted to see some of the people I had not seen for awhile, but I wasn’t ready for the drama.  The drama sucks, suck’s, suck’s, and it suck’s.  When you go to school you have to deal with the drama, you have to suck it in.  I am not glad to be back in school, but oh well.  Some of my friends from other schools have came here and that was a nice thing for them to come here.  There was only one person that had come from another school that I wanted to come here and he is a cool fool.  I think there were some people that are glad to be back in school, but I wasn't but now I am cool with it now because I have kind of gotten into the grove.         

Most Memorable Thing in the Last Year-09/050/06 
 
	The most memorable thing that I did in the last year was my summer.  There was a lot of good thing’s that happened to me this summer but there was a lot of things that I didn’t get to do that I would of loved to do.  I was really bummed out about not going to the lake this year, and go wake boarding.  I am going to name a couple of things that made my, year.  One was the fourth of July, that was fun.  My dad had bought some M-80’s, and my buds and I went and got some watermelons, and we put a M-80 in the watermelon inside it, GOD, that was so awesome.  There were a lot of more fun things that happened during the 4th. Of July but that was one thing that made my summer.  Another memorable thing that I will have for the rest of my life is this new girl I met, I lover her to death, I can’t help it.  The whole reason we met was my dad started hanging out with her mom, like friends, and then I met the daughter, Lacey.  She will be in my memories forever.  Me meeting Lacey had to actually be the best thing that had ever happened to me.  We have so much fun together, I actually like doing stuff for her and her mom because Lacey’s mom is really stressed out because of college, and work, so I do anything that can help out a little bit.  The reason I do a lot of stuff for her is because if something goes wrong then I will have good memories of us hanging out and laying next to each other, the reason she is a memorable person to me is because I feel so comfortable with her and I am with her like half my life it seems like. 
 
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Hard Choices OR Difficult Decisions-08/29/06  
 
	I have gone through many hard time and had to make some hard decisions in my life and some of the hard choices I’ve had to make in my life were not always the right decisions for me but my choices could of also bettered someone else besides me.  I would have to say one of the most difficult decisions I had made in my life was, me choosing to live with my dad or my mom, because I didn’t want my mom to be made at me for what I wanted to do.  I had lived with my mom for 13 years and I had got to see my dad every other weekend, plus one day a week, which was Monday most of the time.  Its hard for a kid not to see one of his parents more than another, its stressful, and hard.  When the time was right I made the decision to go live with my dad and I think it was a very good choice for because I think I turned out to be a good kid.  Me only seeing my dad for not even 10% of my life really made me want to go live with him for my high school year.  My mother didn’t want me to go live with my dad because she didn’t like his method of raising a kid.  My dad’s policy for growing up is do what you want but be to work on time or you are getting grounded, and anytime I go to jail, he will only bail me out once. 
	 
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I would like to be into cosmetology.  I really like having an impact on someone everyday.  What better way then to make some one feel good about themselves?  I have always liked messing with hair and makeup.  I like to do nails all the girlie things.  I would like to have my own shop one day.  Recently I have had thoughts of being a teacher.  I would like to teach about tolerance.  Like a holocaust lit teacher.  I think I would just like to have a class dealing with issues that are really touchy in today’s society.  I would like to bring up the issues that people should be informed about.  Yeah people know about all those but are they informed correctly?  Most of the time no, some do but you know how things get passed around.  Its like a phone tag game all stories are different.  I want kids to talk about the issues that even bug them and have discussion in class about them.  	 
 
	The other thing I am having trouble with is if I want to go to a community college or if I want to wait and do the cosmetology.  I haven’t really come up with a solution.  I also could start on my teaching degree and then work at a salon or the other way around.  It is hard trying to figure out what you want to do with your life.  I have found it hard with a single parent that I really have to work hard for what I want. We really don’t have the money to just go blow.  I went to some dorm rooms at UNL and loved them.  I know it would take me a long time to save up money just to live there and go to school.  It would be a dream of mine though.  Things are hard these days my parents are working really hard too.  So my dreams for the future are limited right now.     

Changing schools is probably the most memorable.  It is so different going somewhere and not knowing any one.  Went from knowing every one in my whole graduating class to not knowing a single person.  It really sucks I would like to walk down with all of my friends but right now I just want to walk down.  I miss everything about my old school. The teachers the coaches who all had an impact on me.  Now I’m like a whole new person. I have changed so much and lost touch with so many friends. I saw my old coach just last week and as I was walking up to her all my feelings just drained out.  I could not stop crying.  She just stood there like she didn’t know what to do with, it was kind of funny. She was so nice and offered her number and email.  I will never forget her ever.  She has had such an impact on my high school career.  I always wonder what it would be like if I would have stayed there.  If things would be different, of if I still would have changed.  I always ask questions but I never will know. 

Well I have started this year of good.  I don’t have to be here long. I get out at like 11 o’clock.  My classes are very easy and I have not a lot of homework.  Softball has been good, except for my injuries.  This year is going to be a good year if it is like how it is now.  I really like my holocaust lit class.  My locker is in a good spot.  All of my classes are in the up stairs.  I love the parking I have, I hated last year where I had to park all the way on 40th.  Being a senior is so much different then any other year it just feels different.  I think you get treated a little different too.  Well I guess some of us get treated different the ones who act like adults.  Some of the other students can be very annoying.	

 I hate bugs, they are so gross.  None of these things interest me so, I am going to talk about how I have never been camping.  I have always wanted to go camping. All of my friends have been camping but me.  I don’t really like sleeping outside but I think it would be a fun experience. I almost went last year but something else came up.  I hate the heat.  So I would rather go on a colder day you can always dress up. But i just found out that bees still like the cold weather too.  I once was stung by one on my hand.  Me and my friend were being goofy and she was going to take a picture of me hugging this tree.  So i go up to the tree and put my arms around it and somehting goes into my hand.  so i start screaming and rubber my hand on my friend to get it off. that didnt work so i had to touch it with my other hand to get it off it was the worst thing ever.  I had to actually look at it.  Gross good thing though that the stinger didnt get in my hand i wiped it off quick so it's stinger wasnt in me.  I was lucky but it still hurt really bad.

I used to love to go to the Fair and the Circuses, know it’s not as cool any more.  I do still kind of like the circus, but I don’t get as excited as I used to.  I do love the Amusement Parks.  The rides are the best.  I love eating cotton candy and going on all the rides until I feel sick.  I just started riding the rollercoaster’s.  I can’t believe that I never liked them.  They are such a thrill.  I love the cotton candy.  I work at the circus at Lincoln, selling cotton candy. That kinda sucked because there was this kid i worked with and i gave him my cell number I DONT KNOW WHY but he always calls wanting me and my frieds to buy him alcohol and i would never do that because i dont want to get in troble i think the people who buy the alcohol for minors get in more troble then the actuall people who are drinking it.  Which i think is right but wrong to.  I dont understand the kids who get in troble once but still want to do it.  I got in troble BIG TIME when i was a sophmor and it sucked.  I have drank since then but i would never want to get drunk. I drink alot i think i have drank twice since i got in troble.  Like the kids who get in more troble then i did why do they want to keep doing that.  I have a friend that has three DUI's and he never stops drinking.  I don't understand why didnt he learn a lesson.  Maybe i learn fast but I just know i dont want to put my parents through any more troble.   

Most Memorable Thing in the Past Year

The most exciting thing that has happened to me in the past year is that my son was born, and I have gotten to watch him grow over time. It is so remarkable to see a child get so big, so fast. Although the pain of childbirth is so overbearing, every smile, every movement, and every sound rewards it. A child is the most precious thing that anyone could be so lucky to have. My son means the world to me; no one can be counted above him. All I can hope is that he grows up to be successful, well mannered, and kind. I plan to work to my fullest potential to teach him right from wrong. I believe in him, and I know that he can do whatever he sets his mind to. In years to come, I will continue to watch him grow and learn. Also, I will continue to provide for him, and to set good examples so he can flourish as a human being. My goal is to care for him, and give him what he needs, and most of what he wants. This will not be an easy task, but I know that it can be accomplished.

My parents are divorced and I have always lived with my mom.  Recently I have had a
decision to move in with my dad.  It was hard for me to decided because I love them both
and I don’t want to hurt them.  I did choose to live with my dad but moved back in with my
mom.  In the end I ended up hurting my dad.  I still feel bad and it was a choice I had to
make and I’m glad I did.  I don’t have any regrets of my choices. I do feel bad for
hurting my dad’s feelings.  I have hurt his and my step moms.  That really does hurt that
i did that.  I do love them i love every one.  I just was so confused at this time in my
life.  My stepmom just takes it the wrong way most of the time.

A Hard Decision

	In January of 2005, I found out that I was pregnant. When my parents found out, my life seemed as though it was going to end. Think about it, a fifteen year old, pregnant. My parents tried to be supportive, and allowed me to decide what I was going to do. I thought about it all the time, and the thought terrified me. Questions raced through my mind; What should I do? What will it be like to have a child? What will everyone say? Why did this have to happen to me? The questions were endless. I asked people for advice, went to options counseling, and found out my choices. This is what I had to consider, abortion, adoption, or parenting. Abortion was automatically out.I learned that there were four different types of adoption; open, semi-open, semi-closed, and closed. If I were to chose any adoption it would   have been open, because then I could still see my child, and be there for them. Adoption seemed that it could be beneficial for my unborn child, but I wanted to parent because I had a bond with the child that was living and growing inside of me. When the time came to make my decision I decided to parent, but if for any reason I could not fulfill my parental responsibilities I would give my child a better life with a family that could provide for him properly. I am currently the parent of a fourteen month old, boy, who is the highlight of my life.