october 31, 2007

If you could be given one skill or ability, which would you want, why would you want it and what would you do with it?

If had an ability it would be to freeze people and time becuase then i could get everything i need to do that day done.This ablility would help me finsh everything and have time to myself. I would be able to test without rushing,take long hours of sleep wiothout loosing daylight and be able to study for my test until i felt prepared for them. I would help people out with this ability if some one needed to get home by a certain time thenm iwould freeze time until they were home and things like that.

october 29,2007

Write about the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to you. What was it? What made it so frightening? How old were you? Would it be scary again today if it happened again?

The most scariest feeling for me would be when i have a loved one in the hospital and for bad reasons. I was a lucky girl growing up with three grandmothers sadly i never had a chance to meet my mothers mom and my father had his mother and his father got divorced and remarried.So i was lucky enough to have two living grandmothers. Sadly they both passed away due to heart problem/ Cancer one of the hardest times for me was when my fathers mother was in the hospital for surgury and i snuck in before the surgury to say hi and that i loved her i was the last person to see her before surgey and she passed away during surgery and ever since then it has been hard because she was a big part of my life. My father was in the hospital with low blood pressure and then it increased rapdily.so it was very scary and now as of october 26th he was admitted to the hospital and has been there since. So im hopeing they find out what is wrong and help him get over it. My mom works in the hospital she comes home and tells us about the emergencys or trumas that happen in the ER and so for someone i care greatly about to be in the hospital scares me and i think it always will. When my grandmother passed away i was 8 and 10 my father was recent and my brother is now being in the hospital is a scary thing for anyone.

10-24-07

Write about the most exciting thing that ever happened to you. What was it? What made it so exciting? How old were you? Would it be exciting if you did it again?

The most exciting thing that has ever happened to me would be a very diffcult to say one particular thing I have seen plenty of exciting things like i've witnessed the birth of my babay cousin and i got to see the wildlife in Alaska and Colordao the Rocky Mountains, I am one of the fewest people to actually say that i have seen the top of Mount McKinley which isn't veiwed very often. I have had many expirences that i was excited to exprience all the things and i am very fortinate to expirence the thing i have already in my life. I have wintessed many things but i would say that one of my most exciting moments would be getting my period becuase that was the symbol on womanhood.

october 23, 2007

Write about a belief you've discarded. Talk about why you no longer believe in this belief?

When i was younger i was always told to becareful with my feet going to bed because it was a possiblity that the footymoster would come and eat my feet to keep them away from the edge of the bed. My brother would tell me that he would come over while im @ school and lay there and wait til i went to bed and then if i didnt go near the egde of the bed then he would leave during the night becuase of the sun so i would jump onto my bed while grabbing my feet and making sure that the footymonster would eat my feet. =] funny childhood memories!

Do you have chores or jobs that you have to do at home? What are they? Why do you have to do them? Do you like doing them?

Being part of a house with three other family memebers in it i hold plenty of responsiblity. Some of the duties i hold in my household beside being the youngest and keeping my grades up and being a good student would sthe dishes, vaccuming the floors, and mopping the floors, the laundry and sometimes i habe the honor of preparing the meals, i have to maitain my bedroom and the kitty liter.Then of course whatever else my mother requests to assits her in. Chores are chores they need to be done so we cant complain. To maitain the household so it remains clean

october 19 2007

What holidays does your family celebrate (like Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah)? What do you do on those holidays?

I celebrate Christmas. Usually what my family does is we host a large christmas eve party where the adults have thier celebration and the kids have thiers.The adult celebration consists of going in my backyard and talking and drinking rum ancd egg nog or vodka & cranberry juice or something. The kids celebration includes games that pretain to this cheerful season we do a secert santa, we have one adult hide bow and we have to find them,we spin dradels (my borthers best friend's dad is jewish but thier mom isn't so when they celebrate thias holiday we usually play and do some jewish things) we even open one gift a peice. Another thing muy family and friends get together to do would be to eat, we eat A LOT of food and usually its pot luck we have my mom who cooks the ham and friends that bring mashed potatos and everything else i usually do my famous choclate creme pie and then the follwong day we wake up my dad makes breakfast which usually is eggs and candian bacon with toast and hot chocolate then we gather around the christmas tree and open presents usually a week before my girl scout troop and i wander out the neightborhood and sing christmas carols and bake cookies. then the foloowing day after christmas would be my best friend chloe's birthday so then uisually we;'ll do something for her birthday then the following day we would celebrate my birthday and do something then usually after we will sllep @ one of our houses and finish off the birthday cake and look sat out presents and just chill =]

October 16, 2007

Write about your favorite and least favorite teachers. Why do you like them or dislike them? What can they do to be better teachers in your eyes?

My favorite teachers my high school career would have to be.....hmmm.... oh yea duh! Mr. Enriquez because he had a way of teaching that was unique and it wasn't perminate and i enjoy that class enviorment much better therefore I'm more willing to learn plus it help when you get along with the teacher.I seem to do better in classes i have more intrest in and also the classes with the better teachers. You are a good example of what kind of teachers i enjoy being taught from becuase you have something other teachers lack and that would be a SENSE OF HUMOR! and is able to enjoy the learning enviorment

October 15, 2007

Write about your best friends. Who are they? Why do you like them? What do you do together for fun?

My Best Friends whould be Chloe and Criesth they have always been there for me adnd to pick me up when im down. I also know that they are great, smart and two of rthe worlds coolest people. I really enjoy thier company and we can sit in a room and just do absoultly nothing not say a word and walk out of there knowing the whole world and the coolest part is that were live close or go to the same school.Criseth and i are both in the 11th grade and have a class together and lunch we love each others company and snese of fashion,advice and every little tyhing possible. i have jknown Chloe for about 14 years now and Criseth i have known for 6 year sbut it feels like were closer then that my mom says i should just move in with them because im alwasys on the phone with them hanging out and doing crazy fun little things that make life worth while. If theres a smile on my face theres a 99% chance that it envolves them. I don't like my best friends....i love them they are the two greatest people in this world (besides my family! ^.^)We never have fun its always an adventure @ the mall, or a blast @ the water parks or even just a relax laugh ur ass off @ my house or criseths house or even chloes house sometimes we'll gettogether just to rejuvinate and watch the sunset together and eating food of course ^.^

Write about a time when you were brave. Describe the situation, do you believe that the experience made you a stronger person?

One time i was babysitting this little girl at the time was five and and so we were watching a movies and we ordered pizza and as we were eating this cheese pizza so then all at once the power went out and was out for about a half an hour and then the little girl casey that i was babysitting she was really scared and began crying then the dog started barking and the lighing and raining outside started to freak us both out but i had to calm her down and tell her that everything was okay and that i was there to protect her and all the encourageing stuff you usually say when a little child is scared.Then about an hour or so afterwards the light came back on and i showed her that everything was okay but while the lights were out we had to look for a flashlight and i had to make it fun so pretend that we were on amission and we hid under the chiars in the dining room and i made it fun and kept her mind off the whole out of power problem and we were pretending that we were running form the FBI and had to escape and hid where it was safe and i just had to crerate a senario. That was a fun night

october 10, 2007

Write about a time when you were dishonest. Describe the situation, do you regret being dishonest?

I have been dishonest plenty of times. One time i recieved a failure notice and my mother and father were asking me if i was doing good in school and passing all my classes and of coarse i did all but one and to this day i still haven't mentioned the failure notice to my mom but one of the onbly reasons i didnt show her the failure notice was because it was ion english and i happen to enjoy english i mean im the type of kid that look foward to going to english and learning about that. but of course i didnt show it to her becuase she knows how much i enjoy that subject. And i try not to regret anything in life but when i look back to it i should have shwon it to her so that i could get the help i needed so i could have possibly passed it with a c or higher. One of the reasons i have troubles in school work and studdies isn't because im not focused i spent about 4-6 hours during school days and 7-8 hours during the weekend but i have a problem with taking tests and i dont know but i study for everything and know everything but then i freeze up and remeber it all after the papers get collected so thats another thing that i have been dishonest with is studying even though usually i do study just fail either way.

ocotber 9,2007

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Heroes may seem old-fashioned today. Many people are cynical and seem to enjoy discrediting role models more than creating new ones or cherishing those they already have. Some people, moreover, object to the very idea of heroes, arguing that we should not exalt individuals who, after all, are only flesh and blood, just like the rest of us. But we desperately need heroes—to teach us, to captivate us through their words and deeds, to inspire us to greatness.
Adapted from Psychology Today, "How To Be Great! What Does It Take To Be A Hero?"
Assignment:
Is there a value in celebrating certain individuals as heroes? Plan and write a blog in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.


i BELIEVE THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE ROLE MODELS AND I THINK ITS REALLY FOR THE BELEIVERS THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE OUT IN THIS WORLD DOING THE RIGHT THING BUT IT TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF COUARGE TO BE A ROLE MODEL AND TO BE ALWAYS DOING THE RIGHT THING.I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING AND TO BE CATIOUS OF WHO IS WATCHING BUT IN THIS SOCIETY THAT WE LIVE IN NOW ITS HARD TO HAVE RULES OR GUIDELINES OF WHAT A ROLE MODEL IS AND HOW THEY SHOULD ACT. I AGREE WITH THE STATEMENT ABOUT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS HEROS OVIOUSLY TAKE BRITTANY SPEARS SHE ONCE WAS A ROLE MODEL FOR KID BUT NOW AND FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS SHE HASN'T BEEN SUCH A GOOD ROLE MODEL

october 5,2007

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the prompt below.
People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some goal other than their own happiness. Happiness comes when people focus instead on the happiness of others, on the improvement of humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means to anything else but as an end in itself. Aiming at something other than their own happiness, they find happiness along the way. The only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own happiness.
Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness? Plan and write a blog in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

I think that an equal amount of both happiness and pursueing your goals.The only person that can persue your goals would be yourself and i think that if you persue your goals that should make your happiness level boost so i really don't see a way that one has more importances then the other in life. Especially since in life you have ups and downs that help you and sometimes may hurt but if you have happiness and goals in life you will mostly likely persue those gials by making your self happy. In my personal oppinion i think that they balance each other out and regardless of anyhting else you can increase your happiness by doing things for yourself like for example maybe your goal is to get your toenails done once every three weeks and once you do that your self-esteem increases and that a) made your goal and b)made you happy both internally and externally.

October 3, 2007

Describe the last vacation or holiday you took. what made it special? How long ago did it occur? Does having a fun necessarily have to involve a certain place or certain people? Hypothetically speaking, which would you rather take, a three day holiday spent at home, but with your favorite people to spend with your favorite people in the world, or three days anywhere you choose in the world (all expenses paid), but with no one you really know well.

The last vacation i took was to the 49th state in the United States which is Alaska. My family and I took five other motorhomes.I went with my family and I would go anywhere with my family and i enjoy vacations with them. This summer with my family. I honestly wouldnt know because my kind of personality is like that where i can go somewhere doesn't really matter where with people i dont know and make friends with them and in time we'd be friends.But i honeslty would perfer to be home with my family probably because i dont get to spend much time at home with my family the family part i got down packed but the home part is hardly ever.As for friends welll thier another story but i'd probably go anywhere with them or just stay home and chill either way i enjoy thier company.