The United states should get involved with the the North Korean torpedo attack on South Korean ships.


The United states should get involved in this conflict because it was a completly unneccasary attack that killed 46 sailors and sunk one of their largest military ships. However, I think South Korea should cut off trade and sanction North Korea before we get involved. If North Korea continues bombing and haraasing South Korea the United States and other world powers and countries need to sanction North Korea until they come to agreement and will stop. The article states "It is important to send a clear message that provoative actions have consequences." I agree and think North Korea should have consequences for causing this unneccasary terror in South Korea.




http://http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22diplo.html?hp

School is coming to an end as the warm summertime is approaching.. The trees are blooming and the grass green. The sun beats down on me and I know that the dreadful school days will soon be over .

I love summertime it is by far my favorite season. Everyday is so stress free and you can be hang out with friends and not worry about getting your homework done. I love the sunsjhine and being able to cool of in the refreshing pool.

What I am looking forward to most this summer is the Livonia Spree. I love going there with my friends in the hot afternoons to ride rides and meet new people. Our favorite rides are the fireball, the water ride, and race down the big slides. At night time we go to the food area of the spree to watch shows and get some delicious carnival food. Candy apples, ice cream, elephant ears, freshly squeezed lemonade and pierogies. These are some of my favorite foods to get at the spree. My favoriite day of this festival is the spree fireworks on the last day, Sunday. Me and a bunch of my friends get there around 6 on sunday evening about 4 hours before the fireworks begin. We arrive early to get a good spot on the baseball field to watch the firework show. We set up our blankets and chairs, get snacks, play games then sit back and relaxe to watch the show.

Last summer I had to miss some of the spree because my soccer team went to regionals and it was hosted during most of the carnival. Although it had been worth it to miss the spree because my team had won regionals. We had been named the best team in the midwest region. We beat teams from all different states in this region, South Dakota, Kentucky Nebraska. In the semifinals we played a teram from Illinois called Eclipse. Thy were good and agressive but we won in the end 1-0. In the Finals we played carmal form Indiana. This was the hardes game i had ever played in they were athletic, so fast and skilled. Although we were all very nervous we were ready and defeated Carmel and were crowned regional champiions.

I thought SIMUN was a fun but unfamiliar experience. I have never done anything like SIMUN and I wasnt sure what to expect. I didnt know how to prepare myself or what I would be speaking about. Although i was very nervous and scared to speak i ended up speaeking more than i expected and understood the scenarios and how Mexico would be included in them. I also met alot of new people from all grades, they were very supportive and helpful. I also got a little taste of hpw the real United Stations would run their meetings.

I did much better then I thought I would. Going into SIMUN I thought I was going to be to scared to talk and not understand the scenarios but i ended up presenting about 7 or 8 speeches and multiple questions. Also I actually understood what I was talking aboout in my speeches and really got involved about how Mexico would take part in the scenarios. So overall i believe i did pretty well but would still like to improve for next year.

To prepare Mrs. B assigned four questions to each even group that realted to the scenarios that would be presented in SIMUN. The questions allowed me to think of how Mexico would be involved in situations across the world and what they would do about it. I had to think from a Mexican goverment member's perspective. I also researched alot of information about Mexicos history but the major conflict i had to understand about Mexico was the violent drug wars between the unrurely cartels and innocent U.S. and Mexico's citizens and police.

To prepare for next year i am going to research even more about Mexico because during the debates I felt a little lost and needed more background information about Mexico and how the info would effect the scenario. I would also research how the Mexican government works and who their allies are so iIwould be confident in choosing sides for the scenarios.

Overall I thought SIMUN was a great new experience and I am excited to do even better next year,

If the United States accepted Pakistan Mexico would agree with this so we could secure nuclear weapons and keep the world safe. Also the U.S. is an allie and if we were in agreement with us and we supported them they would probably comsider helping us with the rug conflict back in Mexico.

Alot of other countries would decide against this because its a country and they ned to be able to run their own governmant and people without any other countries interferring. But before the United States over runs pakistan they should negotiate with them about securing their nuclear power. If they are not cooperating and they are using their nuclear power as a threat against other countries then world power countries need to tell them to stop immediatly. If they still do not cooperate then we must go to further measures and place sanctions on Pakistan. Powerful countries including China and the United States and pakistans major trading partners must take part in these sanctions in order for the sanctions to be successful.

If Pakistan decides to ignore the other countries demands and sanctions and is violently threatening other countries with their nuclear power that is when the U.S. should go into Pakistan an secure the nuclear material . When situations like this become a huge threat to the world thats when countries need to take charge and stop this before something extreme happens and negatively impacts the whole world.

Soldier X

Soldier X Is a narrative story which tells what it would have been like to be a child soldier for the german side, Hitler youth, in World War 2.


World War 2 was faught very differently from how wars are fought in modern day america. Today we do not allow children in wars you have to be 18 to join the army. Although many times in the past we have used children as soldiers such as in the Civil War. They were also led by a dictatot that made them think this way of life was the best to live by and accept no one elses. This is a major cultural difference becaue we have or had no such dictator leadership. Since history we have lived by a democratic system.

Also around the time of World War 2 there were alot of immigrants settling in Germany, Russian, Irish and more. Germany was very diverse at this time. At some point in history in america we also had alot of immigrants and were a very diverse country. This immigration caused trouble for both countries. For the United states is caused over populating and for germany it caused conflicts between the citizens because of their vast differences.

The houses that the main character lived in and described are small houses, the lower floor is the family's shopand the upper level is the living quarters. Houses in the United states were designed similiar to this in the 18oo's. the kids usually worked in the shops on the lower level in america slaves may have been present in homes but in Germany slaves were noot usually a popular labor, they usaully had butlers our mades or just help from the family.

This book just tells a war story so i could not find many cultural ifferences but these were some examples that are similiar or different to past events in the Unoted states.

Winter Olympics

It is the year of the winter olympics and I cant wait to watch people from all over the world to compete in the unique winter games. This year it is held in Vancouver Canada. I see Vancouver as the perfect winter wonderland for the games. It is beautiful and has many mountains which can be used for luge and skiing. It is a large city with many complexs for ice skating and other indoor sports there are also many hotels for the spectators to stay. http://www.vancouver2010.com/

The sports that are played in the winter olympics are quite unigue and really interest me because of the danger skill and bravery you must have to participate in these sports. It is very different from the summer games where sports like soccer basketball track etc. are played. The winter olympics includes luge, ski jump, figure skating, speed skating, snow boarding and more. All the require trmendous skill and no fear because of the extremes you may have to exceed in these sports to win the gold.

One of my favorite sports would have to be speed skating. Its not only the intensity of the quick race when the participants are on their final laps but the sucees of two american athletes who races I love to watch. Shani Davis Apollo Ohno and J.R. Celski being among these american athletes have won many of the races beating out the other countrie. Apollo seems to have a certain strategy to his race, during the last couple laps hewaits for the others to make a mistake and quicly takes with the inside or outside lane when thand is immediatly passes them all and wins the gold. Shani davis is just pure quickness and has a perect stride to hi skating. He reminds me of Frozone from the Incredibles. J.R. Celski had a fatal injury and came back and raced very successfully in his races.

Another one of my favorite sports is luge. I think this is one of the most dangerous and incredible sports in the olympics because of the unbelievably high speeds that are exceeded and the ability to hit each turn without crashing while at these speeds. The track they use at whistler is the fastes in the world reaching speeds at 100 mph. Unfortunatly because of this extreme track during a practice run a georgian athlete crashe on a turn and lost his life. This shows how dangerous this sport is and how you must be skilled and fearless to take part in luge.

I also like Snowboarding mainly because of Shaun White's amazing ability, nicknamed flying tomato. He dominates everyone in this sport doing unbelievable tricks on the halfpipe and landing each one of his flips and twists. He won gold scoring a 46.2 because of his outstanding tricks that ordinary snowboarders dream of doing.

Sledding

It was a frigid winter day the grass was piled high with white sparkly snow and my friends and I were anxious to go out and enjoy it.





We wanted to live this winter day to the fullest. Have the best sledding adventure possible, but the only way to have such a sledding trip was to find the biggest mountain. we searched all of Livonia to find such a hill but when it wasn't found we decided to expand our search to different local cities then eventually throughout all of Michigan. We had finally came across huge hills in northern michigan which later, we found to be the sleeping bear dunes. This dunes were usually only occupied during the hot, swiltering summers but today instead of sand they were covered in snow and would be used for sledding instead of climbing.


We had the quickest sleds faster then any other kid and we couldnt wait to test them out. Taylor went first. She stood at the very top of the giant dune and looked out over the huge, iced over lake. she dived full force onto the sled and zipped straight down the hill. It was so fast she was like a blur to the rest of us watching and we couldnt wait to try it ourselves. So we climbed the mountain anxious to feel the cold wind slapping your face while speeding down the dune.


We went down over and over you couldnt get enough of this tremendous feeling it was like a rollercoaster. But we thought of a way that would make it even better. All of us went on two sleds piled ontop of eachother in a pyramid although the bottom girls were almost crushedand the top people wiped out it was still a blast. Many different ways to sled down the hill were being invented. The train, standing up and other crazy ideas that made our experience all the better.


Finally after a long fun day we were all exhausted. Gabe's mom arrived in a warm heated car and hot chocolate awaiting us. Although I would be sore and may have many bumps and bruises from this experience it was well worth it and I canyt wait to do it again.

Article Response

The UN should send troops into Congo.

One reason the UN should send Congo is to prevent another conflict similiar to Rwanda. We can save so many innocent lives that were not saved in Rwanda because the UN was ot involved. A repeat of Rwanada is very possible and we can learn from our mistakes in rwanda and prevent another brutal genocide. The article tells how the violence in the Congo is caused by Hutu extremists groups (interhamwe) that were forced out of Rwanda, and are now attacking the Tutsis in Congo. This proves that another genocide is very possible because they same groups ar involved and this time the UN should should also be involved.

First Semester Reflection

One thing I have learned over this semester is the colonization of many countries and how this affects the native people, the future of the country and government and famous conflicts that resulted from colonization. We had learned about South Africa and how the Dutch and British settled the country and caused many wars and apartheid which almost completely eliminated the major tribes of South Africa. Australia was colonized by the British and turned into a white dominated country while the aborigines were captured and attempted to be breed into white people by changing their religion and traditions and breeding them with white individuals. In America the pilgrims and other groups came to settle the land taking over Native American territory so more white people could settle. I learned how similar events occurred in each country that was colonized and resulted in almost complete elimination of the native peoples.


We learned a lot about Africa and the many conflicts that occurred there. The one conflict in Africa that interested me most was the brutal genocide between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda. We debated about this and from it I learned almost every detail about the conflict. It also allowed me to see the conflict through other group’s points of view. For example the Hutu extremists group the interhamwe who were responsible for most of the killing did this not only out of anger but fear of getting themselves killed by another extremists group and the demand of Juvenal to kill the Tutsis. But they did also kill for land and money. We were told how this became one of the most horrific genocides in history and it was ignored by the UN, America and many other powerful countries. If this conflict was acknowledged more by other countries especially countries of power many of the 800,000 lives would have been spared. We watched a movie about this genocide called Hotel Rwanda. I thought this was a good movie and showed proof of the genocide well although this movie would be hard to understand without any background knowledge.


Although each week I dreaded the “weekly article” it taught me how to take good notes on articles, by using margin noting, and how to make a well written, clear article response. The articles consisted mostly of news stories about Iran and their nuclear power plants, china trying to become the world economic power over the U.S. and difficult decisions about Afghanistan President Obama had to make. After taking notes on each article we had to write a good clear response with a thesis statement and a supporting paragraph. From this I learned to delete clutter and to stay on topic and get right to the point. I learned how to pull examples from the article to support my opinion on the article.


After our debate and Hotel Rwanda we wrote a letter asking for help in Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina. In this letter we did not write as ourselves but took on the characteristics of Paul such as using guilt and bribary into getting help.

Cruise, Winter Break

This holiday break was like no other I have experienced before. Instead of hanging with friends and spending christmas at home in the bitter cold, I was in paradise spending 11 days with my family on a beautiful ship the size of a building.

The cold weather had just begun and I was already ready for the summer time. Lucky for me I left my friends back home in the cold and traveled to a sunny paradise. Unfortunatly our traditional family christmas could not be celebrated.

We arrived to florida anxious to go outside and feel the sunlight and warmth on our skin. But instead of sunlight heavy raindrops hit the pavement and flooded the streets of Ft. Lauderdale. The taxi had to take us through streets that were so flooded they seemed like rivers until we arrived at my grandpas house.

We spent two days in florida just enjoying the beach and the unique boardwalk resturants and shops until we would departure for 3 days on the open ocean on the Costa Atlantica cruise.

A giant ship welcomed us as we arrived to the check in for the cruise. I wondered how such a huge magnificient structure could float on water. The inside of the ship was even more unbelieveable then the outside. A huge lobby stood in front of us with beautful paintings and lights. A bar was was at the end of the ship surronded by comfortable places to sit and mingle with other customers. Three glass elevators were at the other end which took people to all 11 decks to their rooms.

The ninth floor had to be my favorite because that is where the buffet was, here they served food 24 hours everyday. The second floor held the resturant, shops and the main lobby. The top deck or roof of the ship had three pools, tanning areas, bars and a gym area to play sports. Unfortunatly for me i was sea sick the whole time so i couldnt wait to get off the boat and visit the first island St. Thomas.

I woke up to the beautiful mountanious scene of St. Thomas. We finally stepped foot on land and immediatlygot a taxi to tour the island and go to the beach. We went up every hill and looked down at the beautiful scenes of St. Thomas. We arrived at Magens Bay the water here was so blue and clear. From the beach we could look out to the ocean and see the mountains that surronded the bay.

Our next stop was San Juan Puerto Rico. This city was so beautiful and and unique. The most interesting part of the city was old town San Juan. A 3 mile long fort surronded the neighborhoods and cemetary of old town. The fort faced out to the ocean and was used before and during WWII.

Conflict in Rwanda

My opinion on the conflict in Rwanda its not just one group responsible for the start of this war but all have contributed. Some groups, such as the interahamwe, have contributed more then others but are all a cause to the start of this bloody conflict.

Belgium is deffinatly a big impact on this problem. If they didn't go into Rwanda and split up the 2 main groups the Hutus and the Tutsis and give out indentity cards. The made it so the Tutsis had more power which greatly upsetted the Hutus and staarted this conflict.

Another big impact is the Interahamwe group. They were led by Juvenal who was killed in a plane crash in 1994. THis crash could have been caused by the RPF. This event also started up alot of contiversy in this country. Juvenal raised the Interahamwe an motivated their killing of the Tutsis by money land, being brainwashed and sparing their own lives. It is a fact that this group is responsible for most of the deaths in Rwanda.

The United States also caused many deaths even though they were are far away from Rwanda. Us not getting involved concluded in a huge amount of deaths. If our military woulg get over the little embarassment we experienced in somolia and put thesesuffering people ahead of ourselves then many innocent lives would be spared because of our strong military.

Therefore, this war in Rwanda is not just one group or persons responsbility but many. Every major group in Rwanda and even around the world all impact the deaths in this country.

In our classs discussion about the Rwandan conflict it was very difficult for me to support the Interahamwe because of their unncassary killing.

In character (memeber of Interahamwe) the fault was put on Juvenal and somewhat the RPF. Juvenal brainwashed, forced and threatened us to perform these killings. If we stayed as moderate Hutus in this war we would not have survived the slaughtering by the RPF. It was either kill or be killed for us. And we sometimes had to kill pregnant women and children because they were being raised into RPF soldiers and would continue the killing of the Hutus.

I have learned so much about this conflict. Before our discussion i knew almot nothing about this event and afterwards i can answer almoat any question about it. This discussion made it possible for me to lookj a t this conflict from different peoples points of view. And if certain events were done differently or never happened then it would impact the war greatly and things could happen much differently.

American Scholar

Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today.

One reason Emerson's argument still hold true today is because once you go to college you focus on one career path for the future. In college your educaion and classes are all focused on teaching if you want to be a teacher or engineering if you want to be an engineer. We widen our knowledge on a variety of things not just one.

In the article Emerson states, "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an enigineer but he is all." He is saying this is not how America is today and it needs to be this way in the near future. He is saying people become the job they perform and nothing else and we need to keep our lives open to all jobs and skills and not focus on one to put a complete stable society into existence.

Halloween

Almost all the orange, red and yellow leaves have fallen from the tree branches. Children wonder from house to house dreesed as all sorts of creatures. They carry a large bag of candy upon their shoulders anxious to dig in. These are just some of the reasons why Halloween is my favorite holiday.

Every year my friends and I Trick-or-Treat in the neighborhood, Coventry Gardens. This neighborhood, in my opinion, is the biggest in Livonia and has all the best candy. After we have visited almost every house in Coventry Gardens, we all go to my friend Julia's house (in Coventry Gardens) to trade, sort and eat our candy. After the long procees of organizing our candy we go to the neighborhood bonfire. This bonfire is no ordinary bonfire though, it is the largest bonfire you would ever see. Piles and piles of wood are stacked up high to probably about 15 feet or more.

This year was a tough year to decide on a costume. But finally with two days before Halloween my friend and I have decided to be cells. Although this is a very different costume then most ordinary people would wear we are excited and confident that the candy passer-outers will think it's a creative costume and give us extra candy and maybe we'll even get extra credit for science class.

This year our traditions have changed, however. After trick-or-treating and after the bonfire, we won't immeidiately be heading back to Julia's house. Before sleeping over at her house, Julia's sister is going to drive us to our friend, Cortney's house where she is having a Halloween party. We are going to eat and trade our candy there and play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey but a jack-o-lantern version.

Corn Maze

It was finally the night every high school student lives for, Friday night. There was always an exciting event to look forward to, if it wasnt a dance it was a football game, or just a good time with your closest friends.

It was a perfect fall Friday night with no footall game, dance or any other extracurricular activities to participate in. I gazed out the window observing the yellow, red and orange leaves of the trees. I could smell the scents of fall through my cracked window. These characteristics of this beautiful fall season tempted me to embrace the outdoors therefore tonight would be a trip to the cider mill. I called my two closest friends and put on my warmest sweater.

We had finally arrived after a long impatient drive. We were welcomed by a scene that consisted of hay rides, a pumpkin patch, cows, a donut hut and a massive cornmaze. As expected, we immediatly went to the donut hut for those delicious homemade sugared donuts and fresh cider.

After 3 donuts each we went to visit the cows and take pictures of them. When we finished taking what seemed to be a hundred meaningless pictures of cows we decided we would take on the difficult challenge of the corn maze.

We impatiently waited in line for the hay ride that would take us out to the corn maze. We passed bonfires surronded by families and a large overpicked pumpkin patch to arrive to the massive complicated corn maze that mos people would think to be impossible to finish, escpecially because when it was Rebecca, Julia and I wondering this difficult cornmaze.

We entered the tall corn stalks not sure of which direction to explore. Left, right or straight, was always the question that came to mind whenever we entered a fork in the path. It had almost beem an hour when we found the first cedar tree and we were about ready to give up. On our way out of the maze we got lost a couple times but surprisingly managed to find the two other trees while we were lost.

The bright lights towards the front of the maze guided us towards the exit. The hay ride trailor waited for us as the driver saw us approaching. The bumpy ride led us away from our great adventures in the cornmaze. We took a quick stop at the cider mill store for fall candy and headed back home.

An ordinary Friday night became an excelent fall adventure for the three of us!

A couple weeks ago a small amount of water was found on the moon. This exciting new discovery inspired scientists and organizations all over the world, to conduct new experiments that would lead to the finding of more water or possibly a living species ont the moon.



NASA is the first to take action and have decided to crash two probes into the moon. This will remove the first layer of the moon's surface so we can see if their is any water beneath the ground



This experiment will cost millions in tax dollars for american citizens and most people will ask, is it really worth it? What if water isnt even found on the moon then all that money and effort will be a waste. And if water is found on the moon, how will this effect us? Won't it just encourage Obama to spend more money for research on the moon when the country is trillions of dollars in debt without blowing huge amounts of money on space projects?

Personally, I think that the discovery of an amount of water on the moon is huge, but at the moment, I think there are more important things to spend money on, or maybe just not spending money, and pay back our trillion dollar debt. Our country has an extremely low employment rate, so instead of putting millions of dollars into trying to find water on the moon, we should spend money on creating more jobs for americans, which more directly effecs the majority of the country. I think we should save the water-on-moon project for a time when money isn't as tight. Or, if scientists push to do the project right now, they should do it with NASA's money instead of peoples tax dollars. I highly doubt that people would want their money spent on trying to find water on the moon at the moment.

New Adventures New Blunders

Alexi Kliza

6th hour

New Adventures New Blunders

I eagerly watched the clock as the minute hand ticked closer and closer to 11:39.

"Lunch time", Frau Rom announced.


Yes finally! I jumped out of my seat and scurried towards the exit struggling to

squeeze past my classmates. We were like a heard of animals pushing, shoving and racing to

obtain our prey, or in students' terms, lunch time. As I meandered through the crowded

hallway, my stomach growled so loud it could be heard from the end of D hall.

I quickly turned the dial of the locker, right, left then right again.

"Come on Lexi hurry up", my friend nagged as I shuffled through loose papers and

note books to find my backpack. I couldn't understand how I could possibly be this unorganized

already. I quickly pried my new American Eagle bag from the bottom of my locker, searching

the blue interior finding nothing but my math book. I began to panic; it couldn't be, no lunch on

the first day!

I gloomily dragged behind my friends, lunch less, to the cafeteria. The aroma of pizza

immediately filled the air as we approached the lunch room. We scanned the cafeteria searching

for open seats. Nothing was available, considering it was as crowded as Target on Black Friday.

After spending over half the lunchtime traveling back and forth from north cafeteria

to south cafeteria, we finally managed to squeeze myself and my four friends on only two seats.

I spent the rest of lunch mooching food off of my friends.

Even though this first day of lunch was somewhat terrible I learned from the experience

just like we will learn from the many mistakes that will be made in high school and the future.

That day I learned to always have a backup plan in case I ever forget my lunch again.

The vigorous speed and agility and sacrifice of parties and time with friends for practice would be put to the test for the Midewest Regional Tournament in Sioux Falls South Dakota. Our convidence was as high as ever after we were crowned champions of the State Cup and were appointed a new title, the best u13 girls soccer team in michigan, and this was quite the title to hold.



The Regional tournament is held every year in during summer for both boys and girls, ages u13 to u18 All the regions in the country hold this tournament. The State Cup champion of each state in the midwest region attends this tournament, so it contains some very difficult competition. If you win regionals all the ages above u13 conyinue onto the National Tournament.



We began our season very poorly and were known to many teams as the underdog. We would never be thought as state cup finalists or much less even make it make it to regionals. But when we played in the quarter,semis and finals our performance surprised all spectators and shocked everyone when they heard the news of our victories.



Two weeks beforebregionals we worked as hard as ever to get to our highest fitness and skill so we would be ready to face our competition.



It was two days before regionals and we began the long dreadful trip to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. we drove hours and hours with a view of nothing but farms. Finally we entered a small town outside of Sioux Falls where our motel was. We enterd the motel parking lot seeing a semi truck in almost every parking space. Our room was nice for a motel but not even close to our usual standard. The little island that laid in the middle of the parking lot was where we would play games, eat and have meetings.



The next day we began our games. Our first two oponents were Kentucky and Nebraska, we resulted in victory for each of these games. We had only one more game in the preliminary round against South Dakota, if we were victorious of this game we would continue on to the semis. The last seconds of the game passed by and the whistle blew as we screamed in excitement, "semis here we come".



Game day was here and we were warmed up and focused on a win. The team we faced were the Chicago Eclipse, a very good aggressive team. We all worked hard the whole game , it was close but losing was not an option for us.



We now had made it to the finals, all of us sore and tired, but ready. We faced Carmel from Indiana, who in my opinion was the best team I have ever played. I could feel the extra practices and difficult sprints working to our advantage and all the hard practice sessions would deffinatly be worth it in the end. It was 2-1 when the whistle blew and I experienced the greates feeling possible.



That day our team, the Michigan Hawks, were crowned the best in the midwest.

A,B,C's

A-Apple Strudel, this german treat is one of my favorites because of it's sweet apple filling and flakey crust. My grandma makes this delicious dessert every Sunday and hers is deffinatly the best since she is from germany so she knows the traditional recipe.
Athletic, I love to play sports. Exercising is an important key to a healthy life and I make sure that I do physical activity everyday. Staying fit and active is a top priority in my life and i think more americans should consider exerdise in their everyday life.

B-Believe, my opinion on this word "believe" is if you believe in yourself and others you can accomplish almost anything. If you convince yourself you can get an A in science and really believe and work hard there is a very likely chance that you will suceed at this. So my advice for anyone who is struggling with something in your life, whether its sports or school, just believe in your self.
Barbie Dolls, this toy was unbelievably popular during my toddler years. I remeber being so anxious on christmas eve nights to play with my new barbie I would recieve on christmas morning.

C-Crew, this is a soccer team or better known to the Hawks(my soccer team) as our rival team. We faced the crew many times throughout the season inconsistently resulting in either a win or a loss. Then we faced the Crew in, too many the most important game of our lives, the State Cup Finals.

D-Dessert, my most favorite meal of the day! I love all types of dessert, chocolate, cake, ice cream and all others you can think of. I eat sweets everyday and usaully more then once. :)

E- Ego Waffles, these, along with strawberries and bacon, is my ideal breakfast on Saturday mornings.
Eager,I am always in a rush everywhere I go. Eager to get here eager to get there i have to make everything on time no matter what the consquences are.

F-Friends have such a big impact on my life. How I talk, what activities I'm involved in can both be influenced by the friends i have. Sometimes a certain group of friends can have a negative impact in your life and pressure you into doing the wrong actions. These are the kind of friends you should deffinatly stay clear of.

G-Goalie,my goalie career for soccer lasted about 1 year and never again will I play this position. I was probably the worst goalie any coach has seen in their career and to make matters worse i was scared of the ball to so I would dodge out of the way of every shot.

H-Heat, I love hot summer afternoons by the pool. Hot weather is by far my favorite over cool fall evenings and freezing winter mornings. I love the sun beating down on you and the feeling of a possible sunburn approaching.

I- Igloo, when I was younger, my neighbors and I built an igloo out of the snow every winter. This was what I always looked forward to during the cold days of fall when I was missing the summer.

J- Justin Timberlake, one of my most favorite R&B singers. I love most of his songs because they are so original and different from the mojority of the other R&B songs that are popular amongst teenagers today.

K-Kliza, My family name passed down from many generations. A German name passed from my great great grandfather to my grandfather to my dad. Unfortunatly this name will not be continued to be passed down because the rest of my family consists of girls.

L-Laugh, I say its contageous. You start laughing then all of a sudden the whole room is in an uproar of giggles and smiles. Without laughter what would this world come to?

M-Magic, is there such a thing? I dont believe so. I wanted to be a magcisian when i was five but when i discovered that the quarter trick was just an illusion i was really upset. Now as a teenager I wish there was still a little magic in my life.

N-Nature, I remember adventures through the forest trails in my backyard. My neighbors and I acted as Indians and explorers, examining the different specias of trees and flowers.O

O-Olympics, My dream I have been constantly working to suceed at. Since i forst watched the olympics i wanted to be satnding at the tallest podium proudly holding the gold metal aroung my neck as the champion of the the world for soccer.

P-Presenting, the thing I am most fearful of. Standing in front of all those people staring up at you, I always seem to choke on words and stutter when the nerves come along. But after practicing and memorizing my presentation i gain confidence and may even result in doing well.

Q-Professor Quirrel, my least favorite character in my very favorite movie, Harry Potter. Harry and every other Hogwarts student and professer were completly oblivious to his true identity. It was a surprise to everyone when he unraveled his turbon and revealed Voldemort.

R-Running,I absolutely despise this type of physical exercise. Although it keeps you in shape quite well, it is pretty hard ecspecially when you are running competitivly.

S-Swings, a vital part of my childhood. Many competitions were invented on swings. How high can you swing, how far can you jump off and dont touch the ground. Underdogs were a very hard skill to master with the swings.

T-Teddy Bears, a childhood friend for many kids including myself. I couldnt wait for trips to Build a Bear to create a new friend with just the exact characteristics I would want for it to have. I could pick its clothes and accesories just to match its personality.

U-Umbrella, very useful on a rainy day. Occasionally rainy days are nice, but if it is constantly raining for many days the gloomy gray clouds and dampness of the air is just too much. But iI must admit it is always fun to dance in the rain!

V-Vacume Cleaning a chore that is pretty easy for me unless it is my basement which is a riduculously large area to vacume. It takes forever and my dad makes sure every speck of dust is gone before the task is over.

W- Waterfalls, my favorite physical feature on feature on earth. When I went to see the Sioux Falls in South Carolina, it was one of the most breathtaking scenery I could imagine. The water spilling over the rocks and into the pool below it just amazes me.

X-Xylophone, an instrument that my grandma has. I would always play the rainbow colored keys and would try to make a rythym which I was usually successful because i played the piano.

Y- Yellow, my favorite color because of its brightness adn light shade. This also reminds of summer because of the yellow dandelions which overtake the green lawn during this season.

Z-Zebras, deffinatly my favorite animal in the zoo. I love their white and black colored patterns.
They loook very similiar to me but according to the zoo instructor they all have different patterns.

High school has consisted of many mixed emotions, nerves excitment. But were all of these sleepless nights spent worrying really worth it? It is just like any other ordinary day of middle
school but with more homework, longer walks to class and a lot more people crowding the halls.


But the amount of homework that has been givens is an unbelievable amount compared to how much was assigned in middle school. During these first couple weeks of school I have already had 4 tests and homework every night. I even had homework on the first day of school. At that point I realized that high school is alot of work and will prabably take up alot of my socal life but it could also make my social life.


High school has not only come with school work but so many social activities too. This is the enjoyable part of highschool. There seems to be something to do every day if its not soccer, hockey and football games its clubs dances and fundraisers. I have met so many new friends and aqautiences through these activites.


Getting to classes on time is just about the hardest thing to accomplish in my opinion. My locker is all the way at the end of B hall and it is so far away from all my classes. Its the worst when big bobs of people decide to have a chat session n the midle ogf the hall blocking everyones path and somehow I have to manage to squeeze through them. This takes up about half of passing time. I finally get to my locker shuufling through all my books trying to findthe right one . I look so quickly I always feel like im forgetting something. But I run off to class quickly while theres a minute left on the clock. I barely make it, I always walk in right as the bell rings. I believe passing time troubles students the most during school.


These first weeks of high school have come with so many new good and bad experiences and i am excited for what else will come in the future.