NCIS

There have been many shows that I have gotten addicted to and not been able to stop watching, and right now NCIS is my current addiction. I used to love watching CSI, and if you liked CSI I'll bet you'll love NCIS. It's kind of like CSI but the main character is just like house, and the cases are cooler because it's Navy CSI. I would recommend checking it out, its on all the time.

Poker Night

On night when My dad, his friend Kevin, Shay and I were at my dads house the discussion of poker came up. Shay and I said that we didnt know how to play and would love to learn, so my Dad and Kevin got out the poker chips and a deck of cards. It was so much fun! We spent the night talking, listening to old music, learning poker, and drinking root beer while my Dad and Kevin drank beers. After that fun night poker night became an every other weekend event. I love it so much and I'm always inviting people to come play and easy and fun round of poker at my dads. I guess it'sd like a bonding thing.

Next year!

Were going to be juniors! It seems like were growing up so fast! I'm excited for next year but at the same time I'm nervous! I decided to talk both AP classes so I'm hoping it's a challenge, but one that I can handle. And after next year were going to be seniors! High school is leaving fast! But I have had a really great first half with all of my class and I bet next year will be just as fun!

I'm So Excited!

Last summer I put in an application to be a volunteer at Kaiser and they told me that it would take about 6 months before i got a call. So about two weeks ago I got a letter in the mail that said to call if I was still interested and I did, I also went into their office to make sure they knew that I was. Today they called me! The lady who called set up an interview with me and I'm going there on Monday to talk to her and see if I can get the volunteer job! Its like a candy striper kind of thing, I would get to go talk to all of the patients who are there and bring them flowers and stuff. I hope I get it!

Prom

Prom sounds like so much fun! For everyone whose going I hope you have loads of fun! I was going to go but decided not to, and my mom said I couldn't. But I'm most likely going to do sara's make up and Shay and Tiffany may come over to do their hair so I still feel involved! I noticed that this year a lot of freshmen girls got asked to prom and were going to go, some are still going but some aren't. I think it's cool that our school is so open to different things, in some schools people might have felt weird asking a freshmen to prom, I like that about or school.

AP English

I cant decide if I should take it or not. I'v been hearing mixed opinions. Some people have told me its a lot of writing but it is all worth it, and others have been saying not to take it. Im up for a challenge and I love to write but turning in things on time is sometimes a problem for me. what has everyone els heard about it? Is it worth learning everything for collage? Or should I just take it senior year?

Prop 8: Supreme court

Im so upset with the decision! I cant belive that our government would decide to not give equal rights like that! Thus is just my personal opinion, but after prop 8 was sent to the supreme court I thought that for sure it was not going to pass. I really hope the mayor of S.F. keeps on fighting this. I even sent him an E-mail, if you want to too google San Francisco Mayors home page, thats how I found it.

Science Fair?

One of my teachers is making my class do a science fair. I haven't done a science fair since the 8th grade. In one way I'm a little excited because I don't really get a chance to do that many projects that involve a poster. I think the most projects and presentations I did were in elementary school. All of the practice made it fun to do the next project and presentation, but now its just a chore. I keep putting it off and being unmotivated and now when I have to do a presentation I freeze up and get nervous. I'm not sure why that is?

Who Are You?

You can know a person for years without really knowing them. There could be a person, wether it's a sister, brother, best friend, boyfriend, or any other title a person could have in your life who you believe you know down to the core of their being. You may see them every day or every week and you and this person get along great and tell secrets to each other. Then in some relationships their comes a time where one person, or both peoples, realize a characteristic that is strong in that person that you didn't quite notice before. Sometimes its brought on by something happening in your life or the other persons life. For a best friend it could be a new boyfriend, new fiends, or new family situations. For boyfriends it maybe an argument, something mean they said to you, a rumor you heard, or going "the next step in your relationship." Or with family it maybe just that your growing as a person and they're growing as people, and you learn new things about each other that you've never known your whole life.

Whatever and whoever it maybe its always a hard thing to accept that a person you've loved and cared for isn't quite who you thought they were. Some relationships end, but other people are determined to keep the relationship alive and work through it, talk, adjust. While some people never experience this in a relationship and continue having a fabulous one

Woman In an Ice Cream Shop

On Mothers Day I went to Kelly Park with my mom, aunt, and grandma, to go look at a small exhibit on World War 2. We walked through the exhibit and I loved talking to my grandma about things that she experienced during the time of the war. I learned a lot of new things that I had never known my grandma had gone through. 

After we were done walking through the exhibit and talking we went to get ice cream at a small shop in the park. After we had ordered a woman asked "can you pleas had me some napkins, thank you." I grabbed the napkins, looked down to hand them to her and saw and older woman maybe in her 60's in an electric wheelchair with a neck brace on. My family and I went to sit and eat the ice cream and when all of the large groups of people left I realized that that woman come there alone. I could see her sitting across the room staring off into space. I looked at her for a while and noticed that she had the kind of brace you get when you sprain or break your wrist, and she had one for each wrist. She just sat their for while after finishing her ice cream thinking, staring off into space. 

Seeing her made me sad at first to think that an old woman in an electric wheelchair with braces on each wrist and one for her neck was sitting in an ice cream parlor alone on mothers day. As I thought about her more I decided that I admired her independence and determination. To be honest if i was her physical situation I would have sat at home, sulked, and done nothing. But this on woman, who I knew nothing about and said maybe two words to has such incredible strength and will to rise above self- pity and continue enjoying her life no matter what her circumstances are.