70's

If I had to go back to one time period it would be a difficult choice. I like the time period I live in now. I especially like the technology that is around. I don’t think I would want to live in a time that didn’t have texting, Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, and iPods. However, a time period that does sound fun to live through would be the 70’s. One thing that appeals to me from the 1970’s is the fashion. Not that I would wear clothes form the 70’s now, but if I lived then I would like them. Clothes such as jumpsuits, clogs, platform shoes, and bell bottoms would be fun to wear. I also would have really liked the music throughout the 70’s. I would have really enjoyed artists such as John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and The Doors. Another thing from the 70’s that I would like was the style of art that was popular, pop art. I think it would have been fun to participate in anti-war movements during the 1970’s. I think the whole “hippie” kind of thing seems like it would be fun too. Things I would have liked to own when they came out in the 70’s would be mood rings, a lava lamp, Rubik’s cube, smiley face stickers, and pet rocks. Negative things about the 1970’s that I wouldn’t enjoy would be the Vietnam War and The Beatles breaking up, as long as Elvis Presley dying. Woman started getting more political rights in the 70’s and I would like to have lived to see that happen. Shows that I would have liked to watch if I grew up in the 70’s would be The Brady Bunch, Sesame Street, Happy Days, and Saturday Night Live. Overall, I would have liked to live during the 70’s.

Bad Things Happen to Good People

                I can honestly say that no one in my family has ever fought a major battle with cancer. My grandpa had skin cancer but they caught it early on and removed his ear. He has been fine ever since then. So cancer has never had a big impact on my life. However within the last week that has changed. My uncle’s girlfriend’s mom, who is like a grandma to me, was complaining of back pain. She went to the doctors and they found a mass on her lung. The doctors wanted to find out what it was, and its lung cancer. She got surgery to remove the mass from her lung on Tuesday, December 20^th. While in surgery the doctors found out that not only does she have lung cancer, she has bone cancer. It is difficult to think that unless a miracle happens this will probably be the last Christmas she will be alive for. It’s really hard to think about losing someone and knowing that they might not be there tomorrow. I think that cancer is an awful thing and it negatively impacts so many people and families. It makes you ask yourself why these things happen to people. I think that something positive comes out of bad things though. As much as it hurts to lose someone it makes you realize how thankful you have to be for everyone in your life. You can’t ever take someone for granted, because they might not be there tomorrow. Also, when bad things do happen you have to learn to keep your head up because that person wouldn’t want you to be upset for them, they would want you to be happy for the time you got to spend with them throughout their life. Bad things really do happen to good people all the time, and that is just life. You just have to get through it, and at the end of the day it is worth it to be happy no matter what.

Waitin' on the World to Change

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~Anne Frank

            If I could change the world, I would have a lot to change. The first thing I would change is poverty. I would give every homeless person a home and every hungry person food. I think that alone would do a lot of good for people. However, without education, a home and food wouldn’t impact a person too greatly. Without an education people have a higher chance of being criminals and turning to negative things like drugs, alcohol, and violence. I would make sure everyone could read and have at least a high school education. I would give every person a good supportive family. Everyone needs a family to always be there for them and to be behind them with every choice they make. I would also like to get rid of drugs. Drugs impact people so negatively and without them it would save a lot of lives. It would protect people from dying from overdosing on drugs or from being in other drug related violence. If every person had a home, food, and education, a supportive family, and there were no drugs I think the world would be a much better place to live in. There is also other things I would change, they may not seem as important but they would still make all the difference to positively impact the world. I would make sure that there was no such thing as prejudice people. I would make sure everyone got along, whether they were black, white, gay, or straight. Hatred is a very negative thing that harms many people. Prejudice people hurt people violently, or bully them to the point where they harm themselves. Overall, I think that getting rid of just a few things could make all the difference to so many people.  

Bill Penny

                Bill Penny’s favorite color is red. He likes the color red because he said it looks nice. Bill has two pets. He has a dog named Moose who is a Cotton Maltese and a dog named Sophie who is a Maltese Poodle. His favorite brand of shoes is Nikes. He likes them because of the fact that he bought them. Before Bill Penny moved to Alden in 6^th grade he attended Cleve Hill. A hobby of Bill is playing the guitar. Bill’s Favorite restaurant is Alton’s. Bill said that his favorite holiday is Christmas because he likes receiving gifts. When Bill was asked if he would consider himself to be a selfish person he responded no, because he is always there for people. When Bill grows up he said that he wants to be a professional rubix cube solver. Bill Penny’s favorite movie is “Shawshank Redemption.”  Bill Penny said that his favorite 17 year old male celebrity is not Justin Bieber. Will’s favorite color of clothing to wear is red. Bill does want to go to college. Bill said the cleverest place his Easter basket was ever hidden was in the sock basket. It was hidden in a basket of clean socks, not dirty socks. Bill Penny’s favorite sophomore is Samantha Serra. Bill Penny’s favorite animal is a male lion because they look awesome. Bill Penny does not like the show Jersey Shore because it is redundant and ridiculous. Bill Penny’s favorite baseball player of all time is Derek Jeter who plays for the New York Yankees. Bill Penny looks up to his older brother.  Bill Penny does not like cats because they have claws they are hairy and they don’t interact with people. Bill Penny’s favorite plant is a rose. He likes roses because they smell good, they looks beautiful and pretty and he just loves roses.

Things that I don't like

There are many things in this world that I don’t like. I don’t like losing. I don’t like bears. I don’t like people who complain about things in their Facebook statuses. I don’t like swimming in gym class. I don’t like math. I don’t like having to get up early. I don’t like choice blogs. I don’t like naming articles. I don’t like fouling out of basketball games. I don’t like snakes. I don’t like quiet music in cars. I don’t like school buses. I don’t like when mechanical pencils run out of lead or their erasers. I don’t like having to take down the Christmas tree. I don’t like sitting still for long times. I don’t like waiting in waiting rooms. I don’t like bad music. I don’t like jammed lockers. I don’t like typing essays. I don’t like research projects. I don’t like the dark. I don’t like it when people don’t try in school or do their homework. I don’t like forgetting things. I don’t like it when time goes by slowly. I don’t like school pictures. I don’t like high school. I don’t like getting sun burnt. I don’t like not having gum. I don’t like how skinny jeans and running shoes look together. I don’t like it when I spend money. I don’t like that I can’t drive until January of my junior year. I don’t like being rushed to finish a blog at the end of a block. I don’t like 4^th block. I don’t like school lunches. I don’t like diet pop. I don’t like earth science lab. I don’t like when people make fun of Justin Bieber. I don’t like it when the bills lose. I don’t like getting sick. I don’t like boring weekends. I don’t like homework on Sunday nights.

The Back Scratcher

The first back scratcher I ever bought was at ECMC with my friend, Kirsten. We were at the hospital because my brother got injured in a hunting accident. To pass the time of waiting in the waiting room we went to the hospital gift shop. While we were there we saw a back scratcher and bought it because we knew it was a two dollar and fifty sent investment that would keep us very entertained. I was able to convince my brother’s friend, Boomer that it was $10.00 and I bought it because it was made of 100% bamboo. We scratched each other’s backs, and my parent’s backs. After my brother had surgery and he was still sleeping from the amnesia I scratched his back for him. Once we finally got home after a long day we brought the back scratcher with us everywhere. I scratched my dogs and cats with it I would use it to reach for things. Our back scratcher was very entertaining. When my brother’s friend Kelly would come over with her baby, Mckenna, I would scratch her with the back scratcher. She liked it almost as much, if not more than I did. She would hit it against the floor and play with it and at one point she tried to eat it. After a week or so I wasn’t as entertained by my back scratcher. On thanksgiving weekend my grandma always takes my cousins and I to pick out an ornament for Christmas. While we were at hallmark looking around I found an extendable metal bear claw back scratcher. As soon as I saw it I know I had to have it. My grandma agreed to buy it for me and give it to me for Christmas. I am really excited to get it on Christmas day! It’s most defiantly going to be the best Christmas gift ever.

$200

I was with my friend, Beatrice Czup and she asked me if I wanted to help her cater for her cousins business with her. At first I was hesitant because I didn’t know what I was going to be doing. After she asked a few times a said I would go with her. Her sister and cousin came and got us and we started to drive to Batavia. On the way there we had to stop and buy 40 pounds of ice from a gas station. When we arrived in Batavia we pulled into a driveway of an extremely huge house. I didn’t even think it was a house at first, I thought it was something like a banquet hall. As we got closer up the long, long driveway I saw a dog and then realized, this is someone’s house. We walked it and it was a really pretty house. You could tell the people that lived there were into the outdoors because the house had a deer and bear theme. The house had a four car garage and I had never seen a house so big. People hadn’t started arriving at the party yet and we had to prepare for the party. Bea asked me to clean off glasses with a cloth. I was standing there for a while and when I looked up and to my right I saw a huge mounted giraffe on the wall. Giraffe’s are my favorite animal and it really freaked me out. Finally people started arriving and there was 6 snobby rich people standing in the bar of the house and Becca, the caterer, asked me to go offer them hor d'oeuvres. Not only did I have to remember the names of them I had to know what was in them. She sent me out with the tray first to offer them. I walked out and the 6 people all said they didn’t want anything. I didn’t know what to do so I just was standing their awkwardly with a try of food that no one wanted. Thankfully Bea walked out with food and again, everyone said no so we just walked away together. Later when more people arrived I had to keep going around offering them food. After a long night we finally got to clean up and start packing things up getting ready to leave. The owner of the house then came along and gave me and Bea both 2 one hundred dollar bills. Overall, it was well worth it.