man giving birth

That would be crazy if a man gave birth. I agree with what Dan said I am glad that I cant give birth. Women go threw alot of pain giving birth I bet and I give them mad props for having children. Juno was a funny movie I dont want to have kids tell after I get married and I am done with college and have a steady job.

Pregnant man

Sabrina, I think yout thinking of when arnald schwarzenegger is pregnant not john travolta the movie is caller Junior. Anyway i am persnallly glad i cannot get pregnant. I would hate giving birth it doesnt sound pleasant. I give you women all the credit in the world because that totally blows. It takes a lot of stength and courage to give bitrth and i dont think i have that. I saw juno and it really makes me not want to have anything to do with babies, atleast not now. good thing we have birth control.

Spring break was fast

I agree that spring break went by fasty but I had a lot of fun in my cousins house in florida. I visited many beaches in tampa and went Orlando for more fun places. Even though I only stayed thier for 3 days, I admit it was the best spring break I had since i saw some freinds in there. The only down part was mu parents were not in there and I was just with my brother Alto going to florida. I hope that everyone had a fun spring break. I'm still not ready for school yet but I gotta start keeping up since graduation is coming.

Pregnant Man

Ok seriously? Did anyone see that John Travolta movie where he gets artificially inseminated and gives birth to a baby/ babies? Yea whoever can tell me that title I swear I'll give you a candy bad. Anyways, apparently there is a man in Beijing who is preggers. Now mind you, he's a transvestite and it hasn't been unheard of for there to be a transgendered male becoming pregnant, but seriously? This looks like a natural born male and I dunno, he's already completed the full transgender operation so how is it possible for him to even get pregnant?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/31/content_7891932.htm

There's the link: Apparently tomorrow he's going to reveal if he is or isn't really preggers.

So I dunno if this topic will last, I just thought it was interesting.

Spring Break

This spring break seemed to go by so quick. Maybe it's just me but i felt jipped. Even though i did go away, it still seemed like spring break just ended. To come back to weather like this really sucks, and I am sorry for those who were stuck here in the cold. But all in all i hope everyone had a fun springbreak.

Oh my gosh! I've been home all break and this snow is seriously insane. I mean, really? Two blizzards in the same week... and not just ANY week... SPRING BREAK?! AHH! I was depressed. Not to mention the fact that I did absolutely nothing fun at all this week so that made it worse. I hope everyone else had a great break though!!

As far as the euthanasia thing goes... I believe everyone has the right to decide how they want to die. If people can decide how they want to live, and live their lives in whatever manner they choose whether it's productive or dangerous or boring or whatever... they should also have the right to decide how to die. Especially if that person is going through something they know they won't be cured of or make it out of... that person should surely be able to decide if he or she wants to continue suffering that way or if he/she wants to move on. Stupid laws!!! ROARRR!!!

Blog

So i was not at school on thursday so im not sure if we are supposed to continue the blog over break. I noticed that no one is doing the blog so i have nothing to say because i was one of the last people to blog. Hopefully we were not supposed to continue this over break, but maybe all of you are just procrastinating until sunday to go nuts with it.

I really can't believe it is snowing still. It is almost April and still snowing. This has been one of the worst winters in a long time and it's so frustrating. Especially for softball, we have not been able to get outside. I feel like we're never going to play because of this. It's so frustrating. I want it to get warm!!

SCREW SNOW

its spring freakin break and there should never be snow on spring break EVER! i was so man when i saw the snow. My friend was talking to me online and was like "my first hours of spring break were spent shoveling" i was like man that sucks. What i want to know is where is this global warming?!?!? Al Gore sucks. My friend thinks that global warming was real, but god hates Al Gore so he made it snow to make him mad. Either way i wish it would warm up.

That snow on Friday was insane...I left that night for ny and my train ride ended up being 17 hours long. It was also ridiculously hot on the train until about 5 am and I thought i would never make it here but i'm happy that i did. The mountains are beautiful! I leave to go camping in them in an hour or so. There is still snow here so it will be pretty cold but i'm really excited. The snow is actually really weird though its like solid ice but it looks like snow and you can run and slide on it...

I know that most of us don't really want to think about having to blog over break but it would be cool to here what you guys are up too...

I still can't believe it snowed yesterday. Now I know the reason why people went on vacation this spring break. I'm so glad I am leaving this snow behind. Hopefully when I come back the snow will be gone. I'm sorry to all the people who have to stay in miserable Palatine for spring break. It sucks for the people who are playing a spring outdoor sport that they are going to be stuck inside practicing for a while unless it warms up fast. I think last year it snowed like this before spring break or even after? I don't remember but i remember during the spring it snowing. I hope everyone has a wonderful spring break!

The morning after pill

So I know we dont have to blog over break...but i found this info cause we were talking about it in class. The Plan B, or the morning after pill "contains a dose of the hormone levonorgestrel that is higher than in a single birth control pill. Levonorgestrel has been used in birth control pills for over 35 years. Plan B works like a birth control pill to prevent pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary. It is possible that Plan B may also work by preventing fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg) or by preventing attachment (implantation) to the uterus (womb), which usually occurs beginning 7 days after release of an egg from the ovary. Plan B will not do anything to a fertilized egg already attached to the uterus. The pregnancy will continue." So I just thought I'd clear this up, because spoor said it like an abortion, which it is not because it doesnt do anything to an already attached egg. It's like using birth control or spermicide, it just prevents that next step to pregnancy.

SNOW

I agree with you guys, the snow is terrible. I mean i dont know about you guys, but i have had enough with this winter. I want to be over so bad because after feeling 50 degrees again, overall, i just feel happier when it is nicer out. Yet al though the snow is really depressing right now, it is going to make leaving chicago a lot better come sunday when i go. haha I just feel bad for the people that have to stay home for spring break. sorry guys. hopefully when i come back the snow will all be gone and it will be in the 50's/60's the rest of the year. also the worst part of chicago winters is when the snow is melting and it turns like brownish black. it just looks so ugly and nasty and it makes my day a little worse evrytime i see it. hopefully spring will be upon us soon. =] have a good break guys

Euthanasia

I did the research paper about this topic last semester. And as I research more specifically, I realized it is really vicious circle between law and personal grace.
Like that lady in the photo, her life would be so painful and isolated by society, it would be easier for her to accept death.But law is saying "No". It is just repetition of this argument, and court will decide by which seem more right. This time, I guess that women had bad lack...

Surving and Snow

Ok so I don't think I would want a family member to suffer and keep them on life support if I knew they weren't going to make it. Its just giving them a longer and more painful death and I don't think I would be able to watch a loved one suffer that long. If I was the one who was actually dying I wouldn't want my family to watch me suffer. Its basically giving the person false hope that they may come out of whatever they have and they never will. Maybe get the whole family together to see this person for one last time but not for years and years to see if they will snap out of it.

I can't believe this snow either... from what I see/hear the snow is going to be around a lot this week. I am actually leaving for Florida last minute tomorrow so I'm pretty psyched. everyone have a good spring break!!!!!!

I agree with Jim. I would not want to stay living if I had to suffer. I wouldn't want to see anyone I loved go through that either. I would respect their wishes though, if they did want to stay living. I can't even imagine being in that situation. It must be so hard. It's sad when people try to keep people alive, just to have them "living", even though in most cases they have little brain activity actually going on. I would rather have them die in peace than have to remember them suffering like that.



I really hate this snow..it's supposed to be spring break not winter break. This is the worst winter ever, but hopefully it gets nice sometime soon so we can actually have a spring.

Snow

Ok, what is going on in Chicago!? It's March 21, my birthday is coming in 4 days! But anyway, we had too too much of snow this year. I just went to shovel that ridicules snow out from front of garage, and I was thinking "maybe Chicago is not affected by global warming, on the contrary, global COOLING might be happening."
Anyway I sick and tired of fighting with snow, I don't want to see that white powdery stuff on the ground anymore.

first of all i think it is so sad that someone has to go through something like that. You have one life to live and for someone to go through that is just horrible. Secondly i believe it is in the persons rights if they want to continue living or not. When you are in that much pain and there is no way for recovery, then why continue to go through that? Havin a doctor put you to sleep is the most resonable solution because they want a quick and painless death so they no longer have to live like that. I understand why it is illegal in most countries because it is technically assisting in murder, but it was not the doctors decision. They probably will commit suicide anyways which is more stress put on the family, so why not just obey the persons word and put them out of their misery.

SNOW??? Seriously

So I am going to change the topic. I am staying home during spring break and I am looking out my window right now. It is snowing like crazy and I can't believe it. It looks like we are on winter break not spring break. I really hope that the warmth comes soon. I remember I think just last week I was able to come to school without wearing a coat. I want that weather back. At least there is plenty of basketball on that I can watch. I am jealous of everyone who is in warm places and are going to come back tan. I really needed to express my hatred for this weather right now. I hope everyone else is enjoying their spring break. I will see you all in a week. :)

Euthanasia

Okay, I agree that this is tough to form an opinion on. But I think it should be like... you can get euthanasia if you have a terminal illness with no chance at recovery. Why bother waiting if you are just going to die, right? Especially in cases like that lady in the photo, her life would be so painful and complicated by that thing, it would be easier for her to accept death.I guess it would be against the moral code of doctors to kill if a person had some hope of recovering, but I don't know if I want a slow and painful death when I could just control it and do it peacefully.

That picture was some scary shit!!! I feel really bad for that lady. That is horrible. I really don't know what to say about that, that should have listened to her plea. I mean, after all it is her life and she should be able to decide what happens to her, not someone else. I'm just really shocked at that picture i cant really even believe that that is real, its just so weird. I couldn't even imagine that every happening to someone, it's horrible.

Euthanasia

I am not really against euthanasia. I think that everybody has a rigth to choose between life and death. Sometimes it is better to die than to suffer for the rest of life. I wonder why people are against it since it is not them who die but those who want to die. People should have a right to choose between life and death because nobody has a right to decide about it. By the way have a nice spring break guys:)

ENB, Spring Break

SPRING BREAK :)

I looked at the picture and I found it very disturbing. I can't believe how big her eye got. I would want to die too if my face looked like that and I was in such pain. I know that next to the picture it described esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB) as an uncommon malignant neoplasm of the nasal vault. I still don't know much other than this. I am guessing it can not be cured since she asked her doctors to kill her. That picture is scary. I feel really bad for that women.

So during spring break I know some people are going off to warm places or working. I am getting my wisdom teeth out. I am kinda scared since I have never had any operations of any kind. I hope I am not still a puffy cheeked chipmunk when I get back on that Monday.

That picture scared the shit out of me. Like I freaked out in the middle of class. That sucks if someone had to suffer that I would kill my self. I think people should choose to live or die when in so much pain like that. It would suck to suffer like that I wonder how she felt before she died. The court is crazy in france. Anyways last day of school!!! Have fun over break and be safe and dont get busted at a party...

responding to the euthanasia topic...

Okay this is a really tough thing to form a solid opinion about.
Sometimes, I disagree with it because it is assisted suicide, and I don't think it is a good idea to help people kill themselves. But most of the time, I can see why a person would not want to suffer anymore and decide to end their life. And it is their right to live or die. I know that sounds horrible, and I am not encouraging it or anything...but like Aubrey was saying... that woman was obviously suffering and in critical condition and if she really was that miserable, maybe she should be able to decide what she wants to do with her life. I totally see how people with fatal diseases or who are very old sign DNR - do not recesitate (spelling?) - sheets... when my grandpa was dying, the nurse tried putting an oxygen mask on his face and he lifted his hand and yanked it off. I sometimes wonder if he would have been a live a little longer if he hadn't been so stubborn and not wanting help. But that's me being selfish, and if it was his time to go and he didn't want to be kept alive by machines, than that was his decision. Wow Sabrina, this is a pretty serious topic to head into spring break with. Hey: does anyone know if we need to blog over break??

Euthanasia

Oh man, that was gross. I feel so sorry that that poor woman had to suffer that.
I don't know how I feel about the idea of Euthanasia. Sometimes living is worse than dying, as in this case. I don't know if people should be allowed to choose if they live or die, but I don't think people should have to suffer so much.
I know that I would never want to live in a condition like that.

ooohhohohhohhhhoooohhhhh

OMG I JUST SAW THE PICTURE!!! Why would courts deny her? I think laws like that are stupid, because if someone wants to die that bad, they are going to do it whether someone gives them permission or not. If someone doesn't want to live, why make them??? I think suicide it sad and we should try to help those in need, but if someone has made up their mind that that is what they want to do, I'm not going to stand in the way. That sounds bad...but thats how I feel. SoOoOoo thats pretty much all i have to say about that...and i hope that noone i know has to go through anything so painful like that. HAVE A GOOD SPRING BREAK!!! I'm staying home too, so everyone else who wont be venturing off...lets hang out!

I agree with everyone that is jealous of the people that are going off to a warm place while me, and many others, are stuck here in the cold and windy city of Chicago. Anyways,new topic.

A woman in France requested the right to euthanasia after her face swelled to such an enormous painful size. I don't know the whole story, cos I'm basically too lazy to read the rest, but she was found dead two days after the courts denied her plea for the right to die.


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/France/photo//080320/photos_ts_wl_afp/eb2283786531dde44ec33af990aef85d//s:/ap/20080320/ap_on_re_eu/france_euthanasia;_ylt=ArilQMtk65Cn6M5m.qWtLiBbbBAF


^ That's the link to a picture and the story. (Warning it's fairly graphic...)
So what I'm getting at is this...if you were in such a state, that every moment was just pure pain, that you couldn't move, couldn't breathe, were just waiting to die, do you think you should have the right to euthanasia?

I hate how everyone is going somewhere nice and warm. I'm stuck here. It's supposed to like snow and stuff on Saturday. That sucks. Spring Break is supposed to be nice, but it's going to be more like winter break. I have hated the weather and hate it even more since spring break is coming and it's going to be crappy out. I hope after that snow storm--if it even happens--it gets nice out. It would be nice to get outside a little because the weather this year has been so unpredictable.

raaandom

So I've definitely been watching a Law & Order marathon all day, and the episode I'm watching right now is talking about what we talked about in class today!  How we have freedom of speech under the first amendment but as soon as the freedom of speech incites and results in violence it isn't protected anymore.  I felt super smart when they started talking about that in the trial because the guy on the stand was like, "Don't we still have freedom of speech in this country?!" because the records his company was producing were all like... neo-Nazi groups and what someone I guess called "hate core" music because the lyrics were TERRIBLE!!

The flu

Today i finally caught a stomach flu that has been going around. I dont think have ever been in so much pain. I cant imagiane what people did way back when before proper medical care. To date 9 people i know have caught this cirus and it SUCKS. My mom said its more painful than child birth. I cant eat, sleep, or even move without pain. This totally blows. The good part is that it only seems to last 2 days. Hopefully mine wil be shorter than that.

Catherine you're taking a TRAIN to New York?! That's going to be so exciting! I'm so jealous of the entire description of your trip.  I'm jealous of EVERYONE because I have to stay here while everyone goes off galavanting other states and COUNTRIES!! But Kimberly your idea sounds awesome.  Like I said before I think I'm going to visit some friends in college at the end of next week but my friend works in a hotel and gets mad discounts at any hotel of the same chain so I think we're going downtown to stay in  hotel too one of the nights and go shopping and to dinner and whatnot while we're down there.  I don't really enjoy shopping, I like when people shop FOR me but it should be fun because I could spend all day walking around Chicago and not get bored.  The only thing that sucks is that all my teachers are pounding me with homework this week and over break so I have to worry about all of that over my vacation week which sucks because I'd prefer leaving all my worries behind at least for a week! Clearly that's not an option, though.  I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful break!  Bring me back a present! =)

p.s. so Kim we should hang out over break considering we'll both be around!!! =P

Spring break!! I wish I was doing something more fun than staying around here, but a week off of school will be amazing. I think I may also go downtown at some point, and otherwise just try to hang out with some friends around here and make the most of my time. I think most of my teachers are going to be nice and not give me too much work, so that will also be a good thing! Hope everyone else has fun :)

spring break!!! one more day!

Wow so you guys are going on some pretty exciting spring break trips...hawaii, new york... I'm unfortunately staying here in Palatine. My mom wouldn't let me go with all of my girlfriends on a cruise or to Cancun, not because of safety/strict rules but because we all have college coming up very soon and she didn't want me to spend $2000 right before graduation and leaving for school. I completely understand but it's still hard.
Luckily, two of my friends are also home so we are heading downtown for a night, staying in a hotel on Michigan ave. (using an aunt's hotel points) which should be very fun. Taking the train down, shopping, dressing up for dinner.. a very girlie trip. But I'm excited. And who isn't excited for a much needed one week off of school, right? I'm only a little bit sad that everyone will come back with a tan but me... but I'm trying to get over that. haha
Everyone have safe weeks/flights/trips/rides and have sooo much fun!! (Once we get back we only have a couple weeks until the AP tests, and that's practically it. Can you believe it?!?!)

Spring Break!

I can not wait until Spring Break! This past week has been the longest week of my life, and its only Wednesday. Thankfully tomorrow is the last day of the week so it is kinda like a thursday today. I am going to Dominican Republic with my family and cousins then one my friends families. I know it is kind of lame that I am going with my family, but whatever i'll be able to lay out on the beach and get tan. I am just worried that it might rain or something when we are there. That would be a bummer. I am still so excited! It can't come soon enough!!

spring break!

I can't wait for spring break! I'm going to take a train to NY and go camping in the Adirondack Mountains and catch a Ratdog show or two. I'm totally jacked about it. I want Bobby to play Saint of Circumstance for me...maybe some Lazy Lightning? We'll see! I really hope that it will be warmer outside...im ready for some summer sunshineeeeeeeeee!

Spring Break!!!

I can't wait until spring break. It is going to be so much fun, i am going to play soccer again:). Spring break is so cool, we get about 10 days of no school. it is preparation for the summer, especially for us seniors:P. How about you guys, what are you going to do over the spring break? I hope that everyone will enjoy spring break.

Yeah Spring Break!!!!

I can't wait until spring break. I'm going to North Carolina and it should be great. A vacation is definitely in order because I am really not enjoying school all that much right now. But what I'm really excited for is the weather there. The weather here has been crap it got into the 50's once or twice and in NC for spring break it is supposed to be in the upper 60's to 70's, so i cant wait for the warm weather. Also just like everyone else I really want a break so that I can relax. It's going to be nice to get up when ever and not have to work for a week (sorry for those who have to work, I know what it's like, I had to work the last 2 spring breaks). It is definitely going to be a great time to relax and get away from everything and I cant wait!!

Spring break

So for spring break i dont have any really big plans. I want to drive up to Northern and go to a sub sandwich shop owned by Mr. Hardy the woods teacher. Id like see all my college friends and just get a chance to relax! its been a hard quarter and im getting really sick of school. I wish spring break was longer because i need some freakin rest. Unfortunately i will have to work during break but hopefully my boss will not make me work every day. Whatever happens im sure ill have fun.

Spring Break

AHH I'm so excited for Spring Break!! Unfortunately I'm staying in the lovely bubble that is Palatine and pretty much all my friends from everywhere are going on vacation so that's not really fun, but I'm really excited to finally have a week off of school. School's been stressing me out lately; I feel like all my teachers are out to get me with all this freaking homework and whatnot. I was supposed to go to Mexico with the rest of the world but my mom took too long to give me permission to go and they booked the trip without me! Plus my parents weren't going to pay for any of it and I would have to pay for it all myself and the trip would have cost $2000!!!!!!!! YEAH RIGHT!!! So then me and my friend who goes to Hoffman had an idea to go on a four day vacation to California, and we were all ready to book the trip and then she was like, "Well I might be going somewhere this summer and I can't afford both trips so I'll get back to you," and she never really did get back to me. So now I'll be here. But I'm going to visit some friends in college so that'll be like a mini-vacation even though it won't really be a change of weather which is REALLY what I need!

Spring Break

I'm pretty excited for Spring break. I'm not going on a vacation or anything, but I'm planning on taking a trip down to Sonic Drive-In. It's in Peoria, so that trip would take up most of the day. Other than that I just plan on hanging out. I guess I'll have to go to track practice, but it'll be a nice break from school.

SPRING BREAAAAKKK!!!!!!

So to what Tim said about the booze...seriously guys I dont want a case like Natalie Hollaway. Its our senior year and it would put a damper on our last few months if one of you went missing...and it would suck for u. So be safe! Anyway, I'm not going anywhere for spring break...I was going to go to Florida because my dad lives there and then just meet up with my friends who are going to be there, but i suck at planning things so when i actually got around to buying plane tickets, they were like 700 bucks. So my mom didnt feel like paying that much money so I'm stuck here going to lacrosse practice and working. Its not that bad tho b/c it will give me a chance to catch up on things (like sleep and cleaning) and I'm going on 3 college visits. So I hope you all have fun wherever you go...and if you're staying home then lets hang out!

Spring Break

I am really excited for spring break. I would be visiting my cousin in Florida and will stay there for a week. I cant wait till the weather here in Illinios is perfect. The only downside to my spring break is that I had to do a paper in my english class. I hope that everyone would be going somewhere to enjoy the sun. Lots of people will probably get drunk so take it easy on the booz.

SPRING BREAK

We are so close to spring break I cant wait I need a break from school. I am going to the dells this spring break with a bunch of my friends. Also I am going to be working at my new job and going to be sleeping in for break. But its going to be fun, because most of my friends are going out of town so I get to hang out with them also. I just hope the weather gets better want the bright sun to come back and shine on us. So we are almost out of high school went by so quick and we are at the last moments of it. Have fun make it last...

I'm excited for spring break too..I'm not going anywhere unfortanutely because I really can't because of softball. I am working though..so making money will be nice and it will be nice to not be in school. Hopefully the weather is some what nice here. I don't have anything too exciting planned. I do wish I was going somewhere though. Kinda sucks, but I haven't been able to go anywhere over it so I'm kinda used to it by now.

i cant wait for spring break. its not only because im going to hawaii but because i really want and need a vacation. I am really is of the weather here and i just want to get away for awhile to clear my head and relax. Im glad that the quarter doesnt end until a week or so after we get back cuz that gives me a chance to get my grades up after the break because right now, im not really focused haha. ive only been to hawaii once before and it rained EVERY day. it was kind of funny though because the news stations were all freakin out and it was literaly like tiny showers they were like people make sur eto remember your rain ponchos or else just stay indoors. haha. hopefully my luck will be better this year and i will get some sun. =) all in all, its only 4 school days away guys, hang in there. 

spring break

im so excited for spring break. im so sick of school. i just want it to end like right now. waking up early in the morning is so annoying for 4 years in fremd. i'm just sick of fremd. gosh. same thing over and over again. so yea for spring break.. i can sleep all day as long as i want. im not doing anything special but just go to art school everyday.but yea im sure im excited!

Spring Break/ Distrubing mail

So I am going NO WHERE for spring break. Kinda bummed out because I like all of my friends are leaving me but I guess its kinda time to relax and be to myself for once.

Anyways, I was talking to my mom and she told me this really disturbing story. I don't know if all of the facts are true but I would believe this. My mom said that she heard somewhere that there was a family in America who has a family that is a prisoner of war in another country, sorry I'm not sure of what country. But the family got a letter or package in the mail and supposable got fingers in the mail, of their family member. The family was extremely shocked but they said that their package gave them some hope that he/she was still alive. To me that is extremely disgusting and I have no idea how I would respond to that type of thing. But is this type of terror really necessary? I was also thinking about this while I was writing this entry but I don't feel like we are really in a war right now. Does anyone else feel this way? I mean yea I hear tons of stories about people getting killed but I feel like this is no actual war going on.

New Topic!!

senior year SpRiNg BrEaK 08!! woo hoo it's in four school days!! who's excited?? (obviously i am, haha)

so let's talk about our spring break plans!... where are people going/are you going with friends or fam/any other exciting news or plans about the upcoming Spring Break/etc. ? maybe talking about our trips/week off of school will make it get here sooner.

Kids in a Car

I agree with Kim about this. If the mom was only a few feet away dropping something off for donation the she shouldn't have been arrested. It is completely understandable though if she was gone for a long time, but from what I heard it was not long at all. If she did get them out of the car then it would have been a huge hassle for her, so I understand why she left them in the car. I don't really understand why she was arrested, she didn't do anything wrong, my mom used to leave me in the car when she would go drop off or pick up her dry cleaning and she was only gone for, at the most, a minute, and she never got arrested. This whole thing doesn't really make much sense.

leaving kids alone...

I def. heard that news about the woman who had a three year old and a young baby (or somewhere around those ages) in her car and she parked and quickly stepped out to drop off a donation (was it money? i heard clothes... either way...) and get back into the car. And she got arrested. I was shocked... what was she suppossed to do? Another woman recently got arrested for leavin her kids in the car while she was in a mall shopping for over an hour and i completely understand why she got arrested. But really... what was that woman with the donation suppossed to do? That's like when you park your car right on the curb and drop videos in the Blockbuster return slot... you're only a few feet away. Does that mean that a mom is suppossed to unload her kids just to drop movies at Blockbuster or books off at that library drop in box? I feel bad for her because that really is not neglect... I know that I would've done the same thing.

parking

So I found the news that women was arrested by leaving children alone inside her car. But there was some questionable point. That women was only 3 yards away from a car, for just donate some money. It took only few minutes. And when she came back, unfortunately police came there and police arrested her. How do you guys think about this? I know it is not good idea to leave children alone inside a car. But this time, she even see her car. I don't think police should arrested her.

in response to the video game topic, i think that video games have no connection what so ever to kids growing up with skills in guns or weapons. Since when is pushing buttons practice for shooting a gun? Sure they could give kids ideas and what not, but when you really think about it, the people that usually end up in possesion of guns are the lower class people. Kids that play shooting video games are usually on the wealthier side if they can afford to purchase that kind of stuff, and grow up in a loving household. Sure there are always a few exceptions, but video games do not influence kids and make them think that this kind of behavior is okay in our society.

STDs

That statistic of 1/4 girls having an STD is crazy. I don't think it is that bad around here, but seriously, that's ridiculous. I don't know what we have to do to keep kids safe. I would say that better health education would be helpful for some teens. I think my health class here was pretty good about teaching everything that could happen, but I know some other places aren't so good. Also, I think the parents need to step in and do a better job with their kids. Parents have the responsibility to teach their children how to live. Sex is part of life, they need to talk about it. Not just, don't have sex til you're married! Because that isn't realistic these days. Kids need to be aware of STDs, pregnancy, the emotional stuff that sex might cause. And the parents are the only ones who can really make their kids understand all that.


PS- Goodbye Janet!! Hope you have fun the rest of this year, we'll miss you

Good Bye Janet/ Video Games

I really wanted to get off the depressing topic of the puppy and thought I would go back to some topics that were earlier in the blog...

First I want to say bye to Janet. I was just starting to really get to know you and now you are leaving. I hope you have a good time down South.

Second, I want to go back to the topic of video games. I agree with Aubrie that maybe this is where all those young shooters are learning how to use guns. My mom would never let me have any PlayStation's or xboxes. She would tell me that they would "rot my brain." Instead I would play games on the computer. I love Sims. I wish I had guitar hero but that would mean having one of the game systems. But anyway, I have never been a fan of the violent, let me kill you, games. These are the games that many young boys are playing. They are growing up thinking that this kind of violence is OK. If it is played at a young enough age, the child might not be able to tell the difference between reality and their TV screens.

Puppy

I totally can not understand why that soldier did that. If that puppy was dead already it is still horrible thing to do. He could just bury it under ground and that's 1000X better than throwing it off the cliff. I don't want to think this but if puppy was alive, that is just a sin. Well, I think it is still crime to throw a dead animal, anyway it is just horrible.
And I can't believe the soldier who was filming that video. Well first of all, why would you want to film a soldier throwing a puppy off the cliff? It just make any sense. I guess that soldiers have some mental problems. Because there couldn't be any way, normal people throwing a puppy off the cliff.

Who in their right mind would throw a puppy off of a cliff? That is just so sad. I don't remember who made this comment but said that peolpe think it could have been dead? That would be hard to find out but who knows. If the puppy were dead then it would be a different story. I just don't understand why he would do this. This is just telling us that the war is messing people up. I remember hearing stories about Vietnam and how peolpe got messed up and never thought that would happen again, but maybe that is why this guy did this? I don't know. It's just so sad.
Then to that video game comment, sometimes I do think that what we see on those games can make us think to do bad things because people get ideas from games like Grand Theft and stuff. I heard in psych, I don't know if it's true but it could be, that two guys were playing Grand Theft Auto and were drinking and decided to go rob a bank then on their way home ran over a lady. That is insane, but then maybe they were just psycho and it wasn't because of the game but if a game could seroiusly do that to someone then that is crazy!

i feel bad for the puppy.. i cant beleive someone would actually gave one's life away. its not fair. even though animals are not human.. they are still living thing. and its not like puppies would harm people. so stupid. anyways i think people should take care of animals preciously. even though they are just animals they have life too.

Last Day In School... ;(

well you guys know it was my last day today. I wanted to say its been a pleasure being in survey with all of you. I know i really don't know much about any of you but still. Anyways i just wanted to say its been fun and a pleasure....peace out everyone.... congrats on graduating. CLASS OF '08!!!!

TEH ANIMAL CRUELTY

I came across the video of the puppy throwing while I was doing my political advocacy group search. I started to watch it, but closed it right away. That guy was actually smiling about killing that puppy. I love animals, so I just couldn't watch it. How someone could kill an innocent animal like that is completly appalling.
On that topic of animal cruelty, did you know that thousands of seals are brutally murdered each year during the commercial seal hunts? Hunters use clubs to crush the seals skulls, and then sell their skin. They don't even eat them! Just thought I'd spread the word. SAVE THE SEALS!

after watching this video, all i can say is wow. To think that anyone in their right mind could do such a horrible thing like that just makes me sick to my stomach. It shows us how little life means to some people in our country and how stray dogs don't matter. It is still a dog and is a living life form just like you and me. The marines are trying to cover it up and apologize but no matter what they say nothign can reverse the occurance that happened. What they did is exactly the opposite of what they are in the marines for. They are trying to save and preserve life, as they sit there and throw innocent puppies off a cliff.

puppy

woah a marine threw a puppy of a cliff!...that is not cool. Why would they hurt an innocent animal like that? Especially a cute little puppy, this is animal cruelty. I just dont really understand, even if it is fake. who do you think would make it? idk the whole thing in general kind of disgusts me. if it is true i think that the the war is really dangerous for our soldiers not only because the might die everyday they are out there, but because of the post traumatic stress that many go through after the return. I believe that more soldiers have died from post traumatic stress from this war than the vietnam war. To me, this is a big issue because that just means that things a messed up over there and that our soldiers are getting affected not only phiscally but mentally as well.

Puppy :(

This video was sooooo depressing. I love puppies and dogs so much. I can't be live someone could actually do this. I could not tell if the video was fake or not. No matter what that should not be happening. I am not going to watch it again but if I was going to I would look to see if the puppy moves at all. I didn't think it was moving so I hope it was already dead. If that puppy was not already dead that soldier has no heart. Who can actually look a cute cuddly puppy in the eye and then throw it over a cliff. SERIOUSLY????? This made me so mad.

us marine throws puppy off cliff

That video doesnt look like its fake. I cant believe that someone actually did that. Whats the the purpose of throwing puppy off cliff? the puppy did no harm to anybody and the soldier just threw him off the cliff like some kind of toy. those are really stupid since they put the movie on youtube. Did they really think that people are going to like it? if i were their general i would send them to a psychilogist to see if they are psychos.

Another New Topic...

OK so i don't know how many people know about this.Did u guys hear/see the video on you tube about the marine that through a puppy off a cliff? If you haven't just go to you tube and put in"us marine throws puppy off cliff". Its so sad. Some think its fake but i don't. Some think the puppy was already dead. if that was the case, it doesn't matter. How would the marine like it if someone just through is dead body over a cliff without second guessing. Its sad what this war is doing to soldiers. You know grant you i know he could have possibly been like that before the war but i believe 100% that the war made it 10x worse. its so sad. Anyways, go check out the video and tell me what you guys think? Whats your opinion??

Pre-mariage sex....

personally, i know i want to wait before i get married. However i don't think its a crime to have sex before marriage. It really depends on the people involved and what they believe in/want. I'm waiting but if it happens before marriage I'm not going to kick my self...u know. Now that doesn't mean that for little kids to go out and turn to hoes/tricks. Times have changed and its not like it use to be. We don't get a scarlet letter. However, i don't support young people having sex.

NEW TOPIC!!!!


Look at the new study results: 1 in 4 teenage girls have an STD.

Here's a link to learn more:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VBB9D00&show_article=1

But anyways, can you believe it. 1 in 4? what the hell are girls doing? That's so crazy....3 million girls....wow... What do you guys think? How do you guys feel about this??

I think this is a really good topic because it's something I'm always thinking about now with all of the shootings going on. Where do kids learn that this is ok? When we were doing that lobby thing yesterday I was on a website against guns and it had the statistics of people who were killed by guns in different countries in 2004. In Finland there were 5 people killed, and then it listed about 5 other countries, the highest number in one country being 500. Then it showed the number of people killed in the United States in 2004, and it was over 11,000. How come in the US we have so many more shootings, so much more violence? I do think video games have something to do with the amount of crime going on. Look at how many kids we know this year who have gotten in trouble with the law for stealing. They dont need to steal, they all have plenty of money, but video games glamorize crime. My cousin broke his brother's arm because they were doing a wrestling move they learned on a video game. It's examples like these that make me think video games have a huge impact on the way kids think and see themselves. The reset button teaches kids that they can be invincible, and in reality they obviously aren't.

Video games

I think it is a big issue that video games do mess up a young kids life. My little brother comes home from school and just plays xbox 360 and plays halo and know he is a violent kid and always tries to fight me and things and always talking about halo. He doesnt do his homework much it is just real bad because teens just want to play more and more until a new game comes out. I agree with VJ if you die you just restart the game. But in real life you cant do that so why make a game that you can. But video games like sports isnt bad I love sport games they dont have any violence in them. But many people have different veiws on everything thats just my thought.

Dan's Topic

I really don't think that video games have a big influence in corrupting kids lives. Video games are not real and because of that I don't think that it has much, if any, influence in a kid's life. The thing is, in a video game if you die, get arrested, crash or any other thing that you don't want to do, all you have to do is press the reset button and everything is fine just like nothing happened. In real life if something like this happens, you're screwed and it will affect there rest of you life or in the case you die, end it. if anything is going to corrupt a kid's life it is most likely going to be from what they experience in there home or with their friends.

Video game influence

So the new grand theft suto is coming out soon and it got me thinking about video gave violence. Everyone made a huge deal when that game came out because it was supposedly currupting our youth. I have never felt like video games effected me but people always make a big deal about it. I am reading the book "Brave new world" and it really shows the desensitization of children. Things are becoming less and less important and scandalous so video games are pushing the limits too. What do you guys think?

SEX

I don't see anything wrong with premarital sex. Everyone can decide when to have sex and when not to have sex. If they choose to give up their virginity before marriage, then that's their decision. It is really nice though when people wait until marraige to have sex for the first time. I feel like in this generation though, people are having sex at such a young age now. I always see young girls walking around pregnant. If kids want to have sex and don't want to become pregnant, then they should really be safe about having sex. And another problem is all the STD's there are out there now. If everyone waited until marriage, the STD rate would probably go down. But then again, if you find someone you love and can stay committed to, then you should be able to do whatever with that someone.

SEX!!!

Dont have sex. You will get chlamydia and you will DIE! That's from Mean Girls. So I dont really have views on sex before marriage. Great for the people who choose to wait till marriage. Fine for the people who dont. But what I dont understand is "the one". People get married and divorced all the time. Just because they waited until they were married to have sex doesnt make them a better person, especially since an outrageous number of people are getting divorced within the first two years of marriage anyway. So its a like a person waited all that time to do it with that speical person, "the one", and then they end up divorced anyways. Because of that, I believe that as long as you love someone and you have a mature and safe relationship, I think you should be able to share that with that person. I'm not for one night stands and horny hookups, I think no matter what it should be about love. <3

Just don't have sex. Because you will get pregnant. And die.

What movie is that from?!

I guess people just have to be smart about what they do. I definately think that people should love eachother if they're going to have sex. I guess I don't think that they HAVE to be married, but it's definately a good idea.

I grew up in a strict Muslim household. My mother would drive me to Sunday school every weekend and I would fast blah blah blah. Around the age of 14, when my parents began seperated, I came to realize, that although I was following the steps of being a good Muslim, I didn't actually *believe* it. Now at 17, I can admit that I do not have a religion, nor do I follow any strict moral guidelines. The whole sex before marriage issue...isn't really an issue. If you want to have sex, and you're being safe, and you don't regret it, then what's the problem? I don't think anyone should be ashamed or feel guilty for having sex before they are married. I have friends who are afraid to admit they have sex because they're ashamed and don't want people to judge them. I've noticed, lately, in high school a lot of people are big church goers. (There's ^nothing^ wrong with this). But with uprising and gospel choir and bible study, it's hard not to feel the pressure to be good and faithful. All I'm saying is, if you feel a moral *obligation* to stay a virgin till you're married, that's you're own opinion and belief. I just don't think we should push our morals on other people. (Not that anyone here is.)

Premarital Sex

I think that having sex before marriage is a pretty common and should not be new to anyone else. I still believe that being abstinent before being married is the safest and best way to show that you two love each other. But having sex before is not a bad thing either. If you both trust and love each other then theres nothing to worry about when it comes to sex. If sex is the one thing that could keep the couples in a close relationship then they should just go for it. I hope everyone is not bored doing thier vikes.

I think that it is up to you on what you want to do. I personally think that waiting until marriage or something is what peolpe should do. I mean if you find yourself in love before marriage then it doesn't matter as long as you think you are in love or soemthing. If you want to have sex before marriage and you just do it just to do it then do whatever you want. It's not my life, no one can choose for you. I just personally think wait until that girl/guy is the one. I don't get why people just have to sex just to have it I have always thought it should mean something but I don't knwo that is just me. No one can tell you what to do so I just think try and be smart about it or do what you belive in. A lot of people go by what others say sometimes but I think it should be about what you think. I dont't know this is all just my opinion

Premartial Sex

I think that everybody should do whatever they believe is right. Times have changed and many teenagers decide not to keep their virginity and honestly i do not care what they do. As long as i am not affected by what they are doing. I think that it is kind of peer pressure. People think that if their friends have sex, they should do it too. Otherwise, they will be scared that their friends will make fun of them.

I think stuff like premarital sex depends from person to person, everyone should just do what they want. I feel that it is okay before marriage, but not casually. It really changes people and relationships when sex is brought in. I think that for sex to work in a relationship, there should be some time before they take that step and the people should talk about it before just jumping in. And some people don't even believe in marriage. Gay people can't get married, but they still wait until the appropriate time. I think that's what it is about. Just make sure that you are personally ready because maybe marriage isn't the appropriate time for you. Maybe it is long before that... or maybe it comes with getting married.

1000th

IM THE 1000th POST!

Sexy time

So i used to believe what kristi wrote the whole you have to wait until marriage thing, but now i think you just have to be in love. I used to be a pretty churchy god loving kid, but i have lost my faith. I have changed my morals so much in highschool because i think the old morals are outdated. Things are different now and times have changed. I still think sex is no game, its serious stuff, but i dont think its only for marriage. Plus what if you suck at it or your lover does and your stuck with them forever, that kinda sucks. But ya im not opposed to premarital sex as long as it is out of love and not random hornyness.

Premarital Sex

To me premarital sex is wrong but it comes from my faith and what I believe in. In my religion you are supposed to wait until you are married to have sex and save yourself for the one you love...when you are married. I know this my sound a little stupid but I actually wear a promise ring and it says on it 'true love waits'. Basically just saying that I'm going to save myself for marriage. The ring is something for me to keep myself in what I think is morally right and not to be tempted. My mom bought me a nice fancy one and I lost it so I bought myself a new one because of that reason. Now don't get me wrong I don't hate people or even dislike people who have premarital sex they have their opinions and I have mine but that doesn't mean I don't like them. But yea... lets not let this be a war of faith ok... they are just opinions. =)

Bully

Bullying is also in the form of peer presure sometimes. They are being forced to bully since thier friends are also bullies. But mostly, I have to agree with Salman about people who look wierd and act differently than the rest are most likely to get bullied. People who are friends that are talking bad things to each other is different than talk bad to someone you dont even know. The worse of bullying is not physically, but emotionally as well. Girls has this kind of manipulation on others which makes them the worst kind of bullies. As for Molly's topic, I think that premarital sex is done by most people more than the couples who actually does marriage first.

PReMARITAL SEXXX

So I dont really have very many veiws on bullying. I never really got bullyed when I was younger. I think guys bully way more than girls do, but girls just bully in a different form. I think that although guys cause each other physical pain, girls cause each other mental pain which could last a life time.

but anyway.. i want to bring up a new topic. I really am curious to know everyones thoughts on premarital sex. maybe we already talked about this, but im not really sure. i know that although most people say its "immoral" i dont think theres anything wrong with it if you find the right person. im sure alot of people agree with me and they just dont want to admit it. just curious. :)

Bully

I agree with Sam bullies bully people because they have something agaisnt them or just pick on the way they look. Many boys that are bullies because they look weird or just because there appearance. Us guys dont care what someone has to say they we will just say it to there face. If i get mad I just say what i feel. Girls just say things and it gets around. People just like to talk trash and make fun of people and pick on random people or they hate them. Bullies are just a waste of time and dumb.

It's scary how much people's words can have an effect on other people. My mom told me about this story that a person from her work told her. The lady's daughter was bullied really bad at school. These "popular" girls would harrass her and bully her to the extreme. They would go out of their way to prank call her. She changed her number many times, and they some how always found it. They would egg her house. She was very depressed and her parents had to take her to a really good therapist in Indiana because they were so worried about her. It's so scary that people are that mean and go to that extent to make another person's life a living hell. It would be so much better if people just worried about themselves and weren't that mean to people. When my mom told me that, I felt really bad for the girl and couldn't imagine having to go through that.

Bullying

Personally I think that bullying anyone for any reason what so ever is just plain dumb. I dont understand why people have to bring down others and try and make them feel bad just to make themselves happy. Obviously they themselves have low self esteem if they have to make other people feel bad to make themsleves feel good. Bullying can lead to many other things as well. The kid that gets bullied can take revenge in something like a school shooting. That would just be killing many innocent people only because one person depressed another. Even though not EVERY single person in the world is going to be able to get along, the ones with problems should just ignore eachother and make peace. Bullying is happening way to much lately and it should really just be stopped to stop so many problems in the world.

i feel that people who bully other people are just trying to take out their own insecurities on other people to make themselves feel better about themselves. I also think that the way that girls and boys bully differ drastically. When a boy bullies someone it is usually about a person's appearance or some flaw that is picked out about a person. Also, guys usually say it straight to a person's face which is one reason that an actual fight is more likely to occur between guys then girls. Girls usualy will do it all sly and say it behind the person's back or spread a rumor about a girl/boy that isn't necessarily true. I think that one reason they do it this way is because it is almost like they can act like they never even hurt someone's feelings because they didnt say it to their face. To me this could be a lot more embarrasing for a person than if the bully said it to my face. I mean i dont want the whole school to think something about me is true when it actualy isnt. That would suck.

bullying

So I have different views on bullying. For both girls and guys, there are those certain people that stick out to you as being fake. You think to youself, 'Why are you trying so hard?' They try to be the funniest or the hottest and when they aren't thats when they turn to attack other people. Those are the insecure people who have to put others down to make themselves feel better. But then I think there are cases where it's innocent. In all cultures all across the world, people notice the person who doesn't fit in. Whether it be taller, fatter, smaller, people find differences among each other and make fun of it. I dont think kids mean to be mean, i think they are just realizing that 'oh, that kid is different from us'. They think being different is funny and make fun of kids for that without realizing it may be hurting them. I think it's natural to jugde people, some people just take it too far.

The idea of bullying is so cliche that it actually make me laugh. What it the point of bringing someone down, when really, you're defiling your own personal sense of self-love. There's something so insipid about the need for one to hate someone for no real reason. My brother goes to plumb grove, and not one day goes by that he doesn't come home telling me about some kid calling him a terrorist or osama or some other b.s. Freud stated that the need to punish others through verbal and physical abuse comes from the desire to take out ones own pain caused by something else. I don't believe this. My thoughts are that if someone is bullying someone else, it's because of their own self-hate. Yea sure, I've been extremely mean to people before, but I will never ever emotionally cripple someone to the point of their wanting to take their life or the life someone else. It's just absurd to think that people keep *digging* at other people's weak points. I've been called a dinosaur, a sand n*gger, terrorist, bindi, and other such idiotic names. The main thing is, I'm secure enough with myself not to really give a damn. It's all about self-confidence. If everyone were to love themselves for who they are, then why the hell would anyone want to bull someone else?
(Sorry to sound like a hippie).

bullying

i don't take psych so i didn't watch the video.. but theres two thing that i think about bullying. i think that bullying is that you look down on people that are weaker than you.. and someone have sth special that you don't which makes you jealous..
usually you dont bully others when they are much stronger than you because bullies will know that they arent going to win. they don't even try.
but for people who are jealous they just bully becase that person have something that you don't..i don't know but i think it's lame. oh ya i never really saw people bullying in fremd so thats good

I NEED EDUCATION'S PLANK

hi everyone. Education subcommittee: Sam, Sabrina, Yoshi, Krysti, Adrienne, Morgan, Megan !
I need you to email me your plank please!! kimberly-howard@hotmail.com

Thanks guys!

Bullying

I think I saw that video too in my psych class. When we were younger I didn't really see that much bullying just maybe some kids getting made fun of for something. I didn't really see it with any of the people I hung out otherwise it was all joking. Now I agree to what Krysti said it's all in the words and people just get put down and there self esteem goes down so they don't think they fit in or something. Sometimes I wonder if there is another way we could stop this. I know my brother got picked on by this one kid because he was always shorter than all the other kids so the kid would make fun of his height and tell him he couldn't do something because he wasn't tall enough or something. I don't know i wish we could stop bullying.

New Topic: Bullying

In my psychology class we are learning about how different people act and why they do in that certain way. Today we watched a video on bullying. The video showed how bullying starts from youngsters on the playground and then keeps rising from there. The video showed clips of younger kids beating up other kids on the playground where they are actually kicking them really hard and punching them. The video also showed that most teachers don't do too much about them either. In elementary school I really didn't see any bullying going on like kids picking on kids and beating on each other. I did see more people picking on each other in a more psychical way in Jr. High then in high school actually. My little sister was bullied and she had girls throwing gum and clay in her hair. In high school I see more bullying as in a word matter. The video also said the kids that were bullying were just trying to get attention out of the whole ordeal. What do you guys think, was there a lot of bullying when we were younger and how did you see?

i really liked the last two days of class too. I mean its fun to mix things up a little bit instead of taking notes and doing the same things everyday. I also liked how we all had to dress up and stuff. I mean it made it a lot more fun and i guess realistic too. I thought that Kim was an excellent leader and that all of our amendments were legit. I thought it was hilarious how Spoor would cheer after all the things and it really made it a lot more interesting to hear how people felt on different issues. All in all, i think a learned a lot of things that i didn't know about people in our class than before we did this project.

Class

I have to say that what we did the last two days in class was a lot of fun. At first I wasn't sure that I was really going to like it because I definitely thought that it was going to have to be all serious and stuff like that. But as it turned out it wasn't really like that at all and it turned out to be much better than I expected. I rerally enjoied it an would defintitely want to do something like this again.

Class

The last two days of class were awesome. For me, that was ideal way to learn something. We had a lot of fun and still we got tons of information from differnt view points. That was one of great points of this project, we can get all kind of ideas from everyone and share information. Of course, I also enjoyed all the characters and outfits (Thanks Tom!) . But I'm also concerned about my grade, I think I didn't ask enough questions... Overall that projects was awesome and I hope we can do it like this again.

Class

Class the last two days has been a lot of fun. I enjoyed all the characters and outfits. I agree that Tom's was the best :) Overall the project was not as bad as I had originally thought. I was so stressed about this thing you have no idea. Anyway I think that it went really well and that everyone did such a good job. And Kim I loved the Yays. That was priceless. This project really taught me a lot and I don't think I could ever handle the real thing. In ours we were able to joke around a little. I am still worried, like Aubrey, about the grade. I don't know if I said enough for all the points. It is hard for everyone to get something in and share their thoughts. This project was scary, but so much fun at the same time. I am really glad we got a chance to do this.

So today...

Class today was interesting. Tom is a character. That dress... hahaha. The only thing missing is his wig and makeup..hahahaha. I think we all did a good job on this project. so kudos everyone.


* i know this doesn't count as a blog.

class

Class yesterday was a lot of fun. I love how we can be loud and have fun but still learn at the same time. There aren't many classes that are like that. I was really nervous going to class yesterday because I thought it was going to be stressful but I enjoyed it a lot. I am still kind of nervous though because for our grade we need to talk and ask questions and make ammendmants and I'm finding that kind of hard to do. But we still have a couple more groups that need to go so hopefully we'll all get a chance to say something and participate. Everbody have a good weekend!!

Class

I thought class would be boring with everyone just reading of there paper. But it was really fun listening to people make amendments. Spoor looking like the king of the world sitting on top of his desk. It seemed like a real meeting. Spoor screaming things out and us clapping and banging on desks when do we ever get to do that in school. Toms dress was the best out of everyones I couldnt belive he wore that all day underneath his clothes. Hopefully today will be as fun.

Class yesterday definately was a lot of fun. There were lots of funny costumes and it was interesting to hold a meeting like we did. Like Jim said, it really did feel like we were at a delegate meeting. I hope today goes just as well as yesterday did, and I'm really looking forward to it.

How would you like to be the president of the U.S. right now? I,m sure you are going to get massive amount of work. About the sub-prime lending, war in Iraq, economics.ext... you must deal with all the problem in United State, and problems in all around the world.
United State is holding 1/4 of world money, that means we have most influence on world economics. I think that's too much responsibility to take, so I don't want to be president.

our PIMP party

I was really nervous going into class today because I had no idea what to expect and I definately do not know the correct language and terms to use. Although I still haven't perfected the prompts and terminology etc. , I am getting more used to it and I am really liking the discussions we are having. Even though we only finished our education platform, we had a long question/debate/conversation about the amendments and our opinions of rewards systems and teachers funding...it was all really interesting. And we are having lots of fun too! Being rowdy, banging on desks, cross dressing and stripping in class [well really that's only Tom :) ] but yes, I am looking forward to tomorrow and the interesting discussions we will be having. We have three platforms to get through, though, and today we only finished one the whole class period, so hopefully we can get it done!! See you all tomorrow!!

Today

I agree with the topic of discussion about todays activity. I thought it was very interesting and funny with all the people dressed up (especially Tom). But what got my attention the most is how interesting it actually turned out to be. Everyone was quite knowledgeable about the topics that arose and in a way it actually felt like a delegates meeting. For the first time in a while I really enjoyed class and thought it was fun. I cant wait to see what outfits we are in store for tomorrow.

Today

I think that today was a funny day. I did not expect this project to be actually funny but it is!! Especially, Dan was funny with that amendment that he proposed. Spoor also looked funny on that chair. He looked like king on that chair. I wondered for a couple of minutes if he will fall off from that chair or not;p. That would be painful if he actually would fall off. I wonder if tommorow will be a funny day too?

president

i would never want to be a president. its going to be so hard to take care of whole country. you have to do bunch of stuff and its going to give lots of stress. i dont wanna go through all those process. even today when we did our meetings it was so complicated. theres many people opposing. yea its really hard to make decisions. so as a president you have to know how to make a right decision.

so how about today....

so what did you guys think? I liked it. i didn't think that it would be interesting like it was but to my surprise it was. I was not looking forward to it because i hate presenting anything to anybody, but this project is interesting. I also like how we have to dress up like our character. Some of the "costumes" were funny. Actually one was, and I'm sure you all know who I'm talking about, Tom..haha. His wig, the skirt, makeup, and the top...haha....it was funny. Survey was interesting and funny today. What did u guys think?

Being President

Being the President of the United States would be an enormously difficult thing to do. You would have to try to do the best things for the country and you would have to try and find a way to make everyone happy, which just isn't possible. Everything you would try to do would be constantly met with backlash. It would be a really stressful job to have, taking care of so many people with different needs and wants. I don't think I would want to be president.

President

I could never be able to go up and give long speechs in front of America. I wouldnt want to be the president because I dont want to do any person in a wrong way. I wouldnt take it serious at all also I would goof off and do dumb things. I dont know what side I would fall under on the poltical spectrum. I would love to live in luxury dont have to do anything around the house living in the White House. I rather not think about all of that right now because in the end I am not running for President and dont think I could take care of America as well as many presidents have.

President

I don't think I could ever be President. Like Elizabeth said, I am also a horrible public speaker. Whenever I'm nervous I always stutter and can never get out what I want to say. It is kind of embarrasing. I also can't debate, I'm bad at taking things seriously. If I'm in a fight with someone sometimes I just start laughing because I find it funny sometimes when peolpe get angry. I don't know why it's just funny sometimes. I would never be able to keep a straight face and give you a good explanation as to why something is right. All those books that politicians have about them scares me. The books are written just to bash peolpe so I wouldn't want a book about me and saying how I have done so many things wrong and making fun of me for something I did. I don't know I just don't think I would be able to even handle being President.

catching up...

sorry it's been a while since i've been on... so these are responses to posts that are a little old but new for me...
in response to Michelle and Stacey's posts... about the RMHS rape/sexual assault/did it really happen case.... I am in the same shoes as they are, I know the boy who is being charged and actually was pretty decent friends with him in 7th and 8th grade. I'm really good friends with some of his friends and just from the past and knowing how he is, I truly cannot bring myself to believe any of this. I know I sound naiive, but he's just a really friendly guy who sure, probably got a little too touchy feely for her and instead of telling him off and walking away she snowballed it into this huge thing.
A situation similar to this happened while we were all at Carl Sandburg together with a different boy... him and a girl were flirting on the bus, tickling and like playing "are you nervous" and touching each other's legs. Both were laughing and jokingly saying Oh stop stop but still flirting and continuing.... then it turned into a big thing and she reported the guy for sexual assault and not stopping when she said no and that he sexually harrassed her, but really from the people on the bus it's been pretty much a known fact that she was giggling and egging him on too. I just think that the RMHS situation has been blown out of proportion, at least I hope to God it has, and that the boy who is being charged is still the good guy we remember him being.

Also, how is everyone feeling about tomorrow and Thursday's big committee meeting/convention? What do you all think about this project?

Sorry my computer published my post before I was done. Anyway....

It would also be scary with all of America looking to you for answers. I would be so scared of saying the wrong thing or completely freezing up. I don't think that happens to the people that are meant to be president.
There would be perks like getting to live in the White House. That would be sweeet. Also the private plane and also having first everything everywhere. You get the best hotel rooms, the best food... That would be amazing but I would never be able to figure out how to split billions of dollars for the budget, or tell the military what to do, and when to go to war... and everything else.

Lets just face it I'm not meant to be president.

President

I could never be President. I am the worse public speaker in the world, which is kinda a huge deal when you are President. Bush gets trashed all the time for how he speaks. There are books out on all the mistakes he has made. I know somethings about a lot of these topics but I would never be able to completely pick a side.
I am one of thoes people that actually like to watch the debates. During them I watch the candidates get drilled with questions that sometimes I don't even know the meaning of. They are timed and need to give a perfect answer or they could lose votes. I am a horrible debater.

Being President

I don't know how I feel about being President. I sort of agree with Sabrina, but there would be a lot of stress also. I think that the biggest factor is that I'm pretty indecisive at times and that would be a big problem. Especially with things that big, I don't think I could handle it. Even if it is congress making most of the decisions, you are the face of the country and anything that goes wrong is pinned on you. If I was really confident and decisive, I would definitely want to do it though. Just having the opportunity to make good changes, or keep things going well, would be awesome.

President

I definitely would not want to be president of the United States. I think that I would be one of the worst presidents ever. I dont like the fact that the job that I would have would affect over a billion people, to me that is way more responsibility than I would ever want to have. the other part is that being the president is the most stressful job that you could ever have. I really dont want to have a job that stresses me out every day, I think that is why I would not be fit to be president.

Being President...hmmm :l

i think that i would be a bad president..IDK...I can't imagine having billions of lives in your hands. I mean having to be very careful and make sure you don't make enemies. I don't want to have to worry about making sure everyone is safe. Its not like i don't care about Americans. I just think its way too much pressure on one individual, to protect and keep BILLIONS OF PEOPLE safe. That's a lot of people depending on you. I know i don't want that many people depending on me. And I'd be way to worried if someone was going to attack. Id be a high strung president. And personally, i think about things way to much. And i might take to long to think about a plan of attack..IDK....all i know is that I'll suck being president. So if i ever run don't vote for me. OK? Thanks!

presidency

I personally would HATE being president. You really dont have that much power because of the other houses and checks and balances and that kind of stuff. I would want to be in control of everything and make every decision go my way, but it would never be like that. Everybody would hate you, even if you are trying to do the right thing. I think it would be hard to be a president and live a life of luxury and then try to understand the middle class working population, which is the majority of the people. The vacations and pay would be nice, but you would never be out of the spotlight, would always have to be on your best behavior, always look nice, and try to make good decisions. Thats why i would just rather rule the world. If i was the ruler of the world, everybody would have to listen to me and i could make my own laws and get rid of the stupid ones. maybe one day...

Even if I were president, I don't think it really matters. Honestly, the president is just the puppet and his VP and senate are really the ones pulling him along like Geppetto. Honestly, if I were to be president, which there is no way I would want to be, I would't do anything other than just sit on my butt and eat chips all day and become so fat they would have to make me my own bathtub just like they did with Taft. Being president is a cushy job with all the beneifts of personal security, a big white house, and being able to vacation in Texas when there is a war being fought over seas.

President?

I would probably be the worst president ever. I have no idea what I am for or against in the liberal and conservative and this project is really hard and I wish we would have more of an idea of what we are really doing. But being president.... I would make decisions on what I think would be best but there are sooooo many things that you have to consider besides what you think is best but what you advisor's tell you and what the country thinks of you. There would be tons of pressure on you and I am terrible under pressure. I think it would kind of be cool to have everyone to look up to you but at the same time there are always the people who criticize you for things you do wrong. But overall..... I wouldn't even vote for myself as president. I have a question to add on to Dan's question... who would you pick as the vice-president? I would pick someone who I could always could go to for advice and who was actually knowledgeable.

Response to Dan's post

I wouldn't want to be the president and i don't think that anyone fits to be one. It sucks to be the president because the president has to take care of so many issues. And even if he/she does something people say that it is not enough or that more should be that done on that problem. Those who run for elections promise people many things after they are elected. But after they are elected they realize that it is not easy to keep promises they've made.

New topic cause im bored

So with this whole election thing i was thinking of what it would be like to be a president. I would absolutely hate being a politician of any sort, especially president. This like mock party we are making in class makes me not want to be a part of the government at all. I am so undecided on so many issues i would never know what to do. It must be extremely hard to be someone like the president because no matter what you do people hate you. I have never really met anyone who is fit to be president in my opinion. so i was wondering DO YOU THINK YOU COULD BE PRESIDENT? (or know anyone who could be)?

I agree with Michelle. I know the kid too and I've heard he can be weird to girls but I don't think he'd rape someone. If it's just the girl trying to make her boyfriend not be mad, she's so dumb. She could be messing up his life just because she doesn't want to tell her boyfriend the truth. If you're going to cheat on your boyfriend/girlfriend then be ready to accept the consequences. I really don't think he did it. I talked to people that I know there and they said that he didn't and that they have no real proof of him doing. So I hope that if they are going to give him the consequences, they have real proof. This could mess up the rest of his life if he ends up going to jail.

Rape

The really weird thing about this whole situation is that i know the person who supposedly raped this girl. I went to junior high with him and by knowing him i just feel like he would never do that. I understand when people are under the influence they are not themselves really but stories that i have been hearing just makes me not believe the girl more and more. I guess she had a boyfriend and didnt want him thinking she cheated on him so she said he raped her. I could totally see a girl saying that expecially when she is drunk becuase people make up stupid lies when they are under the influence. I just hope that the police have rough proof against the guy so that he is not wrongly confused.

To Sam's story

I think that the guy who raped her might be in the influence of drugs or excess of alcohol. I agree with Sam that her friends should have been there with her and watches over on what she's doing. If shes already drunk or had already passed out, then I would take her home or call for help and check if something bad happened to. It's kinda sad that this incident occured because Fremd has connections in Rolling Meadow. I hope this would not happen again.

i think, besides the fact that it is a really gross and disturbing crime to begin with, that it is so shocking to us all because it hits close to home. I mean Rolling Meadows is a high school that a lot of us have connection and ties with some of the students there,  and to hear that this girl was raped and a lot of people might know her is crazy. What i dont get is how some of the kids at the party allowed this to happen in the first place? I mean what kind of party has a girl just passed out and nobody takes care of her or watches over her? Where were her friends? I dont know but all i know if I saw a passed out girl alone I would go over to check if she was ok, and if I saw a guy trying to do anything to her I would probably freak out. I just want to know like the details of this story because I want to understand how the night snowballed into a girl getting sexual assulted. 

Writers week

Writers week is the coolest. It is such a cool program at Fremd. Im not a big fan of highschool and i dont support many of the dumb things we have to do here, but i think writers week is an awesome thing. I love seeing writers from all kinds of stuff. Its so inspiring, it always makes me want to write. I have seen many of the favorites like Billy Lombardo and Marc Smith and i always enjoy seeing these guys talk. I also like seeing students because i appreciate writing and i like hearing fellow writers perform their stuff. The last thing i saw was Marc Smith 8th period, and i couldnt have asked for a better way to end my last writers week ar Fremd.

Writers Week

I reall liked Mary Fons. She was really good when she recited all of her poems. She gives so much energy and emotion to his poems and I'm pretty sure that everyone in the auditorium appreciated her works. I guess that writing poems about what is actually happening in real life kind of gives out the true meaning of her poems and reaches out to others so they can share the same experience again. Overall the presenters on stage, she probably is the best.

Writer's Week

I went only during 4th period and I swear every single time it was the most boring experience of my life. But I guess I appreciate the fact that the people were able to take time out of their schedule to come out here and talk to us.

Writers Week

I really enjoyed Mary Fons and LeAlan Jones. Mary Fons is a really good performer, especially since it was 7:30 in the morning. She's really exciting and knows how to keep the audience interested. LeAlan Jones talked about real life issues. He grew up in hard part of the city and was able to get out of that. He ended up growing into a good person. He was able to not follow in the footsteps most people do. LeAlan Jones decided he wanted to change his life and go on a good track. He was a really good speaker. Both of them were really good speakers and I was very interested in both.

Posters

I think that the posters around the school really might be true. I mean i know a lot of us have friends that smoke and drink but if you really think about all the freshmen and sophmores are in this school most of them really dont drink. I know a lot of my friends little brother and sisters and i know that drinking just isnt what they do on the weekends. I guess as we get older we are around those things more since smoking is legal for 18 year olds but we also have to take into consideration that a lot of seniors and juniors hang out with kids out of high school. So really the statistics might be true since there are sooo many people that go to fremd and we never see what they do. We cant just assume that just becuase people we know drink, that everyone drinks.

WW

This was my first writers week and it was pretty sweet. I enjoyed missing class and listening to a famous writer. I had to do a little sheet for my english class which was boring but we are a lucky school has a whole week of writers to come and talk or perform. Daphne played some good music and she went to Fremd which is real cool. I loved Marc Smith he was funny and his poems were the best.

I hate it when people say that they drink and that's fine but smoking is bad for you. Uhm, I don't know if this is news to you guys- they can both cause damage. (I admit that smoking is worse, I'm just saying) Especially if you develop an addiction. I guess smokers tend to be more "addicted" than drinkers but whatever..
I also think that people smoke for basically the same reasons they drink. To reduce stress, or just chill with friends.
One more thing, I think that as we get older we drink more. Like, just from personal experience, I didn't know many people who drank freshman year. But since then, pretty much everyone has started or at least tried at some point. So in Aubrey's post, I think the fact that you are all seniors makes it more likely that more people are drinking.

WW

Writer's Week this year was pretty awesome. I especially enjoyed the fact that not once did I have to do like a worksheet or something while I was in the auditorium, which made it easier to actually enjoy what I was watching. I also got to see pretty much all of the really well-known/most looked forward to speakers. My favorite, of course, was when Daphne played! I looked forward to her all week! I also saw a lot of really phenomenal students who got up there and read their stuff. I was impressed with how well written their pieces were, which just goes to show the level of excellence our English department has at teaching writing. I'm regretting not getting up on stage myself seeing as it is my senior year and I love to write, but hindsight is 20/20, right?! In my English class we're supposed to write a paper due Wednesday about anything really, but it has to have been inspired by one of the periods of writer's week we went to, and I have no idea what to do because as I was inspired by the people I heard, I feel like I'd be stealing their ideas if I wrote something similar to what I heard them read. FANBOYS was hilarious, and I'm really upset that they're actually going to perform live on stage next year and I won't be here to witness it! I enjoyed Mary Fons the first day of Writer's Week and I also really liked that guy who co-wrote that book about living in the projects and stuff. He was really interesting and everything he had to say about life and politics and whatever was really powerful and honestly moved me, which was unexpected!

writers week

To me writers week this year was probably one of the worst ones i have had to go to. Most of the speakers i heard were writers so they didnt have any speech skills and just read their work. Its really boring to just listen to some guy just read his story. Maybe if it were poetry but it was just someone reading out loud to me and thats just not interesting to me. Also my complaint is that the speakers should come up with more things to say or read. I have seen this one speaker for 2 years and he did the same exact performance. The one person i loved though was daphne willies. She was just amazing and it was like i was in an awesome concert in school.

Writers Week

I really enjoyed writers week this year, not just because it was a chance to get out of English class for a week, but because just about every thing i saw was pretty good. I wasn't looking forward to seeing Billy Lombardo because had seen him every year but this year he did different stuff so that was nice. I really didn't like that O'Conner guy, his stuff was boring and didnt make any sence and every time you thought he was going to tell you something important his stuff ended. Other than that writers week this year was pretty good.

Writer's Week

I really enjoyed writer's week this year. It was probably the best one that I've seen in all of my four years at Fremd. I really liked Mr. Woldman's play "Speedating the Musical" and I also really enjoyed Marc Smith, and Daphne Willis was really good too. I only saw two speakers that I thought were lame, but all the others I really enjoyed. I really thought this was a great Writer's Week, but I'm dissapointed now because it's over and I'll have to go back to regular class.

Writers Week

This year I thought that writers week was alot better than last year. I guess I actually had to pay attention becuase I got alot more assignments compared to last year. I have a three page paper to do in psychology and a letter of thanks to one of the preformers. Also I had to fill out worksheets for each presenter in my english class. I wish we didn't have to do assignments and just enjoy the presentations like we did freshman and sophomore year. My favorite preformer was probably Marc Smith. his poems were pretty entertaining and he actually interacted with the crowd. I think the worst preformer was John O'Conner he was just so boring and his poems seemed to end abruptly. I wish I could have seen Fanboys but other wise I thought writers week was pretty good.

Global Warming

I realized Chicago people are less concerned about global warming. Well, now it is March and we will have more snow next week also, so I can understand why. But I found this interesting topic.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/bear-hybrid-photo.html
Article is little old but I think it is interesting and serious problem.
So this Polar Bear-Grizzly hybrid tells us how global warming are progressing fast right now. Usually Grizzly live at north of Alaska/Canada, and don't enter to Arctic often. But rising temperature made Grizzly enable to enter Arctic easily. Also rising temp. made Arctic ice to melt fast during summer time, so some Poler Bear would be left behind to land.
May be it is one cause of evolution. If so, all the Grizzly and Polar Bear will be gone soon and this hybrid will take all the north Arctic region.

There really isn't a point for those posters to be up around our school. Everyone who takes that test thing lies and says that they don't drink and smoke. There are so many people out there that drink/smoke. I just want to know how they got those statistics. Those don't make sense to me because they say most peolpe don't do it but then the rest of them do, so that's almost saying that some kids do drink and smoke which isn't really good for our school to have a reputation like that. I don't know.
That whole rape thing, I don't even know what to say. That is so shocking that someone around here would do that. She was passed out and stuff which is also wrong to be drinking under 21 but raping her? I heard someone had raped someone but it never clicked in my mind that it was around here. That is just so horrible.