final presentation.. oh lord.

Alright, so. I did my presentation. I had not really gone over it completely at home because I know how the class likes to talk so I did not know how long that would take and how long it would take to explain things soooo, I ended up being short of time. I had SO MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT! In my booklet thing I handed in, I actually wrote two pages of things I could have talked about but I did not include. I love how the class talks, its quite entertaining, but when you're trying to do a presentation.. it gets irritating. I really wish I could have gotten everything out I wanted to say. It would have made me feel so much better about it. I thought it went okay though. The class seemed pretty interested in it, for the most part. I learned not to show the class videos of cars crashing. They don't shut up lol. But I did learn a few things doing this project like some of the history of the sport and the flags. Who knew a crazy obsessive person like me doesn't know EVERYTHING about the sport. Weird. I think that the class did learn a bit about it. It was cool for the kids who didn't even know what NASCAR was because now they have an idea of how it goes down, which made me feel pretty good. :) I think it was about an 80. I always hate being asked to grade myself because I really have no idea how I did or how bad I did. I always feel like I do really good and then get the mark sheet back and I end up getting like a 68. I could be way off for all I know. But I honestly have no idea what the mark should be. It didn't really relate to school in any way but it is something that I am EXTREMELY passionate about. I love to tell people about it. Like I honestly do. I get extremely competitive when it comes to NASCAR. I have been known to yell at the TV, throw things, scream, cry. It's just horrible. I'm not a violent person but if something goes wrong that I don't like, you'll know. I don't really know how I got hooked on the sport but I guess it's just something that's up to the individual. I mean everyone likes things for their own reasons. ANYWAYS, back to the project. 40% of the final mark.. wow. I'm kind of scared to see how I did. I definitely don't think that this project is worth that much. 15% I would say.. but 40. I was stressing out about that number all week, actually the last few weeks. I'll admit I did leave things to the last minute but in my defense, I know a lot about it already so I did not entirely have to do much research. Mainly just look up the videos and the pictures for the most part. But overall, I was kind of happy because of the topic, but I wish I could have had 2 classes to do this because I was short and did have A LOT of information left to share.

Angels and Demons movie.

Okay am I the only one who seriously does not think that the movie was bad or anything? I FRIGGEN LOVED IT! Besides the legs, which was a huge disappointment, I thought it was amazing! I however didn't like some of the things that they changed, like the Illuminati branded on Vittoria's father's chest, WHO BY THE WAY IN THE MOVIE IS NOT HER FATHER?! WTF?!, that should have been in there, instead of the piece of paper saying Illuminati. I thought it was good, followed the book in some spots. I don't think the last pope should have lived. I think the ending should have been played out like it was written.

Pope 2.0

Ha this made me laugh when I read this. The Pope. The flippin Pope himself, has a facebook page. WOW. How interesting is that. Well actually it's Vatican City, but still. I think its BRILLIANT. What a way to reach out to the younger more high tech people these days. I mean I bet you a lot of younger people are going to check it out just to see what it is. I know that I actually went and looked it up. Let me tell you. It's pretty cool! I think that leaders around the world should follow the Pope and do the same thing. What a better way to reach out to younger people than to get them where they always are. The computer. If they started making pages on social networking sites like Facebook, more people would check it out.

The Da Vinci Code

To be completely honest with you, I loved the movie. I don't know why anyone wouldn't like it. But then again my taste would be argued against. But I honestly don't understand why so many people, and even critics didn't like it. Maybe it was just because they didn't understand how some one could write something like that. Maybe it was because people thought something like that could actually happen. Who knows.

Al Gore

Wow. What an intelligent man. To be completely honest, I didn't even understand everything that he was talking about. From what I heard, I'm kinda confused. But then again I agree with the parts that I actually understood lol. But anyways. This one is not going to be very long because I don't know what to say to what he said. Besides the world is going down the toilet, and unless we do something to save it, we can kiss our planet Earth as we know it goodbye.

if i could change one thing...

I would change the fact that most of the time what we learn has nothing to do with the class we're in or the fact that we will never have to use that bit of information again. Nothing makes me more mad than when the teacher even says to us we will never use the information again. It's like, why are you wasting my time with this if I won't ever use it again!? For example, this year in college level engligh we did a unit on criminals. WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ENGLISH?!? Nothing. Thats right. Nothing. So if I could change anything it would be the content that they actually teach us. I would make sure it is related to the course completely.

small towns, and american teen

I think that statement is pretty much true. I mean in a small town, EVERYONE knows EVERYONE. Word gets around pretty fast too. So you always have that little thought in the back of your head saying "is anyone going to find out about this?". And the truth is, yea they probably will before you even get home. But at the schools, you have gone to school with these kids pretty much your whole life. You know what they are good at and what they're not. You're always striving to get a better mark on your test than Sally because she always get's A's. I admit that I have done that a few times where I want to get a better mark for bragging rights almost. So yea, I totally think that small towns cause pressure to succeed in school and in life.