American Teen

So. This documentary was pretty much your average high school life. It shows what it's like to be a teenager right now. I would say its pretty accurate. Except for the "princess". Oh man she just drove me up the wall. I mean how many people are actually as mean as she is? To TP some one's house and draw that on their windows, thats just over the top. I wanted to hit her with a very large book sometimes. I would hope that it was just the camera in front of her that made her act that way. But I don't really feel any sympathy for any of them. I mean, they're living their teenage years. That's what it's all about. There are heart breaks, bad dates, drama, pressure from parents, all that jazz. It's nothing new and it will never be new, never ever. It all goes along with being a teen and you can't help it no matter how hard you try to. I've gone through some of the stuff they have so I understand their pain but at the same time I think that hey, I got over it, so you will too.

la finito of ANGELS AND DEMONS.

First off, I would just like to say.. HOLY MOTHER OF PEARLS! I LOVE THE BOOK! Okay, now that that is out of the way, I would like to say some other things. Some parts, *cough* like the first 100 or so pages of the book, made me wanna shove a rather sharp knife in my eye balls. IT WAS HORRIBLE. I know you need to understand that part to get the rest, but seriously! It was sooooo dry and booooooooooooring. SNORE. Other than that, I absolutely LOVED the book. I'll admit that I did not want to read the book at all. I was like great, this is going to be a bore. But turns out I liked it a lot. I would recommend it to others to read, but I would warn them a head of time.

Something new that I learned... well I sure learned a lot about CERN and Vatican City. I am not religious at all so I found that part quite interesting to see what some people believe in. And CERN, man I didn't know they could do that with particles. That sounds pretty darn amazing if you ask me.

technology in classrooms?

Look around you. Technology is everywhere. Yes, including schools. Whether it is a cell phone to an iPod or a computer to a smart board, technology pops up everywhere you go. Text books are starting to become unheard of and computers are taking their places. Personally, I think it is a good idea to an extent. I know that I learn a lot better when I have some type of physical thing infront of me, NOT A TEXT BOOK! READING PUTS US TO SLEEP PEOPLE! But if some one popped in a movie or had a video playing through a projector, I would pay attention and actually be interested in what people are saying. Text books now are just excess baggage teens have to carry around. A lot of the time they just get lost or you never use them. How many classes now actually use a text book regularly? Not many I assume. And I'm probably right. I know that one of classes actually uses one a lot which would be sociology. The rest you hardly use them. Kids just go to spark notes to see what the book is about that they have to read. I mean if you did a survey of how many kids actually read the books they are given, you would be pretty shocked as to the amount of students who actually do not read them. The education system needs to at least make a mental note of this problem. Adapt it so that we don't have to read books. Make slide show presentations, smart board presentations, watch movies. Something that is actually up to date and in the 21st century because right now, it seems pretty old school to me which is very boring. Change things up. It won't be that hard to do, besides having to teach all the old teachers how to use the new technology. Students now can pretty much do anything with a computer. I admit we do spend too much time texting or on Facebook or Chloe's obsession, Twitter. Fights start because of things that happen on facebook or anything like that. It's ridiculous actually. I don't know why people get their lives so consumed in this drama and bologna. We need to find a way to keep that out of school life because it does ruin our day if some girls start drama about you because of something you posted on a friend of a friend's picture which she posted two months ago right after her 17th birthday party you went to only because you were friends with her at the time but now you hate each other because she wore the same thing as you did to school one day but you had it first and she thinks she had it first when actually its not the same shirt it just looks alot alike but hers is a slightly lighter purple than yours is and she got hers from a completely different store that you don't shop at just because she shops there. ( THE LONGEST SENTENCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE GIFTED CLASS) But as I was saying, oh gosh I dont even remember what I was saying. Ill finish with technology should be embraced, not run away from screaming.

Angels and Demons.. so far!

SO. This book. We're suppose to be pretty far into it, and currently I am not so far into it. Im at about page 2. And would you like to know why? Yes? Okay perfect! :) Well I was jumping on my bed in excitment with my sister and my book was laying on the corner of it. Apparently we were jumping around too much and it fell of my bed and I cannot find it at the moment. But when I do I'm going to sit down and read, read, read!

Once upon a time in Ingersoll...

Face it. Ingersoll is a little hick town and unless you can drive, you're stuck here bored out of your mind complaining that it sucks. I am guilty of this. But seeing as it is such a small town, everyone knows everyone. Most of the time, teenagers (some of them) just go out and drink and smoke because they have nothing else to do. When it comes to school, you have those students who strive for the best grades and then those other ones who roll out of bed and decide school sucks. But what are we suppose to do if we need help? Something like the Pirate Supply Store secretly a place for children to go who need homework help could possibly work here in good
'ol Ingersoll. You have the children in the younger grades who would probably want to go to a place like this because let's face it, it benefits them. But for the high school students, I can almost guarantee that most of them would not be caught dead in that place. I think its the fact that it is a small town and everyone knows everyone. So if someone went into this place to get some help, people would be like "OHMAGAWD SHE IS GETTING HOMEWORK HELP?!" and then the person who went for the help would be like "OMG people know I can't go anymore!" That is pretty much how it would go down. Personally, I don't really know if I would go to a place like this. But I guess that in the end it does it's good for some people.

teens, lazy?

How dare you even begin to call us lazy and unprepared. You know what I say? No that's right you don't because I'm about to tell you. Well. I completely say that the teachers are not preparing us properly for what is ahead of us on our journey through post-secondary education. Throughout your high school times, teachers and students are telling you to be ready for college or university and that its hard but what I don't get is why don't you actually take the time to tell us what hard is or show us what we're not going to be ready for. If you want us to succeed and do better than that we're doing now then why don't you take the time to explain it to us. Classes should be set up more like colleges or universities are. The length of classes and the size of classes are another thing that is possible to change. There is NO WHERE in high school where we are properly prepared for anything in life. Half of this stuff is USELESS and we will NEVER IN OUR LIVES USE IT AGAIN. SO why not teach us some more practical things? Thank you. :)

Seeing is believing, or maybe it is the other way around?

When I hear that saying, my mind wanders back to the movie Santa Claus. The boy holds up a magic globe ball and asks his fathers girlfriend to look into it. A sleigh soon flies across it out of no where, almost as if magic. Do you have to believe things in order to be able to see them? Or do you have to see things before you see it? I know that I believe in things in order to see them. Take this for example. Many people do not believe in ghosts and think they are not real. I quite honestly believe in them and there is a good reason why I do. I was alone in my room one night, half asleep, when something strange caught my attention. I rolled over to see what I thought was just my house coat on my door. I sat up and stared at it for a long time. After a while I got really scared and started noticing that the house coat was indeed not a house coat. It had a face, very light, and had a body, althought some parts were not completely visible. I blinked a few times and hoped that it was just my imagination running astray but alas, it did not leave. It sort of limped over to my closet and turned around, then disappeared. I strongly believe it was a ghost of some sort. I did believe in them before but now I believe a lot more now. You can believe in many things that you might not have seen before. You can believe in Santa Claus, even though you have never really seen the real thing. You can believe in the Tooth Fairy but yet some how you never really manage to catch a glimpse of her. You believe in love but you cannot see the actual emotion. Sure you can see the result of love, happy couples, marriages are results of love and children are too but the emotion itself you will never be able to see. Another good one is God. Millions of people around the world believe in God and yet, again, no one has seen the real thing. We all believe the events in the bible were all true and actually happened. Again, we have not seen complete proof that they all have and we all still believe very strongly that they did and do not like to be proven overwise. My last thing is heaven and hell, or an afterlife in some way. Do you believe in one or the other? Other people out there do and there is no evidence of either. How do we know that when we die we will go someplace better, or in some cases, worse, than where we are now? How does anyone know that? Yet there are people out there who would argue very strongly that there is something after this life, that we do go somewhere when it is all over for us. We will never know if there is or not, but for now, all we can do is believe.