Romeo and Juliet

I think that it is better to fall in love, but i dont think it is the worst thing to have to learn to love because i have heard stories of it working out. Some people said that even if you barley know the person after spending time together and helping each other through hard times you can learn to love them. I think the ideal way though is to fall in love. Thats what everyone looks for first i think. Basically i think it can work out either way but if i had to make my pick i would want to fall in love.
These past to weeks not a whole lot has happened. I have continued to swim with my after school team. Nothing to exciting has happened with me during school. Last weekend i went up to Galviston, where my aunt lives, because they have a mini mardi gras of thier own. i brought a few of my friends with me. It was fun but the weather was not so good. It rained alot which made it hard to be out sie. Last night i got together with some people to wath the Oscars.

Global Warming

Global Warming has been on everyones minds. Many different organizations are trying to get people together to fix the problem. Schools have become big on advertizing recycling. Groups get together and clean up any areas around there comunity that they can. The biggest action I would say that is being made would be just informing people of the problem so that they can start living a more enviromentally safe life. Every family on my street and all of my friends recycle. I remember when it wasnt uncommon for a family to not recycle, but it has been a long time since i have seen or heard of that. There also cars being made that will not use gas to help the enviroment.

My last to weeks have not been all that exciting. Last weekend was the Districs swimming meet for Anderson. I didnt have a great meet, but alot of the team did. The girls got second out of the districs. West lake got first. The boys got either sixth or seventh. Alot of are team is going to Regionals this year which is exciting. Hopefully there will be more than one person that gets to go to State! All of the relays on the team made it to Regionals too. Now swimming is slowing down so i dont have to go to practice in the morning!

Technology

Technology is in everyones everyday life. In school we use computers, sometimes people bring there own laptops. Now we even can occationaly use our ipods. There are alot of different types of ipods now. There is the original, nano, video, and the itouch. For entertainment there are many games. There is the Wii, playstation, xbox, and even just the new telivisions they have now. When it comes to something as greatly used as fire or electricity, things that were invented more recently would be cellphones and computers. Almost everyone owns a cellphone and a computer and use them all the time.
These past few weeks have been a little crazy. Over winter break we went to Houston to visit my grandparents. That was alot of fun and it was nice to relax, but not for long. School started up again and it is hard to get back into the flow of things. I had to get used to doing homework again. I also had to start going to swim practice again. I go in the morning before school with the Anderson swim team and in the afternoon with COTA, a clu swim team.

Diversity!

America is a very diverse continent! People from all over the world come to live with better opportunities and freedoms. Some ways you can see this is through all the different types of restaurants and shops. Every street is full of different types of cultural foods. Some of the most popular types of food are Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. All of our schools and work areas are full of people from many different races. Our country promotes diversity in a few different ways. One way is that we are protected by religious freedom and civil rights. We don't discriminate against certain races in work spaces or schools.

Favorite places in the U.S.

I have a few favorite places in America. Some of my most favorite places are just simply the different states that have family living in. But a big one that everyone knows is Disney World. It his a HUGE amusement park in Florida that is enjoyed by family's all year long. The have hundreds of rides and many other things to do like go see shows. I have been here twice. Once when i was a little younger so i don't remember it as well and another just a few years ago. Both times we went as a family. I hope to go back again.
A more historical place that is just as amazing is the Grand Canyon. I have only been there once but would love to go again. It is gigantic canyon that was once formed by a river. Its a lot of fun to go through, but you have to be prepared for a very long walk! Some people ride donkeys through it. I always thought that looked kind of fun. The Views of the canyon are amazing from the trail and create an experience everyone should see in their life. I have many other places in the United States that I love these are just two of them that really stick out in my mind.

Terrorist attacks

In america we do have Terrorist attacks. The most popular one took place on September 11, 2001. A plain was taken over and crashed right into the world trade center. There could be many motives of the terrorists. One is that they are trying to scare us. The countries that we are enemies with are far away from us. They might be trying to prove that even though physically we are not very close together they can still come over here.
Ever since 9-11 our country has began to make ways to try and pervent more terrorist attacks. The biggest thing effected was our air ports because last time this is how the terrorist got to out country. Now the airport security is much more advanced. Some examples of this is no one can walk to a gate unless they have a ticket. You can only fly with a limited amount of liquids in your carry on. Now when you go throught the security you have to take off your shoes. Now search more people randomly. Hopefully with the security a bigger deal we will not have more problems with terrorists.

People/events/clubs

There are a lot of clubs at our school!! Some of the bigger ones are the key club and the ping pong club. They also have a breakdancing club. The people in our school are all very different. Im not in any clubs, but a lot of my friends are in the key club and some of them just joinded the ping pong club of (PPC). The biggest event that just happend at our school is homecoming.
It was saterday night from 8 o'clock to midnight. They held it in the ballroom at a hotel called the Hyatt in down town Austin. It was alot of fun! Most people ate dinner before at a pre-party and then lefts as a group to go to the dance. After my head was ringing from the four hours of very loud music!