This class has been the hardest writing class I have taken in my life. Once I graduated from Community College I thought I was never going to have to take another writing class in my life. But, then I came here and found out i have to take two intensive writing classes. I was totally bummed about this. I don't like to write anything. I feel like most english/writing teachers expect that every student knows how to write. I also feel that each teacher has their own way to write. Once you think you know how to write another teacher comes along and tells you that everything you wrote is all wrong.
At the beginning of this class I had many things to work on. Once I got my first paper back I knew this class was going to be hard and take a lot of time. My first paper showed me that I need to work on my sentence structure, my paragraphs were weak and research was as strong as it should have been.
This class at first was so hard and pointless. I thought all the work we did was very time consuming. Reading the writing book was so boring. Even some of the stories we read weren't to exciting.
But as the semester went on it started to get better. I was finally understanding how to write and expand my thoughts. I never thought I was going to be able to write a page that was 7 page or even a 15 page paper.
I learned a great amount from this class that I never thought I was going to learn. I just wanted to thanks you and wish you a Happy Holiday!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Winter Break
I can not wait to go home for winter break! I miss my home friends soo much. I miss my family even more! I can't wait to go home and decorate for christmas. I love going out with my family to pick out a christmas tree. Its always a project getting it into the house. Some how we alway get a tree to tall for the house and my dad throws a hissy fit. Then he has to cut it to make it shorter. Its diffinitely an adventure in the Torre hold that night. Then we usually wait two days after we get it to decorate it. We do is as a whole family which makes it fun. This year is going to be interesting because now both of my sisters are engaged and we have their two fiances coming over to help. Its like having two older brothers that I never had. The best part about decorating is blasting the Christmas Music! My dad can't take Christmas Music. He is soo miserable around this time of year because of all the money him and my mom have to spend. He is just really cheap with his money. He refuses to help us hang lights outside of the house. So my mom and sister climb the ladder to to put the lights up. Every year we put lights up, there is alway a strand of lights that works when they are on the ground. Then when we put them up they never work. Its always an adventure for my family during Christmas time. I am so looking forward to going home for a month and a half! How do you feel about Christmas Break?
FACEBOOK!
OMG! My roommate and I are addicted to facebook. Every second I look over at her computer she on facebook. And every second she looks at my computer I am sitting on facebook sending her bumperstickers!As I am trying to write this blog, I am actually sitting on facebook at the same time sending her a bumpersticker back. This online program is the dumbest thing ever. But everyone in college is so addicted to it. Its great to keep intouch with people you graduated with. But all the extra stuff like bumperstickers, Buying happy hour drinks that they really don't drink, sending gifts that you really have to pay for that you use your credit card for. Also the news feed is an easy way to stalk people. Facebook turned into a stalkers program. Many people just go on facebook to look at other people's drunk pictures and to see who is leaving them comments and other comments that are left on other peoples walls. A lot of people just go on to look up who is hot and who is not hot from their school. Many people have been raped or assaulted because of facebook. This is supposed to be a program for students keep intouch with people from their childhood. But it turned out into a dangerous program that people us to stalk other people. I am addicted to it but i don't use it to stalk people's life. I am one of the few that use if for what its supposed to be used for. I am just addicted to it because I love seeing what people write on my wall! Who else is addicted to facebook?
Rap vs Country
The other day on the way home from the mall my friends and I were talking about the the difference between rap and country. We come to the conclusion that most rap songs don't really have a story behind it. They mostly talk about sex, drug, getting shot, thug life, learning a new dances, curses, bitches and hoes and money. There videos show their expensive cars, money flying all over the place, half naked women, guns, and drugs. I am not discriminating against rappers. I mean I listen to rap music. I just never realized how pointless their songs were.
Once I started listening to country I realized that they alway had a story behind it. Either if it was a love story, family, growing up on the farm, breaks up, people dying, and growing old. The way they write their songs is just amazing. The storys behind there songs are so true. Some of them are so sad that I almost cry! I feel like they just have a better affect on people. It like stories that everyone deals with in everyday life. I feel like most people can relate to what country singer sing about. What do you like better rap or country?
Once I started listening to country I realized that they alway had a story behind it. Either if it was a love story, family, growing up on the farm, breaks up, people dying, and growing old. The way they write their songs is just amazing. The storys behind there songs are so true. Some of them are so sad that I almost cry! I feel like they just have a better affect on people. It like stories that everyone deals with in everyday life. I feel like most people can relate to what country singer sing about. What do you like better rap or country?
women's lacrosse vs men's lacrosse
Did anyone ever see a men's and women's lacrosse game? It is a totally different sport. Men's lacrosse they have pocket in their stick to catch the ball. That only have 10 people on the lacrosse field. They have three defense of player. They get to play with long pole stick which a about the same hit as them. That is used to make it easier for them to defense the attack player. It is hard for the attack player to try and score. The have three midfielder. One is someone that takes the faceoffs. There faceoffs start on the ground. They put the ball between the two sticks of the faceoff guys. Then the ref blows the whistle they try to put there sticks over the ball and scoop it out to there own team. They also have three attack. They try to score all the goals. The men's field is small then the women's field. They have their goal on each 10 yard line of a football field. The womens goals are on the goalline on the touchdown. They guys get to beat the crap out of eachother.
The womens game is totally different. We play with 11 on the field. Our field is a whole football field long. Our field is wider then a men's field. We have 3 low defense of player. Then we have five in the mid-field. The center take the faceoffs. But in women's lacrosse they are called a draw. The two centers stand up and the ball is placed between the back part of the sticks head. Then the whistle is blown. Both girls make their sticks go in the air and ball goes up in the air and they fight over it. But I feel like women's lacrosse you need to have more talent for. They aren't allowed to have a pocket in the sticks like the boys are. There is much more rules in women's lacrosse. which makes it boring to watch. But it soo much better to play then to watch. What do you think?
The womens game is totally different. We play with 11 on the field. Our field is a whole football field long. Our field is wider then a men's field. We have 3 low defense of player. Then we have five in the mid-field. The center take the faceoffs. But in women's lacrosse they are called a draw. The two centers stand up and the ball is placed between the back part of the sticks head. Then the whistle is blown. Both girls make their sticks go in the air and ball goes up in the air and they fight over it. But I feel like women's lacrosse you need to have more talent for. They aren't allowed to have a pocket in the sticks like the boys are. There is much more rules in women's lacrosse. which makes it boring to watch. But it soo much better to play then to watch. What do you think?
Mall and Bar
On saturday a bunch of my friends that are on my lacrosse team decided to go to the mall. We need to go shopping for our Lacrosse Formal. It was at the new bar the Stone Lounge. We had to wear dresses for this formal. So we went to the mall to find dresses. I already had a dress from home that I wore. It was black and has like ruffles at the bottom of the dress. I was so not me. But I liked it and everyone else seemed to like it too! I went to the mall to look for jewlery. I found a necklece that went perfect with the dress. I was long that went perfect because my dress was a halter top. we shopped at the mall for like four hours because one of my friends couldn't find a dress. We finally found her one. By the time we got back to our room it was time to take a shower and get ready to party. The party was obviously 21 to drink and 18 to get in. But lucky I am 21 so I did not care.
When we got the stone lounge I walked in and my mouth dropped down to the ground. It was like walking into a bar in New York City. I didn't expect something like that in Cortland, NY. haha. Inside the bar they had places to lounge. They had fireplace inside the bar which was perfect because it was snowing out! I just couldn't believe what this bar looked like inside. The good part is that the part isn't finished yet so its going to be so much nicer.
When we got the stone lounge I walked in and my mouth dropped down to the ground. It was like walking into a bar in New York City. I didn't expect something like that in Cortland, NY. haha. Inside the bar they had places to lounge. They had fireplace inside the bar which was perfect because it was snowing out! I just couldn't believe what this bar looked like inside. The good part is that the part isn't finished yet so its going to be so much nicer.
DIRTY!!!
The one thing I hate about living in the dorm are the bathrooms. The girls on my floor are disguising! They leave their crap everywhere. The sinks are loaded with hair, spit anything you name it is in our sinks! One day someone dumped water from old flowers in the sink and there was petals in every sink! Like what the hell goes through these peoples heads. The showers are even worse! There is like piles of hair left in drains! Its so gross. I know this sounds so stupid but I wish our cleaning ladies weren't so nice! They clean up everything for us. Our RA told us in the beginnig of the semester, if we were dirty we would get woking up at 6:00am by her and the cleaning ladies to clean up after ourselves. So I thought we would be clean but I guess not!
People use the sinks to dump out there oatmeal and soups. Then the left over is left in the sink. That could clog the drains! People would go to the bathroom and leave pee on the seats! Or forget to flush the bowl its gross! When people rip off a piece of toilet paper they leave half of it on the floor. Someone on our floor even left an anoymous letter on the bathroom floor bashing all the people on our floor to keep the bathroom clean because other people have to use it. I totally agree with her. I don't unstand how people could live like this!!
People use the sinks to dump out there oatmeal and soups. Then the left over is left in the sink. That could clog the drains! People would go to the bathroom and leave pee on the seats! Or forget to flush the bowl its gross! When people rip off a piece of toilet paper they leave half of it on the floor. Someone on our floor even left an anoymous letter on the bathroom floor bashing all the people on our floor to keep the bathroom clean because other people have to use it. I totally agree with her. I don't unstand how people could live like this!!
Gymnastics
My other PED activity class that I am taking is Gymnastics. I love this class. I never thought I was going to be able to do the things we learned. We learned how to do Handstands, Front Handsprings and Headstand. I never thought in a million years I would be able to do those things. We also learned how to do cartwheels and roundoffs. Those I were able to do at the beginning of the class. We also learn how to different rolls. Like a front and back roll. Once we learned how to do those we learn how to actually do the gymnastics part. We learned how to do everything we learn on the floor off the different equipment pieces. We learned how to do the parallel bars, pommel horse, the vault, balance beam, rings, and how to climb a rope. Throughtout the semester we learned a routine on every piece of equipment and at the end of the semester we had to perform them.
Its the end of the semester now and thats what we have been doing for the last two weeks. He put us into teams. Each person on the team has to perform two of the routines that they are good at. Then him and two other people are the judges amd gives us out total point at the end of the routine. Each team get a total and who ever has the best score wins. My team is very good. I am doing the Balance Beam routine and the Vaulting routine with is a front handspring over the vault! Tomorrow is went we have our "meet." I can't wait!
Its the end of the semester now and thats what we have been doing for the last two weeks. He put us into teams. Each person on the team has to perform two of the routines that they are good at. Then him and two other people are the judges amd gives us out total point at the end of the routine. Each team get a total and who ever has the best score wins. My team is very good. I am doing the Balance Beam routine and the Vaulting routine with is a front handspring over the vault! Tomorrow is went we have our "meet." I can't wait!
Self Defense
I never knew this class could be so much fun. Since school is pretty much over I figured I can finally write a blog on everything we learned about in this PED activity class. The most inportant part of this class is know that it is a self defense class. It to learn how to defense yourself when you are getting attacked. Its not a class where they show you how to hurt an attacker. We learned all different terminalogy that is hard to remember because it is not in english. We learned many different Kata's. Kata means a system of basic body positions and movement exercises. We learn a basic Kata called Kihon Kata Shodan. Its a basic punch and block kata. Then we learned a kata called Kihon Kata Nidan. It's pretty much the same thing but before every punch there is a thrust kick added. There is one last kata that we learned that has to do with looking over your shoulder. This kata is if your getting attack by many different people. This kata is call Kihon Kata Sandan. Last kata that we learn is a kata that we use to cool us down after a hard class. It is called Ju Fu Kata. It is used by many culture to try and calm you down. Its kind of like a meditation. It is a breathing kata that calms the nerves. This comes from yoga.
We also learned all different technique on how we get out of different grabs, chokes an how to sweep our attacker. Technique number one (a) is a Single Hand Grab across the body. Technique number one (b) is a single hand grab(straight across) Technique number 2 is a double handed grab low. Technique number three is a double handed grab (upper) Technique number four is a double handed grab to one arm. The next two techniques have to do with choking. Technique number five you is a choke from the front with two hands. Technique number six has to do with a two handed choke from the rear. Technique number seven is you combine technique four, five and six all together. Technique number eight is called upper block into an outer major sweep. This is the coolest one I learned. You block their punch and you pull it to your hip to cause them to be unbalance and you take a step to sweep the attack right onto their back. Technique number nine is the upper block to forearm take down into a ground submission. This one is the hardest to do .We also learned how to get out of a bear hug and a one arm choke from behind. I feel like those were the most helpful ones. This class has to be one of my favorite classes.
We also learned all different technique on how we get out of different grabs, chokes an how to sweep our attacker. Technique number one (a) is a Single Hand Grab across the body. Technique number one (b) is a single hand grab(straight across) Technique number 2 is a double handed grab low. Technique number three is a double handed grab (upper) Technique number four is a double handed grab to one arm. The next two techniques have to do with choking. Technique number five you is a choke from the front with two hands. Technique number six has to do with a two handed choke from the rear. Technique number seven is you combine technique four, five and six all together. Technique number eight is called upper block into an outer major sweep. This is the coolest one I learned. You block their punch and you pull it to your hip to cause them to be unbalance and you take a step to sweep the attack right onto their back. Technique number nine is the upper block to forearm take down into a ground submission. This one is the hardest to do .We also learned how to get out of a bear hug and a one arm choke from behind. I feel like those were the most helpful ones. This class has to be one of my favorite classes.
SNOW DAY!
I love waking up to a bunch of text messages saying school is closed or SNOW DAY! I am not used to all this snow. Long Island only gets a couple of inches a year. This is so exciting to me. I don't mind how cold it is as long as it is snowing or there is snow on the ground. I just seems to make everything better.
Well today I would love to go play in the snow but I a rediculous amount of work to do! I have to still finish my paper. Almost done with that. Start a 4-6 page paper on a book that I had trouble reading. Do a notebook for my Self Defense class. Also, for self defense we have our final on thursday. This is going to be impossible because there is so much terminalogy that he is going to you. The hard part is that its in like Japanese so its hard to remember what each thing means in english.
Then late Thursday night i have my gymnastics final and i dont know what it is on. I think all different terminalogy also. I don't know what anything is call that we do. I only know that basic stuff so im hoping thats all the stuff that is on it.
Well today I would love to go play in the snow but I a rediculous amount of work to do! I have to still finish my paper. Almost done with that. Start a 4-6 page paper on a book that I had trouble reading. Do a notebook for my Self Defense class. Also, for self defense we have our final on thursday. This is going to be impossible because there is so much terminalogy that he is going to you. The hard part is that its in like Japanese so its hard to remember what each thing means in english.
Then late Thursday night i have my gymnastics final and i dont know what it is on. I think all different terminalogy also. I don't know what anything is call that we do. I only know that basic stuff so im hoping thats all the stuff that is on it.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Jobs over Break
I am so stressed out! I can't take school anymore! All I want to do is go home and lay in my own bed, have my own room and relax. Well by next Thursday I will be able to do that along with everyone else that attends SUNY Cortland. The only thing is I don't really get to relax. When I go home I have to find a JOB. Yes a job. I am so broke its not even funny. I already have one job over break which is soo easy and I make great money. I am a ref. I ref CYO basketball at a local church by my house. When I ref a game I make 20 bucks a game. If I ref a game by myself I make time and half which is 30 bucks. Youll I ref 4th grade girls by myself. I usually do like 4-5 game in a row. Which means i make between $120-$150 in 5 hours doing 5 games. It is such easy money. Most of the time ill work friday 6-10, saturday 8-1, and then sunday 8-12. That is around $300 bucks. I do it because I love being in control. I don't just do it for the money i do it because I want to keep the Massapequa Basketball program strong! Plus when I ref the younger girls I try to help them out as best as I can. Between playing and coach I know a lot about the game. Where I come from Girls Basketball is amazing! Anyway, I also need money so I can go shopping for people. Right now I have no money to go shopping with. I hate because I feel like this is supposed to be your time to relax and hangout. But I guess not. I don't think that happens that much anymore. Im alway on the run...
Patriots vs Ravens
What a crazy intense game that was. The Ravens were winning pretty much the entire game. With .44 secs left the Patriots scored a touchdown. Tom Brady my be hot but I can't take the Patriots! Sorry off topic. The Ravens had the ball and with 6 seconds left the Ravens had one more chance to win the game. They passed the ball and they guy was tackled on the two yard line. They were two yards from winning the game. The Patriots are still perfect. So far they have the record of 12-0. They are the sixth team in NFl to reach that record. It was a great game. But I can't take anyone that is a Patriots fan. They are Boston people. I HATE Boston! I can't take there stupid accents and their obnoxious fans. They also look like a bunch of dirty bags that came out of a dark alley in New York City. They are bunch of sneaky, dirty people. That crap they pulled against the New York Jets in the first game of the season was B.S. How they taped our signals. Im a Jets fan. They didn't need to tape our signals to beat us. They could have beatt us with 9th people on the field and with their hands tied behind their backs. They probably could have beat us with a blindfold on. I crazy how much people cheat just to win!
Snow #2
OMG this snow blizzard is out of control! I had to walk to the library in this snow storm that wasn't to much fun. Then I was sitting in my room and 45 mins later I looked out my window and there was at least another three inches. Then at 6:00 I had to walk to Park Center to do lax weightlifting. By the way that is getting really old. I can't take it anymore. I have soooooo much work to do and because of that I get sidetracked. By the time I came out there was about another 2 inches on the ground. You know how annoying that is when you just worked out for an hour and then having to walk get food and then walk back to your dorm.
Well a bunch of us took the walk together. We made it fun. We started to have a snowball fight. We couldn't even see like seven feet infront of us. One of my friends thought it was funny to try and run into the field house. There was soo much snow on top that she thought if she ran into it hard enough all the snow would fall on top of her like an avalanche. Yeah she really isn't to bright. We ran up the hill to get dinner. When we came out everyone thought it would be funny to push eachother in the snow. Well we did. My best friend and I decided it would be funny to push my friend down the hill right infront of bishop. We pushed her and she tumbled down the hill. So many people saw her and we were dying laughing. I hope we have a snow day tomorrow so we can play in the snow!
Well a bunch of us took the walk together. We made it fun. We started to have a snowball fight. We couldn't even see like seven feet infront of us. One of my friends thought it was funny to try and run into the field house. There was soo much snow on top that she thought if she ran into it hard enough all the snow would fall on top of her like an avalanche. Yeah she really isn't to bright. We ran up the hill to get dinner. When we came out everyone thought it would be funny to push eachother in the snow. Well we did. My best friend and I decided it would be funny to push my friend down the hill right infront of bishop. We pushed her and she tumbled down the hill. So many people saw her and we were dying laughing. I hope we have a snow day tomorrow so we can play in the snow!
AIM
I never knew how much help America Instant Messager could help in the future. I was looking at people's away messages.. I know very stalkerish.. haha just kidding. I saw that my friends away message said something i couldn't believe. My friend is living in the house Im living in next year. I saw her away message and it said how she hated the house. So now im wondering why she hates the house. I read more of her away message and then it said. I she hates Owego Street because some guy tried breaking into her house and she had a baseball bat next to her bed. This makes me feel really really safe. First we get an email saying that we have a sexual assault that happened in a residence hall. Now i have to worry about someone trying to break into our house next year! This is soo crazy I can't take this anymore. People are crazy! This isn't the first time this happened to someone i know in Cortland.
My friend house got robbered at the beginning of the year. The robber broke into one of the room and stole the kids bong and his computer. THis is insane. I guess no where is really safe anymore. This seems to happen a lot around here. I don't know which is better... to live on campus with people that are getting sexual assaulted or people trying to break into the house?!?!?
My friend house got robbered at the beginning of the year. The robber broke into one of the room and stole the kids bong and his computer. THis is insane. I guess no where is really safe anymore. This seems to happen a lot around here. I don't know which is better... to live on campus with people that are getting sexual assaulted or people trying to break into the house?!?!?
Cortland E-Mail
So I just signed on to my email for Cortland. I first opened an email saying that this class was cancelled because of the crazy snowstorm that we are going to be having tonight. I find it funny that Professor Emerson already cancelled called for tomorrow and we still have stupid weightlifting for stupid lacrosse!
Anyways I just got an email saying that there was a sexual assault on campus on November 18th. This happened in the residence hall. The suspect was a non student and they started an investigation. This is rediculous. School dorms are supposed to be safe. How do people let in random strangers. Like if someone that looked strange was trying to get into the building I wouldn't let them in. I don't know it just don't make sense.
Anyways I just got an email saying that there was a sexual assault on campus on November 18th. This happened in the residence hall. The suspect was a non student and they started an investigation. This is rediculous. School dorms are supposed to be safe. How do people let in random strangers. Like if someone that looked strange was trying to get into the building I wouldn't let them in. I don't know it just don't make sense.
Sean Taylor #2
I was just watching the new and I saw they had an update on the shooting of Sean Taylor. November 30th the Florida police department arrested four guys. The four guys name were
Venjah K Hunte who is 20, Eric Rivera who is 17, Jason Scott Mitchell who is 19 and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow who is 18. They were arrested and charged with Sean Taylor's murder. On December 1st all four men were arrested with felony second-degree murder, armed burglary and home invasion with a firearm or another deadly weapon. These charges could result in the life sentences for all four men. First of all the four "men" who they arrest aren't even men. They are immature kids some of them are still in high school. They don't deserve to be called men. After watching the new they showed the Redskins vs the Bills game. They had a rememberance video of Sean Taylor about five minutes long right before the game. The Redskins for defense of play, played with ten player instead of eleven players for one play to remember him. All the players also had a black #21 stick on the back of everyone's helmet and on their jerseys. They also had a special on ESPN for his funeral today. Where many people talked about his influence on football and how much he is going to be missed. He wife also gave a speech. This is so sad something like this had to happen.
Venjah K Hunte who is 20, Eric Rivera who is 17, Jason Scott Mitchell who is 19 and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow who is 18. They were arrested and charged with Sean Taylor's murder. On December 1st all four men were arrested with felony second-degree murder, armed burglary and home invasion with a firearm or another deadly weapon. These charges could result in the life sentences for all four men. First of all the four "men" who they arrest aren't even men. They are immature kids some of them are still in high school. They don't deserve to be called men. After watching the new they showed the Redskins vs the Bills game. They had a rememberance video of Sean Taylor about five minutes long right before the game. The Redskins for defense of play, played with ten player instead of eleven players for one play to remember him. All the players also had a black #21 stick on the back of everyone's helmet and on their jerseys. They also had a special on ESPN for his funeral today. Where many people talked about his influence on football and how much he is going to be missed. He wife also gave a speech. This is so sad something like this had to happen.
Sean Taylor
On November 26th, all the Washington Redskin fans found out heart broken news. Sean Taylor, who was 24 years old was shot in the upper leg in his house in Miami, Florida. Robbers broke into his home. It was around 1:45am. He was home with his girlfriend Jackie Garcia and their 18 month old daughter. His wife hide under the bed and called 911. He lost a great amount of blood because the gun shot severed the femoral artery which is the main artery in the upper thigh. He slipped into a coma because he lost a great about of blood. He was rushed into surgery. When he was in surgery his hear stopped twice. The doctor thought he would have suffered brain damage because of all the blood he lost. He was pronounced dead on November 27th at around 3:30am. His family released it to the world at around 5:30am.
The weird thing was that after they shot him nothing was taking. But eight days before this all happened his house was robbered. They robber pried opened the bathroom window. They went throught his safe and desk. They damaged the air conditioner system. His mother went to his house and found that it was broken into. Then eight days later, he was shot and killed. This doesn't make sense how they broke into the house the first night. Then the second time they broke into his house the shot him and left. They didn't take anything its. It obvious it wasn't a buglary. They were looking to kill him. Something fishy is going on.
The weird thing was that after they shot him nothing was taking. But eight days before this all happened his house was robbered. They robber pried opened the bathroom window. They went throught his safe and desk. They damaged the air conditioner system. His mother went to his house and found that it was broken into. Then eight days later, he was shot and killed. This doesn't make sense how they broke into the house the first night. Then the second time they broke into his house the shot him and left. They didn't take anything its. It obvious it wasn't a buglary. They were looking to kill him. Something fishy is going on.
Catch Phase
Has anyone ever play any boards with there friends or anyone? Well I play board games all the time. Usually I play with my friends at home. We play them when we don't feel like going out. But we play the games that we can have fun playing and being idiots together. We play like scrabble, scattergoies, cranium pop 5 and taboo. We always play from fun.
But at school its totally different. My friends Meghan, Annie and Jess decided we wanted to play a game call Catch Phase. It was Meghan and I verus Annie and Jess. Catch Phase is a little circular device that you hold that picks a word that you have to describe to your team. If you can't describe that word there is a button that you can hit that skips the word. You have to sit in a circle, but you have to sit next to two people that are not on your team. Once you get the word you a describing to your team you pass it to the person next you that one the other team and they have to describe the next word to their team. There is a timer that is part of the device. If it goes off when its in your hand the other team get a point. I never knew a game this fun can get so competitive. My own team mate was yelling at me for not describing the word quick enough. The other two girls were fighting. This game was supposed to be fun and everyone was freaking out. It was still a lot of fun but we were going crazy. The funny thing was the girls down the hall were playing another game and they were all fighting over their game. It was soo funny. What happened to board games being fun? I guess its not just sports that isn't fun anymore it anything with competition.
But at school its totally different. My friends Meghan, Annie and Jess decided we wanted to play a game call Catch Phase. It was Meghan and I verus Annie and Jess. Catch Phase is a little circular device that you hold that picks a word that you have to describe to your team. If you can't describe that word there is a button that you can hit that skips the word. You have to sit in a circle, but you have to sit next to two people that are not on your team. Once you get the word you a describing to your team you pass it to the person next you that one the other team and they have to describe the next word to their team. There is a timer that is part of the device. If it goes off when its in your hand the other team get a point. I never knew a game this fun can get so competitive. My own team mate was yelling at me for not describing the word quick enough. The other two girls were fighting. This game was supposed to be fun and everyone was freaking out. It was still a lot of fun but we were going crazy. The funny thing was the girls down the hall were playing another game and they were all fighting over their game. It was soo funny. What happened to board games being fun? I guess its not just sports that isn't fun anymore it anything with competition.
Engagement #2
So this morning at 8:00 I recieved a phone call from my sister Lisa, who just got enganged. While was home we went dress shopping for her wedding for the bridesmaids. My sister Cheryl and I are the maids of honors. It's so hard having to deal with this stuff at school. When I came home for Thanksgiving break I was out shopping for dresses. We ended up going to really crap stores that didn't have much to choose from. The hardest part is that the wedding is this summer. August 9th is the day they are planning for. Of course August is like the hottest month of the year. So trying to find a dress that isn't going to be to heavy and hots going to be impossible. We found one dress that we liked. But the annoying part is that the place closes from December 15th- January 2nd. The worst part is I don't come home till December 14th late in the afternoon. So we have one day to finalize the dress and its all up to me! This is going to be impossible. It's all up to me on the final dress. To be honest I don't care what dress we get, I just want it to be light so im not sweating my ass of in August!
End of the Semester
The end of the semester is coming up already. This fall semester flew by! I remember packing up my truck to come up here. Thinking it was going to be so long and far away from my home. It's actually a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I made a bunch of new friends and still have my home friends! Anyway, the end of the semester is pretty much here. One week left. The only thing that sucks is that amount of work that is due! I have so much work to do its rediculous! All teachers have everything due the last week right before finals. Its not even just this class its every class! I have papers , projects and notebooks all due this final week. Plus, I have some of my finals during this week too! My gymnastics final is on wednesday and my self defense is on thursday! This is the craziest time of the year. I can't take this part of they school year.
The worst part about this is that our lacrosse coach still wants us at the weight room with our personal trainer three times a week. With us having classes and doing the weight room you don't have much time to do work. By the time you finish class you have like 2 hours to do work. Then you walk to the Park, lift which takes an hour to an hour and a half. Then when your done with that you have to eat dinner and then walk back to your room. Get back to your room look at the clock its about 8-8:30. Then you have to shower. By the time you shower and get out, its 9:00pm and your exhausted. All you want to do is lay down in your bed and sleep. The best part is the coaches want you to do well in your classes but its hard because we have to do this weight room crap in the OFF SEASON!
The worst part about this is that our lacrosse coach still wants us at the weight room with our personal trainer three times a week. With us having classes and doing the weight room you don't have much time to do work. By the time you finish class you have like 2 hours to do work. Then you walk to the Park, lift which takes an hour to an hour and a half. Then when your done with that you have to eat dinner and then walk back to your room. Get back to your room look at the clock its about 8-8:30. Then you have to shower. By the time you shower and get out, its 9:00pm and your exhausted. All you want to do is lay down in your bed and sleep. The best part is the coaches want you to do well in your classes but its hard because we have to do this weight room crap in the OFF SEASON!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
SNOW
Today it snowed! I don't mind the cold as long as there is snow on the ground. If its just cold out with no snow on the ground its just miserable out. I love the snow! Im happy it snowed on a sunday. The funny thing is right before I went to bed lastnight, the movie Snow Day was on T.V. That used to be my favorite movie when I was younger. Its about a young girl that wishes for one snow day in her town that will force the school to be closed. She wish on her little snow globe for a snow day. The next day she wakes up the is like a foot of snow and she got her snow day. It's a cute little kid movie. Anyway, it just reminded me of lastnight. Going to bed with like 2 inches on the ground and waking up with like 5-7 inches on the ground. I love the snow. We don't get much on Long Island. It is just usually cold. I don't like that. I love snow. I love being able to build things out of snow! I love making snowman and snow angels! Im kind of glad that it is on sunday and not a school day. You could enjoy snow much more when your not walking to classes in the snow. The worst thing is when you walk to class your feet end up getting soaking wet and they are freezing the rest of the day. I love snow!
Women's College Basketball
I find is incredible how much women's college basketball grew in the last 10 years. Ever since the WNBA started the women's college league became huge. This is because of coaches like Pat Summit, Geno Auriemma, Gail Goestenkors, Sylvia Hatchell and Pokey Chatman. These coaches coached great players throughout these years that changed the game completely. Some of the key player were Candace Parker, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Irvoy Latta, Sylvia Fowles, Lindsay Harding and Alison Bales.
Another reason why women's college basketball changed completely is because of Candace Parker and Sylvia Fowles. Candace Parker was recruited by University of Tennessee. When she was a senior in high school she was asked to play in the McDonald's High School All-American games. She also took part in the dunking contest. She made history by being the first women to win the dunk contest against five guys. Accomplishing that is huge in women sports. Beating guys in a dunking contest! Ten years ago that would have been unheard of! But now its becoming so popular. Sylvia Fowles also is another current player that could dunk in the women's league. The other day i was watching her on tv play verus Rutger's. They were playing at Rutgers. She threw down a dunk and missed it. Even thought she missed it everyone in the stands wearing LSU shirts and Rutger shirts gave her a standing ovation. That just shows how much respect people show toward women sports today! Its amazing!
Another reason why women's college basketball changed completely is because of Candace Parker and Sylvia Fowles. Candace Parker was recruited by University of Tennessee. When she was a senior in high school she was asked to play in the McDonald's High School All-American games. She also took part in the dunking contest. She made history by being the first women to win the dunk contest against five guys. Accomplishing that is huge in women sports. Beating guys in a dunking contest! Ten years ago that would have been unheard of! But now its becoming so popular. Sylvia Fowles also is another current player that could dunk in the women's league. The other day i was watching her on tv play verus Rutger's. They were playing at Rutgers. She threw down a dunk and missed it. Even thought she missed it everyone in the stands wearing LSU shirts and Rutger shirts gave her a standing ovation. That just shows how much respect people show toward women sports today! Its amazing!
Parents in Sports
Doesn't anyone else thing parents are crazy when it come to sports? After coaching my own 8th grade girls CYO basketball team, I realized how crazy some really are! I had one father who would come to my practices and yell and scream at his daughter when she missed a shot or a layup. Then when we had games he would video tape the game for her to watch. Then after the game he would tell me that i think the girls should watch the tape and see what they have to work on. Keep in mind this is CYO, a church league. Girls in 8th grade play this to have fun! By the middle of the season I kicked him out of the gym during practice time. During the games I had to make a deal with him not to yell at his daughter while she is playing. He gets in her head and totally takes her out of her game. It's soooo crazy. Also, when I went to my brothers basketball game there were parents yelling at coaches and the refs. It's is out of control. These leagues that the kids play on is supposed to be fun. Sports is supposed to be fun for the kids. But, when the parents are crazy it doesn't make it fun. Kids are supposed to try all different kind of sports. But some parents are so crazy that has them doing one sport on all different teams. That is not normal for a kid. Parents these days are crazy and in the long run the kids are just going to lose interest in the sport. Which is not what we want.
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