Hauser

He is one of the most unfair teachers I have ever encountered. He is making only half of his classes take his quiz because of the visit with the Vice President. How are we suppose to study for it when he doesn't return any of the homework's back? Also, for my class only, he got really mad one day at ONE PERSON so he took everyone's worksheets away. He graded what you had done, which as basically nothing because we only had it for ten minutes. I'm glad I am almost done with his class.

2012

Four years ago, I always wondered what people meant when they said that high school goes by so fast. I remember sitting one day in guidance filling out a schedule form for my classes sophomore year. To think that now I only have a little less then 5 months, before I go off on my own for college.

Road Trip

At the end of next week, I will be visiting my college. I am so excited to finally have that college feel. I already told the team in advance about my arrival. Two of them already have my whole visit planned. They are going to show me around Fort Wayne, introduce me to the guy's golf team and there friends and I am also going to sit in on a few classes. Even though my main goal is to get my golf swing in check, it's the last thing on my mind.

Christmas Spirit

It doesn't really seem like Christmas this year. We put our tree up last night, made sugar cookies, put on Christmas music, and it still didn't feel like it. Now, I feel like it will never feel like Christmas this year.

Today

Earlier today, a friend and I briefly talked about how in today's society there is a distinct difference in the class system. If you take a good look around you, you will see either how easy or difficult kids have it these days. Take a drive to out skirts of Columbus. What you will see is house after house with there doors and windows boarded up. On the boards there is graffiti everywhere from gang members representing themselves. If you take a closer look at the houses you will see them run down, junk all over the place, and perhaps a broken window in more than one spot. Now imagine how the kids feel. They could be embarrassed to tell people where they are growing up or how they are scared night after night for there family's safety. Then if you go to Gahanna, New Albany, or even Upper Arlington, it will be a totally different look. Family's have a house that looks nicely up kept weekly, maybe more than 2 cars, and kids who have nice clothes to wear everyday. Everyday they don't have to worry about there safety or even a care in the world. This is because, we get everything we want. It's really not fair. How one part of society can be fighting for there lives and 4 miles away another part could be eating a dinner where they have more food than they can eat.

"Fashion" Statements

I don't get how some people aren't properly dressed according to the weather. I see girls still wearing shorts and the occasional flip-flop, when it is below 40 degrees. Then you hear them complain about how cold they are. I wonder if covering themselves up, could help the problem?! If it is summer time, you might see a girl in a bikini, shorts then uggs. Uggs are a boot that have fur on the inside, typically worn in winter.

Christmas Scents

When I think of Christmas, I think of all the smells that comes along with it. A few smells would be cinnamon, cranberry, sugar cookies, peppermint, pine, and apple. Last night, my mom and I were at this store that happened to have scented candles. You would be amazed on how many Christmas scents they carry. Like this one candle, it's scent was Christmas Night. How can anyone narrow down what a Christmas night smells like?

Complaining

I really hate how short our winter break is. It's only two weeks, when colleges are a month or a little longer. We get the bad end of the stick. We go to school for more hours, we get shorter breaks, and we are in school for a longer period of time. There are almost no benefits of high school.

Extra Credit

MOST AMAZING BEANBAG

Mr. Mackey is giving kids extra credit if we link his son-in-law's beanbag website to any of our pages. He always makes us to wacky and unnecessary extra credit all the time. He knows though, that kids will do anything for the extra points.

1) Who is responsible for Katie Mackey's death?
    - Multible people are responsible for Katie's death. One of them being Henry Dees. He was in the car with Katie when Ray picked her up. The first sign that Mr. Dees should have saw was the fact that Ray was taking pills. Making Ray incapable of making rational decisions. Another clue that Mr. Dees should have noticed was the fact that Ray passed the library with both of them in the car, indicating he wasn't really planning on stopping there. When he got out he could have taken Katie with him. The other person is Raymond Wright. He did the actually killing of Katie Mackey. Greed always got the best of him, in  most aspects of his life. Especially when it came to money. They both could have prevented her death, instead they both contributed to it.


2) How did Lee Martin's style of writing influence your reading of the novel?
   - While reading the novel he made you feel what they were feeling. In each perspective of the characters story, you would see how they contributed to the disaster. You would see what each character saw in the other characters. For instance, when Mr. Dees went into JCPenny to look for a vest. Gilley saw him more as a lonely, innocent, shy man. In the eyes of Clare he was a pervert. Then when you read Mr. Dee's stories you will find out that he just loved Katie as one of his own. Lee Martin also made you slowly think how everyone's story was slowly connected, how each person got involved. 

Nonsense

Today and tomorrow we have shortened periods. It's going from 48 minute periods to a little over a half hour on the main campus and from an hour and a half to a little over an hour. You would think that teachers would just have a normal class day, but give the shortened version. NOT AT ALL. I have three test in two days. Not any two days, the two days that have shortened periods.

It's all over

This weekend, I have been so busy. On Friday, I had my signing with Sierra. Around 60- 70 people attended, which was one of the largest signings they have had. After, some close friends and family from both sides met up at BW3's. On Saturday, Eric and I did some electrical stuff for my dad then we headed to Lynd's Fruit farm just to find out it's closed. We  then just traveled around and came onto a small town where we just explored. That night, I went on a double date with Briana and Kevin. Sunday, was our golf banquet. It was the saddest and most memorable banquet I have ever had. When you're a senior, you realize that you are at the end and that the four years you spent in high school went by so fast.

The 11-11-11 Signing

At 3:00 today I will be signing my letter of intent for Indiana Tech University at GLHS. I'm not that excited because I don't like the spot light on me. My mom invited everyone that I have ever known, which builds to my nervousness. You might say it's just a signing, yes it is, but it's more than that. I'm signing the next four years of my life away without even finishing the last year of high school.

Voting Poll

Yesterday, I worked the voting polls from 5:30a.m- 9:15 p.m. I thought it would be the longest day of my life, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be until closing happened. At my location we had over 1,400 voters. After saying the same phrase over and over 500 times, it got tiring. At closing, none of the printers were working to print the results at any precinct. After working 14 hours, we didn't even get to know the results. Couldn't have gotten much worse.

Black Friday

This year I will be spending Thanksgiving with my family down in Louisville, Kentucky. Whenever we think of Thanksgiving, Black Friday pops up with it. On Black Friday many people get up early, between 3-6 a.m, to stand in line at a store to go and buy items at a very low price. Most items people want to buy are electronics. That is exactly what we are going to stand in line to get. My grandma, my mother and I will be waking up at 2:30 in the morning to go stand in line at Bestbuy to hopefully get a new flat screen t.v and a GPS. The sad part is that we will not even be close to one of the first people there. There are some people who will spend the night at Bestbuy, just to be the first in line. I never could do that, to be that dedicated to getting something just to be the first one to get it.

Electricity

Last night, I had the bright idea that I should clean my car completely. I went and brought my dog outside so he could enjoy some fresh air and so I could have some company. When I went to get him I realized that the television and the light were on and when I went back in that I should turn them off. I tied my dog up to a tree and started heading to the door inside. Heading towards the laundry room first to go turn off the light, I noticed that the music was off. After opening the door to the the laundry room, it was dark. I was flipping the switch up and down by I thought I might have subconsciously turned it off or the light bulb went out. I went into the living room and got the same reaction. An hour has passed until I finally put it all together that the power was out. The reason it took me awhile because the neighbors had there garage lights on and the lights were working inside there home. After settling into the overwhelming darkness, it wasn't until then that I realized how important electricity it is in my daily routine. I couldn't close the garage, use the vaccum to clean the inside of my car, or basically do anything I really wanted to do. The toughest part was when it was nine at night and I really had to use the restroom. My light source was a tiny candle that barely lite the sink up. At that moment I think I finally felt what a cavemen felt like back in the day. 

FML

Have you ever been on the website, fmylife.com? If you haven't, you haven't really experienced what others are going through. It's a website that is solely based on an event that goes on in someones day/life, that was horrible. They then post that event on this website to share with the world. Basically, to tell people how horrible their life is at the moment. Some are really funny and embarrassing, others are appalling and sad. People then get to vote on if your life sucks or if you deserved it.

Here are some examples of some of the post on the website;

1) "Today, I locked myself out of my own shop. And I'm a locksmith. FML."

2) "Today, I finally found out where my great grandmother's antique handheld mirror disappeared to. According to the headmaster, my eleven year old son has been using it to look up his classmate's dresses at school. FML." 

Halloween

Halloween is one of the most misguiding holidays. You get to dress up as someone or something else, for a whole night. While being this mysterious character, you get to take candy from random people. Your begging to get candy. Doesn't that seem just a tad wrong? Our school systems have always told us that we should always be ourselves and never take candy from strangers. BUT, in one night we break all of the rules that was drilled into our brain just for a little piece of candy.

Indiana Tech

The college that I decided to go to for college is Indiana Tech. Which is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The school is just what I wanted: around 5,000 students, high tech, community feel to it, good sports programs, small classrooms, and it's located by a well know town so I can keep busy. I'm going there for golf which is a dream come true for me. I literally get everything I want in a college. There are just some minor details that come along with this dream. There is this one girl, we won't mention names here, who thinks that she is the team commander.  Looking at her from a glance she might intimidate you, once you get to know her its the same feeling. This commander is also known as the team gossiper. She loves to talk about every team member behind there backs, deny it, then keep on talking smack til her mouth runs dry. Luckily, the last tournament that happened the coach  had the room right next to her. While she was talking some serious smack about everybody in the world, he could hear her. The walls were very thin at the hotel and he heard every single word. I get the word from the coach that he is going to politely ask her not to come back next year. One less problem, one less battle. The real question is, when do people learn to grow out of the smack stage? Is there ever a stage?