Wednesday, June 2, 2010

05/31/10

This past weekend I stayed at Westgate Resort & Spa! This was done because we stayed with my sister's finance's family, to have family bonding time. It was such a fun weekend because I had many things to do, and everyday I had something new to do everyday. I got there Friday, stayed Saturday, went to Aquactica on Sunday, and stayed half of the day on Monday and came back home.

First on Friday, I did not go to school because we left around 11p.m. and i had to pack and get everything in the car and everything together before we left for Orlando, because that was where the resort was located. So, I packed my bags and got the snack bags, cooler, and my bag together while my mom was packing up the car. Then, after we had gotten packed and everything was in the car, we left for Anthony's house, my sister's finance, and we just waited around for everyone else to get ready so that way we can follow each other down because my family did not know where the resort was. Then when we got to the resort, we unpacked and got settled into the room and went straight down to the pool. Then we stayed up till 1 playing games.

On Saturday, I woke up at 7 because i had not wanted to sleep my whole day away because when I stay somewhere on vacation I do not like sleeping in because then it would just waste the morning away. When i had woken up i put on my bathing suit and went over to Anthony's family's room because they had made breakfast. They made bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes, and cinnamon buns. They also had apple juice, and orange juice. The breakfast was really good, then we went down to the lake to rent a paddle boat. I got onto the boat with my brother and we started paddling down the lake and he had tipped me over and I had not been wearing my life vest. Then for lunch we made hamburgers and hot dogs, then we went down to the pool and had a fun time. Then for dinner we had made ribs and pasta. Then in the rooms we had a jacuzzi in our room and after we had dinner we all got in it and over flowed it with bubbles. Then we had all gone to bed early because we had to wake up at 6 to go to Aqucatica the next morning.

Then on Sunday, i had woken up at 6 because we all had to get up because we were going to Aqucatica, which was 15 minutes away from our hotel. But we had to wake up so early because if you buy your tickets online you can get into the park an hour early. So we had gotten there at 7. We went on every ride and we got a food pass so we can eat all the time whenever we want. One of the rides, Omaka Rocka, i had fallen out of the tub and came down the slide without it. It was so much fun and we did not leave the park until 5 p.m. we had all been so burnt. By the time we got back to the hotel, we all passed out for an hour or so then went down to the pool.

On Monday, i had woken up at 8 because we got a late check out for the last day, at 3. I had been so exhausted from the day before from Aqucatica so i had slept in a little bit until my alarm had gone off. Then when I woke up I had gone to the pool until about 2. Then I got up to the room to pack up the food, drinks, and our clothes. Then we headed out for the day to come back home. The weekend had been so much fun, and the Westgate Resort & Spa is a really nice place, i would love to go again.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

06/01/10

Over the past year, many things have changed that have changed me for the better. Things have changed in my life that have not only helped me learn about things, but also changed my life. These things include, going into the EMS Academy, joining Athletic Training, and becoming friends with Alyssa Jones. All of these things have changed me for the better, and made me who I am today. I wouldn’t be anywhere with where I am now if it was not for these three things. I appreciate all of these things and know that I will still have them in the long run.

When I first started off high school, I was not sure what track I would like to go on, but my brother and sister had told me about the EMS academy, and right when they had explained to me what it was about, I knew that was exactly what I wanted to do. Joining the EMS Academy was probably the best thing I could have ever done because it made it clear to me that this is exactly what I want to do in life and there is not anything else that I would rather do in life. While being in the EMS Academy, I’ve realized a lot of things that has helped me out with deciding what I want to do in life. While being in the academy, I have realized that I want to be an EMT and drive the EVAC, then to go get me degree for becoming a Pediatrician. If I had not joined the academy, I would have realized what I truly want to do in life or be who I am today.

While being in the EMS Academy, I also learned about Athletic Training. I joined training because I had thought it would help me out with my medical track in life. Athletic Training is an after school community service ordeal. You can tape people who are hurt, give them ice, learn about injuries and even get to see an injury go down and see the whole treatment and how you do it. I love training because it has not only helped me meet many new people who will be my friends for many years, but it has also helped me get even more encouraged about going into the medical field and pursuing my life as an EMT or Pediatrician. Training has helped me become what I want to be, and it also has helped me get the most community service hours in the freshmen/sophomore class. It has really helped me, and will still help me while pursuing me career.

Well, where do I start? Alyssa Jones is my best friend, and I have no idea where I would be without her. She has made me the person I am today. She always pushes me to do my best and even helps me out with a mega crisis, and she never lets me down while helping me. Alyssa has helped me through school, whether it be tutoring me, or just even pushing me to do my best. She has been there for me this whole year, and without her I probably would not be who I am today. She has taught me so many things and she is my best friend in the whole world and I do not know what I would do without her support, love or even motivation. Alyssa Jones is my absolute best friend and she will always be there for me no matter what.

In conclusion, you can tell that these three things have really changed my life over the past year. Without these I do not think I would know what I want to do in life, or even be the person I am today. While this past year has almost come to an end, I am grateful for the things that I not only have accomplished, but also just even open my eyes into what my life holds for me ahead. I don’t think I could have made it through my first year of high school without these three amazing things that have happened to me, and I know I would not be who I am today.

Monday, May 17, 2010

05/17/10

This upcoming week I have quite a bit of things to do that I need to successfully finish. First, today Monday, I have to go to tutoring for math during my lunch hour. Then, after school I have to go to football practice till about 6 or 7 then I have to go home and do plenty of homework. I have to finish my DNA test corrections for Mrs. King’s class and then I have to start on Mrs. Schaffer’s 3 book reports. I also have to do more for my book work for Mr. Alves because it is due Tuesday. Then I have to do some math homework and some extra credit for my D in Spanish. Then I’m going to go to bed and start over my whole Tuesday. On Tuesday once again I have to go to tutoring for math because i have a 55% in that class. I also have to do more on Mrs. Schaffer’s 3 book report projects. Then off to football practice once again.

On Wednesday, I have to do the same thing over again but I will be going to Spanish class for lunch instead of going to my math class because I need to average out both of the classes and put in about the same amount of time into each class. I will go to Spanish class and make up a vocabulary test and a grammar test. These test I failed and I need to re-take. Then I have to go to football practice and stand out there until about 7 and then I will go home and do more homework and more of my project. Then Thursday I will be going to math tutoring after school for a little bit and then go to football practice, and on Friday I will go to math tutoring during my lunch hour. This way I put fourth quite a bit of my time for math so I can try and successfully pass it. Then Friday night Alyssa, Vika, Taylor Klein, Jazmin, and I will be going over to Rachael's to spend the night.

While we are over Rachael’s will be pigging out on food that her dad will be making us, he is making hot wings with blue cheese, nachos, pizza, and strawberry cheesecake. Then we will most likely go swimming in her pool then watch a couple of movies. Then on Saturday we will hang out all day then I will be leaving at around 2p.m. to go home and do more on my book reports. This way I will be able to finish my projects with a reasonable amount of time that it is due on June 4th. Then on Sunday I will be getting a pedicure with my sister and then I will go back to school on Monday and start over the same week again. Then on Memorial weekend I will be staying at Westgate Lake Resort and Spa with my family and my sister's finance's family that way we can get family bonding time. We will be staying there Friday; I won’t be coming to school on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. But we will be leaving on Monday night. On Saturday we will be going to Aquatica. All my weekend and weeks for the next two weeks will be completely full and I will have like no time to relax.

05/17/10

This upcoming week I have quite a bit of things to do that I need to successfully finish. First, today Monday, I have to go to tutoring for math during my lunch hour. Then, after school I have to go to football practice till about 6 or 7 then I have to go home and do plenty of homework. I have to finish my DNA test corrections for Mrs. King’s class and then I have to start on Mrs. Schaffer’s 3 book reports. I also have to do more for my book work for Mr. Alves because it is due Tuesday. Then I have to do some math homework and some extra credit for my D in Spanish. Then I’m going to go to bed and start over my whole Tuesday. On Tuesday once again I have to go to tutoring for math because i have a 55% in that class. I also have to do more on Mrs. Schaffer’s 3 book report projects. Then off to football practice once again.

On Wednesday, I have to do the same thing over again but I will be going to Spanish class for lunch instead of going to my math class because I need to average out both of the classes and put in about the same amount of time into each class. I will go to Spanish class and make up a vocabulary test and a grammar test. These test I failed and I need to re-take. Then I have to go to football practice and stand out there until about 7 and then I will go home and do more homework and more of my project. Then Thursday I will be going to math tutoring after school for a little bit and then go to football practice, and on Friday I will go to math tutoring during my lunch hour. This way I put fourth quite a bit of my time for math so I can try and successfully pass it. Then Friday night Alyssa, Vika, Taylor Klein, Jazmin, and I will be going over to Rachael's to spend the night.

While we are over Rachael’s will be pigging out on food that her dad will be making us, he is making hot wings with blue cheese, nachos, pizza, and strawberry cheesecake. Then we will most likely go swimming in her pool then watch a couple of movies. Then on Saturday we will hang out all day then I will be leaving at around 2p.m. to go home and do more on my book reports. This way I will be able to finish my projects with a reasonable amount of time that it is due on June 4th. Then on Sunday I will be getting a pedicure with my sister and then I will go back to school on Monday and start over the same week again. Then on Memorial weekend I will be staying at Westgate Lake Resort and Spa with my family and my sister's finance's family that way we can get family bonding time. We will be staying there Friday; I won’t be coming to school on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. But we will be leaving on Monday night. On Saturday we will be going to Aquatica. All my weekend and weeks for the next two weeks will be completely full and I will have like no time to relax.

05/17/10

This upcoming week I have quite a bit of things to do that I need to successfully finish. First, today Monday, I have to go to tutoring for math during my lunch hour. Then, after school I have to go to football practice till about 6 or 7 then I have to go home and do plenty of homework. I have to finish my DNA test corrections for Mrs. King’s class and then I have to start on Mrs. Schaffer’s 3 book reports. I also have to do more for my book work for Mr. Alves because it is due Tuesday. Then I have to do some math homework and some extra credit for my D in Spanish. Then I’m going to go to bed and start over my whole Tuesday. On Tuesday once again I have to go to tutoring for math because i have a 55% in that class. I also have to do more on Mrs. Schaffer’s 3 book report projects. Then off to football practice once again.

On Wednesday, I have to do the same thing over again but I will be going to Spanish class for lunch instead of going to my math class because I need to average out both of the classes and put in about the same amount of time into each class. I will go to Spanish class and make up a vocabulary test and a grammar test. These test I failed and I need to re-take. Then I have to go to football practice and stand out there until about 7 and then I will go home and do more homework and more of my project. Then Thursday I will be going to math tutoring after school for a little bit and then go to football practice, and on Friday I will go to math tutoring during my lunch hour. This way I put fourth quite a bit of my time for math so I can try and successfully pass it. Then Friday night Alyssa, Vika, Taylor Klein, Jazmin, and I will be going over to Rachael's to spend the night.

While we are over Rachael’s will be pigging out on food that her dad will be making us, he is making hot wings with blue cheese, nachos, pizza, and strawberry cheesecake. Then we will most likely go swimming in her pool then watch a couple of movies. Then on Saturday we will hang out all day then I will be leaving at around 2p.m. to go home and do more on my book reports. This way I will be able to finish my projects with a reasonable amount of time that it is due on June 4th. Then on Sunday I will be getting a pedicure with my sister and then I will go back to school on Monday and start over the same week again. Then on Memorial weekend I will be staying at Westgate Lake Resort and Spa with my family and my sister's finance's family that way we can get family bonding time. We will be staying there Friday; I won’t be coming to school on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. But we will be leaving on Monday night. On Saturday we will be going to Aquatica. All my weekend and weeks for the next two weeks will be completely full and I will have like no time to relax.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

04/20/10

This weekend had a lot of fun times and i did plenty of things to keep me occupied. First, at school on Friday, i had gone to the training room after school and helped Doc out with wrapping people's ankles and wrists and giving them treatment while i was waiting for my ride. Then Alyssa and I decided that it would be fun to go to the movies, so i had gone home to get ready for the movies. But Alyssa told me to invite Jordan, he's a sophomore, and we have been talking for quite some time now, so i invited him to the movies with Alyssa and i to watch "The Last Song." But i had to wait for him to answer me back to tell me if he could go or not because he was having company over. So while i was waiting for him to tell me if he could go or not, i was straightening my hair and doing my make up. So after i was done with that, he texted me telling me that he couldn't go because his company was already over. So it was girls night and we were going to make the best of it.

So when we got to the movies, we went to the ticket booth to pay for "The Last Song", it would be Alyssa's second time to see it already. Then we got into the theater and enjoyed the movie. It is definitely not what people except, everyone thinks that it is a chick flick, and although it is, it has a little twist to it where you may even shed a couple tears. It was really a good movie and then while we were waiting for Alyssa's mom to come pick us up, we decided to waste a little bit of time, we went into K Mart. It was a lot of fun going into K Mart at 9:30 at night. We started throwing footballs around and started dancing with the singing fish! "Give me that fillet fish, give me that fish", it was so funny and we started singing along. Then her mom called and we left and they took me home.

On Saturday, i did basically nothing. I had to do homework for my academy classes so i got started on that and then i watched the new "16 and pregnant" and that was a really good show. Then i texted basically the rest of the day with Jordan, we talked about everything and how we've been friends since the 7Th grade and that its time to start "talking." So my Saturday was not half bad and it actually got better as the night went on. My dad took me out to get some food. We got the yummy Chinese food. Then after eating, i decided to hit the hay.

On Sunday, that was the best out day of my whole weekend. I first got up and just laid around. Then around dinner time, my family came in from Massachusetts and we had a family dinner. It is so fun to talk to them because they have their accents and its really funny to listen to them talk. Then after we were done eating we played the wii for a little bit and then we went to go stay with my other Aunt. Then at around 8, i watched the CMA Awards and it was really good, I'm glad Carrie Underwood one best artist of the year. Then i went to bed. Then i woke up on Monday to come to school and did my work and now its Tuesday and I'm doing my blog.

Monday, April 12, 2010

04/12/10

The article "Martina Navratilova Has Breast Cancer" is about a famous tennis player who has just found out that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The tennis player is a legend and the breast cancer was found early prognosis has said to be excellent. Navratilova had the biopsy in February and it came as a big shock to her, that someone like herself can get breast cancer. The mammogram came back positive for a cluster in her left breast. She was diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma. In Martina's Navratilova's case, was confined to the milk ducts and had not spread to the breast tissue. Navratilova had a lumpectomy and will begin six weeks of radiation therapy in May. Although, she still has breast cancer and doesn't get regular check ups, she still plays tennis and ice hockey.

I chose this article in particular because it really hits home with me. My Aunt has breast cancer and my grandfather also had lung cancer. Cancer is a very scary thing to go through, and it is always better to go through it with someone that you know can be there. The article really brought back some memories and that's why i chose the article. My Aunt is still fighting for her life through radiation therapy and unfortunately my grandfather did not make it through it. So this article about Martina Navratilova really shows that anyone can go through it, and although its tough, you can still do things that make you happy. So, this article really brings back memories, so that's why i chose it.

I believe this article will be interesting to others because not only is it something that everyone should be aware about but also to show that you can get through something like this. Martina Navratilova is a famous tennis player and although she got diagnosed with breast cancer, she still lives her dream of playing tennis and ice hockey. When you go through something as tough as this, its always best to have something in your comfort zone and that's why Navratilova still played tennis.

What others should learn or know after reading this article is that breast cancer is very scary thing to go through, even people like Martina Navratilova go through it. People need to be aware of breast cancer and know about it so that way the world is more educated about it so that way everyone is able to be each others back bone. It is very important for people to know about cancer, it is just something that the world should be aware of and know the slightest thing about.