Fa La La La La

As the Holidays are approaching us it seems as if people are in a whole new mood; some people are more cheerful, stressed or just cranky. What really gets on my nerves is the whole New Year holiday. Every New Year everyone says the same thing, how they’re going to change for the better, how they’re going to give something up, blah blah blah.  In my opinion, five out of twenty people will actually change. This Christmas and New Year is a chance to look back on our past year(s) and realize what we’ve accomplished. This past year has been the toughest year in my life. My family and I have gone through some struggles and it seemed like they were never ending, it was just tragedy after tragedy. One thing that I learned going through all of this is that, it should take a “new year” in order for a person to change. If you really need to change you will, but you are who you are for a specific reason. Honestly, if you don’t like something about yourself then fix it, you shouldn’t have a specific time to do it and you don’t have to broadcast it to the rest of the world, just do it. Also, Christmas is all about the presents to almost every kid/teenager in the world. I’ll admit, my Christmas list has been made and given to my Mom and it may or may not be almost two pages; but it’s not the point. We all do it because we all want stuff that we might not deserve. The point is, Christmas and Thanksgiving isn’t about what we get out of it, and it’s a time for realization of what we have and how thankful we are for everything. Our society today is so different from how it’s ever been before, people are beyond selfish. All I’m trying to say is that, people need to be more thankful and open their eyes to the real world sometimes. That’s all.

An Interview With The One and Only, Shannon Purdy

I had the chance to interview our very own, Shannon Nicole Purdy! Shannon was born on January 13^th; she’ll be turning seventeen this upcoming year. Our interview started off a bit interesting because we were so unsure of what to ask one another. Shannon doesn’t have a favorite store; she can usually find something anywhere, pretty easily. She well never buy a pair of ninety dollar pair of shoes or over unless they are “amazing.” Her favorite restaurant and place is Dave and Buster’s because she loves the games and fried/popcorn shrimp. She doesn’t watch a lot of Christmas movies but she sticks to the classics with Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer being her favorite. The farthest place Shannon has ever traveled was Virginia Beach; she loved the shopping on the boardwalk because it’s so different from here. If she could own any kind of vehicle, she would want a motorcycle “a really fast one too!”  This year for Christmas Shannon asked for a camera, a jewelry box, and a lamp that looks like a chandelier but stands. Shannon’s favorite actor is Johnny Depp, she finds him very attractive and her favorite movie is Lovely Bones.  She doesn’t like a lot of sports but she plays tennis and really likes it, she wants to continue to play it her following years of high school. Shannon likes music, her favorite band as of right now is Flyleaf. She doesn’t enjoy country too much besides a couple songs by Taylor Swift.  She doesn’t like Justin Bieber, sadly and she’s never listened to his Christmas cs.  She has NEVER listened to Larrabe but she is now aware of their show on December 23^rd at club infinity! If she had the opportunity to live wherever she wanted, she would pick Paris. Shannon also figured out that she has some relation so French Royalty. She’s never had the chance to go to Disney World but she said as soon as she has enough money for it, that’s the first place she wants to go; even if she’s twenty years old, she doesn’t care. Her favorite Disney Princess is Bell! Shannon’s favorite thing to do is read and write. Shannon enjoys reading about all genres besides historical fiction. One thing that Shannon and I found we had in common is that we both love the TV. show Awkward, we’re both excited to watch the new upcoming season that starts in January. Last and final note that I established with interviewing Shannon is that she hates pink tie’s... especially on Mr. Currin. I’m really glad that I got the chance to interview Shannon and get to know her, it was a very nice opportunity!

An Interview With The One and Only, Shannon Purdy

I had the chance to interview our very own, Shannon Nicole Purdy! Shannon was born on January 13^th; she’ll be turning seventeen this upcoming year. Our interview started off a bit interesting because we were so unsure of what to ask one another. Shannon doesn’t have a favorite store; she can usually find something anywhere, pretty easily. She well never buy a pair of ninety dollar pair of shoes or over unless they are “amazing.” Her favorite restaurant and place is Dave and Buster’s because she loves the games and fried/popcorn shrimp. She doesn’t watch a lot of Christmas movies but she sticks to the classics with Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer being her favorite. The farthest place Shannon has ever traveled was Virginia Beach; she loved the shopping on the boardwalk because it’s so different from here. If she could own any kind of vehicle, she would want a motorcycle “a really fast one too!”  This year for Christmas Shannon asked for a camera, a jewelry box, and a lamp that looks like a chandelier but stands. Shannon’s favorite actor is Johnny Depp, she finds him very attractive and her favorite movie is Lovely Bones.  She doesn’t like a lot of sports but she plays tennis and really likes it, she wants to continue to play it her following years of high school. Shannon likes music, her favorite band as of right now is Flyleaf. She doesn’t enjoy country too much besides a couple songs by Taylor Swift.  She doesn’t like Justin Bieber, sadly and she’s never listened to his Christmas cs.  She has NEVER listened to Larrabe but she is now aware of their show on December 23^rd at club infinity! If she had the opportunity to live wherever she wanted, she would pick Paris. Shannon also figured out that she has some relation so French Royalty. She’s never had the chance to go to Disney World but she said as soon as she has enough money for it, that’s the first place she wants to go; even if she’s twenty years old, she doesn’t care. Her favorite Disney Princess is Bell! Shannon’s favorite thing to do is read and write. Shannon enjoys reading about all genres besides historical fiction. One thing that Shannon and I found we had in common is that we both love the TV. show Awkward, we’re both excited to watch the new upcoming season that starts in January. Last and final note that I established with interviewing Shannon is that she hates pink tie’s... especially on Mr. Currin. I’m really glad that I got the chance to interview Shannon and get to know it, it was a very nice opportunity!

What It's Like To Be A Flapper!

I would love to be able to go back into the time of the late 1950s to early 1960. In the fifties if you had a television, you would be considered the luckiest kid on the block. Even though at the beginning they only had a few shows, anything would be fun. In 1956 some scientists did a study on how much kids ages 10-16 watched television.  The results showed that an average kid watched six hours of television a day which was equal to how long they went to school every day, that’s completely different from today’s rating. Television was just one of the new technologies. In 1950 Paper Mate made its first leak free ball point pen. The first copy machine was made 1950, also.  The Chevrolet Corvette became the first car to have an all-fiberglass body in 1953. In 1955 Disneyland opened for business in California; I imagine that that opening was huge, today kids still are excited to go to Disney World but back then I’m sure not even half of the kids that go today went back then.  Fashion during the 1960s didn't start out with colorful clothes. They were dully designed and looked better on older people, most would say. Then little shops called boutiques opened selling cheap and colorful clothing for younger people. During the decade, women started wearing miniskirts, leather boots and fake eyelashes. Men wore Paisley shirts, velvet trousers and high collared Regency jackets. Men also began to wear their hair long.  The “younger generation”, known as the roaring twenties! In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks, she was a flapper. The term "flapper" first appeared in Great Britain after World War I. It was there used to describe young girls, still somewhat awkward in movement who had not yet entered womanhood. It’s amazing how much different our generation is now from what it used to be “back in the day.”

To Change The World!

In our world today there are many problems that we and others face. The first thing that I would do to change the world for the better is to get people more involved. There are many unknown problems that exist and could exist in the world, people need to open their eyes and realize that they could make a difference.  Our world is extremely polluted, it’s ruining the air we breathe and in our future it’s going to lead to treacherous dangers.  Also on a serious note, I think that when you reach a certain age, maybe between fifty five and sixty years old it should be required to re-take a road-test.  No offense to the elders but most can’t drive. How many of them have crashed into buildings? How many other people have gotten hurt because of their “accidents?” These “accidents” can easily be avoided; needless to say… if you can’t see then you shouldn’t be driving a car. I also think our government should do more for the less fortunate. I think it’s ridiculous how we can pay sports teams an unnecessary amount of money when half of them sit the bench. There are tons of people living on streets, working everyday all day to fend for themselves because they don’t have the things that others do. People do make mistakes and end up on the wrong path but it’s not like there isn’t anything we can do to tell those people. There is so many more places that our taxes and money can go besides to sports teams, we can live without them. People die every day when we can do something to stop that from happening. If we look back into the early to mid-1990s, our world was almost the opposite from what it is today. We base our money and lives into technology. If we all had to grow up not having half of the things we had to do, we wouldn’t be so ungrateful and we would all realize how lucky we are to have what we have.  

Read It And Weap!

As Mr. Currin tends to share his “hilarious” stories with us from time to time he often leaves out the funniest ones, the ones we wouldn’t forget.  I’m Mr. Currin’s TA (teacher assistant) every other day, block two and I’ve come to find out a lot of Mr. Currin.  One, he doesn’t clean his room; I can’t even tell you what the color of his desk is because I’ve never seen it.  I’ve come to know that Mr. Currin enjoys listening to The Beatles and Coldplay. If you didn’t know, Mr. Currin is the coach for the girls modified basketball team in the middle school, they just won another game! Anyways, I was in his room today with Domenic Brotz, Mason Lambert, and Mrs. Gramza, I was working on my blogs when Mr. Currin decided to share yet another “amazing” story. He said that he always would send letters to different sport teams. He would write to the teams and put the letters in an envelope, his Mom worked at the post office so she would send it out for him. He would later receive a letter back (so he says) and it would say “Dear Fan” but Mr. Currin tried to convince us that sometimes they said “Dear Robert”... (doubtful) so at first when I was hearing all this I was thinking that it was pretty cool, a lot of kids still do it today. But here comes the weird part, he would save all these letters he would receive and pile them up and go through them pretending that all the sports teams were asking him to play for their team. To Mr. Currin these were no long fan letters; they were acceptations/invitations for him to play on their team.  Ladies and gentlemen this is in fact a true story about our very own, Rob Currin… You’re welcome.

Facebook...

Almost every person in this world today has a Facebook or knows what Facebook is, I just wanted to write this blog to tell everyone how annoying it’s getting. I don’t even think its Facebook itself, I think it’s the people that are using it. First the weather, when the first snowfall falls in Buffalo we’re all excited but we’re used to it because Buffalo is known for a lot of snow, it’s not a big surprise. This morning we we’re supposed to receive six to eight inches of snow and we didn’t. I made the mistake of going on Facebook this morning and looking through my newsfeed and all I continued to see was “snow” “omg it’s snowing!” “Let the snowboarding begin”... I actually liked that one but anyways “I hate snow” “snow puts me in a bad mood.” Can I just say that one, we are all more than capable of going to our window or walking outside and seeing that it’s snowing out.  Two, we are all aware that in winter people snowboard and ski, we know. Three, Facebook is not a diary if you weren’t aware, not to be rude but chances are, no one cares what your opinion is on the snow. People on Facebook constantly post novels for a status and half the time, no one reads them because no one cares! Also, people must think Facebook is a photo website because yes, seeing five or more different pictures of you every day is what I like going on Facebook and seeing. Have a couple pictures and that’s it, there’s no need to post 20 pictures of yourself in one week, we all know what you look like. Another thing is, stop googling and stealing other people’s status’ just to get likes. The reason Facebook started was to connect with others, not all this stuff! Finally, there is absolutely no reason to have 2,000+ friends. I’m almost positive that you don’t know 2,000 or more people so why are you friends with them? Facebook is and will never be turned into EHarmony so stop with the statuses about how you’re single, how you want a boyfriend for the Holidays, just stop. That’s all.

Snowball 2K10

Once upon a time, there was an Alden Snowball 2010,junior year. My friends and I all got ready at Brianna Harris’s house. We took tons of pictures; I wasn’t about to challenge myself and attempt to wear heels to a high school dance so of course I was wearing flip flops. We went to the dance and it was really fun, nothing to exciting. It was freezing out and there was like eight inches of snow on the ground. Afterwards all the girls wanted to sleep at my house so my Dad picked us up from the dance but our stuff was still at Brianna’s so we drove back to her house. I was the first one out of the house but all the girls were right behind me. Mind you, Brianna’s drive way was a bit steep.. a slope if you will. Anyways, I was still in flip flops and my dress and was walking to the truck and I grabbed the door handle and I slid, my legs literally shot up and I flew down so hard. I was unaware of the giant piece of ice under the truck door.. So everyone is trying not to cry from laughter and I’m lying in a driveway in a dress covered in snow. I was laughing but I stopped when I realized that there was something in my hand. The door handle that you pull out to open the door was in my hand. My Dad was laughing so hard that he rolled down the window.. which did nothing because he couldn't stop laughing. I then crawled up the side of the truck to try and get up and he literally had tears coming down his face. As soon as I held up the door handle.. all laughter came to an end for my Dad. This is a memory that will never be forgotten, this might be a pointless blog to anyone reading this, besides Brianna Harris. It might come off as a “you had to be there” kind of moments but allow me to inform you that it was hilarious.

Welcome To Winter..

Winter is officially here with this snow coming and going. This is the time of year where all the wipeouts occur; meaning, Devyn Woelfle constantly falls on her face. For example, this morning I went outside and started miserably brushing my car off and it was really cold so I was trying to hurry. I was wiping the front wind shield and I was leaning over and lost balance and I first dove first into my car and my coat was covered with snow, which was awesome. I started swearing to myself because I was so mad and I just looked even more stupid because I was talking to myself. That’s not all though, shortly after I for some unknown reason thought it would be a good idea to really try and hurry and run to the back of my car and I then completely wiped out and looked like I was doing a split in my driveway. I then heard a honk and looked up and a car was slowly passing and by slowly I mean literally sitting in front of my house not being able to contain his laughter. Don’t worry though, about after two minutes of laughter he rolled down his window and attempted to ask me if I was okay and then drove away.. continuing to laugh.  So my pants were soaked so I ran in the house.. almost falling again and I woke in the door and look to my left and see my mom practically on the floor laughing hysterically because she saw the entire thing. I finally got re-dressed and is in my car driving to school and this was about ten minutes after this whole occurrence happened and my mom was calling me so I answered and all I hear is her continuing to laugh. Welcome to Winter.

I wish I wish I wish!

A wish to me is a hope or desire for something. I could wish for a lot but I feel like if I really got the opportunity to wish for something, I would wish for things that were only for me as bad as that sounds. Like the first that comes to mind when someone says “make a wish” is usually something that you probably want at that moment. My first wish would be not to have to wish for anything; that life would just be easy and everyone could have what they wanted and deserved and be content. I know that life isn’t easy and it’s good for everyone to struggle at certain times but people go through problems that they shouldn’t have to. My second wish would be to have the ability to read others minds. Life is full of two-faced people and backstabbers, its stressful putting so much trust into a person only to have it backfire against you and only cause more problems for yourself in the end. I wish I could know what people were actually thinking and not just saying, because there’s a good chance that they are two completely different things.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion but they never say what they really want to, which don’t get me wrong, it’s probably a good thing because if everyone actually said what they wanted to, this world would probably be a lot worse than it already is. My final wish would be to know that I’m going to be successful in my future. Most people know what they would like to do but people are constantly changing their minds and things are set in stone, ever.  I would like to know what my future has in store for me. What my career will be, where I’m going to live, who I’m going to marry, everything. Life is all about waiting but if I had the chance to know, I would love to.

Yehaw!

World music is made up of many different genres and styles. Every culture has their own indigenous music, and modern world music often blends these genres with electronic sounds. Country Music has been associated with cowboy hats and boots. The fact is that apparel has got nothing to do with it. The Music Industry is divided and fractured as to what really the Country Music is. Most people say that, when they hear it, they know its country or it’s not. The relationship is one if hate and love; either fans love it and hate other genres intensely. If you have met some diehard country fans, you will notice, they will always find a way to hear it, no matter what state country radio currently finds itself in. Country Music has an association also, the Country Music Association (CMA), founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee.  The one thing that bothers me most about country music is that it can fall under other genres other than country. Taylor Swift started country and is still considered to be “country” but she’s played on more than just country stations. In my opinion, country music has definitely changed from what it used to be, we now have rap in our country songs, etc. Also, when people complain about country, their usually complaining on how “slow moving and depressing” the songs come off as. Although, country music is so much more than slow and depressing, I don’t think enough people give a chance to the country genre. All country music is different starting from Taylor Swift to Alan Jackson.; there’s just a different rhythm to each artist’s taste. This blog was one of the harder ones to write about because I have a strong passion for music; my foot will tap to any kind of beat. If I had to narrow it down to one genre though, I think I would pick country over anything else!