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I think that this upcoming summer is going to be the best one yet.  It’s the summer before I start college and it’s the first time I don’t have to worry about passing grades and exams. This summer I want to go all out and have the best time of my life, one last hoorah before it’s time to grow up. With that being said, I do need and want to grow up a lot this summer. It still hasn’t completely hit me that I’ll be starting college this upcoming fall. I’m looking forward to this summer because my family and I are taking a cruise to Bermuda and three weeks we get after we get back we’re going to Germany for two weeks. I’m really excited to travel and experience things that I never have before. I hope that traveling to such different places changes my outlook on a lot of things. I would like to change a lot about myself and get more of a positive attitude about myself and life in general. I’ve made a lot of mistakes throughout high school and I’ve been really lazy, I’d like to change all these bad habits and go in with a fresh start. Throughout college there are so many new and different people to meet other people choose to go to class, keep to themselves and go home. Throughout high school now, I tend to keep to myself and try to somewhat focus. I’d like to concentrate on school and do well but also meet a lot of people. This summer I want to make a bucket list of fifty things that I want to do before the end of summer. Every year before summer I always say it’s going to be the best one yet and it never is, this year, it will be.

P5. Selfishness

1.       There’s a lot of people in this world that take things they have and people that they have in their life for granted. I am definitely one of the people that do both of these things. I take my parents for granted so much. My parents have always been there for me doing as much as they can to make me happy. I honestly never realized how much they do for me until I stepped back and actually looked. The worst part of it, I hardly say thank you to either of them. It’s like, AI just expect them to do these things for me because they’re my parents. Looking at the situation now I realize that they don’t have to do any of these things.  I’ll get in a fight with my Mom and I finally realize why she gets so upset and mad about them.  We’ll spend the day together and something will happen that will cause a fight between us. She’ll spend so much money on me and then I’ll get an attitude.  The problem is that in today’s world, money is often buying people’s happiness. Although, there’s so many people that I would do so much for. Most people just expect it though, that’s what I hate.  For example, my friend said that he had to work on his Birthday and I felt bad because he was upset that he had to. I drove to his work with balloons and a card to make his work day a little better and when I got there to give to him, he didn’t even say thank you; he just expected it. It’s not something he should have expected because I was surprising myself by doing it. It’s just ridiculous how unthankful people are. By doing things for others, I realize that I’m putting myself in my parents’ shoes; this is how I make them feel. It may be a little different but it’s an awful feeling to go out of your way for someone and not even receive a thank you. People are really selfish and self-centered; I know that I am definitely like this and I’ve never wanted to change more.

P4. Times Are Changing

      For this blog, I wanted to write about how the present generation and the older generations are so different. Generations are different in a lot of ways; such as technology, attitude, communication, careers, and media. Many generations before the present didn’t have cell phones or computers. Technology has and is still increasingly incredibly. It’s hard to believe that people had to live without the technology that we have today. Many people, including myself, depend on my phone and my computer; I couldn’t imagine living without either one. Next, people’s attitudes towards things have differed so much. So many people complain about things that aren’t even worth complaining about. For example, in class a teacher that never gives out homework, hands us a worksheet to do that night; the entire class has to wine and moan about it. I’ve come to notice that the little things don’t make people the happiest anymore. Most people today care about money and about themselves. I think there are a lot more selfish people today than there used to be. Communication is a lot different due to technology. In today’s world, we have Facebook bullying and years ago, if someone had a problem with someone else, they’d settle it face to face. There are positives and negatives to how it is and how it used to be, but it’s just amazing how much has changed. It’s so much harder to get a job these days, whether you’re seventeen or thirty.  Most, if not all decent jobs today require at least 2-4 years of college. Years ago, college wasn’t nearly as important as it seems to be today. Finally, media has completely changed. Television shows use to be mainly cartoons, now almost every show I watch there is some sort of drama, there’s not enough lessons being taught. There’s a lot of media that is persuading people to do things that they shouldn’t; giving situations and examples that is making people try things they shouldn’t. I just think it’s incredible how different the generations are and it’s only getting worse.  

P3. What's More Important?

            I think that I agree with both sides of the stories’ opinions. It is clear that students enjoy having Nicole Weingard as their teacher but is she really doing what she’s supposed to? In some ways, she is but other she’s not. Throughout school I’ve had many teachers that have made class so much fun, other teachers have made it beyond boring, and then there are some that meet right in the middle of the two. I think it’s more important to have a teacher that knows everything thing that there is to know about what they’re teaching. Nicole Weingard made class fun but some of her student’s didn’t get good test results back. It doesn’t matter what grade you’re teaching, grades are more important than how much fun you have in the class. There’s many classes that I would dread going to but when it came to my exams, I couldn’t have thanked my teacher enough because they knew exactly what they were doing and the correct way to teach it for us all to succeed. I’m not saying that the teacher should want to make the class boring, it should be fun but that’s not what it’s all about. Many teachers do both, not every class is fun but it’s not all boring; they split it in half and half. A lot of subjects are hard to make fun with it; some classes you just need to sit there and learn.  Also, teachers don’t always have enough time to teach all the material that they need to. In my position as a student, I would rather have the class be boring but know what I need to in order to do well in the class and on my exams rather than having fun in class and not knowing what I’m doing. I can see people looking into it a little more in the younger grades because there isn’t that much that they’re learning, it’s more about having fun for the younger grades which I understand. But, when it comes to middle school and especially high school, grades and test scores are the most important thing to focus on, not fun.

P2. Change Has Made It's Appearance

      So much has changed for me since September as far as my goals and my accomplishments. I wanted to be so involved and get my grades as high as possible and I have done the opposite. Last year I watched the senior’s become so lazy and I couldn’t understand how or why they were doing it, if anything they should have been growing up and trying hard in order to prepare for college. Now that I’m in the same position they were, with less than two months until graduation, I see exactly where they are coming from. I have no motivation to do any of my work; I can’t take high school seriously anymore.  Once I got accepted to college, I stopped trying because I accomplished everything I needed to; I didn’t think there was any reason to continue to try because it didn’t matter anymore. I did not get involved like I wanted to with clubs and to help out more, but there’s still time to do some of the things that I wanted too. Back in September I was more excited to graduate and now I find myself terrified to do so. I watch my laziness increase towards school day by day and I don’t want this to happen in College. During the school year I’ll have a test and I’ll keep telling myself I’ll study for it but I always find myself finding something better to do instead and when I receive my grade, I know I could have done better but my laziness got in the way. I am finally realizing everything that I’ve done wrong, especially after reading my blog that I wrote from the beginning of the year. Everything I said I wanted to do, I found myself doing the exact opposite. Even though there’s only two months left of school, I want to try to improve my grades and attitude toward school as much as I can. I know I’m going to miss it so much so I need to enjoy as much as I can before it’s gone.

P1. Changes Within The Generation

I use to watch a lot of television and have show’s that I enjoyed watching every night of the week but that has definitely changed for me though. In my opinion, television shows are nowhere near as good as they use to be. I think a lot of shows make too many seasons and people lose interest because it’s the same drama over and over again such as, Jersey Shore and Teen Mom. As of right now, I find myself watching The Voice, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Friends.  I only watch television at night when I’m getting ready for bed, unless it’s Monday because that’s when The Voice is on. In my house, there are six televisions but only four get the most use. There are many negative when it comes to television, especially with younger kids. A lot has changed from when I was younger, television wise. There are so many shows about teen pregnancy and relationships and partially I think that TV. producers aren’t making it as bad as it should be.  There are a lot of shows and movies that show things they definitely shouldn’t and I think it has a lot to do with how much our generation has changed. Also, television causes people to never get up. There are so many kids that come home from school and sit in front of their TV or sit in there room watching TV for hours, they don’t do anything. I don’t think a lot of people are nearly as active as they should be; TV has a lot to do with it. There are positives to television though, there’s a lot to learn from watching certain shows.  In some cases it brings people together, such as family. There have been many times that my entire family gets together to watch a sports game. I would say that there are way more negatives to TV more than there are positives.

O4. A Good Deed Done

1.       Yesterday I went to the mall to pick up my prom dress and as I walking in I noticed the cutes old lady. As I walked closer, I realized that she was crying. There were two other women walking past her but I thought they were with the woman.  I soon realized that this poor old woman was all alone crying. I walked up to her and asked her if she was okay, she tried to answer but I couldn’t understand a word she was saying due to her crying. She finally said that doesn’t remember where she parked, she had been searching for almost an hour and no one would help her. I couldn’t help but hug her and tell her that I would find it for you. She admittedly handed me her keys to go out and find it. I had my friend stay with her to make her feel better and so the woman didn’t think I was about to drive away with her car. I was searching for about thirty minutes outside and finally, I found the park on the opposite side of the mall. I noticed that the car was taking up two parking spots and beyond crooked. I ran back and walked her back but she didn’t think she could walk the entire way and she asked me if I could go get the car and drive it to her.  I went to get the car and when I got back she had a fifty dollar bill in her hand; she wanted to give it to me for helping her. I absolutely could not take the money from this poor old woman. Doing this made me realize how good I have it. There are a lot of people who are by themselves dealing with problems and I always get upset for things that I shouldn’t.