4 more days to go

     I am here to write about the last four days of school. These right now seem like the longest days of school that I have ever faced. The minutes just keep dragging on and on and on and on and on and on. I think you get the idea.
     I can not wait for summer break to start for three reasons. Reason numero uno, I can finally sleep in past 6:30 am. I absolutley hate getting up early and school definatley does not help me get my beauty sleep and trust me I need it.
     Reason numero dos I will finally be able to start working out and lifting weights with my buddies. We have been telling each other that we were going to start to work out, but our schedules with school and all of our activities hindered us from being able too. Also the weightlifting will also help me prepare for next wrestling season.
     Reason numero tres I will finally be able to go to open mats and work on my technique and the areas of wrestling that I am lacking in.  I can not wait for this. I want to be the best and there is so many things that I must improve on if I ever want to be on the top of the podium at the end of the year. I can not wait to see how much I will be able to push myself to fix my flaws that I have. I know it will be difficult and I know it will take time and determination, but I will achieve this goal, no matter what.

  
     I can not wait for summer to be here. I will be able to do what I love to do almost everyday and I will be able to hang out with some good friends that I have just met recently. I also can not wait to get involved in some community service projects that I and a group of friends are creating. All in all this summer will be great, the only problem that I have is there is four more days of school left to go. Wish me luck and until next time bonvoyage.

End of the Year Blues

     The absolute worst time of the year has to be the end of the year, especially when you get your teachers who think it is very appropriate to add on unbearable amounts of work.  This to me is very retarded, why would you simply give an excess of work at the end of the year simply because it is the end of the year. Why in the world does this make sense, to me it makes more sense to give more homework during the middle of the year or when there is a good point in it.
     All this extra cramming of extra work into the last few weeks just adds stress to young students lives and definatly makes their lives miserable. As it is making mine. The cramming of work teaches and does nothing and just creates un-necessary stress. Also seriously do these teachers really expect us to remember what the main idea of these last minute projects, if they do there is probably something seriously wrong with them, just saying.
   I am definatly no teacher, but I wish these teachers would listen to us students and try to make the last weeks of school not as stressful as they are at the moment. These are our prime years, we should be able to enjoy our lives and have fun.  I am not saying school should be stressfree, because if it was we would never learn anything because there would be no need to. I like the stress of school, because it allows me to do work and makes me want to accomplish my goals. The idea I am getting at is that too much stress is good for nobody, and we should try to limit the amount of stress we get at the end of the year.  Less stress equals better success.

Changes throughout the year

    Wow this year has flown by. It seems that just weeks ago I was starting my sophomore year with all my hopes and dreams of making this a great year still intact.
    Sadly, throughout this year I have gone through many changes. Most of these changes have been mental, seeing as how I have not grown that much.  I have experienced, pain, lose, depression and many other emotions. I also have felt great pride and joy in myself and in many of my accomplishments. I went undefeated in my regular season in wrestling, I have had all A's throughout the course of this year, and I have been to a leadership camp that is in the process of changing my life forever.
     I feel that this sophomore year that I am just about to finish has been so much more difficult than my freshman year. The work load has had a definite increase and the overall challenge of keeping up with the workload has also been very difficult.  I mean I know these teachers are trying to do their jobs, but I do have other major events going on in my life. Also this year I have experienced what it feels like to have work overload, I classify work overload as when you have a teacher who gives you an insane amount of work one week and then also gives you a major assignment.  This is not cool and I wish it did not happen but it sadly does.
    I have gone through many changes this year, many I have yet to found out and many that I know. Sophomore year is what I believe helps direct a young adults schooling and how they carry what they know over to college. I feel that the better the experiences, academically, they have in school will either decide whether or not they go to college or not. Sadly some kids have had bad experiences and decide to not attend college, but for me college seems to be my only place I could ever plan on going after high school.

    

Tennesse

    This year the band was fortunate enough to go to Gatlinburg Tennesse. I for one love Tennesse and I mainly love it for it beautiful and rustic landscape.  Yes, you may say that Gatlinburg is mainly a tourist attraction with outrageous stores, but what I love about Gatlinburg is being able to go into the natural park and experience nature in its raw beauty.  Sadly we were only in the park for about a half day, I really wish we would of been able to stay in the park for a few days, but I am still glad we were able to experience the natural beauty of the Smokey Mountains Natural Park.
    I love being in nature. I one day am hoping to go back to Gatlinburg and just spend a few weeks hiking through the trails in the mountain. I just think this would be an amazing experience and would allow me to see nature for what it really is.  I just want to be able to emmerse myself in the rugedness of the land and go through the challenges of actually climbing a mountain. I really would like to do this sometime soon, and am hopefully going to see if I can accomplish this in the next few years.
    Also while in Gatlinburg while we were travaling through park we passed a man on his bike who was riding up the mountain to the highest peak.  We had just gotten to the top of Clingmans dome when this man rode his bike up the last 50 feet to the top of the dome.  This man had taken about two and a half hours to climb the mountain by bike(it took us about an hour to get there on a bus) this to me seemed an amazing feat.

    If this man can ride his bike up a mountain then why can I not climb a mountain one day?  This really inspired me to pursue my dreams and what I want to do. I know one day no matter what I will come back to the Smokey Mountains and climb a mountain no matter what. I guess you could say this is sorta on my bucket list.

Track season

      So now is the time of track and field.  Yes it is one of the  most boringest sports to ever exist, but it is great to stay in shape and also a great way to hang out with friends.  Track does involve a lot of running, but seeing as how I love physical activity the running part does not really affect me. Track is also a great way to make new friends with new people and is a great way to get out of your shell if you are a shy person.  Also everyone can participate in track, you do not have to be some amazing athlete to do track.  Track is a fun sport and everyone basically has their own event that they can participate in that they can be successfull and have fun in.
     Track for me basically is my way of staying in shape during the off season.  I like multitraining and in the end it helps me stay in top physical shape throughout the course of most of the year.  In track I do distance, this means that during track meets and invitationals I usually run the 1600 meter race and the 800 meter race.  Distance for me is a perfect match because I can really run for hours at a time.  The only difference is that for distance in track I have to make certain times so I can have a successful season and so I can make new personal records for myself. 
     That is also another thing about track, in track you do not need to have the fastest time to be happy because when you make new records for yourself you will feel good about yourself and your work effort.  In track the more successful you are depends on what you put in, just like every other sport.  If you want to be good at track then you need to train hard, so one day you can hopefully achieve your dreams and accomplish all of your goals you have.  Trac.k is a sport where everyone can be excited and break records even if they are their own personal records, they still will make you feel good about yourself.

spring break blues

     By far the worst part about spring break is the day before you come back to school.  By this time your body has grown use to being able to sleep in untill twelve and being able to stay up all night.  You are use to having no deadlines and not having to do any sort or form of work at all. All in all life is just very peaceful and you are able to relax and forget about the world and its problems
    Then the day before spring break comes along and your perfect eutopia is ruined.  You know you have to get up early and you are suddenly expected to know everything you had learned before you took your little vacation.  You start to anticipate the increased workload and the horrors of going back.  You now will not be able to sleep whenever you want and you will actually have to go to bed at a reasonable hour.  This however is not the worst of the returning of school, the worst part of returning to school by far is the first period of the day because that period just seems to drag on.  The only reason it drags on is because you are not use to being in school and actually have to do work.
     The second worst part of the day is easily the fact that you have adults and rules that must be followed.  The change from basically being able to do what ever you want is now over and now you have to go back to paying attention and following the rules of high school.  We all know that breaks are a good thing, but the only part that sucks about them is the day before you return and the actualy day of return. The anxiety just ruins any fun plans you could have for that day because you will be constantly thinking about going back to school.
     Well these really are my only blues about spring break because over all spring break was a great vacation from school. I hope everyone elses spring break was as relaxing and fun as mine.

Source Code(spoiler Alert)

     I have recently watched this new movie Source Code the other week.  This to me was a very entertaining movie and was very good. The movie has apparantly been getting some very great reviews, and I will add to these good reviews that are already out.
     The movie is very futuristic and is very cool.  The main character is actually a human being who was actually  killed 2 months before he is being used in the movie. In the movie he is actually being kept alive and being put into a passenger of a train who was killled when the train was bombed in a terrorist attack. The memory only lasts 8 minutes so that is how long he has to complete his task. He has been put back into the deceased mans memory so he can figure out who the bomber is so he can prevent future and larger terrorist attacks on the city.  At first when he goes back into the memory he is very confused and does not know his purpose or what is going on.  It takes him a few tries at going back into the mans memory to know what he has to do.  Eachtime he gets closer and closer to finding out who the bomber is.  Eventually he finds out who the bomber is, but he has fallen in love with one of the passengers and wants to save her life.  This complicates things because it is only a memory so the director of the program tells him she is already lost and nothing can save her.  The man does not believe him and begs to be sent back to the memory one last time.  He is luckily sent back and somehow manages to chang the future and prevents his love from being killed.
     This was a very good movie and has a lot of ups and downs.  This would be a very good movie for anyone who likes a good action and suspense movie.