Spring Break!!!

For my spring break, I went to Massanutten, VA and it was a blast! I was able to go skiing for the second time ever in my life, and I was falling pretty hard. Regardless, we went skiing in 70 degree weather, but it was still fun!!! I loved skiing and would definitely do it again in a heartbeat. I just wish I could carve instead of just going straight downhill, but hey, at least I learned how to stop! We rented out a town house for a whole week while we were there, and it had the best view of the mountain. I could not have asked to spend it with better people though; they truly made the trip worth it.

We also played Taboo as well, and all I could think about was Sweeney's class when we play Taboo in there. I always get so competitive when it comes to games, but especially Taboo. I want to win!!!

To sum it all up, my vacation was great, and I had a blast with all my friends. I cannot wait to do it again!

Second Essay

Our second essay for class was on family, and I could really relate to this paper. I have had some problems with my relationship with my father. I am not going to really get into the details of the problems, but I will just say we do not get along that well, but we are working on it. My topic for this paper was on the relationship between a father and his son. It is proven that a father and son and/or a mother and daughter only get along but so much. However, when it comes to a daddy's girl and/or a momma's boy, they get along superbly. I saw that same sex relationships between parents and children do not tend to end so well when it comes to relationships between the two. They tend to fight more, tell each other less, and drive each other away. I do not fully understand why this tends to happen, but it does not happen to everyone; just the majority. I found the only way to bond with my father was through racing and sports in general. That was the best way for us to get along. I love him very much, but I feel like he does not understand where I come from. Everyone tells me that my dad speaks so highly of me, but when it is just me and him, I do not understand what I am doing wrong. I have not really been there for my family lately either, and I think all that is doing is adding fuel to the fire. Needless to say, DO NOT neglect your parents or family. They are what got you to where you are today and without them, you would be nothing.

First Essay

The first essay was on Crime and Punishment, and my subtopic was on drugs in public schools. I felt like it was a necessary topic to talk about considering everything that recently happened with Chesterfield County Public Schools. They now have drug dogs that roam the hallways everyday, and if you suspected of being high, you will be drug tested. First of all, the parents of these students should really pay attention to what they sign at the beginning of the year, because that is an invasion of privacy. The school systems themselves are getting out of hand in general, and it is like they are turning into concentration camps. Second of all, you should not have brought drugs to school in the first place. Deal with that crap outside of school! It's not worth getting written up over.

I was not sure if I should have done my paper on that topic, or if I should have done it on the topic of the death penalty in Texas. I found a lot of information on that as well, but I figured I could relate to this one so I went with it. However, it was a little difficult to extend out into 5 to 6 pages. I was struggling really bad with finding more info on this topic. Other than that, I love my paper on Crime and Punishment. It pretty much summed up how happy I am to not be in high school anymore.

Topic Choices

In class, we talked about what topics we would possibly want to do for our papers, and it was a terrible idea to let us take a majority vote to choose what we are going to write about. Some people in our class have a lot of mixed views and feelings, and we also have the people who could care less about picking topics, because they were going to have to type the papers regardless. I, on the other hand, am satisfied with our topic choices, but I also fell under the 'could care less' group of people. I thought of it as a way of learning new things about some of the topics that I have never wrote about before.

We ended up choosing 'Crime and Punishment, Family, and Pop Culture'. I am OK with these choices and I look forward to writing these papers. Some of the people in my class are not cool with the topics we chose, but those are also the people who never come to class. I have read a couple of people papers on these topics before (just in general, not within our class), and they have given me an inspiration to write the papers now. I have not started on the Family essay yet, but I will be starting on it soon. I enjoy this class and want to get a good grade, but I really need to start focusing more on getting these papers done so I can get the grade what I signed up for....an A.