Lets pretend all is wrong in your life like late bills, girl/boy dumped you, didn’t clean your room because you were lazy, parents are not on the same vibe, etc… Do you ant to know what gets me throught the day during trouble times? Watching funny baby videos…
Yep it works! 100% of the time!
Try watching and tell me your day got better.
Charley Bit my Finger – again
September 12th BC 450, a Greek messenger was sent from the battlefield of Marathon (name of the city) to Athens to report that Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon, which took place in August or September that year. According to the Greek messenger, he ran the entire 42.195km(26.1miles) without stopping.
He exclaimed, “We have won” before he collapsed and died.
In 19th century, the marathon became one of the Olympic events. The marathon is one of my favorite events in Olympics. The most memorable marathon I saw on TV was in the Sydney Olympics in 2000. I was in first grade. An amazing runner from Japan Naoko Takahashi won the first gold medal in marathon. She said,” It was the most enjoyable 42.195km I’ve ever ran.” She smiled and waved at the crowd. Why is she not tired? Didn’t she just run 26 miles? It was very inspirational. I wanted to start running.
Today, many marathon races are held all over the world. I see many people run and train for races.
The marathon is one of those rare events related to history. Marathon is associated with the Ancient Greeks in the name “marathon” and the distance that is run still remains the same.
It’s only the 4th week of school. I have been here for less than 30 days.
IT FEELS LIKE I HAVE BEEN HERE FOREVER! AHHHH!
I love this school, and I especially love the people here. I love being here.
That being said, I REALLY wish that I could just take a break.
I know I am speaking for not just myself, but also a lot of my fellow classmates when I say THIS WORKLOAD IS STRESSFUL!
Never in my entire high school career have I worked as hard as I have worked this year. I even dropped a class because I realized that I would not be able to handle it. And still, every night, even on the weekends, I find myself working for hours on end and still not feeling satisfied with some of my work. I thought Friday and Saturday nights were for relaxing… Maybe I’m just crazy.
I know all of the teachers here really care about the students and really want them to learn. I am so thankful for that. I have learned a lot from every teacher I have had at this school. But being a good teacher and helping students learn does not mean assigning homework every night, even on the weekends, and assigning huge essays and projects with minimal time to complete them.
All of these homework assignments just keep building up and I cannot seem to find a way to escape. Even if I am proactive and do my homework days in advance before it is due, thinking this will help me manage my time better, I am always assigned something else.
I will be honest, I do know a lot of students – and even some of my close friends – slack off a lot and procrastinate. And once in a while, I do the same. But it is only because I can never catch a break otherwise. Whenever I have free time, I use it to sleep, catch up with my friends from home, call my parents, or watch a movie. Is it too much to ask to not have a homework overload every once in a while?
I wish teachers could see it from our perspective. Some of them don’t take into consideration that we all have at least 4 or 5 other classes to deal with each day and night. It becomes really overwhelming for us!
I am so stressed out. But, nothing I can do about it… except more homework!
Fashion.
Fashion is like a sin. It’s an art form–a method of self-expression and distinction. It can empower you, release you, bemuse you. Fashion is meant to mesmerize and provoke. It’s wonderful. But it also comes at a price.
Now by price, I mean two things.
Lets begin with the literal meaning:
Take a look at this Hermes Birkin Bag. It’s the most expensive bag in the world. It’s diamond encrusted (a whopping 2,182 shiny ones) and one of a kind. Now, does this handbag look like its worth $1.6 million?
Some might say yes.
Now, here’s fashion at a price…again:
This is not beautiful. This isn’t even human. Regardless, many models strive to be skinny and suffer a disease called anorexia. Research states that up to 40% of models may have eatings disorders.
Why do people pay the price? It’s all in the name of fashion. Fabulous, glamorous, sinful fashion taken too far.
NOW TO END ON A HAPPIER (catchier) NOTE:
After a week of OVS, the weekend is a much-needed reprieve. With multiple AP classes, being a senior and just being a teenager, life is quite exhausting.
So when that Friday ‘bell’ rings, its time to kick back and enjoy some….male gratuitous violence??
Yeah so for all the guys out there, here is a good list of things to do to get that ‘fix’
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops. When playing COD the best option is always zombies. Being placed in some form of derelict environment with hundreds of brain craving undead after you and the only defense a plethora of automatic weapons. OH YEAH that’ll do it.
2. ANY RACING GAME. Well when you have the option of crashing a 2.5 million dollar Bugati Veyron into an on-coming Aston-Martin at 250 miles an hour, seriously what could be more fun. Or perhaps drifting a Ferrari 458 Italia around a 180 degree turn.
3. But my personal favorite and the highlight of my weekend, was watching the Expendables movie. Well really any movie with Sylvester Stalone or Jason Stathan is a true adrenaline pumping man’s movie. The Expendables movie, though, has both, plus a number of other action-super stars. With little plot line to speak of, there is really only one thing that the movie has going for it, lots and lots and lots of gratuitous violence.
One thing everyone in my family can agree on is that we love the tropics. However, I’m pretty sure that I love them more than everyone else. Whenever someone suggests something like, “Our next trip should be to Italy” or “Let’s go see the Louvre,” or even, “I think Spain sounds fun,” I say, “Nah…I’d rather go swimming.” Clear warm waters and tropical plants are unmatched by anything society has to offer.
We took a trip to Costa Rica in 2005. Our flight was altered due to fog covering the runway in San José, so we headed south to Panama City. The airline booked us into the Continental Hotel at around 11:30 p.m. It was a smoking hotel and I found myself hacking every few minutes.
The next day we flew back into San José and took a private bus to the coastal town of Manuel Antonio. Our bus driver, Jerry, was very tolerant of the 5 noisy kids in his vehicle and even let us eat lychee fruits in the back seats. As I recall, we sang at a deafening volume for close to 5 hours.
The house we stayed in was in the jungle, but just a short 4 minute walk to the beach. When I stepped outside it was foggy and cool but the sky was beautiful, serene.
Gosh it’s good to be back in the blog world and the non-alcoholic Thanksgiving after party that is Mr. Alvarez’s Journalism class. Do tell! How is it going so far? I’m sure you are all enjoying it. If I remember correctly Journalism was always like a big birthday party with desks and a big white board. Unfortunately, there was no cake.
But, who needs cake when you have a teacher like Mr. A? Yeah okay, so he doesn’t have sprinkles and fire cracker candles on his head and he doesn’t walk into the classroom covered in vanilla frosting…he doesn’t right? Anyway, if he were to be covered in frosting it would be chocolate flavored, not vanilla, because everybody knows that a brown guy can’t hide beneath his frosty vanilla coating.
Okay, okay. I’m done ragging on the teacher. (Evan Cooper, you’re next!) But take what I’m about to say to heart; I don’t know any of the new teachers at OVS, but what I do know is that Mr. A, regardless of how great they are, will always be number one in my eyes. He is absolutely one of the greatest teachers and one of the greatest people (persons?) I have ever had the pleasure to learn from. I’m not even really sure if that was proper grammar. But, thankfully he wasn’t my English teacher so you’re off the hook for any mistakes I make Mr. Alvarez. You all should know that I’m proud to have been his student and so should you. Hope you guys have an amazing year. Enjoy it and take advantage of what they teach you. And absolutely absolutely absolutely ABSOLUTELY do not take it for granted because it’s going to be the best high school experience of your lives. Be well. Have fun. Don’t be late to class.
– Maddie
One of my best friend is Jewish, and in his opinion, Palestine should never be a country.
This sentiment is a common one, especially in the Jewish community. But the real question from my point of view is whether creating a separate nation will solve the problems between Israel and the Palestinian nations and whether the US needs to get involved.
“The Obama policy of moral equivalency, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insult. There is no middle ground between our allies and those who seek their destruction,” said Rick Perry.
This is the utter ignorance that is being said at the moment. Perry seems to almost suggest that Palestinians are lesser people than Israelis.
I think that creating a new Palestinian state may in fact be a solution to the ongoing problem, or at least a short-term solution.
I highly doubt that as long as Israelis border Arabic nations, peace can be attained. There was not the foresight required when Israel was created.
According to the Obama administration, the best thing that can be done would be to continue negotiations to achieve peace. I doubt that any long-term peace can be achieved at this point but the worry is that if the US leans to far one way or the other, they will face the wrath of one of the sides.
We don’t need another war or another “conflict”. What we need is to focus on world peace and world hunger and our own economy. This may sound like an answer from a Miss Universe contestant but at this point, I feel that we do not need to be involved.
We can encourage negotiations and discourage violence, but now is the time where we step back and let them work. They have politicians and negotiators just like us, they also do posses common sense.
Hopefully both sides can overcome their historical debates and realize that, for humanity’s sake, the violence and arguments need to end.
After spending a couple of hours watching YouTube videos of NCAA mens volleyball I realized that I am missing out on a sport I would truly love to play at a competitive level. Women’s NCAA volleyball is awesome to watch. The girls playing are really strong and able to hit at fast speeds and keep a game exciting and competitive. Mens NCAA volleyball on the other hand is unbelievable. Everything they do during the game is led by skill and composed of power and precision.
Mens volleyball nets stand at 7 feet 11 and a half inches tall, being 7 inches taller than women’s volleyball nets, that being because the best professional male volleyball players can jump and be waist-high on their net which would basically be up to their knees on a women’s net.
This sport is beyond intense. I learned that a volleyball can be spiked at speeds up to 70 MPH. Attempting to bump that ball back into the air after having it spiked down at those speeds is incredibly hard.
Leonel Marshall, a Cuban volleyball player who is ranked number 7 in the Vertical jump World Records who during a volleyball match versus Brazil had a vertical jump for a spike of 50 inches.
I would love it if OVS would allow us to have a men’s volleyball team.
Today, Saturday the 24th, was the first OVS football game. Twenty plus guys and one girl went out and fought valiantly against East Valley.
It was quite a game, and more than a few times I found myself yelling and jumping up and down as OVS players ran the ball up and down the field.
It was quite a good turnout as well, with many OVS Upper students coming down as well as many Lower School students and faculty. I came to the game with my dad and we brought our lunches, and had a nice afternoon watching testosterone brimming boys pummel each other.
In the end, though, the mighty Spuds were defeated. There defeat was in no part a lack of heart or effort on the OVS team. The sweat was visibly dripping down their faces and soaking their clothes yet they never relented. The “OVS Champions” came out the second half and really stepped it up. A real scramble at every play OVS made East valley work for every inch or ground gained.
As OVS is a very young team, this was the first game for many player. Even with the clear ‘green’ of the team, they did not lack heart what-so-ever. Many of East Valley’s touchdowns were scored merely off of errors on OVS’ part that, with the continued diligence of coaching staff, will soon be corrected, and OVS football will be a force to be reckoned with.
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