Elections!

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I agree with Megan when she says her table at the party was the best, we had such a fun time. Anyway, I don’t know about any of you but I’m pretty excited for the elections! This is real history in the making here, a 71 year old man or an African American man.

This Tuesday we had our own little voting polls and the final results were very close. 51% of the UC community voted Obama making 49% vote for McCain. This just shows how close the elections are going to be. The debating has gotten to be ridiculous. On my face book I put my status as McCain 08 and everyone started debating saying who they wanted to win and reasons why, I must have about 50 comments. No one can tell you who to vote for and I hope no one does. All I know is that Tuesday night is going to be a super nerve racking night.

It was easy getting into the political spirit because in US history we had to do a project on each candidate. Did you know McCain has 7 kids?!?! Or that Obama grew up dirt poor? I’ve definitely benefited from this project! It is nice feeling informed about the candidates! Who will be our next president???

If you could vote, who would you vote for?

Sweet 16's and HSM3!

This year is the year for sweet 16s. It is the party for a girl coming of age, a night when she wears a beautiful dress, dances with her family and friends, and gives out her candles to the most important people in her life. It is a huge night for her.
This past weekend, I attended my first sweet 16 party for my friend Colleen. Everyone looked amazing, especially Colleen. We were assigned seats and my table was the best. She did her candles and we danced all night. She looked so happy, and everyone had a great time. After that night, I was so in the mood for another one. I talked to my mom and decided to have a sweet 16 myself. Although many months in advanced, I started thinking and planning.

Also, this weekend High School Musical 3 came out. I love the series, so I was so ecstatic when this one came out. I went opening night with my friend Michelle, and we knew almost every song. Sitting in a theater filled with kids and parents, we awaited excitedly for the movie to start. We sang loudly, said “aww” at the appropriate times, and cheered when it was over. There are a ton of other kids my own age who like High School Musical to my surprise, so don’t feel like it is too young for you, because it totally isn’t!

We won against woodbridge! And more =)

Oh I forgot to tell you guys, we won against Woodbridge! I was so happy and I scored that game too.

So anyway this Friday my friends and I are going to a corn maze. This maze is huge! It’s supposed to take two to three hours and we are doing it in the dark. If you don’t know what a corn maze is, it is a maze that is made out of corn, they are only found in the fall. I can’t wait! I am so excited, two more days! Sophomore year has proven to be a lot of work and today was a horrible day! Have you ever blanked out during a test? That’s what I did = (. I studied two hours for my accelerated US history test I was so ready and then when I started taking it, I drew a blank. I’ve done that in the past and I am so scared it is going to start happen more often, I hope not. Other than that everything has been going great! Report cards are coming soon and I am not that scared. I hope you all are doing well

Work and Eastern State Penitentiary

On Saturday morning, I had my first day at my new job. I was nervous, but did a pretty well. I now work at Jersey Mike’s Subs and I love it. Having a job is a big responsibility. Along with maintaining the job at this age, you need to keep your grades up and should not get too stressed out.
After my shift at Jersey Mike’s, I went to the Eastern State Penitentiary – Terror Behind the Walls in Philadelphia with my boyfriend and his family at night. It is the number 1 scariest haunted house in the country, and number 7 in the world. I do not handle scary easily, so knowing it was top 10 just made me completely petrified before we even got there.
The drive was 2 hours and there were about 17 of us. We got there around 7:30, and went inside around 8:00. To start off, the outside was huge. There were castle walls surrounding the entire property, which was very intimidating. Walking and creeping around outside were the best actors. They were all dressed up, and would sneak up behind people and scare them. The anticipation was the biggest part of all of it. I screamed 3 times before we even went in.
The Penitentiary is actually haunted, and holds Al Copone’s cell in one of the wings.
Once we went in, I was clinging to my boyfriend and his cousin, as we walked through the whole thing. People jumped out at you and followed those who scream. It took you through the key parts of the jail, and the actors were going insane, as if from a psycho ward. There were 5 different sections, each getting scarier by the next. My favorite part was called the Experiment. The whole thing was 3D, and you couldn’t see the people against the walls until their limbs came at you. During the last part, called night watch, the only light through it was your flash light. Without it, there would be no way that you would be able to get through it. After it was over, I realized I was not as scared as I thought I would be. It was a lot of fun and I really think you should go and experience it for yourself.

Hi guys, sorry it’s been a while but I’ve been so busy with school and sweet 16’s I hardly have time to breath anymore!

For this week’s blog I thought I would focus more on death and how it affects our lives. This week was a very upsetting week at UC, a former sister, a member of our cafeteria staff, and also an 05 graduate had passed away. It’s so sad how your life can be taken away from you just like that. It seems like yesterday the cafeteria staff member was giving me a friendly hello. I remember when my grandfather passed away, I was in 6th grade. It really affected me and I haven’t been the same since. When I was in 6th grade I didn’t think dying was real and I definitely didn’t think it could happen to me, but when I saw it did, I matured big time. Everyone moves on, I have moved on. I still think about him, I always will.
The UC community is crushed by these loses have to move on, no matter how hard it is. And remember you always have friends you can go to, that is what I did.

Workouts

If anyone is interested in tryout out for basketball, there are some ways to get ready for it. Every Sunday until tryouts I think, which are days following Thanksgiving, there are open gyms run by the seniors to start to get everyone into shape and back to playing the game we all miss. We will soon be going to the workout room a few times a week to lift. If you want to start training on your own, there are some exercises that you can do on your own that will help greatly. If you time yourself, for 15 minutes you can do a core workout, consisting of crunches, sit-ups, prone holds, flutter kicks and scissors for 30 seconds each. After that, you can do push-ups for 30 seconds with a minute rest time in between each for a whole of 15 minutes. Then, for a half hour work on dribbling skills, and lastly, shoot around for another half hour. On the weekends, you should run 2 miles to keep up your speed. This may sound hard, but it will definitely help you before tryouts and the season starts. This daily workout will help with a lot of other sports you play, or if you have a lot of time after school.

Old friends...new friends

After school today I have a game against Woodbridge High school and I am so excited. WHS is the public high school that I would have gone to if I didn’t come to UC. I had gone to public school my whole life and left everyone behind to come here. I was thinking about it last night and to be completely honest I started tearing up a little; just thinking back to 8th grade and everything that happened. When I said left everyone behind I meant every single person, I came here not knowing one person. At first it was hard considering a lot of people came together and everyone was friends, it was hard fitting in but by December I knew everyone and I made friends that I know will last me forever. And as time went on I realized I went to preschool with one of the girls (she was my best friend) and another girl was my enemy back in 3rd grade (we are really good friends now and actually lab partners’ haha). It’s so funny how times change. So today when I go to WHS I am going to see at least 50 people I know and play against those girls who have been in fights with me, called me a best friend, made me laugh, bought me a gift, attended my birthday party, and went to the mall with. After the game of course we are all going to have to catch up and talk about the latest gossip (we haven’t talked in 2 years!!!!). When I came to UC I thought all my friends at WHS would be there for me and we would hang out all the time. I had about 15 true friends; I talk to 3 of them now. But really I wouldn’t go back in time and turn down UC because the people I met here I love the so much! I have only known them for a year and a half but I know that they can be considered friends, and today when I see all my old friends we will have fun and laugh about everything but I don’t think I could ever forget about all the amazing friends I made here at UC and the many more I am going to make.

Conflicts and Such

Last Thursday, the open house was held at the school and was a huge success. Throughout the night, there were countless times when people would come up to Erin and I at our stand and ask “what is a blogger? Is it like a club or something?” and this was somewhat a hard question to answer, because they looked at us as if they were lost. On the other hand, people came up to us and told us they read our blogs every week, which was really cool to hear.
So in all the blogs that we write, we talk about everything happening at UC and all the good stuff about our lives at the time. But just because we talk about all this great stuff doesn’t mean that we are like, invincible and nothing bad happens. You have the normal stuff going on like you do everywhere, drama with friends, stress over a huge amount of homework or a big test coming up, arguments with your significant other, school conflicts, or any type of pressure. This past weekend, I got into a pretty big fight with one of my best friends, and we are slowly trying to move past this. Even when something happens that we don’t plan or hope for, not only in school but in our everyday lives, we have to think the positive and try to move past the conflict. You stress yourself out worrying so much about it, and that isn’t good for you at all. Not everything can always go peachy, but there is always a way to make it better. Something you will learn in high school is a way to move past all the bad stuff, and move onto the good stuff.