Class Choices

At school you have many choices for classes. Some may be an easy A yet some might be really hard but the challenge that you need. You never know until you try those classes. Some might be for the fun of it too like tech ed. For example in Tech Ed 2 right now we designed and are currently building co2 dragsters. But if you choose a class you might like and then you don't like it you stuck with it for 3 months. There are many choices you have to make at school witch will relate to your life sooner or later.

Sports

I am a huge fan of sports plus I compette in many of them too. I play golf, football, baseball and wrestling but I use to play tennis, basketball and soccer. The sports I use to play I still find fun but one of the sports that I wanted to play but never got to is hockey and lacrose which i find almost the same just hockey on ice and lacrose on grass. I absolutly love hockey and lacrose. I sometimes even follow them. You get to hit people but you have to be very athletic. In fact The Stanley Cup is about to start today with the Canucks of Vancoover and The Boston Bruins, and the college champions of lacrose this year was Virgina.

Nba Playoffs

The NBA playoffs have been going on for a while. It is almost to the finals and my team is out. The Oklahoma City Thunder but my other team is still in it Da Bulls. I don't get why they can't make the playoffs shorter because each sires is best out of seven unlike football where it is one game. This idea would make it more intense and interesting. Yet when it comes down to the big game no matter  who is in it I want the east to win.

Belly Boarding

Belly boarding, many people haven't heard of it because my friend invented it. Belly boarding is interesting, you wear wrist guards  and lay on your belly on a skate board going down hills it's really fun.

Sure it doesn't sound the best but we take all safety precautions. You can go what ever speed you want because the pads slow you down depending on how much pressure you put on them. Belly boarding is really fun in the summer when you don't have anything to do.

My Ipod

My iPod has a huge crack in it. The crack gets really annoying when trying to play games or just click on something. This was an unfortunate accident because we don't really know how it happened and my warranty didn't cover a cracked screen. We think it happened at a friends house with about 5 people over and I don't want to accuse anyone of doing this but I just have to get use to it.

Baseball

My baseball season is a lot different than a lot of other kids. It started in December with indoor practices at next level but now we only have about 2 free days away from baseball a week. I guess if you want to play on this level you have to but it does get really annoying. 2 games a week with 2 or 3 practices. Yet in the summer you know what all your friends schedules are and get to hang out with them. Last year was probably our greatest experience. We went to Cooperstown, NY for a huge tournament with teams from around the nation. For seven days it was pure baseball and friends it was great. That's baseball for ya.

This School Year

It has been a pretty short school year. We as seventh graders have learned many things and have had to adapt to many new things. But the best thing this year has been the trips, clubs and after school sports. For example the ski trips have been real fun especially the one on the half day to the far away place. Wrestling is a whole other experience though. You practice everyday and travel to different schools it feels like your in a pro sport. Middle school has been the best year of school ever!

Inside Life

There he was Carl Flaxington on the dream run in the super bowl. Down by six they just needed this touchdown and the extra point. It sounded so easy, he went over it in his head 100 times. Just say hike and throw the ball he thought to himself. "Here we are 3 seconds left in the 4th quarter the Broncos down by six to the Colts. It looks like the broncos aren't giving up for 5 yards away on 4th down," said the announcer. Carl snaps the ball looks right fakes left. It was open the receiver in the end zone he just had to get it there. The ball flew out of his hand like a bullet. The receiver caught it and the crowd went crazy. For the extra point and it split the uprights. The Broncos won the super bowl! Then the Quarter back got sad and left before the ceremonies.

Once everybody was back in Denver he called a meeting telling them why he had left and they understood and wanted to help. Then some how the coached had found Carl's phone and heard the voice mails and felt bad. Carl's mom died in an unfortunate accident and his dad critically injured. His dad was on the brink of death and his brother had a mental condition so he came and lived with him. For Carl on the night of the super bowl this was not the news he wanted to hear. In the mail he started getting flowers and gifts but he knew of only one thing that would make him forget about this.

So the next day he got a letter to come to the police station to talk with some councilors to over come this. Carl went to the police station but not for the councilors but to try to find his parents killer. Next he went to a private eye investigator to get clues a photos of the guy and the crime scene. He took all that to the Lawyers Firm that his parents knew. After a couple days they were in court and it went by fast because of what he had done to that family and the result was guilty Carl and his brother cheered and could live in peace but they still had to live with the fact that there parents were gone.

Schools Out

All you can hear is " 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Schools over" from every kid in the school. Everybody runs out the door as fast as a wildfire spreads. Immediately kids are making plans having sleep over's and playing sports. But that didn't happen for Robert he was the toughest and the meanest, some say that he has been to juvenile facilities 4 times. Even though he picked on every kid in the school they all felt bad for him because he had to make up every detention he skipped, homework he didn't do even clean up all the graffiti and vandalism he had done to the school.

Almost every day of the summer the kids brought him snacks and lunch. They all thought what it would be like having to work in thing you hated most for the whole summer and felt bad for him. Kids had more sleep over's baseball games then one of the summer school teachers mentioned football to him. He thought to himself "this is my ticket out of this place". Soon Robert signed up and all of the sporty kids had signed up he had showed them how good he was at sports. And Everybody wanted to be his friends.

The next year of school of school has come. Every one was surprised that Robert has changed so much. He had changed his clothes, attitude and became popular. Then it was just normal school that everybody hated and no body new what happened to Robert that summer but they didn't care as long as there was one more brighter soul in the school.

Music into Meaning

Nothing good will ever happen too us. We don't just say but we act it out, our lives are going nowhere unless we take action. Yet lots of good things happen in the world. We feel bad for those who feel this way but we don't really know their life and experience it. I'm sure if anyone who lived in the ghetto as a child has had one thing happen that has changed their life. Lupe Flasco understands and pushes people in this situation in his song " The Show Goes On," and has touched those people in the way that it shows somebody cares.

Anybody can make a huge mistake or a great finding, all in the matter of seconds. Right when we see what we have done we notice if we made a mistake or if we did something good. Lupe explains it if as a ghetto boy or girl, they've never been noticed because they aren't in the best place. They need to rise up to the occasion and do something great. He shows that because the way he says those things in his song trying to encourage them. They need to do something great to get out of the enclosing darkness of the ghetto.

I have experienced having to prove myself many times to get noticed by classmates, my brother and my step dad. I try out for many teams for the past 4 years I've tried out for the baseball team, I made it the first year but the next year changed me. I got cut from the team I felt terrible if there was only one way I could get back onto that team I would be happy. So then I realized what it felt like to get cut from the team and still keep trying out for it just like all the other kids. So I worked during the season by playing pyb( Pewaukee youth baseball) but there wasn't much compition there. Then I went to a camp with some friends and got great evaluations and to top it all of in the off season I worked with one of the coaches until tryouts. After the tryout I had gotten my letter. I was frightened to open thinking about last year. Then I thought is this really what I want to hide from things I couldn't do? Finally all of that hard work payed off and I made the team. Another special thing happened that year my team went to Cooperstown, NY for an all-star tournament. But thanks to that year I had learned very much about many things.

In Lupe's song it talks about being in your dream waking up and living it but its underlying meaning is clear: You can do anything you put your mind to. Don't think your nothing. Don't wait to get sucked into the darkness of life just stick to your head and be the person you can be. But it all starts right now. So live your life.