Journal #50 Faith

Having faith is a very important part of someone's life in my own personal opinion. Having said that faith is a huge part of someone's life you would obviously think that faith is a huge part of my life, and it definitely is. With faith being in your life you can always can that to guide your life, which during good times of your life can be great but, having guidance during your life during times of turmoil can be even better. If you are having trouble in your life or just going through a rough patch, having faith can give you a path to which you try and hopefully get your life back on the right track. Whenever you say faith, that does not necessarily mean a certain religion or belief. I think that faith is all about your relationship that you have with God and Jesus Christ. In my opinion I do not think you need a certain religion to be considered a religious person. If you believe in both God and Jesus, and look for them to help guide your life I believe that you have the element of faith in your life. Now you may not be considered a religious person if you are not a part of a religion but, if you have God and Jesus in your life that you can still be a very faithful person. Also accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior can also make you a very faithful person since, you realize that Jesus died on the Cross so that mankind could have their sins forgave and go to Heaven if they stayed in touch with Jesus during their life and also live a faithful life. I know that it is everyone opinion on Jesus Christ and God but, the people who have faith in their life, not necessarily religion, can always feel like there is always someone there for them, and that they are never alone.

Journal #49 FAMILY

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I really like the structure of my family. My mother’s name is Rhonda and my father’s name is Rudy. My father’s real name is James but everyone calls him Rudy and I do not know why. I like the name Rudy more than James anyways so it does not bother me that much. My parents are divorced and my mother is remarried. She is married to a man named Jeffery Hooker. He has two children. Their names are Brittney and Quentin. I go to school with these two people so I knew them before my mother even married my step-father, Jeffery. I really like spending time with my mother and she is really cool. Rhonda is a laid back person so she does not get mad at me a lot. Before she married my father she was married to another guy. They had three children together. Their names are Cara, Brent, and Amber. They are all older than me but that does not bother me. Brent is getting married to a girl named Chelsie. I am really close with Brent so he asked me to be his best man. It is going to be really fun because I have never been in a wedding before. Amber has two children named Hunter and Jace. Kara is dating a man named Jason and he is a police man. He is really cool and one time he took me to the station with him. My grandparents are a lot of fun too. My mom’s parents are Marylyn and James. They live in Winchester and that is a one hour drive so it is not that bad of a drive to go and visit. My mom is also from Winchester. Rhonda has two siblings and their names are Rodney and Randy. I like spending time with them. My Uncle Rodney is a doctor and he inspires me because I want to be a doctor when I grow up. I love my family a lot.

Journal #48 My 2010 Spring Break

I am just going to start off talking about spring break by saying that spring break might be one of the best ideas about school that anyone has ever had. School was getting to be such a drag, and having a whole week off plus an extra day was something that I really needed so that I could finish off the school year strong and also keep my grades up. My spring break started off amazing, then through the middle it kind started to suck a little bit, but near the end of it my break got amazing again and ended well. Basically I started off my break by being with my girlfriend for the whole night, and then I was with her until Sunday when she left for Chicago. It was really great to spend so much time with her since she has to work a lot of the time through the week and I have a lot of baseball practices and games through the week. Since I got to spend so much time with her I was really happy especially since she was leaving for Chicago so I would not be able to see her for about four days, since when she got back from being in Chicago I was going to be in Tuscola for a baseball tournament. Before we went to Tuscola we played and beat Routt. We went to Tuscola on Friday for the tournament and when we got there we went to the field to hit and then got some food. After that we went to the mall and I got some Nike stuff as well as relaxed. We ended up losing the game but, we won the next game on Saturday so that kept our spirits up. Overall, I really enjoyed playing baseball over my Break as well as spending with my girlfriend. It was a much needed break and I am so glad that it was a good one.

Job Shadowing

We had a day for all the juniors to job shadow some place that they were interested in going into. I found out that all the juniors got to do this and that we got to be excused from school to do it so I was very happy. Not only did I get to miss a full day of school on the week before spring break, but I also got to learn very valuable lessons and experience about the career path that I was interested into going in. The first step to getting this whole thing going was to fill out an online sheet so that Mrs. Reynolds could know the area we were interested in, so we could learn about our career. I filled mine out that I was interested into going into the medical field. I was anxious to know were I was about to be shadowing at for a whole day. I found out that I would be going to Memorial Hospital to shadow and I was very excited. I worked at the other hospital in town over the summer, so for me to go to Memorial was very exciting because, I got to see how another hospital worked and what there working environment was like. I got all the information that I needed to know about my day working there from the head person in charge and I was ready to go. I got to the day and I rode with John and Hannah since we were all working at the same place so it made sense to all ride together. We got to the hospital and I found out that I was working on the second floor in post surgery. I got there and the person I was going to shadowing was nice. He was a nurse and told Jadlyn, who was working on the same floor and shadowing the same person I was, all that we needed to know about going into nursing and what we needed to do. He helped out patients and we got to go into rooms and see the problems that the people were having to deal with. It was also very neat to see all the tools that they used since he took us into the medical supply room and showed us all the things that they used. After that, it was time for lunch so we met up with all the people who were from Plains that were working at the hospital. We finished lunch and went back up to the floor where we were working and basically did the same thing that we did in the morning. At about two the person we were shadowing told us to explore the hospital, so we went to the morgue and got shown around which was really a neat experience. That was probably the best part of the day for me. Overall, it was a very good day and a great experience for me to learn about some of the odds and ins of the medical field.

Journal #47 American Lit. Sites

My experience on the American Literature sites has been kind of a mixed result so far. At first it was very confusing, having not known what exactly I had to do for this project, where to get to get that information for this project, and also how we were supposed to present that project in our website. I think at first my other group members of Jenna and Atlee had a way better handle on this project than I did, but now I think that I have caught up to them and I think that I have got a pretty decent handle of what is going on. This project is not exactly hard I would say, but it is a lot of work. Analyzing ten poems is going to be a lot of work for our group to get all completed by when this project is due on March 31. I do like how we have some time in class to work though, because of learning something new we can direct all of our focus onto this project and Emily Dickinson, that being the best possible way to produce the best results on this website. I also have greatly enjoyed working with my group. The other people in my group are really nice, and I think that overall we work together pretty nicely. We all seem to have the same ideas about things, and seem to all be on the same page about this project. I have to do a PowerPoint about Emily Dickinson’s writing style, and I think that I found all the information that I needed to, to cover all the areas of her writing that need to be covered. Also, as a group we are all starting to work on analyzing her poems in class so we can all do it together. Overall, I think that now that I understand all the concepts of this project it has become a lot easier to me.

Journal #46 My Favorite Car

When it comes to dealing with cars, I am not mechanically inclined what so ever, with all of those skills going to my older brother who is a straight beast when it comes to fixing anything that has to do with an automobile, but I do know what kind of cars that I like. For some reason I have always had quite an obsession with the Land Rover Range Rover. It looks so sweet from the outside, with the inside being just as tight. I almost got a 1999 Range for my first car, but there is not a place around here that fixes them and I have heard that they have a lot of small issues that come with them. I have been trying lately to get my dad to get a new Rover for his next car but, I think instead he is leaning toward a Cadillac like that one that he has right now. As well when it comes to SUVs I also really like Escalades. They are so sick, when you are in one you know that you are riding in style. My mom was thinking about getting one and if she does I will have to steal it from her sometimes to drive. When it comes to cars my favorite has got to be a Lambo. I know that I will never ever own one in my life, but hey everyone can dream in their life so you might as well dream big. A new Lambo with a classic yellow paint job would be so beast. A more realistic car that maybe I could own one day, would have to be a BMW 7 Series. They are so nice on the outside, as well as being luxury on the inside. If I ever own anyone one of these cars I would be so lucky and take such good care of it, it would be unbelievable. You can always dream big.

Journal #45 American Literature Sites Project

With this American Literature sites project, I guess it has been okay so far. It was pretty confusing at first about what we were supposed to do, how we were supposed to accomplish doing it, and when this whole big long project was due. Down the road I understand it so much more now and things are starting to finally get put into place. I am in a group with Jenna Sudeth and Atlee Sprague and so far that has been really enjoyable. They both work really hard on the project, stay on task very well, and also I think that we work pretty good as a team all together. It seems to me that we all get along well, with us having the same ideas for the project, as well as each of us contributing equally to getting this project moving along to get it done. I am still a little confused as to what this project is all about and why we are doing it, but it seems as though my group has a pretty good handle as to what is going on so as long as they get it, I am sure that our project will move right along and we will hopefully get done on time. I do not know how we will present all of this information. There are only so many essays that we can write for this thing, so I guess we will have to find some other means as to get this information out on our website so we are completely done with it and hopefully receive a pretty decent grade. I have to make a PowerPoint for our group and I like that. I am usually pretty decent at them so I think that it will turn out nicely with all the information that is needed on it. Overall, this has been an okay project as far as material goes but, I am really glad that we are working in groups.