50. Faith

Faith is probably a very touchy subject for a lot of people. For the most part when people think of faith they think of religion and a God or gods. But this is not always the case. There are many different types of faiths and many things to have faith in. For instance,I have faith in my family, because I know that I can trust them. I actually think that faith and trust are very similar. The definition of faith according to dictionary is "confidence or trust in a person or thing" and the defintion of trust is "reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence". It seems to me that these two words are very similar. They pretty much go hand in hand. Without trust you cannot have faith. Not very easily at least. I would say I have a lot of faith in my friends and family. This is because I can trust them with pretty much anything and everything. I know that if someone breaks my trust, it takes a while to regain it, but I have faith that they can do so. Faith for a lot of people can mean religion. But that is just one aspect of faith. I admire people with a lot of faith, but then again, what if what you hold your faith in turns out not to be true? I can be pretty skeptical about a lot of things, so I have definately given a lot of thought into what I put my faith in. I definately wouldn't say I give out my faith very often, it takes quite a while to earn my trust/faith. I know a lot of people who are different though, and will believe anything that anyone says. I think that is a dangerous policy which is why I don't do that. So overall faith can be a tricky subject that can make better or sometimes ruin peoples lives, it's a hit or miss kind of thing.

49. Family

Okay myyyyy family. I have a sister, and a mom and a dad. Well, I have a very large family on my mom's side. I'll start out with my dad's side cause it's much smaller. So my dad has a brother (Michael) and a sister (Donna). (He also has a half sister(but she lives in Germany and I don't remember her name)) Donna married David and they had three kids (Heidi, April, and Michael). Michael married Chris, and they have two kids (Sierra and Allen). My dad's mom (Edith) married my dad's dad (Alfred), but Alfred died when my dad was 17. So she got married to Roger Hendricker and he is my step grandfather or something like that. So that's it on my dad's side. My mom's side is...harder to follow, so bear with me. *Taylor Gorda will make a guest appearence in this side of the family, just a heads up* Alright so, my mom has one sister (Kim) and two brothers (Mike and Tim). Their parent's names are Ken and Donna. Kim and Mike are single, but Tim married Joanie and they had two kids (Sean and Ryan). Here gets to the confusing part. Ken's brother's name is Bob. Bob married Ellen and they live in Ohio in Hilliard. They had four kids (Bobby, Connie, Doug, and Bill). Connie married some guy (I don't know his name they are divorced now) and had three kids (Linsdey, Kelly, and Kyle). A few summers ago Kelly married this guy who I think his name is Patrick but I'm not sure. Ok back to Bob and Ellen's kids, Bobby married Leslie and they have two kids (Meagan and they have a son but I can't remember his name either). Their son is engaged and is going to marry someone this summer named Leslie (isn't it weird, he's marrying someone with the same name as his mother!). Ok to Bob and Ellen's kids again, Doug married someone named Carol and they have two kids (Griffin and Adam). Then Bill, he married someone also, but I don't know her name. They have I don't know how many kids, but I know that they have a daughter named Katie. Remember Ellen and Bob? Well Ellen's sister's name is Marianne and her son is Taylor's dad! I'm sorta kinda related to Taylor. :) It's pretty distant and past a couple marriages, but we still count it. So yea that's about it for my family.

48. Spring Break

Well spring break just got over with, and I am not sure whether or not I'm sad about that. I mean I enjoyed the break and sleeping in and being able to do whatever I wanted, but I kind of got pretty bored. Since I live in Plains, 15 minutes away from Springfield and the majority of my friends, I was not able to go into town everyday. So on the days that I stayed at home or in Plains, I was very very bored. I did not go anywhere for spring break, so I got to sleep in every day (well almost every day) and I really appreciated that after so long of getting up at 7 a.m. every morning. Let's see....we got out of school on a Thursday, then the following Friday I do not think I did anything important, but I can't really remember. The next day, Saturday, I shopped for my prom dress. I ended up getting on from Bella Boutique in Springfield. That was pretty much the only productive thing I did over break. Well, I also painted my room. That was fun. It used to be like a robin's egg blue on two walls and a brownish color on the other two walls. I picked up this medium grey color and a little container of black. I painted all of the walls the grey color and I am going to paint something on the walls in the black sometime too. I really like it grey, at first I was afraid it would be too dark but I actually really like it. Other than that I did not do much at all over break. It was very relaxing though. A lot of the time I woke up at like noonish, did not even get ready until one or two in the afternoon, and sometimes I didn’t do anything that day. I had to work a few times but it was basically the only thing I did.

Job Shadowing

I had a really good time when I went job shadowing. It took me a long time to get there because it was all the way out by Lincoln Land kind of, off Toronto Road and way back in the back of this little place called Industrial Park. I went to Canham Graphics, and at first I thought it was going to be really boring because when they showed me around and I just thought all they did was made signs and put stuff on cars. But it was actually really cool when we got into it. They started of with showing me all of the machines that they use and a quick demonstration of how to use them. When they showed me the machines, I thought that was all they were going to do all day and that I was not going to like it, but that is not really what it was like at all. Until around 11 or 11:30, Doug (the guy I was shadowing) and Justin (another worker there) were putting a giant picture on a Chiles Team truck, and it was pretty cool. They used this like, colored vinyl that was adhesive on the back side, and had this just huge picture of the Chiles team. After they were done with that, they said we were going to order lunch. They even paid for mine. We got it from somewhere called Chaditos, or they call it, Little Chads. It was pretty good. After lunch they were pretty busy making more signs, so that was kind of boring because I could not really do anything but watch. It was interesting to watch, but not hands on or anything. At one point, they asked me if I wanted some leftover vinyl to take home. I wasn't really sure what I could do with it, and they said I could just put in on stuff and use and exacto knife to cut out stuff. So I took this really pretty aqua marine color, it was kind of metallic-y, and covered the backside of my phone with it. Then I took a some white and cut out a swirly design and put it on the back so the blue would come through. I like it, I think it looks really cool. They also gave me a bunch of other pieces of vinyl in different colors to take home. Towards the end of the day, Doug was working on a drag car for Tim Wilkerson, who I guess is a really big deal around here, he races drag cars and is basically in the dragcar version of Nascar. So he was working on the decals for that car and detailing some flames on the side with piping in a teal color...then he asked if I wanted to help pipe. I said yes, and he walked out of the room. I really didn't want to mess up since this car was kind of a big deal, but I didn't. i finished the piping on both sides and it looked really cool. Then day ended around 4:30, and overall I had a really good time.

47. American Literature Project

Well, so far I have mixed feelings on this American Literature Project. There are some aspects that I do like about it, and some aspects that I do not like very much. It may seem kind of confusing, but what I do like branches from what I do not like, so stay with me as best as you can. So I should probably start off with what I do not like to avoid unnecessary confusion. It is not the fact that we are working in groups that I do not like, I think it is just the fact that we do not have much guidence on the specifics. I mean, I know we have opportunities to ask Mr. Langely about anything we need help with, but I think that we kind of just got thrown into this project without much structure to it. It's pretty much willy nilly whatever we want to do with it. It could have also been helpful if we had had some kind of background on Emily Dickinson first. I just think maybe we could have learned about her (in generalities) beforehand so that the project made more sense. On the other hand, and it may sound contradictory, but that could just be because I am not sure how to completely express my feelings either way and they are kind of back and forth, but I do like that we get to pick our means of relaying the information. We get to choose the way we present the information, and I like that for the most part. I just wish that maybe there could have been a list of like 5 to 10 different predetermined ways to do it, instead of just letting us choose. So, I don't know if this makes any sense to you (whoever is reading this) but it makes sense to me. There are some parts I like, and some parts I don't, and they kind of go off of each other, but I guess I will have to wait until the project is completely over before I can say for sure what I did and didn't like.

46. Favorite Car

Well I do not think I have a favorite car?...I do not really have a preference when it comes to cars at all. As long as it gets me where I need to go, it works for me. I have a Chrylser Concorde. It is definately not the coolest car ever, nor is it the best, but I don't care. It is kind of cute looking and it gets me places. Um, well I mean I have always liked convertables. My aunt used to have a mustang convertable and I always really like it. The only thing I did not like about it was the fact that when we had the top down, my hair would blow around everywhere and I could not see anything, so the whole idea of having the top down to see everything and enjoy the outside and weather was kind of obliterated when my hair was in my face the entire time. Also, I would always get really really cold, no matter how hot it was outside. So, I guess a convertable may not be my favorite car per say, but I like them. I used to think that I like Porsches, but I think I just liked them because I knew they were expensive. So when it comes to cars, I do not really have a specific type of car, or brand of car, but I know what I like when it comes to what they look like. I like them to be roundish, not square. For colors, my favorites are light silver or dark greyish silver. After that I like black and that kind of light gold/champagne color. Other than that I do not really like any other colors. I like little cars, like sporty cars or little ones, but not like big trucks or vans or anything like that. I kind of like the car I have now, it pretty much fits my criteria, but I wish it was a shade of silver or grey, not the light gold it is now.

45. Working with Google sites

Well up until the end of last week I had never used or even heard of google sites. Then in less than one week I encountered it in two different classes, English and American History. In American History each student has their own different site and in this class we have one site for each set of partners. In history, Ms. Radliff made each of our google sites and we just edited them and put in the information that we wanted in it. It was kind of different for this class because we actually had to make the site ourselves and make all of the modifications. I did not like working with the google sites for history...but that could have been just because I was not a huge fan of the project we had to do and put on the site. So far, for english I have not really formed an opinion yet because we haven't really used it very much. But if I were to guess I think I will like it better than using it in history. The difficulty level is pretty low too. It seemed to me that it was easy to figure out which is a good thing for those who are not computer-savy (and I don't know if I just spelled that right?) but anyways, it was easy to navigate (for me at least). So I don't really know...we will have to see. I have a good idea that I will not mind working with it because of its ease. Matthew, taylor, and I are going to be posting quite a bit on our site and it is going to look awesome! As long as we don't let Taylor pick that background called 'glitter', I think we will all be okay. As of now our background is rather plain, a couple shades of blue, but I think it will suffice for now until we get all of our information on the site and can actually worry about what it looks like later.