Today was supposed to be an ordinary day, as I walked out of my house. And least I thought. What happened though, was a completely different story. It happened to be costume day at the middle school I went to. It was a day full of creative, funny and sometimes just plain weird costumes.
IT was the perfect day to throw a Halloween festival. The leaves are falling and the cool wind was blowing all day in the slice of surburbia that I live in. Blues Brothers impersonation bumping into a angel, it was just an ordinary day. Except the fact that some of the students were in costumes......
Halloween is a holiday that children and teenagers love. For one night you get to be someone totally different. For one night you get all the sugar you need for an entire lifetime. Halloween is one of our most vivid memories of childhood....
Little kids dress up as doctors, teenagers try out a darth vader suit. Halloween lets people be something crazy, to be unique, to try something out. It's something that I'll remember for the rest of my life, and I hope that you do to.......
Friday, October 27, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Fencing
I was the summer of 2004 and I was ready to become a sixth grader, when I was in China for the summer and with nothing to do. Then the olympics came. And for once, it was interesting. I was just actually getting old enough to understand the entire Olympic spirit. And then I saw Fencing. It was nothing like what I had witnessed in my ordinary, boring and plain life. I watched and watched it, and from that summer on, I wanted to fence.
Alas that opportunity was never granted to me for the next two years. I ended up falling in love with cross country. And I was good at it too. It also was like nothing I never experienced. The wind blowing, the leaves falling, the relative tranquility and peace.
But then I switched schools, and suddenly my new school had fencing. I was told they had a program when I was in sixth grade, but it was just a vague memory. Luckily one of the wonderful people I met at my new school, told me about it, and I decided why not?
Now, twice a week, I struggle with footwork, and try to fence, but I love every moment of it. From the sing-song stretches to the hours and hours of footwork all just for a couple minutes on a strip.
What people do, is what makes them unique. Fencing makes me a little more unique and just a little bit more fun........
Alas that opportunity was never granted to me for the next two years. I ended up falling in love with cross country. And I was good at it too. It also was like nothing I never experienced. The wind blowing, the leaves falling, the relative tranquility and peace.
But then I switched schools, and suddenly my new school had fencing. I was told they had a program when I was in sixth grade, but it was just a vague memory. Luckily one of the wonderful people I met at my new school, told me about it, and I decided why not?
Now, twice a week, I struggle with footwork, and try to fence, but I love every moment of it. From the sing-song stretches to the hours and hours of footwork all just for a couple minutes on a strip.
What people do, is what makes them unique. Fencing makes me a little more unique and just a little bit more fun........
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Raindrops and etc....
Today in beautiful surburbia it was downright pouring. Not your everyday shower. Or your sprinkle of rain mixed with sunshine. No it was one of those days......
Walking down the steps, luckily with umbrella in hand, I was wondering about all the poor cold wet people around me. The concept of the umbrella was invented by a frenchman who was probably as much as a hopeless romantic as I am. An umbrella is really only ment for two people. Sure when you're in middle school (and still single, unfortunately) friends huddle around you, but nothing romantic like in those movies made far far away from where I live in.
The Umbrella is probably one of the most romantic things of all time. We use them with our dates (or sometimes our friends) to protect, to shield them away from the big bad world. Just enough space for two people to look each other right in the face (or not).....It was one of those days.........
Maybe you think the umbrella is just something we use, but for me (a.k.a an hopeless romantic) its something more.........
Walking down the steps, luckily with umbrella in hand, I was wondering about all the poor cold wet people around me. The concept of the umbrella was invented by a frenchman who was probably as much as a hopeless romantic as I am. An umbrella is really only ment for two people. Sure when you're in middle school (and still single, unfortunately) friends huddle around you, but nothing romantic like in those movies made far far away from where I live in.
The Umbrella is probably one of the most romantic things of all time. We use them with our dates (or sometimes our friends) to protect, to shield them away from the big bad world. Just enough space for two people to look each other right in the face (or not).....It was one of those days.........
Maybe you think the umbrella is just something we use, but for me (a.k.a an hopeless romantic) its something more.........
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The future of Journalism
The future of journalism lies not in big media, nor newspapers, but blogs and websites. We are entering an age that great change will happen. Never in our worlds history, have people had such ready knowledge at our hands. With two clicks of a mouse, people can learn about the great depression or the fall of the Berlin wall. with this old media must adapt. We will still need old media's trustworthy articles. But news will become more and more peoples insight and thoughts on what is happening in the changing world around us.
News will become more personal. Blogs will help the world grow closer together. It will help people truly understand one another. Someone in Toronto can offer his perspective on something happening in the U.K, and this will let people see what life is like elsewhere. People will be able to share their opinions about everything. And journalism must adapt to that. Journalism is sharing other peoples stories, their thoughts, their ideas, with the entire world. New media will help make a world, where people understand what other people are going through.
Just my two cents about the future of Journalism......
News will become more personal. Blogs will help the world grow closer together. It will help people truly understand one another. Someone in Toronto can offer his perspective on something happening in the U.K, and this will let people see what life is like elsewhere. People will be able to share their opinions about everything. And journalism must adapt to that. Journalism is sharing other peoples stories, their thoughts, their ideas, with the entire world. New media will help make a world, where people understand what other people are going through.
Just my two cents about the future of Journalism......
Friday, October 06, 2006
Life moves on
Everyday we wake up, go to work, go to school, and we continue down the road of life. I tell my friends after a bad day, after a loss in cross country (which by the way is my favorite sport of all time) after hard times in general, that life moves on. I told that them, because it was just a good cliche, and was the best I could say to them.
But after a while thinking while biking, does life really move on? I realized that no, it dosen't until you move on. Life goes past you, but for you it does not really move on, until you move on. After getting dumped, or rejected, or a bad day most people just want to crawl under a rock for a while. I have finally realized that unless you move on, move away, start living life again, life stand still. If you think about what worries you, what distresses you to the point of dispair, then you will never move on.
Life around you move, but your life does not move, until you move on along with it.......
But after a while thinking while biking, does life really move on? I realized that no, it dosen't until you move on. Life goes past you, but for you it does not really move on, until you move on. After getting dumped, or rejected, or a bad day most people just want to crawl under a rock for a while. I have finally realized that unless you move on, move away, start living life again, life stand still. If you think about what worries you, what distresses you to the point of dispair, then you will never move on.
Life around you move, but your life does not move, until you move on along with it.......
How to save a life
How to save a life? What kind of question, someone with a untrained eye might be saying. Life is an experience like no other. Some people live their lives waiting to be saved. Not literally, but inside them. Inside their heart, mind and soul, they are waiting to be saved. I go to school every day and see people who think that if they just continue limping on, it will be okay. Okay today, okay tomorrow. But what happens if you want to have a good day?
What happens if you want to save your life. In the end it is only you, you are your own savior. Life is like a marathon. Your friends and family will help you back up when you fall, but it is up to you to start running again. Running down the road of life, and never looking back. How to save a life? It's time to save your own......
What happens if you want to save your life. In the end it is only you, you are your own savior. Life is like a marathon. Your friends and family will help you back up when you fall, but it is up to you to start running again. Running down the road of life, and never looking back. How to save a life? It's time to save your own......
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