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Soon enough there will be leaves again..

Six word story:

Friends! Sleepover! Shopping! Wii! So......tired......

sooo i walked to nifty fifties with jennie and we got milkshakes!!! they were yummy. they are called Black Forest... i dont know why. but they are chocolate and cherry bits. yum. and then it was cold. so her dad and johnny picked us up. because we didnt want to walk in the cold and it couldve rained too and we did not want to walk alllllllll the way home in the rain. and jen says i have to add the part about there being cute boys. tehehe. :]

Things Not To Attend With One's Father And A Pair of Visiting Spainards:
A stand up comedy show in which there are numerous references to sex, blowjobs, and drunken shenanigans.

Heed this advice dears. Heed it!

Things Not To Attend With One's Father And A Pair of Visiting Spainards:
A stand up comedy show in which there are numerous references to sex, blowjobs, and drunken shenanigans.

You're welcome world. I hope you have learned.

I was in line waiting to make my order at wendys and I overheard this conversation:

boy 1 : -singing- "ama be ..ama be.."
boy 2: "u never gonna be"
boy 1: "im a bee, u stupid!!"

I think it was funny  =)

My professor was old and my last classes with him were every Tuesday after breakfast. We talked about the meaning of life.

I wasn't given a grade, I just had to hold a conversation and make sure he was comfortable. Being nice about it made me feel good inside. I liked being able to comfort an old man in his last days. 

On the day of my graduation, I attended his funeral.

I have been in love with the man of my dreams for the past year.  At exactly 12am tonight, it will be our official 1 year anniversary!  Tonight we went out to Olive Garden to celebrate.  The food was amazing and I was so happy to spend some special time with Eric.  It's not too often that we go out to a semi-fancy restaurant.  I hope I get to see him early tomorrow before I have to go to work at the ACME. <3

Speaking of Acme, I am getting a raise soon!  I am going from bagger to checker/cashier!  I have to attend checking school in order to qualify for the position!  Wish me luck!

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Well, today. I woke up, went to my little brother's championship ice hockey game, and HE WON! (: 3-2 in a shoot out, it was honestly one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I was so proud of him<3.

Then I had work at four.
and I just got home, because work was really slow.

Now, I'm going out. KAY BYE(:
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Sleepy
Sleepy
Hungry
Hunger satisfied
Feeling okay
Feeling better
A wee bit stressed
Hungry
Hungry
Hungry
Hunger passed
Occupied
Occupied
Occupied
Not occupied
Occupied
Happy
Okay
Okay
Not happy
Not happy
Calm
Okay
Time going by so slow

It was a humbling experience, to say the least.  

To the doctor that told my mother I wouldn't live past the age of 6, I just celebrated my 90th birthday.

Today I share my birthday with Mr. Chase and Dr. Suess. Therefore, anyone born on March 2nd is automatically deemed unique and creative.

They need her. She needs drugs.

We chose Woman In Combat because we felt that woman often go unrecognized. Its a man orientated military system and we wanted to show the courages lives of women in combat. We wanted to represent that in a video/documentary because it would of been uninteresting if done with a podcast. We made a 5 minute video to show women and combat, because we didn't want to make it too long. The only problem we had was compiling all the information. We didn't know where to get some primary sources from. The thing that went well is the video. It was easy putting the video together once we had the information. The things I would do differently is the way we conducted data. I would have liked to find an actual women who served in the military. If we were to redo it that would be one of the first things I would do. I've learned that women had major impacts in the military. Women in armed forces are women too, and have lives that don't just restrict them into a certain category. 

I passed by a place with a poster in the window. I took a picture of it and I would upload it, but the picture is on my phone and I don't know how to get it here. Anyway, the poster was of stick figures. There were four total and under them it said: One syphilis + No syphilis = Two syphilis. 

How we chose our topic:

 

Our topic was the Ping Pong Diplomacy and Sino-US relations of 1971 – 1973. We first came across this topic in a base list of ideas on the National History Day website. Ibrahim is a big fan of Ping Pong and so, as a warm-up to the actual project we did a little research on it. As we looked into I we agreed that it was a very interesting topic and could lead to a lot of new, enlightening information particularly in respect to the current US-Sino relations and the debt we owe to China.  In the end we used our preliminary research to kick-start our research for the rest of the presentation.

 

 

How we conducted our research:

 

            In our class we had a system set up for researching historical and current events. The idea was to find the social, economic, military and political implications of the occurrence and it’s aftermath. We split thee groupings so that Emma did social and military and Ibrahim did economic and political. Continuing from there we broke down the three or so years that we wanted to direct our research on into critical events. We each researched separately our parts of the events and compiled them into sets of primary and secondary documents. We both used a lot of research from video footage and primary documents from Reagan and Chinese Government officials. There were also books and quotes from some of the members of the team that went to China, which were very helpful. We shared what we had and did a little research for each others topics just so we were fully rounded and then buckled down to write out Op-Eds and fake news articles.

 

How we selected our format:

 

            At the beginning we very much wanted to make a video. After all, large amounts of our research and material were news footage or videos. However, we figured that a single video would hardly meet expectations. We debated whether we wanted to make a physical exhibit or a website. We ended up picking website because we were able to use our written information as well as make a video to go with whereas with an exhibit we would have to transform all of our writing into imagery.

            In creating our website we originally were using Tumblr. However, it was a very inefficient format because it was not accessible in school and also was messy and complicated. One of my teachers suggested that we look at Weebly.com. It was easy and unblocked by the school district. This made it easier to work from school and together. We set up the different sections we wanted, quick formatted them on paper before placing everything in its place on the pages. Emma set about creating a video from a compilation of the footage that was collected and uploaded it to Youtube so that it could be seen in the website. After that all that was left was a little touch ups of picture framing and word formatting.

 

How our project relates to the theme:

 

            With a theme of Debate and Diplomacy the connection to Ping Pong Diplomacy seems more than obvious. The entire event was about the conversation, creation and reparation of Sino-US relations as well as the Shanghai Communiqué. In regards to our connections (the economic results and political reaction)  are relative because both involve discussion between two parties (in one case, China and the US; in another, Nixon and the GOP and the voters of America) as well as a formal decision in important concepts (economic production and presidential candidacy).  Within each subcategory of the main topic of Ping Pong Diplomacy there are many other diplomatic actions and reactions between countries as well as opposing opinionated groups.

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Whoever knew three words could make you feel so betrayed... get over it.

So I have been playing soccer since the 5th grade, and I would say that I was pretty good at. Over the years I played on so many teams, and at many different. In the 10th grade, though, I stopped for a very dumb reason and I was always mad at myself for that. So in my last year I decided to play soccer. I was so excited when I made this decision because I missed it so much! Today was my first time playing soccer in about 2 years, so I expected the worst.
From the running and diving to drills and dribbling I almost died!
When I got home, I felt all the pain rush through my body as I laid in my bed. I started to question my decision to start soccer again and some doubt definitely did surface. In the end though I decided to stay and hopefully the pain would decrease as the time went on.