Bugs, bugs, bugs

I don't think it exotic to eat bugs. To be honest, most people now-a-days have probably eaten a bug anyway. They could be on our fruits and vegetables or somehow mixed into our food. The only difference is that you don't exactly know at that moment you are eating the bugs, so it doesn't affect you. For me, when I know I am eating a bug, I would be totally disgusted and probably spit it out.

I agree that eating bugs would do great wonders, but it'd be a hard thing to change into. It could save our economy big time. It would also save all the animals from dying or becoming extinct from being hunted, killed, and eaten.

I am amazed that, if you took the total weight of all the bugs in the world compared to the total weight of all the human beings, the bugs would weigh more. There are A LOT of bugs in this world, though, so it isn't totally insane.

I, personally, would prefer not to eat bugs, but I wouldn't totally say no to the idea either. Hey, anything is worth a try.

The Only Alien on the Planet

            The Only Alien on the Planet, by Kristen D. Randle, is absolutely one of my favorite books. I could reread this book constantly, really, and I am the type that does not like to read a book more than once.

            I found this book because I enjoyed our reading circle book, Breaking Rank, very much. The book is by the same author. I think she is an amazing author, even though she is not big on explaining things out with details, but that is okay, I still love her books. She has a neat way of pulling in the readers and I sure hope she writes a lot more books for me to dive into.

            This book is actually about a teenager who has spent his entire life neither speaking nor simply touching anyone. The main character, a girl, had just moved into his neighborhood and her new best friend and her set on a mission to discover who the boy really is. I think the book had a lovely ending and I felt very much in the book.

            I would recommend this book to just about anyone. It isn’t a weird romance book, even though there is a little, it is more of just finding out about someone and understanding and helping. Give this book a try.

Holidays

            One thing that bothers me very much is when people put Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving has even passed. Yes, the lights are very pretty, and the decorations, but, really, let one holiday pass before you begin on another. If you want to show some holiday spirit, go stick a turkey in your front yard. J

            I do enjoy Christmas very much. I am pretty bad at choosing out gifts for people, but I sure do love getting them! That’s not the only reason I like Christmas though. It is one of the few holidays a lot of our family members get together. Thanksgiving and Easter are the other two. It’s really great to get to sit around, laughing and enjoying those days. Especially when there is snow outside!

            I love holidays because they also get us out of school. How can’t you love something that does such a great favor for you? Having no school relieves some stress for a short time. You do not have to worry about homework or dumb grades. You get to enjoy your sleep and boredom.

            I’ll sure enjoy these holidays this year!

Writing About Nothing

Sometimes, I find it hard to write just a simple blog. I am quickly running out of topics to write about between them and the papers we are required to write. I also understand wanting us to write so much. It’ll improve our writing abilities fantastically. I don’t mind doing the research to write a paper, but I like to write many different types of papers. I am very big on poems and short stories.

            Short stories can be very hard to write. Often, I want to just keep writing and add way too many details. Details are wonderful, but you cannot overdue it. Also, when writing a story, you often get stuck on a similar topic in many of them. You write one about a killer, the next one you may also want to write about a killer. Especially if you get great comments on the one before. You start to think it’s your best topic, and you want to use it to the best of your ability.

            I find it quite nice that I can write a blog on not having an idea. I guess my simple thoughts are enough to get me by. Now, if only my thoughts would supply me with some great, long writing pieces. J

The video we viewed on Prader Willi Syndrome yesterday was very was touching. It is a syndrome that I have never heard of before. I could never imagine feeling how the boy did in the video, how he gets such stabbing pain when he can’t eat. It seems like his whole life revolves around food. It must be so extremely hard for him to know food is near and also know he cannot have it. It also angers me that anyone would make fun of someone with a syndrome like this. That’s inappropriate and immature. Nobody deserves to be treated without respect.



            I researched a few syndromes that I have also never heard of, and guess that many others haven’t either, that I would like to bring into awareness. The first syndrome is a syndrome called: Moebius Syndrome. Moebius Syndrome is a syndrome where the person it affects doesn’t have any function to the face. They cannot blink, smile, frown, move eyes laterally, and others. They tend to have speech problems and swallowing problems, are very weak, have sleep disorders, visual impairments, and more.

            The second syndrome I would like to talk about is: Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome. This syndrome involves coordination issues, mental retardation, muscles weakness, inability to chew food, thin brittle fingernails, and sparse hair. It is a rare autosomal recessive disorder.

            The third is: Freeman-Sheldon syndrome. It is a rare form of multiple congenital contractures and is the most severe form of distal arthrogryposis. It includes drooping of the upper eyelids, low-set ears, gradual hearing loss, walking difficulties, scoliosis, strabismus, and more. The pictures added of each can help you to actually visualize what these syndromes do to just your physical appearance. Nobody could imagine what it would be like to be them.

Marinesco–Sjögren

Moebius Syndrome

Freeman Sheldon Syndrome

Consumers & Producers

            Happen to love shopping for clothing? I sure do. Buying clothes is a nice thing and most people are excited to wear their new outfit. There are so many stores out there to stumble upon. I have a few favorite stores, but to be honest, it’s rare that I shop at those stores.

            It is ridiculous, the price of clothes at some stores. They charge you so much more than you know it took to make the clothing. In my opinion, I think it is unfair. It seems greedy to charge such a high price. Then again, the consumers help to lead the producers to the decision to raise the price.

            Maybe if, one day, everyone decided that they weren’t going to buy from a certain store, or a series of stores, because of their prices. Do you think they would lower them? Maybe they would, or maybe not. They would probably think, “They’ll have to buy clothes soon, and they’ll want the same clothes that they’ve always wanted, so they will return.” Hopefully not. Hopefully there will be that one store that does lower the prices and everyone decides to go there and other stores will follow that path.

            The consumer-producer relationship is a weird, but strong one. It would be hard to break it for any store. So I guess we’ll just have to live with these always-raising prices.

Trash Attack

Our world’s usage of plastics, and other materials, has gotten out of hand. Wherever you may travel to, whether it be down the street, to another state, or to another country, you will see trash littered on the ground, in the water, and other places. In my opinion, it is ridiculous.

It’s sad that we aren’t going to be able to stop this problem anytime soon. Many people may try to persuade others to recycle and to not litter, but there will still be more that will continue to. Most of our population just doesn’t care because they know that when the problem gets extremely big, they will already be gone from earth and won’t have to put up with it.

I don’t recycle, but it would be nice if I started to. To be honest, it can be an inconvenience at home, but I’m pretty sure many of us can let something that could have such a big impact slide for once and just do it. I also don’t litter. It drives me crazy when I see people throwing trash out of car windows or out of the windows at school. There are trashcans for a reason!

Maybe this problem could get better in the future, and maybe it’ll get worst. Hopefully, people won’t just sit around to wait and see and they’ll just do something about it. They’ll take it into their own hands, their responsibility, for once. We’ll see.

War

I would never choose to join the army. I don’t believe in murder, and yes, I do think wars are like any other murder.

The video didn’t really seem very interesting. Yes, the story was sad, but the photography just made the story seem like a picture book and, in my opinion, some of the pictures weren’t even that good. I do think it is bad when a soldier comes back and suffers from what they endured while in Iraq. The guy in this video was only one story out of many and I see, now more than ever, what war can do to you.

The changes in a person from before joining the army and going to war and after seeing what they saw, is unbelievable. It saddens me that they have to see what they do see and that they can’t ever be the same after it. It must also be bad for a family to have to see a loved one change in such a way.

I hope that many soldiers in the future do not have to go through such a thing and that people will realize that war is no good. Maybe things will change in the far future and for the better.

Swift Movements

Dancing is one of my favorite things to do. Whether it is at a school dance, at a recital, in a class, or just for fun, I find it absolutely amazing! You don’t even have to be good at it to be able to enjoy it. The moving and laughing can put anyone in a good mood!

The type of dance I do is Jazz. It’s so much fun to learn the dances and to enjoy even messing up with friends! Even though you may feel stupid the first time you learn the dance, by the time you have figured it out, you feel PROUD. I like that a lot. I also plan on doing Lyrical dancing. (The only type of dance I don’t particularly like is Tap Dance.)

You also have to be very flexible to be able to dance for the most part. You cannot be stiff or some of the movements will not look right. A big part of dancing is, therefore, stretching. Stretching also helps you relieve stress!

I recommend everyone try to dance, even if it’s crazy looking and just for fun. You will always get a good laugh out of it. J

Before I Die

Before I Die is a book that was written by the author Jenny Downham. It is an incredible book to read and a book I have also recently read. The book is about a girl, Tessa, who has been diagnosed with a form of cancer that is eventually going to kill her. She was diagnosed with cancer at a young age, and now at the age of 16, she is told that she can no longer fight it. She creates a list and, in the book, will try to achieve her list.

 

The book is filled with emotions and definitely pulls you in right from the first sentence. Tessa has a great personality and the other characters also encourage you to keep reading the book.

 

My favorite part was easily the ending. But, of course, I will not say a word about it because I wouldn’t want to spoil it for anyone who may attempt to read it! I do have an extreme urge to explain WHY it is my favorite part though, but I will not do that either!

I wouldn’t classify this book as one of my favorite, which I only have a few, I still think it is absolutely wonderful. You learn a lot about what a cancer patient may go through.

Beautiful Creatures..

I absolutely love to read. One of the most recent books that have caught my interest it a book titles “Beautiful Creatures”. I actually was beginning to get sick of books dealing with unrealistic characters, thanks to the Twilight Series, but I decided to give this book a chance. I’m glad I did because I absolutely love it.

I’ve always wanted to write a book myself and if I were, I’d want it to be as great as this book (even though I would most likely not have the kind of characters they had in my book). If I were to write a book, I could think of a million different things for it to be about.

My ideas:

1.       I like mysteries, so I’d love to write a book with a lot of crazy ones.

2.       A girl who seems normal on the outside at first, but as the story progresses you see another side come out, where crazy things happen.

3.       A girl who discovers there’s a whole other world hidden all around her that she is originally supposed to be a part of but somehow ended up in the wrong place.

I have more, but it’s so hard to summarize my ideas, even the ones above!

Doll Face

I found this video extremely interesting. It's not like other videos you see and it makes you think. At first, I thought this video would be about electronics, television, or history, but after the video actually began, it instantly reminded me of the pressure society puts onto girls.


The girl, or machine, in the video seen a pretty face on the television, so she stretched herself to meet that pretty face. Then, an even prettier face showed up and she stretched herself even farther to reach that one. A third face then appeared, which was the prettiest, and the girl stretched the farthest trying to reach that but found out she couldn’t. That broke her.

Society does this to many girls. They Photoshop pictures and girls often try to match that, which is unrealistic. Many of the girls who do, end up trying to hard and end up hurting themselves in some way (like becoming anorexic). The video was a simple demonstration of this kind of effect society has on the girls.

But I also found the video interesting because it was a weird gray color and the television had color and was the only thing to really make any sound. They put what girls strive to do in a very neat way.

My Summer 2010

A Basic Summer-

For most of the summer, I did many basic things you would expect a teenager to do. I went swimming constantly, since I have a pool, and slept tons! I also spent a lot of time with my family and with some of my friends.

This part of my summer was extremely boring for most of the summer until we finally got into July and August.

Tennessee-

I spent three days in a very busy town in Tennessee with my dad and my sister Samantha. On the main road there were so many events that you could take place in that it was overwhelming! They had bungee jumping, white water rafting, go karts, and many more. We spent a lot of time at the go karts.

While on this main road, you could see the outline of the mountains. That’s where our cabin was. We were extremely high on the mountain and the drive up was crazy! There were steep hills. The view from our cabin was absolutely amazing. We could even see cabins below us! The place was absolutely beautiful.

We also attended the Dixie Stampede. It was amazing to see the tricks that the horses and people could do. The food was also amazing and it was a wonderful experience.

Horseback Riding-

For the last two days of my summer, I went horseback riding with Samantha and my dad in Hocking Hills. The place was called Smoke Rise. They let the horses run around freely on the large property that they own instead of sticking them in barns. I like that the most.

The horses were well trained and very loveable. The first horse I road was Pickle. He had issues with other horses getting into his “personal bubble”. Sam had Fred and my dad had Vern.

The trails were beautiful and they had many animals out there. It was very enjoyable and I would love to go again or maybe even get a horse in the future.