The one question I think people ask me everyday is
“What’s your major?” It seems like everyone want to know what your major
is. Well mine is Childhood Education with a concentration in math. Well I was
going to have concentration in math until I realized how much I really
don’t like math courses. This semester I’m in elementary statistics and I can’t
stand that course. So I’m thinking about changing my concentration to American
Studies, I think that will be something I will enjoy much better. It just seems
like the math courses are going to be a struggle for me. Not that there going
to be hard it’s just going to be a struggle. I think that they’re going to be
really difficult for me to stay focused in. I’ve only had one math course but I’ve
found it difficult to stay focused and do my work. I find myself daydreaming
and dosing off in class. So next semester I plan on taking some courses I will
enjoy more.  While I’m here I would also
like to try and get a minor in business. In high school I took a lot of
business courses and I really loved them. I’m even interested I starting my own
business. I just think taking some business courses will help me and make my
course load more enjoyable.  I would like
to open and run a private preschool after I get my degree so having business
courses would help me a lot in pursuing my goal.

“When our students are connected to a person or a
program, they seem to do better than those kids that are not connected, are
struggling academically and are potential dropouts,” Principal Doug
Williams of Hoover High School said in a CNN article about reinstating
vocational classes into High Schools. I think this is very true. I found from
personal experience that when I was playing sports in high school my grades
were higher than when I stopped. The enthusiasm you have towards school
activity drives you to work hard in school. Some of the complaints about
vocational studies are that the students don’t learn have enough time to focus
on their core subjects. In my high school however all the students that attended
vocational studies were still able to get a regents diploma. So there ha got to
be some way that schools can accomadate students who aren’t looking to go to
college.

I’m from a small upstate
New York town. My school has about 500 students. Here’s the kicker that is kindergarten through twelfth grade. My graduating class started out with 35 and we had 34 graduate. Dropping out is not a common thing in my school. I noticed though that the classes below me had a lot of students dropping out. I read this article and was amazed at the difference in income between a high school graduate and a drop out. A high school graduate makes 65% more than a high school drop out. The article stated that adults in their 20’s and 30’s have a higher drop out rate. Which means that more students are dropping out now then they were before.On the other end of the spectrum though people with a college degree earn 72% more than those with a high school diploma. In the

United States
College degrees hold a lot of weight and are very important to your financial success. The sad part though is that other international countries are moving past the
United States education in leaps and bounds. I think this is a very upsetting statistic. People complain everyday about the outsourcing of jobs. Maybe if the goverment spent more time focusing on the importance of education jobs would stay in the
US. I think this is a very important topic that the goverment needs to stay on top of. Everyone needs to pay more attention to the success of the children around them and stress how important school is.

After searching for about an hour I found a blog site that I am really interested in. Pirates of the Caribbean is my favorite movie and I found a blog just about Orlando Bloom. The news sight I’m sharing is the google news section. I really like this site because you can search the news articles for something that interest you.

“We have our secrets and our needs to confess. We may remember how, in childhood, adults were able at first to look right through us, and into us, and what an accomplishment it was when we, in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the territory of ourselves, there can only be our footprints.”

-R.D. Laing

The Divided Self

As a child lying is virtually impossible. Adults can tell when your lying and when your telling the truth. It’s like they can look into your mind and tell you exactly what your thinking. The first time you get away with lying you feel as though you have outwitted them. That they weren’t smart enough to catch that one. It’s as though you’ve outsmarted the people you look up to and it seems as though you have reached some kind of stepping stone into adolescence. I remember the first time I thought I had gotten away with a lie. I had just broken a Hummel figurine passed down to my mother by her grandmother. I knew that if I had told my mother the truth that she would be very upset. So when she asked me about it I wold her that the cat had knocked it down. She was a little upset but she said OK and simply moved on. My mother always had a way of making me feel guilty though. She was talking to my grandmother about it. She said that the hummel I was supposed to get when I turned sixteen had fallen down and broke. So I knew that she could tell I was lying. So later at dinner I told her that I had knocked it down. She told me that she knew I did. What she told me next is engrained in my brain forever she said ” That lie didn’t hurt me it hurt you, I know you told the lie to get yourself out of trouble. Now you have to deal with yourself and your guilt and sometimes that can be worse than any punishment I can give you.”. I will never forget my mother telling me that. You may get away with lying right away but your guilt is what punishes you in the long run.

Earlier this week the well watched “Crocodile Hunter” was killed unexpected. After watching the video sources say you can see that the stingray attacked him. Moments before Steve’s death you can see on the video tape he pulls the barb out of his chest. The quote bellow states that attacks by stingrays are uncommon, unfortunately the crocodile hunter wasn’t so lucky.

While stingrays rarely attack humans — only three other deaths by stingray have reportedly been recorded in Australia and only 17 worldwide — their serrated, 20-centimeter (eight-inch) venomous barbs can be as lethal as a knife wound in the chest, experts said.

‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin’s death caught on film – Yahoo! News

    This is my first time ever having a blog. So I am just trying to see how everything works. I’m looking forward to starting my blog. So if anyone has any helpful hints to make my blogging experience easier and more enjoyable please feel free to let me know.