Happy Holloween

On Devil’s Night, it is also my sister’s birthday. Today, she is 25. For her birthday this year, she is having a party. I’m not invited! The reason I’m not invited is because it is a drinking party. She recently got a new puppy and she wants the puppy to stay for the party, but my mom said she wasn’t staying. So, we get to bring my sister’s puppy to our house all night!
On Halloween, we are going over to my sister’s house to see her dogs and her cat that recently had surgery. Then, we are having chili, as we do every year, and then I am going trick or treating by myself. I am dressing up as a lumberjack with a wolf mask and hands. I hope to get a lot of candy I can’t eat because of my braces because my orthodontist company has a candy buy back and I could make a lot of money. One thing I hate about going trick or treating is all the people who don’t dress up and expect to get candy. I did that one year and people got really mad at me. I felt sick inside my hot costume, so I took it off and went as a hobo.
Two years ago, on Halloween, I was trick or treating with my cousin and my brother. I came home to use the bathroom and my mom told me the doctor called. I remember when I felt sick and went to the doctor’s office. I got tested to see if I was sick. My mom said the doctor told her the tests came back positive. I had strep throat. I was upset and just stayed home watching a movie. Two years ago was probably my worst Halloween ever.
I really never thought I would have a bad Halloween, but that year was a bad Halloween. This year I plan to trick or treat for an extremely long time to make up for that year. What really bugged me about that year was that in sixth grade I had strep throat three times. Then I got it again less than a year later? I wasn’t even that sick, I was sort of faking sick but I sort of wasn’t.
I hope this Halloween is great because I can walk far, but my brother can’t walk very far at all. So, I hope to go down my street to 6 Mile, then turn around and go to 5 Mile through Levan. I want to go to the Little Caesar’s on that corner and see what they would give me, if anything. That is my plan for Halloween tomorrow.

Ghostbusters Float

For the Global Education float, the Globies are doing Ghostbusters. When I heard this it made me smile because Ghostbusters is one of my all time favorite movies. My favorite character is Peter Venkman. I like Venkman best because he is so funny and his attraction towards women makes him funnier. Another character I like is Stay Puft Marshmallow, I like Stay Puft because he is a giant marshmallow and that’s all there is to it.

Another thing I like about Ghostbusters is the theme song. The Ghostbusters song is very catchy and is fun to listen to. I also like Ecto-1. The Ghostbusters car is one of my favorite kinds of cars and I also like all the gadgets on top of the car. When I saw the Ghostbusters car at Woodward Cruise, I had to take a picture. So, basically, the car is sweet.

When I started working on the float, I had to cut out the phrase “Who you gonna call Coach Gabel!” The next day I worked on it, I made flowers out of paper which was rather boring but mandatory. On Wednesday, I painted the background of the float. This was actually a lot of fun and I spent a lot of time painting buildings and windows. If you look at the float and see a huge window in one of the buildings, I painted that window as the CEO's office. Not that it has anything to do with the float but I made a painting accident and fixed it by making it huge.

I hope the float turns out well and gets first place. A lot of people spent a lot of time working on the float and I hope it is a success. I had a good time working on the float so far and hope it will be as much fun in later years as it was this year.

Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama recently received the Nobel Peace Prize.Many Americans were shocked to hear this. Obama received the prize for his foreign policies. I found it amazing the in a little less than a year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The only person I heard who said anything good about this was believe it or not John McCain. He said, “We as an American people should be proud our president won.” President Obama took the 1.4 million dollars he received from the prize and donated it to charity.

I believe what John McCain said. I think Americans should be proud that Obama won. I was very shocked; I have to admit that this happened. I personally think, now this is just my opinion but I think Barack Obama should have provided a college football playoff and used the rest for his plan for health care. I think Obama himself was even shocked that he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Americans think that he did not do anything to earn this prize. Well, he won it didn’t he? People should not think that about people, that’s like saying that the Steelers did nothing to win the Super Bowl six times. President Obama said that speech in Africa about how the world must come together and he is handling Iran very maturely. Obama has done much more in foreign policies. George Bush must find that offensive because he never won any kind of big award in his eight years in office and Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in less than a year.

I think when John McCain said what he said, I think he was saying thank you for all the times President Obama said all the nice things to McCain like in Obama’s health care plan. I believe more people need to grow up and be happy our president won. What I don’t understand is people who supported Obama don’t think he should have won and Republicans are disgusted with this year’s Peace Prize. I supported Barack Obama in 2008 and I’m glad he won, but I was extremely proud when John McCain mentioned that statement. What made me mad was Fox News just saying everything that was wrong about Obama winning. They said things like “This is a disappointment, America should not feel proud,” and more things like that. That is what was on my mind a few days after this was announced.
New York Times

iPod Touch

My favorite item that I own is my iPod Touch. I love all the applications, they are so much fun and I could spend hours playing around with them. I love the app of Pandora Radio. On Pandora, you can type in a song you like and Pandora will play songs that have things in common with that song.

Another one that I like is Doodle Buddy. On Doodle Buddy, you can doodle on one of your pictures or on a background and save it to your photo library. It is so cool. One thing I love about my iPod is that I can go on the internet with it. I can go on You Tube and use a calculator. I can also check my E-mail wirelessly. I can buy songs, movies, and TV shows on iTunes from my iPod. I can check stocks, the weather, and even get instructions for a six-pack.

I got my iPod Touch when it first came out and it was $300. It did not come with a speaker so I need to use headphones, that is the only thing I don’t like about it. After I got my iPod, I had to wait a week to get Wi-Fi because my dad was out of town and no one else knew where the password was. When the update to get the App Store came out, I wanted it, I begged my mom to buy for me because I was broke. After about 2 days of begging, she caved and let me buy it. When the update was installing, I was being stupid and unplugged my iPod from the computer, yeah, some genius I am. That’s how I lost all my songs, videos, and so much more.

One of the best, not really noticeable things about the iPod Touch is that it doesn’t scratch easily at all. It has an invisible protective layer of something; I’m not sure what, around it. I’ve had mine for about 2 years and I still don’t really have any scratches on it and I’ve dropped it about ten times.

Getting this time consuming money maker was probably the best decision of my life. This iPod made me want the iPhone more than anything but my whole family has Verizon so I have to have Verizon so I can talk to them for free. If anyone is unsure about the iPod Touch, I 110% recommend it.

First Day

My First Day of High School

On my first day of high school, I thought it would be a mess and it was.

The halls were so cluttered that I felt like I was in a stampede. The cafeteria was crowded, very crowded. The wait to buy food was worth it. The tator tots smelled great, the pizza smelled fantastic, as all pizza does.
When I got my food my friend Kyle said, “You waited that long for pizza and potatoes? They don’t look that good.”

“They are.” I said and put more tots into my mouth. It got silent and I looked around and saw my cousin looking right at me.

“Hey!” He said. I always get those awkward feelings when my cousin is hanging out with me and my friends are right next to me. My cousin doesn’t like my friends and they don’t like him.

“Hey Joe. What’s up?” I asked, my friends just sort of looked down and ate.

“Uhh nothing much, I got to leave Brendan, see you later.” He said and left. As soon as he left my friend Alec asked if that was my cousin. I of course said yes but it still felt like Joe was still there, I jerked my head around and saw the next table, then as I turned back slowly I saw him outside the cafeteria with his friends. I felt my pizza and it was getting cold I hurried up and ate it, it was delicious. Then, I attacked my tators. They were very tasty too, but hotter than the pizza. As soon as my cousin left the awkward feeling never went away and everyone at the table still was dead silent, the rest of the people in the cafeteria seemed to be screaming.

I always hate when it’s silent and nothing to talk about. Nothing is really going on with sports besides football which some of my friends hate. There is nothing to talk about in the news. Then we talked about our schedules and high school, and how I waited so long for my food.

I thought about the lunch I got and, I thought it was worth the wait. When Lunch was over I went back to 4th hour and went through the rest of what seemed to be an endless day.