Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

This year to ring in the New Year I went to a party that my friend from dance was having at her house. The party started at 7:00 and did not really have any specific time that it was supposed to end, so of course I stayed up supper late with a bunch of my friends having a great time and playing games.

At the party, my friends and I played truth or dare, ghost in the graveyard, and my favorite Apples to Apples. Each one of these game lasted at lest 2 hours each, we did not have to think of a new game to play until about one o’ clock in the morning.

When my friends and I stopped playing games for a little wile to watch the ball drop, I tried to think of what was some of the best things happened to me in 2009. I immediately thought of my trip that I took to Las Vagus with my dad in July. This was the best vacation I had ever taken other then when I went on a cruse to the Bahamas, and I hope to go there again soon.

I also thought what I would look forward to the most in 2010 and I am looking forward to well what my next vacation. I am not sure what it will be, but whatever my dad will come up with I am sure it will be awesome. I am also looking forward to turning fifteen on July second.

This year I do not really have an official new years resolution but I do have the one I have every year and that is to work as hard as I can in school and to eat healthier then I did last year.

Christmas Traditions

Christmas Traditions

Christmas is my favorite time of the year, not only because you get awesome presents, but also because everyone just seems to be happier witch in return makes me happy. I especially enjoy spending time with my family because my brothers are always goofing off and making me laugh, and what can I say I really enjoy laughing.

Every Christmas Day my brother’s, and sister-in-law’s come to my mom’s house and we all open presents, play games, and eat dinner. Almost always everyone will stay supper late because everyone is having so much fun.

When everybody arrives at my mom’s house we open gifts, this year my mom made a game with opening gifts by labeling a large present for someone and then when they open the gift there are actually other presents inside it for other people. This game with the presents can get really confusing even though it is so simple.

After everyone is done opening presents my two brothers’ and I go down in the basement and play Wii, X-Box, or any other games we got for Christmas. My brother’s and I could play for hours and it only feels like a few minutes passed by, then my mom will come down and announce that dinner is ready.

Christmas dinners in my family have to have mini-hot dogs. My family just loves them! My sister-in-law’s don’t eat them very much, but my brothers and I just devour them. But our dinners consist of other foods to of course, we also have Honey Baked Ham, Chicken, Cookies, and other foods as well. But whatever we have for dinner on Christmas is always guaranteed to be delicious.

The Power of One

The Power of One

The movie “The Power of One” was very eye opening and emotional for me. It made me realize how bad the apartheid really was in South Africa and how many people were affected by it.

The main character in “The Power of One” is a boy named Peekay. The movie showed the life of this fictional character during the apartheid and emphasized on the parts in his life that were the hardest for him, witch for Peekay was most of his life. There were many parts in the movie that were hard for me to watch, most of the parts that were hard for me to watch happened when Peekay was a child. One of witch is when a group of Afrikaner boys at his school tied him up and tried to kill him just because he was an English boy.

“The Power of One” reminds me a lot of the movie “Hotel Rwanda” that we saw in Global Ed earlier on in this semester. Like in “Hotel Rwanda”, how cruel some people were to others surprised me greatly, epically since before I saw this movie I did not think that the apartheid was as harsh as it turned out to be.

Before I saw this film I imagined South Africa to mainly be inhibited by black Africans and not to have many Dutch or British inhabitants in it, but I was proven to be wrong after watching “The Power of One” because it turns out that South Africa is very diverse with different ethnicities.