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Looking Forward, Looking Back

sonnyy701 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:37:25 +0000

I can not believe my four long years of high school are finally coming to an end. I say every year that the school year has flown by but senior year was the quickest. I can remember the first day of senior year like it was yesterday, driving into the parking lot so excited watching all the new seniors tailgating waiting to start our first year on top! I had so many great times this year along with the rest of the years that had already pasted. I can almost finally say I have made it!

This past weekend was the big senior prom. My friends and I had one of the best weekends we have ever had and after it all was over, it finally me that my schooling in high school is over. Once yearbooks come out everyone knows the year is coming to and end also. I officially have four more days left of my senior year.

Looking back, Senior year has definitely been my favorite out of all four years. Senior year has taught me many things in life, especially who I really am. This year I had met new teachers, some of which are my favorites and also made new friends, which I grew closely too. I am glad I was on the tennis team again my last year in high school. I had a lot of fun and met new friends I can count on. I can only wish my freshmen year in college will be as great as this year was for me.

I would have never of made my years successful if it wasn’t for all of my teachers. They have helped me so much and pushed me to succeed. Also my friends are another part of my life that kept me going. Without my best friends, I would not know where I would be going or doing with my life. Thank you very much for everything.

Although im sad high school is over, its time to move on to bigger things. College will be a new nerve racking experience to begin next year, not seeing the faces that you have seen everyday throughout high school, its time to make new friends and experience new things.

With the year coming to the end, I am looking forward to summer. Who isn’t? My friends and I have so much planned that were all looking forward too. From road trips to graduation parties, im very excited to start summer 2009 off right!

St. Patrick’s Parade

sonnyy701 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:44:56 +0000

I really don’t feel like sitting here writing 300 words on something when I can’t think of what to write about. Seeing as I missed the last 5 blogs I should probably do this one. So I guess I’m just going to copy Laura and write about the parade.

Two Sunday’s ago was yet another crowded event downtown. The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade! I can’t say I’ve been going since I was little because my family never took me but I think my first time was in fifth grade with my best friend’s family and have been going ever since. But the past two years my friends and I have marched in the parade. It was very different than watching the parade. Marching in the parade means walking with a bunch of old drunk men wavering to people while on the other hand watching the parade you get to see who and what else is in the parade.

This year I went with Jamie, Jess, Laura Joe and Kevin. The weather was perfect for a parade. I even got sunburn, in March! It was very excited seeing everyone’s reactions especially Laura and Joe’s because they have never gone to the parade before, which was very shocking for me. We all ended up having a good time. Kevin had a great time in his lime green full body spandex suit that caught everyone’s attention. I can’t say that was my favorite part of the day but it was very funny. Kevin was re-named Green man and he was famous for a day with tons of pictures and funny comments that made the rest of us laugh!

My absolute favorite part of the parade and Saint Patrick’s Day is green, everywhere is green. I love how much people get decked out in green from head to toe! It makes people proud of their heritage. I am proud to be Irish.

Writing Territories ll

sonnyy701 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:51:39 +0000

Family

Best friends

Vacations

Summer

Television

The CW

The-n

Websites

Movies

interests

19 minutes

sonnyy701 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:12:47 +0000

For this independent reading groups i chose the book 19 minutes by Jodi Picoult. Of course i choose the long book, so i hope i finish in time. The book first started out with the first three paragraph talking about what you can do in 19 minutes.

“In nineteen minutes you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can laundry for a family of five. Nineteen minutes is how long it took the Tennessee Titans to sell out of the play-off tickets. It’s a length of the sitcom, minus the commercials. It’s the driving distance from Vermont border to the town of Sterling, New Hampshire.”

I like how Jodi Picoult started the book off like that, telling the readers what you can do in only nineteen minutes. It really caught my attention, but after the first couple pages i don’t really like the book anymore. i just read about the characters and the shooting and it just started to get interesting. i hope it doesn’t get dull again. i don’t think i can handle going back and forth boring to interesting, to boring again. I also don’t like the style of writing that Picoult does.

In the beginning of the book, Jodi introduces all of the characters. There is a lot of characters. In my opinion its to much information at once about different characters that are thrown at you that doesn’t make sense. Nothing seems to make sense to me yet. As of right now, i’m a little slow and don’t get the characters so far and how they they related to each other or the shooting. But all i can do it keep reading and hope everything will all fall into place soon!

2008-2009

sonnyy701 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:18:52 +0000

celebrating new years eve!

Two thousand and eight is the year that is passing, it’s sad how we are getting so old. 2008 was the best year for me so far. New Years allows you to forget the past and start over off a clean plate. Even though I regret some things I did and some I didn’t do. These few things made me the person I am this year.

Some people say they haven’t changed over the past year, but I believe I have. I feel as though I’m not my normal self. I have changed both for the good and the bad. 2008 is over and I’m ready for 2009 to start off clean.

This past year was my favorite so far, besides being a little kid where everything was carefree. With everything that went on in my life I have came to realize the ones who matter the most. Throughout the years I have lost friends and gained friends, but nothing last forever.

2008 brought me many exciting events and challenges to my life. Although I’m looking forward to what 2009 has in store for me. So far the biggest and scariest even that will take place would be college. I am so not looking forward to that kind of change yet. Although I am excited for graduation and trying to have the best summer I can with all of my friends before we all part different paths. My only wish for 2009 is to meet new people but also trying to stay in touch with old friends.

This year is going to be a good year for me. This year’s 2009 graduates have so much too look forward this year. Some including graduation, college, senior trips, grad parties, growing up and really start being an adult. Some for what I’m not ready for.

Every year people make new years resolutions and almost never stick to them. In my experience I try making one and never stick to it, there fore this year I have no new years resolution. In general I am going to try to be a better person that I can be.

being pregnant :)

sonnyy701 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:30:11 +0000

Being pregnant usually doesn’t happen overnight. The process takes 9 months but for me and Gina, it happened November 25th at two o’clock. For the final exam for health 2 you get to pick what you want to do. You could do the baby think it over, the empathy belly, a commercial, or anything you could think of. I chose to do the baby belly. I even got to do it the same week with Gina! Gina and I were the first ones to do it this year, so my teachers didn’t know when it was coming. I have been looking forward to wear this belly since I signed up for the class. This week I didn’t care if people were staring.

At first I have to admit I was very nervous to wear this to school with the people I knew, even with people I have never met before. I absolutely hate getting stared at but this project helped me with that. The first day I wore it to school was a day 1 and I don’t talk to anyone in my first block class so as I walked in it was a surprise to everyone. Three girls sitting across from me were staring a lot, as were everyone else. I told jess anywhere she needed to go just let me know, soon enough my phone rang and she asked me to go to the store with her. This week we went shopping a lot to show off my baby belly but saw the biggest fake smile, people taking double takes and just plain out dirty looks.

Although I loved random people I didn’t know staring and the dirty looks, people really believe me that I was pregnant! I also enjoyed telling all my friends that it was their baby. Ooh, Jamie and Jess’ father’s too! Overall I enjoyed the whole project it really taught me that being pregnant is a lot of hard work and that so many people judge you before they even know you.

jamie.

sonnyy701 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:10:19 +0000

Fifth grade is when i met my best friend. She goes by the name jamie. In 2001 is when Jamie, Kelsey and Steve transfered into our school. One day Jamie and i started talking and found out where each other lived. We found out we lived in the same neighborhood, and have our whole lives. Both of us thought it was weird because we probaby saw each other before and never knew it. So it’s a great possibility that that we seen each other before. During 5th grade Jamie and Kelsey decided to look me up in the phonebook to see where i lived, and pay me a visit. So they took ” the dog for a walk” to find my house. It was funny because my other best friends were over, not knowing soon they would become one too! My friends and i were in my backyard when we heard a dog barking. We went to see who it was, and jamie and kelsey were right there.

Jamie and i were best friends in 5th and 6th grade. In 7th and 8th grade, we were on the same team and same bus. We both met new people and drifted away slowly, but Jamie was also part of the cheerleading group. We always had our occasionl hang outs. Right now, we are like we are in 5th grade again.

Jamie is always there for me and i am so thankful for that! ( jess too. ) We both know the only two boys we can always count on is Ben & Jerry. B&J’s ice-cream that is of course! Whenever we have our down days it can always make us feel better! : )

My best friend and i have the stupidest moments together. We think the littlest things are the funniest things. We are always in her car singing and dancing but the one day was different. The car was quiet and nobody was saying anything. A good song came on so at a random part of the song both of us just busted in the song and started singing the same lyric. Once jamie had to pull of the car on the side of the road because we were laughing so hard. Jamie and are always taking pictures and probably have a million weird pictures. This is just one of them!

Whenever jamie, jess and i are togehter. It’s always a good time, no mattar what we do. Us three live at each other’s houses, raid the cupboards, call our parents by their first names and even hit on each others dads! My dad even calls them his adopted daughters. I wouldn’t consideer them best friends. I would consider them sisters. I love these girls with all of my heart. I trust them 100% and i know i can count on them. I wouldn’t want my life any other way. I go my two best friends and thats all i need. ” It’s a flipping Tripod!”

my name.

sonnyy701 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:28:47 +0000

Kathryn ( KATH-rin) is my name and has been for 17 long years. You will never meet another Kathryn like me. My name started off very common in England during the 12^th century. The meaning behind my name is pure, and the origin is Greek. Kathryn can be spelled various ways such as Katherine, and Catherine, but I like the way mine is spelled. Personally I don’t like my name for myself but I do for everyone except myself. Katie is a better name for me.

While my mom was pregnant with me, my great aunt past away, her name was Kathryn. My mom and dad both agreed to name me after her. My grandma past away also when I was 7 months and she loved the name Kathryn. But my mom had planned on calling me Katie. I asked my dad why he named me Kathryn and his response was “because Kellie, Lori, and Megan were taken. It’s because those are the names of my sisters. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only daughter that doesn’t like her name. But my mom picked it and it makes her happy. I heard my name over a thousand times but I don’t think I could ever change it.

When I think of my name, Kathryn, I do not think of myself. In fact I think of one of my best friends. She shares the name Kathryn with me. Our names are even spelled the same. When it comes to our name, she is the opposite of me. I hate when people call me Kathryn, I prefer Katie. While on the other hand, she hates when people call her Katie, she prefers Kathryn. Although we both agree that we hate when people call us Kathy. So a bunch of our friends began to call her Kathy because she hated it so much, the funny thing was that it stuck for a while.

Kathryn is the 163rd most popular first name. It’s not that popular but that’s alright with me. I wouldn’t like a super popular name. A few people that share my name or nicknames would be Katie Holmes, Katharine Hepburn, and Kathryn Morris. All these form of Kathryn’s are all actors. In the United States by its self there are 357,669 people with the name Kathryn, and I am just one plain individual with the name Kathryn.

The American Dream.

sonnyy701 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:43:25 +0000

To some people the American Dream would be best described as when “people succeed through hard work, and have the potential to live happy, successful lives.” Although every person will have their own viewpoint based on what they want in life. People back in the day would think of a dream of owning land, and having a big farm to take care of but things have changed since the stone then. People now a days want wealth or a family. I think most people want out of the American Dream would be happiness, along with other things as well.

While i was researching i came across a picture of the Statue of Liberty. In the caption below the picture it said that the statue shows freedom and personal Liberty. Lady Liberty is an icon of The American Dream. I never knew this before and thought it was something interesting to share with everyone.

Speaking of the Statue of Liberty, when i think of this icon, i think of Ellis island, and how many immigrants came over from that little island. Immigrants come to the United States for many reasons. I think the two main reasons are jobs and freedom. Immigrants come to be cheap labor, looking for any type of freedom they can get. Not everyone thinks illegal immigration is such a great idea. Even though these people are just looking for the same thing everyone else is looking for, the American Dream.
I think the American Dream is achieved by doing whatever you want to do in life. Life is short, live it to the fullest! I don’t have a very big dream, maybe compared to some people, but i want to start a family, have a job that i enjoy and successful at. Also live a long happy life! : )

jessica.

sonnyy701 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:20:49 +0000

My best friend from way back in the day.

First grade is where i met my best friend. Although we knew each other in kindergarten too. Jessica is her name but she also goes by Jess. To this day, we still wonder where we actually met, she was not in my class but the class next door. Jess lives around the corner from me. Exactly 10 houses and around the corner.

We still live near each other to this day and i love having her so close. By second grade we got closer and she was in my class this year! And again for 3rd grade. Unfortunately, fourth, fifth and sixth grade we didn’t have the same class. Seventh and Eight grade we weren’t on the same team, but we had the bus to see each other. My two best friends and i used to sit three in a seat. During middle school there was a few of us girls that were all friends that did cheerleading for the town. We all got a little closer because of that. Jess and i still talked freshmen year although we never stopped talking but just drifted in our own separate ways. But look at us now Senior year. Hopefully we will stay close next year because were both going to college around here, where we grew up together.

One thing i remember about Jess when we were little, was playing in my basement on this one chair. We used to push the arms out and both of us fit in there like one adult would. I f we were to sit in it today, she would be sitting on my lap. After we would get comfortable, we would rock back and forth and count, 1…2…3…! and push back at the same time as hard as our little bodies could. We would flip back on the chair and do a backwards cumer-sault. We used to think it was the funnest thing ever, but hey, we were kids, you have to make your own fun! I also remember playing Barbies all the time together too. Jessica Lynn is my partner in crime. And as we would say, ” 12 years down, forever to go!’