Old Friends, New Friends
This year I have made a couple new friends but I am still friends with most the same people I was before high school. I’m really glad that I have a lot of my good friends in almost every class. Some of them are even in two or three classes!
SHS Activities Attended
So far this year I have gone to a couple of different activities. I went to the Freshman Dance and had a really fun time! I also went to the Welcome Back Dance, but it wasn’t as fun at the first one.
Funniest, Weirdest, Scariest Moments
Well a couple of weeks ago at dance the weirdest thing happened! My friend Dana Yordy was in the corner and saw a huge spider and screamed really loud. The stomach was about the size of a quarter and she smashed it with a CD case that was lying out and like thirty little spiders went all across the floor. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Also at dance, at our competition team auditions, something really funny happened. I was sitting around with a couple of friends and my friend Jaycie knocked over my can of pop and spilt it all over my shoes and my clothes that I had. Every time I have a can of pop over by my stuff and she’s there I have to warn her to be careful!
Hardest, Easiest Class and Assignments
I have to say that one of the hardest assignments so far was the one in history where we had to write on culture. We had to pick five topics of culture and write about it giving examples from Australia. One of my hardest classes is accelerated Geometry. I get so much homework every day it’s unbelievable!
Top Five Current Events
Some top current events are: 1. How the Swine Flu has spread and killed many children so far in the United States. 2. Typhoon Ketsana that struck the Philippians and Vietnam. 3. Rio de Jeinerio getting 2016 Olympics. 4. Three people died while running the marathon this past weekend. 5. Michigan public school budget cut problem.
Faces in the News
Some faces in the news would be, Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Hillary Clinton for meeting with Dimitry Medvedev which is the president of Russia.
Interesting New Words
Some interesting new words that I have learned this year include, luxuriant, loquacious, jubilant, and inquisitive.
Popular or Memorable Songs
This year Taylor Swift song, “You Belong with Me”, has become very popular and has been played constantly on the radio. Some other popular or memorable songs this year are Party in the USA, and I got a feeling.
Popular or Memorable Movies
Recently the movie Paranormal Activity came out and apparently is really good. I haven’t seen it yet but I think I might with some friends because of all the good things I hear about it.
Rumors or Gossip
Most of the rumors or gossip I have heard this year has been from my dance studio. A lot of people are involved with school sports and that’s fine with my teacher but they haven’t been telling anyone where they are. Since we’re starting a new competition season, we need to have people there to learn our dances. Also at dance we have been talking about how my friend got moved into the senior small group lyrical (the good one) instead of me and a lot of people think that I deserve to be in there instead of her. I’m considered the “princess” at the studio because I’m like the owners second daughter. I that’s because I am like a sister to her daughter Alyssa. She graduated this year so I have kind of filled in the place for her.
Fads and Trends
Most trends have been the same for a while but they do change once in a while. Hollister, Abercrombie and Fitch and American Eagle are pretty popular stores that follow the fashion trends. I usually shop at these stores. Skinny jeans and Uggs are really popular this year.
First Cultural Event
For my first cultural event I went to my Aunts house to learn how to make Pierogi. I spent a couple of hours there learning how to make the dough and the filling and how to make them into the shape that they are. I had a lot of fun learning to make them with her that day.
Homecoming!
This year the homecoming them has to do with Halloween and spooky things. Today is the homecoming game and I’m going with some of my friends. Tomorrow is homecoming and I am really excited! I know that I will have a really good time.
Advice for Freshman
Some advice for freshman would be to remember your locker combination and don’t lose it. A couple of my friends lost the sheet with their locker combos on it and they had to pay twenty-five cents to get it.
What I looking Forward to…
I’m really looking forward to Homecoming tomorrow! I also can’t wait for the dance competition season to start! My solo is really good this year and has a good chance of placing in the overalls this year! Last year I got fifth in the thirteen to fifteen category but this year I am hoping to get first.
Other Noteworthy Achievements
I haven’t got many achievements in school but at dance I have done really well and have placed in the top five at dance competitions. Basically that is all.

Culture, Culture, Culture
As an American Citizen I would have to define American Culture as a way of living and how we as Americans celebrate and do things. Culture is basically the way people live. American culture is made up of several smaller cultures put together over time. There are several different ways that us Americans do things different from other cultures, such as our holidays. Here in American we celebrate almost every holiday you can think of from Christmas to Independence Day and ever George Washington’s Birthday. While in other cultures they may focus on just their own religious holidays, America has freedom of religion which lets us celebrate based on our religion. Another way to describe American culture would be based on the foods we eat. In America we eat a lot of fast food including hot dogs, hamburgers and French fries. For an example, in Spain, there cultural/ ethnic food would be paella and tortillas. Two adjectives that would describe American culture would be accepting of others and mostly an optimistic country with a positive outlook.
My culture as an American teen is very similar to my family but maybe not other teens and their families in other countries and right here in Livonia. My family is catholic so we go to church and celebrate Christmas and such while other people right here in our society may celebrate Hanukkah and Ramadan. As a teen, my culture differs from other age groups, we like to text and talk on the phone, and most all of us have a Facebook or Myspace. Back when our parents were little, they didn’t have all these things we did and they really don’t do it now. In Africa, kids don’t do these things either because in their culture, they don’t particularly have the technology that America does. My culture and experiences I have to say are very similar to most kids, we may be of different ethnic back rounds but most all do the same activities and the same things.