Writing for the sake of Writing

Hello to everyone out in blog world.

Today I thought I'd just write about things that have been on my mind.

1. Next week is the last "official" week of classes until Winter Break for a whole month. I am very excited because I really need an extended break from school. It's not that I don't like school, because I do, it's just that everyone needs a break sometime, and I need one now. I am also excited to start a whole new batch of classes next semester. Don't get me wrong, I will miss the classes I have now, but I like new things.

2. My neighbor, Mike, definately should be a weatherman in his next lifetime. He is always telling my mom and I all these random facts about weather. He is affectionately known as "The Weatherman" in my neighborhood. When it is supposed to snow, he runs around the block telling anyone who will listen that it is going to snow. He is quite the character. Yesterday, he told my mom that it is supposed to snow early next week.

Follow up: 12/05/2006: It was flurrying this afternoon at noon on my way home from school, so I guess Mike was right afterall.

3. My high school, Cedar Cliff, is going down a bad road. I recently found out (11/28/2006) that the school received its 7th bomb threat for this year (yes I said 7), there were only 2 total threats throughout the four years I attended the school. My friends and I have spent countless hours trying to figure out how the school could get this bad in only one year.

About a month ago, the school was sponsoring a blood drive with the help of the JROTC program. Two of my friends and I decided to pay a visit to the teacher who was in charge of the drive, Col. Hancock, because we had not seen him since last year, and wanted to say "hi ". We arrived at CC at around 1:00p.m. and went into the front office. I told the secretary that we were there to see Col. Hancock. She told us that we were not allowed to enter the school because we had not made prior arrangements with the school to visit on that particular day, so she sent us away (Note: in years past a student visiting could show up unannounced and get into the school to visit teachers). I knew where the blood drive was taking place because the year before I ran it for Colonel. So, we went down to the doors and got Colonel's attention. He then escorted the three of us to the office in order for us to get into the building. I found this quite ridiculous

In another attempt to make the school "safer," the administrators along with the township police came up with some solutions. First, all doors to the bathrooms must stay open at all times. That just sounds very odd to me. Also, students are not allowed to carry backpacks to class anymore. I do not know if these "fixes" will work in the long run, but we'll see.

I'll keep you posted.

"Carpe Diem!"