Winter Break/Christmas

I am very excited for what my winter break holds for me. Alot of Holidays are always around this time of year for me and I tend to get a little excited over it. My birthday is right around the corner, Christmas is not that far away and New Years Eve is right after that. This winter will be a good winter for me because I will be 21 years old and I get to have fun with my friends that I couldnt do before. I get to go to the city and go on vacation with all of my friends. Plus my birthday is right before Christmas so that means double the gifts for me. I love when it snows too. When you wake up every morning not having to worry about rushing for school and what homework you have to do. You wake up in your warm house with a cup of hot choclate waiting in the morning and looking out your front window to see when it will snow. For the past 7 years I have always went to the parks with my dogs when it snowed and they would run around in glory while I would sit there and have snow fights with my sister and friends. Even though I know I am getting older, Christmas time makes me feel like akid all over again. I don't think I could ever grow up around Christmas time because it is honestly the best time of the year.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one of my faviortate holiday's of the year. Its a time where family comes together and to celebrate thanks. Every year around this time my family and I always come together as one big family to forget about everything and just be one big happy family. I love Thanksgiving because you can eat so much and you don't care how full you get or if you gain a few pounds. When this festive holidays rolls around I am always in the kitchen helping my mom cook and plus I have trying to sneak a few bites here and there. Ever since I was little I would always get yelled at because my mom would always find out I was sneaking bites every one in a while. Now she knows that I will eat before we have dinner so now she just makes me a plate before everyone comes over. I love this holiday because I get to see all of my cousins and my aunts and uncles that I haven't seen in a very long time. I get to joke around with my family and just spend that quality time that we never get and plus I am very family oriented and every chance I get to spend with my family I take it.

My First Semester

My first semester at St. Johns was nothing I would have expected. I thought transferring from a Community College to a University would be the same experience. But comming to St. Johns made me learn alot about myself and about the real world. Kingsborough Community College which was the college I had previously attended was not the experience I would have expected. The people that went there and the teachers especially made the experience not so pleasent. I would have liked if the teachers showed alot more care to the students they were teaching. They would just hand out assignments and not explain them at all, and they left me clueless. The students that attended Kingsborough were rude and didn't have an intrest to get to know anyone. Comming to St. Johns I thought it would be the same because we all know when we enter a new enviroment we all tend to a little nervous. But St. Johns changed my perspective on how I portrayed it to be. The people are so much nicer and the teachers show interest on what they are teaching. If they see we are having a problem they will help us better ourselves. I have to say that I absolutely love St. Johns and I hope my stay here for the next couple of years would grow and be a better experience for me.

Music

I have always loved music any type of music for that fact. It wasn't just about the music itself but the lyrics has always moved me and always meant something to me. If you can sit there and listen to a certain song for hours and understand the lyrics and go deep beyond that certain song you can learn alot about life itself. Every song that has been created to rap, country, rock, and pop they all have a meaning behind the songs. I have always wanted to go into the music business, my friend told me she could get me a job at KTU the radio station and I was so thrilled to hear that. Music has always caught my ears. Everytime I have went through a rough patch in my life I would turn the radio on and coincidentle a song that would portray the way I am feeling would just come on, and I would listen to the words and it would give the little goosebumps you get all over your body. Music can be so moving at points but can be so confusing to. If a love song comes on they give you hope that something good will happen when the outcome is going to be bad and you get your hopes up. I know when I listen to music I tend to always compare it to my life. Music I feel is very healthy and if you get a chance to just sit back and relax and listen and understand the words it can truly change your life.

Teen Mom Pleas For Her Daughter

On August 13, 2008 at around 2 a.m. A teen mom who goes by the name Keilani Chaves who is 16 years old was arrested for leaving her 1 month old daughter at home alone with no adult supervision around. Cops said that she left around 2 am and didn't return until 11 am the next morning. She also argued saying that she didn't abandon her daughter at all, she said her mother was home at the time, but wasn't. The deal that was made between Keilani and the courts was that she would have to complete a parenting-skills class within a year. If she completes it in a year the misdemeanor concviction will be dismissed and she will be sentenced as a youthful offender. This is a very serious case to me. The reason why I say this is because you have the responsibility to carry a child for 9 months give birth and yet still be able to leave that child home alone so you can go out all hours of the night. I think it was morally wrong to leave such a young child at young without any adult supervision. Anything could happen at any time and it would be on her hands and she would have to live with the guilt that she left her child home alone. Women should think twice about having children, if they can't handle the responsibility of taking care of a child then they shouldn't have a child until they are good and ready.

Gay Women Being Artificially Inseminated

In on of my recent blog entries I discuss the issues gay people have of getting married and how I tend to deal with some of these issues because my friends are gay. I am now going to discuss the issues relating on women being artificially inseminated and how it affects the people I am surrounded with. Its hard enough for gay women to try and get married and be with that person they want to be with now women are having trouble with trying to have a baby. I think that if that child is going to be loved and be brought up in a healthy enviorment they should have no problem trying to have a baby. For example there was an article that I found talking about how doctors refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian couple for no reason. The two doctors were taken to court and they won the case. They said that is was for religious liberty in refusing to treat them because it was against their religious beliefs. Guadalupe Benitez who was the women that was suing the doctors agianst sexual-orientation discrimination. There is enough problems in the world to begin with and to deny someone from having a child is beyond obsurd. Like I have previously stated in one of my other blogs, I do have friends that are gay and they get discriminated whereever they go. Its morally wrong to deny someone from having a child just because of sexual preferences.

The Aftermath of Halloween

Halloween is the most outrageous day to party out of the whole year. On Friday October 31, 2008 at about 2:00 am a older couple Mark and Diane Dienfethaler were arrested for letting teenagers under 21 drinking alcohol in their Annadale home. Teens who attended this house party were being charged 5 bucks to get in. The married couple were arrested on Friday night after police witnessed teens stumbling in the couples front lawn. The teens were ranging from late teens into their early 20's. When the husband was confronted they acted as if they were doing nothing wrong because it is his house and he felt he had the right to serve beer to minors. Husband and wife both spent the night in jail and are to return on December 15, 2008 and if found guilty they will be sent to jail for year. For me being underage i understand it is very hard to get liquor and teenagers just want to be able to have a good time without getting yelled at when they are doing nothing wrong. I just think that the parents should have been more aware and strict about the situation instead of going about that they did nothing wrong. They should definitely get what they deserve because they have no right to have a party with alcohol being served to minors, because if these kids did get hurt it would be the parents fault automatically.