My favorite thing

My favorite thing would have to be my pink fuzzy blanket. Its really big and very warm. I like it because its pink and really soft. I couldn't live without it, because I would freeze at night without it. I got it for my birthday when I was 13 and its been my favorite thing ever since.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama is now our President for the next four years. The significance of this is that he is the first African American ever to be president in the United States. Another significance is that more people voted than ever before. I think it will be interesting to see how all of the American people react to the newly elected president.

Another significance is that history was going to be made either way the vote ended up. Either there would be the first ever African American President or having a woman in Office. Barack Obama also got the vote of some states that were mainly republican, that is also majorly significant.

Election Day

Election Day is important to so many people in this country because it is a very big decision. If our country "goes off the deep end" then it won't be anyone's fault but our own. The presidential elections decide who will run our country for the next 4 years. Who is the most qualified and will lead us in the right direction? There's a lot of pressure on election day.

America's Dependence on Foreign Oil

America depends way too much on foreign countries for our oil. If we would just use our own natural gas we would save so much money. Counting on other countries hurts us individually and as a country. As gas prices soar, so does the prices of the other things we use everyday. High oil prices not only hurts us at the pump, but in our everyday life as well.

America spends more than $200,000 per minute on foreign oil, $13 million per hour, and our country alone goes through 15 million barrels of oil per day. And yet the demand keeps growing. If our country keeps up with this, we will depend more and more on these foreign countries and less on our own country, basically letting the other countries control us.

Our country only has 3% of the world's oil reserves, so we can't completely rely on our country to produce all its own oil. That doesn't mean that we can't cut down on imports and use more of our own. We can make more fuel alternatves, like ethanol, and produce them in our own country.

America gets a majority of our oil from OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), which involves Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela and Ecuador. Basically, we let these other countries control us. We depend on them for our oil, and if they want to raise the price of oil, we have no choice but to agree.

To fix our oil addiction problem, I think we should make more efficient vehicles. Yes, we already have hybrid cars, but more people should be using them. We can also cut down on oil usage by using alternate forms of energy. Oil is used for many other things than just cars. We should focus on cutting out imports and using more oil drilled on our own shores.

my afternoon yesterday

Yesterday, after school, I went with Lacey to do the trick-or-treat for canned goods. I wasn't going to do it this year, but you know.. I'm just really nice, so i decided to help out. So we started and like nobody set out food for the food pantry... We keep going and then all of a sudden I realize my phone isn't in my pocket. Yep, that's right, I've been all over Payson, and somewhere I lost my phone. We went and drove back past the street we just walked over, and we didn't see it. I called my mom and told her, and then we just went on and finished our route for the canned goods. We went back and parked at the street we were on right before I noticed it was gone, and I went one way, and Lacey the other, and Lacey found it. I was so relieved... It was just in the middle of a sidewalk on some road. Now, I have my phone back and don't plan on losing it again soon. =]

EMMA KENNEDY

Emma is pretty cool. I've known her for a long time, way before I came to this school. She is a ditzy blonde, and very funny to make jokes about. We make a lot of jokes about her, but shes so cool cause she doesn't care, she laughs with us! Emma has like 50 sisters (actually 3), and this big dog. She drives a little green honda and doesn't stop at stop signs!!!! She's really funny in Health class because she says EWWWW really loud. She is 16, and she can date now so everyone should get her number, I'll give it to you if you don't have it!!

Volleyball Regionals

Tonight our volleyball team is playing in the Volleyball Regionals in Liberty. We play Liberty at 6, and then we play again right after that. Everybody should come out and supposrt the school's team. I know that a lot of us JV players are going and also a lot of other people from our school. It will be a lot of fun!!