Current Event #4

I read the story Inside Story: The Alleged Extortion of Natalee Holloway's Family by Jeff Truesdell in People magazine. Natalee Hollaway is a girl who disappeared in Aruba on vacation 5 years ago and was never found. This article is about a man Joran Van der Sloot who said he had information on Holloway's remains. He made a deal with the girl's family that he would get paid $250,000 to tell them. He ended up telling them that Natalee hit her head on a rock in confrontation, and then showed them a house that he said her remains were under. The FBI found out that the house wasn't even built yet during the time Natalee disappeared and then Van der Sloot admitted to lying. How ridiculous! After all the emotional damage this family has been through, why would you come out and lie about this? That kills me. I can't believe that they still haven't found her after 5 years and there are still stories going on about it, so incredibly sad. I didn't really like the article just because it made me sad and I just want them to figure out the whole story and find Natalee's body. I just want this family to have some closure in their life, they have been through so much.

senior reflection #4

So for this reflection, I'm going to talk about graduation parties. Wow, there are so many! It's so hard trying to make it to all of them. I'm trying to decide whether or not I really like them. I like them because you get to see a lot of your good friends, get to see some friends you don't get to see alot/haven't seen in a while, get to see a variety of friends, and get lots of yummy fooood. I'm probably going to get so fat going to so many parties eating so much food. Perfect timing, right before beach week.. I like having grad parties for yourself because you get to see all of your friends, get to have the party however you want (usually), and you make bankkk! It's awesome. But it's kind of stressful planning a party and trying to please everyone, it's expensive, and it's so hard trying to go around and say hi to everyone! So now what I don't like about grad parties, is that it's hard to get a card/money to everyone. It's hard to decide who to give money to, because you can't give it to everyone or else you'll go broke. Then if I don't bring them money, I don't know whether or not I should just come empty handed or just write them a card. I feel like they would appreciate cards, but then they're kind of a tease when you open them and there's no money inside. Also, I don't like how awkward grad parties can be. It's just people sitting around talking usually, and a lot of times it's the same people so it gets boring, or it's people you don't usually talk to so it's just awkward. Especially if you're going to a friends party from a different school or something and you have to drive far to get there and you know like one or two people. That's always fun.. You feel obligated to stay and support your friend, but you have no one to talk to and the graduate is off trying to greet everyone. Yeah there are things I do and don't like about them, but I guess thinking about it I actually like them. You're free to come and go as you please, so if it's awkward you can just leave. Got some sweet ones coming up still woo!

Current Event #3

I read the article Khloe Kardashian Keeps Fans Guessing About Baby Rumors by Dahvi Shira in People Magazine. This article is about how people think that Khloe is pregnant, but she won't tell people. She says she won't tell for health reasons. Does that mean she doesn't want to say so just in case something happens to the baby and it doesn't get born? So did she just tell people she was pregnant? I don't know. Pretty much, I really hope she is pregnant. If not, that's really embarrassing that she is that fat that everyone thinks she is two months pregnant.. I liked the article because I hadn't heard about this yet, but I wish it would've been more factual and just not rumors. But I guess that's what People magazine is, it's great!

Senior Reflection #3

Guess whaattt only 4 more days of high school everrrrr! So crazy. They aren't even full days either. I only have one full day left. Then I'm not going on Tuesday, going to one period on Wednesday, and a period or two on Thursday! This doesn't even equal up to two days left, insane! I haven't even been going to many full days lately, so I feel like we should have been out already. These last few weeks of school we have barely done anything. We're just doing final projects that we could have done weeks ago and been done. We have been done with our curriculum for weeks now, especially in our AP classes. I've had a bunch of subs, and we've been watching so many movies. I think these last few weeks are a waste of our time. So many of my other friends from other schools have already graduated. We're like the absolute last ones to graduate. I think June 22 is ridiculous to graduate on, it should be so much earlier. We already have a shortened summer because we go to college earlier than we go to high school. All our other friends get a much longer summer than we do, not fair! I want to spend a long summer with my high school friends before we all leave each other. At least next weekend it will officially be summer, CAN'T WAIT! Just also can't believe it's all over.. sad.