scuba diving.

this summer, i got my scuba diving license. my dad was already certified and he wanted me to get certified and i thought it might be rather neat so i did. i had my checkout dive during the summer, which is essentially a test to put all the skills  i learned as a diver to the test. there were a multitude of tasks i had to perform to show that i knew what i was doing including taking off mask underwater and clearing it and what not.

i got to dive a wreck when we went diving as well. it was in florida and we had two dives. one was the wreck and another was some big sunken military equipment. i saw a variety of sea life including some things I've never even heard of before, which was awesome. it was quite an experience and I'm looking forward to doing it again in the future.

world analysis paper.

so, last week we started working on our world analysis paper. i was, and still am a bit stressed about this because i didn't think i had enough research about my topic. my topic is how iran and iraq have and effect on the rest of the world. i spent my 150 minutes working on this and i got closer to writing my paper.

I spent quite a bit of time just gathering more research which, as i said before, i didnt have much and i was stressed over it. I didn't have very many sources to begin with so i got more and i am continuing to gather more research and make more notecards to help me out. i worked on my thesis as well, trying to make it sound good although the majority of my time was spent on research.

stuff going on in life.

I have recently been rather stressed about school. There are some things outside of school that are stressing me out. One of these is my grandmother being ill. She is very sick right now and I'm quite worried for her. She has lots of things going on with her such as bone cancer, which is quite scary. She means a lot to me, i hope everything turns out well.

I am also a bit stressed with school right now, partially because of my grandmother and just all these projects and what not. Im having a bit of trouble keeping up with all the work but i think i can manage. Is there any way to help relieve stress? what can i do to help this?

The Mist.

I recently started a new book called, The Mist, written by Stephen King. It takes place in a small town in Maine and revolves around a family that lives on the outskirts of the town. The father of the family decides to go into town with the families son to go to the market. The mum stays home while she says she is going to clean up after a big storm that came through. There is something strange though, the son sees a giant cloud of a mist or fog like substance that is nearing rather quickly. What is with the fog? It must be important, after all, the book is called, The Mist.

The son and father go to the market and they start grabbing a bunch of groceries and a bunch of other people are in there as well. Why are there so many people in the store, i wondered. That question was soon answered when the people in the store start having conversations and they say they heard something on the radio about a thick fog rolling in, so they are stocking up on goods and essentials and what not. Thats as far as i got, but I wonder what is going to happen next.

Times:
Pg. 1 - 20 1hr.
pg. 20 - 50 1hr. 35 min.

the national championship.

I never have been a football fan. The rest of my family are always outside watching football while I'm sitting inside doing something else such as playing video games or drawing or what not. I know everyone was bummed because LSU lost the national championship to Alabama, although my family was quite happy about it.
My mum and dad have always been Alabama fans. When they won the championship this past year, they were overjoyed and my dad is still stoked about it. All of his friends have always been teasing him about how Alabama was going to lose and what not but when they won, he couldn't wait to go to work out at Foxy's where a bunch of his friends are and talk about the game.

The Shining.

So, I finally finished The Shining, by Stephen King. I stopped reading it for while and then started it again. The end was quite good. Through out the story, there is tension building up between the main characters. The family that is care taking for the Overlook Hotel is slowly being corrupted by the evil that lurks within the hotel itself.

It isn't so much the whole family that gets corrupted, as much as it is the father. Jack Torrence is perfectly fine at the beginning of the story, but towards the end of the novel, he is corrupted and bloodthirsty. He wants to kill his family and it isn't so much that he wants to as it is the evil that possess' him. He doesn't succeed in the demise of his own family, although the demise of himself is what was to come.  As his son and wife escaped the hotel, he was plotting to chase after them. He wasn't able to carry out this plan though because the hotel then blew up. It blew up because at the beginning of the story, he had to put water on the furnace to put it out and then he forgot about it and the hotel blew up and brought him with it.

resolutions.

Well, last year i did rather well in English class. I certainly didn't do as well as I hoped I would although I will be sure to perform much better this semester. Now that I know what is expected of me and know what is coming, I believe I will do better. Last semester I had quite a bit of trouble keeping up with all the work, and it was rather overwhelming and I got somewhat lazy. This new year though, I am going to complete all the homework and classwork to the best of my abilities.

I know that I always tell myself I'm going to make resolutions in the new year, yet unfortunately, that doesn't always go as planned. Probably my biggest goal for this year is to not procrastinate. I know i say this, yet as I'm typing this blog, I have waited to the last moment to do so. This is what I'm attempting to work on.