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Freezin' For A Reason.

Last Saturday I participated in my first Polar Bear Plunge. Let me just say, if you’ve never done the plunge, you should definitely check into it next year.

First off, you get to pick your own team. A few of the girls from the softball team got together and we made our own team. There was four girls from last year’s varsity team, a few from last year’s jv team, and a few freshmen that have been coming to workouts this year. It was great getting to know everyone. It was even better since it was not a school event, so school rules didn’t apply. I mean, we didn’t do anything stupid or illegal, but when the pressures of school rules aren’t on your shoulders, the real side of a person comes out easier.

Also, this whole event is for a great cause. All money raised went to... Read More

L is For the Way You Look at Me

I have to admit, I'm not positive what love is. Sure, I've said I've felt it and used it in the casual manner most teenagers abuse but I'm talking real love: cold, hard, undying affection. I have gone knee knocking, palm sweating nuts over guys but have certainly not been in love yet. Celebrity crushes have always been widespread, spontaneous, and very assorted, including Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and a wonderfully lanky Conan O'Brien. I never claimed to be normal, but I digress.

My problem is that, at sixteen, I can't wait for everything to happen. I want it and I want it NOW, Veruca Salt style. What I don't understand, I've come to realize, is that there's so much time left for love. Now is the time to have unselfconcious fun with friends and family and enjoy th... Read More

in love?

Looking around all I see is my room. I’m alone and I don’t want anyone around me. Tears running down my face has scars and is very red and all I think is why me?2 hours earlier my grandmother was beating me and all I could do is cry, if it wasn’t for my dad she would have killed me. I know she loves me and doesn’t want to do that but she was just filled with so much anger and so much disappointment that all she could do was hit me and make me learn from my mistake.
It all began when I started dating a boy named Ian. We had met in elementary and we had known each other for a while now so we were no strangers to one another. In middle school he moved and we stopped talking. We met again at our middle school Bret Harte. He was skating and so was I. As I was riding I noticed a fam... Read More

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"Policy Change: Foreign Aid is not the answer so what is"

If I could effect political or social policy change in the United States on one issue,it would be the foreign aid policy. I recently have learned a lot about the problems Africa faces with poverty through discussing in my World Geography. The U.S. has over the past 50 years , spent over $1 trillion dollars, that is 1,000 billion, and in 2010 that amount is only expected to increase. Most Americans, when asked, would say that they want the U.S. to be an active participant in foreign aid with country's that our less fortunate. Celebrities like Bon Jovi and Angelina Jolie have talked about the need for an increase in the amount of foreign aid America gives Africa in hopes that they can finally rise out of poverty. The question is are they right; if foreign aid is not the answer what is.
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