The New Year!

This New Year’s I spent with some of my friends. We all went to my best friend, Taylor’s house. There was eight of us, myself, Taylor, Lauren, Morgann, Dan, Mike, Tim, and Josh. Most of them, which I became friends with in 2009. I met a lot of new people in 2009 and is looking forward to seeing them much more in 2010. I am definitely looking forward to 2010, though 2009 was pretty good. I got close to a lot of people this past year, and hope to get to closer this year. In 2009 I made a lot of mistakes and I’m glad that the year’s over, so they’re over too! I know this isn’t like a fresh start or anything, but I’m sure this year will be much better. My best friend, Taylor and I became best friends in 2009, so that’s got to be one of my favorite things of that year. Just a few days before 2010, I had the best day of the year. I went to the NeverShoutNever concert with Taylor, and my friend Josh. It was so much fun, because N.S.N. is my absolute favorite band. I had so many adventures this past year. But I of course, plan to have many more in 2010. I can’t wait for all the school break, and of course summer break! It’s my favorite time of year and it can’t come soon enough. Summer also certifies for me, passing freshman year, and becoming a sophomore. I’m going to miss 2009, but I’m sure I’ll love 2010 just as much, if not more!

Holiday Traditions

My family has a few traditions, which are usually at Christmas time, which we celebrate. By Christmas Eve, all of my sister’s are home from college. Laura, Melanie, Gina, and Jill are moved away. At five o’clock that evening the whole family loads into the van, all 10 of us make our way to church about five minutes away. We go through the hour long mass then all come back home. My Mom finished making lasagna then had us all sit down at the table and eat. A few hours later, we opened presents from the family. My Aunt Diann comes over, who is with us on Christmas Day too. After presents, we’re sent to bed and wait until the morning to open presents from ‘‘Santa.’’ That morning, everyone wakes up and checks out their stockings. After everyone has woken, we all take a seat on one of the couches and my dad will go present by present letting everyone open each of theirs. Then it comes down to the very last one with a big red bow on it. That one is called the “big present.” It’s usually the most exciting, expensive one. After presents are all done, for the rest of the day we just relax, enjoy presents, and eat! This day everyone stays up very late, and just hangs out. We all get to chat about our lives that we’ve been missing out while everyone’s in college. Some may not consider this a tradition, but my family has this time very year, once a year.

The Power of One

I thought the movie, the Power of One was really great. I thought P.K. was a real hero, throughout the whole movie. In the movie, I saw that in Africa there aren’t only black people. There are also Caucasian’s, called Afrikaners. P.K. was not an Afrikaner, but a British boy. Because he was like this, at the private school he went to, her was tortured. I was surprised, when In the Power of One that P.K. was hurt, and beat up for being British. He grew up to be a hero. He was bilingual and could interact with all the races. He stood up for everyone who deserved it, and when he met an Afrikaner girl, Maria that he liked, he didn’t stop just because they were different. I was surprised when Maria and P.K. were in a church teaching the African’s how to read and write and the police came in to kill P.K. and Maria saved him, by pushing him out of the way and was killed herself. I felt so extremely bad for P.K., because he truly loved Maria. And I was really happy towards the very end when P.K. eventually got revenge on Sgt. Botha after the many years of him trying to kill P.K. he got him back, by killing him. Though P.K. was alone, he was set to going to Cambridge University and left on his long journey back to Britain.