R.I.P

Hey Ya'll! So I got home thinking that today was just another day, another boring, mind killing day. Yes I consider it mind killing because we are staring at black and white all day. black and white pages, black and white textbooks and black and white people. Not in the racist way, there are just a lot of flat characters in our grade and I consider them black and white. I thought today was just another day. Then I came home and heard that Nelson Mandela had died today, a few hours ago to be exact. I didn't even know who he was at first, and then I turned on the tv and saw what the news had to say about it. There are no words to describe how much I value this man now. To me, he is more effective than Martin Luther King, and that's saying something. That's in my opinion, of course. If you don't know who he is, he is like gandhi. If you don't know who gandhi is, than you have not understood the meaning of life. Nelson Mandela united north and south Africa and made speeches for what he believed in. He got arrested for standing up for what he believed in and stayed in prison for 27 years. He got arrested at age 50 and got out at age 77. Through his days in his cell he slept on the concrete floor every night. A man in his 70s was sleeping on a concrete floor. You might think that he got bitter after his days in prison. He became one of the best men of all time in prison. I would have this post be all fun and jolly, but I want today to be serious in his memory. My sister says that I will get no where in life and I will have no friends when I'm older because I am rebellious. She also says that I am probably just going through a phase where I am rebellious. No I am not. I am like this and I am like this to stay. Some might say that this is a bad thing, but I just stand up for what I believe in. And I will fight and fight and fight til what is right has been completed. I will show my sister how far I will go in life because I stand up for what I believe in. I will show her and I will show everyone. Because I am not going to be a person who sits back and watches people get hurt. I will not sit back and let myself get hurt. I will not sit back and watch our country fail us. If there is any way I can help my country, or the world, I will do it. No, I am not going to become a soldier. I hate the idea of having a dictator and having to follow their every rule, even if it's wrong. I want to have a voice in the world. And yes a middle-class, Tennessean, student, white girl, may not seem to be anything right now, but if  I try hard enough, and I know I will, I can change the world. As cliche as that sounds, it is true. I am asking everyone, right now, that if you have something you believe in, stand up for it. Do not let it wither and die. Do not leave behind, thinking it is a stupid idea. You saw all of the things Martin Luther King did, you saw the things that Nelson Mandela did (hopefully), you saw everything that gandhi did, you saw what all of these people did, whether it was in a book, documentary, etc., you saw it and you have to see that it is possible. You cannot sit back and watch our world fail. If there is problem, DO SOMETHING. That is the least I can say.
 
You have to hold your own future.


People wonder why I am so different from everybody else. I just don't have that person

Keep Nelson Mandela in your prayers and I dare everyone to stand up for what you believe in and see how far it takes you. To back up my thoughts, listen to Stand in the Rain by Superchick. Bi Ya'll!

Key Cards have no point in life

Hey Ya'll! So today, the head of the middle school and the head of the high school announced that "for our safety" (we all know they're paranoid) that we were going to start having to have key cards to enter through ANY DOOR ON CAMPUS!!! Well, gee thanks heads of school for making our lives so much more annoying. So you might be like the majority of the grade and think, "Well keycards are cool, it makes me feel like I have power" Well, would you like to have to wear a lanyard around your neck, 24/7, while it gets stuck in your clothing and hair? I wouldn't but I obviously don't have a say in this argument. I wear my necklace everyday, but I have it underneath my shirt so it isn't swinging around and in my face all day long. AND I know for a fact that I am going to leave it at home the majority of the time, so I won't be able to get into any classroom, or room, or building, without a person following me around all day. So they are making us where lanyards with the keycard on it and in every entrance to one of the buildings (middle school, highschool, library, Cafeteria, etc.) they are installing security cameras! Do they think a terrorist is going to walk right through our doors with the security guards all over the place, teachers, and workmen, (from the look of them they could definitely kill someone)? I mean REALLY!  They say it is for "Safety Precautions". Yeah, "Safety Precautions", because every terrorist in the world wants to blow up Music City, cause music is definitely a subject to have extreme groups on (please note the sarcasm) No offense to anybody, but If you were a terrorist, you would want to blow up New York City, or LA, or someplace really populated to make more of an affect on the country. Not a city in Tennessee. No offense to Tennessee, of course, because I love it here, and I am a proud Tennessean, but you would pick a more populated place, so the heads of school really don't have much to worry about. Yes it is still a risk, but they are going overboard with the security cameras and the key cards. We already have security guards with tasers and guns in their cars, so I think we're good. Anyway, sorry about that rant, I just think they are wasting their money. Anyway, time for some quotes.

Boring life

Hey Ya'll! So I really don't have anything to talk about. I mean I had school today, normal, I got really really bored, normal, and I ate lunch today and enjoyed it very much, normal. I can have a pretty boring life. There isn't anything interesting thing that happened today so I am going to get on with the quotes.

Bi Ya'll!!

Aren't I smart?

Hey again! So a few minutes ago i was getting my tea. yes i have tea in the evening. i was preparing my tea and I seriously think there's something wrong with me because i forgot to put the water in the mug and i heated the mug on its own. it got really hot and when i got it out of the microwave it burnt my hand. I started laughing really hard, cause that's what I do and my mom was just looking at me like, "What's your problem?" Anyway, now i am typing with one hand while my other one is sitting on an ice pack. I learned my lesson: Don't make tea without water. 

Bi Ya'll!

Happy Holidays!

Hey Ya'll! So I just got back from Norris Lake for Thanksgiving break, and it was wonderful. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and first few days of Hanukkah (if you celebrate it).  The house we stayed in a was awesome, except it took us an hour to figure out the fire place. I stayed upstairs in this attic-like room that had  5 beds. I stayed up there with my sister and we would yell at each other every night, about things like who would turn off the lights, yes we tried to sleep for ten minutes with the lights on cause no one would turn them off. I was supposed to, but i made the point that I was fifteen feet away from the light switch and she was four feet from the light switch. I won the argument of course, because I am very good at arguments and it is in my nature to always have the last word. In that attic room, there were three crawl spaces that could lock. I don't know why though, cause there aren't any supplies in there. Me and my sister were sitting up there and on of them pops open and opens all the way. Really Creepy. But we saw that it was really big and could fit ten people in there. I was just scared that there was an old man that was hiding in one of them and he would kill me in the middle of the night. He didn't though, obviously. So the house we stayed in was a lake house, since it was right off of Norris Lake. It didn't have a boathouse though, and I am so grateful. I am really afraid of boathouses. I know you are probably like, "Wow, she's a wimp!" but I have an active imagination. So when I saw the Amityville horror, and well things happened in the boathouses, not bringing them up because they're sick. When I saw that movie and I saw the scenes in the boathouse my mind automatically thought it was real. That's the annoying thing about my brain. No matter who says it's not real and how long they explain to me it's not real, I'm always going to think it's real. Another annoying thing about my brain is that Advil doesn't work cause Advil is just supposed to make you think that you aren't in pain and my brain's like, "No! You think you are going to trick me?! Try Again!" Yeah it sucks.  Anyway, time for some quotes. This first one is funny cause I know that's what I look like.





Bi Ya'll!