To Drive or Not To Drive?

How many of you out there have an older sibling? Quite a few of you do. How many of you have an older sibling that is over the age of 16? Quite a few of you do. How many of you have an older sibling, over the age of 16, that still doesn't have their driver's liscense? Not so many of you. My older brother is going to be turning 18 in less than a month and still only has his permit. Most of the time, this doesn't really bother me. I could care less if he's driving around or not. Sometimes though it is rather bothersome. After awhile you get sick of having your parents drive you or you start feeling guilty about always asking others for rides. Those are the times that I wish he could drive. I mean really, I'm going to get my liscense within 6 months of him getting his. I guess it's kind of neat, sort of a brotherly bond, being able to drive at about the same time, but sometimes I just wish he could hop behind the wheel to give me a ride. He's not incompetent though, mind you. He's not that bad of a driver, he just hasn't bothered to get his liscense yet. He'll probably be getting it with a month or two and then all my problems will be solved. Well, not really...

Snow!

It snowed today! Hip Hip Hurray it snowed today! Not only did it snow (and continue to snow), but it's sticking so far! I tried making a snowman, but there just wasn't quite enough snow for that yet, so I just had to settle for snow angels. I'm not exactly sure why I'm always so excited for the first snow, it's not like we never have snow in Minnesota. I guess there's just something about that first time... however, by the end of winter I'm sure i'll be wishing for the snow to be gone. But for now... Hip Hip Hurray!

Biology...

You know something that bothers me? Biology class. I could go on and on about my problems with that class, but it's late and I'm just trying to get my two blogs in for the week. I really dislike biology class. It's not really the people in the class, I like them, but the material we're forced to learn and the way the teacher throws them on us. I know that I am not alone on this issue, I have many friends who have expressed the same opinion. Just to put this out there for a little perspective as to where I'm coming from, I'm a Christian. I try and follow Christ and to live my life in a way worthy of him. One thing that I feel strongly about is that His word is true. That is why I feel very contradicted when I enter into my biology classroom. I'm not saying that Christians are the only ones that might feel a little disturbed about all this by the way. In there we are supposed to learn about how the Earth "came into being." Or about how us humans evolved from globs of goo. Nothing personal (or actually, yes, maybe it is something personal), but I think that anyone that thinks we evolved from goo, has problems. Seriously...goo...wow. If you think about that, it's kind of sad...And the "Big Band 'Theory'", what a load of crap. The whole universe, everything there ever was and is, simply created by a big bang of nothing!? Yeah right! You can't just take a brand new, never-before been opened lego set, shake it and hope that the set will somehow be perfectly put together. If you think that...for one you have the knowledge of experience of a 2 year old, and for two you have a LOT of faith. I really don't know what that sort of faith would be in, but it doesn't seem very intelligent. Oh yeah, intelligence...That's another thing. If it's called the "Big Band 'THEORY' ", then why is it taught basically as a fact. That doesn't make sense. Most biologists or biology teachers (however nice of people they may be) always seem to think that they are right. And the way I see it, for them to be "right," they should have to explain other "theories" of creation of "evolution" if they want to present the Big Band Theory. You can't just explain one "theory" and not explain or talk about any others...that's just plain stupid...think about it.

Just to put this out there too, I repect everyone with their opinions, even if I don't respect their acutal opinions. I'm sure I'll write more about this issue over the course of the year, but I just thought I would lay some stuff out right now.

MSN Messenger

Do you remember when MSN Messenger was the coolest thing ever!? Back in the days of junior high it was the thing to do. I myself first got it at the end of 7th grade, though I felt like I was one of the last ones to get it (and maybe I was). Everyone would talk at school about the conversations they had had and how neat it all was and I was really glad when I finally could join the loop. I remember the first words were typed to me after I said the infamous "Hey" to a friend were "You can talk!" I was pretty excited at that point and thought that I was one of the coolest kids in school. I used MSN for all of our 8th grade school year, I was obsessed with it! But then the next summer it started to die...nobody was going on anymore. Early in the school year last year I pretty much completely gave up on MSN. Now I go on to check who's on for the heck of it about every 5 months or so. I don't talk to anyone anymore on it, but I always think back to the days of craze about MSN. I guess everyone's just moved on to bigger and better things, although, personally I thought it was great then. Actually I haven't gone on since last winter and after writing this, I think I'll just have to go and check and see who's on...I'm getting kind of excited about that for some reason, so I'm gonna end this blog right about....now.

Det is'n biskel anders...

Ja, ja, ich weiss. Ihr konnt meinen neuen blog nicht lesen. Ich weiss auch nicht ob dass fur mein Lehrer geht oder nicht. Trotzdem schreibe ich diessmal in meiner zweiter Sprache. Zu mir ist es ein bisschen komisch dass vasst keinen anderen Studenten noch 'ne Sprache konnen. Ausser vielleicht ein madchen mit dem ich Freunde bin, denn Sie spricht drei. Genau! Drei! Und ich dachte zwei wehr schon gut ha! Naja, ich hab noch'n biskel zu lernen. Mein Deutsch ist schon auch ein rustig geworden. Deswegen wurde es nicht so schlecht sein, wenn ich wieder nach's Vaterland umzog. Dass wehr aber traurig, denn ich mag es hier. Ein Teil von mir will nicht zuruck gehen, aber ein anderen Teil will. Ich wurde alle hier sehr vermissen, aber ich wurde auch viele neue Freunde machen. Es wahr auch nicht das erstes Mahl dass ich umzogte. Es wurde mein drittes Mahl sein glaube ich. Pah! Was glaube ich, ich weiss es! Ich weiss nicht mehr was ich schreiben soll also mach ich Schluss.

blogversity

At first, I didn't think that I would like the idea of having to blog twice a week. I still think that it is somewhat of a hassle, but not as much. Over the past couple weeks, I have aquired a sense of joy that was unknown to me before. When I check out someone elses blog, I get a chance to take a little peek at them from the inside, who they really are. It's amazing how some people can be very outgoing in real life, but don't have as much of a knack for writing and how others can be really shy, but great writers. Obviously there can be outgoing people that are good writers and shy people that aren't as great, but it's just interesting to see everyone in the same boat. Everyone has to (or gets the opportunity to) blog, whether they like it or not. Seeing how some of our classmates can take simple subjects and make them in to very entertaining pieces to read is something that makes my day. Even if you're not one of those people who enjoys reading and writing blogs, that's fine. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. So if you are always dreading having to blog because you think your writing isn't audience-worthy, just do it anyways. Write whatever you want to, whatever floats your boat.