Proxy Sites

As much as proxy sites may seem like bad things, in terms of getting to blocked sites at school, they can be useful. For example, to write this blog from school, I had to use a proxy site. Without the skills of a very teck-savvy person somewhere in the world, this blog would be non-existent. I really wish I knew how to create that sort of website. My "website making" skills are zero. I know nothing about that topic, but it would be sweet if I did. The good thing about proxy sites is that they are always being created. Everyday there are tons of new ones that anyone can get ahold of. So even if teachers block the sites, the students simply keep finding new ones to go to and use.
In a sense, the teachers are fighting a very lost cause. On the other side though, if they weren't blocking any, there would be no cause at all. I don't know about you, but that would be a bit boring for me. If you could just go to any decent site without any "SonicWall" or some other firewall, I wouldn't feel really cool, sneaky, and rebelious when I go to blocked sites. Obviously there are sites that need to be blocked, but others are pretty innocent. I guess it really doesn't make that much of a difference to me either way, but I just thought I'd blog about this topic anyways.

Modern Technology

I really like modern technology. It makes life so much easier and more enjoyable sometimes. It makes impossible things possible. Earlier today I was on Facebook and I was looking for old friends and I know. I've already been able to find tons of people that I haven't seen for 6 or 7 years. It's amazing to see where they're all at now. Some of my best friends from elementary school now live in England, Italy, Japan, Australia, Kenya, Malaysia, and lots of other awesome places. Lots of them live all over the U.S. too. It's so cool to be able to find them and talk to them again. Without things like the internet, I'm pretty sure that that would be virtually impossible. Today I found my best friend from 1st and 2nd grade in Berlin. Guess where he's at now....Orlanda, Florida! I haven't talked to him since the last day of 2nd grade, when we said goodbye and now all I have to do is go to his wall and write "How's it going?" (or something like that). Personally I think that's awesome. Woohoo for modern technology!

Spring

Spring break is coming up in a week! I need a break from school, oofda! It seems like it's been going on forever. But after spring break we only have like 2 months left of school. I mean, yes it's still 2 whole months, but it's great when you put it in perspective of the entire school year. Plus I'll be in track for that time, so hopefully that'll be a way to pass the time faster. And then comes summer. I don't really wanna talk about summer right now actually. For one thing, it's a bit depressing and another thing, I like spring. Spring is my favorite time of the year. Everything is new and smells nice and there's no more snow. Once all the sand clears off the roads, the town looks beautiful again. Such a nice change compared to the yuckiness of winter. Of course, we'll probably still get some big snow storm halfway through April or something, but that's to be expected I guess. I'm looking forward to April all the same. I get to get my license in April! Yes, my driver's license. Yes, so I can drive a car. Yes, by myself. No, not so I can run people over and speed and fun stuff like that. Alrighty well this has been a pretty easy blog to write, now I better get on with my second one of the week.

Wrestling

I went to my first ever wrestling meet on Friday. It was the team semifinals in the state tournament. It was a neat experience and the Xcel Energy Center is really cool, but I wouldn't be upset at all is I was told I could never go again. I'm not that into wrestling...it's kind of a neat sport, but once you see one match, they all look farely similar. Not every single one is the same, some are pretty exciting actually. Overall though, it's not that big of a deal to me. Even though I don't necessarily find the sport super entertaining, I think it's awesome that our team is so good. This town definitely has somethinig to be proud of. It would be sweet to be the talk of the town, the town's favortie people. Although the huge amounts of favoratism are a bit "uebertrieben" or exaggerated. It kind of makes all the other sports feel inferior to the wrestling team. Of course there is a decent reason for that. The wrestling team works really hard and that work pays off. Whether you like the sport or not, our wrestling team deserves a lot respect (at least as far as athletics go).

Lent?

I guess it's that time of year again. It's Lent time. Now, I'm not Catholic, nor have I ever been, nor do I ever plan to be, so Lent doesn't really affect me the same way it affects Catholics. I think giving up something for 40 days is great idea, as long as it's with the right mind set. That's the problem with a lot of "religious" people. They have rules and regulations that should be followed, which isn't a terrible thing. The bad part about it is when the rules and regulations override the reasons behind them. I'm almost positive that if you went around our school and asked all the people that claim to be Catholic why they give up something for 40 days, almost all of them would say "To honor God." That's fine, it's a perfect church answer, it's what they've been taught to say...but if you were able to get them to tell you what they really think about Lent, it would probably be different. I bet the true answer from most students would be "Because I have to" or "Because my parents are making me do it."

I don't mean to be rippin' on Catholic kids, what I'm writing about is for everyone in general. I just used Lent as an example because people can relate to it. If you're gonna do something like give up something for 40 days in order to "Bring glory to God" don't lie about it. If you don't really care about doing it, then what's the point of doing it at all? Again, I'm not trying to attack anyone or anything in particular, I'm just trying get a bit of a point across.