This week went by really fast. I Coul...

    This week went by really fast. I Couldn't believe it is friday night already. This week was pretty fun considering that i had lots of skate time this week. Today's skate day was pretty nice. We went to the landing on bayfarm then san joes after that. There ground was pretty smooth and had no one bothering us so it was awesome. I tried to ollie their trash can but it was way to big for me to make it. The times i did go over i threw my feet out for some odd reason, i think it is out of fear that i might slip. We also tried to hippy jump the bench. My friend was the only one that could make it over. When i tried it, my board would pop up. I have no idea how to keep it under you while your jumping. I met this one guy today and he was pretty cool. Had some nice tricks but i lost on easy tricks that i bailed on because earlier in the day i feel really hard on my back and it was not a smart idea to skate after that but i still did. Even though i got some regret about it, i still had fun skating the whole day.

    This week i got boarderlands for the PS3 and so far it is really fun and it is keeping my awake all night. What i like about the game is that your in a really big map just going around killing people and you don't have to follow the story line. The reason i wanted to get the game was because the preview of it was well done and gameinformer gave the game a 9.5 which happens rarely after their scoring system got stricter. I would recommended this game for everyone that enjoys first person shooters with a little bit of RPG in it.

It is almost two months off school al...

    It is almost two months of school already but it only feels like the first month. When we did the SAT essay in class i, i was just freely write but i think i got off topic a little bit so i am not sure what grade they would have gave me on that. Even though stuff was just coming to my mind about the topic i did not feel that i did well on it, but it only a practice on so i am not over reacting. I also feel that my spelling was bad on it so that would have lower my grade even more. I was able to relate that stuff with skateboarding which was the reason stuff just popped up in my mind.
    I am excited for this weekend because i am going to watch paranormal activity tomorrow with a group of friends. Even though it is a scary movie i really want to watch it for some odd reason. I heard mixed reviews about it to so i am going see it for myself. Some people said that it is one of the scariest they have seen but others say it was not even that bad except for the end. It was hard to get someone to buy our tickets and go with us so we could get in but it all worked out and some how there is 17 people going now which in my mind is hella people for a movie group. It started with 9 people so it is ridiculous on how the numbers went up so fast.

    Today's skate sessions was alright. I have finally decided that i needed to switch shoes becasue my nikes are died after skate in them for a while now. I also would want a new deck because the tail is getting flat and my foot keeps slipping off which makes it hard to skate and it also lost it pop so everything i do now is hella low to the ground. The only problem is that i don't have any credit card to order it and my dad is not letting me use his because he thinks i am spending to much money on skateboarding.

This week was

This week was pretty bad. I was freaking out bout my grade because the
blog that i typed last friday, i didn't post it as i thought i did so
it dropped my grade 19 percent or so. I had and APES test on wednesday
and it was pretty hard and i got a C on it which disappointed me. The
only good things that happens this week was a good session on tuesday
and wednesday afternoon. Today's skate session was really ugly and bad
for my arm. I tripped on a rail about 3 feet of the ground and land
with all my weight on my palm and it really banged up my arm. After
that happen my i had to use my shirt to compress it, and i started
skating again. When it stopped bleeding i feel again and scarped a
bigger hole it it starting stinging like crazy and it did not look to
good. I was not doing to well in skate either so that did not make my
day any better. I meet new people today while i was skating at alameda high who i think go to school at lincoln middle school. One of the things i am looking forward to is watching Paranormal Activity because it seems like a good movie even though i heard that people where scared as hell and some couldn't sleep for a while after seeing it. What was unbelievable was that some left the during the middle of the movie since they couldn't handle it. I also found out that i am going to the Haunt thing at Great America on the 30th with my friends and we are going be out there tell 12 because there is going to be a big event happening which seems fun I heard that they give out a hella candy so i can't wait.

 

This week went by pretty slow and was...

This week went by pretty slow and was not really fun. Today skate session was pretty bad considering i almost pulled my right cab muscle. The two subs i had today were pretty weird so school was pretty dole. I had 3 tests/quiz that i took today. Two of them where pretty easy but the ap physic one just killed me. Even after school ended most of the class was still taking the test when i left. In APES we started our 5 bottled eco-column. I looks to be a long project because we are working on it for 10 to 12 weeks and taking data on it bout once a week. My group did are first observation today while we pured the distilled water in to the top of the eco-column. When that water got to the aquatic camber, it was no longer clear and was a pee colored water. I am really looking forward to this experiment because i am going to get to learn more about how the eco-system works and renew it's resource and how the measurement of different things change over time. I am also looking forward to getting to know my group members more because i barely knew their name before we started the project and it is always nice to meet new people, and work together with people that are not part of your race because it interesting see if some stereotypes are true or not. One of the highlights of this week is the the video of that black and asian women fighting on the bus in San Fransisco, it kinda proved that not all black people are a mean and aggressive and that asian people could be violent, because at first i thought the asian women was going get her ass beat but it turned out that she was beating on the black lady which just surprised me.

I notated this paragraph by reading through it and then highlighting the most important parts of it. I agree with the article because it is true that most of us grew up around our own race, which indeed gave us little opportunities to interact with people out of are race. When i was a child, i was always around my family members, and the first time i talked to a person that was not Vietnamese was probably in pre-school. Even though it is not right, there is still segregation in the world because lots of people want to around there kind, but also because of stereotypes that make us not wanna live near those people.



The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete.

This week of school was

  This week of school was flew by pretty quickly. The most stressing thing this week was going my scrAPES that i had held off till Thursday night, and suffer the consequences in losing sleep. Now i learned my lesson on the timing of the scrAPES and holding it off till the night before is stupid. The lost of sleep affect my day today in a negative way because i was falling asleep all day and could not stay awake, and after i had a nice lunch i was just ready to take a nap. One of the more shocking things i discovered today was that people were suspended for cheating on the APES chapter 1&2 test, and the teachers did not seem to happy about it, but i think the class was let off easier considering the amount of people that cheated. After school was pretty boring today, what was supposed to be a big skate day turned out to be the worst one this year. Everyone was all over the place, some of my friend went to the skate park and most of them had left by 5. I just watch the video with the San Fran officer threatening the kid then later say he didn't. The video shows that cops have a negative stereotype on skaters, think they we destroy and vandalize all the places we go to. After all the video over the pass year involving skater vs police, my ideas about them have changed deeply. I have basically internalized that idea that all cops want is to give people us hard times because they have nothing else today and that lots if them are abusing their powers. I wish skaters could be respected and not treated like crap by the police. Things would be much better if cities everywhere could set up a place that we could skate or not act like skating is a crime because it is the way they do things sometimes just causes more problems for them it if ever gets online which have great chances no a days thanks you our technology.