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    So far, I still am enjoying the book as the story goes on. One of the cool passages that I found interesting is when Jed is thinking to himself while outside Marina tent to." as Marina and I headed down the mountain a jumble of thoughts ran through my brain, including: A. I'm glad she;s with me B. She's a major pain in the butt C. What would happen if I tired to hold her hand ? D. Reverend Beelson really does nBeelson's problems are none of my business, and I don't need to tell him a damn thing." It is interesting to get in to the mind of Jed and what he is doing while he is away in the camp with the rest of the "believers". The thing that I still like a lot about this book is that it switches between the two characters making keeping the readers attention which is a good thing so they don't get bored and never finish it. 

    It seems to show that the two have a thing going on between them and also they have a ton of trust for each other in which Jed lets her barrow his laptop. It is also obvious that he has fallen for her when he thinks to himself of what would happen if he tried to hold her hand.
     One of the messed up parts that made me feel sorry for Marina was when her mother slaps her and she starts crying because her mom said that she didn't want her and it was her dad's idea to have Marina, which would be pretty heart breaking to hear from your own mother that you had thought to have loved you all along. But even after what her mom had told her she had to strengthen to clean up her little brother after he had had and accident in his pants.

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We have finally finished the novel Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville. This book was a pretty good read and enjoyable for me. The ending of the book was pretty cool because it ended with e-mails in which the to lover sent to each other after Jed had moved to Colorado. One of the quotes from the last part of the book that I liked was 

    " What do I believe?........ So here it goes : I believe there's something bigger than us that                         we're a part of. I believe there's something inside us that you can't kill, that lives on afterward. I believe no one has a lock on the truth, or the Truth for that matter. I believe people spend too much times fussing about details and not enough time looking at the big picture. I believe you have to connect, with people, with the world to be really alive. I believe you are the best thing that ever happened to me." ( page 265)

This was a cool passage at the end up the letter that Jed sent to Marina. In away I can relate to this. As a child I grew up believe in God and going to church every sunday. But as I got older in my teenage years, I stopped going to church and my family said that I was being disloyal to God and other stuff like that, but even thought I didn't go I still knew for a fact that there was something other there that is bigger then us humans, and I didn't see how going to church made that idol happier with us, I though that believing in its existents was good enough. It is also true that those religious people really do spend to much time fussing when they could be out doing something else and just seeing the big picture and letting the others worship the "God" the way they want to, because in the end for all we know is that we could be worshipping the same God but in different ways.

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God of War is hands down the most anticipated game to be released this year. They pushed the release date back like 3 or 4 times and now it is really coming out for real. The best part is since I am 17, I don't need an adult to buy it for me because i am pretty sure that if my parents saw the game they would not want to buy it for me. What made me want to buy the game is that the trailer for the game was mind blowing and the graphics were among the best that I have ever seen in my life. The fact that God of War III also was awarded the Most Anticipated Game of 2010 award made me really want it even more.

    I haven't played the first or second one yet since I Did not get a PS2 till a couple years after the second one came out. They had a remake of the first and second one on one disc for the PS3 but I never got to buying it. I am really excited about playing it because it got a really good review from game informer, which gives truthful reviews and explanations of why it got the score it got. Game Informer had gave it a 10 out of 10 which is the first in a really long time. Not even Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 got a 10 and I was hooked on it so I am waiting to see what God Of War 3 can do to me.

    God of War III is an action-adventure video game for PlayStation 3, developed by Sony Santa Monica, published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released on March 16, 2010 in North America and will be released soon after in other territories. It is the fifth and final chapter in the current story arc, chronologically after God of War: Chains of Olympus, God of War, God of War: Betrayal, and God of War I. God of War III, however, will not be the last God of War game of the series. The Ultimate Edition was announced on October 30, 2009, and includes exclusive content which cost about 150 bucks so I am most likely not buying it.

     From what I have heard there are seven weapons: the Blades of Athena, the Blades of Exile, the Claws of Hades, the Nemesis Whip, the Blade of Olympus, Apollo's Bow, and the Nemean Cestus, which is a pair of fist gauntlets shaped like lion heads acquired from Hercules. Combos from previous titles also make a return as well as new combos. The number of enemies onscreen has been increased to 50 as opposed to the maximum of 15 in previous God of War installments. The game happens to also include a challenge mode called the "Challenges of Olympus" as well as a battle arena which I am also looking forward to. In the demo, it is revealed that Kratos keeps the Golden Fleece and the Wings of Icarus from God of War II, however, whereabouts of the Blade of Olympus are unknown. Even though I was waiting a long time, after I got the game I didn't play it that much and it got really boring to me for some reason, maybe am not a fan of hack and slash games so I went back to Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 which is a great game in my opinion.

Ever since I started skating life has...

     Ever since I started skating life has been great for me. There are some mood killers though. The one I hate the most are when cops or security are being complete douche bags.

   

     Two weeks ago when I went to San Fransisco, we were riding on the sidewalk and a cop motorcycle road by and told us to get off, but none of us heard him. He then circled around the block and got off his bike then grab my friend in the arm with all his might, I could tell by his facial expression that he was putting lot of force into it. He then ask my friend to give him the board but when he said no he turned my friend around and threw his board on the ground. After he asked us to to have a seat on the dirty floor and ask used our names and birthdays and our "sign". My friend didn't even know what that was so the cop threaten to throw him in jail and fine him 200 bucks which is ridiculous. Then he moved on to him and asked me my name, birth date, and sign. After that he let us go pretending he was all nice and shit, but that was total bull crap, the funny part was that someone was filming us after he had made us sit down. That skate day ended pretty good after we skating the civic center and met a cop that was much nicer and was willing to move away and let us skate at the library as long as we didn't tell anyone else that he was there.

    

    South Shore is also one of those places with the mean ass security guards. The last time that we went there, they came in a group of 3 people and said that they had us on film and were sending it to the Alameda police department to throw us in jail, which seem every unreasonable. Then I asked him simply and nicely why we were not able to skate there and being the man he was he decides to call the cop instead of answering my question. We had to leave before they came because we didn't want to have something stupid like that ruin our day so we went to go chill at other skate spot.

 

    This other we were skating the 3 stair over near the city hall, five women that didn't even work there decided to come and try to start stuff with us. One of the white women start saying oh you can't skate without a helmet and all this other crap, just being a complete ass. And after we agreed to leave they even told us that they were going to call the cops if we didn't hurry up when I was trying to put my jacket on.

 

     What I don't understand is why us skate boarders aren't allowed to skate basically anywhere. I wish the world were much nicer to us skaters and treated us like normal people instead of villains, after all we are just trying to have fun, not hurt others.

 

 

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    Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville is a first person novel that switches between two characters by the chapters. The first person is a girl named Marina that lives with her family. The other person is a boy named Jed. They both have a couple things in common including being in the teenage years. Another weird thing is that each of them have one parent that is a believer if Raymond Beelson theories. One day, their parents tells them that the world is to end on july 27 of that year, which is reveled when  Jed's dad said

    "On July twenty-seventh the world as we know it is going to end."(page 8)

Marina nor Jed really believes that the world is going to end, though Marina finds comfort in the religion while she mourns for her dad, who was left below the mountain in the arms of another lady. Jed's mother ran off to Colorado with a photographer, and Jed's dad has immersed himself in various things since her departure, including this cult. 

    The thing that is cool about this book is that the end of the world is July 27th which happens to be my birthday also. The leader of the cult, Reverend Beelson, proclaims that the world will end on July 27 in the year 2000, and 144 of the faithful must go to the top of a mountain and set up a camp there. Only those who seek heaven at the top of a mountain will be spared from the fiery wrath that God will rain down upon non-believers. As the cultists prepare for Armageddon, while Marina and Jed happened fall in love during the journey.

    So far I think that book is pretty good and am looking forward to finishing the rest of the book because it is interesting to me. What I like about the book the most is that it is written in two prospectives.

 

This week skating was pretty good ove...

    This week skating was pretty good overall. I hit the business park, which is on Bay Farm where all the business building are, 3 times this week and webster once. It feels nice to be skating again after I took the 1 and a half month break. I kinda regret taking the break and don't really remember I took it in the first place, but I am just glad am chilling with the crew again. The best part about this week is that i finally got a new board on one of my favorite online skate shops,skate warehouse since they offer low prices.

    The first day that I went to the business parks was on tuesday with only Michael, Joey, and I. I was able to hit a really long 4 stair which felt really good because during the summer I wasn't even able to hit the short 3 stair that was next to it but now am hitting bigger things that  I  never thought I could ever do. For those that don't know what the term "hitting" means, it is skating an object, like stair, gaps, ledges, and other skate-able things. I also was able to hit the two block which is a gap in which you have to clear a patch of grass then continue dropping till you hit the floor. It is about a 5 stair drop and 4 stair length.

    The second day that we went to the business park, it was look bad for me since I was bailing on everything that day and to make it even worst, we go kicked out of the two block in less then 5 minutes which a load of crap. Then we went to the Bay Farm landing and just skated flat ground for an hour which was hella boring. The day ended bad for me.

   The third day that we went to the business park was with Gio, Julian, Michael, and I. It was a much better skate day for me because I was land stuff instead of bailing like the previous day. After we skated the business park and everyone had left we went Michael and I went to his house to have a chill skate session like that ones that we had everyday over the summer. I finally ollied a create thing, that we got a long drugs which they was remodeling, which I was not able to hit over the summer.

    Today was an okay skate day, but it could have been much better considering that my board tail and nose chipped and it took my like 5 tries to hit a small ass four stair which was making me mad. Then at the Payden's 5 stair I was pussing out trying to hit it for some reason when I have hit a bigger 5 stair in San Francisco, but then I finally got the balls to start popping off and got it about 10 times popping off which was alright but some what disappoint for me.