Month: February 2010

In “First Post” I mentioned the fact that I started blogging again because of my Mini GOP. I didn’t really go into what it was. The GOP is the graduation outcome project that all seventh and eighth level students at my school must complete to the satisfaction of our teachers. We either pick a topic…

Well, the Olympics in Vancouver are coming to a close. At present, America has 26 medals: 7 gold ,9 silver and 10 bronze. Have we done as well as we wanted to? Certainly Canada has not. They had planned to have the most medals, but unfortunately have gotten plowed over by Russia ,Norway ,Germany ,and the U.S. Being fifth…

I recently ran across an article on CNN.com about the zero tolerance policy going, in my opinion, slightly overboard. A twelve year old girl was arrested, slapped in handcuffs, and taken to jail for what the school called a “crime”. Alexa Gonzalez doodled on her desk in Spanish class in erasable green marker. Here’s the…

I am tired. Everyday I get up at 6:30 am and rush through breakfast. Then I rush off to school. The only time I get to relax during the day is after we get to school and I am in my mom’s office. Then I can rest and take a few deep breaths before 8:00…

We have had this blog for years and yet we have only ever posted about four times. That shows you what dedicated bloggers we are. Fortunately for this blog, my mini GOP (Graduation Outcome Project) is on blogging and journalism so I have a reason to update. It is 2010, four years from the time…