02/09/2009 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE WITH THE BUSINESS BUDDIES!

So as everyone may know I left school today after first period, the reason being I went to the Ronald McDonald house with the Business Buddies. I had so much fun I got partnered up with a student who I've know since sixth grade so that was really cool! We were on the bus going to the Ronald McDonald house in Camden, New Jersey and my student turned to me and told me a joke.

She said "Sam, want to hear a joke?"
I responded "Of course!"
She said "What do you call a cat on a log?"
I said "I have no idea, what!?"
Her answer "A catalogue!" And we both began to laugh!

We talked about school on the way to the house and then I looked over and we had arrived! Time surely does fly when your having fun and are in a deep conversation. We walked into the house and got straight to business. The first task for my student and I was to cut ribbon that was going to be tied onto the bags we were stuffing with goodies. After that, we had stuffed bags filled with candy, purses, hair clips, and magazines. We went around the table fourty times, meaning my student and I stuffed 80 bags total! I had so much fun! We went to McDonalds for lunch and than came back to the house and started to cut ribbon again! Then by that time it was 1:30 so we had to leave :(, but I truly did have a great time today so I thought I would blog about it!!

02/08/2009 I wondered... thats it... "MY HAIR!"

So this will be my second post of the night. I was sitting on the computer and checking my email and saying to myself.. "humm.. I just wanna blog!", but I wasn't too sure about what. I sat here wondering what could I possibly blog about that would be sort of interesting. Then a light bulb went on and it came to me.. "MY HAIR!" I've had soooo many different hair colors all throughout my four years of high school, from bleach blonde, blonde, dirty blonde, brown/red, brown, black-blue, even black! Of course my hair is dead as anything right now, but it's starting to get back on track thanks to the expensive Paul Mitchell and Jon Frieda shampoo and conditioner I use for extremely damaged hair. I just like change that's all. You know Obama's campaign slogan "CHANGE" well I'm for it in my own way. "CHANGE" in my case is for hair.

02/08/2009 Instructor Course

So from 9:30 dismorning to about 8:00 at night I had to review CPR/AED and my water rescue skills. Yesterday from 8:30 to 3:00 I had to learn how to teach a class. Today was a very exhausting day. My eyes are so red and watery because of the chlorine in the pool. Overall it was a very fun class, I met a lot of new people and saw my Regional Manager from last year who I absolutely adore. He's pretty humorous and he keeps the class at a fun level, not at a boring level. I also met another Regional Manager, he is too funny. I remember Thursday night when I had a review for the class another Regional Manager sang.. "Tell me how am I suppose to breath with no air!" If you don't know Jordan Sparks sings that song, so I thought it was pretty funny considering that we were giving CPR, meaning the person is unconscious and not breathing haha. In the class there's twelve people total. Three Regional Managers and the rest are lifeguards. I was pretty honored to get chosen to become an instructor because it lets you know that people can count on you to get the job done. I took this class with my best friend Natalie too so that was pretty fun! I might even be a Supervisor this summer too, so I'm extremely stoked about that! =]

02/04/2009 Dude I need to Vent!

OK so I feel like my life is not meant to go anywhere! The only college that I want to go to still hasn't made a decision and it makes me very mad! They put me on a waiting list due to my SAT scores not meeting their standards. However, I re-took the SATs so I'm hoping I did a lot better. I applied to another college today that I just became interested in recently, but I still want to get accepted to my Number One College Choice! I don't want to be in this town forever, I don't want to be one of those Lindenwold High School Students that is always coming back to visit LHS. Hence, some visits will be OK. But I do not want to be one of the students that has no life and just comes to LHS everyday and visit. I have my life planned out in my head, but as of now it's not looking too good! I just want to go to my number one college choice and hopefully by February 20th I know what exactly is going on.

02/04/2009 Bancroft!

Yesterday February 03, 2009 I went to Bancroft and volunteered in the room that I have been volunteering in. It was a lot of fun. The teacher, had to test each student individually for the State Exam to see if they have progressed at all. I was very impressed, those students are so smart and even though they have some disabilities they never give up. The challenges they face everyday are challenges that I can easily do. But to see these bright students work to their fullest potential brings a bit of tears to my eyes. I grew to like these children very much and I can't wait to go back next Tuesday!

02/02/2009 "A QUOTE BY MR.ABRAMS"

"I'M TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED" - LARRY ABRAMS

02/02/2009 "Chicka chicka what what"

This is my first blog post for the month of February 2009 =]


So this Thursday, Natalie and I have to go to Mercer County Community College after school to get trained to be an instructor for lifeguarding. I am pretty excited because the pay is sweeeeeettt and I may be supervisor this summer, depending on when I leave for college. I'm a little scared however because the instructor course consists of three written tests and I'm not very good at written tests. The American Red Cross instructor doesn't actually start training us until this Saturday, but one of the Sparkling Pools Instructor is giving everyone a refresher course Thursday so we don't look like complete idiots when acting out CPR and Lifeguard Skills infront of the American Red Cross woman. The Sparkling Pools Instructor is suppose to print out the written tests for everyone to study and look over, but she hasn't yet, so I hope she does soon because I'm kind of dreading the written test!