Rainy Mountain

In the introductory paragraph of Rainy Mountain, the narrator sets the tone by giving us some background information on the Kiowas because they are his people, and he also goes into deep detail to describe Rainy Mountain. He begins to go in depth with his descriptions in the first paragraph to give you an idea of what his view of Rainy Mountain appeared to him as. As he gazes over his ancestors land he begins to give us an overview of all the different happenings throughout the seasons at Rainy Mountain, to give us an understanding of how diverse this one stretch of land that his ancestors call home. I think his reason for going in depth about Rainy Mountain in the introductions ties into the rest of the story of Rainy Mountain but specificly the conclusion where he reveals to us that his Grandmother's and other ancestor's grave's are on Rainy Mountain. So i can deffenatley see his reasoning for describing rainy mountain early on in the passage to kind of give us a sense of what it would really be like, especially if you had a deep connection with such a beautiful place like the narrator has with rainy mountain.

America's system of values

I believe that America's system of values does not encourage people to destroy or neglect historical sites or structures. I do believe that there are a large amount of ignorant and disrespectful people in our country who think just because they're American's means that they can do whatever they want and get away with it, when that's not the case. Although America's system of values is different from any other country in the world and does give one somewhat of a sense of "imperialism" but i don't think that our system of values has anything to do with a person (or people) who would destroy a historical site for any purpose, unless a safety issue is involved. Neglection of historical sites on the other hand is slightly a different story, but i still can't understand how our system of values could prevent someone from taking a stand to help preserve historical sites and structures that our important to our countries history. Our countries system of values has diffenatley created a few "duds" as citizens in our society, i believe our country as a whole can overcome the reputation we've earned from other countries as being "lazy, self centered, power hungry or improper".

Keg Party or Study ?

Im debating on whether or not to go to this keg party. I know if i stay here im just gonna study, smoke, and pass out; and call me lame but im diein to finish reading Chapter 3 in my American Government book. I feel like im ready for summer already even though the semester has just started. I'm looking forward to being able to be relieved that i got through my first semester in college with good grades; That is if all goes as planned, but i believe im on the right track to being sucessfull at the DUB. I would really like to become an attorney one day and my performance at UNCW is crucial to getting me closer to goal(of becoming a lawyer). I have a few friends who i went to high school with who go to the DUB now and a they are on academic probation for having below a 1.0 i beleive. They said the reason they didn't do well was because they skipped too much. I dont plan on missing a class unless i absolutley have to, but they also said the work was partially the reason, and thats the part that worries me. What im gettin at here is i hope i can stay on track like i plan to and not end up like them. I think I'm going to ahead and read my American Government book because im not driving up to market street for a damn kegger.

January 2009

I had my first quiz this semester at UNCW today, and I'm pretty sure I did well. I'll be mad as hell if i didn't do good on it though, because i studied a lot. I studied way more than i probably needed too for a quiz but i was bored sitting around waiting for class to start so i figured why not do a few math problems. I honestly hate math because you can know exactly how to do the damn problems but get some problems completely wrong because of one slight error in your calculations. I have to study my ass off to get good grades in math, not saying i dont have to study for my other subjects because i do but math is most certainly my weak point;But after breaking my back six days a week from 9 to 6 for a almost a year straight, studying is a cake walk. I started working at Lease Wholesale's detail shop a week after i graduated the first week in January 2008, where i was by far the youngest employee. I made an average of about 400 dollars a week . I defenatly had it made considering i was only seventeen for a majority of the time i worked there. I pretty much did whatever the fuck i wanted to unless i HAD to be at work. I lived it up while most of my friends from high school, were still in high school. I lived a life that most people dont experience atleast untill their early twenties and i deffenatley feel like I've learned alot about life and other things. Although I did enjoy myself, I'm happy to have started school now because the last thing i would've wanted to do is spend four years doing manual labor.

College

I'm taking a break from the hours of reading im involved in at the time for my American Government class. This is the first time in years that my teachers have actually assigned reading in the text book. Shocking huh? My high school years were pretty much a breeze for the most part, other than trying to balance getting home work done and studying with wrestling and cross country practice. With sports taking up most of my after school hours throughout the year i was always stuck staying up all night studying the night before a test. Now that I'm in college, I feel like I have it easy! Now as crazy as that may sound consider this: how would it be trying to find time to do work between 5 days a week of practice from 4 to 6 30 and an all day tournament every saturday. So now, although the difficulty of the work has increased, I dont dred it like i use to because i can come home every day, sit down with my books and go ahead and knock out all the homework i have the day its assigned so i can spend my evenings studying and reviewing notes taken in class. So yay for homework. Not really though.

My First Blog

This is the first time I've ever blogged. I'm not much of a myspacer or facebooker considering i dont have an account for either. Anyway I printed out some blogs from a website called "sportsblogs.org" which had a lot of information on major league teams which seemed like a good site to use for sports blogging if your're into sports blogging but i personally would rather turn my tv to sportscenter and get my sports info that way. My other set of blogs I discovered were blogs on current political issues. Which is not very exciting but it gives people a chance to voice their opinions and stay up to date with politics in our ever changing world. I think if i would've been a little more informed on how the whole blogging thing goes I would've found more appropriatley fitting blogs to discuss in class. Overall I look forward to the exceperience of starting something new, but I think because of my lack of computer skills I would've personally wanted to stick to journal entries.