crazy events in the life of alex

well this last week sure has been a crazy one. I'm sure even Mr. Dykstra is on the count down for days left in the school year. Nearly every one is excited for summer! Last Friday I "Skipped" school due to strep throat which is when you have a burning sensation in the back of your throat it often can be fixed by taking your tonsils out. Well anyway on Friday at newman elementary, around the time of recess my brother was going hard, playing some soccer then he collided with one of his friends. His friend landed on his lower leg. He started screaming was immediately taken to the nurse. The nurse then relayed a call to my pops. My pops drove like a mad man to take my brother to the hospital. Jacob got x-rays he broke his leg down by the ankle region. The Doctor had to  take Jacob in to surgery to fix his bones. He is now in a cast for 6 weeks, I also got a call from the doctor saying there is a slight chance i may have pneumonia so he put me on a different medicine to cure that and i am still recovery from that sickness. From being sick i accumulated a bunch of homework which included typing an essay for mr trask. Which i Indeed received a perfect on:). I was a happy boy. Well over this weekend i ran at drake stadium i saw some outstanding performances. I unfortunately had one of the worst races of my life. I felt so out of it. I finished dead last with a terrible time of eleven minutes fifty seconds. I was so mad, even though i was battling sickness that was no excuss good enough for this set back. I just need to get back on track to running ten minutes twenty seconds by the end of the year,

The past two days

So as many of you know track has recently started and I won't be at school as much during the last few hours of the day because of track meets. Which sucks because then I fall behind in school. I hate that especially around the  end of the school year because then you can;t get so far behind that your grade can drop dramatically... Oh well to my point yesterday we had a meet which involved the boys track team to get out of class around 1:15. Well I was marked down to run the 2 mile.... What fun? I loved it. I ended up running a 10 minute 55 second 2 mile not too bad it placed me third overall. We had our meet in south tama nearly a 3 hour bus ride it was intense. We left the meet around 10. So we didn't get home until around 12:40.  So today I have been going on literally 5 hours of sleep. It's just so much fun! Well today was a pretty good day i managed to get through the day without falling asleep! Then after school what do i get to look froward to? More track! yeaaah! so much fun! We had ice cream! Finally after our ice cream night at track I went to the mall to go look for some kicks and clothes... Failed attempt at that. Our mall has nearly nothing to choose from. Then I ran into Katy Salmon working at birdsalls then Morgan Leider showed up a little bit later. We chilled for awhile then I went to go home and now I am typing my blog. So now I am deciding whether i  should go to the ymca or not. I think i will go to the ymca or play just dance two. Yeah I am definately going to the y to get some shots up. This will be fun!


my life is bro.

spring break 2011

Spring break was actually really good this year. The weather was great with exception of the last two days when it was down pouring rain and freezing cold. Every day there was something to do. It was great! One day I re-painted my room grey. Then when the grey dried we put quotes on the walls of my room and a giant nike swoosh. Some of my friends describe my room as freakin' sweet or say things such as I really like
it! I love my newly redone room. Also every day over break I ran with Bales or Tim. Except for when I was gone in minnesota for two days. That was my break from running. I ran around 40 miles over break! I
enjoyed the weather being nice enough to run outside. Plus one day it was warm enough to run without shirts on. It was getting spicy out. One day i went to Taco Bell with Jason, Colton, and Bales. We all ordered and when they asked for our names Jason was Fred, Bales was Scott, Colton was Buck, and I was Seguro. So we all ate and then went to Jason's house to "ball it up" (play basketball for those who don't know). We also went bowling that night. We wreaked havoc through out the night. It was legit. I loved hanging out with my friends over break. I really enjoyed catching up with every one and hanging out with new people. I also went to minnesoota over break with my family. We stayed at the waterpark of America. It was and oustanding time. I actually bonded with my family instead of fighting. It was so fun! The next day we went to the Mall of America. That was alright everything was so expensive I didn't get much at all because I don't need much and I didn't want much. Overall break was good and now I am pumped for summer break to arrive.

Crazy Friday

Well today is Friday. It has been a pretty crazy day. I woke up to pick up my friend and then my car stopped. I quickly figured out what happened and fixed it i left my friends house around 7:50. We got to school around 8. I walked in to try the side doors they were locked. So I came in through the front doors to notice that we were all getting checked for possible weapons, bombs and detonators. I felt like I was about to board a plane. So I asked why we were being checked and they told me we were under a bomb threat. I was like why would somebody even think of doing that. First off, the main reason some one would do this was for the administrators to cancel school. Which obviously didn't work because i wouldn't be typing in the computer lab for Mr.Dykstra. I am quite angry at this is situation because the person who put the threat out there is scaring a lot of people. As well as possibly harming people if they actually go through with their threat. Which won't happen. The person will get caught and get severely punished with jail time. I also think this person who posted this threat has no brain. I mean what could have caused you to go this far. Why would you want to injure and possibly kill innocent people. Nothing is ever bad enough for some one to pull a stunt like this. Well i am done venting with that. After getting through the security check I went to my locker to get my stuff for the day. I went to go take my biology test. I finished most of my test then i was off to first period. first period we did literally nothing. Then it was assembly time. The assembly went by fast and it was pretty exciting. After that it was time for third period and our sub let us talk all day. I ate lunch then was off to fourth period. We took a test then did a packet. Now here I am typing away in Mr. Dykstra's  class. That is my day so far. Sounds fun...... oh wait.

my day three day weekend

This week I didn't go to school on Friday because of an unfortunate death in the family. On Friday I went to the funeral and the burial ceremony. I don't really want to talk about it. Its hard for realizing that I will never see my great grandmother alive again. Well after the burial ceremony our whole family went back to the church and had an amazing lunch. After all of that I went back to school for track practice. Then after practice I hung out with a bunch of friends! We all played just dance two! My family song was satisfaction. It was probably the coolest dance too! We had to do a robot type dance it was awesome. That was my Friday.

Then the next morning I woke up at 7 with my mom and did a cycling class at the y with her and bales. After that bales and I shot baskets until all the little ballers came to take over the whole ymca gym. I was scared then I remembered that they get the gym all Saturday. So then bales and I lifted. After that we came back to my house and I had to babysit so bales decided to nap. I was angry. After that we went to taco bell we said our names were scott and griffen.Then we were trying to find soemthing to do and then we couldn't so I went home showered then I called Jason up and we decided to watch the great movie 300 at my house. He brought Colton. After that we went to kum n go to get food and drinks. We watched 300 and messed around a bit then. I couldn't go to sleep so i decided to start in on some homework I finished most of my homework. then I fell asleep.

 So I woke up  around eight and finished the rest of my homework. I then went to work at 10 30 got off at 1 20. I went home for about 20 min then I ran came back home then my family decided to go to the ymca. My dad and I shot baskets. We left the ymca, came back home. Now I am here typing away trying to finish my blog of 300+ words. My dad just decided to go get us Little ceasars pizza. I am pumped!

My Crappy Sunday (the 20th) of February

Well lately the weather has been decent. I have gone for jogs outside during this nice weather! This weekend the temperature starting cooling down and I was getting colder and colder. I was like what is going on? So i curled up in my blankets and fell asleep. Then early this morning I woke up to a pounding noise on the window! I looked out side and saw hail, rain, sleet, or whatever it was hitting my window! Which happens to be right next to my bed! I was angry it woke me up around 8! not to mention I was up until about two because of my 4 year old brother Max. He fell asleep at 4pm and then later on woke up around 11pm. So he just decided to come into my room and "chill" with me. I was like alright but you got to go to sleep. He responded, "alright Alex." Then he picked up my Ipod and started playing the fun, and addicting game Angry Birds. Guess what else Max did. He then decided to turn the volume up all the way! Boy, I was not a happy camper! I faintly remember max putting my Ipod on the charger before i drifted off to sleep. Then when I woke up max was already up before and was playing Angry Birds again! Well when I woke up I felt motivated to do something so I cleaned then attempted to do my homework which failed. Then I went to the ymca ran and shot around. After that I went home,  Max came up to me, he said to me, " Alex, your Ipod is dead." At that same time my mother was talking to my grandmother on the telephone. After she got off she asked me if I wanted to go see my great grandmother. I replied yes why? My mother then told me, "Your great grandmother probably won't make it through the night." So I went with my mother and my other brother Jacob to visit her. We were with my grandfather and his brother and sister. We all talked for about a hour then we all sat down and talked with my great grandmother. Then we all left. I then went home ate and now I have finally started to do my homework! Today has been a crappy day and above all we return to school tomorrow!

Track and Field number 2

It has been pretty crappy weather out lately which forced me to take my track training in doors. I went to the ymca to run Tuesday and Wednesday after basketball. I hate running on the ymca track because of all the turns you have to make, it is hard on the knees. Oh well i just gotta suck it up until track season! Well yesterday and today are nice days and i took advantage of that i did workouts outside both days! I ran out to the country with a friend. We got chased by a dog for a while and then the dog gave up. Talk about conditioning that is the way to go; getting chased by a dog! So this weekend was a great weekend for running and i took full advantage of it! Basketball is coming to an end our last game is Tuesday. Every one should come and watch us beat east! well anyway i am happy and sad for basketball to end. Sad because i love basketball it's one of my favorite sports! I am happy because I get to move on to track my favorite of all the sports i participate in! February is a crappy month with a "love holiday" in it trying to make it better! That "love holiday" was failed to make February better! Track and field makes this month so much better! It cures the terribleness of February! I am pumped for track! This year is going to be a great year I know it! Plus I am going to keep up with my basketball for next year! I can not wait for track and field!  So Tomorrow is valentines day which is a bunch of crap! I hate it! Tomorrow is my last basketball practice and tomorrow is another day closer to track! I am so pumped!

Track and Field

Today is Super Bowl Sunday! One of the greatest days in sports ever. I like watching the Super Bowl the commercials are my favorite part; to tell you the truth. Today I am especially excited because the weather outside is nice enough to actually start running! I am  going to run today! Today I am starting to train for the up coming track and field season! I am excited for track to come! I love to run; it is my life. With track coming, the school days will just start flying by just like they just last year. I love running, once track starts I will be in shape! I will achieve my goals for track this year with a lot of hard work and dedication any thing is possible! I love running track; the experience is amazing! You get to push your self, race against others, and make new friends that share the same passion. I love this sport and being able to run outside! This year for track I am going to run the 2 mile event. I ran it last year; my best time was 11minutes and 14 seconds not too bad for my first year run the 2mile. My last race I was trying to break this personal record. I ended up breaking my foot and not my personal record! I was on my last lap just about to kick and I was on pace to go sub 11minutes and then on the 3rd turn I was a dead sprint! I was going in hot to the finish! Then on the fourth turn i heard a popping noise and i was like on that's not good! I was at half speed that last 100m took me about 15seconds longer than it really should have! I finished with a time of 11minutes and 15 seconds. I was angry because i had two more events that i couldn't run and i didn't get my goal! This year is going to be different I know it will!

Social networks

Social networks now seem to a huge part of our lives! Some people even put social networks in front of their homework and even in front of their school day. Like when you look back in recent post people from our school will have posted facebook statuses throughout the school day this is non-sense! I'm not sending any hate messages out, but some kids just need to get their act together! Honestly right now I can guarentee instead of people doing their homework they are procrastinating on facebook or any other social site such as twitter, friendster, myspace and any other ones i did not mention. I think our world has bowed down to social sites and lets them control what they do on a daily basis.I also think students rather have the immediate gratification of facebook than doing homework. Which in terms the homework prepare them for their future. I think another reason social sites can be ridiculous is because people think they can say whatever they want that they wouldn't even dare to say in person! That then causes a lot of drama which is stupid. Then other people get in on it because they think they can say whatever they want with out having consequences. Also facebook can be dangerous. If you don't have your privacy settings set right you could get track down by some creepo. I'm not saying it will happen but it could. I think the social sites they provide good and bad things. I like the experience of facebook you can talk to friends and have them comment on your stuff it doesn't sound to appealing but it is sometimes. I do encourage you to try out facebook if you have never tried it. Just be smart when it comes to facebook and immediate gratification. IN conclusion social websites can and will be evil at times.

Facebook

Today, I am going to blog about the social network Facebook. I think Facebook is a great social website, it is good for finding friends that you met doing what you do. I like the website personal I get on the website at least once a day. Today I have already done my fair share of being on Facebook. I think people over use this website, they get on to tell the world what they are doing every waking moment of their lives. Example Going to get a haircut. Personal when I update my status I will either put Song names and then the link to the song or like What happened at a sporting event like cross country, track, or basketball.Another thing I do post about is events that happened about my day if they are important enough for it to be my status. One thing I don't like about facebook is when you get on to just look around on other people's stuff you are considered creeping on them. I personal do not like that, it is labeling, it just makes everything worse. I like talking with my friends on facebook. I mainly get on facebook to catch up with friends that I haven't talked to in a while or friends that i don't ever see and I also get on facebook to make plans........ sometimes. I think the whole "creeping" issue on facebook is stupid. Facebook is for people to post photos, music, and statuses along with wall posts. If you don't want people to look at your stuff why did you get facebook in the first place. Facebook is a great way to "meet" new people and to find and catch up with old friends. I think it is ridiculous that some people have over 1,000 friends. I mean who actually know 1000 people and talks to all of them on a daily basis not me! Well Facebook is a great site and if you don't have you I would recommend you getting one!

Technology

Is new technology affecting people's attention spans? I think it is because people now a days are too lazy to read long articles and if they start one they are more than likely not to finish it. You no longer have to read articles to find information you can just get on the internet and type in what you need. After a couple clicks you have found what you needed. Also the Internet can connect you to people on sites, such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Also before technology was so advanced people were actually doing their homework.  Now most people believe they have a choice between doing their homework and being on social sites and texting. Technology has affected many peoples life's. An example is people are no longer called the jocks and geeks. It is now the gamer and the texter. I believe Technology has impacted every ones' life and it is good in ways but in other ways it is making us lazy and could possibly eliminate jobs for us. Like on factory lines machines do some of the work if not all of  the work, when men used to do it. Technology also affects people priorities and attention spans'. Most people want to be successful in the future, but others would rather have the immediate gratification by doing nothing but click away on a social site or killing people on video games. Such as call of duty, grand theft auto and gears or war. I think people are dumb for putting social sites and video games before homework because the grades they achieve in high school affect  their futures and if they get into college or not. In conclusion Technology is affecting peoples' attention spans and how they are labeled in school. Technology is good depending on how you use it if you use it more than you should it can affect your future and attention spans.