Blog site for my OP-ED

http://blogs.bellinghamherald.com/dvprevention/?p=13#comment-835

hope you enjoy my work! a lot of emotions went into this piece, i hope i receive feeback

Well, the end is near...

This will be my last post i am sad to say... I have had a fun time blogging and getting to know everyone, my finals are coming up soon and I need to start studying for those immediately along with finishing this here paper!

but thank you all once again and hopefully I will see you all soon again in the near future,

-Best regards,
Chad Black

Deadwood is Alive! (Restaurant Review)

Burly elk, fragile quail and duck, rotting, ancient wood, bustling playful bears, pieces of oaks and plants, a lively forest all placed...inside a restaurant? Yes! There is such a place and it is called Deadwood bar and grill. Deadwood is an establishment within my community that is consistently bustling with customers and is off Northville Road in between 6 and 7 mile roads near Downtown Northville. Starting off my experience at the Deadwood, a lush forestry atmosphere engulfs the restaurant with a welcoming presence. Around the limits of the building hang portraits of hunting wild foul and ducks. Along with this hang deer, bear, moose and elk heads, placed around the walls along with stuffed quails and ducks. The largest elk head hangs over a cozy fireplace in the corner of the restaurant, twas where we sat for dinner. While observing these animal remains, a general theme was accumulating. Antlers from wild bucks were used as overhanging light fixtures, the tables and chairs made out of polished, but unrefined wood, and cross-section cuts of small tree's line the wall in the back of the restaurant. This pleasing atmosphere was also accompanied with a sporty aura - having several television sets around the restaurant, showing recent sporting events on their screen. The place was very clean - rugs vacuumed, windows clean, and the floor looked spotless. While all of this decor is pleasant, a lot of unnecessary Christmas decorations over flooded the scenery of the place, somewhat overbearing the customer in this already "busy", but comfortable restaurant. An overall pleasant and satisfying atmosphere that boasts a few services would be ideal right?

While sitting at the table near the fireplace, a few places stuck out as points of interest for servicing. First and foremost, a full-service bar that seats about 12 people stands firm in the front of the restaurant. It is equipped with handmade red oak stools and a television set at each end. Next to the bar area are two solid red oak pool tables. These are free of charge, allowed to play while either waiting for food to arrive or just for leisure activity. Another exclusive feature to the foundation is a WiFi hotspot and lounge area. This area is specifically set up for groups of three to four to take a load off, sit down and chat, or access the free wireless internet via a laptop, etc. while waiting for a table! Did I mention that they also had a outdoor patio? I did not get to embrace this area due to the weather conditions, but from the view from the parking lot, it seemed to be accommodating to both wait staff and customers alike.

The service from the Hostess/waiting staff was remarkably helpful and courteous. Walking into the restaurant, a hostess greeted us with a smile, and saw that my mother, who was dining with me, needed special care due to a recent knee surgery. We were setup a table near the fireplace as requested by my mother and a shift manager came over to us to make sure we were properly taken care of, such as my mom feeling comfortable. We were greeted by a nice looking waitress who took our drink orders in a prompt way. However, our waitress did not come back to often to check on us or to refill our waters, etc. When she did come back, it was very fast and not thorough. Now lets see what is on the menu for the Deadwood!

After becoming situated in our seats near the fireplace, opening up the menu became my first priority. At first glance, the prices looked a little bit over the top and ranged from $7.99 to about $21.99 for dishes and $4.99 to $10.49 for some of the appetizers. After viewing the prices, meal selection came next. There was a very limited amount of choices from this menu, which concerned me. The categories included salads, Prime Meats - Chicken, Veal, Beef, etc., Sandwiches - Burgers, Clubs, etc., and Pastas. On the back of the menu, though, specials are listed that are changed on a daily basis. Here, variety starts to take part in the menu, but it still held to the menu's overall items. There were no "calorie-watcher" foods or any specific vegetarian meals on the menu, which was somewhat disappointing if a person with those needs wanted to dine here. After reviewing the menu and its contents, it was time to order my meal.

An Italian dish caught my eye and that was the chicken piccata. Once we received our meals, the aroma of the chicken and the sauce caught my senses. Looking upon my meal, a side of creamy garlic mashed potatoes were off to one side and on the other side was a side of steamed, lively broccoli. In the middle was three pieces of chicken breasts, which from viewing it, looked very tender. Covering the chicken, but not smothering it, was a light, creamy lemon sauce that incorporated several pieces of lavish artichokes. To top off the chicken were salty capers, which look like tiny black balls, which were dotted around the plate.

To say the least, the chicken was very tender, feeling like butter as it went into my pallet. The combination of the sauce, capers, artichokes and chicken was superb. The potatoes complemented the dish excellently. The broccoli had a slight seasoning on it, which was a little bit peppery, but still had a fresh taste. This was an overall great meal - including a meat/poultry, vegetables and a starch and the price for the serving size of my meal was proportionate. Nearing the end of our stay at the Deadwood, our waitress informed us that customers get one free cookie per customer after their meal after seven p.m. The cookies, while free, did not taste the best and seemed a little dry and a tad cold. After polishing off this desert, my time at the Deadwood came to a close.

My overall experience at the restaurant was very good. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and my meal. I would rate this dinner at the Deadwood an A- and would definitely recommend anyone who would like to have a pleasant time with family and friends to stop by and get a bite to eat. I will surely visit the establishment again and my best wishes go out to those that look for great places to eat, because Deadwood is one of them!

Rating: 1 (bad) - 5 (Excellent)
Price = 4 1/2
Service = 5
Food = 5

Black Friday...

Now i did not participate in the amazingly crazy activities at 3 or 4 a.m. in the morning yesterday, but my aunts, uncles, girlfriend, girlfriends mom, girlfriends nana, her friends, my friends...my nana... they all went out very very tired to rush and buy things that great discounts. I feel that there should be more then one of these kinds of days per year... Why? It would boost our nation's economy and that is one thing that we REALLY need at this point.

However everything wasnt as horrid and bad as we all think it is. My girlfriend woke me up at 3 saying how excited she was to go out shopping and she was going to have an awesome time cause she was mostly going out for me...where she then asked me what would i like??!? I told her be creative - surprises are awesome!! but she really wanted me to say something, so i told her my 3 favorite colors, green blue and black. :) She did get bumped by a old lady, but that was on accident... Those old storied of brawls are in the past, thank god!

But yesterday was fun and exciting and i can only hope things get better!
Thanks for reading,
-Chad

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!! i am so grateful for the things i have in my life...and i hope we all take the time to appreciate what we have...
today ill be going to my Aunt's house and most of my family will be there. I am very excited to see everyone together again because it is rare that we are all together at the same place..
We are cooking up a 23 lbs. turkey (awesome) and setting up basically a buffet for everyone to enjoy.. :D
Hopefully this will be able to take away some of the stress that i have been feeling lately from school and my mother. I really would like to just push everything off to the side, but we all know that this only occurs in a perfect world...and i am no where near a perfect world. Im in the Real world, the world of harsh realities, and the only way to get past it is to look straight a head, keep your head up, and continue to strive forward with what you have in life, taking nothing for granted and everything you do have and hug it and love it forever.
That is my life, and i rather embrace it then push it away.
-Chad :)

Finally got my car!!

I finally have a car!! Yes!! It is a pontiac Grand Am SE 2001. It has about 101,000 miles on it, which is ok...could have liked a lil bit less on it. I paid 3,100$ dollars for it and i am just overly ecstatic about this. All throughout the term i have been asking people to give me rides and i have been having to wake up at like 7 or 6 in the morning to fit into other people's schedules and let me tell you, it is VERY draining...I come into class and basically want to sleep through my pre-calc class...which is a bad thing yes, but you can catch my drift. :)

It does need a complete brake job done on it though. This will cost a lil bit, but i feel that once i get these done, i am finally going to be independent and can have my own freedom for once in my life! This has made me very happy.

On the other hand, this final project that we recieved in this class is stressing me out VERY VERY much, i have so many things going on in my life, and this is something that looks like we need to constantly keep working on it....and i dont know what to do...

Pray for me...
Chad

Restaurant Review Website = Difficult...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_50_37/ai_111507751/

It took me a VERY long time to find a decently lengthened article talking about any kind of restaurants at all before I found one that was reasonably ok...The one we saw on Tuesday was awesome, but i could not find ANYTHING close to that at all.... I thought this assignment was very difficult for me.... any thoughts anyone?

-Chad

Hype..All the Hype!!

When i first heard about Call of Duty back in 2001, i thought, "Yea, this is going to be a fun game, i could get into this". I played 1, 2, 3 with no problem...Then it happened.

Playstation 3.

Because of the playstation 3, they seperated the series of Call of Duty into 2 different game plays. That is, they created two similar, but different games so one can be played on the playstation 2, which is what i have, and the other on the PS3. Well now COD has done it again with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All i keep hearing about is this game..on facebook, in the halls, in class, during lectures (which is bad :) ), everywhere! and i have to admit, i am jealous of the people that can afford a PS3, take their valuable time to play this game, and not focus on other things that matter in life. Maybe im cynical, but when it comes to video games, i realized in about Junior year that they are a heavy duty waste of time. Now im a computer gamer, but i mix both homework and games when i play, getting both done at the same time. thats my view on this though...

plus i feel that im picking up the pace within my classes, im more confident about my status in college and maybe life will improve for me overall, who knows!
-chad

Hmmm....

Well, lets see.
Last Night, I had a absolutely great time with Courtney, for those of you dont know is who is with me on my picture for my blogger. We watched the movie Up, which to my surprise, was quite entertaining - because my schema for pixar movies is that they are dumb but they teach a lesson in the end of them. This however did fulfill both entertaining and lesson-filled!

However, i work on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. 5-10 pm. and 10am to 3pm on sunday, let met tell you. this is VERY draining for me, espically when i have multiple papers, tests and quizzes on me, combined with EVERYTHING else i have told you about in my life, if you have read any my earlier posts...you will know lol.

Other than that, i have a project that is the same amount as a midterm or final exam and i havent started it yet, which is bad. oh yes, very bad. but i have gotten over much worse circumstances then this one, so i know ill be ok. :)

Thanks for reading!
-chad

Pressure is on!

Homework homework homework! AHHHH this is totally insane! i have gotten so many assignments and i feel this process just keeps happening over and over again, plus things at my house are in upheaval and wow... I could go on and on..

I did however make a step forward! and i scheduled an appointment with an adviser to schedule my classes for winter term! I know i have to take calc 1, but im not sure from there what i need to take from there...

I know things will fall into place and my life will come together, all i can do is pray, work, and hope for the best!
-chad

For this paper ^_^

I am going to take the first prompt for this paper into account, however, Being how i am, i want to change the dynamics of it. :)

the prompt says
1. Is what other countries view as ethnocentrism just American patriotism?

I wanted to choose a prompt that i thought i could find quite enough evidence to back up my message, my point. I want to say in my prompt that we as Americans are ethnocentric and have been told that we are and should be that way because we are the best...Maybe we have been given twisted versions of what Patriotism is...

However, this is the "jist" of what my paper is going to be about and i thought i could share that with everyone on here :)
Thanks :D
-Chad

Tough Week...

This week has been tough for me... Let me start off with saying that im not having paradise in my bedroom. To begin, my parents marriage has become quite shaky and I do not know exactly is going to happen to my life or my Mother's life if they do decide to not stay together. On top of that, my mother just had Major ACL knee surgery and is in EXTREME pain and can not do anything unless she depends on me for everything.

The amount of homework that I have been accumulating throughout this year has been quite a difficult task as well, on top of all of this. I want to do well in school, keep my relationship with my amazing girlfriend tip-top, and keep my family life together, but wow. I dont like to complain, i really dont. I try to take things as they come when it comes to my life, not so much with school lol but you get the point. I have just been really struggling with what I want to do and how im going to do it and its really starting to get to me... but thank you for reading this and i Hope all of your weekends are joyous and well to do!
-Chad

Halloween?

What Halloween? Halloween is a holiday that did not exist for me on October 31st this year. Why, do you ask? I as the hardcore overly productive but sometimes overachieving person was scheduled to work till close on Halloween! So i had lots of fun cleaning tables and mopping milk up off the floor from a child throwing napkins saturated in it on the floor. But i did get some entertainment from my boss's niece's, who were both dressed up as pirates. What they would do is hide behind the counter and as someone walked by, they jumped out at them and scared the face off of them. I have to say it made up for a night of working all night...Plus i couldnt go out afterwards because both myself and my parents were too tired haha...

But i hope Thanksgiving will be better :)
-chad

Overwhelming!!!!

Wow... when I dreamed about the college experience and how everything was going to be full of fun and excitement and Of course, Hard work, i never thought that it would basically consist of just hard work!!! Especially in this class, Comp in 105, I am trying my HARDEST to stay on top of the readings that we have in class for homework and trying to edit my paper....not going so great. All of this, combined with Chemistry, Sociology and Math, WOW. I am going through a lot in my life already and this just added a HUGE amount of stress into the mix...

Not only that, but keeping up with my relationship with my beautiful girlfriend Courtney, who is on the avatar pic of my blogger, Helping out at the house with my mom, and then trying to find a car..ugh.

thanks for reading!
-chad

My search for a Car....

Going to the University of Michigan Dearborn becomes very, lets say complicated when you do not have your own personal way of transportation. For the past couple of months, my close family has been banding together to make deals and plans as to how and when they will take me to college. This means ive been having to wake up at 6 sometimes to leave by 7 to sit in the university center for about 2 hours for my 9:55 class. I live in Northville and its about a 30 minute drive away, maybe longer if you include the very nice people and wonderful roads of Evergreen and the Southfield freeway.....

Either way, ive been looking for a car since March/April of this year and throughout the entire summer, my search has been proven unsuccessful...If you know of anyone that has a car for sale, please let me know! Im going very tired of not being able to have my own way of transportation and i need to say that kids that are given cars to them and have life handed to them really do not know what life is really all about. Its much harder to having to start paying things on your own and that is where im at in my life right now... Along with so many other complicated events...

thanks for hearing me out...
chad

WooHoo!!

Well the day that I have been hearing about so much throughout my high school, the midterm has gone and past. I have to be completly honest, I was VERY VERY nervous for this midterm.

It was in my sociology class and we have been learning about 1 chapter per class. I have the class every week, 1 day for 3 hours ( or for 2 hours 55 minutes lol) and it is and can be very stressful and taxing on my body. At first i did not want to continue with the class, but i felt that i could push through and put my mind too it.

I started on Friday studying for this exam/midterm...It did not turn out well so i decided to take a day off and continue on sunday....then on monday...then Tuesday comes and its test day! Im past nervous but i tell myself that i studied a lot for this and that i am ready. So i take it and wow, i am surprised, To me it felt very easy - that i just knew the material. So i am very happy about that lol

Maybe what my parents are saying to me are just to scare me to do well in college, but im not going to stop trying now!

:)
Chad

Midterm Blog

What I want to know at this point is how is class going for you? What's good, what's bad, what do you still need to know....etc. This will help me plan the rest of the semester.
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For this blog, I'm not 100% sure as to what i want to say just yet. I feel that for a writing composition class, it is very infuriating to both the professor and the student to learn and write material within only the 1 term that we are both given...


Whats good? I like how the class works and runs. Class discussion is keeps my attention and im starting to have a better connection with my peers. I'm also learning about how to express myself more about community and voicing my opinion, a skill that we werent able to do while in high school... I like this a lot.

Whats bad to me is that some things in the required reading material, i have absoluetly no idea what some of the things are or what the author is even trying to relate to me. The text is hard for me to grasp and understand and with it having to be in our writing, the concepts and ideas of the text, it makes my ability to write a coherent paper that much harder...
I also described the time for this class way up above. I have 3 other classes that I am seriously trying to grasp and get a hold onto...the last thing i need is to be so overwhelmed and rushed that i fail or drop out of college because of the stress. Im not saying i cant handle the stress, but there is a point where enough is enough and this class could easily bring that to the table FOR ME, maybe not for someone else but for me. Writing is a difficult task for me...

Other than that, i just want to become or learn skills to improve my voice in my community and how im going to become a overall better writer.

-I hope this satisfies the requirements of this blog!
-chad b

6 months with Courtney

I sorta got sick during this week, but I have been trying to fight it off and feel better for this exact day! Tomorrow is 6 months ive been with my girlfriend and its exciting to her :) and yea, to me as well lol.

However, she is nervous about being around me because im still in "sick-but-recovering" mode, so it makes me sorta sad that we might not be able to celebrate it on the 24th, but as where i did not plan on getting sick, we can always have a time and place to celebrate it some other time, but Of course! i want to celebrate it tomorrow if I can with her, make it special...

Also, I think that taking my practice test for my Chemistry definitely improved my knowledge of this chem test i had to take today...thank god for pre-buff material :)

-Thanks for reading-
chad

Sitting out in D-Town Northvile

I took some time to just sit...and RELAX! I really needed to do this because i am becoming more and more stressed everyday with trying to balance out my life...

My parents told me that college is much easier than what high school will ever be...HAHA, Yea right. I cant give a late pass, if i am absent from a class 2 or 3 times, i fail, and if i get a C in my comp class, im considered failing!!!!! AHHHH

college has many benefits and negatives to it. and i am just starting to realize the intensity of those differences...

Thanks for hearing me out :)
-chad

page 71 #1 homework

When i have to compare what i have learned in high school, compared to what i am learning now in college, i have to say that much of the classes that i took in high school can be considered with the description of jumping through hoops, because i just wanted to take a classes to get credits and get done with it. But in the mean time, i learned many basic skills and concepts from my math, writing, and science classes that if i havent taken them in high school, i would be suffering in college.

Now when i think what college classes will do to help improve my skills is much greater than high school...I havent taken enough college classes yet to determine this but i am going to assume that it will be much more worthwhile once im in college.

Without high school, i wouldnt have had the basis to enter college and be successful. Therefore, high school has helped me retain more useful knowledge, both inside and outside the classroom, such as interacting with my peers. If i didnt know how to do this in high school, then college would have steam rolled over me.

-thats my interpertation of #1 :),
Chad B.

Such a great Freedom...

When i was in high school, we were watched like hawks to stay in class and if we got caught playing hooky or whatever its called, we would get sent back to class and they would call our parents....

TODAY, i just saw how much freedom...or irresponsibility that kids have today in college. I was in my precalc class and more than half...actually probably 3/4 of our class was gone...I was in sort of a shock to see this...but wow. I guess it is the kids who are paying money to come here, it is there responsibility to show up to class...much different from high school :)

that's one new thing i have noticed about coming here to college...
-Chad

Ugh...Nightmares come true!

So, here i am, on top of the world. I just got back my Precalc test, ya i already took the class in HS, but this is college now so its harder, and i got a 94 on my test! YAA! so excited! i take my chem test, and check out my score online and i got a C+......no i tell my self! noooooooo!

Haha it is hard for me to accept C grades or lower because through out my middle school years at a military school, it was drilled into my head "you get good grades you get rewarded, you dont do well in school you are locked down in your room" so i had a mindset that i ALWAYS needed to do well in school, and this carried out with me to high school. The discipline gained while being there helped me out alot and it truly gave me one of my keys to moving forward into the real world and my life.

MLK - Saturday Evening Post (Good-Bad)?

When it comes to the MLK birmingham speech and the Saturday evening post article, I feel that they were both good articles, but its based upon readability for me. now this is all my opinion, but When i read the MLK speech, I have much smoother read and i can basically place myself in his position that MLK is talking about....

MLK talks about the white moderate in his speech as a collective unit of people. This doesnt exactly mean ME or YOU but when he talks about White, he is placing the category of the largest amount of racism out into the open...White Moderates exclaiming that we are the group...the people that need to understand..need to learn how to deal with racial problems and issues...

Its not that i am not able to understand the other article, it is well written...but i have a better sense of what MLK is talking about with his words and where i am at....maybe its because our generation has been so immersed in learning about the African American's struggles in America...

thats my opinion though..
-chad

Skype - I love it.

Haha so my Girlfriend and I were trying to set up our Dell Video Chat and we were like ya this is cool, but it doesnt always work as much as we wanted it too...

So my friend Ryan who i met here at U of M told me about how he Skyped with his gf at GVSU and i was like ok lets try this out....

However, my gf just got her new computer and was like "i dont want to download anything because its my baby and i love him (i guess she named him and made it a him...) haha" but she finally did it and i downloaded it this morning and tried it out...

and Yaaaaa, it is awesome haha i love it and it works! and best part = free and its really cool...
If u got someone that is far away from you or that you love, try out Skype cause its awesome.

okie, talk to you later
-chad

Chapter 12 - 6.c Introduction

Well here is the Intro paragraph! Haha lets see how it goes....

War brings about many toughts ans feelings to citizens of the nations that are engaged in it. The cost to intitae and carry out a wat are at levels that none can imagine. Due to so many emotional, physical, and capital costs, we as a nation are expected to make sacrifices to cope with and push through the concept of war. This can only be done though, if people are willing to make that sacrifice to support their nation. The authour, donald Lazere, asks the question that shouldnt everyone be willing to pay higher taxes during a time of war. By involving ourselves in the war effort, it will give us a satisfaction that we are supporing our nation and boosting our morale. Indeed, by paying higher taxes or helping the war effort, this would hurt our economy by taking more money out of the consumers pocket. However, we need to take sacrifices not only for our nation, but in life. Therefore, supporting the war effort gives us a higher morale, aids our government and lets us engage in helping our nation.

What a Day....

So as you will all know very soon, I like to complain or more like VENT about my days at work.... :)

Right now im sitting in Caribou Coffee near my House in Northville and it is peaceful.... I see my old International issues Teacher and my former class president.... i also see a current student and her friend sitting outside on the patio doing her Precalc....

But at work...Oh man.
I work at George's Senate Coney Island and on Sundays it is crazy. I am running around with 3 to 4 other people and it nutso. Oh btw, i forgot to mention im a busyboy there...

But ooh man haha do i earn my moneys worth working there....Nothing is left undone and always has to be done fast...ugh lol...

Well ill see yall later-
Chad

Here goes Something...!

Well.... I have to say that the reading of Chapter one from our textbook was very interesting..

One thing that i found to my interest was that the book acclaimed our generation of being less involved in voting and the whole political game... They didnt want to overgeneralize about our generation as a whole, but they did talk about how we do not know enough information to truly understand what is happening in our nation when it comes to politics and such...

We listen to our public radios and such, hearing the viewpoints and ideas of people who tell us many many things that are happening and what we should do as voters and citizens to help change and make changes. When it comes to places and events as such as this, the book describes it as a demagogue, who is a person, normally a public figure, who manipulates the so called ignorance and prejudices of the masses or public for his/her own benefit or profit..

Now I do agree here. I really do think that our generation is VERY undereducated about what is happening in the world and how and what we can do to try to change it or even better understand it...

We also had to write a quickwrite yesterday and this proved to be very challenging to me because i havent taken the time to write that fast about a topic in about 5-6 months so it took me some time :) But one of the topics of our quickwrite pertained to FDR's speech and if we thought if he was a brave orator or a manipulator of words and sneakily persuaded people. Will i did not write about this because there were 3 topics, but i do think that he used a concept of Sentimentality, which is where a person appeals to the emotional side or appeals emotionally to people as a form of manipulation or persuasion. I think that you have to be a good Orator in order to be able to have such a power of words over people and be able to hit home with them on such an emotional level as FDR did in his 4 freeedoms speech.

As i wrap this blog up :) because its almost time for class (haha), i would like to run past one more time that we as a nation or at least generation need to become more educated with politics and issues affecting our society. We need to stop believing other people's Self-fulfilling prophecies and learn on our own, not tend to or want to believe that something is true based upon what someone else says. GO AND READ UP!! take the time to go on the internet and find out what it is that makes Barack Obama so great or not so great! only then, in my opinion, will we be able to make a difference and change in this world.

oh dang, i gotta run, later
-chad :-)

1st week of College - how was it?

Very interesting. Waking up at different times not at the routine 6:30 to go to school by 7:21 every day is new and fun :D

I have to say though that it is definitely going to take me some time to adjust to how I am going to be in my life so i can get through this new experience. we will see how it all works out though...

-chad

FDR - 4 Freedoms Speech

Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his presidency and during a time of tragic war and massacre, presented himself to the congress and gave a remarkable speech about four very distinct freedoms that we as Americans take advantage of on a regular basis. WE don't know that we are taking advantage because we are born into a granted and gifted environment to begin with. Do we want to take advantage? Of course we dont. we should always be appreciative of what we have and what kinds of freedoms we are given as citizens of this great nation.

Today we were given a lecture by a professor of high understanding and knowledge about this speech.

My thoughts and Ideas about all of this:

We don't know what we got till it is gone. That can be said with even the simplest things in life....A loved one, an awesome gaming system, a lucky pencil, the ability to choose what you want to eat in the morning.... As i said up top, we, ALL of us, take things for advantage and do not appreciate them as much as we should. Only when we get a reality check or something major happens in our life that makes us reflect and say wow... then we start to take more of an interest in what we have.

I feel that FDR understood that Americans did not realize that they had the luxury of living in a nation that did not harbor you about simple little things. Our Freedoms. He wanted to not just tell, but show Americans by making them realize what it would be like without these simple luxuries. One of FDR's main points in his speech is that in order to keep, protect, and nourish our already bountiful and prosperous lives, that we need to sacrifice and sacrifice to see the final goal in the end during a time of need. ONLY by placing into the minds of Americans that there might be a chance that our Freedoms, the ones that we use every day, might be taken over by a ruthless dictator or another non-democratic government would we actually take the time to think and say we need to fight for what we have.

Because of this, I think all of us need to take more time to realize and appreciate the great civil and open country that we live in and all of the municipal, basic, complex or Whatever freedoms that we do have, and pray for those nations that do not have the ability to experience what we have. Because who knows, we might have the ability to do something today, and it might be gone tomorrow....

Thanks for hearing me out (or more like reading me out lol :D )
-Chad

Sitting in the University Center....

I am just sitting here, looking at all of the people in the UC...it is actually very different and i kind of like just observing what i see around here...there is a DJ that comes out later in the and sets up, but i think it is our Radio program that we do...im not sure, maybe i should ask....

and i really like the food here, actually as a matter of fact, im going to go get some food right now, so ill be back on here in a little bit later or so -chad

Balance? Possible?

My family for the longest time has been saying, chad you need to learn how to balance things in your life, school friends girlfriend all these kinds of things....and i did, i did adjust to being able to balance, but wait a second.....

I'm starting COLLEGE! AHHH haha i think i have to re-evaluate how im going to do all of this again.... lets see :P

College! It has finally arrived...

Well, well, well. It is here! The day that i have been looking forward to and not looking forward to at the same time has finally arrived! haha I want to say that i am nervous but also trying to figure out how things will happen and all fall into place, i guess i will see what happens with time :)