Europe

While I was home for Thanksgiving break, I spent a lot of time with my best friend. We have this great plan that someday we will go on a backpacking trip in Europe. Of course, this takes money to do, which we both do not have enough of right now, so hopefully one day we can do it which will probably be after college. When we were planning on places to go, it hit me that there are just way too many places in Europe that we want to visit, so how do you pick which places to go to? I want to go to a lot of places, and she wants to go to a lot of other places too. This will take a lot of time and effort, so maybe we should plan on making two Europe trips so we can make it to all of the places.

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Thanksgiving Food

Thanksgiving is a very interesting holiday. On Thanksgiving, most people go to one of their family member’s house and scourge themselves with food; however, Thanksgiving is also a day that is supposed to remind you of all of the things that you should be thankful for that you take for granted a lot. I just thought it was interesting because we take food for granted a lot, so does that mean on Thanksgiving we devour as much food as we can so that we remind ourselves to be thankful for it? Or is it a little bit ironic because we eat all of this food while there are other people in the world who are starving and would like just an eighth of the amount of food that we eat on Thanksgiving. I just thought that was kind of interesting.

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Road Trips

So this week I experienced for what seems like the hundredth time the eleven hour trek to Grand Rapids, Michigan and the eleven hour trek back to Memphis. I really do not mind road trips that much except for when it rains the whole time you’re in the car. You would think it really would not make that much of a difference but it really does. It rained literally the entire trip up to Michigan, and it seemed like such a long trip. I think it could be because you’re focused so much on the windshield wipers and the cars in front of you, and you’re not able to see barely out of your windshield because your wipers suck. Well, at least that’s how it seemed to go for me. On the way back, however, it did not rain that much, and the time seemed to just fly by.

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Technology

I have mixed feelings about technology. Sometimes it makes life easier, and sometimes it makes your life more stressed. Sometimes I get so frustrated and annoyed with things like my computer that I wonder why I ever got it in the first place. Even when the technology is actually working correctly, you have to worry about paying bills for the use of the technology. There just seems to be a lot of stress involved with using new technology; however, it is weird to think about living in a world that does not have all of the new technology that we have now. Sometimes I think that I would like that world better, but there are times when I realize how I take technology for granted.

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Soccer Season Over

This weekend, our team went to Baton Rouge for the first round of the NCAA tournament. We lost to Texas A&M, so our season is now over. It was a good season, but we were hoping for more. We won the conference championship for the third time in a row and were ready for a couple of wins in the NCAA tournament, but that didn’t happen this season. That just gives us more incentive for next season. Now that the season is over, we will be having a lot more time until Christmas break, and life is a lot different. It is always sad when the season is over due to a loss, but it happens to every team except for one.

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Thanksgiving

There is only about one week of school left until Thanksgiving break, and I cannot wait to go home. I am making the trek to Michigan with some of my roommates. First, I am excited because I love road trips. A lot of people are really bored with road trips, but there always seems to be some sort of random fun that happens while sitting in the car for eleven hours, and the excitement of being on my way home for the first time in four months is awesome. Also, I just cannot wait to see my friends and family because I have not seen them in so long. I think that one of the greatest feelings in the world is when you’re starting to get close to home, and you’re driving and can see the places and landmarks that are familiar to you. This is when you know that you’re back home.

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Life Dreams

I was just thinking yesterday, as my team and I were driving past the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, about the dream I once had of being a pilot. I know that there are a lot of kids who have this dream when they are really little, but this was a dream of mine that I had as a kid but came back to me in high school. I thought hard about going to the Air Force for college and training, but I ended up deciding not to mostly because of expenses. (This is really weird because I just right now saw an Air Force commercial on ESPN.) Anyway, I was just thinking, isn’t it sad that a lot of people give up on their dreams because they simply cannot afford it? This is something that my best friend is struggling with right now. She is from Brazil and wants to be a movie producer, but college is so expensive. When she finishes this year of college, she will have to leave the community college she is at right now and go to a more expensive college to continue pursuing her dream. A lot of questions, concerns, and doubts flood our minds daily when we see that our dream is so far away. We need to continue to encourage people to follow their dreams. If it is God’s will, it will all work out. If it does not work out, then it’s God’s will to go a different direction with your life.

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Dreams

Isn’t the idea of dreaming really weird? I don’t know the whole scientific explanation behind it, but it is really weird to me. The other thing that I seem to find with my dreams is that I will be in such an intense dream that seems so real to me, but when I wake up, I can almost never remember what my dream was about. My friend, on the other hand, almost always remembers her dreams. I just wonder what this tells me about the way I am. Does it mean something that I usually can’t remember my dreams? It is just so strange to me.

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Persuasion in Music

Right now in my oral communication class, we are working out our persuasion speeches. Our teacher first gave us an assignment of listening to a song that we think has some sort of persuasion in it and discuss how it uses persuasion. That was a fun journal for me to write because I love music and am always thinking about the words in the song. The song that I chose was “Face Down” by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. It is a song that talks about abuse of a girl by her boyfriend and is really a touching song if you listen to the song. Listening to this song made me really aware of how this kind of this goes on all the time without us even knowing it. It’s really sad.

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