Night by:Elie Wiesel

We just finished reading Night by:Elie Wiesel. I loved it! I think that we are so used to hearing facts about the Holocaust but this book tells and shows us the emotions. It's a really short read and once you start you will not be able to stop. Elie Wiesel is an amazing writer and the topic he's writing about is heart wrenching. Here is the summary on the back of the book:
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. NIGHT is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
This book is amazing! Read it! You'll be glad you did.

Band Concert Tonight!

Hey, everyone! Tonight there's a band concert at ALHS in the auditorium. You should all come to support the bands. It should be good. I don't think you will regret it. We have worked really hard and we sound pretty good. Our choir concert was on Friday at St. Theodore's. It was amazing. I'm in the girls choir this year which is the middle choir and usually they don't sound very good. Guys are important to a choir because they sing the bottom but anyways my parents said we sounded really good. I don't know if that's true because parents kind of have to say that but we watched the video of us in choir and we did sound pretty good. I am very proud of us. The concert choir (top choir) was amazing!!!! They gave me chills. But everyone should come out and support the music "teams". It's important to support every activity in our schools.

My Confirmation

Today I was confirmed.  It was so amazing!  I had a great time and I got to see all of my family members and even some of my friends.  I can't believe that 3+ years is already done.  I feel like I just started confirmation classes.  Life goes by so fast.  I need to remember to live in the moment and not worry about things so much.  I tend to over think things a lot just like my Mom but that's okay.  Anyways, I just wanted to thank God and all of the people that have helped me through my faith journey.  I plan on keeping active in the church and I've been teaching sunday school.  I love it!  Teaching kids all that I know about faith and God is awesome.  I just feel that now that my classmates and I are confirmed that everyone stays active in the church.  I think that that is really important.

Political ads gone too far

Have you been watching t.v. lately?  Have you seen the multiple ads attacking different candidates?  I'm sure you have.  There are so many!  If you haven't seen one just turn on the t.v.  There you go.  You'll see one after the other.  It's crazy and most of the ads aren't positive.  Probably about 98% are negative.  That's pretty sad.  I even hear them on the radio!  I think that the ads have gone way too far and I think that they do nothing to change the voters opinions.  They are just annoying.  I think that the ads shouldn't be a allowed unless they are positive. 

I'm so glad that we have vacation!!!

It's MEA/fall break for every elementary, middle, and high school student in Minnesota! YAY!!! I'm so happy to have a break! It's only 2 days but it should still be nice to relax. If only it were longer... :) I'm going crazy right now trying to finish my homework so that I don't have to worry about it for the rest of the week. I didn't get a lot and I thank my teachers so much! Last year I got a lot of homework over break so it ended up not really being a break which isn't great. But this year I only have homework in a couple classes so it's not bad at all. I kind of wish I had some plans for break though. I guess I'm just going to hang out at home and go to work on Thursday and Friday. I'm sure that my family will do something fun though. Both my parents are teachers so it's nice for them to have a break, too. Well, everyone else enjoy your break!! I hope you don't have much homework. I don't think homework over break should be allowed. It takes the break away and adds stress. So, I really hope that everyone can enjoy a homework free break. Have fun!

Umm... the road block's not moving.

I live just outside of my town on a dirt road and they just recently started doing road work on the roads around my house. Actually, they are adding a road to transport old garbage from the old landfill to the new one because the old garbage is leaking into the lake. So, it's pretty important business. They have put up a lot of road blocks because the new road is right on top of two other roads. It's super funny to watch all the cars finding various ways to get around the road blocks! Plus the new road is a huge hill so the cars have to go up over it to get back down to the other side of the road. I sit in my living room a lot now just to watch all the cars. The funniest thing that anyone has done so far is just sit in front of the road block. That's all they did. Just sat there. I don't think the road block was going anywhere. After a couple of minutes they must have figured this out and they turned around and drove away. Genius. I've also seen people step on the gas and fly over the huge hill of road. I can understand why people are trying to get around it though because the detour takes you all the way back around town. It's kind of a bummer but hopefully it won't last for long. Oh, and today there was a police car sitting there all day just to make sure no one went around the road blocks! We all better watch out now. :)

Teen driving laws - ???????

I'm a sophomore in high school and I'm sixteen. I got my license this past summer in July and I am so happy to have the freedom to drive myself around! It's amazing!!! But the thing is I can only have one friend (or other person, that is not related to me) in the car with me... or can I? I've heard tons of different things. One of the things I've heard is that if you got your license before Aug. 1 you can have as many people as you want. Well, that's super cool!!!! Idk if it's true though. I wish the state would have somehow given us more information on it. I don't want to get in trouble just because I didn't know the laws. All of my friends have questions on the laws, too. Hopefully we'll be able to find more information about the driving laws soon.

Band Concert - October 28, 2008

This year's new band director is doing really good things for the program at ALHS. I have seen so many changes. The guy we had last year tried his best and he was a really nice guy. He had a tough time though. This year has been totally different than last year. It feels like we are already ready for our concert and we still have two weeks! I'm really excited for everyone to hear us. I think all the parents of us band students will be really happy and proud. I can't wait for our concert. It should be good so if you can you should come check it out on the 28th. Hope to see you all there!