Catching up with life.

    Lately I have just felt slow, and tired. I don't feel my up lifting, energetic self and I'm not really sure why. I just feel like sleeping or laying down all day. I can't really find a reason for why I feel like this, but I really hope that it ends soon. I would love to get my old energy back so I can start running again. I'm hoping it's just the snow and cold weather making me like this. I don't feel like I'm getting sick, but I never really know. All I hope for now is that I get to my old self, and stop being so down.

Schools Hate Creativity!

    After hearing Ken's speech about how schools are killing creativity I was inspired. I wanted to go out and make schools have creative classes. But then I remembered that I go to the Open School and we have more creative classes than most of Jeffco's schools put together. But I still didn't think its fare that schools around our country are cutting art classes out so that they can teach more math. We all understand that we need math, but in my opinion art is just as important. We need art and music to get through life as well. How boring do you think life would be without it? I know that for me life just wouldn't be the same, and I'm not even a very good artiest. So what Ken wanted to get out is just that creative classes are just as important as any other class in school. Ken was just explaining that he believes that kids should have art in school, and just do creative things. I'm after all school is where you mind is supposed to create. Maybe schools could find some way to make art into math.

Thanksgiving!

    My thanksgiving was really great. I got to see my whole family, and also got to spend some of my dad with my dad. I had a lot of fun just hanging out with my sisters. I also loved all the great food I got to eat. I enjoyed everything about my Thanksgiving with my family. I ate so much I thought I was going to explode. Also when it came time to play our family game of pennies, I won two out of three times. Some of my family members were not to happy about it. I thought it was really great because I won money off of it. I loved just sitting around the table and laughing until my abs almost fell off. I couldn't stop laughing at my crazy sister Bailey. It seems like everything she does is funny.

Gold Rock

    So yesterday I took a rock from a mine, and I want to know was it wrong? Was it wrong to take a rock I found on the ground of the mine? I mean it does have a gold side to it, but I'm pretty sure it's not real gold. Should I have just left it there? What should I have done??

Don't eat the marshmallow!

    Today we watched a TED talk called Don't Eat The Marshmallow. It was about an experiment on leaving kids with a marshmallow, and asking them not to eat it. The experiment was to show what kids were good in school, and what kids didn't do very well. The kids that didn't eat the marshmallow were the kids that did good in school, and the kids that did eat it were the kids that didn't do very well. So if you eat the marshmallow, and don't have self control you will not be successfully in life. So you could either conttrol yourself or you could just eat the marshmallow and not really care. You had to be able to sit at a table with the marshmallow without eating it. Some of the kids they did the test on found very creative ways to eat the marshmallow. One little girl ate the inside or the marshmallow, thinking that they wouldn't notice.

Be Childish

    Adora Svitak is a 12 year old girl from Washington who had a dream, and she wasn't willing to wait till she grew up to make it become real. She wanted to show people that she had something that was worth sharing to her generation. She wanted people to see that its not just adults that can come up with children's stories, and really shouldn't children be the ones coming up with children's stories? She was ready to share her gift of writing to everyone, and her parents helped that happen. They talked to many different children book writers, and one said that they don't work with children. If you ask me every children's story writers should work with children. I believe that children do come up with some of the best ideas.

Unlikely friendships

   The video about the elephant and the dog was touching. It showed that you can be friends with anyone. Sometimes you have to choose someone that's different from all the rest. When ever I would go out to spend my summers in Michigan My favorite thing to do was go to my aunts barn. at her barn was my favorite couple. there was a little pony and a goat, and they wouldn't leave each others sides. They ran together, ate together, and slept together. at one point I saw that goat laying on the horse while they were both sleeping. They were best friends, and didn't spend time with any other horses or goats. They never left each others sides.