The City =)

Well yesterday, though I of course should have been studying for finals, I went to the wonderful city. As you should probably know it was pretty nice out all day until later on that night, the minute that I left for the city.

I actually went there with my boyfriend, his cousin, and his cousins girlfriend. First, I was at the mall with my family and then John (my boyfriend) calls me and asks me to pick up his cousins girlfriend. I was already in a rush but I didn't mind, even though we left later then planned. Well anyway I picked her up and we eventually got to John's house. He came straight outside since we were already late and I parked and we both got into his car. From there we went to his cousins house in Brooklyn, and went inside for a few minutes.

We finally came outside to leave for the city and as we were walking to his car I felt a few drops on my head. We got in the car and it startedto drizzle. We figured 'hey no big deal'. We started driving and about 10 minutes later it started to pour, and then my dad called me and was saying how we should really check the weather when we plan things like this because it's suppose to pour the rest of the night. We decided to go anyway, and were joking about how maybe the rain will make it a little bit less crowded.

When we got there it was still raining and everyone was starving so we went to eat before going to see the tree. We ended up going to ESPN ZONE which I love and havn't been there in such a long time. We got buffalo wings and things like that and were watching the football game on all of the hundreds of T.V.'s they have in there. I ended up getting a buffalo chicken sandwhich, and it was the spicyest thing that I have probably ever eaten in my life. According to my boyfriend it was hot enough to burn a hole through your stomach.

Anyways, we eventually left and it wasn't raining out! So we parked yet again and walked to the tree and took so many pictures, and then watched the snowflake music show on the building that's across the street. It was all really beautiful. Eventually by 11:30 ish we decided it was best to go home since 3 out of the 4 of us had finals the next day. We finally left and then it started to rain again. Talk about perfect timing, huh!

Then we went back to Brooklyn, and me and my boyfriend got in his car, then when we got to his house I had to go all the way home, may I remind you I live on the complete opposite of the island from him.

All in all it was a really fun day and I can't wait to go back.!.

Christmas Time! YAY!

I'm really excited for Christmas time, I really can't wait. It's one of my most favorite times of the year. I put up my tree about a week or two ago and it is so pretty! It's a fiber optic tree and it's beautiful. The only thing I don't like about it is not putting the lights up. My parents bought this kind of a tree so we didn't have to deal with the lights because it gets twisted and a bunch of bulbs could go out and stuff like that. Personally, I always thought it was fun putting up the lights and things like that. My family and I still have to put up lights and stuff like that on the outside of my house. Last year me and my dad did it and there was still snow on the ground because it snowed only a few days before and it was freezing out! My fingers were practically frozen and so numb sticking the light up reindeers in the ground, but it was worth it because it looked really good.
But anways, Christmas! i can't wait. I love seeing my whole family and eating all the really good food and stuff like that. I love awtching my brother open his presents espeically because I think it's so cute! I of course like opening my presents as well!
Only 4 days after Christmas is my birthday! How awesome is that?! Double the presents! I'm finally going to be turning 18 and I can hardly wait.
Only about 2 1/2 more weeks I think about 17 days! yay.

DNY FINAL!!!!

I of course waited last last last minute to do my DNY final, and let me tell you something, it is so hard. We have to pick 4 out of 7 questions and write a about a page response for each of them. Not hard right? Well guess again. For most of these questions you have to final specific examples from a book that we read in class, and this book really isn't that short. Hopefully it won't take me that long.
Now if this DNY final isn't bad enough I just got reminded by Eddie (Eduardo) that these blogs are due today. It totally blew my mind. I really thought I had more time for these but I don't have that many to write so it won't be that bad. I have a couple of ideas on what I could write about and I'll be done with this tonight. I actually enjoy writing in here because it is kind of relieving and I'm able to let out some stress by writing. Okay well I have to go try and finish my DNY final.
WISH ME LUCK!

Ouija Boards!

Some people may or may not believe in ghosts and spirits and things like that, but I sure do! A couple of years ago on I bought a ouija board to play on Halloween, and a bunch of us played and it was kind of scary and I remember it working a little bit but that was it, that was the last time I played until the other day.
Now let me explain to you how you're suppose to play. You can play with 1 to 3 people I think but there was 3 people playing the other night. Anyway one person asks a question and the other one or two people place their fingertips lightly on the triangle (not sure what it's called) and concentrate on that question and it should move on its own. It has the words yes and no and has every letter of the alphabet on it so when you ask a question it could spell out the answer for you.
Well the other night it was my, my mother, brother and my boyfriend. We were all in my room and were going to play. My brother got really scared and freaked out and got every holy statue, cross, and rosary beads in the house and brang it all on my bed and just watched us play. I felt okay because I was wearing a cross. But anyway, we started playing and we asked it a couple of yes or no questions and it moved and answered them. It was a little bit scary but not too bad. The next part and thing that happened really freaked me out. My boyfriend asked " what is my mother's maiden name?" Now my mother and my fingertips were on the triangle and neither one of us knew the answer, so it started moving very slowly. I then shut my eyes because I started to get really scared and it started moving faster and faster and I opened my eyes and it eventually got to the letter H. At that point it stopped and my boyfriend got up, ran out of the room and started screaming. His mothers maiden name did in fact start with an H. I got so freaked out and looked up ouija boards online and it said it was a gateway to another dimension and it can be very dangerous because you can let evil spirits out. I started reading stories and whenever something bad happened it was during when the people were playing the game like a candle going out, light going on or off or even a shoe flying across the room. I figured nothing happened while we were playing so it was going to be okay. I was still so freaked out and I called my friend Lisa who is a wicken, and told her what happened. She started laughing at me and said it was fine, after that I felt so much better. Let me tell you something though, if you're going to play be ready because it's not a joke.

As the semester is comming to an end

As the semester is comming to an end work is really piling up on me. I have so much to do and as I wrote in one of my previous blogs I procrastinate.
Well it's really bad right now. I have finals due in every one of my classes which are all papers except for my pysychology class which will be a regular test which I really hope I do good on. But anyway back to all my work. I'm a little bit behind in two of my classes which is my speech class and my discover new york class. Both classes I had something due about a week ago, which I completely forgot to do and now I have to do both of those things along with the final. For my speech final I have to write a 7 to 10 minute outline about what I want to become and then write a 7 to 10 minute speech seperate from that one and tell it to the class. Along with that I have a bunch of questions to answer from the text book which I havn't used once all year. Now besides my final I have to hand in a listening report which I'm not sure exactly what to do so I have to ask one of my friends.
In my Discover New York class my final is that I had to go somewhere where it has changed and take pictures to prove I was there. Along with that I have to do research on the topic and explain how different it is compared to what it used to be. Besides that I have to do something with a newspaper article and tell how it relates to something I havbe learned in the class and of course it has to do with New York.
This is going to be terrific. After this week is over I'm going to be so happy because all this stress will be taken off of me because everything that I have to do will pretty much be done with already and handed in for the most part. I just really have to stop waiting for the last second and I will be okay.

Thanksgiving

What is the first thing that comes to mind about Thanksgiving? Food! Lots and lots of food! Well let me tell you I havn't eaten that much in such a long time!
This Thanksgiving my family and I stood home and my grandmother came over. Usually we go to my grandmothers house and then my Nanny and Nonno's house (other grandparents) and after all that eating we eventually come home.
Well this year was very different. My dad cooked everything I think (not sure because I really wasn't helping very much, aside from getting rid of the food), but it was absolutely delicious. There was some sort of pasta, which I can't remember the name of right now, stuffed mushrooms, riceballs, potatoe croquettes, of course turkey and a few other things. I ate so much of everything and I was so unbelievably full.
After eating I took a nap and then it was time for more food, desert! YUMMY! There is always room for desert. But anyway there were so many pastries and cookies and it was all so good and delicious!
The football game of course was on as we were eating dinner but then it was time to take my grandmother home because she really doesn't like to stay out that late. So my dad brought her home and then he came back and we were all just relaxing and it was a very nice day. Later on that night I decided to go back downstairs and I was hungry, now don't ask me how after eating all that food, but I was hungry again. So I'll let you guess! And you probably guessed correctly, yes I had all of the leftovers. I ate so much this Thanksgiving, I really don't know where I put it all but I guess if I weigh myself you'll see it in the scale!

Nothing to write

These blogs are really killing me right now. I'm finding it so difficult to pick a topic to write about, so pretty much right now I'm writing about nothing at all. In the beginning of class I thought to myself 'oh blogs, piece of cake', but hey it's really not that easy. Updating slips my memory very easily and I actually thought about updating by accident or I would have completley forgot. My computer is broke and my laptop isn't working either so I actually wasn't even able to give in my draft for my final paper because I wasn't in school and I havn't been able to e-mail it. I'm actually at my cousins house right now and I decided to check my st johns account because my pyschology usual e-mails us important things and I can across the name Farley and I said to myself well since my computer is broken why not update my blogs now!
Thank goodness gracious I'm doing it now because I'm kind of very behind, but I'll catch up.

Changes

Today I went to Coney Island and man o man let me tell you how if felt so weird being there. I used to go there all the time with my mother when I was little. I remember going from my old house in Brooklyn to the beach all the time during the summer time. It used to be so nice and fun going there and it was always packed out.
Well today I went and it was so empty and different. Things really change so much and so fast. I was walking around and there was a sign with a picture saying "the future Coney Island..." It was very weird.
It's hard to believe how things change so much so quickly and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Change isn't always a bad thing, but still it's weird. It reminds me how fast I'm growing up and as we get older and after we have kids things are going to be so different.

Gas Prices

I hate getting gas. That's where all of my money goes, to getting gas.
This week I probably filled up four out of the seven days because I was too cheap to fill up my tank completely because of how high gas prices are, so I pretty much put in about 5 or 10 dollars a day to fill it up a little bit. Thursday though I forgot to fill up and I was on my home from school and the gas light popped up.
Now let me remind you that I live on the exact opposite side of the Island. Our school is by the Verrazzano Bridge and I live right by the OuterBridge. Well anyway I knew I couldn't make it home so I got off at the South Avenue exit. Just my luck! Where I usully go to get gas was all blocked off.
I then started to worry because I knew I needed gas desperatley. I eventually ended up near victory by my old high school and I knew there was a gas station right near there. Now at this point the line was getting really low. I was starting to get really angry because the people in front of me were driving 20 mph, and I kept hitting every red light! Eventually I got there and I filled up. I think the price was $3.85. The next day I went to Jersey to get gas and the price difference was unbelievable! $2.75! Can you believe it, a whole dollar a gallon difference! Jeez Luiz! These gas prices are really terrible and I really hope that they go down, very soon!

Midnight Run!

I think it was last week or the week before but I did the midnight run for campus ministry. I have my boyfriend to thank for this experience.
I found out about it through him and he did it last year, and kept telling me to do it with him so I finally gave in and said okay, and I'm honestly really glad that I did. I agreed to it but I really had no idea what we were doing or even where we were going, all I knew was that I was going to be home about 12:30.
We got to school and started making sandwhiches for the homeless, peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches to be exact! We made about 60 of those types of sandwhiches and 60 bologne sandwhiches I think. Well I was doing the jelly. It was kind of like a factory the way that we were working. We had one person doing peanut butter and the other ( me ) doing the jelly. Well let me tell you it got pretty sticky in the the cafeteria!
We eventually finished all of this and bagged everything and we still had about an hour before going into the city ( which I had just found out about ). So everybody just hung around the campus until it was time to leave.
There was quite a few of us and we all had to fit into one van. So we eventually left and started making our rounds. I was actually kind of scared because some homeless people aren't completely "there" or are sometimes dellusional and things like that but once we got to the first stop, I stopped worrying. There weren't many people since it was freezing out but the ones that were there were so nice and grateful!
It was like this at the other stops as well. You could really tell and see that they truly appreciated what you did for them and I was glad.
On the way back to campus we went around and said what we thought about the experience and everybody had something good and nice to say.
It was a really good experience and I'm so glad that I did it.

Hairspray!

Okay, well I went to see hairspray with my DNY class and it was SO much fun and I had a blast. After school I waited around for about 2 or 3 hours until the busses got there because I live on the other side of the Island so there was no point of going home and then comming right back. When they busses came we all went on and there was traffic OF COURSE. I couldn't wait to get to the city and when we got there we had a half hour to kill before the show started so they let us go wherever we wanted, which I thought was pretty cool.
Me and my friends walked to McDonald's since everybody was starving (except for me because I brought food on the bus hehe). By the time we got out of McDonald's because of the huge line we had to go back to the show and get on line. We got there in perfect timing! As soon as we got on the line to get in the line really started to get huge and in the matter of 5 minutes it wrapped around the corner of the block.
When we finally got inside I was kind of annoyed because we had the worst seats but hey the tickets were for free. So eventually the play started and I thought it was absolutely amazing! I honeslty thought that it wasn't going to be that great because I had seen the movie and I really didn't like it that much, so it was a pleasant surprise seeing how good it really was.
Eventually the break came along and everyone was hungry or thirsty again so we decided the food and drinks at the theatre were too much money so we went to the deli. We came back in prefect timing once again and the show started as soon as we got back.
All in all this show was pretty amazing and I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Next time I would love too see Spamalot though, because I heard that was really funny.

Halloween

WOW I havn't updated in a really long time so I thought I should write about where I left off. Halloween was pretty soon after the last blog I had written so I'll tell you about that evening.
I had come home from school and watched my brother and all his friends get dressed up and I felt miserable because I wanted to go go trick or treating with my friends like I do every year but instead I had to go straight to work. Let me tell you it really stinks. Luckily I didn't get out of work that late though, so I really can't complain. I got out around 7 o' clock and went to applebees with my two friends. The parking lot was so packed so I thought we would never get a table. So we went inside and and they told us the wait would be about 20 minutes so I thought to myself, hey that isn't that bad. About 10 minutes later they called us and we sat down. There were so many familys with their kids dressed up and they all looked so adorable. Even the people who were working all got to dress up and it was so cute.
Later on we met up with a few of our other friends and went to play pool and then went to someones house. Eventually my boyfriend picked me up and I went to a party with him and so many people were dressed up. All in all it was a good night and hopefully next year I'll dress up!

A Terrible Habit

School has been so much work lately and I make it so much harder for myself. All year I have been telling myself that when I get an assignment I have to start it early and finish it early as well. Honestly, I probably finished about 3 assignments earlier than the day before they were due, and this includes my first english paper, a speech and a dny paper. Everything else usually waits to the night before which is a terrible habit that I desperately need to get out of. It's not that I don't do good waiting for the last minute, because I do. I actually feel as if I do better under pressure knowing that something has to be done. If I do something early I get easily distracted or I'll stop and go back to it later, but when I'm doing something the last minute I concentrate really well because I know it has to get done, and it has to get done that day.
It's not that I only do this with homework, but I do it with tests as well. That is something that I have to stop doing ASAP. Ever since I was young my parents always yelled at me about this and told me that it's a really bad habit and to get out of it, but it's really hard.
School isn't the only place which I procrastinate doing things in. At home my parents yell at me to clean my room and that is one thing that I really despise doing, so I wait until I can't tolerate the mess anymore and then I'll clean it. I do this with laundry as well. I'll wait until someone needs to wear something thats in the dirty clothes to wash it because I know that they are going to need it.
I know it's something really bad that I have to stop doing. Hopefully I'll start and the work load that I have won't seem like so much because it will space things out a little bit.

Life isn't always easy

College isn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. It's actually very hard for me to keep up with alot of the work. I have paper's upon papers due, and tests upon that and now I'm trying to do an extra credit assignment for one of the classes that I'm not doing so well in and it's very difficult. I feel like I have so much to do and I don't have time to do it which is probably my own fault.
This blame shouldn't be put on anyone but myself and it is my own fault if I'm not doing well in any of my classes. Life feels as if it's getting so complicated. I have so much more responsibility then I ever have before and school is just so different from high school. You don't have your teachers constantly reminding you when somethings due and your parents aren't on top of you as much with your homework as well either.
It's a scary thought but I'm becoming a grown up and before I know it these next few years are going to fly by and I'm going to have graduated and am going to get a job and going into the real world. Life really moves too fast and time is precious so appreciate everything.

Ninja Bandit

The ninja bandit is a scary thought of those who live on Staten Island. He is supposedly dressed in all black with a matching ski mask and carries around a set of nunchucks. He has already broken into 16 homes within the time of 4 months. He has managed to slip into the homes by skylights, windows and front doors, making off with cash, jewelry and a cell phone, police said. On five occasions, the burglar was confronted by homeowners, but managed to escape the scene. The incidents have occurred in the Todt Hill, Grymes Hill and Grasmere sections of Staten Island between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. He is described as a 6 foot man of medium build, though no-one has seen his face the police are eager to find him. One man whose home was broken into actually stabbed him with a steak knife in the kitchen, but the ninja bandit didn't even make a sound when he got stabbed and left the home with the steak knife sticking out of his chest. Hopefully they will catch this man soon because he is worrying many people.

Memories

Memoirs are something that are very dear to you. You can write down something that you've been through whether it's good or bad and you can look back on it. It is memories which you write down and years later if you want to look back on the old times then you just read what you had written. They are a good way of remembering your childhood and good memories.
I actaully used to have an online journal for a while and I wrote down my thoughts and feelings and what I had done each day, especially the fun things. Every now and then I'll look back on it and it will bring a smile to my face.

Columbia University

Our President is allowing the Iranian president into our country. I think this is completely crazy. Columbia University is allowing him to come to the school and speek. Columbia's Professor Bartoli said that the relationship between Columbia and Irans President Ahmadinejad developed in the nineties, long before Talabani became head of Iraq.
Even if this is true it shouldn't make a difference and he should never be allowed into our country. We are constantly on a terror alert and having the President of Iran in our country, in New York City no less is absolutely insane. This is making me feel so unsafe and probably many other people as well.
I understand if our President wants to be on good conditions with Iran, but letting him into our country isn't the way to go about it. Many people are going to disagree with him and he will lose a lot of peoples' respect.

September 11th

On September 11, I sat at home and watched television and at approximately the same time the planes hit the World Trade Centers in 2001 they played it at the exact same time again now only 6 years later. Even though it was 6 years ago those wounds are still fresh for many people and will probably never go away. That tragedy is something that should have never happened but we all learned from it and realized what a truly great country we live in. We take pride in being Americans and no matter how tough things get we will stay strong and fight through it. We are united and great and that will never change.

Why I write

Writing has been used since the earliest of times. It is a means of communication, expression, memories and many other things. Even cave men thousands of years ago had used writing as a means of communication. They used drawings on the wall which explained what they ate, how they lived, how they hunted and many other things.
There are many reasons to which why I write. A main reason for me is that writing can help relieve stress. Sometimes when I’m not in a good mood I write down all my thoughts and feelings. It helps me because I’m not keeping all my thoughts in my head, but instead getting them down on a piece of paper. Lets say I get into a fight with a friend, instead of keeping the anger locked up, writing them down makes me feel a little bit better because it’s as if the anger is released.
Another reason that I write is for memories. If something extremely important or very fun occurs I enjoy writing it down because later on if I forget about it, I’ll always have my writing to remind me of it. Once I start reading it over, it feels as if I’m reliving whatever happened and I’m so happy I had written it down. When I’m older and I have children of my own, I can show them what I did when I was younger and what I did to have fun.
Writing is very important because it is a means of communication. Before telephones were invented people wrote letters to each other in order to communicate. Even though we now have telephones I write letters to friends and sometimes even family who live far away and in return I will receive a postcard. This is one of the most important reasons for me to use writing. I’m able to stay in contact with those I care about.
Everyone in some form uses writing. Whether it is in poetry, a letter, or even a diary it is used and is very important to us. Without writing we wouldn’t be where we are today as a society.