Baby, its cold outside

You'd think that in Hawaii, theres sun, no rain or cloudy days. It turns out that Hawaii can get rainy and cloudy, and down to 58 degrees. Its been super cold and cloudy. Then it gets sunny. But the coldest day is the day with no clouds or rain. When there are no clouds in the sky and no wind to block the cold. It gets super cold and you have to wear big jackets and jeans to survive. Even then your fingers freeze. Everything is wet even though it hadn't rained. Its all condensation. Thats why this morning when I was out playing 4-square, I couldn't feel my fingers. There was a rule that we couldn't let the ball roll into the wet grass. It would be great if we could roast marshmallows by an open fire while drinking hot chocolate as a class. Even the air conditioned rooms were warmer than outside. This has been the coldest winter that I can remember.

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day"

People say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But not everyone can wake up with eggs that are pre made with a side of bacon, fruit cocktail, and a smoothie. People fantasize about huge chocolate pancakes with whipped cream and a strawberries. I wish I could always have the biggest and best breakfast in the whole world. I personally think that lunch and dinner are the most important meals. Lunch is in the middle of the day that gets you through and revives you for the rest of the day. Dinner reminds you of the great day you have had, with lunch, and the great sleep your going to have. Dinner also includes dessert, which is always amazing. I know most dessers are not very healthy, but considering the great day that you had, dessert is necessary.

The Dangers

When people join swim team, they usually think that you cant get hurt, like its not a very aggressive sport like football. Your not trying to knock someone over or breaking bones or whatever you have to do to win the game. Swimming is mostly an individual sport. You sometimes do relays and you usually swim on a swim team with others, but when your racing, your probably alone. A couple days ago I had a swim meet. It really shook me up. I dont remember a lot of that meet. You know why? I hit my head, hard, on the wall turing into a flip turn. Heres the scene. I jump into the water to start my 5 out of 6 races that day. The water was freezing but the sun was bright. I tightened my goggles to make sure they stayed on, I should have done a better job. When I arched my back dove into the blue water, my goggles opened and water rushed in. I couldn't see a thing. I was still swimming when i decided to do a flip turn. I turned around going into freestyle and BAM. I hit my head on the pavement. I didn't black out or drown or anything like that. But lets just say that I hope I remember what I need for midterms.

Gadgets Galore

Its amazing how our electronics have evolved  over time. We went from no phone, to house phone, to satellite phone, to having keypads and buttons, to then have all these additions. We now think a good neighbor is one to have free wifi, not a nice greeting or anything. Everyone needed the "new" and "better" phones or electronic devices more than anything.  We all wanted the ones who took the best pictures or had the slimmest look or even the one who could download apps. Apps, little applications that you can access through your phone that includes games or social networking sites. I just can't believe how someone would think of those things. Its just amazing.

We're worlds away.

Its amazing how our minds think, how we think that where we live is SO big. How we think that the world is huge, and how malls or houses are big. Its amazing how wrong we are. We are spinning in outer space around the sun with other planets orbiting too. With comets or meteors that might or will run straight into us. Our atmosphere has kept away some meteors, but only the fragments of fragments of fragments of fragments of fragments of the meteor that was classified as a small meteor. We are constantly in danger of everything that could hit us. Its also amazing how our technology has gotten us to the point when we can track the big meteors that would total us.†We are out in this world and completely unaware. Its just amazing.

Hawaii

When you say to people, "Oh I live in Hawaii" , people expect so much. they think that we always have a good time, going to the beach everyday, having the perfect tan, drinking coconuts, climbing up trees to get our food, eating only tropical fruits, sleeping in hammocks, that everyone surfs, and we all hula. We are just like regular people, just living in a different place. Kids go to school, parents work, it a very basic life. The only unusual thing is that we are in the middle of the pacific ocean. Sure its sunny most in the time here, I'm not trying to say that Hawaii is not an amazing place to live, but its just not the place that everyone says it is. We have coconuts, not everyone likes it, we have tropical fruit. We have beaches everywhere and waterfalls and a lot of rain. Hawaii is an amazing place to live, but we just don't have our own dolphins and go to water school and live in grass huts.

First A Day

A days and B days sometime confuse me, of course it does cause its my 2nd day. But I know for a fact that its a A day. Tech class was the most interesting class so far. I was in a media class at my old school but this is way better and different. School is surprisingly so much more fun here than in a public middle school. I bet that sounds super weird. But three weeks out of school makes people get not as smart as they should be. Yesterday was my first day, I have to say that school is nice and fun.

break is ovveerrr

Another dawn, another school day. I guess not all breaks seem long or last long in our minds. It seemed like yesterday when we were about to leave for our break. And yet its already over. Everyone fantasies about going to the beach everyday all day, seeing friends all day, going to different places that are not where you live, staying up late and not getting tired, and just having a time that you "deserve" for being in school for so long. We even have the worst weather  today, yesterday, and a long time before that. Huge winds, high surf, rain and clouds. Clouds everywhere, almost not a patch if sunlight. Like a flashing in a lot of fog or smoke. It was cold and we couldn't go anywhere, just waiting for the storm to pass. For some people its better to be at school doing something than just staying at home, at least this way you can see your friends and have a good time. Even though break is over it just gives us more to hope for, for the next break. For it to be bigger and better.