5 more weeks until summer vacation! I am ready to out of school: actually I have been waiting since we first arrived at Stevenson High School. I wasn’t ready to go to school in September 8th, but my parents are just too focused on school. They keep lecturing me how they want me to get a better education than they had a chance to. To be honest my parents never received a great education because they didn’t have a chance to enter high school.
Well I always agree with my mom and dad. Anyways let’s get back on track and talk about my summer vacation, for 2010. I don’t think I’m going anywhere for summer vacation but that okay. As long as I get to sleep in I’m perfectly fine. I am looking forward to this summer because I don’t have to wake up at 8:30 in the morning to go to track practice and I don’t have to any homework. I am basically free during summer vacation. I am a little mad because my friends in my neighborhood are going out of town for two weeks when I’m at home all alone. One of my friends is Christian and he going to Italy for a month and a half and my other friend is Angelo and he’s going to Cancun for two weeks. I get to go to Livonia for my whole Spring break. How fun does that sound? My great uncle Nico has been talking to me about fishing near lake Huron to go fishing. I love fishing because I love catching big game. Every October we go up north and fish for King Salmon. Now that is big!. This Summer I am going to the pool every day I will be outside and going over my friend’s house. We usually go to the pool and maybe get my skin a little darker. I will try to hang out with my friends as much as I can this summer and watch new releases in the movie theater Well I am expecting a great summer this year and hoping for the best

As my first SIMUN experience, I was extremely nervous when it was Tuesday. When it came down to Wednesday I was a little pumped because I had to dress up. Honestly I like to dress up because it makes me feel professional and strict business. Now after lunch was my 5th hour which is time for SIMUN. I was sweating like crazy and was extremely nervous. The first day actually went well. I gave a good speech and asked a couple of questions. I thought SIMUN was a great experience as a first time participant. I thought SIMUN was really hard in the first hour. I didn’t speak or ask questions until I learned the proper method of how to ask questions and how to ask to speak. SIMUN was just a great experience and was a lot of fun. SIJMUN is a great experience for any freshman or any new comers. This really helped my speaking skills and my organization skills.
Personally I thought I did alright for a new comer. I didn’t participate the first day as much as I did the last day. I was worried I wasn’t going to participate at all on Tuesday when we were warming up. “It’s really hard not to participate” quote by Andre Roberts. That quote was honestly true because I called myself in the Speakers list and I spoke and gave a well speech. Our mentor, Chris, helped me a lot and I thank him for that. He kept pushing me to be on the speakers list and ask more questions. But overall he kept motivating me and telling me I was doing a great job.
On Tuesday night the first task I needed to accomplish was the clothes I was going to wear on Wednesday. That was the easy part but the hard part was writing out a speech when you were called on the Speakers list. Every news flash through my speech off so I kept revising and revising until I had it right. The Scenarios weren’t too bad because they were the questions we had to answer during Spring Break. Every time we started a new Scenario I pulled out my answer to the questions and participated as much as I could.
I will have to participate much more next year because I only spoke three times. Ask more questions and now that I got use to the method I will do a better job of sounding professional. I will help any person that is struggling with the Scenario or when they are stuck with something. I will participate more in caucus time and make alliances with other nations

Bud not Buddy is a classical book that just brings my attention. I started to read this book in 6th grade but never had a chance to finish. Now that I do and have better reading skills, I can read this book like a gentleman.
This book starts off with what I think is segregation. Bud is African American and he is the protagonist in this fascinating book. Bud is an only child with a mother that passed away and has no clue who his father is. Bud or Clarence lives in a foster home and seeks step parents. A family named the Asmoses chooses Clarence to as a foster child. Once Bud arrives at the house, the Asmoses son, Todd, starts to pick on him. He beats him up but Bud threw in some good punches. As Todd’s mom came in the room, he starts to cry and blames all the mess and bruise on his face on Bud. Now wait a minute, shouldn’t guests be treated nicely? Well unluckily for Bud, they honestly don’t care how they treat him. Mrs. Asmoses clearly takes Todd’s side f the deal and punishes Bud.
The Asmoses make Bud sleep in the shed where they kept old foster children in as said in the book. The shed is very hot and very dark. Bud sleeps through the night and in the morning wakes up to a hive of bees in the top of the shed. Hundreds of bees sting him but Bud keeps his cool and ignores the pain.
This book was taken place during the great depression. At this point of time there was a lot of segregation going on. White and colored couldn’t go to the same school, bathroom, or restaurants. This is a very interesting book and recommends it and don’t check the book late because the librarian will make you pay seven dollars if you do

I would have to consider helping the United States in conquering the nuclear weapons in Pakistan. The United States is a close ally and Pakistan is one of our biggest rivals. India supports The United States idea of going inside the country of Pakistan and safely takes the nuclear weapons off the terrorist’s group hands. If this terrorist was Al-Qaeda or the Taliban then we have to act fast because that would give them a free pass to conquer the world. India doesn’t like the idea of just going in Pakistan and taking the nuclear power safe. That would make the United States look really bad and would make a couple of countries pretty mad. That would also make India look bad considering we helped the United States out. India is willing to let the United States use a military base for air support to engage these actions in a much safer, closer destination to Pakistan

I was an outcast 3 years ago when I first moved to Livonia. I didn’t know anybody and school was right around the corner. I lived in Detroit my whole life and I wasn’t ready to move for the first time. Detroit is unsecure, unsafe, and it’s a crazy place.
That day came by so fast when the semi pulled up in our driveway. We had to put everything inside our house in to the semi. Although it took us all day, we managed to get 99 percent of all the stuff. It was night time and we were ready to leave the old house. We slept the night one more time, and in then I gave the last goodbyes and we were out of there. We arrive at the new house; we unpack everything and place it in the garage. Since our house was a little custom made and was the different house from the block, you can tell where I live right away. Our house is a three car garage door, with 4 bedrooms and three and a half baths. The day we arrived, sunny and humid, we decided to pull out some chairs, and just have a relaxing day outside our house. I see four kids coming to our house. The walk around in the street bouncing a basketball up and down. They wanted me to notice them but I wouldn’t say anything because I was the new kid.
After ten minutes they finally spoke and asked me if I wanted to play. Knees trembling, arms shaking, I said yes. Since basketball was my favorite sport I was confident I would dominate. I was in the back of the group because I had butterflies in my stomach. We walk for two minutes and we arrive at my friend’s house, knowing I would dominate these kids. We had an uneven number of people so I called my brother to play with us. He was tall and jumped really high so I wasn’t as confident as before. We play a little game of 3 on 3. They were really amazed how good I was in basketball so the next game; they started whining because they all wanted to be on the same team as me. So I picked a shy kid that didn’t talk as much and he was a bad player I wouldn’t lie. Dribbling and schooling, it came down to the last second and I score the winning basket. My mom comes after me, ready to yell, and tells me I have to go back home. I was happy I met these kids because we are still friends till this present day

Every year for the past 5 years my dad has been taking me to a fishing trip. This event takes place in the beginning of October and ends only three weeks after. This fishing trip is very special to me because its the only fishing trip I go to for the whole year. At this time, Chinook Salmon swim upstream in Manistee River. This trip is five years away from Livonia and is located near the city Cadillac.
Three years ago when I went to Manistee River I had no idea what to expect. Since our fishing years has been bipolar as in one year we have a good year and the other is horrible. As we got to our campsite which is called “Sandust Hole”. As we always do every year we set camp first. It takes at least an hour or two to set everything up and when we are done we have to eat or my mommy will yell at me. I get done eating and I get the news that I am too young to fish at night because the river has a lot of logs and debris. My cousin decides to stay with me so I won’t stay alone and we party all night until we got sleepy at 3 a.m. Next morning we have breakfast and now I have a chance to go fishing all day on Saturday. Our secret fishing spot is half an hour away from our campsite so everyone is exhausted when we actually arrive. The river is around 300 feet wide and up to five to six feet deep. Since I am just a little taller than five feet I have to stay in the shallow.
To get in the river there is a ten foot slope of dirt and rocks so we have to be very careful. I achieve of not sliding down which I have done before and it was not pretty. I get my rod and cast 30 yards of 25 lb test line. I didn’t hook anything the first try. I was fishing for 10 hours on Saturday and I caught three twelve lb king salmon. My dad only let me stay until 9 p.m. but at night its to our advantage because the fish are blind I go back to camp and I have to eat some tacos. I go to sleep because again my dad didn’t let me go fishing at night. On Sunday which is a sad day because it’s the last day of our fishing trip. I eat breakfast and head down to our fishing spot. I managed to catch one more fish and this fish was small. As my dad yells “We have to levae” I tell ask him if I can cast my line one more time. He told me I wasn’t going to catch anything and when I cast my line I feel a tug and when I looked into the river I hear and see and hear a big splash and I yell to my uncle to get the net because I have a big one
Manistee River

Back when I was 7 I use to love having friends over my house. One night I had an idea to fight ghosts that don’t really exist. I couldn’t really see them but that night aliens came to earth to send me these red and green goggles so I can see objects I can’t normally see. I start to look at the goggles and I see there is a lot of buttons and this technology is around 500 years ahead from ours. There is x-ray vision, radiation levels, thermal and my favorite night vision goggles. Delaila is a hot friend of mine and asks if she can join, and I said yes she can. So we hunt down ghost and we make our way to the kitchen. I find a fat guy eating named Kris. He was as tall as black bear on his two feet and as wide as a dually 3200 ram from 2003I true my x-ray vision and see a sight that is really disturbing. I yelled at him to say “ We are being terrorized by ghosts!” He yells as he takes a big bucket of KFC chicken with him.
So I have my crew of two people and cool goggles. Delaila, Kris and I turn on the television and we are informed that the population on earth was cut in half because ghosts on earth were eating people. So we need to find protection and the first idea that game in mind was a knife. Call me stupid but Dalaila told me how was I going to cut something I didn’t see? So the aliens come back and give me a Model 1873 Old West Lever. They said this is a special made gun that only kills objects you can’t see with a naked eye. We hear a loud noise outside the house so I put the goggles on and put it to thermal vision and see there is a huge object standing 50 feet away from me. The object was the head boss of the entire ghost population on earth and is the reason why the earth population is decreasing at a fast rate. I pull out my model 1873 and I start to fight the ghost. The ghost was really strong and I couldn’t fight him by myself. I hear a semi truck honk its horn. The truck started to make weird moves and was transforming. I recognized its face a Optimus Prime. I had an autobot on my side to fight the ghost. The ghost was helpless as my model 1873 was stronger since Optimus gave me a little boost on it. We aimed our weapons at the ghost and “BAM”!! The ghost was incinerated and world peace came back to earth

Iran’s new nuclear project
By: Daniel Macias
It’s a bad idea that for Iran to send a rocket into space for a new and improved missile delivery system.

The new rocket Iran sent to space is now known as the Kavoshgar-3. Iran intended to send this rocket to space with a satellite carrying living organisms. The Organisms were a rat, two turtles and worms and all the organisms were alive once it the rocket returned to Earth on a parachute (aerospace-technology.com). This new rocket is an improved version of Iran’s most advanced missile, the Sejil-2. Since the U.S and China are advancing their technology, why can’t Iran advance theirs too? The missile, Sejil-2 is capable of reaching distances up to 2,500 kilometers. (globalpoliticion.com). Tehran says its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. Iran had an underground nuclear plant which they were hiding against a lot of nations. Why would we believe that it’s for peaceful purposes? With a new nuclear weapon delivery system, Iran can strike at any point.

Mahmound Ahmadinejad announced an agreement to export low enriched nuclear fuel. This deal put forth the U.S and other Western countries concerning over Iran’s nuclear program. After a few weeks Mahmound rejected the deal whish shifted public statements around. The U.S acted quickly for more defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf.Iran's new project

The power of one was a pretty good film. The film honestly taught us that one human being can make a really big difference. PK, the main character in the film starts off as a little boy. He is forced to go to school with English people because they don’t have enough money to pay for another school.. Since he is the only white African there of course he would get picked on. So he does and he gets spit on, his nickname is now “Piss Kup”, and they even killed his best friend and his protector the chicken. Since world war was going on at that time, some English kids even wanted to be part of the war and become a Nazi. Since he was the only white African he was almost killed but he was severely injured.
He finds a man named”Doc” and decides to live with him. Doc teaches PK a lot of new interesting facts about the wild life, especially plants. Best part about living with Doc was that PK learned how to play the piano since Doc is a musician. When PK and Doc are forced out of their home and to a settlement where they kept some African American people, PK makes a new friend named Geel Piet. Piet teaches Pk how to box for self defense. Doc plays a concert and PK writes a song about the African People expressing their feelings about guards and that cause Piet’s life. The way the officer or sergeant beat up Piet was just horrible and was unnecessary.


Christmas is right around the corner! Since I am Mexican-American we still celebrate Christmas. I love this holiday and part of Mexican tradition we have parties from December 16 to December 24 called “Posadas”. These are parties Symbolizing Mary and Joseph before they could find shelter or a home to give birth to Jesus. We always celebrate them with our family but for some odd reason we didn’t this year. We did this tradition last year and we went to different house every day for nine days. It’s like a regular party there’s cake, food, drinks and we play and hangout with our family but at night when its around an hour or so before the party is over the whole family is outside and we sing songs next to some of the windows on the lower level of the house. We would do this for every “Posada” we go to.
Thanksgiving is normal; we eat, get fat, exercise to burn off the pounds and we do it again next year. Every year we are invited to a party to express gratitude to family, friends and loved ones. This year wasn’t so fun because we were invited to my uncle Oscars house and all my annoying cousins were there. I tried to make the best of it by playing my cousins WII and playing guitar hero. The food wasn’t all that great because the turkey was really dry and the buns were burned. In the end this Thanksgiving was pretty good and I had a chance to watch Star Trek but I didn’t have chance to finish the movie.



“5-4-3-2-1 Happy New Year!” 2009 is gone and 2010 is the time for a fresh start. My friend slept over on New Year ’s Eve and when the time hit twelve o’clock we went crazy and started to jump around and give each other high fives every two seconds. We were watching MTV at that moment I run to my room and give my little brother a big hug until and I told him “Happy new year” and he was confused not knowing what was going on. Anyways continuing I go downstairs and give my dad a big hug and then my mother and then my relatives that came over to feast with us. After ten minutes 2010 came I didn’t have that one feeling when the New Year comes by.
I’m not going to say 2009 was a bad year but I expected to be better. I went to high school and I had flashbacks of all the good friends I lost from eight grade. This summer was pretty boring also and The Stevenson Freshman football team wasn’t the best team in the world but I did love the experience as my first year of a football player. I also can’t believe I was single for the whole year of 2009. That was a good thing but at some points I ask myself “why am I still single?” I look forward to a great successful year by achieving good grades, making new friends, not to be in too much trouble and making the good choices not the bad choices.