Foreign Languages

I was sitting next to a little girl the other day who was speaking German, and I got to thinking, how does she concect the words she's saying to what they accually mean? But I'm sure someone thinking German thinks the same thing. I mean, when I hear someone say "tree" i think of a tree...common sense, right? But when someone who is...say Spanish, says "arbol" how do they know that means tree also? It's just because they've grown up knowing that, and I've grown up knowing english, but it's a weird topic to think about in my oppinion. And then if you think past that one person who is speaking German, to the people who taught them, and so on, it's weird, because our languages have been passed on for years and years. Who made them up? And how did they make them up? If i discovered something new, I'd have no idea what to call it. I don't know...it's just interesting to me. I attemoted to learn Spanish, and it was really hard, so how do people learn english when it is ranked 2nd hardest language in the world?!?!

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~G.I.
P.S. If we make any mistakes in our entries, please post a comment and let us know, because we don't always catch them. :)

Little Birds

This post isn't so much about my oppinions this time, but something that I just really enjoyed today. I was sitting on a bench by a lake near my house, when a bunch of little English Sparrows flew in and started hopping on the ground around my feet. I was eating carmel corn, and so I assumed that's what they wanted. So I started crumbleing some of it up and tossing it out to them. Then I started to just hold it in my hand and about 5 of them would fly up at a time and sit on my hand and eat! I was so excited but shocked the first time, so I grabbed my hand back. Then I started holding it out again and when they flew up, I was ready. ;) It was so much fun! I was laughing the entire time. They also started hopping up my arms and legs! They were so cute! Then, on top of that, when I had used up the rest of my carmel corn on the birds, I walked to the edge of the lake and there were 3 little ducklings! They were so cute! And they were so small, probably on one of their first real swims around the lake. Some really big fish started simming up to the top of the water too and I liked watching them look for food. Occasionally they would bite at one of the ducklings flippers, but then realize they couldn't eat it. I was still sooo worried for them! Poor duckies! I just thought I'd share my interaction with the animals to you guys!

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~G.I.

What is the Point of War?

I would just like to say that I am against war. I personally, don't see a point to it. I know, a lot of people disagree with me, but that's okay, this is my opinion.
Every country has its own problems and it's own things that it can improve, so why waiste your countries recources on war. You are putting your country farther and farth into the whole and making it harder and harder to get out. Every country has etter things to spend their time, people, and money on. I think each country should stick to themselves!
Don't get me wrong, I really appriciate are countries soldiers. We owe them our freedom. If it weren't for them, we probably wouldn't be here today. However, if we got rid of war, every country would be free to do it's own thin with it's own people. I'm not saying we can't help other countries if they are in need because of a bad leader or something, but mostly the government should stick to helping their own country. A lot less soldiers would die or be separated from their families and some coutries wouldn't be in constant fear of their people dieing. War is a really complicated topic, because their are ton of facts that help support protagonists and antagonists.

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~G.I.

Over Texting

We love texting, who doesn't? ;) But there is a point when you go too far with texting. I text on the school bus, because there is nothing else to do, but I don't carry my phone around all the time. I know people who carry their cells to the bathroom with them! That's just pathetic! I've also heard people say "Nobody will text me back!" and all I can say is "Get a life!" I mean really, you don't constantly have to be talking to your friends. You can do other stuff! Get up and go outside or something! I also think it's really rude when people text while I'm talking to them. Because they pay attention and then they get a text and I keep talking and they look up and say, "What?" It makes me mad! And people text in school too, can they really not go that long? And then they say they don't understand the homework...I WONDER WHY?!?!?!?!?!

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~G.I.

North Korea

I've resently learned a lot about North Korea, and it's horrible! They are so strict, but that hardly tells you how bad it is! They hardly EVER let American's in. (I watched a video of this girl who was their to learn about it, and she's learned that she was the only American in the country!) They practically brain wash their people into thinking their leader in this great "God" figure. Instead of learning the ABC's in kindergarten, they learn how to praise their leader! They also teach children songs about how horrible American's are. Please check out this video, because it's hard for me to totally make you understand how bad it is there.

This video isn't as good as the one I saw, but hopfully you get some of the idea.

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~G.I.

Hobbies

Hobbies are a great way to spend time, meet other people that enjoy the same things as you, and to just have fun! There are sooo many different kinds of hobbies too. You don't have to do a sport or a collection. Those are great ones to do, but you can knit, (Which I will admit is accually really fun ;) ride horses, volunteer, read, write, scrap book, or blog! This has become my favorite past time, now find one for yourself! You just have to think about what you really like to do. Do you enjoy animals? cooking? writing? walking? nature? Just find it and do it!

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~G.I.

Ghosts?

Do you believe in ghosts? I don't. At leaste, I don't believe someone's soul can be trapped on earth and they can't harm you physically or mentally. It's just not possible for a soul to just float around. Are you going to tell me about all of those ghost hunting shows? Those are so easy to make up, I could make them! In my oppinion, after someone or something dies they go to heaven or hell. It's just that, and that's it. They can't stay here for ever haunting houses and possesing people. It's not possible!

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~G.I.

Facebook/Myspace

Facebook, Myspace, and all of those social networking sites are fun, don't get me wrong, but you have to be super careful with them. Colleges look at what you have on them, so if you have dumb videos and pictures of you holding a beer can or something then they might not accept you. You also have to be careful with your privacy setting. Because if you have it set on "anybody" than really ANYBODY can see it. One of my friends used to have one until she found out that there were 7 other people on facebook that were trying to "be her" by saying they went to the same school and everything. Also if you have it set on "friends of friends" then what if one of your friends adds anybody who asking them, then all of those random people can see where you live and all of that. So just be careful what you post, and just to be safe, like I do, don't put things like your zip code, school, home town, and things that will make it easy for someone to find you!

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~G.I.

Silverware

Ok, so we went out to eat the other day and I held up my fork and said, "I know that they clean their silverware and all, but isn't it kind of gross to think about how hundreds of other people put their mouth on this same fork I'm useing?" I mean really, can a dishwasher really kill ALL of those germs? It's just kind of gross to talk about because those are a lot of mouths of people you don't know. Anyways, just thought I'd share this thought I had with you guys!

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~G.I.