Today in North Carolina... Its So Warm! 11/30/16

Today I wasn't in school again because I am in Wilson, North Carolina for another soccer tournament. It is so so so warm and humid here I love it. Yes, I like the humidity, Basically all my day has consisted of was waking up at 3:30 and driving for five hours, then eating some breakfast, and now doing homework. Luckily this blog is the last thing I have to do so now I can just rest and hydrate for my game tomorrow.

Today in Class... More on Culture. 11/29/16

Today in class we continued to take notes on culture... kinda. First off I'm pretty sure that Mr. Schick showed us a different slide then the slide we were looking at the day before because the layout looked different. I don't know maybe it was just me. Secondly we looked at a slide that showed the different counties in the country and what name they called soda by color coding. Mr.Schick was basically just trying to show us how culture worked with a real life example.

Today in Class... Culture. 11/28/16

Today in class we started a new unit which we will be tested on on Friday. This unit is on culture... a basic look at the basic elements. Culture is basically groups of people that share their knowledge, have shared behavior, same traditions, same beliefs, etc., that are passed down from generation to generation. Some examples would be: speech, religion, food, music, sports allegiance, etc. These can all be narrowed down into for main groups:

• language 
• values, norms, beliefs
• social activity & interaction
• arts & sciences

Today in Class... Test #3!...or 4? 11/17/16

Today in class we took our third test... or maybe it was the fourth. Anyways, I feel pretty good about it. There was one section where we had to match the countries with the description of the country and that caught me a little off guard. But I used my previous knowledge and some common sense to do my best. After the test I used my laptop to search the questions that I could remember and I got them right so I don't think I did too bad on that part. After that Mr. Schick let me go to my locker to get my math stuff so I could study for the test that I had next period. I definatly think that I got a 100% on that test (or close to it) because I went back and checked all of my work and made corrections to the questions that I would've gotten wrong.

P.S. Thank you Mr. Schick for not having the different forms of government on there because Kate and I were really struggling with those when we were quizzing each other.

Today in Class... World Leaders and Test. 11/16/16

Today in class we finished our world leaders notes. It was pretty intense (well just as intense as note taking can be) because we had to go over nine countries in one class. That might not sound like a lot but with the class I'm in, as many times that we get off topic, it is a lot. Two classes ago when we first started taking notes on the world leaders we only covered four countries because of how many times we had gotten off topic. We again went over the test, and to be honest, I think this will be one of the easiest tests we will have taken this year. It is all matching and there will be no essay portion of the test, therefore there are less opportunities for me to screw up and make stupid mistakes :). Thank you, Mr. Schick.

Today in Class... Studying. 11/15/16

Today in class Mr. Schick wasn't there. Earlier in the day or maybe it was over the weekend he sent us the link to his world leaders slide that we were going over in class yesterday. Our sub told us that we could make changes to our slides or study or do something related to what we have been doing in class. Of course most people didn't do that but I decided that I should study. I looked over the notes that we took yesterday and I also looked at Mr. Schick's slide. What I didn't do but probably should have done was copy the notes into my notebook which would've made the most sense to do. Oh well I can still do that tonight I guess.

Today in Class... More on World Leaders. 11/14/16

Today in class we took hand written notes on world leaders. But first we talked about the test. So we came to a conclusion that the test will be on Thursday which is just dandy because I have two other tests that day. One in Spanish and one in Honors Algebra 2, just perfect timing. So on the test we will have to know the thirteen countries that we did our slide show on, the leader of those countries, some background information about the leader, and what type of government that country has. Yeah so I will be doing a bunch of studying and reviewing these next few days. The notes that we took were just to correct our slides that we made and to also give us the information on the world leaders' backgrounds.

Today (Not) in Class... Soccer Tourney Again! 11/11/16

Today I was not in class again! I am currently in a soccer tournament and had a game which was in the middle of the day, so my dad let me take off. I don't even have a clue about what we were talking about in class today, but I pray to God that it wasn't about Donald Trump or anything political again because I just simply would not be able to handle another one of those conversations. They fire me up way too much and people assume things and talk about that when in reality they have no clue what they are even talking about. They will hear someone say something negative about the person they don't like and then assume that information is 100% correct and continue to spread that. I'm getting hot just thinking about another one of those discussions, especially now that President-Elect Trump has won. The only thing I can say now is something that I read on a sign outside of a church... Pray for America. She needs it now more than ever!

P.S. I really hope we start talking about Justin Trudeau again and I know Kate hopes the same lol

Today in Class... What the Heck Happened Last Night! 11/9/16

Okay so my mind is completely blown. I know I said in yesterday's blog that I thought it was an even race, and I wasn't lying about that, but I really thought Hillary would pull out a win. Ironically yesterday we were talking about the electoral votes and popular vote and Hillary won the popular vote! In my opinion (and many others) she should technically be president because most of the country wants her! Anyways this blog is supposed to be about what I think Donald Trump will do as president. To be honest, I have no clue. I don't think he does either. I know that he will have to do something with the so called "wall" he said he was going to build because that is what got a lot of heads turned to his direction. I think he was just bluffing and saying that to get votes, but now that he has won he will have to at least propose it to congress to say that he at least tried to build it. I don't think that he will get rid of Obama Care though. I know he promised it, but I don't think he will. I definitely think he will change it a lot but not get rid of it because it would leave way too many people without insurance which would make a lot of people hate him even more. I also don't think that he will put Hillary Clinton in jail like he said he would. I think that was the biggest bluff in the world, but you never know because apparently literally anything can happen in this country now a days.

Today in Class... Election Day! 11/8/16

Today is election day! I am nervous, scared, excited, and relieved all at the same time. Nervous and scared because I think at this point they both have a pretty equal chance at winning and because our country could possibly be in the hands of someone who has no idea what he is getting himself into and has no experience with anything like this whatsoever. Excited because our country could be in the hands of the first female president ever (not that that is the only reason I would want her to be president, its just a plus :) )! Relieved because the campaign will finally over and man was it a long time coming! In class we talked about electoral college. I would only like to say three things about that. A) I don't understand why this is a thing. B) If you are going to have this "point" system, then at least have it so that the candidates split them reasonably if it isn't won by a landslide. C) I feel that if a person wins the popular vote, then the majority of the country wants that person as their next president and that is how it should be.

Today in Class... Election Predictions! 11/7/16

Today in class we discussed our early voting predictions. Well I guess we didn't really discuss them but we wrote them down. Mr. Schick came up with this chart that has predictions for the next president, the electoral votes, and the popular vote (%). On Mr. Schick's Veracross website on listed five websites that we could use to make our predictions. I personally used fivethirtyeight.com and 270towin.com to make my predictions. My final results were that Hillary Clinton is going to win, the elctoral votes were going to be 288-250, and the popular votes are going to be 49% to 46% (which leaves 5% of the country to the "others"). I probably won't get my exact predictions right but I do think it will be a tight race, neck-and-neck. I think this is the kind of race where every vote counts.

Websites I used:

• http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
• http://www.270towin.com/
• You can also just click on the text in the paragraph above

Today in Class... I Went to Mrs. Heflin. 11/4/16

Today in class while everyone else finished their research slide, I went down to see Mrs. Heflin. Mr. Schick, you probably already know what happened with the soccer team and I don't want to repeat it because it isn't my buisness to tell. Sarah is one of my closest friends in this school and what she tried to pull yesterday scared the life out of me. Not to mention I was right there the entire time everything was happening... I held her up so she wouldn't fall. I really just couldn't be in class and I needed to talk. On the other hand I did finish my slide right before I started writing this blog actually. Whoever ends up reading this blog, I know you don't know the story of what happened, but please pray for my friend Sarah Meyerl because she needs it now more than ever.

Today in Class... More on World Leaders. 11/3/16

Today in class, at first we discussed how the Cubs finally won the World Series! Then Mr. Schick assigned us more work to do. We had to add more to the work we did on the World Leaders and had to use the World Factbook for it. Well technically I guess we didn't have to but he recommended it. Just about the entire time me and Kate were not on task at all. We were looking at pictures of Canada's Prime Minister and oh my gorgeousness. Sadly another class mate looked up his age and he is my moms age. That made it kinda weird. But I mean hey, if you look good then you look good.

Today in Class... CUBS!!! 11/2/16

Today in class we discussed the Cubs game Mr. Schick went to. He showed us a video of him on a plane full of other Cub fans basically having a full on pep rally while the plane was descending into Chicago. They sang take me out to the ball game and there was not a single person that was not singing the song. He also showed us pictures of the night of the game and explained what was happening at that exact moment of every single picture. I would just like to acknowledge the fact of how idiotic I am. This whole year when they were talking about the Cubs in class, I thought they were talking about ice hockey. THIS WHOLE TIME!!! Then once Mr. Schick showed us a picture of the team, everything made so much more sense haha.