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    Are we as human beings really ready/prepared to step into the future of education. I am not sure if I think it is such a good idea to start to rely on the future of technology as our basis curriculum for our classes. Yes technology has its advantages, but it has many disadvantages that go along with it. I am in between sides personally. I enjoy using technology more, but it also is less reliable then paper. There are very few things that can ruin a paper like a shredder, or maybe your dog eats it, but thats pretty much it. Its different for technology because there are many different viruses on the web and wireless internets that only work 1/2 the time. I would prefer to blog more then writing my ideas out on paper anytime, but it is never fully trustable. It has probably been about 2 weeks since I have been able to access my learner blogs from school, and that hurts my school work because I need to use my blog all the time in class. Since I have started using this new site it hasn't been the "best" second source of blog writing. My very first post I took me 5 tries to post it with continuous errors. 

    I went to the freshman orientation for the high school I am attending next year, a few weeks ago. The orientation began with a speech from the principal. I wasn't acting interested or paying attention through most of the speech. Then he began to start about technology and the advances the school will be making next year. He said that they plan on having a laptop per student next year. That is crazy, that is about 1000 laptops. I don't know if I want my education to ride on whether or not my laptop is going to work today. I don't know though. It sounds really cool and a great way to move into the future. I just don't know if we are ready to do that yet. I think we might need to discover some ways to rid of viruses and faulty internet companies so that we can be positive that our computers will be working every day. So what do we do now? Do we stick in the boring old past of pen and paper, or do we go big or go home and try to advance into the risky future? Please respond to this post. 

Erica had about gone into shock. She didn’t know what to do. She feared her powers deeply. She didn’t know how to use them yet and she didn’t know what she could use them for. Could she find the people in time, and save them. Well this hasn’t been so successful in the past.

Erica was so confused and raging with anger at the same time. She sat there staring at the ceiling in her bedroom thinking about her brother. She loved him. They had always been very close since forever. Her brother had always been there to protect her and be with her in her most time of need. She just couldn’t imagine life without her brother. She probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him Actually, she wouldn’t be here for sure. When she was about 4 and her brother was 6 they were playing outside. They were playing catch. Her brother had thrown he ball to her and Erica missed the ball. It landed in the street. Erica being the little four year old she was didn’t acknowledge the car coming at her. She ran out there her brother ran as fast as he could and pushed Erica over out of the way. Erica turned around to yell at her brother for pushing her when she saw it. The car had not stopped and had hit her brother. Lucky he was, the car was only traveling at 27 MPH because it was a residential street. Her brother lie there in the road. Not knowing what to do, Erica screamed as loud as she could eventually her mom came out. The car had driven away and no information had been taken on it. My brother was able to withstand any serious problems, so he made a full recovery.The accident had only left him with a broken ankle, and a few scraps and scratches. Then again he was a 6 year old boy. And I was only a 4 year old girl.If I would have been hit by that car. There could have been a possibility I wouldn’t survive. Her brother had awaken in the hospital that night with his sister sleeping right next to him. That is when their close bond began. They both vowed to one and other and had always kept to it that the other was there when one needed help. They sealed it with a spit shake. You know just how little kids might do it.

 She thought about this for a while. It brought tears to her eyes. The ceiling began to fuzz up as she continued to cry. It was joy and sadness for what could possibly be coming.  She was sitting there. Thinking. Thinking. Thinking… and then she began to cry in rage. She was so furious at her brother right now everything heated. It burned her face as hot tears dripped from her eyes. They were bloodshot. She was so mad how could he not believe her. She might lose her brother just because he is being a dumb @$$! She had to devise a plan on how to show him she was telling the truth but how and who to sacrifice????

1. (gimme) The glass is half full instead of the glass is half empty.

2. Your lawn isn’t totally yellow instead of your lawn isn’t green whatsoever

3. Your beautiful on the inside instead of your ugly.

4. I am just taller than you instead of you are the shortest person I have ever seen.

5. You have friends who like you for who you are instead of you hang out with nerds.

6. Your jeans yesterday were good looking instead of your jeans today look horrible on you.

7. Your hair has a whole new meaning to it instead of yournew hair color doesn’t work with you.

8.(bad hair day) Your going to start a new fashion instead of your hair is bigger then mine that is sad.

9. you look so out of this world instead of you have to much make up on and it makes you look like a freak .

10. You have a petite home instead of your poor.

11. You are smart and you just don’t study instead of you are stupid.

12. (fake sneeze) I think I am allergic to your perfume instead of you stink go away.

Music is a very powerful thing in many ways. I have always wondered what attaches us as human to the music that we here. From Rock to Hip-Hop or Country to Metal we all feel some sort of connection to the music. I have always wondered why we love it even if we don’t have a connection to it. Is it because we are followers… or is it because we are trend-setters making our own reasons why we love the music. Personally I feel a connection to hip-hop. I don’t have a reason on a personal level like I know what they are going through in a song like HATE IT OR LOVE IT. I love how the beat is so up-tempo. I can sing all the lyrics testing myself seeing if I can rap or rhythm as good as the group or solo artist I am listening to. Hip-Hop is so fast. Tha is one of the best parts of iit because it is a challenge. Remembering the beat and the speed of every word you sing and how hard it is to dance that quick; moving your feet from side to side moving your arms all in sync with the beat. It is an amazing feeling that is why I feel such a strong connection to the music. I mean it may also help that I like to and a pretty good at dancing and that I can memorize lyrics quickly and in small amounts of listening to the song. People I know that can dance would say ” can you do the Chris Brown” this shows how strong the connection is for these hip-hop dancers. Dancers I talk to if you don’t know what dance moves like the crip walk or getting “crunk” is or the “1,2 step” or what “footworkin” is are you are really lame. That just shows how connected people are to their music and their taste. Whether you get down and get crunk to hip hop or you rock out to AC/DC you got your music. It helps you to wind dow and think and hard times to. It can help you open up. Go nowlisten to music. YOUR music.

Mr. Wilkoff has approved this post for use as a Weekly Authentic despite its fictional violence.

She was freaking out. She called her brother to warn him. The phone rang and rang and she was sobbing very loudly. She was panicking. She thought to herself, he isn’t going to answer, he is not going to answer. How am I supposed to save him if he doesn’t answer. I won’t be able to live with myse-,”Hello?”

Erica: Hello Martin, Are you there?

Martin: Ya. Erica I haven’t talked to you in forever. It sounds like something is wrong?

Erica: Martin you need too listen to me. You need to stay alert. There is thing and it is after you.

Martin: Okay. Um you feeling alright and what is this “Thing” (he laughs).

Erica: Martin this isn’t funny. I am fine. There is this girl. She has no face and she is after you.

Martin: What thats crazy talk. Don’t be so gross on the phone baby sis. A girl with no face. What is wrong with your imagination.

Erica: I am not joking she is going to use a chainsaw to cut your head off.

Martin: What the heck are you talking about!? That is gross. Why do you have to be so nasty we haven’t talked in a really long time and that is how you want to start up talking again with all this bull and stuff? Look, you need to get to bed I gotta go bye.

Erica: Martin wait… click. She heard telephone turn off. Well that went well. She decided to get some rest and maybe she will feel better when she gets up. Erica went strolling throughout the park. She was taking a look at all the beautiful little flowers when she started to feel seething pain. She was having another vision this time of some lady in the park. She was going to walk under a large branch and it was going to fall on her and crush her. She had to save her. The vision ended and she saw the girl and …. the tree. She was under it. She ran and ran as hard as she could screaming at the girl. She seemed to get farther and farther away as she was running closer. The branch snapped she didn’t make it. She saw it collapse and… she woke up. Thank god it was all a dream. She went to grab the paper outside and on the front cover was a picture of a young woman. Familiar she was. The article head line read “Fun PARK, OR EVIL FALLING BARk”. The woman had been crushed. She had seen the past. Why was the little girl playing with Erica’s emotions. Will she save her brother. Tune in for Faceless Pt. 6

“Hi, this is KS 107.8. It is 7 A.M. and here is the morni-,” Erica shut off her alarm. More distubring images at night. People dying. So gruesome. It was amazing the kind of work this girl did. So groos though, so gross. There was this one with knives and a person on the wall. It was just gross. Erica didn’t know that if anything that “supposedly” happened yesterday actually happended. Erica then deccided to call her brother for support. Her brother, John, lived in a medium house on a Rosemary street. He didn’t answer. She decided to turn on the morning news.

“Hi I am Amelia Escaveraz for CNDNDSN News. I am here at the scene where local business woman Sandra Loveland has fallen from the 4 story window above. Investigators are still trying to figure out whether it was a suicide or a murder. We found her this morning dead on the ground, says local Market owner Samuel Wishway.

Erica turned off the T.V. she was sick of this power. She felt pain building up in her gut. She was in a vision. She was watching someone. Then she heard a rev of an engine, at least that is what she thought it was. Then she saw the Chainsaw though. Oh. The She saw a head fly. She couldn’t make out the face and the vision ended. She tried to see another vision, but she couldn’t. She went on like this getting a little more of thee chain saw story each time. The next day sh had a vision that showed the shack where the head flew. Next day she saw a portion of the house with that shack. The day after that it wasn’t even remote to the previous pictures but she saw an address. 2466. Where was that familiar she asked herself. Finally on the last day of these continued visions she saw the street name. Rosemary. Using common sense she puts the number and street together. 2466 Rosemary. 2466 Rosemary. She thought and thought. Where is that street name so familiar.She remembered finally, but she didn’t want to believe it. That is the house where her brother lived.

She got another vision surprisingly this time the vision let her see the head. It was indeed her brothers. Then at the end of thee vision a little girl popped into the screen with long black hair, and no FACE. A hissy little laugh and it was over.

She had to stop it before it was to late.

The tragedy devastated many. I felt deep pain listening to the radio that mornign as the described the devastation going on in New York. I was on my way to school and all the sudden the song I was listening to went out and the news came on. I can here this lady screaming in the ackground people crying out for help and then the broadcaster came in. This isn’t word for word but it went something like this. ” I am here at the Twin Towers where a commercial plane has just crashed into the building. We are live on the scene as firefighters and poice officers attemppted to rummage through the rubble and search for people trapped inside the building. (true part), aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! OH MY GOD!!! Another plane just crashed into the other tower. Oh My-. Then she just stopped talking it went out. I was fearing for my life that morning as I got to school. As I walked into the classroom all I could mae out were little whispers about what happened people gossiping about the tragedy. Although the devastation was all the way in New York I still felt unsafe. Even though it didn’t directly affect most of us I could see kids crying in fear and in confusion. Then the older kids crying because they felt sorry for the people who were being killed. Then the anouncements came on. We took a long silence probably about five minutes to think about the people who died and the people who were currently dying. That was a cold lonely day at school. Everyone was scared everyone felt really sorry for all the people personally involved. That day and still to this day I think of all the innocent lives that were taken and all the lives of the people fighting to save other peoples’ lives. I pray for them and the families with lost loved ones. I try to help stay strong for people who lost loved ones. I am sorry for them. 9/11: A National Tragedy.

I am writing this as if i were a popular valley girl. Hi my name is
Salley! OMG!!! I got a fresh scrub this morning by the janitor and I feel so good right now!! People are going to walk in to school today look at me and be so jealous. My friend Brittney in the bathroom tile is so like jealous of me because i got a fresh scrub and she didn’t. Ya well anyway, I feel so good. I have had such a great day today. I am definately the shiniest section of floor like ever, Seriously. I know i feel so good but i wish i was one of those bathroom tile and I could see how i look so good also. OMG! OMG! OMG! I was jus laying there. Well i guess i can’t do anything else but the hottest hottie boy JAVON MOORE walked on me today!! UHHHH!!! It was the most embracing moment ever even though i felt so great being freshly scrubbed, I never want to be washed again after that. NEVER!! TTYL!!

(Next Day)

OMG!! I got a fresh scrub today and I feel so good