Weekly Blog 10: Break

I think winter break is one of the best ideas anyone has ever come up with. I mean this person should get some kind of award. I wish we had this in high school! Teachers are even ready to take a months break to just relax with their families and not deal with school. School really puts the pressure on you especially when you are working a full time job with it. It;s hard to keep up with assignments. I know I am fully ready to be done with school for a while.

You get some time to enjoy all the snow that just came down. Even if your like me and you will just go to work and sit inside to look at the snow. It's still enjoyable. I am going to move this break into a new apartment, and a lot of my friends are going home for the month.

Kids who live in dorms have to be out by the end of the week. And I'm sure their families are going to be very happy to see their kids for the month. They will be home for the holidays and that's what makes this break so great!

Weekly Blog 9: A Time Of Giving

This weekend I was having a conversation with a guy I work with and he just so happens to be going to college to try and become a Pastor when he gets a little older. He asked me what I thought about Christmas and I replied that it was not my favorite holiday of the year, my favorite is Halloween. He was shocked as most of you probably would be at that answer. Don't get me wrong I do like Christmas because I like getting together with my family and having a good time. Back to my story, as I told him that Christmas was not my favorite Holiday he responded with telling me how awesome it was to be getting gifts and what he got his wife this year. This is exactly the reason I do not like Christmas. You would think him wanting to be a pastor he would want to tell me about the spirit of Christmas and why that was his favorite holiday. But even he is blinded by the shallowness and material objects that had takin' over the true meaning of Christmas. Who ever said Christmas is the time of giving is wrong! It's the time to love your families and all the people around you who make you happy. In today's society this day is all about who got the most, the best, and the most expensive gifts. People are shopping for this one day for a whole month, if not longer. This makes me sad as a person to see how materialistic our culture is now. We should take back the meaning of Christmas and enjoy just being around the people who mean the most to us.

Weekly Blog 8: Injustice

I know a lot of people disagree with me on this subject (my mother especially) but I think this is one of the biggest social injustices today. I feel that everyone should be able to marry the person they want. Yes this blog is about why we should legalize same sex marriage. This ban on same sex marriage is taking away homosexual peoples constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness. I know the biggest opposers of making this legal is the church. But I am sorry to say for those people that here in the U.S we have what is called a separation of church and state. Which means that the church has no influence over what becomes law. This is a bit confusing to me, since the church is the one saying that this is wrong and the state is following this rule then really where is the separation? Remember what back when you couldn't even marry the same race? Well now that is possible, so why can't this be possible. There are many consequences to not being able to marry your spouse such as; not being able to see them in hospitals, when they die you have no control over their belongings, you have to have different insurances. There are many others too. I just think that if we do have this separation of church and state then there really should be no problem to make having gay marriage legal, it is their right to be happy no matter who they have chosen to love.