Making Decicsions...

Many things effect my personal decision making. The most important people in my life are the biggest part of my decisions. My family, my friends, and my girlfriend greatly influence the way I live my life. If they would be unhappy of a decision I was making then I would be forced to re think what I had done and perhaps change it. Money is also a part of my decision making process in some situations. When buying things I do not need or that are expensive I really have to decide if it is worth paying for. If so then I buy it and enjoy but if not or if I can not simple afford it comfortably at the time I will wait to buy it later or perhaps never buy it. Another big part of my decision making process is morals. I like to thing everything I do is the right thing to do. It is important to me that I do not make bad decisions and perhaps end up hurting myself or anyone else in the process. I guess you could relate the morals with religion which is the basis for people believe in what is right and wrong. I am however not very strongly tie to religion, none the less I am aware that millions of people in the world fall back on their own religion to help them make decisions. I also like to think about my future and how even small decisions I make today can potentially effect me ears from now. For example I have recently made the decision to attend college at Ursinus University in Collegeville PA. This decision took me a long time to think about. I thought about my future and how it would be effected, I also thought about my family and friends and how my relationship would change with them. There was no moral issue with attending school anywhere so that was not in the equation. I also thought about money. The school gave me a great offer to go there and the money was right. I have always taken pride in my decision making process and very rarely do I make a bad decision so lets hope the biggest one of my life so far (college choice) is a good one as well.

A pinch of Afghanistan

-90 years of independence
-2 official languages
-about 33,000,000 people
-stir in a couple large mountain ranges and a good amount of earthquakes
-1 cup each of:
Asian culture,
European influence,
Russian influence
-a large bag of religious conflict
-don't forget a large bowl of war
-sprinkle in some hidden terrorists
-but do not add any weapons of mass destruction
-blend abut 10 major ethnic groups
-and also add a struggling economy
-last but not least 1 cup each of:
amazing architecture
and natural beauty

Blend all together well before serving and you will have AFGHANISTAN...

Spring Break... *RIP Harry Kalas*

Over this spring break I had a good time. I got to hangout with a lot of friends and family. For the first time in my life I celebrated Passover. I did this with the family of my girl friend who is half Jewish. Everyone I know complains about passover but I didn't think it was so bad. I also celebrated Easter with my family and it was nice to see everybody.
As good as my break was on my first day back I was welcomed with bad news. The legendary sports announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies Harry Kalas died today 4/13/09. Harry Kalas has announced every game since I have been in this world and he will truly be missed by all fans of the world champion Philadelphia Phillies.

Tolarence... "Ch. 12/Prompt 16"

All year in class we have spoken about tolerance of all cultures and respecting each other as human beings who are all equal. In this book tolerance is a problem. Mexican relate to Mexicans while they constantly fight with the whites. there is very little tolerance in the book and this climaxes in Chapter 12 when Jesse gets beat up by a gang of white boys. Tolerance is a key part to peace in this world and the people in this story do not understand that.

A Spring Trip "Ch. 10/ Prompt 7"

Earlier I predicted that Abel would travel. My prediction was half current. Abel did travel but, Jesse went with him. They decided to travel for spring break and they planned on visiting Pismo Beach by way of hitchhiking. I predicted Abel would leave but I thought he would go alone not with Jesse. I was right in believing Abel would leave but I did not have the right circumstances.

JESSE... "Prompt 18"

The title of my book is Jesse. This is a simple and easy title. The story is about the life of a man names Jesse. He is the main character so the title makes good sense. If I were to change the title of the book I might call it, "Nuevo Familia" This means new family is Spanish. I would call it this because of the vast changes that Jesse family has. He goes from living with is mom and step dad to living with his brother and even adding girls into their lives.

Where do u REALLY want to go? " Ch.9/ Prompt 10"

In the story Jesse often asked where people want to go, but he is not interested about that moment he asks them where they want to go if they could go anywhere. His brother Abel first said the forest and in chapter nine he answered the amazon. I have a friend that often asks the same question as Jesse. "If you could go anywhere in the world, Where would you go?" His name is Rj and one of our hobbies is to just drive around until we fidn something that interests us. Almost everytime we do this he brings up the question of our altimate destination and the one place that we would most like to go.