mock trial

yesterday was the lakeville north mock trial tournament. we got on the bus while it was pitch black and studied our directs/openings/closings/crosses ect. using book lights and flashlights. all we really wanted to do was sleep, but we knew we needed to study cuz god know we didnt do that the night before. we finally got to the school and made our way down to the media center. they had all 38 mock trial teams in one media center. we got the back row of books as "our spot". we dashed off to change, only to figure out we didnt know where the bathrooms were. we eventually found them and changed. we got back and found out our rooms. at that point i started to get really nervous. finally, we got to our rooms and our classroom happened to have mobiles hanging off the cieling. it was kind of distracting, but in a good way. it kept my mind off what i had to do. but when it was my turn, i did my witness job pretty dang well. then we had another trial and then we watched varsity in the championship round. then we went home.

intelligence

the importance of intelligence....i think it's pretty important. our world wouldnt be what it is today without some people having intelligence. the amount of it varies though. people who have intelligence may choose not to use it. some people who have it choose to be concieted and arrogant about it. people who have it might not have the resources to put it to the test. say there was a really smart hobo, and he had the mind power to create something amazing, but the opportunity never presented itself. that's the sad part about having intelligence.
then you have the people who dont have it, but they think they do. or they just dont care. im done ranting now.

yig

last thursday i got on a bus at 10 in the morning with a bunch of other people and we went to the minneapolis hilton. we joined 1300 other highschoolers at the 57th minnesota ymca youth in government weekend. we all wrote a bill before the weekend. on thursday and friday we were split into committees and we debated all the bills and weeded out the bad ones. all the bills that passed were debated in their senate/house. if they passed there then they went to the opposite senate/house. then they went to the lieutenant governer to get signed or vetoed. if then were vetoed then on sunday we overrid them. it was a very long weekend. but it was fun. friday night we had a carnival with "karaoke" which was actually just a mosh pit and movies and blow up jumpy things. on saturday night we had the governers ball. it was a lot of late nights and early mornings and jersey shore. so i am going to be completely dead tomorrow.

work ethic

okay...so my sister says work ethic is useless. apparently she knows a way you can pretend to have it. even if you dont. im sure it gets the people who have that far in life. but for those of us who do have work ethic, and i like to think i do, it gets annoying when some people think they can just sit around and do nothing or even worse, complain about how the people who are doing things, do them. im guilty of that sometimes, but usually i try and have good work ethic. im sorry if this post didnt make much sense. im half asleep from a very long weekend.