Leadership

I was thinking about leadership and what I think it has meant the past few days. I think that I have finally gave up with a answer and it is someone that starts something or has people that follow in their footsteps or actions. One example is Mr. Goodnature (our school Gym Teacher) said "I was a leader". He said that because we went swimming I was always the first one in the pool and always helping clean up the mess after. I really didn't think that was leadership at the moment because I just wanted to get an A in his class. My mom was in a leadership committee and it was telling her and a group of people how to lead others in a way that makes them want to get involved not by just saying that you have to do something, but setting an example on how to do it. It made her really excited when she graduated that class and was able to be the Sunday school president for the year and lead the kids to a wonderful Christmas play. This is what I think leadership is about.

Giving

Giving what is it. Well some of my teachers asked if I was going to bring cookies on my birthday, (It is today) if I was going to bring cookies or cake to some of my classes my J10 teacher Mr. Worth was surprised when I brought cookies to his class as was Mr. Hansen my biology teacher. I think that it was giving a little bit but I thought as it more as a present to all the kids for putting up with me for the last year. Sometimes I think that people get the wrong impression and think that I am annoying, but you can ask some of my friends and they will say that I am not annoying but I can be put up with at time. Giving is when you see a charity basket and you put money in it. When I think of people giving money to them one quote comes to mind and I don't know who was the person that said it. " If a rich person gives $100,but a poor person gives all they have like lets say $50 the poor person is going to be respected more just on the basis that they give everything they have to other people when the rich people give just a small amount of what they have." I love that it gives the perfect example of giving I think.

Birthday

My birthday is coming up on the 23rd of Novemeber I am so excieted. I am getting a new computer for my birthday it is going to be a fun birthday it is finally my sweet 16th birthday. My whole family is going to be there. I also got cards for my birthday. We are going down to Iowa to visit my relatives on thanksgiving which is just two days after my birthday, I am going to take my drivers test when I turn 16 so I can drive by myself and help my dad out with farming. My close family is going to throw a party on sunday but on thanksgiving that is just a added present.Even though all of my family won't be there most of it will and I really like when we get together on my birthday it makes me happy I can't just go and see them everyday. They all like getting together as one big family we like to talk to each other about what has happened in the last year.

Hope

I think I have said before that we are reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel. I think that it really shows some hope that the Jews had. They kept saying that everything was going to turn out alright. They didn't realize till later on when they were there for a year and still hadn't realized that they were at a place that could very well be a grave for them. They just kept thinking on and on that if they make it through that day they would be able to make it the next day and they just kept saying that as the day went by so that they would not give up. The German's wanted them to think so they could think of ways to pick off all of the weak people so they don't have to waste food. An example that is from the book I found that one quote that he had in there really touched me about hope and life.Every bomb that we heard hit the ground gave us hope that we were going to be free and the next day would be easier because we had to go and repair the damage that had been done.It makers me really sad when they say that it fills them with hope when their people are getting killed by the bombings and they are glad because the next days work is going to be easier because they have to pick up and rebuild the damage that has been done.

Snow

It has finally started to snow. We are under a snow advisory. At shopko the lighting there was flashing on and off most of the time I was there. I told some people in another store and they just got worried but I said relax it is the power company's job to fix the power when it is out. I went outside and it was a really nice sight. I wish I would've had a camera I would've taking a picture. It was a really promising sight I really love snow. It made me realize how close that winter actually is. I just went on day by day and then I finally realized that time was flying by faster than I like it to. I have all kinds of projects that I finished during the day because it was a really bad rainy wet day with a mix of snow. So the snow is very heavy to lift. I started to sell some old games that I had and that is when I finally realized what the snow was actually doing when I slipped and almost fell on the ground. This is what is on my mind at the time.

Adaption

I think that a major part of adaption is getting use to one place or another. I find that it is very hard to adapt to a new place if you don't quit know or you are forced to do that specific thing. I think that if you are mentally ready and you believe in it on your own then you truly do understand it. I think that some people just have to realize that they need to make adaptions to the world around them because everything isn't going to turn out the way you want it. You need to be able to limit the adaptions though you need to be able to change you can't go on saying or having the one adaption locked in you wouldn't survive that way. We shouldn't be forced to do anything we should be able to make our own decisions on where and how much or how we want to adapt to one place. For some it may be that they want to stay in one place but I still think they should have some room for change. If you didn't move but the world changed you would have to adapt to that change so you wouldn't want that adaption locked in for ever.

Differences in Humans and Animals

I think that one of the main differences is fully opposable thumbs. Unlike most animals we can use our hands for Precision grips. Only humans can walk upright some animals can walk upright but not all the time like we can. We have a more advanced language to talk to each other. We are able to teach each other and go to school. Some animals can teach each others but we are the only ones that go and teach each other everyday. We are also able to make more advanced buildings and can tear buildings down faster. We can make more advanced technology to operate our daily lives. We developed a more advanced if not the only way to study science and figure out our own DNA patterns. We also have skulls that are similar to apes but are different because we have bigger brains so that means that our skulls are bigger then the average animal. We live our life in a more luxurious way then animals just because we are more advanced.