Snow

There is another snow storm that is supposed to be coming and I want to get a good amount of snow I am very tired of waiting and waiting to ride snowmobile. I haven't gotten them out due to the weather forecasts. They haven't said a chance of snow in a week. I really hope we get more snow we have a really good base but we need more just to set up so that you aren't digging into the ground that can wreak things really quick. When it snows I get to ride with my dad and plow snow sometimes I even get to plow snow. (of course that is on a tractor with a bucket) I get really excited when I see that it is snowing I never want it to stop the way it falls so nice and calm and white I just love when you look up you can see more white and it looks like it is coming out of no where and then you realize that if you stick your tongue out you melt any snowflake that you get on it. I warn you do not stick your tongue to a pole in this cold weather odds are is that it will stick and it is painful to get off. I did that once and we had to pour hot water on it so don't stick your tongue to a pole please.

Courage

I think that courage really means doing something that other people won't do until someone sets an example on how to do that one ting. Like when we played dodge ball for the first time we were afraid that we were going to hurt each other but then once the teacher taught us the correct way to do it I started to try it and then all of the kids joined in because they found that it was fun and they got courage to go out and do it. It doesn't hurt said one kid. From that point on everyone in the class wanted to play dodge ball everyday even though we switched from music to PE everyday. Most of the Friday's in winter we played dodge ball because the teacher didn't know what to play so we would have a vote on what we would want to play big base or dodge ball and most of the hands went up for dodge ball. I think that courage is kind of like leadership you have to do something even if you don't like it and set an example for others so that they will get the courage to follow in your footsteps and take the first leap and not be scared.

Snowmobile Trip

We have set a date for our first snowmobile trip of the year we have set it during Christmas break. We are unloading our sleds and making sure they run properly and making adjustments to make sure that all of the gas mixtures work. We are trying not to blow them up they cost alot of money to get them fix even though we do all of the mechanical work at our shop we still have to order the parts sometimes and the shipping costs more then the parts sometimes. We are going out to the Snowies we are planning since we payed for the hotel costs we will be out there for 3 days. Then from there we are going to Glenville to celebrate our Christmas with our Dad's family, and then we will go home home and pend the rest with our family on our Mom's side. Then the rest of the weekend I will use my new presents and then go back to school.

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.