Move out and take care of yourself at 18

I think when people get grown they should move out their parents’ house at 18. I don’t think it should be the parents responsibility to take care of you anymore once you turn 18 because you’re considered grown. Right now I’m saving up my own money to move out as soon as I turn 18. It’s not easy, it’s a lot of work because I have to go to school during the day then turn around and go to work for the whole week. I have two jobs so its really easy for me to save up my money because I only have to pay my cell phone and my car insurance bill. I plan on living in a little apartment with a roommate, so it won’t be that hard for me when I get out on my own. If I get a roommate, we can each pay our half of the rent and then split the rest of the bills which is going to be easy. So I think if you turn 18 you should give your parents a break and move out and start taking care of yourself.

Keep sewing and foods classes

What?! Sewing’s being cut next year?! That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard! That makes me so mad, because that cuts one of the best teachers at this school. Just because of that proposal to move in Hiatt kids. Now don’t let me get on that topic!

This means I won’t be able to take sewing to try and pass it. The district is being so unfair. I want to put a complaint against this cutting sewing. What about the teacher? What is she going to do? I do not think that sewing should be cut. I learned a lot in sewing from Mrs. W. I learned how to make a pair of pajama pants. I didn’t do the best on them but the teacher showed and taught me as good as she could and I had a lot of fun doing it too. She showed me how to make a frog and we stuffed it to make it look more realistic. I even added a little tongue to it for it to look a little funny and unique.

Foods were another very good and fun class that I had. Mrs. Brennan is great and knows what she’s doing or she wouldn’t be here. We made a lot of good food in her class. All of it tasted so great and yummy. We made cheese enchiladas, different types of eggs, soup, pancakes, waffles, trail mix, and a whole bunch of other things that were great. The teacher would put us into groups to work as a team. My group would take turns bringing the drinks to go with our food. It was a very fun class and made you want to actually go to the class. The class is great the teacher is amazing. They shouldn’t cut this class at all.

How to draw an anime eye

Here are some steps to drawing an anime eye. Well, this eye is a chibi character’s eye, because that is the only eye that I know how to draw. First, make an arc for the top of the eye, and shade it for the lashes. Then, make another arc for the bottom of the eye. Im saying a frown for the top, and a smile for the bottom, in technical terms. The next step is to connect the two arcs with curved lines. Don’t curve them too much. Next, draw a j shape in the top, left part of the eye. After that, draw an r shape on the bottom, left part of the eye. After that, where the j shape ends, draw the second part of a capital r, connecting it to the r shape. Finally, color the rest in, and BOOM! You’re done.

Rock out at Lazerfest

It’s almost that time of year again! KAZR Lazer 103.3 Everything That Rocks are returning this May at the Indianola Balloon Grounds to put their annual Lazerfest which is an all day festival that take place usually on Sundays in May once a year featuring tons of bands who play hard rock, metal, punk and basically anything that rocks!

Bands who have performed there in the past include Stone Temple Pilots, Bullet For My Valentine, Staind, Stone Sour, Hinder, Rob Zombie and these are few names that have played the festival.

Lazer claims that this year they’re gonna have their biggest line up of all time with two main stages! The bands that have been announced so far (yes there is more to come) would include Godsmack, Three Days Grace, HELLYEAH, Rob Zombie, Seether, Five Finger Death Punch, Skillet, and recently added Papa Roach who joined the card when Des Moines band featuring Slipknot members Corey Taylor and James Root, Stone Sour were forced to pull out because they’ll still be recording their new album even though they entered the studio in January. I like Papa Roach and all but I love Stone Sour so I’m pretty bummed about that and I wanted to see them play live ever since I was 8 years old due to the fact my cousin, Joel Ekman, was a co-founding member and the former drummer. He appears on Stone Sour’s self titled debut which was released in 2002 with the hit single “Bother”.

As I said before, there are going to be a lot more bands added to Lazerfest. Some of the bands I would love to see play would be Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Mudvayne, Alice In Chains and Shadows Fall. The event takes place on May 16 and tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, March 5th at 10 AM for $35. But do make sure you get them before Saturday, April 5th when the prices increase! Tickets are avaliable at all Ticketmaster outlets or you could get them online at www.ticketmaster.com. More details are avaliable at www.lazer1033.com/Lazerfest-2010—Home/6391801 and just listen live on Lazer103.3 “Everything That Rocks”.

Marine movies

Have you seen the movie The Marine? How about The Marine 2? I have seen both of these movies, and I think they are both awesome. How do you compare both these movies?

The first marine movie featured WWE Superstar John Cena as a marine named John Triton. The second marine movie featured WWE Superstar Ted DiBiase as a marine named Joe Linwood.

The stunts in these movies are just incredible. Although, I would say that The Marine had the best stunts, because John Cena did his own repertoire of stunts. Ted DiBiase and his movie had the best action. The reason is that there was a scene where they showed someone be beheaded. How gross was that!

There are only a few things that the two movies had in common. One, they were both married in both movies. Two, their wives got kidnapped by bad guys. Three, they were both rated R.

I really thought the best part of The Marine was when John Triton threw a guy out of a glass window, and the window shattered into smithereens. My favorite part of The Marine 2 is the fighting scene between Joe Linwood and the two Japanese guys. He ends up killing both of them. Linwood puts one of them through a wall and I think he snaps the neck of the other one.

There were explosion scenes in both movies. John Cena’s movie beats the explosion scenes. The reason is that a) the police car explodes and b) when John Triton leaps out of the building, BOOM! The building explodes. In DiBiase’s movie, a city explodes. Pretty impressive, isn’t it?

Overall, out of both movies, I like The Marine 2 not only because of the stunts, but because of the action. According to the website rottentomatoes.com, They did not like the movie The Marine. They gave it a 4 out of 10.

Hiker’s Accidently or Purposely Crossed Border to Iran and Imprisoned

It is hard to determine the actual punishment for the hikers who crossed the Iran border. Although they knew they were close to the border and that any minute they could accidently stumble or cross across the border, it is hard to say if they knew they crossed the border or thought they were still on the opposite side.

According to the website http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/world/middleeast/02iraq.html  it states that there appeared to be four American students whose ages ranged from 27 to 36 were hiking in Kurdistan and spent the night at hotel in Sulaimaniya. One student happened to fall ill and did not continue the journey. The remaining three headed to Ahmed Awa, a mountainous waterfalls and caves near the Iranian border. They camped at the border that evening. The next morning a Kurdish official said that the three hikers trekked into the Iran territory knowingly or unknowingly and were captured by Iranians. The fourth student who did not continue was handed over to American Embassy officials in Baghdad. They have been held in Evin Prison in Iraq since July 31.

“The Americans were just lost tourists who accidentally crossed the border, the Iraqi foreign minister says. But one Iranian lawmaker has said they were ‘definitely spies,” states the website article http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/10/world/fg-iraq-hikers10 . The minister appears to believe and conclude he is willing to help free the three hikers because he believes they were just lost tourist who accidently strayed across and into the Iran border. The Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazemi-Qomi confirmed that the three had been arrested for entering Iran without visas passes and were being interviewed and questioned to find out “what their mission really was.” The Ambassador of Iraq seems to think otherwise. He thinks they know what they were doing and crossed the border on purpose. Since they did not have their Visas, they were accused of spying for the United States. On one account that the Ambassador came to his conclusion is because the United States and Iran do not have ties that bind the two countries together. Therefore they could have been spying on Iran, been caught and captured, and then claimed they were innocent lost hikers. He also mentioned in his conference with the minister and officials that after the incident with journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling crossing into North Korea’s territory and being assumed of being spies, that should have awakened them. 

I personally do not think the students were spies. I came to that conclusion based on their prior knowledge to the Lee and Ling incident. I doubt they would knowing the outcomes if they were caught and captured. I think if they were spies they would have taken a different approach of spying, and not just been out in the open about their hiking trip. Plus they would’ve taken all their evidence and did away with it all instead of leaving everything behind.

Angry fans in stands need to sit down

A lot of North students and staff were disappointed with the outcome of the North vs. Ames basketball game at Drake. The score was 97 to 54. I’ve heard a lot of North students say that our basketball team could have done better so that they could have won. I disagree. Our basketball team has done very good this whole season, they’ve gotten better, and worked as a team to achieve their goal. And they actually made it to the tournaments (for the first time in nearly 20 years!). Ames is the 4th ranked team in the nation. Sure Ames beat us by a lot, but we beat Valley by a landslide too the week before. If you’re going to be in the stands talking about how North could do better, how about you get off your butt and try out for the team to see how easy it is.

Piercings express who you are

Piercing have became so popular in this decade. You’ll see almost everyone with some sort of piercing on their body these days. They come in so many different ways. You can have the normal piercing that basically every person has, which is your ears or the exotic ones like your belly botton, tongue, eye brow, lip, nose, etc. There’s so many different types of piercing that you can have and so many different types of people have them. Like me for instance I have my lip and my eye brow. My friend Modi has her ears, industrial, nose, and tongue. See they’re so popular and there not a bad thing to have. Piercings are something that expresses who you are.

Getting a piercing can cost about $50 or $60, sometimes less or sometimes more, depending on where you go and what you get pierced. If you’re under the age 16 in Des Monies you need a parents consent to get anything pierced. Good places I would advise you to get them done  are Ink Addiction, Expo, and Sacred Skin. There are many other places but those are some good places to get them done at.

Buy new album 4sho

North High has been filled with talent, from the creator of Nylon to the composer of the song used in every slow-mo running montage. Well the newest talent to be  walking through the halls is Ian. Throughout his years at North he and many other students have been involved in a group called 4sho Productions. Now that many members of the group have graduated Monroe has put out his first solo album The Album. Ian goes by the name Ya Boy E. The Album contains 15 songs written by Ian and his friends some 4sho members are added on to the tracks. Ian raps about what he knows what he sees. The Album contains  the tracks Spend Some Time, Feelin Me ft. YungNaj, Bigg P and ,IISwaggz, Mirror Looker, Better Than You ft. RJ 4SHO!, and Take my Hand to name just a few. This CD would be a great investment for any North student for information on buying  The Album, contact Ian. The CD costs between $5 and $15.

Lay off of the President

The President is still receiving all this controversy after almost two years. I hate listening to the news media judge and criticize his decisions on America. The Republicans make it sound like he put our economy in the mess that it’s in today. Which in reality he did not, but he’s trying his hardest to correct the mistakes that were made before he arrived. The President cannot fix everything all at once, there is too much wrong with America today; he has to conquer things one by one. His main focus is health care. That’s something big our country needs to focus on right now. Everyone in the U.S. deserves healthcare somehow. Obama can just say one thing and the media tries to change it into something negative. Instead of trying to bring our President down, we should encourage, support, and stand behind him.