Hawaii

During last summer, my family and I went to vacation to Hawaii on a cruise ship and spent two days at each island. Without a doubt, my favorite island was Oahu because it was very friendly, always busy, and the beach is the perfect place to be. I also like Oahu because i want to go to college there. Not only would i want to attend Hawaii University but i would love to play baseball over there too (hopefully on a scholarship). Oahu also has a famous land mark known as Diamond Head. I really enjoyed hiking up Diamond Head even though it was very long and strenuous but the view at the top is priceless. I have a lot of memories from that vacation but the most memorable one was right before i got off the plane, the flight attendant looked at me and said, "Mahalo Welcome home!"After she said that, i couldn't help but laugh. Another memory of my trip to Hawaii was when i had my first virgin pina calada. I was never a fan of coconut but since i was in Hawaii, i thought i should try their famous drink and surprisinly, it was delicious. from that point on, i love coconut in any shape or form. I actually saw a hawaiian native make coconut milk by hand at the plynesian cultural center.
Speaking of foods, we visited two very interesting places that make very delicious treats. We first visited the Mauna Loa Factory with their famous macadmia nut products. My favorite is the chocolate covered/cocnut macadamia. Another place we visited was the sugar factory. In the factory, they had an exhibit of the history behind the sugar. They still make their sugar from pure sugar cane and they produce it in a similar way when they first started producing. The ironic thing about the sugar cane factory was that it smelled REALLY bad. The reason for the bad smelling was because sugar needs a lot of fertilizer to grow properly. The last and the coolest out of all the factories was the Dole pineapple plantation. First of all, my sister got pearl ear rings outside the plantation and i the pearls were straight from the oysters. After that, we went into the plantation and it was very interesting because it had all the different kinds of pineapple in the world. Also, there was a maze that we went through and it was funn because we had to follw the certain type of pineapple to get to the end. Overall the trip was very funn and amusing. I wish to go to school, play baseball and live in Hawaii one day.

Purpose of Blog

For my blog, I plan to write about the following topics: Baseball, my personal life and school. I thought it would be cool if my friends and I could share the latest updates on scores and statistics. So if anyone needs to know a score or certain statistic on a game or player I can have all the information. I also want to spend time writing about myself so I’m going to make a private blog as sort of a weekly diary. If you really think about it, a lot of things happen during the course of a week. But sometimes it goes by so fast that you forget and I want to keep track of the highlights of every week in this school year. School is an important aspect in my life and I need to constantly keep track of my assignments in all my classes. As a student, I know that I cannot relax if I do, my grades will drop tremendously. Some students can relax and take a break but still get good grades. For me, I am not that type of student. Therefore I need to be focused on my academics first.
This year, I want to improve my writing so I am more fluent, not as redundant, and I really want to expand my vocabulary. I have a problem of getting off topic a lot of times so I want to learn how to stay on topic because I learned from taking a practice SAT that if you don’t follow the prompt, your score will be a 0. Due to being off topic, I tend to be very repetitive on my thoughts. I think I’m repetitive partly because I run out of ideas to write about so end up just repeating the same idea over and over again. I hope I can improve my writing this year so I can improve my essay score for the SAT tests I take in the future,

Kanye West Controversy

During this years VMA's (Video Music Awards) Taylor swift won her first VMA award at the age of twenty for her song called "You Belong With Me." While she was in the middle of her speech, Kanye West walked to the stage unannounced, took the microphone from Taylor and stated that Beyonce's video was "the best of all time." Now this is disrespectful in many ways. First of all, why would you interrupt anyone in the middle of their VMA award even though you may disagree. But its especially rude in this case because it is her very first VMA award and he just ruined her moment. I think that it was right that Beyonce went up to the stage to apologize but its wrong that Kanye West didn't. I think Kanye West did a bad thing and i don't agree with actions, but personally, i don't think Taylor Swift should have one the award over Beyonce. To me there is no comparison between the two. Beyonce is clearly much more talented than Taylor Swift. But don't get me wrong, Taylor Swift is young and her songs are good but Beyonce was just straight out better.
I think Kanye West has put his reputation in the line and from what I'm looking at, it is not good at all. Personally, I still like Kanye West as a singer and artist but not as a person. I think his music is awesome and i almost have all his albums and songs on my ipod. I think Kanye West is stupid for what he did because before the incodent, his songs were at the top of every hitlist but now the respect of his songs just dropped tremendously. When he first went up on stage, i thought it was like a skit that was practiced because it was near the beggining of the ceremony but then after i realized it was for real I was speachless.