Holly’s Super Awesome Blog of Coolness

• What is a blog? A blog is a place online where you can share your insight on different topics and people can read and comment on them.
• Where have you ever heard of blogs? uhh….myspace?
• How comfortable are you with computers? well i know they take electricity and that i don’t know a bit about them. my family’s kinda in the stoneage still.
• What kinds of things do you do with computers typically? I play a few computer games and I go on myspace, that’s about it.
• What is your opinion of writing? I think it’s a good thing to perfect. that and spelling, one thing that I didn’t learn!
• What kind of writing do you like to do? one word… fiction
• Why are parents, teachers, and others so concerned about teens’ safety when they’re using the Internet? well there’s alot of perverts in this world, and on the internet you don’t know if your talking to a 20 yr. old male model or a 41 yr. old creeper who still lives with his mom.
• Is the Internet dangerous? only if you make it be.
• What do your peers generally do with computers and the Internet? computer games, youtube, myspace, facebook…
• What do you think/how do you feel about the year ahead, knowing that you will be using a blog a lot in Lit 10 Honors? well I can’t type for my life and I don’t know at all how to use a computer so I’m a little worried. not to mention that my computer is dial-up. it took me 5 minutes to get on this stupid page!

1. There is no need to waste good food by adding mushrooms in them.

2. Where in the heck did Elvis go to, everyone knows he can’t be dead.

3.Eating a nice warm brownie is all I managed to do.

4. Prospects for my days include swimming, swimming and for a change, more swimming.

5. Do or do not their is no try is the message.

6. Simplicity and tranquility are a piece of crap, learn to live on the wild side!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to watching the incredable NCIS, tomorrow my plans include more swimming and Sunday, I want to realax and take a break from my crazy and hectic schedule!

     “I can’t believe your making me do this.”   That’s all I could say as I stood there looking straight up at the St. Louis Arch.  Many people don’t know this but I’m terrified of heights.  Lindsey, my eighteen year old college-bound brother, just glared at me with annoyance and tried to reassure me that I’ll be fine.  “But what if a freak tornado comes out of the sky and blows the arch away, leaving our bodies strewn across St. Louis.”  Lindsey just looked up at the crystal-clear and cloudless blue sky and said, “I don’t think so.” In my heart I really knew that I wanted to do this but my stomach was just saying no way!  Finally, Lindsey somehow managed to talk me into it. 

      As we stood in front of the elevators waiting for them to pick us up, me, and thirty other people had fear literally written across our faces.  I heard the rumbling of the elevators coming nearer.  My heart was about to pop out of my chest.  Then the doors opened.  Out of the capsule elevator came five smiling faces of kids, all looking under the age of ten.  “See”, Lindsey said, “If small children can go up there, so can you.”  So me, Lindsey, and two other terrified teens got into the small, cramped, white, capsule elevator.  Chank, chank, chank, the elevator went as it slowly creeped up the 630 foot St. Louis Arch.  Then it all was silent.  We were there.  We then climbed out and walked to the top.  The observatory was about five feet long and one-hundred feet long, and it somehow managed to fit over fifty people in it.  I looked out of the small slit, which could barely be called a window and I was blown away at the beauty of the countryside.  To my right I saw skyscraper upon skyscraper towering the ant-like people of St. Louis.  Over on the left I saw the newly built Busch Stadium, home of the world champion baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals.  The green of the field was glowing from the sun, which was high above it.  I could almost hear the halleluiah chorus from the heavens above.  Stepping a little higher I looked straight down.  Although I was so high up, I completely forgot my fear of heights.  I then stepped down and went to the east side of the building.  I looked out and saw miles of farmland. I glanced to the left and squinted my eyes real hard and a saw a small water tower saying Alton, Illinois, my hometown.

     A half an hour later, my brother tapped me on the shoulder.  “Let’s go back down.”  So we climbed back into that oh so loveable claustrophobic capsule, this time with a guy who let’s just say needed some new deodorant, and we went down and down, back to earth.  When we got off I really thanked my brother for talking me into it.  I couldn’t believe I conquered my greatest fear! “That’s great”, my brother said with a devious smile on his face.  “Now you can pay the twenty dollars for the tickets.”