Some thoughts on spring

Yes it is true that winter is terrible in Minnesota, but without it spring would not be so great. The only thing I truly love about winter is that it means it is basketball season. Otherwise it's miserable, terrible, freezing cold and almost depressing up in Minnesota because of the fact that it just gets cold and hardly any snow! Spring however is the second best time of year, there are so many more fun things to do that start picking up once spring time comes around. Starts to get warm, people start to get outside more, play bean bags, outdoor basketball, football just fun pick-up games that aren't exactly allowed or are the best to play during winter. Spring also means that the school year is almost done so that makes it better yet, as soon as someone says its spring it seems like everyone starts counting down the days until school is out. A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king just reminds me of one more grrrreat thing about spring, March Madness! The college basketball tournament just completes spring time, all the basketball lovers are just excited to fill out their brackets and watch to see who is crowned the next ncaa champion. Speaking of which last night was the NCAA championship, North Caroina took control early and often. They left no doubt in anyones head who was going to win that game. Ty Lawson and Tyler hansbrough did exactly what they were expected to do, be senior leaders and get there high powered offense and outstanding defense to the championship and this year win it!

So today is going to probably be one of the best days of my life. I have known since Sunday that even after last nights NCAA championship game I was going to take second place in our bracket pool that I do with my friends. This means I will be recieving a nice fee of 70 dollars for all my hard work! haha. Also tonight is the Nickelback concert up at the Target Center in the twin cities of which I am going to as of March 13. My brother's girlfriend truly spoils him and on his birthday gave him two Nickelback tickets and said to take me, what a women!

opinion

A while back ago my good friend from high school, who I had grown up with and loved like a brother, was about to quit all sports for no reason. He came to me one day and asked me what he should do, I wasn't really shocked that he had came to me because of how close we were. Knowing how good of a football and basketball player he really was, and how big of a difference he made for our team the obvious answer was to tell him just to stay with it, it is your last year doing it and you will regret it big time. But since we were so close I knew he would expect a better answer then that, so I thought about it real hard and though about how I could keep him out because truth be told without him out there I wasn't really sure if I would want to be there either. So I talked about how I made the horrible mistake of my life when I didn't go out for basketball my junior year and how badly I regreted doing that. I also talked to him about how much the team wants him there, and that the coaches would be devistated and talk to him, push him to come back out just like they did to me. I related a lot back to when I quit and told him how awful it was having the coaches always pursuing me and pushing me to go back out. How I missed not being with the team and how badly I felt watching that same team have a spectacular year without me involved. Finally after a week of talking to him about it he finally made the right decision to come back out. Go figure he would still have the drive to be all that he could be and ended up a few votes short of all-state team for football. It's amazing what one can do when pushed to their limit, it is like the army says be all that you can be, and last year he was!

After reading this letter I now feel dumber then I had before. If a teacher ever gave me detention for something like that I would have to slap her or just get up and walk out. I actually think though that I have had a teacher try and do this to me once before in high school and I literally did walk out! I wonder what the parents were thinking when they recieved this letter and read it? I am willing to bet that all week they were so mad at their son for getting into trouble, recieving detention, thinking he wasn't telling the truth about what he had done and now they get this letter and wonder what in the heck is going on? I would just feel dumb if I was the teacher sending this letter home to someones parents because he contradicted me and was right.

After a late night last night I am not feeling to energetic to do anything at all today. I am super tired and just want to crawl back up into my bed! But I cannot afford to miss todays english class and if I miss another math class it would just put me even further behind right before spring break which I don't really want to do. I can't wait for spring break I get to head up to Canada for a couple days it should be a great time with my friends and I.

Recently I have just started reading Tony Dungy's book about his life as a child, father and football coach. So far the book has been very interesting and inspirational. As far as looking up to Tony Dungy and trying to go the same route he did, this isn't true for me. Although I would like to become a head football coach someday this is not was has made me change my ways. The way he talks about his past, every little detail and makes it so interesting, and how the intensity of the writing can just make you know how exciting certain moments were. Some of the things said in the book have made me think about times in my life, things that I have done that I cannot forgive myself for and it makes me want to try and change some things and make sure I do not make those same mistakes again. It is also encouraging to me and makes me want to keep pushing, to get through college and fulfill my dream of one day becoming a head coach of a football or basketball team.

I'm not sure how long ago it was when this movie came out, but I know that it wasn't that far back. I believe it was right around 2006 when Adam Sandlers new movie Click came out. It's not that before this I didn't love life or at least live every day like it could be my last, but this movie still even put more perspective on that type of saying. The way that Adam Sandler has to deal with watching his life flash before his eyes, knowing there was nothing he could even do to stop it. After watching the movie for the first time the first quote that came to me was live each day as if it were your last. No I didn't suddenly go out and make a bucket list of some sort or do any really crazy adventures, but from then on I've thought more about how God has a plan for me and how everything happens for a reason, so live life eachday as if it were your last, because tomorrow is NEVER guaranteed.

My biggest pet peeve is when people constantly have to talk to you but they touch you while they talk to you. They are always hitting you in the arm when they say "hello" or rubbing your head when they say something exciting that just happened or that is going to happen. My least favorite touch one though is when they try to get a rise out of you or a laugh and you don't, so they grab your sides or your knees to try and get it. I wouldn't say that I really let it get to me and when someone is doing it I usually can handle it or tell them to stop. I don't know even how far I would go to get it to stop. If I could just let everyone know how much it kind of annoys me then maybe, hopefully they would stop that would be grreat...!

What do I expect?

I must say that I am already a little surprised by the amount of reading we have already done. I wasn't really expecting that consindering that it is writing or composition 101, but it's something I have to do. I expect to learn a little that can help me with my writing skills, and how to brainstorm and chunk pieces together a little better. I expect that the instructor will be a good mentor for learning better methods and techniques of writing. Although it is eight am and everyone is tired and you kind of get the sense that nobody really wants to be here at least he comes in with a smile and trys to be as happy and colorful as can be which is nice. The class itself should be a fun one, it isn't that large of a class so it is fairly easy for the instructor to help each person out individually especially with the required meetings with the instructor. In all I am hoping to recieve knowledge about writing that will help me for the rest of my college life.