My good friend Sam had her last day at school today before she packs up and leaves to Newfoundland. I've been to Newfoundland once before and it's truly a spectacular place. Huge rock masses overlooking the endless ocean, beautiful coves and bays surrounded by ecstatic mountains and sharp cliffs. So yes, I'm a little jealous that she gets to wake up every morning to the breathe taking sights. But still, it's Newfoundland! So far away!  It's the equivalent of about 50 Boston Marathons away, or around 4,200,000 steps to walk there. It really sucks. I started to truly get to know Sam this grade 10 year mostly because of Drama and then we started to talk more in other classes. I'm really going to miss her. There won't be anyone to quietly say 'Bless you' after each of some ones sneeze, or hear another opinion on the latest Pretty Little Liars episodes.
I hope she loves every new experience that Newfoundland throws her way and I know that she'll do awesome in life because she's such a bright and smart girl.
I don't want to say goodbye, I'd prefer to say see you soon because I hope that we bump into each other later on in life!

Here's a link to Sam's blog ---- http://samantharubia.weebly.com/index.html 

I was looking back at the previous things that I've wrote in my class and I noticed a few times that I was typing FPP instead of FFP. For some reason in my brain I thought that the word 'forum' was spelled with a "PH". I can see how I went wrong because they both make the same sound, but then all of a sudden it hit me, why does a P and a H put together make the same sound as F! It got me thinking of all the other strange spelling and grammar techniques that we use in the English language. Such as; what is with silent letters? If we don't pronounce the letter, then why do we write it? The word tsunami seems pointless to add a T, other words just put a K in front of it and then it magically becomes a new word. It must be really tough for people to switch languages to English. For me, I grew up learning English so it's implanted in my head all of the weird techniques. Also there are a few words that are spelled like they should rhyme
(just pointing out; why is there and H is rhyme?), but we pronounce them differently. Such as, Worm and Norm. Why aren't they rhyming? Another group of words that I always find odd are Thought, Through and Though. All you are doing is add or taking away one letter and now they words mean something completely opposite for one another. So my sympathy goes out to all of those poor kindergarteners and foreigners attempting to tackle the English language for the very first time!

Finally getting the courage to run into the ocean knowing that it’s going to be incredibly cold. The cool ocean breeze gives me goose bumps and chills my body before I even enter the water. My first steps into the water make me want to turn around from the pain of the icy water. I keep on walking deeper and deeper into the ocean trying to achieve my goal of swimming in the ocean. I’m standing on my tippy-toes and jumping over each wave trying to avoid submerging myself. My dad has already sprinted past me and dove beneath the water. Up ahead, a wave much bigger than all the other ones approaches me. I know it’s my time to be brave and dive under water. Just before the wave crashes against me a dive head first into the strong force of the wave. The water is brain numbingly cold and I quickly push back up to the surface. The saltiness from the ocean covers my lips and makes my taste buds tingle. The air is not chilly anymore and water isn’t so painfully cold. I jump in the waves a bit along feeling proud that I accomplished my goal. As soon as I stop moving, the water temperature feels like it plummeted 100 degrees below 0 and I race out of the water to wrap myself in a soft, warm towel.

- I took the picture from my hotel room in Myrtle Beach

It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

We finally did it, the GCI Harlem Shake! We've been planning it for a while. I won't really call it a school event because it was only our FFP class that participated in it (which is 14 people). It was very embarrassing to dance like maniacs while other students of the school stared and filmed us on their iPhone. But I think it brought our class together because we shared props and complimented each others dance move. Hopefully all the video footage turns out good cause I don't really want to rerecord anything. I got all sweaty and now I have to go the rest of the day smelling bad, at least I have a locker full of Jolly Ranchers that will make me smell fruity. I'm not sure yet if I'll be fine with the dance being on YouTube because so many people could watch it. New trends or internet memes pop-up quickly but also lose interest and disappear just as fast. The Harlem Shake has seemed to already become less popular, except they are a lot of fun to film!