Japan

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If you could take a trip anywhere in the world where would it be and why?

I've always wanted to take a trip to asia. I didn't really care what country exactly, but ive decided on Japan. It was most likely going to be between Japan or China, But I found out some very lame things about china. I've always thought been fascinated with foriegn architecture, especcially in asia. I would love to visit all of the parks in tokyo, they look pretty amazing from the pictures I have seen. I would specifically like to see the Ueno Park. It is the largest park in Tokyo. It has a Zoo, Aquarium, and it is also a cultural center with many museums, temples, and shrines. It would be really interesting to visit the Ginza also. The Ginza is Tokyo's most famous shopping center. Within the shopping center there is the Kabuki theatre. So you can get dinner and watch the performance.

Crazy Nights

My older brother talked me into going to midnight rodeo wit him and some friends thursday night. I had college the next day but I figured id be home by 1 which would give me enough time to get a good nights rest. I was very wrong. We got there around ten and had to wait in line for about 20 minutes, where they stamped my hands and put a bracelet on me. I had to get my hands stamped because I was below 21. Thats how they keep minors from drinking. We played some pool and had fun. they closed at 1am so we were about to leave. We get in mikes car, mike is our designated driver. We get out of the club parking lot and it becomes apparent that he has actually been drinking, without telling anyone. My brother has him pull over so he can use the bathroom. This is where things get ugly. He gets to the turn and turns into a psycho. He yells "Want me to hit the median!!!!!" and starts laughing and instantly turns right into the median dodging the sign pole by inches. He drives straight across the other side of the road into another pole and blows both right side tires. He then goes through two ditches, both of them had curbs on either side. The jeep is bouncing crazily, luckily I had my seatbelt on or I might have been thrown around quite a bit. He pulls into a car lot and speeds toward the parked cars, turning at the very last second barely avoiding the cars. He finnaly comes to a stop and my brother is yeling "get the f out thomas hes fin crazy"! My brothers door handle hasnt worked all night so hes trying to shove me out so we can both get out before he starts going again. I finnaly manage to get my seatbelt off and get out. as soon as me and my brother get out he starts going again and scrapes up two of the parked cars in the car lot. The crazy part of this is that he was laughing and yelling " OH NO" the entire time as if it was a joke. We didnt think it was very funny. After about an hour and a half of my brother, our friend Bj, and mike the driver yelling at eachother back and forth, we finnaly got a ride home. I got home at around 3:30 am. It was a pretty crappy night.

shell knob

Thomas
I used to live in Shell Knob, Missouri. It was in the seventh grade. The town was a terrible place. I had never done any drug before I moved there. I had always been the kind of guy that would never touch drugs before I moved there. It is amazing what can happen with enough influence. Even though moving there and becoming friends with all of these kids that used drugs is awful, I think I gained more then I lost by experiencing that town. I smoked weed for the first time, I actually fought it even though every friend I had there did it. I didn’t try it until I had lived there for a few months. My mom also had a downfall with drugs in this town. She met a guy and she got deep into cooking and selling drugs. The reason im glad that I experienced all of this is because I realized I never wanted to end up like any of these people in this town. My mom got busted for intent to distribute, and went to prison. My younger brother got addicted to weed and pills. I blame this horrible drug inhabited town for this. We had to go live with my grandparents for a couple years because my mom went to prison. My brother never stopped doing drugs to this day. My mom has been clean and working for 4 years now though. I thank god every da y that my mom was able to get off of drugs and get a hold of her life. I tried everything I could to help my brother, but he is a lost cause. I tell him what hes doing is stupid and is going to get him killed or in prison. He calls me an idiot and acts like im being immature or something. I finnaly stopped even trying. I realized how pointless it is. He is just like our older brother, worse even. Atleast my brother can get clean if he needs to be, which he is now because he just had a kid. All in all im glad we moved there in the sense that it helped shape the way I am today, but very upset that my brother turned out the way he did.
Shell Knob was a small town about an hour away from springfield. It has a main highway with a few stores, mostly boat, fishing, and water sports equipment ro rentals, because it was right on the lake. There was a bridge that went over the lake about 50 feet above the water which was very fun to jump off of. There was a pizza hut by the bridge with a cement trail leading from the lake to the pizza hut for the swimmers and walk on to get some food. We were staying in the most ghetto doublewide trailer imaginable. It was two normal size trailers conjoined with a small hallway connector thing. We lived on what was sort of like a dirtroad subdivision. There were dirt roads on both sides of my house and for a few more rows on each side. All filled with houses and trailers. The lake was in walking distance fom our house .

Texas

I was reading the required storys for friday and it made me reminisce about the time I spent in texas. I have lived in texas for a good portino of my life. I moved there with my mom and my brothers dad when I was young, we lived in an apartment for a while. I don't actually remember much about that place because I was very young. There are only a few things that come to mind when I try to remember the apartment complex. I remember that my older brother got in a lot of fights. I saw him get into a fight one day with two black guys. It was him and a friend of his fighting two other guys... the reason this stuck in my head was because it was really brutal. Somewhere in the fight one of the guys my brother was fighting got 2 teeth knocked out.. and when someone caught them fighting i saw my brothers friend hide the teeth by kicking them off of the sidewalk. Stuff like that is hard to forget. I remember me and my younger brother shared a bike. Then we traded that bike to a girl upstairs for a pink "motorcycle bike". It was a bike that had a plastic body that looked like a real motorcycle. We would put a soda can on the tire to make it sound like a real motorcycle. Then i remember bobby my younger brother was riding it one day and got hit by a car. Luckily they were backing out... not really sure how that even happens but it did. He was ok. Whats weird is that ive seen my little brother get hit by 3 cars. All three times he was backed into. Thats kind of crazy. We later moved back to live with my grandparents for a year or so. I wen't to school in texas through 7th and 8th grade. I decided a few years later that i didnt like texans. The reasn behind ths is that when I lived in texas I got into about 10 fights. I moved away from texas and ive only been in one fight since. I also decided I hated texas in general. I hate how humid and ht it is all the time. I absolutely love winter, and dispise summer. I use to see commercials on tv in texas and like 50% of commercials that are trying to sell something would say that this sale is TEXAS SIZED, or this truck is TEXAS SIZED. I didn't realize how much I hated that til I moved away. So all in all I don't plan on going back to texas beyond a family visiting trip.

Lets Start A Riot

So im sitting in the computer lab and im trynna think of what to write. I'm listening to my Zune(mp3 Player). I'm having a hard time trying to think of what to write. I googled "writing prompts" in hopes of finding something interesting to write about. One site brought up an error when I logged onto it and started saying stuff about viruses and porn.. so I immediately exited out of that. I found one page that was helpful but I don't think im going to use it. They were mostly "What If" situations, and lame situations at that. I have my Zune on shuffle, which is where it just randomly plays songs from my playlist. It played the song Riot by Three Days Grace. This gave me a few ideas. Yesterday I kind of felt like starting a riot, even though it was over something not serious at all. I was playing some computer games yesterday and I use a headset when I play on the computer. I went to take a shower and I heard my brother come home. When I got out of the shower he was already gone, which is not surprising. But when I wen't into my room I found my headset was broken. I automattically assumed he accidentily broke it and then left before I got out of the shower. I have no idea what really happened. I could have broke it myself but I accused my brother of it and he denied it so. A few hours later my mouse broke. No idea how that happened either. I was using it then all of the sudden the left click or mouse1 broke. The panel on top of the mouse completely broke off, and to top it all off my monitor starts messing up. It started going darker and lighter then normal. It would happen randomly sometimes, but that day it would not stop doing it. So I got really mad and just went and watched tv, after yelling a little bit haha. Whats even funnier is that the next song that just played on my zune was Riotmaker by Tech N9ne. What a coincidence... WOOOOOOOOOOW

Weekend

I had a pretty good weekend. I didn't do much. I was pretty lazy all weekend but whatever. I went to see watchmen, ive been wanting to see it. It was even better then I thought it was going to be. I kind of htought it was going to be your typical comic book hero movie, I was wrong. I was expecting all the fruity looking heros to be normal good guy heros too and they werent. Most of the "heros" in this movie should have been villians. The main character is an old "mask" which is the term they used for the people that put costumes on and faught crime. All of the other masks in the movie had quit fighting crime and started living normal lives, except him. He finds out that someone is assasinating all of the masks. He refers to him as the mask killer. So he starts investigating the crimes and in the end realizes its one of his old Mask friends. This old mask friend has become a millionaire. In the end he kills millions of people, but it turns out that he did a good thing. This movie is set during the Cold War, and everyone thinks there is going to be nuclear war. He ends up killing millions of people all over the world including russia and america. He does this to end the cold war, and he suceeds. Because they were both attacked they shared a common enemy that was greater then eachother so they stopped fighting with one another. It was one of the best movies ive seen in a very long time.

driving

So I decided I was going to go take my driving test this morning. Might have been a bad idea. I think I was a little premature on that. I still have hardly gotten any practice driving, I just assumed I could pass it. I was wrong. I went up there with my brother and my mom. My younger brother went before me, he passed. Im glad he passed but its kind of depressing. I knew he was going to pass though. He has been driving his girlfriends moms SUV for about 6 months without a license. I guess she thinks he has a license but hes a good driver. Anyways, my turn finnaly rolled around and she asks me if I have contacts in or if im putting in my glasses. I completely forgot my glasses. So I ended up having to drive back to my house and get my glasses. I finnaly took the test and failed miserably. I passed the only part I was worried I would fail, which was parralel parking. I pretty much got nervous and FREAKED out and utterly forgot how to drive. I kept forgetting to check over my shoulder for switching lanes. I took a turn a little too fast and the instructor flew around like a ragdoll... she jolted off of everything though it was rediculous and it pissed me off bad. I would barely hit the brakes and she would jolt forward like I slammed on them. Then I forgot to use my blinker when we did parrallel parking and uphill parking. I didn't realize but I guess I was hugging the mid divider line, and she said I consistently went 2-3 miles over the speed limit. I was really upset because I know I can drive better then that I was just so nervous. I'm glad I took it though because I feel that now that I know exactly what I did wrong I won't do it again.

History

So it's wendsday and this journal thing is starting to come easier I guess. I hope im that im doing it the right way. I'm really going to dislike doing 7 a week, that is way too much. I found the open computer labs here at otc for the first time today. I'm kind of happy about that seeing how I had been wondering where they were since I started. I'm having alot of trouble with my history class. It seems that everyone is, which in a sad way is kind of reasuring. The majority of our class has failed all three tests that have been given. We had a quiz today and I knew a little of it. The other stuff I had no idea we even went over. I think that he is expecting too much of this to be read and memorized by the class. He started making his own note pages to help us take notes and keep it organized, there terrible in my opinion though. I wish that he would give assignments based on each chapter, home work for us to do because thats how ive always learned content in history classes. Even though I have alot of homework as it is I would like him still to do that because it is the best way for me to pass the classes.

Tuesday was BORING?

So I pretty much have had nothing to do all day. I most likely could have found something to do or some people to hang out with to help with my boredness, if I had my stupid license!
I'm taking my test for the first time friday and if I fail it im going to slit my wrists! Just kidding but it will suck really bad. I watched a movie though, W., well atleast I tried to watch it. I got like 75% through the movie before It just got way too boring and lame for me to continue watching it. It was about crackhead bush Jr, about how he was a partying idiot in his younger years, and continued to dissapoint his father throughout his life. Pretty much said that he went to war for oil and because he wanted to finish what his father started. Thats what I always figured anyways. The actor that played W. was Josh brolin. If youve seen the movie "No Place For Old Men" your probably thinking no waiiiii that josh brolin played george bush. It was a surpise to me too, especially when he did an amazing job impersonating bush. Other then that I just kinda watched tv or played video games all day and it was awful lame.

My weekend

I'm not sure how im going to do this, if im giong to write about my everyday life or if im going to find things that interest me to write about. I will start it off by writing about my weekend. I did not really do much of anything this weekend. Friday I was going to skip my history class because my friend offered me a ride home at 2 and my class started at 2. If I did not take the ride with him I would go to my history class which is my last class of the day and then have to wait for my step dad to pick me up at 5 when he gets off of work. I went to check in with my history teacher and it turned out we were having a quiz. Every other quiz we have had in that class he always gave at the beginning of class. Except friday. This was extremely frustrating. My friend offered to stay until around 2:20 since I told him that he always gave them early class and they were very short quizes. My teacher ended up not giving us the quiz until more then midway through class, and just my luck my phone died. So I had no way to text him and tell him what was up. I got very lucky though. He finnaly handed out the quiz and I got finished with it. He had told me where he was parked in a text, but he also said that he was going grab some food while he waited. I assumed that he went and grabbed some fast food and would most likely be parked somewhere else and had texted me where. Of course I don't know whether he did or not because my phones dead. To my luck I found him where he said he was going to be and he said that he decided not to get some food. Phew, what a releif! I still don't have my license to drive. It sucks really bad. On a normal day my mom drives me to college on her way to work at 8:30 am. My first class doesn't start until noon. Then I get picked up by my step dad at 5:00 pm. So I am here all day long and it is terribly boring. I have a car, the money for insurance, and everything that I need to drive except my drivers license. I was planning to take my driving test this tuesday and start driving myself to school. I was so looking forward to not gettig up 5 hours early for class. But turns out I can't get a ride this tuesday and I won't be able to take my test. So I get all stressed out over this and pretty much am in a bad mood all weekend. So my weekend sucked. :-)