My opinion on Libya

My opinion on Libya

                In this situation what Col. Gadhafi is doing is wrong, I think he should be killed or captured. I believe this is the right way to go, to stop the killings and violence in Libya. There are many ways of getting ending Col. Gadhafi as a president and soldier. The only ways in my opinion are Army, Air force, and Navy. We have used our Navy by shooting tomahawks across the skies and destroying all of Gadhafi’s anti-aircraft equipment plus other international military’s have participated in destroying Gadhafi’s whole air force base and managed to kill some of his troops. However it seems like this isn’t in off for Col. Gadhafi; I say we should use our Army very wisely. By picking the best of the best; Special Forces and Delta Force, they are trained to go across enemy lines and destroy the problem. If President Obama does send foot soldiers to finish the problem it’s most likely that they will capture Gadhafi. Most people might disagree with me but if we want this war to end quick and fast we need some sort of ground troop in Libya. Col. Gadhafi air force is complete destroyed his army is low on men. I think if we wait too long Gadhafi well supply and attack his people again. Violence isn’t the answer but resolution is.  

What to do?

What to do?

            Saturday night there was a party, when I arrived home around 1:45 a.m. I felt fine. The next morning I felt like crap, I was in shock wondering why my throat and head hurt so much. That Sunday I didn’t go to church stayed in bed all day; didn’t eat anything drank lots of liquids like water and orange juice. Monday arrived, and I didn’t get out of my bed; my mother went to check my temperature I had a fever around 102 f. My mom said I’m taking you to the hospital, I really didn’t want to because my bones were in pain, but my mom forced me to get out of bed. When I arrived to the hospital my Doctor was already waiting for me. He checked my temperature, blood pressure on my arm, my ears, my nose, and my throat. The Doctor would grace a cotton swab and scrap it inside my throat. He did an exam, and I came out positive for a virus in my throat. He sent me some anti-biotic to help me get better I wasn’t able to go out for 3 to 4 days. Tuesday came, in bed all day wasn’t allowed to leave my room my mom would bring me soup, and water. I wasn’t happy at all being sick, overall you should always try and keep yourself healthy because you never know when you can get severely sick.   

Surprising Adrian

Surprising Adrian

            My mother whispers in my ear “Grandma is coming today” a joy of happiness raised up in my heart. I wanted to tell the whole world the great news; however I wasn’t able to Adrian. My parents want him to be surprised when he sees his grandmother. When I arrived home I immediately posted on Facebook “My grandmother is coming to visit me”. Some people aren’t excited to see their grandparents, but I’m the opposite for the reason that my grandmother brings lots of love to the family, she always brings me a present from Panama, and she’s the best cook in the whole entire world.

            It was 12:30 and time to go, we jumped in the car and headed for the airport. My brother had no clue where we were going; so the entire time we were in the car he kept asking “Where are we going”. I was losing my patience and wanted to scream the answer, meanwhile my mom is talking on the phone and hangs up upset because my grandmother flight is delayed 2 hours. I arrive to the airport with my family; know that Adrian’s knows where at he asks another question “What are we doing here”? Three hours past, no sign of beautiful grandma, suddenly after fours of waiting beautiful grandma shows up I was the first person to spot here.

            Adrian wakes up from his long nap, and says “I knew she was coming” and we all began to laugh. Over all the Surprised was kept quiet but somehow Adrian found out that Grandma was coming. In my opinion it was a fail surprise because he knew who was coming.

Intimidator 305

Kings Dominion Thrill Rides Intimidator 305, I will tell you tell you my experience of the Intimidator 306 first of all your all thing what an “Intimidator 305” it is the tallest roller coaster of its type on the East Coast! Only the second Giga- ever built in North America. The highest peak of this terrifying roller coaster is 305ft; the speed that this roller coaster goes to is approximately 95 mph. My amazing experience with   the Intimidator 305; It was a Saturday afternoon me and my buddies were at Kings Dominion waiting for the Intimidator to open up. Half an hour later the gates open up; hundreds of people start to rush in to get first in line. My buddies and I managed to be the fourth people in line we wait 15 minutes until the people in front of us finish. Finally it’s our turn people from the Gunnies World Recorded showed up it was crazy and I started to get very nervous because if they showed up this roller coaster had to be intense. The lady on the microphone counts down 5, 4,3,2,1! The Intimidator shots up into the sky at 95 mph when we take a sharp turn to the left I can fell the G force pushing on my body. I hold on very tight as we do a loop in the air. All of a sudden we take a descend of 300ft my stomach had butterfly’s. At 3 minutes the ride starts to slow down at and stop. All in all this was an amazing experience because I have never been on something so adrenalin in my life. I recommend all viewers to go!    

Super Bowl XLV

Super Bowl XLV

                On Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 6:30pm ET on FOX the greatest National Football Leagues are going toe to toe. Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers are going to play at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas for the silver super bowl. In my opinion I think the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to dominate the Green Bay Packer offence. The Steelers are going to put pressure on the quarterback sacking him, incompletion passes, or interceptions. In addition the Steelers have been to the Super Bowl much more than the Green Bay Packers, and are going to be nervous off all the people inside the Dallas Stadium.

                My prediction of the score will probably be Steelers 30 to Packers 10. After everything that has happened these two teams came in as elite contenders most people online say that the Steelers have a big chance of taking the title and I agree so does Mr. Fogel. If the Steelers don’t use their defense skills they might have a chance of losing the big game. Anyways Christina Aguilera well sing at the Super Bowl and the terrible towels are predicted to be sold. Tickets are ranked $2000 to $8500 each person. All in all I know the Steelers are going to win so I have no worries.

Facebook

Dear Facebook,

                On October 26, 2010 my Facebook was taken away, because of my vulgar language. I didn’t know what to think; when my parents asked me for my password. I was shocked that they would do this to me. I argued saying I wasn’t going to, my father responded back you have no choice. Sooner or later I had to tell them; slowly I said my password 1,2,3,4,5,6 and that was it. I saw how my father went onto my Facebook and clicked option reset password. At that moment I wanted to punch my father in the face, and run away.

                As my father told me to look away, for he was typing in a new password I began to cry. My whole world was turned upside down, at that very moment. I was thinking to myself, I just lost all communications with my friends, and I can never know what’s happing outside of school. I tried to sleep the pain of, but it hurt me so much that I couldn’t. As the months went on Facebook to me was a big deal because if I had a question with some sort of problem I would just login and ask one of my friends. Know it is January 27, 2011 and still I haven’t had any contact with Facebook. I hope my parent’s realize how important Facebook is to me and try to reconsider Facebook.

                                                                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                                                                      Matthew C. Jenkins

Call of Duty Black Ops

COD: Black Ops

                You are probably wondering what is Call of Duty: Black Ops? Well it’s the best game in the whole entire world! Let me give you some details, it’s a first person shooter video game, developed be Trench, published by Activison and released on November 9, 2010. This game is the seventh Call of Duty series and the first Cold War setting. You know why this is the best game? Within 24 hours of going on sale, this game sold over 7 million copies breaking Modern Warfare 2 record of 2.5 million.

                Campaign Mode, There are many different type of characters most of them are a Special Forces group called black ops who are behind enemy lines. Each mission has an objective you are always with some kind of group that help you succeed your mission. Although this game is a first person shooter there’s a really cool scene where you are inside a helicopter shooting down the Vietcong Army. There are a series of weapons in the Campaign mode, my favorite ones are,  the cross bow because it stick to enemy’s and blows them up, second is the ballistic knife where you can stab an enemy or shoot the knife at them causing them to die in one shoot.

                Multiplayer Mode is the best mode they have in Black Ops, because it retains experience points and unlock able rewards and weapons. You are able to play against people around the world to win a game match. Also you can play with your friends as well on Xbox Live; the only thing that is wrong with Multiplayer Mode is the connection, sometime bad and doesn’t let you play. But other than that Multiplayer Mode is great. Know there’s a new currency system that allows you to bet your money on games like “One in the Camber” which requires you to kill all enemy’s with one bullet or by stabbing them. “One in the Chamber” is my favorite mode.

Missy and Puca

Missy and Puca

                Your probably wondering what is Missy and Puca? Well they are both my favorite dogs in this whole entire world! My family and I went to a PetSmart one day because we were looking for a bunny, but everything changed when my dad saw this cute black ball of fur in the corner of a wall. This cute black ball of fur was so happy that everybody loved her instantly. We named her Missy, she is a Toy Poodle. Our other dog is Puca; she is a Teacup Yorkshire, very very tiny and incredibly adorable. We got her in Uruguay from my best friend Alejandro Martinez. Alejandro and I became great friends when our family lived in Uruguay.

                Missy is very obedient. I don’t like to think why she is so obedient, but I believe my father smacked her around a lot when she was young. My dad and I taught her with a lot of patience how to sit. They didn’t smack her around for this. They smacked her around when she would pee or poo inside the house. It took our family around 6 months to finally get her to sit, pee and poo where she was supposed to and obey my father’s orders. We really do take good care of her and she seems to be a really happy pet. She is 12 years old and it is obvious how she still has a lot of energy and quality of life.

                Puca is only 3 years old. At a young age Puca had many difficulties, when she was only a couple months old she could barely open her eyes or walk. Sadly her brothers and sisters died a couple weeks later. Puca was the only survivor, thank God she did. Puca’s obedience isn’t as good as Missy’s. Puca likes to poo and pee all over the house and we haven’t had much time to teach her anything. In addition, she is too small too to be smack around, so if she did something bad we couldn’t discipline her in that way. Over all, I wouldn’t trade them for anything in the world because I love them very deeply, with all my heart. GODS SPEED! Merry Christmas.    

My Secret Crushes?

My secret crushes?

                There is this beautiful girl that I find to be very attractive. I see her in my English classroom almost every morning. She’s my sunshine; she wakes me up every morning, with her beautiful smile. I don’t know why it is so hard for us teen to say how we feel. I think I am better expressing my feeling when I write. But still, I can’t say her name. I don’t know if it’s because I’m scared of being rejected or it is because I’m scared that something could really happen. In the end I enjoy feeling this way.

                She is smart, pretty, attractive, loving, intelligent, hardworking, friendly, gorgeous, sexy, authentic, spontaneous, sporty, organized, seductive, cool, outgoing, crazy and sweet like candy. I can say that I admire her sense of responsibility because she always gets her school work done on time. I like her style of dressing, I see it as original.  She is very athletic; I like how she swims in P.E. I also like when she laughs, it seems she’s having always a good time. I enjoy when she dances, she seems to be having a great time and it almost feels like she dances when nobody is looking. She is always happy. I like it how she is an international student and know many languages.

                By the way ladies, I love more than one of you all. For me, all women are pretty. I have learned how to pay attention and highlight the strength of each one of you and at the same time forget your flaws.

Sincerely,

Papito mi rey. 

New Home in Caracas, Venezuela

New Home in Caracas, Venezuela

                Two weeks ago we arrived to our new apartment in Caracas, Venezuela. It’s located in las Lomas de los Campitos. When our family moved to Caracas the real estate agents from my parent’s jobs moved us in a little apartment in La Alameda. That apartment was only a temporary one while they found us a better one. When I went through the gate of the building I saw the beautiful view of the Avila Mountain. This building is located at the top of a hill. It has an incredible view.

                As I entered the lobby I noticed a beautiful painting of a naked woman. The floor is made of marble and it is so shiny that I can see the reflection of my face. There is wood around the corner of the walls which gives it a poetic touch. I felt like in a hotel because there was music in the elevator. Once the elevator opened and I saw the huge living room of my new apartment I felt so delighted that I kissed my dog in the mouth!

                Our new apartment is probably three times bigger than our last one and in perfect conditions. Suddenly my mom pulls me by the arm and takes me to the kitchen which is probably as big as the living room in our last apartment and then takes me to my room. I was so emotionally struck that I wanted to cry. I had never had a walk-in closet or an individual bathroom. My parents also had put up my Christmas present for me in my room, a 25 in. LCD Sony television connected to my X-Box 360 and computer.  I gave my parents a big hug and said thank you for this awesome present! I ran all over the house and jumped in my parent’s bed because I was so happy!

                For the last weeks we haven’t had a maid and I’ve been helping my parents with the house chores and I feel awesome! 

My First Kiss

My First Kiss

                Reader’s discretion advised.

I was living in Alexandria, Virginia studying as a new student in the seventh grade. It was March, the middle of the school year. I remember like it was yesterday. It was the 17^th of March on a chilly afternoon. Her name is Paola. We rode the bus together. That day I was with my friend Sam, we were walking home together with Paola.

                As we were walking Sam mother passes by and pick him up to take him to a doctor’s appointment.  From then on Lindsey and I were alone walking side by side. We were chatting about who we liked or thought was pretty in our grade. Then we both mentioned our names. Actually she said that she thought I was cute and then I said I thought she was cute. I wasn’t expecting anything like this would happen. When we arrived to the bus stop I took out some candy. I remember they were fruits snack and I put one in my mouth. Then asked if she wanted one? I was doing this like a joke. It wasn’t for real. But the joke was that if she wanted one she would have to grab it with her mouth from my mouth. I honestly and truly wasn’t thinking she would do it.

                She said: “You are dirty boy” and she came up to me and we shared the candy. I’m almost positive that it wasn’t her first kiss but I had a great time! I will always remember her and stay in contact with such and interesting girl. 

Shattered Arm

Shattered Arm

                I was in P.E. class practicing volleyball. It was in 7^th grade and our teacher had gone to the rest room for a while. It’s hard to believe but I was a lot more immature and menace in those days. When the teacher had left the class it was an excellent opportunity for goofing off. I thought it would be a great idea and we would have a lot of fun laughing if I grabbed the volleyball with my hands, sneaked up behind my friend Matias and kicked the volleyball with all my might in his bottom.

                Things didn’t turn out how I expected them to. My aim was totally off and accidently hit his arm. I had kicked the ball so hard that the impact actually broke Matias’ arm. At first I thought he was joking because how could volleyball break someone’s arm? But as soon as I realized he was really crying and everyone in the class came up to him to check if he was alright I realized what a bad decision I had taken.  I felt really bad because when he was in pain and though he was joking I was making fun of him.

I learned many lessons that day. One of the most important ones was that I’m not supposed to mess around in class. Even though I learned this I don’t know why I still keep messing around in class. I obviously reduced the amount of immaturities I do in classes and also their intensity. I got really scared and will probably never do something like that ever again.

                

Future Plans

My dream is to graduate from ECA, and join West Point Military Academy for 5 years. At West Point, I want to build leadership skills and show people that I can lead as a U.S army Officer. I want to join the Army Football team and join the Golden Knights Skydive team as well. As I mentioned in my previous blog, I want to become a skydiving instructor. I want to be the top of my team, and show my friends, family members and teachers that I can become a Military officer. I know that the first years at West Point will be very harsh, because the instructors push you to the limit; I think I’ll be ready for anything because I have grown up in a Military family that pushed me and helped me reach my goals.   

My vision is to graduate West Point, and become an Infantry soldier. I would like to become Airborne and be stationed in Fort Benning Georgia, because as a child I loved that place. Later I would like to start a family when I’m 26 years old; by the time I’m 30 I would like to have 3 children. If they ever call me to go to war, I would never deny it, because I would offer my allegiance to the United States of America to always serve and protect it.  

Family for me is very significant, because it’s what unites people. As I said before, I was always around military men. My dad was very strict with academics and doing chores. I believe this could help me with my goals at West Point because I could be mentally and physically solid and effective. I plan on getting the rank of a one star General and at the end of my carrier I would like… TO BE CONTIUNED.  

Christmas Plans

This Christmas my family and I are going to Panama for 3 weeks, it has been about four years since the whole family goes to Panama together. We are planning to go on the 17^th of December. When we arrive to Panama I would like to do many things like surf, hang out with my family and then with my best friends, I would also like to go to the beach, shop around the malls, I would even like to help my grandfather’s with the business he is starting.

                My cousins from Florida will arrive two days before me; they can show me all the cool things they have done without me. My best friend Donovan is the coolest guy, we have a lot of things in common like surfing, skateboarding, he does street and I do gravity in the skateboard discipline. These are only a few but very important things that Donovan and I have in common. I hope that in Panama we see each other a lot, but anyways, the most important thing I want to do in Panama is spend quality time with the family; help my grandmother cook around Christmas Eve and wrap presents for my little brother and cousins.

                After sharing and spending quality time with my family, Donovan and I are going to hit some of the best surfing spots in Panama like Playa Teta, Playa Malibu, and Playa Palmera. In Playa Palmera I want to camp at the beach, wake up and surf for 3 days nonstop, it would be the best experience ever. Once my fun is over I want to have some quality time with my cousins, they are two girls and in my whole life I haven’t been too close to them, I feel that I want to get to know them better. But then again they are my cousins and I need to get to know them so in the future we can have a close relationship as a family.

                Things I plan to do with them will probably include play games, sports like soccer because I always knew that Elena was really good at it, and a lot more. All in all I plan to just have a great time with family members and friends. 

Free Falling

Skydiving in Panama,

When I grow up my hobby is to go around the world, especially Panama and jump out of airplanes. Why do I want to pick this as my hobby? Because I like the acrobatics that the skydivers do during the overwhelming sensation of free fall and because of the adrenaline rush they feel when they are about to exit the aircraft.

As a small child my father would come home and start packing his parachute for his daily jumps for the U.S Army; he would always put some skydiving videos so I could watch them with him. When I started crawling as a young baby I would copy the same moves that the skydivers did on the videos. The main move I practiced was the “arch” and I would never stop doing it. The “arch” is the most important position for a safe and stable free fall flight of our bodies.

The closest I have ever been to skydiving is flying in the wind tunnel in North Carolina when I was 12 years old. My father took me with my cousins, we had to take a safety test and learn the cool moves skydivers did. When it was my turn up in the wind tunnel I threw my body in how the instructor told me to and meanwhile he held on me. I would float up inside the tunnel with him, I was in the tunnel for at least 15 min. When I got out I felt like a bird. The wind tunnel has been one of the best experiences of my life.

Like I said before, I want to become a skydiver and have at least 1,000 jumps and after that I want to become an instructor and teach young teenagers how to jump safely. As I grow older I know I’ll get much more anxious to skydive, but before I die I want to skydive with my tutor and friend Alex Hamilton who is a skydiver himself. Blue skies!

(Mathew Jenkins)

Playa Mauri

Playa Mauri August 2, 2010,

                Leaving the beach house with My Uncle Jose had an amazing party last night with a couple girls. We arrive at semi pro suffer Omar Gonzalez house at 3:00am tired as heck, we crash there for 2 hours then we meet up with some other surfers. We stop at Los Pueblos in Panama and have breakfast, and then we take off for a 4 our trip to Playa Mauri. When we arrived to Playa Mauri we had to park the cars 4 miles away from the beach site, because the terrain was really bad for the cars to get throw, so on when we were getting ready to head out to the beach, Omar Gonzalez told me “ur not going to be needing sandals!” I ask Omar why? He told me that theirs lot of rocks and puddles of mud that suck Ur sandals of your feet and you’ll never find them back. After he told me that I was afraid to even walk! Nevertheless I said to myself “no pain no game!” as so I had to march with the other surfers.

                As we were walking we encountered “BULLS” it was one of the scariest things that have happen to me. My uncle just told us to stay calm and not to run we did as he said, but as we kept on walking we meet up the female bull, she must had to way at least 1000 pounds. She did her kicking back thing and charged, oh my gosh! I took off running bare footed in the middle of a jungle. I soon looked back I said to myself I ‘am gone from the bull, nevertheless I ask myself where’s my uncle and he’s friends, nowhere to be found! As I stay where I ‘am at I start to scream for help and my uncle appears in the bushes. We give each other a hand shake and move forward, as where approaching Playa Mauri we remember that there has been a big flood in Playa Marui for 4 days. Leading us to cross it to get to Playa Mauri it was like a lagoon the dirty water was as high to my neck I was scared that there where alligators or some kind of snake in the water.

                 As soon as we got out of the lagoon, Playa Mauri was right there in front of my eyes I wanted to just jump in and starts surfing, but nevertheless I couldn’t because we had to stretch, study the waves, and get hydrated. It took us 45 minutes to finish all of that silly junk; the current that day was really strong hardest beach I’ve ever surfed in my life. All the semi pros where already pass the current and in the deep end of the ocean while I was still in the middle of the ocean trying to duck under the waves, but as soon as I got to the deep end; the waves started kicking in, one after another. I was like a bird flying in the sky’s best experience ever, but that bird has to take a break just like me. As I was paddling out a big current was pulling we to another area of the beach where I shouldn’t have been. So my uncle and Oscar help push me out, but out of nowhere Oscar says bail out meaning he’s leaving, an enormous wave picks my uncle and I and flips us over. I get tangled with my uncle’s leash causing me not get a breath of air; but my uncle makes a risky move taking of he’s leash letting he’s bored free. When I take my first breath of air I ‘am already at shore. I thank God that I ‘am alive on shore and telling my story, but at the same time a get really piss when I see my broken surf bored and my Uncles new bored that cost hem 500 dollars and the result to all of these is we can’t surf the whole entire day. As I always say “No pain no game”.

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Surfing time in Panama

           Panama is preferred by many Panamanians and International surfers around the world. Why because Panama offers the surfing experience of having both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean on both sides. So on, these allows local surfers and international surfer’s to take advantage of the current weather and wave condition’s, example if the waves on the Pacific side are low and the wind is too high, you always have another option to surf on the Pacific side.
          Know I ‘am going to write about frequently visited surf spots in Panama, one off the best surf spots in Panama is Playa Malibu it is located in Gorgona, Panama. It has one off the best waves on the western part of Panama I recommend that new comers that are coming into surfing should not go there; because when the winds are just right and the waves are high it creates very fast waves causing a lot off force.
         Second best wave in Panama is called Playa Teta; it is located in Punta Barco, Panama. More Panamanians prefer to go Playa Teta then International suffers because the Panamanians like to have their own beach for them self’s. Playa Teta has excellent waves, the point brakes over a rocky bottom, and produces a right and left break to exit out of the wave without going back to the shore.
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