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I'm gonna start by saying this, If anyone says that technology hasn't affected then then they're either Amish or a liar. Technology has hugely impacted my life starting when I was in 3rd grade. When I moved here I obviously had to leave all of my friends behind, but no need to fear we had a solution. See when I wasn't selling sillybands under the table at school I was playing club penguin with my friends from Lisle. We'd call each other on the home phone put speaker on and just play for hours on end. We'd hop in the dojo and school kids in the 1v1v1 mode. The next way it impacted my life was when I got my first phone in 7th grade. Once I got my phone It built up a confidence in to talk to girls which was a monumental step to little chubby me. Of course I figured out that it doesn't work like that when I asked a girl out over text and got left on read, ya that was an awkward bus ride the next morning. But after I figured out that you can't just hide behind a screen and that it should be used as a means of communication when face to face interaction isn't an option I really started connecting with people. It was through snapchat I met people from other schools like east and burlington. Also I'm pretty sure screens have permanently damaged my eyes but that's fine cause memes make up for that.

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Now I could sit here and talk about how sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day prepares you for college and life but that's just not how I see it. Obviously we learn things in school but I think the most important thing about school is the social aspect of it. I'm sure you know this but school is truly it's own world, once you walk in the doors you're offering your life to those bleach cinder walls for the next 8 hours. Now you can either accept the punishment they like to dish out or you can fight back and conquer them. As I said in middle I accepted what the walls dished out, but entering high school I refused. I went out of my way to talk and meet new people, and I can honestly say that getting y ass kicked by middle school shaped my for high school. School, high school in specific teaches people who they really are. Take me as an example, not a smart kid, kinda lazy but I have amazing people skills. I just adore meeting new people and really getting to know them. Others however have learned that they can't even feel their own core emotion by themselves cause they're that mentally unstable.

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Ylvis - The Fox (what does the fox say?) Lyrics

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Societal events that have impacted my life

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Societal events that have impacted my life

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A huge societal even that probably shaped my life to be they way it is today was the release of one of the best known songs out there, "What does the fix say". Now if you didn't live under a rock you'll remember the trash I'm talking about, see this was more than a song to my fat awkward ass in middle school, it was a way in. See shocking as it may sound I didn't have many friends in middle school, sure I talked a lot like I do now but never really clicked with anyone, at least not until this horrific song was released. See by following this trash fad of liking and learning this furry song I gained many friends and opened up more at social events because if you knew it you were in with everyone else. The second societal even that impacted me was the invention of memes. See back in the glory days of the meme, after I had solidified myself into a friend group I became one of the earliest known memelords. I bet you've heard of them, they scavenge the internet for hours on end finding meme after meme that can fit literally any situation and make any joke 10x funnier. Yes it may be sad for some to admit but I wear that badge proudly, see being a memelord doesn't mean you just have a lot of memes saved on your phone, you have to be connected to them, you have to feel them pulse through your veins as you neglect sleep at 3:30am on a school night looking for that one meme about nemo. The third and final societal event that impacted me were the sillybands. Yes these animals shaped wristbands impacted me a great deal. See they were on the rise when I moved here to Saint Charles and that meant I had to adapt quick. See I learned quickly that It wasn't hard to fit in, all you had to do was give the people what they wanted and at the time that was entertainment and sillybands. So I did what any new kid would do, I started talking a lot during class to make people laugh, I didn't mind being lectured every now and then cause I could tell the teacher was entertained as well. On top of that I started my own business. In third grade my teacher had a system called McBucks and it was a fake dollar with her face on it and you'd earn McBucks my doing good in class so as you could tell I never got them. But I found my way around that issue, for my birthday all I asked for were sillybands and let me tell you, my suppliers delivered, generously. Now with all this merchandise I did what any businessman would do, I opened shop. I sild those bad boys for 1-5 McBucks depending on the rarity, color, and animal it was, and I made BANK. At the end of the week when we could cash in the moola I'd walk out of that bitch with at least 10 new pencils everytime.

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jon and kate plus eight: season 5 - big changes

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Jon and Kate Plus Eight: Season 5 - Big Changes

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Amazon.com: Jon and Kate Plus Eight: Season 5 - Big Changes: Kate Gosselin, Jon Gosselin, Tender Loving Care: Movies & TV

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Lets start with my mom. She doesn't like that I want to go to ECC because she never finished college as a kid and she wants me to go off and "experience college" cause she's finishing it now and doesn't want me to do what she's doing. Apparently she also wasn't satisfied with just having me cause she wants like 8 grand kids to which I've explained to her will never happen. My step dad Adam just wants me to attend college since he never did, he has faith that I'll figure out a plan for my life in the future but just wants me to further my schooling so he's completely on board for ECC. Now my whole family knows my Idaho plan but I'm pretty sure my grandma is the only one who really understands what it actually means to me, all she wants is for me to be happy and to achieve my dream.

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Shit... where do I begin. Okay let's start with Christmas, Every year my three girl cousins come down and join us for winter break on the first day... meaning I will not be getting one damn quiet day to myself. As long as they're here I will be viciously woken up by them at the crack ass of dawn and be forced to either make or eat breakfast with them. Now in between waking up and eating there will usually an argument between two of the three, now this is not a limited conflict, this could range from who sits where to who gets to jump on my bed when waking me up. When we aren't fighting and when they aren't crying we're usually looking for where my parents stashed our gift(Which through my genius efforts have found every year). On Christmas eve we do nothing but bum around in our pajamas, eat, and watch the 24 marathon of "A Christmas Story" and let me tell you, It's FANFRICKINTASTIC. On Christmas day I'm always the last one to wake, usually I'm woken up by my parents, I know Ironic isn't it. And my grandma had this fun little plan about 10 years ago to buy everyone matching pajamas on Christmas day so every year we have to wear these stupid atrocious bunches of cotton, or wool, or silk, she likes to switch it up every year. As if that wasn't bad enough instead of drowning our pain by tearing our gifts open we're forced to obey this stupid order of git opening to which everyone gets a turn and you only get one gift to open your turn, I know it's terrible. Next up is Thanksgiving. Okay Jenna get prepared for this cause it's always a good one. Okay so we spend Thanksgiving with Adam's(My stepdad) family. Now this is an interesting bunch of people so let me explain. We've Jesse(Adam's sister) and Jamie(Her husband) and their two kids, Drew who's one of if not the most passive person I've ever met, and then there's Aaron. See the thing about this kid is that he's a real life incarnation of the Tasmanian Devil, it's like all the corruption of Jesse's womb just skipped drew and brewed Aaron in there for 9 months. Next there's Nick(Adam's brother) and Allie(Nicks monstrosity of a girlfriend). Let me explain real quick that Drew and Aaron are just little version of Adam and nick, Adam being Aaron and Nick being Drew so Nick is a very layed back calm guy who's very fun to talk to. Allie on the other hand... where do I begin with this thing, she's one of those people who must have the attention and I don't say that lightheartedly. When we found out Adams mom has epilepsy well guess what, SO DID ALLIE, even though we've known her for 5 years we only just found out that bullshit fact days after Adams mom was diagnosed. Also I'm not sure how it's possible for someone to continuously get uglier every time you see them but Allie finds a way. Last we have Adams parents Judy and Wally. These are two of the sweetest people I think I've ever met, they are honestly just the best parents and have lived great lives and share what they can with me as often as they can, they're the best. Now essentially what the actual day is like is me kicking little mans(Aaron) ass cause he earns every time he comes into our home, Adam, Nick and Wally watching the Thanksgiving game and occasionally sneaking me a beer, and the women usually finish warming up last minute dishes and talk in the kitchen all while trying to disclude Allie as much as possible. When the meal is ready it's a mad rush to the table cause everyone knows the food won't last long. Something that's been happening for about three years now is a friendly eating competition between Nick and I. If i win he owes me beers equivalent to the amount of plates I ate and if he wins I owe him 10 bucks. Now I usually eat 2 FAT plates and I become a bulimic just for the night to shove a 3rd plate in me. There ya go, those are two of my family traditions.

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What is the most "Important" thing in my life

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What is the most "Important" thing in my life

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I would say the most important thing in my life is my friends but it goes beyond that, the thing I hold most dear to myself is my relationships with other. I know those sound very similar but when I say relationships I mean overall where I stand with almost everyone, there's someone this year that I hated with a passion. I'm sure you've heard me talking about him, if not i'd be surprised but even though I hated him I value the relationship I had with him cause he kept my breakup with Aimee very easy cause I just focused all that anger onto him, which also taught me self control to not just kick the living shit out of him cause let me tell you, even before the break up I REALLY didn't like this kid. And that's why I value almost every relationship I have with people because weather you like them or not they'll most likely teach you something and you may not even know it till after they're gone but that's something I've learned to do in High school. I've learned to evaluate my relations with people on a very real level because I've been hurt many time by toxic relations and instead of dwelling on it you just have to learn what the signs are, keep your head high and keep moving on.

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I pulled up to a red light and looked to my left boy sings unwritten

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Sandpoint lies on the shores of Idaho's largest lake, 43-mile-long Lake Pend Oreille, and is surrounded by three major mountain ranges, the Selkirk, Cabinet and Bitterroot ranges. It is home to Schweitzer Mountain Resort, one of Idaho's largest ski resorts, and is on the International Selkirk Loop and two National Scenic Byways (Wild Horse Trail and Pend Oreille Scenic Byway).

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Kids learn what they see so thanks dad,

on your part to shape me to be me.

Kids also learn by what they think and feel.

It's a hard lesson but real.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder,

I wonder what the time limit on that is?

You’ve shown me the man I don’t want to be.

How could you not see me?

I must’ve sat by that phone for days

before I realized the truth,

a truth that would haunt me for years to come, you weren’t coming back.

I cried rivers

long enough for men to sail until there was nothing left,

except for one, my thoughts.

“Am I not good enough” “I drove you away” “What did I do wrong”.

Were my countless ”I love you’s” not enough for you to at least call.

But once the tears were gone my thoughts,

like a movie projector played out every memory I had of you,

and something felt odd. Certain memories,

like a scratched record played over and over and over again.

We were leaving the bar the night before our big trip together

and before we exited we passed a black man

and you turned to me and said,

“Son you can wave him goodbye cause where we’re going there won’t be any of those.”

You see mother taught me to love and accept others,

but not you, your heart as rotten as your teeth

after your pack a day

and soul as empty as your bottle.

The thing I will never forget,

a memory from you

branded to my brain,

remaining red hot and sensitive to the touch.

I was six,

holding my coke and enjoying the world,

the same world

that was about to come crashing down.

I looked out the window

to see what you were up to,

you were motionless face down on the table,

your beer shattered on the pavement under you,

and before I could think

the door burst open

with three paramedics sprinting through the house

to grab your motionless body.

I’m 16 now and have thought

about the stroke you had that day

more times than I could count on the hands

of every person in this room,

I thought about how blessed you were to get away

with only a slight motor problem in your left hand,

and for what, to leave me, to disrespect my mother,

to live a dead end life in your broken apartment.

I wished for a long time

that you just dropped dead that day,

but as I matured I realized that you taught me

the most valuable lesson so little fathers can truly teach their sons.

See fathers raise their sons teaching morals

about life and the value of what it means to be a man,

but you showed me the exact opposite of that.

You showed me what it looks like to fail as a man

That motivated me.

It made me make an oath to myself

to be the best man I can possibly be, to respect women,

love others and one day love my children, the way you never did.

Unlike you I will grow to be a loving and caring dad,

I’ll never cause my kids to be sad.

I will show them how to throw a ball,

be at their side as they grow tall.

I’ll tuck them in their bed at night and referee any fight.

I’ll keep them safe they’ll be secure,

my love

for them strong and pure.

When they’re grown and on their

own they’ll say to me thanks dad for all you’ve shown.

So now I thank you, dad,

and say adieu.

I never want to be you.

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two bros chillin in a hot tub 5 feet apart cuz theyre not gay

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I'm gonna be honest with you Jenna, I don't admire any celebrities, obviously there's a couple I love and really enjoy but honestly I don't look up to any of them. As I'm sure you read there's only one person that I look up to and it's not even a positive way, I just use him as a reminder of what not be. I guess the closest thing I'd say I've come to admiring a celebrity would be Guns N' Roses. I say that because I've grown up listening to them because of my parents, literally every stage of my life I can remember listening to them. Weather it be good or bad they always fueled me, they got me through countless runs in cross country and the fueled my anger more times than I could count, didn't matter if I was working out or punching holes in my wall I was always listening to them. Kelly Rohrbach, now I don't look up to her but god damn she's a babe. Like Jenna I'm not saying I cried cause of her after I watched Baywatch, but I totally cried cause she's that hot. My third and final celebrity is this ginger kid, now I may not know his name by I can confidently tell you that he's an american hero. He's taught me many things over the years such as to never fear men with phones at stoplights, and he also taught me that even though gingers have no souls they are still a great source of entertainment on a Sunday night.

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The best kind. If this wasn't graded I'd leave it at that but I guess I'll explain. When I form bonds with people they are usually very strong because I care for others to an unhealthy extent, that being said most of the time my friends will return the favor when needed and those people are who I surround myself with. A perfect example of this is when I broke up my girlfriend, ya you remember right, when I was super depressed after spring break, ya that. Anyways the day it happened one of my best friends found out left his date he was on in Naperville to come pick me up and just spent the day with me to make sure I was okay. Another is when I broke down cause of my dad this year, I did some things I don't think I can talk about on a school project but when my friends found out they dropped a party they were at came and picked my up and got me home safe . The most important thing to my immediate group of friends is family because that's what we are to each other, family and we'd do anything for each other. I can honestly say if it wasn't for my friends I'd be a much different person, I'd be someone controlled by rage and hate rather than love and compassion because they were the ones who taught me that some things just aren't worth it.

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To me success is achieving your dream, whatever that may be. My dream is to move across the country to Sandpoint, Idaho and raise a family. I don't know what I will major in or what my end job will be or what I want it to be but I do know that I want 2-3 healthy kids with a wonderful wife. I want to live near the mountains so I'll be able to go hiking with my kids and take them on adventures. I also want to own a boat because Sandpoint is right on a lake so I'll be able to take my family out for a day on the lake then we can grill out when we get back. In the end I just wanna be a good father. I'll know I made it when my kids are grown, married and have lives of their own and say to me "Thanks dad... for everything." I plan on achieving this by being the best person I can possibly be, see most people are concerned with living the best life they can and making their personal story as full as possible. I'm concerned with being the best back up character I can for my friends and family.

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I don't consider him a hero but I live my life based off of my father. I base my actions around him because I want to be nothing like him, I want to be everything he wasn't. I want to be a great father and I want to be there for everyone I can when they need me. There are many people like my father which is unfortunate because that means kids are being cheated out of good parenting but that's just given me even more motivation to be the best person I be and to raise the best damn kids out there.