soccer referee

I am a soccer referee, you know the people in the bright yellow jerseys and who way the flags up and down. It is a good job because it pays pretty well for just running up and down a line and waving a flag. I referee 12 and 13 year old because you can only referee kids that are 2 years younger than you. For refereeing that age I get paid 15 dollars for being a sideline referee and 20 for being a center referee. That may not seem like much but, when you do 2 or three games a day that only last a hour. It adds up. I usually do my job on Saturdays during the summer around 10:00 am. I am a referee for LCSC which stands for Livonia City Soccer Club. The bad thing about being a soccer referee is that every 2 years you have to take a class and a test to make sure that you still remember all of the rules. That may not seem that bad but, the thing that you don’t know is that the class is six hours long. You may ask “What do you during those six hours?” Well some teacher comes in and for the first four hours the teacher goes over all of the rules and over certain compacted situation s that you may occur. It is so boring. Then you have a half hour for lunch, which goes by very fast because it is the only fun it of the six hours. When you get back from lunch you take the test. This test is about four pages long. If you pass the test then you get a patch and if you fail the test then you have to retake the test and to take the class you have to pay 50 dollars. So that 100 dollars if you fail to take it again. I just had my class last weekend and my teacher was no the sharpest tool in the shed. You would think that it would make sense to review the rules of soccer before the test but no; apparently that way did not make sense to the teacher. He made us take the test first thing when we got there and review after the test. Now does that make sense to you? He would not even let us have a lunch break. So in conclusion, being a soccer referee is a great job, besides the six hour class. You can even make up to 200 dollars in one game if you stick with it.

The Rwandan Genocide

I believe that everyone is responsible for the genocide. To give you some examples of this is Belgium supported the Tutsi supremacy and creating an ethnic divide between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Interahamwe did the killing of the Rwandans by cutting their heads off with Meshed’s. The United Nations ignored multiple warnings of the genocide. If they did not ignore those warnings then they could have helped with the stopping of the genocide instead of doing nothing. Juvenal Habyarimana brain washed they people by having them listen to his radio station. The united States were to scared to get embarrassed because of what happened in Somalia with the soldiers getting dragged around to send troops in to Rwanda.



As the United Nations I thought that it was the fault of Belgium. I thought that because if they did not create the ethnic divide between the Hutu and the Tutsi then this would have never happened.



In class when we had a debate and we had groups who were each of the major players in the Rwandan Genocide. We got in a circle and we starting accusing almost every person for the fault of the genocide. The only group that could not get accused was the Red Cross. They could not get accused because the only thing that they did was help save people, but as you can see they did not do a great job because thousands of people were killed. It was hard to defend the United Nations because they did not do much. When people asked us questions or comments we did not know how to answer them because we did not do anything.

The American Scholar

Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today. One reason that Emerson's argument still holds true today is that people do what they are good at. In the article The American Scholar Emerson says " Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is a priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divide or social state these functions are parceled(Something wrapped up) out to individuals, each whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each each other preforms his." This quote is saying man is everything and is divided into individuals who do their job in the society.

Man is divied into individuals. When you take all the individuals and put it into one you get society. In the article The American Scholar Emerson says "Man thinking is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked- for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end."

Pumpkin carving

When you go to the store and you find the perfect pumpkin you just have to buy it. Well that is what I did. The next night I started to carve. I first cut the top of the pumpkin off to get the gunk out of the pumpkin and to get the seeds out. After I cut the top off my sister and I started to scoop out the gunk. That the stuff that is orange and looks like a spider web when you out the top of the pumpkin off. I reached in and grabbed a handful. It was so slimy. You know the feeling when you go to a lake and you go in the part where it goes up to about you knees and you start to feel the mushy feeling of the seaweed under your feet and you just want to not touch it by trying to swim over it in a foot deep of water. That’s how this feels.
When we finished picking out the slime, we had to pick out all of the seeds in the slime because we forgot to do that first. I started to pick them out one by one and put them on a sheet of tin foil. Once we were finished with that it was time for the fun part, carving a face into the pumpkin. I could not think of any faces to carve so I went ton the internet to see what other people did. So I typed in pumpkin carving faces and I got tons of hits. I found lots of the simple faces; you know the ones with two triangle eyes a mouth and a triangle nose. Those were too easy. Then I found the very complicated like the one in my picture. That was too hard. I decided to go with an in-between one. It had triangle eyes but it had another triangle in the other triangle with the center cut out. The mouth was the hard part. It was on an angle and had teeth. The teeth got bigger as the pumpkin’s mouth got bigger. .

Walkabout

Have you ever been lost on a Cont-inent that you do not live on. If so then I would hate to be you. But if you have not that good because it is not fun. In school I am reading a book called Walk About by James Vince Marshall. It is a okay book but it is also kind of boring.
It is about two kids Mary and Peter. Mary is 13 and peter is 8. They were in a plane and It crashed in Australia. They were the only survivors. Now they have to survive until help arrives. That may be a long time because the plane flue off coarse and people don't know where it crashed.
Mary and peter survive by wondering into the outback. All they had to eat was two pieces of candy. They are dieing of lack of water when a strange boy comes out of no where.He is one of the aborigine people who live there. He is the only person who can help them. They better trust him or the may not make it.

Water on the Moon

When People first landed on the moon, scientists have been thinking that there was no water on the moon, they thought that it was bone dry. According to http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html, new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.

To find more traces of water on the moon, NASA is planing to lunch a rocket into one of the moon's craters. The impact of the rocket will be huge. It will shoot up hundreds of thousand of pounds of rock. The rocks that are being shot up will be tested for water traces by near by satellites according to http://www.newser.com/story/71209/nasa-to-smash-rocket-into-moon-tomorrow.html.

"If the water molecules are as mobile as we think they are — even a fraction of them — they provide a mechanism for getting water to those permanently shadowed craters," said planetary geologist Carl Pieters of Brown University in Rhode Island, who led one of the three studies in Science on the lunar find, in a statement. "This opens a whole new avenue, but we have to understand the physics of it to utilize it."

My opinion on the theory of water on the moon is that if there is water on the moon which there is then that would be very cool. This might mean that there may be life on the moon. Now that would be awesome. What would be even cooler would be if this gets us one step closer to being able to live on the moon. Just imagine that you are walking down the street one day and you look up and you see building on the moon.

High School Soccer Tryouts

It was August and it was time for my favorite sport, soccer. I am at Stevenson High School and you had to tryout to get on the team. But before tryouts there was conditioning. This is when you do a lot of running to get in shape. But this was the total opposite. We did no running, instead we just did a lot of scrimmaging and drills.

I had to get up at 8:30 in the morning to get there on time, 10:00. I didn't have a ride so I had to ride my bike to school. And this was bad because I lived 2 miles from my school. The first day that I road my bike there was the worst. This was because, when I was riding my peddle some how fell off. You would think that I could just screw the peddle back in but, the wires were striped so I could not do that. I ended up walking my bike a mile to get to home so I could garb another bike and be on my way. When I finally got to school after 20 minutes of bike riding, I made it to school.

When I in the stadium I had to put on my shin guards, socks, and cleats. The coach call us out on to the field and we started to stretch. Once we were done we scrimmaged the rest of the time which was 2 hours. The other days of that week were the same, but the second week was a whole different thing.

The coach was gone the second week so the Seniors were running the conditioning. this was a very bad thing for me. They made us do a lot of running. The first day of the second week was not to bad compared to the other days because we only had to run the mile. The bad part about that was that if you did not get under a certain time then you had to do it all over again. Luckily I got in done in one try. For the next two days we had to run up and down the bleachers. This may not seem that hard but you have to take in consideration that the stares are a foot and a half tall. We had to do this nine times. It was touchier. The other day we just ran on the track.
In all, this was not worth the hassle because I ended up not making the team. Hopefully next year I will make the team because most kids don't make the team as a freshman ans I will be a sophomore.