A Collection of Instruments/Music

If you were to ask me what type of music I like I would know how to respond. I listen to a variety of genres and sometimes I find music that I like but don't like anything else in that category. For example, I usually don't listen to rap but there are some songs that I find especially catchy. I like listening to music that matches my mood. If I'm feeling calm I can listen to indie, if I'm feeling happy I listen to more electronic and club music, etc.

Music is really interesting. When my mom shows me music from when she was a teenager I get shocked. How did she ever listen to that type of music? Then listen to my old playlists and I wonder how did I ever listen to that type of music? It's funny how people change and how we grow up and gain new interests. A great example of this is clothes. What I wear 3 years ago is so different from now. Not only the size difference but just the type of stuff. Im not going to go into full detail when I compare but I'll just say this; used to shop at Justice! I had pink clothes with sparkles and hearts. Things just change.

This Song Will Save Your Life

The book I read this week was This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales. This book was a big surprise for me because I thought it would be a normal teen romance. I thought the girl would just meet a guy and fall in love but the book was about something much more. It was about accepting who you are and realizing you don't need to change who you are just the same of being accepted by others.

The book was about a girl called Elise Dembowski. She is a 16 year old teenager who is an outcast in her school. All she ever wanted was friends but she never got that. She had to perservere throughout being bullied and facing suicidal thoughts. When Elise is walking around at night is to sleeping issues she runs into an underground indie dance party where she experiences a journey of love, accepting herself, and discovering her talent.

For every 1,000 people killed by police, only one is convicted of a crime

This week I read a book called "All American Boys" by Brendan Kiely. This is a fiction book about police brutality that tells the story of Rashad a black high schooler who gets beaten up by the police after being judged a thief. The story is told through the point of view of Quinn, white kid who witnessed the brutality who was a friend of the cop, and Rashad.

I liked this book because it showed how the victims of the police brutality feel but also how the police feel. I loved how in the book Rashad is a very normal guy and his point of view is easy to understand. One of my favorite things about the book was the reactions his classmates had to his story. They fought for him and supported him  and ended up protesting instead of ignoring the problem. I would really recommend this book to those who want to read about real things.

Vacation Plans

When I was young my family would go to Mexico almost every year during winter break. We would go almost everywhere. These trips were the highlight of the year. This year my mom said that we were gonna go on a 3 day trip to Puerto Vallarta in a glorious hotel. It's like the dream come true for me because I've been pestering her for a really long time. The first time I went was phenomenal. The scenery was beautiful and the beach was so much fun.

While I know nothing can beat my winter plans my summer plans will also be really exciting. This summer a bunch of my friends are having a quincenera. This means I'll have to go to dance practice every week but also that at the end we'll have a great party with all of my friends. I will also be going to a bunch of church events but fun ones. My church always goes to kalahari or the bear lodge as well as Keline cove. We also have picnics and go to the beach all the time. I'll also be excited to hang out with my friends and got to the mall as well as other places. I'm super duper excited to vacation!

Health Myths

For some reason my family is obsessed with their health and they try to be as healthy as possible while not changing their mostly meat diet. They are always telling me things like carrots give you night vision and eating chocolate gives you acne. Around a month ago I had a really bad breakout and the first thing they asked me was, " did you eat a lot of chocolate?". As a chocolate addict I have got to say that I was determined to disprove that myth. So I searched it up and I found out that it was a myth. Luckily for me I could go on eating chocolate without worry, except for all that sugar...

I ended up getting interested in this topic and I ended up researching more health myths. This is the link.

Here are some of the ones I found most phenomenal :

1. Coffee stops your growth
2. If you eat too much sugar you'll get sugar high
3. It takes years for gum to be processed
4. Humans have five senses (to explain a bit more about this we also have a sense of balance, temperature, noticepain, etc. )
5. Everyone should drink 8 glasses of water everyday

What did you think was true?

I love movies

One of my favorite things to do is watch movies and tv shows. I think I watch at least 10 hours of media and entertainment a week. I love how much variety there are in movies and tv shows, but I usually watch comedy, action, or a bit of romance. It's a bit weird to think about the future of movies. There is already 4d in a lot of movie theatres. I imagine that soon all movie theatres are going to have everything in 4d maybe even nearing virtual reality.

Though it would be easy to see movies at home I really like making the effort to go to the theatre. I love the atmosphere of the theatre and I especially like the popcorn. One day I searched up why we eat popcorn at the movies and I actually learned quite a bit. To summarize, in the past popcorn was not easy to make so people had to rely on street vendors. Movie theatres wanted to be classy so they decided they would not have popcorn on their theatres. But after street vendors were making so much revenue movie theatres finally accepted popcorn. After a while people were able to see movies at home and movie theatres were becoming vulnerable.  After comparing different theatres they found out that movie theatres who sold popcorn were booming and those without were not. That's how popcorn became so important at the movies. Just in case you want to read it I'll cite it here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-do-we-eat-popcorn-at-the-movies-475063/.

Let's talk about pennies

Recently, I took a PARCC test and I realized I actually learn from these random articles. So I decided I would write about pennies!!! They are copper and zinc, worth just a cent but there's actually a debate going on to decide their future. The problem with pennies are that they cost more to make than what they are actually worth. It wasn't always like that but after zinc became more expensive so did the pennies production cost. It just isn't a fair deal.

There are a few solutions to the problem.
1. Eliminate Them!
This means to quite literally stop production and stop its use in stores. But this brings a few problems. Will stores round up or round down? If we round down, how much money do you lose a year? What do you do with the excess pennies? This is just a summarization though, there's so much more to this,

2. Change what they are made of
This one seems more logical because that way we can still keep them. The only problem is what material? And even if we do implement a new material, how will vending machines process them with the change?

 What do you think? What would function best?