Coming of age

            What goes through your mind when you imagine yourself as a freshman going to high school? Scared, nervous, shaky, overwhelmed. Well I was mostly all of those things as a freshmen going through high school, it was very tough and agonizing. But before the year I made goals for myself; find new friends, join a sport, and get decent grades. This is my life started to turn around and change myself to becoming a better person.

            As I go searching for my identity in high school I stumble upon this sport called wrestling. At first I thought is it WWE kind of wrestling but its not. After my friend explained what it was I wanted to try it out and see how it will be. When I first met the coach for wrestling Eddy Gudoy I thought he looked like a chill and easygoing coach at first. I got to know him a bit before practice before we started.

            But I was wrong Coach Eddy was tough and really strict when it came to practice time. I’ve never been so pushed hard in my life before. But this was a change point in my life where things got hard more challenging. Lifting weights is another part of becoming a good wrestler. Even though I never lifted weights before I am willing to try something new.  

With this new sport it comes with new responsibilities like time management and keeping up with schoolwork and grades. So what I did to make myself more accustomed to my lifestyle now is to be more productive and efficient when I work. Also having to be more studious now because of grade checks. With this new sport that I’m involved in my parents expect more from me because of all the activities I’m doing.

            From then on my life and my wrestling sport has been a great success and I am happy the way I am now. Because right now I am a stronger and healthier person now then I was before because of the changes I made when I was a freshman. Its gotten me the way I am now more independent, hard worker, and responsible for my own self.  

Changes

What i did to my new blog is chose a new template in the background because before it was messy and hard to see. So now it should look more clean and understandable. What I also did was make a new picture from scratch using photoshop and aperture.

Who to blame?

Tourist have came to hawaii for many years and many more to come. But some tourist do not know the safety and the dangerous things hawaii has to offer. The case with David Potts a 44 year old tourist was foolishly dancing around a blowhole at Nakalele point. and without noticing anything a wave came up right behind David and knocked hime into the blowhole killing him. In my opinion the one to blame is the tourist because its not the state fault. This is because signs were issued by the blowhole to be cautious to be aware around your surroundings and to watch out where you are going.

Even after one day after Pott's accident another person was knocked off a cliff 100 yards off shore this would not happen if the state would put more signs warning anyone to be aware or to stay off from the cliff side. I think it was the states fault on this one because of the lack of signage they issued to keep people safe.

Parent Presentation

Student and Parent Portfolio Conference

Sunday May 20, 2012
Parents you are invited to my portfolio presentation that I have worked on all year.

http://www.wix.com/brandenpascualmohs/gloportfolio

Parent Agenda

Parent Agenda:
1) An introduction why im holding a parent conference. Explain why there here and what there going to expect.
2) Read my introduction page to my parents
3) Explain the four traits to parents and show examples of my work.
4) Go to my blog on http://surebranden.blogspot.com/ and let them browse through my essays and tell them about it.
5) Read Conclusion page and explain to them that I will try better next year and the years to come.
6) Ask question-
1.What trait do you think is my strong point? and why? What trait do you think is my weak point? And what do you think I can do to improve it?
2. What do you think I can do to improve my work for next year?
3. What were some challenges you thought I had to work out and accomplish?

KC3 Draft-Oil Spills

            How would it be if someone dumped oil all over your house? You wouldn't like it right? So why are ships coming into Hawaii spilling oil on our home. This isn't right, Hawaii is suppose to be a place of paradise not a oil dump!! Hawaii deserves more than this. The people of Hawaii should tell the companies that are spilling oil, to clean it up and make stronger modifications to their ships, to keep the ocean oil free.

             Food, materials, products, all the necessities that we need to survive on this island. But what is the point of bringing these materials here if they ships are destroying our islands. Cargo ships are the cause of oil spills. In recent years an 800ft oil ship spilled about 33,600 gallons of oil by Oahu. A 25 year old tanker lost 117,000 gallons of oil from inside and dumped on the Southwest of Oahu. One ship lost 2,200 gallons because of the ships themselves were not capable of holding that much oil.

             Marine animals are being affected by this oil spill as well. Mainly the monk seals that are coming to our island to rest. They are being harmed from the ships spilling oil in the ocean. There was an incident when a monk seal was attracted by the frozen food spilled from the sinking ship, and the monk seals accidentally swam into fishing gear and got tangled in. 5,000 gallons of oil was spilled off of Barber's Point, and an abundant of monk seals were affected by it. NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) have 6 highly trained people to prevent wildlife being exposed to man made disasters like oil spills and hazardous materials. 

            Oahu has one of the most beautiful beaches on the world. And these beaches are being harmed by oil spills. Beaches is what makes Hawaii going so don't destroy it. 30 miles beaches on Oahu have been polluted due to ship oils spills. And not the ocean current on the beaches is spreading, covering up the whole north side of Oahu. Over 6 six beaches have warned people of the dangerous pollution in the ocean. And its not satisfying people. We have to do something about this.

             Finally the Ocean oil spills must stop!! and come to an end. The ships that come into Hawaii has to stop and not continue to spill oil in on our island. The companies that bring in our stuff has to do something about their oil spills there losing money and were losing our island, a lose lose situation. Don't just stand there do something about it. 

Querencia Draft

5:00am, I get out of my bed yawning and drowsy. I'm looking out of window to see if anyone is awake around me, but I see no sign of anyone. My heart was pumping in shock of thinking no one is awake. As I'm turning around to see what today is, it says "Vacation to Utah". It was totally confusing for me how I forgot about my trip. I couldn't remember anything what I did last night. All I remember was waking up this morning on the floor in my room. This was to weird, for me not remembering what happened last night. As I stumbled across my bags of suitcases, I recalled packing up my things and my mom saying "Don't forget to sleep early". My memories was slowly coming back to me. When I walked more around my room I saw on my dresser, Nyquil. I read the label on the back and it says "Symptoms: drowsy". So that explains my drowsiness. 5:30am, I hear the my car starting "Vrooom Vrooom". I rushed outside to see whats all the commotion about. And I see my uncle loading his bags into the car. So I quickly ran inside the house get my things ready and start loading my things. 6:00am we arrive to the airport. We get through TSA quickly and smoothly with no hold ups.7:00am the plane arrives and we get on the plane. "Woooh" finally were on the plane, now I can rest. 2:00pm Hawaii time, 5:00pm Utah time. 3 hour difference. I finally wake up right next to my mom saying "Are we there yet??", she replied "yes we are". I jumped out of my seat and took a good glimpse outside and I saw the most magnificent piece of land I've ever saw. The mountains was as beautiful as the sun is rising over the horizon. The snow on the mountain is like heaven, across the whole landscape. My vision was astounded, I was nearly speechless. Touchdown!!! I'm finally here in Utah, the first thing I did was take a deep breath, getting the feeling of the cool rush of air through me. At last I can feel and see Utah with my own eyes. We drive to the cabin up all the way into the mountains, I can see deer, different color rocks, and snow falling from the mountains. I knew this was going to be a good vacation. We get to the cabin and we see people playing in the snow, and I asked my mom "can I play with them please??" she said "sure you can but don't get hurt". I ran over to them quickly and introduced my self. "Hello my name is Branden I'm new here and I was wondering if I could play with you guys. They said "yes" and introduced themselves "my name is "Ethan,  this is my little brother Micah and Joshua, and my little sister Haley." They had a nice perky face on there look and well properly dressed for the snow. Ethan and I were the oldest and we got along really fast. Ring Ring Ring, the next day I woke up determined and ready for anything. I walk up the stairs to the kitchen and see eggs, bacon, portuguese sausage, hash browns, pancakes, and waffles. My stomach was craving for food. I couldn' wait until my mom said "time to eat" so I took a sneak peek and took a bite of the waffles and pancakes. They were so yummy, I hear my mom and my uncle walking up the stairs and I quickly stopped eating. They were looking at me suspiciously but I tried to cover it up with some words "What are we doing today?" she replied "were going snowboarding. I said "really?!?!" I was full of excitement and joy. As I looked outside I couldn't imagine my eyes. The mountain was like 100,000ft!!!! my heart was thumping rapidly, I thought I was going to pass out. But I said to myself "come on you can do this!!" and with the encouragement of my mom and my uncle, I can conquer this mountain.