downheartedpink's blog

it all started when my friend started getting harassed by a man in the military. We lived on a military base, so it wasnt uncommon to see men in uniform walking around, but this man was different. He went after her and he went after me too, but i said no. She didnt have enough courage to say no.

My boyfriend leaves to go to Iraq in one week. I am scared that he is going, yet i am jealous at the same time. He gets to do something that i will never get to do. Fight for my country. I have so many different thoughts going through my head right now and I will write them down now to sort them out. for all of you who have had a loved one leave to go to Iraq, you know how i feel now.

I was listening to the radio, and they were talking about these bullet proof backpacks that this guy is making and selling for 175 dollars. He sayd that he got the idea from the Colombine shootings, and people actually pay for them. There were alot of things that struck my mind when i heard this.

I have heard about babysitters hurting children, but it was always on the news and it was never close to home. That was, until my cousin was thrown my his babysitter. He is my cousins baby, so we arent really cousins, but he is the cutest thing you will ever see. This is his story.

Probably, everybody will feel the need to write something about that fateful day in 2001. The reason I am writing, however, is not to tell my story. It is to tell the story of my Japanese 3 teacher, which he shared with the class today.

For a long time, if you were caught talking on a cell phone, you would be fined. Teens today have found a way to get past this rule. Texting. While this is a lass obvious way to communicate, it can be just as/more than dangerous. When you text, you may have to look at the phone, but when you read texts, you do.

This is the basis to our legal system, yet American citizens seem to be the worst at upholding this principle. We have the luck of having freedoms that allow us an opinion, but we have gotten too opinionated when it comes to our opinions of a person on trial.