Memphis number 1

You know some people say your not a true fan unless you have being with the team during the winning streak and their loosing streak. Well to an extent yes but people change their minds all the time plus people don't like loosing so that's why they mite change the team that the like or move away from the team that they use to like because they are loosing now. For example the Memphis tigers they were nobodies a couple of years ago but now that they are really good all of their games are sold out. I'm a freshman and i really didn't know that much about the history of the team but i started to become more appreciative of them since they were really good and i get in to the games for free. When the season started i was there but it was not a sold out event. Now its hard to get in even if you are a student. I like them already before being number one but now even more because i can tell all my other friends back home and in other universities that i go to that school that has the number one team in the nation. Its great and i wish them the best of luck during their entire season and i hope that they go to the finals and win it all.

I got one

So last night i couldn't go to sleep for some reason. I finally went to sleep around two in the morning. The next day i woke up at six thirty in the morning i don't know how but i did, got dressed and went out to wilder tower. when i got there there was nobody there i taught maybe i was crazy or something . I didn't think the doors were open until i saw someone that went in. I went inside and there it was what i was expecting people sitting down waiting to get tickets for the Tennessee game. I didn't know how many were in front of me but i knew it definitely was not three hundred and twenty five which was the number of tickets they had to sell. I sat down and started to fall asleep... now to give you and idea i got there at six forty in the morning the cops where there just checking that nobody cuts in line or that people save places to friends. While i was there this guy came to talk to the people in front of me i was listening to the conversation they were having and he was actually number two in line he said that he got there at FOUR in the morning. That is ridiculous just to get one ticket, what is even more ridiculous is that people payed their Friends to stand in line with them to get to tickets. This guy in front of us payed his friend twenty five dollars to stand in line and buy him a ticket. After about three hours in line I finally got to the window to get a ticket before I even left the building this guy walked up to me and asked me if I bought a Tennessee ticket. When I said yes he told me that he would pay me one hundred dollars cash for it, but I had to say no because the ticket was for someone important. It was tough but i manage to survive the chaos.

It was a good day it is Friday and I got out of class early. I went to the tiger den with one of my friends after class we were just hanging out when as she gets a text message I get a phone call . Its my mom I didn't think much of it I just taught she was calling to say hello and see how things are going. But she changes the conversation topic really fast and says i have really bad news. My heart stooped i did not know what had happened when she tells me that one of our great long time friend has suddenly died. I could not believe what she said in fact I could not grasp it because that same night I had a dream about him. He was my grandparents best friend they always did things together he was a happy guy that enjoyed every day that he was with us. It came so sudden, i saw him in Puerto Rico before I came back in January and he looked really good he had no health problems or anything of that kind. He only slip one time and fell on his head really hard. Now this part is what makes me want to research about health care. He was taken to the hospital and there because there was no room available for him they put him in the hall way then after all his test where done they notice that he might not have fallen but that he had a stroke. Now lets be real if your patient cant recognize people not even his wife and he cant walk or talk very well why would you tell him that he can go home and if he doesn't get better then he can come back to do more test. That is absurd because of negligence I have lost a long time friend and he left behind grand kids and an entire family behind.

R.I.P. Alipio

Desiciones

You know when you really want something but you cant get it at the moment because you don have the money or the time. Then when you have the money and the time to get it you hesitate on buying it because of the price and then you start asking your self is this really what i want to do with my money. then you start coming up with all this excuses not to buy it..... oo but what if i can get it cheaper in Christmas when maybe the will have a special going on or maybe i can find something else that i want i mean need. This is what was going through my head at the video game store. I finally had the money to buy me an xbox 360 but i was been a little stingy because it was my money not my parents. So i left and started to look at prices it the Internet in all the stores that sold that product. But then my mom convince me of getting it in Christmas because maybe MAYBE they will have some specials. Well what really happened is that i got tired of waiting plus i got some information that there wasn't any special bundle coming out. So on black Friday i made my move i went to Costco and there it was the best deal i could find. After some more little debate i got it and went to the register i was really happy that i got it but wait where am i going to watch it ?? I don't have a TV in my dorm , well that's for another day.

Injuries are not a good thing for anybody but especially athletes. Today I started my shoulder rehab. It was not fun at all , at first I was very happy because I was going to get better and all that but i was wrong. To get better it has to hurt and burn a lot more before i start seeing some changes. The trainer told me to do two sets of twenty five repetitions and that was one of the hardest thing Ive ever had to do. I was using muscles that I did not know I had, it was burning everywhere in my shoulder. See that's not where it ends I thought it was at least i was hoping it was, it continues with many other exercises that move different muscle to help me heal.

I ask myself how is this helping me if it hurts so much? I do not understand. When i ask the trainer she said that in order for my shoulder to get better they had to make the muscles around it stronger. It helps buy taking stress away from the bone and sharing it with the muscles that surround it.

It was hard and long but i was able to manage it and its all ready starting to feel better during practice. They say i should be completely healed in two or three months. This is a minor injury that happened to me last year at the end of the season. I cant imaging what would of happened if it would of been a worse recovery than the one I'm already in.

There was a girl in the volleyball team that tor her meniscus during the season and did not know until the break. When she came back from the break she had to have surgery to cut out the bad parts. She is going to be out for a very long time, just like some of the other players that also have had knee injuries or ankle injuries.

being around injuries and sports all my life i wanted to study Sports medicine. then i found out that their is actually nothing that is called that but that you have to become a doctor. After you become a doctor you have to specialize in the sports medicine area. I was really exited to study all this until one of my friends started studying and told me all about it and it just did not sound for me.

Anyways now i have change my mind and i think that my final mayor is going to be centered around business. Hopefully this will be my last change so i can focus on my studies and get it over with.

Wow today was a very long day. It all started with an intense eight a clock English class in which I learned a little about the teacher and what to expect from her the rest of the year. Then it was closely followed by a very interesting Spanish class. In the Spanish class we talked about bars in Spain compared to bars in the United states. Then we learned about the types of food that you can eat at the bars called "tapas"which in English it would be an appetizer. Is was very interesting to find out what they eat compared to what I eat. Then after some time of comparing both the class was over. It was over before I knew it, it went by so fast but my day was just beginning. Then I was off to my first volleyball practice of the year from twelve to three it was exhausting but I survived. Then I went to my dorm and ate a quick meal to continue the day with some energy. Then I started to to all my homework after two hours of brain work I went to the gym to work out. I spent an hour there then came back to my dorm ate and finish all my homework. Then after all that I had to read ahead so I can be stay in schedule. Finally after all this I have some time to relax.



I took this time to enjoy some television watch the Australian Open Maria Sharapova against Justine Henin and it was a very good match really tense all the time. It was an even match up until it broke open in the second game in which Maria dominated. After that i played some sports video games with my roommate and friends. Then to be it is i take a shower prepare my things to go to school and just go to sleep. This is a normal day with not that much homework to do but it is still a very long day.

Being this the fist day of homework it took a tole on me. Even writing this blog post i was very tired I was so tired I was falling asleep and it wasn't even that late. But worse days await me, this is college life is always changing. You have to make many sacrifices for the long run. But I'm really tired so I'm going to go to bed. Cant wait for tomorow another eight a clock class!! :(

Manifesto

Manifesto what is the meaning of this? When I heard manifesto I really did not know what it meant but I research it and found out what it meant. It is a public declaration of opinions, objectives and motives. They use this term a lot in the government and also when I ask my parents they said one of the most famous manifesto was the Communist Manifesto. They also told me that the US was founded around a manifesto I didn’t know what they were talking about. I had to research it and found out that it was a piece of document called the Declaration of Independence.

This semester I plan to work hard and strive for the best. I have set some hard goals for myself including an eight a clock class every day of the week. I also have to practice with the Lady Tigers Volleyball team every day. Is going to be hard but like the saying says “no pain no game.” I expect a challenging class with much great discussion about different themes about conflicts about life in general. Although I hope we don’t have that much home work even though that is almost impossible but it’s just a thought. I also expect some debates in which we can compare our different points of views on the subjects we choose to debate on. I also hope that is going to be a fun class even tough is so early in the morning. The students say that you are a very good teacher and that you are fun so I hope that is true.

Language is one many communication methods but to me is the most important of all. The English language to me is if not the hardest one of the hardest languages to learn out there. There are many variations of sounds with words that are written the same it was very confusing at the beginning. English being my second language I know the importance of languages in general. I think that is very important to know your own language well and if you can learn another language. Languages are not only a method of communication but a method of expressing yourself. Whether you express it in a song, or on a poem, or a novel. They all are ways of expression just in different forms.

My objective in this class is to better myself in the reading area and also in the interpretation area. Both of which I had some problems in the first semester but I tried hard to change through the semester. I also expect to be more outspoken about my thoughts and views on any argument or debate that we have. One of my main concerns is the writing skill that I need to brush up on. Even though at the end of last semester I was getting better I still need to improved and try to make less grammar error and less repetition of the same words.

My personal views, well I guess you can call me a liberal but I hate politics anyways to me they are all the same they say they are going to do something and then you don’t see it done. Plus so many of them have been corrupt that you don’t know who to believe anymore is sad to say but it happens on a daily basis. But enough of that matter, I am a catholic raised in the small yet beautiful island of Puerto Rico where the majority of the people are catholic. The environment that I was raised in I think has a lot to say of the way I think about races and color. We are always raised color blind you don’t see the color separation that you see around here in some places. We are thought from the beginning that we are all the same to me that am true unity of race because where I was born your color did not matter, you where no matter what a Puerto Rican not even if your face has the characteristics of Asian you still are considered a Puerto Rican. That is just one example of the way I was thought to look at people when I was little. It actually to me comes naturally.