Gracias!

My 2008 Thanksgiving was just like my other 15 so far. My Grandnona (grandma) and aunt Missy cooked a huge turkey and two of everything else, one with onion and one without. Everyone else brought the one side dish they were assigned.
We ate at Grandnonas in Elkhorn. The adults at the dinning room table and me and y six cousins in the living room at card tables. My brother and sister have both been promoted to the grown up table, but I am not interested in leaving my folding chair. I love my family exactly how it is. We would do anything for each other. We have our problems and we don't always get along, but we always get over it in time for our family meals like Thanksgiving.
My family is everything to me. I'm not one of those kids that don't have any friends and hang out with their parents on the weekend because they have no other choice.
I am so, so unbelievably, indescribably grateful for my family.

My future

I have been in love with the Eiffel Tower since the second grade when my mom and favorite aunt were planning their trip to Europe. I saw the enormous, one-of-a-kind structure in one of the Paris coffee table books they bought. The iconic image of the tower at night, completely lit with sparkling silver lights, has been my goal ever since. I want to travel and see the world, getting to Paris being my number one priority.
Joining the Fremont High Rustler staff with Mrs. Fey my sophomore year of high school has changed my entire vision for life. I discovered I can do my two favorite things (traveling and writing) and get paid for it. I decided to be a journalist.
I am going to pay for college myself with scholarships and student loans. After attending UNL for four years and being a member of their amazing journalism program I hope to start gaining experience immediately. I know that no publication is going to pay for me to report on world events until I have gotten waist deep in the journalistic world.
I will work hard through college, writing and gaining all the experience and knowledge I can grab. I will always maintain a job and support myself.
Five years after graduating Fremont High, I will be on the road to debt freedom with only my college loans weighing me down. A husband or even a serious relationship will never be my priority. I will hopefully work for a really great publication, which I obviously can’t do in Nebraska. I will still be low on the food chain, but hopefully, I will be working my way up with my fantastic writing.
My family has always made me feel like I can do anything and have done everything they can to help me reach my goals. I will work hard and it will take a while,
but I will establish the world as my playground. I will write about everything from the parades for Chinese New Year in Beijing to luaus in Hawaii.

H-O-P-E

HOPE- the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best

HOPE- Faith

HOPE- Belief

HOPE- Trust

HOPE- Wish

HOPE- Expectation

HOPE- Anticipation

HOPE- Optimist

i hope

I am a believer

I truly and deeply believe that a person has to choose to be happy. There are people that have lived though the worst conditions imaginable like wars of disease and they still have a smile on their faces. Then there are the ridiculous people who feel like the victims of the world because their parents broke up or the kid in chem class doesn't like them.
Anyone can be happy if they want to be happy. I understand clinical depression and other similar instances can not be helped alone but, with treatment and the desire to get better those people can almost always get better.
I believe happiness is contagious if you want to catch it. If you are feeling blue follow the laughter and let some happy rub off on you.
Walking around like with a frown and dead eyes constantly thinking about how much your life sucks is not going to help anything. instead of thinking to yourself "wow I am really unhappy and sad and my life sucks and no one understands me" think, "Thank god I am not an orphan in Africa with aids living in a rag tent hiding from mosquito's" (unless you are then, god bless).
Choose to be happy. Want to be happy. Do things to make yourself happy. avoid things that make you unhappy. Be around happy. Live happy.
I that everyone can be happy.