Gratitude

I am grateful for my family who have given me hope throughout the hard ships. They have inspired me to complete challenges that I once thought were impossible. They showed me the ways of life and how it works. My aunt and brother showed me what potential I have and what I can do to reach it. My parents and grandparents who have given me courage and faith. They have all cared me for me and I've seen what impact I made in their lives. I am lucky to have a family like mine since they're one of a kind.

My brother, Jesus has shown me what potential I have inside of me. Through tough times and conflicts between one another, he has shown me that we're still family. Like he says, we're the opposite of one another. We have our strengths and weaknesses opposite. How we act/behave in public and how we think.

My aunt, Erica has also shown me what potential I have in store. Without her, I would've been different since she taught me how to behave correctly and think differently. She shown me how one event has potential to affect other events (The Butterfly Effect). The way of how to think properly and use it in my advantage. She shown me how to read and talk complex words when I was still little.

I have commented on Joey A's blog.

Article of the Week Impressions

Today, while walking around through our gallery walk, I've learned many new things. One of them is learning about the Ebola virus. The Ebola virus has mutated to the point where it's more effective at contracting itself on primates (humans). Scientists/researchers believe that this sudden mutation might've been a genetic that caused this. I've also learned more about planet 9. Researchers believe that Planet 9 is far beyond Pluto and could be affecting orbits of our planets in the solar system. 

While walking and reading the work of other students in the gallery. I've noticed news that I've never heard happened. One of them is about New Zealand's earthquake that killed many people. On Monday, November 14, 2016, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 triggered/erupted and caused a lot of damages in homes, businesses, as well as killing people. Most of the people that were injured, wound, or killed were hurt by the aftershocks. 

Election Reflection

I was quite surprised that Donald Trump won the election instead of Hillary Clinton. Clinton won the popular vote with the American people however Trump won with the electoral vote. But then again, both nominees have a lot of hate towards them with their opinions like Trump's opinion on what to do with the immigration problem and Clinton's email scandals that were "deleted".  In my own opinion, I felt that we needed a different nominee for both parties (Democratic and Republican) since this year's nominees for president weren't really good.

Currently, I'm becoming more interested in the subject of politics since I would want to know how the system works to use it later on in a different election.  Honestly, I still remember as if 2012 was just a month ago easily and now 2016 is coming to end. In my opinion,  learning politics would be good to do since you would understand the political system better and learn how our government works.

Voting in an election is also something that's been in my mind for awhile. The idea of voting for someone to lead/govern us is fascinating already enough, making the idea wander in my mind. Since I won't be voting for a new president in 2020 (I'd be 17 by 2020), I'd probably prepare myself after the election of 2020. What I don't understand is that muilple parties are now involved in the presidential election. It'd be better to decide on voting between two parties instead of muilple since a lot of American citizens don't even know about them.