Round 3 blog #2: worth the reading

My Childhood and Home
Well I was born on a Husker Football game day and that’s a great reason for growing up and becoming a true NEBRASKA HUSKER FAN. When I was first born we lived in Clatonia, where my dad has grew up and my mom grew up in another small town called Wilber which was only 7 minutes away. I have a lot of my mom’s family living there now. I grew up most of my elementary years for about 8 years total in South Sioux City, Nebraska. I really enjoyed living there. I had a neighbor across the street that I will never forget, Blake. Two of my best friends grew up right down the street, Whitney and Katie, ahh the memories with them. I think we liked it when we got to go swimming in Whitney’s pool. I still keep in touch with all these people. When kids are young they will do anything out of the ordinary. With one of my neighbor’s we used to eat apples with mayonase, I know gross. I always grew up going to Family Reunions every 3 or 2 years and I think that’s what has made me love my family so much. When I was in Kindergarten, the last day of school we were at a park and I fell off the monkey bars and broke my arm. That’s why I still have a fear to climb across them again. I also learned a very good lesson when I was 4 years old, NEVER RUN IN A SWIMMING POOL, you can guess I fell and I had to get stitches in my chin. I moved to Lincoln when I was in 5th grade, so I had to make new friends all over again. It was kind of hard because normally by middle school age or so you have all your friend’s picked out. I think I got around pretty good. So yes even now, I have lived in Nebraska my WHOLE life, I’m very proud of where I come from.
Facts on Nebraska:
1. The 2nd richest guy in America lives in Omaha where also Malcolm X was born
2. Kool-Aid was invented in Hastings.
3. The largest porch swing is in North Platte.
4. Crazy Horse and Buffalo Bill Cody come from here.
5. Johnny Carson and the three people who started Hallmark cards grew up in Norfolk.
6. The exact middle of the United States is right south of McCook
7. The Czech Capital of America is Wilber, NE
8. The I-80 runs right through the state.
9. We have Carhenge
10. Fort Kearney and Chimney Rock!

Major Issue or Event:
We live in tornado alley. Around here we seem to get a lot of tornadoes. Well in 2004, a tornado went through three counties in Nebraska. My sister and I were staying with my grandparents in Wilber. The tornado took it’s path less then a mile south of their farm. One of the worst thing you could possibly hear is the sound of a tornado. I was very thankful that the tornado didn’t actually go through the farm. However it hit houses of people I knew. The tornado was very strong I think they came out to say it was an F4. It destructed a whole town called Hallam. Where I would guess about 250 people lived. My family knew many people from that town. People they have grown up with. When you come from small towns in Nebraska everyone is like family. People lost almost everything they have worked for, however everyone got up the next day and said let’s get to work we have a town to re-build. That wasn’t all that the tornado destructed, my cousin Lisa and my step-dad Phil are teachers at Norris School District. The only guy that was in the school building the time the tornado hit the school was my step-dad, he survived. However we didn’t know him at the time my mom was introduced to him about 6 months later, but that fact that he had to go through what he did made me very inspired by him. He has brought things into my life that I would probably thought would not be in my life.

Describe yourself as a Competitor
I would say I am a very strong competitor. When I was involved with cheerleading or any sport, I have always looked to better myself. If you know Nebraska, we are big on football. Win or Lose but indeed the glory. There are a lot of times where I just want to give up, but I know if you give up then you let the other person see how easy it is to beat you. Go, Fight, and Give it your all. It doesn’t matter if you win in score, a real winner is one that doesn’t quit even when the tough get going. If I’m losing in score I will keep going to show my strength. Don’t let others get you down. I always keep my head high to show them that in the end losing doesn’t have to make you upset. Learn from what you did wrong and practice on it to make yourself better the next time. It’s the amount of effort that I put into something that makes me feel better, I always feel very good when others say you did really great out there, even if my team lost. We know we gave it our all.

Why Do you want to be on the Real World and Why would my friends vote for me?
Well there is no easy answer, probably just the same as everyone else’s I love the show. I think it would give me a good outlook on what it’s really like when I’m out in the REAL world after college. Working with new people all the time in a REAL job, whether you like the person or not you have to learn to work together so you don’t get fired. I think this would teach me a lot on how to get a lot with people even if they do piss you off. There is no way out of anything. Keep your enemies closer, they might come in handy some time. A lot of friends have been saying that I’m good at telling it like it is. I stick to what I have to say and say it to people. Put me down or whatever, I will tell you that you are mean, that of person. I like to put people in their place, they may not listen to me at the exact moment but my advice will probably come in handy one day. My friend’s also think I would be the best person for confessionals, I’m good at talking about people even if I don’t want to say it to their face, and I get to the point or give detail.

Do I drink??? If yes how do I behave?
To be honest with you, I will drink but I don’t do it a lot. I have only drank like 5 times in my life and I have never got drunk. I have my reasons for not getting drunk or drinking a lot. I think I do enough things that make people think that I am drunk. Ask most of my friends, how many times I have tripped over myself while walking, tripped going up and down stairs, or drove when the light was red and stopped when it was green. Not going to lie, I’m book smart but sometimes dumb when it comes to street smart. During my first year of school, when ever I had to get down off my bed in the middle of the night I would always fall off the latter or I always lean back in my chair and fall over. I wish I had a dollar every time that happened. So even if I don’t drink, most of the time you will think that I’m drunk or when it’s late at night I get really sleepy and I start talking about weird stuff, and my friends are like What? Or sometimes I will just get really impatient and get mad.

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