Social Media!

Social Media has expanded so much in the past years.  On a daily basis I use Facebook, Twitter, TV, and my phone.  I think teenagers use way too much social media. Kids are inside on the internet and tv than outside playing sports like they should be doing. I think TV is the biggest threat because so many bad role models are on TV encouraging youth to do bad things. I think you could block the person or delete your facebook. 

Youth Influence

I think the youth have influenced tv, music, and movies by setting new trends. Young people are always coming up with new ways to entertain themselves. We get bored with the same old same old. Then singers, movie writers, and actors know what the youth want so they give it to them because they know that will make them more money. That is the reason all of those things change over the years because we are always looking for something new to entertain us. I think it is a tie between music and tv that have influenced young adults. There are so many tv shows now that deal with young teens and their struggles such as: teen mom, made, true life, and 16 and pregnant. People are changing their way of life around those tv shows. People think its cool to get pregnant, disrespect adults, and get in trouble. If we didnt have these shows our teens might act a little better. Teens just don't care about punishment or consequences anymore. If I could change anything with the social media I would get rid of all the tv shows that contain smoking weed, drinking, getting pregnant, or anything that deals with that. Then I would change music to where all the words are clean and no foul language.

SPRING BREAK!!

My Spring Break started that Saturday. I left for Panama City Beach with Sierra, Sydney, and Shelby. We were down there till Wednesday. Right when we got down there we went straight to the beach and started to tan. The next day is when I got fried. We tanned all day and I was burnt to the color of a lobster. That night we went to Magaritaville with a bunch of our friends and then went back to the condo and hung out on the beach. The next day we met some guys and hung out with that night. The next day we stayed on the beach with our friends the entire day. It was depressing coming home but I was kind of ready to be back. I got to see my boyfriend when I got back and then we went to the lake that Saturday and I got burnt again. So all I have from Spring Break is burnt skin.

Tornadoes on January 23, 2012!

The tornadoes were headed straight for Gardendale and Mt. Olive but they swerved and went towards Trussville and Clay.  Our little town was very lucky to have the storms miss us.  The news said that the tornado is Clay was a F3.  The Monday after the storms I went with some of my friends to go help clean up in Clay.  The subdivision where we went to help was destroyed.  There were houses that were completely gone.  We helped clean up glass and trees from the area. The destruction just scares me for the storms to come on Thursday.

Soft Skills

Soft Skills is a sociological term relating to a person's EQ, the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationships with other people.
1. Communication skills - general skills to listen and articulate your ideas in writing and verbally to any audience. This would help me because I am very outgoing and can talk to anyone about anything.
2. Presentation skills – ability to maintain attention and achieve your desired outcome from presenting to an audience. This would not help me because I get nervous in front of big groups of people.
3. Leadership skills – ability to create and communicate vision and ideas that inspires others to follow with commitment and dedication. This would help me because I'm really good at leading people to achieve a goal.
4. Patience – ability to step back in an emergency to think clearly or the ability to pause and wait when you are in a rush or want to rush others. This would not help me because I am one of the most impatient people you will ever meet.
5. Organizing skills – ability to organize business gatherings to facilitate learning, networking, or business transactionsople. This would help me because i am a very organized person and I love leading people to accomplish our goals in the company.

Reasons to Get Fired

People get fired from their jobs all the time. Mainly people get fired because of rudeness to customers, profanity, not wearing appropriate clothing, not getting your work done, not being on time, not coming to work, being rude to other employees, dishonesty, lying on your resume, and showing to work drunk. My problem would be profanity. I don't cuss much but when I'm mad words just slip out! I really need to work on that!

Christmas Break!

This Christmas I knew everything I was getting so nothing was a surprise! I got a Coach purse and perfume, MissMe Jeans, and a lot of clothes. After Christmas we went down to visit some friends from Thomaston, Alabama. When we came back it was New Years and I spent that whole day and night with my friends. I will never forget that night as long as I live!  Then New Years Day we went to my grandparents house and ate roast, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and corn bread. I couldn't have picked a better way to spend my break!