Island Bowl

Its about that tme again. Its the day of the alameda and encinal island bowl. Every year for the past 56 years alameda and encinal have met once a year in the most epic football game ever to be played. This is going to be my third and final island bowl and im looking to take back that win. For the last 4 years encinal has won at the varsity level but this year is different. We have a new team, a new coaching staff, and a new image. We got out original colors back with these dope ass uniforms and we are rocking flat black helmets. We are stepping on to that field a new team, with more conifdence, talent and swagggg. Ive never been so excited to get this game started, im ready to go toe to toe and blow to blow with this cross town rival. This game is like none other. Their is so much behind this game, so much history, so much blood and so many tears. This game is bigger than all of us. Like really how many peoplr get to participate in an event thats been going on for so many years and the whole town comes out to watch. The amount of people that come to this game is rediculous, its likr a stadium with people screaming and yelling at every big play or bad call.
Im ready right now to put every ounce of myself into this game and go out there with my team and shock the fucking world. Its go time!!! Hornet pridde

Re. Kevin Jang

This excerpt is from Kevin Jang's post "Time Flies":

It seems like last month we were all freshman and now we have one more year left. When I was younger, I would always view high school kids to be so grown and intimidating. Now I am a Senior in high school, I still can't believe it.

I agree with Kevin 100%, it seems that everything has gone by so fast.Things are changing and they are changing fast. We are coming up on the end of our child hood and soon we will be dumped off into the world of working, bills, and possibly marriage. The days of having our parents take care of everything are gone and we are going to have to start living on our own. I still remember those days where all i had to worry about was what my friends and I were going to do that day, but now i got to worry about college, school, and football. I have to think about what it is im going to do or what im going to aim for with my life. Also as Kevin said we may never see these people we have shared classes with for years ever again and that is sad. There are some people that i know ive known for a long time that i might never get the chance to talk to again after graduation simply because our lives may take us in different directions. I just hope that i stay close to my close friends.
All though things may change alot, we now get to start our lives. There is no more being told what to do, where to go or how to live. We will now begin to make our own deceissions, up untill now we had to go to school and had to listen to our parents but after highschool we can do as we please. Life is surely changing, some will be very sad but we all have to go through it and now it is our turn and i know im ready to take life head on.

US lifts ban on gay soldiers

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/201192023913325189.htmlUp until now, it was not allowed to be gay in the military but now that has all changed. Since 1993 gays could serve in the military as long as they kept their sexual orientation to them selves. This was known as the "Don’t ask, Don’t tell" policy which was put into effect by President Clinton but then repealed last December by President Obama. So now gays can serve in the military and be open with their sexual orientation. The fact that the government would not allow hardworking men and women serve for them because they are homosexual is disturbing. These men and women are willing to risk their lives for the betterment of the country and help maintain peace world wide. Why does it matter what their sexual orientation is? How is that going to affect the way they work or the way they perform in the field of battle? People base their facts off stereotypes and do not allow people to show them what they can really do. They just assume and look the other way.
Maybe now that the Government and the military have lifted this ban, the country can open their eyes as well. Every person on this earth has different personalities and everyone lives life in their own way and people should not be immediately judged our told they aren’t normal. No one is normal, everyone is different and if you turn your back on someone just because they are gay or if they are different you may miss the chance to meet a really great person that can help better things.

RE. Zac alfers

from Zac Alfers by Unknown http://zacalfers.blogspot.com/2011/09/show-time.html

I dont know if you know but today is the first home football game of the season for the Alameda High Hornets.

Zac couldnt have said it better it is SHOW TIME!! I have played football with zac going on 5 years and it is rediculous how amazing of an athlete he has become. When some one describes a play maker, or a guy that literally gives his body up on every play, they might as well give zac as an example. He does it all and now we have come to our last season together. I know we both hope to contiue on playing at the colliegite level but for us as teammates this is our last go around. Playing side by side with someone, sharing lockers together and being close friends for multiple years is what truly creates a bond and truly shows what this sport and this team means to us.
Im proud to say that this team is the closest team ive ever played on, all of us are brothers and would with out a doubt back each other up no matter what the circumstance. We as a team are going to and already have put oir hearts into every down we play. Its been a bumpy start but I know we have a sound football team with legit coaches and agree 100% with zac when he said we are gonna win out the season and the island bowl. We have worked to hard not too and we have too much heart. I hope all can come out to support us this season and we will show everyone what Hornet football really is. Hornet pride!!!

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When will it end? Another event of a car bombing in iraq has recently occured leaving many injured and dead. They say its just another terrorist attack plain and simple. They were targeting a group of iraqi soldiers. There also was a bus bombing outside an iraqi army base. The reason for these bombings is to cause a seperation among the people and to cause an uproar. To me it seems as if there is no reason for this all it is doing is taking away innocent lives.
With in upcoming months many of US soldiers are suppose to be coming home and leave most of the work and protection up to the soldiers of irag, but that is not looking like a great idea. See now the iraqi soldiers are being seen less as a threat to terrorist but more as a target. The Two bombings talked about in this video were all attacks against the iraqi soldiers and the government to let them know that the terrorists do not fear them. There still are united states soldiers over there but they arent what the terrorist seem to be targeting at this point in time. They want to get the Us military out so they can then take there chance to take over.
As much as i want the troops to come home and as much as i feel that they should, there is a part of me that sees why they are still there because the job of stopping this war on terror is not over and there still is alot to do.

Studyhall

So I am sitting here in the varsity football team study hall, on my phone, trying to figure out what the hell should blog about. And while doing this I am looking around and observing my teams ability to do homework together and I have come to the conclusion. THIS IS NOT PRODUCTIVE. I know that study hall is used to make sure that we as a football team stay on top of our work and no one slips up and get bad grades, but there has to be a better way. There are people on my left side to me shooting the shit and make fun of eachother while on my right there are people taking pictures of everybody trying to get there work done. I have realized that this is probably the hardest place to concentrate (even though im able to type a blog post). I feel that this is terriable for gettin work done but the one thing it is good for is getting this team to bond. In here we are outside of the football field, we are away from the plays, the pads and thr coaches, it is just us enjoying the time together as a tight group and a close family. Yes there are jokes be passed and people are roasting one another but thats what brothers do. It makes me feel as if we r closer than ever in here besides when we are on the field. Well time for practice. Ryan cooper says wsup

College Essay

At a young age, trips with my father to tide pools across the California coast sparked an interest. Playing with crabs, fish and different plants while waves were splashing into us. Seeing all different types of fish and plants amazed my young mind, still not realizing that there is so much more than what is in these small pools. My dad would explain to me how there is so much out in the oceans, rivers and lakes for me to discover. This only made my fascination with this different world grow. From then on I knew what I wanted to do; I wanted to become a marine biologist.

It is very strange for a kid so young to find a career he knows that he already wants to pursue and him to stick with for over 12 years, but with so many unanswered questions I knew I couldn’t turn my back on it. I would have questions of how things worked or why did some fish live in some areas; the list goes on and on. The only way I could get answers to some of my questions was by looking it up. Then I had an idea, ill get a fish tank. So then throughout the rest of my childhood I had fish tanks where I would just watch and observe the fish on a day to day basis. It wasn’t like I took observational notes but I would recognize different swimming and eating patterns. I learned a lot on my own but I knew one day that I would need to learn more I knew that in  college I was going to major in Marine biology. 

People have told me "keep your options open" but when you’re so passionate about something why pursue something different. I have grown to love something, it’s not something someone told me to like or told me to learn about, it is something that I on my own found an interest in. Also after being in AP environmental science last year I learned a lot about the current marine life and how over fishing and pollution is causing many fish and coral to die so i thought "who will fix this?" After thinking I realized "why not me?" I can do something that can help change the world. I can get involved in saving animals that seem to be doomed. I can be the one to make a difference. If can change one thing on this earth with my time here while doing something that I truly enjoy then why not? Why pursue anything else?

As you can see I am a person with many questions and I sometimes can get answers to them but not always. I’ve come to learn a lot but there is still a lot more to learn. I was born with a desire to succeed in all that comes my way and most of all I was born with a desire to learn. There is a whole other world out there that I hope to learn as much about as possible and I hope to get the opportunity to do so.