*CE* one of the best places for young people

A national nonprofit that advocates for children and young people has named Alameda as one of the best places in the country for young people to live.

It marks the second time that the city has been selected as one of America's Promise Alliance's "100 Best Communities for Young People."
The selection, which was announced Wednesday, is based on local programs and initiatives that aim to reduce high school dropout rates and offer help for students and young people.
"As one of the co-chairs of the Youth Collaborative, I am extremely proud that we have once again been named one of the nation's '100 Best Communities for Young People' by America's Promise Alliance" Mayor Marie Gilmore said in a statement. "This award recognizes the hard work of many community members who have dedicated their time to making a difference in the lives of our young people."

Seriously? Alameda has been selected as one of the best place in the country for young people to live? It’s funny how Oakland is rated top 6^th dangerous city in united state, top 2^nd in California. Alameda is just right next to Oakland. This doesn’t make sense at all. I mean I have nothing against alameda, it is a really alright place, but it’s funny how alameda can be selected as the top 100 for young people when Oakland the top 6 “dangerous” city is right next to it.

*RE* School.

You have got school from 8am to 1.15pm and after this, there aren't any sports in school like here. So, you just have to do your homework (I need mostly one hour to finish them and to learn for tests). But in the afternoon you can practice your sport in private clubs, meet friends or whatever you want to do. Maybe this will change the next year, when I will become a junior in Germany. In 11th and 12th grade there are a lot of big tests and at the end of school there's an exam, which is called 'Abitur'. If you pass, you can study at universities, if not your either repeat it or you just do an apprenticeship.
Back to Josephine's post, I sometimes want to sleep in my first period, too. It's so boring and I'm so tired. But after this class, my schedule is quite good.

This quote is from Leonie. Wow schools in Germany are so awesome. The hours are so short too. I wish we have that here in America. We sometime couldn’t even finish all the homework in one night, can’t believe you guys only need an hour to do homework and study for test. You guys must have a lot of free times to do some fun stuff other than school works. I wish I could sleep in first period. I hate having English first period because to me I think English is more important than other classes and it is the only class I actually learn and enjoy it.

*FREE* My Week.

                I hate writing free post because I don’t know what to write. So bleh I’m just going to write about my week. This week had been so far the “alright” week. On Monday, 1st through 4^th period was okay, it went pretty fast. I had lunch with Linda every Monday. We ate sushi and milk tea. What I hate about Monday was it was raining. We had to walk back to school in the rain. During 5^th period we were at the media center starting on our sophomore research paper. After school, it kinda stops raining a bit, so I took the bus home.             

                On Tuesday, Linda and I were planning on having lunch on Tuesday too but then she had to retake a test, so I had lunch alone… during lunch my friend from old school called me. They told me they wanted to walk around Alameda high campus after school and told me to wait for them. I waited for an hour when they told me they will be here in 20 min. I called her and she said they’re still in Oakland, so I was pretty pissed and left. I called my cousin and he came to pick me up. When I got home I shower and went straight to bed. Woke up at 11pm and finish all my homework.

                On Wednesday, time went by pretty fast.  We had to run the mile during PE. I hate PE because it seems like an impossible subject to pass.  I hate how PE teachers expect to run fast and shit. I freaking try, I can’t run for shit. If he’s going to fail me, because I can’t run, then fuck it. I think I will need to transfer school again, because this school got no swimming class. During lunch I went to the BuildOn meeting with Khulan.  After that me and Linda we to get some drink and we went to class. After school my mom called me and asks me to go to my grandma’s house to help my dad get the mail. I was like, Okay if you tell cousin to come pick me up. After I went to my grandma’s house and got the mail, my mom called and told me my cousins didn’t have his cell phone with him. So I have to take the bus home.

                Well my week didn’t seem “alright” at all. Before writing this, it was alright not now I think my weeks been pretty bad.

*BC* Advices

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

—Steve Jobs, in a 2005 speech

I agree with Steve Jobs advice to life when making choices. If we start to live our life to the fullest, this world would be a much better place. We wouldn’t have regrets and do our best on everything knowing today might be our last day alive. We would do things we always wanted to do but never find the time to do it. We would say the stuff we wanted to say to that special person. We would start living for our self not to meet someone’s expectation.

I remember reading this quote from somewhere a long time ago. Well no exactly the same words but it’s almost the same meaning. It’s telling me to live my life as if today is my last day alive. I never really follow the quote, but when I make big choices I would think about it. The quote affects me in a good and bad ways. The good ways are I won’t do stuff I will regret in the future. I wouldn’t do something permanent because of something temporary. I will think of the outcome before any action or before I said something.  The bad thing about this quote that had affected me was I can never really let go of something. When I wanted to give up something, I will always think that today’s my last day. It’s been so hard on me that I know it’s better for me to let go, but I just can’t. I would probably learn that I’m the type of person who can’t completely let go of something that I know might kill me one day.

My advice to others is “appreciate what you have before time makes you appreciate what you had”. Time never stops for anyone, so it will never stop for you. Appreciate what you have now before time takes it away from you. Never take anyone for granted, that person won’t wait forever, he/she will leave one day. A lot of kids take their parent for granted, our parent will not stay with us forever, so show them your love before it’s too late. Another advice is “Take the risk, if it’s what you wanted it’s worth it all.”  Life is all about taking risks and learns about who you truly are. Don’t hesitate to do something you want because if that’s what you wanted, it’s worth it. Don’t regret something, because at one point that exactly what you wanted.

*CE* iSad

Steve Jobs, who sparked a revolution in the technology industry and then presided over it as Silicon Valley's radiant Sun King, died Wednesday. The incandescent center of a tech universe around which all the other planets revolved, Jobs had a genius for stylish design and a boyish sense of what was "cool." He was 56 when he died, ahead of his time to the very end.

"A hundred years from now, when people talk about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Gates is going to be remembered for his philanthropy, not technology," said tech forecaster Paul Saffo, "the same way people remember Andrew Carnegie for the money he gave to education, not the fortune he made in steel. But what they're going to say about Steve Jobs is that he led a revolution."

 I didn’t even know who Steve Jobs was until I saw news about his death on Facebook and Tumblr. It was pretty sad knowing the person who invented all those iPhone, iPad, iTouch etc passed away. After hearing about it, I started researching about him and I found a lot of stuff people did after his death. They put flowers and apples in front of the apple stores and post it notes. It got me all teary…

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”-Steve Jobs

*FREE* feelings.

Sometime I felt like I really failed in life. I felt like I’m a loser. There always things on my mind I wanted to say, but world never came out. It’s so hard to tell someone how you really feel. It’s so hard for me to show someone how I really felt. Sometime I just don’t want to argue anymore so I stay silent. I always have things I wanted to tell you, but it’s never the right time. I hate myself for being so weak and making simple things so complicated. This is probably the only place I can tell you how I felt, but you will never know it.  

I’m sorry for not sharing all the time. I’m sorry for not knowing what to say when we argue. I’m sorry for being moody all the time. I’m sorry for getting mad at you over little things. I’m sorry for always crying. I’m sorry for always having you worried. I’m sorry for always telling you stuff that I should keep to myself. I'm sorry for making things so complicated. I’m sorry for always getting jealous. I'm sorry for being so weak. I’m sorry for causing all the troubles. I’m sorry for making your life harder. I'm sorry for being a bad girlfriend. The only thing I’m not sorry for is loving you.

There may be someone out there who can treat you better than me, but they can never love you like the way I love you.

Baby if i could, i would prove it to you, you mean the world to me.

*RE* Life.

It all started going down hill in 8th grade before that year I got straight A's but i fucked up but nobody new what was going on because why should they know there not close to me.

I agree with Michael’s second sentence. My grades started going down since 9^th grade; I was pretty depressed in middle school. I felt like everything I do or say is wrong.  Even till this day, I still feel the same way. Life is pretty fucked up sometime, where I felt like there’s no point of living. At times it can be so amazing that i just don’t want my day to end yet. I used to hide everything inside. Even when I’m dying inside, I can still manage to smile. I felt the same as Michael, why should they know? Even if I do tell them, I bet they will never understand it. I think you have to actually go through it to understand what it really feels like. I hate being so negative and thinking so negative. I learned that being negative gets you nowhere. If you want a better life, you have to work for it. Don’t just sit there and wait till it to come. You have to earn for everything.

            I guess I was still young back then. Now I’m older, I felt like life is really not that bad, well not as bad as I thought it was. Even thought I don’t want to be old, but I can’t wait till get out of school. Don’t ever hope for it, believe it. If you want it to happen, YOU have to make it happen. Nothing is impossible. Even the world impossible said so, “I’M POSSIBLE” (:  Stay positive, it won’t rain forever.