Easter :)

Today I got to thinking about how strange our holidays are in the US. If you think about it, a whole lot of people here celebrate Easter here, but I'm pretty sure many of them don't even believe in the religious aspect. It's all about the egg hunts and bunnies! Then think about how we tell our young kids that some huge rabbit drops off a basket full of goodies for them on Easter, like seriously what is that? Where does that come from? I'm pretty interested. But either way, most businesses and schools have Easter breaks of some sort, which I still don't really get! Americans just loveee time off I suppose.

Prom!

On Friday night I attended CSW's prom. and it was my first prom ever. Going into it I had pretty high expectations and I was thinking it was going to be sooo much fun, but afterwards I realized it really was not all I had expected. I think that TV shows and movies depict prom as being the best night ever or just being wonderful, yet the image they portray is a little skewed. I mean I'm not saying it was horrible or that I did not enjoy myself, because that's not the case, it just felt different than how I thought it would. It was over so quick and then I was like whoa, it's over? I don't know, it was just a weird feeling. I think that's another example of how the media in America is not always accurate, they tend to exaggerate a bit I would say. Oh well, it reallly was an awesome experience, I just expected something more!

Competition

I definitely think it's safe to say that America thrives and largely revolves around competition. Whether it's sports, academics, or business, the average American tends to desire to be ahead of everyone around them-their competitors. I mean at Charter it's no secret that most of the students would like to be earning higher grades or honors than other certain classmates. We all want to be the smartest! And then you have commercial examples, like when you see five different coffee shops all within a mile of one another on the road. Each shop advertises their own special deals or sales in hopes that they'll catch the majority of consumer's attentions. All of this is normal to us because we see it every single day. I sometimes wonder what it'd be like if competition were not a factor, and every business were government owned and standardized. I feel like it'd be pretty boring! One thing I recently noticed during a two mile race I ran at a meet was that passing my competitors is seriously so much fun. I have no idea how I disregarded this feeling before, but now all I want to do is go faster and pass people instead of just passively be passed. Maybe our society relates to this, they must realize how gratifying it is to be stronger than others too, not in a mean way though of course!

Twinkie minion cupcakes= easy entertainment!

Today my older brother, who is almost 18, decided he, his girlfriend, and I were going to make some really cool cupcakes. They were themed after the minion characters from the movie "Despicable Me" and they turned out aboslutely adorable! Once we finished our decorating, all three of us were so proud and felt so accomplished.. When I realized just how satisfied we were with our cupcakes, it occurred to me how easily entertained we could be. I think this actually speaks for the majority of America's teenagers, the littlest things can give us hours of laughs or fun, which I think is great.I also realized how lucky we are that we have the ability to do little fun things like this whenever we want to. There are so many people out there who would never be able to do that. So I guess even though in America our culture may seem all business at first glance, we know how to enjoy ourselves too, at least while we're still young. Oh,, and the cupcakes were delicious too!