Halloween (Day and Night)

This week i am going to blog about Halloween. Halloween was alright this year. It started out with my brothers halloween party at our house. He had a bunch of his friends over and i invited some of mine. We also invited some of our relatives (My brother, sister, and two nieces). We all just hung out, jumped on the jumper, and rode bikes. At the party it was Alvin, Steven, France, Andrew, James, Sandy, Darren, and Wilson. We pretty much just jumped on the jumper and tried to do cool tricks. Also at the party my dad barbecued. We all had at least one hot dog. After eating and chillin' on the jumper we all went to ride bikes. We all rode around by my house racing and what not, then finally after about an hour of riding we went back to the Jumper. We jumped for a while and then the party ended.

After the party we all helped clean up and then everyone left. After everyone left i went inside with my mom, dad, sister, two brothers, and my nieces. We all hung out inside and cleaned up. After cleaning up we went back outside to play on the jumper one last time before the people came to pick it up. When the people came to pick it up my sister, her nieces, and my older brother left.

Once they left it was time to get ready to go trick or treating. My mom said earlier i could go hang out with my friends but then changed her mind. She said only my brother could go to trick or treat and i had to stay home and pass out candy. So i stayed home all night to pass out candy to the little trick or treaters.

When my mom and brother got home they had a lot of candy. My brother gave me a quarter of his share and it was good (I ate it all). We ended the day by eating some candy and then got ready for bed. Although i did not get to go out with my friends it was a good halloween.

Friday 10.23.09 (Class Color Day)

Class color day was so much fun. Everyone was walking around in their class colors. I had on a bunch of orange. I was in the second assembly which was pretty loud. I would have to say that the Juniors were the loudest, then the Sophomores, then Seniors, and then freshman. I expected the Seniors to be the loudest because they were graduating this year but they turned out to be one of the softer groups. I completely understand why the freshman were the softest though. Just like us last year they did not know what was going on since this was their first year of high school. After the assembly was lunch.

After school i went with all my friends to Ultimate Frisbee at lincoln. Before frisbee we stopped at the Encinal Market to get some food. We ended up buying to orders of fries and some drinks. I could hear the people at the register talking about how we were dressed up in all orange, but they did not know it was class color day. I think they eventually figured out after reading one of our sophomore shirts.

After we ate our food we left and walked the rest of the way to lincoln. Ultimate Frisbee was pretty fun. We played ultimate for a while and then we stopped because some people had to leave. After we ended our game of frisbee we just ended up chilling at lincoln for a couple hours. We were all just sitting around or riding bikes.

When we were riding bikes James bike broke. I tried to fix it but his bike was really messed up. The chain fell off and his mom added something onto the bike making it impossible for him to change gears. So he had to walk his bike home and then come back. We stayed at frisbee from after school until dark. It was a pretty good day.

Baseball Tournament (Cancelled)

So last time i blogged about my baseball tournament(The Fall Baseball Classic) in orange county. I was really excited to play in Southern California. Now my tournament which was scheduled for next weekend October 30th - November 1st) has been canceled. I was upset to find out that my baseball tournament was canceled because i have been training hard to get a starting spot on the team.

This sunday i have practice with my team and we will figure out if we are going to a tournament at all this fall. On the team website it said that if we do go to a tournament it will be the Winter Christmas tournament.

The winter tournament will be held in Orange County just like the last one it will just be a different date. They said the tournament will not be held on christmas but during the week before christmas. I am excited to find out at practice sunday to see if we will be going to any tournaments this year. If we do not go to any tournaments this year i will have to just play hard at practices and scrimmages to give myself a better chance on making the summer team.

The summer team is a team that will be a lot more competitive because we have a lot more time and we can enter more tournaments. Last year the team went to the World Series in New Mexico. So if i can make the summer team i will have a good chance at being either looked at by the college scouts or go into good tournaments. Sunday is my practice and i am hoping we are going to a tournament. The end of this week should be pretty fun, (class color day) and so should the weekend (Shaun's Birthday Party and baseball practice).

Baseball Tournament (I finally got it to post)

On October 30th through November 1st i am going to Orange County for a baseball tournament. My team, the Danville Hoots, are going to play in the 2009 Fall Baseball Classic. We have been practicing every sunday for the past five sundays or so. We are going to fly out to orange county on the 30th of October. We do not have school that day so my family and i might leave early that morning and fly there so we will have time to see the sights. The team is going to stay in a Whyndham hotel for the tournament.

Our next practice is sunday and we are scrimmaging against EJ sports baseball club. I have never heard of them but i hope they will be good competition. Tomorrow i will not have much time to go to the batting cages or practice or anything because i will have the PSAT. It starts at nine o' clock in the morning so i hope it will not take up my whole day. After the PSAT i will get some swings in so i will be ready for the scrimmage game on sunday.

Im playing on this team though because i don't expect to get much playing time on AHS. This team i have so far gotten playing time and also if i make their summer team then i will have a good chance at a scholarship when applying to colleges. More than half of the kids on the Hoots have gotten scholarships to very good colleges. I would like to go to a Rank A college myself that is also another reason i am playing on this team. So hopefully the team does well during the baseball tournament, and good luck to the black team (the 19 and under team) because they have a tournament next friday in orange county.

Baseball (and my D in english)

I am writing about baseball right now because my mom is kicking me off of my baseball team i am on right now (The Danville Hoots) because i had a D in english. Baseball is my life and i do not want to lose it. Last year I "played" for Alameda I put quotes around played because i never played. I was a Red Shirt.

A Red Shirt is a high-school or college athlete kept out of competition for one year to develop skills and (not in my case) extend eligibility. As i was saying i was Red Shirted last year. It was horrible. Going to practice almost everyday just to practice nothing to look forward to. I was allowed to go to the game but i would not get any playing time so there was no point. I ended up practicing for the whole year hoping to get a little bit of playing time but that never happened. The season ended and i started playing Babe Ruth.

I honestly think babe ruth is a joke. I thought it was a pointless season but i got some practice in during the games. I also played in a summer league where i played the whole time in all the games. That was because it was a wreck league and i was one of the best on the team.

Then comes this fall. I am playing for a team called the Danville Hoots. We are a traveling team and we are going to Southern California for a couple tournaments this fall. I was so excited to play in these tournaments. I was lifting weights, doing sprints, and all other types of conditioning to get in shape for this team.

The tournaments are coming up and today my mom calls me and tells me, "You can not play for the Hoots anymore because you have a D in english." I was of course upset to hear this considering i was playing on a team better than Alameda High's. I was also devastated to learn i had a D in english. Now i am typing this and all i can do is hope that my mom will listen to me and let me play on the baseball team. If she does i will be so happy and definitely pull my grades up to par.

Classwork 10.06.09

(1.) […] In almost every audience I address, there is someone who will suggest that racism is a thing of the past. There is always someone who hasn’t noticed the stereotypical images of people of color in the media, who hasn’t observed the housing discrimination in their community, who hasn’t read the newspaper articles about racial bias in lending practices[1] among well-known banks, who isn’t aware of the racial tracking[2] pattern at the local school, who hasn’t seen the reports of rising incidents of racially motivated hate crimes in America—in short, someone who hasn’t been paying attention to issues of race. But if you are paying attention, the legacy of racism is not hard to see, and we are all affected by it.-

I annotated this paragraph saying that the media is a big contributor to racism. This is a person experience but when i have read a newspaper or heard a police report it will say a Black Male. It also if it is a white male they would say it is just a Male... I have just noticed that on a couple occasions. I also read the part about school i realized that some racism goes on at our school. But most of it is friendly. I also don't think there are very many hate crimes at school but more outside of school. I think the bay area is a very diverse place though.