6A: My name is petrie

The name Chase means "hunter" which comes from Old French, originally know as "huntsman." I got my name from my mom and dad. They gave it to me when I was just a little baby. If I was the opposite sex, I would have been given the name Claire. I like my name, I think its cool cause not too many people have my name, its unique. If I could repick my name, like go back in time, I would like to name myself eithe Tanner or Tod. The website didnt have too many names that went along with my name.

Week 5A. If I were a Car....

If I were a car, I would be a mix between a Ferrari and a Hummer H1. I would like to be a Ferrari because I like to look very sharp. It is also very fast and shows lost of class. I would like to be a Hummer because I enjoy the outdoors and I could do some exploring in it. I could take it out and show it off for a night on the town, or I could take it out to the woods for a weekend and have some fun with it. It would have the interior and speed of a Ferrari, but the power and tires of a Hummer.

Week 4A Nature vs. Nurture

I think that nurture shapes people more than nature. People will grow up based on how they were brought up. You can always tell if someone was brought up the right or wrong way. You are taught manors, how you speak, and the way that you treat others, based on what kind of house you were brought up in. I don't think that nature really builds the foundation on how people turn out to be, unless you were adopted by some monkeys when you were just a baby, then you may grow up to act like a monkey. Nurture shapes people more than nurture does.

Movie Choice 3A

I would love to be in a film about motocross. I would have it be a documentary so I could be in the movie with real motocross racers. I think it would be cool to get to wear the gear and ride all of the pro bikes. I would go around the country on the Motocross Nation Circuit with Ryan Villopoto. I would want to be his bike cleaner and get his gear ready for him. During the week I would go to his house and help him train. I would keep track of lap times and work on his bike for him.

Creative Costumes

I live out in the country, so I have never gone trick or treating before. I think that it would be fun to go around and get candy and food, but I had never been out on the streets to do it before. I have been in town once when kids were out trick or treating and it looked pretty fun. I have seen kids doing it on tv and in movies too. But if I was able to pick in costume I would be a baseball player. I would just use my baseball uniform. I would use my game jersey, my pants, socks, and turf shoes, alone with my hat. If It got cold out I could put on my baseball warm up. I could even use my glove to carry my candy. I think that it would be pretty fun.

Week 1A- Slave Songs

I like to listen to country music. I think it explains me because I live in the country and I like farming and the outdoors. It also talks about love and hardships in life and I think they are a good way to express yourself. I also like country because so are really singers. The rappers and hip hop singers just use computers to make all of their music, they are not real musicians. I don’t like it, but there are a lot of people that like that emo music. It always talks about being a loser and having everyone hate you, and that your life means nothing to anyone else. I don’t know what makes them feel this way, but that’s how they feel about life. I think other generations will think that our life had a lot of troubles and hardships.

Setbacks

I have been pretty lucky through my life and have not had to have many setbacks. The setbacks that I have had have been pretty minor. One setback that I had was switching from Stanford grade school to Danvers grade school. My old school shut down so we all had to switch school. It was hard adjusting to the new school, teachers, and kids. I think it kinda helped because there were more kids there and it made it more like middle school so when I got to middle school it wasnt as big as jump. My biggest setback in life has been my elbow. I really like to pitch in baseball but I havent been able to sence 8th grade because of my arm. Every year it starts off the season fine, and then I pitch in my first game and its sore the rest of the summer. The doctors say that I can have surgery on it but I dont know if I really want to go under the knife.

Grizzly

I would go to Australia. I would want to go see all kinds of coral reefs in the ocean. I would also like to see the great white sharks on the south shores of the ocean. From there I would go inland to see the kangaroos and other cool Austalian animals. I want to go there because its seems like a very intersting kind of country and I like the way that they talk there. I would like the world to get rid of hippies. I dont like the way that they form in mobs and listen to music while doing drugs. They do not get anything accomplished while they are doing that. They do not help the planet out at all.

Dumb Laws

The dumbest law I know of is that you can't buy fireworks in Illinois. You can't buy them, but you are able to shoot them off. So every fourth of July we have to drive all the way to the boarder just to buy them and bring them back to our house. You are also not able to shoot them off in town, unless you are on your own property, were else are you going to shoot them off? I think that Illinois should allow them to be legal, but put a tax on them so Illinois is able to make some money off of them.

Oly Facts

I go to school to Olympia High School. It is a school that is in the middle of the no where surrounded by cornfields. There is'nt too much slang that goes around but I do here the word "dude" quite a bit. I would say we have two types of dress in the school, preps and skaters. Preps buy most of their clothes from A&F, Hollister, and AE. Skaters buy their clothes from Hot Topic, and Pac Sun. We have the the mens sports group, and the people that play in the band group. The best thing about Olympia is the baseball program. We have won the state twice in the last six years. Our coach also has over 400 career wins.

If I could ask Ted Willians some questions.

If I could meet anyone in the world at any time in history it would have to be Ted Williams. He was the last person to ever his .400 in the MLB. He just passes away a few years ago so I would have to go back in time to do this. The first thing I would ask is how many hours a day he would work on hitting? What was it like playing in Fenway Park? How did you feel about getting drafted into the war during the prime or your career? Do you think that you could have hit 800 homeruns if you stayed in the league the whole time? What was your most memorable homerun? How did you feel about the Williams shift? If you could change on thing about baseball today, what would it be?

School

School so far this year is going alright. I have no easy classes but they are all fun. I have Spanish 1, Chemistry, English 2, and Trig 1. I usually have about an hour of homework every night. Some nights it gets hard because we have football practice until 6:30 at night and I’m not home till 7. Then I have to eat supper, shower, and do homework and hope to get it done by 11. My favorite class right now is Spanish 1. I have a few friends in there and Mr. Hiro is very funny. I like the environment. My least favorite class is Chemistry, I like science but more of the biology part of science. We have doing things such as scientific notation and significant figures. I think it is more like math that it is science. Football is also going alright. We didn’t win our first game but I think we have a good chance of winning this week against Prairie Central. My coach said that I might get to play some quarterback tonight.