WELCOME TO THE NORTH SHORE CAN WE TAKE YOUR MONEY?

At my high school there are 4,201 students. I am lucky enough to live in a suburb north of Chicago and to top it off on a windy day you can hear the distant waves (a block away) from my school. I'm not here to tell you about how wonderful my high school is. I'm here to discuss the growing financial problem that hasn't even made a dent in my classmates minds. Like any high school there are trends but my high school is a little different and by a little I mean that the average girl spends around 2,000 dollars a year on clothes per season. That's not including special items such as prom dresses or graduation dresses those are around 1,000 together. UGG's those hideous shoes that celebrates wear when they pretend that LA is cold yes we wear those. Every shoe that they have are over $110 and there are around 600 girls that wear at least one pair to school thats over $66,000 just for shoes. Then we go to outfits cause heaven forbid you wear the same outfit twice in the same week! One pair of Silver jeans on sale can be around $20 but thats just one day and you cant wear jeans every day so you can wear a pair of Hard Tails which around 65 bucks for a nice pair. Then you have the shirts that each advisory makes which are personalized and collectors items in their own right. They cost around $25 if your making a shirt if your making a sweatshirt its $30. I am not saying I don't own these things because I do. I actually own all of it but what I am saying is that it is ridiculous how much we spend if you really think about it. I'm going to college next year, I can't afford these things any more and I'm getting a scholarship.

If your looking to live on the north shore I would absolutely do it because its beautiful and has a quaint small shopping districts but you can still go to the mall and depending on where you live you could be as close as 15 minutes away from the heart of the city. The schools are phenomenal, but if you have girls make sure that you can afford to either have them be mocked because they are a little different or pay up for them to get the clothes that they want. I used to be a little different my freshman year I had three friends and thats because a girl hated me and did every thing in her power to make me look bad. I changed myself to be more like the girls I go to school with and those girls that we all try to copy they don't even know what they want. It took me four years to be okay with what I wear but that doesn't change ones self esteem.

Dog Training For Dummies

So over Father's day weekend  my family rescued a corgi mix puppy. From that day on she has ripped my summer reading book, chewed my power cord for my laptop. Today we took her to her first day of doggie training camp. Seeing as the puppy sleeps on my bed and spends the most time with me my mom thought it would be a good idea that I come along. So now I am working on sitting and staying and teaching her how to walk properly. I feel like this training is more to train me how a huge softy I am. I have attempted to do the sit stay on my own but I spin around her twice and she just looks up to me and I cant help but pick her up and play with her.

Finnal blog post of the year

I see:

A brick cell phone

A black and white screen phone

A color phoneI see one flip phone

I think:

That America is becoming more reliant on technology

That as technology develops the American culture is progressing to the point where information is becoming too available

We as nations are becoming less interpersonal

I wonder:

What caused this short evolution of technology?

What was the time frame of this evolution?

What was going on in American culture that caused this change in technology?

This relates to our classes use of interactive technology. Earlyer in the semesters we disscused how technology has taken over our lives as teenagers. An anamerican studies blog that inspired me to write this.

New Trier Beer Scandle

Around ten minutes ago my father called me into his office to show me a news story about the New Trier High School year book. The news story was about a student photographed with a beer can in her hand. The picture was snuck into the yearbook last minutes unfortunately that was a huge mistake. I have known both the girls in the photo since the 5th grade. I am going to be perfectly honest and say that its not the first time I have seen these girls with beer in their presence. I find it funny that the school is not doing a good job of covering up the incident from the press. New Trier as a school is usually propped up to this high pedicle. Personally I do not drink but I do have friends that do. I really don't have a problem with it as long as it doesn't effect me. The administration can not pretend that drinking does not happen. Earlier in the year a house three blocks away from mine was broken into by a classmate of mine and they started throwing parties there. The students were punished and that was the end of it. I don't know why the administration cares more about this issue of a beer can showing up in the year book more than a home being broken into. I think that no matter what they say to protect these girls from the ramifications of this picture people will always be able to find it.

Showing a different sort of Pride

While driving my little sister home from Karate I drove past this red Ford pickup. As I stopped at the stop sign conveniently placed right across from it I saw the stickers on its window. In an attempt to be stealth I quickly parked my car took out my phone and snapped this pick then quickly speed off. I thought it was a once in a lifetime chance to find a country car with a confederate flag on it in the middle of Winnetka. I now have remorse for leaving in a huff because now I wish I could see the owner to see if the car matches the person.

The Great Gatsby chapter one SPOILER ALERT

SPOILER ALERT


After reading the first chapter of the Great Gatsby I found my self having a hard time picturing the life of Tom and Daisy. Living in a richer neighbor hood I still can't reach my head around all the white and superiority of the upper class portrayed in the book. When I was informed about the movie by an AIS classmate I knew it would help me better understand what one persons interpretation of life for the characters was like.

Flag out with the Garbage

For our assignment I took a lot pictures. The one that stuck out the most for me was the first picture I took. The picture was of how my family uses our American flag. We only really put our flag out on fourth of July and memorial day. Though we have family Friends that are in the military we as a family do not really show our pride for our country. The placement of the flag next to the garbage is not staged but actually how we use our flag. It goes out when it has to just like the garbage.