It is an unsettling yet truthful reality; to think that the California fault line can have and cause a larger earthquake and tsunami than the 8.9 caused in Japan on March 11th 2011.
Besides this fact, my sincere thoughts and feelings go out to all the families of Japan, and to the government for having to put up with such a disaster and to face intense adversity.
The death toll has now, as of today, reached 13,843, a kind of rather large number that is scary to think about how one incident can leave many dead. More tolls and updates can be found at CNN.
I saw a commercial for a documentary of the disaster in Japan already coming out on The National Geographic later this month or early May. The film is a bunch of tapes compiled by Japanese people, just before, during and after disaster struck. Check it out at The Nation Geographic.
The damage was and has been devastating and the Japanese government should be in dissarry but have thus kept their "cool", literally, trying to keep the nuclear reactors cool and trying to have the least amount of radioactive exposure as possible. Citizens living near these reactors have been told to evacuate so the death toll does not rise and people are nto exposed.
The clean up has been and will be extremely trying for famliesand the government, but in my opinion Japan will make a swift recovery and get back on its feet in no time, whether or not it take a few years, without further disastrous events the country should be fine. They've recovered quickly in the past and they are an industrious and hard working country, I firmly believe things, although bad now, will turn out for them.
So a few weeeks ago I told everyone reading this blog that I KNEW what I want to do with my life, and I KNEW where I was going to college, and I KNEW what I wanted to major in. Well here are my "2nd thoughts" about my life ordeal and such.
In reality what we think we are going to do becomes what we want to do, but what we need to do is find a passion, or a feeling of beign good at something. And all my life I've been told, be a writer, wrtie stuff, books, news etc. I will agree with what I've been told I'm darn god at writing and I have a way with words. Now mind when you read this I'm not being, or trying to be conceited, but its the matter of the fact, I'm decent at writing, my highest of my SAT scores was writing, OGT scores, yadda yadda.
Anyways, in the past few weeks, or months I'v decided to look into other business ventures and what other options I may have. Not only have I been told I'm good at writing, but I'm good at speaking, or have an authority behind my voice, I can manipulate people into doing things, motivate people, inspire them. Now that being said, I'm good at arguing my point to the bitter end, even if I know I'm wrong I argue until thoroughly disproven. This lead me to the conclusion of "hey why aren't you looking into majoring in law,"? Now this question was also with the help of others opinions of course but, it seemed like a really good idea.
So I pitched a new idea to my parents, I gave them the fulfillment of my research and, or my new "plan" as some may call it. I've decided to venture into PSEO courses at LCCC for my senior year of highschool. I talked it over with my consoler and I will still be eligible for sports and still get the highschool expierence while in college. This will allow me to get my freshman year of college out of the way as I'm graduating. From there I will take one more year at LCCC and get an associates degree and partner with CSU. From their I will get all my prequisites out of the way and partner with a good law school near by. I would like to eventually become an lawyer or attourney of some sort and get into a business that isn't dying out, like journalism (sadly) and actually make some money!
