Animal in the Making? B4

I would first like to point out the fact that the last two homecoming queens have been members of Online Publishing, No big deal. On September, 24^th, the homecoming dance took place. This is when I discovered an animal in the making. Many would see this young man as a quiet, laid back, hidden person. I no longer see him as this. He may have these qualities, but he has a side that people have not seen, unless you were at the dance, which by the way, I’m a little concerned if you were not there because you missed a fun time. I stepped into the gymnasium ready to get the show on the road, but then I realized that someone had already stolen my thunder. I gave him a new nickname right away, “The Animal” and no, I am not talking about the man in the stands at the football game that gets everybody going. This man is one his own. He’s a one man wolf pack. Superman where’s underpants of him. It is the one and only Michael Steffan. He was the man on the dance floor the other night that had it going. If an MVP award was given to the best performance, I feel that it would have been an unanimous vote for Michael Steffan, or Doodler in other words.  I can’t even put into words what Doodler was doing out there that night because it was something else. I can say this though; Doodler pulled me aside and asked to go get a drink of water because of how hot the gym was. When we went into the cafeteria, a small, young man came up to Doodler, and simply asked him “Have you gone swimming, or something?” Doodler was not happy about the comments, but that just shows the kind of night he had. He is an Animal in the making, once again, no big deal.

B3 The Moment

Throughout my short life, well somewhat short, I have been fortunate enough to have my great moments that I will never forget. I am going to take this time to write about one of the most recent great moments. At this time last year, I was in the middle of my J.V. football season. Our team worked incredibly hard throughout the spring and summer to be prepared for the season. Many predicted that we wouldn’t be as good as the year before. The previous season, our team won 8 games and lost 1. There is only one way to get better than an 8 win season, it is to go undefeated. So our team had only one goal. It was to win every single game we played even if we were a little less talented then the year before. Well, we went undefeated and we proved all of the doubters wrong. I am going to explain everything that went on when we finished off this great run. We took a week 9 trip west of Alden to play against the Depew Wildcats. Many people said that we were not going to win this game. Many thought that Depew was just bigger and stronger, but the important thing was that we didn’t listen to those people. We went in there with a focused mind set ready to battle. We set the tone of the game right from the beginning as we marched right down the field for touchdown to take the early lead. We held on for the rest of the game as we went on to win 17 to 6. At the end of the game, every single player on our team was so proud. We proved that if you truly work as hard as you can at something, you can achieve it. Our team worked extremely hard and we earned an undefeated season. I hope that this season can turn out just like last season.

B2. Which Season wins?

I will make this clear now; I am a fan of every season of the year. They all have something very special characteristics about themselves. The fall is special because of football season. The winter is special because of the holidays and the snow. The spring is fun because it starts to get nice again and it is always a refreshing feeling. The summer is most people’s favorite season because there is no school, and people do not feel the same amount of pressure as they do during the school year. Summer is also a fun time because of how warm it is, and people are much more relaxed.  At the end of the day though, my favorite season is the fall. In the fall, the best game on the face of this earth is being played. Football is what I live for. I love playing the game and that is the reason why I love fall. Also, the fall is the time where the Major League Baseball season is coming to an end. Actually, I should just say it is the time where the Yankees are winning it all. Now I will say, there are some parts about the fall that I dislike. I am not a fan of the cold weather, unless there is snow on the ground. If that is the case then I do not mind the cold as much. I like the spring because I play baseball, but it seems like that the springs of late have been incredibly cold and rainy which really stinks. I will say that I enjoy the summer because it is not stressful to me at all. I also enjoy summer because it is more time that I get to spend with my family and I also spend a lot of time getting prepared for football season. I really do like every season, but my favorite of them all is the fall.

B1

I do in fact use the one and only “Facebook.” Now I use Facebook for good reasons unlike many other people in this world. See too many times I log on and within 10 seconds I’m just shaking my head. Some people will use Facebook to post the most stupid, annoying, and sad statuses’ that I just really don’t care about at all! I don’t care that your boyfriend dumped you, I don’t care your mad at your friend, and honestly I don’t care about what you’re doing most of the time either. These are some of the Facebook quotes I have remembered over the course of the past year. I will not mention any names to protect the individual’s personal identity.  Here are some of the quotes that are interesting.  “Jerseyyyyyy Shore tonight” Wonderful, only 100 people have this status every Thursday night, I don’t care.  “So sick of everything, can’t wait for college” Good, go to college, get away from me. I got a good one, “Truth is?” Please, this status is so stupid; don’t waste my time by saying stupid comments like this. “I hate you” Great, if you’re posting this, you’re probably hated by a lot of people and I don’t feel bad for you at all. “I hate drama” Way to go, your just making drama. Honestly I don’t care about any of this stuff. I think if you’re going to post a status, just simply make a joke or something like that.  I use Facebook to communicate with friends because that’s what it should be used for.  One thing people don’t realize is that if you post information or pictures on this website, you can get in a lot of trouble, and create damage for yourself. For example, college’s look at Facebook when they are evaluating students. Kids need to realize that Facebook may be a great thing for many people, but if you use if for the wrong reason, it will hurt you.

A4

This year, I am really looking forward to writing about whatever gets assigned to me. Yes, I have some favorites and some things that I’m not a huge fan of writing about, but I honestly don’t have a problem with anything I will have to write.  My favorite topics are definitely sports, such as football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and why not, I suppose I could write about golf.  I currently play three of the great sports that I just mentioned. I am a member of the varsity football team, as well as the varsity baseball team. I am also a basketball player. My favorite sport out of any of them is football. Enough said. I am a fan of writing about hot topics such as History and the Alden Bulldogs. I really enjoy when we get to write about whatever we want to because I usually have some really good stories to tell. It would be sweet to write about former Alden High School graduates as well. I am a big fan of being able to express my mind in writing because I think that allows you to show people who you really are. Writing about movies, news, people are always fun for me. Last year I didn’t write a whole lot about college and professional sports. This year, I would like to experiment with those topics a little bit. An interesting topic would also be to reflect on great times in my life. This high school has a lot of great history, maybe not as much as St. Francis high school though. This town is very special and has a ton of great qualities, nothing like Angola, New York though of course. Mr. Currin is another topic that everybody fights over to write about, so if I could write about that, I suppose I wouldn’t mind doing it. I’m looking forward to everything I write about this year.

A3

Without question my favorite year of schooling was my freshman year. For the first time, I actually went through a school year on the same school as my brother. It would also be the only year I would be in school with him. Last year he was a senior so it was pretty sweet that I got to hang with him. I actually took Online Publishing with him too, so we had some good times. I made a lot of friends last year, especially seniors because I never had a year where I was in the same school as them. I was very fortunate to be a member of Alden high school last year, due to how much fun it was. I took some fun classes, especially Online Publishing. This class really was a great time, there were so many great, fun people in this class, and it was definitely the most fun class I was ever a part of. Also, last year was a blast because the JV football team that I was a member of went undefeated. Then I got moved up to the varsity football team when they played at Ralph Wilson Stadium and at All High Stadium. I was fortunate enough to be pulled up to the varsity basketball team at the end of the winter as well. To cap off the year, I played a whole season on the varsity baseball team.  My freshman year was a great time, and I had such a blast. My teachers were another excellent part of the school year. It was a great year for me academically as every marking period was over a 93 average.  The only thing that wasn’t good about my freshman year was the workload that I would get at times. In the second semester, my classes were somewhat difficult and there was a lot of work that came with them. But at the end of the day, I got through the difficulties to cap off a great school year. I hope 2011-2012 is just as good as last year if not better.

A2

As a student of Alden High School, I am very excited for this school year, but I am also unsure of what quite to expect. This new school schedule is really making things different for this upcoming year, so I’m not sure how I am going to like it. I would have to say that a lot of people miss last year’s format, but there’s nothing we can do about it. My schedule this year is very balanced which I like so I shouldn’t ever be overwhelmed with work. Last year my first half of the school year may have been the easiest first half schedule that a freshman has ever had. I’m not kidding about that either. I wonder why I had so much fun at the beginning of last year. My second half was incredibly hard. I had so much work to do! It was ridiculous at times; actually it was to the point where I was doing homework past midnight at times. This year, I don’t think it will be like that, at least I hope not. One thing that I look forward to every school year is sports. This year I am playing varsity football and I am just having a blast. Our team is off to a great start. We worked very hard in the summer so I am hoping that it will pay off.  Our expectations are very high this season so I am extremely fortunate to be on this team.  In the winter I will be playing basketball and doing a ton of lifting. Then later in the year when spring time comes rolling around, I will be playing varsity football again. Last year I thought I had a pretty good year academically and I am expecting even a better year in academics. I am taking some hard classes but I feel that I can handle it. This year will be very fun, I have enjoyed every day so far and hopefully it stays that way.

A1

This past summer was very busy, fun, and quick. Right when last school year was coming to an end. Most of the football players were already involved with offseason workouts. Most weekends in the spring we were out improving our game and getting into shape on both Saturdays and Sundays.  Once exam week came around, we were working as team every afternoon. We took this into summer and we were improving our game all the way up to camp. The team was learning our plays in this time and becoming stronger and faster in the process. Also, my brother and I spent a lot of time doing weight training at the Eastern Hills mall in the Absolute Performance gym. This was a lot of hard work, but it really made me an all-around better athlete. At the end of June, my teammate, Ryan Sosnowski, and I went to the Syracuse football camp to learn more about our positions and become better football players. When I got back from camp, I had to start getting ready for my brother’s graduation party. Getting ready for that party was a little hectic, but it turned out to be a very fun party with a lot of people there. After that, most of my summer was going to a lot of graduation parties and getting ready for football. In early August we had our Bulldog football camp which was getting our team ready for the high expectation season. After that camp, I played in a men’s softball tournament for one day which was a great time.  About a week after that it was time to deliver my brother off to college down it Edinboro, so he could start his college football career. When I got back, it was time for me to start football practices. Basically that was my summer. I played in a couple summer league basketball games and spent a lot of time with friends.  That was just about everything. This summer was fun, but it also flew by.