Entry #6 Fly HIgh

So recently my boyfriend went to a parkour tournament in Las Vegas for his job. If you guys don't know what parkour is, its basically a sport that involves negotiating through obstacles involving flips, jumping, climbing, and of course running.

If you guys saw the video above it's  mind blowing how people can move their body. right? Kurt is so passionate with what he does that it made me look up it's history and how it became a sport.

It all started because of George Albert,  the founder of parcours. He was an officer of the  French navy before World war 1 and was a victim of a volcanic eruption. This experience lead to him, believing that being an athlete involved courage, skill, and selflessness. He travel around the world studying  indigenous people and their movement. When he came back home, he developed  new methods to exercise by using what he had learned in his journey. He is one of the founders of obstacle course training.

Modern Parkour

was developed  by the Yamakasi group in the 1980's using George Albert tainting method mixed with gymnastics. It is a way to express yourself with movement with in your environment
and at the same time encouraging  concentration, quick thinking, flexibility and Discipline.

Entry #5 Can I Get An Hallelujah

              Arizona State University, home of the devils known for its big campus, and it's many careers it has to offer to students. ASU is one of the most convenient university to attend in Arizona because of their online courses and  different locations. Yet, they are always finding new ways to help it's students be successful. I was reading an article called "Arizona State University to offer short classes" by Anne Ryman and she talks about how ASU wants to offer short courses that can be completed in 7 1/2 weeks instead of it's normal length of 15 weeks. In order to give students more flexibility, financial savings, as well as, helping students to graduate faster.

         Although, short classes are not for everyone due to its fast past. In an Online class, you still do all the work you would normally do in a 18 week course. Which means you have no time to procrastinate and you have to be on top of your work. On the other hand, even though you won't have time to do the things you would normally want to do, like hanging out with friends,  it is  a convenient route to take  if you are looking to catch up, or as mentioned before graduate early.

All in all, I believe more universities should offer short courses for those who want to get school out the way.  Not to throw "shade" or anything but  I know Wildcats are probably jealous of this.

Entry #4 Just Do It

Traveling most of us want to do it. so what's stopping you? To a lot of us, money is our biggest concern or at least in my case it is. So I've been doing a little research and found some great ways to travel with little to no money... If you're a risk taker that is.

The first option is to volunteer in return for a place to stay. This cool website http://www.wwoof.net/ shows  many locations that you might be interested in going to, along with a job description. It's basically like looking for a job in a place you would want to explore. Except you get paid with food and a place to stay in.

Another option similar to this, is House-siting. Yes, kind of like pet-setting  only that you get to stay in a house for free while it's owners are away. Sometimes they may leave for weeks or even months! This is a win, win for both parties because it gives you a place to stay and helps the house owners relax knowing someone is looking after their casa (house).

This is some of the website you can look into if you're interested in house- setting.
http://www.mindmyhouse.com/
http://www.housesittersamerica.com/

Lastly My personal favorite is would be crashing on someone's couch . There are websites like https://www.couchsurfing.com/ and http://www.globalfreeloaders.com/  that allow you to look up a place to stay with friendly people for free. A house owner kindly opens their home for travelers who don't have a place to go. Sounds pretty sketchy, I know but the website requires a background check for both parties and is said to be pretty safe. I would still recommend traveling with a friend though, you can never be too safe.

I came across a video of a man who talked about his experience and how he was able to travel around the world by doing couch surfing and relying on the kindness of people.

Entre #3 What the Fudge!

Recently, I happened to run into a video while I was looking for information for my research paper on rape and stumbled upon the "Steubenville rape case". I'm sure a  lot of you are familiar with the case, if not, in 2013 a 16 year old went to a party and got so drunk she could barely move. Two star football players who attended her school took her to different parties throughout the night and sexually molested her. They later on laughed about it on social media and posted graphic pictures with disturbing captions. CNN was one of the many news stations that reported the case. To my surprise and as for many who watched, the CNN reporter was extremely bias in favor of the rapists. 

The reporter says "these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believe their life fell apart."
The reporter tries to influence the viewer to sympathies for the rapist over and over again by saying that they are "good kids" who now have their life's ruined by a bad decision. The reporter never mentions how this has ruined the victims life forever. This show that CNN has poor credibility and is not always unreliable. This just shows how you should not believe what you watch on television, even if it is the News.

Entry #2 Pass the Tequila

Mexican liquor

Did you know that Tequila is actually the name of a city in Mexico? It is in the same state I was born in (Jalisco, Mexico) Just North-West of Guadalajara. In order to produce liquor and have it called "Tequila" it has to be made in the city of Tequila. I got really curious as I walked by a bottle of "Patron" at Fry's (I was buying "milk" hahaha No but seriously, I was buying a gallon of milk) I asked myself how it was made and discovered? So I did what anyone would do. I got on my iPhone and researched. Now I feel like a Tequila expert and let me tell you.

Tequila what?

(http://www.tequila-z.com/historia.html)

I found this cool web site that talks about the discovery of Tequila (which is in Spanish, but thankfully you have me to summarize it! ). Legends say on a stormy day, the indigenous of Jalisco were hiding in a cave, when they saw lightning hit an agave plant. Once the storm was over the indigenous people went over to see the stemmed agave plant and tried some of the liquid that was spilling out. They seem to like it and took some back to their people. One of the indigenous forgot about their drink for a few days and when he finally drank the liquid; his personality changed (the Indigenous got drunk). So the indigenous believed that the drink was a gift from god.

How is it made?

This entry is getting pre-t-t-y long so instead of me talking about the way Tequila is made I found this video. You can thank me later, it's quite interesting!

Entry #1 No way "Jose"

               My professor recently added a list of blogs we could look through to read and may I say I'm amazed at how much effort people put into a their blog!  People go all out and had a really well thought points and observations. There is a blog out there for pretty much everything. So I decided to share with you three of the blogs that I read and the reasons why I did or didn't like them.

#1:Google's Blog

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/
            Let me guess... You didn't know google had a blog? like "where we've been at though?"  I'm kidding, to be honest, I didn't know this blog existed, but I'm glad I do now. Google's blog shares interesting information about all kinds of subjects. For example, my favorite blog so far is about Abbey Road Studio where "The Beatles" and other impressive legends  have recorded. There blogs are well organized, short, and straight to the point. Which is really nice, I'm all about short and sweet readings. As expected google also is really good quality pictures and videos. There blogs are mostly to inform the reader and because they are of different subjects the audience is a wide range of people. All in all, google didn't let me down.

#2 The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

             I also liked The Huffington post which was also well organized, but it looked more like a website than a traditional blog. It was full of links, pictures, videos, and categories . On like Google's blog Huffington had more global  subjects like politics and the environment.  The audience of this blog is more for an adult you can tell by the subject they choose to talk about; not many teens are  into politics, although they should be.

#3: Perez Hilton

http://perezhilton.com/

             The last blog, I wanted to share with you guys is my least favorite. I know what you're thinking  "Addy, that a gossip blog" It is, Perez the writer of the blog does a good job with his links but could learn a thing or two from TMZ (also a gossip blog). I felt like he's blog wasn't organized  that well considering that he basically does this blog for a living. His blog looks somewhat "cheesy"  and his pictures weren't the best.