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sorry salituro, i kind of copied one of your titles!

Colleen's(I hope thats the right name) presentation of her trip to Tenzania, really opened my eyes to how lucky our country is. Its not that before her presentation I thought our country was terrible or anything, but, we aren't exactly grateful for what we have here. Or at least that's what I think. We all have our problems; many are worse than other's, within each household, town, state, etc but as a whole I think we forget how lucky we are and how well we live compared to other countries. We individually get so caught up in our own problems that we forget about all the lucky things we actually do have compared to others. And the sad part is, we're all guilty of it. I know I am very guilty of it. Maybe its just me, but I feel like so many people are so busy thinking that their life sucks so much and they get so caught up in contemplating how bad everything is, that they forget about the good things that are happening to them. In other words, they're so consumed with the bad that they take for granted the good. I find it a large issue today, and maybe thats why more and more people are diagnosed with depression as the years go by. But now I'm drifting from my main point, which is that we're all so busy just thinking " me, me, me."

my first blog!

So this is my first ever blog! Before I start, i want to say hi to Doris and Michelle. And of course, hi to Mr. Salituro!
About me:
My name is Anita. I've always been really involved with school, as nerdy as that sounds. I'm the treasurer of the class of 2009- in another words I'm one of the 5 officers of senior class board. The 5 official positions in class board require a full election, which includes putting up campaign posters around the school, making a speech to the members of the board, and obtaining the most elected votes. But, I ran unopposed so its not as accomplishing as it sounds. Being an officer not only means running all general meetings but it also requires attending student senate weekly. Student senate is where the officers of every class board and officers of student council meet to discuss upcoming school events such as dances, spirit walk, project dance, etc.

I'm also one of the choreographers for BOSS. Whenever people hear that I'm in BOSS, they get confused and ask how I'm in it if I'm a girl. BOSS has girl choreographers to make the dances and teach to the guys for the assemblies. But, we don't take all the credit, a lot of the boys help out in creating dances too!

Other than that, I work too. I work at Macy's in Northbrook Court(which Salituro seemed pretty excited about). Its a pain in the butt, but its not too bad of a job. I've had worse.

Now that I'm done sounding like a work-a-holic nerd, I guess I'll say a little about my social life. During the week I'm always packed with my clubs and work but on the weekends I always find time to hang out with my friends. We don't do anything too exciting. I think the most exciting things we've done this summer is go to my friend's lake house and went tubing in the water. Or go to shows where our friends' band plays. And I guess that pretty much sums everything up!