The Water Wars is a futuristic novel where the world has almost run out of water. At least, that's what the people are told. Vera meets Kai, a mysterious boy who seems to have a knack for finding water. When he disappears, Vera and her brother Will go on an adventure to rescue him.
I have to admit, it took me a while to get into this book. It's not that it wasn't interesting, but it moved a little slow for me. However, once Vera and Will are off to their rescue mission, the story became very exciting.
While the novel had a good storyline, the thing that I liked most about it was that it made me think about our world today and how we are depleting our resources. Right now we are concerned about oil, but it seems very possible that water could be next. Stracher tells a good story while also making the reader visualize a world that we may not be so far from. I continued to think about the book long after I put it down.
April 12, 2011
BEDA Day #12: Where in the World is Hugo?
Welcome to Day 12 of BEDA! YAY!
Today's post features the amazing event that I participated in this evening! Tonight our RHSA and NRHH put on its first joint program called Where in the World is Hugo...a scavenger hunt! The program was a great hit and I had a ton of fun doing it. The winner is going to get $200 split between the team members and my team consisted of me, my friend Heather, and her roommate Paige. Now the one thing that made this scavenger hunt so interesting (besides the awesome things we had to do) was the fact that it was POURING RAIN OUTSIDE!
Yes. We ran around in the rain for two hours. And the cold. Good Times in the rain FTW? I think so. In all honesty though, we really did have a great time. The one problem was there was so many things on the list, it was probably almost impossible to do all of them. But I think that was sort of the point. They didn't want everyone to be able to do everything. There were basically three categories of things that we could do to get points. There were riddles, which we were able to answer most of and they were 20 points each! There were also location pictures ranging from 5-10 points. My favorite one that we did was taking a picture with someone under the age of 10. We found this adorable child with his parents about to get into the elevator, so we hopped in and took a picture with him. SO FREAKING CUTE. The last category was a list of 3 challenges for 30 points each. We only were able to do 2 of them because the third one was really really hard. You had to balance 10 oreos on your forehead. As far as we know, no one was able to complete that challenge, but our team got close. Heather was able to balance 9 of them and almost had the 10th one on there, but sadly we ran out of time.
Other then that, today was pretty much uneventful, except for my "thing that made today awesome" thing...which I figured I should put at the end...cause that's what I do...Glad this is is making sense to everyone.
Well, I'm really out of things to write and there's a lot of people sitting in this lounge now which is making me only slightly uncomfortable, so with that I'm going to get off this computer and go do something somewhere else that isn't here...
Anyway...
Thing that made today awesome: I got into this organization called NRHH, which stands for National Residence Hall Honorary! It's an organization made up of the top 1% of leaders on our campus. Yay for being a leader! :D
P.S. This weekend is Passover Break, so I'm going to attempt to get my two book reviews up for the books I read over Spring Break for the DAC. Hopefully that will work out! :D
Today's post features the amazing event that I participated in this evening! Tonight our RHSA and NRHH put on its first joint program called Where in the World is Hugo...a scavenger hunt! The program was a great hit and I had a ton of fun doing it. The winner is going to get $200 split between the team members and my team consisted of me, my friend Heather, and her roommate Paige. Now the one thing that made this scavenger hunt so interesting (besides the awesome things we had to do) was the fact that it was POURING RAIN OUTSIDE!
Yes. We ran around in the rain for two hours. And the cold. Good Times in the rain FTW? I think so. In all honesty though, we really did have a great time. The one problem was there was so many things on the list, it was probably almost impossible to do all of them. But I think that was sort of the point. They didn't want everyone to be able to do everything. There were basically three categories of things that we could do to get points. There were riddles, which we were able to answer most of and they were 20 points each! There were also location pictures ranging from 5-10 points. My favorite one that we did was taking a picture with someone under the age of 10. We found this adorable child with his parents about to get into the elevator, so we hopped in and took a picture with him. SO FREAKING CUTE. The last category was a list of 3 challenges for 30 points each. We only were able to do 2 of them because the third one was really really hard. You had to balance 10 oreos on your forehead. As far as we know, no one was able to complete that challenge, but our team got close. Heather was able to balance 9 of them and almost had the 10th one on there, but sadly we ran out of time.
Other then that, today was pretty much uneventful, except for my "thing that made today awesome" thing...which I figured I should put at the end...cause that's what I do...Glad this is is making sense to everyone.
Well, I'm really out of things to write and there's a lot of people sitting in this lounge now which is making me only slightly uncomfortable, so with that I'm going to get off this computer and go do something somewhere else that isn't here...
Anyway...
Thing that made today awesome: I got into this organization called NRHH, which stands for National Residence Hall Honorary! It's an organization made up of the top 1% of leaders on our campus. Yay for being a leader! :D
P.S. This weekend is Passover Break, so I'm going to attempt to get my two book reviews up for the books I read over Spring Break for the DAC. Hopefully that will work out! :D
April 11, 2011
BEDA Day #11: Stupid Fever, Go Away
Well hello lovely blog readers. Today's entry is going to be another short one because as the title suggests, I'm sick. I guess my five days of no sleep had consequences. What a shame.
Today's entire post is going to be about how life was awesome today. Because until I got a fever this afternoon, life was really awesome today. To start off, and this is pretty much what caused the awesomeness, it was absolutely gorgeous out today. It must have gotten into the 80s. It was lovely. So due to this great and fantastical weather, my first class got out ten minutes early. So off I went to my second class. And she walked in and was like "It's too nice outside to be in class. I'm going to hand back your papers and then you can go." Also, I got a B+ on that paper, which was a huge relief because I was really scared I did a bad job. So then I went and got lunch with Katherine and then me, Nicole, Julia, and Katherine went and sat on the quad and enjoyed the beautiful weather while attempting to do homework that lay totally forgotten beside us.
It was a lovely afternoon and even though I didn't get an ounce of work done, I totally enjoyed myself and being outside. It was just that great. Of course about an hour after that I started getting the chills and around 6:30 I came back to my dorm, took my temperature, and discovered I had a lovely fever, which has yet to go away, but really really needs to.
Also, I got one e-mail back so far from the two that I'm expecting over the next few days. This was very exciting in itself because I was starting to fear that I wouldn't get a reply. One down, one to go!
So with that, I'm going to sleep, because I want to try and make this fever go away.
The icing on the cake: My sister and I just bought our VidCon tickets. Needless to say, we are extremely thrilled for this exciting adventure!
Today's entire post is going to be about how life was awesome today. Because until I got a fever this afternoon, life was really awesome today. To start off, and this is pretty much what caused the awesomeness, it was absolutely gorgeous out today. It must have gotten into the 80s. It was lovely. So due to this great and fantastical weather, my first class got out ten minutes early. So off I went to my second class. And she walked in and was like "It's too nice outside to be in class. I'm going to hand back your papers and then you can go." Also, I got a B+ on that paper, which was a huge relief because I was really scared I did a bad job. So then I went and got lunch with Katherine and then me, Nicole, Julia, and Katherine went and sat on the quad and enjoyed the beautiful weather while attempting to do homework that lay totally forgotten beside us.
It was a lovely afternoon and even though I didn't get an ounce of work done, I totally enjoyed myself and being outside. It was just that great. Of course about an hour after that I started getting the chills and around 6:30 I came back to my dorm, took my temperature, and discovered I had a lovely fever, which has yet to go away, but really really needs to.
Also, I got one e-mail back so far from the two that I'm expecting over the next few days. This was very exciting in itself because I was starting to fear that I wouldn't get a reply. One down, one to go!
So with that, I'm going to sleep, because I want to try and make this fever go away.
The icing on the cake: My sister and I just bought our VidCon tickets. Needless to say, we are extremely thrilled for this exciting adventure!
April 10, 2011
BEDA Day #10: No Interesting Title is Coming to Mind...
I'm sad to report that nothing unusual or exciting really happened today. Today was mostly an errand/homework day for me. I did see Nicole walking in to town on my way out of New Paltz and she decided to go to Walgreens and Stop and Shop with me. That was exciting. We listened to the Burlesque soundtrack and had great fun.
Other than that, all I really did today was go to the library and work on my massive amounts of homework. I have a workbook submission for one of my classes due on Tuesday so I wrote half the entries today and am hopefully going to do the other half tomorrow. Well I sort of need to. But my whole plan and doing all my homework for Monday and Tuesday on Sunday didn't really work because there is just too much due on Monday and Tuesday. Thankfully there is no HFS tomorrow, so I'm going to take the time from like 3pm-9pm to do all my homework. Six hours should be enough time to finish all my crap that is due on Tuesday. At least I hope so. Because tomorrow night is elections for CCC, which means it's another late RHSA meeting.
In other news, I applied for the National Residence Hall Honorary last week and the members were supposed to vote today, so hopefully I'll know if I made it by tomorrow. I really hope so...I'm just really anxious to see if I got it or not.
Sorry my day was so boring...every once in a while we just get those days. Tomorrow is sure to bring more excitement. So I will leave you with one request:
One of my favorite youtuber's, Michael Aranda, is stuck in Paris, France and has not been allowed to re-enter the U.K. so he has asked people to sign a petition to help get him back in. The petition explains the whole story, so I will not, but I'd really appreciate it if people could sign it and let all their friends know and ask them to sign it. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/hybeLE
Thanks :)
Thing that made life awesome today: Kelvin overruled Tim in the RHSA office and let me sit in the chair. He's nice :)
Other than that, all I really did today was go to the library and work on my massive amounts of homework. I have a workbook submission for one of my classes due on Tuesday so I wrote half the entries today and am hopefully going to do the other half tomorrow. Well I sort of need to. But my whole plan and doing all my homework for Monday and Tuesday on Sunday didn't really work because there is just too much due on Monday and Tuesday. Thankfully there is no HFS tomorrow, so I'm going to take the time from like 3pm-9pm to do all my homework. Six hours should be enough time to finish all my crap that is due on Tuesday. At least I hope so. Because tomorrow night is elections for CCC, which means it's another late RHSA meeting.
In other news, I applied for the National Residence Hall Honorary last week and the members were supposed to vote today, so hopefully I'll know if I made it by tomorrow. I really hope so...I'm just really anxious to see if I got it or not.
Sorry my day was so boring...every once in a while we just get those days. Tomorrow is sure to bring more excitement. So I will leave you with one request:
One of my favorite youtuber's, Michael Aranda, is stuck in Paris, France and has not been allowed to re-enter the U.K. so he has asked people to sign a petition to help get him back in. The petition explains the whole story, so I will not, but I'd really appreciate it if people could sign it and let all their friends know and ask them to sign it. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/hybeLE
Thanks :)
Thing that made life awesome today: Kelvin overruled Tim in the RHSA office and let me sit in the chair. He's nice :)
Relay for Life
I know I wasn't able to get a post up yesterday, but there's a very funny story behind that. So yesterday was Relay for Life on our campus. For those of you who don't know, Relay for Life is an event put on by the American Cancer Society to help stop the fight against cancer. It is a day to honor the survivors and remember those who have lost their battle.
I've always enjoyed Relay for Life, but this year it was particularly important to me because my dad passed away from cancer a year ago (today actually). The fact that Relay fell on the weekend of his one year was kind of strange in a way, but I think it was a good experience for me because although it's been hard, I got to have fun yesterday with my friends, which always makes it easier to cope. Unfortunately, due to my lack of sleep this past week, I fell asleep probably 3 or 4 times during Relay (oops), but I still had a wonderful day.
There were really cool events set up throughout the day like face painting and henna tattoos, which of course I got. They also had a cupcake decorating contest, although I don't remember them ever announcing the winners for that. Absolut Accapella came and performed which was amazing. That was actually the first time I've seen them because I missed the last performance that I was supposed to go to.
And of course, there was walking, the whole point of Relay. We walked around the gym...a lot. Now technically your supposed to have a member of your team walking the track the entire time, but everyone on my team left at four except for me and my friend Liz, who also happened to be on committee and didn't get to walk too much. So that left me walking alone for what was supposed to be six hours. Obviously this did not happen because I'm not that awesome.
The hardest part of the day was the Luminaria, a ceremony to remember the loved ones that we have lost. While it was something that I felt good about doing, the truth is that it still hurts. It hurts to lose anyone you love, whether it's from cancer or a car accident. But it's also ridiculously hard because watching someone you love suffer from this disease only to die is a painful experience. No one wants to go through that and the truth is it just isn't fair. After the ceremony, we did a lap around the gym in silence, which is actually when I started crying. I have to admit though that something that really touched me yesterday was after the lap of silence, a girl that I sort of know from RHSA came up to me and touched my shoulder. She had no idea who I'd lost to cancer but it was such a nice gesture and it honestly made me feel better. There are truly some amazing and kind people in this world and although she'll probably never know this, that one little gesture made a difference to me and gave me enough strength to get up and enjoy the rest of the night.
Thing that made life awesome yesterday: Besides what I just talked about, FINALLY GETTING TO GO TO SLEEP. Yay! :)
I've always enjoyed Relay for Life, but this year it was particularly important to me because my dad passed away from cancer a year ago (today actually). The fact that Relay fell on the weekend of his one year was kind of strange in a way, but I think it was a good experience for me because although it's been hard, I got to have fun yesterday with my friends, which always makes it easier to cope. Unfortunately, due to my lack of sleep this past week, I fell asleep probably 3 or 4 times during Relay (oops), but I still had a wonderful day.
There were really cool events set up throughout the day like face painting and henna tattoos, which of course I got. They also had a cupcake decorating contest, although I don't remember them ever announcing the winners for that. Absolut Accapella came and performed which was amazing. That was actually the first time I've seen them because I missed the last performance that I was supposed to go to.
And of course, there was walking, the whole point of Relay. We walked around the gym...a lot. Now technically your supposed to have a member of your team walking the track the entire time, but everyone on my team left at four except for me and my friend Liz, who also happened to be on committee and didn't get to walk too much. So that left me walking alone for what was supposed to be six hours. Obviously this did not happen because I'm not that awesome.
The hardest part of the day was the Luminaria, a ceremony to remember the loved ones that we have lost. While it was something that I felt good about doing, the truth is that it still hurts. It hurts to lose anyone you love, whether it's from cancer or a car accident. But it's also ridiculously hard because watching someone you love suffer from this disease only to die is a painful experience. No one wants to go through that and the truth is it just isn't fair. After the ceremony, we did a lap around the gym in silence, which is actually when I started crying. I have to admit though that something that really touched me yesterday was after the lap of silence, a girl that I sort of know from RHSA came up to me and touched my shoulder. She had no idea who I'd lost to cancer but it was such a nice gesture and it honestly made me feel better. There are truly some amazing and kind people in this world and although she'll probably never know this, that one little gesture made a difference to me and gave me enough strength to get up and enjoy the rest of the night.
Thing that made life awesome yesterday: Besides what I just talked about, FINALLY GETTING TO GO TO SLEEP. Yay! :)
April 8, 2011
BEDA Day #8: Really Really Quickly
Alright so once again I'm writing a really really short post because I needed to be in bed 2 hours ago because I'm tired and sick and tomorrow is Relay for Life so I have to be up at 8am! OMG.
Ya. So tomorrow is Relay for Life on my campus. We don't do the overnight one because no one would come because stupid people can't give up one night of partying to help raise awareness and money for the fight against cancer.
Relay is very close to my heart this year, which I will probably discuss more tomorrow, but will briefly discuss now. I've now been touched by cancer in my family when my dad was diagnosed last year. So for the first time ever I will be Relaying in honor of someone. Relay this year is especially close though because this weekend will be the one year anniversary of my dad losing his battle to cancer, so it's actually going to be a really tough weekend. But in a way, I'm glad Relay is the weekend of this date because what better way to remember my dad than to work hard to fight against the disease that killed him? It seems kind of right in a way. Plus I will be with my friends who have meant the world to me over the past year and have helped me so much.
So tomorrow, I will be walking for my dad in hopes that more children don't have to lose someone they love to this horrible disease. How about you?
Thing that made life awesome today: It's Friday. Enough said.
Ya. So tomorrow is Relay for Life on my campus. We don't do the overnight one because no one would come because stupid people can't give up one night of partying to help raise awareness and money for the fight against cancer.
Relay is very close to my heart this year, which I will probably discuss more tomorrow, but will briefly discuss now. I've now been touched by cancer in my family when my dad was diagnosed last year. So for the first time ever I will be Relaying in honor of someone. Relay this year is especially close though because this weekend will be the one year anniversary of my dad losing his battle to cancer, so it's actually going to be a really tough weekend. But in a way, I'm glad Relay is the weekend of this date because what better way to remember my dad than to work hard to fight against the disease that killed him? It seems kind of right in a way. Plus I will be with my friends who have meant the world to me over the past year and have helped me so much.
So tomorrow, I will be walking for my dad in hopes that more children don't have to lose someone they love to this horrible disease. How about you?
Thing that made life awesome today: It's Friday. Enough said.
April 4, 2011
BEDA Day #4: This will be the shortest post ever...
Hello all. So I know that it is past midnight which means that technically I didn't get a post up for Monday, HOWEVER I have two excuses that I believe are perfectly acceptable...you can choose which one you like best.
Excuse #1: I haven't gone to sleep yet so technically it's still Monday to me.
Excuse #2: On the West Coast it's only 10:19 so it's still Monday...and I'm from the west coast even though I'm currently residing on the east coast.
There you have it. I really don't have much to talk about in this post because it's one in the morning and I have class all day and a quiz tomorrow so I need to go to sleep. Plus my throat hurts which is just not a good thing at all. Basically, I need some sleep.
I will however briefly explain why I'm writing my post at 1:20am. Monday nights are always really busy for me. Sometimes I go to Historical Film Society at 6pm and then I usually run straight to RHSA meetings after. Tonight was one of those nights. See, until about an hour ago, I hadn't been back in my building since 4pm this afternoon, when I left to go to the library to do homework. I didn't really think about BEDA because it's a Monday night and all I was thinking was "great I can't start my homework until 11pm"
So here's the other thing. RHSA meetings usually run from 9pm-11pm, however we are doing elections. Tonight was the elections for PR, so elections ran until 12:20am tonight. Which means I didn't get back to my dorm until 12:30am...an hour ago. Hence the late blog post. But it's here and it's probably crappy because I'm exhausted and haven't slept in 2 days, so with that I'm going to go to sleep.
Goodnight. :)
Thing that made me happy today: I got an 80% on my Macro exam...meaning I passed and will not be failing economics this semester! YIPPIE!
Excuse #1: I haven't gone to sleep yet so technically it's still Monday to me.
Excuse #2: On the West Coast it's only 10:19 so it's still Monday...and I'm from the west coast even though I'm currently residing on the east coast.
There you have it. I really don't have much to talk about in this post because it's one in the morning and I have class all day and a quiz tomorrow so I need to go to sleep. Plus my throat hurts which is just not a good thing at all. Basically, I need some sleep.
I will however briefly explain why I'm writing my post at 1:20am. Monday nights are always really busy for me. Sometimes I go to Historical Film Society at 6pm and then I usually run straight to RHSA meetings after. Tonight was one of those nights. See, until about an hour ago, I hadn't been back in my building since 4pm this afternoon, when I left to go to the library to do homework. I didn't really think about BEDA because it's a Monday night and all I was thinking was "great I can't start my homework until 11pm"
So here's the other thing. RHSA meetings usually run from 9pm-11pm, however we are doing elections. Tonight was the elections for PR, so elections ran until 12:20am tonight. Which means I didn't get back to my dorm until 12:30am...an hour ago. Hence the late blog post. But it's here and it's probably crappy because I'm exhausted and haven't slept in 2 days, so with that I'm going to go to sleep.
Goodnight. :)
Thing that made me happy today: I got an 80% on my Macro exam...meaning I passed and will not be failing economics this semester! YIPPIE!
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