My favorite bandss

Music is a big part of my life and I listen to it all the time. I couldn't go a day without listening to it. When I was little I was a closet Backstreet Boys and Aaron Carter fan but those days are long over. My favorite band now would probably be Chevelle and Breaking Benjamin. Some other top bands that I listen to a lot are Hollywood Undead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, and there are many more bands that I love to listen to.I like alternative rock, classic rock, and some hardcore screamo rock. Music drives me to do things and I listen to some hardcore music before I play soccer and it gets me pumped and ready to kick some a$$. Music makes people do a lot of things and if it wasn't for music our world would not be what it is today.

MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

My birthday is on Friday and I can't wait! I will be 19 years old and I am throwing a party at my friends house. It should be a good time and this is the first year that it will be on a Friday so I don't have to worry about school or anything else. I have never really had a birthday party, usually for my birthday it will just be my parents and my brothers and sisters. I have never had a party with just my friends so it will be a new experience for me. I probably wont get that many presents, but that doesn't really bother me. It'll be nice to just be with all my friends and have a good time and have no worries because I have not had a night like this in a long time. A lot of my friends from back in Indy are coming up to Muncie this weekend for my birthday so it will be nice to see them all again. It will be a night to remember and I can not wait!

my new house

Next year I am going to get a house with my roommate Kyle and another kid on my floor named AJ. Hopefully if we have enough room we can have a couple more of our buddies live in our house. Our friend AJ's parents said that they would buy a house here in Muncie for him to live in since he will be here for 6 years. After he is done with school his parents will rent out the house to other college students. The house we are looking at is basically on frat row because AJ is a member of Sigma Nu so he wanted something close. He also is going to bring his hot tub and his big 72 inch TV from home. Our house will definetely be a house where lots of fun times will take place. I hope I have my own room because I need my privacy after this year and always being with someone. Hopefully soon we will get our house because we will have more houses to look at if we look earlier and there will be more possibilities if we don't like the house that we have chosen.

ISHMAEL BEAH!

Ishmael Beah came to speak at Ball State and the turnout was a lot more than
I expected, I had to sit at the very top balcony. Everyone who I talked to seemed pretty excited about it though. When he walked out it kind of surprised me, I thought he would look different, although there were posters everywhere I pictured him differently. He had a very good personality, he was making jokes about everything and his experience. I didn't really expect him to be joking around but he was very lighthearted. It just made it that more enjoyable. He talked for about an hour and toward the end he said something that I thought was very deep and is something that should be told to people, he said "when you are asking for forgiveness you are not asking to give back what was taken, you are asking for a new chapter." This quote is something that is very intriguing to me and it is something that holds meaning in my life. When they opened up the floor for questions I expected questions like what was the hardest part and how did you recover from all that and do you have nightmares about what happened? Most of these were answered and when a girl asked for him to rap I got rather excited but he ended up not rapping. It was a very interesting to see him in real life and it was something that was very anticipated all over campus, and he didn't disappoint.

NFL Opening Night

The opening game to the NFL season just happened and it is a good start to a great season. The Steelers and the Titans played, the final score was 13 - 10 on a overtime field goal. It was an exciting game and it was nice for the preseason to finally be over. The Colts are still my favorite team, although they lost some players they are still going to be a pretty good time and they are going to have a touch division with the Titans. They have always been my favorite team and Reggie Wayne and Peyton Manning are some of my favorite players and they are an unbeatable duo. After Tony Dungy left they have a lot of rebuilding to do and this season will be a different season, they will still be very good but it won't be the same without Tony Dungys presence on and off the field. I have lived in Indy all of my life so I have been a Colts fan for a very long time. I can't wait for the season to get underway and it will be very exciting!

X - Fest

This weekend I am going to a concert back where I'm from in Indianapolis to attend a concert at Verizon Wireless Music Center. There are going to be 7 bands there, it is a alternative rock concert but when I mention to people they have no idea what I am talking about. The bands that are going to be there are Alice in Chains, Red, Hollywood Undead, Hurt, Cavo, Sick Puppies, and Cage the Elephant. These bands are all good and I listen to these bands a lot. I'm going with my friend Dan and some other friends from back in Indy. I have gone to this concert for the past 3 years and every year it is a different set of bands and they are all bands that are from x103 which is the radio station that plays all this type of music and they are the people that is putting on this show. Every year they hold this concert and it is always a good time when they do. I can't wait for this concert and it will be a night to remember!

Memoir Free write

There was a time not too long ago, the day before New Years in fact, that I did something that was very stupid and that I've come to regret. I so happened to be hanging out with my friends Justin, Nathan, Ryan, and Brad that day. We hadn't been doing much that day, we just were playing some catch, and we also played some Fifa Soccer for the Xbox, which I am not going to lie I am pretty good at. Bayern Munchen is my team and I always beat everyone when I am that team. Everyone gets mad at me because they are all sore losers. Only so many videogames can be played until you get bored though. We were playing for a while and it was getting late, around 10, and we decided to go drive around. Now around this time of the year people still had all their Christmas decorations up and other decorations for the holidays. Now being bored teenagers we decided that we were going to have some fun with all of these decorations. We went around a neighborhood and my friends would get out of the car and would knock peoples decorations over and would take the little orbs that people would have in their yard because they thought they were so cool. Now keep in mind this was a little car and I was sitting in the middle so I couldn't even get out. So I was not the one being the vandal. Brad and Ryan would get out and mess with peoples stuff and would occasionally make people's reindeer look like they were doing things that were innapropriate. I knew at the time that this whole thing wasn't very smart and I kept telling them. At one particular house a man was outside in his car and saw them get out and mess with someones yard, he immediately got out and followed us. Brad and Ryan ran so the only people in the car were the people that didn't do anything. Justin tried to make it on a main road before he could catch us but he called the police and they came before he could reach it. They made us get out of the car and put our hands up, it was probably one of the scariest moments that I have been through. Not to mention it was very cold. After everything was sorted out, they called our parents and we had to be picked up. I personally was not in trouble because I didn't do anything wrong. My parents were furious with me and I was definately in very big trouble, there went my new years! I will never allow myself to get in a situation like that again and I have learned a lot from this experience.

Man i love college, HEY!

I am glad to be in college, the transition to college life has been pretty painless and I am very excited to see how the year progresses. I was kind of afraid at first because I was unsure what to expect but I am pretty settled in and I am enjoying it. I never really have been on my own so it was kind of interesting to see how I would handle it. My brother is a senior here so I always have someone to ask for advice if I need it. He lives a short ways of campus so it is nice to just go over to his house if I get tired of the dorms. I also have many friends that attend Ball State so it just makes it that much easier. I like all of my classes and I am actually eager to learn, my senior year of high school was very laid back and relatively easy so this year will be different but I am ready to take on the challenge. My roommate is from the same high school from me so I have known him for a while and know what to expect from him. We get along well so I don't think that I will have a problem this year. I chose Ball State because I like the campus and I knew that it would be a good fit for me. I know the school pretty well because I would take trips up to Muncie, or "Funcie" as it is commonly known. I can't wait for this year and all the exciting things to come such as all the football games, meeting new people, and broadening my horizons and doing new things. I also look forward to playing soccer and staying in shape so I don't get the freshman 15. College is a place to do your own thing and grow and I am very ready for this.