Aaron Thomas

Aaron Thomas came to our school last Thursday for a speech. He talked with us about his family, including Ed Thomas, and also talked about many important issues/things in life. His three most important things in life to him is faith, family, and football. He talked about how is dad was a very great man and he never wanted to dissapoint him. Ed Thomas struggled through his teen years to try and not be like his dad and set a good example for the future to succeed. Aaron made a very good point of never forgetting where you came from what school you are from and that you remember those memories there no matter where you go to in life. This was showed by the four former NFL players that came back for the help and also to go to Ed's funeral. I believe that his speech was very inspiring to me, he showed me that I should always try hard in school or in whatever all the time because it will help you out tons in life.

Attitude towards self-improvement

In class we took the time to complete a survey for students, teachers, and coaches throughout Williamsburg High School. Our survey was called attitude towards self-improvement. Some things that we asked about is mostly questions on what are your problems with getting stuff done and what is motivating them to help their students/students motivation to improve themselves. I believe that some students just don't care to get better, they think that they will fail if they try, or that they have better concerns/problems going on int their lives to get stuff done. If everyone in the school tryed to their hardest to improve everyone could do great and we need to start getting people to believe in that.

Making Things First

It is a great challenge to figure out what to put first in life and people must make changes to fit their life. Things I need to work on to make first would be first of all my homework, I must realize that to make it far good education is a key assessment. Second would have to be my family, maybe by getting a job to help my family, and also provide for myself. Another thing is I need to work towards my improvement towards being a better athlete and also maintain the my physical shape. If you don't put the effort to change things that are important to you then you must figure out away because that can make a difference in your lifestyle.

Prioritizing

Prioritizing in life is of key importance in way of life. When you prioritize right it can lead too the goals you would like to accomplish and it helps you get a good jump on those. Homework is something I need to prioritize better, since football is done I can try to get better at doing so, because I really had no energy to do anything, which everyone experiences it (procrastination). Also people prioritize friends, you usually put the first friend that asks you to hang out first but what if someone elses asks you to do something better what do you do? Well I have this problem on many occassions every week people ask me to do something on one day and not just one multiple, this can be a struggle for me but I try to do what is right and do the thing with the person that asked me first. Of course people get mad when you reject hanging out with them but you just have to go through it. This is why prioritizing is a key component in living your life.

Guest Speaker

On class last friday we talked with our guest speaker on many different topics. The topic that came up in my mind is the idea that media always attacks the wrongdoings of many celebrities and sports stars. Why does media do this? I believe they do it to show that everyone makes mistakes and to show that maybe the person you love may have hidden bad morals. Media also uses ads in commercials, on movies, in magazines, and on anything you can think of their are ads almost everywhere. Why do they you use ads you ask? Well the reason is to persuade people to buy things that look cool and they use that celebritity or sports all-star to get you to buy that stuff. What happens when many of those celebrities gets in trouble, well their sponsors drop, which means the ad with them in it drops. So don't believe what the media or other people tell you because you never know when it is false information.