twilight

I saw twilight and I loved it!! Edwards sparkling was so fake! jacob was ugly! mike was funny so was eric edward was awesome excuse my bad english (no commas) gotta type fast!! BYU is going to win!! alice was so perfect rosalie was pretty good emmet was hot!! loved him!!! loved charlie didn't like who played him but I started to llike him he was funny lol! well enough for now! I loved it!
BYU roxs!

speech, busy, basketball, play, everything...sooo busy!!

I didn't place in the speech festival but I'm okay with it. I did my best, thats all that matters.
I tried out for basketball today and hopefully I get on the team! that would be rad.
I have to memorize all my lines for my play so wish me luck! :)

my speech

hey guys!! tomorrow I have to present a speech in language arts. I'm in honors so all the pressure sortof comes to our class but then it doesn't. If I present this well I will go on to perform this in front of the school. well here it is!! hope you like it. by the way my friend clair and her family inspired this!! love you guys! ps. the indenting and the paragraphs didn't exactly work so it looks better in the origanal. love you!!

Immigration
By Baylie Benson

The word immigrate means to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence. When you think about immigration you never think it would happen to you or anyone close to you because you don’t think it’s your problem. Little did I know that I would gain and lose a friend to immigration.
In third world countries there is poverty. Some of the people in poverty are willing and able to work hard. They come to the United States looking for honest hard work. True, some people that come aren’t honest. They come through the border showing fake identifications, visas, passports, green cards, etc. Then they make trouble and expect the government to not put them in jail because they’re an immigrant. Some people come into the United States, looking for work, but having no way to support themselves or their families. Because of the troublemakers and the people who rely on the government, the citizens of the United States are reluctant to open the borders.
Some people come with the understanding that to gain the trust of the United States they must work hard. They come and apply to get citizenship or a green card. Sometimes they are able to get them faster and others cannot get them for up to 10 years! For example, my friend’s family, had been living here for about six years, never causing trouble, or relying on the United States, and they still had to be deported because their citizenship had not been accepted yet.
Our country was built upon immigrants, built upon their sweat, and tears, and their dreams. If there were no immigrants then there would be no America. Not all of the people that came, or still come, are all poor. Some came to have freedom of religion. Some came looking for a better life. Some came looking for money. Still some came because they had no choice.
Our economy is failing. Stock markets are going way down, and we have had one of the biggest bank crashes in history. The economy is so bad that the government called it a recession. Recession means going back or a withdrawal. The United States is telling the immigrants, to go back to their home country. They are doing this so that they can give all the jobs to Americans. Many of the immigrants were attempting to get citizenship before the recession was declared.
I believe that if an immigrant, or a family of immigrants, is legalized, and paying taxes, has a job, is not relying on the United States to feed them or clothe them, they should be able to stay. If they are providing for themselves and their family then their application for citizenship should be put at the top of a stack. What our economy needs is for the people of the United States, be them immigrant or not, to work together, to make peace between countries, and bring our economy up. That is what I believe.

joys in life

my birthday!

Today is my birthday!! I'm finally 14. If I was in Canada right now I could drive, well start to drive anyway. last night I went to madame butterfly with my two friends annika and caitlin! then we went to leatherbys and we had so much fun. then today i went to the BYU football game and we won of course! 42-39! annika came with me! now I am babysitting, cuz noone had time to hang out with me on my birthday. well thats life right! well d2h anyway! love you all!!!
peace, love, and laughter!

I got a haircut

I got a haircut and this is what it looks like

kodachrome

I had lots of fun at kodachrome!! we went on lots of hikes and I got lots of exersice. we went through these slot canyons and it was kinda funny, cuz I kinda fell off a small cliff. it was at the end of the slot canyon and it just dropped odwn and I fell and now I have do many bruises I cant even count them!! well love ya lots!!

clair is gone!!!!!

clair is gone!! one of my best friends is gone until college and the occaisional visti! well one shout out so my friend cass HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASSIDY i LOVE YOU!!!

ahhhh

what are we gonna do? my moms gone at scrapaway and my best friend is leaving to canada!! I think I will go die of sadness!!! sorry but I dont know if i can live through her leaving! sure she'llvisit but I wont be able to see her for such a long time!!!!!!! the movers are there today. why canada! why anywhere!!!!! right now I am mad at the government!!!! i kinda want to sue them and I could but i would probably lose. but Id be on the news right? well right now I am going to go eat a gallon on ice cream then go lose all of the new fat on the wii fit. lol I dont actually know if it works tho. oh well!! i hate the process of losing weight! its so hard especially when you are in a really sad time. I really hate hormones!! they are so horrible!! they really are!! well enough venting for now!! so long farewell aufveidersein (sp?)
peace love and laughter

sorry

sorry I haven't blogged for a while. nothing new has happened. I am so sad that clair is leaving!!!! well..............let's see. I dont have anything to interesting, I am in the middle of uploading new picures for people on my blog. Go BYU!!!!!!! ok my new state of the union

i like ..................I dont

facebook............ myspace

friends............... friends moving

birthdays........... nonbirthdays

missions.............. seperations

food .....................losing weight

spending .............saving

Washington D.C .saving money for it

Peace love and laughter

ow!!!

I just went to the eye doctor and I get to have contacts!!! i'm way exited!! but at the moment my head hurts because of the eye stuff that they put in there. well I'll live

I've been tagged.............again!!!

ok I've been tagged again so here we go!

7 things I plan to do before I die
1. travel all around europe, france, italy, greece, ireland, ect.
2. go to disney land
3. get married(not in the near future)
4. have kids (again not in the near future)
5. read more that 500 books
6. have a big spacious backyard
7. go to wachington D.C

7 things I do now
1. read too much
2. get too much flair on facebook
3. blog alot
4. crave icecream more that I should
5. procrastinate
6. spend money too fast
7. babysit, babysit, babysit

7 things I cant do
1. start reading a book then stop in the middle of it and return it to the library
2. drive
3. stop clair from moving to canada :'(
4. be organized
5. break habits
6. make dinner without burning it
7. sew

7 things that attract me to the oppisite sex
1. height
2. healthy
3. fit
4. nice
5. protective
6. worthy
7. loves me for who I am

7 things I say most often
1. nessness at the end of a word like happinessness
2. goody goody
3. i love you
4. go away
5. I'll be down in a second
6. what?
7. lol

7 celebrities I admire
1. ozmonds
2. jenny philiips
3. kate king
4. my mom (shes a celebrity in my world)
5. stephenie meyer
6. taylor swift
7. jordan pruitt

7 favorite foods
1. raviolis
2. chocolate
3. cheesecake
4. vannila icecream
5.mint gum
6. lasagna
7 . hawaiin haystacks

7 people who need to do this
1. mom
2. cassidy
3. leslie
4. clair
5. sheri
6. jana
7. kelli
Peace love and laughter

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

I MADE THE PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am clair Partridge! I am a college student and the play is called curse of the cobras kiss! I'm so exited!!!!!!
Peace, love, and laughter!!!

new news

I tried out for volleyball. I got on the call backs. Then i didn't make the team. but that's ok. i tried out for the play today, so we will see what happens i will post when i know!
peace love and laughter

I've been tagged!!

Six random things about me!

1. my biggest pet peeve is when people brush me off and they ignore me!
2. i have and will never have the chicken pox because I am imune but not because of the vaccine
3. I get the randomess jokes at the randomness times
4. I dont like math but I find it refreshing
5. My favorite subject in school is history
6. I have problems with stress
I tag cassidy and clair
peace, love, and laughter

sadnessnessness! :'( and hapinessnessness :D

:( sadnessnessness: dirk died. He was a good man, and my mom and dad's best friend so we were all very sad.I am so stressed!!!!! my homework is piling up and It is really hard to keep up so I'm struggling.if anyone has any ideas to relieve stress I would love you forever and ever!!! so to answer chloe's question about the fashion show, I am going to do one but its going to be of all my friends and I will post pictures and wonderful things.
:D hapinessnessness: Brenda is in romania now so we are all very happy for her. I tried out for volley ball today and hopefully I get in. I love you guys!!!
peace, love, and laughter!

its official!!!!

It's officially official!! I am in geometry and clair thinks this is dumb because I totally skipped algebra! so clair and annika think that I am dumb because they have a bet on how long its going to take me to fail the class, so any way thats whats new with math.
in german I get a german name. it is Lisl I love it. Annika's is Anya, and clair's (even though she doesn't take german) is dagmar. it is a girls name I looked it up :P so It's been a good 2 weeks so far! well tata for now my friends

my peices of flair

i'm going to tell you about nyself with peices of flair see if you can guess!!

alright I have started chool

I have started chool and it's been interesting. heres my scedule and something about the class that I learned.
A Day
1-Algebra 1- Ms. Hawkins- its math, its boring
2- Honors English - Ms. Lauren- we have lots of stuff to do!!!!
3- Office assistant- office- it can be boring or busy
B-lunch!
4- P.E -Mr. Simpson- we have homework!!In P.E.!!!!

B Day
5- Honors Science- Mr. Bone - For once science will be fun!
6-German- Mrs.Ellsworth- this is going to be difficult
A-lunch
7-Girls choir- Mrs. Jones - less writeing more singing
8- Honors U.S. History - Mrs. Olds - more homework than usual

well you have fun with this heres my scedule

my vampires

these are my vampires!