Virginity for sale...

This very dedicated individual is putting up their virginity for sale in order to pay for their college tuition. That is the single most creative thing I have ever heard of in my entire life.

If you would like to help her pay for college, simply click on the link and make an offer.

FASTWEB

I've said this before and I'll say it again, FASTWEB is THE number one source for finding scholarship information. Fill-out a profile as completely as you can and let FASTWEB do the work for you. You will find many scholarship and internship opportunities that will fit your needs.

~~Good Luck!

Great Places to Volunteer During the Summer:

• The Boys and Girls Club


• Your local hospital


• Your local sheriff's office


• Homeless shelters


• Food Banks


• Ronald McDonald House


• Your local library


• Your local Red Cross


• Your local Salvation Army


• Political Campaigns


• Environmental Organizations


• United Way


• Senior Citizens Centers


• Helping Others Learn to Read


• Habitat for Humanities


• The Guideposts Sweater Project


• State Parks


• City Programs


• Animal Shelters


• Web site creation

Have fun this summer!!

*For more ways to volunteer click on this link: 20 Ways for Teenagers to Help Other People by Volunteering

10 Cool Jobs and What They Pay

Well, the title says it all. I guess I can stop searching for my dream career now.
***Courtesy of Monster.

1. Cowboy: If you dream of living the rural life as a cowboy, consider a position as a ranch or farm manager. You can expect to earn between $25,000 and $35,000, says Brady Lynch, an agricultural search consultant for MRINetwork Management Recruiters of Sioux Falls LLP. “A lot of times [benefits] will include other things like housing, a vehicle and even beef or chickens,” he adds. Find ranch hand work and farm manager jobs.


2. Actor or Singer: Most actors have second jobs, and they often end up as waitresses, teachers and administrative assistants. About 50,000 Americans work as actors, earning a median income of $11.61 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Singers and musicians do better, earning an average of $19.73, but in both fields, the work is so erratic that the BLS can’t calculate reliable annual earnings data. Find a job in media, arts and entertainment.


3. Brewmaster: It’s every college guy’s dream and a reality for about 4,000 members of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling. Study to become a brewer at The Siebel Institute or the University of California at Davis. The typical brewmaster salary ranges from $25,000 at a local brew pub to more than $100,000 at a larger national brewery, says a source at a national brewers trade association. Find brewery jobs.


4. Professional Golfer: You need nerves of steel and a love of travel to survive as a professional golfer. Average yearly winnings in the Ladies Professional Golf Association were $237,598 in 2007. With 190 ladies on the money list, top-ranked Lorena Ochoa earned more than $4 million, while 190th ranked Cindy Pasechnik earned just $2,156. If you want to stay in one place, work as a golf pro and earn a median salary of $57,141, according to the Salary Wizard. Find a job as a golf pro.


5. Cruise Director: Cruise directors are the multitaskers of the seas. At American Cruise Lines (ACL), the cruise director organizes and goes on shore excursions, manages guest speakers, schedules entertainment, does concierge duty and then circulates in the dining room to pitch the next day’s events, says Joe Pascarella, ACL assistant manager for operations. Hospitality recruiter Renard International in Toronto says the average salary for a cruise director is $45,000 to $50,000. If you have bank teller or retail experience, consider signing on as a casino cashier or for a job in an on-board retail shop. Find cruise-related jobs.


6. Personal Trainer: The vast majority of the 235,000 personal trainers and exercise instructors aren’t selling their DVDs at Wal-Mart; they’re working in health clubs, where they earn an average of $31,170, according to the BLS. Find personal trainer jobs.


7. Academy Awards Ballot Counter: For the past 72 years, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Entertainment and Media practice has been counting the ballots cast for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Academy Awards. The two partners who run the 10-day ballot-counting team get to sit backstage and pass out the envelopes with the winners’ names inside. Inside Public Accounting says the average compensation for an accounting partner was $461,272 in 2007. Since your odds of becoming one of the two partners handling the task are as remote as your odds of winning an Academy Award, consider an alternative: working as an accountant in the entertainment industry. Find accounting jobs in the entertainment field.


8. Broadcast Sports Reporter: What’s not to like about a job where you watch sports, talk sports and interview athletes? The paycheck may not be as large as you’d imagine. The median salary for the approximately 9,300 US broadcast journalists is $50,730 while the 40,000 or so people working as print reporters earn a median salary of $38,620. Find reporting jobs.


9. Firefighter: There’s a lot of work out there in firefighting but the competition is fierce, so you’ll need mechanical aptitude, physical fitness, and a bit of firefighting or emergency responder education to win a paid position. The good news is that if you can land this job, opportunity will abound. The BLS projects the industry will grow 12 percent between 2006 and 2016, to 404,000 jobs. The median salary for firefighters is $41,190. Make chief, and you could more than double that salary. Find firefighting jobs.


10. Flight Attendant: Free flights are the best perk offered to flight attendants. Attendants’ salaries start at around $16,000 a year, according to the Association of Flight Attendants. But salary goes up as you stay on the job, and the median salary for the 97,000 US flight attendants is $53,780, according to the BLS. Some airlines have minimum and maximum height requirements, and you can’t be too large to walk down the aisle facing forward. Speaking a second language will make you more appealing to international airlines. Find flight attendant jobs.

Get Your Vitamin C!

Looks like Forever21 has some cute stuff for the summer. Have fun shopping!

Polish Holocause Hero Dies

Nobel Prize nominee, Irena Sendler died, May 12, 2008 at the age of 98. She has been credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

She was a 29-year-old social worker with the city's welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939.

". . . Seeking to save the ghetto's children, Sendler masterminded risky rescue
operations. Under the pretext of inspecting sanitary conditions during a
typhoid
outbreak, she and her assistants ventured inside the ghetto — and
smuggled out
babies and small children in ambulances and in trams, sometimes
wrapped up as
packages. . . ." ~~YAHOO! News

This woman risked her life doing something that she didn't have to do. She is an example of the good that can exist in this world.

Here is the link to the full story: Polish Holocaust hero dies at age 98

College Planning Sites

These are some of my favorite college recruitment/help/scholarship/search sites:

• Monster
• Zinch
• Next Step Magazine
• The College Board
• Super College
• Scholarship Experts
• College Answer
• Fast Web

Feel free to leave a comment if you like these and would like links to some more.
I hope that your college application process will be smooth sailing. :-)

Paris,

The City of Lights, possibly one of the most beautiful places in the world. I've never been there but I hope to go some day.

This year my French 4 class got to go to Paris over Spring Break. Needless to say, I wanted to pull my hair out when those who had the opportunity to go began to describe how wonderful, it was, how amazing of an experience it was...

Well DUH!!

Of course it was amazing, but was it necessary for them to rub it in my face?

It really irks me when these little rich kids, who get everything they want from mommy and daddy, come to class, flaunt everything they have, and make YOU feel bad.

I really don't mean to sound jealous (even though I am), or petty, but its just how I feel.

These are the people that inspire me to be work hard. I don't want to be like them, I don't want everything handed to me on a silver platter. I want to be a hard working rich kid.

I will be able to have everything I can dream of, but I won't be the one to flaunt it or rub it in other peoples' faces.

So now whenever I see this picture I will be reminded of the person that I want to be and the things that I want to accomplish.

My Take on High School, College, my Future, and Life.

(Inspired by: BOREDOM)

OK so I was on-line looking at various colleges, then, as if I were in a boxing ring it hit me; most of the colleges require admissions essays. Most of the time they expect you to get personal, really personal. They want you to pour out your guts to them, but, what if you don't get accepted? Does it mean they don't like you? Does it mean your inner thoughts are weird? Does it mean you're weird or unwanted? WHAT DOES IT MEAN !?!
I don't think it is fair that they judge us based on a five paragraph essay. I think that they should omit the essay portion of the application all together, and just go by your grades, your test scores, your extra curricular, and your talents.
I'm really bored so I guess that is why I am making such a big deal out of this. I am also really nervous about this upcoming year and a half. It is SO scary to think that pretty soon my life is about to change drastically (hopefully).
But that change is a good thing. No more high school. No more immature, mean, evil, fake high school people. (Ha-Ha) No more annoying teachers. No more lockers that you can't get to because there are so many damn people in your way. No more bottom lockers. No more overly crowded hallways. No more anything negative that is associated with high school.
Another scary (but good) part is that we are going to meet new people. Hopefully, they will be nicer, more laid back, and less judgmental. Hopefully, there will be no "cliques" in college. No fights, no drama, no mean people. I hope that college will be "the experience of a lifetime". I hope that it will be nothing like high school.
I remember going into high school, thinking that it was going to be "the experience of a lifetime". It was because of shows like Boy Meets World and Lizzie McGuire that I believed it. I went in expecting to make life long friends and I would meet cute boys. I also thought that there would be that one really mean girl (Claire) and my group of friend and I would be the ones to always stand up to her and dump slime on her (don't ask). Needless to say, I was very wrong. High school is full of Claires, there is nobody to stand up to them, and if someone does decide to stand up to them, it usually ends up in a fist-fight, and no laugh track in the background when the he or she gets slime dumped on them.
I really hope that I am not wrong about college. I really do hope that it will be the "experience of a lifetime". It has to be. Even if it isn't, I'll make it the "experience of a lifetime", you know why, because life is what you make of it. We can't go into situations expecting them to be the "experiences of a lifetime" because it won't always be. We can't go into college saying it will be "the experience of a lifetime" then not do anything and get as disappointed as we were in high school. Because after that, we will go in to real life and expect that to be "the experience of a lifetime" (I have got to stop using that phrase). We can no longer sit at home and wait for that "experience of a lifetime." (Last time I used it, I swear.) We have to get up, get out, and find it!
So what am I saying here? Why am I writing an essay? I don't really know. I guess this is just what boredom will do to you.

Happy Mothers Day!

This year I got my Mom an ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery. Its called "Strawberry Passion"...possibly THE BEST Red Velvet, Strawberry ice cream cake I have ever had. I shall never go to another ice cream place again!

What did y'all get for your moms?