Trip to Peru

    Throughout my thrilling life, I have been on many fun, life changing trips to France, Belgium, the United States, Japan, Korea, Palau.  One of my favorites and probably the most best experiences was my trip to Peru in South America.  The summer after my sophomore year in high school, our school took a trip to Peru.  A teacher at our school is originally from Peru, and every other year she takes high school students to her lovely home country.  We all had so much fun thanks to her.  Everyday she went out of her way just to make sure we had fun.  Going to Peru was my first time being in South America and I am so glad Peru was the first.  The trip was a fantastic experience and literally life changing.  Out of the 20 people that went on the trip, everyone said they had enjoyed the trip so much.  A few other teaches accompanied us on the trip and they turned out to be very cool.  Everything about that trip was amazing.  I had a lot of fun.
     While we were in Peru we visited many different parts of the country.  We literally stayed in 7-8 different hotels around the country.  That is how many places we went to.  It was tiring, but every single time it was worth it.  We spent countless hours riding on a bus.  The longest bus ride we took was about 16 hours.  That was the only bad part about the trip, other than that everything else was perfect.  We visited Lima, which is the capital city, Puno, Cuzco, and Macchu Picchu.  My favorite part of the trip was all the sight seeing.  Machu Picchu was probally my favorite out of all of them.  All the ruins were absolutely beautiful and when we finally got to the top, the view was breath taking.  I had never seen anything like that before.  You look down and all you see are the Incan ruins from thousands of years ago.  You look up and you see mountains covered in clouds.  It was perfect, literally.  We walked down to check out all the ruins and they were actually pretty interesting.  We saw how and where the Inca people lived.  It started to rain, so it got super cold and we eventually had to leave and head back to the hotel and call it a day.
     On our trip we also went river rafting and zip-lining.  They were both pretty exciting and they got my adrenaline rushing.  We also tried alpaca meat.  I wasn't a big fan of it, but it wasn't that bad.  One of the better activities we did was sand boarding.  We were literally in a desert and we would board down the huge hill of sand.  It was amazing.  It was pretty similar to snow boarding, but i enjoyed it more in the sand.
     Towards the end of our trip, we visited the children's hospital in Lima, Peru.  The hospital was full of kids that had mental, physical, and even emotional dissabilities.  I was assigned to a room with four young children who were all around  the age of 8 and 9.  One of them had a tumor in his brain which caused his eyes to be pure red.  Another kid had his legs removed from a severe burn.  I made cards with all four of the kids and they seemed to enjoy my company.  Putting a smile on their faces was the best feeling in the world.  We played board games and sang songs with each other and when it was time to say goodbye, they all shouted my Spanish name, Juan Carlos, and waved goodbye.  Seeing these children and all the misfortune they had in their lives really made me realize how lucky i am and how thankful i should be for everything that i have.  Being to that hospital made me appreciate all the little things.  My favorite trip could not have ended any better.
 
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It Is Better to use Your Knowledge and Experience to Solve Problems than ask Other People for Advice

     In my opinion, i 100% agree with the the thesis.  It is better to use your own knowledge to solve problems rather than asking others for advice.  First of all, by using your own knowledge to solve problems you learn to become independent and learn to stop depending on other people for help.  Learning to depend on yourself and not on other people is a sign of maturity.  Learning to be an independent person can benefit you in the future when your mom and dad are not there to give you advice or to tell you what to do and what not to do.  It is better to learn and experience early and use what you have learned when you grow up and there is no one there for you.  The second reason why using your own knowledge is better than asking other people for advice is because you can learn from your mistakes.  If you do something on your own and it turns out to be bad or wrong, you eventually learn from it and hopefully never do it again.  You can learn how to trust yourself and not depend on other people.  Learning to trust yourself is a key to a successful future.
     By becoming and independent person, a person can learn to do things on there own.  I'm not saying that doing everything by yourself is good.  Sometimes a little advice from someone once in a while is good.  When you are completely lost and hopeless, it is best to get help or advice.  When it comes to doing homework it is best to use your knowledge.  We go to school and learn for a reason.  That reason is to use what we have learned.  When we are young we tend to ask our friends or our parents for the answers to a question or for money.  As we grow older we learn that we don't that have that option.  If we ask other people for advice or answers to a question when we are young, when we go to college we would be lost and not know what to do.  Our parents won't be with us in college to tell us what to eat and what not to eat.  By using your own knowledge we get used to doing things on our own, which shows a sign of maturity.  Part of being an adult is learning to trust in yourself and learning to depend only on yourself.
     By using your own knowledge instead of asking other people for advice you can learn from mistakes.  If you get a question wrong on your homework or on your classwork you will learn what you did wrong and probably will never make the same mistake again.  If you just ask a classmate for the answer to a problem you will never learn what is wrong and what is right.   You will get so used to relying on someone for answers throughout middle school and high school that when you get to college and the real world you wouldn't know what to do.  You'll realize that your friends are not there to tell you their answers and you'll regret not doing things on your own.  You'll regret not trying to learn as much as you possibly could.  You'll be so used to relying on someone to be there for you and when it gets time to find a job and pay bills you wouldn't know what to do.  By doing things on your own you'll learn how to trust yourself and realize that you won't need your mom or dad or your friends for anything anymore.
  

My Favorite Metaphor of Love

My favorite metaphor of love has to be "She swept me off of my feet."  The metaphor, she swept me off of my feet is being compared to nature.  A metaphor is a figure of speech where a word is compared to another object or action which is not applicable.  For example love can represent a hurricane, storm, wind, tornadoes, or a flood.  Love can be compared to a lot of things, but one of the most common things it is compared to is nature and the world.  In my opinion the term she swept me off of my feet means that the love that this individual felt for this girl had a strong enough that figuratively blew him off of his feet. It pretty much means that the love felt from an individual was very lust.  It can also mean that someone has fallen in love with someone deeply and instantly.  I believe when someone says she swept me off my feet it leans toward falling in love with her instantly instead of later on in the relationship.
     I relish the metaphor she swept me off my feet because it is more of a short term love instead of something that last forever.  It is short term because figuratively a persons love can blow by you and sweep you off your feet, but literally gravity will pull that person right back down.  This metaphor refers to more of a girl friend boyfriend type of love while many others like "she is a part of him" refer more to the husband and wife type of love or relationship.  At this age, marriage is way out of the picture, which is why my favorite metaphor is "she swept me off of my feet."
     Being young is not the only reason why she swept me off my feet is my favorite metaphor of love.  Another reason is because it can be compared to nature, and i absolutely love nature.  I am fascinated and motivated by nature.  I love hiking and going to the beach.  I also like camping and riding on boats after a long day and the best feeling in the world is cold wind blowing on your sunburnt skin.  Being swept of your feet by love can be compared to being swept of your feet by wind.  One is realistic to a certain degree and the other is literally impossible which makes the term she swept me off my feet a metaphor.  Being swept of your feet can also be compared to a storm or a tornado.  Again one is realistic, the other is not.
     Nature and being young is not the only reason why she swept me off of my feet is my favorite metaphor of love.  Another reason is because it is usually instantly and deep.  I believe in love at first sight and in my opinion, she swept me off of my feet is the way to put love at first sight in to words.  Falling in love instantly means that there would be no need for waiting on anything.  For example, instead of a person trying to do everything he or she can to impress his or spouse, there would be no need for that since there is already instant love.  Love at first sight is hard to put in to words and i my opinion she swept me off of my feet is the best way to describe it.
     Love is special.  Not everybody finds loves and an even smaller amount of people find it instantly after meeting another person, which makes the metaphor "She swept me off of m feet" my favorite metaphor of love.

   
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My Favorite Metaphor of Love

My favorite metaphor of love has to be "She swept me off of my feet."  The metaphor, she swept me off of my feet is being compared to nature.  A metaphor is a figure of speech where a word is compared to another object or action which is not applicable.  For example love can represent a hurricane, storm, wind, tornadoes, or a flood.  Love can be compared to a lot of things, but one of the most common things it is compared to is nature and the world.  In my opinion the term she swept me off of my feet means that the love that this individual felt for this girl had a strong enough that figuratively blew him off of his feet.  It pretty much means that the love felt from an individual was very lust.  It can also mean that someone has fallen in love with someone deeply and instantly.  I believe when someone says she swept me off my feet it leans toward falling in love with her instantly instead of later on in the relationship.

Myself

     My name is Christopher Lee Cepeda.  I was born in Guam on the year 1996.  Right now i am currently 16 years old.  I am about 5 feet 8 inches tall.  I was born in Guam, but i was raised and currently reside in the island of Saipan.  I am a nice, kind, and fun teenager whose always up to do anything dangerous and interesting.  I attend Saipan International School which I have been at for almost 13 years now.  I am half chamorro and half korean, but the only language i can speak is English.  My favorite school subject is History.  Even though I get good grades, school is not my favorite thing.  I hate waking up every morning just to go to school.  I love to sleep, and i rather sleep the whole day rather than attend classes.
     My favorite type of music is Rap and Hip Hop.  Some of my favorite artist are Drake, Kid Ink, Chris Brown, Mike Posner and many more.  I usually listen to music before a game, when I am studying, or when i write blogs.  I love listening to music.  I feel like i can get away from all the bad things in life and just forget it for a little bit when i listen to some music.  Music  also calms my nerves before a basketball or volleyball game, which is always necessary.  Not only can it calm your mind and your nerves, music inspires me and gives me ideas for my blogs.  I love Rap and Hip Hop, but i also listen to a lot of different music.

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     Another thing I like to do is travelling.  I have been to places like Belgium, France, Palau, Peru, the US, Canada, Korea, Japan, and Guam.  I love experiencing and seeing new things and travelling gives me the opportunity to see what else is out there.  I like trying the different types of food each country has to offer.  For example Escargot from France which is snails and giant clams in Palau to even world class chocolate in Belgium.  My favorite place I traveled  to has to be France.  The food was amazing and we got to see things like the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa, and the museum where the Mona Lisa is kept.  My trip to Paris was a life changing experience and in the near future I hope to travel to new places and experience some new things.

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     Other than traveling and listening to Rap and Hip hop,  I love to play sports and my favorite sport is basketball.  My favorite basketball player is Kobe Bryant.  I have played basketball since I was only 11 years old.  I fell in love with the sport right away along with baseball, but i knew i liked basketball way more.  My dad used to be one of the best players when he was in high school so that motivated me to become atleast close to what he was.  I pushed myself everyday to reach my full potential.  In 6th grade i joined my first real basketball team and in my first game i sucked.  I realized i had to train harder so i did and started realizing that my hard work was finally paying off.  Starting in 8th grade i went to Nike sponsered basketball camps in California.  Every summer after that i was invited back so i just kept on going.  I like playing basketball because it is a very intense, physical, and tiring sport.  Now i play on 2 different teams and shoot around by myself wenever i do not have any homework or when i have spare time on the weekends or sometimes after school.

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New Years Resolution (School Year 2013-2014)

My name is Chris Cepeda and I am 16 years old.   I was born on Guam, but I was raised on Saipan which is also where I attend Saipan International School.  Saipan is a tiny, beautiful island right by Guam.  For the past 5 years my new years resolution for each school year was to either get straight A's or to not make all the teachers hate me, or to become a better basketball player.  I finally achieved those goals so I decided this year that I wanted to do something different.  I decided that my new years resolutions for the school year 2013-2014 is to go skydiving at least 10 times in Guam and to lose 15 pounds and gain 10 pounds of muscle. 

       Guam is known to be one of the best spots to skydive in.  Fortunately for me and the rest of the people of Saipan, Guam is only a 45 minute plane ride away! Skydiving has always been at the top of my to do list.  The only thing that stopped me from doing it was my mom and myself.  I've always wanted to try it, its just I was too scared because I am really afraid of heights.  Now that I am 16 maybe my mom will start trusting me, and maybe I can actually start trusting myself.  Skydiving once is easy.  Doing it 10 times is way scarier and way harder.  The first 2 or 3 times would probably be nerve wrecking, but that's what I like.  I like the rush I get from doing dangerous stuff, that is what I live for.  I have always wanted to feel an adrenaline rush as intense as skydiving.  I want to feel that air blowing in my face.  I always wanted to see the world in a different point of view or a birds eye view.  I was born on Guam and seeing the island from a birds eye view while skydiving would be absolutely amazing.  When I grow old, I want to tell my 16 year old son that when I was his age, I skydived 10 times on to the island of Guam.
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       My second new years revolution for the school year 2013-2014 would be to lose 15 pounds and gain back 10 pounds of muscle.  In elementary school I was always the fat kid.  A few summers ago, I decided that I didn't want to  be the fat kid anymore so I worked out everyday and I ended up losing over 20 pounds.  I felt better then I have ever felt.  I was more confident in my self, for once I actually felt good about who I was.  Now I want to feel even more confident in myself.  I want to be ripped and big.  I'm not one who believes in lifting weights at such a young age.  Instead of lifting weights, I would eat healthier, do push ups and sit ups and do certain sports that would help with my resolution.  I want to get involved in mixed martial arts.  I believe that is the best way to get in shape and to get ripped.  I have always loved watching mixed martial arts, but once I tried it I fell in love with it.  MMA is a combination of all types of martial arts such as boxing, jiu jitsu, taekwondo, karate, judo, etc.  To get the body I am looking for I would have to do about 100 pushups throughout the day, do 100 sit ups through out the day, and train in mixed martial arts at least 4 times a week.  It may sound like a lot, but I know in the end, it will all be worth it.

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New Years Resolution ( School Year 2013-2014 )