My report is on heroes a Persian proverb says that “when its dark you can see the stars.” When I first joined mattew ‘s class I thought that the class was going to be super boring but it turned out pretty freaking cool. I really have had a lot fun and then we read this comic or a graphic novel called persepolis it was a really a touching novel. It was a bout this girl in Iran and about how her life was it was kind of weird to read but it grew on me ha ha. And then I read that quote “when its dark you can see the stars”.
Heroes I have hero his name is Jeremy Lusk he was a part of the metal mulisha.
He was just a small town kid just like my self and he made something of himself by just riding his dirt bike. The biggest reason for being my hero is because he came up from nothing and he used to just ride the track and just skip to the big double in the middle of the track. One more thing that I think why I liked him so much is that he just wasn’t as cocky as the rest he was way down to earth but had high dreams. He threw the biggest whip that everyone has seen ever .
On Febuary 10th my hero was crushed he was at the xgames in Puerto rico doing the backflip heartattack . He wrecked the bike landed on him and it broke his neck my dreams were crushed. But just like that quote it made me just want to ride harder and be just as good or better than he was. And that also puts me in the adversity and challenges quote also but now I am a better rider and that I am.
Jake
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
My Summer
My summers are always kind of exciting but at the same time I hate them because every summer I work everyday so I can pay not only my own bills but some of my parents. Last year during summer I worked doing construction almost everyday so that I could buy a dirt bike. But I had a problem I couldn’t hold on to my money because of my addiction. Now I think that I was stupid for it but then I thought I was invincible and had loads of money but I thought wrong it was the stupidest thing I could have possibly done. But then one day I thought ill just take a certain amount of my paycheck every week and maybe I could get enough money for a new dirt bike. So I just kept saving and saving until I had about 4,000 dollars cash and I went out and chose what bike I wanted it was a KTM 450 it is my baby and my first really big bike. I was amazed when I first went and looked at it I had never really been sure of anything before but then I got on the seat of the bike and started and I fell in love ha ha but its true. I turned to the man who I was buying the bike from and said absolutely ill take it and that was the end of that it was crazy fast and I had never ridden anything like it before. Now I know that I’m getting to fast for it but at the time I was dumb founded at it (probably because I had only had a Suzuki rm 125) and I thought that was fast at the time. I was racing in the 125s class but then I immediately jumped to a 450 it was a big difference but im a speed freak and when I got on that bike I knew it was for me. The first day I bought I topped it out and I think it was some were around 110 or 115 mphs I loved it and it was just amazing. It was the only thing better than my addiction and I loved it . but then the worst possible thing happened to me. I was racing my cousin in Wyoming around this endurance track and I hit this huge natural double and my bike stalled in air. I started to freak out, my nose end started to drop and I thought I was going over. I was scared but I just pulled up as hard as I could and barley landed I was pissed and I looked down and my boot was covered with oil. The guy I bought it from had loosened the crank shaft bolt and that’s something you should never do so they came out went down in my engine and shot out of my case. 1500 dollars later I had my bike back and I was happy but all of the money came out of my pocket so I was broke but at least I had my bike.
Jake
My summers are always kind of exciting but at the same time I hate them because every summer I work everyday so I can pay not only my own bills but some of my parents. Last year during summer I worked doing construction almost everyday so that I could buy a dirt bike. But I had a problem I couldn’t hold on to my money because of my addiction. Now I think that I was stupid for it but then I thought I was invincible and had loads of money but I thought wrong it was the stupidest thing I could have possibly done. But then one day I thought ill just take a certain amount of my paycheck every week and maybe I could get enough money for a new dirt bike. So I just kept saving and saving until I had about 4,000 dollars cash and I went out and chose what bike I wanted it was a KTM 450 it is my baby and my first really big bike. I was amazed when I first went and looked at it I had never really been sure of anything before but then I got on the seat of the bike and started and I fell in love ha ha but its true. I turned to the man who I was buying the bike from and said absolutely ill take it and that was the end of that it was crazy fast and I had never ridden anything like it before. Now I know that I’m getting to fast for it but at the time I was dumb founded at it (probably because I had only had a Suzuki rm 125) and I thought that was fast at the time. I was racing in the 125s class but then I immediately jumped to a 450 it was a big difference but im a speed freak and when I got on that bike I knew it was for me. The first day I bought I topped it out and I think it was some were around 110 or 115 mphs I loved it and it was just amazing. It was the only thing better than my addiction and I loved it . but then the worst possible thing happened to me. I was racing my cousin in Wyoming around this endurance track and I hit this huge natural double and my bike stalled in air. I started to freak out, my nose end started to drop and I thought I was going over. I was scared but I just pulled up as hard as I could and barley landed I was pissed and I looked down and my boot was covered with oil. The guy I bought it from had loosened the crank shaft bolt and that’s something you should never do so they came out went down in my engine and shot out of my case. 1500 dollars later I had my bike back and I was happy but all of the money came out of my pocket so I was broke but at least I had my bike.
Jake
Friday, May 8, 2009
Adversity and challenges
I think that I have overcome quite a few challenges but at the same time I have a lot to go. For example healing from my dirt bike accident I have just barely started to race again. It is sometimes very hard to overcome some of your personal challenges like for me it was to get back on my dirt bike and start to race again but I am and I am even happier that I am. One of the quotes that we got in English yesterday was “the robbed who smile steal something from the thief”. I started to think about what that meant and it got to me. I was sitting at my kitchen table pondering what that meant and I realized not just what it meant by saying that but the meaning. Because how I go about life is if someone steals from me they must need it more than I do.
Then I realized that by living the way that I see life is to do exactly what that quote says by smiling at anything and everything that happens good or bad then your life is always just a little bit better than it was before. Like for example, I was just chilling doing my own thing out on the street down by my house when I saw one of the people that I really don’t like. He was riding his bmx bike and he called me some names. I just blew it off like what ever and then he tried to show of to these girls that I was chilling with and he totally ate it hard and my first reaction was to laugh at him and just turn around and keep walking. But remembering that quote I went and walked over and asked if he was alright and helped him up and he was almost dumb founded that I would do that for him. It was just like that quote he hasn’t even tried to call me names or pick fight with me any more just because I did that for him I came out of that experience with a new friend and a better attitude and that is one of my harder challenges.
Jake
I think that I have overcome quite a few challenges but at the same time I have a lot to go. For example healing from my dirt bike accident I have just barely started to race again. It is sometimes very hard to overcome some of your personal challenges like for me it was to get back on my dirt bike and start to race again but I am and I am even happier that I am. One of the quotes that we got in English yesterday was “the robbed who smile steal something from the thief”. I started to think about what that meant and it got to me. I was sitting at my kitchen table pondering what that meant and I realized not just what it meant by saying that but the meaning. Because how I go about life is if someone steals from me they must need it more than I do.
Then I realized that by living the way that I see life is to do exactly what that quote says by smiling at anything and everything that happens good or bad then your life is always just a little bit better than it was before. Like for example, I was just chilling doing my own thing out on the street down by my house when I saw one of the people that I really don’t like. He was riding his bmx bike and he called me some names. I just blew it off like what ever and then he tried to show of to these girls that I was chilling with and he totally ate it hard and my first reaction was to laugh at him and just turn around and keep walking. But remembering that quote I went and walked over and asked if he was alright and helped him up and he was almost dumb founded that I would do that for him. It was just like that quote he hasn’t even tried to call me names or pick fight with me any more just because I did that for him I came out of that experience with a new friend and a better attitude and that is one of my harder challenges.
Jake
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Any talent on demand
So in the Matrix they can download any type of talent they want, that would be nice. Anything anytime hmm.. I think that I might choose to be able to fly or be indestructible, but eventually I think that all of these talents would become curses, don’t you think? But there is a way around it, to just download a new one I guess. But I really don’t know what I would choose if that happened to me. I think that I would choose to be able to have any power all in one how is that for critical thinking ha ha. Well first things first I would make it so I was invincible then get really good at some sport or something and become pro so then I would be rich then I could go from there. Then maybe I would probably make my self so that I can teleport that would be cool also so one second I’m in Japan and next to the Netherlands. But in the end I would probably just become a super hero or villain it could go either way just fighting crime or causing it I guess it would depend on my mood. Like super man or the joker so that is what I would do if I could have any power at any time.
Jake
So in the Matrix they can download any type of talent they want, that would be nice. Anything anytime hmm.. I think that I might choose to be able to fly or be indestructible, but eventually I think that all of these talents would become curses, don’t you think? But there is a way around it, to just download a new one I guess. But I really don’t know what I would choose if that happened to me. I think that I would choose to be able to have any power all in one how is that for critical thinking ha ha. Well first things first I would make it so I was invincible then get really good at some sport or something and become pro so then I would be rich then I could go from there. Then maybe I would probably make my self so that I can teleport that would be cool also so one second I’m in Japan and next to the Netherlands. But in the end I would probably just become a super hero or villain it could go either way just fighting crime or causing it I guess it would depend on my mood. Like super man or the joker so that is what I would do if I could have any power at any time.
Jake
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