winter olympics

It’s 2010 and we all know that this is the year of another Olympic games. It’s a time when a group of countries come together in one city to compete in these wonderful games we like to call the Winter Olympics Games. So far the U.S. are in lead of medals awarded. We have 30 medals all together, 8 Gold, 10 Silver, and 12 Bronze. This year they are hosted in Vancouver, Canada. Everybody has their favorite sports to watch and mine are Snowboarding, Alpine Skiing, and Hockey.

Snowboarding is my favorite thing to do in the winter and to watch pro snowboarders compete is so cool to watch. For Snowboarding they have the the half pipe and down hill racing. Shaun White won another Gold Metal in the half pipe with his new move he invented called the "Tomahawk". So far the U.S. Snowboarding team has 2 golds, 1 silver, and 2 bronze.

Another interesting sport that I like to watch during the Olympics is Alpine Skiing. Lindsey Vann won a Gold Metal in the downhill race with a time of 1.44.19. and Julia Mancuso won the Silver with a time of 1.44.75. so far the U.S. Alpine team has 2 Golds, 3 Silver, and 3 Bronze.

Hockey is alway a big sport in the Winter Olympic games and since the games are in Canada it's even bigger. This year the U.S. beat the Canadians in one of their bracket games with a score of 5 to 3. This game was very intense Canada was controlling most of the 1st quarter but the U.S. pulled threw and played a tremendous game. All the U.S. has to do know is win one more game and they will than be playing for the Gold. it is mostly that the U.S. will be facing Canada Again in finals.

GO U.S.A!

http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals/index.html

A Day of Fun that Turned into A Tragedy

It was a Saturday afternoon and Allie and I were at Brenna’s house to go sledding. We were all pumped to go sledding, but we didn’t know that we would be risking our lives to save an innocent animal. When we got to the side of the house where the hill was, we saw how big of a drop it was going to be. When you’re standing at the top of the hill it looks like a normal drop but if you look a little further down you notice the drop that goes straight down. So we went down a couple times but the drop is what made it fun. Allie was going down at this point and she started to drift to the left of the hill, but where the drop usually was there was a bump that looked like a ramp. She was screaming her head and then we saw her go flying into the air, at least 4ft. she came down and landed in a huge pile of snow. You couldn’t even see he head, but all of a sudden we see her head pop up. She crawls out of the snow but she notice that she lost her glove, we searched and searched but we couldn’t find it. So while Allie goes back inside to get another pair of gloves I and Brenna decide to go in to the woods and hide.

Allie came out looking for us for at least five mins. And she had no idea where we were. So after she started to get frustrated we pop our head out from behind the 5ft log pile. Once she reaches us Brenna says we should walk down to the creek that was I the woods. We started to walk in the direction of the creek when we hear Brenna’s dog Gabby following us. She follows us all the way there but on our way there we had to cross over huge trees that had fallen and a bridge that was made by two 2by 4’s. Once we got to the other side of the creek I said we should get back to the other side by climbing across one of the trees that had fallen. We all thought it was going to be a fun thing to do, what we didn’t know was how dumb Gabby is.

We went across one by one. Allie slipped and had to catch herself before she fell into the water. She climbed back on and we all crossed over safely or so we thought. Allie and I had made it over and Brenna was almost to the side. Then we see Gabby run across the thin ice and our hearts dropped because we thought Gabby was going to fall in. she made it across thank god, but once she got to the other side she decides to do it again. Only this time she falls threw the ice. We all start to panic and rush to the side of the creek. We all try grabbing her but when Allie tries she falls. I grabbed Allie by her coat and pulled her out of 20 below water. Brenna tries to grab her by her collar, but the collar starts to slip off her head. So we grab the fat on her neck and pull her into safety. Right when Gabby gets out of the water her fur turns into icicles. We rush back to Brenna’s and put Gabby into the shower to get her warm. We all couldn’t believe that we almost lost Gabby that day and from now on we will never go back to the creek in the middle of the winter with Gabby following us.

China Rejects U.S. Complaints on its Currency

The U.S. should stop pressuring China on raising the value of their currency

China is known for having low value in their currency, and that is why many countries depend on them in selling low price goods, including the United States. China’s currency is undervalued 25 to 40 percent compared to the dollar and currencies in other countries. By China keeping their currency value down they attract more customers, and by that their economy goes up. So fair China’s economy is doing way better than the U.S. and China isn’t going to give up being the number one exporting country for anything.

Obama keeps on pushing China to do the things he wants them to do, and they haven’t listened to him yet. So I think it’s time that Obama takes another approach or just forgets about how well China is doing and start working on how to get the U.S. economy back on its feet. If Obama hates how low China is selling their good for, than maybe he needs to stop buying those goods from them and maybe start making our own goods here in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/world/asia/05diplo.html