Summertime????

Every Summer for the past eight years I have gone to Camp Kooch-i-Ching in International Falls Minnesota. This summer I plan on spending my time a little bit differently. Even though I have had many great times at camp I feel like I have been missing out on the fundamental childhood summer experience. I want to be lazy and have my mom nagging me to clean my room and spend my mornings eating lucky charms and playing video games with my buddies. However, I also want to use the time I have been given to do something meaningful. Most of my friends are some type of an athlete at New Trier and whenever I got back from camp they would tell me all about their summer school sports and how they really improved their game. I love to play basketball, however I am not the best player. So I not only want to play over the summer so that I can improve my skills but also so that I can have an oppurtunity to play because there is nooooo way I am making the basketball team.
Branching out from Wilmette is also on my list of things to do. I plan on taking a road trip to the East Coast so that I can visit some people I left behind when I came back to New Trier. Nevertheless I also want to do something extrodinary. I want to go to a foreign place so that I can experience a new atmosphere that I know nothing about. I have looked into becoming an exchange student in Equador so that I can not only see the world, but also so that I can take steps to learn spanish.
So for anybody reading this; Im not 100% on what im doing so if anyone knows something better, comment on this blog and let me know what im missing.

Scrubs

Lately I have been watching the television comedy "Scrubs" quite a lot. A few years back I set a series recording on my DVR and watched every episode, since then I would catch the occasional episode, but lately I have started recording it once again. I always thought Scrubs was hilarious for the first three quarters, however, the last quarter of every episode I felt that it was overly dramatic and sappy. When J.D (played by Zach Braff) puts the ribbon on every episode, he always speaks in this quiet breathy tone and reflects on what we all have learned in the past twenty minutes. After a while I got so feed up with the endings that I would only watch part of an episode then move on to the next one. Nevertheless, now that I am older and more mature when I watch Scrubs I am able to appreciate the subtleties of the closing of each episode. At first I thought Scrubs was a simple comedy that was funny, but tried to be too deep at the end, but I was wrong. Scrubs is a complex show that can hit the viewer in both the gut and the heart. After watching a movie like "Garden State," which was written and directed by Zach Braff, I can now fully appreciate the dramatic endings of Scrubs. So for all those people out there who say that they don't like Scrubs because of the sappy endings, they are wrong. Take a second look.