Salsa & Soccer

Sorry it's been a while since i updated this thing... I've been really busy... studying and... stuff. : )

Intramural soccer started this week... our team name is El Fuego... The Fire. We had kind of a sketchy start since our game was at 930 Monday night, and most of us on the team had FYC at 10. We got through that and played the best team in the league last night... but we held them to only 3. They beat the team before us 12-0. : ) I'm a Co-Captain with Lindsay and we kinda give talks to the team to get them ready... or to just laugh because we have SUCH a blast... : )

Here's all of our hands, breaking it out after a game...

We're 3-3 right now... Backtrack a few weeks with me... and me and Pancho started going to Salsa class on thursday nights. We learned the salsa, tango, 2-step, spins, and all kinds of dances. It's been a blast, but a couple of sunday nights ago we went to The Oasis in Austin on Lake Travis. This place was BEAUTIFUL. We got all dressed up and ready to salsa the night away... : )

We went and hung out for a few hours, took some pictures and then went back home in time for us to get a few hours of sleep before our 8 oclocks the next day... : )

It was so much fun, that's me and Taylor in the first two pictures and me, Pancho, and Curtis in the second one. I'll try to finish updating everything that's been going on in the past few weeks in the next few days... : ) Miss ya'll!

Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisian War that is Destroying America

As some of you know, I work for the graduate college here at UMHB as part of my work-study job. I assist in doing minuscule office work, grading papers, making copies, and anything else that the boss-lady needs me to do. Tonight that included helping set up for our biggest lecture of the semester. Before I left work yesterday I was told to dress very formal and that this was a very serious event. Two of the USA Today's leading journalists and political analysts, Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel held a debate based loosly off of their new book, Common Ground: How to stop the partisian war that is destroying America.
At first I thought that it was going to be a pointless thing for me to attend and didnt expect to get anything out of it but the two, one a devout democrat, the other a devout republican, have found a place where the two titles can coexist. They are friends first and foremost, Thomas led Beckel to Christ 5 or so years ago and they've lived, wrote, and been friends since. Among the things they said were we're Americans first. On the beaches of Normandy, at the American graves, there are crosses and a few stars of David in neat, perfect rows. On these crosses and stars, are names, ranks, branches, and dates of birth and death. There's no D for democrat or R for republican. We're all the same, we all bleed red, and we're all Americans. We can have different political thoughts... but when it comes down to it, we all want to 'promote the general welfare' as one prominent document once said. The two speakers had their differences, but they have agreed to disagree and find a common ground where they can discuss the differences rationally, find out what works best regardless of what side of the table it came from, and either accept it or agree to disagree. What would happen if Obama and McCain figured this out??? Different presidential race, huh??? What if congress figured this out??? This bail-out bill may never of been needed. Peloski wouldnt of put full blame on the president for something that was mostly her branches fault. The democrats wouldnt of said none of this was our fault. Agree to disagree. Figure out that we're Americans and friends first. And then republican or democrat second. Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel have opened my eyes to the politics of the United States of America. And who knows, i'll do my research and if there's a democrat that i think would do a better job than whos in office right now or whos running against him... i'll be voting for the democrat. It comes down to who will do their job the best... in my eyes. So i'm glad i got the work-study job i did. Opened my eyes to some things. : ) Thanks ya'll.