Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I am greatly honored with this Best Editor of a Teen magizine award. I was one of the many of men and women nominated for this award, and each and everyone of them is worthy of this award. I am really exicted that i won this and i want to thank you for supporting me and trusting my professional abilities. But this award does not just go to me, it also goes to my amazing staff who have worked just as hard on this magizine as i have.
I figured out i wanted to begin studying journalism my first year at Los Angeles Universtiy. I had started college not knowing what i wanted to do and was just working on my basics. I then took a class on how to write newspapet articles. I soon realized this is what i want to do with my life. For the next four years i worked to get my Masters in Journalism and started working on getting a job. I started working little jobs at the local newspaper getting a few articles here and there, knowing i wanted to go on to do bigger things. I than one day got a call from Seventeen magazine for an interview for a columnist for their magazine i was exicted! I couldnt believe that i was being thought of for this postion. After the interview i couldnt belive it i had got it! For the next few years I worked hard to get to the top. Now look at me i am editor and chief for Seventeen magazine and i couldnt be happier.
I am grateful that i have had the oppurtunites that have came my way. I am thankful for my family who has always supported me in whatever i do. I also have to thank everyone who has ever belived in me. I am still striving to get better there is always room for improvement and new ideas. So thank you for honoring me with this award!

The school year

This school year has been a life changing year for me. I started this school year out at Cedar Ridge High School out in Newark, Ar. Where i have been going to school for 8 years. This year at Newark i played basketball and just hung out with my friends like normal. Than in December i find out i have to move to Batesville, so i thought id give BHS i try. So this semester i have been going here. I have to say BHS is way different than Newark, there are many more students here than there which is only a 2A school anyways. There are also way more extra curricular activities here like drama, newspaper, and key club. This semester i joined the track and got to know alot of people this way. We also got runner up in State!! This year has been a great year, i have grown as a person and hopefully got over some of my shyness of talking to people. So this is pretty much how my school year went for my as a Sophmore.

Westside Story

Westside story is a broadway play/movie that is set in the mid-1950s. It is about two New york gangs, the Sharks and the Jets. The Sharks are first generation americans from Puerto Rican families. The Jets are working class white boys who believe they are the true americans. The two gangs are always going at it. Tony a member of the Jets falls for Maria the sister of Bernardo the leader of the Sharks. They try to find ways to sneak around so they can be together. Than the Sharks and Jets have a rumble where Riff(the leader of the Jets) is killed by Bernardo, and Bernardo is killed by Tony who than runs to find Maria. Everything is against them so they make a plan to run away together. But than when Anita goes to Docs store and tries to give Tony a message the other gang members mess with her until tells them that Maria was killed by Chino because he found out about them when it waasnt true. When Tony finds out about he goes looking for him so he can kill him to. When he sees Maria and runs to her Chino shoots him and kills him. At the end of the movie you kind of see a little bit of reslove from the the to gangs. This movie pretty much shows how hate will kill us all.