Christmas

Over Christmas break I will be going to basketball practices and basketball games. I will also be spending time with my family and friends. What I want for Christmas is for my parents to have time to relax and not stress over work and all us boys running around and fighting and yelling and being lazy. Now that I am growing up I don't really need new clothes lots of money or new toys.

going to college

I really want to become an architect. For the longest time I always wanted to build and design houses. I am going to college for me and also for my parents so they can be proud of my accomplishments. I believe that being a responsible person matters most when you are in college because no one is there to hold your hand and tell you to go study or go to your classes or go wash your cloths. I will go to my Sunday school teacher because he is an architect major and he knows a lot of schools that have good architecture programs. It will help me seek out my architecture job and I may also want to go around the world and help build houses for the poor, the starving, and homeless and also try to be a missionary.    

thanksgiving break

During thanks giving break I will be practicing basketball and playing a basketball game. on this Saturday I will be going to a wedding. on thanks giving day I will be going to the church to have thanksgiving service. after the service I will be going to eat thanksgiving food. while I am eating I will be watching the football games. After that I will be going to go home and sleep and then wake up for basketball practice.

jobs for high school students

A good job for a high school student is to mow lawns. I found this job at http://www.moneycrashers.com/part-time-jobs-high-school-students/ its hard labor but the money is good. It helps you get outside and be active and to exercise. During the winter you can shovel snow out of drive ways and stuff. You can charge as much as you want and you get to choose who's lawns you want to mow. Then you can start you own business and mow peoples lawns in a schedule. As in you put them down for another time for their lawn to be cut again. You can cut five lawns a day for twenty dollars, and you can easily make one hundred dollars a day. You can also charge more for trimming hedges and getting rid of the weeds. You can do two lawns, get rid of the weed, and trim the hedges for fifty dollars a lawn, so you can make  one hundred dollars a day. Just for two lawns.

homeless to harvard

The film was very inspiring to me because now I see that I can do anything. I can accomplish anything. After this movie I have looked back in my life all the things I have done all the things I have accomplished all the things that have happened to me. It just makes me stronger and I need to work harder. That's why now I am always the first in my class and the last out of the class. I just need to get better at getting to school earlier to do my work and get help from the teachers. I also what to get better at doing my work and not holding it off. My favorite part of the movie was when she got to go tour Harvard, because she came from being homeless going to tour Harvard. one of the smartest schools ever.    

Budget Project

I was surprised of how much it cost to live in dorms. I also thought books would cost more. I didn't expect to pay my own cell phone bills. I might be ready for the responsibility but I will give it a try and do the best I can. I should start to try to save money now for college.

Architecture and Design

Architecture and design has been my dream career for the longest. I have been interested in how houses where designed and build since I was about 7. It all started because I liked big houses and I thought it would be cool if I could design a big house that I might live in one day. As I was designing houses I started to fall in love with it and I drew houses all the time. One person that influenced me to become and architect was my dad. My dad was going to major and get a degree in architecture. He said he dropped out because there was two much work and he was becoming a daddy. Another person who influenced me was my Sunday school teacher he was also going to major and get a  degree in architecture but he started to fall in love with a new career which was interior design. I would like to become an architect because I want to prove to my father and my Sunday school teacher that I can do it and that I am a hard determined worker. I still design sign and create scale model houses. When I do get the degree in architecture and design I would like to travel the world and build houses for the poor and also be a missionary in the places I go.

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

My stress score is a 7 out of 24, I don't get very stressed about things. The only thing u usually get stressed at is if my parents tell me to do so many task at once. Like for example my dad always tells me to clean my dogs room, then he will tell me after that go do you homework. when I'm doing my homework my mom tells me to take out the trash and then help cook. I don't like to get bombarded my all the different task that has to be done around the house. Other than that I am very chill and go on with life as it has been.  

My organization plan is working for me. I currently have a lot of free time. I have a lot of time to do work and a lot of time to do really anything I want. I would say yes it works at times. Procrastinating hurts you in school. If you procrastinate you just do your work just to get it over with and you don't check over it to see if everything is correct. You can fight procrastination by stop being lazy and do your work right when it is given to you.

I'm James Nguyen I am 17. I like dogs and animals. I am a Christian. I play basketball. I would like to know how to get ready for college and get scholarships and not have to pay a lot for college.