DID SPRING BREAK EVEN HAPPEN?

I need more posts so I’m going to write about what I did over spring break. So yeah, also sorry this is super delayed but it’s fine not a lot happens in my life so I don’t really know what else to write about, so I hope you enjoy anyway :-) Spring break was April 4-8, and I went to Mesquite, Nevada. When I told people that I was going to Mesquite, almost all of them didn’t know where that was, I just told them it’s around an hour from Las Vegas.

We, as in mom, little sister, my mom’s friend Susan and her daughter Molly started out by driving to St. George, Utah. The hotel we stayed in was actually the worst. The so called pool had nails and glass at the bottom, when you sat on the pool chairs, they fell apart, the rooms smelled like cigarette smoke and mildew and there there were stains on the sheets, from who knows what…. yikes. But, luckily, we went to Mesquite the next day. 

We stayed in probably the most famous and only hotel in Mesquite called the Casa Blanca. We stayed at the Casa Blanca for three days and four nights. Let me just say, we never left the hotel until we left to go home back to Park City. Some people may be confused by this, because you’re just supposed to have a hotel to come back and sleep in, and what about food? Well, the Casa Blanca is hella fancy and they have an entire restaurant in the hotel that serves literally anything you want. I ate breakfast for every meal during those few days. Let me just say, it was the best thing ever. I went from a breakfast sandwich to some Belgium waffles. Basically heaven.  

You may be wondering, well, what are you supposed to do at a hotel? That’s where the freaking amazing pool comes in. All of us just sat out at the pool or swam around in the huge pool for the whole day, and I mean the entire day. We were at the pool from around ten in the morning until five in the afternoon. 

This is the front of the hotel and it doesn't look as majestic as it does in real life, I found a lot of better pictures but they weren't good quality :'( 

Photo Courtesy: Las Vegas Golf Resort

It was so relaxing to not think about school or worry about making sure my dogs are let out and feed. I had no responsibilities and it was just so, so, so nice. I think it’s important for people to take breaks from “life” like this. It benefits your mental health for sure, but maybe not your physical but that’s okay! 

Anyway, there is a giant casino all over the first floor of the hotel. And I actually got sick from the smoke that came off the cigarettes that all of these people were smoking. Ew, another PSA, please don’t smoke, it ruins your health, makes your pearly whites turn not so pearly, and is just plain gross. 

Well, that was my spring break in 500 words. Lets just say I want to go back because it was the bomb.com.

I LOVE EDUCATION!

Okay, I want to learn. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I actually love to put new knowledge into my brain. I love spitting out random facts about how to cure a brain freeze, or that calico cats can only be female. What I don’t like learning is information that is crammed into my brain because we have to “know” it by the end of the year because the information is on the core test. This just isn’t fair, and this isn’t how we should be learning. 

If you didn’t already notice, I put quotation marks around the word know in the paragraph above. Learning something and knowing something are completely different things. I mean yeah, I have learned how to make a square inside a circle in math but I honestly still don’t know how to do it. Don’t get me wrong, obviously most of the stuff I know is because I learned it, but some stuff you just know, you know? For example, for me, I know that I hate tomatoes, the taste, the texture, everything, I just hate them. The thing is, I never learned to hate tomatoes, I just know because of my senses. 

I saw this picture on Google images and it really reminded me of what I was trying to talk about, but it made more sense worded this way.

Picture Credits: The Quotepedia

Okay, now I should probably get back on the subject. School sucks. Period end of story. Everyone hates it, or at least hates aspects of it. Common core and standards have ruined school for me, and I mean, I’m not a teacher, but I bet that they agree. Teachers have stuff that they want to teach their students about, but stupid standards and people they don’t even know control what comes out of their mouth. Oh you want to learn more about genetics, well sorry, we don’t have time, or, well that’s not in our curriculum, or we’ve already learned enough of that. 

Knowledge is important. It gets you down the hall to your next class, or back to your house. If you didn’t have knowledge, you would be screwed in life. Basically, I should be going to school and learning stuff that actually matters and will actually help me in life. Not some crap about mitosis and meiosis, and I don’t even know what that stuff is. This could be another problem, school just isn’t fit to everyones needs, and I wish I could think of a way to change this, but I can’t.  

I kind of get off on a lot of tangents so I’m terribly sorry if none of this makes any sense, but I needed a blog post so I just kind of typed my heart out. But, in all, there are a lot of flaws in the education system. Some are harder to change than others, but I believe that  we should focus on what can be changed. Things like how many standardized tests we take, or how much of something we learn. Well, I hope this post made some sense, I mean I tried to turn my thoughts into words but it’s pretty hard to do. Maybe school should teach me how to to my thoughts into words instead?