The World Cup will bring everyone together

So far this year, the world has suffered a great deal of bad news between the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There are over six billion people in this planet and there are several people that suffer everyday. There are also several people that are healthy and have a lot of success. Finally something that we have been waiting for all year is now here, the World Cup. Since the World Cup is starting on Friday, this will be a great opportunity for everyone to come together and root for our teams to victory. It will be held in South Africa from June 11-July 11. For one month, people will come together and cheer for their countries and even other teams.
There will be 32 teams in eight groups that will be participating in the tournament. The team that is most likely favored to win is Brazil, because they always put together a great club. Since South Africa is hosting the tournament, I will root for them because not only do their fans deserve to watch them play, but they deserve some success, like winning the pool.
This is the best part about sports, people all around the world watching the games/matches together. Remember the 2006 World Cup in Germany? What about the Olympics in February? Both events were exciting because millions of people in the globe watched all of these events. No matter what the results were, people were just happy to have the opportunity to root for their countries. Watching sports is a diversion for people that are suffering. Does it fix people's problems permanently? It doesn't, but what it will do is make people forget about their problems for the time being. Dreams become realities, so do nightmares. There will be success, there will be disappointments and there will even be a Cinderella story. In the end, whoever comes on top, that country will be jubilant about being a winner and having the chance to watch their national club play. Even if you don't watch soccer in any capacity, watch a least one match, you will not regret it.

Now in the working world

It has been 13 days since I have graduated from college and so far it been a blast. I have been keeping busy between visiting with my family and friends, getting called in for substitute teaching and doing some yard work. I know that I can't have a lifestyle like that forever, but it is keeping me going for the meantime. It is not easy trying to find a job these days. Even though there has been an job hiring increase in four consecutive months, it is not finding me a job. At the same time, I shouldn't worry too much because I can substitute teach for two weeks and then be a job coach for autistic kids ages 18-22 from July to August, so I have plenty of time.
At this point I just have to be patient and wait for my opportunity.
On the bright side, I got $950 for graduation money and a brand new car. It is a 2010 Honda Accord with a 2.4 liter engine, 4 cylinders and 177 horsepower. It feels good to drive a car and know that everything works correctly, unlike my previous car. My old car was a 1997 Buick LeSabre. The problems it had were unbelievable. The transmission fluid kept leaking, the gas gage was broken so I could never be able to tell how much gas I had left, the speedometer was out of whack but fortunately I got it fixed and finally whenever I used my right directional and then turn I would have to turn it off manually. Otherwise the car worked just fine. "The Boat" will live on.
It feels good to be home knowing that I have so many members of my family and friends that care about me. It is such a comforting and reassuring feeling that I am a likable person, which that shocks me. Even though there is a lot of drama in Massachusetts, it sure beats drinking a six-pack of Rolling Rock while watching a Celtics playoff game by myself. Even though it was not my best year of school, I still had many good memories and met a lot of cool people. It makes me sad knowing that I will never be an undergraduate student at UNH again. Every summer I would work, hang out with friends and get prepared to go back to school. I can still do the first two things, but the school thing is over.
Was college the best four years of my life? I would have to say yes and no. Yes, because I gained friends I will always love and trust, I got to student abroad and I learned so much in and out of the classroom. No, because of the homework, the rigorous schedule, the cliques and I never had a significant other. Nothing is perfect, so I am not even worried at the very least.

Hoyatoma steps aside; BP has to stop what they are doing

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, who swept into power last year with bold promises to revamp the country, then faltered over broken campaign pledges to remove an American base from Okinawa, announced Wednesday that he would step down. He basically quit he job because his approval ratings (meaning if people like him) were under 25 percent. It was said that he was very indecisive and inconsistent of what he said he was going to do to improve the country. It is a shame that it came to this not because he was in office for only eight months, but he broke a long tradition of the Liberal Democratic Party. Looks like it was a mistake that he broke the long time political philosophy. Mr. Hatoyama is the fourth Japanese prime minister to resign in four years, which means Japan is not an easy nation to please.
BP, the English Oil Company who is responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has taken too long and has screwed up too often since the oil spill occurred on April 20th. They have made several attempts to stop the oil flow between underwater robots, the "top kill" experiment, ice crystals trying to stop the flow, etc. Even though BP's executive, Tony Heyward, said several times that BP will stop this, they have failed to do so. The oil has hit the marshlands and areas that have threatened the lives of several animal species. When is it time for the U.S. government to tell BP to stop sucking at their jobs and take over the project? Over 30 million barrels of oil is in the water and it is nearly a mile deep into the sea. This could affect the economy and transportation in several ways. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama have claimed that whoever is responsible for the explosion that has caused the oil spill will be put to justice. I will believe it when I see it. This is the worst oil spill in American history and nothing is working to slow it down, never mind stop it. If I was Obama, I would tell Heyward, "Hey man, you said you were going to clean up your own mess. The mess is not cleaned up and it looks like it won't be. It's time for us to finish it off."