June 9, 2009 - Journalism :]

Today is the second full day of class. I'm not nearly as tired as I was yesterday, but that could be because my roommate, Kelsey, and I didn't stay up until 1 AM last night like we did before. Yesterday's class was intense, to say the least. As I was telling my new friends, I've recently found out that I'm a "sheltered little white girl". In class, we went around the room talking about all the school controversies from this past school year. My other peers talked about lock downs, serious drug busts, pregnancies, etc. At my school, that sort of thing is unheard of. I'm sure it happens (not the lock downs), but we never hear about it. They don't tell us ANYTHING. They don't want to "destroy their rep," I guess. Anyways, we're going to draw our articles for the week's paper from that conversation. I think I'm going to write about the importance of the first amendment.

I'll write more later...

-Rachel