Friday, April 20, 2012

Miley Cryus's new movie "LOL"

         Recently Lionsgate films have been basking in their glory with the production of the Hunger Games. They have another movie coming out on May 4th staring Miley Cryus and Demi Moore. There hasn't been much publicity on the movie because they weren't sure if it was going to be all that good. With the Hunger Games being a success they decided to only show it in a limited amount of theaters and just go straight to dvd.
          Miley Cyrus is most popular for her disney channel role as Hannah Montana. Transitioning to more serious roles like in The Last Song has not been the easiest for her. I personally think she did a great job in the Lost Song and is a great actress. The critics disagreed with me and think it wasn't that good of a movie. Now Miley has another chance to prove herself to everyone out there and I'm sure she can do a good job.
        Her new movie is about the teen culture and how texting and instant messaging has overtaken their lives. It just goes through a teen's life and the ups and downs they face. It may not win academy awards, but I'm sure it won't be a disappointment. She will also be staring in another movie So Undercover which is a comedy with actors Jeremy Piven and Joshua Bowman.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

FSRA change of heart

          FSRA stands for the "Florida Scholastic Rowing Association" recently they have changed their rules for championships causing the teams to field only first varsity boats in order to race anything beneath them. This is unfair for teams that aren't able to field varsity boats. Boats that race at the varsity level have been in rowing for 5 or 6 years. Palmetto Crew has only been around for a little over a year and we aren't experienced enough to race at that level.
     Our coach decided that we won't be attending the West District Championships due to this new rule created by the FSRA. We will be attending the State Championships and racing way beyond our level at first varsity. We'll be training hard and putting long hours into performing our best at states.
      I feel like the FSRA didn't put in the new rowing programs into consideration when they made this new rule. It's unfair to our program because we don't get to race out our level and actually have a chance of winning. Instead we get to race at a level way beyond ours and don't have any chance at winning. We'll perform our best and hope for the best outcome in the end.