Hello, my name is James Coon. I am a first year, and live in the Winn Hall. I am not from the same place that my family lives. My family, along with me, moved to Dripping Springs, TX (south of Austin) during this past summer, but like I said this is not where I am from. Technically speaking I am an "Okie" because I was born in Lawton, OK. Just a few years after the date of my birth my family moved to Huntsville, AL, where my younger sister was born. When I was at the mere age of 5 my family moved once again, this time to Seaside, CA. The reason for all of the moves is because my parents were in the army. After another 5 or 6 local moves I ended up in the middle of the city of Salinas, CA. This is where I say that I am from.
Let me tell you a few things about the city of Salinas. First of all Salinas is familiar for a couple of reasons.
1) Salinas is where the famous author John Steinbeck is from, we even have the John Steinbeck museum.
2) It is the Salad Bowl of the world. This means that we grow produce that is shipped everywhere in the world. There are bagged salads in Europe from my city.
3) This isnt really a reason why anyone would know of my city, but there is a bank robbery scene in a movie that happened in Salinas.
Those are pretty much the highlight of my city, except for the movie theater and bowling alley. If you want to do anything else you pretty much need go to Monterey, or another nearby city.
Now, a little bit about me. As I mentioned earlier, my name is James, you can call me Robert, Steve, or Matt, but odds are I will not respond, so stick with James. I am an avid sports fan. I enjoy football, basketball, and best of all BASEBALL. I am actually playing baseball for Trinity this year. One day I hope that I could be lucky enough to make it to the majors. I do have a back-up plan though, I am going to major in business and minor in psychology. One day I plan on going into marketing. I do not really have much experience with computers and there is a lot I hopefully will learn from this class.
This will be a quick section on my family. I have two sisters and no brothers. As I said earlier my younger sister was born in Alabama, and I also have an older half sister who was born in Illinois. My older sister has 4 children and I have been an uncle since the fourth grade. Both my mother and father are absolutely wonderful, and I couldn't ask anything else from them. That is my family.
I will leave you with a little bit about how I am when I am with my friends from CA. First of all, I don't believe that there could be a closer group of friends. The seven of us enjoyed just goofing off. I'm not sure how familiar any of you are with the youtube videos that are a parody of the magician David Blaine, but we have spent time replicating those. If you haven't watched them there is quite a bit of colorful language used (just a warning). We also have made a few movies about the legendary creature known as Big Foot. Just in the past year we have all picked up the fun and time consuming hobby of solving the famous Rubik's Cube. All of us are capable of completing the cube in under 2 minutes. We are now attempting the Rubik's Revenge, unfortunetly two of us have been separated from the group because of college.
If I failed to cover something just ask me (I have a facebook, but that probably isn't much of a surprise) that is the best place considering I check it frequently.
This is a picture of my house and old baseball field. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.666518,-121.66538&z=17&t=h&hl=en
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Let me tell you a few things about the city of Salinas. First of all Salinas is familiar for a couple of reasons.
1) Salinas is where the famous author John Steinbeck is from, we even have the John Steinbeck museum.
2) It is the Salad Bowl of the world. This means that we grow produce that is shipped everywhere in the world. There are bagged salads in Europe from my city.
3) This isnt really a reason why anyone would know of my city, but there is a bank robbery scene in a movie that happened in Salinas.
Those are pretty much the highlight of my city, except for the movie theater and bowling alley. If you want to do anything else you pretty much need go to Monterey, or another nearby city.
Now, a little bit about me. As I mentioned earlier, my name is James, you can call me Robert, Steve, or Matt, but odds are I will not respond, so stick with James. I am an avid sports fan. I enjoy football, basketball, and best of all BASEBALL. I am actually playing baseball for Trinity this year. One day I hope that I could be lucky enough to make it to the majors. I do have a back-up plan though, I am going to major in business and minor in psychology. One day I plan on going into marketing. I do not really have much experience with computers and there is a lot I hopefully will learn from this class.
This will be a quick section on my family. I have two sisters and no brothers. As I said earlier my younger sister was born in Alabama, and I also have an older half sister who was born in Illinois. My older sister has 4 children and I have been an uncle since the fourth grade. Both my mother and father are absolutely wonderful, and I couldn't ask anything else from them. That is my family.
I will leave you with a little bit about how I am when I am with my friends from CA. First of all, I don't believe that there could be a closer group of friends. The seven of us enjoyed just goofing off. I'm not sure how familiar any of you are with the youtube videos that are a parody of the magician David Blaine, but we have spent time replicating those. If you haven't watched them there is quite a bit of colorful language used (just a warning). We also have made a few movies about the legendary creature known as Big Foot. Just in the past year we have all picked up the fun and time consuming hobby of solving the famous Rubik's Cube. All of us are capable of completing the cube in under 2 minutes. We are now attempting the Rubik's Revenge, unfortunetly two of us have been separated from the group because of college.
If I failed to cover something just ask me (I have a facebook, but that probably isn't much of a surprise) that is the best place considering I check it frequently.
This is a picture of my house and old baseball field. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.666518,-121.66538&z=17&t=h&hl=en
OVER & OUT
3 comments:
James (or Matt or Robert?), can you teach ME how to solve a Rubik's cube? I once spent two straight hours trying to do it.. and just to prove that I did, I took off all the stickers and replaced them to pretend that I solved it. Boo. Great blog! See you around.
Wow it seems like there's a lot about Salinas that you want to talk about! Don't forget to include the academic information too :)
Oh yay another person from Cali :)
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