Achievements and Updates

Hey guys,

Sorry for going so long without updating. These past 2 weeks have been amazingly busy, and I barely have had any free time. Last week I moved up from English 2 to English 3, and along with that I had to take American Govt./Econ. These are both honors classes. So now I have those, Algebra 2 honors, and speech. I am very lost in math. Chapter 1 was ok, but I am so confused in Chapter two. These kids know this stuff from Algebra 1, I was never taught it. Plus the teacher is giving us extra hard problems because "We are honors kids, we should be able to do them". Yeah right! We have a "MINI-TEST" tomorrow that I have a feeling I will fail. If so, I'm going to have to consider tutoring or something, because I can't go all year like this.

I have had so much "catchup" work in English. We are reading "The Great Gatsby", and being 6 days behind everyone else, this past weekend was spent almost entirely with reading and catching up. I finally did it but I'm still loaded down with work in that class. It's really frustrating and stressful.

Speech class is awesome though, I love the teacher. She's not nice and easy going, but very professional. She used to be in the Broadcasting industry. Today and last Friday we did our 2 minute speeches which were the first graded speeches. She told us to not expect anything above an 80. She said she is grading us strictly so we can improve. If you want to see my speech, here it is. I did this as a practice last night:



I was very nervous but think I did ok. I made an 82, but like she said, anything above an 80 on our first speech is outstanding. She said that she could really tell that I was a theater student because of how I presented myself in front of an audience. She said that really helps with public speaking.

Today, I was offered by the drama teacher, to help out with running the lights for the show they are doing. She said I was one of the only guys that she could trust with that and got along well with the cast members. I felt a little weird since I was kinda hoping to drop out of the drama club until I took it again next year. Another thing, if I do this also have to come with them to a state championship in a couple weeks, which will be a 2 night trip. I think it will be fun, but again I will feel kind of like an outsider since I didn't even audition for the play. Oh well, I think I'm gonna do it and it will earn me thespian points, which will be enough to get me into the National Thespian Society. I think I am like 3 points away from that. So I am planning on helping out and going. She told me to see her during my lunch tomorrow.

Ok, so now it's time for some YOUTUBE NEWS!

On January 25th, 2009, at 12:17PM, I reached my 1,000th subscriber on Youtube!


Here are the entries I have received as responses. Thank all of you guys! I loved them!

sadlztube (Love the song! One of my faves!)


jtankte (Wow, 2 videos? You are awesome Jake!)



veronacz (Haha Steven, you always crack me up!)


Titanicluver (Another one of my favorite songs...remixed!)


corkeyboo (Haha, slow down next time! ;) )


lassy98 (You are very random... and that is cool!)


Randomjuan (Thanks for the advice! As you can see [further down] I already used it!)


YOU GUYS OFFICIALLY ROCK! :)

I am also working on a collab dedicated to my favorite YouTuber, VenetianPrincess. It will be a spoof of one of her spoofs, lol. I have been emailing her and she is "honored I am making this"! So I want to make it the best it can be. If you haven't entered, please do!



I have received about 10 entries so far. Plus, I have been talking with another Internet celebrity and he really wants to be a part of it so hopefully he gets time to enter it. I don't want to give out his name because I don't want people to enter for the wrong reasons, but trust me, he is a VERY big name.

I guess that's it for tonight. Sorry for the long entry, I had a lot of catching up to do. Jake's little brother is in the hospital so please keep him in your prayers. They don't know what is wrong with him yet but hopefully he gets better soon :( I'm praying for ya dude.

Everyone have a great night, especially you Jake!

- Clifton