Well,I`m gonna spend a school year here in United States which is pretty cool.Goin to a school in a different country is a little weird when there is a bunch of differences.I just remember my first day in RH.I was about to cry cuz everthing was different from my country and your life is like start over.Imagine I don`t know anyone at school I don`t stay in same room as I do in my country,Turkey,almost everthing is unfamiliar to you and you have only taken English for 3 years so at first I had difficult times to express myself it was scary. Now I'm having lots of fun and i love it.

Skate and Basketball

Transworldskateboarding.com is my favorite skate site on the Internet. It's chock full of tricks and sweet videos and tips. It also has some sick skateboard designs. One of my favorite skate videos also includes snowboarding. It's called the Shaun White album and you can find it on google video. It's a sweet video that has tons of clips of Shaun in action and it also includes Tony Hawk.

While skating is awesome I really like watching and playing basketball. My favorite players are Chris Paul, Gilbert Arenas, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, and JJ Redick. My favorite pro team is the Orlando Magic. They are gonna beast out on the Eastern Conference this year cuz the East is a bunch of chumps. My college team is the Duke Blue Devils and they always kill it. Skating and basketball are friggin sweet.

Rush-Henrietta changes Cheerleading Squads Schedule

In Rush-Henrietta, New York, the Superintendent changed the Varsity and JV's local cheerleading schedule by allowing them to not cheer at the Varsity boys Basketball team's away games and instead cheer at the Varsity girls home games. Most of the varsity cheerleading squad disagreed with this simply because none of their students were asked their opinion on the topic.
Because of the Title IX ruling in the supreme court from a number of years ago women were granted equal rights in all sports, but in Rush-Henrietta the girls varsity basketball team is mad that cheerleaders will be attending their games. Of course it's great that girls will have another opportunity to have the same rights as men, but is cheerleading really the best thing?
It's been an on going tradition at Rush-Henrietta to cheer at the boys away varsity basketball games because we're a very talented school in basketball and our boys team usually attracts a big crowd, home and away. The cheerleaders are disappointed that they can't be apart of the crowds at these away games. Of course the girls are very talented too, winning three state championships in a row, but most of the girls on the team disagree with having our cheerleading squad there.
We are glad to have opportunities opening up for more women, but we want to feel wanted where we are cheering at. For many of the seniors it's disappointing that all these changes are occurring at the end of their high school careers and are some of the "last times" they'll be cheering. For the underclassmen however, they'll have to get used to the new rules made by Rush-Henrietta and soon their fall football seasons will be affected to. This changes moves us in the direction of cheering at not only football but soccer games too. Sooner or later two squads will be needed to do all of these events, plus competitions.
Rush-Henrietta is one of three schools in Monroe County (Rochester, NY) that will be cheering at both women and men's varsity basketball games.

-Missy