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Surfing it is fun and relaxing, which I believe everyone should have access to. I personally am not the best surfer in the world, but I can catch a wave. It is a awesome way to start your day and gives you time to think about your day or life. My idea is to have a pro gram were people from different communities come take lessons and just surf. These people would be people who wouldn’t normally be able to have access to surfing. They wouldn’t just learn how to surf, but be able to meet people from different communities than their own and gain a new hobby from it.

Over the past weekend the sailing team and I went to a regatta at Stanford. After a long grueling drive from LA to the San Mateo Marriott, we were able to relax in the hot tub and talk about the upcoming racing. Before regattas we talk about different factors that might affect or racing at the venue. Some of these factors are wind speed, current, and where the course might be on the water. Unlike the forecast, it turned out to be a windy day, which in my opinion makes sailing easier. During this day our team were getting consistent scores in the top 10, which means that we were most likely in the top three. Sailing is like golf, the least amount of points win. Nearing the end of the day we were in second place, with University of Hawaii in first and Stanford in third. Stanford prides in themselves always winning, so they were pretty pissed. Our regattas are fleet racing, which means that 18 boat are racing against each other. Instead of sailing their own race, Stanford started to go o...

Born on Third Base by Chuck Collins is a great about that looks at the inequality debate between the rich and poor from the perspective of the one percent. Chuck is a part of the one percent and describes his journey through his life and his struggle with dealing with the privileges that he received from birth. He did not agree with having enough money to not work for the rest of his life and he decided to donate a majority of his wealth. He wanted to live his life to his value and not to the fact that he is very privilege and wealthy. He utilizes his privilege and wealth to start a non-profit that would help the people help fight against inequality. Except most people want this fight to be violent and out of rage towards the wealthy, but he believes that through his organization they can help peacefully facilitate the debate. He helps with this by utilizing his perspective from both sides. This book has helped with my perspective on how each side perceives the other. It is also ...

Some say San Diego has the best burrito, but I beg to differ. From experience San Francisco has the best burritos. My personal favorite burrito is the carnitas burrito with pinto beans, cheese, Spanish rice, guacamole, a little bit of sour cream, and either hot sauce or jalapeños. All in a large flour tortilla steamed with the cheese, which will not break ounce it has everything inside. The rice being the base, I believe makes or breaks a burrito. If the rice is too dry then it ruins the taste of everything else. Next comes pinto beans, which can’t have too much liquid on them when they are put in the burrito. The greasy, juicy, and crispy carnitas comes next – chopped and pilled onto the burrito. One of the most important part of the burrito besides the meat is the guacamole. The guacamole must have a taste lime and chunks of tomato and onion in it with visible chopped cilantro in it. Most importantly it is made with fresh avocados. Sour cream, for me, doesn’t necessarily need to ...

T hree, Two,  One...Bang W in ning a Sailing  Race: No Easy Task Do you th ink racin g sailboats is a relaxing pass time with no stress at all? Or, have you never heard of sailboats racing? If so, then you are a part of a large group of people who do not understand what goes into a sailboat race. Most people I have talked to about sai ling that do not sail, believe I row and try to talk to me about rowing. Except this is far from what racing sailboats is. Sailing has been a mode of transportation, in one way or another, for thousands of years. Over this time sailboats have become faster and with that competition has arisen. Racing sailboats h as been around longer than some sports in the Olympics. An example of this is the America’s Cup, which is the oldest active trophy in international sports – started in 1851 (America’s Cup). Over tim e sailboats have evolved and continue to evolve. What's great about sailing is that there are different types of regattas (a grou...

Throughout this book he tells a story of a city kid transforming himself into a farmer. He becomes to realize by the end of his book that the land is his to keep and it is his goal to maintain this land. Hopefully, passing it along to someone with the same dedication, but in better shape than it was in before. This sense of accomplishment, I believe was realized when one of his friends parents came to the farm to check it out. These people owned large amount of cows and grew crops. The realization happened when the man asked him his opinion about something to do with the calf. It is very clear that by the end of the book it seems like he knows what he is doing because in the beginning of the book he knew nothing at all about becoming a farmer. Even in his stories about what he did transformed and became more detailed toward the end of the book. By the end of the book I noticed that he gave detailed accounts of what he did to, for example, kill and butcher a pig. Compared early on in...