Sometimes on sunday nights when im bored i like to watch 60 Minutes with my dad and tonite a women was interviewing a man on fast food these days and how many calories everything is and how these companies can keep competeing with each other and it really astonished me. I mean this woman seemed like she actually had no interest in the questions she was asking and what the interview was virtually even about but as i noticed calories intake has such a higher power on what people look at when reading a nutrion label that it really is amazing how different food is. For example they went to subway who actually showed there calories on the menu and it was really weird that after this women got this relatively plain chicken sandwich it ended up to be around 700 calories. But what bugs me is that when looking at nutritional labels on food most people look at calories and at nothing else and thats how they judge what to eat. But then they dont look at the grams of trans fat or all these mystery chemicals that are really bad for you and even though a big salad may have more calories than a small french fry when looking at the actual nutritional value they cannot compete so i think the way american looks at dieting is all wrong

In AIS this week we had the pleasure of going downtown to look at some cultural architecture and see The Crucible at the Stephan Wolf Theatre and when we went downtown i didnt really know what we were goign to do down there but when they said we were gonna like walk around and look at buildings i was like wow this is gonna be boring looking at old dirty buildings all day but when they said that we were looking at Native American architecture it just didnt strike me that there would ever be a numerous amount of hidden architecture aroudn the city. So when we went around and looked at the architecture i feel bad now bc i kinda again like many people do all day, looked over this beautiful and puzzling picture and i didnt really understand what was going on and it was cold and i wanted to get a starbucks so i kinda just looked at it and kept walking. But in class on thursday when we went back over the pictures and had to decide what they meant or symbalized it realyl striked my interest. Like for example those two statues in the park of the Native American on a horse with a head dress and how the tribes that inhabited the mid west NEVER wore head dress's seemed astronomical too me b/c u would never suspect a huge statue that took so much time and effort and plannign to end up ebing politcially and culturally incorrect and all the sterotypes we saw in the architecture really made me have a deeper understand for the native americans and how they really kinda started america in a way and there is never really much reference too them and with thanksgiving coming up i hope we can learn a little more about the true meaning of thanksgiving.

This week in AIS we have been working very diligently on our "Perilous Times" project with the numerous wars America has been related to what strikes me as interesting and also almost scary is how much money wars are. I mean we spend something around 50 million dollars a month on the war in Iraq and i don't understand what for. And although i dont understand why really we are still there when the middle-east has been in chaos for decades and what makes us think we can really change things, i mean maybe we can but why should we be having up to ten american casualties a month. I mean whats also frightining is where is all this money coming from. I mean there is just so many wasted money i believe the government is throwing away where we, America, have many problems of our own. I mean with these huge california forest fires and Hurrican Ivan near florida. I mean just really i was watching a movie comercial for some movie with will smith but it shows him in front of NYC or some huge bustling town but its completely empty and he says that god didnt end the world, we did. And i think that that is a very though provoking line in which the way we really do end the world and how these huge companies make all this money and eventually we'll be the consumers of basically three different huge organizations. I just think its funny on how companies disguise things like one needs them when its basic things one haves around there house. For example my mothers is the biggest consumer on the planet and put an infomercial and she will be on the phone in minutes but anyways an example is this new "Clorox anywhere hard surface tm" and its just so stupid like my mom was spraying it and i was saying mom you realize that that is basically just really watered down bleach and it is and its just so stupid. Also if the sales tax goes up to 11% in Cook county like where is this money going. And like the taxes around here are so much and yea we get a great education but then we go and spend around 5 thousand dollars on getting 2 like HD Toshib tv's in the main entrance that no one ever looks at but we can't replace a broken desk. Or paying $800 for a semesters worth of books and then the bookstore buys them back for half the price of what you paid and then sell it back in the fall for double what they paid you for it. I mean with all the wasted moeny and all the debt in the world should we be preparing for a perilous time?