Think Fast! What's your favorite thing? Write an impromptu love letter or poem to your favorite thing.

My dear, sweet pillow,
You are the fluffy tuft of my life. When I am too close to you I swoon. You are there in my time of need, whether to cry or to fight. No one could understand me as much as you can. I am faint when I am too far or too near. Terrible tiredness flees before your grace and power. You are constant in your own still way. When you are too lumpy you do not complain that I am squishing you into an even more lovable shape. If only I could be with you more. Well what am I supposed to say now. I already said it in my other letters. Could you just read those? On and on about how nice you are. Yes it's true but lets sprucen it up a little. Please.

Sincerely yours,

How important is honesty to you? Is it more important than kindness? Share a story of a time you or someone you know was not honest and it caused problems or was 'too honest' and it caused problems.

Important though the government wouldn't run well if they couldn't keep a secret. It depends, sometimes they are in direct conflict. For instance when a childs pet dies what are you supposed to do? Be honest and deal with a possibly traumatized kid or however they react to death. Or do you be dishonest in order for their happiness or protection. There is plenty of stuff I wouldn't tell little kids. An excellant story for being to honest is that when my sister was younger she, my mom, another sister, and I were on a bus. The sister in question complimented a women's dress that had flowers on it. My sister had no visible flowers. She then proceeded to say, "I have flowers too." My mom grabed my her before she could show off her flowers, which were on her underwear.

Imagine that you have a superpower. The Power of Persuasion. You can convince anyone of anything. How would you use that power? What would you try to get, do, change? Would you use it for good? Or evil? Describe what the Power of Persuasion is.

I would probably use it to fix things and help people. There are lots of problems that can be fixed by one or two people in strong political power. The multibillion dollar thing that President Obama set up could have been ten times more effective if they had put more money into alternate energy sources. The power of persuasion is to help people along to a certain type of thinking whether yours or one that is incorrect and helps you with your goals. Most of the time it takes only a little bit of persuasion with the right famous or influential people and you could fix a lot of bad. There's plenty of politicians who mostly only care for their careers. They aren't out there to help people. They're out there for the power.

Torssen is an anthropologist in Hawaii. He is studying social habits of Hawaiins who have to deal with lots of tourists versus Hawaiins who have to deal with outsiders who stay for a long time. He found something interesting, whenever a Hawaiin used to tourists meets an outsider that stays, he can make friends rather well. However when a Hawaiin who is used to long stayers meets tourists they don't do as well because they take longer to make friends and by then the tourists are gone. Though it is hard to do this research because most Hawaiins are half and half so they end up making friends fast anyway.

Describe your ideal Winter Break. Where would you go? What would you do? Money is not an obstacle. If you could do anything you wanted, what would that be?

For the ultimate winter break I would probably have to be gone for a month. This is due to the fact that I think the ultimate winter break would be a roadtrip to all the family I could get to. For my dad's side I would start by going north to Idaho and visit the Cooks, the Hales, the Hales, and my Grandpa and step-Grandma. Possibly I would then go to Oregan and visit a great aunt on my mom's side and one of my dad's sisters. I suppose that would depend on the amount of time. I have an uncle in the army who I never see and I can't remember where his wife and kids are currently. Perhaps California. That's actually where I'd go next because of two of my mom's sisters are in southern California. Then St. George for an uncle who adopted two Tongan boys. Finally my grandparents in Richfield then home again.