BLACK JACK

Taking a step into the Free Enterprise classroom that Wednesday morning was like taking a step into huge puddle of mud without knowing what kinda of vicious creatures were living inside. I had NO clue what I was getting myself into by coming to class that day. I was instantly handed twelve navy blue and white poker chips. I had never before even held a poker chip in my hand, let alone twelve. how was I suppose to know what to do with them? I surprisingly caught on to the game, or what I thought was the game, pretty quickly by sitting out the first couple of rounds to observe the ways of the game. I guess I didn't fully understand the "secrets" of the game that Mr. Kapptie later explained to us. It was a good experience, and it was actually a lot of fun. I guess what I got from it though was to not get yourself into something that you don't know how to get out of...or play a game that you don't know how to play.

STOCKS.

I bought some microsoft stocks as a investment, knowing it's potential for going up soon in the future. It has proved itself this week by going up four dollars. I hope for this stock to continue to go up, but for a specific number, I would say that I hope for it to go up another two or more dollars in the next couple weeks. Microsoft keeps surprising its consumers with newly-improved software and applications that enable users to better enjoy activities related to entertainment, gaming, and even work. This has, and I believe will continue to help the stocks go up. 

I also bought some apple stocks as a trade, knowing that they come out with new things constantly, and that another iPad is coming out soon. I will wait till after this iPad comes out, and the stock goes up a good amount, around 30-50 dollars, to sell this stock.

I vs T

When in the process of investing, your main goal is to invest in a portfolio of stocks that you are going to be in a long term relationship with and hope to gain money from over an extended period of time. Trading is, however, pretty much a short term relationship where you find stocks that will most likely go up in the next week or day, and buy them quickly and sell them. 

CANDY GAMEEEEE

    I walked up to my free enterprise class, expecting to just walk right in and take my usual seat in the classroom and listen to another long lecture about the government shutdown. When I arrived to the
door, I noticed that the two doors that were normally opened up to the classroom were shut and Mr. Kapptie was out in the hallway standing in front of the door telling all of his students to place their backpacks and other belongings against the wall in the hallway. Confused, I placed my backpack against the wall in the hallway and joined the other confused students of the class in a cluster infront of one of the doors.
    Kapptie rose his voice in an effort to get everyone's attention. Once our large class began to silence themselves, Kapptie explained that once we are let into the classroom that we were to grab as many things as we can and to dedicate a specific spot in the classroom to all the things that you gathered. Not knowing what I was gathering and what I was about to walk into I waited for further instructions. He separated the class in half and had each half stand in front of the now cracked open doors. Kapptie disappeared into the room. We stood there waiting for his "okay" to go in. I didn't hear him say it, but he must have because everyone started to push and shove. I was pushed and shoved and twisted and turned around until I made it into the classroom. I struggled to escape the group of people, but when I did I came into the classroom where the floor was covered in a variety of different candies and Monopoly money, and other slips of paper. Displayed on the walls were videos that added unnecessary noise to the commotion that had already filled up the room. Once I saw all the others start grabbing for as much candy and money as they could I followed their example and did the same. I then dedicated a spot in the classroom for my candies and orginized my money from the lowest value to the greatest. I then orginized my candies, as I realized that we would be trading and trying to sell our candies, as well as buy candies off of others for reasonable prices, trying to end up with the greatest amount of money in the end. The smell and temperature in the room wasn't the greatest. Sweaty and stressed I tried to figure out how everything worked, which I did really figure out till towards the end of the game. I just pretty much ran around confused the first part of the game. But ended up with a decent price of over 2,000.

20% PROJECT update

     Josie Brinkerhoff and I, Cydney Barrus, attend Free Enterprise during second period together and decided to work on a 20% project together. We have only had two days to actually work on this project due to tennis matches or regionals, but so far we have come up with the plan to get the students and teachers in our highschool to recycle plastic.
      So far we have spoken with the lunch ladies about their opinions on lactic, and the foam trays that are given out at lunch. And we have planned out how we are going to carry out most of this plan. We are going to decorate bins with bright colors to bring attention to the bins  that people are going put there plastic in. We are going to have two in each pod and a couple in the lunch room. We are also going to make posters to bring attention to the recycling plan and to the bins.
     By the end of this month we plan to have the bins done and the posters finished and hopefully put out for people to use.