I think it is extremely important to keep the Christmas alive because without that people wouldn't care. Without children keeping the spirit alive I doubt that Christmas would be as important as it is now. The children at our school in the Elementary have decorated it so nicely and I wish the High School and Middle School would do that as well! The spirit of Christmas is so awesome unlike any other Holiday I believe Christmas is one of the most important! I love the spirit of it with the tree, and the decorations, the music and of course the true meaning behind Christmas! I for one love the spirit of kids at Christmas! 

When we did the coding on Friday I thought that it was surprisingly very interesting. I didn't think that I would enjoy it, but I found it to be fun! It was interesting and it tested your skills. I think that there is a push for coding because everything is going electronic, jobs need more people who know how to run the computers! The demand is so high for these types of jobs that if you know what you're doing you will be set for life. Yes i did sign the pledge because I do believe that students should learn how to code and learn more about it! Coding to me isn't easy, but if you learn it and understand it you will be able to do great things with it! 

Nelson Mandela was such an important person not only to the African Americans, but to everyone else because he fought for what was right for everyone. Mandela is and always will be a role model, his fight for racial injustice made everyone have hopes that people one day would all be equal and he was right! Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa he became famous for his fight against bad government and racial injustice. He went to prison for 27 years for trying to overthrow the pro-apartheid government. An apartheid government is a government based on racial segregation, when Mandela was president his whole focus was getting rid of the apartheid government, by doing this we was getting rid of poverty, racism, and inequality. Mandela gained international acclaim for his activism, he recieved more than 250 honors, including a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela is often described as "The Father of the Nation." I believe that it is important to know about such amazing figures of our past, Nelson Mandela was a hero.