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OK. Today was AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let’s start from the beginning. My morning didn’t exactly start off the way I wanted it to. For one, I woke up at 6:15. I had lost my voice (shocker) and I wasn’t feeling too great. After breakfast the group went to IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis). I met up with an old friend Michael Sarich (http://teentruthlive.com/about/bios/ and scroll down) and I talked personally to another speaker Ed Gerety, who if you read my most recent post you know about. Then I went into a seminar about personal finance, which was actually pretty helpful. This guy talked about making money over time and how you could mange your spending. But once again, what I took away from the seminar was something that he didn’t really touch up on that much. A bulk of his seminar was on investing. He talked about how he knew a student who worked at Starbucks all semester and make $3000. The following semester, his grandfather put $500 into Starbucks stock which 6 months later had grown to $3500. But here is the problem with that. Stocks are risky. I know that when the recession hit, Starbucks lost 97% of their revenue. Now that stock went back up, but it just goes to show you that you can’t always see what is coming in the stock market. You shouldn’t just throw your money into a blue chip company and hope for it to go up. You need to be smarter with it(Thanks dad). Ok so back to what I learned. What Peter (the speaker) talked about that my father never really covered with me was about my credit score. Now the reason my dad hasn’t gone into credit scores is because he knows that my credit score doesn’t count against me until after I turn 18 1/2. But what peter told me is that even though I shouldn’t have anything bad on my credit score yet, I still might. Because mistakes happened with this stuff all of the time. I don’t know why, but it just does. So I haven’t checked my credit score yet, but i’m planning on it just as soon as I finish this blog. Ok on with the day. The next place we went was the Indianapolis World War Memorial, which was really something else. It’s kind of ironic the way it came to be. Originally it was planned to be a shrine for the first world war. They didn’t think that after what had happened that there would be another one. But there was. And since they had all of this history, they ended up turning it into a museum. Oh wait, thats not ironic. Whatever. Then we went to the Indy 500 track. And I saw cars that blew me away. I mean, a 1963 ferrari, a 1969 Bugatii, it was unbelievable. I ended up buying a few souvenirs for some big car fanatics back home, and then I rapped for a few other delegates, and got on a bus for dinner. The whether wasn’t great, and we had turkey sandwiches for the second meal that day, but we made the best of it. We cheered for hours and hours. And the voice that I had gotten back from not talking that much throughout the course of the day, I lost again. Smooth move right? Anyway, we got back to the busses, I chatted with a few people from Indiana, and we got back to the hotel. It was a really long day. They’re all long days. But then again, they are flying by. Thats all I have for tonight, I’ll see you all tomorrow.