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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and one of Jupiter's moons might support life. The moon is called Europa. It's one of the fourth largest moons of Jupiter and it might be home to life forms or even support life. As stated in the CNN article by Amanda Barnett, "Interest in the icy world heated up in 2012 when the Hubble Space Telescope observed water vapor above the south polar region of Europa" (Barett, paragraph 3). This is pretty awesome! In a context that makes it easier to understand. This quote means that Jupiter's once icy moon is now sprouting out water. To be more in detail, ocean water. Now the moon might be able to support life  because we know that the ice is melting and actually have water, that can sustains life forms and maybe even our own. If Europa is also melting and the ice become a ocean, we might be able to understand, more in detail, how life forms came to be and how long it takes to evolve in a environment. Scientist could also send other organisms to see if they could evolve or adapt to their new environment. NASA hopes to build a new probe that will hopefully determine if Europa has the ingredients of life. The mission so far has $30 million in the 2016 budget. If the mission does get approved the probe will be sent out in the 2020's (Summary of paragraphs 7, 9 and 10). If the probe is sent out we will be able to see if we could actually put life on the planet or at least support some form of life. It's a great plan because if anything happens to Earth somehow, we could actually move to this moon and it would be able to sustain us and we would be able to benefit from the moon. Though it would take forever to get to the moon. It would take several years and that's why the Juno project was so expensive, around $30 billion. But it's a good because this new project will help us into a new step of life and exploration. It could help us understand life more and if Europa could actually sustain any type of life. In conclusion, Europa will take us a step further into our exploration and help us advance our technology. Europe might actually help us find other life organisms in the solar system or our whole galaxy.

(Article - http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/us/nasa-europa-mission/index.html )

Final Draft of Writing from the Heart

'I love you' is a generic phrase that everybody can say, no matter what language they speak. But to me the phrase means more than the generic 'I love you'. My family doesn't really have a culture or a heritage that we follow. Though my last name does deprive from a Hungarian origin. I'm not a quarter or half of any other ethnicity, making me mostly all American, along with the rest of my family. We don't have any nicknames we have for each other, because we believe that we don't need to be nicknamed. But 'I love you' is the only phrase we say to each other. This is why the most generic saying ever is very special to me. 

Only a few people know that my father is in the military. Some people may take that as that I basically get whatever I want, but that's not the case what so ever! I didn't even get to see my dad on my birthday! A couple years ago, my father was in Guam for a whole year (at the time I was living in Pennsylvania). The only two times I saw him was in the beginning of June. He had come back on a short break and then had to leave, again, the day before my birthday. I felt bummed out that he couldn't stay the extra day for me and my sister's birthday. I didn't really have fun on the day after, because I realized that he was gone again. Then again during Christmas Eve. My family and I Skyped my father. We had to open our presents early because of our time zone differences, but hey I'm not complaining about opening my presents early! I remember right before he logged off the Skype, he said 'I love you' to everyone in the house. I felt happy after he said that, because we haven't seen each other for almost six months. It was my family and I's little saying that meant a goodbye and a very deeper meaning all rolled up. Kind of like sushi. 

Unlike most people, I don't see my grandparents a lot. Or my aunts and uncles, or my cousins. The only family member I saw was about six months ago when my grandpa came out to watch me and my siblings during my parents anniversary. Other than that my other family members never visit. All of this makes me feel slightly empty and a bit alone. I never really know what is happening with my grandparents or my cousin's life. So when ever my other relatives come and visit, we never really say I love you a lot, because we don't really feel like it's appropriate to greet someone with a term. But when ever we leave, we also make sure we all say 'I love you'. If we don't we immediately text or call the person and tell a proper goodbye.

My whole entire family doesn't say 'I love you' for a lot of reasons, mostly because we barely ever hear or see each other. I would like it to be said more, but what can I do about it? But when we do say, 'I love you' it's meaningful. When my family and I say it, it means that 'I will always love you no matter what' or it could mean, 'I miss you and I can't wait to come back.' When ever my parents say 'I love you' to me I feel better when I'm feeling depressed. Or when it's said randomly by my mom, I always feel somewhat conflicted, because I never know why she says it randomly. But I does make me feel better in a way that I can't really explain in words. Even though I don't see my dad or my other family members, besides my mom and siblings, I still will love them and I know they will love me. We all know that'll be there for anyone in my family, not matter what. Rather it be through a phone call or in person. 

'I love you' is a very universal term, but to my family, the Levai's, it mean more than a silly 'I love you' here and there. Our phrase makes us feel much more happier, when we are feeling down and even though we don't say it much, we all have our own little meaning behind it. It makes us feel included into our family and no matter what happens. We will be there for anyone in our family, no matter what. I had asked my sister what she thought Levai means and she said, "Awesome." To some point, I believe her. My family, the Levai's, are awesome. 

First Draft of Writing From the Heart

I love you is a generic phrase that everybody can say, no matter what language they speak. But to me the phrase means more than the generic 'I love you'. My family doesn't really have a culture or a heritage that we follow. Though my last name does deprive of a Hungarian origin. I'm not a quarter or half of any enthicity, making me almost all American, along with the rest of my family. We don't have any nicknames we have for each other. But 'I love you' is the only phrase we say to each other. This is why the most generic saying ever is very special to me. 

My father is in the military. Some people may take that as that I basically get whatever what I want. But that's not the case what so ever! I don't get to see my dad on my birthday, I don't get to see any other family members during Christmas or Thanksgiving. As of August 24, I won't be seeing my dad for a whole year, because he has orders to go to Bahrain. A couple years ago, again I didn't get to see my father for a year. The only two times I saw him was in the beginning of June. He had to leave the day before my birthday and then again during Christmas Eve. We had to open our presents early because of our time zone difference. But hey I'm not complaining about opening my presents early. My mom even said that when we were younger our dad was gone for a few months and when he came back, me and my sister didn't know who he was. Unlike most people, I don't see my grandparents a lot. Or my aunts and uncles, or my cousins. The only family member I saw was six months ago when my grandpa came out to watch me and my siblings during my parents anniversary. Other than that my other family members never visit. 

My family doesn't say 'I love you' a lot, because of this. I would like it to be said more, but what can I do about it? But when we do say, 'I love you' it's meaningful. When my family and I say it, it means that 'I will always love you no matter what' or it could mean, 'I miss you and I can't wait to come back.' When ever my parents say 'I love you' to me I feel better when I'm feeling down. Even though I don't see my dad or my other family members, besides my mom and siblings, I still will love them and I know they will love me. We all know that'll be there for anyone in my family, not matter what. Rather it be through a phone call or in person. 

'I love you' is a very universal term, but to my family, the Levai's, it mean more than a silly 'I love you' here and there. Our phrase makes us feel happy and even though we don't say it much, we all have our own little meaning behind it. It makes us feel included into our family and no matter what happens. We will be there for anyone in our family, no matter what. I had asked my sister what she thought Levai meant, and she said, "Awesome." To some point, I believe her. My family, the Levai's, are awesome. 

My First Blog Post

Hello, I'm Clarissa A. Levai (luh-vay). This is my blog, Writing the Wrong and "Write". I chose the background to be a simple design because, I believe if you have a simple background it will complement the acutal important part of the blog. The cursor is a unicorn because I'm a wacky person and I love making things weird. Also a unicorn is my favorite "mythical" creature. The colors I chose complement my background and can be clearly seen on my background. I chose thie title, Writing the Wrong and "Write", because I feel that I write things horribly and undescrptive. So this title will let me believe in myself that I can actually write correctly. 

The world I come from is weird. By this I mean I have a very weird family. I grew up by just being myself and not caring what other people thought of me. I enjoyed playing soccer and not caring if I was great or a terrible mess. That's because I was having fun. I grew up competitive also. My father is in the military and grew up playing soccer, until he blew out his knees about five times. He was extremely competitive at the sport. My mother grew up competievly also. Though she didn't play any sports, she was academically ahead of everyone, wanting to get into a good college. I also got the humor trait from my parents. I love making people laugh and smile. It makes their day and my day just to see someone laugh and smile. It gives me a little push to do more and accomplish more things. 

In my world, I learn from my mistakes. I enjoy making videos and reading in my spare time. I didn't know that I wanted to make videos until last year. I was in the Moanalua Middle School media class and loved every second of the class. When my class and I competed in the Olelo Youth Xchange, only two of my twelve people in my class, actually made it to the finals. I was one of them. My partner and I enjoyed the free food we were given, but sadly I wasn't given the reward of first place. Which was a very devastating lost for me and my partner. However, I did take it in and noticed many things about my video, that I could have done better. I didn't care that I lost, I cared that I had fun editing and filming the video. It was worth it, at least I actually tried my hardest. Because of this, my hobbies are not limited. I love trying new things and love doing anything, besides sitting in a car for a long time. I travel around the United States a lot, because if my dad. I get to explore and expirence new things. I've been to most of the United States, besides Alaska. I like being adventurous and living in the moment.