Women Writers

Women writers are different than male writers. They choose different topics and explain detail differently. Even when I hear a story from a girl it is always long and dragged on. I don't prefer a male writer to a female writer. I would chose a book based on the plot.

Vocabulary Review

In the ghetto barrio it was very likely for a man of great bonanza to get mugged. One day one of these wealthy men went through one of these neighborhoods and a flotilla of people came upon him. The man tried to act bravado and was beat down anon. The people watching from a distance saw him as a torero when the gang charged at him. After they got all his money and valuable items, they left him to have a siesta under the palmetto. This short minute felt like an eon to the grandee man.

WTO

The WTO is the World Trade Organization. They deal with the trade between different nations. Their goal is to help businesses. The people that protested the WTO were against the large corporations. They are against corporations controlling the nation. They protested to keep the WTO meeting in Seattle.

day without technology

The day with out technology was very hard. I failed the challenge to not use technology first thing in the morning when I used my phone's alarm clock to wake up for school. I again had to use technology to get to school by car. In my photography class I had to use the camera and computer, thus failing to stay away from technology. I can't go a day with out technology in my everyday life.

Thoreau's View of Technology

Thoreau views technology as a pollution to earth. A lot of technology does disturb nature and pollute, but it has become very important to everyone's lives. Technology is becoming better and more efficient to reduce pollution. I use my cell phone and plenty of other technologies everyday. I wouldn't be able to go with out technology for a day unless I was away from the city and I was in the wild.

Thoreau podcast

1. The host views Thoreau as a tester of American citizens and someone who questions the government.
2. Katelynn Todd views him as an uncaring person.
3. Living like Thoreau would allow people to be themselves and have their own opinions.
4. Thoreau faces many opposers and you would have lots of problems.

civil disobedience

I am against the government censoring the media and news. The best way to prevent them from censoring information is doing something to protest when they do censor something. The best way to have a successful protest is to have a peaceful and nonviolent one, like Martin Luther King Jr. It is wrong to be kept from information.

google jocky

Cindy- Cindy is holding up the peace sign in front of the white house.

Seattle 1999- A guy is breaking through a glass window to get in a store. There is a trash can on its side. There is a huge protest or riot.

Do the right thing- A guy is yelling or screaming
Gandhi- He is wearing a robe and looks cold
Thoreau- believed people need to act against things they oppose.

renegades of funk

Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X are all mentioned in this song. Zack de la Rocha admired that they were renegades and stood up for what they believed for.

Bradbury's Writing Style

-"As he stood there the sky over the house screamed." (Pg. 13)
-"They're about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're nonfiction, it's worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost." (Pg. 62)
-"Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow." (p.13)
-"Burn all , burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean"Page 60
- "She's dead. Let's talk about someone alive, for goodness sake." page 72

Bradbury uses a very imaginative language with a lot of metaphors of fire. The images he makes are very vivid and you can almost feel the heat of the fire. Bradbury uses a lot more metaphors than Arthur Miller and uses a lot more descriptive details.

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction that has an imaginary plot with scientific reasons supporting it. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about a trip to the moon. Mary Shelley wrote two science fiction books Frankenstein and The Last Man that defined the form of a science fiction novel.

Banned books

The general reason for the banning of books was because of racial slurs, sexuality, and profanity. This banning of books isn't supporting our right of freedom of speech. Our country has censorship in peoples freedom of speech. I have read two of the books on the list, To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men. If I haven't read these books I would have less education of the themes in the books.

the last meow

A.
• What is wrong with Lady? What is the treatment? How much will
it cost to treat her?
-Lady loosing weight even though she is eating full meals, called chronic renal failure. The veterinarian has to see if Lady is a good candidate for a kidney transplant. It will cost over 15,000 dollars in total.
• What kind of person is Shawn Levering, her owner? How can you
tell?
-He is someone who cares a lot about his pet cat because he spends tons of money, that he doesn't have, to take care of Lady.
• What kind of person is the veterinarian, Cathy Langston? How
can you tell?
-She must care for animals too because she became a veterinarian.
• Why do you think Shawn is willing to pay for Lady’s treatment? Is
he the kind of person you would expect to pay for high-cost treat-
ment for a pet?
-I wouldn't expect someone like Shawn to pay so much for a pet, but he really loves his pet.

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-Animals can be helpful and can be worth paying for their medical costs.

Thesis Statements and Embedding Quotes

1.
-The people that reputation was really held against was Abigail,
Rebecca Nurse, and John Proctor.
-Three characters that show reoccurring examples of this are Reverend Parris, John Proctor, and Abbigail Williams. All of them will go to great lengths to make sure their names stay "white" in the village.
-In the play, Parris , Abigail , Giles, and John Proctor have fought well with their internal conflict in order to maintain their good reputation in Salem.

I chose these thesis statements because they answer the question, give categories, and state their position.

2.
- Abigail denies any word of her doing witchcraft to keep "[her name] good in the village"(pg 12).
-She says that Elizabeth is "blackening [her] name in the village" to make herself look better and to put down Elizabeth's name by saying that "she is telling lies about [Abigail]" (pg. 23-24).
-John's reputation is so important to him that he asks "God in Heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor?" and John answers himself what he hopes people think about him, "... I think [I am] honest, I think so; I am no saint. " (pg. 138).

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The first day of school led to the last day of three kids lives. Yaquiline, the lothario, Yessica, the maverick, and Yanessa, the nemesis of Yaquiline. On that day, they expirienced a philippic between each other in english class. It started fine, they all sat down in class while Mr. Schreiber introduced himself and the class. They figured out he was a jingoist, because he was wearing a red, white, and blue tuxedo. But after seeing that, they realized who was amongst them. . . the infamous “Y Ladies.”
Yaqualine, and Yanessa, hated each other because Yaqualine took a bite of Yanessa’s Spicy Chicken Sandwhich, which led to Yanessa calling Yaqualin tawdry. Yaqualine, or “Yaquie”, stated that as a philanderer, she slept with Yanessa’s boyfriend. Yanessa’s previous view of as a quixotic young girl, immedietly went away.
One day Yessica came to school and yelled at Yanessa and Yaqualine using solecism, Yessica couldn’t say anything because she felt saturnine beacause of all those spicy chicken burgers that she ate. Yaqualine didnt really care because she was a procrustean, she was tired of arguing. So the rivalry between Yanessa and Yaqualine came to an end. Many people say it was a Pyrrhic victory, because even after the arguement, they still were not friends.
But the wierd part of the story is, why didn’t Yessica get involved? She has the spoonerism of words that confuses the Y Ladies to death. But recently she found the Y Ladies protean and unbearable. She could have won this arguement and be the number one Y lady and live in sybarite for the rest of her life!!

poem of roots

Movies are plainly actions in photographs with audio
The way videos are blended makes movies incredible
I predict that movies will keep motivating other directors to be better
local life of the population will revolve around spectacular movies
until strict parents will petition rated r movies.

English handbook questions

1. The heading goes in the upper left corner and put a) student's name b) teacher's name c) subject, period d) date
2. A CS is the error of joining two complete sentences with a comma. The boy has a dog, they went home.
3. A FS is two sentences put together in one. A CS is the error of joining two complete sentences with a comma.
4. comma's are used to separate clauses and make a pause.
5. A semicolon is used to put two complete sentences together; they are used like this sentance.
6. numbers 99 and below should be spelled out.
7. Plays are underlined.
8. Effect as a verb means bring out or perform. Effect as a noun means result or impact. Affect means change, disturb, influence, feign or pretend to feel.
9. there is a place. their shows possession. they're is a contraction for they are.
10. Parallel structures are parallel elements in the same grammatical grammar.

to die for

I would die for the belief of God. I really believe in God and if I had to die or have the idea of God vanish, I would die. If I died I would go to heaven.

project reflection

I think our group could have done better. We didn't act out the script and we just read it. I think it was okay though. We spent three days in class working on it.

rumor

During the summer, I heard of a rumor that my friend, which I haven't seen in a while, sold drugs. I didn't believe it at first, but I began to once I realized how long its been since I've seen him. I told my other friends of the rumor and they laughed. One of them called him and jokingly asked for some weed. When I saw my friend who the rumor was started about he was mad at me because the rumor got to him from someone I told. I discovered that the rumor was a lie.

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Summer

I can't wait till summer. All the free time, no work, no school, skate all day and night; ahh I can't wait.

Finals

Im not that worried about the finals coming up. The only one that I am nervous of is Thompson's Final. I hate giving presentations. I can't stand them. I don't even know why. Before I go up I feel confident and then once I'm there I get nervous and suck. Hopefully I will be more relaxed for presentations after this one.

wow

This year went by so fast outside of school. In school it went really slow. I guess I have way more fun outside of school. There are only somedays that were fun and went by fast at school.

existentialism

makes life boring and pointless like all these blogs.

ahhh

The english final is ruining the last two weeks of school. I can't think of anything else but that. I am so nervous for it. I can't wait till its over.

laptop

My laptop crashed for the second time this year. I was in the middle of making my keynote for my english final and it crashed. All the work I put in to the keynote is now gone. I gave the laptop to repair and they said they are just going to keep it till the end of the year. I have no clue to what I am going to do for the project. This really sucks.

school

I am so sick of going to school everyday. Somedays are just a waist of time. I could be out having fun with my friends. I never have fun when I am at school. School is so boring to me. I can't wait till summer.

are we still blogging?

Mr. Thompson hasn't said anything about blogs in a long time. Has he forgotten about them? He hasn't even put up grades for them. I hope I get credit for all these.

fixie

Fixed gearing is so popular now. Out of now where tons of people started riding fixed gears. They are old bikes that came back recently. they are really cool though. I have rode my friends fixed gears and they are really fun. I want to get a fixie now.

english final

I am so nervous for the english final. I hate giving presentations. I dont know how I am going to do it. The whole 45 minutes is going to be torture for me. When ever I have to talk in front of the class I forget everything I am supposed to say. I have everything all together before I go up and once its my turn, everything falls apart. I feel dumb when I have to talk alot about things I dont know that well or I am not interested in. I always think that everything I say in a presentation is so pointless and meaningless. I would way rather take a written test for the final instead.

this weekend

This weekend was so fun. Friday I skated all day and night until 3 in the morning and slept at my friends house. On Saturday I went to the mall to meet with other friends and we went go cart racing in fremont. It was my friends birthday and alot of good friends were there which made it so fun. After we went to this function in San Mateo after and played some pool. then we went home and my friend stayed the night. Sunday, today, my friends and I went to a free babeque at a skatepark and skated. then we went to another skatepark and skated some more. It was really hot though so we left and ate. then we finally went home.

product toss

I have been to a product toss once when I was a kid and I didn't get anything but a few stickers. Last weekend I was at a product toss and I got a skate video, a shirt, stickers and a skateboard. I almost got shoes, but when they were thrown by me, one of my hands were full and the box just bounced off my hand as another peson behind me grabbed the box. I wish I dropped the dvd and stickers i held in my hand. I would have had new shoes. after making the mistake of holding on to the little stuff, I shoved them down my pants and had two free hands. luckily the skateboard was thrown in my area and I jumped and reached with two hands, pulling it in and hugging it as i crunched up. People finally gave up fighting for it and the board was mine. One of my friends was just watching and he was shocked to see me so agressive. I was pretty shocked I was pretty much fighting for a skateboard myself. I even missed out on seing my friend fight for a pair of shoes he got. I was pretty happy after this protuct toss. I really wish i could have got those shoes though.

sacramento2!

At the skate jam they had an open best trick competition. Two of my friends entered it and so did tons of other people. It was a huge mess of skaters crashing into each other trying to land their tricks. Some ones skateboard shot in to my friends leg making him quit his attempts to skate. It was funny when all the skaters were focused on landing their tricks and some big fat guy just ran and dove on to the obsticle the competition was on. It wasn't so funny the second time though, it was kind of annoying. At the end, a little kid who ripped and some old guy one.

sacramento!

Last weekend I went to the 28th and b street skate park in Sacramento. It was so crowded! I tryed to skate the new boxes there, but I spent more time waiting to go than actually skating. It was packed because it was raining outside and it was the day of the nike sb skate jam for stefan janoski's new pro-model shoe. My friend was skating and right as he landed his trick, he got smacked in to the ground by a skater that wasn't watching where he was going. they both were bleeding afterwards. this probably happened over 10 times during the whole day with other people.

hi

hello! thanks for reading this.

hahah

i love to laugh. who doesn't? I laugh at least once an hour. whether i hear something funny, see something funny, or think of something funny, i laugh. its weird how people have laughs when they find something funny. what if people made some other noise instead of "haha"? laughing is kind of weird. if an alien saw a human laughing, it would confuse them. they wouldn't know the reason for the laugh.

lalala

time is going by so fast. it is almost summer again. this summer i will turn 17! i can't believe how fast time is going. i love my age, it is so fun. i hope i can always be happy with the age i am. this summer is also the middle of my highschool experience. which is a huge shock because i dont feel like i experienced much at highschool. i feel like i experienced more in jr high. maybe the next two years will have some enjoyable times in them.

I am sick of blogging

aren't you? this is so lame! I hate writing pointless ideas 3 times a week. who actually blogs this much? How does this improve anything? It seems as just a waste of time.

shirts

I recently bought five new shirts online and I am really happy. I havent had new or good shirts in so long. All my shirts are uncomfortable, the wrong size, or ugly. Most of the shirts I wear are plain white t-shirts. Now I will have good shirts and look cool. I bet no one is reading this so I am just gonna take up some space and look like I enjoy talking about nothing.

cell phones

I have 3 different phones in my life. My first one was a lame flip phone that couldn't do anything but call people. I was just happy that I had a cell phone when I got it because I really wanted one. My second one was better. It had a camera and I could also text with it. I liked this phone for a couple of months, then I got sick of it. It was boring, the pictures sucked and texting on the little keypad was annoying. Finally I currently have a phone that i love. I have a sidekick and I can do so many things with it. I can play music and be on the internet while I am texting or instant messaging people. I love my phone, it is almost like a mobile computer. They only bad thing about it is that the screen cracked and I dont know how it happened. I wonder what cell phones will come to in the future.

heat

It is so got right now. I can't believe that it is only spring. It feels like a hot summer day. I am scared to see what summer is going to be like. By then, everyday will be in the hundreds. I don't feel that excited to see summer come. After the first week I know I am going to be sick of the heat. I am already starting to not like the hot weather because I got sunburned. This sucks!

spring break

I'm so glad its spring break. I was getting so tired of school. I love not having to wake up early so much! yay spring break!

blogs

All year I have done the 3 blogs a week and I haven't received all the credit for them. When the blogs weren't checked for about seven weeks and they were graded all together, I only received 180 points out of 210 points. All the blogs are there and I didn't get all the points for them. I think Mr. Thompson should look them over.

idea?

Its so frustrating trying to come up with three ideas for blogs every week. I feel like I am wasting my time. Sometimes I will start writing a blog and I can't think of what else to write, so I delete the whole thing. I can't keep coming up with ideas to write about. They will eventually become very uninteresting and boring. Just like this blog.

the most detailed blog ever!

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thompsons class

During the past week, 6th period has became very uninteresting to me. I feel like the class has changed from being exciting and interesting to dull and sophorific. Maybe it is the book "Animal Farm" we are reading, that is boring. I am not interested in that book at all. Mr. Thompson doesn't seem thrilled to be teaching the book either. It seems as though he is doing it because he has to. I don't like how we have a huge packet to do by ourselves. It would be better to do it as a group in class. 6th period isn't as fun as it was in the beginning of the year.

Food

I love eating food so much. Being a teenager, I am eating so much. When I was younger, I would be fine with 3 or 2 meals a day. Now I eat constantly. I don't even know how much I eat a day. I usually eat whenever I can. Before I go to school, at school, and right after school I eat. I even eat again when I go out to skate. When I get home from skating I eat dinner. Even sometimes after dinner or before I go to bed I make something else to eat. I am always hungry! I hate when I am really hungry and I have no food. Sometimes I spend all my money and my friends go to eat, so I have to watch them eat. It is so tempting to eat when people around you are. But when I am eating with everyone else it is the best.

Cartoons

All my life I have enjoyed cartoons. They are so funny. My favorite cartoons today would probably be south park, family guy, futurama, spongebob, and the simpsons. These cartoons always make me laugh. When I was younger, I would sit in front of the tv and watch nickelodeon all day. I would enjoy all the shows that would come on there. Today the only show I like on nickelodeon is spongebob. All the good old shows aren't played any more. I don't like the new cartoons on nick. They aren't as interesting to me. There should be a channel that plays all the old cartoons. That would be so cool.

time is so fast

This school year is quickly coming to an end. I will soon be a junior and no longer a sophomore. High school will only have 2 more years on me. I am almost halfway done with high school. I am excited and kind of scared to move on. Next year I have to decide what colleges I am interested in and start applying to them. I am scared I won't do well in my classes and colleges will reject me. If only time would take its time and slow down.

old cars

It is so cool seeing classic cars that are in good condition. When I see an old car I think about how hard it must have been for the owner to keep it so nice for all those years. I know it would be hard for me to do that. I like seeing classic cars.

grades

My grades this semester are horrible compared to the first semester. I feel like I am not doing as good as I could be doing. Last semester I had all A's and one B, because of one test. This semester my grades are scattered with A's, B's, and C's. It is hard for me to raise my grades when I have so much homework to make up because I was sick. I planned on getting really good grades this year, but that's not working out. I feel like I should have better grades, because I understand everything that we are learning and have learned in all my classes. Hopefully I can raise my lower grades up.

ap classes

I am so curious to how hard an AP class really is. Could it be total hell for me? or could it be just as normal as any other class. Does the name AP make it much different then if it weren't there? I think AP classes will be way harder than standard classes, but at the same time easier to learn and pay attention. Most people in standard classes don't really care if they don't have good grades. They usually care if they are passing or failing. People who take AP classes are people that want good grades, so they pay attention and try to learn. I think the title just seems scarier than the actual class.

class rules

I think the class rules are cool and funny, but I really don't like the "no sophomore shall wear socks" rule.  I don't want to have to stop before I get into class and take off my socks. Just hearing someone say, "I am not aloud to wear socks in my english class" sounds so ridiculous. I don't think I'm going to follow this rule. Are people really going to check if I am wearing socks? I'll tell them to get away from me if they do. It's pretty funny though.

so much work

This weekend I feel over satiated with work. Everything from all my classes has bundled up. I have to write my research paper by next week, write a two page story and answer questions after reading chapters 1-4 in "Animal Farm", write a skit for my spanish class, and try to teach myself my math homework. Plus I have some homeworks and worksheets to do for chemistry. I feel like giving up on all of it, but I'm going to force myself to. I wonder why I do all this.

classes

For next year I am taking the following classes:

-English 5/6 honors

-AP US History

-Pre calc. honors

-physics or AP biology

-Spanish 5/6

-Digital Photography Adv.

Yikes! I hope I can handle all this.

research paper

uhh.

freedom

I remember being a kid and having so many rules. When I was about 9, I had to ask to go outside or to even go around the block. The furthest I was aloud to go was to the gas station down the street. I would love going there, because I felt free and far from home. I would go there to get candy with my friends. I would normally be in front of my house playing with my neighbors though. By the time I was 11, I would be aloud to go around my area all day. The rule for me was to be home by dark. I would go by the grocery store, to my friends house, or anywhere in walking range. Sometimes I was aloud to take lightrail to the mall, which was only 4 stops away. When I was 13, I was taking the lightrail everywhere. I could go to downtown San Jose or Sunnyvale. I was only aloud to if I was with a friend. Now I am 16 and I am aloud to go to San Francisco or Sacramento with my friends. I feel like I have so much freedom to do what I want. 

san francisco

This weekend I went to San Francisco. My friends and I planned on skating, but we mostly drove around. That is the down part of skating SF, everything is so spread out there. The first place we went to was way to windy and we were tired from the long car ride there, so we left. We drove to the downtown library and skated for about ten minutes until we got kicked out. After we drove all the way down folsom street to go to a spot that no one skated. As we continued to waist gas, we went to get clam chowder. Unfortunately it was too packed and we couldn't find parking. The sun was starting to go down by the time we decided to go to the skatepark. The skatepark was fun. The lights gave us plenty of time to skate. After the skatepark, we ate at Jack in the Box in San Mateo. While we were in San Mateo we went to the skatepark there and had some more fun. Then we made our way home. This was probably my worst time skating SF, but it was fun being with my friends and skating the skateparks.

hair

I don't know how I like my hair. For the past two years i have been growing it out and then cutting it short. When it is long I feel messy, but when it is short I feel like i look better with long hair. I like it when it is in between sort and long. I guess i am just searching for a way to keep my hair.

Motif

When Mr. Thompson bagan talking about Motif's in rooms, I bagan to wonder what the motif in my room was. I guess a motif would be skateboarding from all my posters, clothes and skateboards. I guess another would be a music motif from My ipod, ihome, and speakers. I bet there are many more motifs in my room. I don't know what else would be one.

TV

I barely watch TV anymore. I remember when I was in 6th grade I lived in front of my tv. My friend used to always say he never watches tv and I would think "what else is there to do?". Now I found the answer to my question. I am usually on my computer during the time I am home or I am cleaning my room. Another thing keeping me away from tv is video games. Sometimes I play with my ipod or listen to music and fall asleep. With all these things, I get occupied and carried away from tv. I hate watching tv now. Commercials are so annoying. Sometimes I do watch tv, but it is not usually my first resort. 

music

I hate when people ask me what kind of music I listen to though. I don't really have an answer for them. I like all kinds of music, I don't only listen to one genre. A lot of the music on my ipod is music from skate videos. Skate videos have songs that go good with the skating and makes the video have a feeling to it. When I was younger I didn't listen to much music, but when I did it was usually one genre. I normally listened to the radio. Radio stations usually only play one genre. Now, I don't like the radio. I don't live for music though, its just there.

job

I really need a job. I finally got my license and now I am stuck without a car. I have no money to get one. If i got a job then I think I would feel stressed out from going to school and going to work. I wouldn't have any time to do what I want. Eventually I will need to get a job. I also wouldn't want my grades in school to go down from the stress at work. And I wouldn't have a way of getting to work without a car. It's a really weird situation for me. I want to work so I can get a car and I want a car so I can get to work.

summer school

I don't know if I should take pre-calculus over the summer. It would be nice to have it over with and move on to calculus, but I like having a free summer. I can't make up my mind about it.

phones

These days it is so likely for people to have a cell phone. Almost all of my friends have phones. Ten years ago, barely anyone had a cell phone. If you were to look back on how much has changed in ten years, you would see a whole list of things. There are still people with out cell phones today and I don't know how they could go out with out one. I feel vulnerable without my cell phone. I bet that all phones in ten years will be touch screen and will be like computers.

winter break

Why does every other school outside of sjusd have winter break and my school has no winter break? Why only a 4 day weekend? All of my friends have the week off and I will be excluded from whatever they do. On top of not having the week off, It rained all 4 days and It is going to be sunny the 3 days I go back to school. Why do things like this happen? It's ridiculous. 

aging

Every day I feel a little bit older. I find myself telling myself that I am a teenager now. And then I realize all my childhood is passing away forever. It's hard to accept that I am going to be an adult someday. It makes me scared and a little bit excited. I have to choose who I am going to be everyday that is coming.

Shoes

Ever since I was a kid I was always into shoes. I love shoes, especially new shoes. I always notice peoples shoes everywhere. They can say a lot about people. If they have really old or bad shoes, they probably can't afford good shoes. If they have nice shoes, they probably have money and a sense of style. I want to get some more new shoes. Maybe some more Nike SB Blazers. Those are my favorite shoes to skate.

laptop

I barely use my laptop at school. I use it more as a personal computer. I think it would be really cool if all the stuff in the school books were programed into the laptop and we only needed our laptops at school. That would be so easy. We could not worry about having paper or pencils. All we need is our laptops. But I guess I can continue with my personal laptop for the school year.

talk

When I am at school I don't ever feel like talking to people. I don't know why. I always talk when I'm not at school. Im not as quiet as everyone thinks I am. If all my friends went to the same school as me I think it would be different. It is like two different regions; my friends at school and my out of school friends. They are so different. I feel like the middle man being on two different sides.

Night

After reading Night by Elie Wiesel, I looked around my room and felt so thankful for everything in it. I won't take my possessions for granted. I got in to the book and Elie's feelings made me feel as though I were in the holocaust. When I look away from the book I feel safe being in my room. I just think Elie wrote the book in a good way to put the reader in the story.

Missing school

I don't like missing school. I like having the day off, but the next day is like trying not to fall from jumping out of a car. I get so behind on everything. I like when I miss the days where nothing happens in all my classes and I am right in place. I hate being left behind.

Football

Today is the Superbowl and I am reminded by the yelling of my neighbors. I haven't been into football since I stopped playing it. I use to play in elementary school and I got more into skating. If I were to play football again I don't think I would enjoy it at Gunderson. I would rather skate with my friends then have to play football with some people I go to school with. I would consider playing if I went to Santa Teresa, but I don't. My interest and passion in football is abating as I keep skating. I haven't watched a football game in over a year. I barely found out who is playing in the Superbowl last Friday. I feel so ignorant about footballnow. I used to know so much about it and I used to love it so much.

sun shine

It is way to hot for the winter season. It shouldn't be like this. I feel like its April or May. Thinking about how hot it is now makes me worry about how hot summer is going to be. Last summer I didn't want to even go outside because of the heat. I went to San Francisco about twice a week because it was cold there. This summer I might have to live there if it's too hot. I heard the north pole won't have any ice this summer. It especially sucks that I have no air conditioning in my house. All I have is fans. Hopefully it won't be too bad.

sleep talk

The past two days I have been taking naps after school. Yesturday my sister came in my room to get something and I guess I was yelling at her. I don't even remember her coming in. And today I woke up to me yelling, "Get out of my room!" I didn't even realize I was yelling untill I got done saying, "Room". I don't know why I am so mean when I'm sleeping. I just think it's really weird I did this two days in a row.

skate 2

I have been anticipating the day skate 2 comes out. Now that I have it I am so happy. I always get addicted when I get a new game. I'll probably play it every day this week and get sick of it. I should try not to play it so much so I don't get bored of it.

because the rain

I couldn't skate anywhere because it was wet. I skated flat ground all day with my friends. I had fun, but I wish it were dry so we could go to more places. But at least I got to skate.

assignments

I hate when a teacher gives a pointless assignment that I have no idea how to do. They like want it to be a certain way and if they get it other than that it isn't good. It irritates me so much. I ha ve been getting a lot of these assignments recently and my grade can show that. I usually do good when I get assignments I like.

DMV

The DMV is so slow at doing their work. I was supposed to get my I.D. and Drivers license in the mail last week and it still isn't here. I wonder when it will come. The DMV gives me such a sketchy vibe. I would not like to work there at all. I like things organized and I would go crazy if I was there too long. They should make everything neat and more organized and maybe they could get things done faster.

Poland

In 8th grade my friend Adam moved to Poland. Today I was skating Sunnyvale skatepark and I saw Adam's little brother skating by and I looked around and found Adam. I was so confused to why he was here, when I knew he had moved to a different continent. I went to him and found out he was visiting for 3 weeks at his cousins in Milpitas. We talked and skated together. The whole time was so weird. I never really thought I would ever see him again and I just happened to see him skating at Sunnyvale skatepark. It felt like I was in a dream. I couldn't believe he was actually there. It made me realize how much has changed in 2 years. I want to skate with him more for the time he is here, because I probably won't see him again after he goes back to Poland.

waisted days

I hate when I go to school and by the end of the day I feel like I could have stayed home and I wouldn't have missed one thing. It is such a waist of a day. When teachers give us nothing to do the whole day and make us sit in the class room doing nothing, I wish I were somewhere else doing something constructive. I don't like doing nothing, it's really boring.

My First Love

My first love was along time ago when I was in first grade. There was a girl named Francis and she was in second grade. She was my first girl friend. Although she was a grade ahead of me, we were the same age. During recess me and some of my friends would get chased by girls. Francis was one of the girls that chased us. Her sister and my sister were friends. My mom had arranged it so that my sister and I would go to Francis's house after school to be watched by her mom. I was glad because I had a crush on Francis and I could be with her more.
After school we would get picked up by Francis's mom and go to their house to do nothing. It was like sitting in a blank, silent room and staring at the wall. There was nothing to do. Because I had a crush on Francis, I was trying to impress her and make her like me. Sometimes instead of going to their house, we were driven around all day. Francis and I would sit in the very bad seats of the sedan. They faced backwards and were the coolest thing to me. One day while driving around, there was a big jolt and Bang! We crashed and I got a little whiplash. It was a little 5-mph crash, but still very memorable. Francis and I were worried and frightened by the crash. I was happy to be with her though.
Sometimes my mom would watch Francis and her older sister as a favor for their mom watching us. Francis and I would hang out in my room and her older sister would be in my sisters room with my sister. When Francis and I first kiss It was at my house. I remember us preparing by rinsing our mouths with scope. Our older sisters instigated the whole thing. They wanted us to kiss more than we wanted to. I didn't really care. After we kissed I felt more comfortable around her. We would sit on my tiny rocking chair in my room and watch Austin Powers. She sat on my lap while I rested my head on her shoulder. Our sisters would barge in and tell us to kiss and we would. When my mom was done making a spaghetti dinner, my sister tried to make a romantic dinner table for us in the garage. I refused to eat there because I didn't want to. We just in the living room.
When a new friend moved next door to me, I stopped going out with Francis. She wanted me to stay inside with her and I wanted to play outside with my friend. We barely ever talked again and my mom found my sister and I a new babysitter. 

Love?

I think Mr. Thompsons "first love" assignment is lame. It is lame because not that many people in 10th grade have been in love before or at least have the comfortablity to talk about their love. It would be much easier if we were given this assignment in college. Then we would feel comfortable talking about something we actually remember. I don't even think I've been in real love before, just young love.

flanel

I have been noticing that a lot of people wear flanels. I think they are cool. I only own one, but I want to get a couple more. I always thought flanels were nice clothing that people only wear on occasions, but everyone wears them now. I like wearing nice clothes, except suits. I think it's a good thing that it is popular to dress nice. Everyone won't look like slobs, in baggy clothes falling everywhere.