Assignment #19: My Very Short Story

High School Sweetheart, my Forever

     There she was looking gorgeous, I fell for her ever since I laid eyes on her. She was so beautiful she shined like a star. Tina, was her name and she was the most popular girl in school. She had long black hair, a nice smile, brown eyes and she was just everything I've ever looked for in a girl. There was only one problem, I was too scared to even look at her with her looking, I will only stare at her from a far distance so she wouldn't see me. Day by day, there I was telling myself "today is the day I am going to talk to her", it will never happen though. One morning in class she said "Hi" and my heart dropped and I wanted to speak, but my mouth only open and no words came out.
      This couldn't be happening there she was the most amazing girl I've ever met and it just couldn't be possible that I was too scared to talk to her. Another morning and there she was again, and i was determined to talk to her this time. In class I seat by her, with my stomach full of butterflies I shyly I finally said "Hey, Tina; did you do your homework?" She gives me a weird look and said "I didn't, I haven't even started it" she put her books down and continues "I don't understand any of it, have you finished?" I was surprised and the feeling I had was unexplainable, she was actually talking to me!! "Yeah, if you want I can, maybe, help you?" she smiles and said "It will be nice Carlos". My heart is about to burst out of my chest! "Today after school?" I continue. "Yeah, well of course if you don't have anything else to do?" My goodness! she wants to! today! and now I feel my face hot as volcano in the middle of an irruption. "I'll see you in the library right after school?" She's so perfect! I finally reply "Yes! sounds great".
     After days of homework, and making her laugh, I knew I loved her. We dated and she was my High School sweetheart and she's still as perfect now. We have two boys that now go to the same High School and who knows maybe they'll find there other half there, just like we did. "Huh, baby?" "Yes, my shy school boy" . . .
The end!

Assignment #21: Extra Credit: Book Reports

Title: Lovely Bones

Author: Alice Sebold

Main character or protagonist:

Susie Salmon

     The narrator Susie is actually dead. She’s in other words retelling the story of how she was murder. She was raped and then killed by a man in the neighborhood who was sick (mentally ill or something). After he murders her she was in confusion between the real world and heaven. People wouldn’t get over her dead and they will not let her rest in peace, she was between heaven and the world. After everything the truth is found, she finds peace on heaven and the murder pays for what he did.

Title: Do One Nice Thing To Make the World a Lot Nicer.

Author: Debbie Tenzer

     This is a non-fiction book that talks about nice thing you can do with practically everything and everyone. The use the quote ‘Pass it on’ a lot and it because every nice thing in this book has to do with sharing, helping other, talk to someone about it ex. This book makes valuable points about life and the world in general.

Assignment #15: The Journey

       There I was waking up one morning in the cabin I worked for for several months, it was finally finished. It still smells like wood the windows aren't made out of glass is summer time and I the wood is cut like a window but no glass so I can smell the fresh glass and let the birds come and go. My cabin has a kitchen and it's a two story, one little bathroom, my bedroom, a living room and a little kitchen.

     Well now is my very first morning in my very own cabin and I'm going to drink a galss of milk and go look around. After I drink a glass of milk I walk outside, is a huge field in between my cabin and a big mountain. It's so nice to be out here, there's birds flying around, the smell of green it's fabulous and I'm willing to walk all across the field in order to get to that big intresting mountain. The grass in as green as it can be, of course is summer time and grass always looks nice, but there's something about this particulate grass that makes me just want to lay on it and enjoy the fresh small of nature. I need to get to that mountain and forget about the smell and the grass for now. My legs hurt already but I'm about to get to the end of the field and there's no way I'm stopping now. It's so big and it's going to be so hard to climb it.

     Here I am climbing this moutain I want to stop but there's something about this mountain that keeps me trying. There's lots of trees around and the smell is now sweat because I been walking for so long and I'm so tierd. Im close but my legs are shaky and I'm so tierd. I take a little rest, I seat on top of a huge rock next to a tree and think to myself, whay am I really doing all of this I can be inside my cabin eating or resting instead of being all tierd, sweaty and with my legs about to kill me. I dont stop, why? I really don't know but something tells me is going to be worth it. Yes! I'm finally here on top of the base of the large mountain who I was already thinkin it didn't have one. I look down and see all that i had walked and climbed, it was an amazing feeling. I walk towards a huge, kind of sharp rock and seat on it. The fresh air will hit my face and I decide to lay on the rock. As I turn towards the side of the rock I see another smaller rock that for some reason stand out form the others.

     I pick up the rock with both hands. I looked at it carefully and I notice some type of sign, might even be letters. I clean the dirt from the rock and try to read what it says. 幸福  it must be chinese? Japenese? or something but not english or spanish. I keep the rock climb down the mountain and run for about a mile across the field to get to my cabin. I opne one of my Greek books, but can't find the sign. After looking at about ten books, I get to the Japenese language book and start reading it. I finally find the sign 幸福 = Happiness in english. My dream who felt like I was leaving forever ended when I finished reading what the word or sign said.

     If you think about it my dream was a dream of live. A perfect one who seem so woerd at first but I found happiness or at least the sign of the rock. It takes you to built soemthing, run, and climb to find happiness![:

Assiqnment #18: My Poem

List of important events in my life

•  My first day of school in the U.S
•  My little brother being born
•  My first day in High School
• My first love
• My Junior year

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 The Best Thing Of Me Is What Makes Me, Me.

Embarrassment but laughter from others,

It was not easy but not so hard,

I’m here now right?

My first day of school, didn’t know

Anything but that life was going to be better.

The hospital, the blood

Scares me. But not the fact that it was

My little brother on the way this time

Curly hair, brown eyes, he was so tiny

I knew since then I had a new inspiration.

My first day in High School felt like another day

In middle school, all my friends with me,

And teachers nice as they can be

Who knew it was going to teach me so much.

First love, someone I care for so much,

He’s smile, his hugs, he’s personality are

Inspiring who thought I would care for someone

So much and is him who I love now.

My High School sweetheart.

It’s thought me so much through the way

And unbelievable that I’m here about half ways through

the way but only the beginning of my life.

Assignment #14: School Uniforms

-Agree with the Uniform Policy

     The use of Uniforms is something that will help us all. Parents everyday worry about how their daughters wear too short skirts, shirts, and shorts. Girls and boys take advantage of the privilege of letting students wear whatever they wish too wear. Not everybody follows the rules and is only making themselves look bad and their school. Schools can help parents with the uniforms, to those who need the help. Administration and teacher will probably be pleased because they don’t want their girls to be showing them their boobs or the boys sagging too much and showing their butts.

    Uniforms help reduce gang activity and prevent less dress codes issues. Why is administration going to waste their time giving the people that don’t follow the dress code referrals, instead of just focusing on what they have to do? Going around looking for short shorts, shirts that show too much cleavage or pants that are too saggy is no fun. The uniforms help the school look better because you will be representing respect in other words, and students won’t have to spend minutes or even hours to try to figure out what they are going to wear the next day. This idea will help everyone. Parents will only buy a few shirts and pants for the whole year instead of 50 pretty shirts and 30 pair of jeans and blah blah, they will only be worry about the shoes and stuff like that. But again the idea is great! Schools will be very pleased with this decision and parents will too. Students will probably wine about it at first but at the end they will see that it’s easier anyways and that they won’t have to worry so much or spend hundreds of dollars buying all the pretty stuff; when you wouldn’t have to worry because you and all your friends will look pretty and with uniforms. Definitely this will be a very good way to save money for parents and time from students and administration. Uniforms will also help students learn life by respecting the rules and looking always professional.

Assigment #13

Halloween Haiku

The best Halloweens are those that are fun; family, friends, and the candy aha.
The costumes, the evil, the terror, the food makes the coldness disappear.
Candy gives smiles, the costumes, the fun, the evil gives Halloween; yes huh!

Assigment #12

The Black Cat

      The short story "The Black Cat" is not just a story about a man, his wife and a black cat; this story uses symbolism to send us a deeper meaning after reading the short story. The way he describes he’s emotions and the way he sees the difference in his personalities are evidence of the wisdom the short story has.
     In the story “The Black Cat” the author is trying to send us a message, he uses symbolism to tell us that this is the way humans are in real life. Meaning that we human know when we are wrong and still ignore the fact that we feel the change. The man in the story describes that he felt the change in his personality and uses quotes like “It was no longer me” to tell us that he knew exactly what the change in his personality was. To me, the deeper meaning is that the man in the story was the black cat in the story. What I mean by the protagonist being the black cat is that he was the bad guy in the story.
     What this story makes me think is, How many people or criminals know that the person killing, stealing, and doing the bad stuff are not them but still ignore it? In the story the protagonist tells us that he had forgotten who he was, that he knew it was not him, the anger inside of him was not really who he was; but he still killed the cats, he still killed his wife and let that other person that he didn’t like take over him. That person who he used to be was caring, compassionate, and had a sweet personality but as this creature took over him, he grew inconsiderate and had no feeling towards anything but the horrible feeling of his personality changing and him become someone he didn’t really knew.
     The first cat symbolizes his acts, meaning the change in his personality was there and he had transformed to a person that was not him. The alcohol and all of the bad things he was doing were stronger than who he used to be and his personality changed completely. The second cat symbolizes the chance he had to make a change in his past, the spot meant the past was always going to be there is something you can’t really get rid of but that was his chance to change that, to go back to the persona he used to be and put everything back together, but he didn’t and gave up the person he used to be.
      By him lying to the cops about who he was (a nice guy) and made it seem that he was caring and all. This also send the message that us human know who we are and everything seems easy, but also when they believed him he kept on lying confident about it and that’s also how we are. When we know we lied about something but our parents believe us we want to make it seems all confident and keep on lying because they will believe us either way. He’s story relates to our everyday lives in one way or another.
     The short story “The Black Cat” relates to our everyday lives because without us thinking about it people change and do the things we wish we wouldn’t have done. We never know if this is what happens to murders that kill every day, maybe someone else also took over them and became the persons that they are now. We never think about ourselves doing it, we know the change is there but yet still ignore it and become someone you dislike or wouldn’t want to be. We never think about when we lie and they believe us we only lie more to sound confident and even though our lies aren’t as bad as murdering it’s still a lie.

Assigment #8

The Necklace.

      The moral or the overall message in the story the necklace is that lying only affects you at the end. In this story the author’s idea is to explain how he lied to her about the necklace, he had to work so hard to save the money to buy a new necklace and at the end it was the cheapest thing ever. The message is clear; lying does not take you anywhere. In this case he lied and had to work ten times harder so the lying got him right back.

     The story uses the frustration of and author to explain how lying got him right back. I personally believe it’s true; lying will not make you a better person, will affect your life only and will never take you anywhere. I have a personal experience to prove that the moral of this story is true.

     One time my sister (when she still attend school) told my mom that she needed money for a book she “had lost”, it was about $63 dollars that she actually needed for clothes. My mom knew there was no way she was going to save the money and pay the book so decided to give her the money. My sister and I went to the mall that same weekend and I only had $40 dollars I had saved for a nice shirt, but I seen that she was going to buy shoes. I thought to myself, well she didn’t work with my mom this week and my dad only gives us $25 dollars for the weekend, how come she has money to buy “Vans”? I asked her “Where you get that money?” and she told me that she had lied to my mom and the whole story. I thought it was stupid what she was doing but just ignored it. After a couple of weeks the school year will end and she had two overdue books in the book room; a Spanish one and a History one. She was looking for her books over and over again but never found them. That same week my mom got a call that she was to pay $134 to replace the books! She was so upset and said “But I sent already half of the money with my daughter, right?” and the response pissed her off “Not at all, check with your daughter and let us know when you are going to pay, thank you” and hung up. She had then found out that my sister had lied to her about the money for the book and all this stuff. After everything my sister now had to pay for the books, my mom took her to work with her for about a whole month and only gave her money for the books, nothing for her. My sister felt like lying was a big mistake because if she would’ve gotten paid for the whole month she would’ve had money not only for “Vans” but for a lot more stuff. She then learned her lesson. The same lesson the story “The Necklace” taught us.

Assignment #11

The Concrete Rose

       The first thing that comes to my mind with this poem is that it only takes proving someone wrong to make a major difference. What I mean by this is that how many stories people tell us about obstacles in life. We always hear the same stories people telling others they can't do it, they are not capable of something or hear about people giving up. This poem focuses on that message.
      One of the many stories I hear is that people give up after they graduate. There is always different reasons, many say "I can't afford it" some say "I don't have a SS#" or some simply say that "college is not for me". What they don't really see is that they have many opportunities and still decide to give up. Many people come from families who are poor and think that their lives have to be like theirs forever; but it takes a little change to make a difference in life or at least in your life. This poem's idea can influence people by their message really easy, because the main idea is obvious. The flower grows in a place no one knew it was possible, and prove even people wrong just as we can.
     Many people think that because someone says they can't do it, they really can't and decide or make the mistake to give up. Not because some one's not there to believe in you, you have to stop believing in yourself. I might not know what real life is out there, but I know that if I want something in life I am to fight for it and all I need is to believe in myself; family and all is always helpful but if they are the one's not believing in you, you are on your own.
     For example in the quote "Proving nature's law wrong, it learned to walk without feet" is a perfect example. Meaning you are not always going to have someone by your side telling you, "this is good" or "this is bad" you are to know what's good and bad, and the path you are taking. Relieving you are now on your own is what this quote is about or at least how I think of it. All it takes is proving someone wrong just like the rose did, and maybe is yourself who you need to prove wrong. "Funny it seems, but by its dreams, it learned to breath fresh air". If you keep your dreams and stick to them, you'll learn how to take the path to accomplish everything that you want in life.
     The last quote of the poem tells me that the main message of the poem is that it does not matter if you make a difference in others lives, all that it matters is that you made a change in yours by keeping your dreams and proving someone else wrong if they don't care. "Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else even cared".
      The message or the after all lesson of this poem is that it only takes to prove someone wrong to make a difference in life, it does not matter if to them was something but you'll now that you at least changed your world. The way people see the world is something huge, they don't think words have an impact in people's life but reality is you tell someone they can't and they are either going to prove you wrong or give up. The impact is yours, you don't need someone to tell you that's impossible just how they thought the rose growing from the concrete was, you prove them wrong or right; it's your decision. The only way you'll prove others wrong is by keeping your dreams just like this poem says it.

Assignment #10

Bullying

     I came to the United States when I was 8 years old. The words were "todo va a ser mejor" meaning every thing's going to be better over there, I was a little girl and believed it. It happen, everything now is better than over there, but it was not easy to get where I am.

      I remember going to Barcelona Elementary School my first time, I was excited but nervous too. I walked in the classroom and notice that everyone was looking at me and sort of just giggling aside. I also notice that the way I dressed was nothing like the way they dressed, I wouldn't understand a word they will day, and in other words I felt really lost. I started crying begging the teacher to bring my mom back so she can take me home with her. I had no friends no play with instead the kids will laugh at me when I will try asking them if I can play with them (of course in Spanish). It was an awful feeling and just knowing that I had the whole school year in front of me was horrible. I thought it was cruel how instead of trying to help they will laugh at everything that I will say wrong, there was even times where i will stay in the girl's bathroom for the whole reassess. My mom will always be crying with me because it wasn't as easy as we thought it will be. I remember getting pushed in the lunch line, there was three girls who seem to hate me and will always pull my hair. I can't even imagine to going back to those hard days where i felt depressed and just really lonely. I remember even feeling bullied my my teacher at the time Mrs.Rubolino who will not let me go to the bathroom unless I will ask her in English; I guess she was trying to help me practice and learn it but I wished she would've understand how hard it was for me. There was days I will not use the bathroom in all day.

    All of those days, I can now say were worth it. Now I know English well enough to help others. I will never laugh at anyone that does not understand what I'm saying. In others words I will not bully anyone over anything because unless you know how it feels like, you will see is a really wrong thing to do. You will never know how much impact can you make in some one's life. My issue was nothing compare to Jamie Nabozny's story but they are both based on bullying.

     On the article I read online tells that bullying today works unless you have a victim. Like me I showed them that I was scared, that every time they laughed it will hurt my feelings and that will lead them to keep doing it. It's either because you are different, short, you have more weight than others, your weak, ext. But bullying will not exist with no victim. My issue when I came to the United States thought me more than anything a lesson because when I see people bullying it bugs me so much that it takes me back to those hard days. I will not bully anyone instead I'll try to help them because you never really know what they people but them through and unless they know how it feels they will stop. What I went through, what Jamie went through made us the persons we are right now; but have you ever thought about those who aren't here to see if they will be better today? Because even though my situation was not as bad some people's are and will even go suicide just for people who think bullying is not serious and it's real "cool" to do!

Because not just because you are taller, skinner, better looking, know something someone else don't, are straight, ext. you DO NOT have the right to put someone down, does not mean you are better, nor you have the right to even depress or take some one's life away ever! And even something you say can be bullying.

And it does happen.

Book Report

Breathing

By: Cheryl Renee Herbsman

    The book "Breathing" was about a girl and a boy falling in love. Jackson and Savannah's love felt so real and it really was. Savannah was a young girl who had lost her dad when she was little and had asthma since then. Jackson and Savannah met at the beach where Savannah had lived all her life and Jackson was there living with his uncles. When they met they knew the butterflies meant love and that it was a real thing. Being together was not at all easy, he was 18 and she was 15, her mom was over protective (she was mom and dad for her and Savannah's brother) they had rules they had to go by but that did not brake them apart. Jackson was able to do a lot more than what Savannah was able to but he didn't care that they had to act like a 15 year old couple because he truly love her. It was even more default when he got a call from his mom saying she needed his help (he had to go work and help out with his little brothers) and he had to leave Savannah. It was not easy being without each other Savannah's asthma got worse and was in the hospital every day practically. She almost lost her fight once too. It was so had to breath without him. But one day he decided to come back and find a job to help out his family from there! It was the best thing that had happened to Savannah and him, Jackson showed up to her house and told her he couldn't do it without her anymore. Being together was just great it was summer no school to worry about and even though her curfea was 10 o'clock and she couldn't be down at the beach at dark it was happiness for them. Perfect was everything to then until Savannah got a letter on the mail. She got accepted to go study far away (her dream came true) but now she had to decided is she going to go? or stay with Jackson? It was so hard for her thinking about losing Jackson again was horrible she got a coulpe of asthma attacks but she still said "There's not way I'm leaving Jackson" But Jackson had promised her once that he was going to hold her dreams and this was one. So he convince her to go and promised her that when she was to come back home his love will only be ten times bigger& stronger for her! ♥

Assigment #7

Self-Value

I hear girls everyday talk about other girls, admiring their clothes or talking bad about their clothing or maybe just the way they are. What they don't really see is that is not them who look wrong is themselves. What this quotation is trying to say is, how do others judge people so mean when they are not even close to being perfect? How can you say you love someone if you can't even love yourself? How is it that you see everyone else above you if at the end is you that matters? How do you go by everyday without finding the value of yourself? These questions come to my mind as I read this quotation. Yes, is true nobody is perfect but that does not mean you are less than someone else, or someone is better than you. If you go thinking every single day "she looks better than me!" "they like her more" or "I wish i can be like her" is only making you feel with less value and you are very wrong. More than doubting yourself is jealousy. Jealousy does not take you any where, you don't get prettier by wishing to be like someone else, you don't get richer by wishing what others have, in other words god made us all different individuals you want to have more then you work for it! you want to be a better person? than you see what is to do and you work your way up there. For example, the way I think of this is by Obama's point in his speech weeks ago over at school in Chicago. He said something that I really can't forget about and is about students admiring their friends instead of being jealous of them. He made a point about if your friends have better grades you feel proud of them and see what they are doing that you're not so you can fix things and be a better student. You don't seat there and feel like they are smarter than you, is just that they are doing things you're probably not. This quotation also makes me think about how girls and boys at schools make mistakes to try to be someone they are not because to them others are better than them and they don't let others see who they really are. The after all feeling I get is jealousy will never take you far and is pretty much up to you if you want to see and show your value or seat there wishing you were someone else, someone that to you is better than you. But don't get the wrong message there is nothing wrong with admiring someone, someone you look up to, but that is really different from jealousy, but is really sad to find out there's people who still seat there and never find their own value but is more than what they thought.

Race In America

Race in America is something very important, but a lot of people see it was a difference. People’s culture might be different, their language, their beliefs and their clothing but some people find it was “people are weird” “they’re different” or even as “stupid”. Race is who you are to the world, beliefs who tell who you are, traditions who people know you for and languages you communicate with the world. People take these differences so serious and starts making others feel bad, different, less and it turns into racism. For example; if a Chinese person moves to Albuquerque knowing no English, dressing just like their culture says to, and now knowing the way we live here, very few people will be the ones to help them. Meaning is TOO much of a difference we see in them that some won’t even try to give them a hand. I hear the word “beaner” at least once a day, “look at that beaner” “oh, hah aim kidding” but even if they say they are kidding is something telling you she’s Mexican, Or he’s race is Hispanic. To me is something I don’t care about, I can tell who comes from where (of course) but yet I don’t take my culture compare it to theirs so I can find something to laugh at them for or to even see them as “I’m better than you”. Regardless of their color, ascent, way they dress or tradition these differences should not be a problem of racism, where you are putting someone down. What racism does is more than you can imagine. Racism is an everyday scene, I hear in on T.V on the radio, on protests and even at school. Another example of racism is the law in Arizona, that is based practically “if you are brown, you might be illegally on the U.S” and to me is absolutely based on racism in race and culture. I hear all the time that back then in the city of Albuquerque immigration was to show up in the middle of “Mexican dances” clubs where people will go and dance, or have a drink (just a good time) thinking if they are here they might be illegal. This has a lot to do with the culture because we are known as happy people who love to dance and celebrate holidays, maybe a little different than other cultures. Again, to me race is important but the differences are what you are identify by and not something people should put you down for.

I Dream A World

The poem “I Dream a World” gives a pretty clear message to my head. The author of the poem or the person who wrote, made us think of the world he was leaving in. He lived in a world where “freedom” did not exist, a world where peace and love had no value and happiness was too far to rich. He dream all the opposite, he dream of a world where peace, freedom and love is the most important things in people’s life. He wished people will realize what life is really about, in other words what really matters in life (that others did not seem to understand). We are here every day worrying about how our hair looks, how we don’t have money to get a new shirt we loved at the mall or how we are running out of gas in our car but people like the one who wrote this poem back then had nothing. Their goal was to eat once a day everyday and not get killed if they did something wrong. People treated them like if they were nothing. Langston Hughes was one of them but even though he knew he was nothing in the other people’s eyes he still had a dream in his mind, a dream that is ours for us to see the difference of the worlds and how a guy who was just one more person of a thousand suffering had still a dream to change the world, hope and faith by his side at all times. Till this day he's admire by us or at least by me for never giving up the hope and faith he had in the change he wanted. This poem shows how hard it was to live with no hope, no love, peace nor freedom and how now we wish for the stupidest things when all he wished for back then was freedom, hope, love ....but not ONE material thing that cost money or gold but things that will shape his world different.

New York, Florida, and Us. . .

         The issue with New York is a very serious issue in the United states rights. Meaning we have a right to choose or believe in what we want (religion). Although people think is a ridiculous idea, in my personal opinion I think this is showing us more than anything a lesson. What I mean by teaching a lesson is how some people see the world, they are showing us how people are still full of hate. I really don't think the Muslims are handling this the right way; they cannot expect for New York and the United States in general to ignore the fact that is exactly in that location they want to have the center. If they see how most people are against it, who are protesting, threatening and over all responding with hate, Why don't they find a better place where people are going to be with it? I believe whatever happen in 9/11 is not their fault now, but they have to understand it was a huge damage to the U.S. and understand that is somewhat offensive to many. To me if they are religious and have believe in peace and this things they should see that what they are trying to do is only causing chaos and hate; but it goes both ways. The U.S has to respect their religion and belief and the Muslims should understand that even though it's not their fault what their people did years ago is obvious is disrespectful in many ways and should move the center to another place. In the other side, the political side, in my personal opinion they are using this issue to get people to, maybe, believe in them more. To me this is ridiculous because is they focus on "getting elected" or having people agree with them and see who disagrees, they are never going to understand what this is really showing not just them but all of us.

          Today, what is going on in  Florida does not have a "maybe they're right" side. To me is completely ridiculous, disrespectful and nonsense what they are trying to do. One of the most important rights in the U.S is the right of belief. Burning something that means so much to their religion, a book that they go by and believe in is just something impossible to understand. Even though their people, years ago, caused chaos in the U.S. their religion now has nothing to do with it. In my opinion Christians will not like for their bible, something they believe in and go by to get burn. Will catholics like that? or other religions? Of course not. Their bible is important to them just like ours is to us. This is another issue that is trying to send a message to those who still don't see that people around us have hate and some people are just getting attention out of it when they are only causing hate upon each other. To me this is something that should not be happening because god is one and we all believe in him, and gods message does not say if they killed our people years ago then we do whatever to get them back. Gods the only one to judge those who killed those innocent people, not us. In the political side, yes, freedom of speech is a right but Pastor Terry Jones is abusing this right and who he is, meaning if it was one of us saying "Hey, lets burn their bible because they killed...and they sent... blah blah" they will ignore it and think we are crazy! But he's a pastor, he has people to influence and believe in him. However if he was a pastor dedicated to god, and know the importance of peace, respect and all of this things he will see that he's getting attention my putting people in war that will only lead to hate.

          The immigration issue in our country is also showing us the racism in our country. All of these three issues are completely different but lead exactly to the same massage. The Issue in New York, Florida and the issue going on in Arizona have a lot to do with hate, racism and of course people thinking we are not all equal. But more than anything people should see what this is really about, it should be teaching us all a lesson. We are all equal regardless of their past, the things they've done, Let's understand that god is the only one to judge them.

                                      

Show and Tell

Christmas 2009 was the day he gave me them. It was something unexpected who till this day gives me the butterflies. I just thought it was so cute for him to show up with Christmas present like that. A guy who I care for so much gave me shoes! My favorite brand of shoes, from someone who meant so much to me was unbelievable. They were brown with white and it was so special because he knew my favorite brand was VANS and I love the color brown (and the color I use the most). I guess is the way they take me to that night every time I wear them that makes them so valuable for me. It was a perfect night I had my family with me, I met his parents for the first time, I had everything I needed by my side. I was so excited for the break to be over, so I can go to school with my vans, which were not just simply shoes to me they meant so much more. I was so happy when people will ask me “What did Miguel give you? “and I was able to have the BIGGEST smile on my face wand point down at my vans[: .Till this day they are still in my closet, they are kind of old but still as special, I wear them once awhile and the feeling is the same. When I wear them I feel happy and it makes me realize how lucky I am to have him by my side every day. I love the way he notices too, every time I wear them he looks at them and smiles because he knows Christmas was special for the both of us. Maybe shoes is not that big of a deal, but is just the fact that specific day, coming from someone that I love so much, or at least I feel so in love with was just so valuable for me. Maybe this Christmas I can get him shoes and see if is as special to him as it was to me. Those vans are the most special gift I’ve ever gotten and they are very valuable to me.

Wisdom Haiku

              

Why do we kill in the war and ignore those who are killing the world?

We fight for what we dont have, and ignore the beauty we have.
Let's take care of what we have first you'll realize is more then what you thought.

Sophomore Year(:

           

         

       Sophomore year was a very fun but also busy year. I’ve change a lot as a person in this year and realize a lot of things I never did before. I’ve learned about colleges, I’ve learned about friendship, teachers, parents and about myself even. And I found it very amazing that this can happen but I guess is just part of learning form life, and know I know my teachers and parents were right as you get older you become more of everything; mature, responsible and of course more intelligent.

       

The first change I seen in myself this year was more mature. Sophomore year started off as a freshman that was now a sophomore beginner meaning we still acted like freshman but were now sophomores. The drama comes with high school is said, but to me that is not a problem. I’m much mature about the “hating” people now, I learned you’re not always going to like the people that surround you but why exactly will you fight over that? When we graduate we will never see them again probably because that’s not the purpose of school. I had lots a fun dislike some and loved the rest and that’s all there is to it.

         Friendship is something I enjoy learning about and yes is true, friends leave your life sometimes, you meet new ones and on and on. I found the importance of a friendship, I experience being a friend and having many, I found the difference between a real and a fake friend but the most important thing I found out what a friend is. The importance of a friendship is a lot, there’s always going to be that one person that sticks to your heart, that you are willing to help her out when she needs you knowing they will do the same, someone you can trust with almost anything, some one that just inspires you and admires you with no jealousy; I call that a best friend. Having friends is a wonderful experience especially when you know you are one too, I have many friends and lost some on the way but I love knowing that the ones who have stick to me are here for me. Meeting new people is also part of high school and I’ve also experience it,
people that I’ve met have become an important part of my life and they’ve become very close to my heart. True friends are friends that love you for who you are, are here for you, respect you and your thinking, care about you and just give you the friendship you need. Fake friends tell you a long story of how much they love you, admire you and they will always be there and when you need them and when you need them they are never there, they admire you with jealousy, they turn their backs on you when the crew leaves you when a true friend will stick to you even if the whole world hates you.

        In this wonderful year I learned a lot about my teachers. Those who are here to give you a hand when you need it, here to listen to you, to care for you and in one way or another love you. Teachers you see as also your friends. I admire my teachers a lot but this year I learned that they can also admire you. They show you respect and care and you know those are friends to you. I’ve learned a lot of math, English, got better at my singing and they helped me learn about them and myself. They inspire me to always do the best, to never give up, and to follow my dreams.

         Finally I’ve change my ways of thinking. I’ve become a better person myself this year. I’ve change my way of thinking about my parents they helped me grow as a person and no matter what friends stick to me at the end of the day they will be my forever friends. I’ve change the way of thinking about my dreams; and I will never give up on them. And I grew as a person; took responsibilities, learned how to have courage, how to speak for myself (to have a voice), to respect others no matter what, to always be the better person and found a solution not make it worse. To always be yourself no matter what, because “you become your own comeuppance” and the people around you will not be here ten years from now. And finally to be grateful of everything you have.

 It was a fantastic year that is now over. But if I could go back in time and change something I wouldn’t because I learned from everything. Sophomore year was the most interesting year I hope not the funest because I’m looking forward to a great junior year. Sophomore year I learned the importance of a high school year in our lives (:

Class of

The Great Debators

I will describe the Great Debaters as accomplishing the dream to be heard. In this movie I learned many things it lets you see the importance of not giving up. The importance of having a voice is the main thing in this movie. It’s crazy how out of many starters only three did it, they didn’t give up on the only dream t hey had, and they knew many were depending on them only. The way they were treated after all they did was more than enough they needed. They fought for the opportunity to be equal to let them be who they want to be and they accomplished it well. Denzel Washington inspired his students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. This started full of students who were very interested but then only Henry Lowe, Samantha Booke and James Farmer Jr. were the only students who actually did it. It took them a long time to learn about it, to practice and to rich perfection but they never gave up. In the debate they were of course very nervous but at the same time they had confidence and they knew they learned it from the best of teachers. At the end it was all worth it they won first place and they won the wonderful feeling of having a voice (being heard). They made themselves proud, families, their director (teacher) and each other because they were a team and their debate won for a reason!

Friendship♥, the most important ones

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Denisse, Laura, Esme, Kasandra,Jasmelly& Karen

Friendship is something everyone should experience. Throughout your life you find those friends that just get really close to your heart and I find it interesting how people change, leave your life or just make something a big deal that ruins the friendship. To me is very easy to see who is true to me and who’s just fake, but now in days you just never know. In 15 years of my life (almost) 16 I’ve had a lot of “best friends” starting kinder garden and till today. But I can truly say in High school it’s hard to have one. I want to let you know a little about my friends because this year I’ve found many friends that I will love to keep. One of them is Denisse Camargo who is my best friend since middle school, she’s a admirable person, strong, honest, loyal and a friend that I love calling best friend and it really comes from my heart. Another wonderful friend I have is Laura and Esmeralda, what can I say about these girls, they make me smile, they have such wonderful personalities, they have a great heart and we know how to have fun all together. Their friendship is something I’ll never trade because I could truly say they are awesome friends. And I could keep on going about telling you about all the friends I have but I’ll just stick to the most important ones to my life. Kasandra; she’s been my friend for five years and she’s a very great person. She’s very funny and I love her hehe. And finally I’ll like to talk about someone who is new to my list, Jasmelly and Karen they are hilarious, they have great personalities and I met them this year but they have become very important to me (: What can I say to me those are the people who I really believe are true to me and I hope to keep them for a long time. All of my friends are different and very unique in their own ways but I love them a lot because life puts people in your life for a reason and I’m glad they are part of my life. The closest to my heart are those who give me the friendship I need, loyalty, respect, fun, smiles, memories and love(: I can’t forget I’ve lost some along, but I know that is also for a reason and right now is just too dumb to fight over 10 dollars or dicing someone because is just not worth a friendship, friendship is not base on who you hang out with the most or who calls you after school is about learning from each other, loving them no matter what, and about the promise to always be there.

Wisdom Quote

"Live the life you choose to live, and be who you want to be"

This wisdom statement was by mme(: I learn that the life you're living now is because you choose to live it. Yes many people say "you can't change the past" and yes that's in fact very true but if you think about it you live base your past the decisions you've made in your past still effect you today. The life you're living right now is because that's the life you choose to live. We have the beautiful gift of being here, living but is only up to you to take advantage of everything you have. Example, my dad lived all his past lost in alchol and now is the past who bugs his present and probably his future. You have life already, you're here and there's what you do now in your life, is base on you past and to effect your future one day. Whay do you think they say what you do now will be your future? So then there is no reason to say you can't change you past so just forget about it because just like the present effects your future, the past effects your present. If you made mistakes in your past it effects your present because you will want to do things different to change the way you live.the second part of my quote talks about being who you want to be. This world is full of fakes, great people, dumd people ect. but you're the only one that decides who you want to be. People are always going to have something to say, judge you, and hate you but don't let that put you down because maybe they aren't happy and that's why they do it. Why wais your time trying to impress people and show them a side of you that is totaly fake when is your life, you live it and you can be who ever you want to be. Around the world we see many people and you realize they're happy and you see it and it's only for a reason they are who they want to be. So say what you gotta say, do what you want to do, be who you want to be; either a fake person that likes to fit in or the person that stays true to who they are and are themselves because if you think about it everyone else is already taken(: So base on all of this is how I made my wisdom quotes(:

Jasmelly, Laura& Sandy (our missions] lOl(:

Person For a Day

         If I would have the chance to be a different person for a day it will be Barack Obama. I will love to be him first to experience the experience of being a president of the United States. I will like to be him out of this other people so can have the power to change laws and to help out a lot of other people that need it. I will start by helping the immigrants (Mexicans) not legalize them all but at least give them the chance to be here with a permission of residence to make a better future for their families. I will not approve the new law in Arizona, about anyone asking about your citizenship. I will defend the rights of the immigrants and help them have more opportunities in their futures.

         I will also make sure all the homeless people around the world have like a home they can go and eat and sleep. I will make a change with the community; help to be cleaner because no one really minds now in days. Me as Barack Obama will go visit immigrants’ houses and see what is like to be here and to try to just make a living. I will treat the gang problems (people killing, hating, and fighting against each other) I will be make sure they have someone to talk to and have other activities to do. I will make more community clinics to help out the community. If I was Obama for a day I will make my workers start the real work with clinics to help the young woman who are pregnant.

         If I was Barack Obama I will have the power to do all of this changes that I believe we need. I will help everyone who needs it and will make sure everyone has a job or at least opportunities to have a good job in the future; by colleges and good schools not only for the rich but for everyone who has a dream! I will be making United States a better place with cleaner communities, end of homelessness, end the growing of the border, better community clinics, better education, and legalizing immigrants who are really here to work hard to have a better future, end gang violence, And by helping out everyone who needs it.

        By the end of the day (of being Barack Obama) I will know that I made all the changes needed and will feel very proud of helping out those who needed. People will now be treated equally and will not feel ignored. I will send the message to everyone that everything is possible! And the experience of being the United States president will stay in my heart forever (:

Betrayed Blog.

-Betrayed in love<\3


Yes if I think about it I've been betrayed in many ways but the only one that really hurt me a lot was when I was betrayed in love. It all started like a regular dating thing, I liked him and he liked me. Two months later I realized that he was very important to me, and even if it was a High School thing like a lot of people say he was just very special to me. The third month was the month that I started to trust him so much, he was the bestest friend to me and my feelings to him will just grow more and more. I was loyal to him, I trusted him, I gave him my respect, I gave him love and friendship. Months passed and we had been together for about 6 months. I felt like I loved him, even if I don’t even know what love is. One day, and i still remember the weather, it was very ugly outside. A lot of things were going on, I was having family problems and he was just not giving me the space I needed. I decided to ask him not for a brake up but for a break so I could get back on track. I was so happy to know that he "understood" what I was going through and he told me that i loved me and no matter what he was going to be there and he could live without me blah, blah. I trusted him and was trying very hard to get over everything and be together again. Winter ball was here, and we were planning on going together still. The night of winter ball was here and he was calling me because he was there already and I wouldn't hurry. I got there to the hotel where the Winter Ball was taking place at, and didn't find him. I was looking for him asking his friends and he wouldn't answer his phone. His friend finally told me he had gone on a party bus with a lot of people and girls. So then I got the hint he wasn't there, he was calling and calling me so he can blame it on me after. And that's how it happened, the next day I didn't even bothered calling him in all day. Finally, he called me, he was crying for some reason. I was very hurt, but still asked him what was wrong? He hung up. I called his best friend Martin and asked him, he told me he has kissed another girl at the party bus and they ended up hooking up(being together all the time at the party bus and kissed all night). This broke my heart in thousands of pieces, I trusted him, why would he do this to me? Why? :'( and cried for hours. I was disappointed, sad, and mad I was betrayed, my trust and love was betreayed and I was heartbroken! How can someone tell you they love you and do this? Say they can't live without you and go kiss another girl's lips? This hurted me so much and till today it hurts me. The first time I gave all my trust to someone I was betrayed and that's something I'll never forget. Yes I learned how to forgive because he has showed me he's better and has mature a lot over the months. But I haven't learned how to trust him again and I know it's going to be the hardest thing to do, because after being betrayed I don't think i could never be that same girlfriend again. The feeling of being betrayed is a horrible feeling, is unfaithful, unloyalty, disappointment. And he the person that made disappointed my hopes :( But thanks to that I'm a different person now, and till this day I cry because to me he's still so special to me and I feel like I love him but what i felt that day, that night, even that whole month is unexplainable and i hope i never feel that same way again. And now I also know not to do it, because I know how it feels and i will never make someone feel that way, because the feeling of being betrayed is sadness and disappointment. But betrayal always comes with life, and if you were betrayed in love you will realize it has made you a better person, and that's what life is about -learning! And you will know to never betray someone because you are already going to know how it feels and you have to make the change. Someone has already made it for you, and it’s that person that disappointed you so much. My mom was betrayed but by a friend. She had a “best friend” in high school who she was very loyal to. My mom will defend her with another group of girls who will hate on her. One day my mom ended up getting in a fight with one of the other girls and got suspended for a few days. When she came back her “best friend” Sandra was there hanging out with the other group of girls my mom was surprise O_O My mom who was loyal to Sandra, who defended her and didn’t care about the getting in trouble part was now being hated by who she thought was her best friend and the other group of girls. Even though my mom found a lot of other friends she will never forget that her best friend betrayed her and she learned to never trust on someone again and till this day she has many friends but she always talks about this story with us so we don’t make the same mistakes. I think getting betrayed by Sandra made her a better person today and she talks to us about all of this so we can be better too. But the disappointment of Sandra made her so strong that she can now say she’s a best friend to many people and Sandra is probably now alone, but she has never heard about her since then.

Scary Story

It was Halloween when she told us her experience seeing a ghost with her own eyes. I've never believe in ghost but this story really got me thinking. What if there is ghosts? I was very surprise and even scared. She used to work at a place where they helped young girls (17 and younger) that were pregnat. She will spend the whole day there with them even night. One day she was very tierd and decided to put all  the girls to sleep at 9:00pm, she had to always make sure that the door by the stairs was locked. She will lock the door every night because they were scared that the girls will wake up at night and go down stairs by themselves because they could've hurt themselves. Her room was right across the door and her door (from her room) always had to be open so she could see what was going on with the girls. So, she was sure she had locked the door, in the middle of the night she seen the door open. She was very scared because one of the girls might have gone down stairs, so she got up, the light from the kitchen down stairs turned on. She was very scared but she had never believed in ghosts, until she seen it. A girl with pretty long hair, pretty face but no legs was at the end of the stairs, she lost breath but still asked her "what do you want?" "Why are you here?". The pretty girl wouldn't say anything but she will point at the kitchen floor and then dissapear. Mrs.Mac when running to one of the lady's room (that worked with her) and woke her up, telling her what had just happened. She then found out that the girl (ghost) was one of the members there, she was 15 years old and lost her baby there. The kitchen at the time used to be one of the rooms because it wasn't a two-story house before. She wanted to have her baby really bad, her baby's dad had left her, but she still loved the baby inside of her. She had lost her baby there and then she died because the doctor said she wasn't strong enough to have a baby. From then on her ghost was around the house crying for her baby.

My Movie -Twilight, The Forever

New twilight serie.

My movie will be the ending of twilight, new moon. My characters will be Bella Swan, Edward Cullen,  Jacob Black , Alice Cullen, Carlisle Cullen , Esme Cullen , Rosalie Hale,Charlie Swan (bella's dad),  Sam Uley, Quil Ateara, Embry Call, and Paul. I will also add a new character, Sabrina Cullen. The movie is going to be about Bella and Edward finally getting married. Bella answered Edwrad when he asks her to married her with a YES! Bella and edward are now together, and Edward finally decides to make Bella one of them. Bella becomes a vampire like them and then they will decide to start a family having two kids. But now there's only one problem, Jacob falls inlove with Sabrina Cullen, who was a human but still part of the cullens. They was deeply inlove with eachother and didn't care they were enemies, because in their hearts they were inlove. But it didn't matter if they didn't care, their families did. Jacob is a wolf and Sabrina is a Cullen and that was the only thing seperating them. The cullens had a theory with the wolves but they were inlove and didn't care, Jacob's friends did care and decided to go after Jacob wanting to kill him for disappointing the wolves. Sabrina and Jacob were separated for a long time. Sabrina looked for Jacob day and night because to her, him being a wolf didn't matter. After a year Jacob came back alife and he came back for her. Bella and Edward knew they loved eachother and they went almost through the same thing to be together, but they knew that at the end they were together happy and forever. Edward and Bella helped Jacob and Sabrina, even though Edward and Jacob were once enemies. Jacob and Sabrina never gave up even if the whole world was against them. At the end the warewolves understood the love they had for eachother, Bella and Edward stayed together with their family. Sabrina and Jacob also decided to get married, Sabrina changed her last name to Black, and Bella and Edward were happy to see Jacob happy after all. And the two families were happy, Sabrina was Jacob's forever and Bella Edward's. (: The end!

 

Courage.

One day we’re all going to have to grow in some way or another. Life gives us rough times and you have to learn how to grow. In my life I had been through ups and downs but if I look back I’m nothing like the little girl I used to be and it was hard but I grew in many ways. When I started AHA I had many friends, many I would consider them “best friends” I was there for them when they needed me and they will be there for me. 10th grade this year is way different people start changing and in one way or another they leave your life. At the time when all my friends were changing I was very hurt because I’ll see things in a different way. But I had to change that about me, people change for a reason and I realize that I’ve changed myself and that just happens. I had to understand that life is short, people change, people leave your life, people talk, and cause drama but after all you have to understand all of this comes with life and all this people that talk, cause drama, leave my life after all is part of high school and life. I had to grow and stand on my own, I can’t always depend on my friends or other people. I have friends but many or most of them not forever because at the end of the day my only friends are my family. Now that I’m more mature about all of this high school things is that I really don’t care about what other people say, friends are my teachers that can seat there and listen and teach you what they can, your family that no matter what is going to be there, and the people you know are true to you and you want to keep for your future. At the end of the day, who’s actually there? nobody, but your family. I don’t care if at school I’m the biggest loner in the whole entire world, or if my friends were to walk away from me and end our friendship because at the end I have the BESTEST friends at home(:. I'm true to those who are true to me, I give trust when I get trust, I’m a friend to those who give me friendship and respect everyone no matter what. And the hard thing is learning how to do all of this things, it took time, courage but at the end it was worth it because now nothing puts me down and the friends that decided not to become part of my future I wish them the best of life(: Because “the purpose of life is the life of purpose” and I’m at school to get an education, there’s purpose for everything. I always remember "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be”. But the people that you see now you might not see them in the future, unless you choose to. This is all about growing learning from life and taking the change(: The only person i want ot have in my future is who I rerally consider my best friend, Denisse. I see girls everyday calling eachother "best friends" when they have no clue who i real one is. My Niesie is a real one, the only one i haven't havd a fight with, the only one that has been there for 5 years(: I think about her as my other sister that I want to see in my future there seating with me drinking coffee. We have so much courage, she courages me to always do my best no matter what and even if we have our boyfriends and they want to be with us all the time, we still stay close at heart because that's what bestfriends are! It dont matter how many friends I was to lose and how many I'm gonna lose in the future I know when I look back she will always be there. Life is treaky and we still choose to live, so you have to courage yourself on being the best you can be, never give up, try to be better everyday, and keep those friends who are real to you because life is not always on depending on somebody else. We can't base who we are and our lifes on somebody elses, you always got to be yourself because everyine else is already taken! The drama comes with life, the friends come with life, but hte friend of today can be the enemie of tomorrow. Courage is to always be better because you can!