Personal Statement

Personal Statement 1:
I have two older sisters, one brother, and one parent. My dad left my mom when i was just a little girl. My mom has always been there for me to push me through the tough times. Once i reached Sixth graded, life got more tough. Drama is school and at home started happening. I felt like there was no one there for me anymore. Everything went downhill as i grew up more, i gained a lot of more friends, but they only knew me as the girl that liked to joke around a lot. I like to joke around because it keeps my mind off of all my troubles. I tried to not take anything to seriously anymore because i never wanted to be let down again. The teachers thought of me as the girl that never listens and was always stubborn to the instructions. I felt like friends were the only thing there for me now.

My mom stopped trying to push me because she said she was to tired of trying to keep me up in life. She had to work two jobs and barely got enough sleep. I never wanted to bother her or ask her for anything because i knew that she worked her hardest to raise four kids. My aunt also helped a lot in the cooking because she knew that we had nothing to eat for dinner. Whenever i am in a bad time in life, i go and talk to my toy lion. His name was Bushy. He was my closest friend that i could trust, but then again, he also was not real. He was there when i cried every time i needed to cry.

Coming into high school was exciting and scary, i did not know if i would ever fit in. It took me a long time to fit into my middle school, even though i went to school with the same people for seven years. When i was in high school, the environment felt unusual, everybody acted like they already knew each other and i did not even know one person. Again, i was the shy and quiet girl that no one talked to much but did not hate. i felt like a nobody, like there was no one there to tell how i feel to anymore.

So when i get older, I always want to be the person their to listen to peoples problems. I want people to know that there might not be anyone they know to listen to their or problems, but there is always someone else to listen. There should always be someone that would not judge the way you think or the way you feel. Everybody has problems in their life and i want to be the one that would not let them hold in their feelings until they explode. I always felt like my life was not the best and just needed someone to listen. I want to be that person. The person that people can trust me enough to tell me about any problems they have. Even if it is so dark,evil, or scary that they could not tell anyone else and i could be the one helping them.

Personal Statement 2:
A good quality that i have that i am proud of is that when i study and know what i want to do, i actually put my mind into what i want and would try to achieve it. Sometime it would be hard to know what i want because it is very hard to decide about what i want. When i ever decide what i want then i would always try me best to know anything possible to succeed my goal. people may always think that i am very lazy and slow at getting the job done, but when i am actually interested in what i am doing, then i would do a good job. I am also proud of being Vietnamese. People may have problems of being what they are because of the racism around them, but i do not mind at all.

I am proud of what race i am because i believe that even though we are all different, we are still the same in the way we are. That’s why i am part of a program called “Asian Pacific Island Youth Promoting Advocacy & Leadership” (AYPAL), they try to start ethnic studies in school so people can learn more about the people around them instead of just the American History. people need to learn that American history is not more important than your own history because your own history is part of your background and it helps show who you are and who you have became to who you are right now. People should know the different traditions that they have in their own culture. There are many different type of things in a culture that could be interesting to know about. Many people like me learn about their culture at home because they do not teach it in schools. From home i learned the many different types of food, clothing, and dances that they do traditionally. I feel that if you learn about your own culture, you can always pass it own to your own children and also teach other people about your culture or other people’s culture too. Learning this makes me believe that it could reduce racism around the world because even when people have different ways that they celebrate their holidays. We all act, feel, and think the same way.

It helps me be the person i am today because i am a person that does not like people being rude like racism. So i would like to teach other people to change the way they offend people and start thinking differently about the way they insult each other.

Final Draft

The book The curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon is a book that i did not expect it to be. It was written in the perspective of an autistic child. England and their view on autism, could have positively and negatively shaped Christopher's life. He goes to school in an environment that seems okay and stable, but I bet underneath, there is not a lot of money that is going into a project that help kids like him. His dad also seems guilty that he brought into the world an autistic kid, and treats Christopher with privilege.

This also shows the community's response to autism. Christopher talks about how prime numbers are whats left when you take all the others, i believe that he was talking about himself and everybody else like him. If you take away the rest of the world, then you get the prime numbers. He dose not like people, or actually dose not understand them. When you do not understand something, most of the time, you do not like it either. So, if you were to take away all the people in the world, accept autistic people, then thats the world Christopher would want to live in. One of the points brought up was how Chris reacts towards the two colors, yellow and brown. One of his reasons for disliking these colors was because bananas turn from yellow to brown. There must be a connection there, but it was hard to tell.I believe that this banana thing has to do with the fact that it turns different colors, something that seems illogical. And especially from yellow, a bright color, to brown, a darker color.

It seems that he also has problems with these colors because maybe his mom was wearing these colors the day she left him and the father.However, he recognizes how it is silly that he hates these colors. Another point that we brought up was how he reacts to emotion. The dad becomes very cross with Christopher because he continues to investigate and study the case of Wellington's murder. Soon after, Chris's dad reviles that he is the killer. We talked about how the dad feels guilty about bring Christopher into the world autistic, and how he wants to repair the damage between him and his wife and between him and Christopher. Christopher dislikes physical contact between himself and others and between food items. Chris hits the dad on accident when the dad touches his shoulder. We said that he felt scared and worried about what his father might do to him.The other thing hemany different things relating to Christopher's autism. However, in this blog, I am going to write about the actual mechanics of our discussion. We had every one pitch in this time, instead of only one or two members dominating the conversation. It was nice to have others input on this book. Some others brought up good points that would have never come up in my mind. hates is when food touches each other.

Again, we are not sure why he is like this. The curious incident of the dog in the night time is a book about an autistic child named Christopher who is 15. The author, Mark haddon, is an amazing author who writes in such away that it makes feel like you are really in the head of Christopher. What i like about is that it shows an every day world through the eyes of an autistic kid. And, with that, i have come to realize that we all have little things we do to keep our selves calm or relaxed

The curious incident of the dog in the Night time RD

The book The curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon is a book that i did not expect it to be. It was written in the perspective of an autistic child. England and their view on autism, could have positively and negatively shaped Christopher's life. He goes to school in an environment that seems okay and stable, but I bet underneath, there is not a lot of money that is going into a project that help kids like him. His dad also seems guilty that he brought into the world an autistic kid, and treats Christopher with privilege.

This also shows the community's response to autism. Christopher talks about how prime numbers are whats left when you take all the others, i believe that he was talking about himself and everybody else like him. If you take away the rest of the world, then you get the prime numbers. He dose not like people, or actually dose not understand them. When you do not understand something, most of the time, you do not like it either. So, if you were to take away all the people in the world, accept autistic people, then thats the world Christopher would want to live in. One of the points brought up was how Chris reacts towards the two colors, yellow and brown. One of his reasons for disliking these colors was because bananas turn from yellow to brown. There must be a connection there, but it was hard to tell.I believe that this banana thing has to do with the fact that it turns different colors, something that seems illogical. And especially from yellow, a bright color, to brown, a darker color.

It seems that he also has problems with these colors because maybe his mom was wearing these colors the day she left him and the father.However, he recognizes how it is silly that he hates these colors. Another point that we brought up was how he reacts to emotion. The dad becomes very cross with Christopher because he continues to investigate and study the case of Wellington's murder. Soon after, Chris's dad reviles that he is the killer. We talked about how the dad feels guilty about bring Christopher into the world autistic, and how he wants to repair the damage between him and his wife and between him and Christopher. Christopher dislikes physical contact between himself and others and between food items. Chris hits the dad on accident when the dad touches his shoulder. We said that he felt scared and worried about what his father might do to him.The other thing hemany different things relating to Christopher's autism. However, in this blog, I am going to write about the actual mechanics of our discussion. We had every one pitch in this time, instead of only one or two members dominating the conversation. It was nice to have others input on this book. Some others brought up good points that would have never come up in my mind. hates is when food touches each other.

Again, we are not sure why he is like this. The curious incident of the dog in the night time is a book about an autistic child named Christopher who is 15. The author, Mark haddon, is an amazing author who writes in such away that it makes feel like you are really in the head of Christopher. What i like about is that it shows an every day world through the eyes of an autistic kid. And, with that, i have come to realize that we all have little things we do to keep our selves calm or relaxed

Comments to Group RD

Phuong

Talking about the chapter length and the amount of chapters got really redundant. Paragraph three is not complete, maybe it got cut off; you should edit that. The way you explain the sections of the book is kind of confusing. You say in the paragraph before that the coma and the sleep state confuse you, but then you say that there are three different sections of his coma. That makes it really confusing. Also you need tags in your introduction paragraph.


Amber G

1. I really like your analysis of Talon. It really makes sense how you say his character was shaped by the life he lived on the streets, and how he really is an adult in a child's body.
2. I really the dialogue you used to convey his character. "Talon makes Church officials laugh with his childish suggestions, he makes Knights blush with his perverse comments, he makes nobles confused and he makes other thieves jealous. Talon has such a broad character that fits perfectly inside the small stature of a young thief." It really allows me to see him in the book.
3. Maybe somehow make a deeper analysis of the character....go into greater detail about how his character was shaped, connect that idea to something else, ect. lol.
But overall good review.

Shiyun

There is not transition between paragraphs three and four, it went straight to your idea of the purpose of the book. “After finishing The Hunger Games, I thought that it was a very great book. It got very intense and exciting to read near the middle of the book. Its like you can not stop flipping the pages. This was really a great book, it taught me alot about how government runs when it takes control of the people. This book is intended to tell people about this kind of government system; warning the possibility that out government system might turn out this way.” this paragraph makes me want to read the book. Good job at telling how you felt while reading the book. The way you describe your book makes me want to read it too, good job at trying to convince the audience that the book is great for reading.

Blog post #2

The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time Prompt Blog Post
The prompt I chose for this blog post is number four: How would you describe the author's style of writing? What's your opinion of the style? i chose this prompt because i felt that it is the perfect topic for this book because the style of writing is very unique and interesting. by coincidence the beginning of this story, the narrator actually explains the style of writing in which was chosen. “chapters in books are usually given the cardinal numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on, but i have decided to give my chapters prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and so on because i like prime numbers” (11).
Since the narrator fancies prime numbers, he decided to number his chapters by prime numbers instead of doing the regular way of numbering. This is only one way his style of writing gives off his uncommon or rare style of writing.
other than his prime numbering, he actually includes diagrams, pictures, reviews from doctors, etc. i think that this is very uncomparable to other chapter books like this one because usually there are no visuals in the books. i think that the reasoning and logic behind this is because instead of just writing descriptions on what was being talked about he just added diagrams so the reader could understand exactly what is being talked about.
He also seems to have a hard time knowing exactly how to stay on track. he seems to switch subjects quickly and it is very hard to take this book seriously when goes from one subject to a whole different one. I do, however, understand why the narrator decided to write the book this way: he wrote like this because it made it more interesting to write, but this doesn’t mean that it would be interesting to the reader.
All-in-all, this style of writing could be aggrivating to the reader in many ways. Sometimes it could be confusing or it could be unentertaining. I wouldn’t want to read any other books if it had the same writing style as this one.

Book post #1

Thecurious incident of the dog in the night time is summed up in one word, odd. Christopher is autistic, and the way he thinks is completely unordinary. i like his character's because he sees the world differently than everyone else, and he can make things seem way more logical than most people would ever think. one is example is this a column called ask Marilyn featured a woman who answered math questions. one of the math questions was “you are on a game show the idea is to win a car. the host shows you three doors. he says that there is a car behind on door and a goat behind the other two. you pick a door the host opens one of the doors not picked to show a goat. He gives you the option to change you mind and pick the unopened door. what should you do?” so most people would say that there’s a 50-50 chance that the goat will be behind the door, but that isn't correct it is actually 2 in 3 chances that there will be a car behind the door. i still do not understand this, but the way he explains it makes sense. he makes it sound so simple, but its really not that simple. this is why i love the way he thinks. the lady who answered the question said the same thing as Christopher and they called her stupid. she’s in the Guinness book of world records for he highest IQ.

Even though Christopher is brilliant in so many ways some of the things that he does in the story is annoying. like he does not like the colors yellow and brown. he has reasons for not liking these colors, but they don't seem like good enough reasons. his list for not liking yellow is 1.custard (no actual reason, but i guess it’s because he doesn't like it)
2. bananas (they also turn brown double negative)
3. double yellow lines (also no reasoning)
4. yellow fever (it’s a disease)
5. yellow flowers (allergies)
6. sweet corn (cant digest)
I understand why he would like these things, but it not logical to just dismiss the color yellow all together.

Connections Between people's Family story

The connections that i see through most of the peoples story is that they mostly came to America for a better life. Apparently some of them left because of different reasons. They wanted to have more money and have a wealthier life. many of them say that they used to be poor and did not have much money when they were back at their home land.

Like for a couple examples, Tiffany's"During the Vietnam war, my grandfather was a general. After hearing this, I was glad that he survived in the war. I heard he got hit by a bomb, but he survived it." and another one is from phuong’s blog "When I was a kid like you, I had nothing. I worked hard all day long in return for a scoop of ice-cream, not a bowl, but a spoonful. I had to challenge the other kids around my age just to be the best helper, to get a bigger portion. Vietnam is poor. I had to sneak to my neighbor's yard to listen to music. If I am lucky enough, I might be able to watch from the black and white television. Every little thing is gold to me. Everything is valuable. Nothing is wasted, nothing is lost. Competition is everywhere. Of course, it is not to see who looks better, it is to see who works harder and who is the most helpful."

A lot of them make it sound like they had really sad lifes back in their country. basically i mostly see that people are only leaving their countries because they are noticing that they should not be treated this way. It makes it sound like an American life is so much easier than a regular day like in Phuong's story of working just for a little ice cream. Life is better in America but it is also not the best. You may have more freedom and get a lot of money for the work you've done. but life is really tough over here also. of course everyone is glad that they got to be in America. Other countries are treating people like slaves and not carrying about how they treated them. Well the life style for my mom wasn't as same at Phuong's, my mom was more of the wealthy kind of type of people that was really smart and had anything you need to live. I can relate to Tiffany because my Grandfather was also a general. He died a long time ago though and i never got to meet him.

America or China lifestyle

The cyclical that goes on in this book is the way that her mom treats her daughter. The way that Tiger Mom treats her daughter is that she is always strict to her daughters. But in this book, it is kind of confusing. Sometimes she seems strict but at the same time she doesn't seem strict and it happens over and over through out the book. It shows from the view of the child and the mom. Most Chinese moms are real strict about grades and how the child should be. But in this book it often shows how the daughter is almost nothing like what a regular Chinese families would treat them. The different symbols that family teaches her can always keep her Chinese tradition in her even though she has been in America for most of her life. The way that her mom teaches her daughter to be a little more Chinese, then it could pass down to her grand child and great grand child.

And it can pass down to many more generation even though the mom will not alive to teach others. like in the chapter "double face" the mom is scared that her daughters Chinese would be dominated over by the American life style and would change her kids pop chips are good would change the history of the family. The Chinese family would change over time and then hello Charlie how are you, right now it is eleven fourty nine minute, not sure don't if I can finish this blog in eleven minutes. Lastly, Khanh, my cousin says hello to you. The people like to play mahjong's, and they enjoy with friends, trying to keep the tradition of the Chinese history in their family even though they moved to America.

The mom is afraid that since they moved to America, that the daughter would adapt to the American culture and forget about the importance of Chinese Culture. Even though the mother care about the daughter loosing interest in the Chinese culture, she did not really pay attention to how the daughter was changing as she grew up. In my view,the daughter became more Americanized and she began to start slacking off and dropped of college. That is the reason why how she dropped out of college is the opposite of what real Chinese parent would want their daughter to do. The only reason the mom would raise her in America and teaches the Chinese culture is that she wants her to have a better life and education and her mom also wants to spread the Chinese culture around. The mom would only teach her in English because what she wanted to teach her could not be thought in Chinese characters.

JLC post: Tan Vs. Chua

In the book “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan, I saw many similarities between the book and the article that was about over obsessive Asian mom's parenting that we had to read awhile back. One similarity that I saw is the high expectations of the mothers in the book compare to the one in the article. In the story “Two Kinds”, Jing-Mei Woo has a mother that has huge expectation for her:

“'Of course you can be prodigy too,' my mother told me when I was nine. You can be best anything. What does Aunt Lindo know? Her daughter she is only best tricky” (Page 132)

This show that competition has a lot to do with a mother's nature of parenting. The competition between Wavery's mother and Jing-Mei's mother is a competition to show whose daughter is better and is more successful. They use their daughter to represent themselves and show off. This is what I probably guess the main reason why Asian mothers act the way they do toward their daughters.

Another example of a similarity that I saw in both the book and the article is the relationship between the daughter and the mother. I think the daughter is tire of the mother's way of raising her which have been shown in the book numerous times. In the “Rules of the Game”, there was an argument between Wavery and her mother:

"'I wish you wouldn't do that, telling everybody I'm your daughter.' My mother stopped walking...'Aiii-ya. So shame be with mother?' She grasped my hand even tighter as she glared at me." (Page 99)

This show that even though being a chess champion makes her mother really happy, Wavery is finally fed up with her mother always rubbing her accomplishments in other people's faces. This kinf of similarity also showed in the story “Two Kinds”, Jing-Mei gave out actions of defiant toward the way how her mother is parenting her:

“She yanked me by the arm, pulled me off the floor, snapped off the TV. She was frighteningly strong, half pulling, half carrying me toward the piano as I kicked the throw rugs under my feet."
(Page 141)

In conclusion, the “Joy Luck Club” expresses pretty well the overall strictness and over demanding parenting from the mothers toward their daughters.

JLC

The introduction piece on page 87 is about a mom telling a little girl not to ride her bike around the corner because she can not see her. But the little girl decided to fight back and say she will not fall. and as she rode the bike, she fell before she even got to the corner. I think that the point of this introduction piece is that when kids are little, they do not know much and the mother is always right about what they say. They try to control the kids just to protect them, but the kids think that they are better then what the parents say. So the little kids choose to do it anyways and that proves the kids wrong. I think when these happen to the kids, it makes the kids start the think that parents are always right.

And that is when parents start to get in control of their children's minds and brain wash them to do what they want them to do. It Kind of shows how parents sometime say things just for kids to listen to them and sometimes have no proof to show their kids that they should listen to their parents. Most kids think that their parents are right because it is their mom or dad and they must obey them. They should obey them because they are older but sometimes i just think its just not nessecary for them to like control their lifes to much. I think that when parents control their kids to much then the kids might think that it is okay for them to tell them what to do. Then Most likely the kids would turn out just like there parents and do the same thing to their kids. not giving them much freedom to explore the world like normal childrens should.

Strict Chinese Families

"Second, Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything. The reason for this is a little unclear, but it's probably a combination of Confucian filial piety and the fact that the parents have sacrificed and done so much for their children. (And it's true that Chinese mothers get in the trenches, putting in long grueling hours personally tutoring, training, interrogating and spying on their kids.) Anyway, the understanding is that Chinese children must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud."

Children should owe their parents for pushing them that hard to get where they are at in life right now. If i were them i would hate to being put through that much torture but if i think back on it i would still be thankful for the time they did for yelling at me to make me do better. Makes me think that they actually believed that i could do the best. My parents are only half as strict at the lady in this article. My 5th grade teacher was strict on me because i was a slacker in the beginning of the year, but they yelled and pushed me harder and i started doing better in school. So i think that yelling at them is actually not a bad thing.

The only bad thing about being this strict is not having that much freedom. They are like trapped in their house forced to learn all the time. I do not think that is very good for when they get to college because they would not know how to handle them self much. But i still think that the children should take care of the parents when they are older because the parents spent like a lot of years to raise them and spend that much time on them.

Animal Farm & Egpyt

The connection between Egypt and animal farm is that Both effect on revolution.but the difference is that while Egypt was mostly calm and not much violence. Animal farm had a lot of violence to protest what they were fighting for. They had some similarities in the injuries.

Mini Essay

We did a George Orwell essay in class and i remember the name George Orwell in Corbally's class too.
Most people who try to say something about the English language would most likely say that the English language is always used in a bad way. But with the bad language, we can not do anything about it because most people do not care of the proper grammar. Our civilization is based on the our language so people argue a lot about the general collapsing. It also says that if you use the language in a bad way then it is a sentimental archaism. Like candles to a electric like or cabs instead of planes. We are changing the style of the English language over time. Now it is easier to creative some immature thoughts about the world. They are saying because the world has changed over time the writing has changed and the image about the people have changed also.

He says that underneath the lies and half conscious belied that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes. It kind of tells me that people are busy hiding behind the image that people expect them to me, which that if they are not hiding then the world would not be changing and everything would stay the same. The way we think and the way we act are not as mature as the world used to be in the history. We have grown to not care about the world much and mostly care about ourself. we have grown to be selfish and work on our appearance to each other. It is never wrong to fight back to the people and we should not be concerned about what they might think or do to us. We should always fight for what we want.

People have grown to be afraid of the politics and some that are not use violence to get what they want. I think that is should be changed to where we still have the people hear what we want to say but also no crime and violence involved in the things we fight for. The world has been messed up and needs to be fixed, but it is not a easy thing to fix because no one likes to listen anymore. They just do what they want to do. From my experience and what i have seen, Before we knew what we wanted and when we wanted it we would try to get it no matter what. Like all the people in the country work together to fight what they believe in. Now a days we rely on that one person which is the president. We expect him to hear all of what we want to say and he will fix it. People think that since he is the top of the United states it should be all of his choices. If people want what they want, they should it themselves instead of being lazy and complaining later after it turns out wrong. We have grown to learn how to use the language wrong and be lazy and selfish. Soon this country will die if we do not fix things.

I think we are trying to fix things, but it is not working as well as we thought it would because not as much people are participating to help change the world. I kind of think that it is to late to do anything, and it may be a reason why they say we are going to die by 2012. I think that the world will not die at 2012 but it would last just a bit longer. Until the thing that we have done to the economic kill us. So basically, it is us killing ourselves over time and not really thinking wisely about our choices.

Rebuttal

I Disagree with Marco and Agree on what Amber has to say. I think that Teens should not be allowed to vote because when we are teenagers, we are most likely to make mistakes. And just by a simple vote that teenagers make can cause a big problem to the world. Some teens do not things as serious as Adults do. Not all Adult are mature either, but i just think it is a less percentage of making a mistake with teens voting. The world right now without teens voting is already a big problem on the economics. I just think that if you put more teens in it, the problem could be worse. I know that some teens would like to be heard by what they think and to me that is a good idea.

But they just have to wait for their appropriate age to be heard. Adults these days do not even like to listen on the teens opinion on what they want to say. So it would not be much of a difference if they try to speak now. I think that there would just be more arguments going on to people around the world. If they change it to allow teens could vote, then in the future they might even think about making kids vote. and that is already bad enough. Kids these days are growing up to fast and still sometimes do not make wise choices because they are still growing up and need a lot to learn. Some people may complain but i just do not think that it is right.

I do agree with Marco that voting is a big deal, but we might not think of how big it is. but actually they are a lot of teens out there and even a big group of teens or a small group of teens can cause a big difference in the economic and causing it to go bad. When it goes bad then it would be hard to fix after years and years. Even though now i may want to vote just like any other teens would, but if i was aloud to vote, i do not think i would

Political power

When we had a sub we had to write about the question they had on the board. It was hard for me to write about this book because i do not really like things about politics much. i mean i like to be updated with things that are going on, but i can not be in these political fights because it would not interest me at all. All i know is that Obama is president and some Asian lady is Major. i Head she was a good major too. There are problem with taxes rising and everyone wants it down. i may not understand why it is so hard to lower the taxes but it might be a problem if you do it just so fast. i am guessing that if you do it fast then a lot of problems can happen to the world and more fights could start. We do not want that to happen, so i will just wait until the economy gets betters. Do the people know what they are doing to the economy?

Well i guess that it is pretty hard to run a country this big. because one little decision can cause a big problem and it would be hard to fix. but i think that before someone becomes president they should already have a plan on how to fix everything that they want to fix before it gets messed up again. it may take years, but i think that it would make the country much better. Perfection takes time, but i also think that the republican is making it even harder for us trying to get what we want too. The republican is to busy focusing on the rich people when the poor people actually need the help much more than the rich people. George Orwell is just relating the world into his book but using animals to represent is. It is showing us how we treat and work the country. Well i have not read that far yet. so i do not know what else would happen in the book. but i hope that everything turns out fine.

Shiyun's Post

Reading Shiyun's post and i agreed with it....

"I think that it is not largely their fault that they think that way. It is usually because of our culture and how we judge people. I don't blame people that want to be skinny just to fit in. I think I kind of understand how they feel, although I have never went through this experience before. I think that the most important thing that I need is believe in myself. I don't have to look like the other kids and I am very proud of that. If no one likes me for who I am, it doesn't really matter because if I like myself, that is all I need. I think that people are going through this major problem because of judgment and the circumstances we are looked up to."

I agree that people only want to be a way because of the people around them. Not everyone is nice, but that is the way life is. Everyone says be yourself and i agree that you should. But it also is kind of hard for people to be them self because there people out there that likes to talk shit about people. Some people talk shit about others just to make them self feel better or they think that they are better. but i wonder that when people talk about other people, is it because they are jealous or because they always think that they are better than them. I am not saying that i do not talk about people, but not much. When i talk about people i say what i like and sometimes it is the stuff that i do not get about them.

I am not saying it as a bad thing. but i am just curious about a lot of things around me. People may call it stupid, but it is just my observations that i see and question about it. People become more independently when they grow up because they start learning more who they are. Judging people are the people that lead other people to be fake. Then they just end up getting made more fun of.

Elite Colleges

When we were in English class Mr. Sutherland made us read these things that people wrote about colleges. There was seven different stories and they were really long. He gave us this paper to fill out too. i thought that it was pretty hard to concentrate on trying to read all those essays in class. It shows me what were the important things about going to colleges and it showed me the good and pointless things also. Since we go to Asti then of course college is something that we really care about. We are mostly trying to get into a good college. I think that the college you go to is based on the studies that you do. But to go to a Elite college we should be known as a smart person. I Think going to a good College puts a lot of pressure on the high school students to try to get into a good college. i do not think that all people that graduate from a Elite college ends up having a good career.

I just think that if you go to a Elite college you have a bigger opportunity of getting to be what you want to be and you mostly know what you are aiming for. Like if you go to a regular community college, you have so many different jobs you can do. but going to a Elite college it is like you are more focused on reaching for the goal that you want to me. Some people think that the pressure is to much and give up right away before they even have the chance of trying to do what they want because they are lazy. Sometimes being lazy just is not good. You have to pick up the slack to be what you want to be. you can not just expect what you want to be thrown at you with a good job because you want it to. You have to try more than nothing to get it. Life is more complicated than people think, but sometimes life is easier than you think. Our minds confuse us sometimes, you just always gotta believe in yourself.

My Day (:

Today started off as a pretty boring day. I had school as usual. This time i was not very tired like i usually am. Biology was sort of fun, Algebra 2 we had a sub again. i wonder where ms.mccoy is. she's been out for two days so far.Then i had writing2 class, i always have to pee when it comes to this class though. i do not know why. i did all my homework today and i was proud of myself. Then we had lunch, but i did not eat lunch because i had a interact meeting and we played a game. It was fun because when they told us to tell our partner our favorite memory, i told Christy she is my favorite moment. I am smooth. After lunch i had PE and since it was Friday, we had free time. i love free time cause you can do anything you want. me, Christy, and Kristine walked one round around the field once then i played this game with a ball and the stick and you hit it through the hole.

it was fun until i started to lose and i quit to go lay on the floor. i ate chips and i choked on it and i think some went in my nose. well after that i had English class and we read in class and then did our poster thing. After school is when the fun starts because i finally got to meet my friend jessica, i have not met her in like a month. we hung out at quickly are fruitvale and then went to chill at our friend justins house. after that we took bus to leave and went to Quickly in Alameda to get food. i ran into my friend Patrick. Later jessica was in the mood for KFC so we walked to there. we both ate two chickens and mash potato and coleslaw. we Drank a lot of soda because it was free refill. Later her mom took me home and my mom brought me to go get more quicklys because she wanted some. Right now i am drink the quickly and sitting here on facebook and texting and listening to music while doing this blog.