Admission State Essay

Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

My life is simple and comfortable, but it was not always like this. When my family first immigrated in the United States, a lot of challenges hit us. One was living in a small crowded apartment with eight other people, and having to see a mother cry each night because she was homesick and people around her treated her like trash. My family was not only facing emotional problems, but also financial problems too. Since we were new in the United States, in my parents pockets were mostly only Philippine Pesos, barely any US dollars. My dad worked as the apartment’s handy man and mom was not unemployed. I always thought that United States of America was a place to start a new life and try to make all my dreams come true. Turns out, making those dreams come true was harder than i thought. It took all my parents sweat and blood that brought the the family were we are now. I owe my parents everything i have and my dream to become a nurse.

I learned from my parents that giving up is not the answer. Every since our first two years, i persevered in school, because the best way i could repay them is through my grades. I also realized that i was very good at memorising body parts and i was very curious when it comes to a dissection. Even though the dissection was little disgusting, it was still cool to see body parts of mammals similar to human organs. I remember the heart lab, my anatomy physiology teacher ordered about six sheep’s heart, one for each table. When i first saw the heart, it was huge and was the size of my fist. i was amazed on how it looked like and the feeling of it. Some parts of the heart was tender and hard, but some parts of it was soft and squishy. But most of all it was very slippery, I could not hold the heart unless it was going to slip out of my hands. I was more fascinated one the function of the heart. For the heart to pump blood all around out body , just for the human body to live each day is amazing to me.

My parents encouraged me to persevere in school, believing that the medical field is the best career to pick because of the amount of payment. Ever since i started sophomore year and took anatomy physiology, my parents saw great changes in my science class. They kept on saying, “You should become a nurse,” or “Go to the medical field because of your high grades in anatomy.” Both my mother and father constantly remind me each day that i have do my best in school. Even though i get annoyed of by it, but it is worth it because they are the ones that encouraged me to make my choice of career. My family has pushed and gave me the perseverance in my choice of career. This why i want to become a nurse.


Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

Part of my personal quality is my accomplishments. One of my accomplishments that i did was facing one of my biggest fear, roller coasters. It was the end of the eight grade when the entire eight grade class went to Great America as our last field trip. There one of my friends wanted to ride a roller coaster called The Demon or something like that. She dragged with her in line and waited for about thirty minutes until it was out turn to seat in the seat. So i fasten my belt, i told my friend to put my glass with out stuff (they don’t allow eye glasses in the roller coaster). while i was sitting there waiting for her to come back, my hand was cold as ice and i was near to having a heart attack. Then it started out slow, down a dark tunnel and up we go to highest point of the tracks. Then down we go going as fast as a cheetah, two loops and two spirals, while we in the ride i was screaming to the tops of my lungs. It was the most amazing feeling i ever felt. It felt exhilarated and i wanted to ride it one more time. This was the time when i faced my fear of roller coasters.

It made me realized that With a little encouragement, i can over come anything. This connects to school too. I remember my first year Alameda Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), i was in a lot of pressure. Teachers expected a lot from the students. Like, they expected that we should read and write in a college level and that we know everything. It was a worst nightmare for a student. I also here them say “ why on your middle school grade you guys had A’s or B’s, but what happened” . You what happened, pressure and a lot of stress. It made me miss my middle school days, where i got high grades. By the end of the fall semester of two thousand nine (2009) i wanted to quit and go to another school where it would be easier to get high grades. I prefer to pack my books and forget about ASTI. Then i though to myself, “why quit now?” It was then i realized that i just have to suck it up and continue my life in ASTI, Even though it is full of stress and pressure, i realized that i can do anything. High school was like a roller coaster to me. There was a lot of ups, downs, twist, and turns, but sophomore year was not that bad. even though there was more work it was worth it because by fall of two thousand eleven i will be a junior. it is basically taking little steps a time. Writing this being a sophomore, i finally realized that i could accomplish anything. If i only put my heart and soul to it, and i will accomplish the goals i have.

Avalon High: Book Review

The book Avalon High, written by Meg Cabot talks about a girl name Ellie moved just outside of Washington D.C because her parents took a whole year off their jobs as professors to do research about a Camelot. While she was Maryland she attend the high school called Avalon High (AHS) as a junior, she met new people, like Will Wagner. Will Wagner is the Senior class president, football quarterback, and the well know, a.k.a. popular guy. They first met at the park, and from there on it was history. Ellie and Will became close friends, they started to hang around more often Ellie started to feel certain feelings for Will, but he has a girlfriend named Jennifer or Jen. Jen, the cheerleader, cheated on Will with Lance, and sadly Will was not yet aware of this at the time. The irony in this was that Lance was Will’s best friend. What makes the matters worse is Marco was the one who told Will about the affair. Marco is Will’s step brother who is a load of trouble. And that leads into the teen drama at Avalon High School.

The Meg Cabot is the author of various books, and one of the books is Avalon High. Her writing skills very simple. She writes as if the reader was reading the character’s mind. Meg Cabot does use dialogue, but when Ellie (the main character) is talking to herself she uses first person. The book is mainly written in to the main character’s perspective. For example, I can imagine how the character is feeling emotionally, physically, and what she is seeing. One example is when Ellie said, “ [...] “I found myself dining with A. William Wagner once again. How I made him laugh over the plate of steaming hot crab dip we shared at Riodans’s downtown [...] How i almost made him choke on his Moose Tracks ice cream at Storms Brothers while i told him the story of the time i stuck the red hot up my nose when i was four ,just to hear him laugh laugh again [...],” (Cabot 169). When i read this area of the paragraph from Avalon High I could imagine that Will and Ellie is having a great time together, and Ellie is trying her best to make Will forget about the incident that happened while sailing. Meg Cabot did a good job at being very descriptive about the character’s thought, feeling, and sight, because i felt that i was in the same room where the characters were at. I believe that Cabot did a great job at her writing skills because made the reader feel what is the character’s feeling. When i read the quote above i felt that i was in the same setting of Will and Ellie and able to see and feel what Ellie did when she was with Will that night. Meg Cabot did a very good job a being very descriptive when it comes to her books. Another example, is when Cabot was being descriptive on Ellie’s emotion. Ellie said, “It was the first flower an body had ever give me. Which was why, even after he dropped me off at home and drove away, it was hours before my heart started to beat anything like normally again,” (Cabot 77).I could really feel how Ellie felt when Will gave her the flower, It is just another way Meg Cabot showed her writing skills of being descriptive.

Avalon High is made for teenagers that are in to teen romance, and they are probably attracted to this book mainly because they could relate to the characters. For example, the girl Ellie has a major crush on Will Wagner that turns out to be the most funniest, cute, and popular guy in the school; there are most likely a lot of teenagers that have crushes on guys/ girls whom they can’t get their hands on either. Ellie said, “ I didn’t mention my crush on Will [...] Will and I were just friends (which, in case, anyways, was actually true),”(Cabot 95). Ellie keeps on repeating to herself that Will and her are just friends, but truly, she has a crush on him. She avoids the idea that she has feeling for Will because she does not want to expect that she could become Will’s girlfriend. This could relate to teenagers everywhere that has crushes on someone, but later deny to themselves that they a have crush on that person because they do not want to expect that there will be a relationship. This book is for everyone that is in to teen romance and teen drama.

In conclusion, Avalon High is good book by its great detail and great writing skills of the author. The book was mainly about teen life as the recreation of King Aurthur and other renaissance characters. It was an experience of teen love and evil lurking in the shadows of Avalon High. I can truly say i would recommend this book to someone or a friend that is interested in romance, action, and a little part of history from the Renaissance Era. Avalon High was very interesting, it talked about how a girl moved to Maryland and started to notice that she is falling for a guy that was in a current relationship, while learning that the guy she is falling for in the reincarnation of King Arthur. This book will be perfect for anyone that is in to teen romance novel and loves to relate their life to the characters in the book. Avalon High was not only about teen romance, but there was evil around. one of the characters was evil and tried to kill (Arthur) Will Wagner. This book is filled with many actions and love, it is great book and fun read. You would feel what the character is feeling and thinking, so i would recommend this book to someone or a friend so they too would enjoy reading the book Avalon High.

Comments to Book Review.

Phoung:
you switched ideas, you first introduced her book then talked about the flaws of it. Only has one Contreat details. Show evidence from the book on paragraph four, so the reader would know what you are taking. about. You said you were confused because of the changing of the switching of events, and now on paragraph five you are talking about how it is less confusing. You are contradicting yourself. I like the way you found a flaw on the book about “[..] the author writes makes it confusing because the reader would then have to remind themselves that the character is switching from being awake in the coma to being awake in real life but no actually awake at the same time.”Good job on spotting the author’s weakness.
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.
Wendy:
“There was something about the way Tablo wrote that made me and my cousin feel the need to continue turning the page when we read it. This might be because of the way he explained each situation or because the stories was like poetry in a more detailed form. It talked about solitude and pieces of youth, which left me with a bittersweet taste.” This is deep. It makes me feel i should read the book, and try to understand what the author is trying to say. Is the book only about sadness? You said that in the end it did not talk about Tablo’s life, but in the beginning it did, show evidence.

Avalon High: RD Book Review

The book Avalon High, written by Meg Cabot talks about a girl name Ellie moved just outside of Washington D.C because her parents took a whole year off their jobs as professors to do research about a Camelot. While she was Maryland she attend the high school called Avalon High (AHS) as a junior, she met new people, like Will Wagner. Will Wagner is the Senior class president, football quarterback, and the well know, a.k.a. popular guy. They first met at the park, and from there on it was history. Ellie and Will became close friends, they started to hang around more often Ellie started to feel certain feelings for Will, but he has a girlfriend named Jennifer or Jen. Jen, the cheerleader, cheated on Will with Lance, and sadly Will was not yet aware of this at the time. The irony in this was that Lance was Will’s best friend. What makes the matters worse is Marco was the one who told Will about the affair. Marco is Will’s step brother who is a load of trouble. And that leads into the teen drama at Avalon High School.

Avalon High is made for teenagers that are in to teen romance, and they are probably attracted to this book mainly because they could relate to the characters. For example, the girl Ellie has a major crush on Will Wagner that turns out to be the most funniest, cute, and popular guy in the school; there are most likely a lot of teenagers that have crushes on guys/ girls whom they can’t get their hands on either. Ellie said, “ I didn’t mention my crush on Will [...] Will and I were just friends (which, in case, anyways, was actually true),”(Cabot 95). Ellie keeps on repeating to herself that Will and her are just friends, but truly, she has a crush on him. She avoids the idea that she has feeling for Will because she does not want to expect that she could become Will’s girlfriend. This could relate to teenagers everywhere that has crushes on someone, but later deny to themselves that they a have crush on that person because they do not want to expect that there will be a relationship. This book is for everyone that is into teen romance and teen drama.

The Meg Cabot is the author of various books, and one of the books is Avalon High. Her writing skills very simple. She writes as if the reader was reading the character’s mind. Meg Cabot does use dialogue, but when Ellie (the main character) is talking to herself she uses first person. The book is mainly written in to the main character’s perspective. For example, I can imagine how the character is feeling emotionally, physically, and what she is seeing. One example is when Ellie said, “ [...] “I found myself dining with A. William Wagner once again. How I made him laugh over the plate of steaming hot crab dip we shared at Riodans’s downtown [...] How i almost made him choke on his Moose Tracks ice cream at Storms Brothers while i told him the story of the time i stuck the red hot up my nose when i was four ,just to hear him laugh laugh again [...],” (Cabot 169). When i read this area of the paragraph from Avalon High I could imagine that Will and Ellie is having a great time together, and Ellie is trying her best to make Will forget about the incident that happened while sailing. Meg Cabot did a good job at being very descriptive about the character’s thought, feeling, and sight, because i felt that i was in the same room where the characters were at. I believe that Cabot did a great job at her writing skills because made the reader feel what is the character’s feeling. When i read the quote above i felt that i was in the same setting of Will and Ellie and able to see and feel what Ellie did when she was with Will that night. Meg Cabot did a very good job a being very descriptive when it comes to her books. Another example, is when Cabot was being descriptive on Ellie’s emotion. Ellie said, “It was the first flower an body had ever give me. Which was why, even after he dropped me off at home and drove away, it was hours before my heart started to beat anything like normally again,” (Cabot 77).I could really feel how Ellie felt when Will gave her the flower, It is just another way Meg Cabot showed her writing skills of being descriptive.

In conclusion, Avalon High is good book by its great detail and great writing skills of the author. The book was mainly about teen life as the recreation of King Aurthur and other renaissance characters. It was an experience of teen love and evil lurking in the shadows of Avalon High. I can truly say i would recommend this book to someone or a friend that is interested in romance and recantation of King Aurthur. Avalon High was very interesting, it talked about how a girl moved to Maryland and started to notice that she is falling for a guy that is in a current relationship while learning that the guy she is falling for in the reincarnation of King Arthur. This book will be perfect for anyone that is in to teen romance novel and loves to relate their life to the characters in the book. Avalon High will be perfect for the people that loves romance and teen life. Avalon High was not only about teen romance, but there was evil around. one of the characters was evil and tried to kill Will Wagner. This book is filled with many actions and love from Will, Elle, and Marco. It is great book and fun read. you would feel what the character is feeling and thinking. So i would recommend this book to a friend so they would enjoy the fun of reading.

Avalon High: Quickwrite

The Meg Cabot is the author of various books, and one of the books is Avalon High. Her writing skills very simple. She writes as if the reader was reading the character’s mind. Meg Cabot does use dialogue, but when Ellie (the main character) is talking to herself she uses first person. The book is mainly written in to the main character’s perspective. For example, I can imagine how the character is feeling emotionally, physically, and what she is seeing. One example is when Ellie said,

“ [...] I found myself dining with A. William Wagner once again. How I made him laugh over the plate of steaming hot crab dip we shared at Riodans’s downtown [...] How i almost made him choke on his Moose Tracks ice cream at Storms Brothers while i told him the story of the time i stuck the red hot up my nose when i was four ,just to hear him laugh laugh again [...],” (Cabot 169)

. When i read this area of the paragraph from Avalon High I could imagine that Will and Ellie is having a great time together, and Ellie is trying her best to make Will forget about the incident that happened while sailing. Meg Cabot did a good job at being very descriptive about the character’s thought, feeling, and sight, because i felt that i was in the same room where the characters were at. I believe that Cabot did a great job at her writing skills because made the reader feel what is the character’s feeling. When i read the quote above i felt that i was in the same setting of Will and Ellie and able to see and feel what Ellie did when she was with Will that night. Meg Cabot did a very good job a being very descriptive when it comes to her books. Another example, is when Cabot was being descriptive on Ellie’s emotion. Ellie said,

“It was the first flower an body had ever give me. Which was why, even after he dropped me off at home and drove away, it was hours before my heart started to beat anything like normally again,” (Cabot 77).

I could really feel how Ellie felt when Will gave her the flower, It is just another way Meg Cabot showed her writing skills of being descriptive.

Avalon High

The book Avalon High, written by Meg Cabot talks about a girl name Ellie moved just outside of Washington D.C because her parents took a whole year off their jobs as professors to do research about a Camelot. While she was Maryland she attend the high school called Avalon High (AHS) as a junior, she met new people, like Will Wagner. Will Wagner is the Senior class president, football quarterback, and the well know, a.k.a. popular guy. They first met at the park, and from there on it was history. Ellie and Will became close friends, they started to hang around more often Ellie started to feel certain feelings for Will, but he has a girlfriend named Jennifer or Jen. Jen, the cheerleader, cheated on Will with Lance, and sadly Will was not yet aware of this at the time. The irony in this was that Lance was Will’s best friend. What makes the matters worse is Marco was the one who told Will about the affair. Marco is Will’s step brother who is a load of trouble. And that leads into the teen drama at Avalon High School.

Avalon High is made for teenagers that are in to teen romance, and they are probably attracted to this book mainly because they could relate to the characters. For example, the girl Ellie has a major crush on Will Wagner that turns out to be the most funniest, cute, and popular guy in the school; there are most likely a lot of teenagers that have crushes on guys/ girls whom they can’t get their hands on either. Ellie said, “ I didn’t mention my crush on Will [...] Will and I were just friends (which, in case, anyways, was actually true),”(Cabot 95). Ellie keeps on repeating to herself that Will and her are just friends, but truly, she has a crush on him. She avoids the idea that she has feeling for Will because she does not want to expect that she could become Will’s girlfriend. This could relate to teenagers everywhere that has crushes on someone, but later deny to themselves that they a have crush on that person because they do not want to expect that there will be a relationship. This book is for everyone that is into teen romance and teen drama.

Connections Between Mothers

So far i read a couple blog post talked about their mother’s childhood memories.All three and including my own blog post explains out mother’s childhood memories and how our mother’s stories had a hard life. One example is Phuong Ha’s blog post. She explained about how her mother grew up in Vietnam and how she worked day and night. She said, “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.” She explained that her mother did not have anything. She had to work day and night just to get one spoon full of ice cream. It proves that life during our parents had a harder life. They needed to work for everything.

Phuong’s mother’s life is similar to my mother’s life. My mom did not have everything. Even though she did not work for the things she needed, it was still hard to get. “My mom side of the family had very little money. My mom’s parents worked day and night at the market trying to sell fishes, so that there is enough food for everyone in the table.” Same as Phuong’s story, my mother had a hard life too. She did not work for it, but her parents did. They did their best to put food in the table and for their children to have food in their stomachs. During our parents times, they need to work for everything they need. Not like my generation, we are just waiting for things to come. It’s hard to believe that during Phuong and my mother’s childhood, they need to work at a young age.

Same as Shiyun’s mother. When her mother was, she needed to work and go to school. She said, “They took jobs and went to school at the same time.” Shiyun’s story about her mother is similiar to my mother’s story and Phuong’s mother. All three mothers had hard life. One mother did not have education, the other had to work for school, and lastly had had education but not enough for money. All Three mothers had or barely any education and the connection is that their life was much harder than my generations.

The Apple Does Not Fall from the Tree

In The Joy Luck Club, a cycle of enforcement has occurred. In the sections of the daughters they described their experiences of their mothers forcing them to do certain things that they did not want to do. It is similar to the mother’s sections because they were also forced in doing things they did not want to do. From the mother’s childhood of enforcement, then pass on the feeling of force to their daughters.

In The Red Candles, Lindo was forced to get married with a guy she did not have any special connection. She was forced to this marriage because it would be best for her. Lido said, “ This is how i became betrothed to Huang Taitia’s son... his name was Tyan-yu... But even if had known i was getting such a bad husband, I had no choice, now or later,” (Tan 51). Since she had no choice because of the match maker told her parents and Tyan-yu’s parents that they would be a great match, they arrange the marriage. For Lindo, the experience was horrible and impacted her life. It made her to stand for her self. “ It was really quite simple. I made Huang think it was their idea to get rid of me, that they would be the ones to say the marriage contract was not valid. I though about my plan for many days. I have observed everyone around me,.. and then i was ready,” (Tan 63). With her plan trying to get out the horrible marriage, it was a way of Lindo telling the Tyan-yu and his family that they do not belong with each other and she deserve better. With the events that happened to Lindo when she was a teenager, similar events occurred to Waverly Jong.

Waverly Jong is the daughter of Lindo Jong. She was too forced in doing things she did not like. At Rules of the Game, Waverly talked about how her mother forced her in playing chess. Her mother forced her to keep playing chess because Lindo believed that it would make her daughter’s life much better, but after a while Waverly got tired of playing chess. “I no longer played in the alley of Waverly Place. I never visited the playground where the pigeons and old men gathered. I went to school, then directly home to learn new chess secrets...,” (Tan 98). After winning tournaments and becoming a national chess champion, she barely had time to be a child. With her mom always in her back watching every move she made, she cannot do or say fun, including that her mother made her like a trophy to show off to everyone that looked at Lindo. Soon enough Waverly finally told her mother, enough is enough. She stood to her mother and told her that she has had it with the practice, tournaments and to flaunt her to everyone. “One day, after we left a shop i said under my breath, ‘i wish you wouldn’t do that, telling everybody I’m your daughter.’...’It’s just so embarrassing’,” (Tan 99). After saying that to her mother, he gave a sense of relief, but also guilt because she told her mother she was embarrassing in public. It is similar to Lindo’s childhood, on forced marriage. She forced her daughter in playing chess after it got less interesting. Also that they both stood for themselves, so that they would get out of a situation they would not be in. It concludes as the apple does not fall from the tree.

The book was structured to have similar experiences that the mothers had in their childhood and also the daughters. Like in Red Candles and Rules of the Games, Waverly Jong had similar feelings and actions as her mother Lindo Jong did. Because at Lindo’s story she had expericed force and her for her to get out of the situation she need to stand up for her self. Same has Waverly, Lindo forced to keep on playing chess even though it was less interesting, she was forced to continue playing. Until she told her mother that she had enough of playing chess. And so the apple does not fall from the tree.

My Fam Bam History

All I could say about my family history, that is different from my childhood. For the assignment I interviewed my mother, Emilie Escobar , before her name was Emilita B. Herrera. I interviewed her about her childhood, and how it was like. Her childhood is really different from my childhood life. My mother’s childhood was mainly about separation, persevering in education, family, and money.

My mom’s family had thirteen children, (six boys, six girls;one was a miscarriage, and two died before reaching their teen years) that makes them ten in total. My grandparents were very conservative and religious. They both were very hard on their children, but they never spank their children. One example is that my mom and her siblings had to be inside the house before six in the evening or if they heard their parent’s whistle really loud that means its time to go home. And if they were late for dinner, bad things would happen. They are also deeply religious, their religion was Catholic. My grandfather would read this little booklet that had prayers in them and she would read it out load before they go to sleep every night. My mom’s family was strict, timid, and holy people, but they are not rich.

My mom side of the family had very little money. My mom’s parents worked day and night at the market trying to sell fishes, so that there is enough food for everyone in the table. (Just imagine, having ten children and just having the right amount of money to feed and make them attend public school. Is a lot to handle.) The money was enough for everyone’s food, for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner. Including the some of money to pay going to the education of my aunts and uncles.

To their family, education is key to a great and complete life. They believed that by getting a full education and having good grades in school, will help their family move up from poverty to a higher status in life. My mom’s parents did everything they could to get money, just for their children to have a complete education. Money was not the issue, but it was hard to handle.

When my mom was a child she did not live with her parents. She lived with her older brother (Kuya) Renato (Tito (Uncle) Nato). Her brother already had his own family and can provide for his own. Ever since my mom was little, she would get sick multiple times in a year. She almost did not finish her education because she would alaways get sick. There was one time where she and her mother went to the market and she felt dizzy, its not because she is hungry, thirsty, or the heat; once in a while she would just randomly faint. So her parents decided that it would be best for her to stay with her brother because he was a lawyer and could pay for all hospital bill, (In the Philippines there is no such thing as medical insurance) and that it would be much safer and better than her parent’s house. She would get sick, but not as much when she stayed with her parents. She got sick very often and there was one time she when she went to a state similar to “coma”. She was just asleep all day long for a week, and she told me that she opened her eyes and she saw bright light shinning in the corner and she was the only one could see the bright light. As she get closer to it got smaller and smaller, but turns out it was just a dream, then she woke up from her “coma” and the bright light was not there any more. The dream she had meant that it was not time for her to leave earth and she still has to fulfill her life. Including the time that she drop out of college for a while because she kept getting sick before the finals. she would get sick and so some of her classes she took was incomplete and some classes she passed because she had high grades. With her sickness interfering with her education she decided to stop schooling.

When my mom went back to her parents house, it was around the end of high school years. She went because her brother Nato already passed away and her sister-in-law treated her like a monkey. It was time to reconnect with her parents and her nine brother and sisters. When she arrived home, her brothers and sister were not very welcoming. They would tell her hindi ka aari dito! or hindi ikaw ang aking kapatid! Which in English means “you do not belong here” and “you are not my sister”, these insults made my mom felt like an outsider from her family, so it just made her work harder to gain their trust and love. So over the coarse of years, she did gain their trust and love, and made her feel the oldest because she would deal with her siblings problems and act as if she is the oldest, even though she is the second to the youngest. She grew up in house that was conservative, religious, and loving; which, helped to became a successful woman. And became a mature woman that has to be my mom.

By the time she got used to the way things were at her parents house, she learned to work hard for her own. Because when she was living with her brother and his family she was treated like a daughter to him. Kuya Nato did not like the fact she did chores around the house because she might get sick, and he wanted her to focus on school work. When she got back, she did not have as much as she did in her brother’s house hold. In all meals, the food was enough for everyone. The parents did their best to make everything equal, so that there would not be any conflicts about who got more or less. Everyone had equal portion of food, for lunch she only plain rice, but it was very rare for them to have ulam which is a type of dish that goes with rice. They barely had any food every day for school.

My mom’s childhood was very different from my childhood and current life. Her parents was deeply Catholic and conservative.My life is not like her childhood, I more have freedom and Independence. Not like her, she has to be home by six pm unless she is going to out with friends, but she has to be back in a certain time. My life is similar to her’s, when I ’m out with my friends I need to be home by a certain. If it’s with my Church friends and the event we went to is during the evening, i just need to call her if we have to stay a little longer because of the event or we are going out to eat, but if its with my school friends and were out in the middle of the afternoon i need to be back home before or by five pm. The similarities is that the parents need to know who we are with, or they would not let us go out. The other difference is that i did not live a family member because i get sick to often. Because when i often get sick like my mother when she was a child, i went straight to the emergency room and was later moved into a private room. Not my mom, her family could not provide a private room like i did, probably in the room she was at there are at least four to six people in there. They did not have the money for a private room. I guess after my mom lived a life that had trouble with money, a life that did not give her everything she needed, a life that gave her full of love; she wanted me to have much more. She wanted me to have a life that is satisfying.

My mom has been telling me about her childhood ever since i learned how talk. She would talk about how her family was very poor and they all depended on education for them to have a better life, that they had a spot in the market and they were selling fishes, and so on. My mother’s childhood is has a significant affect to me because her life was full of hard work, blood and tears has been shed just for food in the table. While I’m complaining at home we have no food because i did not like the food. I guess during my mom’s generation they learned to work hard on something, while my generation of kids has been only about technology, new things, and laziness. I just shows that the two generation are completely different. My mother’s generation is full of conservatives and persevering people, while in my generation we have more of a open mid on things and a little but more lazy. My mom’s generation and my generation are both incompatible because both is different from each other.

Similaties and Difference of Amy Chua and Joy Luck Mothers

Amy Chua’s article about being a "great" Chinese mother has some similarities to the book Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan. In Joy Luck Club the mothers would treat their daughters like they are items to show off. In the Rules of the Game, Waverly Jong felt the same way. She felt that her mother was showing her off until on day she had enough of her mother showing her off. “My mother placed my first trophy next to the a new plastic chess [...] As she wiped each piece with a soft cloth, she said, ‘Next time win more, lose less’,”(Tan 97). Waverly’s mother only cared about her winning instead of being proud of her. It just proves that her mother is like Amy Chua. They both want their daughter(s) to be best so that they could represent their family name. Same thing happened in Amy Chua’s article titled Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. She believed that chines parents are very strict and know that fun equals to working hard“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work [..],”. Amy Chua’s thinking of Chinese mothers are the same as in the mothers in Joy Luck Club. They both force their daughters to do things that they do not want to do. They want to make their children to be perfect, so that within the future their kids would be independent and could stand on their own. But not all things are the same.

Even though there is a similarities in both reading, both are still different. The difference is that Joy Luck seems to be a little looser than Amy Chua. Because Amy Chua went all extreme, she made her daughter practice day and night their instrument and she did not let them go to any socialization with their friends or classmates.

"Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do: attend a sleepover, have a playdate, be in a school play, complain about not being in a school play, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama, [and] play any instrument other than the piano or violin”

. Amy Chua is much tougher than the mothers in Joy Luck Club, because they only have on goal as a parent is to make their children to be perfect. She expects a lot more in her daughter, she does these things because wanted her kids to be a prodigy. Same as in Two kinds at Joy Luck, Jing Mei Woo’s mother expected her as a prodigy when she was little girl. “‘Of course you can be prodigy, too,’ my mother told me when I was nine,”(Tan 132). Her made her do things that she did not want to do. She wanted to be a kid and play around all day long, but her mother wanted her to be a prodigy. But the difference in these two is that Amy Chua is harder on her children, but in Amy Tan’s book, the mothers are only expected on thing from their child, was to be perfect.

The Joy Luck Club and Amy Chua has the similarities because they both wanted to expect their daughters to be perfect and intelligent. But the difference is that Amy Chua is harder on her daughter, while the Joy Luck mothers are expecting their children to be perfect.

Standing Up = Falling

From my observation of the introduction of the The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, it the beginning of the daughter’s independence. They stood up to their parents, especially to their mothers. On the introduction the little girl demanded her mother to tell her about they The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates book, but her mother ignored her. She rebelled against her mother, by riding her bike - even though her mother restricted her not too - and before she got to the corner, she fell. This part of the introduction connects to Rules of the Game. After all the time her mom has forced her to focus on playing chess, to give her own room, and did less chores, she told her mother that she was embarrassing. “ One day. after we left a shop i said underneath my breath, ‘ I wish you wouldn’t do that, telling everybody I’m your daughter,’”(Tan 99). With her mother being a show off because her daughter is a International Chess Player, and she got tired of it. She was annoyed by her mother always showing her off to people, even though they were just shopping. Her mother puts her on the spotlight to much, and she is sick of it. This was the first time a child has spoken up to a parent.

In the other hand, towards the end of the introduction explains about the girl falling because she did not listen to her mother. It is similar to Waverly Jong’s story of Rules of the Game. After she stood up to her mother about her being embarrassing and a show off ,she felt guilty and ran away from her mother’s arms.

“I raced down the street, dashing between people, not looking back as my mother screamed shrilly, “Memimei! Meimei! [...] The alleys contained no escape routes. [...] I imagined my mother mother, first walking briskly down one street to another looking for me, then giving up and returning home to await my arrival. [...] i stood up on cracking legs and slowly walked home,” (Tan 99-100)

. After having a terrible fight with her mother and running away from her, she had a guilt trip. She felt bad the she ran away and starting to think about her mother looking for her. Even though she stood up to her mother, it gave her a sense that she was wrong. That she should of left the the conversation after she said “I knew it was a mistake to say anything more [...], “ (Tan 99). She realized the she was wrong after running away. Like the little girl from the introduction, after standing up to her mother, she ended falling off her bike. I think the moral lesson of the introduction is that even though we start being independent or standing up on own, we would fall and someone has to catch us.

Scar: Family and honor or individual family member?

The story titled Scar narrated by An-Mei HSU. In this story is about a little girl name An-Mei that is living with her Popo or Grandmother, her aunt, her uncle, and little brother. While she is living with them her grandmother tells her that if she ever motioned her mother’s name or any part of her mother he would have a certain curse that will ruin her life. Basically her grandmother is threatening her that if she mentioned her mother’s name or something she wants to know she would be cursed.

“In those days a ghost was anything we were forbidden to talk about So i knew Popo wanted me to forget my mother on purpose, and this is how i came to remember nothing of her... But i often heard storied of ghost who tried to take children away, especially strong willed little girls who were disobedient... All my life, Popo scared me,”(Tan 42).

This was basically what happened in the story. Her grandmother tried to make her forget her own mother just because she married a new man and forced to leave her home and her children.

Now, the prompt said how do you think An-mei and her mother would respond to "Family and honor should take priority over the rights of the individual family member."? Well An-mei and her mother would probably be neutral because it is hard to look for evidence for An-mei’s thought of family honor versus an individual family member. Ever since An-mei was a little girl, her Popo told her that her mother is a disgrace to the family and that her grandmother has been telling stories about disobeying the family that a ghost will capture her. So it is hard for her to choose whether to listen to her grandmother of listen to herself. It is a win lose decision. In the other hand, her mother wanted to come back to the family, she believed that the family’s honor should come first. After being kicked out of the house for a long time, she wanted to return home. She did anything to come back home. In the end she was there with her mother,

“This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until, there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh,” (Tan 48).

Family is important to her and nothing else and all she wanted was to be forgiven. It just proves that family is important to An-Mei’s mother because even though she was a disgrace to the family she was there with her mother as she dies in her death bed. Family honor is important to An-mei’s mother and a little bit from An-mei. In the end family honor wins rather an individual family member.

Dislike Amy Chua's Article "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" (Reponse Post)

In Amy Chua’s Article titled Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior and she also written the book Tiger Mom. She explains in her article how a Chinese mother controls her child and how a Western mom or parents different from each other. There was a part in the article that explains about that children should repay their parents.

“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.”

I personally do not believe in her idea that children should repay their parents, even if they are rude, strict, and horrible parents. I think that it is the childrens' decision to whether repay their parents. If the parents were guiding their children , helpful, and supportive then they have the chance for the kids to help them. But if the parents are rude, strict, mean, and intimidating - like Amy Chua - . Then there are less chance that the kids would repay their parent. For example, if my parents were like Amy Chua to me or my lilt brother, within the future i would not repay my parents i would just leave them in a nursing home. Even they gave me a shelter and food to eat, I would not care because my parents would off made my childhood memories a living hell. In conclusion, it all depend on how the parents treat their children and how the children reacts to their parents action towards them.

Honduras=Animal Farm

There is a connection with George Orwell’s book Animal Farm and to the event that happened in Honduras. From my observation Animal Farm connect is some little way with Honduran government. In book they talk about their Constitution and over the course of time they change their Constitution and not everyone body agrees to it. Similar thing that happened in Honduras. Their president Mr. Manuel Zelaya tried to change their Constitution to make his presidency longer. And the military people of Honduras did not agree to his conditions of making his presidency longer. In the New york Times said, that “ President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential
term limits.” To the military people did not agree with with his terms and the military only did that to protect the law and doing their jobs.

In the Animal Farm they did change their Constitution as time pass by, but no one tried to stop Napoleon and the other animals that was in charge from changing the Constitution. And he also declared that will be the only leader with one disagreeing or agreeing with him. At sparknotes it said, “Squealer explains to them that Napoleon is making a great sacrifice in taking the leadership responsibilities upon himself and that, as the cleverest animal, he serves the best interest of all by making the decisions.” It is another way of dictating, similar to the president at Honduras. He probably want to expand his presidency because he want to dictate over Honduras.
With the connections i saw from Animal Farm and Honduras it explains how George Orwell’s writing is true. That his writing about government and power could happen anytime at the governments around the world or it is currently happening in the world. - The only difference i see is that in Animal Farm the animals do not fight back, but in reality people revolt and fight for what they believe in. So i was wondering did George Orwell ever thought of this happening to world or he did not. -

Chapter 11 - Human Revenge

Years after the animals took over the their owner’s farm, and renamed it into Animal Farm, everything was normal. Napoleon was still in power, dogs weakening because of old age, and secrets were leaking.With-in the farm someone had been a spy. In the dark night, rustling, and whispering was heard. No one paid any attention to it,they thought it could be just a a wild rabbit or crickets. They did not know that it was one of the animals from Animal Farm telling secrets to the humans about Napoleon's plan to take over England.

Once in a while, the dogs would hear these sounds, until one of them got irritated, and he peeked through the bushes in the dark night, he saw a big animal with a long tail and a bow in it. He realized it was Clover, a trusted animal. For over two years she had been telling humans some of Napoleon's plan. At the end of each month, she would sneak out and make an excuse like “I am just going for a run” or “ I am just getting air”. While the other animals does their own activities, she is in the dark across from the Animal Farm talking to a human about what was currently happening in the farm and what Napoleon was planning. After she told all the secrets of the farm, the human gives her carrots, lettuce, and cabbages.

As time went on, Napoleon noticed something was different. He had a feeling in his guts that something was wrong. Then suspected that someone is a spy within his group. Clover was shaking, sweating, and has cold hooves, as Napoleon was walking slowly towards her. He saw a drop of sweat coming down from her head to the floor. He asked “Why are you sweating, Clover? Do you have anything to say?” he said suspiciously and Clover did not answer him, but with a blank stare from her eyes. From there on he had his eyes close on to Clover. He had some of his best dogs report back to him when they noticed something suspicious about her. But Clover was quick, she caught on that Napoleon was watching her, so she told the humans to meet somewhere else. They met at the far end of the field, that took hours to go to, but since she is a horse she got there within less than an hour. That was their new meeting place, until one day when everything changed.

As usual, Clover met with the humans at night in the end of the field of corn. When she got there she did not see the humans. Napoleon had created a forged letter from Clover saying that she would not be able to meet, and the humans believed her it. So when Clover arrived in the end of the field she saw nothing, but tumble weeds. When they did not meet the humans was planing with a group of men on how to attach the Animal Farm. But clover did not know that her job as a spy would not be permanent. The humans were planning to get rid off her after they are done with animal farm.

After months of planning, they attack! The animals saw shadows of humans running toward the farm. The animals were defenseless. They had no weapons to protect them-selves, so they went on a head on collision. It was brutal war. Groats were biting the humans’ bottoms, humans were kicking animals, horses were stomping on people. They called it The Battle of the Cow Shed II. While the humans and the animals were fighting, within the horizon a huge machine was brought into battle. the humans called it Machine 2011. The animals did not suspect this, this weapon was meant to destroy all animals that was in it’s way. little by little the animals was dieing including Clover. All was left was Napoleon in this little corner surrounded by all humans. Since the humans had feeling and compassion, they left him running for the wind going through the forest.

The war was done. Everything was back to normal, the humans were back on top of the chart. They ruled over the farm. Everything was in it’s place. Everyone was in peace. And so they thought. After hearing about the revolution the animal farms did, the see animals was to gain respect from the humans too. Soon enough the sea creatures will attack and become rulers of the Seas.

rebuttal opeing statment.

Kyle’s opening is great, i agree on some of points that the government should lower the age limit of the voting age from the age of eight-teen to the age of sixteen. For example, one of his paragraph that says, “ I say it should, as lowering the voting age to six-teen will provide the option to young adults to vote on matters that will affect them when they are adults.” I agree with his sentence, but it is more likely to be an opinion. Because i do not not see any factual or outside resources supporting his idea, it is more likely to be an opinion. Also at his last paragraph or his conclusion paragraph he wrote, “ At six-teen, students are able to work a job and therefore pay taxes, so why shouldn't they have the right to vote too?” And when he said At six-teen, students are able to work a job and therefore pay taxes. I agree to him that at age sixteen, teens are able to get jobs during the summer or get permission to the school and parents for the job. But i never knew that sixteen could pay taxes because when i am sixteen i do not see any mail saying i have to pay taxes or at least a law that at sixteen i have to pay taxes. So i his part of of his sentence is not a factual sentences. It did not have a right fact. So he has some areas that are no facted correct and has no supporting evidence to support his idea.
There are more areas that did not make sense, one is on his conclusion paragraph that says, “ A lowered voting age would prove nothing but beneficial as having a wider base would be more fair and provide a cleaner point of view than older generations past.” When kyle wrote cleaner point of view than older generations past, i did not understand what he is trying to say. Is he trying to conclude his his two other paragraphs into one sentence or creating a new point. It was confusing to understand his idea at that sentence. At his second paragraph in the first sentences said, “ Students that are taught politics in school are politically active and denying their right to do so is destroying a useful voter base to stem stalemates between two parties.” i do not see any connection to his idea of teen voting. The other is on his first paragraph that said, “ The voter age has been eighteen because people at that age seem to be educated enough to know what they are voting for...,”. he just repeated his first sentence and added more words in the end of the sentences. Basically his opening statement has the lack of evidence, some sentences has no connection to idea, and just some parts are repetitive.

English language VS. Orwell

Orwell has written many essays, books, and so on. The one I am writing about is Orwell’s essay titled Politics and the English Language. His essay was mainly about people say that “we cannot save our English language”, and he argues that the people can, but is is just a unreasonable idea. He also argues that language does develop over time, but he contradicts himself on the second paragraph. He continues to explain that by our sloppy thoughts we have bad English language. Finally concludes that if someone gets rid of the “bad language”, then they are politically smart and a proper English Language speaker. The main idea is to explain that people that think foolishly, cannot speak English properly.

Orwell’s writing is interesting, but the diction he uses and the way he explains his ideas are hard to understand. There is one area in the passage that was confusing for me. It said, “ … it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form and so on indefinitely,”. When i got to this sentence i got confused, i asked myself what is he talking about or in English please. When i read this question i did not know if it had to do with the prompt or was it just a sentence clutter. There was also one sentence that did not connect me to the main point of Orwell. He wrote, “ Out civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse,”. It has has probably have to do with the English language, but does the civilization have to do with anything and when he said must inevitably share in the general collapse, what does he mean by collapse and inevitably share? His two beginning paragraphs did not much connect with the idea.

While rereading the entire passage or trying to figure out what a word means or a sentence means, i came across a contradiction to his two beginning paragraph. It said, “ Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purpose,”. Orwell believes that the English Language is a more of a natural growth, but not used a very day tool. And he contradicts himself at the second paragraph that says, “ It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts,”. Now he explains that with the growth of the language it makes a man’s thoughts are foolish and when it comes to his writing it too becomes foolish. Basically he means that the humans gets influence with the current language style and makes a man’s thoughts and writing bad. When i first read those two sentence it contradicts Orwell’s essay, but i also disagree and agree with him. When Orwell wrote his conclusion sentence for the first paragraph, i agree with him. I agree that language does change during the course of time. Starting in the beginning of time to the twenty first century, the words, grammar and the language change. No one can stop the progress of the changing English language. With the development of the world, there are a lot of things that changes too like, the technology, marriages, and the English Language. In the world there are now many styles of English. There are slang, country, and so on. We can’t control on how we learn the English language, we instantly get influence with our everyday lifestyle. When he wrote the third sentence on his second paragraph it confused me there. Because i though he supports the idea of English language is changing, but it did not. He explains that with growth of English language it makes that mind of humans think and write foolishly. And now i disagree with him because the growth of the English Language does not have to do with the person’s thinking. It is mostly on the the person’s of how he comprehended the language. It depends on how the persons thinks whether he or she can think critical or not. It is is the way their brain function and how fast they get to understand the language. Like i said earlier, we cannot control on how we to speak English language proper, each person has its own interpretations. By him saying that it is make it easier for us to have foolish thoughts, he is portraying that English language development is making the humans speak and write foolishly. In conclusion Orwell’s piece is about the English language is growing and changes in over time and that he does not approve it changing. And how well they could comprehend the idea.

Should Teens Be Allowed To Vote? : opening statemnet.

There many teenagers that get their permit by the age of sixteen and there are teens that can get a job by the age of seventeen. Now, should teenagers allowed to vote? There many many reasons that teens should have a say on the political elections and the government. And voting is a chance for teens’ opinions to be heard. For my perspective that teens should be allowed to vote because it is a chance for them to practice out their rights of being a citizen, and being independent in selecting the right candidate to help solve the current problems in the nation. The website called Youthrights.org has an article titled Top Ten Reasons To Lower the Voting Age. In the he end it has a sentence explaining that teenagers voting will be a great experience. “Lowering the voting age may not be the magic bullet to improve the lives of youth, but by giving them a real stake in their futures and their present lives it will push them to become involved, active citizens of this great nation.” It explains that if teens are allowed to vote, they will have a great chance to experience being responsible and independent, and also being active in the nation’s political problems.

With the the issues coming in and out of people’s live, they barely have chance to look at the issues that is affecting the teens. For one thing, the education. There are many Districts across America has it either to cut schools or close down. In the same website, but different article titled Proposal to Lower the Voting Age by Keith Mandel, explains how the youth cannot vote connects with the problem. the article said, “Another issue too often neglected by government is education. Throughout America, classes are crowded, school buildings are delapitated and test scores are down. This is especially true in the District, where in 14 of the 18 public high schools, 94% of the students tested below grade in mathematics.A survey by the District’s Financial Control Board found that 12% of classrooms lacked textbooks when the 1996-97 school year began and 20% lacked other important instructional supplies.” As people can see, that the issue affecting the teens by the low supplies and budgets to have an education. With the youth voting, they could chose someone to help them over coming the problem and finally have a stable education. The main point is that with teens voting there are more chances their will be a better future.

Political Power and Animal Farm

I would not say that political power does corrupt the people who attain it, but political power does change the person who attain it. i believe in what i said because they tend to change or cause something that will affect the government and the society. The changes that the person has political power will be either use their leading skill for the good or bad. For example, President Obama has done good things to the United States economic system, removing troops out of Iraq little by little, and the most recent one approving the health care bill (www.bspcn.com). Even though it is not a great improvement to the country, it still a progress to make the Unite States Of America to be a good country. And if there is good results, there are also bad results. Remember President Bush Jr.? Well he did not do much in creating Unites States of America to be a developing country, but he introduced America to something new, and it is War in Iraq. Since he assumed that the plane crash that has happened in 9/11 that hit the Twin Towers was a terrorist attack, the war in Iraq has started. This blog post does mean which President was best, but to share that political power does change the person who attain it. Since these different president, they both lead the county in different ways. The main idea of this is political power does change a leader to a better or worst.

George Orwell does answer the question, “does political power corrupt the people who attain it?” in the book titled Animal Farm he explained a group of talking animal farms could take over the government of England and over rule all human race. and the best way for them to take over the government is to rebel against all humans. “Man is the only real enemy we [animals] have...That is my [Old Major] message to you, comrades: Rebellion!” (Orwell 28 & 30). With this quote that it kinda connects with the question because it portrays the idea that the animals are going to dictate the world and they will do anything to get their way. Also it connects to the current world that there countries that has a dictatorship government and there are people in those counties will try to make a difference.
Basically political power is a huge responsibility and sometimes there are leaders out there that takes advantage of it and never really improving the country.

colleges equals a better life or no?

There must been many debates about having a “better life” after college. Over the course of this week, in Mr. Sutherland’s class we had read seven different responses on the debate about having a better life after college. While reading the articles, there was on article that did not connect with the idea . It was called What You Do vs. Where You Go” written by Martha (Marty) Martha O’Connell. She debated that college will lead students to a successful life. But her response article did not convince me to agree with her. There was one paragraph that did not connect with the idea and it just confused me. She said, “The “oohs” and “aahs” follow as the audience learns that Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates dropped out of college, that Oprah Winfrey is an alumna of Tennessee State and that Ken Burns graduated from Hampshire College.” I don’t understand that how are celebrities have to do with a better life. I thought it was the person’s decision whether they like it or not.

I just have to be honest, non of the response articles really pop out to me. Mostly all of them did not even talk about the main question, but there is on that nearly connects with the main idea and it is called “Numbers Favor Top Schools” written by Richard D. Kahnlenberg. His response article was explaining that applying to a high standard school is important. He said, “While people might assume that it is harder to get through an academically rigorous college, in fact a student is more likely to graduate from a selective institution than a less selective one, controlling for initial ability... Finally, selective and wealthy institutions offer unparalleled access to the leadership class in this country.” He is telling that going to an elite school will give more chance into the future graduates of the college. Even though his response post is not best, but he gave the idea that going to college takes a lot work and that the students need to work hard to get in to elite colleges.

reponse: things i hate in the week.

This response post was inspired by Vy’s response post to to Kaila’s blog post about things i hate this week:

This week has been probably the worst week ever. Coming back from break and the teachers expect me to be ready for school and get to learning. i say NO! Just coming back from break, ny brain is still on it’s mode that i am still on winter break. My whole body was piratically falling asleep in every class on the first day we came back. My brain was not used to waking up early in the morning and getting ready for school. Likr Vy said in her post, “UGH.I hate waking up in the morning..., [i] never feel good, and I am not in the mood for anything. Waking up early is not the business, it takes so much energy and encouragement to get myself up in the morning. I just never want to wake up, it takes so much work.” And i agree with her, during the first two days was hard because i had to wake early to get ready for school and still have time to eat breakfast. But during winter break i just woke up in the afternoon or around ten or eleven am and just eat branch - a mixture of lunch and breakfast-. This week i am still getting use to the whole “school work only” again because three weeks of winter break is pretty long and i did not has much focus on the work they sent us home. So it was useless because after finals week i completely forgot everything i learned. especially on math and anatomy.

This week what i hated was that the teacher told has we had four packets that we did over the break, but i heard from the teacher before break was three. Turned out the fourth packet was the reviewer for the final, but i never did it because she said it was optional. So now during the weekend i need to finish the last packet and just waste my weekend time on math. Yup. My weekends are over and including the lab and project we have to do for History and Anatomy that is due Tuesday.

There are more stuff that i hated this week, but this was mostly what i had i mind.

this week

Oh! My! Gosh! It’s finally the end of first week of school after coming back from winter break. This week has been a little shaky and easy, because i still did not get use to the school work the teachers were giving, i felt like i was still in vacation mode -for example, not caring if i had to do homework-. During this week i still felt a little lazy doing my work early, going to bed at right time, and just getting used to that i have school again.

Going back to school this week, felt like the first day of school during the fall semester. For example, seeing everyone again, seeing their new hair style, new clothes, and new shoes. The only thing that was different was the upper class-men and sophomores did not have to meet new people. Since we saw each other each day from first semester, this week was mostly like a family reunion. For example, everyone is catching up with each others' stories during the break, talked about how winter break was boring, and et caetera. It was mostly for people to talk about their winter break.

The first week back the sophomore class did fun stuff their classes and in addition found out some new that could affect the student’s grades. For instance, three out of five teachers are now making their grading scales to much more difficult. As an example Ms. Ronit, she is not going to include the Daily Learning Activities (DLA) which are homework, citizenship, participation, and attendance. She is not dividing that ten percent to test, quizzes, and labs and projects.So now, she raised up the percentage and we cannot depend of our DLA anymore. Also that this week we dissected a sheep’s heart in anatomy and physiology class, will be reading a new book in English, and will be doing a project for US History class. As a result this semester will be much more serious and tough.

This whole week was mainly for us to get our minds refocus on school again because this semester would be much more challenging. The teachers just gave us the basic lessons that they would be teaching and future grading in our projects, essays, tests, quizzes, and exams. The entire first week was about the teachers giving each of the class to information on how second semester would be like.