Women Writers

Female writers aren't much different than male writers. I've read many books by men and women alike and found that it all depends on the writer, some writers are more descriptive, while others can be more factual in their way of telling their story. I don't prefer a gender when it comes to reading a book. All i look for is a good book with either gender.

Edith Wharton Facts

1. Edith and Edward Warton were married for 28 years, until thy divorced. She said it was her "greatest mistake" to marry him.

2. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

3. She was good friends with Theodore Roosevelt

4. In 1902, she built "The Mount", which was her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts

5. She was one of the few foreigners allowed to go onto the French frontlines during WWII.

Vocabulary 106-135

In an antediluvian town call Peladclees, there was a man named Thaedeus, who was known to be a ruthless desperado of his time. Antebellum Peldclees was renown for its bonanza of gold. Only a score of people were wealthy enough to make a living from the area, forcing the poorer people to resemble atavism to survive on the streets. Thaedeus, although an outlaw, sometimes gave his auguries to paying people. Saying that in 4 generations something good or bad will happen to their family, his predictions were so vague he was never wrong, therefore a reliable source. But his epoch was ephemeral, since he was later forced to join a flotilla which he ran away from, forever to be labeled a renegade by everyone. He was soon given the death sentence for abandoning his position in the war efforts.

Seattle 1999

The WTO is the acronym for the "World Trade Organization". The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. In the movie "This is what Democracy looks like", the protesters are protesting about the WTO not enforcing the rules of trade and not suporting the worker unions by not proiding saftey equipment and lowering the salaries of the workers. In my opinion, the people had a right to protest and shouldn't have been treating the protesters the way the police did.

Technology

Thoreau views technology as a necessary evil, or in some cases purely for the sake of being lazy. He believes that technology is wasteful to the world. I have to disagree with him though, some of our technology saves lives and prolongs their lives as well. Technology also provides great entertainment. I probably would go throughout a whole day without technology, but i wold probably sleep for the whole day since my alarm clock would not exist lol.

thoreau podcast questions

1. The host views Thoreau as being a true American, and being a free-thinker.

2, Kathryn's view on Thoreau are based on his founding documents of America, saying that Thoreau set the example for modern day americans.

3. You get to enjoy a simple life, with a fulfilling happiness, and a universal view on self reliance.

4. The disadvantages of that lifestyle are lack of community, almost a selfish way of life, kind of an antisocial behavior, large protest against conformity, even good traits.

Cicil Disobedience

Im against the actions the government had made in the war in Iraq, even before the 9-11 event, America was exploiting the middle east for their oil. This leads me to believe that the government isn't in the Middle east to protect us, but more to secure their supply of oil from being cut off. I believe the best way to change these actions is to bring our soldiers back home since all they are doing there is securing the area, they would do much more with their lives at home. Maybe giving a speech to the people like MLK jr. did for the rights of blacks, might persuade them to take them out quicker..

Renegades of Funk

Some of the people mentioned in the song are Chief Sitting bull, Tom Paine, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. The singer admired these people because they were renegades of their age, like rebels. The whole band's purpose is to go against the system.

Science Fiction

Science fiction is a story in which can possibly be real in scientific terms, such as robots, Interstellar flight, aliens etc. William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Verno Vinge are a few examples of Science Fiction authors. Science fiction setting are the following but not limited to: Outer Space, Alternate timeline, Time traveling, The future, etc.

Banned Books

These books were banned for mainly the use of profanity, the reference to drugs, the explicit descriptions of sexual encounters, and the use of words like "whore" and "nigger". This shows that our country want to try and hide their "dark" history from the public eye. I have personally read Catch 22, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The catcher in the rye. I believe if I hadn't read these books, iI would be rather naive about these occurrences in history.

The last meow, Act. 9

Word:

-Bilger uses words like "queen", "sleek", and "ermine" to compare Lady to a celebrity because Lady is the most important character (or animal) in this story, the story revolves around her.

-Bilger describes Shawn Levering as having "the specific gravity of a man who knows exactly where to reach for his tools", he also describes Shawn as a strong man, so it makes the situation more intense.

-The medical terminology is described as "Chronic Renal Failure", in other words: her kidneys weren't working. Bilger uses this terminology to greatly enhance the situation that Lady was experiencing.

-Lady represents the life that is on the line, Shawn represents the inner conflict between saving Lady at the cost of being in debt, or to let Lady die and save money. The issue that is represented in the first three paragraphs is in order to save Lady, they need $15000, which they don't have.

Sentence:

-In ending the paragraph with “The ferrets are called Larry, Mo, and Curly”, it seems that the author might get back to the ferrets at a later time.

-The purpose of having parentheses in the third sentence is to clarify where the AMC have gotten their cats from.

-Bilger gives us a long list of exotic animals to give an example of how experienced and skillful the vets are at AMC.

Paragraphs:

- These paragraphs differ from a newspaper's paragraphs in the way the paragraphs describe the evidence provided, these paragraphs will give a somewhat biased view, while the newspaper would be more unbiased.

Activity 7

What is wrong with Lady? What is the treatment? How much will it cost to treat her?

Lady was dying of kidney failure, so to treat her, the vet had to put her on dialysis for preparation for a kidney transplant, which will cost $15,000 for the procedure.

• What kind of person is Shawn Levering, her owner? How can you tell?

Shawn Levering is a caring person who has become connected with Lady, his pet. There seems to be a strong bond between them. I can tell Shawn is a caring person because he wants to keep Lady alive and wants to know how to take care of Lady.

• What kind of person is the veterinarian, Cathy Langston? How can you tell?

Cathy Langston is a determined woman who is caring and loving to her patients. I can tell this because of how she treats Lady while under her care, which is very carefully and gentle.

• Why do you think Shawn is willing to pay for Lady’s treatment? Is he the kind of person you would expect to pay for high-cost treatment for a pet?

Shawn is willing to pay for Lady's expenses because he has a strong emotional bond to the cat, even though he is in fact a dog person. I believe he is the type of person who is willing to pay 15,000 dollars to take care of their pet.

Part 3:

This part talks about people's connection with their pets and how it helps with their stress level, ultimately lowering the risk of blood pressure problems.

Key vocabuary

1. Ravaged

2. Ravaging

3. Drooping

4. Drooped

5. Bewildered

6. Bewildering

7. Compelling

8. Compelled

9. Transplanted

10. Transplanted

Last Meow

In my opinion, pets are extremely important to my life and to the people I know. This is because your pets don't judge you, they're always there for you, and their highest priority is to please their master. Although sometimes my dogs can be a pain (digging, getting things dirty, eating homework :P), most of the time they are well behaved and nice to go for a walk (I got two golden retrievers so they're the typical "cute" dog). Even though this is the case, i wouldn't dump 15k into my dogs getting a new kidney, since when those types of ailments are present, it only gets worse, so i'd rather spend my dog's last moments at home rather than subconscious in a veterinarian hospital.

Thesis Statements

Oscar acknowledges that everything in society is pretty much escapable, but living up to a good reputation within the community, is a constant and continuous effort.

1. This is one of the best Thesis statements because of it's uniqueness in representing the author into the thesis, which add power to the statement.

John Procter, Elizabeth Procter, and Abigail all have there reputation misrepresented in some way.

2. This is a good thesis because it takes a side, gives categories, and answer the question.

The people that reputation was really held against was Abigail, Rebecca Nurse, and John Proctor.

3. This is a good thesis because it clearly states the problems the characters have with their reputation.

Vocabulary Review

The first day of school led to the last day of three kids lives. Yaquiline, the lothario (1), Yessica, the maverick (2), and Yanessa, the nemesis (3) of Yaquiline. On that day, they expirienced a philippic (4) between each other in english class. It started fine, they all sat down in class while Mr. Schreiber introduced himself and the class. They figured out he was a jingoist (5), because he was wearing a red, white, and blue tuxedo. But after seeing that, they realized who was amongst them. . . the infamous “Y Ladies.”
Yaqualine, and Yanessa, hated each other because Yaqualine took a bite of Yanessa’s Spicy Chicken Sandwhich, which led to Yanessa calling Yaqualin tawdry (6). Yaqualine, or “Yaquie”, stated that as a philanderer (7), she slept with Yanessa’s boyfriend. Yanessa’s previous view of as a quixotic(8) young girl, immedietly went away.
One day Yessica came to school and yelled at Yanessa and Yaqualine using solecism(9), Yessica couldn’t say anything because she felt saturnine(10) beacause of all those spicy chicken burgers that she ate. Yaqualine didnt really care because she was a procrustean (11), she was tired of arguing. So the rivalry between Yanessa and Yaqualine came to an end. Many people say it was a Pyrrhic victory(12), because even after the arguement, they still were not friends.
But the wierd part of the story is, why didn’t Yessica get involved? She has the spoonerism(13) of words that confuses the Y Ladies to death. But recently she found the Y Ladies protean(14) and unbearable. She could have won this arguement and be the number one Y lady and live in sybarite(15) for the rest of her life!!

Review of Roots

Act- do: Activity

Aud- hear: Audible

Cred- believe: Credible

Dic- speak: Dictate

Graph- write: Autograph

Loc- place: Location

Man- hand: Manacles

Mot- move: Motivation

Ped- foot: Bipedal

Pop-people: Population

Port-carry: Transport

Sign-mark: Signature

Spec-see: Speculate

Tract-pull: Retract

Vid-see: Video

Volve-roll: Revolve

English Handbook questions

1. The heading goes in the upper left corner, the student's name, teacher's name, subject, period, and date go into the header.

2. She wore huge dark glasses, so no one recognized her.

3. A comma splice is an error in the punctuation usage between the combined sentences, whereas a fused sentence has no punctuation in the combined sentences, therefore has an absence of a comma, etc.

4. To set off an introductory clause, phrase, or conjunctive adverb from the rest of the sentence or to create a pause.

5. To create a stronger pause or to link two thoughts together or to link items in long series.

6. You should only spell out numbers Ninety-nine and below

7. Yes, plays are underlined

8. Affect is to change or pretend, whereas effect is to perform or have an impact.

9. "there" is a general location, "their" is to be in the possession of someone else, and they're is they are, plural for he/she is.

10. To express parallel elements in the same grammatical form, such as "the bunny jumped, scampered, and twisted.

Citing Photos for Keynote

I understand how to do the citation of photos, but what is the real point of Citing these images, especially because most were picked up on Google images, so technically they understood that before they allowed google to pick up links to their site that they were offering their images for free. It just seems a little redundant to cite what was practically "given up" by the people who made them, but that's just my opinion and most likely i got the whole system wrong so if anyone has more info on this subject don't hesitate to post a comment ^^.

PS: Again, this is in my opinion and I'm open to other opinions with or against my claim.

Are ideas worth a life?

Only some ideas are worth a life... of those few ideas, revolution is an idea worth a life, because if the sacrifice of one life could lead to the salvation of thousands, it would be the most unselfish act that you can do. I would give my life to a good cause that would change the world, though i think i'll do more good alive in the society. I would also give my life for someone i care about, may it be my family or my love for someone else. Thankfully I haven't needed to do that lately so I'm not sure if the phrase "even friends serve their own ends" matches up to my criteria.

Group projects

Last year in Mr. Thompson's class, my group and i needed to make a presentation about the book: Catch 21. I personally think that I did the least work out of the group, therefore was the weakest link. Though I had a small part in the group, I still thought that I did a good job. We had a decent grade on the project so either I did good on the project or everybody else did a better job lol. I either find myself doing little things or stressing about the major parts I have in the group projects. I guess it just depends on what type of group project I do.

Rumor

On Friday, I overheard a conversation about one of my brother's close friends thinking that they were actually a couple, the problem is that my brother has a girlfriend and is oblivious to what she thinks they are, something is telling me that this is going to come around and bite him in the ass. Well to be honest, it would be his own undoing since he's always such a flirt. I honestly believe this rumor to be true, since this would be something my brother is prone to do. I hope his girlfriend doesn't find out :P

Lost trust

Last year i lost the trust in someone i loved, all over a ridiculous promise that could never be really upheld by a person forever. So i broke the promise and she practically stopped talking to me. I eventually gained her trust back by making a solemn promise never do it again, though it's going to be hard to uphold. So I gained it back through patience and discipline on how to react to the subject. Patience is a virtue.

Breakfast

Breakfast is the "most important meal of the day" as considered by most of the population in the U.S. I dont have time to eat breakfast in the morning, so I only eat lunch and dinner for most of the weekdays, except for when i get a ride to school. But when i do get something to eat before i leave, i usually feel a little sick, maybe because i got used to not having breakfast, or maybe i walk a mile after i eat lol. Well anyways, anyone have an idea on what i should do?

Video presentation

Well, our group just finished making a video summarry on the book catch-22. Now that we are done, I just hope that we do a good job on the rest of the presentation, especially if we are the first ones presenting. There's a curse and a blessing and a curse to being first, well once we are done, we can relax about the whole thing and just listen to everyone else's. The major problem is that we are fist, making us not able to learn from other people's mistakes or achievements. Which means that we will be the least refined presentation, but i think we did a great job so we dont need to worry about that. Well i hope your groups do well aswell.

Bored

Now that the end of school is coming, I can't help but get bored every so often since the whole year you wait for the end of the year, but when it comes, you dont know what to do. Well two weeks into summer vacation, Ill be going to Maui for 2 weeks, thats probably going to be the extent of my exitement during the whole break. Who knows, I may get an awesome tan and come back looking like Keely (sorry if I misspelled your name). Thats something to look foward to I suppose. Well, sadly I have a higher chance of coming back as red as a lobster rather than tanner lol.

The end of school

Honestly, I couldn't care less about the end of school. I mean there is no point in missing anyone since most of them will be back next year. Even if they didn't come back to school, it gives you a chance to meet more people. Besides, enjoy your summer, don't worry about your friends too much. The thought of having no work to do, staying up late, and sleeping in. Who doesn't like that?

Living after midnight

As you can see, these posts are made around 1:00 am, which ,means that everyone should be asleep. In my house, everything goes quiet around 10:00 pm. So it can be very peaceful since there is no one to bother you. While that may be the case, there is no one to talk to either. You end up being alone in your own house. It can get quite lonesome...
Usually by that time i go to bed since there seems to be no point to staying up anymore. I had my fun, now its time to rest. If only there was a better way to live after midnight, and still have fun :)

Bands

Aswell as having Braces, I also have bands to put in to realign my teeth that they put out of place in the first place. After a while, the pressure points on the tooth hurt so much that I have to take them off until I feel better. If I dont wear my bands, ill need to wear jasper jumpers, which do the same thing but are more painful and cannot be removed. So this whole game is a Catch-22 since if I wear the bands, ill be in pain willingly, and if i dont, ill be in pain unwillingly. Either way, ill be in pain. The good news is that the braces come off in a couple months... and with it, my pain lol.

Hatered of Ortho

Today i went to the ortho for my monthly checkup on my braces. Everything was fine until he told me that he needs to make my teeth narrower so that they line up better. At that point, i was scared because I had already got two of my teeth pulled out and now they are trying to this out my other teeth. They used a drill with grit in it to take off a 1/4 mm of enamel from each of my teeth. I almoat paniced because I knew what they were doing and i was afraid that they would mess up and destroy a tooth. In the end, all was better, I'm just worried about the chances of breaking teeth to be greater. I hate the way Ortho people think that a dental problem can be fixed by taking it out, not trying to work around it.

Catch-22

For the project we are doing in Mr. Thompson's class, I found Catch-22 quite interesting to read, especially Yossarian's role in the book. It almost seems the whole book is based upon the meaning of the phrase Catch-22. Basically you're doomed if you do, you're doomed if you don't. So there seems to be no way to get past the catch. In Yossarian's case, hes trying to get grounded by claiming he's insane, but by claiming he's insane, it proves that he's sane enough to know that he's insane, therefore not insane at all. Thus leading to why he can't be pulled away from the war to avoid getting killed. If you ask me, I find this very messed up for someone who risks their life everyday and yet has no choice to fight until he dies, or break the Catch-22.

Silly Dog

I was outside one day when I saw my narotic dog Trixie, chasing her own tail. I was wondering why do dogs sometimes do silly stuff like that as well as chasing shadows and such. Is it because they get too excited, or maybe they have an itch on their tail when they chase their tails. Then again, they could be just bored and do stuff like that to kill time. If anyone could shed some light on the subject that would be very helpful.

Trouble Sleeping

Hey guys fopr this whole week i couldn't sleep well at night, only after i was exhausted at around midnight could i fall asleep, in the case of wednesday, i couldn't go to bed until 1 am. So I was very tired in the morning, any ideas on how to get better sleep.

The end of a good week

I so wish I had another few days to sleep in some more, as well as staying up all night. These two things only happen on the weekend unless there's a break, I do enjoy all of what I can get out of the day. (ZZZzzzZZZzzz) In fact, I am pretty tired right now *yawns*. Anyways, do you guys think that this break was a little to short as well?

"Bring your child to work day"

While it seemed liked a good idea, at my age and experience with the "bring your child to work" thing, I kind of regret going to it instead of school. This is mainly nothing has changed since I went there the last two times (guess 3rd's not always the charm). Anyways, I seemed to be helping everyone there so I was kept busy with work, especially  when everyone thinks you're a volunteer who does everything he is asked what to do. This leads to a very regretful day at work :(

The Weekend

Omg! This weekend seemed like it took forever to come, even though I didn't go to school thursday (bring kids to work day). I'm just guessing this was a slow week for me. While I also had a half day for the CSTs. Maybe I should make more of what I do in school. Any ideas?

The New Marital Rape law

Today I found out that in Afghanistan, there is a new law being passed. This being a very male-dominant region, created a law that required a woman to have sex with her husband every 4 days or risk being starved or beaten. So the f***ing people make marital rape legal. Of course many women who were in school (there are very few since women were not supposed to be taught anything) protested to this law, only to have rocks thrown at them by men. I mean seriously, how can you treat a woman so poorly. When I hear this type of crap going on in the world it makes me think twice about how f***ed up people can be. Of course this will only happen in countries to retarded to get smart and go to college. I'm sorry this type of stuff makes me really pissed off.

Hurt my Wrist

Dude I found out today that I ultimately suck at roller skating. Ends up that I fell on my butt like 15 times in the one hour I was there. Unfortunately I managed to sprang my wrist while falling the 15th time. I think I may have killed the mood when everyone found out what happened. Even now it still hurts when i'm typing. Since falling for roller skating is clumsy, I need a better excuse for the friends that don't read this post. Any ideas?

Spring Break!!!

Finally spring break is here! For a second I thought it would never come due to the illusion that the days were getting longer. Anyways, now it's time to figure out what I'm going to do over the next week. But I believe that im going to have a great time anyways. Hopefully this means i wont get hurt in the process.

Climate Survey

I hate surveys! They usually ask you the same question in different word. Example: do you do drugs? have you ever done drugs? in the last 5 years have you done drugs? What type of drugs have you tried? I mean seriously, are they trying to get you to do drugs just to answer the damn questions. The good news is that this survey wasn't bad at asking stupid questions over and over again. Though the fact that it was still a survey makes me uneasy about taking one.

Fascism

In our history class, we are studying about Fascism and totalitarian governments in the world. We also are simulating how would it be like to be in a Fascist state. Pretty much like Mr. Thompson's (Senor Thompson) demonstration on a totalitarian government. Except with an actual grade for history. Hopefully I won't fail that assignment since for the life of me could not say Senor Thompson. I wonder who else is doing this activity?

FRIDAY!!!

Wow this week lasted forever! I am so waiting to get out of school today since I want to go home and rest. The weekends are the only days that I can sleep in and stay up all night. Honestly, I'm not much of an "early bird" when it comes to getting up. The only time I get up by myself before 10:00 is when I'm woken up or when I'm sick. So are you guys early birds or late owls?

Nervous

Today I am so nervous, mainly because it is due tomorrow and I don't do well on essays. I just hope my essay isn't that bad because I have a C in the class now and I don't want it to go further down than it already is. Especially because this seems very influential on our grade. that is why I'm nervous today. Is anyone else nervous about the essay as well?

Lycanthropy

For the people that don't know what lycanthropy is, lycanthropy is a physical or mental change into a werewolf. A "mental" change is when the person believes that he or she is a werewolf, which was quite common in the Middle Ages. While this is a rare belief today, people with rabies have been proof of werewolves until they found out that rabies is a disease transmitted by animals, not by a curse. To say it is a curse is a bias comment because to say it's a curse is to take sides with the european/hollywood version of a werewolf. In native americans, werewolves and other were-beasts were considered to be good and didn't picture people as "snacks".

What do you think is the most reasonable version of a werewolf?

Community Service

The community service "thing" , is a must for graduating high school. Why is it that this is necessary for graduation. Honestly, I don't believe that it should be part of graduation. This is something like extracurricular activities that look good on your resume, not being mandatory as it is now. I know they're trying to make you get ready to work in the future, but the system is very flawed. Some of my friends had 40 hours of community service and somehow it gets "lost" in the school's records. Honestly, I think that if the system is so flawed, they shouldn't make it mandatory to take. What do you think about community service?

What Happened to the Pizza?

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE PIZZA!!!

Seriously, the pizza is completely flat and has less taste than it had before.

The pizza sauce is worse than usual and so on.

THEY NEED TO FIX THE PIZZA!

RAWR!

CAHSEE 2

Wow, I never really thought that the english section would be that easy. The math part of the test I know will be easy in math since I excel in those subjects. Anyways, what did you guys think about the test?

CAHSEE

The first cahsee is here! I hope i do good on the test, since it determines if we graduate or not lol. No pressure right?

Honestly, im not sure if im ready for the English part of the test. Any tips?

Punishment

I told my mom that if i wasnt doing good in a class, that I would be grounded until i get my grade back up (b or higher). Unless I want to wait 6 weeks until i can do stuff again, i need to see my piv account soon. I sure hope I can get the answers I need after school today.

Hungry

Do you hate it when you have just ate something and a few minutes later... you're hungry again? I wonder what causes that.... anyways I went to Kyoto Palace yesterday, the food was great, but when I got home, I was hungry again. i could be growing again or it may be that the food is filling and goes down quick. I don't know but has it happened to any of you guys lately?

Nervous

I am so nervous today. I found out that I had an F in Mr. Thompson's class today. Fortunately, he was able to plug in some assignments and it was raised to a C. Although it doesnt pass the grounding point... at least I know that my grade is still able to be reversible (aiming for a B or A). Sadly... now  have to work hard to get my grade back up and no games for me. 

PS. You will all hearing from me quite often now.

(though I cant say that it would be good posts) 

Daylight Savings

I hate the spring daylight savings time. The first day goes by without any notice, mainly because you sleep in the missing hour (Sunday was the first), Monday goes nicely by since I went to bed early. Today though, I feel so deprived of sleep but I didn't stay up last night. Why is it that some things in life have a not-so-immediate affect on you?

I loathe blogs

Blogs are so hard to manage when you don't pay attention to them. You will end up talking about something weird or different opinion. My previous post kind of fits the theme. NOTE: I was out of ideas and I remembered that moment. I end up making some random blog that makes little sense at all. Much like this one lol. I guess I ran into a "writers block". Any ideas on how to escape "writers block"?

Zoophilia

I was giving praise to my dog Annie when someone muttered that I was a Zoophile. So going on Google I found that Zoophilia is a very "unique" practice of love... with animals. This is very gross to me but I researched the subject finding out where ends meet. Sometimes knowing a subject will drive you away from it. In this case its a good thing lol. Anyways NEVER do it, it is very gross. YUCK!!!

Poetry

I was bored one night so I started to go through some poetry forums. At first, I had little interest in what they posted, then I ran into some very interesting poems. Most of which were based on life's pros and cons. Though I found the "happy" ones to be a little awkward. While the cons seem to be more realistic. So the questions is which seem better to public eyes, the pros of life or the cons of life?

Crown Molding

Crown molding is very attractive in a room, giving it an attitude of a classy, noble, fancy environment. If that was the output of your labor, I guess you would appreciate more than normally. Well, I did crown molding for 2 days, the first try looked really bad (took 7 hrs to finish) and the second try looked really great (3 hrs). I really hope that was the last time I will touch molding for a while.

PANICK!!!

Holy cow! I totally forgot about the blogs. Well now that I remembered to blog today, Im freaking panicking about what the blogs will do to my grade this semester. Also, I cant check my PIV since it seems that I dont exist in their system lol. Speaking of that... where do I go to talk about this "system problem"? Please, if anyone can help me with my dilemma, feel free to post a comment. 

*Scorched Love* 1165 words

To this very day do I remember her as if it was yesterday. We went to John Muir in the 8th grade. It was only halfway into the school year that I started to branch out and become less antisocial and more outward into the world. I was talking to my friends Kevin and Omar when all of a sudden, a young woman joins in on our conversation. It was amazing to see that her and I had so much in common. The way we joke, the way we feel towards a certain subjects, and so on. So I asked what her name was and she replied in a kind tone “My name is Dorice, but people call me D”. Now knowing her name, I started to hang out with her and her friends trying to get her attention or to notice me with a more deep feeling. She of course, probably didn’t notice me since she seemed to be looking the other way all the time. 

It was more toward the end of the year when I had stronger feelings about her. I was so close to asking her out but just as I was about to say it, everyone drew their attention towards me, as if they were reading or have already read my mind. Knowing I was being watched, I decided to back down from such a humiliating situation and abandoned the question. But we remained friends the rest of the school year.

Over that summer, I regretted the fact that I had not asked her for her phone number or at least offer mine to her. Being at times lonely, I ended up playing RuneScape to pass the time. That was so far the only time I had wanted to get back to school with such anticipation to see her again. Finally, freshman year started and there yields another chance to ask her out. Sadly, she had apparently got a boyfriend over the summer. So I was further cast back into loneliness knowing that she was person I couldn’t be with. 

We still remained friends as the school year passed by. I believe getting closer to one another in our improving friendship. Then a window from her computer showed the sign that I was looking for...Runescape! Shockingly, she also played Runescape in her pastime. Of course asking for her account name was far easier than asking for her phone number, so we became more social over Runescape.

Then a tragic part halted our talking over the internet and in school. Her boyfriend  had broke up with her, I guess leaving her in a state of sadness and loneliness as I was. I tried to comfort her during her time of need, knowing that she needed me. Over that time, we had grown very close to one another being more open about our thoughts and feelings. After a month or so, I finally got the courage to ask her out. The answer was very painful to my heart. She had said that she wanted us to be “just friends”...No more, no less.

At first, I had steered clear of any contact of her, thinking it would be better that we didn’t see each other for a while. Eventually getting over that event, I started to hang out with her again, still reluctant about talking to her about that day. Then the most surprising thing happened, she said that she had thought about it and decided that her and I could try to be in a relationship. That was the happiest day of my life so far. I was always talking to her, trying to be  good boyfriend to her. Then I brought up the question, “I we break up in the future...can we still be friends?”. She said that I was being silly and that we will be friends if that so happens. I was so grateful to hear that we could still be friends if things turned for the worse.

One of the winter dances was coming up so I had asked if she was able to come with me. She was delighted to come so we were picked up by her mom to go to the dance. That dance was one of the best dances I had went to that year. Everybody was dancing and partying to the music. Afterwards, we said that we would see each other the next day of school. That day we were hanging out after school when we first made out. It was very nerve-racking, but very good. I still dream about this moment when I’m alone. 

I guess after a while, we kind of got more distant because of her track practice and my homework. Our time together was getting cut shorter and shorter when finally we hardly talked at all. I figured if we went to a movie that maybe we would have more time with one another. Then, I thought we could be a happier couple. Then those dreaded words had drifted into my ears...

At first I thought her tone with me was just because she was tired, only to find out that something was wrong. So I asked,” Is there anything wrong Dorice?” followed by a long silence. She said with a cold voice,” I had talked to my parents and I want to break up with you”. I was shocked to hear such disastrous words that I had forgot was going to happen eventually. It was like a searing blade being twisted into my heart. Trying to hide emotions, I said “okay” and started to walk away. Before leaving completely, I Felt  the need to know what I did wrong, I asked her why. She gave me such a general statement that I couldn’t understand what I did.

For the first few days, I was wondering what I did wrong to make her question me and my thoughts for her. Only to beg her to please tell me what I did wrong so I could move on. She had given me the same answer, leaving in a state of confusion and depression for at least the rest of the freshman year. While at the same time being tormented by the fact that the promise of us still being friends was burned away. 

To this day I still try to be friendly with her, but she gives me a glare and that ends any conversation I try to make. What is worse is that fact I loss a person I held deep feelings for as well as a good friend. I still have hope that in time, these problems will be resolved as well as our friendship. I don’t know if I can actually believe in true love or any real affection for anyone, since people are bound to change, for better or worse. Though I had lost all deep emotions for her... I still remember her as a cheerful person I met in 8th grade.

OMFG!!!

Did you hear about the new school schedule change for this year? Apparently, they are cutting off 2 weeks of our summer vacation to get the new schedule straight. If u ask me, this is pretty messed up, especially for the teachers who deserve the break. The students need those two week to get their school preparations ready. The next year u will be leaving on june 1 and returning on August 10-13 (subject to change) this is 4 2010. this year u will be leaving on June 16 and returning to school on the 10-13 of august (instead of the normal 26-30).

Christmas Break

Although it was only 2 weeks, it was the best two weeks of the year so far. Everybody was there to celebrate christmas and new years eve. We played rockband and played poker. We also had some champagne on new years. It was a pretty cool 2 weeks off. If anyone wants to compare holidays with me, fell free to do so.