Lessons Learned

One of the biggest premonitions that i have ever had was right before my first basketball game of the season. My team and i were on our way to play the hardest team in the league and i was freaking out. For some reason i kept feeling like someone was going to get badly injured during the game, and that someone was going to be me. All my friends told me that i was just freaking myself out and i would be fine but i still felt like i was going to get hurt. Within the first ten seconds of the game i went up to block a shot and the girl on the opposite team pushed me down. I landed on my wrist backwards and the impact snapped it. Because of that one shot i blocked i was out for the whole season. If i just would have been a little more careful and went with my gut feeling i probably would have been fine for the season. The reason that i neglected listening to my gut feeling is because i really wanted to win the game. We had never beaten the team so the whole team was working really hard. If i just would have been a little more careful we might have won. I also thought that maybe i was just freaking myself out so i just ignored my feelings. overall i am sad that i broke my wrist and we lost the game but it taught me a good lesson, to listen to myself when something really doesn't feel right.

Shakspearen movies

One movie that i can relate very closely to the theme from Romeo and Juliet is the Notebook. In the Notebook both the man and women are crazy about each other, they do everything together. After the Parents of the girl meet the boy though they do not approve of him. They think that she deserves better so they force her to move. This is like romeo and Juliet because in both movies the parents do not approve of the couples dating and they try to force them apart. I think the directors of the Notebook closely related the play Romeo and Juliet to their movie. Although the Notebook seems to be taken from Shakespeare many others do the same as well. Another movie That uses Shakespeare's ideas is 27 Dresses. In this movie the girl is in love with her boss but the boss is getting married to the womens younger sister. The movie is just Like a Midsummer Nights dream. The women is in love with a man who loves her friend. It seemed that Shakespeare was there directing the movie. The characters seemed to match the plays characters almost perfectly.Although these are just two of the many movies that have been copied after Shakespeare's writing he was an amazing writer which is why i hope people make more movies with his ideas for years and years to come.

Shakespearian writing

When i heard we were going to read Romeo and Juliet i was very excited. I have never read or seen a movie on the play, but i have heard much, and know plot the plot line well. then i heard we were watching a midsummers night dream and i was even more thrilled. After watching the movie i feel it is defiantly easier to understand what Shakespeare was saying. It was defiantly helpful to me because now i have an understanding of What Shakespeare will sound like in Romeo and Juliet. Before we started the movie felt that i new the language fairly well but it could defiantly be improved.Overall what helped the most was Mrs. Gilman telling us about the movie before we watched it. This was helpful because then i had an understanding of what was going on even if i didn't fully understand what was being said. My favorite part of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the plot. I loved how Shakespeare switched it up so one minute someone loved this person but the next they were in love with someone else. I was very sad though in the end when it turned out it was all a dream. Other then that it was one of my favorite movies and i defiantly look forward to reading and seeing Romeo and Juliet over the next few months.

Terrible Tragedy

The most disturbing part of Animal Farm for me is when Napoleon says he is sending Boxer to an animal hospital but he is actually going to kill him. After Boxer splits his hoof he never seems to be himself again. He can not work as hard ,although he trys, and he is getting to the age where he should no longer be working. On one occasion Boxer is working by himself and he falls. When the animals realize the tragedy it is to late. Boxer is hurt to bad to work any longer. Clover nurses him for a few weeks but he can no longer do anymore work. Napoleon tells everyone not to worry, and that Boxer will get the best care he could get from the hospital he is going to. It turns out Boxer is not going to the hospital he is going to a slaughter house. This was defiantly the most depressing thing for me in this book because throughout the whole book Boxer worked so hard, and then the second he gets hurt and can not work anymore Napoleon ships him off to be killed. Overall this was defiantly the saddest part in the book for me and i hope the animals come to realize how truly terrible Napoleon really is.

Animal Farm

When i first heard that we where reading animal farm in class i wasn't very excited. Everyone that had read this book before me told me it was not a good book and they thought it was very boring. As i started reading though i decided that i really enjoyed it. It was nice that we had the assignment about the Russian revolution because even though it was alot of work i wouldn't have understanded the book without it. One of my favorite things in the book is that all the animals are based off of real life characters. As i was reading i was able to compare the humans to the animals and i really enjoyed seeing the resemblance. One thing that i really do not like about animal farm is the way the pigs are treating the animals. It is really getting on my nerves that they are breaking their own commandments. What's worse though is the other animals are letting them do it. I really hate that the animals are so stupid and naive. I know they are supposed to play that part because it is based off the Russian revolution but i really wish the animals had more depth to them. Overall i am enjoying animal farm and i hope that the animals get tougher and stand up to the pigs in the future.

Winter festivities

Freezing was all i could think as i stood there covered in snow. It was horrible, my nose was cold and with four pairs of socks and boots my toes still felt worse then frost bitten. It all started when it began snowing. At first i loved the snow it was great. It was beutiful and fun to play in as long as you can go in when your cold. I soon found out that when there is more then a foot of snow and your outside working its not so enjoyable. You may not know this but i have 37 cows. We live on a farm and they are all out in a huge field. They aren't usually a big problem(when there's no snow). As the snow was piling up the fence that was keeping our cows in started to droop. It got so heavy that the fenced collapsed. Saturday morning we get this call saying that a cow is in the middle of the road. So we go outside to check and sure enough its just standing there wondering what to do. So we rush back inside to get dressed, so we can go get the cow back in the pasture. Me of course being the smart person that i am didn't put on any socks. I thought"oh we won't be out there for very long." As we were walking down to take care of the cow in the road a police car drives up. He says he got a call saying there was a cow in the road and he came down to see what he could do. We said "Thanks but we can handle it ourselves." After getting down to the pasture my mom tells me go back up and put socks on before your toes freeze, and my aunt goes get me some gummy bears! so i go back up to my house put four pairs of socks on put my boots back on get the gummy bears and run back down to the field. When i get down there, there is a cow in the lane. (the lane is the road between the two fields that we use to drive in and out of when working with the cows). So i hopp the fence to get to my mom and this cow starts running. I have no idea what it is doing but apparently i am not big enough to scare it because it is coming right towards me. I jump in to a ditch and just miss the dumb cow. By then i am starting to get cold and on top of that i am now wet because of lying in the snow. I get to my aunt and we end of standing off to the side of the fence eating gummy bears and watching as my dad trys to get all the cows into the other field which doesn't have any broken fences. Two hours later i come to the point that i was at, at the beginning of my story. I am standing there eating frozen gummy bears, my toes are completely numb and my nose is freezing. I beg my mom until she finally says i can go back up to my house and get my feet warm. before i go though my aunt warns me put your feet in luke warm water first and gradually get the water warmer other wise your feet will hurt really bad. So i go back to my house and decide i am just going to put my feet into the tub of boiling water because they are so cold i cant stand it. I put my feet in and at first its nice and i wonder what my aunt was talking about. Then all of the sudden i start having this searing pain going through my feet. I ripp my feet out of the water and know i am lying there on the floor my feet are still cold but now i have this horrible pain from the warm water. (now i know what my aunt was talking about). Anyways the moral of my story is when dealing with cows make sure you keep your feet warm. Although i didn't have the most amazing experiences over winter break i still had alot of fun and enjoyed every bit of it.

expectations

One of the biggest things for me that i expect to get out of high school is a good learning experience. I want to be prepared so as i go out into the world i am able to handle things and be able to support myself. Some of my expectations that i have for myself over the next for years is to get good grades. Not only do i want to get good grades but i want to be involved in activities and groups, and hopefully become apart of student government for the school. As i go on to college i hope to attend UCLA in California and go on to become a politician. Some things that i expect to learn over the next years of my life is how to get along in the real world, how to get a good job and maintain a good salary, and be able to get the grades i need to get into a good college. Some experiences that i hope to have through out my high school experience really depends on what i want to major in. Like i said earlier i would like to get into student government and i would also like to continue with sports. As i go through out high school i hope to maintain good grades and get into a good college.