Sophomore, you only get to be it one time, unless you fail classes, but I haven’t. As a sophomore people expect you to live life, show youngsters ( freshman) how to act, and be responsible for your own work and take responsibilities for your own actions.

This year as a 10th grader I learned many things, it’s hard not to learn something new about anything, school, friends, etc. In the beginning of the year I got chorus. I didn’t like it, the teacher started singing and I was like no I don’t want to be in this class, I don’t like opera music. In that class there was another girl that was really, really loud so all you could hear sing was her, so no one really had a chance to show their voice. Until finals day we all had to find a song and sing it, wow I was so nervous, but I did really good, well at least I think I did. And being in that class, even though I didn’t like it I learned how you’re supposed to stand to project a beautiful and loud sound.

Since 1st grade I have always been a really good student, always had good grades never had F’s or D’s or C’s I was always either a straight A student or A and B student. But this year I had so much trouble in 1 of my classes, geometry. It was the hardest class I could ever have. For the longest semester ever I thought I was going to die! In that semester I was stuck with a D, which was not good. When the report card would come and my parents would see it I would get so embarrassed, instead of being sad I was embarrassed. Getting A’s and B’s is a really big deal for me because I want to go to college and getting C’s and D’s won’t really get me there. So I decided to work extra hard in that class. And by working harder I got to a B. By having the geometry class I learned how to take responsibilities for my work and for the things I do, because I leaned that your parents can only do so much, which is talk to your teachers and see what you have missing, but that doesn’t really help, I learned how to be organized with my work. This helped me a lot because I know for a fact that I will be very successful in life.

And we can’t forget this class. Since I was a little girl I have always loved to read and write. My mom would buy me books like every week because I would read them in 1 day or 2. Before this class I would love to write but I never really did it I was really lazy. But when they gave me this class I learned to love not like love writing. I love the way I write poems and quotes and essays. I learned to love my own writings. I have asked really smart friends to read my blog and they tell me that I’m a really good writer. This class is my favorite because I learn how to improve my writing.

Sophomore year is a year to shine in the places you have never thought you could shine. It’s also the time to learn and have fun.

Shopaholic

Shopaholic. Compulsive shopper. Yea that's me!!! I just love to shop. I don't know what it is, when I go to a store I always have to buy something, its like little voices are telling me hurry hurry shop shop shop till you drop drop drop.
My mom always says that I have too many shoes and clothes but according to me I say " I don't have shoes mom, or I don't have clothes." I just love clothes and shoes. I mostly love shoes and purses. I try to control my self but its just too hard.
I'm kinda like an alcoholic when they are addicted to drinking, but I'm addicted to shopping. I tell my mom its in my blood or I tell her it runs in the family because one of my aunties loves to shop too but my mom says I'm worse.
If you asked me what I would do with a thousand dollars, I would tell you that I would go shopping. I would buy many shoes and purses and clothes.
For my fifteenth birthday I got like $500 or more and I bought my self shoes and clothes and purses and hair stuff because I love fixing my hair and people ask me to do their hair so I buy myself hair stuff.
Now my mom doesn't really want to buy me stuff, my mom tells me "cuando trabajes te lo compras" When you start working you can buy it for yourself.
how rude!!!!! jajaja but what can I do its not me!! its the little voices in my head.

Person for a Day

 Kristen Stewert. There are many reasons for which I would like to be her for a day. One of them is that she is very pretty, and people really like her. I would also like to be her because she is super famouse because of the Twilight Saga movies. She gets many compliments from people. Another reason is that I love taking pictures and I love clothes, she has had many photo shoots and in every shoot she gets to change, how fun. And it always seems like they are having fun. She probably does she gets to film and gets to hang out with cute guys. Lucky her. My number one reason which I would like to be her is because she is in the Twilight movies and she gets to work with the hottest guy alive! Taylor Lautner! She is the luckiest woman alive, because she gets to work with him, and in the new moon movie she touches his hot abs, and she gets to hug him. And the best part is that she gets to kiss him in eclipse. Wow if I would of been her in that moment I would be screaming of joy. I would probably faint but the good thing is that if I faint he will catch me.

Wisdom Quote

"Dont look for him. Your prince charming will come and he will give you something no one else could give you. Love"

I made this quote because of a friend. She had been looking for a boyfriend, then she stopped looking because there was a guy who was after her, but I would always tell her she didnt deseerve him because he would go out with one girl then the next day you would see him with another girl. My friend and that guy went out, but he wouldnt really treat her like a girl friend, just as a friend. A week later he broke up with her and then the day after he broke up with her he called her and told her he made a mistake adn he wanted her back. That very day she called me and asked me for advise so then I told he some stuff. Then I sent her a message and wrote this quote and I dedicated it to her, because I really think that if you look for the guy you want he will never come out the way you want him to, I think that a really special guy will come to you and love you.

Help!

Help! you see them aiming bombs at us.
Help!what do I do, where do I put my family?
Help! im trapped in my house.
Help! im almost gone, I feel my skin burning,
almost as if I stepped into a chimminy
Help!
Your too late!
Im gone.

Betrayed by 2 jerks

You played me, betrayed me, your love was nothing but a game. Some times us girls think its so easy just to fall in love, many girls think that just because you are together with a guy for one or two years that they have fallen in love. I have a friend she had a boy friend who was a jerk. everyone thought that they were the cutest couple ever, but to me I didn't really like him for her. He was really nice to her he bought her teddy bears, roses, he took her out a lot, they were what everyone said a perfect couple, everyone was just waiting for the wedding to come, and so was she. They went out for three years and they knew each other for like five or more.

Everything was going really great with their relationship, until Cruella Deville came into the picture. She came from out of town, my friend adopts everyone as a friend. Both of them got along really good, they were best friends. You could always find them easily when one was at the park the other one was there too. My friends boy friend got to know Cruella Deville and they became friends. After a few months my friend started to notice her boyfriend acting weird, he was not acting his self. Everyone noticed.

one day my friend had to leave out of town. All of us friends went out that day, when I went outside, I got really really sad and mad, I saw Cruella Deville getting out of her car, and that other jerk, my friends boyfriend helped her out and walked her inside, when they went inside they acted, or tried to hide and act like nothing had happened.

When my friend came back from her trip everything was different. Its wasn't the same. She wasn't with her boyfriend like always. That day I was really happy, because she had broken up with him, she didn't needed a guy like him, she needs something better.

This is what you can say a two in one betrayal of love. A boyfriend betrayal of love, and a friendship betrayal of love. You played me, betrayed me, our love was nothing but a game.

Breaking Dawn

Movies are great, to me movies are cool because we get the opportunity to picture the characters. when movies are based on books the director never goes by what the book says.

If I was able to make a new episode of the twilight saga I would do it about the last book, "Breaking Dawn." It would start saying. . ."You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared towards those kinds of killers- the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one that was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?b Bella Swan, Breaking Dawn.

Then I would go to the part when they get married, and I would also show when Alice begs Bella to let her plan the wedding and decorate. And i would also show when they get married I think it would be really cute and romantic. And I would definitely but the part when Bella gets pregnant and when Jacob goes to visit her and when he gives Edward permission to make her a vampire so she doesn't die. When they are going to take the baby out of her I would would make her say.... "You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared towards those kinds of killers- the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one that was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? I would make her say that again because her baby is half vampire and half human so the baby is eating her and she loves the baby.

At the very end of the movie I would put them living together in a house with their baby.

Courage

Courage: A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear. Many things you do or will do in life you will need a little or a lot of courage. Talking in front of people, driving on the freeway, and even little things like talking to your parents about your grades. I have had moments when I don’t have enough courage to do anything. But I have also had days when I have a lot of courage.

Singing in front of more than 100 people is not my thing. I get real fearful, I feel like I will faint or just not say anything at all. I have sang in front of 10, 15 people but 100, wow that’s a lot more than 15.

About a month ago my great grandma past away, she used to always love when I sang, when she saw me she would always ask me to sing for her. But when my family started planning the funeral my uncle ask me to sing a song at the funeral. I didn’t think there would be many people so of course I said yes. When we got to the church my family was only there so I didn’t get nervous. But then the church started filling up. It was packed. I would tell my mom “no se si pueda, tengo miedo” I don’t know if I can do it, I’m scared.

When the preacher called my name to sing I started to shake and get a little scared, it was a feeling that I had never had when I sang. But I knew that I had to do it I had to have courage, and I did.

“Each time we face fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing (Unknown).”

Time Traveling

Time machine. Have you ever had a dream that you would go on a time machine and travel around the world? Have you ever wondered how you would look when your 20, or if you will ever get married? I have. But I would only have a couple things I would want to do with a time machine.

Since I was little I have always said that I wanted to be a pediatrician. If I had a time machine in front of me I would probably go and see if I did become one. I travel and if I didn’t I would ask if I almost did or if I changed my mind. If I was about to become one I would go back in time and I would try twice as much just to get the dream I have had since I was a little girl.

Another thing I would do if I had a time machine would be to take my best friend Sara with me and see if we grew up happy. And if we got married. The reason why I would do that is because Sara and I are always so happy and we would have to travel in time and check if we still kept being happy. We would also go and see if we got married. We never really talk about getting married, because we think that we should live life and have fun before we get married and after we can think of things like that, but I would really want to find out if we do.

Since I was little I have always loved to sing. Singing is my life. If I could travel in time I would want to go about 10 years from now and see what I have done to my life with me loving music and loving to sing. I have always told my mom that I would like to make my own CD and sell my music to people. I would like to make concerts and make people happy with my music.

Traveling in time has not really been my dream, but seeing what I do in my life and what I have accomplished in life is really important to me. That’s why if I had a time traveling machine I would want to check my accomplishments.

Life

In Mexico you would mostly find people farming, usually the farmers were the ones that were not rich. I was told that they would have to farm to get money to buy food or clothes for their kids and family. My Grandparents told me that they would have their kids help them with the farming, it was hard work that needed two or more people.

Usually in a family, when the parents farm the kids fallow their path and they farm when they are older too. My uncle Silverio is a little different. He never liked to farm he would always complain, he always wanted to go to school and study. Back in the days people were so poor that they did not have money to go to school and buy books to pass the class. When his parents would ask him to help he would say “no, quiero ir a la escuela a estudiar “ no I want to go to school and study.

After a year he finally went to school. He loved school. He would always tell his parents that school is better than farming. Sometimes he would tell his brothers “estan gastando su tiempo sembrando! Vengan a la escuela” Your waisting your time farming! Come to school with me. They would just say no and walk away.

My tio Silverio finally graduated and went to college. He went to school to be a business man He liked to think of himself as the head of a business.
Right now he owns his own business. Its funny, even though he never liked farming he started a business that has something to do with farming. He sells many kinds of seeds and many farmers in Mexico go just to buy his seeds to plant. He is also married to a woman whom he calls " una muchacha bien bonita" a beautiful lady.

He might not be a millionaire, but, you can say he went from being a poor farmer to being a college graduate, and creating his own business.

The star fish story

Many people think that very little things won’t make a difference, just like the young man that was throwing star fish in the ocean to save their lives. He wasn’t going to be able to save all of them but he was going to make a difference by saving 100 or 2, he was saving that one star fish.

I believe the moral teaching of this story was to show us that you can do very little things to make a difference and even if you don’t finish it, you are still making the difference. You may be the only one is the world or the state that might be saving an animals or starfishes lives. You might be that one in a million that is helping the world to make a difference.

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision (Rand, Ayn)”. To me this young man wanted to make a new road, he wanted to save star fish. It was like a vision he had. Maybe he loved star fish and wanted to see them for the rest of his life. Just throwing those couple of star fish he was going to be able to see them forever.

“The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die." We should all start trying to make a difference it only takes picking up one star fish and throwing it in the ocean before it dies.

Victory! For Pitt Bulls

"Victory! Huffington post removes Pit Bulls from list of Dangerouse pets" People have seen pit bulls as dangerous but they really are not. "While the information in the caption was not inaccurate, we understand that pit bulls' inclusion may have been out of place within the context of that particular slideshow, which focused on wild animals". All animals can act dangerous at one point even humans can act dumb, but dogs will act the way you train them to act, they will not act that way all the time, but it doesnt give them the right to call them dangerous.

The Great Debaters

"We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do" This is a great quote James Farmer Jr said in "The Great Debaters". They had to go through so much and see so much racism and studying, but they still got what they wanted, to compete with Harvard. This movie will grab your attention really fast. It will make you realize that you can do anything no matter what."I got five dollars! I got five dollars!" said Samantha. You can tell this movie is from long ago, when they saw the money they got really happy and excited.

Diego Rivera

 I really liked this picture because of its shapes and because of the color. In this picture I can see that Diego Rivera is really proud of his Mexican Heritage. This picture has a little of everything he used or saw in his life in Mexico. In this picture I see a gun, maybe he put that because many times they need to protect themselves from someone or something. I also see a part of a pancho, many people in mexico used that alot to keep them warm. Half of a hat, used it to protect themselves from the heat or sun, sometimes they used it because they liked them. Mountains. Many times in movies you see all the mexicans on horses in the mountains. Just by looking at this picture I can see that he is proud of his Mexican Heritage.

Statue of Liberty

The poem beside the statue of liberty has different meanings, to different people, to me this poem represents or means that she isn't there to fight she is only a strong powerful woman with her torch. She is there to guide you and she is there if you feel like you have to be free. She will give you liberty."Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" She cried with silent lips.

To me the the symbol means that she is like a guide trying to give you light, or show you the light to a new way of seeing things.

Many people that don't have papers are always running from immigration. Didn't who ever made the statue of liberty think of those people? maybe they see the statue and they ask themselves, "shouldn't' we all have liberty like any other person"? Maybe they should make it count for everyone.

Statue of liberty Poem

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

(Lazarus,Emma,1883)."

Quotes

"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
all losses are restored and sorrows end,(Shakespear, William)."


"A friend is a brother who was once a bother,(Unknown, Author)."


"A smile confuses an approaching frown,(Unknown, Author)."


"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing,(James, William)."


"Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask,(X-Files).)


"Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?"
(Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella.)"


"Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds,
(Livingston,Gray)."


"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart, (Gibran, Kahlil)."


"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping, (Derek, Bo)."


The serve was invented so that the net could play, (Cosby, Bill)."

My Concerns About Animals

In many states dogs are dying from fighting. People are so careless they are willing to kill their dogs in a fight just to get money. Today in our English Class our teacher told us to go to a web site where you can save animals by signing a petition. There are so many animals that need to be saved and we can make this animal cruelty stop. Just: Check this out!!!!

Fear

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Im sorry!!! I won't do it again. You're in a room trying to hide from the person you thought you loved. You have been yelled at, punched, but he still says he loves you. You have been sent to the hospital from the hurtful bruises he gives you. See what he's done!!! Now you're in a dark room hiding in a chimmney trying to hide from the guy you say loves you. You say he's had a bad day, he has to much work, he comes tired, but is it true? Or does he just choose to abuse you for no reason? You wish you were a baby again wrapped around your mom's safe and warm arms, there, where no one could touch you or hurt you, you which you were that two year old that if you were to fall or scratch your little arm, your mom would come running and make sure you were safe. Im sorry!!! I won't do it again.

Crazy for Sunrise

Black turns to orange, making the whole world crazy, pictures here, and there.

MUSIC

Music is like a story, with notes DO RE MI, and with great rythm.