Go Ask Alice Blog 5

I thought that the book was really good. It was sad that she died, though. At the end of the book she was really starting to put her life back together and then it all ended. I still want to know what actually did happen to her. I want to know how she died. It would be sad if one of the reasons that contributed to her death was that she stopped writing in her diary to let things out. As I was getting nearer to the end of the book, I was wondering how she died, because she seemed to have her life back again. I didn't know what would happen. It bothered me a little to find out that some people think this book is fake, from what I read about online. At the same time it didn't bother me though. I can see how some people would think that the diary was fake, because some of the things that the narrator says, would not be something a fifteen-year old girl would say. In any case though, even if this book is fake, it demonstrates the horrible things that happens to people when they do drugs. This book represents the many kids that have had or still have trouble with drug abuse and other problems. I think that it is a good book to learn from even if it might be fake. It shows the effects of drugs on kids, it shows the consequences that come with drugs, problems that teens have without taking drugs, and it shows how someone can overcome tough times. I thought this was great book and I wish that this girl never had to die.

Go Ask Alice Blog 4

The reading so far is less intense than diary 1, but at the same time is more intense than diary 1, because of the narrator's big breakdown after accidentally ingesting acid when she was babysitting. It is less intense though, because before the acid episode the narrator wasn't really taking drugs anymore and she had met Joel, who is very nice, and she was getting along with her family and doing well in school. She did have trouble with being harassed by Jan and other kids at school, though. Everything seemed to be going all right for the narrator until the moment she ingested acid at a babysitting job. It all went downhill from there. She ended up in a hospital all cut up and hurt. The descriptions that she gave about the way she looked were really horrible. I still had no idea what had happened, though! I was quite confused. At the moment she is in an "insane asylum" according to herself. I'm starting to wonder what eventually killed her, because I can't really think of anything. Maybe drug overdose or something else. I don't know, because right now I don't think she can get drugs where she is. So, I'm waiting to find out more about her life and what happens. The book is really good so far.

Go Ask Alice Blog 3

The narrator's personality is changing with every diary entry that she writes. She thinks things are wrong that she does like, drugs , sex, and running away, and then she thinks that those things are bad. She is having weird encounters with things. For example, when she was doing her homework and then all of a sudden she had this flashback of when she was doing drugs and then the next thing you know, she is on the floor of her bedroom naked. It was a little bit sketchy to me. I also kind of think that she is improving though. When she is at home with her family, she seems to do better. Then again, I also think that maybe the school environment is going to drive her to do drugs again. It will be sad if that happens, because it seems as if she is getting her life back on track again. I didn't mention this in my last blog, but I thought that the last entry of her first diary was weird. She was saying how she would either commit suicide or become a social worker. They are not even similar to each other in any way. It seemed kind of crazy to me. Anyways, I think that the book is good and I can't wait to finish it.

Go Ask Alice Blog 2

As I get farther into the book, my impressions of the writer are changing a lot. I don't know whether or not she is happy that she is away from drugs or that she is happy when she is on drugs.I also found it funny when Chris and she walked in on Ted and Richie "making love to each other". I realize that's not something that was funny to them both at the time, but it really made me chuckle! I thought it was good that Chris and the writer opened up their own shop after being raped by Sheila, Chris's boss, and Sheila's boyfriend. I was a little bit confused when I got to the part where it said that they had raped them. I'm still a bit confused throughout the book at certain parts. I'm excited to keep reading more about her spiralling downfall! It's really good and It's hard for me not to read more! This book is getting more exciting!

Go Ask Alice Blog 1

So far, I think Go Ask Alice is a really good book. I think that the girl tends to over react about many things and she contradicts herself a lot too. For example after she does drugs, she always says that she was never going to do it again, but then she does do it. I think that the girl has some serious issues going on in her life. She has become anorexic and she always fights with her parents. She seems to be very self conscious about herself. Her relationships that she has with people are a weird and clingy. She leaches onto them. An example of that is when she becomes friends with Beth. She starts to become attached and then when Beth is leaving for a summer camp she says how she might be in love with Beth. It was just a little bit weird. It was also really creepy when she wrote down the time that Jill called her. In her diary, she also says how each time she tries a different drug, they keep getting better and better. It is sad to see how this girl is slowly ruining her life in a way. She doesn't seem to realize it all to much either. I feel bad for her and I hope that she starts to take the right steps to getting better from her addiction to drugs and her addiction to losing weight. I having a feeling she isn't going to get better, though.

1. The first book that I want the most is, Go Ask Alice. My second choices are The Boy in Striped Pajamas, To Kill A Mockingbird. But I dont want Black Hawk Down. Go Ask Alice is my main choice.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 21

This last chapter took me very much by surprise. I never expected the rebels and the army to come together to fight and i also never expected them to come back to where Ishmael Beah was living currently with his uncle. Mohammed had also joined the family! I was happy when I read that! I thought that everything was coming together finally for Beah, but then the rebels and soldiers attacked the town! I thought that he was going to go insane with all the memories that could come flooding back! He didn't really talk about having too many memories come back to him, though, because he didn't let them. Some escaped, but he kept them pretty tamed. Then, when I read that his uncle was becoming ill, I became sad. It was heartbreaking that the family was trying to help him and get him a doctor, but with the rebels and soldiers there, it made things very difficult. Then, it became even more heartbreaking when Ishmael Beah's uncle died in his hands. My eyes were watering and I felt like I was about to cry. Thinking about it right now makes me even sad. Later, when Beah was on his trip to escape the town, I was worried for him. I knew that he made it out alive, but it still worried me. It was a little bit confusing when he said, "I had entered the country illegally, which I knew would later become a problem" (Beah 216). He didn't come back to that subject, so I don't know how it became a problem. I mean, entering a country illegally is a problem for anybody, but he never explained what type of problem. Overall, this was a great book. It was one of the best nonfiction/autobiography books I have read so far! Ishmael Beah did a wonderful job writing. He really did make me feel as if I was right there beside him as he recounted his memories. Although, I will never know what things actually felt like for Ishmael Beah, but I do know that it is not easy to come back from something as horrible as what Beah was, a child soldier. I think that being a soldier has made Ishmael Beah who he is today. When I go to hear him speak at Clowes Hall, I really hope that I get the chance to meet him. All in all, I really enjoyed this book. : )

A Long Way Gone Ch. 19-20

The more I am progressing in this book, I am becoming so much more happier for Ishmael! I love reading about him being happy! It makes me excited for him, because he is starting a new, better life for himself. Although, I was sad that my suspicions of Ishmael not seeing Esther anymore after he moved in with his uncle were confirmed. He did go and see her once, but then he never went back. And it broke my heart in a way when Ishmael said, "It was the last time I saw her. I loved her but never told her." Pg. 181 I was sad because, he never really thanked her. He did hug her back though, which, in a way was his thanks. It just wasn't a formal thanks. I was also sad that Ishmael never saw his old friends again. But, they said their goodbyes heartily. Ishmael did make new friends though! He even had some girlfriends, but never got very far into them, because he didn't was unwilling to tell anyone about his past. He had a new loving family now also! While living with his new family, he was given the opportunity to go to the UN to talk about the lives of children in Sierra Leone and what can be done about it. He met many kids during his trip in the US and became friends with them. Especially a boy from Malawi named, Madoka. Another boy was, Bah, who had traveled with him to New York City.  There were also two women who Ishmael said would soon become his mother and his aunt when he moved to New York later. His future mother's name was, Laura Simms. I was taken by surprise when he said that she was going to become part of his family. I didn't dwell on it too long though, because I knew that she made him happy and that made me happy too. After a sad goodbye to his friends, Ishmael was on his way home. The end of Ch. 20 was very interesting. Ishmael said, "My sixteenth birthday was eight days away, and throughout the flight back home I still felt as if I was dreaming, a dream that I didn't want to wake up from. I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world." Pg. 200 After reading this, I was happy to see that Ishmael finally felt good about himself. I'm excited to finish reading! This has been a great book so far!

A Long Way Gone Ch. 17-18

I liked these chapters. They were more happy! Ishmael has started to form closer relationships between people. Esther, for example, is like his confident. She listens to anything that Ishmael wants to tell her. She even gets him gifts! I think that when Esther gave Ishmael a Walkman, it was the start of their relationship. Ishmael doesn't always show it, but he likes their friendship. Another person that Ishmael has come into contact with again is his friend, Mohamed. The last time he had seen him was when Ishmael, Talloi, and Junior left for Mogbwemo for a performance in Mattru Jong. That was one of his three friends that he is close to. His other two friends are Mambu and Alhaji. Mambu and Alhaji had been friend since they had met up while they were running away from the rebels. That was before they were soldiers fighting the rebels. They went through tough things with each other and shared many memories with each other from the war. That is probably what has brought them closer together. Another person that he had become a lot closer with Ishmael was his uncle. They started taking walks together and talking about Ishmael's dad and just other things. His uncle never pestered him about Ishmael's past in the war. They had talked so much while they walked down the same path, that Ishmael knew where all the big rocks were without looking. One day, his uncle came to pick Ishmael up, because he was going to go to his uncle's house where he would be staying once he completed his rehabilitation and was able to leave. When he was at his uncle's house, Allie, who, was the oldest child in that family and was also the only son. Allie took Ishmael to a soccer game and while he was there he saw this girl that he thought had a beautiful smile. Allie then told Ishmael that she was their cousin. Ishmael then said, " I later became closer to her and Allie than to other children in my new family." Pg. 178 I was happy when I read this, because Ishmael is forming closer bonds between people more and he seems to be getting better. I'm not sure if he really is getting better, but for now it seems like it. I keep hoping though, that when he moves in with his uncle, that Ishmael doesn't forget Esther, who was so nice to him during his stay at the rehabilitation UNICEF compound. I also don't want him to forget Mohamed, Mambu, or Alhaji! Other than that, I'm excited to read more and see how Ishmael's future is progressing.

Choice book.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

This is a really good book that I enjoyed a lot. I think people would enjoy it. It is a different and interesting book that is worth reading.

I have other books, but I just don't remember them at the moment. I will write more if i remember more! Other than that I don't really care as long as it's not nonfiction as much. I don't find those books all that interesting.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 15-16

. In these two chapters, things seemed to be getting better for Ishmael. In another way though, they seemed to be getting worse.  When it seemed as if he had left the violence of the war, he was put back in it. This time though, it was in a UNICEF compound. It was between the kids now. One of the groups of boys were rebels and the other group of boys were soldiers. To Ishmael though, things didn't seem to get better at all. I think it was more the reader that felt better. Ishmael wanted to fight, but the readers felt bad for him and were happy that he might not get hurt anymore. They were wrong, because the fighting continued. It was also pretty harsh when the boys were going through withdrawal of drugs. They weren't in there right state of minds at some points. After a while, they started to get better and it looked like (to the reader still) that things were improving a little bit. The boys still got in fights and they still lashed out on the people that worked in the compound. No matter how badly the workers were treated, they seemed to be ok with it, because they knew that they had just gone through something that would scar the boys for life. The boys also seemed to be happy when they went to the city a lot. I'm not quite sure what is going to happen next, but I hope things will start to improve even more.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 13-14

After reading these two chapters, I was surprised at how quickly things changed! At first, Ishmael was so scared of the fact that they were going to be shooting rebels and going into 'battle'. In the first fight that the soldiers had with the rebels, Ishmael could barely even move. He literally had no idea what to do. He just kind of became immobilized. Then, to make things worse, he sees Josiah who is close to death on a tree stump. This just broke his heart. Later he found out that Musa had also died. But, when the corporal took him out of his daze and told Ishmael to shoot, Ishmael did just that. After that day, he didn't really think about killing people. It just kind of came to him. He didn't exactly think about it, but when he did, it was because he was thinking about how the rebels had killed his family. That angered him to kill more. But that never made him feel any better. In chapter 14, the soldiers start to do major drugs now. It's even worse though, because the soldiers were taking the drugs all at the same time. The drugs they were using was; cocaine, brown brown, white capsules, and marijuana. Ishmael became addicted, as did the other soldiers. At the camps they would watch war movies, do drugs, eat, sometimes sleep, and take turns guarding the perimeter of their camp. In a way for Ishmael, killing became somewhat of a game. Ishmael was the winner of a contest to see which soldier could kill the prisoner the fastest by slitting their throats. It is sad to see how his life is rotting away slowly, by him doing drugs, killing without thinking about it, and other things. These two chapters were the most graphic of what I have read. So far, though, Ishmael Beah is doing a wonderful job of depicting these scenes so clearly so that the reader feels as if he or she is experiencing it themselves. Although, the readers experiences aren't even half as bad as what Ishmael had gone through.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 11-12

Chapters eleven and twelve of A Long Way Gone were the worst chapters that I have read so far in the book. They were also some of the most detailed chapters of the book so far. As disturbing as these chapters were to me, I'm sure they were much worse for Ishmael Beah. To think about going through that is really scary! I also thought it was really sad when Ishmael was so close to seeing his parents and then the rebels came and attacked the whole village. Everyone was dead. I'm not sure if Ishmael's parent did escape or not, but I'm not exactly sure. I have a feeling that they are dead, but I also have this hope that they are not. In chapter 12, the boys are starting to learn how to use AK-47s. This tells me that if the boys are just now learning how to use big guns, then the story is going to get much worse later. More blood and pain. I was also thinking about how the rebels brainwash the kids in a way to desensitize them from blood and killing. Because of this, I think that it will go to Ishmael’s head and cause him to do many horrible things. He might kill previous friends or maybe even family members. This is only a thought I have and I hope it won’t happen, but you never know. Because power can be a dangerous thing sometimes and when used incorrectly very bad things can start to happen.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 10

Chapter 10 is a about the group of boys that Ishmael is traveling with. The boys are starting to open up more for each other. They still are hesitant with their trust in each other. They pass through more villages. This time, though, they are nicer and welcome the boys more. One village has a feast for them! Ishmael still hangs in the back of the boys. He thinks it is better to stay sad than going from happy to sad again. Unfortunately Saidu dies in his sleep. This seems to bring the boys together. The village Ishmael and his friends were in when Saidu died held a funeral for him. The fact that a village did that, especially in time of war, was a surprise. This village seemed to be held together and the people seemed to trust each other. It was how a village should be like. Some good news came to Ishmael, though. A woman told him that his mother and father and brother were in the next village! This was the first time that Ishmael was really excited! It made me happy to know that Ishmael is close to finding his family. But I have a feeling that Ishmael will never make it to his family. And just thinking about that makes me sad, because he is so close to finding his parents again. Then again, I could be very wrong. I just have a feeling that he might not actually see his family with the way this book has been turning out. I am still enjoying the book even though.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 8-9

Chapter 8 showed how lonely Ishmael was getting. He tried to shut his mind off so that he wouldn't think about all of the horrors that he had seen. He was lost in the jungle and he didn't know what to do with himself. When he finally stumbles upon six other boys that he has talked to before, but was never really close friends with, he realizes that there is still awkwardness between friends or even strangers. He also realized that it was a bad idea that he was traveling in a large group again. These chapters also show that villages of men, women, and children do not trust anyone passing through anymore. One of the villages thought that the seven boys including Ishmael were "devils" and they stripped them completely of their clothes. Once again though, Ishmael and his rap tapes and moves saved him. In the previous village though, the boy's shoes were taken away from them as a punishment for coming to that village. There feet were brutally damaged and were in a horrible condition when they stopped at a fishing hut that was apart of the village where Ishmael's music saved the boys. The man who owned the fishing hut was one of the few people that the boys have so far come into contact with that has been nice to them. Another person that was nice to them, was an old man in a village that was deserted when they heard that seven boys were approaching. This is another example of how war is turning people against others. I think that soon everyone is going to turn against each other and things will start to fall apart.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 6-7

As the boys keep moving throughout the villages, they start to talk less and their trust within each other is weakening slowly. After Ishmael and his friends had been given food and a place to stay from the village that they were at first accused of being rebels, they settled down and Ishmael starts to realize their quietness. Ishmael has a memory about Junior and him when they were younger and were still in Mattru Jong. In this memory, Junior was at first teaching Ishmael how to skip rocks as they were getting water from the river one day. On the way back to their house, Ishmael falls and Junior gives Ishmael his bucket of water and goes to fill up Ishmael's bucket again. When Junior comes back from getting the water, the first thing he does was ask Ishmael if he was hurt from falling. When Ishmael told Junior that he was fine, Junior still checked to see if he was all right and then started to tickle him. And when Ishmael came back into reality, he realized that he wanted Junior to ask him if he was fine. Ishmael's memory showed how at one point, Junior and him were very close. Compared to the present part of his past to his memory, it showed how much they had spaced from each other. It was sad to see how such a close bond had deteriorated in such a quick time. The boys then moved on to another village where Gibrilla's aunt lived. She lived in the village of Kamator. They stayed there for a few months until the rebels came. The last two lines of chapter six were sad in my opinion. Ishmael says, "It was during the attack in the village of Kamator that my friends and I separated. It was the last time I saw Junior, my older brother." The last sentence especially made me feel so bad for Ishmael. The next chapter it tells of how Ishmael and Kaloko were the only ones left of their group. The village was pretty much abandoned. There was not much left, except for a few families that were hiding in bushed or other various places. Ishmael and Kaloko found a family to stay with in hiding for a while in the bushes. Ishmael after a while got sick of just waiting, though, so he said his goodbyes and set out on foot. He came into contact with humans after a while and tried to talk to them. It was then that he realized that trust had begun to shatter within others as people turned their backs on him. Although the people gave Ishmael directions, he knew that he was not wanted and was definitely not trusted. It seemed to me that those two chapters were about how trust was starting to fall between people who you are close to and others who you are not close with. I think that this is just the beginning of how trust is crumbling between people, because of the war.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 3-5

My response to chapter 3-5 in A Long Way Gone is that there wasn't a lot about the present life of Ishmael Beah or his nightmares. It was just about his past. His memories of the past that he tells the readers seem much more tragic and much more violent. The rebels are cruel to the people who they are trying to liberate from a corrupt government. There is a scene where a few rebels are mocking an old man. They say they are going to shoot him and then they shoot the ground very close to his head and make the old man think that he was shot and that he was dead. At the same village where the rebels harassed the old man, they started to recruit boys.  At first Ishmael and Khalilou were picked and Junior wasn't picked but then the rebels decided to re pick the boys because they were sissies so Ishmael and Khalilou were removed and only  junior was picked. Fortunately for them, the rebels heard gunshots and were distracted so everyone ran away. The boy met up again later and decide to go far away from Mattru Jong. These are just a few actions that the rebels have done and I think that they will just continue to get worse. I can tell that this is just the beginning of a very graphic nonfiction autobiography that I think will be a great book.

A Long Way Gone Ch. 1-2

Before I started reading A Long Way Gone, I already knew the ending of the story. It was obviously about a boy, now an adult, that was a young soldier and is still living today. I also knew that it was going to be sad. I didn't really know that it was going to be so vivid though. After reading the first two chapters of the book, I could tell that this was going to be a detailed and thorough. What's ironic though, is that before the chapters actually start, there is a conversation that Ishmael has between his friend, where Ishmael sounds so casual. He seem sat ease when he talks about how one day he will tell his friend about the war that he was in, but in the first two chapters he talks about how when he remembered his experiences he shuddered at the thought  of what he had done  and what he had been through. H e was living in three different worlds like he said in the second chapter. The three worlds that he lives in are his dreams, the present, and the memories of his past. I can already tell that Ishmael Beah is going to put us through a rough journey of memories that will make us believe that we are experiencing what he is.

Chronolgy of Ibo people's responses

The first time the white men arrived, the Ibo people were worried. They were worried, because they had heard what happened when the first white man had arrived in Abame. Tha Abame people were confused, because he came with an "iron horse". They questioned him and when the man didn't answer in a language they could understand, The Oracle told them to kill him. Later, a big group of white men came and killed everyone in the village of Abame. So when the first white man was spotted in Umuofia, the Ibo people feared what would happen to them. Then once they found out that the man was a missionary they were confused. The fact that the white man only believed that there was only one god was something so foreign to the Ibo people that they laughed at that idea. They were especially confused when the white man said that there was only one god AND that he was made up of three parts. Eventually, people from Umuofia started to convert. The osus especially. The Ibo people still think that the missionaries are bad people. The white men's attitude though varies. Some of them are very nice like, Mr. Brown, who actually cared about the people. On the other hand, Reverend Smith was mean. He didn't really care what happened to the Ibo people. The British views of the Africans and their way of life was that it was bad in a sense. They thought that it was horrible that the in the Ibo society, you would throw twins away when they were born. They also thought that worshipping many gods was stupid. The two seperate beliefs clashed and things for the Ibo people began to fall apart.

"female" virtues

Okonkwo ignores or refuses to acknowledge the
"female" virtues in himself and other by being mean to his wives and
children. When he lived in Umuofia he was viewed as one of the leaders of the
village and was very strong. At that point, he thought that it would mean that
he would not be viewed as a strong man anymore, but as a weak man. So, instead
of showing any emotion, Okonkwo would hurt his wives and children by beating
them. Towards the end of part one, he started to show his emotions towards
Ezinma and Ekwefi. This was a little bit after he talked to his friend about
how the man that had died, loved his wife very much even though he was one of
the strongest men in the village. He was a great warrior, but when it came to
his wife, he showed a lot of love for her. Once Okonkwo and his family were
banned from Umuofia for seven years and he had to go to his motherland of
Mbanta, he started to show even more feelings. Uchendu had given him a talk
about how Okonkwo and others should never hurt or take for granted a mother. A
mother is there to comfort you and care for you when you are sad or ill. A
mother is also helpful with others. The female virtues of a woman are based on
emotions, which, Okonkwo has a hard time with showing his emotions. He still is
stuck on the idea of that a man is looking out mainly for himself only. So,
when Uchendu talks to Okonkwo about a mother, Okonkwo doesn’t quite take to
heart what Uchendu has said. Although Okonkwo has been showing his feelings
more, he still is holding on to the thought of not being like his father. And
since Okonkwo is trying not to be like his father, he cannot really show his
emotions. This is creating problems in his life, because if he cannot show love
for his family, then he might one day lose them and not have anything.

My opinions of Okonkwo

My opinion of Okonkwo is that he is very strict and comes off as a bad person and does bad things, like beating his wives and children, but he ironically means well. I am not saying that beating your wives and children is acceptable or good in any way, but I think that he is trying to make it so that no one in his family is like his father. He hated his father, because he was lazy and couldn't provide anything. So, when Okonkwo sees what he thinks is laziness in his children or wives, he punishes them. He doesn't even show affection to his family, because that was something that his father did. His father always showed affection. Okonkwo doesn't want anyone in his family to be like his father and not do well in life. That is why he punishes in such  a harsh manner. He also has a low tolerance level. For example, when his third wife wasn't at home to make dinner for him because she was getting her hair done, he got very angry with her. When the third wife came home he confronted her and beat her very hard. Normally in his village, it was all right to be your wife and kids, but the only time when you cannot do something that harms anything is during the week of peace. Because he broke that rule, he had to give sacrifices to the Earth goddess, so that the village would have a good season for crops. Although Okonkwo comes off as a man that is very bad, he really isn't. I think that some of the people might mistake him to be bad, because he does bad things. But really, he just has good intentions.

How will the story end?

Based on what I know about P.S. and Virginia Preparatory School, I think that the story will end good and badly. I think that P.S. is going to confess to Dr. Fairfax, because the guilt is going to eat P.S. up. It will make life very difficult and I think that he won’t be able to take it. I think that in a way P.S. will feel much better if he tells Dr. Fairfax. Even if it means that he will be disappointing his father. P.S. might realize that he doesn’t have to follow his father’s footsteps. When P.S.’s father finds out that he cheated, I think that the father will be even more mad that he cheated than the fact that he didn’t pass the test. He violated the pledge. When his father confronts P.S., P.S. will finally tell his father how he has felt about their relationship towards each other. And I think that the father will be surprised, because he has never really realized that’s how P.S. felt. I also think that Dr. Fairfax will actually respect P.S. in some way, because he told him the truth about how he cheated. He may or may not be kicked out of the school. It is bad, because he will break the family tradition and disappoint his family, but it will be good, because he will finally be able to voice his opinion to his father. 

friday fill-ins

1. The last meal I had a restaurant was a taco at Chipotle

2. Burnt food is something I intensely dislike.

3. The full moon is always so pretty when it lights up the sky.

4. "Yo wasup?!"is one of my favorite local expressions.

5. Sometimes it's best to turn off your computer.

6. Tropic Thunder the best movie I've seen so far this year

7. As for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxing, tomorrow my plans include working on my homework, and Sunday, I want to be done with my homework!

Response to "Not Waving But Drowning"

There was this girl that I had met in the summer while doing soccer conditioning for University High School. She was nice with what very little conversation that we had, but she seemed quiet. She also seemed kind of shy. I thought that she was quiet, because she would just kind of quietly laugh at something. When she did talk to me, it wasn’t for very long. It was just a couple of words. Now that I’ve talked to her more during school, I realize that she is not shy or quiet at all! Maybe she was quiet, because we didn’t have anything to talk about in the summer before school started. We didn’t really know each other either so that probably contributed to the fact that she was quiet around me. We tell each other secrets now and have big conversations! I think it felt good that my first impression of her was changed, because she seemed really nice, but because she was so quiet, I didn’t see how I would necessarily talk to her a lot. We have become good friends now. I feel that I should be more careful with my first impressions of people. They could be wrong. Just how I was wrong with this girl.

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