Fairy tales

We just started learning about fairy tales in class and I love it.  Reading and learning about fairy tales has probably been my favorite part of the whole class.  Reading them reminds me of my childhood and all of the stories my parents used to read me when I was a little girl. They also remind me of the classic Disney movies that I used to be OBSESSED with. It's interesting learning about all of the components that make up a fairy tale like mythical creatures, enchanted forests, always having a bad guy, the happy ending, etc.  My favorite fairytale that we read in class was Little Snow White.  I loved reading it because I love the seven dwarfs.

Halloween!

I honestly cannot WAIT until this Halloween weekend.  I have such big plans and I hope that it's going to be the most fun weekend that I've had here yet.  Friday I'm being a firefighter and Saturday I'm being a construction worker.  I'm going to the football game, and then going to the Big Sean concert! I'm really really excited for it because Big Sean is one of the best rappers out there and the fact that he's from Michigan makes it even that much more cool. Sunday I have to work but if I get out in time I really want to go to a haunted house.  Some of my friends and I were looking up Haunted Houses and we might go to the PsychoWard in Kalamazoo. Finally, on Monday I'm going to become a little kid again and go trick or treating! I can't wait for the weekend.

Thesis Statements

It was really difficult for me to find a thesis statement for our annotative bibliographies.  I couldn’t really find a book, movie or song that I could make a thesis statement out of. I was really interested in the difference between how Sonny and the narrator in Sonny’s Blues dealt with their pain and how Sonny turned to drugs to ease the pain and the narrator dealt with it and became successful. But I felt that Sonny’s Blue’s was challenging for me to read so I decided on the movie the Blind Side because it showed that traumatized, uneducated people can become successful.

Fall

Summer is probably my favorite season but I also really enjoy fall. I really like the transition from hot summer weather to cooler temperatures. I also really like fall because it reminds me of the times I would go over to my grandma and grandpa's house and my grandpa would rake up huge piles of leaves for my brother and I to jump in. Whenever we would go over there my grandma would always make sure she had doughnuts and cider for us to eat and drink after we got done jumping in the leaf piles. I also really like the change the trees go through, it's so pretty.

Letting Go

Lately, I've been having a hard time following my head and not my heart.  I know that I shouldn't be doing something, but my heart makes me do it. I just went through and still am going through a break-up and it's just really hard to deal with because I know I'm better off without him but I just can't let go. I'm the type of person that if there's ever a time where I want something, I HAVE to get it. But in this situation that can't be done. I wish we could just forget everything and not let anything interfere with our relationship and just be together but so much has happened that that doesn't seem like that will ever happen. So for now, I guess I'm just going to have to deal with it all, knowing that things will probably never be patched up and I just have to move on.

Movie

Yesterday in class, we watched a movie about this girl named Carrie who had special powers.  She had the ability to move things without touching them, she would use her mind.  This is called telekinesis.  I don't believe that people can actually have telekinetic powers.  There have been many movies on it like the one we watched.  In the movie Matilda, the main character had telekinetic powers and used her powers to her advantage.  I also read an article online about someone believing they had telekinetic powers and were later entered into a medical hospital because they were proved to be insane. In my opinion, these movies and articles are both fictional and there's no way that anybody could hold these powers in real life.

Why My Mother Can't Speak English

In class, we have been reading Why My Mother Can't Speak English and while reading it, I didn't really understand the mentality of the mother.  If she's going to move to another country for a better life and if she ever wants to be successful, she's going to have to know the first language of that country, or life would be really hard because you wouldn't understand anybody.  She should have just listened to what her son wanted. The mother felt like learning English would take away her traditional Chinese culture inside her but in reality, it would help her a lot in the long run.