Tuesdays Response

From watching these videos of the high school kids, it reminds me allot of homestead, and the kids that we have here. From the pot heads to the nerds, these kids seem pretty typical.
Honestly I think i relate to the girl that wants to be a physical therapist because I also had problems with my body because I was a gymnast, and I was constantly getting injured, and physical therapists were allot of help to me. I don't think I would want to be a physical therapist but more like an occupational therapist, or a speech pathologist because I would like to do something that is really rewarding. I thought the guy that wanted to to be a counselor was really intersting because most guys at his age wouldn't want to be a counselor because it involves being very sensitive a understanding, and most guys at this age are not really that sensitive and understanding. The one that is most diluted is most defiantly the guy that wants to open a weed bakery, I mean that is just really out there, and most likely will not happen because he used the excuse that it would be for medical purposes, but if you need it for medical purposes, you not going to be putting it in like a cake.... at least I think.
In ten years, I see my self probably married and maybe having a kid or two. I see my self probably not extremely wealthy but comfortable and well off. I really enjoy being around people and making people feel comfortable, so I think occupational therapy is a good choice for me.



Dang, this girl is really talented! Soccer and freestyle, are 2 things that she is completely passionate about, and it has showed through out the years. Indi has been playing soccer since she learned how to walk, and from then on thats all she knew. I can relate because I was a gymnast for around 12 years of my childhood, and that is all i knew as well, and I understand that passion involved, and how it is apart of you as a person. Some of her statisitcs are mind blowing from juggling the ball more that 2000 times, and scoring 7 goals in a game when she was just 10 years of age. She got the chance to play at the Glascow womens national team and actually got subbed and impressed everyone by scoring 3 goals. Her creative footwork is her advantage, and no women in the world can do it like her. She had broken world records which is so cool! It is so sad that she was considered a "nobody" because she is so talented, and people didnt start knowing who she was until she had made her accomplishments. She is probably a role model for many young athletes and at only 16 years of age.

160 -the end

I cant tell you how many times the word love is used in this book, it is unreal! On the other hand this book is almost what the narrator is thinking in his head. Why this? Why that? Mentally he forced himself to abandon life itself. All of this because he had found out that Chloe had been seeing another man..."Will". Chloe had previously slept with Will too which made it 10 times worse. As Chloe was confessing, he was telling her it was okay, and then they had not spoke in two day since the trip, until he received a letter int he mail. "I am sorry for offering you my confusion, I am sorry for ruining our trip to Paris, I am sorry for the inviolable melodrama of it....."The letter brought no relief to him only reminders. The recognizable speech that she used only reminded him of her and her face, and her smell, and her touch. It is surprising how often rejectionin love is freamed in moral language, the language of right and wrong, good and evil, as though to reject or not to reject. He also describes how it is surprising that the one who rejects is labeled evil. After everything, he still loves her though. At this point he is asking himself allot of questions as usual. "Was my love for Chloe moral, and her rejection of me immoral?"But he had got to the point of really bad depression,m and almost could not live with himself....basically was a slug that only thought about Chloe. Sadly he was in a process of writing a suicide text saying stuff like" its the only way I could say I love you, please understand I could not live with out your love", and after he wrote it imagined Chloe getting the call from the police. He doesnt do it. Next thing you know he is at a hotel by himself to just be alone I guess. Towards the end he is making references to Jesus, and once again asking questions making many references to a "Jesus Complex" Saying his Jesus Complex had turned the situation that the rejection was a sign that Chloe was worthy of contempt or best pity. I feel like the narrator had gone a little bit crazy just because he talks about hallucinating about the break up and that it did not even happen. The last chapter is titled Love Lessons and it is basically a sum of the whole book and what love really is. Assuming that there are certain lessons to be drawn from love, and that we start to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live.

3.22 excercise

2. The peom that I liked the most last quarter was "Journey". This poem identifies something that happens to all of us, but we never have time to stop and think about our journies, and how they affect our lives. This poem relates because, I often experiance everything that is said in the poem, but I never have the patience and time to appreciate the goodness of the experiance. The rhyming also makes it more lyrical and fun to read. Also the diction expresses the different emotions such as frustration,"The many fights that made Dad say, "I'll turn this thing around!". Also it expresses the happiness in the car rides when the narrator says"I think about the time when we oustang the radio, and thought we sounded fine".

3. First I would like to say that this website is AWESOME, and it makes me really happy, because it reminds me of all the good things in life. Some of the ones I really like are, "Christmas hugs", "swapping drivers licenses with a freind and lauphing at eachothers photos,", lauphing so hard that you dont make a sound", "wearing your favorite pair of underwear and no one knows". These are just a few, I personally think all of them are awesome. One of mine that I think that should be on it, smelling the smell of a new book!

On Love 121-160

Chloe and the narrator chose to travel to spain to hope to fall in love even more than they already were. Which in my opinion could possibly be quite romantic. The house that they were stating in was absolutely ineffable. As soon as they arrived they took advantage of the clear blue water and took a swim. Despite there amazing time together, Chloe began to have a pain in her head that did not seem to get any better as the night went on. Deciding to get a doctor, with a further diagnosis of anhedonia. No big deal. Which is supposed to be common in tourists, because it is the disease of the suddeness of happiness.....haha i chuckled when i saw that. I guess the anxiety of the happiness led to a throbbin in the head which was painful. After the trip had gone by some more they began to fight about really pointless things, such as directions and maps. Then came to realize that they fought not because they hated each other but because they loved each other. "I hate you because I love you"

I think we can all relate, I think the reason why we fight and argue with our family so much is because we know that they will always be there no matter what, and its not like they can be-friend you easily. Also the reason be that we fight with our best friends is because we want what is best for them and we love and care about them on a different level then just a friend in lets say a class of yours.

SPRING BREAK!!!

Ahhh the joys of the Carribean. Spring break 2011 is when I am going on the biggest cruise ship in the word called the Oasis of the Sea. It is 4 times as big as the titanic..whooow that is huge. I am fortunate enouph to be going on this cruise because my freind is taking me and paying for most of the trip. With out her paying for it I probably would not have been able to go on it so.....thanks Mers mom and Dad! The cruise itself is going to Cozumel, Haiti and Jamaica Man! We are going to go snorkeling, and deep sea fishing, and rock climbing in like this water fall thing, swimming with dolphins and stingrays, and we are also going to be having a butt load of fun on the ship. The ship has an iceskating rink, a billion pools, tennis coarts, surfing stations, teen clubs, all you can eat for FREE, lots of shops, and I am sure lots of attactive males. Haha. Well anyway I am super excited because I have never done anyting like this before and this is basically a once in a life oppertunity for me. Sprin break 2011 lets gooooo!

The thirteenth Tale first pages 1-40

The narrator, Mitch Albom gives a brief introductory explaining his weekly meeting each tuesday with Morrie which is his former college prof. The meeting were at Mories house where they watched pink hibiscus plant shead his leaves. In his words it kind of implies that we should pay close attention to the hibiscus plant because I have a feeling it will play a role in the story later on. I some sort of flash back, Mitch remebers his graduation from college in 1979. In the flashback, mitch sees when he got his diploma handed to him and he introduced his parents to this favorite prof Morie. Before mitch leaves he presesnts Morie with a breif case that has his initails engraved into it. He wanted to give him a gift so that he would never forget him, and as Mitch is leaving, he turns and sees that Morie is crying.

In my opionion I think this is one of those books that will get better as I read along. It is almost dry right now but I have a feeling it will get better.

Love Song

Carol Muske-Dukes

Love comes hungry to anyone’s hand.
I found the newborn sparrow next to
the tumbled nest on the grass. Bravely

opening its beak. Cats circled, squirrels.
I tried to set the nest right but the wild
birds had fled. The knot of pin feathers

sat in my hand and spoke. Just because
I’ve raised it by touch, doesn’t mean it
follows. All day it pecks at the tin image of

a faceless bird. It refuses to fly,
though I’ve opened the door. What
sends us to each other? He and I

had a blue landscape, a village street,
some poems, bread on a plate. Love
was a camera in a doorway, love was

a script, a tin bird. Love was faceless,
even when we’d memorized each other’s
lines. Love was hungry, love was faceless,

the sparrow sings, famished, in my hand.

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Notre Dame

Now, anyone would have to admit that this is a pretty awesome campus. For me it has been my dream to go here, but my grades are not good enough to get in. This weekend had a busy weekend and went to Indiana University on a college visit, and its campus was awesome as well. If I could go there on some sort of scholarship, I would go but I dont think I would go just because. IU is the ideal college for allot of people that I know; everyone always wants to go to IU. In my case I want to go somewhere totally different. Anyway, I also went to ND the same weekend I went to IU, and WOW it was amazing. I went there to compete in a regional dive meet for my travel dive team. There were 67 girls all over the nation and I placed 27th which is not too bad. The overall experience was awesome and I really think it was worth it, and I am glad that I had the opportunity to participate.

Spell bound assignment

1. All of the spell bound contestants are all very unique. Ashley White and Harry Altman were two of the contestants that were quite intersesting. Harry was by far my favorite contsestant becasue he was so careless and carefree with a short attention span. You could tell he was pationate about the spelling but not as serious as the other contestants like Ashley. Harry was definetly a talker and was enthusiastic about everything he did and said. Ashley defintley wanted to to win but I think her Mom wanted her to win more than she did, possibly for the cash prize.

2. The two parents that I thought that were the most intersting was Neils parents and Aprils parents. I think Neils dad took the spellbound way too seriosusly, and put way too much pressure on Neil, almost to the point that it was unhealthy. The fact that he told Neil that if he won he was going to help families in Africa is awful. I mean it is okay if you want to help families in Africa, but he did it for the wrong reasons. Aprils parents on the other hand were quite comical and not so serious. They would be proud of her no matter how well she did. A scene that I thought was funny was when her Mom went into her room and looked at one of the books April was studying and was like, " I don't even know any of these words, and maybe I should start studying". I think the major difference between th two sets of parents is that Neils Dad was way too serious, and Aprils parents were allot less carefree.

Mistaken identity 150-200

Carly and the family are having a hard time soaking in the fact that Laura is actually dead. Carly is trying to come up with a short speech to say at her sisters funeral, and same with the rest of the family. The father is actually doing the best out of them all. When they got to the funeral over 400 people were there tightly packed in the foyer. After the funeral for "Whitney", back in the hospital, "Laura" did a remarkable thing.....she said Hi! The doctors had soon been able to take out all of the trachea tubes and other crap that was in her throat so she could start breathing through her nose and mouth. Her sister and her mother start to go into Whitney room and clean the closet out and her drawers, while describing as it still smelling like Whitney which makes her feel close. They decided to keep some and then let her friends come and take stuff that would saver a memory of Whit. Whits father often thought of what and how whit was doing now that she was in heaven. Allot of prayer was involved for the remainder of time, form prayer to the victims, to Whitney impact on people and how important she was to so many.

"Are you Human"

But why not be this lake instead,

icy blue, and the little white curls

of waves, it;s absolute refusal

to be a human? Why not be a thing?

Why not be a place

you'd go to get away

form your mothers frontal lobe eroding

as the faxed medical report has it?

why not a lovely blue-turning-green

and why not the removal of all feeling?

Maybe she'd rather you be a lake,

a way to lie still in the world,

a melted-down pool of snow,

a place to rest.

you could let yourlself wash up on foreign shores

or be the surface across which boats ply their trade,

taking humans from one shore in sun

to the other side in shade.

You remember humans, dont you?

The ones who row the boat,

who act for all the world

as if they know where they are going?

This poem actually meant allot more to m after I had read it about 5 or 6 times. I think what Jim Moore is trying to convey is a foreign and far fetched idea of what we humans think the world is. These simple yet powerful statements are saying for example, "why not be a place you'd go to get away?", or when it says, "why not be a thing?", or " why not be the surface across which boats ply their trade?" Finally in my opinion the most powerful line in the poem isYou remember humans, don't you?" So the emphasis is on the things that maybe us humans could not compare to be equalized or greater than a human itself. Its almost as if the power is reversed, and things such as nature are describing humans. In this poem it talks about "or be the surface across which boats ply their trade, taking humans from one shore in sun, to the other in shade." This making it seam like the ocean is literally, or personifying taking a human across the sea therfore putting the emphasis in the ocean which is unusal. An analogy is maybe the ocean is the actual trunk of a tree, and the human is the leaves on the tree. I think this poem makes you think allot about how wonderful things are that we take for grantid, such as that one place you go to get away, or the little white curls on top of the waves in florida or at the lake.

Mistaken identity 150-200

Carly and the family are having a hard time soaking in the fact that Laura is actually dead. Carly is trying to come up with a short speech to say at her sisters funeral, and same with the rest of the family. The father is actually doing the best out of them all. When they got to the funeral over 400 people were there tightly packed in the foyer. After the funeral for "Whitney", back in the hospital, "Laura" did a remarkable thing.....she said Hi! The doctors had soon been able to take out all of the trachea tubes and other crap that was in her throat so she could start breathing through her nose and mouth. Her sister and her mother start to go into Whitney room and clean the closet out and her drawers, while describing as it still smelling like Whitney which makes her feel close. They decided to keep some and then let her friends come and take stuff that would saver a memory of Whit. Whits father often thought of what and how whit was doing now that she was in heaven. Allot of prayer was involved for the remainder of time, form prayer to the victims, to Whitney impact on people and how important she was to so many.

On love pages 50-100

Allot had gone on in the past 50 pages so it will be hard to reach every point. The man whose name still had not been mentioned, realizes one day when he is writing Chloe a birthday card, that he had never said he loved her. Maybe in actions but never actually said it with the word. Then he questions himself on if he really loves her, or loves the idea of her. Then the next chapter is about these pair of shoes that Chloe gets, and she absolutely loves them and payed allot for them, and he doesnt like them. Later on they are going to a party and Chloe wants to wear her new shoes and he wont let her because he thinks they are too ugly, and by that she gets offended. He tells her its because he cares about her....I say if she likes the shoes she should be able to wear them if she wants. She ends up not wearing them. The two have grown to be quite comfortable around each other aka not polite. He describes how chloe would pick her nose and crumble it in a wad and flick it across the room....right in front of him. One thing that I can admire about them is that they often joke after they fight to settle the mood down. In the chapter beauty there is a picture that is a duck but can also be seen as a rabbit, and it is put in there to determine that people can look at things and people from different points of view and see something totally different. He was beginning to notice that he was doing and saying things like Chloe did and said. They are becoming one.