Blog post assignment for Bloggies

This is my favorite post from the blog page , A Jar of Orange Marmalade http://jaroforange.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-feel-less-like-child-thanks-to-lewis.html

So far I have been really impresses with A Jar of Orange Marmalade's posts and the overall blog. My favorite post which is linked above, is a personal post that describes the relationship of J.J.R tolkeins and CS Lewis and how the article they found on Google about them made them feel less geeky which I thought was comical.

Gallery post

Along with many of Adam Gayers harminious and imaginative artowork peices this bold painting, "A mans crime" creates multiple emotions and very satisfactory to the senses. The disordered brush strokes and 3 demensional outlook makes the painting worthy of examening for a long period of time. The vivid incorporation of real picrures and the painting aspect really gave it it's uniquness. The missing man in the painting may signify that crime isn't what he wasnt to be in life, so he is taken from the picture and wants to be looked at as something else.

week ahead of me

Well the month of April is a big month for my family. Well we have Easter of course, and then we have my Moms birthday, my Dads birthday, my cousins, birthday and my brothers birthday. This Friday my family and a couple of my brothers freinds are going to lazer x to celebrate his 10th birthday which will be a blast becasue I am bringing a couple of my freinds to go to which will be quite comical. Then on Saturday we are goint to Shelbyvill Indiana to visit some of my family, and quite honeslty this is one of those awkward family visits where you only see these people once a year and it is just plain awkward. I mean I love them but the lack of time spent together is not doing a whole lot of good. Then we are having easter dinner at my Dad's house which will most likely be pretty layed back because he is not the fancy type. i have also decided that I am going to read the book of John in the bible because I havent really taken Easter that seriously in past years and thought about the real meaning of it so I decided this year I will step it up. Also I hope that this weather gets better becasue it has not been the greatest out and I would really like the sun to start shining becasue it always puts me in a good mood.

hole in my life pages 41-80

Something very intersting about the way Jack writes is that he compares allot of his situations to books that he has read for example, Jack starts chapter 4 with, " Like every guy, I had read On the Road by Keravac adn wanted to cut loose and carom from coast to coast as he did withougt thinking of money or trouble or annything but great freedom that awaited me like a ship heading to sea." I think could poetentially really help the reader understand where he is coming from especially if they have read the book he is refrering to as well. He just wants to do something big. All year he had worked to keep himself together by keeping his job, managed his money, kept passing grades, and for th emost part he stayed out of trouble, but now his accomplishment just seemed like survival routines which he didnt want it be like that. He had told his dad he was going to come help him with his new construction job. Out of the blue, an old freind of his called him up to meet him and they met up, ended up smoking, and then before you know it Jack forgot he was driving, and they ended up stopping at a pizza parlor, and just got to catch up on eachothers lives. It was actually very intersting, his freind was extremley smart, and extremley into books and research and the sciences. So next thing you know his freind had desserted him and he is stuck at this pizza parlor. So later on he is in St. Croix where his family had recently moved to, and drugs are everywhere. Times were hard financially and there was no way he was going to be able to save money for college even though he wanted to. Something significant about Jacks dad was that he could look at someone and in seconds know there character and if they were a good person or bad person. He could tell if someone was a drug dealer.
.This book does not really go into detail so it is really hard to summarize everything that is going on. Trying not to get lengthy with the descriptions is kind of hard so i appologize if you are getting bored. But this book is so fantastic to me and maybe because the story is so foreign to me.

hole in my life pages 1 -40

For some reason, I think this book has been quite interesting and easy for me to follow, which is not the case for allot of books. In the beginning it is talking about him in the present, and how he is occupied with jail bars surrounding him in jail. The guys name is Jack Gantos, and he is a really fascinating person. It is not yet said the reason that he is behind bars, but I think the rest of the story is his life leading up to his hardships. In jail he describes himself as pretty shy, and not wanting to be apart of the prisoners because they were pretty grusome. He basically tried to stay invisible. Jail is where he went from thinking about writing, to writing, and that was one of his main goals in life was to become a writer. So a little farther in to the chapter he starts the story of his life, and he starts it with his highschool years. He was a junior and lived in Ft. Lauderdale, and suddenly his parents decided to move to San Jaun. Jack was used to moving, so it wasnt that tragic. After realzing that he couldnt fit in the public schools becasue he couldnt speak spanish, and the private schools were too expensive, he thought he didnt have to go to school so he worked as an electrician with his dad for awhile. Coming to realize that he needed to get an education he moved back to Ft. Lauderdale with the Bacon family. The Bacon family were very welcoming at first until Jack started acting up. He would come home at insane hours in the night so drunk he couldnt funtion. After countless nights spent with his face in the toilet, he just was not getting it. One morning the Bacon family woke up to puke all over there family room carpet, and that was the last straw for them. Jack was kicked out. Jack ended up living in his car, and eventally found a small room to rent. He still had a job and still went to school, but he was on his own. I cant even imagine being on my own at 17. Jack wanted to clean up his act, but for him things always dont go the way he wanted. He got cought up i the wrong crowd and was in the enviroment of weed. He shifted away from that crowd, and ended up in his rented room with the manager bringing him breakfast and watching over him like a grandma would. Things were not going well for his dads businsess. There family had moved again, and the relationship was drifting. Jack decided not to go to college, which was one of his goals as well but he just didnt have the drive.

This is all amazing to me, how he is surving on his own and making adult decisions by himself. Its almost as if he is so content and isnt really bothered by his family being sepearted. Or maybe it does bother him and he is just that easy going. I dont know it seems as if he is just seeing what may get him introuble, almost as if he has nothing to loose. The fact that he is into writing is really cool becasue that shows that he is a creative person and likes to express his feelings which I like.

Spring Break

Okay so spring break was absolutley amazing! The cruise ship was top of the line five star for sure. Each place we went to was life changing! We went to Hait first and it was soo pretty, really windy that day so it didnt feel too hot which was good! W only had about three hours there so we just layed out on the beach. Then we had a day at sea on the ship, and believe it or not I surfed on a thing on the shop called the wave runner! It is allot like wakeboarding but like surfing it was really fun! I wiped out really bad, dont worry I go it on video.Next we went to Jamaica where we went zip lining, bob sledding, and we climed Duns falls which was awesome! We also had a taxi driver the whole day and his name was Owen. Owen had a very approachable and sweet attitude about everything. He had an sad but moving story. Of course he wanted money but he was trying to jip us off by telling us his story. After we warmed up to him, and we had spent almost the whole day with him, he was telling us how he lives in a box probably 14 x14, and that is how most Jamaican middle class live, and once they get more money they add on to their house with cement blocks. He loves to cook, and he is not married. His life was very intersting to me just becasue it made me think of how fortunate I am to live in America. He also introduced Mer and I to Reagge music which I love love love. He gave me a cd for free just because I loved it so much. At the end of the day, I dont think I could ever forget my experiance in Jamaica.