Perfecto Futuro

As I mentioned in my other blog about where I want to be in 10 years, I mentioned my future careers. That is an extremely long list but I mostly want to be a celebrity. Very basic, I know, but I don’t want to be just any celebrity, I want to leave a legacy. Where when I go, people will be able to say I made a positive change in society. Plus, the life sounds pretty glamours. Just imagine it. Seeing yourself on the big screen, hearing your music on the radio, people getting excited to see you wherever you are, flashes of cameras everywhere. Going to do interviews and not only doing what you love, but being who you are. I feel like everyone wants to be known as someone important, but this is something I’ve wanted to get into ever since I started watching movies. I know this is very basic and maybe a little lame, but this is just a perfect (unlikely) dream future.

THUG

The Hate U Give is an amazing book. It’s a story about a girl who has to live in two worlds. There’s “the hood” where she lives, and “the white neighborhood” where she attends school. She has went through traumatic experiences in her 16 years of life, but by far, this is the worse. It becomes a crazy cycle with a terrible conclusion (in my opinion). It’s very sad yet funny yet aggravating, it’s filled with all kinds of emotions. It’s a pretty long book at 444 pages but it’s definitely worth reading. I would read it 1 million times if I could.

Pearls Of Death

I think alien books are very cheesy, so I steer away from them… but I loved this one. It is written in 2 different points of view. There’s Megs who’s 13 living in a car alone in a parking garage. Then there’s Josh, who just turned 16 and lives with his dad and dog in their house. In the book, alien spaceships come and cover the entire sky to the point it almost looks dark. The aliens are doing weird things and no one knows exactly why. They have to not only survive the aliens, but they have to survive humanity and everyone after them. It’s amazing and I recommend it 100%. I found it in my public library and I’m sure it’s available anywhere.

Outsiders Movie Book Comparison

 
   Both the book and movie were exceptional, but The Outsiders movie did change very much compared to the book.

     For starters, Dally was blonde in the book but has a very dark brown, almost black, hair color in the movie. Also, in the book when Ponyboy and Johnny are walking after the movies, Pony and Cherry have a long talk about sunsets and a very deep talk in general. Yet in the movie, Pony and Cherry barely even talked, which was pretty disappointing. Lastly, in the book, Darry slaps Pony across the face and knocks him into the door. In the movie, Darry shoves him hard enough for him to land onto the floor.

     Although there were plentiful differences, there are some similarities. Johnny had the same motive for killing Bob in both the movie and book, because he was drowning Ponyboy. Also, when Ponyboy gets hit by his brother, he runs to Johnny in the lot and they both run away. Lastly, when Johnny was dying, his final words stayed the same. “Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold”.

     Besides the subtle differences like Dally having black instead of blonde hair, the actors did a good job of portraying the characters. Francis Ford Coppola, the director, also did a good job delivering the novel's message. He kept most of the key details about the book. The only thing that would help deliver the message is if he mentioned the scene with Pony and Cherry talking. Although, everything did feel very rushed.

     The movie turned out much better than expected and did do a good job of delivering the novel's message.

Greasers and Goats

In the article Herd Behaviors, there are a lot of similarities to the book The Outsiders. What I found most similar was the fact that goats almost always are in herds and that it’s rare for a goat to leave the herd.

In a way, the Greasers are like the goats. In Herd Behavior, goats will follow the group and what one goat does, goes. In The Outsiders, during the rumble, not everyone felt the same. There were people who didn’t want to do the rumble and people who loved these kinds of things. Yet, everyone participated. That’s because people do things that they think is normal to fit in.

It has been proven before that both humans and goats will start acting like the group they’re with, despite their actual personalities. In the book The Outsiders, Johnny and Ponyboy act very tough and like they don’t have a care in the world. While in reality, they both care, a lot. We found all of this out when the boys were talking to Cherry and Marcia and when they went into the burning building. They act tough because they’re always surrounded by tough people, not because they actually want to be.

In conclusion, there are many similarities between goats and Greasers. They all stay in a “Herd” and are always sticking together and acting like each other, despite their true colors.

Why Quarter 1 Wasn’t Terrible

This quarter has been ok. Nothing out of the ordinary. B days are my favorite. At heritage we alternate from A days to B days. On A days I have health, math, ELA, and science. On B days, I have social justice, math, ELA , and social studies. I’m in health right now but starting Monday (technically yesterday) I’ll be going back to gym class and another group will go to health. That I know of, my grades are pretty good. I only know my grades from 3 out of my 6 classes. Hopefully next quarter I keep my grades at threes and fours, as of right now, I don’t have any ones or twos that I know of. After school, I am president of the Me to We club and in speech and drama. I am anything but a sporty person, but I still like going to the basketball games. What do you like to do after school?

Beautiful

This quote by Rupi Kaur is very important to me. When I first read this poem I didn’t think too much of it until I was thinking about it the next day. This is an important quote because now people are being negatively impacted by magazines and models thinking that they aren’t beautiful, that the people on the covers are. But everyone is beautiful inside and out, but it’s heartbreaking to see someone younger than I am, saying that they aren’t beautiful.

Where I Hope to be in 10 Years

In 10 years, I see myself graduating an arts college, majoring in sing and acting. I would want to attend school in Los Angeles or Hollywood. I would want to live in a studio apartment (they're cheaper) with some friends and 2 little dogs. Around this time I'd be trying to kick off my singing and acting career. If acting and singing doesn't work out then I'd go to college to study computer software engineering and try to work at nascar to program their cars. If neither of those careers work than I'd go to school to become a science teacher and (hopefully) by then I'd have my life together.

The Shocking Surprise

   
It was a sunny spring afternoon in New Lenox. I was with my cousins and we had just finished eating. My cousins and I went out for a bit and when we came back in my oldest cousin, Tati, said she wanted to make an announcement. She went to the front of the room with her husband as we all found a place to sit. She hesitated at first, but then her and her husband said joyfully "we're pregnant!"

"She's kidding right?"
"I sure hope so" said our judge mental abuelas. My mom and tia ran up to her screaming (in an excited way) to congratulate her. I couldn't decide if I was happy or not so I stayed quiet for the time being.

Later that day when I was telling my best friend the details, Tati comes in and asked how I felt about her being pregnant again. I explained how she just had twins and by the time she has the new baby her twins wil barely be turning one! Meanwhile her oldest will be turning turning 19 and ready to move out and go to college the following fall. I wasn't the most excited but she's family and I love her and will be there for her no matter what.

As much as my mom and I tell her it's ok that there's another little one coming soon and that we're happy for her, she's still a little shooken up with how the rest of the family reacted. Now that the baby's due within the next 2 months, she's finally happy about her surprise baby.