“Through the Tunnel” Prove Yourself Paragraph

My sister Sammie has helped me with my homework, because I had no idea what to write about. This is definitely true from the heart of my family and sister. This had occurred while being in the system as a foster teen and it still continues today. My sister said that I prove myself to my family that I can do this by myself in the system without them. Although it is difficult and challenging being away from family, I am determine to be better, to achieve greatness and not to worry my family and giving my family faith that anyone (like me) can do anything as long as I have faith and pull though. From all the support and love, I have no reason to complain. I can say that I have prove everyone wrong who had no faith in me and including myself. To get to this, I stayed positive. As my sister says, “There are so many life struggles. Many that will be easy to overcome, but there are those few that isn't so easy. Changing you and shaping you to find your limit. To find where you truly belong in this world. If you ask me, being optimistic makes it a lot easier. When you find yourself in a rut, allow all the possibilities of getting out. Don’t limit yourself, don’t hold yourself from a good thing. Negative doesn’t get you anywhere”. I kept my head up and I look forward to where the good leads me. Well, there is no ending yet. I am still proving myself and everybody else everyday. This experience so far has never felt better, I want to keep going because I know I am strong.

Winter Break Experience

During my vacation break I spend a lot of time with myself and Becky, mostly myself. Christmas was coming up and I did not have the money to buy presents for my friends but my family. I got my family stuff they really needed and I am happy about that. I am going to be writing about Rebekah and I at the mall together.
She and I are at the mall walking around, it was super crowded. As for Becky, she also just bought her family presents. Feeling like we should at least get something for each other. We both had agreed on getting a card for each other. Walking into Hallmark, we then separated. After finally finding a card, we walked around some more and ran into people we haven’t seen in a long while. It was cool to see people you haven’t seen in two to three years. Feeling hungry, Becky and I went to McDonald's. After sitting there for a while we felt super exhausted and decided if we are still going to shop we should take the elevator.
Waiting at the elevator we waited and waited. Finally, it opened. There we see a stroller and a family, when they turned out the elevator we saw the new born baby. It was so cute! We both got distracted, looking away now we look up at the elevator and it just closed on us. Becky and I made a long sigh...... I look at Becky and she grabbed my hand and pull me towards the escalator. I was so lazy, we felt really silly that we waited and waited there and did not get to go on because we got distracted by a cute baby coming out the elevator. That was a funny moment. :)

“The Highwayman” and “Typhoid Fever” Comparison

In “The Highwayman” to the characters in “Typhoid Fever", Patricia and the landlord's daughter both died at the end of the story. Landlord's daughter name Bess could not talk to her friend just like how Patricia couldn't talk to Frankie. Bess was trying to warn the red-coats were in her house, trying to save a love one. For example, in the story "The Highwayman", Bess could not get away she either had to die with a gun pointed at her. In "Typhoid Fever", Patricia talks to Frankie when she knew she wasn't allowed to and she died from her disease she had. Frank should hear the end of "The Highwayman" because he would understand why Patricia died. In both stories they were in love with two guys.

“’Typhoid Fever’– Present Tense Childhood Memory.”

I am 7 years old and it is a Saturday morning. I am walking with my grandpa around the neighborhood looking for cans to make money. My grandpa asked, “Why do you always wake up so early to come with me”? I said, “I like spending time with you”. We are both walking to a huge green sticky garbage can, there is cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles on the ground. I jump and jump and couldn`t see inside the trashcan. my grandpa looked in and said, “There`s a lot of cans on one side; and trash is on the other side, isn`t that a little weird”? I think to myself, “hmmm that's weird, it`s like someone did it for us”. Reaching in with the picker-upper and moving things around. My grandpa was reaching for a can below and couldn`t see, all of a sudden a man`s voice yells; “Hey! What are you doing?!”. My grandpa and I step back. There he was, a homeless guy sleeping in a trashcan. He just stared at us and said, “You pinch me”. I laughed. My grandpa didn`t understand what the homeless guy was saying, I then translate. My grandpas ask me to ask him if he wants those cans, and the homeless guy said, “Oh, no. I am fine, I don`t want it”. My grandpa apologizes and we said goodbye. Walking up the hill on our way back home, we laugh and laugh.

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“My Memorable Days.”

1) When I was nine years old, my dad past away from a heart attack.
2) I moved to six different places in two years, and never went to 6th grade.
3) At eleven years old, I got my first tattoo.
4) My first date at Seaport Village on Valentine`s day, with Joseph B.
5) Last year, was my first time standing on Anaheim`s sweet stadium.
6) Last year turning fifteen was the worst birthday I had.
7) Last year I traveled to Germany by myself, it was scary but I felt alive. I felt like an adult living on my own.
8) When I was 6 or 7, our whole relatives and my family went on a camping trip for a week; it was awesome.
9) The first time playing Softball was recently last year, and I fell in love with the sport.
10) I got to spend time with our Captain birthday, it was amazing.

9/11

My memories on 9/11 was when I was sick sitting at home watching Pokemon. I was 5 years old and the only person who was with me was my dad. Everyone was at school or at work. I didn`t know what to think, I didnt understand how it happen or what. No one in my house talked about it at all, everyone came home early and we just sat down, no one went outside for a while. When we went back to school, there was the sign 9/11 everywhere.

Vocabulay Short Story

Jaylie and Ken were always best friends, they always had problems in trusting each other. They live next to each other since the 6th grade , four blocks down. One day there was a big ballyhoo in the autortorium in shool and Ken wa looking for Jaylie. Jaylie was being zanny in the back autorturium with this boy name Tim who ken hates. Ken got mad and throw a neclace that was a relic tradtiton from Jaylie since they were little. Jaylie was being a big stickler when Ken ignored her phone calls. Jaylie hoard the phone at home, becasue she was worried that he would call and she would miss it.

“Mouse in the Café Short Story.”

The lonely mouse name Jin lives in the cafe for about 2 years, he never had friends. All the other mouses are mean because Jin does not want to do drugs with them. Jin can`t fit in with any of the groups, but he only fits in his own group. He is in love with cheese, his friends are provolone, cheddar, Asiago Cheese, Blue Cheese, cream cheese, and swiss cheese. One day Jin was hanging out with his cheese friends and the other mouses, came over and stole his friends away. Later at night Jin tries to get revenge and stole the other mouses friends name, Hot wings chicken, sweet and sour chicken, and fry chicken. In the morning the other mouses came to Jin`s room and fought him while he was still sleeping. Jin tries to runaway and trips over Cheddar cheese, Cheddar cheese grabs Jin`s hand and runs out the door. When Cheddar cheese and Jin got out they took a deep breath and sat in the corner together, Jin cried. Jin thought about living back in the cafe with his other friends, and felt really bad that he left them. Cheddar cheese and Jin suddenly gets up and hugged.

"The Pedestrian" Center for Regressive Tendencies Blog Post

The Psychiatric Center is cold, dark, and very quiet. There are many robots standing as guards and they look very still. Inside this Psychiatric building center looks like, a wall of steel and it is freezing, painted black and with a strong fence built around a person. They sit you down and erase your mind and transfer your mind with their life skills, to live like them; inside the house and no one walking outside. The robots are in control of the Psychiatric center because they know the technology use of erasing memories into new ones.

"Purpose of 'The Pedestrian."

In the book, “The Pedestrian”, Ray Bradbury’s wrote a short story in about THE FUTURE in the 2053. Bradbury's`s purpose of writing this story was warning us. In “The Pedestrian”, Bradbury`s wrote about a guys life in 2053 and it was not great, it was horrible. Everyone stayed in their houses and no one really hung out with each other anymore. The world seemed more quiet than usual, and no one walked outside anymore except Mr. Leonard Mead. As you can see, our assignment last night was to write about how the future would be in 2053. The story in “The Pedestrian” was a bad experience into the future of 2053 and when we were asked to write about the future in 2053 as an assignment; most of our classmates and students wrote about how technology is way better and they wrote how awesome it will be. Bradbury`s story wasn`t a good experience at all, Mr. Mead got arrested just walking alone of the streets. The world in what Mr. Lead experience was lonely, sad, and no one walked around. Bradbury`s story is just trying to tell us that life in the future is not going to be all fun and happy; it`s going to be worse than ever.

Life in 2053 – “The Pedestrian” Before You Read.

The world has changed so much, today is January 28, 2053. Transportation is way different from years ago, We have lanes in the sky; which means flying cars. The only cars that are able to be driven up in the sky are: 2003 Ferrari Aurea Spider, Chevrolet Corvette C5 Z06, Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SuperVeloce, and the Cadillac XTS Platinum. Those cars are highly expensive and are the only one that have the technology to fly. They have lanes and stop light and stops signs and everything else. There is this thing where you can press a button and it changes the paint on your wall to your room to a whole new different color. Life is more high tech and there are machine robots that cleans your room while you get you are getting ready for the day.

Only One

The connection to “You want a social life, with friends” by Kenneth Koch, and to Contents of The Dead Man’s Pocket” by Jack Finney has a connection in choosing the right things. Like, choosing friends, love, or work. In “You want a social life, with Friends”, he could not just have all three things, “But never may have three”, said in the poem by Kenneth Koch. Either you have love, friends, or work. At the end if you pick something like work, doesn`t give you friends, love, and just the things you want; because at the end he barely had anything. The poem, “You want a social life, with friends”, has a huge connection to the story, “ Contents of The Dead Man’s Pocket”. The connection from “Contents of The Dead Man`s Pocket” shows that he could just not have three things and try to work it out. After all in the book the mans name Tom, regret spending time with his wife and chose work over her. Later, Tom realized that he could only have one and it was to spend it with love. The theme of both stories are that you can`t have just all of the things you want, and you should have one thing that makes life worth living for. The theme connects to my life as in that I honestly know that I can`t have everything in life to make me happy. I know that one thing can keep me happy and that is love from my friends.

My Paragraph

One of my important possessions are my dad`s picture and my mother`s necklace. I am going to have to say my father`s picture is something I would not want to lose and would risk my life to get it. My father`s picture is the only copy that can be seen clearly, and I am also the only one who has a picture of him. I would feel so distressed, and furious. I would fight to the point my life would not mean anything anymore; risk my life for my father`s picture. It would make me super insane and no way there is another copy. I can`t imagine not having a picture of him because it is already 10 times harder without him here, literally. It keeps me moving on each day just having his picture here with me; on my wall... in my room.

Friends or Studying

If my friend arrived at my door and asked me to go out while I am studying a test, I will probably go out but tell them that only for a little while; because I have to study the test. It really depends who the person is, if it is just a person I get along with well, probably not; but over my really close friends, I totally would go out instead of taking my time to study a test. For my education, I will try my hardest not to go hang out with a friend during my studying. Lately, I have been only going outside on weekends because of my school work. I have a busy; tight schedule. I go to school, then I have my job, Volleyball practice, and last but not least is my education/homework.

Paralyzed By Fear

I was on pass and there was a big party at my brother`s friend`s house. I got a phone call while I was babysitting my nieces and it was my brother. He told me he got in a huge fight with his friend and walked out the party and asked me if I could pick him up; obviously people were drinking. Where I had to pick him up was not that far away from home, so I did. I left the kids with my cousin, and he is fourth teen by the way. I got to the street where I found him he was laying in the grass and I asked him what was wrong, he did not know (he was drinking). When I finally got him to get in the car, there was a car crash not that far away from us and it was about 20 ft away. I was terrified, I saw the car slide on its side for a while, I realized than it was a green car and I was just hoping it was not our family`s close friend. It turn out to be him(he is the friend who just fought wt my brother), the ambulance rushed to him and the side of his face pretty much ripped of and his side arm was horrible, all you would see is bone. I cried and my brother told me to drive him to the hospital, My older sister said I can`t drive on the freeway. So my cousins took us into their car an we went to the hospital. I am blessed to still have him here, we don`t want to lose a second close cousin.

My Memorable Birthday, That I Only Remember Well To Tell

January 4, 2002, I was turning 7 years old. My parents went all out and bought a lot of drinks and food, it was a bit of a waste to me. A lady came to my house and my mom had her dress me up in one of the traditional dresses. The lady did my hair and put a lot of heavy clips, I felt like I was going to fall over. It was a huge party and very traditional, since everyone who live in my apartment were all my relatives, it was even more huge. I was nervous and my dad told me I had to be respectful and show off as much as I can. I started to cry and he smacked me in the face and he said “you are a Khmer srey”, which pretty much means a Cambodian girl. I had to stand in front of the door and greet the people traditionally while they walked in. They gave me red envelopes, full of money and I had to hand it to my parents. Later, I had to dance in Cambodian and also sing. When the night finally ended I was so exhausted I wanted to sleep, I remember my dad counting the money and it came out to be a lot! I could not touch it, but I could only have five dollars from my dad and he took the rest to gamble. He said, “I was too young to have it, and I was too young to know ho much it was”. My mother was angry at him and said that I needed the money for college. My memorable birthday is not a happy one, but I only remember this birthday clearly.

6 Q’s in the News for “Devastation in Pakistan".

WHO is the president of Pakistan?
-The president of Pakistan is Asif Ali Zardari

WHAT problems have recent monsoon rains caused in Pakistan?
-The problems from the monsoon rains has caused Pakistan to have floods which causes peoples homes and their environment being washed away, many people have died.

WHERE in the country have people been hard-hit by the rains and flooding?
Islamabad,Kalam, and other parts of the Khyber Pakhtoohwa Province have been hard-hit by the rains and the flooding, said by a spokesman from the United States Embassy.

WHEN was the last major natural disaster in Pakistan?
-The last major natrual disaster in Pakistan was on Monday, August 9, 2010.

WHY are aid workers having trouble reaching the affected areas?
-Aid workers are having trouble reaching the affected areas because

HOW many people have been affected, and killed, in the current disaster in Pakistan?
-The United Nations said about six million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan and about 1,500 have already died.


“Devastation in Pakistan” -Article

Twenty-Five Most Random Things About Me

1) My favorite ice cream is pistachio.
2) I love cheese and eat too much of it that I have to take constipation medicine.
3) I get disgusted when I see people with hair that looks like they haven`t showered or something.
4) I'm into NASCAR and CIA, I order many books about them.
5) I come from a religious family, and my religion is Buddhism.
6) My favorite subject in school is English, and my favorite teacher is Ms. Priester.
7) If I have to live off eating just three food, it would be: a big block of cheese, spaghetti with meatballs, and mash potatoes.
8) I wish I would`ve spend more time with my dad before he left me.
9) I forgive my mother and I still love her to death, and I support her in whatever she wants to do in life.
10) Jessica G. is my sister from another mother.
11) I love giving people money without getting the money back.
12) I`m really good friends with all my ex-boyfriends.
13) People who hate me think that I hate them back.
14) I prank call the whole campus every now and then when I get super bored, and I speak in an accent .
15) I like traveling by myself, even though it gets a little scary.
16) My biggest inspiration is my sister, Sammie Barilla.
17) Not one bit does the people who talks about me, or hate me..effects me.
18) I would buy a big block of cheese and eat it by myself like it was candy.
19) I have sisters and brothers who are also like my cousins in a way.
20) I don`t like people who talk and always have the F word or S word, they sound plain ignorant to me.
21) I see my house parents more as my parents than my real biological parents.
22) My favorite quote at the moment is, “In a relationship you have to like the person for who they all are...not just the parts that are easy to like, and you are stupid if you turn your back on something important as love”.
23) I'm going to live with my mom once again when I finish college, just to take care of her because she had taken care of me.
24) I dislike people who are loud, immature, and beyond hypocritically.
25) I go to Souplantation with my CASA, Mary Fipp every other two weeks

My Embarrassing Moment

My 7th grade year with Becky, in her room. This is one of the funniest and embarrassing moments ever. I laugh at myself all the time, I just believe I have a strong sense of humor and I am pretty hilarious. Becky brought a play station home from pass one day, and I was the one who thought I knew all about fixing things but I guess I did not. I thought the back of the cord can unscrew for some reason and decided to help a little by using my teeth. I was guessing the bolt at the end of the cord was screwed on very tightly. I kept twisting it and going back and forth. I had a feeling it was a very bad idea at first, but helped because I wanted to look cool. It was then my last twist and all of a sudden I stopped to look at Becky. I then realized I chipped a part of my tooth off. I looked into the mirror and it was so obvious that I was missing a little tiny piece. She laughed and I laughed, we could not stop. Great memories but an embarrassing one too, I don’t regret helping Becky though…even if I felt the way I did.