Dinner Dance

Dinner dance is a celebration 8th graders have to celebrate their graduation(promotion). My dinner dance was May 25, 2017. It was at skylight banquet and it was a formal place. The event lasted from 6-9:45. During the event we were giving three meals. I personally wasn't a fan of the food but it was still fun. The event was a fun experience for me.

We ate for about an hour in assigned seats. Then after we got up and people made small groups and took a lot of pictures. After about 30 minutes the Dj played a known song that made a lot of people dance. After that we continued to dance. I of course danced to the Mexican music we suggested to the dj, with a lot of my friends. I was tired by the end of the event but it was one of the best events I been to. 

Plans for the summer

Summer is an exciting time for a lot of 8th graders . It gives them a break from acting like an adult and time to be a kid. It alos gives us time to relax and be children until we enter high school. Many people relax, go out and enjoy, or just use the time to prepare for high school. I'm one of the people who are gonna go out and enjoy my youth for the summer.

I joined a sport for the summer(soccer). I have practice during the week and games on the weekends. I'm gonna go out for the summer a lot. June is gonna be all about soccer and cook outs. July is gonna be soccer too, but also I'm going to a cabin in South Dakota and for Fourth of July. In august I'm gonna finish soccer. After that I'm going to Mexico. I'm going to Morelia, Michoacán and Ixtapa. I'm going for a wedding in Morelia and Ixtapa for the beach. I'm gonna skip the first day of high school, but it's gonna be worth it.

Ixtapa

South Dakota 

Softball Champonship

There was a softball team in my school. It was co-ed(boys and girls). My friend convinced me to try out and I did. I made the team after two tryouts. We had the best record of the season, we had a 8-2 record. We had the best record so we were able to skip the first game. I wasn't able to make the playoffs until the semifinals.

I made it half way through the game of the semifinal. We were down 3 to 0. I felt bad because I wasn't able to be there to help. It was the second last inning. Our defense took the other school out fast. My team went up to bat and knocked out of the park. We got two people on a base and then our big guy got a homer. We finished the last inning easily. That is when we went to the finals. It was a low scoring game. Then second inning we were down 4-0 the whole game went like this. The second last inning was intense. We scored four points and then got out. In the last inning we took the out the other school fast from batting. It was our turn. We had to score once and we would have one. I was first to bat. I swung and missed and accidentally threw the bat. I was nervous. I went again but tried not to get too nervous. I looked down, waited, and sung when the ball came. I ran to first base and was safe. My other two teammates were walked so I was on third base. My teammate hit me home and we had won the championship. It seamed like a cliche movie win but it was a intense game.

Book blog: Lord of The Flies

    Lord of The Flies is a unique book. It sounds like an average cliche book about  out boys and an island. The book is way deeper then that. The book is about 248 pages long. This book is an allegory, young adult fiction, and a novel. A quote I found intresting in the book was "maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.” This quote is a big part of the story and you need to reed the boom to understand what this represents. 



Summary: This story timeline is somewhere towards the end of world war 2. A group of little boys and teens is taken down. No adult survives and only the boys. They at first look at it as a gift, they have unlimited freedom and can play around. They later realize it is a curse, so they decided to form a civilization and Ralph is the leader. They blow a conch to form meetings. This kid named Jack doesn't like how much power Ralph has or his order so he forms a savage like tribe. They have rituals and feast. The savage group raids the civilized one and acts like a game. They get crazier by the days. (This book has a lot of symbols and actions to show a bigger meaning. In this book you really have to think to understand the symbols.)

Something that scares me

I wouldn't call myself exactly a person who gets scared easily. I am not scared of the dark, I'm not scared of the outside world, and I am not scared to be alone. I am scared of scary movies. Scary movies is the one thing I can try, but will get scared.

I watched scary movies when I was little, but all of the sudden I just got creeped out of scary movies. The new movies are so graphic and realistic, they are meant to scare you. Scary movies even had a trick where they add a frequency in the music lower then what we can hear, but it gets you on edge and be suspenful.(http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-hidden-sounds-of-horror-movie-soundtracks-freak-you-out). Also scary movies make me feel so weak, because you just watch and can't do anything. I can't comprehend why people do this for. I plan on watching a scary movie soon but I might squeeze the person next to me hard.

My Most fun Friday

I had many fun Fridays like party's or get togethers. They all have been fun but non as cool as the one I experienced recently. It started as an ordinary Friday. Waking up and going to school like any day. Then Later on the school day ended and the fun was about to begin.

My friends and I decided to go to the park. We went at around 5 and decided to play softball. It was a crazy game with amazing catches and hit. We got bored and later on played infected. It's kinda like tag one tag all and we played all around the park. I was it and chased my friends. I jumped a small river that was full of mud. My cousin decided and got stuck. He lost his shoe so he had to go back in it and try to find it. The river was full of nasty things and smell bad but my cousin jumped in it precisely where he shoe was "at". I was laughing so much that I was crying. We stopped the game and watched my cousin get my shoe. He gave up so we continued our game. It was to much that I can't explain it, but it was one of my best Friday.

Last month as an 8th grader

The last month of the school year can be easier or harder on some people. For me it is between for many reasons. It is easier because the teachers do give work but try to help and make it easier and comfortable. It is easier because people seem to relax more. Everyone seems to be relax because the school year is almost done. That doesn't mean it is not hard.

The end of this school year also seems difficult as an 8th grader. We have to focus on high schools and maybe even entry exams. We take more important test then younger grades and it can make you nervous. People also seem to care less so it kinda seems more chaotic. For me it is especially hard because my middle and elementary school are connected so I been in the same building for my whole life, and then all of the sudden I'm going to a huge school. All in all the last month of the school ear can be difficult but can also be relaxing. It has been a phenomenal  year.

Book blog:The Hangman Revolution

The Hangman Revolution is a fictional book. It was made by Eoin Colfer. This part is the second part of the series. This book is 376. An interesting quote was " Time travels creates chaos, and chaos doesn't follow your rules. That's why it's called chaos" and this quote is intersecting on how small things can cause a big difference. This book takes place in London.


Summary: This book is a made up one. It starts with the main character Cherie becoming an agent for a organization. This organization is kinda like a cult, and she doesn't want to be apart it. She try's to fight against it. She Later meets a guy from the future, and they both want to stop the cult. Their priority was to go back in time and stop the cult from starting.

Spring Break

This blog is a bit too late, but better late then never. My spring break was a normal one for the most part. I was excited for it. All day in school I was anxious to leave. I was looking at the clock just waiting for the magic numbers 3:17. Each class seamed longer then usual. Then I say the time and I ran. I got my things and left and didn't look back.

The first day of my break was fun. I went to a national park, had a cook out there, and then went to hotel and swam in the pool. Then half of the week I slept and relaxed and it felt good. Then Thursday and Friday I had party's and bonfires. Then the last two days of my break I tried to enjoy them but was nervous and furious to acknowledge the fact that school was right around the corner. Then I was back in school that Monday.

Life is beautiful review

We read a lot about the holocaust. We read how some areas near and in Germany didn't allow Jews in their shop. The movie gave me an example of it. The dad (main character) was walking with his son and his son wanted a pastry, well the dad saw a sign that said no Jews and tried to make an excuse to his son.(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqeLy4vseoA) This comes to shows how in the our reading a lot of Jews were oppressed and this movie kinda shows how people get affected like this. Also we read of kids, the sick, or the elder were gassed but covered up as a shower. In the movie this also happens and it something you need to watch to understand(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2sqjebFODg).

     There was many mood changes. In the movie the mood changes a lot. In the movie everything was wonderful at first and no one thought anything of it like in real life(scenes from the movie to understand -https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4E-yb-1_FA and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h7CBrN19OY4) Later on in the movie the movie changes mood when their house gets scavenge for the main character since he was Jew and was put on the train(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KaUEDYWofJQ) Th turn events kinda gets to you because it shows how life was wonderful and no expected anything, but all the sudden the Nazi came and deystroyed there life. It was all of the sudden too in the movie which comes to show how easily the mood changed.

     Life is shown beautiful in many ways in this movie. It was shown through the good and bad things. For example in one scene the main character is trying to make his son happy and not scared, so a German comes in to explain rules and needs someone to explain, the character volunteers and even though he doesn't no the language he repeats the guy to make it seem like a game for his little son. This scene shows how life is beautiful even in bad times if you try to make it beautiful or has something worth making it beautiful.  "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9lTSqc1UnLU" video link.

The Nazi hunter blog

The Nazi book is a great book. This book is a narrative nonfiction .The author is Neal Bascomb. The book The Nazi Hunters is a book that takes place in towards the end of world war 2. This book is 245 pages long.This book gives us a perspective on how people fought for what they thought was right.


This book is retelling a story of a world war 2 assaination attemp. This book follows these people who are spies. The book goes into great description explaining how they found and captured the head of operation for the final solution Adolf Eichmann and bring him to justice. This books has some visuals to show you how it looked and felt. All in all this book is a great book and it fits in to the unit I'm in now about the holocaust

Carve the Mark blog

Carve The Mark is a fascinating book that is in a different galaxy. The author is Veronica Roth and she wrote many amazing books. One book you might notice from her is the divergent series. So coming back to carve the mark, this book is 468 pages and the genre is young adult fiction and scientific fiction.

This book takes place in a different galaxy. There is something called a current take gives people power. Most planets are peaceful but one planet partially own by the shotet people and they want more power. This book is on a perspective of the kings daughter and the kid from a different planet with unique powers. This book has a lot of plot twist and enough action to pull you in and give you a great imagery on how the story and people looks. I highly recommend this book to people who are look for something entertaining.

Butterfly project: Helga Weissova

Regret

People regret many things. People regret life decisions or regret not doing something. Regret is a painful thing. Everybody regrets something in their life for many things. I myself regret many things too.

I regret many things. There is one thing that overshadows the rest. My grandma was dying.  She was very sick. She lived in this little village in Mexico. My family and I were talking about how we should go see her. We planned to go and see her. The thing is there was tickets to leave really early in the morning but miss a party or wait and then go. Me and my sisters convinced after the party. We stayed but the day of the party we were told that my grandma was almost gone so we tried to get there but we were too slow. We stayed there for the funereal. I never felt the same pain as seeing my parent cry. I regretted going to the party. I still do and I felt kinda vulnerable .This is something that is going to stick with me for a long time.

What famous person would you bring back to life?

There is many people I would choose. I could choose past presidents, I could choose rappers like two PAC, or I could choose pop stars. The thing is that it won't really stick with me emotionally. I decided someone who made an impact in my race. I choose Cesar Chavez. He is a Civil rights activist.

Cesar Chavez was a great Mexican civil rights activist who fought for farm workers to be treated like decent workers(something like a union) in the U.S. He died in April 23, 1993 but left a great legacy. He brought pride to my race and showed how my people are strong and smart, courages, and won't be kept quiet. He gave people an imagery of how life was as a worker and how you can help. He is someone I look up too and really want to talk. He is famous in a special way.

Nazi Propaganda posters

         The Nazis in world war 2 used a lot of propaganda poster to promote their act to their people. They used many posters to support their cause or oppose their enemies. There was one poster that caught my attention and it was used to go against the Jewish people. It was meant to attack them religiously. A lot of countries used propaganda (including the U.S)

(This means National-socialist German Labour Party)

This poster was to appeal to the workers. It was meant to attack the Jewish population religiously and give their people a sense of power. The snake is suppose to show evil because the snake is what the devil hid as and made Adam and Eve commit evil. Show the poster was to show Jewish people as snakes and threat and the knife was to show power and how they get stop the threat easily. This was to appeal to them show they are motivated to help the nazis cause and think nothing more. This can be interpretaded in many ways.

How happiness looks to me

How happiness looks to me. Happiness to me looks magnifencent. Happiness are mostly the small thing in life. The things that no one really pays attention to make me look happy. Big make me happy too but mostly the small.

1. I'm happy about having a house.
2. Able to play in sports.
3. Happy to have a family
4. Happy to have great friends
5. Being able to not worry about what I need to eat
6. Happy to sleep in a great bed
7. Happy to be able to learn
8. Happy to have not experience horrible events
9. Joyful to be able to talk
10. Happy to read and learn.
11. Happy that I can change my cloths
12. Happy that I can shower in warm water 
13. Happy to get thing  to every parent can afford
14. Happy to being able to drink water and not worry about what's in it.
15. Happy to be able to hug my mother and father
16. Being able to look at magnificent plants animal.

These are just some of many things I am super happy to have. I am happy to have great living condition. People find joy in many things. My biggest happiness is being able to see other people enjoy happiness too.

Nick Vujicic and how great of a person he is.

     

 This blog might seem kinda random, but I want to talk About this great guy named Nick Vujicic. He is an amazing person to look up to. He has great traits. He has great character because he is funny, happy, and great charisma. It is rare to find someone with his disabilities and be able to live an ordinary life and be happy like him. He is also courages to be able to go up and talk to people and change their life's and not let the people who think negative of him affect him. He is also humility, because he doesn't think less about himself but thinks about himself less and just lives his life and helps others.

Nick has preserved in life many ways. He decided to use his time to help improve other life's and doesn't really care about what others think of him as long as he makes a difference. I kinda did the same as him. I decided to use my time to help people who were homeless. I made their beds with other and served them food. Some people thought it was dumb of me, but I didn't care as long as I helped those people in life and think better of themselves.

The Super Bowl commercial that caught my attention.

This was a lot of good and ok super commercials. There are a lot of emotional commercials. There was this one that caught my attention. It was from 84 lumber. This commercial was about the wall that is planned on being built and it mortifies me being a citizen of a country making a big mistake and using up what they have for a dumb reason.It follows a story of this older mom and young daughter. They are immigrants and are trying to come to the land of freedom. They go through a journey and stop at a crossing point between U.S and Mexico. It gets super emotional and is something you have to watch to experience it with the most emotions. It hits close to home to me because I have immigrant parents (they are legal now) who went to so much suffering to get here. This kinda describes a life of an immigrant trying to do better.This commercial even almost made me tear up. It something great to watch and I recommend watching it.








This is the superball commercial.84 lumber Super Bowl commercial.

Great advice I was giving.

I was given many advice. Some are about stay in school or keep trying for the future but all this advice is telling me is to be someone not myself. My grandma on the other hand was different. She wouldn't tell me stay in school or keep working to get a low paying job to take care of a family. No she didn't want me to become someone but to stay myself. She told me "There is billions of people in the world everybody is different , but you are special, not because you great in school or athletic, but because you are you, and no one can be you but you, that is why you are special, so keep being the best you.". Sadly she passed away around when I was 8-10 but that advice is something I always cherished. Because of her I am me and not someone that someone wants me to be. It might sound cliche, but it is pretty good advice for me personally.

My biggest argument.

  I get in a lot of arguments. In my family arguements are kinda good because we release stress and we get closer to one another. I'm use to arguements. Sometimes they're arguements that I get really a angry about. Especially with strangers messing with my family.
      An argument happened in the park when I was 12 years of age. It was me, my sister, and my mother, and father. My mother and father were walking around the area where me and my sister were playing. My sister and I were playing hide and seek and I was seeking. It was fun until this stranger stepped in.
       I went to go look for my sister and found here arguing with this kid a little older than her. He was making fun of her with his friends. I ran over there and pulled her away. Everything was about to be over until his older brother stepped in.
       He was a year older then me. He apparently thought I was messing with his brother so we got to into a heated argument. I was shouting and arguing and I was surprised no adult stepped in. I got tired of it and walked away. The brother wouldn't want me to leave and said something that got me angry. He said "Your little sister better say sorry to my brother". I made him wished he never said that. I ran up to him and punched him and he fell and started bleeding and crying.
       His parents came by and started shouting at me. I was about to apologize, but my parents stepped in and defended me and walked home. My dad was proud of me because I steeped up for my sister, but my mom wished I handled it differently. My parents and sister forgot about it like nothing, but of course I still remembered because it was very explicit experience.That was my worse arguements.

Fake it till you become it.

  What does fake it till you become it mean. It means that if you don't feel confident or comfortable, pretend to be confident or comfortable until you actually are use to it. One thing I need is a confidence boost in school itself. Sometimes I'm to nervous to raise my hand or talk infront of class. I can raise my hand more often until I'm use to it and raise my hand like a habit and gain confidence to be able to talk infront of my class. I shall obtain to ability of confidence one day.So I will fake it till I make it.

Something kind I did over winter break

  It was a day after Christmas and got good things. I was in a good mood the day after Christmas. So I went to the store and decided to buy something with my own money.
     I lived close to 7/11 so I walked there. I got there and walked around for chips. I had a good amount of money and I only decided to buy chips. I got it and went into the line. It was me and this dad and his small daughter in front of me. They where buying food and the daughter looked happy which put me in a better mood.
     I waited and something caught my attention. I heard the dad say how he left his money in the car and went to go get it with her daughter. I went up and paid for my thing. I thought to my self since I got money, i decided to use it for good. So I payed the cashier the money for the dad and daughter stuff and mine a left with my things. I let the cashier have the change. I was almost across the parking lot when I heard the father and dauther with a smile on their face screaming thank you to me. That was the best gift of all I got from this Christmas and I plan o doing it again.