Sunday

On Sunday i had one of my Church friends come over and eat. So i had to clean the house really early in the morning. I was tired but i guess it was worth it. My friend came over ate some menudo that my mom made, i didnt eat it because i dont like it. She hung out with my brother because she likes him but my brother doesnt like her, its sad. Anyways later on that day my cousins came over and invited me to go to the Dallas World Aquarium, i would get in free because my aunt has a membership card. So i went and i got to see many fish and birds who i wanted to set free cuz i dont like seeing animals caged up for entertainment. But anyway i got to see flamingos, a panther, and a cheeta. I liked the panther the best, it was black and really big. The bird that i like is called a Macaw. I have one its blue (a real one) the one i saw was red, i was telling my cousin that i was gonna get that one next. Anyways this is what i did on sunday.Hope you wern't too bored.

later,
Smiley

Hi

How many of you are high off life? Hopefuly that's all your high on. Anyways so how did TAKS testing go? For me it was pretty boring because we could not do anything but sit there and be quiet. Only until 2 something could we talk. The only day that i liked was Tuesday because i got to get out of my boring class and go to the class right accross so i could supposedly watch a movie but instead i was talking to my friend who says she's a wild monkey to my liking, oh and Bogar too. We were making jokes and talking and we were pretty much entertained until we had to leave to 3rd pd. So yea that was pretty much my good TAKS day. But what i think is stupid is that they made us come on friday at 2:00. What was the point, we could of come in the morning for at least an hour or not come at all. Doesn't matter i still had fun on that day because i got to go to Church ( Iglesia de Dios 7o Dia ) its located on Melbourn St. I got to teach little kids from ages 7-9 from 6pm to 9:30pm. And i got to see people that i hadn't seen in 5yrs because i moved from my previous church to the one i am in now. I know i hadn't seen this one guy for about 2yrs, but i didnt get to talk to him then because it was at his grandmothers funeral. Anyways i've known him since i was 5 yrs old and the last time he saw me i was 10. When i started talking to him that day he said he didnt recognize me because i didn't look the same as i did when i was 10. Even his mom said she didn't recognize me anymore. Anyways i asked him when he was coming back and he and his mother said that they would come once in a while. What was so good of that day was that i got to see an old friend slash crush. Well now that you know what happened on friday you can leave me alone. Just Kiding.

later,
Smiley

O Brother Where Art Thou

Sorry i couldn't blog sooner. My computer is crazy this is my second time writing this. Uh i hate that i have to write what i had already writen over.

Ulysses - Odysseus
Ulysses is the main character in the movie, his wife is going to get married to anohter man. Ulysses tries to get home but there is always something that stops him.

The man with the Shades - Posideon
The man with the shades is shown with fire reflected in his sunglasses. Its ironic becasue Posideon was the lord of the water. The man with the shades keeps impeading Ulysses to get home.

Ulysses wife - Penelopeia
Ulysses wife is about to get married to another man until Ulysses comes along and stops her. She told her daughter that he was hit by a train even though she kinda knew where he was.

3 girls - Sirens
The girls are the sirens because they sing and they seduce the men. Its funny that they thought that the girls turned that guy into a toad.

The blind guy - Homer
the bling guy is Homer becsause Homer was said to be blind. Also because he made Ulysses and the other guys famous. He told their story and made their song famous. The sogy bottom boys were very famous.

Thats all i have to say. Sorry Mr. Locke, I didn't get to blog sooner. I know, no excusses. My computer crashed and today i was gonna publish my first try at blogging but i dont know what happened it didnt publish it so im doing it again. i hope it publishes this one.

The Odyssey

So i thought that the book was great. I liked that in chapter XIX, Odysseus was dressed up as a beggar and was in his house and Penelopeia told the nurse to wash Odysseus feet not knowing who he was. " All this passed through the mind of Odysseus, as the old nurse touched him with the palm of her hand and felt the scar. She knew him." (222) " Both joy and sorrow filled her heart, the tears rose in her eyes, her voice chocked." (222) I like that after so many years the nurse still remembers him because of the scar.

I feel sorry for Penelopeia because she has been alone for twenty years and has had to keep herself together, while having men in the house who keep eating your food everyday.That is why the contest of the bow comes in, the leader of the sooters thought it was easy but it wasn't and he was the first to die. " Then he let fly the arrow right at Aninoos." (243) So Odysseus killed him the arrow which hit him in the throught.

Then later after that came the battle in the hall, Odyssus killed everyone except for two men. Then he hung the women that conspired against him, he said it looked like " trushes or doves caught in a net when they come to roost in the bushes." (252)

In the end Odysseus and his wife get together and Penelopeia test him to be sure it is really him. The test of the bed. Odysseus says " It would be difficult to move my bed for the best workman, unless god himself should come down and move it. I made it myself, and no one else touyched it. There was a strong young olive tree in full leef growing in an enclosure,the trunk as a thick pillar....." (257)

I liked the book and hope we get to read another one similar to it. Bye.

My Weekend

My weekend was pretty good. On friday I went to my aunt's house to make some Tamales, man were they good. I know i know, your thinking oh my god she can cook, yes i can cook. Anyways as i was saying, we made Tamales but i didn't get to eat any of them until Saturday afternoon because i had to go to my house and clean as i normally do. On Saturday night i watched a holocaust movie in my church with some of my youth group friends. Then i went to my aunts house for a supposedly sleep over party. Even though the sleeping part came a little to soon. My aunt made us turn off the lights and go to sleep like around 11 O'clock, but of course i couldnt fall asleep. So instead of sleeping i listened to my cousins cd player until the bateries died out around 4 o'clock in the morning. Then i slept on the cold very hard floor. I woke up around ten and was sore, my ribs, my back, and my shoulders still hurt. Then i went home cleaned the house again and washed my clothes and went to the store. Then on Monday i washed my parents clothes. Watched some TV, not really because there was nothing good on until 2:00 p.m. on channel 23. My novela comes on and thats pretty much all that i watch. I know it sounds boring to you guys but this was probably the best weekend i have had in these last couple of months. I dont get out much beacause my parents wont let me go anywhere without them tagging along. So i dont go anywhere instead. Alright that was my weekend how was yours?

The Odyssey

The Odyssey is a really cool book. Its mostly about a guy named Odyssius who has fought in the Trojan War and is trying to get home. As much as he tries he fails because his men get in the way.

In chapter 9, they meet the lotus eaters, Odyssius men eat some of the lotus flowers and dont want to go home. " 'As soon as they tasted that honey-sweet fruit, they thought no more about coming back to us with news, but rather stay there, and say goodbye to home.' " (102) Then they meet a Cyclops who keeps them as prisoners but Odyssius soon thinks of a plan to escape. He finds a pole hides it in poop then heats the point if the pole and stabs the Cycloped in the eye. He then ties himself and his men under the Cyclop's sheep.

In chapter 11, Odyssius is in the Land of the Dead. He talks to dead people and his mom. He asks her how she died. " ' But do tell me, really and truly, what the cause of your death? how did you die? ' " (127) In my perspective its kinda weird to think of asking someone how they died but i think i'd ask a loved one the cause of their death too.

In chapter 12, Odyssius is with Circe and she warns him of the things he will see and what he must chose. He is warned of the sirens. He msut get his men to tie him to the ship's mast. The men must not listen to the sirens but if Odyssius asks to be let loose they msut tie him tighter. " ' Tell them that if you shout out and command them to let you loose, they must tie you tighter with a few more ropes. ' " (139) And then she warns Odyssius about two routes in which he must chose. He has to chose wether to go through a route with a monster that is sort of a whirlpool or meet a moster with six heads. Either route he will lose most of his men.So he msut chose the best one.

So far the book is pretty good. Even though sometimes i think that Odyssius men should stop being selfish and trust Odyssius and not question his commands and not go against his accions.

Hello Blogers

Hello people, no one ever posts comments on my blog, see Olivia I told you I was boring. Yes I said it Im Boring! So anyways, what have you ladies and germs been up to, oh and I wont forget the guys either? me and my Skitsofraniac side are up to nothin much but ketching up with assignments. Oh you know Im lying, Will you stop interfering with my typing. Ok. Ok. How did you all like that joke. I'm lying its not a joke. I hope you didn't really think im skitzofraniac. Im lying again. If you did oh well. Alright this was just to spice it up a bit, im trying to be creative what ever that means. This pretty much all i had to say. See ya later, stop saying that you crazy double personality. LOL

I hope you've laughed alot by now. How did you like my blog entry this time Mr. Locke? Pretty Creative and Out of Wack dont you think???

Hello

Hello how you all doing? So about the PSAT test how many of you are getting nervous about passing the reall one. Im pretty sure i can pass it if i try hard enough. Im sort of bummed out that my score was sort of in the middle of the hole nineth grade score. I think i could have done better if i hadn't gotten nervous. Ussually when it comes to tests i dont do very well, and its not becasue i dont know the material that im taking it on but that i get nervous and excited that it ruins my concentration. If people watch me when i take a test they will surely see that i get nervous because i start moving my feet and going through the test really quickly. My teachers ussaully tell me not to do that but i do it anyway because i cant help it. So moving on, ow many of you guys other than me like the Odyssey? I like it a lot, I've been waiting to read it, I know you may be asking why i haven't read it if i have been eager to read it, well its because i wanted to read it in class. And yet were not reading it in class but i know other people are reading it and it makes me feel like if i have a question i can ask them. (right?) Anyways i got ot go now. See you all later.

This is only being written for the ask points.

William Shakespear

The film of William Shakespeare was a bit on the notty side. I didn't know he was a player. Will fell in love with Lady Violet Delesups or Jesups. (whatever) Violet likes plays and wants to be a player, in other words, an actor but she is not alowed to be an actor because she is well born and because she is a woman. Will and Violet met when she dressed up like a boy to play the role of Romeo in the play that was supposedly called " Romeo and Ethel the Pirates Daughter" but was in the end called " Romeo and Juiet. "

Christopher Marlo is sort of Will's rival in the play righter world. Christopher Marlo is a play righter that is well known but he doesn't right plays as good as Will.

Violet parents went out of town and will and violet where left alone in the house for about two weeks so you might have guessed what im gonna say so im not gonna say it. Then, violet and wesix were to be married in two weeks but she was in love with will and had already slept with him. So she felt bad becasue she didn't want to marry a man she doesn't love.
What is weired is that when violet was sent to see Queen Elizabeth. The queen could tell what violet had done and told Wesix what she had done. But Wesix didn't know it was Will he thought it was Christopher Marlo.

Burbage is a very horny old guy. Everytime that he came on he was doing his business with some girl. Right away you could tell that he is horny. Its funny though. Anyways Burbage own a theatre and told Will that he could do his play in his theatre because Will's play had been canceled becasue they found out that there was a real woman in the play. So they had tried to cancel it but in the end couldn't stop it from going on. The paly came out alright, Violet got to act out as Juliet istead of Romeo. She was pretty good at it too.

The movie pretty much ended pretty good eventhough both Will and Violet were married but not to each other. Wesix lost the bet that he had made about a play not being able to show the true meaning of love. Oh and Violet didn't get in trouble with the Queen Elizabeth for acting. The queen was sympathetic towards Violet because the queen knows about doing what is normally a man's job.

So i hope you guys liked the film as much as i did. Well it was alright, I know the guys wished they had seen more of the sex scenes than anyone did. I got to go now.

Hello

Hey you guys what's up? Nothin much in my world. Excuse the long time you've waited to read some of my wonderful written thoughts. So i did my R&J Project on Tuesday, it sort of went well even though it could have gone better if we had practiced more than just a couple of times. We only practiced like two times and always someone was missing. I think we got lucky in pulling it off. At first i got really nervous, i thought i was going to throw up because i have stage fright and i defenetly do not like being filmed. I repeat I do not like being filmed. But in the end it all went well. So how did yall's Valentines day go, mine was ok, i got to go to Methodist hospital on a fieldtrip. I got to be with the resperatory department. It was boring at first but then Diana and I got to go to the top floor (the 11th floor) to see baby's. We got to see how they test the baby's hearing. It was all good. I thought it was fun but of course i think everything is fun becasue i don't get out much. (my parents wont let me go anywhere, well mostly my dad, hes very overprotective, that's why we didn't get to practice our scene very much.) Anyways enough about my life in a glass box. i have got to go know. See you all very soon!!! Not too soon i hope....Chow.. Bye...Adiue...Adios...Ovua...In other words see you guys later..

Romeo and Juliet

Hello guys. So lets cut right to the chase. I like Romeo and Juliet but i think that the family's should have put their differences aside so that nothing bad would have happened.

Act 4 scenes 1-5

Friar Lawrence says " I would I knew not why it should be slowed.--(16) I think that if Friar Lawrence would have made Romeo and Juliets marrage public sooner things wouldn't have ended up with so many deaths.

Paris is sort of desperate because he keeps pushing Juliet to marry him, " Happily met, my lady and my wife." (18)

I like the way that Juliet told Paris off. "If i do so, it will be of more price, being spoke behind your back, than your face." (28-29)

" Chain me with roaring bears, or hide me nightly in a charnel house, o'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones, with reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls." (81-84) I can tell that Juliet really doesnt want to marry Paris. She rather die or be with dead mans bones where she might go crazy.

Act 5

I like that Romeo granted Paris's last wish to be put next to Juliet. "lay me with Juliet." (73)" In faith I will." (74)

Capulet tells Montegue " O brother Montegue, give me thy hand. This is my daughter's jointure, for no more can I demand." (306-308) I thought finaly there making piece.But then Montegue says, "But i can give thee more, For i will ray her statue in pure gold, that whiles Verona bt that name is known, ......" (309-311) In the end after competing on what they will give each other they make peace.

The Prince couldn't punish anyone because everything was even.

After all this drama i cant wait till we read another one of Shakespeare's books. 'Till then see you guys on the fip side.

Guess What?

I'm hurt physically because today my mom made me go with her to the post office and i was clossing the car door and i didn't move my hand (pretty stupid huh) and my thumb got slammed between the door. It hurts so bad but i didn't cry, I started laughing because it hurt and it quickly got numb. I keep messing with it but it hurts so much. I can barely write let alone type. Well im dumb don't you think? Thats a retorical question!!!! Anyways hope you get to see my numb, swollen thumb tomorrow. Try not to make fun.....

Wuts up?

wutz up you guys? Im wealling to bet that no one likes reading my blog because its boring. I bet that no one is willing to post comments because they dont know what to comment. Anyways i have nothing to do right now but reherce my lines for Romeo and Juliet. Its going pretty well but im worried that i will forget some of my lines and that i wont be a good actor. Im not a very dramatic person. I think im gonna need help on acting more then i need help memorizing my lines. Im gonna stay tommorow for tutoring to practice but my dad is in suspicion if im really gonna practice. I dont know what i did to make him doubt that i will be in class rehersing. That sometimes gets on my nerves because he wont let me go anywhere and doesn't let me talk on the phone or even email my friends or even my cousins. He thinks their a bad influence. I got to go.

Romeo and Juliet

I like the Romeo and Juliet book, but its sometimes very hard for me to understand what they are saying. Like the puns, when I read them I don't really get them. I understood this one because it was obvious, Sampson says "My naked weapon is out."(34)
I like when sampson says "I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it." (43) and then Abram asks him if he bites his thumb at them and Sampson backs away. i thought that was very cowardly.

I felt sorry for Romeo when he likes Roseline but she doesn't want anything with Romeo. Romeo tells Benvolio that he is "a sick man in sadness makes his will--- a word ill urged to one that is so ill. In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman." (210-212) "Well in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, and, in strong proof of chasity well armed, from love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed..." (217-219)

I like Benvolio because he always tries to make peace with the people around him. Like when the fight occured between Tybalt, Romeo, and Mercutio. Benvolio desribes the scene of the crime and how it happened. " Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay. Romeo that spoke him fair, bid him bethink how nice the quarrel was, and urged withal your high displeasure...." (160 ) I like that Benvolio could have lied and said that Tybalt and Mercutio killed themselves and not told that Romeo was involved but he prefferd to tell the truth.

I dont like Lady Capulet because she doesnt show motherly love. She practically gave Juliet away to the Nurse. In the way that the Nurse was the lady who fed and took care of juliet. " For i had then laid wormwood on my dug, sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall. My lord and you were then at Mantua." (28-30)

Juliet is a very smart young girl and if i were her i wouldn't let my parents force me to marry a guy that i barely now and that im practically in love or in her case married with another guy. I would have told my parents because if my parents really loved me they would accept it and not care about what other people think. " Marry, my child, early next thursday morn the gallant, youg man, and noble gentleman, The County Paris, at saint Peter's Church shall happilly make thee a joyful bride." (116-120)

I like that Lord Capulet is thiughtful in wanting to give his only child the happiness that she needs, but trying to force her to be wed to a guy she hardly knows, i think is kida thoughtless. "I tell the what: get thee to Church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face." (167-168)

That's what i think of this book right now, i may change my mind later. I got to go now. I hope your bored of reading my dull comments on Romeo and Juliet. OH and Mr. Locke i did post a comment on broters of fate but i still know nothing about this person because ive never met him before. I havent even heard anyone speak of him.

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My days

Hey guys whats up? Me nothin' just chillin' . Well i got to say something but i dont know if it will make you guys think im wired. But ill go ahead and tell ya'll. Well i've been feeling very okward because one minute i feel sad and then the next i feel happy. Manuel made a word up for what im feeling, he called it sappy.It means sad and happy for the slow people out there. Anyways ive kinda noticed that my feelings rub off on people. When im hypper my close friends get hyper too. When im sad they get sad too. Sometimes i think its cool but then when we all feel sad theres no one to cheer us up. I think all this emotional stuff comes from the stress ive been in, i hardly get enough sleep. I dont want to get into detail of what im stressing over, but lets just say its troubling me. Anyways to move off of me and on to other people. (Mr. Locke who is brothers of fate? i liked one of the posts that he made; it really caught my attention...) Anyways i just made you read this for no good reason. I got to go now.

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Great Expectations

Here's a sentence that i think summarizes what Pip feels about his whole life. "When I woke up in the night like - Camilla - I used to think, with a weariness on my spirits, that i should have been happier and better if i had never seen Miss Havisha's face, and had risen to manhoodcontent to be partners with Joe in the honest old forge." (pg. 302)

I think that Pip has a point because if he had'nt met Miss. Havisham he would have grown updifferently. But i truly believe that no matter if he was a rich person or a poor person he would have still been wishing something in his life would'nt have happened.

" o the many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that housewhen Estella lived there! Let my body be where it would, my spirit was always wandering, wandering, wandering, about that house. (334)
This reminds me of the typicall lovesick teenager, but Pip is'nt a teenager anymore.

" 'It's all right, dear boy!' said Provis coming forward, with hiss little clasped black book, and then addressing himself to Herbert. 'Take it take in your right hand. Lord strike him dead on the spot, if you split in any way sumever. Kiss it!' "(375)
This confused me because Provis hasn't even talked to Herbert and already he's making Herbert take an oath as if he were on trial or something.

" ' I am not a going to tell you short and handy, i'll put it at once into a mouthful of English. In jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail.' "(382)
This has made me wonder what he's been doing all this time that has gotten him in jail so many times. It's very hard to imagine someone in jail so much who has helped someone else become a gentleman or even have money at all.

" ' It seems,' "said Estella very calmly," 'that there are sentiments, fancies----I don't know how to call them----which I am not able to comprehend. When you say you love me, I know what you mean, as a form of words; but nothing more. You address nothingin my breast, you touch nothing there.' " (400)
I would have been heart broken if someone ever told me that.

Anyways that is all I have to say right now. What do you think Mr. Locke was that nice for Estella to clear that out for Pip?

Great Expectations

So I've been reading Great Expectations and I'm almost finished. I have past the part where Pip found out that his convict is the one who made him a gentleman. He is upset because he thinks that he's been living in a lie. He is in debt with the convict because the convict has been working in order to create Pip into a gentleman.

I belive that Pip, in a way, should be greatful that the convict has made him who he is. Even though he has been desieved in beliveing that it was Ms. Havisham who did it. I feel sorry for Pip because he loves Estella so much but she does not love him back. She is going to get married to Drummle, the person that Pip despises.

What do you guys think, should Pip forget about Estella and try to repay the convict's good efforts in creating Pip into a gentleman? That is what i believe that Pip should do, but of course the book has been written and i'll have to find that out later.

Mr. Locke what do you think is a better ending, the old ending or the new one?

Great Expectations

Thank you for welcoming me.
To answer Mr. Lockes qusetion. Yes i believe Pip should stay at it because in the end i believe that he'll sort of kinda get her attention and maybe even her love. Im almost finished with the book, i just got to read 20 something more chapters.
Anyways about the book, well ive past the part where he meets up with the guy that he fought one day he was in the Havisham house, they became best friends and live in the same house. Pip has a guy who helps him manage his money and even helps Ms. Havisham manage her money too. Pip goes to pubs with his best friend and Pip helps out his best friend by counting and making an estimate of how much money they have spent and figure out if their in deb. Then later on Joe, Pips old best friend and brother in law, comes to visit. He tells him about Pip's sister and about Biddy. Then after Joe left home Pip went zback to his old town to visit. He then goes to Ms. Havisham's house and Pip sees this gorgeous young lady, which was Estella, and then sees, the old lady, Ms.Havisham who is still in her yellow wedding dress with only one shoe on. Ms. Havisham tells Pip to love Estella.Then Estella goes on a walk with Pip in the garden and they remember some of the things they did a long time ago. Pip leaves the house and goes back to london and gets a letter from Estella saying she is going to go live near there and neads Pip to take her there because Ms. Havisham said she needs to be accompanied by him.

That is all for now!!

Great Expectations

Great Expectations is a good book about a young man who started off poor and later became a gentleman and fell in love with a young lady named Estella. Estella was adopted by a woman by the name of Ms. Havisham. Estella was cruel and hartless when it came to, the young man, Pip's feelings. Pip later on moved to London to become a gentleman and experience life there.

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