Graduation Speech

Good morning students and faculty. Today I will be talking about the amazing years I have spent in Golf Middle School. I can't believe that we will be finally graduating this year. I would like to say to all of the fantastic teachers that have helped all of the students get this far in our education. You have dealt with our whining and complaining about doing work and completing homework. Even though we might of been a little hard on you we all really appreciate you for sticking by us and guiding us through this chaos. Most importantly I would like to thank the parents of all of the students. They have always been there to support us. I can not thank you enough for being there for us and forcing us to study for tests.  This year there have been many memories made. The good ones and the embarrassing ones. For example getting a A+ on a test. One of the embarrassing ones might be tripping down the stairs or messing up REALLY bad during a Spanish game. Through out all of this we have held out and now we are here, about to graduate. On behalf of all of the students I would like to say a big thank you to everyone that was/is here to support us. Thank you for reading/listening to this speech!

Beginnings and Endings

Beginnings and endings are very important. You could begin something that inspires you to do more. Or you could decide to end something (for example a friendship). In this blog I will be talking about my goals for the end of the year of my time at GMS. One of my goals is to finally graduate and to not fail any of my classes. Which in my opinion is a pretty good goal. During the beginning of the summer my goal is to try not to kill my cousins. Before you go and freak out, let me explain. Because my aunt and my mom both work during the summer my grandma looks after us. This means that we have to be with each other for the entire day. Day..after day...after day. So yeah, these are my goals for the end of the year and for the beginning of the summer. 

Food

When it comes to the three meals I always eat breakfast but when it comes to lunch...I don't usually eat lunch (school lunch). Occasionally a couple of bites but that's it. The reason? It tastes and looks like someone mixed someones puke,spit, and a couple other disgusting things and put it on a tray and called it "lunch". For example the worst one is the pizza (which is a option every Friday) I decided I would try it. I figured "how can you go wrong with pizza right?" 

This is what it looked like:

Yes, it looked like it was made of plastic and tasted like it. Now I tend to stay away from the pizza. 

For dinner I always eat. Mostly because after school I have to go to my aunt's house because my mom works until five. My grandma babysits me and my cousins because my aunt works. So that means my grandma has to feed us. Let's just say that if I even want to skip dinner then I get a 15 minute lecture on why I should eat. We have now reached the end of this tremendously boring blog. Goodbye.   

Testing

We just finished testing. So for this blog I will talking about how not to prepare for a test. The first step of this amazing process is not to pay attention when your teacher announces that there will be a test. The second step is when you have free time not to study and go on your phone. You could also go hang out with friends or just watch TV. There are many different things you could do while procrastinating so I will leave that part up to you! And those are the steps to failing a test. Your welcome.

Schizophrenia (for Joyner project)

This blog is for a project that we are doing. During the Holocaust they did not just kill the Jewish people they were also against people that had mental illnesses. Schizophrenia's symptoms are:

-hearing voices

-delusions

-illusions

Delusions are when you believe something that is completely not true and you think it is the truth. During this time there was a study that came out that this disease could be passed down to their children. When the Nazis heard of this they started bringing people in to sterilize them. This means that they would never be able to have children. One of the survivors was in a interview and they said it was very hard to come to terms with the fact that they would never be able to have a family of their own. There are many other things that I could talk about in this blog but for the sake of time I won't. Thanks for reading!

Daniel's Story Quote Blog

“We must live, and when this is all over, we must work to make the world a better place. And if we die, we will die knowing that it was not our fault, that we did our best, and we can go to our deaths in dignity… I want you both to live…And to remember...You must choose love. Always choose love.”This is what Erika tells Daniel before leaving Lodz ghetto. This reminded me of my grandma. She chose love even though it was against society's expectations of her. She grew up very poor and so she had the opportunity to go to the city and babysit for one of her wealthier relatives. She moved there when she was around my age so thirteen or twelve. She was there all the way until she was eighteen. When she was eighteen a wealthy boy from a powerful family came to town. It was expected of them to only be with other people from the same social class. They both defied this and they got married. 

Tribute to Klaus Langer

This blog is going to be (as you can tell from the title) a tribute to a holocaust survivor. His name was Klaus Langer. He was separated from his family and never saw them again. He ended up making it out and moved to Israel but later died from natural causes. 

Home

This weeks blog is all about home. What does that mean to me?Home is a place where you can relax and have some down time. You can also have more than one home. I have two. My dad has an apartment. My mom has a small house. And that is what home means to me.

Pictures of my Life

1. This is a picture of my aunt and uncle which my other aunt drew on. This is a great example of how silly/kind of mean my family can be to each other.











2. This is a picture of my two aunts, cousins and my grandpa. This is shows that we like to go out and have fun with each other.

My Soundtrack

1. Wonder Pets
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When I was young I used to always watch the show and I like animals.

2. Veggie Tales
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I would also watch this when I was younger. At my old school they would make us sit down and watch it.

3. Dragon Tales
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My mom loves the fantasy genre and so she had me watch this and ended up being like her in that aspect.

4. Pingu
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I started watching Pingu when I was very small.

5. Oobi and Uma
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I swear that is how you spell it. I have no other words. 

Short Story

(Hello everyone. This is just a short story. Nothing in this is real! Enjoy.)
The fire was getting closer. The embers float in the air in front of me. I see the limp body of Jack. He is underneath a wooden beam. Must of fallen from the ceiling. I slowly walk to him. I lift the heavy wooden beam from his abdomen. I then swing him up onto my shoulder. I see another person staggering in the distance.
 "Hey!" I shout.
  They don't respond. I start to walk towards them. If I had to guess it would either be Will or Jace. We were the only other ones in the building. I finally reach the figure. His hood is up,the shadows created by the fire hiding his face from view. I tear the hood down from his head. It's Jace. His eyes are glassed over.
  "Who is it?"
   "It's me."
   "Liam...man what are we going to do?"
    "We have to get out before the cops come."
   Together we stagger through the debris. We reach a broken window. I lower myself down so I can boost Jace through the square opening. I swing Jack through the opening. Jace's hands reach Jack and drag him through the rest of the way. When Jack is out I push myself through the small opening. When I get up from the cold grass I relish the feel of cold air against my face.
     "Guys!"
   Its Will. When he notices Jack on my shoulder his eyes widen.
      "We need to get out of here." I say.
   The sirens split the silence of the peaceful woods. The four of us turn and start to run towards the thick wall of trees.
 
 

A New Year

It was below freezing and I was sitting in my dad's apartment waiting for the ball to drop. I hadn't fallen asleep yet which wasn't that much of a surprise. Although the fact that my little cousin was still up surprised me. We had been banished to my room because the adults wanted to watch a adult comedy movie. When it was over my uncle left and my aunt and cousin remained. This year I didn't make a resolution. I mean the only reason I made one before was because we were forced to at school. Which I'm kind of surprised they didn't make us write one up this time. Personally they don't do anything. I might stick with it for like a day then I forget that I even made it in the first place. So, my New Years was pretty fun considering. 

Movie Review

There hasn't been much coming out recently. Although just today I went to go see the newest Star Wars movie. Basically Ray is with Luke and then she becomes convinced that Kylo Ren can be converted to the light side. The last of the rebels are giving everything they have to defeat the Sith. It was pretty entertaining. Although it was about 2 and a half hours long. If you have a short attention span then it isn't a good movie for you. There are some plot twists. I would give it a 6/10. They drew out one of the fight scenes too long. Also there were just some cheesy parts. Altogether it was a pretty good movie.     

Worst Gifts

It's the holidays! You all know what that means. Giving and getting gifts. Although there are some things out there that you should NEVER give ANYONE. So I this is a list of things that you should never give anyone. 

1.  Socks

Nobody wants socks for Christmas. Or for anything in general. At least if you are going to give someone socks, don't give them those. 

2. Water Shoes

These are probably the most cringe worthy type of shoe. You never want to give anyone this. Enough said. 

3.  Gloves

Not only are they gloves.....they are yellow.

4. Underwear

This is the thing that all grandmas give their grandchildren. 

5.  Toaster

One of the most random but horrible gifts you could get. 

6. Cleaning Supplies

..........I feel bad for you if you ever get this. 

7. A scale

This one is just plain rude. 

8. Hair Things

Just don't. 

9. Spray on hair

I don't even know anymore. 

10. Ugly Sweaters

Just because it's Christmas doesn't mean you have to.  

Thankfulness

I'm sitting in my nook and as I look at all of my 116 books I think of all the things that I have to be thankful for. Here are some things that pop in my head. 
1. I'm thankful for all of my family. They have been extremely supportive of me and everything I do.
2. I'm thankful for the my house. I'm very fortunate to have a house in general some people aren't able to afford one on their own.
3. Money. It's not like I'm loaded rich or anything but I have enough for everything I have.
4. My education even though I may not like school sometimes I'm very thankful for it because some people aren't getting educations and I am.
5. The necessities. By this I mean food and water and that type of things. Without that I wouldn't really be alive so yes I'm thankful for that.
6. The internet. This gives me entertainment when things are really boring and I have nothing to do.
7. Books. Another cure for my boredom.
8. Music/creating music. I love being able to play my viola and making music. I also am thankful for just being able to listen to music on my phone.
9. I'm thankful for my phone. Which as I said previously is a way that I can listen to music. Also it let's me keep in touch with my family and friends.
10. Lastly I'm thankful for life in general. I think that one is pretty self explanatory. 
There are plenty of other things that I'm thankful for but maybe you can look at all that you have and think of things your thankful for.   

Perseverance

Perseverance. Well I have a lot of examples for perseverance. I displayed some quite recently actually. It was just yesterday when I was at a family gathering. At one point it got extremely boring because they had brought out the family albums. Thankfully I was prepared for such instances and had brought my book. When I was trying to read  the quite large group of my family started cooing (rather loudly) over a old picture. Then Ray (my uncle) started ranting about how Sprint sucks and how everyone should use Verizon. Even though I was in a rather loud environment I persevered and continued to read. Perseverance is very important. This is a life skill that you kind of have to learn at some point else you are going to end up broke and living in your mom's basement. Even if you fall you have to get up and stick with it. 

Binges

My most recent binge was Stranger Things. Which is a really good show if you haven't watched it you should. So it all started on Friday which was when they released the second season. Nichole had invited me and a couple other people to go to her house and watch some of the new season. I stayed there until eight. Because I didn't get to watch the entire season I was going to watch the rest over the weekend. I ended up having to go to dinner with my aunt and little cousin. I don't know if it had to do with something I ate or someone sneezed on me and got me sick. For the whole night on Saturday I just kept on puking. I couldn't go to sleep because every couple minutes I was puking. It was either staring at my ceiling and being bored all night or watching Stranger Things. I watched the whole season that night. I kept on puking until about three in the morning. At that point I didn't have anything in my stomach. When I stopped puking I just passed out. I woke up the next day not feeling so good. I had a fever and all that. I got to take the next day off school. 

Outsiders Comparison

If I were to be a outsiders character. I think I am more of a Ponyboy. I think this because he likes books and I also like books. Also he says that he never really talks I never really talk only really to my family I also talk to and to my friends. Our family relationships are pretty much the same. My Father who is kind of like Darry (Ponyboy's older brother) because he is more hard on me. My mother is more "fun" in the way that Sodapop is.

Orchestra

Hello! I'm going to talk about my orchestra instrument. If I haven't mentioned it already I play viola. It's a little bigger than the violin. It also sounds a bit lower. It also has one less string than the violin. We are currently working on the piece called Gaelic Castle. It's a very nice song. Only the people who have been playing for a while are playing that song. This would be my third year playing. The new people are doing really basic stuff and I get stuck having to do this song where we literally just play on one string. I guess it can be good practice though. We only have two days of practice, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I usually leave my viola in my orchestra locker after rehearsals on Tuesdays because we have it again on Wednesday. After the rehearsal on Wednesday I take it home. I can't really practice the rest of the week because of homework and stuff. So I usually practice on the weekends. Playing the viola is hard but fun at the same time.  I hope to keep doing this in high school too. 

My Identity

Hi. I'm going to talk about my identity. What makes me me is that I am a only child. Which might contribute to my huge imagination. Something that also makes me me is that I'm a non athletic  person. I'm a very noncompetitive person. Another thing is that I am very quiet. Although if I want to I can be loud but most of the time I'm very quite. One more thing is that I play instruments. I currently play viola in orchestra. I used to play saxophone. I'm also teaching myself how to play piano. This is how I identify as me!