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.