End of the Year

Wow it’s finally here I thought that is would never come. What may you ask am I talking about? Well the last day of eighth grade. I know that I am going to cry because even though I have only been at Mariner for one year I have gotten to know all of my friends very well. I personally know that my eighth grade year was filled with tears and heartbreaks the loss of friends and the loss of family, but though it all myself and my closest friends Jabri, Donna, Shakeria, Alana, Colleen and many more have gotten closer. Not only have I gotten to know many students more I have also gotten to know many teachers very good as well. I have gotten to know what makes them tick and personally I some time use it against them. Now that it has come to an end and we are all moving our separate weather it is to new schools or new states. So I know that at on that day of our transition ceremony I will be in joys. Not just of sadness but of happiness.

I will Miss You all

Add comment June 9, 2008

Thank you

Dear Ms. Casaroto Thank you for your kind words and hearty laughs. Even though you’ve only been here for a couple of months you have help me grow into the as you say it beautiful, and smart girl you see before you today.

Many people would write this letter of appreciation to their mom or parents but for me you have been one of the most influential people in my life. And I believe that if weren’t for your kind words and letters that I wouldn’t have survived these last few months of eighth grade, because you taught me to surround myself with positive people and not to live in the past but in the present. You are a very kind person and even though most of the time I hated you for a reason unspoken you still tried to make me laugh and when I didn’t you knew that something was seriously wrong so you took the time to talk to me in private. And when I cried you gave me a shoulder to cry on and I confided in you with all my deepest secrets and you kept them from every one. So thank you for you help companionship and shoulder to cry on. Hopefully we can keep in touch no matter where life my take us so thank you once again. 

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Sickle Cell

May 16, 2008Core: 1 

Life:

 Have you ever had a friend, parent, brother or sister or even you who have been diagnosed with a life threaten disease? If you and answer yes to that question then you will understand where I’m coming from in this post.             

Well I guess I have to start from the beginning for you to understand. My little brother went to A.I DuPont yesterday just to have some normal blood workdone. When one of the specialists told my grand mother that my brother has Sickle Cell Anemia. And when I got home yester day I was told but I was like ok can’t he just take medicine for it and he’ll be alright. From the look in her face I could tell that my answer was totally wrong so I decided t go on the web on find out what Sickle Cell was and how it could be treated and how you get. 

  So I went onto Google searched it and I was amazed at what it was. Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease that is inherited from either your mother or your father. Your father or mother doesn’t have to actually have the disease they can just have the trait and when the child get both of the sickle cell traits from both parents they will have the disorder if they just inherits one they then have they trait that can be passed top their children. Well this disorder is caused when your red bloods cells don’t get enough hemoglobin (iron) so this causes the blood cells to take the shape of a sickle. This causes a lot of pain to the person with the disease as well as the person’s family. Doctors are still working on better cures fro the life taking disease. They have many today such as a bone marrow transplant and Hydroxyurea which is a drug that they are given to help thin their blood.            Well hopefully they will find a better cure so that my eight year old brother will be able to live a normal and pain free life.

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Accomplishments

May 12, 2008Core: 1 Accomplishments That Make me Better :

This year I can honestly say that I have come farther then I have in all three years of my middle school career. I have many things to be proud of myself about. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to write about them all so I am deciding to choose the two I am the most proud about.             So that brings me to my first major accomplishment that I am proud of. I have been on A and B Honor Roll every semester. And I have many things that have help me get to this goal. Like the fact that I do all my class and home work that is need and then some. I do this because I learned that your education doesn’t have to be limited to the work that you are given in class you can go to your teacher and ask them for extra credit and believe most of the time they won’t refuse t give it to you because they also want to see you succeed. Also as you can already tell I do more then expected, say the teacher say to research one thing I will do that then four other things just to make sure I did the right thing. The last thing that helped me accomplish this is the fact that I read way more then I thought my brain would allow. It just happened one day in L.A when we had to read for like the first 20mins of class at first I was like “aw…. Man why dose she have us reading so much,” but then I went to the library and found many books that I was very interested and I picked just one. That didn’t last very long, but then I decided to choose two and I read them both in the same day. And now to think back I am very thankful that my language arts teacher is such a bookaholic because now I just can’t stop reading at all. And thanks to those things I have way better grades then I did last year.            Another thing that I think is a huge accomplishment that I should be proud of is becoming a better person. What I mean by this is I have been making more mature decisions since the eighth grade. Like I have chosen better friends, because last year I chose to hang out with the girls who wear this and that, but now I hang out with the girls who are good in school and think about more then what boy they are going out with that week. I also express myself more. I use to just keep every thing inside and never tell any one when I was upset. Now I talk to my friends about my problems because I know they will understand and even if they don’t they pretend like they do. I also have become a way better role model for all my younger brothers. For example last year I rarely ever did my homework and they thought well since my older sister isn’t doing her homework then that means that I don’t have to do mine either. So that meant that all of us were going to fail. So I decided to do my homework more and after a while I didn’t mine it I sometime even helped them with their homework. With those accomplishment and many more under my belt I feel that pretty soon I’ll be able to get a job. Well maybe in another year or two or when I’m allowed to. Until then I’ll just conquer the little things.               

Add comment May 16, 2008