As we are moving along in class, we are reading Ishmael Beah. Reading this novel is making people think that they are surprised that he is still alive. He went through a lot of violent acts in his childhood and people may say he is lucky to be alive. In that case, people could say the same for me because i grew up in a lot of rough neighborhoods. Growing up i witnessed shootouts, drive-by shootings, and know people that committed suicide. My uncle got killed by the police and a lot of my family is locked up in jail or prison. Seeing this in my life since i was in elementary, makes me not want to trust people and has my awareness up at a maximum. I am now in college trying to make something of my self that they didn't and am going to.

The Art Museum

Going to the Art Museum with the class last Monday wasn't too bad. I thought it was going to be boring so i was already going in with a attitude ready to leave. My attitude begun to change when we started looking at the artwork and hearing the stories behind the paintings. The Painting of St. Lawrence was the one i liked the most. People was hold St. Lawrence over a fire burning the fat from his body. It was a really good painting that you have to see to understand it. By the end of the class i felt different about going and realized it helped me with a little history.

slacking in class

when you become a college student and you want to graduate on time, dont slack!! when you slack, you begin to fall behind on your work and it becomes hard to catch up with the crowd and be back on track. one of the reason is because you are always doing something new in class everyday so there is no time to do your work in the class. another reason is that you have other classes with homework that you have to do and you might not have enough time to squeeze in the work that you are trying to catch up on. while you are trying to do that, you cause more time to pass by that you could have been working on it or your other work, but you couldnt because you were busy worried about when and what time you was going to do it. that is when you start procrastinating, then you fall even more behind so i advise you to try to never fall behind in your school work if you want to be headache free and successful.

a new event

i am going to be going to the field hockey game on Tuesday Sept. 22 because it is something i never gone to before. i am assuming that it is going to be boring and make me leave, but i am giving it the benefit of the doubt and going anyway. i don't know the rules or anything to this sport, but i am going to experience another sport. i am also doing this for our assignment in class. this is going to be the event that i go to because i can't really imagine myself going to one of these games for fun.

Memorial Weekend

The Friday of memorial weekend i was on mi way to Michigan where i went to high school. I was going to visited my mother and some friends. When i got there, i went home to see my mother, then i went to the school that i graduated from to see some of my friends because they had a game and was about to leave. Me and four other friends followed the bus to watch the hard faught game that they loss by four points. One of my closest friends almost got the winning touchdown, but got tackled at the two yard line after breaking about five tackles for twenty-two yards. After the game, we went to the party ten minutes from where i lived, but left early because it wasn't many females there. Saturday we chilled all day reminiscing about what we used to do before i left. I left Sunday to come back to Muncie and got s speeding ticket go 88 mph. After that i was just happy when i got home because that was probably the longest Sunday i ever had.