Ava's Blog

    Despite having only read the first few chapters of Tuesday’s With Morrie,  I’ve been able to connect with the book and its theme of living in the moment because you never know when it will end. Morrie  realized that he was going to die but instead of worrying he lived in the moment. I’m not sure as how I would react to knowing of my death, would I worry, or live my life having fun? I wish I could say I would be like Morrie, but honestly, I don’t know. If I ever decide that I would like to live in the moment here is a list of things I would like to do.   Bucket List: - Go to college - Get Married - Have Kids - Start a career in acting - Go on a cruise - Get a pet snake - Buy a house - Get baptized - Write a Book

   Overall, my third quarter wasn’t that bad. I have gained a better understanding of the problems going on in the world and different perspectives other people have. I finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird with my class and have worked really hard to gather information for my argumentative essay. Although I have made accomplishments there are also things I need to work on which I could do better on. To ensure I don’t ramble on I’ll start.    The first question I’ll be addressing is what are I think I made the biggest improvement on. I think that reading To Kill a Mockingbird proved as a challenge to me. There were times that I didn’t understand what I was reading and had to go back to reread multiple times. Even though it was hard for me to understand I think it was one of my biggest ares of improvement. Reading the book helped me to use my annotations to understand the book more and it taught me how to better understand other books that might come as a challeng...

-For sake of confidentiality I will not be using my friends name in this blog.    It was exactly 10:05 P.M. when I found out my friends mom had cancer. My heart sunk at the news, I had no idea that he was going through something so terrible. On the Friday before spring break he got mad at lunch and yelled, his friends just watched as he tried to calm himself down, it was as if they didn’t care. A few days later I found out he had caught a cold after seeing a movie and we started talking about it, the conversation then lead to something worse. He told me how he would always be the one to stop fights between his friends but whenever he was mad his friends wouldn’t say anything. He shared a part of himself that I hadn’t seen before. “And when someone talks about my mom, my heart stops beating. I try not to show anger but deep down, my body is being pulled back.” I had never been so disgusted in my life. He told me how people called her names and even said “No wonder why your ...

   I had just gotten out of the shower when I went up to my room, it was dark, almost 10:00 P.M.,but nonetheless the shower refreshed me. When I get to my room I turn the light on and wince as it hits my eyes. After adjusting to the brightness I open my drawers and shuffle through, I finally settle on an oversized shirt and fluffy blue pants with Cookie Monster faces staggered throughout. I quickly dry my hair and and get in bed. After shuffling around in my blanket I reach of my bed to grab my phone which was plugged in before I had went to take a shower. After reaching around for a few seconds I thought it must be on my bed. After spending a minute of feeling around, I grunt to myself and get out of bed, I hastily walk out of my room and into the hallway. Across from me is the room my brothers sleep in. I turn the handle ever so slightly and push on the door very slowly as to not awaken my five year old brother, Ben, who was well asleep by now.  My second brother, Max,...