A Great World.. In the Long Run.

I have procrastinated this weeks blog post till the day before its due. I haven't had any idea at all to what I could possibly write about. So last night (which was saturday) while I was getting ready to go to bed, I was thinking of things that I could write about. I figured something would just pop into my head this morning and I'd know exactly what to write about. Yeah.. nothing came to mind today. So when I woke up, I started reading the book I am in which is called The Zoo Keepers Wife. It is a World War II book. While I was reading I had this brilliant idea that I could just go online and look at all the World War II holidays and write on World War II. So that is what my topic is today.
Sixty Four years ago from yesterday, September 26th, a date was remembered in Hong Kong. In 1945 Hong Kong surrendered against their enemies.
One day while waiting for my sister to get out of soccer practice, My mom and I were in the car and she was reading a book called the Hiding Place. Best World War II book I know of. But at this time I had not read it. I was in 4th grade. A year before, my mom taught me about World War II and got me very interested on the subject of war. (not in a bad way) but I absolutly loved learning about what went on in the second world war. Because of this serisous obsession I was so interested into what the book was about. So while we were in the car, I asked. She told me that it was about the sweetest lady you'll ever read of who cared for her sister and helped hide Jews from the Nazi's, and how she eventually got caught doing so. She told me about what different things she experienced in the concentration camps and what stories she had to tell. It was an amazing talk that me and my mom had. We both cried our eyes out thinking of all the terrible things that were done to this poor lady and her sister and how they both had such a great attitude about it. Then she told me how the second world war eventually ended. And it just so happens that September 26 is one thing she mentioned, and how it was very significant to the war ending.
Last night as I was thinking about what to write and I went through this in my head, I thought how much better of a world we would all have if everyone had a better attitude about things, and always looked at the bright side of life, and never getting too head strong in their own beliefs. Because this is part of the reason most wars get started. If only we would all realize what a difference it makes when everyone is positive an can see the great in everything, the world would not be how it is now. But because it is the way it is, it is important that each one of us individually seeks to show others our own ways of being uplifting. And maybe, in the long run, it'll rub off on others which could lead to a great and wonderful cycle.

9th grade!!

This year starting 9th grade has been pretty tough! The very first day of school I went to homeroom. Duh. But the whole thirty five minutes that we were sitting in homeroom my mind wandered and I could not stay focused on what my homeroom teacher was explaining. I wasn't that scared to start 9th grade, but I knew that it would be harder and tougher than all the other grades. And worst of all, it COUNTS now! As my mind was thinking about these things I got that anxiety feeling, but it was like butterflies in my stomach times 10! I thought I was going to explode! Then, after homeroom, I went to math. The teacher spent maybe ten minutes on the disclosure, then jumped right into an assignment. It's the first day of school for crying out loud! When the teacher announced there was going to be an assignment everyone just kind of looked at each other wondering if this was really happening... homework on the first day of school? Yep, I had homework day number one of school. So after the disclosure was presented to the class, we started notes on a brand new subject! Usually, from what I remember, we would review before we got started on brand new objectives. Nope, no reviewing for us! So we took notes for, literally, the rest of class. Since we have a,b days now, classes are eighty minutes long. We, no joke, spent sixty five minutes on notes! And of course, after notes, follows an assignment. So we had a whole five minutes to do our assignment so I had homework. And a whole lot of it.So I left that class in perfect amazement, walking to my next class which was biology. Biology wasn't as bad. We talked about class rules and the disclosure for a good amount of the time, then we went right into the term project. We discussed due dates for different things and regulations of the project for the rest of the period. It was a lot of stuff to take in during one class period. Let alone I had just sat through a dreadful first day of math. Man, it sure seemed like teachers wanted us to suffer in agony the first day of school. That's sure what it came off as. Then my next to classes I practically slept through, they talked about disclosures the whole time, so it's not like I haven't heard the rules anyways. So I just decided to sleep. I didn't really sleep of course but second and third period was very boring the first day of school. When I went home the first thing I did was get out all my disclosures and have my mother sign them. Then I took a breather, got out my homework, and exercised my brain for the first time in a while. It's been three weeks since schools started. Wow, its already gone by so fast. I think by now I am pretty caught up on how things work now. I'm not in a winding mess like I was at the beginning of the year. I'm hoping this school year goes great now that I've got it figured out. Ninth grade is going to be a blast! I'm super excited, expecially for Honors English!

Hello World!