I'm College Bound???

When our grades were handed out today, I wasn't surprised at all. All A's... who would of guessed it? It didn't come at all of a surprise, because I've gotten those since sixth grade. It also didn't surprise me at all when my table mates "hated" me because I got all A's. They don't actually hate me of course, they're just jealous. It never comes as much of a surprise when people are jealous of me and my grades. I can't even really say that I was really all that excited when I saw my grade point average. I wasn't at all disappointed either. Getting good grades has just become automatic for me. Not trying to be rude here, but it's hard for me to believe that people don't get good grades.

I didn't learn much about the school that I would like to attend. There aren't even any schools that I really want to attend at all! It's hard for me to believe that I'm going to be going to college in a few years. I don't have much that I want to do with my life. The things that I want to do, like Pastry Arts or something in the movie business, it's almost a raffle to try and get into those things. I learned that I should definitely learn what I want to do in my life, and learn what college that I want to go to.

I think that the next step of what I have to is exactly what I just said. I need to learn what I really want to do with my life, and what college I want to go to. But in the more short term, I think all I really need to do is keep my A's. Other short terms things that I really feel that I need to get started on are things like community service, and extra cirricular activites. Things like thise don't only look good on a college application, but they also look good on job resumes. There aren't many things that I can think of that I can do to keep my A's. I just need to keep doing what I'm doing.

Sensory Writing

The time before I stuck my hand in the mysterious liquid was a frightining experience, almost like a scary movie. As I waved my hands around like a blind man, ready to touch the material, Diana stuck my hand in the vase. And as soon as my hand went in it, I felt like I was sticking my hand in thick, watery, goop. It wasn't a solid, but it didn't go every where like a liquid. The firm slime made me gag. And once I took my hand out, it stook to my hand like peanut butter, but thinner. While I had my hand out, it was the kind of material that just made you want to shake you hand to get it off. The gross chunks were like ice cubes in a drink, sticking out and making me gross out. And as I did that, the goopy liquid went flying and stuck to other people! (Sorry!) After that liquid came off of my hand, it made a film of slime on the floor, making my shoes slide. It made me think of a goop monster from a 1960's movie, jiggling all over the place.

Sound is Art

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The sounds starts as a high pitched ringing, like the one a quite cicada makes in the middle of the night. It slowly becomes even more high pitched, piercing your ear drums. The sound becomes like a liquid, splashing around in the air. The water becomes ray gun, it's pitch wavering to and fro. As this happens, a slowly humming begins to build-up. It sounds like a fan, or a quiet motor. The high pitch becomes almost like a high speed bouncy ball, going here there so fast. The high pitch slowly becomes slightly deeper, and then comes back again. The ringing becomes like a trickle of water, splashing just slightly. The humming slowly dims as the ringing becomes more frantic, until it becomes almost a solid ring. The humming wavers in and out of existence, like the buzzing of a fly in a ear. The ringing becomes a liquid again, and then back to the high pitch. The high pitch slowly fades to nothing. The whole time, it's not organic. It's electronic and robotic.

Mexican Whiteboy 3

In the book, Danny talks about how he's a white boy among the Mexicans, and a Mexican among the White people. This topic is brought up a lot of times in this book. They talk about how it's such a terrible experience, it's very isolated. I've kind of had to deal with situation in a couple of my past school. The way it feels is terrible. I was the one of the only white kids in my school. And they separated me like they do in the book with Danny. It was a hard thing to go through. They also knew that I acted like a stereotypical white guy too. I was a nerd. One of the biggest you would find. It was a terrible isolating experience. They haven't really gone through how bad it really was at Leucadia, and I haven't really seen how much isolation he has at National City. I have been isolated in almost every single one of my schools, mostly because I was a nerd or a geek. I was able to get through it with flying colors.

I think the part that really makes this book seem like my life is that he really is isolating himself. I think that in my other schools, I really isolated myself. I felt that because of my race that the people wouldn't want to be my friend. It was also a little bit because they wouldn't have any of the same interests as me. Remember, I was a total nerd. In like a sea of "cool" people. But I think what I learned is what Danny needs to learn. Making yourself isolated won't help you at all. If you say that you are isolated, then you're just going to be more isolated. You need to burst out of your bubble, and make yourself a social butterfly. And just because you aren't the same race as somebody doesn't mean that you can't be friends. That should never be the case.

I think that what happened with me is going to happen with Danny as well. He'll be able to jump over the racial barriers that he has to deal with. Eventually I was able to make friends like he will most likely be able to do

Mexican Whiteboy #2

During this section of reading, Uno feels regret for punching Danny. It's hard to see at first glance why he would actually feel any regret. You can tell that Uno is a pretty bad dude. Like when he's smashing up windows and things like that. He doesn't feel any regret when he's doing that. Some might think it's because of the threats Uncle Ray gave him. But I think that the reason that he regrets doing this is because he knows that Danny didn't mean to hit Manny in the face. And he knows that he knew that when it happened too. He feels regret because he knows that the only reason that he actually hit Danny, was because he was just a sore loser. Just because Danny was better than him, he decided to hit him. Also, I think another reason that he feels regret was because Danny didn't rat him out. Danny took the blame for himself, getting respect from everybody else as well.

Also in this section, we learned about Danny's troubles playing in front of the boys from Leucadia. But he doesn't really have trouble playing in front of the National City people. One reason I think that is is because he knows that they're probably not as hard about how well you play as the kids from his private school. Another reason I think it is is because his cousin Sophie lives there. We've seen how much she protects him. That makes him more comfortable, I think. Another reason that I really think that he really doesn't have trouble playing with the National City kids is because of Liberty. She makes him want to do well. But these aren't the only reasons. I think that there are plenty of different reason that all pile up into him not being afraid.

Mexican Whiteboy Post 1

Today in the book, it talked about how Danny came to live in National City with his sister Sophie. After watching kids playing Home-run Derby, He finally came to play himself. The person up before he went up, another kid named Uno had gotten 6 straight homeruns. When Danny came up to bat, he was hitting them farther and more often than Uno. Out of frustration, his brother, Manny, came up to taunt Danny and try to get him to fail. On the back swing of his hit, Danny accidently hit Manny in the face.

This made Uno really frustrated. He went up to Danny and floored him, knocking him out. The way the book wrote it, it made it seem like Uno hit him because Danny hit Manny in the face. But I don't quite think that's why Uno decided to hit him. I think that Uno was frustrated that the new kid was so much better than him. He's a bit of a sore loser. Danny hitting it twice as much as he was! I also think that the reason he hit him was also shown a little bit before he actually hit him. When Uno threw a ball right at Danny before he actually hit him. I think that really showed how Uno feels about Danny beating his record.

But I don't think that it was only because was doing so much better than he was. The book really showed how much Uno really likes Manny. He did the chicken dance, and he really liked how Manny would cheer him on. The author even kept mentioning about how Uno kept enjoying Manny's noises and his "Hey batter batter swing!" 's. It also really showed how angry he was when he saw that Danny was hit. It also showed how caring he was to help Manny when he was hurting.

I think there wasn't just one reason why Uno hit Danny. I think it was just a mix of the bad things that were happening that day.

Who Am I?

This is a very tough question for me to answer. Who am I? "I'm Batman". This is a very good way to start a post answering the question who am I. Taking a quote from Batman, you could maybe tell that I'm a totally big nerd: I love video games. I love an occasional comic book every once and a while. And I LOVE Star Wars. Anything that involves lasers, super powers, or anything geeky I can immediately say: "What are you talking about? I'm interested."

Another thing that I am is a 4.0 student. I have gotten all A's every semester in middle school, and I don't plan to stop in high school. I always get my best grades in math and science subjects. Even though I may not be the best student in the class with subjects like history, English, or Spanish, I always try to challenge myself in every subject.

I have a very outgoing personality in and outside of school. I'm always trying to make friends, even though sometimes I may be a little shy. Whenever I can, I love to make people laugh. I do try to respect when and when not jokes are appropriate though.

I'm also a baker. Whenever I have some free time, I try to bake a new kind of pastry or dessert. I also have a pie business. I'm slowly expanding, hoping to get more customers each year. I'll also sometimes like to cook other kind of things, like regular food. But, who needs regular food when you eat cakes and pies? When I go to college, I hope to take courses in pastry arts and business as well. I hope to be able to one day start a pastry shop of my own.

It's hard to be able to right down who exactly you are on one page. But I feel that these are the basic ingredients of what make a Nathan Kling.