Journal

The clock winked as if it was saying hello. I was sitting in class and was desperate to do anything other than listen to what the teacher was babbling on and on about. I knew that my mind was more than likely playing tricks on me and just giving something to think about in my time of desperation, but now I could not take my eyes off the clock. I figured that if I continued to look at the clock and not pretend that I was paying attenetion people would start to notice but I couldnt turn my eyes away from it. The teacher soon noticed that I was no longer concentrating on what was being said and questioned me on what she had just been talking about. Without even thinking I blurted out that the clock had winked at me and the class soon broke out into hysterical laughter. I could feel my face was truning redder by the second and couldnt believe I had let my imagination become such a distraction. I always knew that looking at the clock as an escape from calss never really turned out well but now I had proof.

Journal

I feel like everytime get home form a trip I say it was the best trip that I have ever been on, but this time I can truly say that it was the best trip I have ever had. My parents wanted to make sure that my senior spring break was one to rememeber and I dont think that I will ever forget this one. Last week I went to Mexico with my parents 5 of my best friends and 2 other parents. We stayed in Puerto Vallarta and spent the days on the the beach, by the pool or going on adventures that we had never experienced before. The one experience that I dont think I will forget is the zip line. We went up into the mountains and rode a series of 14 lines bringing us all the way to the top and back down again. Not only was it amazing to be flying over the river hundreds of feet in the air, the people working there made the experience unlike any other. I could tell that they loved what they were doing and just knowing that made everything so much more enjoyable. I dont think that I will forget the people that we met on the trip either. We stayed at a smaller resort giving us the chance to get to know other guests as well as the staff on a more personal level. I dont think I could count the number of people who said they were going to miss us when we were gone and how much they appreciated the fun and excitement we brought to the resort. I had never been to Mexico before last week and I cant wait to go back. the whole trip was more than I expected it to be and it is hard to put into words how much fun I had and how much I will miss everything that we did. The week couldnt have been more perfect. I was in a warm beautifull place with the people I love the most and doing things that I have never done before. While one may just see this trip as just another sprig break trip, I think of it as much more and I will never forget the good times I had in Mexcio.

Journal

I guess its that time of the week when I am thrown into the dishwaser to be drenched in water and heated up to the most extreme temps. As I sit right next to my fellow silverwear friends I just wait for the cycle to begin. At first it is nice to feel the warm water running over me and the steam and mist cleaning me off but after a few minutes it gets a little hot. The temperature contiues to rise and cause me and my companions to become hot hot hot. I remember the first time I experienced this and how cool I thought it was but after about 10 washes I cnat even stand the sight of this monster.

Journal

I once dreamed that I bought my prom dress and after I got it altered it was ruined. When I went back to the tailor I was expecting to see the same beautiful dress that I have bought just a few short weeks ago, but once I opened up the bag it looked completely different. I needed to get the dress shortened but they tailor went a little crazy and cut off way to much fabric. She also decided that she should change what the whole bottom of the dress would look like. She added small bits of tool making it look like a pagent dress that looked extremely uncomfortable. I tried on the dress anyway to see if it would look different on my body than on the hanger and it did but i hated it just as much. I treid to explain to the tailor that this was not what I asked for and I was not going to pay for this but she didnt want to hear it. It actually seemed like no one wanted to listen to me and didnt care that I came in with a compeletly different dress than the one that was now on my body. my mom and brought me shoes to try on with the dress but it didnt make it look any better. I was so upset that this was happening and I knew that no matter how much I hated it my mom wasnt going to get me a new dress. I was so excited to go to prom for the first time but it was not turning out to be as fun as it seemed.

Science Fiction Story

Setting- New York city. Once a city of every type of person, place and thing is now a place where everything looks exactly the same. 100 years from now.

Plot- First I will be waking up from being frozed for 100 years. I will go out in the world now to see that it is completely different from what I had know before. It takes me awhile to understand what has happened because no one really wants to talk about it or they dont know any different. I try and tell everyone that I meet that life does not have to be this way and believe it or not it wasnt always like this and if they want a change they can make it happen.

Conflict- Internal conflict with myself trying to figure out what is going on and how I am going to live in an envoirnment like this. External conflict with me and society.

Character- I will be the main character and I will meet people along the way someone from this time that doesnt know any different and someone that is old and knows what the world was like before.

Journal

I wish someone had told me at an earlier age not to put all my eggs in one basket. Growing up I was the type of person to have one really close best friend and occastionally talk to others but mostly just hang out with one person. I never thought that it would cause so many problems and I never knew that it would have such a great impact on my life and future freindships. Throughout middle school I hung out with one girl and didnt ever hang out with anyone else. We didnt really spend any weekends apart and I closed off myself to everyone else. I thought that I could trust her with everything and we would be friends forever but the young girl that I first met was not the same girl I was friends with towards the end of our friendship. She never thought she did anything wrong and I was always putting more into the friendship than she was. I knew that it wasnt fair for me and the relationship was not healthy but I couldnt stand the thought of losing the person that I thought I was the closest to. As my parents watched the friendship unfold they finally told me that I should not just close myself off to just one person and not to put all my eggs in one basket but for me that really didnt mean much. It wasnt until I found out that she did something behind my back that no supposed bestfriend would do, that I realized that my parents were right all along. Although going through all of that was not very easy I have learned from my mistakes and I will always follow the advice of not putting all my eggs in one basket.

Science Fiction Story

In my science fiction story I am going to write how society has destroyed itself. I am going to write about how we all have lost our sense of identity and we no longer communicate face to face. The government has driven all of its citizens against them and everyone is fighting for the ultimate power. Talk about how I have to now get used to the way of life as it is now (in 100 years) and write about how the adjustment is something I have never experienced. society has caused the world to fall apart and it wont ever be the same.

Journal

And as I sat at the new coffee shop I had just discovered I didnt think that I could feel more out of place. I was new to this town and ever since I had gotten here I felt as though I did not belong. I was from a small down and this is the first time that I have been in a city this size and now I am living here. I am used to the clam and slow moving way of life out in the country and I havent quite adjusted to the fast paced and never ending speed of city life. As I walked around this new town I felt that everyone was just looking at me knowing that this was not in a place where I feel comfortable. As I sat at this coffee shop, I felt for the first time since being here that I was not being watched or judged for my lack of knowledge of this part of town. However, I was once again going to feel like the outsider I was. Apparently seeing someone drive down the road in a car that looks like a shoe is normal here but I have never seen anything like it. As the man and his car passed everyone on the street they didnt seem to notice the crazy sight, however I couldnt take my eyes off of it. In this town I have seen things that I never thought I would and I wasnt quite sure that I could get used to this.

Journal My Journey on a Pirate Ship

As I opened my eyes I felt a cool breeze and mist coming off the water and I wasnt quite sure where I was. It took me awhile to wake up and realize that I was aboard a pirate ship. I looked around dazed, confused and no quite sure how I had gotten here. I wandered around the boat and noticed that I had not been taken hostage aboard and ship of dirty mean pirates but I was on a ship where my friends family and I were all pirates. I didnt really understand what was going on and as I asked my mom what we were doing out here, she looked at me as if I were crazy. She told me that we had been out here for about a month and we were getting close to reaching our destination. As I sat back and watched everyone work it seemed like they had been doing this forever and as I had just found out they had been doing this for quite sometime. However I was still confused as to how I could not remember getting out here and I did not remember that all my friends and family were pirates. It seemed like I had been sleeping the whole time that we had been traveling and that I was waking up from a coma. I didnt remember boarding the ship and setting sail in the open water. As I walked around it was like no one really noticed that I was there. They were all to busy doing their jobs and enjoying the company of one another.If only I could remember how I had gotten here.

Journal

Everytime Tom walks past this picture that hangs in his hallway he just smiles to himself. He had been growing things and winning prizes and money for how large he could get them but he never once expected he would one day win a prize for the largest rabbit ever grown. He prided himself on all of the awards he has won but this win was sweeter than any other. When he started his rabbit farm he was mostly doing it out of enjoyment and love for the animal. However, he soon realized that with the right enviornment and food plan he could get his rabbits to grow to larger than normal sizes. After discovering that he could grow such large rabbits he began to look up contests that would allow him to show them off. Once he found the perfect contest to enter he began feeding and caring for his quickly growing rabbits. As the contest came closer and closer he noticed that this rabbit was one of the biggest he had ever produced and would have been surprised if he did not win an award at this contest. As he walked into the contest and sized up his competition he saw that there was no rabbit even close to the size of his and that this prize was his. As to be expected he did win first prize and actually broke to world record for the largest rabbit. That day was a day that Tom would never forget and hopes to experience again.

Journal

As the morning sun rose, Edward was expecting it to be just another passing day. What he didnt know is that today he was going to lose something that meant the world to him. He had lost bella once before and could not imagine going through that again although today he didnt have a choice. As he drove to her house on his way to school he could tell that something wasnt quite right. It could have been that the weather man had said it once again was going to be and cloudy and gloomy day when today actually seemed to be turning out quite nicely. As he reached Bella's drive way, he began to wait for her like any other day. After a good amount to time passed Edward ventured in to see what was taking her so long. As he knocked on the door he heard nothing coming from inside. This was not normal. He once again waited for Bella to arrive at the door but no one was to be found. After waiting for a while Edward slowly opened the door calling out for anyone that could have been inside. He didnt hear anything and he began to sense the fear creeping into body. He ran through the whole house hoping to find Bella still asleep somewhere but after 10 mins of searching she was nowhere to be found. He could not believe that Bella was gone again and he feel to the floor.

Journal

The life of a peice of paper is one that is usually short lived and usually comes to a tragic end. As I look and that mean machine I realize that I am one of the vicitms of another cruel and unsusal death. I have only been in use for a short period of time and I feel that I was not used to my full potential. These humans just don't understand how hard it is to be a peice of paper. I just came out of the printer a week ago and I am already being shredded up into a million peices. As the rest of my paper companions are being taken to the machine one by one, I can still hear thier cries over the loud and vicious thing. I sit here thinking to myself how much good I could have done if I was just picked up by a writer of a best selling novel or by a kid who wanted to make an art project for their mom. But instead I am here in a pile of a bunch of paper waiting for my fate to be sealed like the rest of them. As the load is getting lighter and lighter I just calm myself down and embrace the fact that I will soon be with my friends only this time in a bunch of little peices. Right as my friend on top of me was lifted off the stack, I hear the machine die down and soon come to a stop. The human that was told to shred us up was now told to do something else so I guess my luck kicked in right in time. Well for today at least.

Journal

Marian Bartsch and Joey Catsalgi met on his first day of work and by looking at both of these men you would not be able to tell that growing up their lives were completely different. Marian grew up in a very affluent part of town and all through his life had pretty much everything handed to him. He never once had to worry about not getting what he wanted and very rarely heard the word no. Joey on the other hand has worked harder than most to got where he is today. He lived in the poorest part of town and grew up helping provide for the family. His dad died shortly after he was born and he grew up helping his mother care for the other kids in their family. He very rarely complains about what he has gone through and sees everything that has happened in his life as a blessing and life lesson. Although they both had very different educational experiences their skills are almost identical but the way the approach work is totally different. Joey looks at every day as a way to better himself and live the life now that he was not able to live as a child. Marian however, looks at work as a boring, redundant taks that just needs to be completed and goes home every day to a very large house and everything that he has ever wanted.

Final Poem

Its time to let go
and fall into the world of the unknown.

It is time to break out of my shell,
escaping the big four walls that act as a cell.

It is time for me to spread my wings,
Take flight, and experience new things.

It is time for me to allow the change,
no matter how unexpected or strange.

It is now time for me to go out on my own,
embracing how much I have grown.

It is time for me to stop worrying about all the strife,
and really start to live my life.

Journal

It is hard to say what I would want to do if I only had one more day to live but I guess I would have to say that no matter what I was doing I would have to bring along my friends and my family. I would surround myself with the people I love and do things that I have never done before. I would love to go back to New York and go shopping. If I have the money to spend why not spend it on something that I love. I would also really want to perform on a big stage infront of thousnads of people. If I only had one more day to live why not spend it doing the things I love and be with all of thoes that I love. I would also love to do something that would inspire others. I hope some day that I will inspire someone like many have inspired me and if I only have one day to do it I would. If I had the time I would also want to go some place warm and just enjoy the beach and the sun. I would also really like to do something like sky dive or cliff diving. I wouldnt really have much to lose so why not do something with out really having much fear.

Villanelle Poem

Slowly and sliently falls the tear,
her heart feeling unriveled pain,
her body paralized with fear.

Everything around her seemed anything but near.
Out of the sky feel the rain,
Now making it impossible to tell if it was rain or a tear.

The puddles stared back at her like a mirror.
telling herself she must stay sane,
as the darkness added to her fear.

The rain and her heart were all she could hear,
hoping her stregnth would soon be regained
she wiped away the last tear.

She knew she shouldnt have let go the one she loved so dear,
She really had nothing left to gain
but now she is left alone full of fear

off in the distance she saw the pier,
the rain was starting to wane,
on her cheeks she no longer felt tears,
ashamed she was the creator of her own fears.

Journal

Favorite Memories
- Going to Europe
- Going up to the cabin when I was younger
- Going on the New York trip for choir
- Going to soccer camp when I was going into 6th grade
- Having solos in BRAVO
- Meeting bands (Maine, Every Avenue, and All Time Low)
- Winning state championship for soccer and going to regionals
- Hanging out and getting to know my D.P. group

Etheree Poem

Love,
open,
to someone
who loves you back
without conditions,
is what everyone wants
but not what everyone finds
stop looking and love will find you
when you least expect it love is found
but a mothers love is always just cause

Lyrics

Song Title: Swim

Artist : Jack’s Mannequin

1. Why did you choose this song? Why is it important to you?

I chose this song because it is an inspirational song and I really love the message that it sends.

2. What is the story in the lyrics?

He wrote majority of this album while he was battling cancer and this is just one of his songs that portrays his struggles. In the song in particular he is talking about how we should never give up no matter what life throws at us and even when things get hard we have to continue and follow our dreams

3. What is the structure?

Most of the song is free verse but randomly throughout the song he adds in some A.B.A.B

4. What is the emotional tone or mood?

Inspirational and hopeful.

5. What is the message or lesson?

No matter how hard life gets or what is has to throw at us we can’t give up and we have to continue to follow or dreams

6. What is the intention of this piece of music?

Inspire the listener.

Acrostic Poem

Emily Shea

Emily or also know as moe

Makes every moment one to remember.

Is a passionate and caring young woman 

Living the life that she loves

Year after year.

Singing and soccer, are her favorite past times

Having enjoyed every opportunity that has been presented to her 

Enjoys everything life has to offer

And always follows her heart. 

 

Journal

If I could change the world starting with government I would change the people that are in the office. I feel that most of the political figures are more intrested in boosting their social status then really helping out the people of their country. I feel that more times than not politicians are too caught up in making shady deals and spending money that we dont have to really care about the poeple. If I could change the world I would make sure that everyone was created equal. Although we are getting more accepting as the years have passed, I feel that there are a lot of people who are too closed minded. They dont accecpt people that they see are different from themselves and are too quick to judge. I feel that sometimes people spend too much time judging those that are not like them and not enough time really living and enjoying their life. In my perfect world I would love to see everyone being kind and caring to everyone else. I cant stand when people are outwordly rude to others and do not respect their ideas and opinions. I think that people also need to spend less time trying to convince people to believe what they believe and just live their life they want to. It is not fair to tell people that they must believe one thing or another because no one is ever right 100% of the time. I think the world would be an all around better place if everyone stopped caring so much about what others are doing and try and make themselves the best person that they can be.

be the change you want to see in the world.