Portfolio - Future

People have asked me my whole life, what do you plan on doing. I think everytime someone askes me that I give them a different answer. Honestly, I don't know what I want to do or be, I'm just planning on going to college to get a general education first. I have time to choose what I want to be, but I don't have time to procrastinate for college. Technically I still have at least Four to six years to figure out what I want to major in, but people don't realize what kind of pressure they put on us just by asking us a simple question like that. The kid automatically thinks "oh I have to major in something and I have to choose right now", no you have time, stay calm but don't procrastinate, there's a difference. Just relax and everything's time will come, don't rush because then you mess up, and this isn't something you can just erase or forget, it'll take years to fix something like that. Anyways I'm hoping to get into a fashion school called F.I.D.M. I've been wanting to go their for a couple years now, it's just very expensive.

Playwrights Project Play Performance Paragraph

Well today four actors came to San Pasqual and acted excerpts from our plays, it was a very interesting thing just to sit their and listen to pieces of different plays. It made you wonder what was the whole story, and what motivated them to write their play the way they did. You could tell when someones play came up because their face turned uber pale. I liked having part of my play acted out because I don't think I could have done such a great job as the actors did. I hope I know the person who wins because I would like to celebrate with them, but honestly I would really like to win, it would be amazing if my play could be acted out to people off campus, I think I'm going to continue writing plays just for the fun of it. Good luck everyone!!!

End of Year Reflection – Greatest High School Obstacle

Well to me, my greatest high school obsticle was coming here. I never really had problems with school, but this place is weird. I should be going into my senior year next year but no, they are making me do my sophomore and junior year all over again. This is dumb, so now I'm going to try to go to adult school to catch up. I am NOT going to be a super senior. I need to graduate with my class, plus my dad told me that if I graduated with my class he would buy me a car, I want to see if he keeps his word. And I want to prove him wrong and show him that even though I am behind I can catch up.

Playrights

Playwrights Project Play Completion Reflection

So today I finally finished my play. I feel pretty good about myself, but I also feel like I could have done better. It's to late now anyways. I like my play a lot but it came out different than I thought it would. I would expect myself to write a comedy or something but it came out with like a shooting scene and a couple people die and a kid comits suicide. That's not how I normally think. Anyways I feel releaved and excited at the same time. Good luck to everyone but I hope I win.

Free Write

So this weekend I was suppose to hang out with my girlfriend and have a good time, but I guess that's impossible to do here on the San Pasqual campus. Ofcourse drama has to get in the way for eveything. I would really like to know what the point of starting drama is? Is it because you think it's cool? Do you do it for attention? Are you that low to do stuff like that? have you not matured yet? Or is it all of the above, because if you start drama then it is all of the above. I don't think you realize how much more drama there is here than at a regular school, and I'm pretty sure it's because these "little kids" have nothing better to do. My weekend would have been the best weekend I've had since I've been here, but it's whatever I'm not going to let it destroy everything like this campus usually does.

Posters in the Hall

Even though most people back in the day didn't pay attention to colored men or other ethnicities, they still had some very important quotes. Since people mainly focused on the white people, they never actually captured the intelegent things that the Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and other races said. I believe that one of the most important speaches ever made was by a black man named Martin Luther King Jr. That speach will never be forgotten. So now I think we as America haved prooved a point, that it's not only the white men that are intelegent enough to write important quotes.

Week in rap

Comment-Seeking Post

Since I'm suppose to write a free blog post that will be easy for people to comment on, I'm going to write about all the drama at S.P.A. The first week I got here I kind of had a taste of the drama, but I didn't realize how intense it was going to get. Especially on the tour, my tour guide told me that this place was uber awesome. So I really wanted to come here, not nkowing that their was so much to deal with. It's like looking at a really nice car but the inside is dramatically horrific. I kind of associated myself with the wrong people at the beginning, but now I think I redeemed myself by staying home and avoiding everything and anything that could possibly involve drama. Plus I hang out with only a certain crowd that I trust. Anyways like I was saying this place seemed awesome on the tour, but it turned out to be not as great as it seemed. I should have known that it was to good to be true. I'm going to end my post with that.

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Testing Reflection Paragraph

Well I think testing sucks period. I hate school and the tests it comes with, but we have to do it so that we can get an education and a good job. Nobody ever said that I couldn't complain about it though. The main reasons I hate testing is because it gets me all stressed out, and sometimes I can't even sleep because some tests are just so stressful. Especially when everyone is depending on you to do good. When I lived with my parents they would always tell me "Alex your going to do good, I know you are" and just with those words all the pressure weighs down on you. That's the only reason I hate testing, because it causes problems.

Free Choice Blog Post

Well, today is a pretty good day so far. I hope the whole weekend continues to be like this, the week wasn't so great though. I'm looking forward to tomorrow because my old foster parents are coming. I was suppose to go on pass tomorrow but the person I want to go on pass with hasn't gotten a backround check yet so I have to wait for them to do that, which isn't so great because my friend's mom is being lazy and doesn't want to do it. Anyways I'm just going to go surfing on Sunday. I hope it's fun because I've never been surfing before. I'm definetly looking forward to that.

UnGoogleable Research Paper Website Selection Reflection

Today in class I looked up websites that I thought would be good for my research paper. Ms. Priester gave us search engines for us to use and I trusted those websites so I used them. I thoroughly looked at each website I bookmarked before I bookmarked them. When I found a website related to my topic, I skimed through it until I thought it was sufficient enough to use to write my research paper. I went through many websites but most of them weren't legit. Tomorrow I expect that Ms. Priester will tell me to start writing a rough draft of my research paper.

Third Quarter Awards Review

Today we went to an awards assembly instead of going to fifth and six period. I didn't get any awards obviously because I'm a new kid, but many people I knew got awards. They recieved awards like best behaved, most improved, the GPA of 3.0-3.5, the GPA of 3.5-3.9, and the GPA of 4.0. To me it was very boring, probably because I didn't recieve any awards. But I was happy for the people who did recieve awards. Maybe I'll be with the next group who recieves awards.

Ungoogleable Research- What I already know.

When I lived in a foster home I used to go to therapy. I had gotten caught taking extacy and my therapist told me that I was trying to medicate myself. I told him I wasn't but he said no matter how much I denied it, it was the truth. He was trying to explain to me that I was depressed but only minorly depressed. He gave me three different types of depression and mine was the lowest type. So I learned that people do illegal drugs to escape their reality or their problems. That's one thing that I know for sure. One of the main reasons that people do illegal drugs is because they're depressed.

Ungoogleable Website Evaluation

“Switch” Play Audience Member Experience

Today we went to a play at the Horton Plaza in down town. It was a good play. It talked about the way foster kids go through the foster care system. It showed very dramatic things. Their was one skit were a child was being pulled away from his mom and the mom and son were both crying. And another one were a girl was pretending to change for a foster family but she was going to steal jewelry from the family so she could runaway with her pimp. The foster girl got caught and got sent to juvie and her sister had been looking for her for a couple of years. Over all it was a depressing play. I liked it though.

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Homonyms Poems

Yesterday I watched the whether as it changed dramatically,
I tried to decide weather or not it was overcast,
I also wrote my girlfriend a poem with meaning,
She wasn't suppose to read it but she read it at last,
She wanted to know who I wrote it for,
Becuase I had already writen four,
This morning I walked through the grass,
While the dew sprayed the back of my ankle,
I was still trying to figure out what to do,
My friend told me to wait while I was lifting some weight,
It's been two weeks already since I've been here,
And Kyrhee told me I was too weak,
Yesterday was my staff's birthday so I got a piece of cake,
We ate it while watching Egypt trying to find peace,
I wonder if Egypt knows who's right,
I don't really like classes where all you do is write,
I spent like ten minuets this morning trying to figure out what to wear,
Anyways many people don't know this but I can sew,
So I can make my own clothing if I wanted to,
That way I don't have to buy anything new,
If only other people knew,
Then they could save money too,
One of my pet peeves is when my headphones knot,
The best kind of sarcasm is when you say not after a sentence,
So far their's been a lot of drama here,
I guess it just depends on what you hear,
Or what you listen to,
I need to buy a new phone even though I have two,
I never said bye to any of my friends when I left,
That's why I want a phone.

Fourth Quarter Kickoff Reflection.

On Monday we did different activities instead of going to school. I thought some of the activities weren't that great. They should have picked different sports to play. The only one I actually enjoyed was capture the flag, the other ones were boring. We spent the whole day playing sports, it was tiring. I didn't even know most of the people on my team, it was kind of weird for me, I felt akward the whole time.