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.

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“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.