Endless thoughts...

I'm sitting in my living room on our davenport watching Top Gear with my father. It's almost midnight, and I can't sleep to save my life. I have so many thoughts running through my head right now. A lot of it is about my future:

We had an amazing talk at youth group tonight. We talked about service and forwarding God's Kingdom with what we are given. We then started talking about what our dreams were. I know what mine is. I want to attend Calvin College until I get my Bachelor's Degree. Then, I want to attend whichever Med School will accept me where I will get my M.D. Eventually I will end up in some city learning to become an Anesthesiologist.

After practicing for long enough to pay off my student loans, I'm going to leave all of it behind. I'm going to make enough money and achieve as much support from family and friends and churches as possible to assist me in starting a free medical clinic in South America. My passion in this world is to help the people, both physically and spiritually, in places that have been forgotten about. This idea came from one exceptional experience at an orphanage in Mexico. I helped a little boy with cerebral palsy who could barely walk and I taught him how to bounce a ball on the floor and catch it as it came back up. At the time, I had no idea that he had NEVER caught a ball before in his life (he was 8 years old).

After that, I knew I needed to help the forgotten people in this world and I feel led to do so.

There probably is only one or two people from Shelby High School that will ever hear from me after we graduate. I'm going to disappear from this area of the world and make my presence known elsewhere. I'm going to change the lives of people that will also change mine.

I'm going to make a HUGE difference in this world, one tiny step at a time.

WOO HOO!!!!

YEEAAAH!!! THE PACKERS ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!!!! ITS SO AWESOME!!!! I'M FRICKIN PUMPED! AND THERE PLAYING THE STEELERS!!!! ITS GOING TO BE INTENSE, LIKE CAMPING!!!! Get it? Oh and the controversial issure Friday was very interesting. Nice job guys! Cant wait for the next one!

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I hope that my op-ed essay went well. I was confused at first on how to do it but got some advice from others in class. I tried to get to my point so that I wouldn't have a problem with writing too much. I keep thinking about what I said and hope that my point came across strong. :)

Sydney

Op-Ed Essay

When I first heard about the Op-Ed essay in class I was very confused. Talking to other people in class definetly helped me out. When I started writing the essay I was thinking about the MLA format. I was having trouble with my in-text citations, and I didn't know how to do the footnotes. Luckily we went over that in class. I really found it hard to stay at the limit of 750 words. I had way over that and tried to delete alot of things I didn't need. Hopefully I did good on this paper.

Controversial issue

Tyler, Jake and Luke did a great job. I didnt know much about that issue but they made it very interesting. I thought that the powerpoint was put together really well and everything looked great. I like fridays even more now that we get to do this. Its been really interesting! Cant wait to see what next week is like.

YAY!!

So this week ROCKED!! For starters I only had three days of school and on Friday I took off for my dream college (Spring Arbor University) to audition for their music program. It went really well!! I got into the program and got a scholarship!! But anyway on to college english stuff... 1984 was really interesting. The end confused me a little at first but after a second time reading it, it really clicked and I thought it was really cool! The op-ed essay was really fun for me to write. I had a great time looking through other works and trying to find the connections. Overall it was a pretty awsome week in college english and other aspects of my life!!

Crazy Ending

I just got done reading the last chapter... what a crazy ending. I like how Orwell ended the book showing that the Party had complete control all along. A very good way to finish it. Oh, by the way good job Luke, Jake, and Tyler friday you guys did great.

Debate

Way to go Luke, Jake, N Tyler you guys made a boring topic not so boring you did a nice job and had some very interesting facts

1984 Ending

I just finished the book and i can say that the ending was enjoyable. Although it was rather depressing, orwell shows how the party was always in control of Winston, and how he is no longer the same man.

1984..The End

After reading all of 1984 I was really kind of disappointed in the ending. I was expecting to be left hanging or I figured the author would have had one last twist as the book came to a close, which in a way there was but it just seemed disappointing. I would have liked a more exciting and vibrant ending to 1984. Overall though i ended up liking the book a lot more then I thought i would have or a lot more then in the beginning. My favorite part was the chapter right before book 3 when Winston and Julia get caught. The section was the most exciting in my mind. I'm glad this book is done though and I am ready for the next novel we read.