Africa

Reading the Africa peom on class has inspired me to share a poem I wrote a few years ago.
I don't remember what I called it... I was somthing along the lines of "Forgivness" or "Ultimatium"


We close our eyes, the sky is black, we open our eyes, and the sky is blue.
The Sunflower danced, the Sun shines, the Birds sing
We remember what we did...
It cries pedals, the Sun hides, and the trees sway.
That's when we fall, fall into the demise of sin
As we fall, we open our eyes, the sky is Red.


Basicly your dreaming, i.e. the sky is black, then you dream about being in a fantasy world of peace and prosperity and the sky is bright blue.
Everything is happy, but then you think of all the bad things you did that day.
Your negative actions have effected everyone and everything, even the Earth.
You realize it is your fault, and fall to the ground in grief.
And as you fall, you dream ends, it is morning, a new beggining and the sky is red with the blood or you sins or red as a warning.  I was never too sure which would be best reason to make the sky red.

I was pretty proud of this poem, so I saved it!  : )

In other news, my sister didn't have money for lunch today, so she came to me for help.  I didn't give her any money arguing that I won't be around to save her all the time and that she should find a way to solve the problem on her own (as I did when I was a freshman).  However she did it, she got a lunch, but she is still sore about me "abbandoning" her.  Was this bad judgment on my part, or a wise move?

New Trimester

I am very excited that we have started a new trimester. I am extremely glad that Ms. Stariha is back and seems so eager to teach us everything that we may have missed the first trimester. I really have been enjoying the conversations we have been having as a class discussing the different prompts and their meanings. I also like how we are now using more of the literary terms like diction. I heard from a classmate that the novel The Poisonwood Bible is a great story in which we become fully engaged as a reader. I am hoping that I don't find this story confusing and that I do well on the upcoming tests.

Bored @ 1:40 p.m.

So, I'm just sitting the library wondering what to blog about. Then it hits me... BAM!haha not really. Anyways, this rhetorical paper thingy is kind of freaking me out. I'm not very good at deciphering a paper. So this is going to be quite the challenge for me. I hope I really learn how to not procrastinate this Trimester, but I'm not holding my breath. I feel like I'm already checked out; done with high school. I only have three classes and get done by 12:30 everyday. So it feels like I'm already in college, or at least not high school anyways. I am just completly lost; with the paper, the new book, and just school in general. I hope these days go by quick because I really need to get out of here.