McCandless Project
For my McCandless project I decided to walk a different way to class. I also did not tell my friends that I usually walk to class with about what I was doing. First period I was talking to my friend as the bell rung and when leaving the class I turned a different way, my friend called me and said something like what are you doing and gave me a weird look. It was hard for me to not tell her what I was doing because I didn’t want to hurt her feelings but I kept my mouth shut. Second period wasn’t any better, this time I had two friends that I usually walk with to my next class. I had just met them this year and we were just becoming friends so it was even worse. I didn’t want them to be like what is she doing, is she going the long way just to ignore us. I was so close to just walking with them and then just walking a different way for the rest of my classes. The rest of the day every time I walked the way I “wasn’t suppose to” people gave me weird looks. I would have never thought that something as simple as that would cause a reaction out of people. I usually find myself just conforming to society. Just doing what everybody else does to eliminate the risk of embarrassment. This project made me look at Chris in a new way. From what I’ve read it doesn’t sound like that kind of stuff scares Chris and I really admire that. Sometime I do wish I had the confidence Chris does. The confidence to be myself and not being scared about what people are going to say or what they will think about me. In high school it’s really hard. People always say oh ya I don’t care what people say about me but really they do. Everyone does and it just makes everything hard. Like I said before it’s crazy what people will react over. Like everything has to be a certain way and if it’s not people will react. High school is a really fragile place. Mess with the balance of things and people will freak. That’s why I think Chris is really admirable he knew people would talk but he didn’t care. He didn’t stick to the “social norms” which i think is really cool because it would be so hard. I really liked this project because it showed me a lot and it was also just a fun experiment
Friday, November 7, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Quotation Post
The quotation I chose was "Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon." I chose this quote because when looking for quotes this one stood out because this is how I want to live mu life and it's insperational. This quote represents me very well because every since I was little all I've wanted to do is travel and see the world. I don't want to be one of those people who stay in one place their whole lif. I want to experience everything. If I lived my life by this quote I would always be traveling. I would love to backpacking across Europe and see something new every day. I would never get bored and I would honestly love to do that. The I idea of seeing new things and traveling to places I've never heard of before excites me. It would be a constant learning experience!
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Short Story Rough Draft
Sarah Arocha
Mrs.Belden
Honors English I
6 October 2014
Forever
It was just a normal Monday in December. She was almost done with dinner; pancakes bacon and eggs. She knew it was his favorite thing to come home to after a long day at work. She set the table and looked at the time 5:45 he should be back any second now she thought. So she got out one of her favorite books and started to read. 20 minutes had passed before she looked at the time again. That was weird she thought he was almost always on time. She assumed it was just traffic so she waited a little longer, then she got the call. It was the hospital the women on the phone sounded very nervous as she said
"Excuse me is this Allison Jeremy Callahan's fiancé"
I answered quickly without hesitation
"Yes this is she, is there something wrong"
"Well" her voice waverd.
"I'm.. I'm afraid Mr. Callahan has been in a pretty bad accident you should want to come right away, I'm so sorry."
Ally dropped the phone fear consumed her body as she sprinted to the car. When she finally got to the hospital it was crazy, as she expected she was listening to the news on the way up to find out more. As it would turn out it was a pretty huge accident. A semi had lost control on the icy highway and flipped over. There were many people being rushed to the hospital from the accident like Jeremy. She checked in with one of the nurses and she led her down hallway after hallway trying to explain to her his condition but she couldn't focus all she could think about was the moment, the moment he had asked her to marry him. They had been dating for year now and it had been the greatest year of her life; they did everything together.
Jeremy was nervous when he would pick her up she would be wearing her blue gown and cap he could just imagine her. They would both done with college and could go wherever they wanted. Jeremy knew this along with something else. He loved her, he knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. In his eyes she was a ball of sunshine, radiant, and never dull. She always knew how to have fun and make him smile. She was also beautiful she had long light brown hair that came to her waist olive skin and bright green eyes. He thought he was the luckiest guy on the planet for a girl like that to even notice him. So lucky infact that he wanted that treasure to be all his. He would propose that night.
She had a feeling he would propose soon, whenever they were together it was the best feeling in the world. When he picked her up from school that day he looked nervous. His hands were sweaty and he was biting his lip, she knew this was the day. She tried to make conversation he answered but with short answers as if to try and keep his cool. When they reached their destination she could still tell he was still nervous fumbling with the map swearing under his breath. She took him by the hands looked into his eyes and said
“Yes”
He looked at her confused and she laughed
“Yes, my answer is yes I will marry you”
He blew out a gust of air the smiled.
“Thank god" he said with a smile
They hugged and he pulled out the ring.
She would remember that moment forever and all she could think was he had to make it he had to be there for her wedding day and everything els after that; she needed him. The nurse said they were almost there, her heart was beating out of her chest as she tried to keep calm for him. They approched the door and with one swift motion it was open and she saw his face. His hair dark and thick his fair skin and blue eyes but his face was unrecongnizable. Covered by cuts and bruses it was a horrific sight. She felt her eyes start to burn with such intensity as she held back sobs.
“Hey Ally” he said through coughs
She couldn’t speak not if she wanted to hold it together. As he tried to roll to his side the doctor whispered in her ear
“He really doesn’t have a lot of time left dear, we did everything we could”
She covered her mouth quickly and wiped the tears that were starting to drop from her eyes. When Jeremey spoke again his voice was light as if he had found peace with the situation and he said
"Listen Ally I know the state I'm in is not good and that I won't be able to see how beautiful you look on our wedding day or be able to start a family with you and I'm so sorry for that, but I want you to know that you were by far the greatest thing to ever happen to me and the fact that I get to die knowing I was loved by you, well that is a fulfilled life. I love you Ally"
Now she couldn't stop it, the tears came fast and hard. She was smacked in the face by reality. She walked slowly towards him and put her arms around him she stayed like that until the beeps started getting slower and slower and then with tears streaming down her face and voice shaking she said
"And I will love you forever"
Mrs.Belden
Honors English I
6 October 2014
Forever
It was just a normal Monday in December. She was almost done with dinner; pancakes bacon and eggs. She knew it was his favorite thing to come home to after a long day at work. She set the table and looked at the time 5:45 he should be back any second now she thought. So she got out one of her favorite books and started to read. 20 minutes had passed before she looked at the time again. That was weird she thought he was almost always on time. She assumed it was just traffic so she waited a little longer, then she got the call. It was the hospital the women on the phone sounded very nervous as she said
"Excuse me is this Allison Jeremy Callahan's fiancé"
I answered quickly without hesitation
"Yes this is she, is there something wrong"
"Well" her voice waverd.
"I'm.. I'm afraid Mr. Callahan has been in a pretty bad accident you should want to come right away, I'm so sorry."
Ally dropped the phone fear consumed her body as she sprinted to the car. When she finally got to the hospital it was crazy, as she expected she was listening to the news on the way up to find out more. As it would turn out it was a pretty huge accident. A semi had lost control on the icy highway and flipped over. There were many people being rushed to the hospital from the accident like Jeremy. She checked in with one of the nurses and she led her down hallway after hallway trying to explain to her his condition but she couldn't focus all she could think about was the moment, the moment he had asked her to marry him. They had been dating for year now and it had been the greatest year of her life; they did everything together.
Jeremy was nervous when he would pick her up she would be wearing her blue gown and cap he could just imagine her. They would both done with college and could go wherever they wanted. Jeremy knew this along with something else. He loved her, he knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. In his eyes she was a ball of sunshine, radiant, and never dull. She always knew how to have fun and make him smile. She was also beautiful she had long light brown hair that came to her waist olive skin and bright green eyes. He thought he was the luckiest guy on the planet for a girl like that to even notice him. So lucky infact that he wanted that treasure to be all his. He would propose that night.
She had a feeling he would propose soon, whenever they were together it was the best feeling in the world. When he picked her up from school that day he looked nervous. His hands were sweaty and he was biting his lip, she knew this was the day. She tried to make conversation he answered but with short answers as if to try and keep his cool. When they reached their destination she could still tell he was still nervous fumbling with the map swearing under his breath. She took him by the hands looked into his eyes and said
“Yes”
He looked at her confused and she laughed
“Yes, my answer is yes I will marry you”
He blew out a gust of air the smiled.
“Thank god" he said with a smile
They hugged and he pulled out the ring.
She would remember that moment forever and all she could think was he had to make it he had to be there for her wedding day and everything els after that; she needed him. The nurse said they were almost there, her heart was beating out of her chest as she tried to keep calm for him. They approched the door and with one swift motion it was open and she saw his face. His hair dark and thick his fair skin and blue eyes but his face was unrecongnizable. Covered by cuts and bruses it was a horrific sight. She felt her eyes start to burn with such intensity as she held back sobs.
“Hey Ally” he said through coughs
She couldn’t speak not if she wanted to hold it together. As he tried to roll to his side the doctor whispered in her ear
“He really doesn’t have a lot of time left dear, we did everything we could”
She covered her mouth quickly and wiped the tears that were starting to drop from her eyes. When Jeremey spoke again his voice was light as if he had found peace with the situation and he said
"Listen Ally I know the state I'm in is not good and that I won't be able to see how beautiful you look on our wedding day or be able to start a family with you and I'm so sorry for that, but I want you to know that you were by far the greatest thing to ever happen to me and the fact that I get to die knowing I was loved by you, well that is a fulfilled life. I love you Ally"
Now she couldn't stop it, the tears came fast and hard. She was smacked in the face by reality. She walked slowly towards him and put her arms around him she stayed like that until the beeps started getting slower and slower and then with tears streaming down her face and voice shaking she said
"And I will love you forever"
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
And then there were none
1.) I changed a lot from my first draft to my final draft. I had quite a few grammatical errors and I also rewrote all of my part 2 because I didn't like how it flowed.
2.) I found sharing my essay with my mom most helpful because she was able to notice a lot of grammatical errors that peers reading my essay didn't catch. Also my mom gave me ideas on how to change my essay around to make it better.
3.) I know we couldn't do this for every essay but it would be fun if we had a day where we wrote maybe a short story and we could get your feedback on our work because you are a writer and obviously know a lot about making a story great.
4.) I defiantly have room to grow when it comes to grammar and spelling and those are for sure top goals for me this year.
2.) I found sharing my essay with my mom most helpful because she was able to notice a lot of grammatical errors that peers reading my essay didn't catch. Also my mom gave me ideas on how to change my essay around to make it better.
3.) I know we couldn't do this for every essay but it would be fun if we had a day where we wrote maybe a short story and we could get your feedback on our work because you are a writer and obviously know a lot about making a story great.
4.) I defiantly have room to grow when it comes to grammar and spelling and those are for sure top goals for me this year.
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