Homecoming Week

This week being our homecoming week makes me very excited and makes me not so excited. The fact that we aren't having our regular homecoming dance makes me not so excited but im excited that we are at less having a dance even though its like two weeks after our homecoming game.

I'm super excited and pumped about our game this Friday against  Blytheville, even though I won't be the physical im there in the players hearts. Playing against the Chickasaws. It's going to be a great game and I believe that the Pioneers are going to show them how it's done. GOOD LUCK PIONEERS!!!

Spirit week has been interesting, walking around the school and seeing it decorative is awesome. Watching everybody dress up each day is fun to see, i love just seating there and watch everybody walk by in there outfit for that day. Messy Monday wasn't my day, Tropical Tuesday not it either, Western Wednesday now that's my thing, and now today is Twisted aka "thug" Thursday so funny seeing a bunch of country people acting and dressing like thugs.

I love when we have homecoming games because that's the only time our school gets decorated and it looks amazing. I love walking around in our colorful school during spirit week.

My Antonia Book Review

Willa Cather's  My Antonia is very eye catching. This was a very interesting book but i wouldn't want to read it again.

A great theme for this book would be, when everything around you gets tough, just keep on going don't stop. Someone reading this book could learn that they should never give up in something just because they have been told they are going to fail. The author's writing style is very easy to read and understand what is being said. There are two main characters Antonia and Jim. Jim is a boy that falls in love with Antonia in the beginning of the book. Antonia is a girl whom has to move to different states and is very poor. Most of the setting is done in Nebraska out in the country. It is a place where nobody really goes. They both Antonia and Jim move to Black Hawk, Nebraska and they become really good friends from there. Jim tries to push Antonia to learning English and getting an education. But things don't turn out the way they planned them to. Jim goes to college then to Harvard. Antonia has children and Jim becomes far apart from Antonia. Jim then gets married to Lena and still has feelings for Antonia. Everything falls apart but then in another way they fall together. I made a few connections to Antonia and even to Jim.

This is a book that I may read again or not just depends

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TIME PIONEER: Matt Berg

Children are all of this world, but there are so many children whom need help more than others may need. Leading the push to track the diseases in Africa by using my cell phone and a text message or SMS.

As a technoloy director for ChildCount+, I help to see networks of community-health workers who constantly examine local children in their area, treating their ills and then texting back the status of every single sick child they find in the area.

This allows me to be able to understand more about what i need to find for this child to get well.

ChildCount+ has been in existence for only nine months and has already reported more than 20,000 nutrition screenings, 500 cases of malnutrition and 2,000 of malaria. 

My colleagues are now scaling up to monitor more than 100,000 children under 5. The use of technology in Africa has long been my passion. I helped establish the Rural Technology Lab in Mali, so local students can take over the job of ensuring their communities' health, but not just helping the communities but also helping me. 

 

 

CAREER DAY:

UACCB career day didn't sound like it would be that much fun, I'm not going to lie I didnt
want to go. But once we got there and the speaker began to talk and tell his story that just inspired
me to make this day worth it. So I sat there and thought about all the opposition's we have today as
choices of jobs. It showed me that there are many jobs out there but only once can fit me. I went to
three different sessions about three different types of jobs that I have on my mind that maybe
someday I want to do. A different outlook on life with many career topics.
Growing up we get all these ideas in our head on what we want to be when we are older.
Some say firefighter others say police officer. I was one of the others, the thought of being a
police woman and protecting the area in which I lived in made me happy. Someone who saves
and protects their community is a person I wouldn't mind being. When we are young we dream of
being a hero. Showing people that you can have fun by doing whats right without breaking
any laws. I have always thought that police officers were out to get to us but after going to this
session i see that they are just trying to protect us. They don't just sit around eating donuts and
drinking coffee either like everybody thinks, life for them isn't as easy as it looks like it is on
television.
Sports are something I have always enjoyed and I hope i will continue enjoying through
out life. Well since I love sports I have thought bout being a coach. Loving basketball so much i
wouldn't mind being a basketball coach some where but I would rather work with high schoolers
or college students. Being involved with students that enjoy the same as I do makes it that much
more interesting for me. Never thinking being a coach could be that hard but after talking with
Coach Jenkins about becoming a coach and everything you do it is harder than what it seems.
Coaching is something that seems like a would love because i loving being involved with others
and being in control of things. Leading a team to state would be nice also.
Having different topics is a good way to start off in a career and that's what visual and
performing arts session did. Talking about how you need to start your career in singing, writing
plays and acting. Giving us information on places that is good references to use for our future.
Acting is something i would be more interested in just because i'm pretty great at acting i got to
say. I love being a different person when i can on stage. Performing for others has always
sounded fun and i'm sure i would enjoy it more than the writing part, so if others write it then i can
act it.
Having the time to go and hear about different careers helped me limit my opposition's for
my future. I would have to say the one i would want to have most to become my career is being a
coach, because i love sports and coaching seems like it would fit me better. I want to follow my
own dream not somebody else's so that's just what im going to do. Career day actually helped me
a lot not going to lie.

ENVIRONMENT:

                              How/Why do you think people should show respect to the environment?

People never think about the environment that we have today and how they destroy it. But I have took some time and thought about to ways to respect it. People need to learn to respect the environment a lot more than what they do!! There are many ways that we can respect the environment more but it will take more than just one person in the town.

One way is throwing away trash and recycling what needs to be. If we don't throw stuff out the windows and thrown stuff on the ground it would keep our area much prettier. Recycling can save our resources. So stop throwing trash out the windows just hold on to it until you find a trash can to throw it away properly.

Another way to protect the environment is car pulling, if more than ten cars are going to the same place and only has about one or two people in it hook up with other people who are also going. Saving gas does save our environment also. We can also save money by not wasting gas.

 

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ANTONIA AS MOTHER EARTH:

Comparing Antonia to Mother Earth can be very out of the ordinary. Antonia can be very motherly when she wants to be. When she was living with her family as a child, she took care of all of her family. As she got a little older and had kids, she did become a true mother and already knew how to mother them. Mother Earth is very motherly, as in her name shows her to be. Mother Earth shows fertility. Antonia is obviously fertile because she had lots of children and cares for each of them. Antonia has to be full of emotions because of all of the things she has been through. Mother Earth also shows emotional nourishment. I think that it is obvious that Antonia can be compared to Mother Earth easily.

1/4 Junior Year Completed!

This year as a junior has already gone by fast I mean i cant believe im already 1/4 of the ways done as a junior and another step closer to being a senior. It has already made a difference in my life learning so much new educational subjects and becoming a better athletic person.
Being a junior and being almost half way there makes me feel kinda old im not going to lie. But this year as a junior being 1/4 of the ways done makes me feel great about myself cause I know im accomplishing something amazing at the end of the year. Then I will be preparing for my future as an adult.
Most of the class's I have i enjoy and love being in but there is maybe one or two i could go without being in. Haha. Well i have had a wonderful year so far and im hoping it will get much better once basketball season starts and then track season.
Still got a lot more to learn in the rest of my junior year. Wow it has really gone by fast just yesterday we was starting school, but nope we are 1/4th of the way done with our junior year (:

Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope  By: Jenna Bush

Everything happen all at once way to young to understand little Ana didnt know what to do.Mother died when she was younger, youngest sister died when she was born and all that was left was Ana, her little sister Isabel and their dad.
Pa couldn't take care of them so Ana and Isabel had to move in with their grandmother. When she was finally old enough to understand a little about her familys past her grandmother told her. She lived in a very small house with her new husband, whom abused the girls and physically touched them in there areas.
Ana has HIV and is sent to many different homes for kids her age that also have HIV's and AIDS, nobody seems to care for her since she is almost a teenager so she is just passed around, until one day she finds a boy whom she falls in love with. They then have a kid together with out knowing, the guy she had the kid with then dies because he also has HIV's.
Will she be able to get out of everything and live a normal life with her baby  and little sister, well you will have to read the book to find out what happens.