I Wish I Was More Like...

My Grandma Ruth Ann is the most patient, strong, loving, and selfless person that I know. I’ve never met a person that can have over a dozen people in her house, and still be so patient, and make us all feel overwhelmed with love. Someday, I hope to be, just like her.
My grandma had her first kid, my Uncle Richard, when she was eighteen, with my Grandpa Frank. In the following years she had my mom Dawn, then my Uncle Lloyd, Aunt Elizabeth, and Uncle Kelly. For the most part, I would say that they behaved themselves as well as five kids could. Every once in a while they would do something bad. Like the time they accidently threw a potato through the window of their house. I, obviously, was not there but I can imagine their horror when the glass cracked, shattered, and then was strewn across the floor in the house. It’s at times like these that my grandma is as clam as anyone could possibly be.
There was this time, when I was about four, that I remember very well. I was looking through her jewelry, which wasn’t unusual. I still do that almost every time that I’m at her house. There was a necklace, and earrings that were a dark gold color. They both had a bunch of heart charms on them in different sizes and shapes, and when you picked it up, or moved while wearing them they jingled, and chimed. I was amazed by this new find, and wanted a necklace just like this for myself. But then, I realized that I didn’t have my ears pierced. How was I supposed to wear the earrings? Later that night, my grandma came up to me holding the necklace and a bracelet just like it that I hadn’t remembered seeing before. I looked at it with amazement as she explained that she had put the earrings together to make a bracelet. She gave them to me, and I wore them whenever I had a chance. I remember wearing them at my preschool graduation. And, even now, I still have them.
When I was in fourth grade, my grandpa Frank passed away due to a severe heart attack. This was a big deal for me; I had never lost a family member before. I missed about a week of school because we had to go up north, to my grandma’s for the funeral. The viewing wasn’t so bad, but the funeral was hard on all of us. Even though she had lost the person she loved more then anything, and knew the best, my grandma helped the rest of us stay on our own two feet for that long, sorrow filled weekend.
My grandma always puts others before herself, and supports us all in every way that she can. And it’s for the love, and support that I am most thankful for. Even when I’m having the worst day, I can think of her, and feel uplifted. I wrote this essay not only because I want to be like her, but because I would like to thank her for all that she’s done.

Other Girls Would Like This Book

This book is more of a girl's book I think then a guy's book. I think that mostly because it's about relationships, and things like that. Most of the guys I know that read Twilight thought that it was the absolute worst book in the history of man kind. This book isn't nearly as good as Twilight, but it's not a very "masculine" book. Most of the time, it's about Rhiannon, and Gloria, and why they hate each other because of things that happened in the past, and for the most part, guys my age hate each other because of some bad play they made in football, and then they do the man hug thing, and everything is fine after that. It's not big deal. Girls though, we hold grudges for a long time. We can hold them for our entire lives if we want to. So, there's a lot of things that guys just wouldn't get, because they're... GUYS. You know that saying "You wouldn't get it, it's a girl thing"? Well, it completely applies to this book, and everything that happens in it. There's this one part, where Rhiannon is all goo-goo ga-ga over Steve, and then when it shows James' point of view he just doesn't get why she could still like him. He didn't get it, because he's a guy, and he didn't get that Rhiannon thought that she was actually in love with Steve (which she wasn't because Steve is a... let's say jerk, and leave it at that), but at the time, James just didn't get it. Guys don't get a lot of things, because they're all filled up with testosterone, so they probably wouldn't like this guy, but most girls would.

I Am Nothing Like Any Of My Main Characters

The book I read was Take Me There by: Susane Colasanti. There were three different points of view. It started with Rhiannon, she's what you would call daring, and also very outspoken. Her best friends are James who is kind of quiet, and really smart. And the last point of view is Nicole, she's very... controlled I guess would be the thing to call it. She dresses really "in your face", but isn't like that at all. All three have very set views on the world, which I guess is kind of like me, but you never really know, because things change all the time. I am not at all like Rhiannon, she finds making big decisions easy, and I don't. Sometimes, it takes me a week to make a decision that could be life altering. James, I guess, is sort of like me, except he's a science and math nerd, and I'm not at all. He's sort of quiet around people that he doesn't know, and only has a few people that he can tell everything to. I'm a lot like Nicole, except that I don't dress very exotically and when it comes to men she has relationship problems. (Notice that I said MEN not stupid teenage boys) Her dad, abused her, so sometimes, she'll see something that can trigger a panic attack. I'm probably most like James. Especially in the sense that when I grow up, I want a huge house that has more space then anyone could ever need. I like math, but I'm not a genius in it. However, I like science, and want to be a anthropologist. I can be really quiet around people I don't know, and have an annoying brother, so I guess that I'm most like him.

In Class and Bored 2!

Haha, laugh laugh, I'm in class and because I'm a nerd (according to Julia... and most of my other friends too) I have nothing to do because I have everything done. I am finally back at school. I got sick on SUNDAY. Who does that?! WHY in anyone's right mind would a person get sick on a sunday. Ugh, I hate missing school, too much work to make up even if it was only two days. Now, I am going to tell you why I missed school. Well, it started with my tonsils getting swollen up, no big deal right? NOT right, after that I got an ear infection and now I can't hear out of my right ear, and I sound like crap in choir. Plus then on monday, I was wearing a tank top because I was too warm, and I went outside because I thought my stupid dog Bella (she's cute but REALLY stupid) was down on the sidewalk, and with the lack of brain that she has, it would be just like her to wander into the street, so I went running down our concrete steps outside and it was wet, so I slipped, and fell onto my back. I got a huge cut on my back (that by the way needed like a bazillion stitches... actually only 12 but still...) and then to make matters worse, my brain-lacking dog came and got all excited because I was on the ground, and she thought I was there to play with her, and started jumping all over me (she doesn't have any manners what-so ever) and scratched my arms up too. UGH!! As you can imagine, by now I was all frustrated and upset so I went inside, and showed my dad my back, and then he started to freak out, and went and woke up my mom (she works nights so she has to sleep during the day) and then she freaked out (kind of surpirsing because she's usually really calm) and then they brought me to the hospital and they gave me a tetnis (sp?!) shot and stitches, so now I'm all better :) have to go! Bye!

In Class and Bored

Okay, I'm in class right now, and I have nothing to do because I finished my book report already. (No I am not a nerd :)) anyways..... I'm excited for tonight, we have a spaghetti.... excuse me - pasta dinner for swimming tonight at maddie's house. I already miss swimming which is stupid because I missed a lot of practice because I'm always hurt or sick. (Like right now I have a black eye because I got hit wtih a hockey puck.... I know... I'm just SO graceful) Anyways... I miss swimming a lot which I guess proves how much I like it even though I hate doing the ab work and Sue stops just short of killing us during practice. (She did bring us bagels one time though.... that made me happy =)) So far this week has been boring, but this weekend should be fun. Friday is my brother Taylor's 16th birthday, and there's talk of Shoni having people over for her birthday which was on monday. Saturday is Halloween and anyone who's been past my house knows how much my family loves Halloween (for those of you that don't know - we have an alligator man in our yard, a witch, scream, a wolfman, this guy coming out of his grave, a HUGE spider web, this skeleton hanging from a tree, tombstones, and then on Halloween we'll have people I'm a dead bride, my brother is a werewolf, Hedy is my groom person, my cousin Derek is a demon sort of thingy, and Katie is going to be something or other (it's undecided), and my dad gets the EXTREMELY manly role of handing out candy to little kids). And then to add onto that Katherine says she's having a party, but I probably won't go, just because I'd rather scare the.... let's just say I'd rather scare people and hang out with my cousins on Halloween then wander around and get candy (candy's amazing, but Kate and Derek are amazing-er).

How is your main character like you and not like you?

My main character, Spaz, is like me and also not like me. He’s like me in the way that he does what he has to to survive, and makes do with what he has. I think that he’s a lot braver then me though. When he and Ryter go and rescue Lanaya I kept thinking “I would never do something like that, they’re crazy”. I also think that he’s more grown up then I am, mostly because he didn’t have a choice. When he got kicked out of his family unit, it was a sort of grow-up or die situation. Even when he was in his family unit, he had to be really mature because Charly didn’t treat him like a normal kid, just because he had seizures, and his foster mom didn’t do anything to stop Charly from treating Spaz like that. Another way that we’re alike is that I would never want to have Billy Bizmo for a father either. If the whole town was on fire, I wouldn’t want some guy who’s famous for murdering people to come up to me and just say “I am your father”. I think that I would have the same sort of reaction as he did, I would just shut everything else out, and go to my room and think long and hard about everything that just happened. Spaz pretty much lives, just because of Bean. I really think that at the beginning of the book, she was the only reason that he was even trying to survive. I’ve never felt like this before, only having one thing, one person to live for, but I think that if I didn’t have a family, and the world was in ruins, and overall life was just absolutely awful, but I had a little sister like Bean, she would be the reason for me to fight to survive.

What I like about The Last Book In The Universe

I really liked this book. The author described everything really well. It made it really easy to picture what was happening. Some of the things that happened were almost cruel though. For instance: When they were carried by the monkey boys to the guard who eventually brought them to “Mongo the Magnificent”. I thought that it was really sad that he just sat with the mind probe in his brain, and that that was the only thing that kept him alive. Another thing that was sad was the trial, because it wasn’t at all fair that Bean and Spaz (yes those are their real names) couldn’t stay in Eden. The people didn’t even justify their resoning, they just kicked them out. My least favorite thing was that Billy Bizmo ended up being Spaz’s father. I kind of saw it coming, but that just turns the entire reality for Spaz upside down. Having Billy for a father would be awful. Even though things were unfair, and cruel, and awful, I really liked it. My favorite part was when Ryter convinced the guard to take over for Mongo. Another of my least favorite parts was when they came to the latch that was completely on fire, because whoever was in charge of the latch was in a mind probe and wasn’t in control, so everyone went crazy, and tried to eat Ryter, and Lanaya. It was very “action packed”, but not exactly pleasant. It had a lot of twists and turns, but I think that they’ll all end up okay.