Anthology Project

My theme for the project is "The Life's Cycle"
My video will be on the poem "Before She Died" by Karen Chase

1.) On The Birth Of A Son by Su Tong-Po
2.) A Few Rules For Beginners by Katherine Mansfield
3.) Snakes by Eleene Miles
4.) Middle Age by Jason Shinder
5.) Bronzed by Dean Young
6.) Before She Died by Karen Chase

Bloggie's

My favorite blog out of all the blogs is Take Care. I like this because it is actually enjoyable to read. The posts are upfront and to the point and I find it amusing. I also think the layout is really cool. This is one of my favorite posts. Its very interesting and I was eager to read more :-)

Disney Films

You know, although im 17, I still love Disney movies. At day care today we watched Toy Story 3. It is probably my 10th time seeing the movie. I ADORE IT! Its most likely one of my favorite films. I thought the first two were good but this one was spectacular. Everytime I watch it I just enjoy it more. I love Disney.

Royal Wedding

I can't wait for the royal wedding. It will be fascinating!!! I'm mostly excited to see the venue and the wardrobe... :)

"A soccor Phenom Puts the "I" in Team"

What she can do with a soccer ball absolutely blows my mind. I was fascinated just watching her for ten seconds! I think its awesome that shes so devoted to soccer and being the best she can be. It takes a lot of time and effort for someone to do that, and I find it cool that shes following her dreams and giving up her teenager lifestyle to practice soccer freestyle. The article mentioned something I found interesting. It said she wasn't on the girls team at her school because she thought she would get better practicing with boys. I think this is kind of weird, just because if you love soccer you should participate with your school. Yes, boys are good at soccer too, but she isn't a boy. When she plays for college she will be playing with girls, so she should practice with girls to get used to it. Boy's sports and girl's sports are obviously very different, which is why I think she should play with the girls. Thats just my opinion though. Even though I disagree with her decisions to do with playing with the team, I commend her for believing in herself and following her dreams.

"High School Seniors Predict Their Future"

I thought this article was extremely interesting. I think it's cool that New York Times did this. I think the girl who wants to be a hair/make up disigner would be really good at that. She looks like the type of person who would enjoy that. I thought the guy who wanted to bake marijuana and the girl who wanted to be an actress was pushin' it a little bit .... (lol). I think everyone should have a dream and a back up plan, just in case. You never know how things will pan out in the future. I think its awesome that they all have a dream though. I enjoyed listening to everything they had to say. In 10 years from now, I see myself married and having children. My real dream is to raise a family. I adore kids. For my job, I see myself being some type of nurse maybe. My parents and I have been talking about it quite a bit and my two main choices would be a Pediatric Nurse or a Dental Hygenist. My dad thinks I should be some sort of doctor, but I highly doubt that will happen. Its nice he has big dreams for me though. It makes me feel good he believes I can do something like that. Anyway, I love kids like I said so a Pediatric Nurse would be a good field for me.

Anna Maria Island

Take me there! Only 9 more days .. I hope I can make it!

Sonshine Christian Acadamy

I absolutely adore my job. Watching kids go from barely walking to talking in full sentences makes my day. Roman (my favorite one, shh), knows how to spell his name, say the abc's, and say a word representing each letter. He just turned two ... It's shocking!! He is absolutely precious and I adore talking to him and all the others. Little kids have a lot to say if you actually listen to them. The fascinating thing about young children is they say whats on their mind and are honest about everything, even if it will embarrass you (lol). I sometimes wish I could have the life of a young kid again. People are so eager to grow up, that we forget about how amazing life really is. All my class at daycare needs are hugs, kisses, and bubbles and they're happy. It almost makes me jealous that they get so excited over the little things. I feel like as we get older, we need much more to be happy, and I wish it wasn't like that. If I got half as excited as they do over going outside or playing with bubbles i'd be the happiest teenager alive. They make me want to be a better/happier person, and appriciate the little things. I guess now that I think about it, I get much more out of my job than a paycheck.

"Iceman"

I'm watching this show on Food Network called "Ice Brigade", and its pretty cool. At first, I just thought it was a random show because they were running out of ideas, but it is actually extremely fascinating. It intreigues me that they turn water into something as spectacular as this. Everyone has their talents, but this one is unbelivable!!!

I adore food network. I feel like a 40 year-old mom for saying it, but I would rather watch this or discovery health over anything, anyday. I've liked it since I was like, 12. Oh well, i'm proud of it. :P

Holly

This is my dog Holly. I figured since I posted a picture of my cat it's only fair to post one of her ... She may be a physco, crazy, hyper little thing but I love her. I swear she never sleeps. Although she can be somewhat annoying, chews on all my stuff, and scratches me shes precious and amazing. Contradicting, I know. But who doesn't love their own dog?

"Let Kids Rule The School" New York Times

I found this article SO interesting! Being a high school student, I can see how some students get frustrated with the curriculum. Sometimes, high school gets frustrating because you have no choices. At HHS you have more choices then you do at a lot of other schools, which is good, but at high schools in general you don't have many choices. I think it is really cool that those public schools let those students run their own school for a semester. Obviously, it worked considering the students who almost dropped out stayed in school and was eager to learn. I think it would be amazing if HHS let students do that, because we have a pretty good amount of drop-outs. It would be so much better if we could learn more of what we want!

Spellbound

Spellbound is an intriguing movie about the National Spelling Bee. Every time we watch it I just get more and more excited to get farther into the film. Although we haven't gotten to who wins yet, I know who takes the title (Thanks, Londen, for spoiling it for me). They interview spellers from different parts of the US, and it shocks me how different they all are. I think a lot of it have to do with their parents. Some parents are extremely competitive with it, and some are proud of their child no matter what. The two child-parent duos that stuck out to me were Neil and April. They were basically opposites. Neil's father was insanely serious about the competition, and I think he put a ton of pressure on him. His grandfather said that if Neil won the Bee, that he would feed 1,000 hungry people in India. I personally think this is just wrong. That is way to much pressure to be put on a young boy. Not only if he loses will he be upset for himself, but he will also feel guilty for not being able to feed hungry people in India. I'm sure he felt blame, since he didn't win, and I just think it is flat out wrong to do to anyone, yet alone a young boy. Although Neils father was strict, he taught him good methods for studying, and showed Neil how to always follow through with something whether you succeed or fail. On the other hand, April and her parents were extremely different. Her parents were easygoing, and even though they were serious about the spelling bee, they made it fun and made sure they let April know no matter how well she did they would be proud. You could tell how proud they were of April and how kind-hearted they were. Although her parents were a little strange, they were sweet and you could tell. April unfortunately didn't win either, which was okay because she was proud of herself for coming in 4th. Her dad said something about how he wouldn't be happier even if she came in 1st place, which shows a lot about him and shows he is genuinely proud of his daughter, which I think is really cool. Overall, all the students in this film were interesting, but I believe Neil and April really stood out. This was a really good movie and I would recommend it to anybody!!

Laila

This is my precious cat Laila. I love her. She is so mysterious and independent. I sound like a freaky cat lady and I promise i'm not .. I just enjoy her presence. It's a nice getaway from my dog Holly, who is honestly the most crazy dog you'll ever meet. I know alot of people say that, but trust me, it's true. Holly just isn't normal .. I thought maybe it was a puppy thing, but she isn't a puppy anymore. We actually have to give her medicene which is SUPPOSED to make her less hyper but it obviously doesn't work. She's a sweet dog though. I love her too, but Laila is awesome.

Jónsi - Go Do (Full Studio Version)

It wouldn't let me post the music video for some reason. I'm obsessed with this song all of a sudden. It just makes me want to dance in the rain. It makes me happy!

Love Song by Carol Muske-Dukes

Love Song

For some reason, it won't let me just paste this poem to my site, so I set it as a link. I highly suggest checking it out. It really depicts all the different sides of love and I find it extemely interesting. I'm not to sure why I like it so much, I can't really point it out exactly. I just really enjoy it.

By the Time You Read This, I'll be Dead pg. 1-30

This is the 2nd time I have read this book. For some reason, although its creepy, I love books like this. They really grab my attention and keep me hanging on. I feel like everytime I reread a book I catch new things I never noticed the first time around. The chapter titles are really interesting. They're days counting down. The first chapter is "23 Days" meaning 23 days until she commits suicide. Its so dark and scary but so interesting. The book starts off describing a place where Daelyn is a lot of the time, and a person who changes her life. A bench outside of her school where she waits for her parents to pick her up everyday, and a white headed, tall, skinny boy who creepily sits by her, on the same bench. It starts off her just waiting for her parents, and the awkward silence between her and the boy. He watches her, but she makes no eye contact, for she doesn't make contact with anyone. Her mother picks her up, and is on her way home when she says she needs a few things at Walmart. After, it goes into a flash back. She talks about how her mother once went to a local store before they went home because she needed a few groceries. That is when she had her first "wack attack". She couldn't breath and paniked, screamed, honked the horn, and basically went crazy. Her mother was humiliated. Ever since, she hasn't left her alone. But her "wack attack" isn't the reason. Her parents can't leave her alone because she is on 24 hour suicide watch.

There is a break in the story, and the next chapter is talking about her website she found. WWW.Through-The-Light.com .. A website basically setting up your suicide. Everything is anonymous, but you can read posts by other members about their lives and why they want to be out of the world. Its really sad to me. Daelyn has been bullied and made fun of her whole life. People have constantly made fun of her weight, her looks, her personality, and basically everything about her. For the most part, the next few pages just talk about her struggles through life and all the mean things people did to her. It also talks about the website and what other people talk about. Another interesting thing to me is, Daelyn cannot speak. She wears a neck brace, but hasn't released why or why she can't speak. I guess this is something we will find out later, huh?

I think this book is extremely sad. It sickens me that people think this way. I know this book isn't true, but I know some people go through this and it is devistating. I know I would hate to feel the way she does everyday. She hates living, has no joy in her life whatsoever, and lives her teenage years thinking of which way of commiting suicide would be best. That is no way a high schooler should live their life. I love this book and I am excited to continue.

FAGE Total Plain Extraordinary™

For some reason, I find this commercial so awesome. Everytime I see it on tv, I stop whatever im doing to watch it. It intrigues me and really makes me want to try this yogurt (lol). But seriously, this is an amazing commercial. I love the poem in it and the visual it gives you. I know im making a big deal about a yogurt commercial, but its cool.

2.28 Diction Exersize

"Once Upon A Time" by Jack Gilbert

A.
1) young
2) alive
3) melody
4) natural
5) excitement
6) intensity
7) innocent
8) tender

B.
1) Elevation - Medium (sensuous, admiration, adoration)
2) Connotation - Poetic (idyllic, quixotic, vivid)
3) Musical - (melodious, graceful, exquisite, rhythmical)
4) Abstract - (conceptual, abstruse, recondite)

C.
In Jack Gilbert's "Once Upon A Time," his graceful, idyllic sensuousness of his language conveys the speakers nostalgic and wistful attitude toward young love.

2.23 Diction Exercise

A)

1. Cruddy
2. Evil
3. Kill
4. Swear
5. Bubbles
6. Dark
7. Mercy
8. Weird

B)
1. Elevation - Low (cheap, inadequate, low-grade)
2. Connotation - Literal (definite, simple, regular)
3. Sound - Harsh (rough, craggy, unrelenting)
4. Concreteness - Concrete (conglomerated, solidified, calcified)

C)
[Roberta's craggy and cheap language in Linda Berry's "Cruddy"] depicts [her jaded frustration toward her younger sibling.]

Full Moon Night - Ulrich Lieve

Ulrich Lieve's "Full Moon Night" at first glance seems like a chaotic, unorganized mess. Although this is true, when you begin to concentrate on the painting is when you recognize its true beauty. The women in the picture are morphed, and undecided on their feelings. The colors of the painting contrast the paleness of the woman's skin, and although these colors portray happiness, the women don't feel the same. It looks as though the woman in the front is blocking her face from being seen, and the others look in distress. This hypnotic painting is almost romantic, seeing as the women have red lips and long lashes. The placement seems somewhat random, and I am wondering if Lieve had a specific order in his own mind. This painting is mysterious, contrasting, and somewhat sorrowful, and for some reason its hard to keep your eyes off of it.

Hole in my Life - Jack Gantos pg. 1-34

This book is hooking me just like Go Ask Alice. It is so raw and intense and I have barely cracked it open! For some reason, I love dark books about drugs and stuff like that. Sappy love books don't reel me in, books like this do. Not that this is what I'm personally into, I just love reading about it. I guess sometimes if you don't experience these things yourself, it makes it even more interesting when you read about it. Especially because this book actually happened, and Jack Gantos wrote and published it after his jail time. Its the scary truth about the real world. Sometimes bad things happen to people with the best intentions. Its just somewhere, something went terribly wrong. I think its sad because some people really don't deserve things that happen to them. They go into something with the best intentions, and it just goes wrong and gets them into trouble. Just like in the last book I read, the main character does not seem like a bad person whatsoever. Which makes these books even more interesting, because they may not necessarily deserve what is happening to them. I think it makes this kind of book even more addicting because it pulls your emotions so many different ways. Sometimes you just don't know what to think or believe, which plays with your mind a little bit. It is insane how words on a page have that type of impact on a person reading it .....

Anyway, on with the book. It started right off into explaining the picture on the front, which was his mug shot. He talked about his diet, why he dressed/looked the way he did, and went right on to tell how horrible prison life really was. He also talked about how frightful it was, because anyone could do anything at anytime. He watched people stab others, and saw things he never wanted to see. After some jail talk, he went back to talk about his childhood. He wasn't raised around the kind of violence he saw in jail. His father could pick out people like it was his job. Somehow, he knew the criminals from the good people, and told Jack all about it. He told him who to trust and who to watch out for, and always talked about who had been in prison. When his father talked about this, Jack never dreamed of going to prison. When he was in high school, he felt like he had it all. A car, a fake ID, and wasn't living at home. After his dad took a job out of town, he and his family decided it was best for him to drop out of school and go straight into the work field. He got a job at a hotel doing electrical stuff, and the hotel gave him a free room to live in. He was constantly drinking and hanging out with older men, which made him grow up extremely fast. Finally, he got over this fade and started thinking of school again. He got a different job stocking food at a supermarket and stayed with a family close to his new school. After awhile, he got back into drinking and came home drunk almost every night which frustrated the family. Eventually, he was kicked out of their home. He ended up in a motel called The Kings Court, and got a room there. He began trying to write, coming up with ideas but never being able to make it into a story. He had thousands of beginnings, but no endings. He got back into school, and things were going decent for him. One day, a bunch of prisoners came into his school and talked about prison life, and how much they wanted those kids to stay out of it. They encouraged them to be good and to not mess up and end up like them, and Jack thought they were crazy. At this time, he had no idea that his life would relate more to those prisoners than he wished for.

This book is extremely good. I cannot wait to get farther into it and see how his life pans out.

P.S. -

Sorry for slacking lately on blogs :/ This week I am going to post as much as possible!

Happy Valentines Day everyone!! Hope it was wonderful :)

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 171-213

This book has hooked me. I am recomending it to absolutely everyone! I suppose I will continue where I left off. She was drugged by someone and basically went insane while babysitting. She locked herself in a closet and scratched her skin raw. She was rushed to the hospital and was put in critical care. She finally convinced her parents this was not a trip she intended to go on - she was drugged by someone who obviously didn't like her. She thinks she knows who did it, but she will never find out for sure. Which to me is sort of upsetting ... Because I think it is utterly wrong and I think she deserves to know who did it - and I think who did it deserves to get in trouble for it. Life isn't fair. Anyway, her life just kept going downhill. She was transferred to another hospital, she couldn't return home, people were testifying that she had been trying for weeks to sell them LSD and marijuana and also said she was a pusher. On top of ALL that, she was sent to an insane asylum! She was terrified once she got there. She did not fit in at all ... She was constantly around people who were out of their minds and she felt out of her mind having to be there with them. She didn't think she fit in there - which I agree. She made a few "friends" and found out about their past which was almost worse than hers. She prayed to God to get out of the place she was for many nights. There was a school at the mental hospital that she started attending once the workers felt she was stable enough to go, which helped her some because it kept her busy. No matter how busy she was though, she was always wishing to return home with her family. Finally, after many long days she returned home. She goes on a vacation with her family and is really starting to get back into the swing of things. She takes piano classes, hangs out with her family, her long lost boyfriend Joel comes back into the picture, and her life is really starting to get back on track. She seemed genuinely happy. And then, on September 21st, she wrote her last diary entry. She talked about how strong she was now and how happy she was with Joel. She seemed completely normal. Three weeks after her last entry, her parents came home from a movie and found her dad. They called the police, but there was nothing they could do. No one knew if it was accidental or on purpose, whether she planned it or not. It shocked me.

This is one of many drug related stories ending in death. It blows my mind how someone can get so addicted to something that it takes their life. I guess thats reality though. It really sucks what drugs do to good people. From what I read, she was a really genuine nice person who just got involved with the wrong people at the wrong time. She came from a good family, and lived in a good neighborhood. Which goes to show it doesn't matter how wealthy you are, or how good of a family you come from. Addiction can happen to anyone, it just depends if you can handle the peer pressure or not. It saddens me that this happened to her, or anyone for that matter.

Teenagers, Friends and Bad Decisions
By Tara Parker-Pope

I thought this article was extremely interesting. Being a teenage driver, it caught my eye. Temple University did a study on 40 teenagers and adults to see if there are differences in brain activity when adolescents are alone rather than with their friends. This was interesting to me because personally, I believe I drive the same with or without friends. They concluded that there was no meaningful differences in risk taking, regardless of whether friends were watching them. Although there was no difference in risk taking, there was a difference in running yellow lights and crashing. 40% more yellow lights were ran and there was 60% more crashes when the kids knew their friends were watching them. That is crazy!! I don't think I would run a yellow light regardless of if my friends were watching or not. I feel like I am the same driver with or without passengers, but I guess I am bias. I thought this article was pretty interesting, and I enjoyed reading it.

I thought this library was truely fascinating!! I would really love to go there someday. It is amazing how intruiged people are by books to design a library like this. If I lived nearby, I would go to this library all the time just to take pictures of the entrance. The public library downtown is really awesome - although it would be amazing if it looked like this :-). I am jealous!

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 111-170

I noticed that in this book, things seem to change very quickly. One minute she is on drugs and the next shes with clean, at her house with her family. It seems so unreal to me, but I obviously don't live the same lifestyle as she does. Where I left off, she was basically at her lowest point. She was homeless, poor, and on drugs. She would do just about anything to get her hands on something to get her high. She doesn't know what time, date, or even year it is. She is living for nothing but drugs. One day, she stumbles across a church, and talks to the priest who understands young people. The priest calls her parents, and the cycle begins yet again. Her parents are absolutely ecstatic to hear from her. They beg her to return home, and she agrees. After a few more days of wandering the streets, she begins her journey home. On her way, she rereads what she had written over the last few weeks in her journal. She was appalled by her own writing! She thought it was all a lie, because she didn't believe any of it. She stated that someone evil and foul wrote her journal. She considered herself insane. Since she was "getting her life back on track" because she was going home, she decided to start a new journal to go along with her "new life". When she got home, she was the happiest girl on the planet. She hung out with her family, went back to school, and started getting back into the swing of things. People at school still considered her a druggie and tormented her about it, but other than that, things seemed to be going alright. She keeps going to school, spends a lot of time studying, and then things go down hill. Her grandpa has a stroke, and eventually passes away. People at school really start hassling her about drugs, and her family is devastated about their loss. Kids start threatening her, putting joints in her purse trying to get her in trouble. She started going to the universities library where her father worked. She met a boy named Joel, and she adores him. They begin to really like eachother, and her family likes him too. Unfortunately, her grandmother passes away, and once again her family was upset. Everything was going alright, when all of a sudden a the book changed drastically. It went from good, to bad in one post. I had to reread it because I thought I took it wrong. She was in an insane asylum. She was talking about her hands all bandaged up because they looked like raw hamburger, and how chunks of her hair was missing. Her body was one big bruise, and I was so confused. She was having weird dreams about maggots eating her away .. It was so weird. Finally, I found out someone drugged her drink while she was babysitting. She went into the closet and hurt herself until she couldn't anymore. Her hands were completely raw, her hair was gone and her entire body was either bloody or bruised. She was basically in a body cast. Someone put a bad mix of drugs into her drink and she didn't know it, and had a bad trip. Its terrible.

I feel bad for her, because she was finally getting back on track. Her life was beginning to be somewhat normal again, and she was starting to be happy again. People were so brutal to her for no reason. After all the things that she went through, she went into an insane asylum for something she didn't even do. Its absurd to me! I'm angry just writing about it and I don't even know the girl. She made a lot of mistakes, but I feel bad for her.

This made me laugh so hard I almost cried. I love babies, especially laughing ones.

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 65-111

I can barely set the book down. Its like shes turning into a completely different person... slowly morphing into the person she is when shes on drugs. So many things have happened in so short of a time its almost overwhelming! Like I said in the last post, her and Chris ran off to San Fransisco with barely any money and no plan for anything. They find a dirty, smelly, old apartment with one room and a used matress for a bed. They both find jobs, and are barely living. They rarely think about drugs, until Sheila, Chris' boss at work, invites them to a high class party where people are smoking pot. Soon, Sheila introduces them to heroin, which got them into a lot of bad situations. Finally, they both ran off to Berkeley and started their own boutique. They turned their aparentment into a really cute showroom and made pretty good money on the things they were selling. The kids who came in there always talked about selling/using drugs, and it got old to the girls. Finally, they called their parents and took the next flight home. Their parents cried with joy and brought them in with open arms. The girls couldn't be more excited.

It was Christmas time, and she spent time with her family. She was having the time of her life, and soon went back to school. She went to dances, hung out with friends, and it was almost like she had been in high school all along. Everything was going great until she started selling to kids at school. Once she got back into the drug scene again, she went out of control. One day when she was high, she hitch hiked to Denver with nothing but the clothes on her back. Shes basically homeless, sleeping on the streets and eating at the homeless shelter, until she meets Doris, who lets her live with her at her apartment. This apartment is worse than the one in San Fransisco, and all she has now is smelly clothes and drugs. Shes at the lowest point in her life at this point.

This book is addicting! I can't wait to finish it. It blows my mind that someone could mess up their life this much for drugs. Unfortunately, its reality and its happening more and more everyday. She lived a perfectly good life with a good family and money. Drugs took over her life and now that is all she thinks about. She would give up anything to be high. Its really sad.

Funniest Office on this planet.

Food Network is my weakness. I'm watching Iron Chef American and lovin' every minute of it :)

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 21-65

So far so good. I am really starting to get into the book more... At first I was hesitant because of the way she wrote things. You can definately tell it was written a long time ago. Anyway, after she moved to a new school and was absolutely miserable there, her mother promised her she could stay the next summer at her grandmothers house. She was so excited she could hardly wait. Her mother constantly nagged at her, and was always comparing her to her siblings, which made her even more elated to leave over the summer. Finally, she met a friend named Beth. Beth lived only 3 blocks away from her and loves to read just like her. She is wealthy, jewish, and has a live-in maid (which really impresses her). Her parents adore Beth, and they are inseperable. They are best friends and do absolutely everything together until summer comes and Beth goes to summer camp. They are devistated, but part ways at the beginning of the summer. Finally, she gets to grams and is so bored she can hardly stand it. All she does is read, watch tv, and loaf in bed. Finally, she ran into an old friend named Jill who says she will call her the next day for a party with friends. Thats when it all began.

Jill called at exactly 10:32. She could barely contain herself because of her excitement... She thinks for hours how she will do her hair and what she will wear. Finally its time for the party and when she arrives everyone is very nice. They were friendly, relaxed, and accepted her like she had always been part of the group. A little while after everyone arrived, a boy brought out a tray of coke and they played "button, button, whose got the button?" She didn't know what that was, but didn't ask. She took a coke and sipped it slowly. She noticed everyone watching everyone else, and began to feel something strange. She could smell from a mile away and hear a pindrop. She laughed hysterically and saw swirls of colors. She felt as if she was floating in another world and couldn't describe how amazing she felt. She finally found out her coke had LSD in it and didn't know whether to be ashamed or excited. She promised herself she would never do drugs again, but when she met Bill and he introduced her to torpedos, speed, and acid. Although she was constantly paranoid about the drugs, and also about being pregnant, her life was alright until she ran into Rodger who confessed his love for her. She considered her life over because if he ever found out about what she had been doing he would hate her. He goes to military school, but they write back and forth because they are "in love". Because she is so paranoid and cannot sleep, her doctor gives her sleeping pills and tranquilizers which she also gets addicted to. She soon meets a girl named Chris, who she starts using drugs with. They become best friends, and she gets hired at the same place Chris works. She is introduced to pot, and starts to become "hippy looking" as her parents say. She meets a boy, Richie, who she is "in love" with until she finds out he is using her to sell his drugs. She and Chris decide to run off to San Francisco and go out on their own without telling their parents. She leaves her family a note, and is gone.

This book is getting very addicting. Its starting to get where I can barely put the book down because I want to find out what happens next. I am super glad I started it. I can't wait until Tuesday to read it in class :-).

I thought this was kind of cool.

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 1-20

I started this book today with an open mind. Since many people have suggested this book to me, I of course had to read it and see what all the buzz was about. This book is about an actually diary of a 15-year-old drug user. That caught my eye right from the get-go because I really enjoy dark books like this. The diary of this girl started on September 16th. It started out sort of slow for me because she is very enthusiastic about everything .. Always putting exclimation points and repeating herself all the time. The wording was very old-timish, which sort of bugged me at first ... But I got over it. She is in love with this boy named Rodger at her school, who unfortunately stood her up. Thinking losing weight would make Rodger notice her, she lost 10 pounds, which didn't work. She hated going to school, afraid she would incounter an awkward run-in with Rodger. She believed her life was nothing (typical of a heart broken 15-year-old girl) until she meets a new boy named Scott, who she goes to a movie with. No matter what Scott did, she couldn't forget about her "one true love" Rodger. I can already tell shes insecure with herself, always talking about her weight and how she wishes she was wealthy, beautiful, popular, and wishes boys liked her. She almost obsessed over boys liking her already. Its sad. I feel bad for her.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years passed by. Shortly after, she discovered her, her parents, and her two siblings, Alexandria and Tim, were moving because of her fathers job. She was extremely excited to move and start a new life at a new school. Her little brother and sister automatically found friends, but she didn't. She was really nervous to go to school in a new town where she knew no one. Her first day was miserable, and she was even more depressed when she came home to her entire family talking about how amazing everything is for them. She says "Well, like oil and water, I can't quite adapt or fit." I think thats sad.

Well, so far I think the book is pretty good. She seems like a normal teenage girl just trying to figure out who she is. I'm really excited to start getting into the book and to hear her story. It really interests me, especially because its a true story. I like true stories .. Especially ones like this. Its horrifying reality I suppose. I'll make sure to read more of it tomorrow.

Just me and my friends jokin' around :P