This I Believe

I believe that when you get more sleep, you are better behaved. When I was a little girl I never wore my glasses.

When I was about 7 or 8 years old I found out I need glasses. It was Friday and I was doing math. I couldn’t see what was happening on the board so I had to move closer to the board. I went home that night and told my mom. On saturday my mom and I went to the eye doctor. The doctor told me that I was near sighted, which means I can’t see from far. My mom chose the ugliest glasses ever. they were pink had a High School Musical sign on them. 

I was super embarrassed to wear them especially because I had to wear them all the time and because they were pink. I have always hated pink. to be honest in elementary school I was a tom boy. I played football with the guys and kickball. Girls would always try to talk me in to getting the guy they like attention but all I did was play ball. Most hated me because guys would drool over me, but it wasn’t my fault I had the face of a baby. I know I were pink all the time, but the color is the blood to a vampire. I am the vampire and the color is the blood. A couple of month later I broke my glasses in gym. That was the happiest day of my life. Four months after breaking my glasses I started to get headaches for no reason. In April I had a major headache. 

Luckily it was my birthday so I got picked up early and I also had swimming practice. I love swimming. Anyway, I asked my to go to bed but she said I had to take a shower because I smelled like chlorine. So I took a quick shower and went to mind you it was 4:45pm. I woke up the next morning felling like a new person. I felt like a baby entering the bright world thats ahead of me. The terrible thing about that morning was I didn’t do my homework. My mom wrote me a note saying that I had a fever of 101.7. That day I never gave my mom a attitude once usually I always give my mom attitude. This is why i believe that when you get more sleep you are better behaved.

Fallout

I recently started to read the book Fallout by Ellen Hopkins. In this book it can be confusing at times or quite interesting. In the book the main characters are Kristina's 3 kids Hunter, Autumn, and Summer.

The book starts with the first child born, Hunter. Explaining his "awesomely hot" girlfriend Nikki.
"And you've got Nikki.
She's sweet. Smart. Cute.
Oh, yes, and then there's her
body. I'm not sure what perfect
measurements are, but Nikki's
got them....... Delicious, from
lips to ankles, and she's mine.
Mine to touch,
mine to hold.
Mine to kiss all over her
flawless deliciousness." His chapter ends with "we go and go until the only thing left is to finish. And still I want more." At the moment I was hooked with the book like I was with Crank, Glass, and now Fallout.
When I finished that chapter about Hunter I want to read more about him so I flipped the page and I read the title Autumn Rose Shepard. I said wait Hunter, Autumn. Then I read the blurb to then realize that the book was about all three of her kids. So I wasn't surprised when it switched from Autumn to Summer.

Currently with Hunter, Autumn, and Summer are finding out all about their mother. for example hunter found out Brendan is his father and she hooked up with many men. Autumn is finally getting to see her mother. But all Summer knows is the Kristina's parents gave away Summer to take care of Hunter.

Almost finished with Fallout can't wait to tell you the rest.

Revolt of the Evil Fairies

  I  think it is unfair that African Americans are treated the way they are in the short story “Revolt of the Evil Fairies”  by Ted Poston What hit me most in the Revolt of the Evil Fairies was that there was a lot of discrimination. The teachers are light skinned, , and how they picked good and evil fairies, prince charming, and  sleeping beauty, yaller always got better lives than African Americans.

I think teachers being light skinned is not fair. At the Booker T. Washington Colored Grammar School all teachers were yaller. Yaller meanig african americans who can pass for white. According to the story “ they held most of the teaching jobs in the Booker T. Washington Colored Grammar School.” I think this is very unfair at least give them a chance. They are african american just with darker skin. In this story I see that there is a lot of injustice. 

Picking good and evil fairies. Also picking prince charming, and sleeping beauty. It should be based on how you play the part, on your audition. In the story it states "the first time they turned me down for Prince Charming that was the year they picked Roger Jackson. Roger was not only dumb, he stuttered. But he was light enough to pass for white." I think that unfair that a person that spoke clearly but had a dark complexion was turned down for a person who stuttered with a light complexion. This shows a lot of discrimination threw out the story.

“Yallers” always got a better life. They held most of the teaching jobs in the Booker T. Washington Colored Grammar School. They were “negro doctors, lawyers, and insurance men.” I think that african americans can do these job. I know this was during segregation but now in the 21st century we have a lot of negro doctors, lawyers, and insurance men. We also have a lot of women negro doctors, lawyers, and insurance women.

In conclusion there was a lot of discrimination shown through the story. In my school M.S. 51 William Alexander middle school it is a community where your skin complexion is not a factor. It is chosen on your talent. Mine is dance. And when I dance I feel like the weight of the world isn’t on my shoulders. If I was the protagonist I would just suck it up and learn that I could never be Prince Charming. (In the story that is exactly what he learns.)

Glass #2 A Quick Little Blog

   Ok, I'm not done with the book but it's so good. Last time I left off was when Trey asked Kristina to hook up. They hooked up and now they are dating. Kristina was kicked out of the house because Hunter got stuck under the chair while Kristina takes a nap. That morning she think "oh let me play with Hunter" but then, "my brain feels like mush" she says. Then she stays with Trey and his cousin Brad. Brad is also a member of the methamphetamine team (yes i made it up myself). Brad has two daughter the oldest is LaTreya, and the youngest is Devon. Trey  then leaves for school. 

    When getting high at a concert is never a good idea. When Kristina got high with some old friends and then leaving she crashes her car. She walked home, and Brad was worried. While Trey is at school Brad and Kristina don't hook up. Everyday Kristina calls Trey and she leaves a voice message. One day Trey calls and leaves a message but in the background Kristina could hear the voice of a girl...DUN...DUN...DUN. One night Kristina goes up to Brad's room and they sleep together. At that moment I was like WHAT!!!! At least three weeks after that they sleep in Brad's room they sleep the guest room (Kristina's "room"). In the middle of the morning Kristina hears foot steps, but not the girls foot step Trey's. She gets up and runs into the shower and slip. A couple  of hours later Kristina wakes up thinking she dead but she's not. She then apologized for what happened between her in bed with Brad. Trey says it's ok because he had sex with another girl!!!! 

THAT IS ALL I'VE GOTTEN UP TO.  CAN'T WAIT TO TELL YOU GUYS THE REST.

Glass

Ok ..... I realized that burned was not the book that came after Crank, Glass is. So far what i have read is the baby's name is Hunter. She still smokes, and is still on crank. She lives with her mom with her second husband, Scott. The adults (scott and her mom) still don't know about Kristina's drug problems. Kristina breast feeds Hunter and says "my nipples feel like hard chew toys ."

She has a job at 7-Eleven. She is very stressed between planning Hunter's baptism her job and her eighteenth birthday. In the morning on her B-DAY she gets three envelopes. The first one with $50 from Aunt Lou who lives in Gainesville. The second one from Scott's dad with $100. The last one from Scott and her mom with $200. Her dad has other plans in mind. They go from casino to casino, high, and no one asked Kristina if she was to young to be here or can I see an ID. They stay out until 9:06 A.M when the baptism is at 9:30 A.M. So Kristina, her dad, and Linda sue, "dad new doll" Kristina thinks,rush to the church looking like crap. Hunter is dressed in a little white tuxedo as the priest poors the holy water above Hunter's head. The next day would be her first day working at 7-eleven. Whoopee!!!

At work she learned to , stock shelves, scan items, clear gas pumps, make coffee and hot dogs. On a break,a smoke break (" yes I've taken up that habit again") Trey calls and asked to hook up. On they're date they get high and are on methamphetamine, the bigger word for meth, they start to make out and when they are about to get the party started Kristina says to stop and not until the second date they could party hard. 

That's all I've gotten up to hope you enjoy.