books over the break

Okay so I'm going to try and finish water for elephants and then I'm getting twilight book series for Christmas so I'll read it then :)

who knew?

75% of America has bought hamsters in the last week. Therefore BUY HAMSTERS.

Argumentum ad numerum
translation: "argument or appeal to numbers", latin.

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reading Journal

So i started a new book and it's called Perks of Being a Wallflower, and it is such a good book. I started it onnnnn.....Friday?...mm yeah Friday and I'm almost done with it. So one of the parts i could relate to was when he would get really sad when he thought about his Aunt Helen. And that's how I feel when I think about my uncle who died on Christmas. So I can relate to how he feels when he thinks about his aunt. And its just cool that he cares about everyone so much and if they tell himm not to say anything, he won't. Thats the whole reason why the book is called Perks of being a wallflower.

• Whether, in fact, we ourselves will arrive whole and alive at the end of our journeys.

• remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen.

These are one of my favorite quotes that I saw and I feel that all of these quotes are true. Like the first one, we don' t know when we are going to die or if we will even make it through the day. And i know its a scary thought but its just life and we have to except that. And the second one is my favorite one because its just so true and we have to except the fact that what we want to happen when your younger may not actually happen when you get older. And through out this whole story I have realized that we as human beings have to except alot of things and we don't even realize it.

my final goodbyes

Goodbye WORLD and its wonderful glory. Goodbye San Diego and it's wonderful beaches and weather. Goodbye family, I'll be sure to say hi to uncle Henry for you:) Goodbye daddy the summers and holidays were fun and we had great laughs i love u :) goodbye parks and the grass that we lay in just to look at the sky and clouds. Goodbye sunsets that no one really notices because your not as beauitful like the other ones. Goodbye friends your the reason i am what I am today. Goodbye flowers that i would always randomly pick off someones garden. Goodbye ZOO and the great memories i had there since i was a little tiny kid. Last but not least...Goodbye future because now you are my past...

reading journal:)

So far what i read is really good.
Jacob is going to go feed the cats(lions and tigers) and the guy that's in charge, August, gives him old rotten meat to give to the cats. So while hes doing that august makes Jacob go in the cage where the tiger is and then next that happens is the tiger jumps and bites his arm!!!! So Jacob freaks out and starts screaming and what not. And august is just laughing at him! I was like what a jerkk!!!! But it turns out that the tiger has no teeth xD But Jacob was still pretty mad. I would have to say that was my favorite part (:

LUGUBRIOUS


CONCEIT





EPITAPH

reading journal(:

I lost track with what reading journal it was xD

Gosh darn bianca keeps texting me. I'm trying to do my reading journal WOMEN!!! but i still love her(:

ok ok now to the book...So far this book is kind of boring :/ I don't know why one minute i was so into it and the next I'm like blehh>:| so ANYWAYS Jacob's friend CAMEL(I know what a name right :p ) is trying to get him a better job on the circus then shoveling poop and keeping people in order. So when he finally talks to the ring master he totally ignores him and doesn't even consider him. And im like gosh what a JERRRRK! haha(:

So when he fianlly gets to talk to him, the ring master is like you don't belong here and blah blah blah all this mean stuff. But when he says he was in college to be a vet they decide to keep him because one of the horse is acting weird. So i thought that was good. Even though it was a cheap shot xD

So all of this is a flash back and in the present time Jacob is actually ninety three. so he i guess wakes up and he says that everything felt so real and that he really felt twenty three again. Which i thought was kinda of weird..
Then the circus is in town and everyone in the retirement home is all excited and so is Jacob. When he looks out his bedroom window he thinks to himself "Wow the performers have it good theses days, RV's, and satilite T.V". And when he was in the circus they traveled by train and bucks stacked three beds high with two people in each. I thought it was interesting that he got to see those changes in his lifetime.

That's pretty much where i stopped because there's no quite place in my house and I was in the kitchen minding my business and reading, but then my mom comes in and kicks me out>:| yes i know that's meann..

Water for Elephants(reading journal 5)

ok this book is so awesome!!! I love it. It's so cool.

Ok...well in the part of the book the main character, Jacob's parents DIED!!
I was so sad!!! I can really connect to him beause I've lost a lot of famliy in the past...
And it just kills inside..

Well im trying so hard not to summerize this book, but its kind of hard for some reason

ANYWAYS....im so distracted right now...this weekend was not good :/
sorry kay...

ok ok back to the book...well its taking me forever to read it and usually i read really fast.
I'm at the part of the book where jacob hops on to a traim and when he wakes up they tell
him hes on circus train. And thats where I stopped.

Reading journal #4

The book I'm reading is called Water for Elephants. My advisor recommended it to me. I'm not to far into it but right now I'm at the part where people are going to the circus and then all of a sudden all f the animals get out. So while the animals are running around in the back the show is going on. So the people have no idea what's going on until a black panther walks through the tent and everyone freaks out! And i have to admitt if i were to see that i would scream and run. So then the aerielist that was on the elephant saw this guy that i guess she knew him or something and out of nowhere she getts this spear that she was holding and BAM!!! She kills him!! I was like WHATTTTTTT??! I was so CONFUSED but my advisor warned me it would be because it jumps back and forth in the narrorators life. But thats where i stopped and im really into the book.

Reading journal #3

ok so this is my last reading reading journal on Breaking Through. sorry its late kay. My computer was broken :/ well for some reason I didn't really enjoy it because i knew i had to finish reading it in order to read this book my advisor gave me...and i knew i would NEVER finish breaking through if I would have started the other one..

so ANYWAYS!!!! i was kind of shocked when they said people won't vote fo Kennedy because he was Catholic. Im catholic and im proud of that. I just thought it was sort of wrong. And when the dad said that some people aren't proud to be Mexican and that you must be proud of who you are. And thats true you should be proud and not be scared to say "Yeah I'm mexican and I'm proud to be it"

Reading journal #2

Today I read chapters 7-15 and so far the book is really interesting. I can really relate to Francisco because when his dad messed up his hair he got really mad at him. Well in 5Th grade i got a haircut and i hated it soooooo much I was crying! And another thing is when he found out his sophomore English teacher was really strict he got discouraged. Well in eighth grade the same thing happened to me. Everyone was all "who's your English teacher" and i said Dr.Q and they said shes supppper scary and strict!!! But it turned out good because I learned A LOT from her.


I thought the part when he was telling the story about his little brother was really sad! Imagine if you almost lost your brother or sister. If i was to i would be DEVASTATED. I know I don't get along with them but still it would SUCK:( Then when him and his brother got the job with that guy i was soo happy because their dad can't work anymore, but they made up for it. So i thought that was good:)
Well I'm really into the book and I really like it.

Where I Am From

I am from music
From the apple ipod and the crazy dancing
I am from the only two story house on the block
People outside walking their dogs, playing with their children and sometimes the teenagers tagging on the fences
I am from the roses growing in the backyard
the apricot tree we would pretend to live in and be one with when we were kids
I am from homemade tortillas and big brown eyes
From my parents Andrea R. Pindea and Ronald J. Barela
I am from always late for everything and the loud Mexican family from next door
From the sunshine of the sky and your going to grow up to be big and strong
I am from Heavens gates
Who opens when it is time to leave and arrive
I am from the streets of the ghetto and the heart of Spain
carne asada and burritos
From the time my great grandparents came to this country and all they wanted was respect and happiness
The year my beloved uncle died on Christmas Day
A little brown box kept high up in the closet for no one to see but yet it manages to make it where it's visible for all to see
the embarrassing pictures of the whole family and priceless ones when we were all vulnerable and small
these are the pictures we cherish and keep forever for time to come
I am from Mexican culture

and i AM proud of that

reading journal #1

well I finished reading chapter 1-6 and so far really like the book:) normally i don't like to read books like this because it makes me sad, but i like this one. i especially liked the part where the boys would learn how to dance because it made them feel apart of everyone. And i could really relate when they missed there mom's cooking because one time my mom left for a week and we didn't have her cooking for a long time, and I didn't really eat anything. and when the dad was in a bad mood all the thats how my mom can be sometimes to because she has to be at work at 5:30. But overall so far i really like the book.

:)

Hi my name is Arielle Barela and I'm a ninth grader at High Tech High. My birthday is April 1st 1994. Some things about me is that I play softball volleyball and basketball. I like to make people laugh and i denfinatly love to have fun. I'm just like an ordinary teenager...well not really i can act like a 5 year old sometimes haha. I'm very shy when you first meet me but once you get to know me I'm a totally different girl.