Maya Angelou

We read a few chapters of this book by Maya Angelou. It was about Life & Death (go figure.) There were a few things that struck me, which was totally true.

“I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else. I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country of no return. Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows closely in its wake.”

I find that true. If it were up to me to decide who would live and who would die, I would most likely take my own life, if it were to save my friends or family. I would find it easier to take my own life than one of my friends or families. When it comes to my life, I would gladly give it up. But when it comes to my friends/ family lives being taken, I can’t stand it. I would never, ever think of taking their life, or letting them die.

As for “disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows closely in its wake.” It refers to the grieving process of losing someone. If you have ever lost someone you loved, your natural reaction is to deny the person that told you. When it really does hit you, when you realize that they aren’t coming back, you instinctively question yourself, get angry at those around you, you lash out.

It’s the same with relationships. You still lose something. Something has died, just not in the manner that we usually think. For example, a couple just broke up. You naturally deny that it happened, then you get angry, then you realize that it will most likely never come back, or at least be the way that it used to be. You can’t kill a relationship and expect it to rise from the dead without it missing something. It will never be the same way again. Sometimes you realize that it is for the best. Back to real dying, if someone was suffering, and finally passed away, wouldn’t it be better that way? Wouldn’t it be better that they didn’t have to live out their life in agony? Back to relationships: Maybe it was for the best. Maybe it wasn’t a healthy relationship? Maybe it wasn’t the right person you wanted to spend the rest of your life with. Maybe it was for the best.

Well I have to end it here. Time is running out in class. I am out.

--Sonja

My sister and I were bored. . .Webcams are verrry entertaining!

HA ha funny faces

This one is my favorite!

My sister really enjoys my new hair cut. . .maybe a little too much. . .

The devastating aftermath of my sister's wrath (well it wasn't devastating. . .)

New Moon. . . Its a Love-Hate Relationship-- whats with all the songs??!

Edward, is a . . . hold on let me wait and ponder to find a good word for his incompetence. A jerk, perhaps? No, no, a nincompoop? No not the right word. Oh wait I have the perfect word! My mom and I were talking about this in the car ride home last night. Instead of calling people . . . well, certain words, when they act . . . like certain words. . . We call them muppets, instead of those certain words!! HA, yes I know muppets! So you go up to someone and say, "You’re such a MUPPET!!" and they look at you like you’re insane, just say, "Oh, you don't understand do you?? Well how about this, go home, and Google image a 'muppet' and your face will pop up!!" OHHH, BURN!!! (No not really.) Kill them with kindness!

I know, I know I am turning sesame Street characters into pejoratives, but, that beside the point. Let’s just call Edward a muppet right now. Like I said, this is very much like a love hate relationship. I love Edward, well, because he is Edward, and he hasn't sucked the life out of Bella yet (literally) as much as he has wanted to. But I really hate him for leaving Bella,

(oh wow, I am listening to my I pod right now, and the song 'Leavin' By Jesse McCartney just started playing, how ironic.)

Ok well back to that muppet of a vampire, Edward. He just left her! Walked her into the woods and was all like, "Oh I am leaving, so good bye forever, things will go back to the way things were, and it will be like I never even existed."

AH!! What’s with all the 'I am leaving songs'?! Now "Can't Have You" by the Jonas Brothers is playing!

I will have to put the lyrics on at the end of this blog. It’s like. . A SIGN . . . ohhhh. .scary. . .

Ok on with the blog.
Now what’s with this Jacob guy?! Well Bella is to blame for half of the Jacob thing. I mean she was the one who flirted with him in the beginning. I am not sure about this 'relationship' with this guy. . . I don't think it will end well. And he got really sick too. I have a good theory about that though, but I won't say it.

And. . . .
What of this voice that. . (Dude I swear. . . Thanks for the memories, by Fall out Boy is playing now . . . what’s with my IPod?!)

As I was saying. . . .What’s with this voice that Bella keeps hearing, the voice of the one and only, Mr. I-am-so-mysterious-and-I-left-you-like-the-muppet-I-am. Yes that would be Edward.

(SCREAMS-- THAT'S IT!! IPOD IS COMING OFF!!! 'Shelf' by the Jonas Brothers is playing now . . .!)

-Slightly irritated- NOW as I was SAYING! *grumbles* I wonder if Edward is somehow watching over Bella without her knowing it, and somehow telepathically talking to her. . . I mean it’s possible, I think . . .? Well, I mean, he watched her while she slept without her knowing for how long? Yes I know stalker much?!

Maybe it’s safe to put on my iPod again . . . *hesitantly taps the play button* OKKK maybe not! *takes earphones off* What About Now by Chris Daughtry. . . . . UGH! What’s with all the lovey dovvy, ohh I broke up and I miss you, or I want you songs?! It was really funny at first, but now it’s just plain scary!

Well I am going to stop now, before I smash my I pod into a million little pieces. I am going to put a play list of all the songs I heard today while I was typing this up. . That would be funny I think. . I will also put links to all the song’s lyrics on here, seeing as it would be a REALLY long blog post if I had them all on here in their full length. *Puts earphones in again.*

AHHHH!! MAKE IT STOPPP!! *jerks earphones away from ears* OUCH! (It was On the Way Down by Ryan Cabrera)

Song Lyrics

Leavin'
http://www.metrolyrics.com/leavin-lyrics-jesse-mccartney.html

Can't Have You
http://www.metrolyrics.com/cant-have-you-lyrics-jonas-brothers.html

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/fall_out_boy_lyrics_2377/infinity_on_high_lyrics_33963/thnks_fr_th_mmrs_lyrics_415796.html

Shelf
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/jonas_brothers_lyrics_8121/other_lyrics_28242/dont_take_my_heart_and_put_it_on_a_shelf_lyrics_680754.html

What about Now
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/daughtry_lyrics_10637/daughtry_lyrics_33538/what_about_now_lyrics_362851.html

On The Way Down
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/ryan_cabrera_lyrics_2960/take_it_all_away_lyrics_8799/on_the_way_down_lyrics_101565.html

Working a newww dooo!! I got a haircut!!! And I am a pirate!!

Ok well I got a hair cut and I wanted bangs, so that's what I got. but when the nice lady started cutting, my bangs kept on getting shorter, and shorter. . .and shorter still. . .and when she finished cutting and before she blow dried the first things that popped into my head. "Axel rose. . .Billy Ray Cyrus. . .I don't want this mullet back. . .mullet .. .mullet. . omg. . I look like I have a mullet . . .!!!!" But when I got home and styled it it looked alot cuter!! SOOOO. . . . here is a sneak preview for Monday. Tell me what you guys think! anyways, hope you guys have a great rest of the weekend. And for those of you who weren't at the dance, I pity you, you missed out on alot of fun!! And I am not just saying that because I am in ASB! Ok well I need to get to rehearsals, sarcastic *yay!* Love you guys!

Sonja.

10-25-08

MMk well I don't feel like making and entirely new post about this. So I am just adding to it. Well I am about to head to church, and there is a costume contest. The winner gets an I phone!! sweetness! Well I am a pirate. .(last minute thrown together costume from Thursday's dance)

Ok well I got to go to church now. . . I really hope I am not the only one in costume, that would be embarrassing!

OK well church is over, and I wasn't the only one in costume, and I didn't win the I phone, oh well. But the person that did win was dressed up as an I phone, which I though was really funny, ( I wish I thought of that!!) The four finalists were Willy Wonka, (I voted for that one), Spongebob, the I phone, and two guys on bikes that were supposed to be Mormons?? I didn't get it but apparently it was very funny. Dani was also there! She was dressed as herself. Jessica was also there she was a Mulan like thing. . . I don't know what its called. Ok well I guess I better do some real home work now. I will have to make another post on the reading journal. . .oh well. . .I guess I am in the mood for typing right now. . .so expect a long-ish journal. . .well I am out on this post, time for a new one.

--Sonja

OMG guys this is so cool!!! You got to check this out!!

OK well I was surfing the Internet and I came across this article called 'A Ring Tone Meant to Fall on Death Ears'
Before I go any further a majority of us have gotten our cell phones taken away during class because some tried to call you or text you and the ringer went off, been there done that.

Well it just so happens there is this ring tone that is at such a high frequency that only we can hear it, adults can't. I was thinking "Ya right this isn't true", but curiosity got the best of me, so I took my laptop down to my parents and tried it out on them. they didn't hear a thing. My dad eventually did but I had to turn the volume all the way up in order for him to hear it. My mom still couldn't hear anything. Don't believe me?? try it out for your selves! Here is the link to the website
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12ring.html

The link to hear the ring tone is right underneath the dude talking on a cell phone.
Now, just as a warning, some adults can still hear this, but very few. I thought this was really neat! I wonder where I can buy this ring tone. . . hmmn. . . *currently experiencing naughty thoughts*

Oh Dear . . . I caught the Twilight Bug.

I got the book from Dani two days ago and I am already half way through it. Now I know why everyone likes it. Edward is such a . . . a . . . mysteriously strange character, for lack of a better word. He wants Bella yet he doesn't, he wants to be near her, yet at the same time, nowhere close to her. He wants to be good, yet he is fighting his bad nature. He wants to love her, but at the same time he hates her. It's the same with Bella. Gosh now I know why people are going nuts about the book! I am trying so hard right now to get my homework done with the book sitting next to me. Maybe I will read for just a few minutes. . . I will be back in five . . .

45 minutes later—70 pages

Oops ha-ha I won't be doing that again will I? It's so addicting!! I can't stop reading!! Dani if you are reading this I think you will have to bring the next book on Monday. It's so strange, Bella is all goo goo ga-ga over Edward one minute then he says something and she gets all mad. The same way with Edward, (I keep on wanting to call him Edmund for some weird reason. . .) Right now Bella is off with Edward in the woods and he is all shiny right now. Then I stopped, because I then noticed what time it was. Oh I really want to start reading again!! Must . . . fight . . . need . . . to . . . read. . . Oh dear I have caught the Twilight Bug for sure. You guys were right this was definitely worth reading! I guess this wasn't a very . . . focused reading journal. Oh well I am going to go read now. . . I am out guys, hopefully see you all on Monday.

 

Whoa Guys!! That’s a lot of people!!

Ok well maybe it's not A LOT a lot, but there are people from literally around the word visiting my blog! Awesomeness!! Ok let's see In the United States I have people from:

San Jose, California

Coeur D Alene, Idaho (never heard of that place before)

Forney, Texas (Never heard of that place either)

Saint Louis, Missouri

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Cleveland, Ohio

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Orlando, Florida

And of course, Chula Vista, California! (Represent!)

 

And two people that are out of the country are people from Germany! COOL! They come from:

Berlin, Germany

And Terschenreuth, Germany (don't even ask me how to pronounce that one)

 

Ok I just thought I would let you guys know. Ha ha Thank you foreign peoples!

Humanities Homework-Picture Vocabulary

Ok this isn't nearly as exciting as the usual homework Ms. Kay gives us, but what other teacher encourages you to blog?? Well for this assignment I have to post a blog that has three pictures that show three of our vocabulary words from the book we are reading. The book is called 'Our Town' and it's a play taking place in the 1800's. So let's get started!

Conceited

Despair

Epitaph

"Twilight": Trailer Reactions. Some Fans are Still Speechless. Some can't Breathe.

OK I am Reading this article on the Twilight Movie Trailer. Apparently fans are going nuts about it. The website was receiving a ridiculously amazing amount of comments that consists of OME's (I am guessing that means oh my Edward?? w/e) and AHHHHHH's!!! When I am done writing this I will have to watch this. Then write my response. . .

 

Here is one of the comments:

"I've always liked to think that I am a very articulate speaker, even when things of great excitement and importance happen. However, in light of this recent trailer, I must depart from this standard of writing. AHHHHHH!!!!!! Oh, my gosh!!!! I cannot believe that trailer!!! It is by far the best one yet!!"

 

So yes, even articulate speakers are turning bonkers in light of this third and final trailer. I haven't read the series (Yet). But due to the amazing boom of excitement, am thinking about it.

 

The rest of the article is basically responses from fans who could actually talk.

Ok I am going to watch the movie trailer now. Let's see if I like it......

 
 

-Goes On to You tube and types in Twilight Official Trailer 3

 
 

-watches it

 
 

Wow... That looks intense man! I have to admit, that defiantly looks like the type of movie I would like to see. I am going to have to read the book first. Ok one question for you Twilight fans, I know half my class knows this, but is the movie a combo of twilight and New moon???

New Template and Playlist! Feel free to comment.

Hey Hey hey,
Just an info update, I chanaged my template and added a playlist! So give me some imput on it, and admire my awesomeness. . .no just kidding. Well you can, if you want to, I guess! Comments are much appreciated!
Love y'all
Sonja

--I got this cool little template at pyzam.com and the playlist at playlist.com (Doesn't take a genius to figure that out.) Just in case you guys were wondering!

Brisngr: I have finished! Caution: All Spoilers contained here.

• In order of Occurrence
  
• Lethrblaka and the Ra'zac were killed by Roran, Eragon and Saphira in Helgrind
  
• Katrina is pregnant
  
  
• On the day of Roran and Karina's wedding Murtagh and his red dragon Thorn attacked the Varden with 500 soldiers. The Varden succeeded in defeating the 500 soldiers, but they lost many lives, much to their surprise, for the Varden greatly outnumbered the soldiers. The reason why is because the soldiers were impervious to pain, due to a spell that the Empire King Galbitorix cast upon them. A blow that would have usually proven fatal for a normal foot soldier didn't even slow the demented soldiers. Eragon also succeeded in driving off Murtagh and Thorn. Despite the day's events, Katrina and Roran were still married by none other than Eragon.
  
  

• -Eragon was sent to Farthen Dur, a dwarfish city in a hollowed out mountain, without Saphira, to oversee the decision of the new dwarf king. While in the city he was attacked by a group of dwarfish assassins from a certain clan that had become his sworn enemy. Orik, the dwarf Eragon was fond of, saw to it and that the clan was banished from Farthen Dur. Soon after, Orik was elected king of the dwarves. And Saphira quickly flew there for the coronation. Afterwards Eragon and Saphira flew to Ellesmera the elfish capital.
  

• later in the book Roran was sent on a raid and he directly disobeyed the orders of his commander, in which resulted in Roran getting whipped 50 times. (Even though if he didn't disobey the orders the entire command would have been condemned to death.) But he was then healed and put in charge of his own command, thanks to Nasuada, leader of the Varden rebel group. The raid he conducted went exactly as planned. He was also in charge of urgals as well as humans. One of the urgals questioned his authority, and challenged him to a fight, without any weapons. Urgals, in case you don't know are at least 6-7 feet tall, extremely beefy creatures, whose lives revolve around war. Roran was able to single handedly force the urgal into submission.
  

• -In Ellesméra Eragon and Saphira met up with their masters, Oromis the elf and his dragon Glaedr to complete their training. While in Ellesmera, Eragon convinced the elf that swore to never make another dragon riders sword again, to make one for him, though he had to do much of the work himself. He named the blue sword Brisngr, and every time he said the name the sword caught fire.
  

• -Glaedr and Oromis flew to join the elfish army to aid in their efforts, while Eragon and Saphira went to the Varden to aid in the effort to capture a city. Eragon and Saphira were successful, but Glaedr and Oromis on the other hand, weren't. They were slain by Murtagh and Thorn, but Murtagh was controlled by Galbitorix for a majority of the battle. Murtagh killed Oromis with a blow to his torso, while Thorn killed Glaedr with a bite to the head. Glaedr retreated to his heart of hearts, which was in Eragon's possession.