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What's your favorite sports? Do you really know everything about it? Jeremiah is a really big fan of baseball he knows everything about this sport. But unfortunately he can't play his favorite sport. You see Jeremiah had surgery on his heart which then wouldn't allow him to play the sport he loves. But there's are most opportunities  as  like couch and more stuff like that. Which is exactly what Jeremiah did he wanted to be a baseball couch. He's kinda right for the part he's really interested in baseball which means he knows what he talking about. Walt (Jeremiah's father) and Jeremiah have just moved  and surprisingly the town is know for championship baseball team. But the town has a lot of drama going on and actually thinking about giving up baseball. Will Jeremiah cheer up the town spirt and get the team to play?
 At first I didn't think I would like this book because it had to do with sports. But when I was picking it out I wanted to read it because of the heart condition he has. I could distinguish the difference between this book and the other books I have read. But then later on it began to grow on me. I really enojoyed how the book didn't feel like it dragged on it didn't feel that long. Although I wouldn't say the book was like one of my favorite but it was good book.I think people that really enjoy sports would like this book.

                                                     


                                                        

Deep Green

      A book I read this quarter is called "Deep Green" by Melody Carlson. It's basically about a love triangle. Jordan is the main character in this book along with two other characters Shawna and Timothy. At the beginning of the book Jordan and Shawna are good friends because there both on the cheer leading team. Shawna and Timothy had been going out until Tim broke up with Shawna for Jordan. While reading the book it's like both of the girls going back and forth on how to win back timothy. Until Shawna sets up Jordan by sending and email saying it was timothy to meet her somewhere and what time to be there. It was all a setup she wasn't actually going to be meeting Tim she was gonna meet her best friend Ashley's boyfriend. Of course Shawna showed up with Ashley and made it look to be what it wasn't. On the way back home she gets into a really bad car accident.Will Jordan finally realize what's really are her priorities and who will end up with Timothy?

        I really enjoyed reading this book. It always had me on the edge of my seat and everything that had happened was so unexpected. It's kinda funny because I kinda have been and seen these type of situations and let me tell you it's not fun at all. Although there are two ways of seeing this book I saw it as teen drama and romance. But it also includes a bit of religion to so you can also view it from a religious point of view. This is just one in a series written by Melody Carlson. I recommend reading her books if your into teen drama and stuff like that. But overall this was a really good book and I enjoyed reading and will read more books by this author. 

                                                                         

And So The Adventure Begins...

The end of the year is finally here! I am so excited and scared at the same time. I'm excited because of  because I'm starting a new chapter in my life and I'm excited for the end of the year stuff coming up. Like promotion ceremony,six flags,dinner dance all these things that are coming up this month. I know starting at a new school might be intimidating to some people but not really to me. Although kinda scared because of like my new classes,teachers and new people. I'm not going to the high school I wanted which was Cristo Rey but it is what it is right? I think any school you go to it doesn't matter what really matters is what kind of students you are. Six Flags is gonna be really fun because I'm going to go with my best friends Diego and Louis. I'm pretty sure their going to force me on to all the rides.  But it's funny because I'm really short I think I'm like 4'11 so like I don't know if I'll be tall enough to get on all the rides. Either way I really hope that I'm not tall enough because some of the big rides scare me. I just really hope to end this year on a really good note.

                                                        

Why is culture and knowing where you come from important?

To me culture and knowing where I come from is really important. I think culture is something that identifies a person.Think about the quinceanera I talked about in my previous blog. I've been waiting of that moment since my oldest sister Cristal had her party and she's now 23 years old. That means I had to be 9 year old when she had her quince or younger maybe. To me that felt like such a long wait. We celebrate some many different holiday's in my culture. Like 5 de Mayo (coming up), Day of the Dead, Three Kings Day and even Dia de los nino's which Day of the Children. One of my favorite things about my culture is the dancing and the music. I'm not gonna lie when I was younger all this stuff about my culture and where I came from didn't really matter to me. I use to think I live in ameria why should all this stuff matter to me. Truth to be told now all this stuff has so much meaning. Even when people say I'm not Mexican enough or I'm not American enough.What should it matter if I'm more that the other I'm still just me right? I remember watching the movie called "Selena" and it one of the movie the father say "you have be more Mexican than the Mexican and be more American than the American", That's basically saying that being Mexican-American is more harder than anything. I think the complete opposite of that I really don't care what people have to say about me and my culture.I love when my mom tells me the story of how she came to america. It all sounds so interesting but at the same time it sounds like it was difficult to get here to begin with. I remember the date because it was my cousin birthday. Although there is one scary part to my moms story. My uncle had gotten lost or stuck in the desert. Luckly my uncle Juan which was my cousin's father of my cousin who was born the day they had crossed the boarder. Of course I won't say weather it was illegally or legal. Sometimes I wonder what would have my life been like if my mom would have never crossed that border? Things like these are the stuff I truly value and will keep close to my heart.

This is a tradition dance that's called a "folklorico"

Teen Moms/Parents

A sterotypes that I often hear that teenage girls will get pregnant at a young age. This stereotype is mostly the Hispanic and Latino community. I myself being Mexican I hear it a lot and it really makes me mad. My mom got pregnant at age 16 with my older sister cristal. She gave birth to her a week after her 17th birthday. A year later she had gotten pregnant with my sister karen. By the age of 19 she had already has two kids. The other day I read this thing that said "Young girls who's mother had them young are more likely to have kids at a young age as well ". What is that suppose to mean to me? I have two older sisters and their already in their 20s and they don't have kids and their actually going to collage. Which then makes me think that isn't always true about everyone. Maybe teenage girls wouldn't be getting pregnant if people aren't always throwing negative things towards them about getting pregnant. There are so many ways to prevent teen pregnancy.So why don't do that? I know this may sound weird but when I grow I wanna I think I would actually give my child boy or girl condoms to protect themselves.I mean I'm not asking them to actually do it but I'm just saying I rather have my child use protection than get pregnant or get someone pregnant or get and STD.Although I wouldn't be one of those parents who are mortified of their children and their actions . We can prevent teen pregnancy and we should.But we also shouldn't criticize others.







                               

"Little girls with dreams become woman with visions"

   But on the bright side I found my quincernera dress. A quincernera is a celebration that Hispanics's/Latinos throwing in celebration of their daughter becoming a woman when she turns fifteen. It something really important in my family I think almost everyone in my family has had a quince. I think I'm gonna really enjoy having the party but the most fun thing for me is actually planning it. Of course my mom and sisters will support me and make a few suggestion since they all has a quince. But what might be the most difficult is the part where I have to learn a couple of dances so perform infront of everyone of course you don't have to do a lot of dances but it's the most traditional. The most significant dances are the father daughter dance and the crowing ceremony along with the giving of the last doll. The quincernera receives their last doll because their not a little girl anymore. But to me the most important thing about the party is the dress. Ever since I was a little girl I've dreamed about what dress I wanted to have and what color it would be. It honestly seem so unreal that the time has finially come to start planning and everything it feels just yesterday I was ten years old and now I'm fourteen.

                                       

Life is Beautiful

     The movie uses the same information that I already knew.The beginning was a bit confusing to me though.But once they were put onto the trains it started making more sense on what was actually happening.Joshua was put onto the train even though he was blonde with blue eyes which really confused me.But later on I began to understand why certain things happened.An event that was similar was when the kids were murdered that was one of the connections I made.Woman and children were tricked into that they were going to take a shower when really they were going into the gas chambers.Although one the beginning of the movie really confused me I couldn't really connect it to anything I had learned. While watching the movie I didn't really gain any new knowledge because most of the things I already had learned.
    I noticed that Joshua's mom was very serious and quite.While he father was goofy and like to play with Joshua.An example of this was when he invented the whole idea of playing a game because he didn't want Joshua to know what really was happening.When Joshua and his father were put on the trains his mom wanted to go also with them.At first the guard said no because the train was already leaving but she wouldn't take no for an answer.She stood very firm and had a very serious tone.During the movie the mom looked very vulnerable. Thought the movie I could really tell when it was serious but I enjoyed that it had a bit of humor because it made it seem as life was really beautiful even when your suffering.
     Through the movie "Life is beautiful" had a bit of humor to it which I really enjoyed. Joshua's father made it seem to his son that nothing bad was happening that everything was fine. The way that he did that was by saying that everything was just a game and that the gran prize was a tank. I personally think that the humor really made life beautiful because really bad things can be happening but at the same time there's away of being positive and not being so negative.Everything that Joshua's father did for him to secure that he would stay alive really shows that he loves him a lot.When you have people that love and care for you life is really seen beautiful and great.Those are two ways I though that showed life is beautiful.