School

School
10 things that I love:
1. My friends: be able to know more people and interact with them.
2. The experiences, because you learn about them and anything can happen
3. That I know my self, with all your friends and experiences you discover and you go learning about yourself ( what you like, what don’t, etc)
4. That I learn, school gives me many information and basic things that I need for the real world & you can always learn more.
5. The topics and subjects are interesting and you always see something new that you didn’t know.
6. They have extra activities, like the students day in which all the school competes. Or some special days that they try to make it fun and they put you activities.
7. That you meat more people, that can turn out to be your best friend or boyfriend, or whatever.
8. They maintain us active, if we stayed home we would be fat and we would eat all day.
9. Teachers are fun and they are flexible, they have each a style to do their classes and you can also talk with them and they are fun.
10. They actualize us about the situation of the world and prepare us for what will come.

10 things that I hate:
1. The schedule, because the period of class are too long and we go out very late.
2. They have us super controlled and they don’t give us the freedom to choose some things like our subjects or the schedule, etc.
3. They give us very short vacations when other schools have more and they try to make longer the period of school.
4. They don’t give the reason to the student when they have the reason.
5. Sometimes teachers are rude and they don’t do anything about it.
6. They leave us many homework, projects, etc.
7. They make obligatory social service when you need to do it because you want or if you are going to make it obligatory at least let us decide what to do.
8. Installations, I don’t like my school because its weird and it has too many stairs and looks like a jail.
9. They have too many silly rules, like not wearing flip flops, or a t-shirt that you like.
10. They are fue students in every grade of high school and it makes it boring.

Music for every mood

I believe that every song or music reflects a state of mood, situation or belief. That’s why we all like music, because we can relate with the sounds and lyrics. Sometimes like in movies you think in a song that fits your mood or situation, all though its not like the movies that suddenly music appears.
Example: when you are driving and you don’t want to get bored you can out music like pop music, when I drive I like to here in my head- Taio Cruz, because it’s very fun and you can sing it and dance it. Other song that you can put when you are driving is Alejandro Fernandez- Bandida, I like it because you can sing it and I like Mexican music.
When you are getting dressed for a party or a night out, I usually put music that puts me in a mood of parting, Like House of Hallelujah- Stromae, which I love that song, it has a super beat and when you hear it you want to dance. Other song that gets me in mood for parting is Freak- Klass.
When I am flirting I think in the song California Girls- Katty Perry, because I think it’s a super feminine song. Or in the case that you are fighting with your boyfriend or you just had I like to hear 3 doors down- Here with you, I like this song in this type of situations because it makes you reflect of what you would feel if you loose a person that you love.
To relax I love music trance, in that situations that you are in your house alone and you want to relax or reflect Strobe- Deadmau5, I like this song because you can imagine what ever you like or you can hear Ghosts n stuff- Deadmau5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qU76aeT4IE

My friends

Jazmin
I met her in 6 grade on my class, she was at the same classroom as me, I remember that when I saw her my first impression was that she was too little and she looked like a spoiled girl. Now that I know her better I know that she’s a girl that stands out because she is not afraid to sound stupid or to make a mistake, she only does what ever is on her mind, she doesn’t think twice and that is a huge error, but she is not afraid to make a mistake. She always says “aay” for everything, it makes me laugh sometimes.
Carla
I met Carla this year, she entered to Celtic School and when the bell sounded for the first class she was going upstairs to math class, I notice that she was crying and Jazmin asked her why, and she told us that she missed her old school. My first impression of her was “How boring, she’s already crying”. Now she is my super friend and I love her, and she stands out because her voice and her attitude that is always like a party, fun girl. She always says “Osea” she includes that word for every sentence she says.
Otto
Otto entered the school this year, and I notice him the first day of school in our first class. At first I looked at him and my impression was that he was dumb and he liked to call everybody attention. But then I realized that he is super smart and he stands out for that, he knows what to say and where to say it, he has knowledge of many things that regular people don’t. A word that he always says is “candarah” that everybody dislikes it, but he thinks it’s cool.
Paulina
I met her on 6 grade on school, but I really didn’t pay much attention to her, she was in a other classroom and I didn’t see her often, I remember my impression of her is that she was very talk active and gossip. I didn’t know her until 9 grade and know she is my friend. She stands out because of her attitude that is funny and knows how to have fun but she also knows what to take seriously. She always says “wey” its super characteristic word for her.

Once Jazmin and I went to David Guetta concert with 4 other friends, we stayed on one house in Mexico City, and the next day we went to six flags all day long and in the night it was the concert. We dance all night and we got out of that concert like at 3 on the morning. At the concert a robot came out and we almost got a shock, it was super cool, we couldn’t believe it.

Fiction Characters

I identify with The Beauty, (of the beauty and the beast) because I think she is very intelligent and loving, but she also has character and knows how to defend her self. Also what I think its similar is that she can love a person for who it is and not for what they look like, and I believe I do the same. I love that she likes to read, because I love to read too. The Beauty is a very happy person that likes to be friends with everybody, I like that as well.

I have been compared to the dog (puf) of the movie Mulan, because the dog is very picky and uptight and they believe in some times I act like that, but in the end the dog ends to be a good friend, smart, and curious, I like that the dog is very independent but also likes that they pay attention to him.
The dog is very picky and uptight, but it also has a good heart and is a good friend. In some cases is very curious and smart. He knows how to act and he likes to be the center of the attention, he doesn’t like to be disturbed or anything like that.
The Beauty, is a girl that is very loving and has a very good heart, she doesn’t care of the outside but only for the inside and she can love everybody. She is also smart and likes to read.
I agree in the comparation the dog but I think I’m more like the beauty, I believe I have both Qualities and defects.

Concert

Once, I was at a friends house and she had tickets to Enrique Iglesias so she invited me, but she told me that she bought the tickets for 1,700 $, and I didn’t have the money so I told her that I couldn’t go with her. I really wanted to go so my friend and I decided fake a ticket and see how real it saw so I could pass free, so we started to print the ticket and cut it, at the end of the day, the fake ticket was perfect it didn’t seam fake, so we thought “why don’t we give it a shot?”. We arrived to la Santa Maria and I was super nervous and we where already in the line to pass, when It was my turne they took my fake ticket, he saw it closely and he said “okay, you can pass”, and I couldn’t believe it, I entered and nobody noticed that it was fake. During the concert I couldn’t believe what close I where to Enrique and I am almost sure that during one song he saw me and smiled. Also there where many girls that jumped to the stage and hugged him, I wanted to do that but all crazy girls pushed me and didn’t let me. During the concert Enrique pulled a girl to the stage and sang to her a romantic song and kissed her, I was dying to be that girl, because Enrique Iglesias is so handsome. The concert last like 3 hours and ended like at 12:30 am, when we went out I was so shocked I actually entered with a fake ticket and enjoyed that much the concert. It was amazing.

Fiction and Non Fiction

Non Fiction
Memoir is a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation
Auto Biography is oneself narrated by oneself. Little autobiographical literature exists from antiquity and the Middle Ages; with a handful of exceptions, the form begins to appear only in the 15th century. Autobiographical works take many forms, from intimate writings made during life that are not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to the formal autobiography.
Essay is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.

Fiction:
Poem is a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
Short Stories is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels.
Novels are a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.

Compare and Contrast

Fiction

non real things
real theme
characters have unique characteritics
the plot dont happens in real life.

Non fiction
all is real and happend in real life
real theme
characters are comun people
the plot happens in real life and its true

Culture

Culture is a term that has several meanings, for example in 1952 Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn complied a list of 164 different meanings. But they are 2 basic meanings
1. Excellence of taste in the arts and humanities, also known as high culture
2. An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.
3. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution organization or group.
In the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively. Following World War II, the term became important, albeit with different meanings, in other disciplines such as cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies.
Every culture has its own way to, celebrate, belief, act, etc. In case of the celebration in every culture they celebrate different things or gods, they can do rituals, dance or food, etc. Also every culture expresses their self through art.
In school part of what they teach us is to know and learn about the diversity of cultures on the world, to respect them and to know why every culture is different. Through the art of the different cultures we can know how they behave, what they belief in, rituals, social organization etc.
The benefits to know and learn about different cultures is that you can adopt some of them, or even if you don’t like other cultures you can see the differences between their cultures and yours and understand better your culture.