Survive This

“It’s okay,” Joe said. “I can't imagine not smelling cow shit every morning anyway. It’s soothing.” We started laughing until we were both standing there looking at the other, crying. It was the first time Joe and I had spoken that deeply about being an Albert— what it meant and what it felt like. We crumbled at the same time and sat by the wheelbarrow and wiped at our tears and sweat, the liquids hard to tell apart. I ran my palms over the dry grass in the field like it was water, inviting and…

“Santa.” “What?” “Call me Santa.” “… What do you want from me, Santa?” she repeated. “See those gifts?” He pointed to a table in the corner, stacked with toys and appliances. “Wrap them. I’ll be back with more.” Suddenly the Christmas-y tentacles reached out and dug into Dianna’s pockets, taking her and her boyfriend’s wallets. “What are you doing? Please, that’s all of my boyfriend’s Christmas money!” “I’m sure he’ll be happy to know it was used to for good. Have fun with the elves.” He…

This week, I was able to be more involved in the actual teaching within the classroom. Last week, I monitored student behavior a lot and made sure that everyone was on task when they were supposed to be. However, this week I taught morning meeting and skills block. During morning meeting, we would listen to the daily announcements on the overhead, then I would call everyone down to the carpet to sit in a circle. We began each day with a friendly greeting. This week it was “Brown Bear…

Westcliff Wraith Hayden Andrews and her parents pulled up to their new house in Westcliff, California. “Well, this is it!” Hayden’s parents announced to her excitedly. What did they expect when they showed her this? “It looks like it’s 1,000 years old.” Hayden said, unenthusiastically. Hayden always seemed to have this sixth sense on getting good or bad vibes from people or places, and this place gave off major bad vibes. It was kind of weird, but Hayden decided to give it a shot. Her…

one does have a dream, and something seems deceiving about it, do not be fooled, as it could lead to death. Field states, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale says that even those who do not like his tale can benefit from it.” Field says that everyone who reads this tale can learn the lessons, and the meanings of the story. People can use these lessons in everyday life and can teach someone to be more opened minded about things. Chanticleer also references the Bible: “The Book of Daniel”, as Daniel too had…

I've never seen a grown up pretending to be a 13 years old girl on you-tube before, must be a new low. Oh, I think that is a compliment, how old do I look do you think? Now I'm a little confused, why did you think I was an adult? Was it the fact I challenged you? Communicated in a grown up way perhaps, I would be really interested to know. You answered nothing of what i wrote, you denied that i have even read the bible without knowing me, you don't know my age or background. No, I went down…

very slow paced week but it did not feel like it took to long to be over. Which is a good thing. For the whole week we had 2 main projects we worked on. The first one throughout the morning and then the second one during the afternoon. So everyday this week was the exact same but I liked it. For the first two periods everyday we worked on a physics project, which was making a mouse trap into a race car. It was interesting, on Monday morning no one had any idea of what we would be doing but Mr.…

that states that there is an equal opportunity for Americans to attain success if they show determination and work persistently. However, this ideal today is far from what it started as. In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores the idea of not only thriving in the lower classes of the nation, but also surviving. She finds that it is difficult to survive, yet alone thrive even though she and others…

I remember when this 6’2 busta from forestville tried to buck at the gang He was trying to show off and smack at us, so we got our AR 15 and made him do a layout Fools always trying to stunt and act hard, but we always decimate them Just everyday life, we attack fools and wrench suckas when they owe us five-spots I remember one time this 5’11, full-zip hoodie, college student owed us $ 80 for crack So we stuck him up, beat him…

American Dream In 1913 people declared the American Dream. The woman, Kimberly Amado wrote about the American Dream in her article What is the American Dream? Quotes and History. So what is it? The American Dream is the goal every standard American believes they can achieve. Little do they know it is impossible to achieve. Although the American Dream is a real thing it is unreachable because when a person thinks they reach it they keep wanting more. As in the story The Great Gatsby, Mr.…