garcia girls response

in the first section of of the garcia girls i really had trouble  understanding the story and i was not sure as to if i would like reading this book. after the first se4ction i read the second and the same thing was i still was not liking this book. now by the third section nothing changed. lucky for me i still have to write a thousand word essay on a book i very much did not enjoy but i guess that's a part of a high school life. reading and doing things even if you don't agree with it or don't want to do it. so yeah i really don't recommend this book to people who like a fast more style type book or a book some one could relate to. but thats juist my view of this book.

So now to the essay. In the book " ho the Garcia girls lost their accents" by julia Alvarez i feel like it contains a mix of control and change.

The authors purpose i think in writing this book is to show how the stages of a girls life can change depending on where See comes from. i think where the Garcia girls live has a huge impact on the things they do.  now this story goes in backwards cronilocal order. now it starts off in the girls adulthood. then it goes to the girls teenage years which by then they are living in the united states. and lastly it ends when they are little girls and they live in the Dominican republic.

 first i will start off by taking about when the girls are fully grown and now called women. when the Garcia girls are living the American life style as adults they really seem to have more rights as women in the united states. now i feel like if the Garcia girls have been living in the Dominican republic they would have very little rights or even no real rights at all.

When the Garcia girls are teenagers they really seem to explore that life of an American teenage girl.i feel like they where at that age where they feel like they need to try everything. Also the Garcia girls explore the college life in America. the college life for these girls also includes sex and drugs, which i think they just wanted to explore this young teenage American way.America really seems to change the girls in there way of thinking and living.

The childhood of the Garcia girls i think would have been a lot different if they where livi9ng in the united states. now because the Garcia girls was raised in the Dominican republic it shows them how lucky they truly are once they get to the united states. i think they see how much they had and have when they move.

Garcia girls final post

In the final section of "how the Garcia girls lost their accents" the story brings us way back to where it all started. The family is back in the Dominican Republic and the book tells of when the Garcia girls were forced to move to the united states in the first chapter. The sim or other known as the Dominican republic secret police came looking for doctor Garcia which is the Garcia girls father. after all the things that went down the Garcia girls were told to pack up every thing that belongs to them. they were not really sure as to they were going at the moment but they did have an idea that it was not a good situation.

Throughout the entire book if we were to take a really good look at the book as a whole then we would see that the parts of the book really do fit together. I think if all three sections of the book were separated into three mini books then they would not even make much sense. but i think if you piece the book together then you begin to understand the overall theme of this story.

thought the entire reading of this book i was not really fully understanding it as best as i could have but that may be for a lot of reasons. but overall i think this was a rather interesting book if you get the concept of whats going on.

free write

This week was one to remember. fist i would like to say what i did this week starting with Monday. so Monday it seemed normal just like an every day Monday. i go to all my classes and at the end of the day something happens. A friends asks me if i am going to try out for the basketball team. i say no but then he says just do it. so i call my mom to bring me my basketball shoes and we walk to try outs. next thing i no is i see a lot of people and then the coach pulls up in a siver car. every one he yells if your hear for try outs come here. so we all run to him. now i want to make my self clear this is basketball try outs. who is here for basketball try out if you are give me a mile. so every one takes off running and boy was i tired. after it all was over i still had to go home and finish my homework. the only problem was i was very sore.good thing the next day was a Field trip.

now this has been the first time ever i went on a Field trip with asti. it was not a really big field trip but one never the less. so after second period was over i went to Mrs. corbally room and we where going to take a small Field trip to the farmers market. no at first it did not seem like a whole lot of fun but it would get me out of class so that was good enough for me.

when we had got to the farmers market every thing changed. once i saw all the stands filled with veggies and fruit i was truly amazed. i had only been to the farmers market once before and that was in middle school. this time it was a little different because i had to ask the farmers questions. now i did not really want to do so but i did and i heard about some fruits that never came up in my mind. i saw veggies that i never see at the super market. its a lot better tasting food at the farmers market and i would like to go back. i am just glad we got to go on a Field trip there. it was really cool.

response post- video games

after searching for someone to responded to i found a topic by   Eric Willson in which I could agree and some what can relate to.

  I think video games are alright. I play a decent amount of video games when I can. I have an Xbox and sometimes I play P.C. games. I used to play video games too much last year and it got in the way of my schoolwork and affected my grades. Now, I try to finish my homework before I play video games. On my Xbox I mostly listen to music and watch movies

I for the most part really agree with what Eric says about video games. yes i do agree with the fact that video games are fun to play. i also have a x-box 360. once i got my x-box360 a few years back i feel in love with it. i would allays stay up on weekends just to play it. it was worth it at the time. i would mostly play sports games like madden and 2k. The basketball games was always my favorite. i guess that might be because i was not really good at madden which by the way is a football video game. 

The reason i do not fully agree with what Eric says is because i know that for me at least when i got my x-box 360 i couldn't stop playing it. i had got it for my birthday which happens to be during winter break. so the whole winter break i would play video games witch i thought couldn't be that bad for me.

The true is at least for me is video games was not as good as i thought it was. The reason i say that is because i know that once winter break was over it really became hard for me to get back to the ways i was use to when school came back around. i struggled in school because i would spend so much time on video games and not homework.

so one day i get a not so good report card and my mom tells me until i bring my grades up i cant play my video games. i loved my video games to i was very forced on getting it back and the way i did that was by just doing my homework and studding. now my grades did go back up and i did get my video game back but by then i had noticed that video games controlled me and so i stop playing it as much.

The Garcia Girls response part 2

In the second part of "how the garcia girls lost theeir accents" it was discussing about the ways the entire family was being changed by the united states. They were beginning to get more americanized due to the factors that they had came to face within the united states.

in the second section the family begens to show how most of there innocence was being lost. when the girls where in their teenage years at the beginning of the second part i could tell how they were changing and already changed. i think if the girls had grown up in the dominican Republic instead of the united states they might have been differnt. i am almost for sure the girls would be differnt. For instance the girls had possession of marijuana aka "weed". this to me shows how america has a negitive effect on the girls.After what had happen to the girls in america they were all sent back to the domincan republic just like every summer. when there mother went to see them she had confronted the girls even the younger sisiter Sofia.

Another incident that ocurred in the book was Carla  was walking home from school. The family thought that they were living in a fairly safe neighborhood, but they were wrong. When Carla was walking home, she was being stalked by a man in his car. As the car rolled up on her, she had freaked out or  got nervous. the man   wanted her to come to the window. Carla didn’t want to go to his window  because she didn’t want to speak to him because she was not a good english speaking person. so what happened was that the man was a pervert who had showed Carla his penis and scared Carla  home to tell her mother what happened and the mother called the police.

free write- food poem.

  I This was a poem i wrote for my writing class. my classmates liked it. i think it was a little funny. i just want to show how much i love fried chicken. Now i love fried chicken but i really need to have other things to go with it. some of the things i like with my fried chicken is mash potato  and gravy corn on the cob with a little butter on it and of course a cup of ice cold kool aid. i love kool aid its like the best drink ever.                  

                      

Fried chicken

I am tall and hungry

I wonder if I will get something to eat

I hear the sizzle

I see a deep fryer

I want chicken in that deep fryer

I am tall and hungry

I pretend that there is chicken in the deep fryer

When it’s done I put it on a plate

I feel the grease hot fried chicken in my greased hands

I touch the steam from the chicken with my watery Tounge

I worry that the single piece of chicken will get lonely

I cry because I do not have corn on the cob for my lonely piece of chicken

I am tall and hungry

I understand I can’t always do well for those lonely fried chicken pieces out there

So I say let there be more sides

I dream of a happy world fill with all types of sides

 To go along with those lonely fried chicken pieces

I try to make my dream a reality

I hope it will be very soon

I am tall and hungry.

Now people can write a poem of there favorite foods that would be cool. I am very interested when it comes to foods. so yeah i think it would be cool if people write poems on there favorite foods.

Response to body image

 I found this quote on  Shiyun blog

Does our image really matter that much in our lives? I think that we are too focused in our appearances rather than our who we really are. I started to realize that most of us care about being liked by others around us or wants to be praised for their looks. In Mrs. Corbally's class, I  have learned a lot about the feeling that people have for their image. I was really surprised when I watched the videos about being too fat or people that are suffering through anorexia thought so much about their weight. It gave me a whole different perspective of this matter that I have never thought about.

well if some one was to ask me the question does my image really matter much in my life. my first answer at first would be yes. the reason i say that is because to me my looks are a huge part of my life as well as most people. i guess i am focused on my appearance a lot. i dis agree when people say appearance is  more important than who we really are. i really agree with the fact that some one can look good and just because they look good does not mean i don't care about who i really am. i know who i really am and the way i look will not change who i truly am.

yes after watching the videos in corbally class i was surprised on how people would say they are fat or they where suffering from anorexia. these movie's mostly talked about weight but not so much on what types of food we should eat. now i don't know why that was but to me it was kind of boring. the videos that we watched gave me  a whole different perspective of this. i never really thought about this before.

in class there was a question asked and it said do i think about my weight. well i don't really think about my weight. i just see my weight as it is and leave it at that. i feel if people think about there weight they must not be happy with them self's.

 A question i have is why do most people not all but most people see fat as bad and skinny as good. just a question i wonder. i think they see it that way just because most people see it that way. but i don't understand why most people see it that way. that's not a fair way to apply to someone because of there weight i think.
Overall this week has been a true eye opener to me with all this stuff about weight and how to eat. i just think if someone is happy the way they are then why pressure them into changing. cause i think people making the videos is a form of pressure as well as all the pictures of the skinny girls and boys. it really bugs me. i just think people should be able to eat what ever they want and look ho ever they want with out feeling pressured into something they are not.

Ho the Garcia Girls lost there accents. Part -1

This is the essay thing. In the first part of " how the Garcia girls lost their accents" it talks briefly about the stories that explain how the girls got to where they are now.  There is four girls named Yolanda , Carla , Sofia and Sandra. In the first of three parts its just basically telling how the girls are and how they are living.

In the very first chapter Yolanda was the person introduced. Yolanda goes back to her home town the Dominican Republic where she visits her family. When Yolanda gets there her family quickly points out how Americanized she is. She does not like that.

In the second short story i read about one of the other sitters which is Sofia. Well to me i think that Sofia is that girl that really stands out from others. it like she sticks out like a sore thumb. so it goes on to talk about this German guy named Otto. She writes him letters and in those letters they would talk about their "sexual feeling". One day Sofia father finds the letters she writes to Otto and he is very mad. He is so mad that he kicks her out the house. so Sofia goes to Europe to find Otto.

So far the book is OK not great but just good. I would think that me being confused has something to do with that. The most confusing parts to me is how the book is organized. Its like in this backward chronolocial order. that makes it hard to understand for me.  I hope as i read on it gets more clear to me. I think i just might re read the book so that way i can understand it better and get a better grasp on the story.