Happy new year!

     Tomorrow is new years! so exciting! I really hope 2012 is good to me, I made myself a list of goals I would like to achieve in 2012, kinda lame, but whatever. For new years I am going to the beach - Punta Chame - I think its going to be pretty fun, two of my friends are going to be there, so I think it will be pretty cool, there is also going to be a show of fire works!

     On wensday when I was at the gym warming up my back, I did a back walkover ( like a back bridge, but you kick over ) and I landed on my middle finger and hurt it! I didn't cry or anything, it just really hurt, I tried to forget about the pain, thats usually what I do, but then I fell on it again! I couldn't do anything except for jumps!

    Yesterday I went to the clinic to see if it was going to be ok, because it was really really swollen, and it was green and a little purple, I got ex-rays and it wasn't broken, but I still need to take medicine ;( I hate medicine! it always tastes gross .

    I have started the book " The secret life of bee's " so far its very interesting, when I finish the book I will probably  write a review about it!

    I hope everyone has an awesome new years, and I wish everyone the very best!
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vacation

       Since Winter break has started I have been trying to enjoy my time with my friends and sleep as much as possible, because I know when school starts again, I will lose all of it! I have not done much during my break, and I don't think I will be doing much! 


        Today is Christmas, so I guess thats exciting, right? Instead of opening up my presents this morning, me and my family opened them last night, for something different. I was actually super excited and happy with what I got! 
The things I got for Christmas  was:
- 2 pairs of shoes ( Toms! )
- Justin Biebers under the mistletoe album
- and cloths!
Nothing too exciting but I am happy with it!
           The funniest thing happened, we got my dog a present ( bones ) and I guess he could smell it, so he ripped up the rapping paper and he cut through the plastic and took out the bone all by himself! I could not believe my dog opened up his own present! it was so cool!


     Another green Christmas, that doesn't actually feel like Christmas at all has passed, just waiting for next year to see how that goes, you know what they say, the third time's a charm... or something like that, maybe it will feel like Christmas next year, all we can do is hope!


     Hope you have a super merry Christmas and a happy new year(: <3

My Life In Quotes

http://weheartit.com/?page=4


My Life In quotes.

1# confession

               

                Don't you ever feel like just laying at home, not being bothered, have your music blasting without having to think about anything else except the lyrics to the song. Everyday I spend 2 hours on my favorite website called "WeHeartIt.com" That's where I spill all of my deepest secrets into quotes, if you know me then you know that I live by quotes, they are my favorite words and sayings that I never said, its kind of a hobby.

                My top favorite songs at the moment are:

·         Someone like you- by Adele

·         Set Fire to the rain- by Adele

·         All i want for Christmas is you- by Justin Bieber

                As you can tell all of these songs are slow, depressing, and certainly nothing to dance to. I don't know why but i like slow songs, they make me feel like I'm in a movie, out in the rain, the only difference is that I'm not getting swept of my feet by my " Prince Charming" ( like there's even such a thing )

               

Some time's I wish that I could write out my own life, and the way its going to go, but then I remember it wouldn't be any fun, the crazy thing about life is that its all a mystery until you get there. Sometimes I see kids ( like me) trying to grow up  fast, I think that's horrible, trust me I've seen the movies and they teach you pretty valuable lessons sometimes- never try to grow up so fast, because one day you'll look back at your life and wished that you would have valued the time you had at the age. -- yep, that's what the movie's teaches you.

                

 " I'm not telling you life is going to be easy, I'm just telling you its going to be worth it."

another favorite ;)

                 
for fun quotes click here---> http://weheartit.com/?page=4

Him

Him.

I like him, so what can I do? Its not my fault, no matter how hard I try I just cant seem to get him out of my mind. The worst part is that he doesn't even know I'm alive, I could probably count all of the times he has talked to me, but I wont, because its not like I care or anything.. 


There he stands right in front of me, pretending that he doesn't know that I'm around, like I'm just of piece of gum on the floor, ignored. " Guys are so stupid! " I think in my head, first they talk to you, and then when all of there friends are around its like your nothing, like you have vanished. Why is it that us girls know that guys are idiots but yet we still fall for them, hard. His eyes slightly looked up, he saw me staring. Quickly I turned away, pretending I couldn't care less. Our eyes met each other's and he smiled, i tried to smile too, I didn't want to show that it was actually killing me inside, after a quick smile I turned my head, I was sure one more second of looking at his beautiful eyes I would start crying. " Sometimes I want to know whats going through a boys mind when he is falling for someone." I whisper to myself.


I tried to signal my friend without getting in trouble with the teacher, but of coarse when you need to tell someone something the most, they never see you. I gave up and just sat there, I couldn't even think, so many things were going through my mind, but like always when I analyze things to much I usually end up getting frustrated and give up. I got fed up, I couldn't take it anymore, if he doesn't care about me then why should I ever care about him. I am over him, if he really feels something for me, then he will come out and say it, I'm done with the hints.


Even though my heart will still stop when he says something to me, or smiles at me, at least I know that I tried, and that maybe just maybe one day he will fall for me as hard as I fell for him.


-Anonymous

The Catcher In The Rye, relevant for our time?

'Catcher in the Rye.'

The Catcher in the Rye  by D.J Salinger is a coming of age story banned from many countries and schools. The book covers drunkenness, sex, and drugs ( pretty much the whole concept of growing up. )  in many school districts in the United states this book is banns because they feel that it  gives children idea's that they should not have. I totally disagree with the law that bans this fantastic book.

I would read this book because of all of the fun and exciting twirls it has to it. Through the book you will feel like a better reader, because this book in some ways is hard, but if you search down deeper and really try to find the meaning behind some things that Holden ( the main character) has said then you will understand a hundred percent!

The Catcher In The Rye has many loops, and many secret passages in it. Holden says many things that might seem just like crazy words to you, but if you really think about it, and really think about what the meaning behind it could be, then you know that you are truly a reader. This book is a great coming of age book for many children going through the stage of "rebellion" And I hope that people really give this book a chance through all of the crude things that Holden might be saying or thinking.

4. I disagree because this is a coming of age novel, which means that it is meant for kids that are growing up. This book deals with sex, alcohol, drunkenness, drugs, and the people that are against this book are just afraid of there own child ending up like that. In my opinion all children are going to experiment with these things sometime or another, so why try to hide them from the real world?  All you are doing is sheltering them from the inevitable. 

I feel that this novel is kind of a book of our time. Many kids already do these things, and some do worse, reading The Catcher In the Rye is not going to make a child any different, that is what adults are  afraid of, but in reality it is not true. Sheltering a child from the dangers and the excitement of the world will not stop him/her from doing it, if anything it will make the child much more rebellious. This book makes you think about deeper issues and  I think that's what every book should do.

I think that many people might be against this book because of the use of language, and the ideas it may give to young children, also the mocking of religion. Some people think that sheltering young ones will help and save the child from the scary features life has, and the badness in the world.You have to realize once that child is out on there own there mind is not totally molded into the person that has been teaching them all there life, the child will go crazy, and will go to parties all night, because everyone has to try things like that in life, if not you are not living for you, you are living for the person you were taught to be. 

My thoughts on this book may be difficult to comprehend because of all of the negative thoughts i have to say to the people who choose to band this fantastic book, but I 100% recommend this book to anybody who ever has the chance. I agree with this book, and I hope you do too. 

" Life is complicated. It starts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it, and it ends long before we've worked out just what to do."

Book Review on ' Night '

' Night '




" Night by Elie Wiesel is about a young boy and his journey through the 
holocuast. It is  short memoir that instantly sucks you in and welcomes you to this eye opening, breath taking journey.


Eliezer has to face many problems, many dissapointments, and many losses through his unforgettable journey. Growing up in a concentration camp was horrible for Eliezer, for anyone. Everyday Eliezer lost more faith in god because he did not help him.  Eliezer and his family got taken away when he was a teenager, when they got to the concentration camp they instantly got seperated and he never say his little sister or loving, caring mother ever again. 

I think that Eliezer learned that you have to be strong, and some things in life areso horrible that if you cannot run away from it, you must learn to cope with it in a way that you dont poison your mind.  Elie is still scarred, when he looks in the mirror his eyes are as dead as they were in the holocuast, and once your dead, your always dead, you can never bring back that feeling of " alive "


Life is cruel, and Eliezers life was one of the cruelest. Eliezer saw so many killed,even his own father killed, eliezer lost all innocence the moment he stepped into the concentration camp. 


This is very much like a coming of age novel because Eliezer lost all innocence,he lost all freedom, he lost all of his childhood. He had to act mature, and understand, and be an adult, he had to fight for his life. Eliezer got excited over an extra piece of bread, not a new book or a new toy that he got. Eliezer lost his innocence, and I am sure so did  many other children , if they did not act mature or grown up about some things they usually ended up dead.

Eliezer realized that the world is a horrible, scary place, and that some people are very mean, racist, and when someone has a little bit of power they take it all, and take advantage of the people lower then them. Sometimes when someone is making a plan they do not stop to think how it could affect the people that do not deserve the pain, and the agoney. 


I really enjoyed reading this memoir, it was short but yet it had all of the features a book would have in a longer book, and for that it made it seem like it went on forever, and then when it ended, I wanted to continue reading. I would not change anything about this book at all except the title. I would change the title because I find when I look at the book it does not make me feel the same way I felt when I was acually reading the book, I do not know what I would name the book if I was the author, but I would try to name it something mysteriouse, something that catches your eye and makes you wonder. 


The favorite line that I love was " No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory." This was my favorite quote from the book because its very cruel, and it sounds like they just tottaly forgot about him, and that after he died nobody cared anymore, he was gone, forever. Its not that Eliezer did not love his father, its that he could not afford to, if he did then he would die. 

         Overall I thought that the book was very well written, and I would like to read more of his books. I recommend this book to anybody!

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.

         Once upon a time there live a school-master by the name of Ichabod Crane , he was a nice young boy with a big open heart for a lady called Katrina Vantassel , she was a very beautiful girl, that was wealthy too. Katrina had fairly large land out here in New York.


Brom Bones, The worst of them all, makes you itch out of your skin if you think about him, he is a very irascible man. The twist to this story is that he has her heart too, Katrina's that is. They both need to compete for her. The funny thing is, in war, its not about who is " right " its about who is " left " . 


        On a dark, overcast day Ichabod was walking home from a day at school, he was walking down a long slim road, nobody apeared to be on the street, only Ichabod.


          " Gallop, Gallop, Gallop " 
   Horse gallops echoed down the slim dark road, and this startled Ichabod.
     Ichabod sees a man far out in the distance, on a horse. Fog starts to apear making it hard for Ichabod to see where the man has gone.


   The next thing you know Ichabod is looking up to this man, except this is a headless with a pumpkin on his head. Ichabod took this as no joke. " He must be the one who has been killing all of these people lately. " Ichabod thinks in his mind, over and over.


   Now you must of heard cries reverberate through the air, you must of known someone was in deep danger by the tremulous voice you came across. Do not worry ladies and gentleman, i will not go on a tirade to talk about all the things that could have happend, but did not. I do not know if it is because he did not yell loud enough or if he did not entreat well enough, all i can say is that whatever it was, it did not work.


   Ichabod pleaded and pleaded for his life, but the " Headless Horseman " as they call him, had no pity for such a thing like him. To make this less cruel, Ichabod disapeared. 




   Since Ichabod disapeared Katrina Vantassel was forced to marry the abhorent Brom Bones. The idea seemed to haunt Katrina, how could he leave me ? she would wonder.


    Brom Bones was happy about the wedding and had no feeling for what had happend to Ichabod, and that seemed amiss at first. Until there were rumors that Brom Bones acually dressed up as the Headless Horseman to get rid of Ichabod Crane. No one knows the truth.




    That my friends, is The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.

A long way from your heart.

Miranda Anderson Anderson 1

Mrs.Meadows

English E.F

4 october 2011

A long way from your heart.

It was a cold day in New York, and Ethan, Jacob, and I were walking down Broadway. It was pretty chilly outside so we were all wearing hoodie's and long pants. Mom and Dad were eating lunch at Moxie's with D.b's friend parents.

While we were walking down the frosted sidewalk we came across a little sports store. There in the front window, just in the little corner stood a baseball glove, it was not that special, and nobody could really spot it, but Jacob did, and he thought it was special.

“ Hey guys, look at that baseball glove! “ Jacob said enthusiastically.

“ Where is it? “ Ethan said.

“ Right there! The little one in the corner! “

“ Do you want it, bud? “ If you knew Jacob like I knew him you would do anything for him.

“Please! “

Ever since the day that Ethan and I got him the left handed baseball glove, it has been apart of him.

It was his glove, it was the thing that connected me to Jacob. Jacob was my brother, he died from Lukemia when i was thirteen , he was only eleven. Jacob was probably the nicest guy i knew! He has bright firey red hair, and I swear you could see him from a mile away, but now it seems he has faded into dust..

Jacob had a left-handed fielders mitt, he was left handed. The baseball glove has poems written all over it, in green ink. Jacob wrote poems so he would have something to do when nobody was up at bat.

Jacob was the nicest guy i knew, and he never got mad, usually gingers get mad very easily, but not Jacob. Jacob was also unbelievably smart, teachers would call mom telling her how good of a student he was.

After Jacob died I slept in the garage for a while, I even punched all the windows in there, I messed up my hand pretty bad. Now i cant make a complete fist. If you want to know the truth, I don't know why I did it, I just did, it's like i wasn't aware of what i was doing .

After I punched the windows in the garage my parents were going to take me to a Phychoanalist, I can understand why, I mean I don't think it's that normal to go on a rage like that.

My brother was a super nice guy, and that will never change, and when the rain is pouring down, i still feel the hurt and the loss.

Dear diary...

Miranda Anderson

Anderson 1

Mrs.Meadows

English. period - E-F

18 september, 2011

January 2. 1620

Dear Diary,

Today is the 2nd of january, 1620 and we have finally landed on this mysterious land, Plymouth. They say the world will remember this pivotal moment in history, but will they?

Mother has been in a very bad disposition these days, which has me very worried, I do not understand how she can be so upset when we have everything we need! we even have our own religious freedom which we have wanted all this time. I cannot help to see how everyone is being so guile these days, especially robert, he is my brother for god's sake, it is mandatory for him to tell me things. Nobody understand me, not even my other siblings, but of coarse they do not, for they are too young.

You will never guess what I did today diary, I jumped in the most beautiful river! I just saw it and I felt like i had to jump in! how spontaneous you might say, but yes indeed it is, ever since I have been on the edge, mother say's it is imperative that I stop fooling around, but thats all I ever hear " Elizabeth stop that! " over and over again, but I am not a child, I shall decide for myself.

January 4, 1620

Dear Diary,

This is a secret you musnt  tell anyone…. today I was out in the greenest forest picking the reddish berries when I over heard mother talking to grandmother-Willow about marriage, it was a very odd thing to be talking about but I decided to listen. While I was listening to their conversation they stumbled upon my name, how weird, yes indeed, I was bewildered, how did this happen? I am only 17 not age to get married. Nobody understand me.

January 6, 1620

Dear Diary,  

I was sitting by the stream near our house today, being sad for all that I have lost, not knowing whether to cry or just simply pout. While sitting by the stream I saw tiny little fish of every colour, how odd I say to myself, I have never seen fish of any kind like that… how interesting, though a lot of things are different from england, for example, the food, the animals, the plants, and even some of the people, well especially the people, they are dark skinned, and speak a different language then us, but the leaders of Plymouth tell us not to worry about them because they will come to good use.  Did you know diary that I do not miss England at all, I enjoy it here, and so do the other people that live here, we can do whatever we want, the only thing mandatory is going to church every night, well i thought we could do whatever we want, but now I am getting forced to get married, but dear diary you do not know how much I do not want too, I want to remain young, and unharmed.  Nobody understands me.

A month later.

February 4, 1620

Dear diary,

I decided diary that I shall get married, for the sake of Plymouth. my husband will make a big strong house, with a big large farm. My wedding is approaching dear diary and how I am nervous, but mother understands me, and will help me with this new world.

Until next time Dear Diary, Elizabeth.

A Dark Night

           A fly, a cricket, what could it be, or maybe its just the wind in the fall air haunting me, I succumb my fears and except it might be true. I surmised that it might be he, a gruesome thought, a grimace on my face, i really do hope someone is not in my room. 

         It is pitch  dark, and my rusty old lantern is lit. I feel my heart skip beats. I simulate death but of coarse he knows i am not. Maybe just maybe the thief  is here for my inventory of riches , but how can that be true, my inventory is in my other room. 

       I hear a quick noise ( CLAP! ) I derived he hit my rusty old lantern. In concise words i  say " WHO IS THERE??. " I endeavour to hide under the blankets so my body could be clad bottom to top by sheets. Gingerly i try to get to my phone, but i am making to much noise. By now i am dehydrated and i just want to sleep, but my eyes are wide open, there is no way.

       The next thing i knew i was being attacked! " My fear has came true! " I think in my head, what kind of despicable person would do this! I was electrified,  he then took my pillow. I was sure i knew what he was about to do, my death is upon me, i can see it now. In a cursory he took the pillow and roughly set it on my face, i only got a glimpse of what the man looked like, but strangely he looked like the young boy who works for me. His evil plan corroborated with exactly what i thought he would do. The pillow caused an abrasion on my face, and i could feel myself coming closer and closer to death by the second, and the feeling is absolutely terrifying, like jumping off a cliff and knowing any second you will die. After a while the pain starts to go away, until you do not feel anything at all.

      I am now in the sky, flying through the white clouds, looking down on my prey, ready for the hunt. like a Vulture i am , soaring through the pale blue sky.

  

First Day of Blogging

Hey, my name is Miranda and  today is my first day blogging!! i am really excited, and i cant wait to get into it some more! Today my English teacher told us that we had to make a blog account, to blog everyday! Its going to be so much fun! till tomorrow?