Allison's English Blog

 I Want You by Mitski brings back memories of me and my ex. I still have feelings for him and so does he for me but yet we won't confess to each other. The song brings back happy memories yet sad memories. He makes me want to scream at him how much I love him yet how much he hurt me. The songs speaks so much about how I feel. I was absent but i'm going to assume we worked on our presentation.

 I use to believe that the tooth rat is real up until a I believe I was 8 or 9. Instead of the tooth fairy, I grew up with "El Raton" would always put my tooth underneath and wake up to money, I remember being happy. But, one night I woke up to my aunt taking my tooth and putting the money underneath my pillow. The next day, I called my parents and aunt out about it and they were trying to gaslight me into believing I was seeing things. The gas lighting didn't work but now it's just a funny story to me. We took a test the entire class period. I learned more about our amendment rights. How I can use them to protect myself from unfairness.

When my dad asked my friend,Roxanne if she can take the car and drive to the store to buy candles and roses and she agreed. It was me, Alex, Nicole and Roxanne in the car, we were laughing, blasting music, singing, dancing, fake family and arguing. The windows were down and we were having a good time. The entire time we were laughing uncontrollably to the point our stomach hurts and we were out of breath. It continued like that till we got home and then we were still laughing. We had a lesson in the auditorium about Naviance. Naviance helps me look for colleges that are for me and what I like. I also learned what dual enrollment is along with Hope and Zell Miller Scholarship is.

 I've always been scared of spiders, i'll always call my brother to come kill the spiders in my room. There was this one time at night when I felt a spider on me. I screamed and ran out to call my brothers for help. They said they couldn't help me because they were busy and also the spider disappeared. I had to grab a broom and spider spray to kill it. I went back to my room and looked for the spider. When I found it, I immediately sprayed and hit it multiple times with the broom. That was the first time I killed a spider on my own. We worked on creating a presentation on Adobe about A Lesson Before Dying Themes. I learned how to find the key quotes and explain their significance. How to do a deeper analysis and use evidence from the text.

 When my friend cooked for me for the first time. It was some traditional food, I don't remember what the food is called but it was delicious. It was different from what I would usually get. I remember eating with her and complimenting her food. Her face would light up as I can tell she liked when I complimented her food. I haven't seen her in a while but when she sends me pictures of her meals, I remember the day she made me food. Today we read chapter 5 and answered some questions. Back in the day, everyone knew each other business. How hard the teacher and students had it with education.

 I can't stop thinking about the time my brother cried in my arms at night. I can still remember him apologizing to me as he cried into my shoulders. How the tears felt heavy in my heart, how I held him and just tried to comfort him. I remember how surprised I was since my older brother rarely showed any emotion and we were going through a rough patch during that time. For once, I felt like me and my brother were seeing eye to eye and finally were understanding where our emotions were coming from, why we acted the way we do. We listened to chapter 2 and 3 of A Lesson Before Dying and answered some questions. How some people who don't have a sense of manhood. In guilty or innocent, there will always be somebody wanting you to keep some dignity and humanity no matter the situation.

I remember when I yelled at my brother in front of my parents. During that time, I was going through something and was struggling with my mental health. But my family wouldn't understand that and were getting on me. They were just saying I was being "aggressive" and that i'm overreacting. Then they started to judge and point out everything I was doing instead of taking time to understand what is going on.  I felt hurt and even more irritated that I just ignored them and shut them out. That day, we listened to the audio of A Lesson Before Dying and filled out a worksheet. I learned the qualities a boy needs to be considered a man. How there are nice,bad and neutral words for every word.

A conversation that changed me was the one talk I had with my dad that one time in the car. We were just talking normally until the topic of boyfriends came up. He was telling me to not believe everything a boy tells me, don't fall for their tricks. How a boy will just say something sweet to a girl to get something out of them. I remember him just speaking to me and explaining while also giving examples. I never forgot that conversation with my dad. That day in class, we just worked on vocabulary. I learned new words and their definitions along on how to use them. I also learned some of their antonyms and synonyms.