Happiness♥

ON Wednesday DEC 16.09 was my first conversation with.Ms. Kelly about Senior Project. She convinced me to have 2 sponsors rather than one. I believe its a great idea. I think about my future mostly everyday. I've noticed that children interest me a lot. Therefore, I'm thinking maybe i could be an elementary teacher or an English teacher. I think it would be great if i could see how both things work. I love to learn and even if i do not decide to do either at least i experienced it and tried it. Life is not forever and i might as well try something. Well i really hope everything will work out with my sponsors. Im happy to know i have a mentor who cares about my thoughts and future. Thank you very much Ms. Kelly. Your GREAT.

1.)Terse: Brief and to the point; effectively concise
2.)Geraniums: Any of various plants of the genus
3.)Upholstery: Fabric, stuffing, and other materials used in upholstering
4.)Unison: Identity of pitch; the interval of a perfect prime
5.)Disorienting: To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation
6.)Furtive: Characterized by stealth; surreptitious.
7.)Tittered: To laugh in a restrained, nervous way; giggle.
8.)Impunity: Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm
9.)Hemorrhage: Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding
10.)Lacerations: To rip, cut, or tear.

Later in the end of chapter 12, I read about Amir and Soraya getting married. I remember right after I read the chapter, my mother and I had a conversation about marriage. I explained Soraya's situation to my mother and my she told me if I were born in Mexico and living there, I wouldn't have had the privilege to choose the person I would want to be married to, especially if I were born in the old days in Mexico. My mother explained that if there was a man who wanted to marry me, he would have to bring a huge basket of fruit, gifts, then ask for blessings from my father. My mother said I wouldn't get to decide if I wanted to marry the man. If my father said yes, I would be married without giving my consent. Similar to my mother's description, Baba had to ask Soraya's father if Amir would be suitable to marry Soraya, since General Sahib said yes, Soraya would have to marry Amir, even if she didn't want to. The difference is that Amir's father had to ask for their blessings and not Amir. Also Amir cared if Soraya wanted to marry him, even if her father had said yes. Therefore, I'm grateful to be born Mexican American especially because I'm free to choose who I want to marry.

1)Lurched: to stagger or sway
2)Salivating: to secrete or produce saliva
3)Inevitable: Impossible to avoid or prevent
4)Negate: To make ineffective or invalid
5)Indecency: The state or quality of being unseemly or immodest
6)Teetering: To walk or move unsteadily or unsurely; totter
7)Legitimized: to make legal
8)Laborious: Marked by or requiring long, hard work
9)insinuation: The act, process, or practice of insinuating
10)Pirouettes: A full turn of the body on the point of the toe or the ball of the foot in ballet.

As I was reading through the end of Chapter 11, I noticed that Amir had taken interest in a girl named Soraya, who was the daughter of General Sahib. Toward the end of the chapter Amir says "Lying awake in bed that night, I thought of Soraya Taheris sickle-shaped birthmark, and the way her luminous eyed had fleetingly held mine. My heart stuttered at the thought of her. Soraya Taheri. My Swap Meet Princess." I could tell he had fallen in love. Further on in the book Amir marries Soraya in chapter 12. Amir feels that Soraya is the most understanding, caring women in his life and it gives him joy that she had also had secrets , but had the guts to reveal them to him. Even though she revealed that she had ran away with a man before him, he accepted her, because he also had secrets, but had no courage to say them. Soraya is a wonderful character that brought Amir company and brought love into the book.

As I was reading the beginning of chapter three, I realized my mother was exactly as Amir had described about Afghanistan's, their tendency to exaggerate. Amir had given an example that this kid had passed his biology test and his parents were already telling everyone that there son was a doctor. Like my mother and my aunts , they exaggerate like there was no tomorrow. There was a day when I started drawling and painting a lot , but my drawings were people with huge heads and flowers that looked like scribbles. My mother started to tell all of my family that I was going to be an artist, because all I did was spend my time drawling. I told my mother I drawled a lot because I didn't know who to draw so i practiced allot so I could get better at it. Furthermore, I got accepted to the People to People Ambassadors Program to travel to Greece, Italy and France and my mother told her family and friends that I had paid 50,000 dollars and that I went to every part of Europe, When I only paid 7,000 dollars and went to 3 countries.

1.)Obstinacy: the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
2.)Indecipherable: impossible to determine the meaning of
3.)Feigned: Not real; pretended
4.)Endearment: An expression of affection, such as a caress
5.)Hunkered: To squat close to the ground; crouch
6.)Buoyed: To hearten or inspire; uplift
7.)Flanked: To protect or guard
8.)Grandiose: Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand
9.)Hierarchy: A body of persons having authority
10.)Nuances: A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone.

I learned that in Afghan culture kids fly kites and compete with other neighborhood children to win respect from kite fliers and others in the town. The game consists of many players and, one by one each kite is demolished by the owner of the kite. Furthermore, the string that is attached to the kite is coated with powdered glass. Players try to cut the string of the other by the pull or release method. When there are only two players left the one who crushes their opponent wins , so then the winner lets go of their kite and runs after it, brings it back in their hands, and wins the fight, gains respect, and the glory. Although, it is fun it is also dangerous, the child is so intrigued in capturing the kite they grow unaware of their surrounding like traffic, roads, trains. Therefore, most children end up hurt because of the chase for the kite.