Happiness♥

I've noticed that this year has been the most weird year ever. I've been getting sick and hurt nonstop. I have no idea if it's something I'm doing or if my body is just weak. The beginning of the year I had been getting serious back pain. I think maybe it was because of soccer but the pain started getting worse. Good thing I had insurance and was able to get a physical therapist. Second I had huge stomach ache that made me feel like crawling in hole. I went to the hospital and was told a had a stomach virus. I toke an enormous amount of medicine to get it over with. Third I got a sty that was bothering me so much it became annoying. After that I started seeing fuzzy and decided to go to the eye doctor. Therefore, the eye doctor told me that I needed glasses. Then I joined Softball and during a game was rammed into by a player who knocked me down by the feet and so face first went down. Then while my legs were in the air my hip slammed on the ground. I couldn't move and my back felt even worse but I ignored it. I felt like I was paralyzed but I went home and my mother messaged me even if I was in pain. Then that passed and I got hit in the face by a softball to be exact in the mouth and broke my tooth inside my gums. The whole week I was at the dentist because it was that serious. Still recuperating from my tooth and lastly I managed to get pink eye which made my eyes itchy, watery and pitch red. Recuperating from that now to. I know theres more I just do not remember right now.

I was thinking to take pictures of the class and Ms. Carney but she was not there when I went to visit her. I also needed to talk to her but she was absent. Good thing there is emailing. Today I checked my emails and I saw that she had emailed me that she was not going to be there on Monday for me to visit her. The bad thing about emailing is that I do not have it on me twenty four seven. The good thing is that I was able to contact her and she said to me if I wanted to teach a lesson to the class. I was surprised that she offered because I was thinking about it but was not totally sure about it. I replied that I definitely wanted to teach the class but would need her help to be able teach them. I know I will probably be super nervous but I'll get over it.

Anayelly(FRESHMAN) has been telling me in Spanish class to watch some show called "Boys before Flowers", which I absolutely love and can not get enough of. Jan Di(main character) is a poor girl who delivers clothes to people from her parents' dry cleaners. One day she has a delivery to Shinwa High school which is the most expensive and high class school in all of North Korea. As she's delivering, a boy is seen on top of the roof of the school, saying he is going to commit suicide. While Jan Di is looking up at the boy on the roof a girl is talking about how the boy on the roof was Minh Ji huah, which is the person she has to deliver to. She ends up saving his life by catching him while he was throwing himself off the roof. Jan Di ends up being a hero and is asked to attend Shinwa High school with a full scholarship. Jan Di does not want to attend but is forced to by her parents. On the first week of Shinwa High Jan Di is made fun off and bullied by the richest boy and leader of the F4 group. The F4 group consists of four handsome rich popular boys who run the school. Jan Di's life becomes a nightmare. I will not tell the rest because I have to see the rest of it. I love this show.

Some of the work I've been doing towards my project was to search some type of different teaching methods on youtube and also videos that show how teachers use technology in the classroom. I have also been searching on the web different types of ways I could make my brochure more interesting and eye catching. I like art very much and I want to make my brochure super nice. I sketched a couple of designs and I can not seem to choose what exactly it is I want to present as my brochure. My friends, friend is a teacher for kindergarten and she gave some ideas on how differently kindergarten is sort of taught differently from middle and high school. Rose uses mostly hands on learning. Where they have to actually physically learn their ABC's and colors. For example using blocks that have different colors on them, stuffed animals that start with A or B etc. Middle school is more of visual and listening. High school is mostly notes and hearing the lesson being taught. I have much more to do but I'm getting there.

Yesterday In Ms. Carney's class the students were taking notes on the usage of seen vs saw. I had forgotten how to distinguish which one to use when saying what I have seen something. I thought it was good that the notes consisted of when not to use seen and when to use saw. On the notes they were writing on piece of paper they were using which consisted of four lines. One line had an X and the other a Check mark. The ones that had an X on it would be a bad example of seen or saw and the Check mark was a sentence that was written correct. After that she put them to test by handing them a paper where they could write four sentences and choose one that was good and one that was bad so that she could tell if anyone had any trouble with distinguishing seen and saw in sentences. They wrote their good and bad sentences on a website called "Today's meet", I remember she had used this method before and I think it's very affective. It's like communicating through facebook. I believe it's fun for the students and I've seen that the children enjoy being on the laptops.

My coworker "Chase" has been telling me to see this movie that he and his girlfriend had seen a long time ago, it's called " Real Women Have Curves". He mentioned to me that he enjoyed the movie very much and recommends me to see it immediately. I managed to see a glimpse of the movie and I did not like it, only because the parents of the main character are idiots. They don't want their daughter to go to college but to work in a factory. The main character "Anita" is a marvelous student who managed to go to Beverly high school and graduate from there, being from a poor family, and a poor neighborhood. I was impressed by how much the girl had achieved but not about the parent part. Every child should have the guidance and support in everything the child wants to achieve. It makes me so angry when parents do not let their children try to become better people. There was something that absolutely bothered me about the movie, there was a part where the father was finally thinking about letting their daughter go to college but the mother protested that Anita should work and work and only work because that's all she ever did when she was a little girl. She had also added that a women should only need to know how to cook, clean and bear children. The mother obviously was miserable through out the whole movie I saw part of. Why would you want your child to live the same life when the opportunities of living a better life was right in your face. Well I'm not going to see the rest of the movie because I do not want to see the unreasonable type of parents Anita has. They make me angry. Anita's mother had also said that it is unfair that Anita could live a better life than she had lived. ANITA'S MOTHER IS A HORRIBLE PERSON!!!!!! UGHHH

I left early from school and started my journey to the middle school. I can tell you right away that it was hot! Good thing I had two water bottles and I could feel a little breeze as I was power walking to the middle school. As I walked in Ms. Carney's classroom every child had a laptop. They were writing in "TodaysMeet" which is a website similar to texting. It's pretty cool that when Ms. Carney writes a question every student receives it, and who even answers back, everyone can also see it. Today I guess they took the NJ ASK test. I noticed most of the messages Ms. Carney asked were about the questions and the writing part of the test. Most of the children did not remember but some did. The ones who remembered mentioned that they wrote an essay and only had 30 minutes. Also that Shakyra(student) had used simile in her writing. Shakyra added that the language arts part of the test was less difficult for her but the other students had more difficulty with the material who did not have Ms. Carney. I thought it was awesome that this student sees the difference between her and the other students on tests and in Ms. Carney's teaching. I already knew that Ms. Carney's teaching was very effective and very attention grabbing. Ms. Carney once again let technology come into the classroom. She used the smartboard like last time so that the students could make the arrow spin on the graph. One graph had "explanatory topics" and the other "writing techniques". The explanatory pie had topics like person you admire, experience with peer pressure, your favorite place to eat, etc...The writing techniques pie consisted of create a hyperbole, create an alliterative title, create an idiom,etc... This time the students had to write about themselves. Ms. Carney had mentioned that the student would be writing an essay about themselves. I think it's a great idea when you ask the students to write about themselves because it gives them the opportunity to express themselves and let others know who they are. Every student loves to tell everyone what they like and who they love, things they want to achieve,and who they want to be in the future. Ms. Carney is an excellent teacher who makes learning so much more enjoyable and in a modern way. Keep up the good work Ms. Carney I'm glad your my sponsor.