Blog #1

First of all when I thought of the idea of even being a Junior it didn't make me feel different, but as soon as I got an idea of what junior year was going to be like, I then realized that even though there was going to be a lot of work that had to be done, I was going to have fun with it and be creative in my own way. Now, thinking of the upcoming school year I would say that I am most excited about having to participate in a play written by us students which seems really exciting to me and makes me bring myself further in the things that I am capable of accomplishing. I think that this is going to be a great accomplishment for me because it's something that I haven't experimented with before and it will be something that at the end I would be proud to say that I took part in it all.

"They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky" is a very interesting and divercial book to read. It opened my eyes to the many things that other kids from across the glob experience in their daily lives. This book was based on many stories told about Sudan where many families lived and were going through a very cold war. It's told in three different prespectives of two brothers and their cousin which had to go through so much pain and suffering just so that they could survive in a place where nobody cared for them and respected them for being kids. This book had a very dramatic impact on the way I tend to read books becasue and since I needed to talk to someone about it, who better than my older brother that had alreay read it before me. He was a lot of help during the process of readng this book becasue he gave me his opinions on why the characters were feeling the way they were feeling and we discussed various topics that compared to these events in the world, but there were many that we found couldnt even believe. We discussed various things throughout this book for example when one of the characters faced going through a crocadile infested river to save his life, I couldn't stand the describing scenes that said every detail of the horrors that the kid saw when he was crossing and others didn't make it, it was like I was living that moment with him right there and then. My brother and I wanted to know where these kids were right now in America since the foundation "The Lost Boys" came to them and brought them to America. Later on we discovered that now in days their in their late twenties and early thirties, the amazing part that I found out was that these specific boys are living among us in our San Diego Community. To me it was amazing and while we were researching all of this my brother made a comment that made a lot of sense to me, "Even though these memories will stick with them the rest of their lives, it will only make them stronger and easy adapting to this new community." I felt like he had read my mind and theirs, he couldn't have put it in other words then those. We also actually kept thinking aout where their parents were now and if they were ever going to go back to their country where most of their childhood was but both of us just kept quiet when we started to think about it. This book has been a great perspective for me to see many other things that I hadn't realized. I really appreciate Maria for reccomending this book and actually letting me borrow it for the summer, to me I wouldn't have chosen any other book to read over the summer.