Improvement
My proudest moment was during the baseball season. Over the season I improved my fielding and my hitting. I knew that I was improving because I soon realized that the game was becoming easier. Throughout the entire season I only struck out four times, which was the second best on the team. I was proud of myself for becoming a better person.

Everything Is Not As It Seems
I remember being younger watching my favorite television show “Degrassi”. I can remember how many marathons I would watch over and over again. Back then all I ever wanted to do was have an acting part in this show. I wanted to live the life like the actors do on the show. I wanted to go through all of the school drama, the crushes, and the annoying teachers just like they did. I know that I could get all of that in real life but I wanted to go through the degree of the drama that they did. The difference between TV drama and real life drama is that on the show, everything becomes conniving and brutal. I always thought about how cool it would be to try and be the coolest in the school and how cool it would be to go through any length to reach that goal.
But when I started to get older I had to realize that there is a thick line between reality and TV. What I mean by this is, the show is not real and that everything will not always fall in to plan like on the show. My plan was to live that drama. But at that point in time that was not going to happen.
Going into sixth grade I then realized something. I realized how the older kids try to push around, and manipulate the kids younger than them. I realized how tough things got. I realized my dream had finally pushed its way out of the world of fantasy. From there on up till right now when I’m sitting here writing this essay nothing has been the same!
Degrassi involves bullies, fighting, drama, diversity, controversy, and all other elements. In middle school I was getting a taste of all of it. Have you ever heard the saying be careful what you wish for? Well I should have been more careful, because the last three years of my life has been a roller coaster ride. From the rumors, to the teacher, and just all the stress I have learned some things are better left untold. Some of the stuff in middle school has shown me that do not need to be part of a show to get the dose of reality that I had been looking for.
In the last three years the thing that I remember the most is all the emotions that I have been through and all of the emotions that I have put people through. My biggest memory is that I have just gone through three long seasons of a show that I was forced to participate in. I will remember all of my friends, enemies, sad times, and good times, because they have been the greatest memories of them all. I will remember everything is not as it seems.

Turned It All Around
5/17/10

Since I’ve started middle school I have always had behavior problems. I guess I could say that it all came with the age, or the new responsibilities of being in a higher grade. I remember in sixth grade, and how many fights I got in, how many timeouts I had, how many write ups I had, and just how bad my attitude was. Along the way so many people told me that I was going on the wrong track.
I knew that they were right but I was so caught up in acting the way that I was acting. I found it to be calming to be in control of everyone around me. But soon the people I had wrapped around my fingers slowly started to slip away. And all I could do from there was take everyone’s advice and do what I knew was right. So, I turned it all around.
I stopped trying to be the leader, I stopped trying to paint a image that just wasn’t me. I stopped having such a cocky negative attitude on everything. As time progresses I’m getting better. Right now I know my attitude is not perfect, but I know that I am growing to be a better person. In my three years of middle school the thing that I have learned and grown the most from is, “the mask you wear eventually becomes the face”, to me this means if you pretend and strive to be something you are not it will soon enough become the way you really are. No one wants to be the bad guy so I got myself away from that position. Now I know that I don’t need to be the tough guy to have friends, all I need to do is show who I really am and it will pay off by on its own. I may not get a award for it, but I will get the satisfaction of knowing that I made a transformation that I am proud of.

So as this year comes to an end I would like to make the Final Curtain Call on my theme. The theme of my page has been how i have been improving in baseball. The end of the season has finnaly come and I feel that i have done very well. At the beginning of the season i was lacking in many skills that I have improved on! My biggest improvement has come in batting. I have learned how to become more patient in the box and have gained a high batting average, a even higher on base percentage and ended the season with only four strikeouts on the year. In the future I know that coaches will look at me as an improving player, and I am proud to say that that is what i have become.

5/10/10
Rolling Thunder_ Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
The Logans are a black family that are right in the center of all of the racial tension between black and whites. It’s not that they ask for the trouble, but living in the south in the 30’s they can’t help but to be involved. Cassie the most strong worded person you will ever meet and Is not afraid to show it. Little man another one of the Logan children is the youngest of them all. He is very smart with a great sense to be clean and tidy. Christopher John should be the least of all of your worries, being that he is afraid of his own shadow. But as for Stacey he is the complete opposite. He is rugged and tough and will leave you bruised. With all of these different personalities running amuck how could you possibly expect for them not to have trouble.
1933, was a hard year for everyone. With the pressure of the great depression it just adds to all the stress of the black families. Even though the Logan family owned their land they were faced with the all the problems of the white folk trying to buy it off of them and offering them little to nothing because of how scarce resources were. Most of the black families were unlike the Logans. They were mostly sharecroppers. Sharecroppers are people who do not own the land that they work on. They must give a certain percentage of the harvest to the owner of the land, this usually left them at ends meet.
Just some of the many racial encounters they endure include, the children being harassed each day on their way to school. The Logan kids take a trip to the nearby town Strawberry, which is where all farmer’s goods in that area are traded and sold. But also where many of the kids realize what the real world has to offer to them. While at one of the stores who is owned by one of the lowest racial people you could ever meet, Mr. Simms. When the family is shopping in their store he shows them nothing but disrespect. But to make it all worse, the store owners, daughter Lillian Jean Simms picks a fight with Cassie. But being Cassie, she is not going to back down. She argues with her and they work up an agreement which later Cassie betrays and finally gives that girl what she deserves.
Now, T.J. just another black kid. But he had the ego of he being better than others. He gets all of the community into trouble just like the Ku Klux Klan does for everyone. The Wallaces, another white family who is the most powerful force in town took it upon their selves to punish a local black man. They burn him and leave him for dead. So mama urges everyone in town not to shop at their store. This angers the Wallaces so they set up T.J. and blackmail him for stealing a gun and assaulting a man.
This sends everyone in frenzy. There is chaos everywhere. Everyone in town knows that T.J. hangs out with the Logan children so they find him injure him, but T.J. narrowly escapes. When the Logans find him injured they hide him in their home. The KKK and the Wallaces come up to the residence and try to get him out of the house so that they can finish him off. But to keep T.J. alive Mr.Logan destroys his only way of income, the cotton field. The cotton back then was a main way of the economy. The fire blazes and everyone tries to put out the fire, even the Wallaces because they knew it was far more important than killing a young boy over a false crime, ending the book here.

I will try to be better
better than before
better than ever
better than my best
better than “the” best
better than possible
better and bigger than life

Whats a book?
A book is just a hook!
It captures you,
and reels you in
try to fight it,
you will not win!
So many words,
So what to do?
I guess ill start to read,
i have no choice,
so i guess i have to!

Haha
Paha
Lala
So many ways to do it
So many ways to show it
I always laugh at the silliest things
So i guess thats what makes it so funny
Ha,
My eyes squint,
My stomach turns,
LOL,
so very much,
I love to laugh,
I love to show it
Tee’hee
Laughter,
No way to explain it!

Backwards
There’s nothing wrong with being backwards,
Just because I hate sleep on weekends,
It doesn’t mean I can’t love it on weekdays,
Just because I like because I like French fries,
It doesn’t mean I like potatoes,
Just because I’m backwards
It doesn’t mean I’m not moving forward

Homerun
Since Little League I haven’t hit you
But one day it will happen again
I’m going to get you I promise
Because I want you homerun