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26 entries 3/15/10

1) I read chapter one of the Artforms book. I read from 3:15 until 4:00. It taught me a little bit about some art history. It showed peoples' art and what the art symbolized.

2) I read the Martin Luther King article. I didn't know that the "I have a dream", was once called something else.

Great Job! thanks (anne)

3) I began reading Chapter one of the Connect College Reading book.

4) I have a few goals for my future life. And have many steps to take to be able to achieve these goals. I want to be a stable person, and not struggle with paying bills. I'd like to have nice things, but in order to do this, I have to take college serious, and make good grades. My goals are to have an "A" average in every class. No lower than a "B" atleast. I need to study for all tests, and not just assume that I will pass a test, without studying.

Admirable goals! Easy "A's" are rare. I am confident you will succeed. (anne)

5) I began reading "The Wish List", by Eoin Colfer. I read the first chapter. Meg and Belch, had been robbing old man Lowrie's apartment. Old man Lowrie had heard them, and walked in and asked what they were doing. Belch's dog attacked the old man, and wouldn't let go until Belch had ordered him to. Meg got the gun from Lowrie and told Belch to make the dog let go, or she was going to shoot him (the dog). The dog finally let go, and Belch got the gun and pointed at Meg, but Meg jumped out the window to escape. Belch made the dog catch her, and finally Belch found the dog and Meg and threatened to shoot Meg. He knew not to shoot her, because the gas tank around her would also blow up. He held the gun in the air, and shot, and killed the three of them right then and there. Meg had seen herself dead, and was seeing her way to heaven or hell.

6) I read the second chapter of "The Wish List". The second chapter was about where the soul of Meg Finn had gone to. The devil had expected to see her today, but her soul had been lost. She had equal amount of points on her good and bad side, and was in Heaven. She had became the most popular soul. Beelzebub had called Peter to ask about her. Peter said there was nothing that could be done, but Beelzebub had lied and was going to get Meg to add points to her negative side to get her in hell.

7) Still reading "The Wish List". Meg was scared to open her eyes, because she didn't know where she would wake up at. Flit was talking to her telling her where to go, and she wanted to get out of the tunnel, and be alive again. Flit didn't know if going through the wall of the tunnel would make her come alive again or not.

8) "The Wish List" Meg was sent back down to Earth to give her one last chance, and see what she would do. To see if she would do good or bad. She did good and helped the old man Lowrie. Beelzebub wanted to send the dog and boy back down to convince Meg into doing bad things so that she would go to hell.

9) Old man Lowrie's leg had still been hurting, even after two years later. The doctors said he'd always walk with a limp. He saw Meg and was surprised to see her, because she was dead. A bookshelf had fallen on Lowrie and Meg had to get it off of him. She grabbed his hand to help him up, and he spirit was trapped inside of Lowrie's body. She hated being inside of his body, and finally gotten out. Lowrie had felt young again when her spirit was inside of him. Lowrie tried explaining everything to Meg that he had mistaken in his life. What he had did wrong, and every decision he made was the wrong one.

10) Beelzebub told Belch to go find Meg and make her mean. When Belch had gotten off the elevator to go find Meg, he was thinking of a way to get Meg to do wrong. He thought he'd go and kill Lowrie and then Meg wouldn't be able to help Lowrie and would go to hell. But the memory that helped Belch told him it was a bad idea, and wouldn't work. So he walked to Lowrie's apartment to figure out what to do.

11) Meg and Lowrie left to go find Sissy, which was now a TV actress. Lowrie fell asleep on the bus on the way there, so Meg put her spirit in his body and went and got some new clothes. Meg slipped out of his body and he woke up and liked what he had looked like. When Meg finally told him how she paid for all of the things, he was not happy.

12) I read the article in the Connect Reading book about being curious about things. I think when we get older, we tend to not ask questions much because when we are younger, we ask so many questions and people get annoyed by it and tell us to stop asking questions, so eventually we just get tired of being told to be quiet so we just don't ask questions anymore. Then some people are just way too shy to ask questions in front of a large group of people.

Sad but true. It does not have to be that way however, keep asking, someone will answer. :)

13) "The Wish List" Meg and Lowrie rode to where Sissy was and talked to the guard and the guard wouldn't open the gate. Meg's spirit went into the guard's body and flipped a pink switch and made him an emotional person. Then Lowrie ask him again to open the gate, and the guard let him in without any second thoughts.

14) "The Wish List" Meg and Lowrie made it into where Sissy was. Sissy started talking about what the show was about that day and it was about lost love. Lowrie stood up to leave because he said he couldn't do it. And everyone started looking at him and Sissy recognized him. He told Meg to get into him and make him go and kiss her. So Meg got in and had to get through all of the security guards. When she finally got to Sissy, Belch had found them and knocked Meg right out of Lowrie's body, so Lowrie had to do the kissing part himself. Then they left, and he told Sissy he wouldn't be back.

15) "The Wish List" Lowrie and Meg were talking and she asked what number two on his list was. And he explained why he wanted to do that. When he was 11 he had to go to boarding school to get tough, but he ruined his chance to be popular because he was smart, and didn't go against the law.

16) "The Wish List" Belch and Elph were looking for Meg, they called Peter to see if he'd seen her. Meg and Lowrie got to the park where he wanted to go to. He would only sneak in because that's how he was suppose to do it over 50 years ago. Meg started to worry about Lowrie because of how bad his health was. There was a camera watching the park, and Meg made it point to another direction so it wouldn't catch Lowrie sneaking over the fence.

17) "The Wish List" Meg got inside Lowrie's head so that she could climb the fence for him. She was having a hard time getting over, she could only imagine how hard it would be for Lowrie to actually do it. They finally got over the fence and she got out of his head. His heart was throbbing, but he finally quit resting and didn't give up.

18) "The Wish List" Lowrie started talking to himself, and then a security guard came up and was going to take them to jail. Murk, the guard, could actually see Meg, and she couldn't figure out why. Lowrie and Meg started telling the guard a story so that they wouldn't go to jail, and he believed their story. So the guard went and got a soccer ball for Lowrie to kick like he was suppose to over 50 years ago. Meg got inside Lowrie, and the guard came back and asked where Meg had went. He told him that she had a phone call she had to take. So Meg kicked the soccer ball, but it didn't go far, the guard told her to imagine it as someone's head and she thought of her stepdad and then she kicked it really hard.

19) I read part of the Art Forms book Chapter 4.

20) I read the rest of Chapter 4

21) I read 4-2 in the Connect to Reading book.

22) I read an article about cues in convesation. It talks about how when someone knows it's their turn to speak. Someone's eyes can tell you when. Or hand motions. It talks about the different pitches in peoples voices. Like if a guy has a high pitch voice, he is known as gay, but when a woman has a high pitch voice, she is considered pretty.

23) I read an article about a woman making rings, pins, earrings, and other jewelry. This woman makes rings with coke and doritos on it. If you request a certain meal, she will even make that.

24) I read about how making eye contact lets someone know how much you are interested in what they are saying. When you don't make much eye contact, someone assumes that you don't care, or are trying to avoid them. Like when you don't like someone, you don't make eye contact with them.

25) I read the two articles in the Connect to Reading book.

26) I read an article on yahoo about someone logging onto Kim Kardashian's twitter and she wasn't able to get on twitter herself. And also, Old Navy hired someone that looked just like her to be a part of their new commercial, because apparently they didn't want the real thing and wanted somone they could afford.

27) I started reading "The Last song" by Nicholas Sparks. Chapter one- Ronnie and Jonah are having to spend their summer at their dad's which is 8 hours away. And Ronnie doesn't want to go, but her mom is making her.

28) Chapter two- Ronnie and Jonah's parents talked while Ronnie and Jonah looked around the place. They mainly talked about Ronnie's behavior had been in the past three years.

29) Chapter three- Jonah and Steve(their dad) go to the carnival. Onnir is already walking around. She sees an old woman selling puppies and donates some money. She notices people playing volleyball and she watches for a few minutes. A player runs into her and spills a drink on her and ruins her shirt. She meets a girl names Blaze. Jonah sees Ronnie and says their dad is looking for her, so she gives him ten dollars so he'll act like he didn't see her. Ronnie met three of Blaze's friends.

30) Chapter four- Ronnie followed Blaze and her riends as they had walked off. Blaze's boyfriend (Marcus) kept glaring over at Ronnie. Marcus tries talking to Ronnie but she had felt uncomfortable so she walked over to where Blaze was.

31) Chapter five- Will( the volleyball player) had a few things on his mind, so he wondered of alone. Ashley( his ex girlfrien) went to gind him. He hot a few basketballs just to see how bad he was. Ashley offered for him to go to her house because her parents weren't home. Marcus, Lance, and Teddy started messing with Scott and Will, so they almost fought, but Ronnie stopped them. Spotting a toddler that had gotten knocked over, so she took him to his mother.

32) Chapter six- The police officer took Ronnie home. She told her dad that she hated him. Figured out she had to share a room with her brother. He tried talking to her, but she was mean to him. She woke up the next morning mad and started fussing at her dad again. She showered and walked out of the house, thinking about getting a job. Blaze saw her and asked her for money to get some food.

33) Chapter seven- Will had been thinking about Ronnie a lot through out the day. Thinking how much different she was and hoping he'd see her again and get to know her.

34) Chapter eight- Blaze and Ronnie went to eat, but Ronnie wa sa vegetarian so she only got a diet coke. Marcus, Lance, and Teddy all came into the diner and ate all of Blaze's food. Marcus asked Ronnie to come with them to Bower's point to hang out.

35) Chapter nine- Steve has thought about his father when he was in the hospital. It has been 16 hours since he seen Ronnie and he was kind of worried.

36) Chapter ten- Marcus and everyone else had been drinking. Marcus put his hands on Ronnie's hips making her fel uncomfortable, she told him to move but he didn't. She went home at two that morning. Ronnie woke up and went out to find Blaze to explain what happened the night before. Marcus lied and said Ronnie tried kissing him, Blaze put ten CD's in Ronnie's bag to make it look like she was trying to steal them. The cops were called.

37) Chapter eleven- Steve built a wall up in front of the piano because Ronnie didn't want to see it anymore. His song thought he was going crazy because the wall was crooked. Then Steve and Jonah went out to fly the kite, and Steve noticed a turtles nest and showed Jonah. Ronnie called from the police station and said she needed to be picked up. Steven picked her up and went and sat at the turtle nest. Ronnie went outside to see if he was mad at her, then he showed her the nest. She slept outside that night to keep an eye on the nest.

38) Chapter twelve- Ronnie woke up the next morning, hurting from sleeping on the ground. She took all of her stuff to the porch but realized she had left her book. She walked back down to get the book and saw a guy walking towards the nest. It was Will. He was going to check on the nest, and they talked for a little bit. Steve cooked a vegetarian breakfast burrito so that Ronnie would eat also. Jonah thought something was going on because nobody was fussing. Ronnie took a nap then went to find Blaze to talk to her about why she had put the CD's in her bag. She started to walk back home and ran into Marcus. He tried talking her into being "friends" with him but she took off running to her house. She was so scared. She sat on her front porch waiting to go inside her house. She went in and ate and then went to bed. She looked out the window and saw a raccoon headed towards the turtle nest, and she took off running towards it!

39) Chapter thirteen- Ronnie had to sleep on the beach that night again. After she woke up she went to find Will and she started fussing at him for not having a cage put up. He immediately left work to go talk to someone about the nest and see when the cage would be put there. After he gotten off work he went to the nest because he thought Ronnie would be there. They talked for a while and he stayed on the beach that night. Will took Ronnie to the aqarium to show her a sea turtle. Then they went fishing.

40) Chapter fourteen- Ronnie went to watch WIll play volleyball. Ashley had told Ronnie that Will does the same thing with every girl. Takes her fishing. Ronnie got mad and went home. Will went to her house but she ignored him. He sat out there for four hours when she finally went out there. He talked to her and she realized that Ashley was his ex. Then he got mad and walked off and she saw Marcus and got scared.

41) Chapter fifteen- Blaze was hungry and wanted Marcus to go with her, but he was angry and didn't want to go. He thought about what happened with Ronnie, then he started being nice to Blaze.

42) Chapter sixteen- Steve thought about his childhood. He wanted to play the piano but couldn't because of Ronnie so he acted like he was playing it on the kitchen table. He went for a walk on the beach to think about things.

43) Chapter seventeen- Ronnie went to talk to Will at his work and apologized for the way she acted. They kissed and made up. When she got home she went to the shop where her dad was and he explained why he was fixing the window for the church.

44) Chapter eighteen- Scott was calling Ronnie names and couldn't understand why Will liked her. Ronnie surprised Will and ask him to have dinner with her family.

45) Chapter nineteen- Ronnie met Will's parents and felt very weird around Will's mom, but she loved Wills dad. They got to Ronnie's house and all ate and played Liar's poker. Then Ronnie and Will went for a walk.

46) Chapter twenty- As Ronnie and Will went for a walk. He was thinking about a lot of things. She asked why he had been so quiet and he told her he was just thinking. He explained to her why he was going to the college his mama wanted him to go to. And it was because his younger brother had died.

47) Chapter twenty one- Ronnie and WIll stopped to get ice cream and Ronnie pushed the ice cream in Will's face. She ran around the corne and ran into Marcus. He made a comment about the church fire. And Will got mad. They talked a little about the piano.

48) Chapter twenty two- Marcus and all of his friends threw a party in a rental house.

49) Chapter twenty three- Ronnie and Will went for a walk down the beach when they ran into Scott. Scott was talking about having a camp for the volleyball tournament. Will and Ronnie talked about what would happen after the summer ended.

50) Chapter twenty four- Ronnie made Jonah some hot dogs. She went to the chuch to check on her dad while he was playing the piano.

51) Chapter twenty five- Steve and Jonah spent the night on the beach by the turtle nest. They spent the next day together going to waterslides and chuck e cheese.

52) Chapter twenty six- Ronnie went to find Blaze and try to get her to confess to what she had did. Blaze admitted she was wrong and told her why she did it but said she couldn't confess because Marcus wouldn't let her. Ronnie went to Will's sisters wedding and Marcus showed up and the wedding was ruined. Susan talked bad about Ronnie and Will's dad took her home. Ronnie told him to tell Will she wouldn't be seeing him anymore. The next morning, Will's sister went to Ronnie's house and said it was okay that she understood what happen and that Ronnie needed to talk to Will.

53) Chapter twenty seven- Marcus started getting scared and thinking that he was going to end up in prison. He needed to get money so he could get out of town for a while.

54) Chapter twenty eight- Scott and Will were doing really good in the tournament. When the final round came, he saw at the pier that Marcus was there with the fireballs. When suddenly Blaze's shirt caught on fire. Will took off running to help her because Marcus and them ran off. He took her to the hospital. After he left, he went and fought Lance, Marcus, and Teddy. The next day at work, Scott fussed at him.

55) Chapter twenty nine- The turtle eggs were almost ready to hatch. The aquarium crew and people one the beach all stood around the nest waiting for the hatching to begin. After several hours, the eggs finally hatched. Then they Ronnie and Will talked when her dad and Jonah came outside. Her dad started coughing and when he moved his hands from his mouth, his face was covered in blood.

56) Chapter thirty- Steve started thinking about everything that had happened within the past year. He had less than twelve months to live. He did what was most important to him, and that's why his kids came there for the summer. He had stomach cancer. He said he needed to go to the hospital.

57) Chapter thirty one- Steve explained to his kids what was happening and why he hadn't told them. Ronnie wanted to figure out everything about her dad while she had the chance to. She found herself praying for the first time in a while.

58) Chapter thirty one- Will, Ronnie, and Jonah all finished the window that went into the church. Will finally told Ronnie about what really happened to the church, and Ronnie broke things off with Will and said she couldn't trust him.

59) Chapter thirty two- Ronnie and Jonah went to the hospital to see Steve. Their mom and come there. The next day was time for them to go back to New York but Ronnie decided she wasn't going back. She was staying there to take care of her dad. Then she figured out the real reason why her dad left them.

60) Chapter thirty three- Steve thought back on when he caight Kim cheating. Jonah told his dad to let him stay there and they talked and cried together.

61) Chapter thirty five- Blaze went to talk to Ronnie and apologized for everything. She confessed and the charges on Ronnie got dropped. Blaze also told the true story of what happen to the church. It was Marcus that had done it afterall. Steve got worse everyday and the window finally got put into the church. Steve got put in the hospital bu got Ronnie to get him out. She finished writing his last song he was writing.

62) Chapter thirty six- Steve finally understood that God was there with him the whole time.

63) Chapter thirty seven- Her dad passed away and WIll showed up to the funeral. SHe aopologized for talking to him the way she did.

64) Epilogue- Ronnie and Jonah spent more time together. And Ronnie and her mom hadn't fussed since she came back. She auditioned for Julliard and she finally got a call from Will and he surprisingly showed up where she was in New York. He told her he had transferred to New York.

65) I read about the oil spill that happen a year ago. And it says that it could have been a lot worse than what it was. It's different now than people thought it would have been.

66) Buckhead condo in Atlanta is for sale for $2.5 million.

67) I read an article talking about how much sugar a person eats a year. People eat more than 130 pounds of sugar every year. Which causes obesity.

68) An 11 year old boy sodomized a 15 year old girl in a psych ward. The boy still stayed in the same room with the girl weeks after the incident. The girls mom is sueing the city for 20 million dollars. The boy is awaiting sentence, and is facing a year in juvenile detention center,

69) A fire in bronx killed 3 people and injured 6. People kept complaining that there weren't enough exits, but nobody ever did anything about it.