Final Countdown

      This year has been exciting and and good it was an important year for me because is my Junior year where most colleges see your academic. This year was important because on this year it depended on me to attend college or not also grades are important to me. I'm glad that I did such a great job in my grades this year I got mostly A's with one B. I really didn't do well last year or my freshman year. I hope that this last quarter I do great just like I did in the passed 3 quarters.
      My plans for this last quarter is to study a lot for my final exams in any classes that I might get tested on from what I learned this whole school year. Next to finish all my projects that are due before the end of the school year that counts the majority of the last quarter grade. To be more responsible with my punctuality than the last 3rd marking period. Have the same or even better grades just like I did this whole year. Lastly to be a good student and be responsible with my work and my work in groups.
      In conclusion, I really hope that this marking period goes by fast so that summer can be here soon as possible. Also so that next year I be finally be a senior and get to graduate.I just want to finish High School so that I can start going to college and get my career. But it all depends on how I do this year that is an important year to me my Junior year.This 4th quarter I will do my best and work really hard to accomplish my goals.

Perfectly Content

      A place where I feel perfectly content is in a park with a lot of trees and that is a calm place where I can listen to music freely and just take my mind into imagination. I like to be alone and just listen to lyrics of songs while laying or sitting in the park just watching the beautiful day go by. Our mind never stops thinking is always working but mines work more when I'm thinking about how my future would be like or how my past had been if I were never like I am now. Just sitting or laying down while listening to music in a park makes my mind blow away and just forget about the world and worry more about me and my future.
      Music is my escape into happiness and to imagination. Is okay to have imagination no matter your age. Imagination is just a special feeling that you can control where you want to take your mind to. You can think of millions of things and place them were you want in your mind. You also can create your own world with your own imagination and make it as how you wish a certain thing was or want to accomplish. Your imagination is not only for things that are fantasy you can also make them accomplishments and make them come true. I always say to myself when I go to the park "Music On, World Off".
      Lyrics of songs always help my emotions come out or the lyrics always help me explain feelings I could had never explain before. There's sad,happy,mean and funny songs when I feel one of those emotions in me I always listen to that genre of music to help me think and express my self even more. Lyrics most of the time express the way I feel towards certain things or people and it helps me put my thoughts in place when I feel undecided and just need help controlling my emotions. Lyrics are not always to sing along with and enjoy just the beat but is also to help you express feelings you never you thought could explain with songs.
      I like to spend my time in a park because is a calm place where nature and fresh air is where the most green parts of the world are and where people can think with out feeling pressure. Nature is what relaxes you the most and makes your thoughts get into place if you don't know what to do in a certain situation. The fresh air always helps put your thoughts together and think in a positive way. \
      In conclusion, I like to spend time in a park listening to music because it relaxes me in a way I can never be relaxed in.  Just listening to lyrics that relate to me makes me feel like I am not alone and that someone out there in this world is feeling just like I am. Fresh air is what relaxes me and helps me thinks in a positive way. Spending time in a park listening to music is a perfectly content place to be at.
   

Resume

Sandra's Resume

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Behavior Plan

Schools always want to have good discipline for students but not all students behave like the school staff would want them to behave. In every school there is good students, somewhat good and bad students. The staff always want the students in their best behavior to have a good reputation of the school. In students depend the reputation of the school with their behavior they can make a change. I think that if there is a reward for having a good behavior than maybe students can start behaving now that they know they will get rewarded for being a good student.

If I was the principal or the dean of Furness I would also want my students to be in their best behavior to have a good reputation of Furness. I would say that if they behave and have a good discipline they can go to very fun trips like amusement parks, museums, and other trips they can come up with. But we will not give out trips for people that only behave for a certain amount of time they have to behave the whole year. They can't have no more than 3 absences or lateness no more than 3 detentions and absolutely no suspensions or pending. I think that this would want to make some students behave and some students won't care but I wouldn't care either because is not my education is theirs.

The plan that Mr. Riccobono requested is okay not that amusing or interesting is an okay plan. I think that if he gets other ideas maybe people would want to really behave. I know that some students don't care of his plan but some really do. I think that he just needs a little more creativity and ideas. I think that his plan is a little too plain he needs more amusing things that would want students to say "Ohh yes I want too accomplish my behavior status to get what Mr. Rick is proposing". I'm not saying that is not a good plan it actually is to get the students behavior together. the only thing that Mr. Rick is trying is so that Furness can have a good reputation.

I actually did like Mr. Rick's plan I think that I will start to come in early and not get detention for a whole month so that I can get my ticket and be a member of the "Orange & Black Pack". I know that the only thing Mr. Rick is trying to do is to change the school reputation and also the students behavior. In our school there is mostly more students that behave bad or somewhat bad not all students are good students. Every student have their own defects because nobody is perfect. So yes Mr.Ricks plan was a good idea for students to have the opportunity to make a change to Furness.

In conclusion, What Mr.Rick proposed for the students in order for them to behave is a good idea so that students can get their actions and responsibilities together. Maybe this plan can work and less students would have bad behaviors. But there is always going to be bad students that's just part of the school in order to be a school. Because schools and everything in this world have their Ups and Downs. I really hope Mr.Ricks plan do work and students start to have a good behavior.

New Year's Resolution

This year of 2014 I'm trying to have a lot of goals and a lot of time for myself. I want this year to be better than last year. I don't want to make the same mistakes I did last year. I notice that I have to grow up and be the mature girl that I am. If this year is not perfect I will make it perfect.

My first personal resolution is to not get into a relationship this year at all. I really want to focus on school and on me. I think that having a boyfriend will make me lose my time when I can use it for something better. Like I want to study hard for my SAT's so that I can go to college. If I have a boyfriend than I would get distracted and not put any effort into my education.

My second and last personal resolution is to get a job before school is over this year. I want to get a job to get my own things and to earn money for college. If I don't get a job I will just be stuck at home all day and do nothing I prefer working all day then staying home. Work will also help me distract my mind of things and I will also earn money. I want to work also to help my mom around the house and with the bills.

My first academic resolution is to work hard on my grades and keep them just like I started this school year. I want to get straight A's with maybe a possibility of one B also do very good this year. This year is very important to me because my Junior year depends on me attending college or not. I really want to go to college and become a FBI agent. So this year my Junior year I can't slack like I did in my Sophomore year.

My second and last academic resolution for this year is to stay in school. No skipping or cutting classes or even skipping school. I learned that skipping classes and school only brings your grades down and make you fail things you never knew you could failed. I had to learn this the hard way and now that I know I will not make the same mistake. I know that school is a very important step in your life it leads you were you want to end up. 

In conclusion, like I said previously I want my year of 2014 to be perfect if is not perfect I will make it perfect. I really want to achieve every goal I said I will do. When I try to achieve my goal and there is obstacles I will face them and keep on moving with my same goal. I am not backing up on any of my goals because I know this is for my own good. 2014 just better be good.

Different Generations

Our generation differs from our parents and grandparents generation because we have things that they didn't when they were younger. They might of had bad and good things or even suffered in their teenage years. Now that we are in the 21st century we have more advanced technology which maybe our parents or grandparents didn't had when they were younger. I feel as though that our generation has more interesting things then our parents or grandparents generations. Sometimes I think to myself what had it been like if I was born before technology was invented.

When I asked my mother how was here generation she said that it was some how similar to ours. My mom is not that old she is from the year 1980. She said that in school teachers couldn't talk about sexual education in any class. Parents couldn't even mention any sexual education to their children that was like a sin. Also my mom said that only offices and high class people had computers. Students didn't had any computers they had to work by books and writing.

Something similar in our generation with my moms generation is that young men also smoked and used drugs at a young age. She said the boys in your generation are the same as the boys in my generation. She also said that young girls would also get pregnant at their young age like 14-18 years old. They would drop out of high school or sometimes didn't even graduate from high school. That's how exactly teenagers of our age act and behave.

Now, heading towards my grandparents generation which is a lot of different to ours. My grandparents told me that their parents would tell their kids who to marry and why they should. The kids could not decided who to marry they didn't had the right. They didn't had any technology like we have now. Back then being a prostitute was a sin and you could got killed or sent to jail for that. Now in our generation is a normal thing to people which I think it is not normal. It don't matter how old you are you should never do that to yourself. Overall my grandparents say their generation wasn't that bad once you experience it you get used to it.

In conclusion, every generation has its own thing don't matter good or bad. I feel that later in life generations would be a lot different from past and present generations. Nothing will be the same everything will be much better or even much worse. You never know how will generations be 30 years from now. So just enjoy life and keep on moving forward because there is something good in every day.

What do you like about yourself?

There are a lot of qualities that I like about myself and there are some that I don"t like. I really like the idea of how I am bipolar and I don't care what people think of my attitude. I also like that I am an independent person and I don't like to follow others. I like that I am a serious and quite person and I really don't bother people or mess with them. The most thing that I like about me is that If I say I will make it I do make it and don't leave it for later.

The things that I would like to improve is on my shyness and how I take everything serious. I would like to be open minded about other things that I see that are bad but others don't. I would like to start making my own decisions without the advice from others. I want to learn what's right and what's wrong for me and for my life. I also would like be a nice and polite person to others. 

Something that I like about myself is that I am Bipolar and my attitude changes out of no where. I like it cause I think its fun well to me but to others is not that nice. But at the end of the day I don't care what they think about me. Another thing that I like about me is that I am independent I don't like to lay on other people or let them do my work or activities I like to get them done myself. I don't like depending on others.

Things that I don't like about myself is how I am a shy person. When I don't know you I be serious and all quite. But when I know the person I actually show the real me and that's what I would like to change. Another thing is I would like to take my own decisions without advice from others. I hate how I can help other people with their problems but when it's about me I don't know what to do. I would like to stop being shy and learn how to give myself my own advice.

In conclusion, I can start improving my shyness by being more social with people and start talking to them first. I can start improving my own decisions by taking time to think and see the positives and negative things it could bring. Being a teenager sometimes is not easy to me is the hardest stage of life. We don't know what we want and we sometimes don't make the right decisions and we regret them later on. But that don't matter there will always be things that I like and dislike about myself.