Response to Cindy :]

      Yes! Cindy and I have something in common! We both LOVE watching Skins. In Cindy's blog she states:

Another show I love is Skins. Skins is a British drama. There is an American version coming next year on MTV. I saw the trailer and I'm pretty sure I’ll like the British one more. I love Skins because its very different from other dramas I've seen. In the first and second gen, there's this girl named Effy Stonem and she's one of my favorite characters, along with Naomi. I'm curious about the people who will portray them in the American version.  

Ever since my cousins Maria and Brenda had introduced me to Skins I have became addicted to it. Yes this TV show is British but MTV will be re-making another one with American actors. To be honest I am kind of disappointed that MTV is re-making the show because the original cast is genuine and how they portray each character. Each character shows up their own personality. I absolutely love the overall cast. The American version won't be the same as the old cast. For example, I LOVE watching The Hills. I do not care what anyone has to rant or say anything about the Hills but I love watching that show. The main character on that show is Lauren Conrad. Lauren Conrad has been on that show for about I would like to say 4-5 seasons and when I heard she left the show and MTV had replaced her for Kristen Cavallari, I got angry.

Not angry as in I want to punch her in the face but angry how they just replaced her with her high school rival. The Hills will never be the same without Lauren. Just like Skins, Skins will never be the same without the cast. My favorite cast from Skins is Cassie. At first when I watched her she seemed kind of loopy and drugged up but thats just her personality. Its sad how she suffers from eating disorders and she has to have help to fix her up but she is doing better now. I wished they would show Cassie more in the show because she seems so nice and lovely.  She is in love with Sid. The downside to Sid is how Sid likes Michelle but Michelle likes Tony, but Tony is a player I am not going to lie. I noticed that Sid looks like Ron from Harry Potter. I also like Effy too but she wasn’t featured in the couple of seasons as much. I am truly sorry I had to spoil the first season but I had to. I will always love and enjoy watching Skins because it shows the society we have today and how people are dealing with their lives with sex,drugs, and weed.

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A Child Called It: Final section

    Before I start this last section of A Child Called it by Dave Pelzer. I would like to thank my group for being caught up with the reading and participating in my group. We have finally finish the book thank god! I can not wait until I read the sequal. On Thursday, we had our last lit circle discussion. I thought our discussion was pretty awesome and meaningful. As a group all of us agreed on why out of all of David’s five brothers, he would be the one that was abused by his mother. His mother treats his brothers like they were her own loving child, but when it comes to David she treated him like nothing. Later on in the discussion I mentioned how David gave up on everything in life at a young age. David gave up on his education, his family, and god. He gave up those things in order to receive food and to focus on surviving with numerous amounts of harsh treatments his mother would give him. I despise his brothers from what I have read in the book. Whenever David receives a punishment from his mother they would not help him. I understand that his brothers are trying to save their own skins. This reminds me of one of the discussions I had when we read The Kite Runner. The discussion was about rape and the question was Would you help or Would you just act like nothing happened. Of course Cameron had asked this question almost to everyone but for someone that grown up with someone for years and come from the same blood you know you already have to sacrifice something. I wished David’s brother could have helped him but his mother brainwashed him.
    David’s mother gave birth to his last brother Kevin. David loves Kevin so much because he was the one that made him laugh when Kevin smiled. David enjoys playing with Kevin and taking care of it but as time passes by Kevin started to turn against him all because of his mother. I enjoy reading this book alot, this book has alot of intense feelings going on the the story that left me sad and made me cry.

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Response to Bassam's post

Facebook is the most addicting thing that I can think of. For example every time I try to do my homework I get a email from someone saying get on line or you just posted on your wall. It is the only place were you can talk to all your friends that in no way is related to school. Since it takes me long enough to do my homework I get really board of doing it for like three hours so I go on the Internet to try to come my self down. Then when I'm on the Internet I all of a sudden log on to facebook and I see all my friends are on line so I talk to them and most of them are trying to get away from there homework. So I talk to them and one thing leads to the other and next thing you know I am gossiping about every one and I look at the time and I have been on the Internet for at least two hours then in the end I am two hours behind and try to make up all the work in a hour.

    Bassam, I can relate to you! I do the same thing!. I love Facebook because it allows me to talk to people when I am bored, which is most of the time. Facebook helps me to contact the majority of my friends and if they don't have a phone yet I can message them if I needed help on something When I do homework, I usually get alot of notifications and I would eventually have to check it. Well actually I check and respond once someone comment or messages me right away. I don’t know why I do that, but yeah. Once I check what other people post on my wall it turns it into a 1 hour conversation leaving my homework hanging. Now I do finish my homework but I procrastinate alot which is bad. Sometimes I get in the mood to do homework without procrastinating but in the end I do start to procrastinate. When I need homework help I would ask my friends and the only why I can contact them is through Facebook and when I do ask them my friend and I start going off topic. I use Facebook sometimes to vent my feelings out and what my opinion on things are and my friends would help me and respond to my status and that gives me a feel of their opinions. Facebook = Gossiping. I came across alot of drama and arguing with on Facebook and it distracts me because it is interesting to read. Even though facebook is a distraction it fills in my boredom on the weekends or when I finish my homework early because I am able to talk to my friends without worrying that I have alot of homework to catch up or I would have to stop procrastinating. I get really bored easily thats because sometimes i don’t feel like going out and hanging with my friends or I don’t have a ride so I can just talk to my friends. I know that I seem lame but I’m really not. Well I think i am not lame. Anywho, Facebook is great for keeping your friends in contact but a great distraction when it comes to homework.

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A Child called It: First section

A Child called It by Dave Pelzer is an interesting book. Although I have read the book I will try not to give any spoilers away. In the first chapter it was a flash forward that talks about his daily routine at school. David goes to the school nurse and has himself checked out. The nurse counts his scars and beatings from his mother and asked how he receives it. David always made up excuses because his mother told him to do so. During the second chapter, David was born to a loving family with no problems. His mother seems lovely and kind while his dad is a firemen. His mother would treat her children like they were something special which really struck out to me. They would go to road trips and vacations together as a family and have a blast. But something in his mother changed, for the worse. David’s mother, Catherine became abusive towards David. David had to do numerous amounts of chores around the house every single day and received no food at all. If he is lucky he would get left overs. What really got me thinking is how David would always get abused by his mother while his brothers aren’t. His brother still gets yelled at but not necessarily beaten.
    Since his mother abuses him, David had to quit his education in order to survive.

“Usually I’m a very good student, but for the past few months I gave up on everything in my life, including my misery through my schoolwork,” (page.8)

This quote was the one that struck out. Education is powerful and it is sad to see him give up on everything including education because he needed a way to survive from his mother. I wished he didn’t give up because with something powerful it can help you go far in the future and turn the worse to the better. This book is very interesting and powerful. I love this book even though it makes me cry to see how much pain he had to go through and endure every single day of his life.

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The historical fictional novel, The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. Amir is friends with a Hazara named Hassan, who is the son of Ali. Ali and Hassan are both servants for Baba and Amir. Kabul changed drastically once Afghanistan is under a Soviet Invasion. Soon enough the lives of Amir and Hassan changed forever.
    The author’s purpose of writing this novel was to show the importance of loyalty, truth, love, and regrets. In the book the author describes the relationship between Amir and Hassan. the quote, “ For you a thousand times over” represents a symbol to their friendship. Hassan is a very kind and loyal person. Especially to Amir since they have grown up together. In some parts of the book it explains how Amir was being disrespectful to Hassan, but Hassan kept his loyalty and decided to ignore it.
One example during their conversation/argument is:

“I'd sooner eat dirt,” he said with a look of indignation.
“Really? You’d do that?”
He threw me a puzzled look. “Do what?”
“Eat dirt if i told you to,” I said. I knew I was being cruel, like when I’d taunt him if he didn't know some big word...
“”If you asked, I would,” he finally said, looking right at me. I dropped my eyes.(Pg.54)

Another example is:

Then Hassan did pick up a pomegranate. He walked toward me. He opened it and crushed it against his own forehead. “There,” he croaked, red dripping down his face like blood. “Are you satisfied? Do you feel better?” He turned around and started down the hill. (Pg.93)

These quotes show how no matter what Amir does to Hassan he wouldn’t do the same back.
Amir challenges the friendship in some form of way to show how he is feeling and putting it out all on Hassan to see what he would do. Hassan would never hurt Amir in such a way. When Amir picked up the pomegranate and threw it at Hassan, Hassan picked up the pomegranate but doesn’t hit Amir but himself. Hassan believes that he shouldn’t hurt Amir in any ways either if it is physical or mentally. Hassan did nothing but to be nice and respectful towards Amir, Hassan should deserve the same respect back especially from Amir but he decided to be the opposite.
Even though Amir had done all these things to Hassan, Later on in Amir’s life he regretted what he did. I love how Hassan uses the phrase “ For you a thousand times over” because it shows how he would do anything for Amir if he askes him to do anything.

During the third paper clip, there is one part that really struck out to me was the part where Sohrab attempted to commit suicide. In the book it states,

“Home for kids?” he said, his smile fading. “ You mean an orphanage?”

“It would only be for a little while.”

“No,” he said. “No, please”

“Sohrab, it would be just a little while. I promise.”

“You promised you’d never put me in one of those places, Amir agha,” he said. His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. I felt it like a prick. (pg.341)

Later on in the book it explained how Amir could not talk Sohrab to the U.S. and would have to but Sohrab back in the orphanage first to be able to take him to the U.S. Amir told Sohrab the situation but was very unhappy with it. Sohrab’s unhappiness resulted him of attempting to commit suicide by cutting himself in a bathtub. Sohrab lost a great amount of blood but was able to live. In my opinion, the only reason why Sohrab attempted to commit suicide was because he was put into orphanage before and because in the book it states how the Assef would go to the orphanage and take the kids. Sohrab was unfortunately taken and had a bad experience with Assef because they did stuff to him and was scared. Amir promised Sohrab that he would never put him back to the orphanage, but Sohrab tried to kill himself because he was afraid that Amir will break the promise.

The weakness of the book in my opinion is when I had a discussion about the conflicts that made the ending, well not so great. The quote and explanation above shows how the conflicts effect the ending. I wished the ending was better but there is a reason why it isn’t as good. Hassan had many conflicts throughout the book and it took a while for him to get over his conflicts. Hassan’s main conflict was the broken friendship between Amir and himself. Hassan and Ali moved to Hazarajat. By moving, it left their friendship to a confusing ending. Amir wasn’t able to see Hassan again. Conflicts can effect people’s lives very deeply because there are some things in life that can can bring back bad memories. This is the same for Sohrab’s situation. Sohrab had a few conflicts but were pretty intense and it will take him a while to get over his conflicts and move on.

I’d recommend this book because it explains the friendship between Hassan and Amir. The friendship between them is the main thing that changed and grew conflicts off of the changes of their friendship. This book explain the hardships of their lives when the Soviet Invasion happened. Not only does the streets of Kabul change but  people changed too. This book is intense, despite the fact that conflicts kept building and building. At first, I wasn’t too fond of this novel but as I got deeper in to the book, my eyes got glued. I love the book, especially the part where the war had taken effect over everything and explained what the war did to his life as he grew up. I would recommend this book for readers who wants to see that war can effect other people’s lives.

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The Kite Runner: Final Section

Reading the whole book of The Kite Runner I realized that I enjoyed reading it then I expected. During the third paper clip, there is one part that really struck out to me was the part where Sohrab attempted to commit suicide. In the book it states,

“Home for kids?” he said, his smile fading. “ You mean an orphanage?”

“It would only be for a little while.”

“No,” he said. “No, please”

“Sohrab, it would be just a little while. I promise.”

“You promised you’d never put me in one of those places, Amir agha,” he said. His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. I felt it like a prick. (pg.341)

Later on in the book it explained how Amir couldn’t talk Sohrab to the U.S. and would have to but Sohrab back in the orphanage first to be able to take him to the U.S. Amir told Sohrab the situation but was very unhappy with it. Sohrab’s unhappiness resulted him of attempting to commit suicide by cutting himself in a bathtub. Sohrab lost a great amount of blood but was able to live. In my opinion, the only reason why Sohrab attempted to commit suicide was because he was put into orphanage before and because in the book it states how the Assef would go to the orphanage and take the kids. Sohrab was unfortunately taken and had a bad experience with Assef because they did stuff to him and was scared. Amir promised Sohrab that he would never put him back to the orphanage, but Sohrab tried to kill himself because he was afraid that Amir will break the promise.

I had a discussion about the conflicts that made the ending, well not so great. I wished the ending was better but there is a reason why it isn’t as good. Mr.Sutherland talked about how Hassan had many conflicts throughout the book and it took a while for Hassan to get over his conflicts. this is the same for Sohrab also. Sohrab had a few conflicts but were pretty intense and it will take him a while to get over his conflicts and move on.

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Response to Fermin's post

      I found a interesting quote on Fermin's blog about Drawings.

Something that I enjoy to do on my freetime is to draw. I love to draw! I only need a notebook, pencil, and an ipod to keep myself active not physically but mentally. Almost everyday, I draw for about half an hour. I started to draw when I was a little kid and as years passed, my drawing skills improved a lot. What motivated me to start drawing was when I saw many favorite cartoons. When I was a little kid, I loved to watch DragonBall Z and WWE. Those were my favorite TV shows. As I observed the characters very closely, I took out a piece of paper and a pencil. I then began to draw. At first, my drawings were not too good. Day after day, I practiced and by the time I looked at my past and present drawings, I noticed dramatic changes. I can't say that I'm an expert because I'm not. I'm just an amature.

      This quote stood out to be because Fermin and I have something that we both like to do. Even though he likes drawing, on my free time I like to play on my guitar. I know relate to my guitar alot by hey I do what I love, don't judge. Now, Fermin as many years of practice on drawing and he was able to improve gradually overtime. I bet Fermin is pro at drawing. It has been a year and 2 months ever since I have gotten my first guitar. I remember that day so clearly like it was yesterday. One thing Fermin and I have in common is that we are both self taught. All I had was a guitar, a pick, a tuner, and the internet. Now you see Google is your best friend. I am not going to lie being self taught is really difficult because when you take lessons they start out by teaching you all the chords, notes, and tabs. But, I only knew how to do chords. No one taught me notes or how to read tabs. Now I know how to read tabs, sort of but still. I am making progress here.
      Doing something that you are inspired is different than being forced to do. My inspiration for learning how to play guitar is mainly Taylor Swift. She is a very talented singer and guitarist. From what I have experienced, everytime I try something new I eventually will quit and won't go back to what I was doing. Guitar has changed me for so many reason like giving up. If I stuggle with a song I know that if I persevere I would complete the song. From what I remembered, I improved so much during the past year, months and weeks. My parents rewarded me for my passion and hardwork for guitar by buying me a Fender guitar. Many people say that I am good but I don't see myself as good. I see myself as okay. I am really not that great. But I am improving. I realize that it takes time, practice, passion and dedication to do what you love doing.

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What is the definition of Beautiful?

Why do people always mention skinny, tall, long legs, banging body type of girls? I am tired of people referring skinny girls as beautiful. What about the ones that are not skinny and is average or over weight?  What makes skinny girls so much better? I wish everyone can accept the fact that everyone is beautiful in their own ways. Yes I know that i have written a blog post about this but this topic is slightly more different than the previous ones. By no means, I am not offending for those of you that are skinny. Nothing about being skinny is bad, but the fact that other than skinny is considered bad. We all know that being overweight is bad as in health problems but I am not here to talk about it. People judge others by their appearance and does not realize that they are not benefiting themselves. Sure you can make fun of someone and feel good about it but really step in people’s shoes and realize what if feels like to be teased everyday.

My parents always tells me that I am fat, It brought me down so much that it lowered my self esteem. I would cry myself to sleep knowing that I will never be beautiful compared to other girls. It affected me so much that I would starve for the rest of the day and only have something to drink. It was a crazy path until something in me changed. I realized that every skinny girl is referred as beautiful. Is it their appearance that is beautiful? Someone can be beautiful on the outside and ugly in the inside. Someone can be ugly in the outside and beautiful in the inside. Why don’t we ever give credit for those who are lets say not skinny?.Someone can say.”Whoa! Look at that chick she has nice....” Yeah you get the point but what do they say to a non-skinny girl? Nothing except negativity. What this whole post is about is to explain what I meant about skinny girls being referred to as pretty. Last time, I am not offending anyone in any way. I really can believe I wrote about my situation... Overall, I learned to love myself to who I am because no matter how much judgement I receive from people I know that someone likes/loves me for who I am.

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The Kite Runner: Second section.

 

All I can say is, Wow. While reading the second section things got pretty intense. The section involved alot of deaths and conflicts. Amir took Baba to a doctor because Baba has been very ill. Baba found out that he has cancer. The doctor  offered him Chemotherapy but Baba didn’t accept. Amir wanted Baba to accept the Chemotherapy but Baba just simply says, “Don’t challenge me in public, Amir. Ever. Who do you think you are?” (Pg.156) At that point I realized that Amir wanted Baba to accept the chemotherapy so that Baba has a change of fighting off of it. Amir wanted Baba to live longer and stay around longer but Amir needed to accept that Baba refused because he felt like it was time for him to go.

Amir met General Taheri’s daughter Soraya. After meeting her and talking to her for a while Amir fell in love and decided he wanted to marry her. Baba had to pay for the wedding. The wedding was very expensive but i wonder how and why Baba saved so much money that he could pay for this. After Amir and Soraya got married, they both realized that they weren’t about to have a baby. Soraya had to go through many different tests to see what was wrong but they weren’t about to have any kids. The only choice that was left with them was to choose adoption. Once Soraya had moved in with Amir and Baba, Soraya decided to take care of Baba because he was too ill. One night Baba didn’t take a painkiller medicine because he told Soraya that he had no pain. The next morning Baba did not wake up. Baba’s death really struck hard on Amir, he really misses him.   

Amir had to go to Pakistan in order to see Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan became very sick. Amir arrived to Pakistan and visited Rahim. Amir noticed that Rahim is very sick to a point where he is coughing out blood all the time. Rahim told Amir that he wanted to see him before he dies and Rahim wanted Amir to do him a favor which is to find Hassan’s son Sorab.

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Response: Substitutes

       I came across a post named Substitutes by Luis Alba. His post made me compare UPA Substitutes to ASTI substitutes

Lately we have had many substitutes, which is not bad so far. I have noticed many things about these substitutes. First of all, it is always the same substitute compared to my other school. In my old school we would always have different substitutes for some reason. Also, people from ASTI are very respectful to the substitutes. In my old school, there was little respect for substitutes, do not get me wrong, many people did have respect for the substitutes. Finally, I noticed that the substitutes are very loose, or not as strict. This surprised me because I thought that ASTI would have gotten strict substitutes so we would not get off task.

       For those of you who don't know Luis and I went to school together. Although we didn't have the same classes we sure do have the same Substitutes. Comparing UPA (Urban Promise Academy) to ASTI Substitutes. they are fairly different. UPA usually get random substitutes while ASTI has the same substitutes. I noticed something very different between students at UPA and ASTI. Whenever UPA has a substitute for any class, the students in the class would act very immature and causes a lot of trouble. One example I have experienced while we had a substitute in 8th grade is teachers would be nice to us, students and everyone would be a total meanie to the substitute which I feel bad for because he/she is taking their time and energy to teach us and all we are doing is just fool around. Honestly, I do fool around sometimes with friends while the substitute is there but its not really heavy as throwing stuff around the room, stealing, or even trashing the whole room. Eventually if some of the students does trash the whole room the substitute would have to clean up the mess.        

What I noticed and like about ASTI is whenever we have a substitute we act normal and ourselves instead of being immature. When we have substitute the class would stay quiet and actually listen. This shows how mature and serious we are and we can act normal around a substitute without any fooling around or problems. Unlike UPA, we do not trash the room or throw things. We also do not play jokes with the substitute. I was surprised by how my class acts they way they do when our current teachers and that shows that we are different than most highschools/ middleschools. I believe that if we do take advantages with the substitute we would all receive detention or something cruel as our punishment.

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The Kite Runner: First section.

So far reading The Kite Runner until section one is interesting. Although there is some dramatic scenes, I really enjoy this book so far. In the book, there was one scene that really stuck me. The rape scene. Assef and his friends saw Hassan alone, Assef's friends pinned Hassan down while his pants were down and Assef proceeds to rape Hassan. I thought this scene was really horrible, the fact that Amir did not go and get help was unbelievable. Instead, Amir stood there and watched for a moment and ran away. After, Amir saw Hassan and pretended like he was looking for him, Hassan came crying and bleeding and gave Amir the blue kite. They haven’t talked about this ever since the day that this happened. In my opinion, I wished Amir would go and help Hassan. I understand that Amir was scared to help Hassan because Assef can really beat anyone up. My question is Who was Amir thinking of? Clearly, Amir did not help Hassan because he is scared but was also traumatized by the whole situation that he saw. Amir soon felt horrible for not helping Hassan.

After the rape scene, I think the conflict escalated more between Amir and Hassan. Sometimes Amir would be loyal to Hassan and sometimes he would not be loyal because of jealousy. Amir is jealous of Hassan because of how his father Baba is paying more attention to Hassan than he is to Amir. Amir over heard his father saying how he isn’t doing anything to his life but reads and write. Amir was sad but still had hope that he was going to be a writer. Another conflict that happened in section one is the fight between Hassan and Amir. Amir threw a pomegranate at Hassan and told Hassan to throw it back but instead Hassan just stood there while Amir kept throwing pomegranates at him. Hassan did not throw on back but instead he picked it up and hit it against his head and left. I can understand why Hassan did not throw it back, he wanted to stay loyal to Amir.

Overall, I really enjoy this book or this section. I can’t wait to finish the second section.

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Reflective Essay

The first quarter of blog posting was rather quite interesting. Even though my writing hasn’t improved, I had fun writing or in this case typing. My original plan for blogging is to blog about the Tumblr pictures I thought that inspired me, that did not go so well. Overall, I enjoy having a blog because I can talk about my opinions and I am able to write random stuff in replacement of finding a picture on Tumblr.

To be honest, my writing has not improved. Well, maybe a little but not so much. While looking back at my blog posts I noticed that my posts didn’t make sense in some of them, they are irrelevant to the topic, and it is kind of boring to read. I mainly procrastinate whenever we have our blog posts due and it makes me lose my train of thought once I procrastinate. I could leave some important information because I forgot it. The only two blog posts that were good were my Free Topic: Locks of love and Free Topic: Imperfections do not matter. In my opinion, these posts were the ones that have better flow and ending than my other posts.

Well, if nobody is perfect then why do people have to make fun of others flaws? People can look beautiful on the outside and have flaws on the inside or people can have flaws on the outside and their personality is great. It doesn’t matter if people have little imperfections like bad hair, yellow teeth, unique clothing, acne, our weight, how our hands and feet look, how dark we are or light, how some people have weird shaped nose, their eyes are too small/large,and etc because I believe that our imperfections are what makes us beautiful and unique.

This part is included in the ending of one of my posts, Free Topic: Imperfections do not matter. In that post I included a picture I found on Tumblr and it made me want to write about it. I felt like it was a good topic to write about and I poured all of my heart writing this post because this whole concept of judging other people because of their imperfections is not right and I want to tell the readers that everyone has imperfections so that does not give people the rights to make fun of them. While reading this post I realized that it flows a lot better than my other blog posts. My writing has improved in this post but I did not make any progress after that post. This shows that I started out strong but ended weak, It looks like I have been slacking off.

    When I usually write my blog posts I normally go to Tumblr and look at the pictures to see what looks interesting. Sometimes those photos have a saying or it symbolizes something in life and those kinds of pictures inspires me to write about them. Usually if the photo has a saying on it that I agree with or it looks cool I would mostly write about it explaining why I agree to this saying or why I think it looks cool. When I first started writing my first free topic blog post I wanted to use photos from Tumblr because I have something to actually write about. Since I have found pictures to write about I noticed that I make more sense and I do not ramble on and on. Soon enough I couldn’t find any good pictures from Tumblr and that resulted of me having to blog about random stuff that happened to me in P.E. I have two blog posts about Free topic: Fun times with the girls and I kind of regret doing those posts because it was just plain rambling and I didn’t really have a message and a strong ending in those posts.

      I love having a blog, in my previous school years we also used blogger to post our work which is poems. I like the idea of free topics because I have the ability to write about what is on my mind like if I had fun then i would be able to write about what I did that day. Also, I like being creative with my blog posts like writing about photos on Tumblr that inspires me and connect those inspirations and saying to what happened to me in the past or what happened to my friends that I know. Blogging has changed the way I write because it gives it more style and helps us think more with a keyboard in front of us. Also, by posting my blogs up on blogger people have access to my blog and can read my post. By reading my posts I can receive feedback that would help me in the next post.  Even if the blog posts are graded and for academic reasons, it helps us have another way of writing and thinking. We are able to write posts that include examples and we can surf the web to use the sources on the web. This helps us have strong evidence outside from the sources that teachers provide us.

      After reading my blogs that I have typed over this quarter, I have made some goals for the next quarter. One of my top goals is to Stop Procrastinating! I procrastinate way too much!. By doing so, It slows down my thinking and it loses important information I needed to write about. I mostly do all my blog post on Friday and it is becoming rather inadequate because of the number of blog posts that are being raised each quarter. I won’t be able to finish all 3 posts on Friday. Another goal I have is the flow of my post. Whenever I procrastinate and lose my train of thought I tend to ramble and make no sense at all at the middle of my post. My last goal is to actually improve in writing which is make better Introduction, Conclusions, Grammar, and Vocabulary.

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Of Mice and Men Essay

In the novella, Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small. These two men are migrant workers who are traveling through California in a time where the Great Depression had started. George and Lennie are struggling to survive during the Great Depression while working in a ranch in Soledad in order to reach their dreams in owning a piece of land.The central conflict in Of Mice and Men is character vs. self because Lennie struggles to survive with his own mental disability that he was born with.

In the book, Of Mice and men Lennie’s illness is affecting himself because he can’t think for his own actions.

“Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever’thing he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he hold on ‘cause that’s the only thing he think to do. Well, this girl squawks and squawks, I was jus’ a little bit off, and i heard all the yellin’, so i comes running, an’ by that times Lennie’s so scared all he can think to do is jus’ hold on.” (41)

Lennie is a kind of person that would easily get so scared because of his own illness he doesn’t know what to do. Lennie panicked and doesn’t understand what he is suppose to do when the girl in the dress is screaming. When Lennie was in that situation George has to step in and help Lennie and tell him what to do and even to rescue him.

Furthermore, the book states,” I was feelin’ pretty smart. I turns to Lennie and says,  “Jump in.’ An’ he jumps. Couldn’t swim a stroke. He damn near drowned before we could get him. An’ he was so damn nice to me for pullin’ him out. Clean forgot I told him to jump in.(40)    

When George tells Lennie what to do, Lennie does what George is told. George told Lennie to jump in the river, Lennie didn’t know that he couldn’t swim so he jumped in which resulted in Lennie almost drowning and George having to save Lennie.

Lennie’s illness is causing him to forget things, especially when George tells Lennie important things.

    Lennie looked timidly over to him. “George?”
    “Yeah, what ya want?”
    “Where we goin’ George?”
The little man jerked down to the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie. “So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you’re a crazy bastard!”
    “I forgot,” Lennie said softly. “I tried not to forget. Honest to Got I did, George.”(4)

It is difficult for Lennie to remember everything because of his illness. George has to do a job of reminding him what he said because Lennie doesn’t know what he is doing. Lennie struggles to remember what George tells him. Lennie tries to remember but because of his mental disability it shortens his memory.

After all the trouble that Lennie caused it resulted to Lennie’s hallucination, where he thinks he sees his dead aunt, and proceeds to have an argument with himself.

“And then on from out of Lennie’s head there came a little fat old woman. She wore thick bull’s-eye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she was starched and clean. She stood in front of Lennie and put her hands on her hips, and she frowned disapprovingly at him. And when she spoke, it was in Lennie’s voice. “I tol’ you an tol’ you,” she said. “I tol’ you, ‘Min’ George because he’s such a nice fella an’ good to you.’ But you don’t never take no care. You do bad things”(100-101)

    Lennie’s mental disability makes it impossible for Lennie to take care of himself. George steps in and decides to help Lennie by helping him to remember important things he needs to remember or know, He also helps Lennie by keeping him out of trouble so that both of then can still work in the ranch in order to reach their dreams in owning a piece of land together. After the troubles that Lennie did he starts to hallucinate and fight with himself, because George is constantly telling what Lennie needs to watch out more. Lennie feels that he needs to be aware but he also over does the awareness . Lennie tries to be careful but ends up turning bad , and messed up terribly. As he starts to hallucinate he felt as if he tried his best to be careful and that it wasn’t his fault for messing up.   
    Overall,  in the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Lennie struggles to survive with his own mental illness that he was born with. Lennie’s mental disability causes him to struggle to be a normal person, because he is unable to control himself and remember things which resulted of him fighting with himself.

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Free topic: Continuing Fun times in P.E with Karen S. :D

   For a free topic I do not know what to write so I will write more about the fun times in P.E with Karen! because I didn’t finish with the last post. Correction, The first time me and Karen laughed for a long time which began our friendship as Laughing Buddies was when we played Frisbee and I was sort of bored because I didn’t really do much at the time so I decided to laugh really weird and then Karen, you looked at me and laughed at me because I was laughing really weird and then I started to laugh because you were laughing. Skipping to the more recent ones, Lets talk about Soccer. When we played soccer I told you that i was on my monthly and i started to have really bad cramps and then it affected my mood and i became more cranky a bit and then I told the guys that they were lucky they didn’t have to go through all of the pain and then Luis agreed and then I asked Luis if he wanted his period and his face was like the face of pain and completely denied. Karen and I use “period” as a threat to Luis and we also call him period because that is his name for the week.
   Yesterday, we played volleyball and that wasn’t our winning day. We sort of failed at volleyball yesterday especially when Jackson ducked and I tried hitting it but I wasn’t in my position. The funniest part was when Fermin hit the volleyball with one hand and he was very confident that it would go over the net with one hand but he was wrong... and we all laughed. When the ball was coming towards Karen she yelled out OLE! and then hit the ball and Luis turned around and said,”Did you say Ole because I’m Mexican?!” and Karen and I laughed a lot. Oh! This reminds me of when Me and Karen kept on laughing at everything and the guys in our team didn’t understand the reason why we kept on laughing so Luis said,” Are you guys laughing at my face?!” and then Me and Karen just laughed even more and ignored his answer. Luis if you are reading this, we weren’t laughing at your face.

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I miss UPA!

Over the past few weeks I really miss Middle school. Bany's post states,

I remembered the times I had with friends at middle school. I remember always hanging out, not really doing work. I never studied for test and I did my homework about five minutes before class, I never really needed to do anything because middle school was so easy. I would just talk in class and then go home and hang out again. we would have so much fun at lunch, going out to the yard and just talking all day! our classes were much shorter and we did fun things in class. We would have a better way of doing class work, by going outside to do work and having group projects. I also LOVED the events we had at our school. We had a bunch of spirit weeks and dances and parties. What I dont really miss is the drama that happened at my school. It was soooooo annoying! A fight this week, r Middle school was so fun and now i miss a lot of what we did in there. rumor on this guy, and some little punk ass kids selling crack  after school. It was too much!But I love my school and the people(most of them) we were so much fun and hung out all the time.

  For the one's that when to UPA or Urban Promise Academy, at some point we all disliked that school. I wouldn't use hate because hate is a strong word. UPA is an okay school, The teachers there were really interesting. Some teachers at UPA were nice and some were just mean and unfair. One thing I disliked about that school is the fact that they have Homework Detention. Homework Detention is pretty self explanatory, if you do not do your homework they simply mark you down and you would have to come after school and finish it. If you do finish the homework really quick they would still make you stay and wait or read a book which I think the whole concept is really pointless. I wish they would have removed Homework Detention and just take it out of their grade if they didn't do their homework.
  I really miss UPA though, I miss all my friends and teachers. I had a great group of friends that I mainly stick to and ever since we graduated we sort of tried to keep in contact which we still do but not as much because of our schedules and my schedule. I remember the times where we would all do our homework at recess, yes UPA has recess but it was funny because at recess we would hangout outside of the classroom but there were still windows that teachers could see. I also love the events that UPA provided us, my favorite ones were the College for all trip and Volunteer day. College for all trip is we go on a field trip to see colleges like UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, and Cal poly. It was fun because we slept at hotels and we got to choose our roommates and we would stay up until like 1AM because we couldn't sleep and we where watching a basketball game. We also went to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and it was fun because we got a lot of game tickets and we cashed it in with prizes. Volunteer day is where the whole 8th grade class goes to a place and Volunteers it can be working at a park,garden or Senior center. You help out the community and show that you care about the environment and others. Looking back at my times at UPA I wish I can go back.

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Response to Cameron's post

I came across Cameron’s post about A Difference in Life & School.

All of a sudden, life just became much complicated. I have school, music lessons, after school clubs, and a little sister that I have to watch sometimes. Middle school was all gravy. To me it felt like I was sailing through it with out any obstacles in my way. All of a sudden, I am realizing that life is not so simple. As I am getting older, I am realizing the responsibilities I have are way more serious. No one is here to tell me to do my homework, or to make sure that I study for my tests. Of course my parents are there for me if I need help, but they expect me to do what i need to do with out being told. School especially is getting a little bit harder as we get further into the school year. I want to focus on my experience at ASTI so far.

  I agree with Cameron's post, Life did get complicated. Back when I was in 8th grade I had time to go shopping for clothes, go to the movies, hangout with friends, play guitar, and more. I had a lot of spare time. Middle school for me was easy especially 8th grade, I am a quick learner so I think that is why. 8th grade homework was easy to a point where I can finish everything in less than 3 hours and sometimes I feel like I don't want to do it because it was too easy. In 8th grade we sometimes have tests but some of the tests we didn't have to study like crazy. As time starts to pass the things i have time to do starts to fade away slowly.

It is sad when I think of it because I would have to wait for the holidays to do the stuff I couldn't do during school days because I don't have time. I know that i would have to manage my time but managing my time means I would have to cut out some stuff so that I would have time to study and do homework because we basically have quizzes every week. To be honest, I am a huge procrastinator so I think that is the main problem why it takes me a while to finish my homework. There are days where I can't play my guitar because of the amount of homework I would have to complete or how much I need to study. My parents support me all the way, they understand why I would have to stay up late to study or finish up a lab report but at the same time they have high expectations for me and I would have to try my best in school. Sometimes my parents don't understand why I got the grade I receive, of course they want me to get all A's but if I get B's then my parents would yell at me which is useless because it is just a B, B's are not bad at all.

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Free topic:Fun times with the girls.

I thought about yesterday at P.E and I started to laugh because of what happened at P.E when My team and Janice’s team were playing football and I decided to write about this because I normally attach a photo and write about it but I can’t find any good pictures so I am choosing this topic to write about which is fun times with Janice and fun times with Karen in P.E.
  The first time i met Janice was when it was P.E and we were waiting for the gate to be opened and she randomly looked at me and waved and of course I waved back and I walked over to her and talked to her and we introduced ourselves and etc. Janice decided to add me on Facebook and we started talking about random stuff like Boys and Hello Kitty. Janice and I like to call each other “Twin” because we have so much in common first we are Vietnamese,we like the same food, we like to wear Chucks and Nike’s, we get tired at the same time when we run one lap, we feel embarrassed when we try and kick a soccer ball but we miss the ball and much more. We laugh at pretty much everything. Oh! I remember when you said,”Doogie” and I said,”Don’t you mean Dougie?” And we started to laugh. I have so much more to explain but I can’t think of any right now.
  Fun times with Karen, Man we laugh everyday when P.E starts. I remember the first time we laughed it was when our team was playing softball, Francis was batting and he couldn’t hit the ball so he had to use the Tee and when he hit the ball, We bursted into loud laughter everyone thought we were crazy but hey who cares? The more recent time we laughed was when we played volleyball on Wednesday and it was Jackson’s turn to serve the ball and Yazen was in front of Jackson and Jackson threw up the ball and with his other hand he hit the ball really hard and fast and it went straight into Yazen’s stomach it was pretty funny because it barely made it over the net but I also feel bad for Yazen. The Last time was Yesterday when we played FlagFootball.

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Qfwfq Essay

Thesis: After Lll meets Qfwfq’s great uncle, N’ba N’ga, Lll slowly falls out of love with Q causing him to try his best to take her back.

Qfwfq wanted to introduce his fiance, Lll to his great uncle. Qfwfq at first did not want Lll to meet his uncle N’ba N’ga because he is a fish. Eventually, Qfwfq lets Lll meet his great uncle. Qfwfq later on regrets it because Lll is spending a lot of time with his great uncle instead of with him. One quote from The Aquatic Uncle, By Italo Calvino is,”Had i lost her? Suspecting this, I hastened to woo her back. I took to performing all sorts of feats: hunting flying insects, leaping, digging underground dens, wrestling with the strongest.”(80) This quote shows that Qfwfq is a type of person that if he doesn’t have any attention, he would do anything to have that attentions by doing anything he can.  He is ashamed that his great uncle took away Lll

Q has a habit of giving up to easily. After Qfwfq had introduced Lll to N’ba N’ga , Lll had been spending time with N’ba N’ga while Qfwfq is trying to get Lll back. Another quote is,”Marry him. Be a fish again with him. And bring still more fish into the world. Good-by.”(81) This quote shows that instead of persevering, he gave up too easily and he wouldn’t try anything else to get her back.

Since Lll and Qfwfq’s great uncle N’ba N’ga have been spending time together, Qfwfq got left out. Therefore he is semi-depressed. Last quote is,”Not even i have ever realized the full extent of my grandmother’s brother’s fishiness. So i just said: “ It’s late, Lll, let’s go....”(77) This quote shows that Qfwfq is jealous of his great uncle because Lll has been spending more time with his great uncle than she does with Qfwfq.

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Response to Ivan's post

Reading Ivan's Post about wasting money on too much clothes made me realize that a lot of people spend most of their money on clothes.

When a person enters a store they become a different person, and everything in their mind is set to buy things and add many things to their closet. Ann addict may waste from a range of $150 and sooooo on they can go on forever. And the sad thing about people that are making the purchase is that they are not making their purchase with their own money, they would rather use their Credit Card!  So many people are in a large amount of debt because of  Credit Card purchases made from buying clothes.  People do not know how to control themselves and their urges for wasting money. many people buy a bulk amount of clothing but also they waste a greater amount because they would rather spend it on brand name clothing instead of same material clothes that are cheaper. Wouldn’t it make more sense to buy more clothes that are cheaper that would average the same amount of buying a lower amount of brand name clothing? 

When I usually say that I am going to go to the mall and get a couple of shirts, I get more than what I say. I can say I am going to get some shoes and end up with buying 3 pairs. When you buy a lot of clothing items we can get carried away sometimes and have to pay $500 worth of clothing and usually we spend it on more of a high end brand like Hollister, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, Coach, H&M, and etc. When we usually shop at these type of high-end brand stores, they would usually sell sweaters that are $50 each and if you are lucky they would mark it down. What makes these sweaters so good that they have to be expensive? I mean can’t you buy some other sweater that is cheap that keeps you warm? Does the brand really matter or keeping yourself warm in the winter matters more? When you splurge yourself in these type of stores you realize that you can get other clothing items that are the same materials but much more cheaper and sometimes you ask yourself,”If i didn’t spend all my money on and expensive clothing store I could have saved it for something more important like for family and school.

To be honest, I used to go to the more expensive/high-end branded stores. I still do but I don’t go too often more like once every 3-5 months? There is a difference between spending a lot on branded stores quite frequently and spending it not frequently. Sometimes if i do go shopping I would not go to the high-end store because I can get a cheaper alternative and I want to save my money for something important like food, school, or sometimes I want to save it because I have a trip to go to and I want to buy a souvenir for my family. Using your credit card too much on expensive clothing items can increase your debt, which is bad because you’d have to pay it off sooner or later and it would be difficult to pay if off if you are a shopping addict. Being a shopping addict will ruin your life!

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Free topic: Imperfections do not matter

   As you can see in this photo above, It says,"You're Beautiful. It's Society that's fucked."  I agree with this quote because everyone is beautiful in their own ways but the society that we live in makes others bring people down because of their appearances. From what I experienced, people make judgmental comments about what type of clothes they wear, how their hair looks, and their personality. An example from last year, people would always say really rude comments. I had this classmate that would pick on people that usually do not stand up for themselves. He would always say,”Dude, look at her/him! She is/He is ugly!, Oh and look at what she/he is wearing! What is that thing on her/his face?” Or “Look at her/him she/he is so fat!” People that make these comments are the people that have big egos and they are not afraid to say their opinions. The people that have big egos don’t put themselves in other people’s shoes which makes them easily make rude comments without thinking that it would hurt their feelings. People sometimes don’t realize that they, them self have flaws too and they get carried away with other peoples flaws and later on they think that they are the most perfect person.

   Why do people do this? Is it because they want to feel like they are prettier than others? People have to understand that everyone and I mean everyone has flaws, nobody is perfect of course. Well, if nobody is perfect then why do people have to make fun of others flaws? People can look beautiful on the outside and have flaws on the inside or people can have flaws on the outside and their personality is great. It doesn’t matter if people have little imperfections like bad hair, yellow teeth, unique clothing, acne, our weight, how our hands and feet look, how dark we are or light, how some people have weird shaped nose, their eyes are too small/large,and etc because I believe that our imperfections are what makes us beautiful and unique.

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Response to Meriam's Pet Peeves.

Reading  Meriam's pet peeves post made me realize that we have something in common.

Is it just me or is it annoying when people say "oh your name is so ( insert ethnicity)." Really if the world was made up of only John and Alice i would choke myself. Names is what make us who we are, sort of why im glad why people cant pronounce or spell my name, but it sucks to fill my name out on multiple choice tests...

   Reading this post made me realize that it is sort of true. From my past experiences I heard a lot of people say, "Oh your name is so Asian." and etc. I find that very rude because the name that they have is from their parents and their parents chose it for a reason, maybe they like the name or how it is spelled. People should respect other people's name and keep their comments to themselves and make fun of their hair or something. Just kidding. I also agree with Meriam, Names are what makes us, well us. Is it really necessary to add that extra comment and say that their name is whatever race they are going to say? Does anyone ever think that they have been constantly made fun of just because of their name? I know people have, I feel sorry for them because they get the same negative and rude comments everyday that they almost feel like they hate their parents because they gave them such a bad name and wished for a better one.
   If people would stop saying rude comments about each others name then everyone would be happy and it wouldn't create any conflicts and it would result to peace. Like seriously, find something better to do like save the world or do nice things for others. Just know that Karma is a big pain in the butt so making any rude comments,name calling,or anything, one day it will happen to you and you would see how they feel. The feeling sucks because once you think about it you question yourself saying, "Why did i do that?" or "Wow i am such a jerk." Or maybe it would happen to you but you see that someone is going through that misery and you have the sense to understand what it feels like.I know Karma sucks if you want to avoid it then do the right thing people! be nice, please keep your opinions to yourself you don't need to announce it to the world, it is embarrassing and rather mean right? Don't you think when other people say,"Oh your name is so (ethnicity)" is rude?

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Ten Vocabulary Words.

Acquisition
Discretion
Marginal
Validity
Regime
Compensation
Integration
Entity
Inclination
Derive

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Free Topic: Locks of love

 Seoul Tower- Locks of love

    If you look very closely in the photo, you see a lot of locks. Those locks are locks of love which basically mean you get a lock and with a permanent marker you write your name and the person you truly love. What i mean by truly love is the person that you love for the longest and you know that you'll love them forever no matter what. After you have wrote you name and the person you love, you will lock it to the fence and throw the key over the fence. Now over the fence is the ocean which means once you throw the key over you can't get the key back. I love the whole concept of it, it's kind of like making a wish and throwing a quarter over the fountain but with love. One question I have is How do you know if that person is the one? I hear people say,"I love my boyfriend/girlfriend i think he/she is the one." and next thing you know they end the relationship. Or the opposite maybe it can be true when you say,"I love my boyfriend/girlfriend I think he/she is the one." and you are getting married and starting a family. Hearing people say that makes me wonder how they know if they are the one. Is there some sort of feeling that tell you that the person is the one?
   Writing your name, the person you love, and throwing away the key is a kind of a big deal because it shows that you will never love someone else except for that one specific person. What if you change your mind and love someone else? What would you do? You can't take the key back, the lock is on the fence forever. This is awesome because it allows other people to try this and by looking at the image a lot of locks are on there so a lot of people seem to think that the whole concept of Locks of love is pretty cool and fun to do. Overall, this whole idea of locks is cool, I think it's very cute  I'd like to go to this place and put a lock on my own, maybe someday it will happen.

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Debate Against Prostitution: Rebuttal

“People are not forcing these people to go out and sell themselves, so why should it be illegal.On the other hand, if the person buying the prostitute,wants to take the risk and have sex with the prostitute, then why try to stop them. That is a choice that the buyer is making and if he gets an STD, then the only person he can blame is himself.”From Cameron's Blog .

Jessica and I understand that if women or men want to sell themselves for sex then they should be allowed to but if prostitution was legalized HIV/AIDS and other STD’s percentage would be increased. Since the United States have a high percentage already, why would we want to increase it more? In 2008, there had been 42,439 people who receive HIV/AIDS and 84 percent of it were woman.

We find that prostitutes are forcing to sell themselves to others which result to the issue of human trafficking where people are kidnapping young girls to become prostitutes which automatically sets them into sex slavery and would have to so sex labor. Human trafficking also involves Auctioning and Buying prostitutes all around the world. We do not believe that any of these young girls would want to go through all these procedures or even become a prostitute, but they would have to anyways or they would receive disciplines. Because of prostitutes happening, there had been 58 million industry that are for human trafficking.

There is a choice for the buyers to have sex risking of STD’s. However, the buyers would trust that the prostitute that they had sex with would have no HIV/AIDS because they believe that prostitutes would go to the doctor every 2 weeks to check up if the prostitutes have been infected or not. There will still be a high percentage that the buyers would receive HIV/AIDS. Since doctors only “assume” that prostitutes would alert buyers or anyone else that they have an STD. Many prostitutes would hide their problem because they need to be a prostitute to earn money to support their family or themselves.
-Our opening statement

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Quote Response to ASTI Constitution

I found a quote from Ivan's blog.

Their has always been many situations in schools, were groups of people make cliques, and somebody is left out and feels out casted . Unfortunately, I have been on both sides. Both sides feel awkward and uncomfortable in many different ways. When been on the side of an alliance or group and others are left out and feel out of place, I began to remember and feel what is the feeling of not having a friend and somebody that is next to you, and will help you when in need. In some ways it reminded me of the times that I was on the other side. While being on the other side, left out I would just feel out of place and in some ways lonely and very uncomfortable, not necessarily depressed or frustrated but just having a peculiar feeling.

I found this quote very similar to what happened to me and I know the feeling of not having a friend or someone you can trust. From the ASTI constitution specifically #2, I believe this quote shows why it is important to Include,don't exclude. I think everyone has experienced the feeling of being excluded from a group and the feeling sucks because you feel like you don't fit in because of how you look and act, because of that you feel like you want to be included and you don't know who to turn to. Since i believe in Karma, If you include others,they will include you,If you don't include them, they won't include you it is the same as treat people how you want to be treated. I believe everyone shouldn't be excluded because you don't want make people feel sad,I know this for sure because i hate the look on someone's face when they are sad and lonely.One day you will put yourself in someone's shoes and know how it feels to be left out in groups or maybe someday you will be excluded and learn how lonely and hurt you feel. Yes you don't always have to include a person you don't like but you have to see what they are like in the inside instead of the outside.Also if you see someone being left out in a group, you should go up to him/her and say, "Hey do you wanna hangout?!" Or something related to that to show them that you know how they feel and how you are there for them. No one should exclude anyone at ASTI because at the end of the day we all realize that us students and staff are one big ol' family.

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Odd girl out

Usually pretty girls are the popular ones.I was friends with one of the popular girls back then and you know they are selfish,conceited, and come with attitude.Popular girls believe that they should bring other people down to make themselves feel like they are on top of the world.There was a time where one of my friends,the popular one,we were just walking around the school when she saw a girl that was sitting by herself,and she decided to go up to her and started to make fun of her asking her why she is ugly,why she is a loner,why she is talking to someone else's boyfriend,and etc.At that point i felt bad for her because she was constantly being made fun of and because i should have told my friend to leave her alone and should have stood up for her.In this situation my options were to help her and stand up for her and actually lose one of my friends or I can stay quiet and not say anything.It is my belief that people bully others because it makes the bully feel good, something that happened to them in the past and they want to let their anger out on someone,they have problems at home currently,they don't like that person,and it is for revenge.I believe they want to hurt their peers because they can see how vulnerable they are and how easily they can bring then down.Sometimes they do it because other people do it,they just want to feel cool,or they feel like they are tough.

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