Failures of kindness

I think that George Saunders is what he want to be because he said he wants people to be less selfish and by caring about that girl he is. Even though he said he never was rude to the girl or said anything mean. Plus he even defended her sometimes, yet he still felt bad for her and it kept bothering him because he is not selfish and he cares about other people.

Earth day Cleanup.

So recently I participated in helping my school and other schools clean up our neighborhood. The group I was in went to the local park. The workers there called us over knowing what we were doing and asked us to help them. So as a result of that we ending up filling up the their pickup truck with dirt, sticks and other garbage. Then after that we filled up the garden part of the park with mulch. Finnally after all the work we went back to our school were they were giving out food for everyone participating in the cleanup and we ate and then everyone went home except a few of my friends and me hung out for a while after. Going into this my objective was to help clean up all of the park but I only ended up cleaning up the garden area of the park but it was still fun helping clean and do work.

Beginnings and Ending.

The way I feel about this school year ending and the next one beginning is that I'm really excitied for spring break. Also I'm kinda nervous and happy to be going to high school. Plus I'm somewhat sad to be leaving Heritage Middle School but also happy to have finally made it through the whole 6th 7th and 8th grade here. Adding on to me being sad for leaving Heritage might be bad after summer vacation because once its over I need to prioritize the next school year to make sure I can do my best in it. Also the ending of this year can be fun because of Dinner Dance and the graduation ceremony.

Something that scares me.

Something that I will be starting soon that definitely scares me is my job. This job will be an Umpire for little league baseball games. The reason this scares me is because it will be a new experience. Also my younger sister (she's 12 now) played in little league softball so ive seen how mad some coaches/parents can get if you make a call they dont like. Plus to add on to all that I recently finished reading through all the rules that I have to memorize and just over all the responsibility this will be. But on the bright side it does pay so that's always good. Another thing I'm kindve scared about is that I will have to organize all my Umpire gear like my Face Mask, Chest Protecter, Umpire Bag, Homeplate brush, clicker and the Umpire shirt.

Life is beautiful

In this movie I noticed a lot that the dad made sure his kid didn't know the truth about what actually was happeneing. It really helped me imagine what is was like for a loving Jewish family during that time in the holocuast and what they had to go through to see each other. It also helped me think about how much I would miss my mom and sisters. Also the hard work and effort I would have to put in to stay alive at the time. Something I noticed that was different between reading about the holocoaust and watching the movie was that in the readings it never said anything about parents convincing the children that nothing bad was happeneing.

In the movie there was a parade at the end, however in the stories about it I dont remember anything happening about parades at the end of the war. Also I don't like the fact that in the movie the child never found out about his dead dad. In the movie the Nazis where shaving the Jews heads and then using their hair for clothes and coats. But when I was reading about it, it only mention them taking the Jews clothes and reusing them.

Life is shown as beautiful in the movie when the dad tricks his son and making him think everything is alright. There was also beauty when the son spoke out to his mom over the loud speaker. Finally life is shown as beautiful when the mom and son met up and hugged for the first time since the war began.

Thing Link

I think that this stands out to me because of how it shows the view point of different events from the Germans and the Jews.

Diary of a wimpy kid.

My book is about a kid named Gregory Heffely and he goes through some pretty bad times over the winter. For example he's a kid who struggles in school with bullies because he isn't too popular and his one friend does nothing he want to do ever. Like one time he was having his friend spend the night at his house when his friend got scared and left. Also one time he had a snow day off from school but when he was at home his family lost power and almost ran out of food then just to find out his younger brother turned of the power every where in the house but his room so when they went up to his room, his little brother had taken all the food the heaters and was using all of the energy in the house. So all in all over the winter he just had a horrible time. He also got in trouble by the cops for acdentially painting on the school because he was trying to hang some color full signs but then it rained so the color of the paint dripped through the signs because of the rain and left huge marks of paint on the dull walls. So as an effect of that he was avoiding the cops everywhere he went and told no one about it. Also his mom made him turn in an envelope to a secret santa thing at his church. But to get to the church he passed the police station so he crawled on the ground in the snow to get to the church.