Hello, my name is Brittany
I want to talk about my experience at youthbuild Philadelphia charter school. I could talk about other experience I been through but I'd rather talk about being at youthbuild.
Okay so by the time I got in the 7th grade I started to hate school so much with a passion. I got kicked out this school I was in and got put back in my old bad neighborhood school where I've got into so much trouble there. So this is where it all starts from me dropping out of school in the first place. After I graduated from the elementary bad school where I always was in trouble at I ended up in my neighborhood high school where was not much better and trouble still found me there too. I started in the 9th grade there. I was not in school for a week yet and I had gotten into my first altercation there with school mates. From since than I always was in trouble there I was in arguements and fights more than doing school work. I was not being taught in my classes they were boring. To be honest I don't even know how I made it to the 10th grade there but I did. I started my 10th grade year there and I started off with cutting classes because I still was not learning nothing in my classes and it was boring. I still was getting into fights too as well getting suspended alot this time and I was not in school much. The last time I was at my neighborhood high school was when I came back from a 2 week suspension and after that I enrolled into a drop out program all because my old school was trying to kick me out of school and I did not want that. I got to this new school and dropped out completely basically. I found out about youthbuild and I got accepted into there but I did not get the chance to finish out the 2011-2012 year due to personal issues.
Things changed for me as I had to leave youthbuild I gotten myself together and did everything I had to do and suppose to do to be able to get another chance at youthbuild to change my life.
I re-applied for Youthbuild for the class of 2013 in the beginning of 2012 to try and get back in the program for high school drop outs because it's a very great program for people like me for sure it is.
I had to go through a tough process to become a student at Youthbuild and I'am very relieved I made it through that process. Here I'am a student at youthbuild in the 6th session out of 8 sessions still trying my best and keep pushing. To be very honest youthbuild changed my life alot, it gave me the attitude to not give up on something that's so difficult for me, because that's what I was always use to. The staff here are very supportive and they always know what to say to me or us to keep me going and pushing. That's why I wanted to talk about my experience at Youthbuild because it's a place that turned me around when it came to education and life period. I'am not yet finished at youthbuild but I'am getting there and I will not be stopping at all. We get certifications and post secondary education and a high school diploma too as well at this program. I would recommend all high school dropouts to attend Youthbuild Philadelphia charter school to get they're lives back on track.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Best American Lonely Guy
The story "Best American Lonely Guy" has gotten some critical sayings about it, but mostly positive too. Someone said it was a matter of personal taste. Some people would be delighted and some people would just throw the book away or say oh what the hell with this book and have no interesting into it. But it had good views and good opinions about the story too as well. Some people liked the fact that he was willing to hear about whatever they wanted to talk about to him or with him.
This picture represents loneliness to me, because it's just a chair/bench sitting there all alone in the middle of the park with nothing or no one around. Nothing to be seen or heard of. If I was to sit there I would be lonely by myself sitting there on the chair/bench. But even though it is loneliness, it looks so peaceful and happy in my opinion. I say this because some people like's to be lonely at some point in they're life and when they get to be lonely like this image it feels good and is very peaceful too. In this image it is a lonely place for a lonely person to be if they want to be lonely all by they're selves.
This image to me is not lonely anymore because me myself when I 'am feeling lonely I always listen to my music. Listening to music I do not feel by myself I will feel zoomed out from everybody else but I will not feel lonely. I'll feel like I'm jamming in a party around millions of people who are happy like me because we are jamming. I will either feel like I 'am in a video too with other video people who are in the video dancing too. I also feel like someone is singing to me too as well. So that's why I say I 'am not lonely anymore in this picture, well this picture is not loneliness.
If I would to call Jeff, my number would be 484-351-xxx. We will talk about a lot of things set for my personal issues and his personal issues. I say that because we do not know each other to talk about our personal issues towards each other, well should I say to each other. I mean we didn't even see each other we do not know the first second or third about one another. But I would talk to him about school college and his experience in college. I would be very interesting in knowing about his college life set for the personal part Lol. I could learn things from him about life because I think he is older than me and I think you could always learn some things from other people doesn't matter who they are or where they come from, you could always learn from someone else. I would ask him what made him so lonely and how he had that much heart to post up like that. I would talk about music with him because I love music and tell him how everyday I wake up I always try changing myself and my mindset. I tell him about all my favorite things. I talk about what I want to take up in college when I go. I will talk to him about my school and how well I learn at Youthbuild. My conversation would be like a just meeting you and strictly platonic and friendly.
If I was in Jeff's position I would want people to talk to me about anything they want. Not to be nosey or anything, but because I do not judge people and I want them to feel like they can talk to me about anything. I mean come on I 'am lonely Lol. But to be honest I do not want to talk about nasty personal things, I don't want to be in someone's business like that now. Plus what if they have a very very sad story to tell, I will feel so bad and teary eyed too. It's so many ways to look at this whole thing.
This picture represents loneliness to me, because it's just a chair/bench sitting there all alone in the middle of the park with nothing or no one around. Nothing to be seen or heard of. If I was to sit there I would be lonely by myself sitting there on the chair/bench. But even though it is loneliness, it looks so peaceful and happy in my opinion. I say this because some people like's to be lonely at some point in they're life and when they get to be lonely like this image it feels good and is very peaceful too. In this image it is a lonely place for a lonely person to be if they want to be lonely all by they're selves.
This image to me is not lonely anymore because me myself when I 'am feeling lonely I always listen to my music. Listening to music I do not feel by myself I will feel zoomed out from everybody else but I will not feel lonely. I'll feel like I'm jamming in a party around millions of people who are happy like me because we are jamming. I will either feel like I 'am in a video too with other video people who are in the video dancing too. I also feel like someone is singing to me too as well. So that's why I say I 'am not lonely anymore in this picture, well this picture is not loneliness.
If I would to call Jeff, my number would be 484-351-xxx. We will talk about a lot of things set for my personal issues and his personal issues. I say that because we do not know each other to talk about our personal issues towards each other, well should I say to each other. I mean we didn't even see each other we do not know the first second or third about one another. But I would talk to him about school college and his experience in college. I would be very interesting in knowing about his college life set for the personal part Lol. I could learn things from him about life because I think he is older than me and I think you could always learn some things from other people doesn't matter who they are or where they come from, you could always learn from someone else. I would ask him what made him so lonely and how he had that much heart to post up like that. I would talk about music with him because I love music and tell him how everyday I wake up I always try changing myself and my mindset. I tell him about all my favorite things. I talk about what I want to take up in college when I go. I will talk to him about my school and how well I learn at Youthbuild. My conversation would be like a just meeting you and strictly platonic and friendly.
If I was in Jeff's position I would want people to talk to me about anything they want. Not to be nosey or anything, but because I do not judge people and I want them to feel like they can talk to me about anything. I mean come on I 'am lonely Lol. But to be honest I do not want to talk about nasty personal things, I don't want to be in someone's business like that now. Plus what if they have a very very sad story to tell, I will feel so bad and teary eyed too. It's so many ways to look at this whole thing.
Flight
Chapters 1&2
I think of the book "Flight" that it's going to turn out to be very good but also sad in the rest of the book. It could turn out to be very touching. I think that the 15 years old boy Zits is a very sad but strong smart boy.
His biological parents are dead and he lives in foster home to foster home and he does like's to read alot but he does not have much books. They calls him Zits because he has so many zits on his face. He's kind of bad too, he steals and he drinks a whole lot and he's irish and indian. His mother is Irish and his father is Indian. He thinks that there are only two kinds of foster parents the good but messy ones who are trying to help kids or the absolute welfare vultures who like to cash government checks every month. One of his foster families would treat they'll biological children better than him. They had new shoes etc... while the foster children would wear crap clothes. He seen how indian foster fathers was not treating him right either just like regular other foster parents were'nt treating him right. But he figured that the indian fathers would treat him better because he was half indian but he was wrong. Zits talked about his indian foster father name Edgar who treated Zits wrong and was very mean to him. Zits get into a altercation with his current foster father and runs from home and than gets locked up in Seattle Central District kid jail, filled with rich white kids. Zits end up in a cell with a black kid a white kid and a chinese kid.
Chapters3&4
Zits become close with the pretty white boy and the white boy understands Zits they talk for hours. Zits feels that the white boy is some kind of Jesus. Zits also feel that the white boy could save him from being so lonely. The white b oy rescues Zits from jail like he said he was going to, and he reveals that his name is Justice after he breaks Zits out of jail. Justice and Zits talked about the ghost dance something that brings indians back. Zits thought it was a funny corny ass name too. Zits gets Justice's gun and practice shooting his gun at cars driving by on the freeway. Also at people walking the streets below him. After that Zits start pulling a gun out on people I guess just to scare them. And he started to feel powerful. He even practice killing people and he also wondered what it be like if he killed people. Than Zits starts to shoot again and again in circles until the bank guard shoots back at him in the back of Zits head. I think that Zits is not going to die but his head and memory will be messed up for a while after what just happened to him now. When Zits wake up he isnt Zits anymore. He wakes up in a cheap motel room with two guys he never ever seen before of know at all. One guy was a fat white guy and a cop. The cop calls Zits Hank and Zits keep telling the cop that his name isnt Hank. He looks into the mirror and see's a face that is not his face and he thinks to himself that they must of did plastic surgery on his face or something. Than he feels that the bullet must of did some damage to him.
Chapters3&4
Zits become close with the pretty white boy and the white boy understands Zits they talk for hours. Zits feels that the white boy is some kind of Jesus. Zits also feel that the white boy could save him from being so lonely. The white b oy rescues Zits from jail like he said he was going to, and he reveals that his name is Justice after he breaks Zits out of jail. Justice and Zits talked about the ghost dance something that brings indians back. Zits thought it was a funny corny ass name too. Zits gets Justice's gun and practice shooting his gun at cars driving by on the freeway. Also at people walking the streets below him. After that Zits start pulling a gun out on people I guess just to scare them. And he started to feel powerful. He even practice killing people and he also wondered what it be like if he killed people. Than Zits starts to shoot again and again in circles until the bank guard shoots back at him in the back of Zits head. I think that Zits is not going to die but his head and memory will be messed up for a while after what just happened to him now. When Zits wake up he isnt Zits anymore. He wakes up in a cheap motel room with two guys he never ever seen before of know at all. One guy was a fat white guy and a cop. The cop calls Zits Hank and Zits keep telling the cop that his name isnt Hank. He looks into the mirror and see's a face that is not his face and he thinks to himself that they must of did plastic surgery on his face or something. Than he feels that the bullet must of did some damage to him.
The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones
The story I read this week called "The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones" honestly I did not like it at all. I thought it was a boring story and it was not interesting to me at all. I do not think I rememeber the story at all. It's all about super heroism. But I'am not going to lie I do think it's a few things in the story that was interesting to me. One part was when Phoenix Jones talks about his child hood growing up and what he been through. He was raised in an orphanage in Texas and he now as an adult spends time teaching autistic children how to read. I thought that was a shocking because by the simple fact he's suppose to be a super hero.I was so shock to find out that he was a family man. He also have a family he has a wife a son and a step son too. But the whole rest of the story was boring to me alot.
This real life true story does suprise's me alot, because I always thought super heros was something that was made up by authors for children and for they're imagination minds. I would have never believe it was a such thing of super heros on the patroling the streets. So i just wonder, since this is a real life true story, would people rather have the super heros to save people and the streets other than law inforcements. Because I wonder do the heros have real life special powers to save people and were they're super heros where I'm from also. Growing up I always figure super heros was something fake for children to believe in. On another note though maybe super heros were and is real to some other people, because when the new spider man came out and the new batman last year in 2012 it was more adults wanting to see the movies than children wanted too. which was kind of weird to me. I never liked super hero movies at all. This should tell you I would not believe that this is true events in this story, but apparently it is. To be honest I don't know if I would want super heros to patrol my neighborhood because like I said I do not believe in super heros and I do not think they are real. Yeah it can be a very husky guy to dress up in a super hero costume and pose as a super hero. Thats's easy to do, but no i do not believe that they actually exist at all. So not I would not want them to patrol over my neighborhood. It even cracks me up that they have women doing this whole super hero thing. I was saying to myself are they really serious about this. I think people who think they are super heros, they live in some typer of fantasy world that's my honest opinion. Okay yes you save people and try saving the violence on the streets, but hey why won't you be a veteran that sound's alot more better than a damn super hero.
I do not like super hero stuff, so NO I would not picture myself being one and I would'nt want to be a super hero. I don't even have the body nor frame to be a super hero. I would not join this story either. But if I was to be in this story or join it and had the body and frame I would have a whole purple set on nothing but purple. And I would have jet black hair in a ponytail bun. I'll have purple shoes on too, you know the ones that come's up the leg. My name would be EXTREMELY MA-MA it sounds lame but it's hard because i could never picture myself being a super hero so my imagination is so cory and lame right now. (LOL) The things I would do is save people and help sick poor people and I will keep violence off and drugs off the streets. I would do all the things to keep the streets clean and safe to walk in and around, safe for the children and old folks. Just for everybody period. If super heros does a better job than cops than they not so bad to have around. And I would not be afraid either. I would be so bold, but in a good way. I will be fit healthy and I would not have a family because I figure being a super hero I should'nt have a family while being a wife or mother. But I will be for all the people and making the world be a better place for sure. Nobody would know that I'am a super hero either I rather keep it that way too. My powers would be when I punch something or someone I would break them or push them far far away. I would have a good regular day time job too and on my free time I would rather want to be a super hero at night too also. I will have my symbol too, mine would be a purple star. I picked the star because I'am a star at being a super hero!
This real life true story does suprise's me alot, because I always thought super heros was something that was made up by authors for children and for they're imagination minds. I would have never believe it was a such thing of super heros on the patroling the streets. So i just wonder, since this is a real life true story, would people rather have the super heros to save people and the streets other than law inforcements. Because I wonder do the heros have real life special powers to save people and were they're super heros where I'm from also. Growing up I always figure super heros was something fake for children to believe in. On another note though maybe super heros were and is real to some other people, because when the new spider man came out and the new batman last year in 2012 it was more adults wanting to see the movies than children wanted too. which was kind of weird to me. I never liked super hero movies at all. This should tell you I would not believe that this is true events in this story, but apparently it is. To be honest I don't know if I would want super heros to patrol my neighborhood because like I said I do not believe in super heros and I do not think they are real. Yeah it can be a very husky guy to dress up in a super hero costume and pose as a super hero. Thats's easy to do, but no i do not believe that they actually exist at all. So not I would not want them to patrol over my neighborhood. It even cracks me up that they have women doing this whole super hero thing. I was saying to myself are they really serious about this. I think people who think they are super heros, they live in some typer of fantasy world that's my honest opinion. Okay yes you save people and try saving the violence on the streets, but hey why won't you be a veteran that sound's alot more better than a damn super hero.
I do not like super hero stuff, so NO I would not picture myself being one and I would'nt want to be a super hero. I don't even have the body nor frame to be a super hero. I would not join this story either. But if I was to be in this story or join it and had the body and frame I would have a whole purple set on nothing but purple. And I would have jet black hair in a ponytail bun. I'll have purple shoes on too, you know the ones that come's up the leg. My name would be EXTREMELY MA-MA it sounds lame but it's hard because i could never picture myself being a super hero so my imagination is so cory and lame right now. (LOL) The things I would do is save people and help sick poor people and I will keep violence off and drugs off the streets. I would do all the things to keep the streets clean and safe to walk in and around, safe for the children and old folks. Just for everybody period. If super heros does a better job than cops than they not so bad to have around. And I would not be afraid either. I would be so bold, but in a good way. I will be fit healthy and I would not have a family because I figure being a super hero I should'nt have a family while being a wife or mother. But I will be for all the people and making the world be a better place for sure. Nobody would know that I'am a super hero either I rather keep it that way too. My powers would be when I punch something or someone I would break them or push them far far away. I would have a good regular day time job too and on my free time I would rather want to be a super hero at night too also. I will have my symbol too, mine would be a purple star. I picked the star because I'am a star at being a super hero!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Years of My Birth Reflection
This weeks story Years of My Birth was very good reading it the whole entire week.
The character in this story that interested me the most was the twin who was raised by another family instead of her own because her family thought that she was born with a defect her name is Linda.
They thought she was going to die because she was born with congenital deformity and the doctor said she might die. Her parents did not want her. A janitor lady named Betty Wishkob was going into Linda's room at night at the hospital nursing Linda and afterwards asked if she could have and keep Linda and raise her as her own child. Linda went to a catholic school and was taken care of very well. Her adoptive parents would always mold her head right. And Linda loved them so much just like they loved her. I did not like Linda's birth mother. Her name is Nancy Lasher. Why is that, is because she did not have to give up Linda just like that all because she was born with a defect. I think she was not being a mother at that point. It was pretty rude that Linda's birth mother had came up out of the blue to see Linda, at the same exact point that Linda's twin brother needs a kidney transplant. That made me think that she just wanted something from Linda. Linda had met up at dinner with her birth mother because her mother was desperate to see her. So at dinner Linda's birth mother was telling Linda how she wished that she knew Linda was going to be normal she would've never gave her up and that she would've kept her. That was ignorant to say to your own flush and blood that's my opinion. Linda did not like those words that was coming out of her mother's mouth either. When Linda seen her mother she did not suspect that that was her mother "I found that funny too" I thought the ending was kind of ignorant and good at the same time too. Because Linda united with her twin brother she never knew her whole entire life name Linden. He was in the hospital because he need's new kidneys in his body. I think it was kind of ignorant because of the things that Linden was saying, he act like he did not have no type of respect and morals for anyone at all. Linda felt bad when she learned from her mother that her twin brother needed a new kidney in his body soon and that he was not doing too well and that he was in the hospital. Because when she heard it from her mother she felt herself floating up out of her chair. And she can feel his anxious breathing right there near her. Linda ran outside from the dinner table and was upset outside crying about her twin brother's situation she learned about from Nancy. Linda found out that she was a perfect match for her twin brother to get one of her kidneys. Linda also learned that her twin having those issues with his kidneys was his fault too. He tried committing suicide on himself with a massive dose of acetaminophen, aspirin and alcohol . Linda sat with Linden in the hospital they had a nice long conversation and Linden told her she did not have to do that for him. The conversation was kind of weird but at least they gotten the chance to talk and feel each other out since they couldn't do that in their entire life. But Linden was very rude towards his own twin sister which why I did not like the ending of the story. But at the end it seemed her came around and changed his whole attitude towards Linda. I think she stayed and continue to spend time with her twin brother. I also would have agreed to meet with Nancy because I would've want to save my sick twin too if I was in the same situation. Overall it was a great story but sad at the same time.
The character in this story that interested me the most was the twin who was raised by another family instead of her own because her family thought that she was born with a defect her name is Linda.
They thought she was going to die because she was born with congenital deformity and the doctor said she might die. Her parents did not want her. A janitor lady named Betty Wishkob was going into Linda's room at night at the hospital nursing Linda and afterwards asked if she could have and keep Linda and raise her as her own child. Linda went to a catholic school and was taken care of very well. Her adoptive parents would always mold her head right. And Linda loved them so much just like they loved her. I did not like Linda's birth mother. Her name is Nancy Lasher. Why is that, is because she did not have to give up Linda just like that all because she was born with a defect. I think she was not being a mother at that point. It was pretty rude that Linda's birth mother had came up out of the blue to see Linda, at the same exact point that Linda's twin brother needs a kidney transplant. That made me think that she just wanted something from Linda. Linda had met up at dinner with her birth mother because her mother was desperate to see her. So at dinner Linda's birth mother was telling Linda how she wished that she knew Linda was going to be normal she would've never gave her up and that she would've kept her. That was ignorant to say to your own flush and blood that's my opinion. Linda did not like those words that was coming out of her mother's mouth either. When Linda seen her mother she did not suspect that that was her mother "I found that funny too" I thought the ending was kind of ignorant and good at the same time too. Because Linda united with her twin brother she never knew her whole entire life name Linden. He was in the hospital because he need's new kidneys in his body. I think it was kind of ignorant because of the things that Linden was saying, he act like he did not have no type of respect and morals for anyone at all. Linda felt bad when she learned from her mother that her twin brother needed a new kidney in his body soon and that he was not doing too well and that he was in the hospital. Because when she heard it from her mother she felt herself floating up out of her chair. And she can feel his anxious breathing right there near her. Linda ran outside from the dinner table and was upset outside crying about her twin brother's situation she learned about from Nancy. Linda found out that she was a perfect match for her twin brother to get one of her kidneys. Linda also learned that her twin having those issues with his kidneys was his fault too. He tried committing suicide on himself with a massive dose of acetaminophen, aspirin and alcohol . Linda sat with Linden in the hospital they had a nice long conversation and Linden told her she did not have to do that for him. The conversation was kind of weird but at least they gotten the chance to talk and feel each other out since they couldn't do that in their entire life. But Linden was very rude towards his own twin sister which why I did not like the ending of the story. But at the end it seemed her came around and changed his whole attitude towards Linda. I think she stayed and continue to spend time with her twin brother. I also would have agreed to meet with Nancy because I would've want to save my sick twin too if I was in the same situation. Overall it was a great story but sad at the same time.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
My name is Brittany, I'm going to be honest I'am not much of a reader. When I do read I do get into it a lot, a book have to be really interesting for me to keep reading it and stay reading it until I'am done reading the whole book. Growing up in elementary school up to high school reading was always important and still is. When i was in the 2nd grade I had to read 100 books to get a award it was called the 100 book challenge. Those books was boring to me. If anything was boring to me I did not want to ever read them at all or i'll get restless reading them. When I had to write about what I've read about was kind of hard to do because if the story I read was boring or was not interesting to me I could not write about it. So I had to go and read it all over again and than write about it. I learned that it was not so bad to do. It was actually fun to do and comfortable. Its just that my writing strategies was very bad. I did not write correctly and it had to be very good and have no fragments in my writing because someone was actually going to read it so it had to be on point. When I read good books that interested me I always thought to myself when I was younger that I wished I was in the scene of the story to actually really see what's going on because that's just how good the story was to me in my opinion. But I did notice something when I first got into high school, was that reading made me a better thinker. It made me understand things better specially if I kept reading over it again and again it soon got me to understand what I was reading and to think better and harder. Reading use to be very difficult for me growing up and it kind of still is. I know that the more I read the more I will know and learn even if it just means just picking up a news paper and just read. It was somethings I did like about reading was in the middle of the story it will have me in suspense and it makes me want to keep on reading more and not to stop reading. I think that's good because I'am still continuing to read or if the book belong's to a series than I will want to read the rest of those books. For a example when I was in the 6th grade I had to do a book report on a book that belonged to the Bluford Series called Lost and Found. It was so good and when I got to the 8th grade I read the rest of the series and it was so good I loved all the books in that series. I read book after book. My favorite ones was A matter of Trust and Someone to Love Me. They was the best books in the whole series. I loved reading those books a lot. Another series I loved was Drama High. I did not get a chance to really read all of them but I plan to read all of them. And when I was in the 3rd grade I love Judy Bloom books too. Those books was always so funny. So I have some good memories of reading. That's how I also learned that reading was not so bad at all.
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