alejandro's blog

 A time where I was obsessed with something meaningless was when I probably was younger and thought that unicorns and mermaids were real. I would often spend my time doing research and mostly believing what I was reading and seeing it is definitely not something that i would ever be proud of. The fact that as kids we kind of believe everything that we heard or saw.

 A question that I wish I had asked would have to be what is what has our society come to?. Another question i also wish i had asked is what is the exact reason that people feel so much hatred towards those of us in the society that are different than them, now let me explain what I mean by this when I say those of us who are uniquely different, I mean like the LGBTQ+ community, minorities as what those who are in the lower class, etc. I never understood why the people have to judge those of us that feel comfortable with ourselves it is like when a picky eater orders something and the thing or food they don't like is near they will take the time to take it out. Now our society has just been getting worse and worse we have generations calling each other names, we also have grownups throw a temper tantrum just because they didn't get their way and it is because of behavior like that no one can ever go without being judge which I hate so much.

 When it comes to something being too small or too big it comes down to two things shoes, and food. When it comes to me shopping for shoes, I can usually find my size but there are times where I would have to get a size bigger than my original size. As when it comes to getting food, I tend to get big orders of food which I know can be or is obvious if the food portions are too small, I usually think to myself if some of the people do it on purpose or if it is part of the policy or rules of wherever I go to get food. It is understandable that most of the food nowadays is super unhealthy most of the time and that's what most people consider the best food.

Something that I can't deny is that some relationships can be useless or can be seen as well as be used as a life lesson and when I say relationships I mean dating, friendship, etc. This is my honest reasoning on something that I cannot deny. The only reason that I look at relationships this way is because I see different situations in a lot of relationships. To me friendship is the most important type of relationship apart from family relationships of course. Some of the things that I have seen is violence, gaslighting, abuse, misogyny, and psychotic type of behaviors the question is what can cause these in all these types of relationships. 

 a skill or something that I used to know how to do was a cartwheel. when I was younger, I had learned how to do a cartwheel I was taught by my cousin who could do one effortlessly. she explained to me how it is supposed to be done properly step by step. as I was trying it out over and over again until I got the hang of it. after I had gotten the hang of it, I honestly was so excited that I would practice a lot as I was practicing my cousin, and her family were just getting to where I lived at the time and had seen me doing cartwheels and she told me that I was getting better.

A time that I knew that I was in trouble was when I was out with friends late at night on a Friday. My friends and I went to the movies and the movie had finished way later than we had thought and when it ended I remembered that I had time limit to be out but after the movies we went to go get something to eat and I did it without my mom's permission and she usually calls to see if I got there or if I'm leaving she called and I had lied to her saying that we had just got out but when I got home she was waiting for me and she gave me a lecture on how why me or my friends shouldn't be out late at night.

 something that I am certain of is my intelligence because although I don't always turn in most of my homework or classwork assignments, I know that I am smart because there are times that I participate in class for example sometimes asking questions, attempting to answer a question the teacher or a student asks the best of my ability. as I mentioned before although I don't always turn in my assignments my teachers also know that I am smart. to be quite honest I have no idea why I don't turn in my assignments when I know that I can do them. at this point I am sure that my teachers noticed that I get distracted easily and I know that might part of my issue and I will work on it.

 I understand that there are people who actually like to go to school but me personally I don't because it feels like a prison or at least this year. when I started high school there weren't that many restrictions because everyone at the time knew how to control themselves most of the time but because majority of the students somehow always had problems with someone there would be unnecessary drama and fights and let's not forget the crowded hallways it always feels like a traffic jam when transitioning classes. you have students who take their sweet time getting to class and then you have students who naturally walk fast and who would also like to get to class on time I am one the naturally fast walking students so any time that I am behind someone who is walking slow I try to find a way around them. quite frankly some of the teachers don't know how to motivate their students to want to learn.

 One time I had planned to do was to visit my family in Texas but unfortunately at the moment we don't have a very functional car to drive that far. The way that I had planned to go was to tell my mom and sister since both of them and me are the oldest we like to talk about going on possible trips because we don't really travel much or go out often unless it is the weekend. we talked about for a good while but didn't end up going because of personal reasons. so, I was really disappointed, and we had kind of planned to go for the holidays.

 in my opinion something that can't get better is the holidays because you get spend time alone, with friends or family it is really depending on the person and traditions of their culture. for me I sometimes spend the holidays with my friends or my family or sometimes even both. all that I know is that when the holidays roll around the only thing I actually look forward to is quality time with those I care for and love.

in class we had continued to work on our presentations me and my group had finished reading the book the day before so all we had to do was our individual assignments as we worked on them we asked each other for opinions trying to make sure that we have the right amount of information and were also trying to make sure that we had possible new information for some of our classmates.

 in class the teacher had introduced us to an assignment that we are going to work on in groups. the groups consisted of three members but since we have a small class we had an extra person or so that may or may not have been there but we all got our groups assigned to us by our teacher we had to read book titled " Antojos" by Julia Alvarez and with the book we got handed a papers each with a different job to complete the assignment. i happened to have had the job to research words or any topic relevant to the book.

 when I was twelve years old me and my siblings had a dog named Canela (cinnamon) and we had her since she was puppy, and she wasn't that big of a dog she was small or medium sized dog honestly, I don't know but when she was maturing, she would always want to go outside as any other dog would. we went outside one day and met another dog owner the dog's name was max. both Canela and max got along very well together. on a nice and sunny day after I got home from school, I did my homework. once I was with my homework, I decided to ask my cousins if they wanted to go outside and I was excited because I had just gotten an art kit that had everything that an artist needs, and my sister took the dog outside as to well as she heard me asking our cousins to go outside. my cousins and i were minding our business drawing and coloring, when all of a sudden, my sister is screaming and both of my cousins and i turned around and we saw something a child would find terrifying as my sisters...

 today in class we had presentations from different groups about the book we read. as a class we all read the same book but in different groups. in each group every member had a specific job mine was researcher. I had to research words or any topic relevant to the book. I researched a few words that seemed quite interesting to me or what i thought may be interesting to the class.

before class ended, we watched a video of a young girl explaining the misconceptions that people have on Hispanics or Latinos we call those stereotypes. she goes on to say that although people see us one way, we know that we are not like that. for example when people or one person says that hispanics and latinos aren't educated.

 in class we finished the rest of the presentations as we get more into the Latin culture. in each presentation you learn like food, customs, etc. we asked questions at the end of each presentation and the question that was asked the most is if anyone would visit the country they did the project on.

 did not have seventh period 

 we talked about moving to learn about a new culture which is Latin culture and we have to do a project on a specific Latin country we were assigned by the teacher we have to include a lot of traditions and more

 the class was split in half because the teacher had a doctors appointment but with that we still had to write an essay about the character we chose to do the essay on

 in class we did more talking about how to properly write an essay as we had an assessment the next day, so we were just reviewing what we had talked about the day before and about a few more things that were crucial to make it a formal essay

 in class today we took notes on what should be on our literary essay. the teacher gave us pointers on what we should not write when looking for evidence. we did a practice literary essay where we just had to write a claim, evidence, and then just explain the evidence.