Completing My Junior Year...Thoughts...

You have read the thoughts on the first half of my junior year, now I'm wrapping it up. Like I had said before the first semester will be nothing like the second, and well it wasn't.

After school started back from Christmas Break it was a complete drag. January and February were the two slowest months possible. It's like I had to get back into the mist of things.

March was pretty awful. On the 11th I got emitted into the hospital because I could not eat or drink anything without horrible stomach pains. They did a bunch of blood work and tests. I got x-rays, ultrasounds, still, nothing. So on March 13th I got sent to Little Rock. They did not do much either. But the next day they came to the conclusion I had Gastric something...bunch of acid in my stomach.

So needless to say, March was no fun at all, but April could seriously have not gotten any worse at all.

April was a big month for me and Johnathon, my boyfriend. On the 17th we found out we were having a baby! It was crazy. I seriously thought I was going to cry. But it got better and I was really excited to know about it.

But to finish off, May has been blah. I've been sick with everything possible. I've missed a ton of school, louds of homework. And Johnathon is graduating.

Truly, second semester was more difficult than first because during the first I was hardly sick, and school was light. But I can honestly say, school has been a totally mystery to me, and my junior year has been a pretty great year.

The Wrestling Match Book Review

Born of Ibo parents in Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta is widely known for her multi-layered stories of black women struggling to maintain their identity and construct viable lives for themselves and their families.

She writes, according to The New York Times, with subtlety, power, and abundant compassion.

George Braziller is proud to have published nine of Emecheta's novels over the course of 24 years. Children in a Nigerian village grow up during the Nigerian Civil War.

Haiku

Some people say the
Holocaust was the main event
of the deaths of Jews

Night Book Review

The book Night has been one of the most gruesome books I have read in a while. Elie Wiesel is an amazing author and really gets down right to the bare necessities.

This book is about a scholarly, pious teenager who is wracked with guilt at having survived the horrors of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family.

His memories of the nightmare world of death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?

There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, only the sad dark truth that leads Eliezer through the dark world of Germany.

But can his guilt and torture be enough to make him help his father while he is screaming his name? Or will he just turn away and act like he never heard a single word so the beating will not come?