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?

Favorite Web-based Tech Tool

I'm not sure what my favorite web-based tech tool would be. I love being able to blog and having a gmail account.

The reason I like to blog so much is because I really enjoy writing. Almost all or any of the blogs that I have written have been straight from my mind.

I also enjoy how other people can go to your blog and read your interesting facts. It's nice to be able to get some ideas or thoughts from other people's opinions.

You can put some pretty cool pictures on your blogs too. I choose not too though because I do not know, I just don't really.

But I would have to say that is probably my favorite web-based tech tool to use.

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong Book Review

Chloe Saunders sees dead people. Yep, just like in the horror films. It's just the problem is, saying you see ghost in real life gets you that special one way ticket to the psych ward.

Well, and at 15, all Chloe wants to do is fit in at school, and maybe get a boy or two to notice her. But when a particularly violent ghosts starts to haunt her, she gets notice for all the wrong reasons.

Her seemingly crazed behavior earns her a trip straight to the Lyle House, a center for "disturbed teens." At first Chloe is more than determined to keep her head down. But then her roommate disappears after confessing she has a poltergeist, and some of the other patients also seem to be manifesting paranormal behaviour.

Could that be a total coincidence? Or is the Lyle House not quite what it seems...

Chloe realizes if she does not uncover the truth, she could be destined for a lifetime in a psychiatric hospital. Or could her fate be even worse? Can she trust her fellow students, and does she dare reveal her dark secret.

Evermore by Alyson Noel Book Review

Every since the horrible accident that took the lives of her family, sixteen year old Ever can see auras, hear the thoughts of others, and know a person's life story by just a gentle touch.

Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to hide her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school, but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.

Ever sees Damen and feels almost an instant recognition. He is totally gorgeous, exotic, wealthy, and has many secrets to hide.

Damen can make things appear and disappear, he always seems to know what she is thinking, and he is the only one who can silence the noise and random energy that fills her head!

She does not know who he really is, or what he is exactly. Damen is equal parts light and darkness, and he belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies...