A girl

What is a average girl? In my mind i thnk that every girl shouldn't have to stress over what they are going to wear in the morning when they wake up. That should be the last thing girls have to worry about. Also make up should be the something for going out to a nice dinner or a big event not for school. I think that every girl are pretty in their own way. they shouldn't have to think they should look like that girl they saw on a t.v. show. I think a beautiful girl/women is someone who can be their natural self as a human. They should leave their body the way it is.

I Am lIke Beavis

Beavis vs. Barbie

Every year in some class i feel that i am treated like Beavis. Sometime i ask teachers if they like some students more then other and they tell me no every students are equal. i often question that answer a lot. I see all the time that some teachers like one student more then me. i feel that some teachers give the students they like higher grades then the ones they dislike. i grew up and went to school where grades are very important but i have overcome that. i realized grades are not so important. what is important to keep in mind is wat i am actually learning and how i am applying it to the real world. Yeah grades are important but not how some people make it seem like at stevenson. a grade is just a letter. I rather be happy and not stressed out with a 2.4 gpa then always stressed out and have a higher gpa then 2.4.

nothing

I think it is impossible to stand there and do nothing. Something was always distracting me when i tried to stand there for ten min. to do nothing. i was standing in the middle of the mats at practice and it was very hard to do nothing since my coach was screaming at me the whole time. while trying to do nothing i saw some pretty interesting stuff. Everyone is born use to doing soemthing and we are so use to it that everyone can't just do nothing. i also realized that people love to just look at you if your doing nothing and they look at you like your crazy in the head and you need some serious help.

Love

Americans are not afraid to show love or receive it. In china students who are still in school is not allowed to show affection towards each other. In school you would get in trouble if you are seen holding another guys hand. in the u.s. we all start liking one another at a very young age. It is also not a big deal to parents if their own child is dating another families in the u.s.. Until a year ago my parents were not comfortable with me dating girls at this young of age. I don't think americans are afraid to show and receive love. They develop to love each other at a very youg age.

materials

Having the chance to live in two countries, i have two different ways of looking at life. i value the traditions that i have learned from my families but at the same time i have also learned some american values. I think as a world though, we all value respecting ones who are older then us or just people in general. Althoough the cultures in china compared to the United States is a big difference, somethings will overlap or have some similarities. i think in the past years i have learned to be a individual and be able to work together as a team with a group of people when a group task is provided. At the same time i may be working in a group but at the same time i am thinking about what am i going to get out of it as a individual. The class discussion got me thinking a lot about what really makes me who i am. I feel that because there are so so many things that i want in the world, it makes me work harder in life to get what i want. That is what drives me to get up everyday and go to school to put some effort in. If there weren't all these wants i would be a lazy kid sitting at home on the couch eating as much food as possible.

moving to a new place

I moved to the U.S. when i just turned ten years old. Moving here was a huge change for me since i didnt know any english at the time. Getting use to the culture here was very hard but eventually i got use to doing things differently. Having English as my second language is so difficult sometimes to understand some of the things i read. I still have a hard time reading english in classes. i remember that the coolest thing was finding that one day out of the year in the U.S. you could go from door to door and get cnady for free also known as Halloween. This was so cool because at the time i was a little kid and thought that getting free candies was the coolest thing in the world.

groups

Collogero or also known as "C" belongs to many groups. He is in a group with all his friends who he grew up with. He considered all those boys were his friends even though Sonny has asked him to not be around those boys. Sonny also told him that those boys were up to no good and will only bring him trouble. The other group that C belonged to was Sonny's crew. C's pop has always told him that Sonny is no goood to him when C was a little kid. His dad always tried to keep him away from the barbecause he always told him that the bar is truoble. These are the two groups that he is in. Growing up C was influenced the most by his dad and Sonny. Those were probably his two roll modles. If i had to put myself into a group i probably couldn't tell you what group i belonged to. In schoool i have many groups i hang out with and same as out of school. There isn't really one group of friends i hang out with more then other groups. Not only i hanbg out with stevenson kids i also hang with friends from other schools. I was always told by people like C was to not hang out with certain groups. I learned most of my values from my mom since my dad was never really there. C is very lucky to have two guy figures to guide him along. I've learned to listen to people who are older then you after getting arrested because they have been through more in life then i have. Before i got arrested i always thought that the way i do things is the best way but that has changed.