My Sophomore Year

There is just so much that happened my sophomore year, so much that I learned so much that happened. Like friends are not forever they will stay with you for a while and then everybody goes their own way. I also learned to value life because you never know when your time has run out, or to value your family your friends because you really don’t know what you have until it is not there anymore. My sophomore year I learned that I had a voice that I could help make a difference. This year I learned to value my life I had one of the toughest experience and it really helped me open my eyes.

I got really lucky with the teacher that I had this year they were just so helpful and nice, really understanding. I learned that the teachers are here to actual help us not make our lives hell. I know that the teachers just want the best for us they want to help us succeed; make a better future for ourselves. This year I got my priorities straight I learned what I wanted and what I needed I learned who I could trust and talk to, and I was able to tell who was not a real friend.

I learned that in order for me to be able to do what I want in life I have to start making it happen now. That I cannot just wait around waiting for a miracle to happen I have to make my wishes come true and that is something I will accomplish. I want the best for me in life I don’t want to struggle like my family, like my cousins even though I love them to death they made some really stupid decisions. My cousin never finished high school and now she is struggling working in a restaurant where they treat her bad. Now not only does she have to put up with that job but she is a single mother and I know I don’t ever want that for me I want something better.

Not only have I changed, but I have grown as a human being. There is just so much that happened to me and my family, that these things are so hard so terrible that you just have to be strong and move on, I learned to live my life happily every day and even though I am very grumpy I try my hardest to not let other people affect me because I have learned that they do not matter. If I let other people affect my life and stay mad for ever that is just harming me. There are some people that believe that I cannot accomplish my dreams that I have to lower my standards a little but I will not, because I know that I can be anything or anybody I want to be.

I know where my family comes from, where I come from and I certainly know that is one place I don’t want to go back to. I learned that in order to accomplish this and make me a brighter future, I have to start now, it all beings in school. I know where I am headed and I know what I will make of myself I will make my parents proud of me, but most importantly I will make me happy!!!

MY DREAMS

I have always wanted a bright future for me, I always imagined the best for me but not just for my selfish needs but because I always imagined myself helping others. I have always thought like that, and I always said that in order for me to do this I needed to do good in school and I always have, except this year. This year was tough for me for some personal issues but I managed to do the best I could this year. For next 2 years it will be nothing but hard work, and commitment. I hope to graduate from college (si dios me da permiso). But after high school I want to take a year off and just relax, but after that I want to apply to a great college, I’m not sure what I want to do though I want to explore the world go to an out of state college but at the same time I really would not want to leave my family it just saddens me to think about that.

I know what I want to study; I want to work with the government and the worlds economics that just always draws my attention immediately I just find it so interesting. I want to work somewhere that I can help the world and actually help make a difference for these countries and people that have nothing. Once I have a great job I want to make a family to be married have children I want 3 or 4 kids but I have always said I want o adopt a kid to help make a difference in a child life. But what is truly most important to me is to help my parents, and take care of them like they have cared for me and family. My parents are the ones who give me hope, it’s because of them that I want to do so much better and never quit no matter the obstacles. My mom loves to cook so I want to be able to make her, her won kitchen make a huge one with everything she could possibly think of, and my dad he has always wanted one of those really old cars he is in love with them so I have promised myself that I would one day make his dream come true, I want to be able to give my parents everything. I have big dreams and hope to become the best, and I am just really glad that my parents always support me no matter what. I plan to achieve these goals no matter how long it takes once I have my mind set on something there is nothing in this world that can hold me back, so watch out world because Cindy Ibarra is coming your way!!!!!

Wisdom quote

“Your smile is somebody else’s light, never let it die down.”

This is what I would say; because you really don’t know how much your smile you laughter can make somebody else fill so much better. You are never supposed to let somebody get to you and shut down that smile. It is what keeps many people going and yourself. Smiling is the only true medicine there is in this world. There are so many things you could accomplish but all you have to do is be happy about it and believe and keep that big smile on your face, it’s your only true companion what will truly keep you going through out your whole life.

If I Could be Anybody for A Day

Many people wish to have different lives, and don’t realize what they have until it’s too late.


If I could be anybody for a day I would be a Princess. I have always loved princesses how they first have a good life then they go through obstacles but at the end have their happily ever after. But in mostly Princess Jasmine she had everything anybody could possibly think of she lived in a beautiful castle had plenty of money; I guess the only thing she didn’t have was true love. But in the end she found that love. She had a wonderful life she married who she loved, she had a big heart she was many things. Her boyfriend was the nicest guy ever he had his own flying carpet, his Genie. The most wonderful part was that they would go through the beautiful night in Aladdin’s carpet and that was just so magical it makes you want to never leave that place. I would always imagine myself flying through there in love and having my happily ever after.

Betrayal

Betrayal is something nobody wants but most people do, it something really painful, and hard to get over.

There were once these two girls Maude and Ana more like two best friends they were inseparable. These girls had known each other since they were 3 years old. They meet each other when Ana and her family had moved into the San Jose neighborhood. Maude and her family had already been living there for years now. When Ana moved in Maude’s parents were grateful that there was finally another little girl for her daughter to play with. These girls became friends, and then they got closer and closer until they were like sisters.


Maude and Ana went to school together, to the same elementary, middle and now high school. Whenever ones family went on a trip they would always take the other girl. Maude was very pretty with blue big round eyes, and long blond hair with light faired skin color, but mostly cared about looks and boys and what other people thought about her. Ana, she was also pretty with hazel eyes, a tanned skin color, tall and skinny but she cared more about school, grades, doing good in every possible way. People were always wondering that how is it that these girls were such opposite and yet the best of friends. But these girls knew there was something there that just could not be separated.

When Maude and Ana got to high school they had made promises of what they would become or do in high school Ana had promised she would pass all her classes with B’s or A’s and that she would join school clubs, volunteer were ever she could and get a scholarship. Maude on the other hand said that she would become popular, be a cheerleader, the prettiest girl in school and the one all guys wanted, that all girls were jealous of her.


So finally the day was here the day that they would walk in their High School and fulfill their promises. It was just that later they would find out that it would never be that easy and that they would lose a great friendship. Maude and Ana were walking together to get their schedules when they bumped into these older girls very pretty very out there and Maude thought this would be her chance to be “one of them.” So they started talking to these girls and being friendly making conversation. Later that day they would hang out with these girls at lunch but these girls were making plans to leave school for the rest of the day. Maude was all for it but Ana said she wouldn’t go that it was the first day of school why would they leave? These girls had seemed bugged at her and Maude was begging her to go but she said no. Maude and her friends left, but Maude stayed behind she was a little disappointed she knew Ana wanted to become popular but she didn’t think she would come this far. The school day had ended and Maude was at her house when Ana text her saying that it was awesome the best first day of school and that she would probably ditch school the next day but with a bigger crowd. But that she needed Maude’s help to cover for her Maude couldn’t say no to her best friend so in the end she said yes.


This continued for a couple of more days until Maude got tired of it and finally told Ana that she wouldn’t help her any longer that what she was doing was wrong, that it was affecting her school. Ana got bugged those girls were getting to her saying that Maude wasn’t cool enough to hang out with them and she had actually started to believe those things were true. One day Ana went up to Maude and told her that the only reason she was still friends with her was because she felt bad for her that she was a loser and the only reason Maude told her she wouldn’t help her any longer was because she was jealous of her. After that they never talked again, Ana would tease Maude make fun of her for being a nerd and finally started to spread rumors about her. Maude was just so lost it was just a few weeks ago that they had promised to be friends forever and that they wouldn’t let high school tear them apart, she felt so betrayed as if everything between them was just a big lie. Maude just continued her life and finally had given up on getting her best friend.

"A New Beginning"

      If I was hired to write a new episode for the Twilight Saga I would write based on the book “New Moon” I would call it “A New Beginning.” Bella is hurt because of Edward leaving her, it’s been a long time but he does not come back. Bella becomes great friends with Jacob like they have always been, but they get even closer. It has been at least a couple of years Jacob really loves Bella and she likes Jacob but she knows that it is not the same as with Edward. After at least a couple of years Bella finally decides that she cannot hold on to the past for ever so she decides that it may be a good idea to give Jacob a chance. So they go out for a really long time, Bella still has not forgotten Edward but she is really happy with Jacob.


      Jacob is in love with Bella so he is going to ask her to marry him in the next couple of weeks he is planning it out to buy her prettiest ring there is, where he will take her, what they will do. It was all going perfect that is until Edward comes back. Jacob and Bella still do not know that he is back. So while Jacob and Bella are out on their sweet romantic date Edward is looking for her, to tell her that he came back for her. Since Edward is able to read minds he reads Jacobs and finds out what he is up to, and asks Bella to please not marry him that he is sorry but that he has come back for her. Bella really like both of the guys and she is not sure what to do. This is exactly how my book would go but then how to end the book is really hard so I would just make her stay with Edward because it is who she really and truly loves.

My "Courage"

     Courage is something really hard to have, especially in front of your parents. Some people might need courage to go onstage in front of people, or maybe even just to get on a state fair ride. But I did not need courage for any of that I needed courage to get through a hard time in life so that my parents would not be sad.

     When I was 12 I lived in Dallas, I was really healthy and loved my life, and I still do. One night I had got really sick, high fever, bleeding, weakness. But the next day it was worse so my mom took me to the hospital they had told me that I was dying that I hold very low count of red blood cells. I was in the Hospital for two weeks. They had put some tubes inside of me because I needed to get plasma exchange.

     That was one of the hardest moments of my life and it was so hard for me, but it was also very hard for my parents to see their daughter in the hospital. The doctors said it TTP Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura- this is a blood disorder that causes blood vessels to form in small blood vessels. I was in and out of the doctor’s officer more than one year.

      It was very difficult for me and I had to have alot of courage to be able to get through this. Not only for me but because I didn't want my parents to see that I was sad and scared, I had to be strong and this has really helped me alot now this was a life changing day for me. 

My Childrens Children

            I am always wondering and asking myself questions on how my life will be later in life like if my family will still be together as one big family, or will I get married, or if I will get to live to see my children’s children? I think this something everybody asks themselves, something we all wish to know.

            I have always dreamt that when I have my children that they will have wonderful stories to tell their children and that their children will be able to tell it to their children and so on and so on. Like my parents are always telling me stories about when they were children and what their parents had to do to be able to maintain them. That life for them was really hard when they were children how they weren’t able to continue their education because they had to work and help their parents out.

           I know that my life right now is not like that, that our life’s are so much easier right now and that we don’t have to struggle like my parents did or grandparents did. But I would like my great, great, grandchildren to hear stories about us now.

           Stories like that we went to school and graduated and became great, that we were well known. Also stories on how my cousin got pregnant at 18 and had to raise her child alone but that she went to school and graduated so she could get a well paying job to be able to maintain her kid to give him a better life. All I want is for them to be proud of us one day, and to know that we struggled but always tried our best to have a better life.

My Time Traveling

           If I was able to invent a time machine I would do to the future. Not just to see how it would be, or if we would live past 2012, but so I could do something great for this world. So I could save many people’s lives, and make many others greater or at least better.

           I would go in the future and bring back a cure for Lupus, but because this can be a very hard thing for people to deal with, I should know. Back then many people didn’t even know what Lupus was and to this day still not many people know. Lupus back then us to be considered a mental disease and many people would be treated so badly because of this. Many people suffered and died but it was a slowly painful death.

           I would not only do this to help others but also to help myself. When someone is diagnosed with Lupus the main medication that is given is Prednisone and because o this one medicine many other things are affected. You can have lung problems or heart problemsproblems high pressure. So for all of these things you have to take more medicine.

          After being able to take the cure for Lupus to the present I would take it to the past, to help all of those people. This would be the greatest thing on earth for me!!!

"Wisdom Teaching"

              Sometime the stuff you do may not make a difference to the world, and people may tell you that, but as long as you know that you made a diffrence to someone some where it really should not matter what other people think. It may be the smallest thing like giving to a homless but at least you know you have made a diffrence to that person.

              I once gave money to homless and my cousin had told me what for that it was just a waste of my money. Just then had i realised that it wasnt a waste of my money because he now had money to buy a decent meal. After that I have been thinking that maybe I could go and do more like help at a homless shelter, all I have to do is take one step at a time. I just read on this website that they are wanting to make some sort of law in Miami that if they find you giving to a homless they arw going to give you a fine of 300$.  

          

Immigration

         I know about immigration, how the famalies strugle, what they go through, my parents struggle with this. How they come here to the U.S for a better opportunity in life, but live in fear of being caught and getting deported. Many immigrants or as some other people call them" Illegal alliens" just come here for a job to help their loved ones, to give their children a better life than what they had. In Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a mean and racist, he is to busy hunting down immigrants to do HIS job and find criminals. Right now President Obama hasnt really done much to get started with the immigartion reform, I had just read that on March 21st there will be a March for America wherer tens of thousands of supporters are expected to tell the president and members of Congress to get moving. There is so much someone can do and take action in these things, I signed my name on a petition to tell the senators to get started in the reform.  

"The Great Bebators"

"An unjust law in no law at all." This quote is a great reflection of this movie because there was no law through out this whole movie. I liked the way Denzel Washington acted in this movie, he was great it really made you believe that he had gone through all of this. This movie really fullfiled my expectations beacuse it showed you what they went through what they had to fight through. I really recommend this movie its great and it really thouches you!                                                                                                                   

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be,(Pagels, Douglas)."



"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up,(Jackson, Jesse)."



"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life,( Giraudoux, Jean)." Amphitryon, 1929.



"Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed,(. Schuller, H. Robert)."


"Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask,(X-Files)."


"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich,(Wilcox, Dan and  Mumford, Thad)."


"Your children need your presence more than your presents,(Jackson, Jesse)."



"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are,(Sondreal, Palmer)."




"Today give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day,( Brown, Jr. Jackson)."






"Having a sister os like having a best friend you cant get rid of. You know whatever you do they'll still be there,(Li, Amy)."







 

Not like the brazen giant of greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand a mighty women with a torch, whose flame is the inmprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand glows world wide welcome; her mild eyes comand the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, the ancient lands, you storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wrecthed refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homless, tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -Emma Lazarus 1883

I really liked this poem its is welcoming any people saying it does not matter who you are beside me you will have a life of gold? I understand that back when this poem was made immigration wasnt a problem beacuse this was actually trying to say that she is a helping hand, to not be afraid

Haitis Children

It is so sad with what is happening in Haiti and the Death of all these children. Before many children were being helped and taken out of Haiti for more help. But the problem was that many people were being arrested for taking children out of the country without the paperwork. So know many people aren't helping and many more children are dying, waiting for the right equipment to come and help them. " Everything has slowed down, and most pilots are backing out of the medical missions with kids" says an Atlanta Pilot. 3 month old Landina needs serious medical attention a british surgeon says that Landina could die within a week if she is not airlifted out for care. But the Haitian authorites wont let that happen if they dont have parents permission, but they have not been located. It is sad and these children need help.!!!

The ladder to sun light

i can just imagine someone or something trying to get out of this big dark scary place. Where there lonely, there is nothing except a small crack and big whole on the wall, nothing to do but sit on dirt . Then all of a sudden from out of the blue there is a ladder an escape from this horrible room!!! Now they will be able to see sunlight enjoy the fresh summer air. A place were there is no more darkness, or loneliness, all except life!

The morning sun!

I love the morning sun, it gives me energy, through out the whole day!

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