change

High school was something I coundn't wait for. I knew being in high school meant that I had only four more years until I was free. Now I am a sophomore and I really can't wait to get out of it. I'm going to miss seeing my frends everyday though. After high school most people lose contact with even their best freinds and I don't want to do that. For some reason I don't think I'm ready to leave home and be on my own. My parents promised to help me as long as I do something with my future. They really want me to go to college, and I really want to go too, but it all just seems so hard.
Change is reall hard to deal with for me. If I live somewhere for a long time it will be hard leaving it. If I make a lot of freinds and then find out that I have to leave them then that would be so hard. If someone in my family dies it would be the hardest. I like change but only in the more simple ways like changes in hairstyle, clothes, shoes, makeup...etc. High school didn't seem lilke such a big change for me until I was a sophomore. It seems like when we were freshmen they didn't want to make it so hard because they were just saving the work for sophomore year. Well that's how I feel but then again it's not the same for everybody.
My life seems perfect right now. No problems. No drama. My family is fine. My freinds are fine. I am happy. I wouldn't want my life to change at this point although I know that it's inevitable. Change is something that has to happen.Especially for us who have to help change it.

Family

Family is very important to me. A lot of people don't have much family but that's not the case with me. I have a lot of family. I have six pairs of aunties and uncles on my dad's side and four pairs on my mom's side. They all have kids except for one of my uncles on my dad's side. Three of my aunties have five kids. One of my aunties has four kids.Three of my aunties have three kids. Two of my aunties have two kids. A lot of cousins. Many presents for Christmas, many birthday presents, and many birthday parties. I don't mind it. I love spending time with them.
Unlike friends, family is always going to be there no matter what. When you have problems with friends it's hard to see them the same again. When you have problems with family it is easier to get over the problems because we share blood. I think it's one of the worst things when people have fights between family. That just makes the rest of the family uncomfortable because they are in the middle of it. I hate that. That has happened before and I didn't like it. We wouldn't visit one of my aunties because of a misunderstanding and my parents felt bad when they realized it. However that situation made our family bond more. We spent a lot of time with each other after that.
Although friends sometimes come and go family will always be there. It's like a job. We always have to there for one another. And that is very important. I think that if you have a close family you will be very happy. Well that is what I think. Not everyone has a lot of family like I do. That just makes me feel really really lucky.

Grades

I know I have to do something that will help me stay on track. Yesterday I did five hours of homework non-stop to catch up with homework. I'm doing good in most classes. Math is getting really hard for me. French is getting more and more complicated. Those are the only classes I 'm having trouble keeping my grades up in. Other than that my grades are pretty good. My parents have seen an improvement in me they say. They tell me that they think I'm really focused right now. I think I am too. I want to stay like that too. I've been wanting andI've been tryign to get a 4.0 but right now it seems impossible. I don't have any distractions right now and I'm happy about that.

Last year was a lot easier. I didn't have homework for every class every night like I do now. It was easier last year yet my grades are better this year. I don't understand that. My first semester of high school I took at Encinal High School. Transfering to Alameda High really brought down my G.P.A. because I wasn't used to it. After I adjusted to the schedules and the amount of homework I did a lot better. My grades got a lot better. High school is a lot different from middle school. It takes time to adjust. I see the differences but I don't tink it has affected me too much. For the most part I think I'm handling it aright.

My middle school grades were a lot better than the grades i get now but I know that it was easier back then. It seemed that in middle school the people working at school didn't really care if you passed or not. I guess they thought that was not their problem. In high school it seems like the situation is the opposite. They actually try to help you so you graduat and have a chance of having a good future. If you don't care then it' s a different story. I care so I'm taking all the advice that people give me. Grades are stressing sometimes but for now I think I'm doing alright.

Mandatory

(2.) The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete
Annotating was pretty easy for me on this paragraph because I have a lot of thoughts on what it is trying to say. I wrote a lot of things down. I think this paragraph is very important in this article because it shows how racism is exposed to the world. Children aren't born with knowledge about races. I didn't know about races for a long time. I saw that people were different but I never wondered why like most childeren do. I grew up in a neighborhood were there were people of many different races so thats probably why I never saw it in a weird way. I knew I was different from them. I was different from people in my own family too so I wouldn't think much about it. My parents never taught me anything about race. Later I started to realize why this was but it didn't change who my friends were or what I thought about them.
I think race is mostly influenced by your parents most of the time. That wasn't the case for me. I don't remember exactly how I came to realize race but I know that was school. I never really hung out with a certain group of people. Maybe it was because there was no need to know what was going on. Maybe it was back then it wasn't important.

4th post

People say it's getting harder and harder to make a steady living, and it is, but it has always been hard for everyone. Since the world is moving faster we have to find a way to move with it and not stay behind. It's somtimes disturbing to think what we might end up as. We might not even exist later on. Everyone might be fat because we won't even have to do anything. We will have robots doimg eberything for us or something.
No one knows were the world is going right now. A lot of people are trying to come up with ideas to make our life better. Even though it might take a while IPeople say it's getting harder and harder to make a steady living, and it is, but it has always been hard for everyone. Since the world is moving faster we have to find a way to move with it and not stay behind. It's somtimes disturbing to think what we might end up as. We might not even exist later on. Everyone might be fat because we won't even have to do anything. We will have robots doing eberything for us or something.
Even though it might take a while I'm pretty sure that they will get what they want sooner or later.Maybe if was sure that the world would change for the better then I wouldn't be afraid of the world moving so fast. There is no way to know for sure how we are all going to end up. Whatever it is we have to be ready for it. It is getting harder to make a living. That only means that we need to try harder to make it better. No one knows how long we have before it's impossible to restore anything. If we don't try to help now that time will come sooner than it should've been. Lets try to make our lives better.