Month: January 2024

For this quote spoken from Dumbledore, “ Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” think for what it means even when you are struggling with someone or something, you can resolve things if you find a way to bring your self happiness if its from a belonging or someone. On the other hand, it could mean not everything that happens is for a bad reason, it could be for a good reason as well.

Somebody I really admire is my mom. I admire how she works hard and doesn’t give up. She says, “ If I can do something, and someone else can too, so can you.” When I’m confused on homework or don’t know how to answer to a problem, she says , “Use your resources when you can, or ask your teacher for help because that’s what their there for.”

Something else I admire about my mom is that she is kind. Whenever I’m sad or bothered, she finds a way to make me happy. Either that she surprises me with something, or she makes me a hot cocoa. Or in any way she will take me to the bakery nearby and get drinks. I like going to the bakery near our house. It always comforts me.

To finish, I admire how my mom is so organized. At most times of the day, she will plan out what’s she will do for the day. I sometimes am not very organized, she helps me a lot to be organized. I need to be organized at times because if I don’t, I will forget to do something or to do homework.

My word of intention for 2024 is focus. The word focus for 2024 will help me be on track. A few reasons I chose this word is because sometimes I am not always in mind what I’m doing. When i want to do something quick, I need the quiet time to focus. Finding a quiet place to work really impacts me mentally and physically. Once i find that quiet spot, I can be more active and relaxed. When there is lots of noise, I don’t have that focused mentality anymore.

Something I do to focus on what I’m doing is first I might go outside to walk around to keep myself focused once I come back to finishing my activity. Just going outside relaxes me and I sense nature calmly. The wind ventilating through me, relaxes my body and sense throughout my lungs. Breathing in an environment with plants can be one thing I like to be present in the room.

At last, When. I eat a snack, it’s refuels my body to work faster. Chemical energy is what refuels the cell in our body to stay focused and active. By having a snack, i can stay focused and not be distracted or tired. It keeps me from getting tired while doing an assignment or task.

I havre not finished reading this book yet, One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus. I am currently on page 147. This book talk about five students at Bayview High on Monday afternoon going into detention. The characters in this book are Browyn, the brain, is Yale- bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty is a picture perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all star baseball pitcher. Finally, Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. At most, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon’s dead. According to the investigators, is was not all an accident. The day he died was Monday. Isn’t that ironic? On Tuesday, he’d plan to post juicy reveals about four of his high profile classmates. I guess that would make them all suspects of the murder. Who knows?

I so far like this book a lot, although it has words that I don’t see often. This book creates suspense over the course of the chapters. Besides the plot of figuring out who the murder is, I like how this author put so much detail and thought in the book to make it you think why is that, and why? This book is teaching many words I don’t know and I can use them when i write to improve my writing. Also if Simon created a gossip app, is it maybe possible if he writes about maybe one of the people who was written about, maybe killed him?

My favorite character is Addy so far. One character trait to show how she is ambitious is on page, 130 she says,“I got lulled into a false sense of complacency. It happens I guess, even during the worst week of your life.”Like sometimes you’ll be imaging good things are happening just because you yearn for it to happen even though it’s not happening. When bad things are happening but yearn for something good to happen.

My favorite quote from the book is on page 137, “Im out of sorts and anxious for the rest of the day, doing through the motions of everything I’m supposed to do at school and at home.” This quote is meaningful because when I complete things, I feel good for the accomplishment I achieved. Then afterwards not feeling anxious. Once I finished something i didn’t think I could do, I do it anyway!