Pushover.

Ever since I was little Ive always been a pushover. Once I got into high school though, I started to break out of the "pushover" role. I have a very hard time saying no to people, especially adults. This week my boss has expected so much from me because one of the other main girls is on vacation. She keeps asking me to do things that are  pain in the butt. And shes pretty intimidating, so I just keep saying yes to the things shes been asking me to do. Its stressing me out, but i just cant say no.

bff

Everyone has that one best friend that you tell everything to, at least for girls that is. Well, my best friend was babysitting all weekend, and we were both very busy. So on a very eventful weekend like this one was, its so nice to just get together with your best friend and tell all of your exciting, drama filled stories. Today I went to AT&T with my bestie and we had so much to catch up on that we had to go to Starbucks and continue talking. She's the one person that I can tell everything to. It was so nice to just talk and laugh with her because we are both so goofy that we just laugh at how stupid we are. :)

The Past

Both of the essays "Hooked" and "Once More to the Lake" were about fishing and the water. I couldn't really connect with either of them even though i used to fish all the time when I was younger. They just didn't catch my attention. The essay "Hooked" was a little slow in the begging, and that's why I think i might not have got the feel for it. On the flip side though the third essay, "Innocence is Bliss" was extremely good. From the very beginning it told a story that made me want to read more. I could relate to the awkwardness of being a middle schooler, and those first relationships you have. I could completely relate to the writer and her past memory. In middle school we are all going through changes and becoming ourselves and its all just completely awkward. You are changing and the people around you are changing, not just how they look but how they act to try and fit in to a certain crow just to be accepted.

Faja

I felt like out of the three essays that "Faja" was the most interesting. Personally "Painting with Neil" and "A Practiced Grace" were sort of boring. "Faja" had very good description and it just made his day come to life. It really describes how a parent has so many responsibilities and when they find a day when there is nothing more to do, they are almost lost. I could really picture the Father sitting on the porch looking outside drinking. My favorite line from the essay was, "It is as if he is not tired enough to sleep so, like a computer in hibernation, he intently waits for the next command." This is an extremely well written analogy that really forms a picture in your head of what the father was like.

The Emptiness of Ground Zero

In the essay "Ground Zero" by Suzanne Berne, it emphasizes how emptiness can be filled. Berne started the essay extremely dreary, "raw wind and spits of rain." Explaining all of the different people who are there to see the same thing she is. At first she thought she saw nothing, emptiness. But that nothing turned into something. The empty space where the towers used to stand is a sight of remembrance, rebuilding, and moving forward. There might have been a lot of disaster at Ground Zero, but the construction is a sign of moving forward."There is the pound of jackhammers." Although the devastation took place, it has brought other life and people together. The emptiness becomes creation and healing. The construction workers are fixing what has been torn down, and the people taken away are now being filled with visitors by curiosity. With bad comes the good, and ground zero is proof of that. While being a memorial for those who lost their lives it brings people together to remorse or just see what was lost. "And by the act of our visiting- whether we are motivated by curiosity or horror or reverence or grief, or by something confusing that combines them all _ that space fills up again."