Speeches

     The speeches we saw in the class were very interesting. My most favorite one was "sunscreen". It gives some advice and like "motivation" in the speech. It said a lot in 5 minutes. Most speeches are only like a minute long. Sunscreen was very long but gave a lot of information. Sheryl sandbergs speech was very emotional and also she shared a personal experience that no one else would've said in their speech. Her speech was very strong. She asked a question in the speech. It is very hard to talk about things like that. Some people just want to keep it to themselves.

May

     May is going to be an exciting month. Lots of thing are happening in May. Like six flags, dinner dance, and my birthday. Six flags is in like 2 weeks. I'm very excited about that. Dinner dance will be in like 3 weeks. I'm happy that I will be going to dinner dance with Samra. Also to six flags. My birthday is coming up and I'm finally turning 14. This month will go by fast. Next thing I know is it'll be June 1st and we'll be graduating. I'm shocked that I am going to high school. I'm kinda nervous but kinda not. Let's just hope for the best. How is your May going to look like??

Book Club

      Book club is very interesting because you get to talk about the book you are reading with the group. Also you get to work with people. I think it's fun to work with people instead of working by yourself when you're reading. You can ask questions to your group if you don't understand a part and they can answer it for you. Or there's a word you don't know you can ask the group. We talk about the book and sometimes agree on each other. You get to talk about the meaning in the story. Overall I just think being in a book club is more fun then just reading a book by yourself. Get together and read with each other. How do you feel about book clubs?

Smile

.    The book I read is called Smile. There was a girl name Raina. Raina was hanging out with her friends and one of her friends mom dropped her off at her house. Her friends wanted to race her to her house. They started to run and Raina fell to the floor. Face flat on the floor. She knocked out her two front teeth. The next day she went to the dentist. Her dentist gave her two fake front teeth. She had those teeth for about a year. Then the other year she got braces. She had those braces for another year. After that, her two front teeth are permanently on.

Poem

Man Proposes, God Disposes 
Miroslav Kosek, Hanus Lowy 

I.
Who was helpless back in Prague,
And who was rich before,
He's a poor soul here in Terezin,
His body's bruised and sore.

II.
Who was toughened up before,
He'll survive these days.
But who was used to servants,
Will sink into his grave.

I'm feeling sad about this. It's sad that this person needs to go through this. Even other thousand or millions of people need to go through this. It's really unfair. No one should be treated horribly. Everyone wants to have a happy life. The people that were in the holocaust, they wanted to be set free and have a happy life.

Elementary to middle school

      Far back in 1st grade, I didn't know anything honestly. Every time a teacher points at a number and tells me to say it, I couldn't. I had a friend and her name was Karina. She was the only friend I had in first grade. She was really nice and funnny. Going ahead in 3rd grade, I knew how to say all the numbers. I knew my time tables and got all the answers right on the test which I think it was called "quick time". We only had a minute to do the test and I got all of them right. Moving on, 5th grade was kinda a great year. We went on field trips like to navy pier. That was when me and Samra started to talk to each other a lot. We knew each other since 1st grade but we really never talked to each other until 5th grade. I always hung out with her in indoor recess. When we entered 6th grade, Samra and I were very close friends. We couldn't separate from each other, we always have to be together. In 6th grade I was kinda improving in many subjects like for example math. 7th grade was the year of actual improvement for 8th grade. I did my best in 7th grade. I put my effort into it. 8th grade has came and I took two big tests to show if I improved or not. The test results came and said I improved a lot. I changed into regular classes. Now I'm with bigger classes for ELA. I am proud of myself for trying, trying, and trying. At once I wanted to give up. I told myself no and continued on to the journey.

SOL #13 When My Parents Found Out I know a lot about technology

     It was summer in a Saturday morning. Very hot outside. I was in my room on my phone watching some YouTube videos. I was very bored because my friend Samra went to Europe. I was alone. My mom and my sister were cleaning. My dad was at work. It was only 11am in the morning. We already ate breakfast. 5 hours had past. My dad finally came home. He wanted to pay some bills. So he went downstairs and went on the computer. He didn't know how to use it. So my dad called me down. I went downstairs and he said "Can you help me?" And I said "Yes!" I typed in the password to log in into the computer and went through the process to get to the website my dad wants to go on to pay his bills. He said "Wow you know a lot about technology" I said "Yeahh" Then my dad went upstairs and told everyone that he's noticing that I know a lot about technology. My family was saying that I should find a job that works with technology. It's a good idea. I'm actually joining TSI in high school. The bad thing is that I have to wake at 5am in the morning and then go to school at 6:45. I am not that kind of early morning person. Im kinda a early person but I wake up 7 or 8. Not 5 or 6 in the morning

Ghost Medicine

     A book I read is called Ghost Medicine. A 17 year old boy name Troy, before he turned 17, his mother died. He was very depressed because he barely talks to his dad. He mostly talks to his mom. Since his mothers death, he has been hanging out with his friends, Tom and Gabe. Tom is kinda a rude person and he is fearless. Gabe is just smart. Troy and his friend does not want any trouble. The summer was coming up, he wanted to call it the "ghost medicine". He wanted to call it the "ghost medicine" because for him it's just where everything stops. He doesn't need to face the past or the future. Before summer was over, he wanted to go on a dangerous adventure. That will change him and his friends life.

SOL #12 Summer School

     Before school ended I got a form saying if I want to go to summer school. At first I was like no maybe I shouldn't go to summer school. But then I remembered my friend Samra will be going to he summer. I would be alone. So I started to think about it and I finally changed my mind and said yes to summer school. Summer school only 7am to 12. It's short. I didn't know who was going to summer school. But st least I get to distract myself. When I went to the open house for summer school. I saw my favorite teacher, Mr.Delacroche (I don't know how to spell his name) he is a very nice teacher. There was posters up on the wall and I saw my best friend Marisol and Johnathans name on there. I was happy because I'm not going to be alone in summer school. First day of summer school was very great. I got to meet a lot of people. I loved how I get to wake up in the morning and see the bright sun. Then I get to come back home with a very bright sun. One day we got to do a competition and my table won. Mr.Bulster gave us ( Table mates) one of those big chocolate bar.

SOL #11 New Years party

     It was December 31st on a cold day. It's 6pm, my family and I were getting ready for the party. I was very excited to go to the party because mostly, all the years for New Years, I'm mostly home, while everyone is at a party with their family. The party I was going to, it isn't my family. It's my sisters boyfriend family. My sisters boyfriends family is really nice. They're very active. Anyways, when we were done getting ready, we went to the car and waited for my dad to finish. From there, we went to my sisters boyfriends family's house. When we went inside the house, there were so many people. We have to greet everyone. I was very shy to say hi to everyone but I did it. I met some people I have never seen before. After greeting everyone we went to the basement where there was so much space. Everyone started to get their plates and I didn't want to get my plate because I was shy to stand up in front of everyone. 15 minutes later I just got up because I was really hungry. We stayed at my sisters boyfriends house until like 2am. We came home very sleepy.

SOL #10 The time when I went to downtown with my friend

     It was August when I went to downtown with my friend Samra. It was very sunny hot day. School hasn't started yet. It was 2 days after when Samra came back from the UK. I was so excited to see her because I didn't see her for the whole summer (2 months). We did communicate when she was in U.K. Samras family came with us to downtown. My parents didn't go back they had to work. My sister Jocelyn, came with me. We went on a metra train. It's by Mac Neal hospital. Metra is way more faster than the green line station. We got to Union station in like 16 minutes. After the train dropped us off at Union Station, we walked through downtown and went to the stores.

SOL #9 Quality

      Quality is important to me. What I mean by quality, I mean by photos. I am a photographer. I've been doing photography for the past 2-3 years. It became an interest to me when I was in 6th grade. Right now of what I am using for photography is with an iPhone 6 and a 6plus. It may seem unprofessional but it really does have good quality. I mostly do my photography outside. Maybe this summer I will go to downtown and do some photography there. I do photography on Saturday and Sundays because I am buso with school on the weekdays. Hopefully one day I will get an actual professional camera.

SOL #8 Update on "when I got hit by a car"

     It has been 8 months since I got hit by a car. I have been waiting for a response back since December from the lawyers. You probably didn't read the other blog I posted about me getting hit, but I lost the case in court. Referring back in September, the guy kept saying to the judge "Not guilty" and he told the judge that I walked towards to his car. The judge had enough and found him not quilty. Going back last week, the lawyers emailed my dad saying the case is closing and they're going to give me money. The money they gave me, was a huge amount. I was surprised but they said they have to give me the money when I'm 18. I was disappointed but time goes by fast. They said the money will raise up over the years. So by 2021, the amount they gave me will increase.

SOL #7 Favorite song

     One of my favorite songs is Sahara by DJ Snake. It's my favorite song because it is good for like iMovies and stuff. I'm like that kind of person to be doing iMovies. For me it's kinda of a calming music but only the parts where it goes soft. It makes me remember the time when I was making an iMovie on how the iPhone 7/7plus was made. (I actually posted the iMovies on my blog!) Probably this week I'll make another iMovies that has the song in it. The song has many beats in it. No one is really singing in the song, it's just beats.

SOL #6 Bedtime in my house

     Bedtime at my house is pretty hard for me because when I come back home from school I usually eat a snack then I go to sleep . I sleep for 2-3 hours and wake up at 7 or 8. It kinda ruins my day but at the same time it doesn't because I got some sleep. But then again it's already night time and I won't be able to do anything for the day. I usually just go on YouTube and watch videos but sometimes I go to the kitchen to talk to my family because they're usually in the kitchen. When it's "bedtime" at 10pm I don't feel sleepy at all. I try to make myself sleep. But I just can't. So I fall asleep at 1-2am.

SOL #5 The time when my phone cracked

     It was a cloudy day in August. It was the same day when I got hit by a car. (You can check that story out on my blog!) After I got hit, my phone was in the middle of the street. I wanted to get it but I couldn't. My leg and arm was hurting really bad. I couldn't get up. I couldn't tell anyone to stop. I got very worried about my phone because my family has trouble with money. Then, a car ran over my phone. I was shocked. I yelled, "My phone!" After that day, I got a new iPhone 6.

SOL #4 What I usually feel on Fridays

     On Fridays, I'm usually feeling happy because I get to go home for the week and have fun with my family and dogs. It's the best thing ever when you come home and see what you love. It can be your phone or anything.I sometimes come home and play with the dogs outside, only when it's nice outside. Or I come home and talk about the week at school. I tell her what grades I got on my test and she seems really happy about my scores. My family and I sometimes go out on Friday's,like go to a restaurant or hotel.

SOL #3 When my sister got a new dog

     It was cloudy February day night. It was Valentine's Day. I was in my room when I heard my sister come upstairs. She checked on me and asked how was school today. I told her it was good. I started to explain to her what I did in school. While I was explains what I did in school, she got a phone call from her boyfriend. She answered it. 2 minutes later into the conversation, she had a shocked face on. She kept saying "A dog?!" Then she ran downstairs and out the door she went. I was confused. In my head, I asked myself "Are we getting a new dog?" "Is her boyfriend going to give her a dog?" An hour later my sister came inside the house with a husky.

SOL #2 The Time I Laughed So Hard

     A time I laughed so hard I cried was in 6th grade. Samra and I were going to to the library so we can exchange our books. We went to the library and I told Samra I would be in a section about technology. Samra told me she going to to go to a other section. In that year in 6th grade the library had this huge shelf with bunch of books and it had a stool that we can stand on. I went over where Samra was (by the book shelf) and she got onto the stool and all of the sudden she started to laugh (I don't know why) 2 seconds later she collapsed and fell then moved the shelf. It looked like the shelf was going to fall over. I started to laugh a lot.

SOL #1

          One day when it finally got warm outside I went to call Samra if she wanted to do anything. She wanted to go to the park and go over to her house. I started to get ready and heading out. I had my small backpack. Samra lives 6 blocks away from me. But we were meeting up by Taco Bell. Everytime I go and walk by myself, I always tell someone to watch me or to cross the street with me because ever since I got hit, I've been scared to cross the street alone. So Samra crossed the street with me. After that we went to mcdonalds.

Slice of life

     On May 25th 2016 was the day I got my first iPhone. I waited 2 years for that moment to happen. My family didn't have enough money to get me an iPhone. It was a busy hot day. It was already 5pm and I thought I wasn't getting the phone. I was slowly losing my hope of getting an iPhone. Then my mom told my dad if we can go to the Apple Store and my dad said yes. I got so excited. I started to blast music into my ears. As we were arriving at OakBrook, my dad started to joke about how he "forgot" his credit card. But really he had his credit card. We went into the Apple Store and got my first iPhone 6.

How I got to know more about technology

     I was 11 years old when I got my first iPad. I didn't know how to use it. It was actually my first hands on electronic. First day I didn't do much on the iPad because I was so scared to download something in the app store. Second day with it, I decided to watch some youtube videos about the iPad. I've learned so many things about it. But not as much as I know right now. I started to continue to watch a lot of videos about the iPad everyday. It was like a daily thing. I come home, I go straight to my room and watch videos. Everyday my mom would yell at me because I'm on my iPad everyday. A year past, I was interested to learn about other electronics. Not just the iPad. From there, I started to learn more about the iPhones, MacBook, and Apple tv. Today I know so much about technology and how they were made.
Below is a link to a short video of how the iPhone 7 was made.
https://drive.google.com/a/students.bsd100.org/file/d/0B7wrL7Z8vlE2VXNLQ09VT3FxbHc/view?usp=sharing

What I'm Loving

     I love my dog Hunter. He is 3 years old and a Siberian Husky. We got Hunter on February 14, 2014 at 11:37pm. Hunter is loving dog and he loves to play with the other 2 dogs I have.

     I've been using this computer everyday to read articles about phones and stuff. I love this computer a lot.

     I'm loving this lightning dock a lot because I like how my phone looks when its on the dock. Even it's easier to charge my phone.

      This Apple Watch has been a life saver for me because when it's passing period, I can just raise up my wrist and see the time.

     I've been loving these bluetooth headphones because since my other headphones doesn't work, I get to use these and it's bluetooth. I'm that type of person to be wireless.

 

The time when I got hit by a car

     This one day, scariest day of my life, when I got hit by a car. This happened right after school when I was walking home from school. My friend Samra and I were all happy then right when I was about to cross I had to say bye to Samra because she had to go to another way. As I was waiting for the light to change, Samra already disappeared and I was alone at the stop light. It was a busy road with a lot of cars passing. When the light change, I crossed and I was only about 4 inches away from the sidewalk. As a white truck that had a trailer on the back and was going at least 15 mph, hit me. The trailer took my leg and I spun around then fell right in the middle of the street. I was confused of what had happened. I didn't know what was happening. I was looking around as cars stopped. As I noticed my glasses and phone had fell. I started to notice that I got hit by a car. I told myself to get up and go to the sidewalk or else a car will might hit me again because I was in the middle of the street. I stood, it was blurry I couldn't see well. I noticed there's a kid holding his hand out, I told him to stay in the sidewalk. I didn't want him to come close to the street. When I got close to him, I grabbed his hand because I felt like I was going to faint. I sat down on the floor trying to think what just happened. I thought it was a dream. A white car stopped where I was sitting, it was a guy that asked me if I was ok. I remember shaking my head. Surprisingly I wasn't crying. I was just shocked. But as a group of people came by me, and some of them I knew from school. But I just couldn't see them well. One of them asked me if I wanted to call my mom. I didn't want to because I know my mom would react when I say "I got hit by a car." So I didn't want to. But another guy offered me to call my parents. I told him no too. But he said he will talk to them. I gave him my house phone number. As he was calling, he asked me if I wanted an ambulance. I told him no because I remember the ambulance bills are going to be huge, so why not walk to the hospital if it's only 3 blocks away. But either way he called the ambulance. Someone called the police, the police came. I started to get scared of how my mom would react. I started to cry a lot. The police came by me and asked me questions. Then he told me that the people will help me. (Ambulance people). Hours later at the hospital, I got better. They took x-rays to make sure nothing was broken.
     Two days later my dad was thinking to get a lawyer for court. I wasn't sure what the lawyer was for and I just thought it just someone that will be your side and help you. Later on my dad got a lawyer. Her name is Jennifer. She was really nice and she told me to fill out a two page sheet. The sheet was just asking what had happened, my age, birth date, etc. My lawyer suggested to see a doctor that is like 40 minutes away from where I live. I went to see the doctor that Jessica told me to see, and it was pretty weird because on the outside it looks like a small place but inside it was big with a two story building. When I saw the doctor, he was asking me questions like where did I get hit, what parts hurts the most. I told him my leg hurts the most. I had a huge bruise on my left leg. The doctor gave me a waist thing which I forgot what it was called and cream for my leg. After all that, he doctor told me that I need physical therapy for at least 2 months. I was shocked when he said "For 2 months". So then he told my parents which place I will be going for therapy. My therapy was in Orland Park. When I enter the therapy place, I was scared because I never been to therapy. This guy took me in just so he can know what happened and what parts I need to work on. I told him my leg is the most part that is hurting when I walk,run, or even stand on it. Then, I told him about my arm and hip. He said the part where I got hit on my leg was pretty hard. After that he took me into this area where it has these exercise machines etc. There was a girl who told me that my leg and back is pretty weak. My therapy session was 53 minutes for Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday. My opinion for therapy is that it's pretty “fun” and relaxing at the end because they put you in a room with a machine that's for shocking your leg but in a relaxing way.
     After therapy session, I had to go to Cook County court. That day I was pretty scared. I was so nervoubs. I was thinking of what I was going to say in court when they ask me the questions. Also, that day I was going to see the guy who hit me. I was curious to see how the guy looked like. In the police report it said he was in his 70s. I was really shocked to see that. Now, I remember walking towards the door. I had to go through security for safety reasons. Then from there, the court room I was going to enter was right there. A huge door with black tint window. You couldn't see what was happening in the courtroom. 20 minutes past and finally someone else case ended so it was my turn to go in. At that moment my hands were shaking a lot. A bunch of people went into the courtroom. I saw this man going into the courtroom and I was wondering if that was the guy that hit me. An hour past as I was waiting for my name to be called. Finally, the judge called my name and the guy's name too. When I got up people were staring at me and I felt uncomfortable. At the same time, the same guy as I think it was him. I was right. It was him. I felt weird walking right next to him. From there, the judge asked him if he felt guilty or not guilty, right away he said “Not guilty”. I was shocked for him to say not guilty. I was kinda getting mad. The judge asked him if he was sure that he is not guilty. Right away again he says “Not guilty”. The judge told us to go sit down and have a talk after the court session. I was terrified. I sat down and I noticed the police that was there when I got hit. Minutes past as I was waiting for everyone to leave. Then finally we were alone. The judge called us up again. I went up and the judge called the police over to have evidence and back me up. The judge was asking me questions. I answered them clearly as possible. After that, the judge asked the man again if he felt guilty or not guilty. He said it in a mad way, “ Not guilty not guilty not guilty” Repeatedly. Then the judge was saying ok ok not guilty. At the moment everyone was mad how he got away with it. The police that was there for me was mad too. Even the prosecutor. I was really mad and sad. I went home sad. From there, my dad called the lawyer and told them what had happened. The lawyer said “The case isn't over”. So from today, Jan. 19 2017, the case is still going and also, my left leg is still hurting until this day.