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midterm *** Marlen for some reason this is what my paper is uploading as. I am not sure if this is right. The link shows my paper in the proper format and has pictures. I am going to paste my paper as well just in case this link does not work.
Dear Diary,
There are people around me. I don’t know what they are doing. They are all looking at me and saying how cute a precious I am. I just want to be back in that warm place I was. It was dark and I could sleep without people making a fuss over me. I liked that big thumping noise I heard. I think I am going to nap now.
Dear Diary,
I am cold and wet and it’s dark. I am not sure what is going on. All I wanted was something to eat, but all I got was this wet sticky smelly stuff on me. I think I will just cry about it. I can hear mommy and daddy talking. I hear footsteps. I see a light. Mommy is turning on my light in my room. She comes in and looks at me, she shakes her head. Then she picks me up. She can tell I am all wet so she gives me a bath to get that cold wet sticky stuff off me. Then she feeds me. Mmm that tastes so good. I love when mommy takes care of me. Finally my tummy stops growling. Now she puts me back in my warm crib. I fall asleep.
Dear Diary,
I have a tried and tried again. This just makes my legs all wobbly. I rather just crawl. Who really needs to get up and walk on two, I like all fours. It is just so easy that way. I know it makes mommy smile when I try, but I just don’t want to do it. I just want to give up. I see daddy, maybe I will try to get up. I put one leg out and then another and I pull myself up. I am standing on two, maybe this will be it, just maybe. I put one foot in foot then the other. I am moving forward closer to daddy I get. He smiles and puts his hands out. I just keep going and I get there. He seems so happy he picks me up and gives me a hug. I giggle, I am so happy. I learned to move on two and not four.
Dear Diary,
I feel as if I am alone. I feel that nobody understands me. I am thirteen and I feel as if the world is so much bigger than me. I don’t understand what I am doing and where I am supposed to go in life. It all seems so confusing to me. I feel as if I am in the middle all the time. My friends are fighting over a guy or something that is silly and petty and somehow I am in the middle. My parents fight and I am in the middle. I feel so confused about everything. The confusion just never seems to end. I just want to know my purpose I just want to know where I should go from here. I really just need answers to life in general.
Dear Diary,
Yesterday, I fell while rollerblading. Today I am in so much pain. I skinned both of my knees and elbows. This is how I recall it. Brandon and Chrissy and I were rollerblading around the neighborhood. I am just learning to rollerblade, so I am not very good yet. Brandon thought it would be a good idea to go to a trail that was in the next neighborhood over. Chrissy said no but Brandon convinces us that I would be fine. So we go over there. I was having a very hard time going down the hills. I was just not ready for them yet. My legs would wobble and they make me so nervous. So there was this one particular hill that I was standing at the top of. Brandon said he would go down and wait for me to get to the bottom. So I started to slide down the hill. I was going very fast and I just wasn’t ready for it. It made me very nervous. I was speeding down this hill I was so scared. All of a sudden I see a huge crack in the road and before you know it I am laying face down on the road. All I can feel is warm blood seeping out my knees. They were all banged up. I could feel the tears streaming down my face. Chrissy was yelling at Brandon to go to the house closest and get some paper towels and band aids. It seemed like forever before he came back to us. I was sitting on the ground just trying to get the blood not to go down my legs. Brandon came back and wiped my legs with the paper towels he was trying to stop the bleeding. He finally get as much as he can cleaned up. I can barely walk it hurts so much. So Brandon has to carry me home. It seems like it takes us forever. I get all cleaned up and the wounds are huge. I have so many band aids on my knees and elbows. I know this is not going to heal before I have to go to school on Monday. It just hurts so much.
Dear Diary,
Today I learned that my dad got a manager position and this means we have to move. I am so angry with everyone. I hate the world and don’t understand why my dad couldn’t find something in Ohio and not Pennsylvania. I do not want to move and I am going to refuse. I will disown my parents if I have to. All I want to do is cry. Life is not worth living if I can’t see my friends. I have grown up here in the same place for my whole life. I don’t not want to move!
Dear Diary,
The past two weeks have been some of the hardest in my life. It all started when me, my mom, my aunt and my grandma went over to decorate my great grandparents house for Christmas. We have been doing this for a few years now. My grandparents really liked this because we got to visit with them. This is also the day my grandma had a heart attack. She was rushed off in an ambulance to the hospital. We went there to see how she was. She was still alive which was a miracle considering she is 87 and has had many heart attacks. She seems to be doing well. During the week my family took turns taking over meals and spending time with grandpa. He seemed to be very brave through all of this. I would not have been. They have been married for 70 years and if I knew my mate for life could die at any minute I would be a wreak. It was mom and my turn to get grandpa dinner and take him to the hospital to visit grandma. He was sitting in a chair talking to all of us. He suddenly got a funny look on his face. My cousin who was also there asked him a question. He answered her but the words wouldn’t come out right. It was all gibberish. It just wasn’t like grandpa. So the nurse came in and we told her something was not right. They immediately admitted him into the hospital. Little did we know but he had stroke right before our eyes. That was a very hard time. Having both grandma and grandpa both being in a hospital. And the worst part is they flew him down to a hospital in downtown Pittsburgh which was 30 minutes away from where grandma was. We were all happy when grandpa suddenly got better. He was still hooked up to a lot of machines but he was improving a lot. The next day he died. Sometimes this happens, they seem to be doing wonderful but that’s just the body of saying this is my one last attempt before I let go forever. That wasn’t even the hardest part. That was when we had to tell grandma that he had passed. We never thought it would be that way. We thought it would be her before him. He was always the strong one. A few days later we were allowed to bring her home, which for her would be my grandma’s house. That day when mom, dad, and I were getting ready for grandpa’s visiting hours we got a phone call. It was my grandma saying that my great grandma had a heart attack and died. Losing two people you love is very hard. I hope they knew that I loved them very much. This week has been a hard one.
Dear Diary,
I have finally got to this point in my life that once seemed so far for so long. For years I have studied for that test or did my homework and not I know it has paid off. All my years of going to school to learn more and become a well rounded individual. I never thought I would see the day that I would put on my cap and gown. My parents are so proud of me, I am so proud of me. I get to walk down that aisle with pride. I have done what I was supposed to do, and it has all paid off. I get to graduate today and feel proud of myself for everything that I have accomplished.
Dear Diary,
Today is the day I am moving out from my dorm. I have made it through freshmen year, what a surprise. I feel so different from where I have begun. I was so scared when I got here. I did not know who I would eat lunch with or who I would sit with in class, let alone how to get to class. The things that seemed so big then seem so little now. I feel confident because I got through this year. I want to share with future college freshmen what I have learned. I have learned that you won’t always like your roommate and that laundry is not easy. Being away from home can be hard and sometimes you can depend on your friends and they help you get by. Hangovers are not fun and don’t leave homework to do until midnight to do. You will learn to adjust but it will take some time. Things do not just fall into place right away. So just be confident they eventually will. Make the best of these times because you don’t get them back. Most of all just enjoy it day by day and take the good in with the bad.
I’ve learned that your college friends become a kind of family. You eat together, you get drunk, fight, laugh, cry and do absolutely nothing together until you can’t seem to remember how you ever lived your life without them in the first place.” After my freshmen year this quotes seemed to be the truest quote of my life.
So far these journal entries form the events in my life. They show the experiences I have been through whether they are good or bad. They have made me who I am today. I like looking back knowing my life has had meaning. I tried to include photos if I had any, they make my life have meaning knowing I could look back and see what my life was like then. Since we have not completed the monomyth I chose not to go any farther with my journey, this is also because my life is not completed either and I feel I have many more big moments in my life that would make this journal a more well rounded one.
I tried to find events in my life that went with the monomyth. The first one is the call to adventure and a little bit of refusal to call. The second one talks about my aid which would have to be my mom. The third one is crossing the first threshold. Fourth is belly of the whale. The next three which are five six and seven are about the road of trials in my life. Eight is apotheosis. Nine is the ultimate boon.
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marlen |
October 19, 2009 at 6:17 pm
YAY!!! Very cool! Have u started Color Purple yet? I think you’re gonna love that book!
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emrickoamandaqnbp |
October 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I have started Color Purple and I like it a lot. It is my favorite book so far!