Pumpkin Patch

          I only need one outside activity to get an B. You need two outside activities to get an A but you need to due an outside presentation. I don't have time to do things outside of class. The outside activity I did was taking my family to the pumpkin patch at Boulevard Flowers in Colonial Heights VA on Saturday. My friend Tanya and her daughter Kyndal met us there. Everyone got a great big pumpkin except my youngest son because he picked up a really tiny pumpkin. He told me that he would take care of the pumpkin. I don't know how but I didn't tell him that. We rode the hayride. They had two tractors going. The tractors drove us to the pumpkin field. There was a lot of pumpkins. We feed the goats. They had rides but you had to pay to ride. It was expensive. I believe the rides cost about a dollar or more. My youngest son wanted to ride a train they had. He did but the price of it was ridiculous. It was $1.25 or something like that. No adults could ride the rides. It was for the little kids. I thought everything was free except for the pumpkins. If one person from your party could carry and walk a straight line for a few seconds your pumpkins were $15 no matter how many punkins you had. My oldest son carried 5 pumpkins and walked a straight line. He carried some big pumpkins. He couldn't see but he did it.

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          In English class Sweeney handed out our third essay paper. It's supposed to be 1000 words. Three cited sources. Sweeney told me that I could add on my second essay for my third essay. I just got to figure out how to add more words and where to put it and two more cite sources. A least I only need 300 more words. It's a thesis/claim and formulate a paper. I'll be glad when I'm done writing essays.

          Last week I finally got my first essay back. I had a few things to correct. It wasn't bad. Now I'm waiting on the second essay. I just hope it don't take as long as the first one I got back. You know I have to type it for my portfolio, Typing isn't bad it just getting feed back from your Professor. When I see a lot of writing on my essay I got scared and frustrated all at the same time because I have more work to do. We only have two more months left until the semester ends and I don't have to take English ever again. Thank god we don't have a English final. I don't know. I think I rather take a English final than writing essays. 

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          I just finished writing my second essay. It was an analytical essay. We needed at least one outside source and citied it. It had to be 700 words. I chose to write about the women in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Laura in "The Glass Menagerie". They both were obsessed by something. Even the article  I read the author had an obsession. Laura was obsessed by her glass animal sculptures. Every time something bad happen to her she would go to her sculptures. That made her feel safe and wanted. The women in "The Yellow Wallpaper" her obsession with the wallpaper made her go crazy. Everyone is obsessed with something in their lifetime. Some people take medicine because they an illness. Some make it an hobby.

          We just had our fall break. It was only two days off but it was nice being off. But I would never go to Virginia beach ever again. To many people and a lot of traffic. It was a very bad experience. It rained the whole time. But the cabin at KOA campground was great. It was 10 mins. away from the beach. In the summer time it would be nice because it looked like they had a lot of activities to do. But I will never go again.

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                All this week in English class we've been watching a movie called "The Glass Menagerie". The story we are also reading is called "The Glass Menagerie". It's about a family living in the 30's. A mother named Amanda, A brother named Tom and a sister named Laura. They live in poverty. The brother is the only one bring home any income. He works in a warehouse and makes about 65 dollars a month. Amanda wants Tom to find his sister Laura a man because she feels Laura is going to alone because she is very shy and not doing anything about her life. Laura is crippled. She walks with a limp. She's in her early 20's. But back than you get married or you had a name for yourself. Tom does bring a man home for Laura. She even knows him from High School. His name is Jim. Laura had a big crush on him in High School. But come to find out he has another lady friend named Betty. Laura was upset. I believe that Amanda the mother is afraid of what her children will become when she dies. I really liked the movie. It was a short movie. The book was the same way. Now we have to write an essay about it. This would be very interesting.

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             I finally finished writing my essay. It took awhile. One essay down three more to go. I wonder what the next essay is going to be. I didn't realize how much I could relate to the character in the story until I started writing. I felt really sorry for the character. I turned in my rough draft. Sweeney my English professor told us he will look over the rough drafts and give them back to us with changes. 
             English class is going well. Better than last semester. At least I have my best friend Tanya with me in class. Last semester was hard for me because I had to write three argumentative  essays in mla format. My final grade was an B.  I was really surprised because I thought I had failed. I would of been done taking English but the degree I want I had to take English 2. I don't know about you but I would of taking a butt beaten than another English class. I don't like English. It's not the professor. I really like Sweeney. Math is my subject.

             The only thing I have to before this semester ends is do an activity outside of class. I still have a couple of months. I'll figure it out.

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         I finally figured out how to write my character analysis essay. The rough drafted is due Monday, Sept.23. The story I picked is "The Yellow Wallpaper" because the character in the story felt trapped within herself. Battling her own demons to be set free. I'm a mother of three, a wife, a full time job and a part time student. I juggle a lot of stuff. I barely have time to myself. I feel like my body is being pulled every which way. Just like the character in the story. But the difference between me and the character is I haven't snapped yet. I felt really bad for the character at the end of the story because you don't know what happens to her when she locks herself in the room. Her husband tries to get her out but she don't want to come out. I want to believe she battle her own demons because back in the day people didn't understand what was going on with people. They just called them crazy and they really won't crazy.

          The rest of the stories we read I couldn't relate to. A lot of stories I didn't understand. I mean I read them. I just couldn't comprehend them. We read seven stories so far.

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      Hello everyone. It's time to start blogging again for English class. We have to post ten blogs and write four essays. The essays have to be 500 words which that's a plus because last semester the essays had to be 1500. Since this English class is intro to literature our essays have to be a character analysis. Which means the short stories we read you should be able to relate to one character and write about how you relate to the character. I've read four short stories so far and the only story I can somewhat relate to is called The Yellow Wallpaper. Basically their was a women and a husband who spent time in a summer home. The women believed that the house was haunted by a women that was trapped in the wallpaper in the nursery. Which in reality she was going through a lot of problems her self  and used the wallpaper as an excuse not realizing she could of being the one in the wallpaper because when living in this summer home she really couldn't go out and do anything. She felt trapped in her own life. At the end of the story she locks herself in the nursery trying to help another women escape from the wallpaper. You never find out what happens next. I don't know if she killed herself or helped herself. I understand where she is coming from to a point because sometimes I feel trapped and all I want to do is escape for awhile. Not all the time. Everyone gets overwhelmed from time to time. It's all depends how you handle the situation. Does anyone feel like that sometimes?