Boxes of Sand

When I was a kid, I would love to come home from school every day and to get out of the boring building. I would come home, eat a snack, and then go outside. I always loved when I could go outside because that meant I could play in my homemade sand box. I loved playing in my sandbox. My sandbox had a lot of toys and the best thing about it was that my sandbox had a built-in crane. I would always lift up all of the sand with the crane and bury the toys. Then I would search for the toys in the sand and bash the toys together and I would break a lot of them. The toys were really fun to play with but I liked my sandbox but I like my sandbox for other things as well.

I really like playing in my sandbox and mostly in the summer. I liked the sandbox in the summer because all of the sand was really warm. I could bury myself in the sand and it would make you feel so good. It felt like being in a hot tub but it was a sand box. It was one of the greatest feelings that I have ever felt. I would still play with the toys but the sand being warm was the best part.

I guess there were three things that I did not like about the sandbox. One was that the sand would get into your pants and it would not come out no matter how many times you shook the pants out. The sand was very irritating and I would have to go inside if too much sand found its way into my pants. I had to be careful that the sand would not end up in my pants. The only other things that I did not like about my sandbox were when it was raining outside and when the weather was cool. When it was rainy, the sandbox would flood and when the weather was cool, the sand was cool and it was not fun to play with. After it rained, the rain would make the sand clump into a ball and it wasn’t fun anymore. I didn’t like it when the weather was cold either because it makes your body cold. I don’t know if it makes me weird, but I like warm over cold.

The Big Fish

There were many strange things going on one day in my life.

I woke up that day and went up the stairs to find 4 animals running all over my house. They had chewed up the furniture, ate all of our food, and broke many things. I walked into the kitchen and my wife was screaming for everyone to clean up. She was going to make breakfast but soon she realized that the animals had devoured all of the food. She told me to get rid of the creatures so I did. Every time I did get rid of them, they came back. It seemed like I could not get rid of them. My wife and I had to get to work so we took the animals and put them into a building that would tame the creatures.

After I finally left my house, I went to my work. I was working fine and then my phone had rang. The tamer I had left the creatures with was calling to say that the animals were too vicious and that they were getting in too much trouble. I had to leave work and go get the animals even though I did not want to see them at the time. I walked into the calming clinic and everything was tore up. The furniture was all scratch and there was food everywhere. I took the animals and I let them outside again because I did not want to deal with them but I had too. After work, I walked into my house to be surprised by the 4 animals inside my house and they had eaten all of my food again. I had to get rid of them but wherever I put them, they would find a way to get back into the house.

My house was practically ruined by these creatures. I decided that they could live with us. Every time they did not listen, I would punish them. Eventually, the animals had learned their lesson and were behaving more. I realized how to deal with the evil animals and they seemed to not be so bad after all. They turned out to be very responsible and they weren't ruining our house anymore.

China Renews Opposition to Iran Sanctions

China is hurting themselves by not going into sanctions with Iran.

With China opposing Iran sanctions, Iran will not act. Right now, China thinks that Iran is harmless and is using the enrichment plants for “A peaceful use of nuclear energy,” according to China’s foreign minister Yang Jiechi. But Iran was caught with underground uranium plants out of nowhere. To make matter worse, Iran had just announced that they have make nuclear weapons. Now Iran’s enemies are in trouble (Israel for example). If Iran does harm a country, other countries will be angry at China for not acting with Iran and China would have some consequences. But if China does help, Iran could have their nuclear plants shutdown.

China could also support the Iran sanctions and doing that would help China and the world out. China is allies with Iran so if China supports the sanctions, they would get Iran to act and to realize how much controversy that they are causing in the world. Iran would get their nuclear power enriched by the U.S. and Russia. The U.N. could shut down the underground plants and Iran’s nuclear weapons would be gone.

Some people might think that China should continue to not support sanctions because China won’t be able to change Iran’s mind. They might think the Iran will continue to make the weapons anyway. But, with the power of China added to the U.N., the U.N. would be more powerful and could shut down the power plants and could bring the nuclear weapons in Iran to a stop

My favorite English class I have ever had in 9th grade

In Global Ed. English, I learned many things that I did not know.

For instance, I learned that I can actually be a good writer. In the beginning of the year, I wrote three papers and got 2 D’s and a C. But after being told that I needed to develop my papers and I needed a focal point about a million times, I finally got the idea. I took a couple months but I got a C+ which was above average. Then we started to write a blog every week and that helped me out to get used to writing papers. Since the blogs, I’ve amazingly got only B’s and A-‘s on my papers. From the beginning of the year, I thought that I would drop the class and it would be a very long semester. It still is hard but I have gotten the hang of things and I am a much better writer now.

Another thing I learned was how to take notes. I just figured notes were writing down things that I thought were interesting. I was right but there was way more to it. From the beginning we margin noted a lot which is pretty much like highlighting with some writing in the margins. That was boring but sort of easy. The notes that really bothered me were Q.C.V.I.’s (Questions, Connections, vocabulary, and Interesting/Important facts). First taking them, they were easy to me except for the connections because I could find a way to connect with the stories in many ways. We always had to do 5 of each and one day, Mr. Fielder changed it to 2 questions and 2 connections. I was happy but he said the questions had to be discussion and the connections had to be developed. Now the connections were easier but discussion questions were hard to find. I eventually got the hang of it though.

The third thing that I learned was that there is a lot more to capitalization than and the beginnings of the sentences and proper nouns. There turned out to be many properties of capitalization that I didn’t know about. I then got the capitalization thing and after you understood it, you understood it well. Or so you thought. We had a pop quiz on capitalization and I blew through it but it turned out that I got a lot wrong. I had more wrong than I had right and I didn’t know what was going on. We got another packet and we had to practically memorize the rules. After studying the rules of capitalization, we took a third test on it and I did pretty well on the third test.

After the capitalization, I learned something yet again, How to research on the computer. Yes, I know researching sounds like the easiest thing to do in school, but when you have Mr. Fielder, that is a whole different story (in a good way). He made you look for a source and he had to check it. I only had a bad source once so the researching was pretty easy for me but without learning what a credible source would be, I would have probably just picked the first topic I saw. But then we had to search stories for our topic on South Africa. I thought like it would be the Rwanda articles (the articles that were easy to find). It was for the first two I found. I googled the topic, printed it out, and he checked it. But then I couldn’t find any more that he would okay so I kept looking. It took a while but I finally got Mr. Fielder to check a third article.

What we spent most of the semester on were foreign countries. The foreign countries we studied were Australia, then Rwanda, and then South Africa. I used the things that I learned to learn about these foreign countries. We read a novel about Australian Aborigines called Walkabout and watched a movie called Rabbit Proof Fence. We had to write a paper comparing the two and because of the writing skills I learned, I was able to do a good job on the paper. Then for Rwanda, that was the most difficult for me because there was so much going on in the genocide of Rwanda that I was confused. But the movie Hotel Rwanda helped me get a better understanding of what was going on. And we last learned about South Africa. This was probably the easiest for me to understand because it was semi-modern day and the only time that there was too much going on was the Anglo-Boer war. But research helped me understand the topic more. I understood my topic, which was the first and second decade of freedom but the movie Invictus helped me understand it more. My learning help me learn even more in this class.

The Native I would be

If I was a native to any country we have learned about, I would be a native to Australia.

I would be an Aborigine of Australia because of the fact that they were not brutally murdered and because they still live today after being the longest existing tribe in the world. They have been around for about 50,000 years and they are still around. The Aborigines being around for 50,000 years is one reason that I would be an Aborigine. Most natives from countries don’t last even a hundred and they have lasted more than 500 times that amount. They have lasted longer than your great X5,000 grandparents and they were treated poorly by the British and almost eliminated their culture. Another reason I would be an Aborigine is that they stand out from the rest that they have an ancient culture in a modern time. They have passed on their cultures for all those generations. That makes it seem like the Aborigines are a very strong group of people and care a lot about their culture. They seem dedicated and strong so that is something I like about them.


Some people would argue that the Aborigines were treated more poorly than other countries and that they would rather be some other country. First of all, it is their opinion and they can think what they want. I still think that being an Aborigine is the safest bet. Looking at how both the Tutsis and Hutus were slaughtered. Native Americans were kicked out further and further to the west then some were slaves while others were killed. In South Africa, the people were forced out of their homes and moved north. Yes, some Aborigines were killed and were forced out of their homes but not nearly as much as other countries and they were able to stand up for their culture and their land and are still around today. Natives Rwandans have only been around for about 200 years, Native Americans are barely seen anywhere now, and South Africans were never heard of again so Aborigines are the most successful because they are still around. Rwandans and Native Americans are also around but have not been around anywhere close to 50,000 years.

Ouch, Yay, Dang!

Today I walked into 4th hour English and my legs were hurting really bad. They were hurting from baseball conditioning on Wednesday. I could barely walk. Every step I took, my calves would feel like they were about to tear open. Then I finally sat down and immediately after, Mr. Fielder said that we were going down to the computer lab. My legs were just starting to get better and we had to get up again. On a scale from 1 to 10 they hurt a 9 and I had to walk down to the computer lab. It was outrageous. So I got up and my legs started to burn right away and we walked down the hall into the preschool hall. Then we went into a very warm place for once and probably the computer lab with the worst computers. The only thing good about getting up and walking again into the computer lab was that the computer lab was warm.

I was actually partially excited about being in the worst computer lab in the school because of the fact that it was warm and outside, the temperature with the wind chill was about 3 degrees. I sat down in a corner surrounded by computers. I was squeezed by computers to my left and right but right behind me there was a computer too. There were so many computers in such a little area. Then it took a long time for the computer to start up but when it finally did I had to go onto the internet and I knew that something bad was going to happen. It took about 10 minutes for me to get comfortable in my chair and for the computer to get onto the internet. I also had to find where to plug my mouse into the computer and I had to adjust my monitor and keyboard and slant them so I had a comfortable position. It is still sort of uncomfortable because my hand was practically hanging off of the table. I had finally fixed it and then, the bell rang to go to lunch. I was so mad that I took that much time to fix my computer and then I had to get up and walk again. And of course, my legs continued to hurt and I had to walk to lunch and all the way back and tried to finish what I started in the computer lab.

The Genocide

I think that the genocide did not have to happen and since it did, it could’ve been stopped.

The genocide didn’t have to happen because the Hutu president made the MRND who started it. The MRND went right to work and blamed the Tutsi for killing the Hutu president. They made a radio station that convinced the Hutus and the Interahamwe that the Tutsis were going to invade so the Interahamwe were told to kill the Tutsis, so like any other military would, they followed directions. Everyone blames the Interahamwe for killing people but they don’t know the real story. So Juvenal Habirayama (The Hutu President) and the MRND are to blame.

It also could’ve been stopped by the U.S. The U.S. did absolutely nothing about it. They knew the genocide was going on and they didn’t do anything because they just got finished with a similar problem in Somalia. They said that they were too busy and that they didn’t have time to work in Rwanda. If they would’ve actually done something in Rwanda, they could’ve made a huge difference. At that time, they had the best military and could’ve stopped the genocide fairly easily. But they did nothing.