PW#4 Places I have been to

I actually have not been to a lot of places but I wish I could go to more places because I would love to travel to a lot of places. Some places I have already been to are places on México because I live there so like Cancun, CDMX, Guadalajara, Chapala, Vallarta, Tapalpa, and more. I also have gone to places in Canada like, Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler but I would love to see more places in Canada. The places I have gone in USA are like, Orlando, Florida, Hollywood, Seattle and more places but I would love to go to more places like New York, Paris, Italy, Madrid, Brazil, etc. Also I would like to do travel all Europe with my family, I actually wanted to do that for my 15 birthday but I didn’t do it instead I am going to go on a cruce ship with all my family, its a surprise so I don’t know the places I am going to but I wish they are places that I have not gone to. There are so more places I would like to go because I want to travel around the world, I want to visit places that are new to me and I want to see all the different culture people have. If I have the opportunity I will do those trips because is something that not many people do so having does experiences are really amazing.

IRJE #3- The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is set in the 1950s and is narrated by a young man, Holden Caufield. Holden makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment at a mental hospital after having had a rough life. Holden suffers from borderline personality disorder, which is a condition identified by an extended period of emotional irregularity. The events he narrates take place a few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas when he is sixteen years old.

“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You’re by no means alone on that score; you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.”  (p. 208-209)

This quotation is said by Mr. Antolini, who is the antagonist of the book and Holden’s former teacher. He explains this to Holden, saying he is not alone in his feeling of disgust for human behaviour, but many people have shared the same honesty about the culture they live in. Holden goes to Mr. Antonili because he feels he can trust and confide in his former teacher, however, this is the event that precipitates his breakdown. He is left unsettled and unsure.

 

PW#2: How Horse Riding Won My Heart

Horses are wonderful animals, I have had the opportunity to learn a lot from them over the last 7 years, now I am 14 years old, and I have been riding since I was 7 years old. I love  horses, horse riding is my favorite sport, I dedicate myself in showjumping, the highest I  have jumped is 1.20 meters, I train at the army riding school at Bogota, it is a very nice school with many jumping slopes. Horse riding won my heart since the day I started riding, being around horses makes me happy, when I ride my horse I forget about everything and it is the cure of everything, I have a unique connection with my horse, her name is Brissa, she is a black beautiful mare, I love spending time with her, she loves award treats specially apples and carrot, she is a very calm mare that won my heart since the first day I met her, I have learned a lot from her, learning new thing by her side makes me really happy. Horse riding is the sport I want to dedicate myself to all my life, I think is a very beautiful sport when is done correctly since it demonstrates the great level of love and connection with such beautiful animals.

PW#4 Places I want to go to

There are a lot of places I want to go to. I really want to visit Australia because my parents lived there for two years, they said it was so much fun and they loved it. They tell us a lot of stories about it and it sounds so fun. I specifically want to visit Melbourne because that’s were my parents lived. I also want to go to Sydney and penguin island. I want to go to the beach there because it is a good place to surf. I want to visit India, I want to go to the Taj Mahal and ride camels and elephants. I really want to go to Greece it is probably my dream destination I think it is really pretty. I also want to go to Bali. I want to go backpacking through Asia like my parents did, they tell us crazy stories about that too. I want to go to Japan specially, my parents said I would like it. I would like to visit Europe again too. There are a lot more places I want to visit.

Pw#1 Places that I want to visit

Some of the places that I want to visit are Italy, France, and London. I am interested in visiting Italy because of their style of clothing and architecture. Another thing that I want to eat in Italy are the pastas and also the gelato. I would like to visit France because of some monumental places like the Eiffel Tower, the museums, and also to see some art. The other thing I would like to do is see the profiles of the fashion brands. What I want to do in France is eat the croissants and hot chocolate. I want to visit London because of the stores, some monuments, and some other things.

Pw#4 : The golf course

Last weekend I went to play golf to Olympic View with Mia Mishell, Sofi, and Eva. First we wait for Mia and Eva because they were not ready to go. We wait for them like 1 hour. Next we go to the stop, and we cannot take the bus because it has already left. The next stop is going to arrive like in an hour, so we decide to take an Uber. We wait for the Uber like have an hour, and when the Uber finally arrives, the surprise is that it was all dirty with Cheetos in the floor with a nasty smell. When we were like 100 meters away from arriving, the Uber told us that he was going to charge us more money, so we tell him to stop and leave us in an hour so we decide to take an Uber we wait the Uber like have an hour and when the Uber finely arrive the surprise was that It was all dirty with Cheetos in the floor with a nasty smell, When we were like a 100m to arriving the Uber tell us that he was going to charge us more money so we tell him to stop and leave us in. the road, then we walk like 15m to get to the golf course, so we enter the golf shop to make the reservation, and they give us the reservation for the golf course at 2:18pm, and it was 1:20, so we went to eat at the club restaurant. I ordered pasta and a crème Brulé, and when we finished, we went to play some holes. In the first one I didn’t hit the ball correctly, so I tried another time, and the second one was better; the second one I hit the ball perfectly. We played 4 holes because we needed to come back before 6 p.m. because at that hour was our curfew to stay in the street, so we waited for the Uber to come. This one took like 15 minutes to arrive at the course and get us to the school.

PW#1: Why I Want To Be a Doctor

I still remember and my parents always remember me that since I was a little kid my biggest dream when I a grew up, was to be a doctor, throughout my life I have always admired the entire area of science, specially biology. I feel that is one of my biggest qualities, one of the things I like the most and I am good at doing them. And thats why I feel I why I feel I will be a great doctor, and just not in knowledge because I admire doctors every day because they put a lot of effort and study into their career and how they put our lives before theirs. I have the intentions to help people through my knowledge and be willing to do everything in my power to help someone else life and give happiness and hope to people. I would like to specialize in cardiology or neurosurgery, I know that is a difficult career and is not for everyone, but I want to put all the possible effort to one day be the doctor I have always dreamed to be, and with all my effort and my knowledge, make a difference in the world and make a good impact


		
	

My cinnamon roll recepie – PW#4

PW#4 My cinnamon roll recipe

There’s something about the smell of cinnamon rolls that makes me feel the Christmas spirit which is why they are one of my favorite seasonal desserts. although you can make them many times in the year I believe there is nothing better than enjoying a warm cinnamon roll on a snowy day, My favourite recipe has been one that I have used since I was little and it has become a tradition of mine to make these each year.

I start by mixing 1 cup of warm milk with an instant yeast packet and 1/2 cup of sugar. As the yeast begins to bloom, I add two large eggs and then a third cup of softened butter. once together I mix them all together and slowly incorporate 4 cups of flour. once the ingredients are done mixing you should be left with a thick soft dough that will not stick to your hands, I then leave the dough to rest for a few minutes and knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic this will help with the rising process, once kneaded I place my dough into a bowl and cover it with a kitchen cloth to rise for 1 to 2 hours so it will double in size this is a crucial step in order to make the dough fluffy and ready to be placed in the oven. once I see that the dough has risen to the top of the bowl I roll it out on a floured surface until flat and this is when my favourite step comes, preparing the warm cinnamon sugar for the filling.
For my filling, I melt half a cup of butter and stir in 1 cup of brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon this is one of my favourite steps as I remember myself making this recipe with my cousins when I was younger and stealing tastes of the spread when as I would mix. I always get brought back to these moments in my childhood kitchen because the smell of the brown sugar butter cinnamon mixture is so fragrant it fills the air and is the same exact smell that would fill the room as I would make this recipe years before. once done I carefully spread the filling onto the now flattened dough and roll it inwards, once done I carefully slice the dough into circles and place it on a pan layered with parchment paper. once placed in the oven I set the heat to 375°F and this is where the most difficult time begins as you have to wait for the cinnamon rolls to bake. As I look into the oven I remember me along with my cousins lined up in front of the oven door watching as the dough turns into a beautiful golden colour which is exactly when you know to take them out! once out of the oven, I bring out my cream cheese frosting which is optional as the cinnamon rolls taste good either way. as I said before I love to pair these rolls with a cup of milk and a snowy scenery but my favorite definitely has to be surrounded by my kitchen table in Mexico during Christmas time along with my family years ago.

PW #4 – King Pickle

Once upon a time, there was a pickle. The pickle was the king of all the land. He was brave, fearless, and salty. He lived in a castle that was maintained by fairies. In his realm, there were fairies, orcs, unicorns, the king pickle, and dragons. However, it was always chaotic because the unicorns and fairies were always being chased by the orcs who wanted to eat them. But the orcs were also always being chased by the dragons. one day as King Pickle looked down from his castle he came up with a great idea. He would separate all of the creatures by their species. He would have the unicorns live around the castles with his fairies taking care of them both protected by the brick walls. At the next layer there where the orc always causing mischief. In the last layer were the dragons. Nobody disagreed with the kings’ proposal because it meant that they would not have to live in the shadow of the predators. However, this meant that he could not go out himself. For if he did the unicorns would eat him in a heartbeat. But it worked and everything was at peace.

– 7 years later –

As King Pickle was on his deathbed and his son was yet to be crowned a terrible thing happened. The dragons chose to attack at his one moment of weakness. This drove the orcs crazy and they crashed the brick wall to escape. However, seeing the unicorns un able to run put them in a frenzy. They where blinded and even forgot about the dragon. The dragons set fire to the grass which caught the castle on fire in an instant. King pickle was helpless. All he could do was watch as his peaceful times went up in flames. But soon he couldn’t even do that.

PW#4 basketball game

It was a Tuesday and we were facing agents champions black the team that we played in our last tournament. The game was at SJ Willis at  8:00pm. once I got there I stretched and changed for the game. Then the game started and it was pretty close both of our teams didn’t go down by many points and the champions team had two very good players there was a kid with the number 13 and he was very good he made like have of the points for his team. There was also a short kid I forgot his number but he made a lot of threes. The game continued and when the first half ended it was tied I forgot the score but I know that it was tied. Then the second half started and It was still tied for the rest of the game and then with like 4 minutes left in the game the champions scored 4 points witch gave them a lead of 42 to 38. Then we had one of players core a very good basket and it was a 2 point game with 1 minute left. Then we had one of our players go in for a layup and he got fouled but missed the shot so he had two shots to tie the game and he made both of them. there was still one minute left so we didn’t have time to celebrate and we gave our hardest defense and we were able to stop the champions from scoring but they also did not let us score to. So the game ended with a draw with a final score of 42 to 42. That was my game agents champions last week.

PW# 4 – Why I like Friday’s

Fridays are probably one of my favorite days of the week, from it being the last day of school to the motivative feeling I get when I wake up in the morning. Its weird only on Fridays I fell super motivated to do my work. Around 99% of the time after school on Fridays I meet up with my cousin Kiyanah in the lobby, then we walk to Pilgrims Coffee. I always get a unsweetened matcha and she gets a chai latte. After that we walk to the cemetery and pass through a little short cut to the top of a hill. I enjoy talking with her, we talk about everything. We end up around the shell gas station, and keep walking up until we reach my grandmas house. When we get there my grandmas dog is aways really exited to see us. We usually try to do homework until 7:00, but almost every time get distracted by laughing or doing tik tok dances. When the rest of my family shows up for ” Family dinner” which we do every Friday! I get to see my family and eat my grandparent food!! This is why I like Friday.

PW #4

I don’t like staying home, I like having plans and going out and walking around and being out with people. I have a friend Savana she goes to royal bay and she’s my bsf and every Friday she busses over here and I meet her on the bus and go back to mine. we go everywhere its a nice way to end off the week like last week we went to mine then thrifting and to the dollar store by the hospital, we went all the way back to her house in royal bay to have a movie night. we went back to mine in the morning to meet up with my boyfriend and our bestie marshal and we just hangout at mine for a while. she’s on of those people who u kinda just click with when u meet them and a person you dont have to try to get them to be a good friend or someone who is there just to make things harder on you but wants to be there to be a biggie or wants to do side quests to the other side of town for no reason. she’s very fun to hangout with I love Savana

PW#4 = Bruno Mars; The Day I Went to his Concert, Why Is He My Favorite Artist &; His Impactful Meaning On Me

Throughout my life, I´ve been to a few concerts like Guns n´ Roses, U2, etc. But my favorite of all time was Bruno Mars. It was the best night of my life, I have lots of words to describe it like; amazing, well-organized, incredible, out of this world, extremely well-performed, etc. I went to that concert with a friend in Mexico named Sofía. I remember that say as if it was yesterday, I woke up so excited, Sofía arrived to my house and we got ready together, we had matching clothes inspired on Bruno Mars´ 24K Magic video, my dad took us to the stadium where the concert was going to take place, while being there, I could feel the adrenaline in me before the show started, when seeing everything we got crazy, we bought matching hoodies and matching sweatshirts. The concert started a little late, it was supposed to start at 20:00 but it started at 20:32, I remember that because I started to make bets with Sof to see at what time the concert would start, I said 20:27 and she said 20:32 and she was right!! She is a witch!! When it started I just shouted and sang the entire night. I LOVED IT!! I need to mention that since I was young, I have been a huge fan of Bruno Mars. All of his songs are so heart touching. I cannot decide which one is my favorite so I am going to give my top 5: Grenade, Locked Out of Heaven, When I Was Your Man, Perm and Count On Me. Each of the songs have a very special meaning to me, an example could be Count On Me; before leaving Mexico, my friends made a surprise party to me to say goodbye one last time and made a video that included millions of photos and videos of us together with that song, it made me cry but still reassured me that I can always count on them.

PW#4- The 50s-70s

I have always loved the 50s-70s, specifically the late 50s. My sister always loved them, so naturally, I started to like them, too. The music and fashion style are my absolute favourites. I love the vintage charm and classic elegance. The 50s radiate a blend of glamour and simplicity. Of course, the 50s weren’t anywhere near perfect, but I still find this decade endearing with the polka dot dresses, beautiful hairstyles, and red lipstick. One of my favourite movies is based in the late 50s-60s! “Priscilla” is about Priscilla Presley, Elvis Presley’s ex-wife. Not to mention, this movie is written by my favourite director, Sofia Coppola. I also love Elvis’s music, especially since my grandma and I would always watch “Blue Hawaii” together when I was younger, so his music gives me some nostalgia, of course, to an extent since he died long before I was born. For me, the 50s sound more magical and alive. Phones didn’t exist, which would probably solve most of my problems. Another thing is Audrey Hepburn. I love all of her work, and she inspires me so much. I loved her in “Roman Holiday” and the iconic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.

PW #4 – When I went to The Scarlet Tour

In November of 2023, I went to Doja Cat’s Scarlet tour.

A month before the tour started I told my parents I really wanted to go, but it wasn’t a big priority for me because I had school. One Wednesday morning my dad casually told me he bought tickets for me, him, and my mom 2 days prior to the concert and I was so happy!

We flew to Vegas on Thursday night, and got there at 11pm. The next day was the concert, we mainly spent the day shopping and walking on The Strip before it was time for the concert. We took an Uber back to our hotel, got dressed, and walked to the T-Mobile Arena which was across from our hotel. By the time we got there the merch booth had just opened so we bought merch we wanted. We lined up to get our seats, and we waited until it started.

The concert was so fun, the energy was so hype, everybody was jumping and knew the lyrics to the songs. I was screaming every song and by the time the concert was over my voice was gone. To this day I am so grateful to have gone because it was definitely one of the best experiences of my life.

“Our Town” Personal Response

In my opinion I didn’t enjoyed this play a lot because at first it was a bit weird  when they acted without things like for example when they were eating there was no plate of food it was imaginary another thing is that the narrator could talk to the actors but also narrate  the story and also be a character at the same time. Also the narrator reminded us continually that the play was not real . In a part were I got really confuse was when the dead people in the story were sitting on chair and were talking to each other at first I didn’t get it but the I understood what was happening . It is not the kind of story or play I would watched and read personally I preferred something more interesting in some parts I got really bored the part I think it was the most interesting and sad was when suddenly they told us that Emily had died when she was giving birth I think and that she wanted to go back to the past so she  went back to her 12 birthday but then she regretted it and started crying and she wanted to go back.

My Personal Response to “Our Town”

I really enjoyed reading and watching Our Town, the story was kind of hard to follow at first, but the more I started to read the book the easier it got. Watching the play and seeing the characters use their imagination while using props was interesting, and showed that anybody can write and direct a play without spending lots of money on props for different scenes. The Stage Manager would come in from scene to scene, preventing me from deepening my thoughts about the characters and their lives. Wilder made Grover’s Corners feel like it’s our town by giving us an clear view into the lives of the Gibbs and Webb family. The story and play both showed how people grow, fall in love, and eventually die by saying that Wally died from an appendix burst at camp, and showing us how George and Emily grew to falling inlove with eachother, and having Emily die due to childbirth.

Many things change in the book such as, George, Emily, and even Grover’s Corner, by the end of the book the Stage Manager tells us about how people lock their doors now, considering a breach of safety and trust in the citizens of Grover’s Corner.

By the end of the story and play, Emily realized that she took life for granted, and squandered life when she had it. After watching, it even had me thinking about life and why we should make the best of every day that we are here on earth, because we never know when it’s going to be our last.

Personal Response for “Our Town”

This play is called Our Town and is written by Thorton Wilder. I really enjoyed this play, and I am happy that I got the opportunity to read and watch this play. I personally do not think that before I read it, if this book was on a shelf with many other books, this one would not have been my first pick. This book has so much emotion and is very realistic. It also has a narrator which helps you not get trapped into the play, by simply reminding you that it is just a play. A quote that really made me feel the emotions and made me think about them is a quote said by Emily Gibbs,

Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I’m dead. You’re a grandmother, Mama. I married George Gibbs, Mama. Wally’s dead, too. Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it – don’t you remember? But, just for a moment now we’re all together. Mama, just for a moment we’re happy. Let’s look at one another.

When Emily said this quote, she knew her mother couldn’t hear her, she knew she had passed and that she never truly just stopped and looked around. I think that is one think I have noticed in my life. We live in such a busy world, that we hardly ever get a chance to just stop and apreciate everything that we have , everyone that we have. I found it very sad that she now notices everything she did not notice before. She noticed how fast that morning went by, she noticed how young her parents looked. Time is such a valuable thing, because the truth is, you have no idea how much time you have, or how much time others have. Things can change in an instant, in the blink of an eye. Sometimes it is better to not blink, in hopes that you wont miss anything. You cannot slow down time, you cannot go back in time, or into the future. Use your time wisely, and wait things out. Good things take time.

In conclusion, this play really did make me think about things, it made me think about life. It made me dig deep and realize that we only really have one life. This play is very well written, and I would reccomend it to some people, maybe it could impact their outlook on life.

PW #4 – What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

When I grow up I want to be something in the legal system or the medial field. I wanted to be in the medical field but now I think that the medical field might not be good for me. I really want to have my own business, and since I want to be in the legal profession I could own my own law firm. I think I would like to do intellectual property and copyrights, with the copyrights I would like to specialize in science and medical sides of it. Because I am interested in the medical field, if I do the medical and science based copyrights this will point towards both my career interests. I would like to get my bachelors degree in biomedical sciences and/or biochemistry, and my masters degree in business and/or science field.  if I own my own firm I would like to have people who work there that specialize in the other sides of intellectual property. As well as being an IP lawyer, I would like to travel as much as I can, even traveling for work conferences to cool places.

PW #4 – How I Got Hit by a Car – Pt.3

I don’t remember anything about being in an ambulance or getting transported to the hospital, but I know I was awake, because the doctors told my mom I was awake the whole time, so I must not be able to remember because of the concussion. This is not very good because that means that someday, the memories will all come flooding back, and I will be forced to remember every thought and feeling that went through my head when I got hit, when I was laying on the ground in the forest, and when i was getting transported and put into a bed in the hospital. Anyway, the next thing I remember is waking up in a crowded hospital room, I think it was the trauma bay, with my dad’s, brother’s, and sister’s face looking at me. My brother and sister give me three words to remember, to help with memory. I can’t remember what they are its been a while, but I know one of them was dinosaur. I think I remember being talked to by one of the trauma doctors, but I don’t know what he was saying. I then got transported into a different room to wait for a different doctor. The doctor came, I can’t exactly remember what we talked about, and then I got transported into a ward.

Pw #4

This week all I did was clean I also had a soccer game where we won 2-0 I’m also writing this during a power outage. On Friday I went to the movie theater with a friend and watched Venom, it was pretty fun and we sat in the back of the theater, he got us popcorn and got us the ticket we played air hockey and he walked me to my car and I gave him a pat on the back saying he’s an excellent friend, I went back home and had 3 new messages from him saying that he had an entertaining evening and that we should do it again sometime and I agreed, before we went to the theater we bought matching pj’s and sushi, we also bought boba and had it on the way there. that was my week and we might hang out this Saturday. 

The Testaments – IRJE #2

The Testaments is the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale book written by Margaret Atwood, it takes place years after the events in the first book and focuses on the downfall of the society of Gilead. The story is told from the perspectives of three different women, Aunt Lydia,  a powerful member of Gilead’s government who helped shape gileads regime years before, Agnes Jemima, a young girl raised in Gilead who is being forced into an arranged marriage, and Daisy, a teenager living in Canada who learns the truth about her past and connection to Gilead. Through these three perspectives, we see many events take place, such as the creation of Gilead, the present daily life of the women and residents of Gilead, and the many plot twists and storylines which all connect together in the end including past events that happened in the previous book the handmaid’s tale.

“Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.” – Aunt Lydia,”

The Testament This quote stood out to me because it explains how all the characters Aunt Lydia, Agnes, and Daisy are shaped and controlled by the secrets they do or don’t know.

PR on Our Town

Our town was a nice play. I enjoyed reading it, and even more, watching it. I would recommend this book for the next class because it is very interesting. I will give it a 7.5. The ending was a bit sad and depressing. But overall, it was a nice story. The plot was thought out pretty well for a play as old as this one. The actors added to the vibes as the bodied their roles perfectly switching tones exactly when they needed to and their body language also seasoned the acting too.

I would change the house layout. We didn’t really get to feel that it was a house because it was just a couple pieces of furniture in the middle of an open stage. Although we could use our imagination to see the actual intended lay out of the houses, it would have helped to have a couple walls surrounding it.

I would not change the actors, as they played a key role to the delivery of the lines and the display of expressions shown by the characters they played. The acting couldn’t have been much better that it was and that is the reason i wouldn’t change it.

Once again, I recommend it, especially the actual play, and critical thinking is needed to completely understand it.

Our Town personal response – By Archie

I found that Our town was a great book/play to read and watch. I liked how the actors used imaginary props, it made things much easier to imagine and envision in your head. Another aspect of the story was the meaning at the end about how people take even the smallest things for granted, this really makes you think about how much more things you should appreciate and be happy about in life. I liked how the town was very calm and everyone knew what was going on, it gave the place a more sense of a community. I enjoyed seeing what life was like back in the 1890-1900’s and the way people interacted, it’s way different then now. My favourite thing about the book is that it had a play to it. After you read the book and pictured the story in your own head, you got to see what it was like from the perspective of acting and this completely changed everything. If I could pick a next class book I would pick any book which had a series of movies to it or a play to it so that we can watch the show/movie/play and read the book. This was my favourite book so far out of the 3 that we have read so far (Master and Man and The Story of Joseph) I rate it an 8.5 out of 10.

”Our Town ” Personal Response

In Our Town by Thornton Wilder, we see some emotions in the act. This is a play that if it wasn’t of Mr.MacKnight I will never know about it. In my opinion, this is not my kind of book that I would rather read. I didn’t like this play because I don’t really like to read them, I prefer to read other things more interesting. The only part I enjoyed was that I got to sleep like two times, watching the movie. Although I’m Mexican and my English is not good, For me, this play is like about 3.2 stars. In this play I see some feelings as love, happiness, when the story progresses the story becomes more intense. One of the parts I like were the part when she gets merry.

Personal Writing #1 introduce myself

My name is Sofia Gradilla Najar,  but i dont like being called sofia i like sofi. im from Guadalajara Mexico, my first lenguage is spanish, but i have been learning english since i was 3 years old. in my family we are 5 including me, my mom, my dad, my sister and my brother, my sister is 11 years old and my brother is 6.  my hoobies are, painting, talking, laughing, playing golf, dance. my biggest fear are spiders and beign alone, if i would ask any person that knows me to describe me i think they would say im a caring person, with a big heart, i care a bout people feelings an thoughts.  my favorite season is winter, my grandfathers are some of the most important people in my life, I care a lot about my friends and I wouldn’t want to lose any of them. i want to make the most out of this year, i want to make a lot of friends, live new expiriences, make incredible memories and for all of that to live in my heart forever. When I go back to Mexico I will be very sad beacuse I wont see most of my friends again, but I wish I will keep every single one I can.

Personal Response on Our Town

Our town by Thorton Wilder was an interesting story. One of the things I liked about this story was how they were able to make a play out of very little props. I like this because it made me focus more on the play that what would have been going on around if there had been more prop. What I found interesting how the stage manager was multiple characters in the story. This was interesting in this story particularly because the stage manager was kind of like a character that could see the audience and interact with them. Another thing I like about this play is that even without all the action that we see in movies today they were still able to make it interesting by adding other small features like what is happening in the town and the jobs of other characters. One of the parts I found was interesting was how the stage manager tells us how some people die. At the start of the book he tells us that Mrs. Gibbs dies from pneumonia. I did not like this because whenever I saw Mrs. Gibbs I knew she was going to die later in the story. It also spoils the surprise of finding out she dies. I liked the play more then the book because it helped me get a picture of what the characters look like and a better sense of what is happening. But overall I like this story.

Personals response to our town by Thornton wilder.

To me the book our town by Thornton Wilder was not that good. It was pretty boring for the whole play and there wasn’t anything exciting happening in any of the acts. When I was watching the end the play I thought that it was weird that there were talking ghost in the end. They could have at least made them standing instead of them sitting in chairs. I did like gorges character though only because he plays baseball which is one of my favorite sports and he was said to be a very good Picher and I am a very good Picher to. I was surprised when Emily died in the third act. I did not think that she was going to die at all in the 9 year time skip. I thought that they were going to have a big fight and break up like I was not suspecting her to die at all. I did like the life lesson about being more mindful and thankful about life because most people in the world just don’t really care about how special life really is and how you should be thankful to have it. I would probably not read the book ever again. That is my personal response on our town by Thornton Wilder.

Our Town Response

Diego

MY personal response to our town

I thought that the book Our town was pretty good i enjoyed that the book was talking about a play and a story at the same time for example in the book they had a stage manager and a Narrator and a stage that they would keep talking about however at the same time there is a actually story line like any other book has. The book was very simple and easy to follow it doesn’t take a lot of thought to understand which is nice to read when your tired or when you want to calm yourself. There was still a nice plot twist at the end which was surprising and sad i felt that the plot twist added a nice surprising touch to it and made the book a lot more interesting. Our town as a movie i also really enjoyed i liked reading in the book and then watching what i just read on a tv it makes it so much easier to really picture and understand what’s going on. Overall i really enjoyed this book and it is my favorite out of the other English books we have read this year i would rate it a 8.5 out of ten.

PR to Our Town – Rachel

I found Our Town to be a meaningful play, even though I had mixed opinions about it while reading it. Initially, I felt the story lacked action as I tend to read stories with storylines and plots focused on drama and tension and many plot twists which resulted in me often waiting for something more significant to happen in the story.  However, as I continued reading, I became more engaged with the lives of the characters especially when events such as the wedding of Goerg and Emely took place As their storylines began to combine. something I also enjoyed was the use of foreshadowing from the narrator or just from the character’s actions. However, I found the ending is what really changed my mind about the book, as it left a strong impact on me. During the funeral scene, we discover that Emily has died and the story shifts, we see two perspectives those who have passed and the living, And that’s when I realized that the reason the book’s beginning focuses on the resident’s ordinary life is because is due to the foreshadowing that nobody appreciates the simple, ordinary life until it’s gone. we can see this in the end when Emily realizes all the things she is saying goodbye to. “Goodbye to clocks ticking….and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths….and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you are too wonderful for anybody to realize.” Overall, I thought Our Town was a good book, but it was the ending that made the book more interesting.