When we got to the first decent the trouble started, i had just landed out from the lift and everything was great, but when i got closer to starting going down i fell down, i went with a big group but the only person that stayed with me was lorea, lorea stayed with me the hole entire time, the first decent i easily fall down 3 times, when it was time to get down the second decent, i started panicking, i easily was up in the mountain for 2 hours, i cried form stress anxiety and pressure to wanted to get down that mountain, Lorea was the best teacher and friend i could ask for in that moments, she stud with me for the hole entire time, giving me hopes, and tips on how to get down, after this day of skiing i thought im never going to be good at skiing but i started thinking it was my fisrt time, obvsiously it was going to be hard but the next time i go skiing i can practive again and then get a hold of it.
Author: Sofi G
PW#5 My first time skiing ptt1
I have been wanting to go skiing and touch the snow for as long as i can remember, it has always been my dream to make a snowman like in the movies, throw snowballs at my friends but most importantly be an amazing skier, And everyday since the school told us they where doing a skii trip i was so exited, i talked with my friends about how seeing and being on snow was my dream since forever, we made an agreement that we where all going to stick together all day, helping us out and having an amazing day together, when we first got there i wasn’t really that cold because all of the layers of clothes i had on, we arrived and first started to get all our gear and stuff ready, after maybe an hour we got all our stuff ready, my first impression of the ski clothes was horrible, the snow boots where ugly, and really painful to wear, they got us all starting n ready, an instructor got us ready, told us the basics hoe to put on the ski, hot to move, how to stop and how to turn, we started at a little mountain that was meant for kids and people who where just learning like me, because it was a little mountain and i dominate it quickly i thought i was ready to go on a. bigger mountain, the mountains are separated by color, the green being the most easy one, the blue ones follow and then the black ones, the most difficult and steep ones. we went to a green one and thought it was going to be easy but when i started to get it down i rolled, fell and hit my head various times, since that had already happened at my first time at a real mountain i was really scared to tried it again, but we went there for skiing so i had to try to do it again, the friend i was going with got confused and accidentally sent us to a blue mountain, i fell so many times, when we finally got down my friends wanted to keep going but i already wanted to go back and have a break, so i went back by myself, i was so tired, my legs had stoped working, but when i finally got there vi was relived because i finally got to sit down, half an hour passed and lorea and the friends she was skiing with came where i was, they told me they where going skiing only to green mountains and told me i f i wanted to go with them and since they had told me they where only going to green mountains, the “easy” ones i said yes, we got to the first mountain, and not even 5 seconds had passed and i had already fall down i was so embarrased because they where there to have fun skiing not to wait for me start learning how to even just stand, we where at the lift, the view was one of the most beautiful things ever, getting down of the lift the real “problems start to happend”
IRJE#4 My Fault
The book My fault is about how a teenage girl and her mom move to another place to live for her mother to marry the love of his life, the guy she is marrying is rich and lives in a mansion and is very exited welcoming the mother and her daughter Noah, Noah does not like the idea of moving from Toronto to LA and living her volleyball team, best friend and boyfriend behind, Once Noah arrived she met the guy her mother was marrying and his son, her soon to be stepbrother, at first they hate each other, but little by little they start to have feeling for each other even though they say they cant stand each other., but they see imposible for them to be together because of the fact that they are step brothers.
seeing him hit me like a ton of bricks after those four days when id manage to more or less forget what had happend at the races and had tried to avoid thinking about him, and when i did think of him, i felt a strange, unpleasant sensation in my stomach.
This quotation’s meaning is that Noah is wanting to forget a mistake she made, she is trying to get past that, but at the very bottom she knows she did something wrong, she has the awareness of her mistake.
IRJE #3 The Boy in the Stripped Pijamas
The Boy in The Stripped Pijamas is a book thats based on world war II, where the an 8 year old living in Berlin to take residence near a concentration camp, witch his father was just going to be the commandant. Bruno was sad, he didn’t wanted to live his friends and house, Bruno alone at his home one day he looked at his window and saw the concentration camp but he didin’t know what was it, he wondered why the big chimneys smelled so bad and why was everyone wearing pijamas, one day he decided to go explore, he found the camp, bruno realized that near the fence was a boy, looking sad, but what bruno was most intrigued about was that he was wearing striped pijamas. he asked was his name was at first he was quiet and didn’t say a word but after time he told him his name Shmuel, Shmuel and Bruno became friends and every chance bruno had he went to see Shmuel.
“We’re not supposed to be friends, you and me. We’re meant to be enemies. Did you know that?” (p. #)
This quotation’s meaning is that Bruno and Shmuel are from different worlds, Shmuel was jewish and Bruno was the son of a Nazi, more specific the son of the concentration camp commandant. So Brunos dad is all against jewish people witch exactly Shmuel happens to be jewish, that is why Bruno bruno says they aren’t supposed to be friends they are men’t to be enemies, because all of the bad things brunos dad has told him about jewish people.
PW #3 Ballet
I have a love hate relationship with Ballet, i have been doing ballet since i was 4 years old. I have always loved the music, the beautiful costumes, everything. I have always seen ballet as a beautiful classic and elegant dance style, when i was little i always admire the big girls in my dance academy, for the recitals they used big tutus and point shoes, the point shoes where the thing that i was exited the most. Everything is easier at the beginning and keeps getting harder throughout you go forward to it, learning the dances, every move , the names of the song and exercises its very difficult, and its worse when you see the teacher as your biggest enemy, always pushing you harder to make more difficult things every time, compare you to other classmates, always making you feel less. Every time class got hard i wanted to quit but i remembered how beautiful the big girls dance with their point shoes and tutus, so i kept going, i pushed my self very hard, put in extra effort until i finally was at a level to get them, my first impression of them wasn’t that good because the first thing i had to do was sew every single ribbon onto the point shoe, it was very hard learning to sew, i pinched my self with the needle in various occasions, my fisrt time using them was horrible, so painful but the teacher said it was because it was the first time i was using them, and as time goes by ill shape them. i kept using them for 2 years and those where the worst years in ballet of my life, i went two classes a week 2 hours, it was so painful, having blisters every time, always being so tired, with muscular pain everywhere. so this June after after the recital i choose it was going to be my last ballet recital for a while.
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.