Author: Sofi G

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.