Dear Bully

This week I read Dear Bully written by Megan Kelly Hall and Carrie Jones. This book is about 70 people telling their experiences with bullying. It tells all of the different point of views, victim, bully, and by standers. This book was really good and it was really interesting. I never was not interested in the book. Overall this book was really good and I would definitely recommend it.

9/11

9/11

The first impact

the people below screaming

yelling, crying, running

families searching for their loved ones

parts of the building flying onto the streets

the pounding in my head

sirens, chaos

people trying to run away from the burning building

the second impact

the shock

twice the chaos, twice the families, twice the deaths

burning down buildings

the ash filling lunges

The two buildings that used to stand tall

torn apart

Ode to Traveling

Ode to Traveling

Rolling suitcases up the elevators

Watching bags go through security

Stepping through the gate to get on the plane

The moment of taking off

When your stomach feels like it is inside out

Flying above the clouds 

but not feeling like your moving

the small ding of the seat belt

telling you that you are free

Then the final descent and seeing the first glimpse

Getting off the plane and experiencing the blow of different weather

Looking at the difference 

between where you came from and the place

The smells, all different from each other

Exploring new streets and cities

Tasting new foods

all different flavors

Totally different scenarios 

from unlike anything you have ever seen

Traveling, Living, and Experiencing the world

Haiku Poems

The waves crashing down
Remind me of the storm
The sunshine is gone

Together they lay
The two different colors
Only touched my one

Running down the field
Waiting for the pass to come
Straight into the goal

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Hannah Baker committed suicide. Clay Jensen gets a box full of old cassette tapes from Hannah. On these tapes she tells the thirteen reasons of why she swallowed the pills that killed her. Each person on the tapes must past to the next person. The book goes through the story of Clay's reaction to the tapes. This book was fiction and really well written. It is a really interesting book because there is always something new and a twist even if you do not know the people. Overall I would definitely recommend this book.

TBR: The Martian

Camping

The doorbell rings and we run downstairs. We open the door and after we grab the tent. Just like Logan taught us we take out the stakes, poles, and lay out the tent. The poles lay across and we hook everything onto them. It is beginning to look like a real tent, but getting the stakes into the ground is difficult. The ground is hard and there is nothing to bang them in with, so we have to put our whole body weight into it. When everything is finished we go biking to the park and come back just before the sun starts to go down. While dinner is cooked, we set up the tent with sleeping bags, blankets, jackets, games, and enough food to last us days. For dinner we eat hobo stew and set out candles to eat in the dark. Then the classic smores. We pile into the tent and begin to play games. After we have eaten until we cannot sit up we turn out the flashlights and have the classic game of truth or dare, then just talk. People leave the tent to do a quick, just to make sure. Thats when I heard a scream.

Outliers

Over the week before spring break and the week of spring break I finally read the book Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell. This book is non-fiction and Malcolm Gladwell tells about some of the reasons of people success. For example he talks about how being born in a certain month or year can affect a persons success. This book was so interesting, normally I do not like non-fiction book because they are sometimes boring and confusing. I think that this book was the total opposite. I was intrigued to read throughout the whole book and I wanted to constantly read more of it. Overall this book was amazing and I would definitely recommend it.

To Be Read List: The Martian