Reading Response

 This week we read chapters 6 and 7 of Nervous Conditions. In these two chapter the story really heats up. Nyasha and her father Babamakuru get into a physical fight. I liked theses two chapters because it really started to get interesting. I think part of the reason that Babamakuru got mad at his daughter is because she is representing him wherever she goes and he was getting worried about how people were viewing him as del as his daughter.
  Nyasha has always been a more of a rebellious character so when she started fighting back with him I wasn't surprised. Tambu learned a lot about victimization in this chapter, her views on it changed. She used to think it would only happen under certain circumstances but she now realizes that it is a universal thing and can happen to anyone anywhere, including her own home.

Service hours expeirence

      Yesterday I went to the Our Lady of the Lake hospital to complete some service hours while on break. While many would think this wouldn't be a very enjoyable experience, it actually wasn't all that bad. Usually when people come the hospital looking for service hours or volunteer work they are placed in the hospitals playroom. The playroom is for the younger patients in the hospital who are not contagious and who's condition is not too serious. As you would imagine, it is imperative to keep the playroom as clean as possible. Surprisingly there are many other jobs in the hospitals playroom that are actually kind of fun.
    Although the majority of the time we were cleaning board games and toys for the kids I was able to do other things as well. I got the opportunity to sit down and talk to a few kids that were in there. Most of the kids that come in the playroom are around 1-10 years old and even though some of them understand that they are in the hospital for whatever reason, they are still very positive and excited to try new things to get better. I really enjoyed the experience and getting to talk to these kids.

Reading Response and Research Paper

       This week we read chapters two and three of Nervous Conditions. The author Tsitsi has a very creative way of writing, she portrays her stories by going back and forth from past and present. Whenever she began the book, she began it by talking about the past when Sisi's brother died. You can tell that the narrator is telling this story from later on in her life, like she is telling the story form her past. I do like the was Tsitsi writes though, It gives the book different climaxes by transitioning form the past to the present in the story.

       This week we also turned in a draft of our research papers. I was really happy with my work, I thought I did a good job on it. I really liked how we did the peer review because I now will know what specific things I need to fix in my paper. Hopefully these comments will be very constructive and I will be able to really improve my paper. 

New Movies

     This weekend I went to see The Vow with my friends, although the movie itself was very good what caught my attention the most was the previews. One of the previews was for a movie called The Lucky One. This movie was originally a book written by Nicholas Sparks after watching the trailer I realized how familiar it looked to me. That's when I realized I actually read the book much earlier this summer.
    Usually when books are turned into movies just from the trailers you can tell that the movie will not be as enjoyable as the book is. To my surprise, this trailer really did capture the main events in the book so that for those who have read the book, you could actually tell what the movie was trying to portraying. The Lucky One is one of the best books I've ever read it is clever, captivating, and relatable. I am very excited for this movie to come to theaters because I'm sure the movie will be just as great as the book.

Reading Response

      This week in english we bean to read our new book Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. So far in the book the main character Sisi Tambu has described her daily life, her family. She gives descriptions of her family and her relationship with certain people. She mainly focuses on talking about her brother. She begins the chapter by saying "I was not sorry when my brother died."
      Just from reading the first chapter you can characterize that Sisi is a hard worker, she cares a lot about her little sisters. You can also tell that she and her brother don't have a very good relationship even though neither of them treat each other poorly. Even though she doesn't really like her brother you can tell she feels bad from when she says " I could not cold- bloodedly inform my sisters that I had been thinking of how much I dislike our brother. I felt guilty about it." Just form this quote you can infer that she has a good heart because she feels guilty about not liking her brother.

Research Paper

      Right now school is becoming increasingly stressful, in all of my classes I have a project or something complicated. What I have been focusing on the most lately is my research paper. Since this paper counts for two different classes I have been putting extra effort into making this a really good paper. Everyone got to choose their own topics and those topics were different things that were issues in America and also other countries.
     I chose to do my research paper on abortion because it is something that has been a debatable topic for many years now in America and other countries as well. Although this topic wasn't something I was very happy to have to research about, I actually found out some pretty interesting things. Abortion not only is a problem in the U.S. it is also a debatable topic in other places like China, Asia, and parts of India. I also learned how much more common abortion has become but I also learned that there are more and more different ways people are taking actions to prevent this form continuing.