A Letter to Myself

Juarez's World

118 Juarez's Classroom

Elyria Ohio 44052

June 2 2013

Samantha Torres, Student

Juarez's Minion

628 Lala Land Road

Elyria Ohio 440052

Dear Sammy:

I hope you remember struggling at writing this letter. Let us pray that it will turn out decent. Any-who, I hope you have graduated from Early College already! If not, I hope you are working on your way to graduating. Hopefully, you are doing well in your classes with at least a GPA of 3.0 and working on the classes towards your future career. STAY FOCUSED ON SCHOOL, but maintain your family and friends time! Never forget who you are for anyone else and remember that your education must come first.

Do not ever forget who has gotten and helped you to this point. Whether it be a small change or a big change, make sure they realize that you are thankful for them and everything they have done. Right now, writing this, you are surrounded in a room full of these people; never drift away from them. Remember family is the most important. They have and always will be there for you. No matter how much you argue with them, remember that they love you more than anyone else. Remember that they are always going to be proud of you as long as you do what is best for you. Maintain a stable relationship with them, as you have now, and spend most of your days with them while you can.

Remember she is always watching. Stay focused and make her proud because she will make sure that everything will go good in the end. Stay focused on your goals, and do not forget to visit her on your graduation day; make this a top priority. She has always been proud of you and loved you no matter what; nothing can change that. She will want you to remain positive; even throughout the toughest times. Stay focused on your goals, and you can achieve your dreams.

With much love,

Samantha Torres
Student at Early College

Extra Credit

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Forgiveness

I feel my heart throbbing,

Beat, Beat, Beat. 

My heart is filled with pain.

The betrayal was discrete. 

The constant lies,

Playing pretend,

Thinking I would not end our ties.

I thought we were friends.

I will not stand by,

This is now the end.

Til this day we do not speak,

You were my best friend.

We will meet, 

Once more. Until then,

I will cherish the memories,

before you were no longer my friend.

Now, I thank you.

I have become wiser; you have taught me a lesson.

Who knew?

Who believed this would be our outcome?

I am not regretful.

I loved everything you had done,

Until I knew the real you.

It was all fun,
And I forgive you.
Of course nothing can be undone,
But what good is it to hold a grudge?

Love and Compassion

What would life be without love or compassion? I believe the world would be filled with hatred and anger. Many people simply put up with the way others act because they love them. If I were to have a child who was very rude and insensitive to me and others, I would try to help them be more caring and compassionate because I would care enough about them to invest my time to help them be a better person. If there were no love or compassion in the world, I would not waste anytime on the child and not care about what they said or did. Without love or compassion, many of us would be alone from the very beginning of our lives.We may also stay alone because we would not have the patience to deal with others. Many of us make the time and patience to help others and deal with anything they do and continuously love them. Many people would be rude and care less about things such as animals, family, friends and nothing more than themselves. The world would be a selfish place and many things would fall apart. Jobs would not successfully get done and many people would be homeless. Love and compassion is a great impact on our society and without it, the world would be a much lesser place to live.

Rejection

Responsibility

      I have encountered many situations where I feel that the responsibility should be shared, although instead, it is put all on one person. An example of this would be when students work in group projects. In my experience, many issues have occurred where one student decides to do absolutely no work, and one or two students are left doing all the work. Although it was the responsibility of all of the students to finish and work on the project, one or two students may fail to do so. I personally believe that, in this case, it is the other student(s) responsibility to finish the project correctly so that that student will get the grade they deserve. This student should also mention to the teacher about how the other students failed to complete their part of the project. I do not believe leaving all the work to one student is fair, but it is also not right for none of the students to work on the project just because one student decided not to. The credit and grade the student receives should be rewarding and appropriate to the amount of work done by that student.

Science Fair

Every year at my middle school, we had to do a science fair project. The assignment was worth over half of our grade, and they had to be original (no volcanoes.) My mother never had the patience for any of my projects, therefore I mainly had to do these by myself for years. I would spend weeks on this project, trying to make my project perfect. At first, I would pick harder projects unknowingly. One of my first projects, in about the fourth, was on the reaction of a balloon that was filled with various liquids. Not only was this project messy, but it involved bringing many different items and balloons to school to perform in front of many. I was very nervous and spilled part of my project. After a couple of years, I figured out easier and less messy ideas for my project. These mainly involved the observations of my pets. The last project I did involved finding out which toy the different dogs preferred the most and why. Although these were difficult at first, I soon learned to make it easier on myself and have a better performance. With this, from the fifth grade to the eighth grade, I won either third or second place out of all the students in my school. From there, I also got to compete with other schools doing scinece fair projects. It was a fun and unique experience that I will never forget.