Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?

I think a lot of adults, including teachers, don’t really understand what young adults are thinking. In my opinion, some of adults think that I am not taking things very seriously. Maybe I seem like if I am some kind of crazy person. However, the truth is there are many things that surround me in school, at home, at anywhere. I take those things seriously, but parents or even teachers don’t realize that. Sometimes teachers seem like if they know who I am but you can’t say that what you see is the truth about me. I can have problems and thoughts going on in my head non stop. These things drive me crazy.

I can say same thing about friends too. The friends look like if they understand me, but they don’t understand as much as they think. So parents or teachers would not think that huge thoughts are going on in my world. I think your friends would not expect that too even though they may be having same thoughts going on in their world. What I am saying is that I think no one -even your friends- won’t think that there are huge things going on in me. If people of same age cannot understand me, then it is very hard to let parents and teachers understand me. They have had days that they have problems, but they seem to forgotten about all the things that happened before. They also had same things going on like I do right now, but what they do is forget about things that they did when they were my age and say things like “You should not do that.”

However, you can say that grownups sometimes understand us more than anything. Sometimes parents or teachers understand us better than ourselves. That is maybe they still remember similar situation that they had even though they forgot almost everything that they did. This sounds weird, because I said that parents and teachers have forgotten everything they did. While this seems true to me, I also think that they have not forgotten every single situation that they had.

Meanwhile, I can have friends who understand me because they have same situation. I think that doesn’t happen that often, but id it did, that is great. Then I am able to solve problem with those friends. On the other hand, I can have possibilities of having friends who had experienced situation that I have right now.

Therefore, it is very hard say that “no one would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young person.” Some adult will remember few or more things that they did in the past. My friends can be in the same situation or was in the same situation. If you look around and talk to people close to you, maybe there will be parents, teachers or friends that understand you. So overall, I agree with Anne but at the same time, I have my opinion that someone can understand or think that a lot of things are going on in young person’s soul.

Hurricane Noel attacked in the 2001 hurricane season. It started at November 4 and end at November 8. Hurricane Noel went to west of the Azores, southeast of Newfoundland. Then the storm turned to the northeast and went into the Atlantic Ocean on November 8. High wave caused damage, but overall damage was minor, and no casualties were reported.
 

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There are links about Anne Frank, World War II, and Adolf Hitler.

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I re-read diary of Saturday 7^th November (page 43-46) again at home. When I started to read what Anne wrote in her diary, I thought sometimes same thing happens to me too. I have a younger sister and if she started to read my book without permission like Anne, I will be very angry like Anne’s sister, Margot. It is same for my sister too. If I started to read my sister’s book without permission, she will be angry like me. When Anne’s father said “I’d like to see what you’d say if Margot ever started looking at one of your books,” I agreed with her father. As I said at the beginning, I would be annoyed by my sister if I were in same situation. That can also happen to my sister, but I can also agree with Anne who thought “It wasn’t right of Daddy to judge without knowing what the squabble was about.” It is not fair to person or people who were punished. I don’t think people like to be judged without knowing what happened. 

I can also see similarity in us, my sister and me, Anne and her sister. Anne says “We are exact opposites in everything” and I think my sister and I are exact opposite too. Sometimes we are similar, but most of the time we are opposite. Anne also says “so naturally we are bound to run up against each other.” It seems to be same that siblings almost always run up against each other. My sister and I almost always run up to each other. 

I disagree with Anne when she talks about her mother and being her own mother. In that part, Anne says “I have in my mind’s eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be,” but I don’t think Anne or her mother can be “perfect” and I don’t think that anyone can be the mother or wife that many people imagine. Anne also says “I want to see good side of her and to seek in myself what I cannot find in her.” I say that it is impossible to just look at people’s good side, and just forget about bad side. There is always good side and bad side facing each other like you looking yourself in the mirror. 

I thought that a lot of adult decide teenagers just looking at our appearance to others. I think a lot of people doesn’t look at inside; they just think that inside is same as outside, the appearance to others. I think that is why Anne says “One day Anne is so sensible and is allowed to know everything; and the next day I hear that Anne is just a silly little goat who doesn’t know anything at all and imagines that she’d learned a wonderful lot from books” in her entry on November 7^th 1942. I am not sure if adults near me say things like that, but I think it is true that adults say a lot of thing like that. There are thoughts about “I am not baby” in my mind if adults say thing like “You are silly little goat who doesn’t know anything.” However, on the other side, there are some thoughts like “maybe they are worrying about me” or “maybe it is important thing to know” in my mind. Overall, I agree with Anne for most of the things, but there are few things that I can’t agree with her.

In my English class, we started to read The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. In the book, Anne mentions about which items she packed in one school bag. Imagine yourself in situation like this. What would you bring with you? You don’t know where you are going. If I am in this situation, first thing that I will put are some photos or album, because I think photos or albums are the greatest thing that reminds you with those memories that you have forgotten. The second thing that I will put is notebooks. These are for me to write or draw anything. These will be used for anything like diary, sketchbook, etc. I will also put pens too, so I can write in my notebooks. The next things that I will put are books. There are about 4 and more books that I love. These books will be used to read if I feel bored. I will also want to bring camera to take pictures. I will put my watch too, because my watch is something that my mother bought for me in
Singapore and I don’t want to forget about it. Sixth thing that I will bring will be necklace that my friend gave to me. She is my close friend that I can trust her very much. Seventh things that I am going to bring are my teddy bears, because they are very important to me. The last thing that I will bring will be most favorite magazine that I bought. I will bring that magazine because in the magazine, there will be things that I love and it can always remind what those things looked like so that I won’t forget. These are all the things that I will bring, and things that are very important to me.

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Courageous means trying something that is very difficult, dangerous and frightening thing to me. In the dictionary, I think the meaning will be something like being brave or showing courage, but I believe that courageous means more than that. However, in my opinion any one can be a courageous person. The reason is because to me, going into haunted house is a very difficult, dangerous, and frightening thing to do even if it is easy and boring thing to do to other person. If I am going into haunted house, that means I am being a courageous person. To be courageous can also mean sitting alone in the room, having fear about death, it can be anything. I think facing to something that is very difficult equals to you are being courageous. These are all my opinion about meanings of courageous so I think everyone has different opinions or beliefs about it. Overall, I think courageous means to try and face something that is very difficult, dangerous, and frightening.

In my English class, I had a project about the Lord of the Flies. There were several choices of what my class and I can do. I chose to create a T-shirt. When I was creating a T-shirt, I was a Self-directed learner because I demonstrated competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills. I can demonstrate competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills, by planning how I am going to finish my project on time. In the other English lesson, our class started to read book called the Lord of the Flies before this project. For reading book, I wasn’t being Critical thinker but I think I need to be a critical thinker, because if I were a critical thinker, I was building meaning and understanding using prior knowledge and new information. However, I wasn’t building meaning and understanding using prior knowledge and new information, because even though I had problems about understanding the story, I didn’t use any knowledge that I have or information that I learn.

In my own words, this means that I am managing time to finish my assignment and organize other assignments that I received from other classes, so I don’t have to rush in the last minute. I had a piece of writing that was attached to my T-shirt, so that represents what I mean. By finishing my writing on time, I organized assignments and finished it on time. Next time when I am doing project like this, I will read and check what you need in order to finish the project. The reason is because I had a trouble with the supplies that I needed. I had to get fabric paint, but I wasn’t very clear about getting it, so I accidentally used my permanent marker. However, even though I wasn’t clear, I didn’t ask question about fabric paint, so I should have asked and check if you must use fabric paint and where you can get it. If I read the assignment sheet and asked question quickly, I didn’t had any problem about making T-shirt. If I can make T-shirt once again, I will do things that I said like read and check information about the project, ask if you have any problems or questions, and make sure I have finished the project correctly. Finishing my project on time shows that I was being a self-directed learner, and I was able to demonstrated competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills.

However, even though I was beings self-directed learner for my project, I was not an Effective Communicator in the first class meeting that my class did before we started to read Lord of the Flies. During this meeting, I was not a student that listened respectfully and asked questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight. The reason why is because I was listening, but not the whole time, and I did not try to communicate with other people to get everyone involved in this meeting. To me, this ESLR means to communicate with others to trade information and listen to people and ask question so that everyone keep communicating with each other. From all the things that I said, I can be a self-directed learner but I can’t be an effective communicator.

Overall, even though I had problems creating the T-shirt, I felt I was average for preparing and creating T-shirt, because I finished the project on time. I also presented in the class on time, and I was prepared enough to make the T-shirt except for the fabric paint. I think I did well on T-shirt itself. For ESLRs, I think self-directed learner will go along with the project, because if I was not self-directed learner, I couldn’t finish this project on time. However, I think critical thinker goes well with project because if I can’t think critically, I think I could not think any creative ideas about T-shirt.

In my own words, this means that I use my knowledge and new information that I get from teacher, and solve problem. However, I didn’t try to solve problems using my knowledge or new information. I also didn’t use any information that was given in class, and I didn’t ask any questions teachers or friends to understand things that I could not understand. This book included a lot of difficult vocabulary, and it was confusing. I think I should have used my prior knowledge and new information so I can understand. I also think I should have connected to something in my real life when I read some interesting chapters or scenes so that I could get better understanding about the chapters or scenes and get new ideas from that chapter or scene.

Next time when I read book in the English class, if I don’t understand something, I will ask question or use any source to understand things in books. If I am going to read a book that has a lot of difficult vocabulary and if the book is confusing, I will try to do things that I said like connect to my own real life, use my prior knowledge, use new information, and get new information from other people. I think if I had used prior knowledge and use new information, I had better understanding and I think I did better on other assignments related to this book.

Overall, I felt I was doing badly in understanding information about the story. However, I had fun reading book so I kept up with reading even though I was moving house and I couldn’t keep up with everyone in my class one time. So I think I was doing fine with reading book except for understanding the story. From this experience, I will try to understand with next book.

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