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 I am very thankful for God, family, friends, and sports. I am thankful for God because of everything he has provided for me and the bible and all those teachings. I am thankful for my family because of everything they have sacrificed for me and that goes for friends too. I am thankful for sports to get me where I am today and to get my mind off stuff and help me focus and become more disciplined. Today in class today we took an illuminate test about poems which I thought I did pretty well. I learned how to analyze questions better to narrow down the right answer. 

 A truth that I could not accept is when I tore my meniscus really badly and it was right before the quarterfinals state match and the team needed me to beat the team but the surgeon said I couldn’t play in it. I was devastated and couldn’t believe it that I would have to go through it again. Because that last year around that time I messed up the OCD tenden in my knee an had to wait forever for it to heal. The team ended up losing 2-3 and I was pissed, never going to forget that. Today we did any missing work or made up bloggers. So defiently a pretty light day. 

 An adventure I would love to go on is to travel the world and climb really tough mountains that are dangerous and fun. Because I want to see how many I can complete and see the beauty of them. It’s crazy how God made them all and made them and different in their own ways. Today we did another poem and annotated it with the group and answered the topic, theme, and messages. I learned how to again, learn how to understand what the author is showing or teaching. 

 Something that I completely don’t understand is how people created the internet and devices and being able to call other people from around the world. Like before anything was built and it was just the earth with the elements and nothing else. And then humans start developing and make better and better stuff until they have very smart guys work hard to create WiFi and service and all of those useful things that they created from scratch to create a whole new future. Today we read and annotated a poem and filled a sheet with topic, theme, and message. I learned more about how to see whether something is a lesson and what to learn from these poems about lives and how you should live.

 I was walking on the street and these homeless people came up and were asking for money, there were other people there being mean to them and telling them to get off the streets and to get a job. I didn’t believe that was right or kind at all and when I went over there to give this guy some money there was a kid there also which was very surprising and sad. When I gave the homeless guy the money and he went to go get some sandwich. He brought it back and kindly gave it to the kid which I don’t even think he knew the kid, but that very much surprised me and was unexpected.  Today in class today we talked more about poems and the meaning of all the lines. Then we had to make slideshows about how beauty doesn't last forever.

 A feeling that I have had that took my be surprise is when me and my brother in a tennis match were down 5-0 in the deciding set. Then we went and talked to our coach on the changeover and she said “what are yall doing” I need you to win 5 games here and I need you to play confident”. Usually me and chase play very confident and have big shots but it wasn’t going our way this match. But after some more time of playing we got back into a rhythm and both pumped each other up and we kept winning games and hitting winners until we won the match at 7-5, and after that match we went crazy and were surprised at how well we thrived under the pressure and made a comeback. Today in class we did a poem sheet where we annotated it and answered questions. I thought it was useful and I learn a new thing about poems and how to solve the deeper meaning or understand it better every time we go over them.

Today, William and I worked on our paper for the ambush short story. We had to write and decorate a bunch of different things, but it was chill. A time when I felt completely lost is when I was at a theme park and I was with this group of kids for like a field trip for a volunteering thing and I didnt really like the kids I was with and they were doing stuff I didn’t want to do and they just were kids who I didn’t respect or want to associate myself with so I was going on by myself and I was pretty lonely and felt very lost and I actually did get lost from the group too, but it was nice that I wasn’t with them but I felt bad in the head being with those kids and being alone. I think thinking back about this I could’ve been more of a leader and say some stuff was wrong and I definelty have learned from the experience.

 A place that I never wanted to leave was a beach house in Clearwater with my whole family. It was the perfect vacation right on the ocean with my whole family and my mom’s side of the family. We played beach volleyball, grilled and surfed all day. It was very fun and eventful with all the cousins and competitions we would do. We also took a boat out to some islands which was a sweet setting. For today’s lesson in class we had a paper to do about a story. But today I worked on a missing test that I needed to complete. It made me learn that I need to read the questions more before answering and trying to see how the wording is put and how to answer according to that. I could use this test to help me with speed for other tests that I do because I finished the questions pretty fast. 

 Wednesday we did an newsela assignment about reading about how to recycle shoes so that they can have another life after using them. We had to answer question while reading, then take a quiz after, then write a paragraph expanding it and the structure of the paragraphs in the passage. 

 Absent today.