My book is starting off slow and there is alot going on so it is hard to keep up so when reading I have to focus really hard about what is going on and analyze the situation and put different parts together to make sense of it all.
While reading I think about past events that have happened and it helps me understand what is going on in the current event. It tends to jump from person to person and their story so I have keep track on who is saying what.
1 hr 45 min 48 pgs
Monday, August 27, 2012
In Defense Of Sleeping
Teens now tend to not get enough sleep and are not rested enough for their endeavors the next day. Teens tend to go to sleep later than they should to get the needed 9 hours of sleep a night. After school activities, homework, and friends are all contributors to this problem.
When kids get home from school, the typical teenager would go and sit on the couch and not start homework till later that night, but kids who participate in sports get home later and do the same thing so they get started even later. When you dont get enough sleep it makes it hard to participate in class the next day.
When kids get home from school, the typical teenager would go and sit on the couch and not start homework till later that night, but kids who participate in sports get home later and do the same thing so they get started even later. When you dont get enough sleep it makes it hard to participate in class the next day.
Monday, August 20, 2012
A Stolen Life by: Jaycee Dugard
This summer I read a book called "A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard. This book is an autobiography about Jaycee and how she was abducted at age 11 and held captive in the backyard of convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido for 18 years.
This book left a spot on my heart and in my mind because it was such a touching and real event. One day she was walking down the street and moments later she was in the back of a car with two strangers not knowing she wouldn't see her family for almost 20 years. As the years passed, Jaycee talks about how she felt while in the backyard, being able to see the outside world, but them not being able to see her; feeling almost invisible. At ages 14 and 16, Jaycee became the mother of two beautiful girls with Phillip as the father. She writes that they are the best thing that ever happened to her and that she wouldn't trade them for the world.
What makes Jaycee's case unique is that Phillip being a convicted sex offender, he was on parole. His parole officer and other law enforcement officers had visited the property and hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Jaycee just watching from behind closed doors felt helpless and trapped. On August 26, 2009 Jaycee was then returned to her family after being identified when she went to Phillip's parole office with him and the rest of the "family". After 18 years she was then allowed to speak her own name and was free to raise her children on her own.
Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in jail, and his wife Nancy, who also took part in the kidnapping, was sentenced from 36 years to life.
This book left a spot on my heart and in my mind because it was such a touching and real event. One day she was walking down the street and moments later she was in the back of a car with two strangers not knowing she wouldn't see her family for almost 20 years. As the years passed, Jaycee talks about how she felt while in the backyard, being able to see the outside world, but them not being able to see her; feeling almost invisible. At ages 14 and 16, Jaycee became the mother of two beautiful girls with Phillip as the father. She writes that they are the best thing that ever happened to her and that she wouldn't trade them for the world.
What makes Jaycee's case unique is that Phillip being a convicted sex offender, he was on parole. His parole officer and other law enforcement officers had visited the property and hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Jaycee just watching from behind closed doors felt helpless and trapped. On August 26, 2009 Jaycee was then returned to her family after being identified when she went to Phillip's parole office with him and the rest of the "family". After 18 years she was then allowed to speak her own name and was free to raise her children on her own.
Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in jail, and his wife Nancy, who also took part in the kidnapping, was sentenced from 36 years to life.
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Some call it camp, I call it paradise.
This summer I went to camp in Tuxedo, North Carolina for 5 weeks. The camp is called Green Cove and this was my sixth summer there. The first 5 years I went I was there for only 3 weeks and had a blast, but always came home wanting more! I had begged and begged my mom to let me go for the 5 week session, but she would always tell me that she would miss me too much and that she wanted me to go for only 3. Once I aged out for 3 week at 13 years old, I asked her for the last time if I could go for 5 weeks and she finally said yes!
One of my best friends Olivia and I had been going to camp together for the past 5 years and we decided to go together again. We applied for camp, got our plane tickets and we were off. We arrived at the entrance road of the camp and I was full of excitement! I jumped out of the car and ran to friends from years past and counselors that I had missed so much. I got my cabin placement and I was thrilled to find that my counselor was one that I had gotten really close to the year before! I ran to the cabin, set up my stuff, told my mom goodbye, and in that moment it hit me; I am finally here, finally at main camp!
As the session went by I was having a blast! I had gone on two 3 day biking trips, one climbing trip, and countless paddling trips. Olivia and I worked for 4 hard days to pass our tandem landings and in the end it was worth it. We went on a 3 day paddling trip on the Chatooga River in Tennessee, paddled the Tuckaseegee River, the Green River, and the Natahalla. All our hard work had payed off!
People say that camp is not for everyone, but I know that it is for me!
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