end of the week- conclusion

I am tired.

School again tomorrow.

Finals coming up- this semester only 3 (thank the Lord)

phonology test on wednesday- JOY!

paper due wednesday- another JOY!

20 hrs of work :)

busy and busy again

I am so excited just a few days ago I got to talk online with my brother-cousin.
I am very happy form him because he finally got himself a girlfriend.
She sounds like a nice girl. She is special to him. The most interesting part
is that she is older than him, and in the past he only used to date younger girls,
but as long as he is happy that's fine with me and by the way he is sure we will
see each other this time over the summer. We better. I dare him to go away.

Buying and having so many books at home sometimes just makes you lose track of what you already read and what you should still read. Yes, exactly that's what gets me frustrated the most. I was happy to start this book that I thought I never read it before. I was almost halfway through it when I realized that I know some parts already it. At first Ithought maybe I saw a movie based on this book but when I took a look in my notebook when I write down every single book that I read I just noticed that I was done with this book in May 2007. So this is how I have to keep track by just writing down what I already read what I still have to read it. That's the est way to organize it if you are such a bookworm like me.

Anyways, today was such a great day. I got to talk with my cousin-brother. Yes that's how I call him. He is my very first cousin and I call him brother and he calls me a sister. One time I said to my grandma: "Why can't I have an older brother?" and she said: "You've already got one." (lol). I cant wait to see him this year in the summer. I didn t get to see him last time because he had to go to UK for his college credits but this year just one word- D E F I N I T E L Y .

Sometimes this blogger drives me nuts. Yesterday I have been typing my post for like three times and everytime I wanted to publish it there was an error. I know I havent been a very good blogger lately. I am trying to keep it up. Right now I am at the computer lab upstairs at the library. My speech presentation is in about an hour. I am reall freaking out because it is a group project and I dont wanna mess it up for the whole group.

Yesterday when I was doing my hw for READ 102-05 I was so shocked when I found out an answer to our question about relationship between USA and Afghanistan. It turns out that we are ALLIES. I was like taken aback. I hope it wasnt some span posted. Anyways we will discuss it in class today.

going crazy

this blog is beep. I am sorry about it but this is my third post and it doesnt want to get posted. I will try to write more tomorrow :)

Why these children? Why?

" Shootings, beheadings, burnings, and bombings: these awre all tools of imitation used by the Taliban and others to shut down hundreds of Afghanistan's public schools. To take aim at education is to make war on the government."

" As Zarmina scurried away, the men took a more studied aim at those they already had shot, killing Shukria with bullets to her stomach and heart."


I was very moved and shocked by this article. I think this article really made me think and oopen my eyes a little wider. It is just so unbeliavable to me what takes place in Afghanistan. Why are these children being punished for going to school and learning new stuff? I just don't get it. These Taliban people are not human beings. They are monsters or even worse than monsters if there is an appropriate word for it. What this article also made me realize is that every one of us should be happy where we live, which is US. We are living in a very safe place comparing to these Afghanistan people. Can you just imagine what they have to go through everyday. People are just being killed right in the streets. They are killing children. They have no mercy whatsovever. They are killing these poor children because they want to go to school. They want to get education in order to get a good job later on. Think about it. What can it be done to stop these nightmares?!

What an amazing movie. I know it may seem a little weird coming from 20yr old girl, but I still loved the movie even if its for kids ;-)

Bee Movie

Ulysses

Ulysses is considered to be a classic. Ok I understand that James Joyce has written something special, but I just don't get the point of this whole book. When I started reading I was lost right away after reading like 5 pages and guess what I love to read, but this special book just threw me right OFF. My cousin was right. You cannot just read some books. She read it in Polish and she still didnt get some parts. So can you just imagine I started to read it in English and it was still very confusing for me.

movie commentary- Kite Runner

Watching Kite Runner movie made me really think about the book. The Kite Runner movie is very, but very similar to the book. Some parts may be organized differently, but it is still the same plot. The movie shows a lot of great scenes taken from the book. The director really did a great job. I still think the rape scene was a little bit too graphic. I think that the director shouldn't do this scene at all having to do with how young these boys were. I am 100 percent sure that it was a very hard scene for these boys to film. The director should have totally skipped it. He skipped others parts, so what's wrong with skipping a rape scene. It was a great movie to watch. It had a lot of great pictures. I still have to say that reading a book is so much better than actually watching just a movie. A lot of lines were taken directly from the book, which is not really a big deal. The director made an amazing job. I also still think the movie should have started out differently. It should have started it with when they were young kids not just straight from the United States. It was really entertaining to watch. I also have to say that the part where Assef beats up Amir was also very graphic. It actually made me look away. Honestly, I cannot stand parts like this. I fully understand that the director wanted to show this part, but it should have been shown more kind of like you all probably know what I mean - not that graphic. All I have to say is that the movie was really great.

bialabials, labials, interdentals and bla bla

Yes, these words have been going around my brain for too long. How much more studying can I take?I Ugh ... I have a test on phonetics tomorrow. Thank god, I found a way to make it a lot easier. So, people if you take LNGN 210 do yourself a little favor and make a simple chart where you will just put like everything together for ex manner of articulation here and manner of place here lolz. I have been going nuts today. I even missed church to study all this. I hope that I will get a decent grade. More posts about Kite Runner coming up next ...

READ 102-05 FINAL

OUR READ 102-05 FINAL EXAM WILL BE ON MAY 8TH: 1:00 PM - 3:OO PM

*** FOR CLASSES WITH FIRST OR ONLY MEETING ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS AT 2:30 PM ***

an excellent response

Yes, I also think the police response to this threat has been excellent. This person, who did this, paralyzed our entire shool community should be punished and what I mean by punished means being expelled forever from our community. We shouldnt have to deal with such crazy people. It is just unbeliavable to me how can you be just that retarded. I hope that they will find this person and that person will be punished.

what a day

Two policeofficers checked my ID, which wasn't that scary because I was already prepared for it. Then, my math class was only like 30 min long because a lot of people was scared to show up. My second class speech was cancelled because there was no class before us and the prof didnt emailed us and guess what I have the last class. I am at the library now. I have nothing else to do it except to wait or my class then go home and do the middle draft for tomorrow. It is so hot. It must be like 60 something degrees outside. Police is everywhere. There was even a chopper filming us from channel 7. Police is even using quads to go around the campus, which I think is cool because my dad has a quad too and I know it is very fun to ride one.

Compare/Contrast

The Kite Runner starts out a lot differently than the book itself. It starts out when Amir is already married and is living in California. His younger life is shown as a flashback in the movie. It actually goes back and forth between his older life and his younger life. The things that are exactly the same in the movie are some of the lines that were directly taken from the book. The rape scene is exactly the same when Amir watches the whole thing and does nothing. It is just too graphic in the movie. Honestly, some things are still the same and some are different. It depends from what angle you are kind of looking at it. There is a Kite tournament. There is a time when Amir carved in the bark of the trees that they are Sultans of Kabul. Assef calls them ******* like he has done in the book. I have to admit there is a lot of similarities as well as differences. Obviously the director couldn't do every little detail to make the movie shorter. The movie is actually very good. I like the music that was used for the movie. It starts out very cool with this Hindu music in the background or rather Spanish. It is cool.

Hot Zone? Into the Wild? Night? OR KITE RUNNER!!!

Last semester in READ053 we have read three books: Hot Zone, Into the Wild and Night. Honestly, Hot Zone turned out to be kind of a gory book. Into the Wild came out to be perfect, I still haven't seen the movie but I am planning to. The Night happened to be very depressing having to do with the Holocaust, the execution of Jews. As you can see there is a lot of things that can be said about at least one book, but the main question is: WHAT ABOUT KITE RUNNER??

Yes, this semester we read Kite Runner. I would recommend this book to anyone. Kite Runner is a very special book. It talks about a lot of events that can take place in anyone's life. When my sister read Kite Runner she was very moved by this book and she is right. She said that Kite Runner is just this book that everyone has to read it because it is 100 percent worth it. There is a lot of issues going on.

I think the most important events of the book would be:
1) Hassan gets raped
2) Amir moves to the US with Baba
3) Amir gets married and his first book gets published
4) Amir gets a call from Rahim Khan- THERE IS A WAY TO BE GOOD AGAIN!
5) Amir finds Sohrab
6) He almost dies rescuing Sohrab from Assef, whe Assef beats him up
7) Sohrab tries to commit a suicide
8) Amir and Sohrab finally coming to the US
9) Sohrab stops talking
10) Amir still knows how to fly a kite - THE END

Why?

All of us attending MSU are paying a lot of money just to be here. All of a sudden there happens to be a threat that the safety of our school is in danger. How are we suppose to feel? Probably many of you heard over the news what happened at the other schools. There were students like us who just wanted to listen to a regular college lecture and they had to pay a huge price with their lives. They lost their lives because they wanted to be smart. They wanted one day to accomplish all of their goals and get a job and make a lot of money. They just wanted to experience how the college life really lools like. Most of them were my own age. Can you just believe how it makes the person feel when you wake up one day turn on the news and you hear that there has been a shooting at one of the colleges nationwide. Can you just imagine what would it feel like if it would happen at your own school? It is just unbeliavable. There is not enough words to express how I feel at this moment. Tomorrow due to this just one threat our college community will be secured with extra force, but the question is why? Why? Why there are people in this world who want to hurt others? Think about it.

God Bless You All. Be Safe Tomorrow.

Kite Runner

When you get toward more the end of the book it gets to be very interesting. I was so surprised when Sohrab tried to kill himself. This shy kid just goes like that and slashes his wrists. It was just unbeliavable. The part where Assef was trying to kill Amir was too graphic. When I was reading I actually felt like I was there. I still have like 5 more pages left to read lol. The book is very good.

Always remember to get your car fueled ;-)

Always remember to get your car fueled ;-)

one hell of an adventure

I and my two friends were finally happy getting out of work. When we got to my car and I turned it on I was like oh my god I forgot to get gas so we said all right then there is a gas station on our way home. I panicked of course because I still had to go to Garfield to drop my friend off and it was almost 10 pm. So we were like ok then off we go, but when we got there it was already closed. My friends told me dont panick there is two more on the way down but they were also closed. So we had to go all the way to Essex St in Hackensach to finally get it because they are open 24/7 there. Ok then we were so happy we will finally get it. The problems werent over yet. My thingy is kind of broken so I have to have a special key ok then I gave the guy a key. Few more seconds later he tells me the key doesnt work. I got so scared because maybe they broke it on the last gas station and I didnt know. Guess what instead of using this little FUEL KEY he was using my house key. We were laughing our asses off. I am glad we got safely home.

OMG!

Yes, exactly another OMG POST. When the class asked the GA assistant how were the midterm grades? He said most of them were in the high C's. Of course I panicked, but when I saw my grade I asked him if this is true because this was just such an unbeliavable experience for me. Guess what?! I got 97. Hahahaha!!!! A+! But this is just math103, which has more math history than problems in it , but it is still 40 percent of the final grade ulalalala. lol

Awakening

Yes, I am reading Awakening by Kate Chopin for one of my classes. At first the book seemed kind of boring for me. I finally started it on like the third try because I said to myself it is just messed up for me to read just summaries online. The book turns out to be very interesting. I still think Edna is a nutcase. She has these mood swings all the time. I am also reading Kite Runner. Yes, I WILL DEFINITELY FINISH IT BY MONDAY LOL WHOEVER IS READING MY BLOG FROM THE CLASS. I don't wish to writer 5-7 analysis paper based on why I haven't read the book. It is better watching a movie THAN writing a paper lol.

Carolina, Puerto Rico

Yes, there is a place in this world that has my name it but it is spelled with the C. It is located in Puerto Rico near San Juan. I just heard about it this past weekend ;-)

Boulder, Colorado- Ramsey murder case

The murder of J. Ramsey happened a long time ago, but last week one of the girls in my speech class gave a speech on beauty pageants. One of her examples was J. Ramsey. It is just unbeliavable that a little girl like J. Ramsey was murdered due to her participating in beauty pageants. When I read about how she was murdered I just couldn't take it anymore. There are crazy people out there. She moved with her parents from Georgia to Boulder, Colorado. I just don't think her parents did it like some of the people said.

I am really trying to catch up weith my blogging but recently I didn't have enough time. I am either spending my time driving, at school, or at work. Today I had a day off, but still I was in school all day long. I am glad that they didn't closed these two lanes on Route 46 again. Last time when they did this past wendnesday the traffic jam was so bad. These people just don't get it when they see the blinking arrow telling them that the lanes are being closed. They don't want you to change the stupid lane. Where am I suppose to go? If there is an utility work it is a common sense that one lane or more than one may be closed at this time and you have to let the people go.