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San Pasqual Academy Dragons Symbolism

The mascot of San Pasqual Academy is a Blue Dragon. Webster defines Dragon's as a mythical monster generally represented as a huge winged reptile with a crested head, often spouting fire. First, I would like to analyze mythical. Mythical is a word that describes stories that are symbolic. When, it comes to foster youth society has a lot of myths about us. For example, were just like any ordinary kids. We cry, laugh, have dreams, aspirations and we hope to make a difference in the world. Secondly, I'd like to explain the definition of monster. Monster is defined any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.  Although, we don't always make good choices and our behaviors are hard to understand, we still do want to be successful. Lastly, the spouting fire thing. We our youth with troubled childhoods  and can be angry. We have to deal with our past so we don't mess up our future. Dragons are very strong and frightening and being a foster youth, we have the choice to be powerful and make positive choices. If we make the wrong choices, we could continue down the negative path that brought us into the foster care system which would be frightening to our future. I am happy to be a dragon.

"Through the Tunnel" Foster Youth initiation

Even though they don’t have to swim through a tunnel like Jerry in “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, foster youth are initiated in and out of the foster care system. Foster children move different schools and don’t get their full education. Second, foster kids move from family to family and have to meet new people which can affect the way they bond or the way they treat people. Last but not least, when foster children age out of the system if they don’t have some kind of learning plan, they will be in deep trouble not being taught how to prepare for the real world. As a result of this initiation, students can learn about opportunities they can have outside of the foster care system.

Throught the Tunnel

I do not find it convincing that such a young boy would even have the to breath under water for that long. Also, taking the time to train his bodies within two days too do something that takes months or even years to do. After the first time his nose was bleeding, most kids would know that something is wrong and would stop whatever they are doing that caused this nose bleeding. I don’t think an 11 year olds mother would even allow their child to go out into the water alone whether they knew how to swim like a fish or not. If I was him I wouldn’t try to impress anyone just to have their attention. Maybe if he didn’t try to impress them he wouldn’t have known about the cave. This is how I feel about the story “Through the Tunnel”.

"Through the Tunnel" Prove Yourself Paragraph

A time I felt I needed to prove to myself by achieving something that was difficult and challenging was when I first started playing basketball my freshman year. I had to practice as hard as I could to get to where I am now. I watched the re-turners and I followed every step they took in a positive way. After all I got what I wanted, which was to become famous on the court. In the end of every game it feels good to hear how much my fans tell me that I’m so great at basketball. Now that I’ve reached my goal I want to help the new comers take my place and also share the fame that feels good to have on the basketball court.

House Symbols

This Volume button symbolizes our house which is Girls 9. To most people this item is just a volume button. To us, this represents people who can be loud and full of energy whenever you are down. Our house is very outgoing and out spoken. There is nothing you can do to stop us from saying what we have to say. I love this about my house because when it comes to right and wrong, either way we’ll get our point across.

Third Quarter Goals

      My greatest accomplishments of 2010 was being 2 points away from a 4.0 during the first quarter of the school year. I tried to at least get a 3.0 for Volleyball season which is what our coach required to play, but when I added up all my grades it made me 2 points away from somewhere I thought I'd never be.  I focused and studied hard and my goal was to try and have 2 A's.After I saw how close I was I thought positive to keep that GPA.

      My goal for this quarter is to keep a 3.0 GPA so that it makes my transcripts look good when I attend college.For me to achieve this I will complete my class and homework assingments everyday for each class. I will study hard to pass my test and finals I recieve. At last I will try to go to school everyday without missing as usual. This is my current goal.

Winter Break Narrative

My most memorable day was Christmas. Our overnight staff brought our presents and set them under the tree.I first woke up at about 6:45 a.m but we couldn’t open our presents until our  morning staff was on shift. Once the morning staff was in we got to open our presents. It was of the best day ever and I spent it with my boyfriend Marcus Bradshaw. Once the morning staff was in we got to open our presents. I  called him and I could tell that he was still in bed.When he answered the phone I told him to wake up and he replied “ I’m tierd”. I thought to myself " How can you be tired on Christmas, the best holiday ever”. I asked him to get up and tell me what he got and he could go back to sleep, but his presents weren’t there and he also had to wait to get them at 7. I let him go back to sleep and asked him if he could call me when he was fully awake to see what he got under the tree. I cleaned my room, showered, then hung out with Marcus, Tierra, Micheal, Andrew, Sharay and Ayron in boys 105 and watched them play Madden 11. By that time it’s dinner hour so my staff and I were invited to eat dinner at Girls 102. Debbie made very delicious food and I helped her clean up the kitchen. After, we had dessert which was ice cream and pumpkin pie. Tierra and I planned to watch movies while the boys went to go and play basketball. After all Tierra and I just decided to stay in the gym. I enjoyed Christmas this year because I had lot’s of friends to hang out with and it felt good to be around them.