How do seasons affect you?

The temperature affects my mood. Like in spring I feel a little drowsy cause of the rain and the humidity. In the summer happy, because of the sunshine and the hot day with ice cream. Fall I feel free and loosely because it is warm and the weather and humidity is no too bad. In the winter I feel good and comfy cause when I rap myself in blankets it feels warm and that there are no more mosquitos since it's to cold. So of all the seasons I refer fall cause it's just the right ind of weather that I like. Some people like summer however I don't like it that much cause it gets too hot and then I get tanned and I hate it when it is like that. So season affect me by the weather, humidity and the temperature. However it seem like that I don't like spring, but in spring we can see cherry blossoms which are pretty, so I guess nature affects me too.

Whom do you feel closest to?

I feel closest to my family and friends and also my sister. My friends I can tell what I feel about them and that they may give their opinion and also we can talk about stuff that sometimes my family doesn't understand. My family they care for me when I get hurt whether physically or mentally. I wish that there can be a person that is a mixture of my friends and family. I also feel close to my sisters to. I can play with them and have a good laugh sometimes. When they are around me I would feel comfortable and relaxed but when I meet other people I sometimes get nervous or don't know what to say. My mom and my dad they sometimes get what I am talking about but sometimes not because they don't get things with the 30 year age difference. i still think that the person I feel close to are my friends and family.

What is honor?

     Honor is like a badge that you would feel proud of when you did something that impresses people. Honor is when you did something that makes you earn this title. It is like a person whom is not that selfish and would do anything to help people not just for their own good. Soldiers for example are honorable cause they are willing to sacrifice their lives to help the country and also save people's lives. Their are different actions that make people honorable.
   
     There are lots of people in history who did a lot of things that are very brave and noble, like Martin Luther King Jr. who helped a lot of people by speaking what he did. I think that being honorable can be when someone needs help and you are willing to do something for that person. Some words like unselfish, helpful, courageous, and willing...etc, can be used to describe honor or someone being honorable.

     Also people might not think that they are doing something honorable in daily life, it doesn't have to be something that is very important or such a big event t can be small or big. Like just helping a woman cross the street would be a honor or defending someone when no one would stand up to help. In history class when you listen about a famous person we remember that name in history we remember that name cause he or she did something honorable.

      So think of this honor won't hurt anything it can be able to help too.

Why do we need memorials?

I think that we need memorials is because that people can be remembered by greatly for something that they must have done. Cementaries have plaques for those who die so that their family can remember that person or the descendant. For example the memorial of the Vietnam Wall for the fallen during the war. It hows how so many people lost their lives just because of it. I think that memorials honor people in a way so that they can be remembered and that they will not disappear. If there are no memorials then everybody would just basically disappear and be nothing and won't be heard again after ho or she died. That's what why I think that we should need memorials. If that person might have been close and died then that person might've cried every time that nothing in the world think he or she exists since there are no memorials.

Are all things connected?

I think that all things are connected in a way like the food chain, the food web, the nitrogen cycle....etc. In nature everything is connected to the Sun cause that is where everything started. If you mean it in a non literal way I think that yes. There are lots of examples in life where things in words connect, like Latin roots or the origin of a word. Things are connected in interesting ways that most people never think of, for example in Harry Potter there was the spell where you need to say Crucio, and that spell was used to hurt someone well it comes from the word to crucify which is to harm someone badly. Also snowflakes have 6 points and bugs have 6 legs so I guess that nature likes 6 but however in the Bible 6 is a bad number. The Bible also has some stories that are connected to other religions too. See how all these things connect in the world.

Reflection on First Semester of 7th Grade

I think that my first semester of 7th grade is good just really tiring. I was late for school for 2 times but I think that it is okay since I live in Taoyuan. I think that I am used to this school now and that the first semester went well to me. I think that English class is okay and that the homework amount is also good. The diary is hard to write since sometimes nothing happened on that day or at home so I sometimes don't know what to write but that rarely happens. I think that the stories for the literature circles are okay but I wish that we can read some stories that have fiction not always nonfiction or a auto-biography. I think the class is okay but sometimes I wish that we can have more time to correct our Holt readers so that we don't need to correct it at the end of every quarter or sometimes stay after school. The class journal is okay and that the topics are sometimes hard but I think that I am okay with it. The class is okay since I don't think that it is really that boring but I wish that we don't always have to be that late for lunch. I think that my reading skills should be better since that is where I usually make mistakes at reading skills on my test and defiantly the sentences and vocabulary.

Can where you are change who you are?

I think that no matter where you are still yourself. Your outer image mind change, but you know the old sayings its not what the outside counts it what who you are. You might get a haircut or catch up with the latest trends but your personality is still the same. I went to the US when I was little and I go there every summer, but I still liked reading and like to do the same stuff. I think that no matter where you are, you are still the same person and I don't think people will change the way they are. Only you yourself knows whether you changed or not. Some people change themselves to fit in but I disagree. If I were to change I would keep the personality I have and try to keep the original me unless my mom forces me to have a different kind of hairstyle or something like that. Remember its not what the outsides count, its what the inside counts.