How it feels to be Me

I think that paper that we have recently wrote and are soon to turn in is one of my favorite papers we have gotten to write because we all have something unique about us that makes us different that people might not know about. For example, Hannah P. wrote about her Italian heritage and how she really didn't accept it at first, but realized it helps make up who she is and were she comes from and she starts to embrace it which is awesome. Also the paper I corrected was Nicole Peterson's, who wrote about her family and how she has learned to not always take her huge loving family for granted because they could be gone in an instant. I also wrote about family, but not the blood kind of related family that we all have, but a different kind of family that not many people can say they have. I grew up with a third family, which I call my camping family. We all started camping together before I was even born, so I grew up with them my whole life, going on about 12 camping trips a summer and having get togethers throughout the year. I thought it was a really fun paper to write because it really made me look at my life and think about what's unique about it and I thought about the family I never realized help make me, me.

Caucasia

Caucasia, I think is the best book we have read so far because I think that it is easier to relate to then the other two books that we have read. Everyone has felt out of place at least a couple of times in their lives and have felt totally uncomfortable like Birdie did the first day of school. I also think it really opens people eyes to how other people feel about discrimination and race and what went on during that time period. It has to be so hard being Birdie and Cole at this time because they don't really fit in anywhere because they are half white and half black. Even though people in the story just assume that Cole is black and Birdie is white. I also love reading about Birdies journey and what she's going through because we've all heard about back in the olden days about race, but I have never read about it from someone living through it and all their situations that they have to deal with, even though I know that the story is not real and an author wrote it. But I think of it as a true story because someone probably did go through what Birdie's going through in the book from the color of her skin to her parents splitting up and never really seeing her father or sister because of the race wars that have gone on in our history. So overall I am really getting into the book and think it has been the best book we have read this quarter.