A few pictures

Lauren was so effusive with Javier's work for her senior picture she smiled so hard.



Taking pictures like these, in Ray's opinion, is a bit flagrant, especially for events like the Gala.



Mr. DeLeon is so hard-working, that he actually does a superfluous amount of work at The Chinquapin School.



When Lauren used to think about having to wait many moths to graduate from high school, she used to be sad. But,the pain of this fact was alleviated when May 27, 2010 finally came around, and she jumped in the air with joy.



Lauren provided a safe asylum for Roscoe when she went to go visit her brother's house because she was the only one who wanted to play with him.

Ian's Change

Ian displayed true objectivity when it came to dealing with his teachers. Although he hated how some of his teachers were so emotional with dealing with his discipline problems, he always showed them the utmost respect in all situations. He thought is plausible that maybe his teachers were that devoted to teaching class. Maybe that's why they were always emotionally invested in everything he did. One day, his biology teacher Mr. Kaiser, substantiated this claim when one day he held Ian after class. He told him, "I just don't understand why you don't see the potential I see in you! Time after time I've vindicated you with your other teachers and you repay me by not turning in a project!" Ian gave Mr. Kaiser a condescending look that portrayed his contemptuous attitude about this situation. "I don't care about school, why don't these teachers understand that!?" This whole situation was disdainful. If I came to school, wasn't that enough? All this coming to class on time, finishing homework, making A's, was full of crap. "Maybe these teachers think they're better than me!", but a haughty attitude from his teachers wasn't the problem, and even if his teachers were imperious, that gave Ian no right to take this attitude with his teachers, and, furthermore, his education. He didn't like being disrespected and definitely not patronized.
Obviously, Ian's situation with teachers was becoming more and more convoluted. He went from being respectful yet distanced to outright rude and insolent. Any type of help with his education now was simply futile. His new attitude with life was well on it's way to impeding his chances at making a better life for himself. He'd face obscure and uncertain days if he wouldn't change. So Mr. Kaiser along with several other of Ian's teachers decided to have an intervention. It began with alienating him in class. The alliance between the teachers was so strong and united that they would stop at nothing to make sure he was successful. Slow they began to see disparity between the old Ian and the boy he was becoming. The way his teachers were treating him caused him to have to stay on his A game and so he could be a good student. He suppressed his feelings of feeling that school is just a way to get out of the house. Instead of writing a mundane paper for English, Ian would embellish it with his new-found vocabulary and begin to show that he was truly trying to change. He wanted to be a better student, and he knew this journey was going to begin with him turning over a new leaf.

Ana's Journal

First of all, I want total clarity with all my readers. This story is completely fictional and is in no way, shape, or form, a true story.

Every night, Ana wrote in her journal. Every mundane detail that she experienced in her life. You could tell when she was mad about something because the details wouldn't be totally coherent with one another. They would just come out in whatever way they came to her head. One day she wrote about the fact that her relationship with her on/off boyfriend, Alex, wasn't as cohesive as it's always been. She then wrote about how jealous she was that this girl Trish, who happened to like Alex, walked around the school with poise and grace and spoke with an eloquence that made Ana's stomach turn. But more than anything, she wrote about her life at home. She emphasized so much how she hated that her mom never spent time with her anymore because she was too involved with her boyfriend. These were the most fluid writings she had because they were real to her. No other feelings were more apparent to her than these. Every time she tried to talk to her mother about what was going on in her life, her mom ignored it. To Ana, this was a strong implication that her mom just didn't love her, at least not in the way a mother should love their daughter. It amazed her how she could write effortlessly about her mom using such a fine rhetoric that she could never seem to attain in English. She would use words that she didn't even know were apart of her vocabulary. Her mom truly brought those feelings out of her. Ana couldn't lie though. She mostly didn't like her boyfriend because she wanted her mom and dad to get back together. So, I guess you could say she was biased but what other daddy's girl isn't? She couldn't be impartial to the fact that her mom was just casually hanging out with some random guy when she should have been trying to make it work with the man she had three kids with. Did she have any integrity about herself? That's what Ana would think about her mom sometimes. Ana couldn't understand why any other guy was worth the time when she had a perfectly good man for her. She also wrote a lot about her dad. Her dad and mom split up about four years ago but and she never understood why they could let their love die after being together for 20 years. She wrote about not believing her dad loved her enough to stick around. But she knew that she'd love him anyway, regardless of whatever he'd done to her. That fact was incontrovertible.

Mastery of the AP--Blog 1

I'm excited to begin the blogging of these words!