Week 2: This week everyday I would unplug my phone charger and unplug everything before I left my room counting my ihome and everything else. For now on I have been printing preview for everything that I need to print. I think now everyday I will be able to do these changes everyday now that I have been doing them for a couple of weeks now I can maybe make these changes everyday now. There helpful to the planet and there not that hard to do everyday.

Saving Energy

Ways were going to save energy

-Think of what I need before I open the refrigerator door to prevent heat lost

-Turn off computer, iHome, IPods, etc. when not in use

-Unplug cell phone charger, toasters, and other appliances that are not in use

-Donate clothes to Goodwill so that they may be reused

-Make sure to "print preview"

Week 1: So far I have done really well saving energy. From now on I have been thinking of what I want in the refrigerator instead of standing there looking at it for 5 minutes. I have been unpluging all of my chargers/electronics when I'm not using them. All the clothes that don't fit me anymore I haven't given them to Goodwill but, I have given them to Sydney.

Touch- Prediction

In the book Touch I predict that Maisie is going to try and forgive her three best friends Shakes, Chris, and Kevin. Even though they sexually harassed her I think that she will be able to forgive them. I believe that she feels like she kind of has to because they were pretty much the only people she hung out with and her closest friends. But then again I think if she does forgive them it probably wont be the same as it use to be because they did such a horrible thing to her.
If that doesn't happen I predict that Maisie's step mother Joan is going to file a restraining order against all of them for Maisie, but I think that Maisie is going to get really mad at her because she wants to forgive and forget, and just start all over with them. I don't believe that will happen after what they did to Maisie.
Another prediction I have for this book is Maisie is going to move with her mom. Maisie's mom left her and her dad when she was really little. She didn't really forgive her. Maisie mom as well as her dad found someone else and both of her parents got remarried. Maisie has a step brother that is Joans and she hates Joan. She wants to get away from her and I think that might be the reason she might go live with her mother. In the book she said she was thinking about moving to her moms house.
Joan is a girly girl, a professional therapist, and in my opinion she tries to hard to get Maisie on her side and tries to make her like her. Joan is fake and needs to stop trying so hard and Maisie needs to give Joan a chance and if that happens they might end up liking each other. I hope to find out what happens more in my book. It's very interesting so far.

Touch-Connects to the world

I think that people in the world can relate to touch because girls all the time are taken advantage of guys. Maisie was sexually harassed by her three best friends. They knew each other for a long time and she trusted them. They were her three best guy friends and pretty much her only real friends she hung out with. All of a sudden when they were on the bus they started to touch her in inappropriate areas. The world can really relate to this because girls get sexually harassed by guys all the time. I feel like guys should have more respect for girls. Hopefully some guys can grow up and realize that it's not OK and it doesn't make us feel good when guys take advantage of the trust we have for them.

Touch

I'm now reading Touch by Francine Prose. The book is about a 9th grader name Maisie who gets inappropriately touched by her 3 best friends. They're all guys and she's known them ever since she was in pre-school. They were all very close and they all use to hang out and play video games and pretty much do everything together. One day on the bus they all started to touch her inappropriately. I haven't fully heard the long story of what happened, but i can't wait until I hear all of there point of views. I've barely made a dent in the book yet, but I so far I like this book and I think it's going to get even better once I really start to get into it.

The Last Song- what i learned

What I learned personally about Ronnie is that no matter how many years she went without talking to her dad she always loved him no matter what. In the end of the book her father gets cancer and he is only going to live for a year. Her mother comes to pick up Ronnie and her brother. Ronnie is a legal adult so she stays with her father and takes care of him.
When you first look at Ronnie you think she's really bad and does drugs and drinks, but under that mascara, dark clothes, and purple streaks is a person who is really gentle and loves animals and people. Even though she doesn't like to admit her personal opinions, she really is kind and caring. For example, Ronnie loves animals and loves the piano, but she never really admits that in the book. She said she use to love the piano, but once her dad left she didn't want any part of playing the piano. He taught her the piano, helped her practice the piano, and they composed music together on the piano. Since the piano reminded her of her dad, she never wanted to play it again. I really like the character Ronnie and I think that everybody can relate to her in a different way.

The Last Song-Connects to the world

In The Last Song I think the book relates to the world because Ronnie's dad has cancer towards the end of the book and a lot of people have cancer in the USA and in the world. I think the world can relate to the book because people have cancer and they have to go through a lot of pain. Not only them, but there loved ones have to take care of them or watch them go through so much pain. That's what Ronnie and her family had to go through. Ronnie took care of her father when he was sick. Some people survive cancer, but others don't. Like in the book Ronnie's dad dies in the end from the cancer. I do believe that the world can relate to this book because a lot of deaths are caused by cancer.

The Last Song-Visualization

I could really picture the characters from the book The Last Song. The scene that I could really picture from the book is the scene when Will saves Blaze. It's Will's volleyball tournament and he saw fireballs and new that Marcus was close by it caught his attention and then all of a sudden Blaze is on fire and Marcus leaves. Will starts sprinting towards Blaze to rush her to the hospital. Ronnie runs after Will to help him get Blaze to the hospital. Will grabs his car and rushes her there.
I could really picture everything that was going on especially when Will is about to finish the game, but decides to save an old friend that he doesn't even talk to anymore. When I was reading this I never thought that Will would give up the volleyball tournament for Blaze. I never thought he cared about Blaze that much.

The Last Song-Visualization 2

I could really picture when Ronnie had to take care of her father when he was sick. I could picture her thinking about Will and the fight they had while she was cleaning, cooking, or helping her dad. Ronnie had to put on a tough face and pretend that she didn't care about her and Will breaking up and her watching her father slowly dying. She had to do all the dirty work and help her father as much as he could because he was starting to get weaker, and weaker because the cancer was starting to take power of his body. She had to be strong for him and her brother Jonah. I really believe that Ronnie is a strong person and she was such a big help to her father. I don't know how she could be strong and work so much and still have to watch her father die and she couldn't do anything about it. I don't know if I could even do that. I really think that this part in the book really showed who Ronnie is and that she is overall just a good, passionate, and strong person.

The Last Song-Connections to my life

The last song connects to my life because Ronnie is a really independent girl I think that I'm really independent like Ronnie. I liked to do my own things and I like to be alone a lot and just hang out. I also think it connects to my life because Ronnie's dad has cancer and I've had a lot of family members who have had cancer and I've had to help them out. I know the kind of pain Ronnie was going through. Even though I have never lost a parent in my life. I still could understand what she was going through when her dad died. Also like Ronnie I have had my family die before like when her father passed away I could really connect to what she was feeling because all of my grandparents have passed away and even though I only met two of them I was extremely close to both of them like how Ronnie was with her dad in the end of the book. I also can connect to Ronnie because she loves animals and she will do anything to protect them and save them. Like when she stayed out and slept on the beach to make sure the sea turtles didn't get eaten. I would have done that if I had sea turtles in my backyard. I think me and Ronnie have a lot in common.

I could really picture Savannah and John in Dear John. Even though I saw the movie before I read the book I could picture two different characters while reading the book. The movie characters and my own characters. I could picture them when they were together and when they were apart. I could see the first time John taught Savannah how to surf and how well she did her first time. This book was so good that I could picture everything in my head without thinking about the movies idea.
When I read the book I already new that they weren't going to end up together because someone ruined it for me (SYDNEY) but I still wanted to believe that they would end up together in the end. I predicted that Tim and Savannah were going to end up together in the end because throughout the book I could tell that they have feelings for each other, but they didn't express it like John and Savannah. In the end they did end up together after all. I was sad because I really felt that John and Savannah had something better than Savannah and Tim.
The character that I related most to was Savannah. As much as I hate her decision in the end of the book I still feel like me and her are kind of a like. She's really passionate about helping autistic kids. I'm not as passionate as her and but I do like helping kids who need a little more help than others. I really feel like if she was real I would be really good friends with her. She loves the outdoors and horses. I do too(: As much as I don't like her character in the book I still think we have the same interests.

Dear John

I finished the book Dear John. I really liked the book because I can really relate to some of the characters in a different way. It's about a guy named John Tryee he lives with his dad because his mom left them. After High School he leaves to go to the army. John was on leave for 2 weeks so he decides to visit his dad at his hometown. While he's there he ends up falling in love with a college student Savannah Lynn Curtis. Since him and Savannah can't see each other in person they decide to send letters. John awaits Savannah's letters, but he doesn't hear from her. No letters. No calls. Nothing. When he finally does he finds out Savannah has fallen in love with someone else and is engaged. I found this book extremely heart breaking. The ending was not what I wanted it to be. I didn't like the ending that much, but overall I loved the book(: