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― Louis L'Amour
― Louis L'Amour
Hello, and welcome back for another blog post this time we were asked to read My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou) and Hills Like White Elephants and how each have such an emotional theme within each of the short stories. And to try ourselves to recreate an emotional moment so you the reader may have a better insight in our readings.
My story begins with a family party over my uncle's house in the City of Philadelphia. Not really sure what was the occasion was perhaps for a family's birthday or even just a barbecue, because my Uncle usually does stuff like that. But after some heavy scouting for parking we eventually found some and we all walked to his home (because we had to park like two blocks away) and me being a kid once we arrived I ran straight upstairs to see some of my cousins in their rooms. “Yooo what’s up bros!” I said trying not to sound exhausted running up the stairs. “Not much just chilling here, playing some Xbox” said my cousin Donovan “Yeah and I just chilling here playing some Pokemon on my DSI” replied my other cousin Alexander from the top bed of a bunk bed For some context since my uncle lives in a split home in Philly and has three kids (and also at the time two brothers who also lived with him) his two youngest were kinda forced to share a room hence them having a wooden light brown bunk bed. “Oh cool what games you got Donovan” “Nothing much just the new Halo:Reach” he said with a giant grin in his face “What no way, can I try next after that match?” I said excitedly “Of course man you can try as soon as I win” But during the match Donovan’s dad had shouted him to come down for something I really can’t remember probably to help do a chore real quick. But anyways that’s when I was left alone with my cousin Alexander, who I didn’t really get along with at the time but since the boredom had caught up to me I decided to see how he doing. “Hey what’s up Alexander, what you playing?” I asked “Nothing just Pokemon” And right away I thought to myself that’s gay; mainly because back then not many people liked pokemon or I guess they were afraid that what I had just thought to myself would be told to them that they were just some gay nerds playing a dumb game. Unlike your now generic first person shooters with action and bloody gore which at the the time were very popular. “Oh cool I guess” “Yeah I know you wanna give it a try?” he asked And me having nothing to do decided. “Eh why not while I wait for your brother” As soon as I said that I saw the look of despair in him and I felt bad just to use him like that (also him and his brothers never really seem to see eye to eye in most occasions so he was almost always an aloner) but he handed my the DSI anyways. And after my first battle with some of the coolest Legendaries he had I was instantly hooked so much that after I left the party I had made my parents get me a DSI for me along with Pokemon. “Whoa” I happy cried “What?” “Dude I’m so sorry…” “Um for what” “For everything man, I was a total ass to you for my whole life and here we are with no one to influence us to fight” “Yeah” he said with the biggest smile “I would’ve never image we would be here playing Pokemon and joking around.” Donovan finally comes back ready to play Xbox again but this time I didn’t seem to notice it seems I’ve finally found a new friend who before I thought was my enemy.
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1/28/2020 0 Comments A Letter to my Author-Self For this post, I was tasked to read A Fable for the Living and I found the theme to be about having hope in wanting to reconnect with something that has been lost to us or taken from us. In this case it is about how a person deals with losing a loved one and how they still have them in their thoughts in day to day activities. And they use a letter as a method to cope with this tragedy as a means to move forward in life.
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1/21/2020 1 Comment The Proust QuestionnaireIn this post I respond to The Proust Questionnaire
__1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? For me what I look for in being perfectly happy is being old enough to have a house with some distance from the other houses(Basically just having my own privacy). And being able to do whatever I want becasue it is my land and my privacy within reason though becasue I am not crazy. __2.__What is your greatest fear? Probably dying with no meaning or at least having to live a different life than I wish. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I tend to be really shy to people who I first meet and also people usually think that I and mad due to the face I am almost always making. I also tend to get easily get mad or frustrated since I was a young lad but now however I have become less of that. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? Now and days I do not become mad or frustrated by others but one thing that does annoy me is when someone else does not give others respect especially when they themselves demand it. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? Martins Luics he is a bodybuilder who has won strongmen of the year for 2019. And he gets some hate for the way he trains but still rises up to the task to win against some of the world’s strongest people. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? To be honest I used to smoke A LOT of marijuana during high school to the point where every time I would get my pay check from work I would spend almost all of it on weed. But now I rarely smoke only when my friends from college some to visit. __7.__What is your current state of mind? For me right now I’m focused on going to the gym and getting them gains!! __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? The amount of followers people have determines your whole life whether you know it or not. Like for those who have a ton can get advertisements and make money easily with ads and brand deals and even if you don’t have enough to get ads or brand deals. It gets to people’s heads and it’s annoying. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? Depends for my own benefit or in order to save others from pain. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? I would say my eyebrows are what I really hate about myself they are just not even. I really don’t care if my eyes make me look Asian even though I’m Mexican. That or the fact my wrist are kinda small and it irks me to the core! __11.__Which living person do you most despise? Well I’ve met many people who’ve wronged me or others I know but I don’t think it’s worth my time and energy to just think about them like that. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? I would like to think honesty. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Same as I said for a man I just want honesty from people. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Not really sure at the moment before I used to say a lot “you know what I mean” because I sat near a kid and he used to talk to me all the time and he said that a lot and so I picked that up from him. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? I would say my mom, and yes this makes me a mommas boy. And I am not afraid to admit it. She just a nice person even though we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. __16.__When and where were you happiest? I would say I am the happiest when I am visiting my cousin’s down in NY , New burgh, because they are basically my age so I relate with them a lot compared to the family I have living here in PA. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? I would like to be better at running long distances. I just need more practice. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would like to be more on my tasks better because I find myself procrastinating a lot on things even if I don’t mean to. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? I would say for an education aspect my greatest achievement would be finishing High School in a Honors level Math. Because back in the day many of my old teachers thought I wouldn’t really excel in math due to the bad grades I had gotten. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? This might be really weird I would wanna be an AI in this scenario. Because I would most likely live forever and I really wanna go to different planets to explore the unexplored. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I like the area I am now but I would like more privacy I have now. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? I would say a gold chain of a cross I had received when I was young from my godmother for completing my baptism. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? I usually see these men in Philly near where my parents work who are immigrants that just spend all there time getting wasted to the point where they black out in a parking lot. And I just don't want to become that or see that happen to anyone to be honest. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? I would say the scientist that are making it possible for use to better understand the world and also the ones making it possible for space travel, __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? For those who know me can verify that I am a goofy person after breaking the shyness barrier down I usually have. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? They are always down for my help or to help our other friend’s no matter what. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? I don’t really have one. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? Batman is my favorite hero because he has so much story to him and is more relatable since he’s just a man trying to be a hero compared to others who have powers. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? Maybe JFK for wanting to really go to space but also Abraham Lincoln for wanting to bring people within our country closer together to make change, Instead of having us argue of thing that don’t matter in the end. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? I would say my parents because they came from nothing to having their own stable jobs and being able ro support their family. __31.__What are your favorite names? For some reason when I was younger I like the name Juan and told my parents that should have been my name. Although now I like the name Pedro maybe because that a really cool uncle's name. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? Those who sell hardcore drugs and get money the easy way instead of working for it. And they try to flex when they have “drip”. __33.__What is your greatest regret? Probably bullying my cousin for being gay. That will forever be my biggest mistake and a reason why I lowkey hate myself. __34.__How would you like to die? Not really sure, as long as it’s peaceful to be honest. __35.__What is your motto? Karma is all around us. |
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