A World Away

        In the book "A World Away by Nancy Grossman", an Amish girl named Eliza goes out of town for her first time. It all happened when a woman named Rachel asked her if she wanted a job, a simple and nice job. All Eliza had to do was babysit Rachel's kids while she worked on her project. The obstacle was that Rachel's town was far away from where Eliza lived. Eliza had to live in Rachel's house for the summer. It was hard to convince Eliza's parents but at the end, they let her leave. Eliza had a hard time adjusting herself into the "new world". She had to adjust herself in the new English clothes she had bought.
       While taking care of Rachel's kids, she also had free time to explore this new world for her and by exploring, she met a guy. A guy who made her forget she was an Amish girl, who accepted her for who she was behind those English clothes. Josh was always there for Eliza's first picture, party, homecoming, etc. Eliza liked the way Josh made her feel so she stayed in the city until November. Eliza's mom didn't want Eliza to go away from her because she knew that Elkza was going to do bad things like drugs, drink alcohol, and what other things you can think of but Sliza promised her mom that she wouldn't do that like the others. Soon, she broke that promise... It was homecoming night and after that, Josh, Eliza, and their friends were going to throw a party/sleepover at Valerie's house. Keep in my mind that this is Eliza's first party with alcohol. She didn't want to drink but she had to live the time of her life because she knew that this would be her last time coming to this city and doing things she have never done before. Eliza went for it, she drinked cup after cup. Josh tried stopping her but she didn't want to, she liked the feeling she felt. Until later that night, she felt sick and threw up.
       Mostly everyone was sleeping expect the people who went to the bathroom to throw up. Eliza wanted to go home, so she woke up Josh. Josh knew it wasn't a good idea to take her home in the middle of the night especially because he was feeling a little bit hangover too. Eliza didn't understand that, she always wanted her way. Josh took Eliza home in his parents car. While driving, Eliza felt like she wanted to throw up and obviously Josh didn't want any throw up in his parents car, so he started to speed up. They finally arrived to Eliza's house but yet, Eliza didn't know that they crashed while going there since she was so numb by the alcohol. Josh was very mad because if it wasn't for Eliza wanted her way, none of this would of happened but Josh wanted Eliza to be okay since he cares for his girlfriend. In the end, Eliza moves back to her place because she found out that Rachel was doing a project on Amish people. Eliza thought that Rachel only wanted her to stay at her house so she can examine her but in reality, Rachel has been working on her project for a long time, before she even met Eliza. At the end of the book, Eliza goes back to her home, back to the Amish girl she was and leaves Josh behind with no problems, just peace.
       I personally recommend this book. It has a lot of conflicts and exciting moments. This book can show you so many things. Josh didn't care if Eliza was Amish or different from the other girls he dated before. Josh loved Eliza for who she was, he was loyal too. Every time someone tried making fun of Eliza, Josh would defend her. I didn't like how Eliza left Josh at the end of the book. I also didn't like how the book ended but overall, this book can be so amazing and exciting!

Opinion about Genocides

In my opinion, I think genocides happen because some people want everyone to be the same or they dislike others when other people want their freedom, their freedom to be in whatever religion they want. For example, people don't like other people because of their culture or their religion. It's not fair and its not fair how people die because of that. Sadly, I don't think there's a way of stopping this. I wish there was but even history showed it. Even though people had fought for their rights and freedom, people are still getting judged and killed for what they believe. People who kill others for what they believe or for fighting for what they want make me sick and I'm truly sad that the people who fought for their rights died and may all of them rest in peace.

Alice in Lace

In the book "Alice in Lace by Phylis Rynolds Naylor", there's a class who was assigned to do a project. The project was to pretend to be an adult and do what every adult does. The message from this project was for students to learn that being an adult is not easy and that younger kids shouldn't be rushing to the adult life. Alice, who's an eighth grader, "became pregnant". She planned a wedding and tried to buy a car. Alice and her partner were always arguing, there was always this awkwardness between them two because they didn't know how they were suppose to do things. Alice and her partner had to sleep together! but one thing they didn't do was sexual things. A conflict that I thought that was funny is when Alice tried to buy a car with her partner. They actually went to a car shop and asked for a not that expensive car. The sale man questioned himself if he should actually do this since they looked very young, but he went for it and went with Alice and her partner for a car drive. While the sales man, Alice, and her partner were going for a car drive, Alice was nervous that they were going to get caught because this other kid who recognized them was asking Alice what she was doing there in a car with a stranger. The sales man was very confused and started to assume that these "adults" were actually kids. Alice and her partner got caught and went home, they were disappointed because they thought they've failed the project. "And a little mascara? Maybe Rasberry Creme lip gloss?" Like I said, Alice was very smooth. She put on all this makeup to look older so the salesman can let them buy a car but at the end of the day, Alice and her partner got caught and didn't end up buying anything.

Words of the Wiser

In the book "A World Away by Nancy Grossman", Eliza is ready to leave and adventure the outside of her circle. Her mom doesn't believe she should leave but Eliza is old enough to take some responsibilities. Eliza's mom wants her to know the world but she's scared that Eliza might go on the wrong path. She's scared that she might fall in love with a boy and get her heart broken, she's scared that Eliza might take drugs, drink alcohol, etc. Eliza finally leaves to Chicago during summer to be a nanny. Before Eliza leaves, her mom gives her advice. Mom says that she shouldn't leave because it's going to be hard out there in the "other world". She doesn't want Eliza to grow up anymore but then Eliza says some wise words. Her wise words were that she knew that her mom didn't want her daughter to grow up and adventure the world, she knew that her mom was scared about what she'll do once she was out there. But Eliza was grown enough to take some responsibilities of her own actions, Eliza was scared too. She was more adventurous on what was out there than scared. I can relate to this. What this means is that sometimes people have to let go people in order to take that fear away from them and for the other person to take responsibilities and know what the real life looks like and feels like.

Anne's Adveristies & My Adversities

Anne went through a lot of adversities. She was Jewish so was her family. Anne had to hide for years from the green police and others in order to survive and not get sent to a concentration camp. She had problems with her mom too, not physical fights but verbally fights. Like arguements. Anne had to hide in a small place with mor than 5 people, it was really crowded and not enough food because of the amount of people. Anne couldn't go outside to get some fresh hair or look at the sun because she could of got caught and die. I've had some adversities on my own and with my family too, like Anne. Anne would always argue with her mom like me. Me and mom would argue for the little things though. We will always argue when she wouldn't let me go out but I'll get over it in minutes. I had some adversities with school too. I'm always worried how my grades are because I'm always trying to make my mom proud and tell her "I made it" at the end of the day. My goal in life is to tell my mom that she doesn't have to work anymore or worry about paying bills because that's when I'll finish school and have a good job, a good job that will make me say that to my mom.

Holocaust Opinion

       First of all, I thought this was just plain wrong. No Jewish person deserved this or anyone actually. I never understood why Hitler or the nazis did this to Jewish people. I really don't know why people stood there and watched all this damage happening to the Jewish, to be honest and I actually don't think there's an answer for this. I don't know how people had the courage to just watch those Jewish humans get killed, raped, burned, etc. If I lived back then, I would totally do something about it and help these people. I wouldn't care if I had to die in order to save these people. If I had to die in order to save billions of people, I would do it. Why? because no person deserves to be treated like this.

Where in the world would I like to visit/live?

Ever since I was a kid, I always said that California would be the place where I would like to live. I want to live in California because of the beaches, one of them is Malibu. I love beaches, I love summer. I feel like summer is always a happy season and winter a sad season, but that's just my opinion. Also, their beach houses are so beautiful! I want to move in California because my favorite rapper live there: Chief Keef. I've always wanted to go to his concerts but I can't because he's not all allowed in Chicago.