The Garcia Girls Essay

After spending a long period of time to finish this book, the Garcia girls, I am so glad because this book is really hard for me to read. One of the reasons why  is that there are a lot of Spanish words in this book which I do not really understand. The second reason is that this book's order is from present to past. It is unique and this is my first time to read this kind of book.

Anyway, the thing is: I finally finished this book! The author of this book a lot of many figurative language and critical thinking which makes this book more perfect in the way Mr. Sutherland said so. I think the the author's purpose is to record down anything that happened to the Garcia girls during their childhood and adult hood. It is fantastic and awesome. And also she wrote very deep in the way that those girls’ English is getting better and just began to forget their first language.

I have same experience as the middle part of the book—the part the four girls are immigrant to the America, and know very little English. For me, I was immigranted to America three years age, and at the first year, I could not even understand what the people around me were saying. Those feelings really scared me, but also forced me to learn more English. I am glad that someone has the same feeling I had before, and that makes me begin to love this book.

There are three parts of this book, in my opinion, the worst part is the third part, then the second, and the first. I don’t know why, maybe just because I know what is going to happen, and bring this kind of answers to read the next part of the book. I think the third part is worse because it is confusing, and boring. It does not really express many things to me. The second part is at the middle, because it records many things happen in the college: sex, betray, and discrimination. These leads me feel more interested about my college life next year—these can also be tips for me. I think the first part is the best, not just a lot of important things happen—but my favorite part is the part was when the four girls were coming back to their dad’s birthday. That is really a family—for their dad’s seventy year-old party, the whole family have a very wonderful time which they lost it for a long period—The happy moments in their childhood with their dad, but anything changes in their college period and their relationship gets worse. Such like the structure of “Family”—“Father And Mother I Love You”--Take every first letter out, and combi This part of the book teaches me a lot that how important a family is, and right now I should just say “thanks” to my parents.

I really hope the next book I am going to read, “Worriers don’t cry” could be a meaningful book just like this one. Although the book “Garcia Girls” is confusing, but I actually like its story and how it expresses things so deeply. The most important thing I have learned is the family part-- Getting peaces and happiness aren't easy between the family, but that is also why we need to built up our relationships into our family.

Last Part of the Garcia Girl

    Finally we FINISH the book! OMG, to me this book is harder to read more than " The House On Mango street" just because this book has so Spanish Words without English Definition. Anyway, I still finish reading this book and Yeah!
    In the class discussion today, our group kind of discuss which part of the book we like the most. For me, I think the second part is the best, and then the first part, last is the last part. I do not know why, I feel more interesting on how those Garcia Girls' teenager period look like even though there is a lot of sex in it. I sort of like the first part about how the girls help celebrate the old man's 70 years old birthday, and I just learned a lesson by that section: When our parents are getting old, and old enough someday, they want the family to be together more than anything else. To them, they rather to see their sons or daughters, grand-children more than anything they want. I dislike the last part of the book because not only I already know what happen next, there are a lot of boring staff of how they first attend to the America and know nothing about this country.
    All in all, I give a lot of hopes to the next book we read for next month, and not to get a confusing book like this one. However, I just realize a big point of this book in the class discussion-- the first page of the third section is the beginning of the story, and the last page of the first section is the ending of this book. This order is unique which this is my first time to read book like this. My opinion to it is that it is boring if you know what happen next but read the "present tense" story. Just like watching the movie, if you know what is the ending about, would you watch the whole movie again? Obviously, No! This is what happen to me in reading this book. Oh, thanks God! I finally finish this book!
    Anyway, this book isn't that bad like the way I am describing. Although it is confusing, but the story is cool and interested. The most important thing is that at least this book is not the worst one I read!-- "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. That book is really confusing and no grammar or Word orders at all. [Maybe this is the book's special point, but anyway, hopefully the next book will give me more surprises!]

Response Posts to John Hamilton

     Today, many of my friends said the same thing as John's free write did:

when we had got to the farmers market every thing changed. once i saw all the stands filled with veggies and fruit i was truly amazed. i had only been to the farmers market once before and that was in middle school. this time it was a little different because i had to ask the farmers questions. now i did not really want to do so but i did and i heard about some fruits that never came up in my mind. i saw veggies that i never see at the super market. its a lot better tasting food at the farmers market and i would like to go back. i am just glad we got to go on a Field trip there. it was really cool.

   On Tuesday, all the sophmores went to the farmers market and we all have a wonderful day. Same as John, I saw food or fruits which I never see it before. The most special fruit I saw is the green potato, which costs more expensive than the red potatoes. I think that is also what John has mentioned that there are many new things are so new to us. I also bought a lot of strawberries to eat.
   For lunch, I bought a quarter chicken, and a pack of popcorn. The food in the farmer market is very expensive, but most of it is delicious and  I think the food right there is probably clean. I like the chicken-- it was even better than Cosco's roasting chicken,  and it was not that expensive though. It was fresh, rich, and Yummy-- I will get it again if I have a chance to go next time.
    Ms. Corbally also gave us few questions to answer, and all of us probably tried to ask the people as much as we could. Also, like the people said, we really have a wonderful day to the farmer market, and we all learned staff in the farmer market. After that, we went back to school as well for the next period. Farmer Market is fun!

Blog Post-- the structure of "family"

    I recall to my first English class in China when I was still fifth grade student. Because for us English is a foreign language, so that I always feel boring in that class. Anyway, the most meaningful lesson I have learned thought that year, is the structure of the word "family". I learned something that is cool about this word-- if you actually break out the letters of this word, it would be " F A M I L Y", and each letter represents one word, do you know? Any guesses? Right, they are : Father And Mother I Love You.  At that moment, I really felt the how special English is-- for this one, it is deeper in some Chinese and I will forever remember this one.
   It would be nothing if the word "family" does mean anything about parents and their child. For the family, the parents would spent their cares on their child, and that makes the child feel that their parents are the kindest people to them. I feel lucky that my parents are absolutely love me, and care of me. However, there are many children in this world lose their family and they get no love by nobody. Or by some causes, such like car accidents, take over their parents' lives. Therefore, I feel lucky that I have my family love.
   If I were sick, my parents would take me to the hospital immediately; but for the ones who did not have their parents to care about them, they are really lonely and have less helps. I am glad that I born in a Chinese family and I am the oldest one; I am glad that I have my parents just like normal, and always put me at the first place. A family does not only make by two people, the child would become the third one, and also the most important one in the family. And this is my new opinion and definition for "Family".
   I hope all of you will have a great weekend with your FAMILY.
  

Blog post for Garcia girl second part

     Hahn, it is Tuesday and as usual it is the date we post the blog for the Garcia girls. As we all know the book's order, it is from present to the past. This is the first book I read that is in this kind if order. Anyway, let me talk more about the details in this book of section 2.
     Everyone has their own secrets, and keep a secret secretly, could always make things beautiful. At the almost end of the section 2, one of the rich family members took Sandi to their party with the Garcia girls. Then something happen to Sandi's father who is a doctor. There is a drug woman who drinks alcohol and Lost her control and kiss the Garcia's father's face. Sandi saw what exactly happen at that moment. I wonder why their father would not refuse that woman or just push her away. And today in the class discussion, my group mates said that their father does not want Sandi says it out because he afraid to get troubles from others who are in the party. The Garcia's father is just a doctor, but most of the people in the party have money, authority, and get respects from the society. If the father gets trouble by one, there would be more than ones who are going to make problems to the doctor.
    For me, I do not think that is the only reason-- Maybe their father wants to keep it secret so that his wife would not know it. It is easy to image what happen if his wife, whichGarcia's mom knew it, the family might be breaking down. Although the doctor does not want the drug woman kiss him, but he cannot do anything with it. Would his wife believe him? I cannot tell because I am not his wife, but I could tell it surely would make problems to their family if their mother knows a woman kiss her husband.
    For Sandi, to keep the doctor's secret not only is supporting his job, it also help fixing their family relationships. Therefore I learn that sometimes to keep a meaningful secret does decrease many hates in this world.

Response to Andy Lau "Alameda High"

   Today, I read Andy Lau's blog and write a response to it, "Alameda High":

I also wish to attend Alameda High because they have a bigger population. At ASTI, I see the same people every day and we all have like the exact same classes. In the beginning of freshman year I thought it was fine, but now it has become really dull and boring. When I was in middle school, my school had a big population. Every class would be with different students. With my experiences from attending big and small schools, I can conclude that I like bigger schools because you see a variety of students in different classes instead of the same students in different classes.

   I think Andy and me both came from Lincoln middle school, which both of us had experienced in a large public school, and a smaller private school. With my experiences, I  have a strong feeling that
 agree with Andy-- In public school, students could know more people than in the privacy school, and their friendships would be increase a lot. Like in ASTI, I have almost the same classmates every period, but in Lincoln, I have different ones every period-- maybe this is also a new experience for me, I mean, I have a  special feeling for it.

    For me, the address of my house could eventually lead me to Alameda High; The reason I did not choose Alameda High was that I think ASTI has a better education. More people in a school does not mean that the school is the best--the more people in a school, the more percentages for bad students go to the school. Anyway, for me, I like a less-students school better( which is ASTI).

   However, a smaller school also has its Merritt-- that is why we could have Bonding Day! Think about Alameda High-- how could a large school have that kind of big of activity. Because of that, this kind of activity force the students getting alone and know each other more. And this is ASTI-- which the merrits it has, Alameda High does not.

   

Free write"jay's quiz"

     I have the funnest joke I hear in this semester! This joke actually shows in Jay Pan's quiz. I laugh for 5 minutes-- I could not stop myself! Today in Ronit's class, we were reviewing our quizzes in order to prepare for our chapter exam nextweek. We went through all three sections very deeply, and at quiz 3.1, which is about the schwann cells and axon potentials. The basic function of the axon potentials is to transport the neurotransmitters from the denrite to the axon terminal in order to sent impulses to the brain or the the muscle.
     That is the basic of what the action potential does. On the quiz, there is one big section of filling the balances. This is a section which Ms. Ronit gave us a whole paragraph, and she left some balances for us to complete the whole process of the Action poential. Above the whole paragraph, Ms. Ronit put " The story of a Nerve Impulse" which describes how the whole procce that the neurontransmitters sent to the axon terminal. All in all, the full procce is talking about how the nerve impulses sent to the brains like when we touch, and feel the temprature of something, the impulses would sent to the brain in order to tell you move away your hands from something is damaging you. However, at the 4th side of the quiz, there is a short-answer question which asks: what is the name or tittle for that figgure? Jay Pan, the funnest sophmore I have ever seen, he wrote: The story of a Nerve Impulse"-- he was just copying the third page of the figgure for the fill in balance question, and the tittle is nothing to the question for the short answer! I mean, Ms. Ronit is not stupid, how would she post a question on the other side of quiz, and that is the answer for a short answer question? I do not know what Jay was thinking about at that time, he was really doing a first grade student's job-- which find the answers that shows in another question-- maybe it is even easier that a first grade's work!
    Jay is a smart guy, but sometimes it is hard to realized he made that kind of mistake. I laugh and laugh for like about 10 minutes. He is a very funny guy-- he tells jokes a lot and always make our "asian group" laughs. Anyway, I hope next time he won't do such thing any more because that is 2 points, which really effect his grade-- actually, if he got that question, he would got an A, not a B. At the end, the answer for that question which Jay miss the points on is " Reflex Arc." Sophmore, study hard for your chapter exam next Monday!

The first part of the Gacia Girls

    After spending one week to read the first part of the Garcia Girls, and as a class, we have a big discussion about the annotations. As everyone is saying that the book is too confusing. Right, somewhere in the book shows a lot misunderstands and confusions in Spanish; especially the relationships and emotional each girl has, they really drive me crazy. This book's orders are divided into three parts-- from the present to the past, from the past to the past which is more early. In the discussion today, our group kind of talk about how the three different personality the four sisters have changed, and we kind of concentrate onto Yolanda. First of all, we talk about how Yolanda get crazy. We were sort of saying Yolanda feels she is getting crazy which she could not control herself sometimes as well. We said that the most reason is that she keeps  having problems that deal with her boyfriends, and she gets crazy because of the sexist. By the way, this is a book which has many sexist stuff. Another important thing that we most focus on is the part which Yolanda's boy friend is writing some porn in his class. I was asking this question as the annotation: Did he ever think about Yolanda's feeling before he starts to write the porn to the class as Yolanda's boy friend? My seatmates had no answers that could response. But for myself, I think her boyfriend did that just because he wants to make Yolanda's friends feel shame of Yolanda and Yolanda begins to hate him. I do not know about the specific reasons why he would do this just because this book is so confusing. So far so good, I think this book is sort of confusing us because it starts at the present, and going back to recall the stuff happens to those girls. My goal for next part of the book is to fully understand what cause or what make the four girls change their personality based by their experiences.