FRO 14 BRB

The one day in my life I wished to go back to my previously bland life was the day my life accelerated in a way I didn’t expect. I didn’t realize I liked going to a failing AP English class in the morning followed by an Ap US History class I didn’t do any work in along with a string of other boring lectures in 45-minute intervals. That is, I didn’t realize this until I experienced an uncomfortable chest pain one moment to being hospitalized for nearly two weeks the next. To sum up, my left lung collapsed and after answering “NO” to questions such as “Did you have a strenuous cough?”, or “Do you actively smoke or do drugs?” we never reached a conclusion to how it ever collapsed in the first place. At least my AP classes were in my control; spontaneously collapsing your left lung is not and this bothered me more than it should have.

I was used to being told and believing that things are the way you set them out to be but this was not the case. There was nothing I could have ever done to prevent my left lung from collapsing whether or not I knew anything before. The pain in my chest was temporary and is nothing now but a faded memory, knowing something like this could happen to me at any moment without my consent is a looming, unpredictable game I’ll possibly have to play the rest of my life. It already happened again a month after it happened the first time so now I should be fine. However, I was told the same thing when I was released from the hospital the first time. Oh well. I learned to take this with a grain a salt; it was how I am going to live life from now on. Besides, I had a failing AP Lit class I needed to catch up on.

I remember working at my high school internship at a hospital and looking at it with indifference. I always looked forward to my paycheck that comes every other week. The other actual employees were nice, but that worked there also looked at the work the same way. I worked in the employee health department where I would either have work to do from start to finish or no work to do for hours. I was either in the office area where the other workers were, or in a small closet where all the records for old employees and volunteers were. Looking back at that time reminded me how boring it is to actually be working for the first time, but now I can brag that I finished an internship during high school. In the end I received my money and a great review from the head of the department.

My once perfect family of six was shattered on April 2nd, 2014.
The day after April Fools huh?
God really tricked me there.
I got a call from my mom during English class in High School and instantly knew what happened.
I bolted out of the class, hoping to see him for the last time.
Bursting into the hospital doors, I realized I was too late.
He laid there, face pale and stiff.
My grandpa was gone from this world forever, having received the final blows of lung cancer                                                                                           
something he obtained from over fifty years of smoking.
He was the one who taught me how to play Chinese chess,                 
the one who used to pick me up from school,                                                           
the one who used to play with me in the park.
He was a father, a teacher, and a loving grandpa.
I miss you.

Jacob Karlin Document

Post Two, due by 10/9/2014
For this assignment, you must:

1) post the monologue you’ve developed in your seminar

2) embed a self-portrait, which can be a photograph, an image, a cartoon, a  drawing, or some other depiction of how you see yourself. (please make the picture small)

Remember, you will be presenting your monologue on 10/16/2014. The presentation has to be no more than 3 minutes.

My name is Malaika. I graduated from a preforming arts high school in new york city last june. There I was a drama major so participated in a bunch of plays, whether i was acting or stage managing. I really like editing, a bunch of my friends are editors actually.  I’m really interested in current events, so i like to talk to people about things happening in the world. It’s a very exciting time. Scary but very exciting. I truly just want everyone to be educated about the events taking place in the Middle East, Europe, and America. So if you have the time you should really follow up on some research about the world present day. Things are happening every day. It’s like an up to date history class…history is my favorite class by the way. I also babysit. Theres a video of me and one of the girls i baby sit that i wanted to upload but the file was too big for this website.

Please click! —-> A Little About Me…?   <—- Here is my Video!

(Although I might die from embarrassment if you watch it….)

Hello! My name is Yoo Hyun Kim, and above is a short video introducing me, myself and I. Since I couldn’t talk all that much in two and a half minutes (two minutes was a much shorter time than I expected) I guess I can continue talking here.   I’m 19 years old, female, loves games, loves food, basic basics. I’m just that boring, typical girl that blends and disappears into the background, or hover just past your blind spot so that you never notice me really. I just…. linger.  You know, one of those kids that you squint at halfway through the semester and wonder, “that girl was in our class?”. That is, unless you get to know me. I’m a lot more talkative than I might seem. Too much, actually. Once you get comfortable with me and I get comfortable with you, you’ll wonder if I have a motor on my mouth or something.

Kinda Like a Cheshire Cat?

As I’ve mentioned in the video, I love games, sleeping, drawing, and…. sports. I’m not good at it, honestly. I hate exercise, I hate running, I have an abnormally low amount of stamina. But strangely enough, I do love sports. Soccer, volleyball, dodgeball, swimming, horseback riding, archery, all of the sort. unfortunately,  I’ve never joined a team, never played an official game. While I do enjoy competition, when it goes from “fun” to an “obligation” to play well, I doubt I can handle it.

Often a “Leftover”

Another thing I do love is science. Well, I kind of lovED science, until physics came along. It’s these kind of times when I wonder if no teacher would be better off than a horrible one. I enjoyed chemistry, living environment/earth science, those kind of stuff. In fact, if my memory hasn’t failed me yet, my living environment regents was my highest grade with a 97. I don’t know about what others might say but for me, that’s something. Astronomy is something that intrigues me, although unfortunately, I never took a class in it. But reading or listening about things like the black hole, supernovas, all that kind of stuff.

p…. pretty…

Besides that, I do love any kind of myths, regardless of their origin. Greek mythology, Egyptian gods, Asian deities, they all fascinate me.  The story’s are interesting, their ideas are fascinating, and the creatures… amaze me.

The four directional guardians

I don’t really know what else to say about me. I tend to be bored often? It’s easy to find me exhaustedly dragging myself from class to class? I like to stop and chat with teachers occasionally? I guess it’s all true, but instead of me just babbling on and on about myself, I’d like to be friends with you. I’m not, after all, just words scribbled on a brightly lit screen. I’m not flashing lights of red, blue and green light behind your monitor. I’m just a person, a person just like you. I’m just, me.

My name is Phillip and I shouldn’t have procrastinated but I guess it’s too late now… Now I will effectively portray myself in a formal and extremely mature fashion.

Approximately  2100 years ago, a wise Greek philosopher once said, “Ball is life”. I can’t say I disagree. When I was merely a toddler, I was given two toys to play with that symbolized my life paths: a calculator and a basketball. As tempting as the calculator was, I chose the basketball. Basketball allowed  me to bond with my brother and many others. In elementary school, I often played basketball by myself after school because I was on the larger side and was rather unfriendly. However, this all changed when a squad of local junior high school delinquents came to play with me daily. Some would call these kids “uneducated”. I wholeheartedly agree. Although these kids were arguably the worst students on the planet I bonded with them and was destined to join them and their shenanigans before my family moved away to Forest Hills. Basketball is now my most favorite hobby and is actually something I’m pretty good at *_*

Yeah I googled this pic but I felt like it reminded me of my younger self: a jiggly little basketball player. I remember I used to be able to eat nothing at all but then I traveled to China for 2 weeks. At the age of five, I didn’t really like any food but i really hated the food that I was provided in China. Every meal I would say, and I quote, “this food sucks balls”. I was also very vulgar because I watched too much tv lml. When I returned to the US, my father pitied my apathy towards food and cooked me fattening and just downright abominable (in terms of health, not taste) foods and I was so happy until I found out I was a real fatty. I used to play with my fat rolls every time I went to “excrete the natural essence of life” in the bathroom. However, being fat wasn’t THAT bad. I remember I made a friend named Ron and we bonded over the fact that we were both fat and it was SO lit. Elementary school was good because everyone basically had no prejudices yet. Swag

I used to read a lot of really groundbreaking and spiritually enriching books. Among these included: “Horton Hears a Who”, “The Cat in the Hat”, and even “The Little Engine That Could”. Not only did these books have pictures, they had words too! As I grew older and became even more enlightened, I upgraded my arsenal of literature to more intelligent pieces of work such as the “Cam Jansen” and the “Magic Tree House” series. Much of my literary skills were acquired from these timeless works of art. After I finished  the “Goosebumps” series I gave up on reading. I really don’t know why.

I like beaches!

Lamborghinis were a substantial part of my childhood because I would spend class time trying to sketch out different models and I always really wanted one. I also tend to draw anything that comes to mind when I’m bored. Literally anything, except nothing inappropriate, of course! Although the lamborghini is probably the definition of superficiality, I don’t mind because it looks sick.

For as long as I could remember, I was always a jokester, in class and beyond. I got bored frequently and I did whatever it took to bring me entertainment. I got a 1 on a 1-4 scale for conduct most of my elementary school years because I was just uncontrollable. In junior high school and high school, I always shouted nonsense and wrote irrelevant answers occasionally for tests and answers for the sake of making people laugh and it was honestly really really funny. Unfortunately, this resulted me in constant appointments with my guidance counselor and my deans. It was a sad time in my life 🙁

I love music, like any other human being. For this reason, I wear headphones literally everywhere I go because music just enhances life like how botox enhances the face. In high school, I often got in trouble for never taking my headphones off but honestly I never listened and this, along with my previous inability to be a proper student, made me well acquainted with my school faculty. Music pumps me up not only when I exercise but practically everywhere.

One time, I saw a jasmine flower. I looked at it and it looked back. I felt it talking to me and I couldn’t leave from it. It smelled OD nice and I loved it. It was my fave. Some may say I’ve run out of pictures to write about, but others say I’ve tapped into my inner romantic. Jasmine the flower then put on snapback and called me out to a rap battle to the death. I insisted that its life was much more valuable than mine, but nonetheless the flower had just finished watching the film “8 mile” starring Eminem and was inspired to replicate the fictional events. Trapped into a corner by its flower henchmen armed with sub machine guns, I had no choice but to retaliate with a challenge of 1v1 basketball money game. I won and took its money. It was sad, I was happy. The end.