Julius's English Blog

      When I was very young I started to grow up my hair, around 3rd grade. As a boy this was not the norm. Even though it was old to many, I would get praised for it. People constantly complimented my hair, while some still thought it was weird like my mom. They would often grow use to it. Read, and learned about the life of the first publicized American poet. I learned about the "I am nothing! Who are you?"

      A bird stuck in an open cage. This is the metaphor I would use to describe my mind. A bird that can be free so easily from its cage, but the fear of what might happen when it does keep it in.  We did Common Lit, I was not there. 

           I would love to go on an adventure to Israel. I know many people who live there, and I really want to see them again. Israel is also such a beautiful place with its natural landscape of mountains, beaches, and cities. But have not gone yet for the  obvious reasons of what's happening there. We did a fake test. I learned to put "a" for all my answers.

           Something I will never understand is how something can exist just from existing. As this I mean like gravity. I don't understand why it's always active, and has for infinity. We presented our Myth Posters. I learned about others work.

 

    Something I wished that I had more of is instruments. I play a lot of music, and want to learn every instrument I can but money is my main problem with that. I really want to be an up-right bass but those are around 2,000 dollars. I do have many instruments I gained over years, and am really happy with them. Yet still I would like more. We worked on are poster. I learned more about Adobe Express.

           The most creative thing I have ever made was a song. My friends and I were doing a presentation to see who would be the next DM. I didn't want to have this role so I wanted to make a presentation about this. I had an idea where I would make a really bad song, singing about how bad of a DM I would be. So I got out my guitar, and drums. When recording I decided instead of just playing the song I would make an animation for it too. I did not know how to animate, but I did know how to use PowerPoint. So I made an animation on PowerPoint by using the tools at hand. I had to make all the animation on one slide because of resistance. Which made PowerPoint crash a good few times, but after hours of work I made it. We worked on our Myths. I learned how to use Adobe Express.

      There are two questions that have stumped me for years. One why alien life has not been found, and how matter was formed. With alien life it's really interesting that we can only find Earth. Even just simple life such as single celled organisms haven't been found. Why only Earth, what put us here. Also matter like atoms and quarks who were made. These are the most simple building blocks of the universe yet what created them. How can something be the first. We have started to create a myth story inspired by Native writings. I have learned how to use Writable.

      A time I felt lost in my life was a few years ago.  At this time I got really into music. I have always played since  elementary, but this time I was really putting all my hours into it. I wanted to get a collage degree for music, before I always thought I was going to do engineering. I was split between go in a path of engineering, money. Or go into a path of music, what I really wanted. I would constantly make a pros and cons list in my head, til I finally landed on music. We presented everyone's PowerPoint in class about "The Jealous Father" I learned about the Natives culture that "The Jealous Father" came from.

      Over this past week I had to fight with the challenge of writing a blog everyday. Most days I don't get home till 7 or 11 at night. Making it hard to remember to write and blog and have the energy to do so. To combat this I have started tying yarn around my finger as a constant reminder to complete my blog. So when I do get home I can look at my  finger and start writing. Once I'm done I will take the yarn off, continuing with my day.  I did a test on myths, and the reading of "The Origin of the Robin" I learned that some Natives had a similar belief with Buddhists in becoming one with the world, with Buddhist believing Nirvana and the some Natives believing they would turn it into a robin.

           I personally have never been in a negative jealous relationship with anyone. Yet I have admired people to an extent where I have a hard time talking with them. Most of these people are musicians I know, who are so talented I feel I don't have the privilege to be with them. This makes having a meaningful relationship hard, even if they reach out first. This one guy I know is named Ezra. He has taught me all I know about music, and I've known him for years. Yet I always speak so little to him, even though I wanna have talks with him. Read the Jealous Man which is an old myth. I learned how some Native thought ravens were made.

       A place that I hold very close to me, is called the Jorch. All it really is is just a  porch, but the JITS live on it so we call it the Jorch. The JITS are people that mean a lot to me. They have taught me how to be more social, and how to live a life that brings me and others joy. I lived on the Jorch for a month, in that time I had no technology to entertain me. All I had was the people around me, many of which I did know the names of. Now though I can call each one a close friend.     We read a myth about how are world was found, created by Native Americans.     I learned that the stories told were similar in many ways to other holy texts.

           One time I felt connected to nature is when someone I knew taught me how grounding works.  Grounding is the practice of being more connected to nature by walking barefoot. It's believed that by doing this that the Earth will charge you and bring upon good health.     We learned about old Native American literature and how its passed down.     I learned that stories would pass down stories changing them over time, instead of writing them down.

     I have been sick this week, starting at the beginning of Wensday. I will be back in school by Monday with a doctor's note.