WAY PAST COOL

Probably you have the same weird situation as i do! I have allot of cousins but the weird thing is that i don't get along with most of them only with about 5 of them. I would like it to be friends and treat them like family but even tho it was hard and weird to get along with them i actually did it. I started by going to my cousin LU's 18th birthday all the cousins were there i took out one of my cousins out to dance and from there we started talking and dancing threw the whole night ( i forgot how hard they knew how to party!), we even made an all cousins night out we planned to go to six flags for Halloween or just going shopping in the morning then go bowling and at night go to parties and sleep over my older cousins house. I feel happy with myself because i don't have to give them those killer looks every time we have family reunions, and its good feeling to know that family is always there for you when everyone else turns there back

The cousins

( theres alot more missing)

To get a higher rank is like an obsession for J.R.O.T.C cadets. they go nuts if they don't get a high rank. But my opinion about that is that if you really think you deserve a higher rank well then why not argue and be mad about it, but if you know that you weren't trying your best in being a better cadet why even bother to get MAD! common sense people! i always try to be honest with my self even tho the truth hurts. I did get a higher rank that i deserved. but i want to be even higher and am just waiting for the tryouts for the teams to start so i can join the color guard team and get a higher rank,wop-wop! so excited so wish me good luck and stay tuned to see if i made it to a team.

I WONDER

Hey there yall'. I bet yall all know of a special gift that you got since youz were born. I aint talkin' bout a toy car or a barbie but a gift that god gave youz. My name is Valeria Pates. Born and raised in Atanlta, Georgia and I knew it right away since I was born I was destined to be a poet. It aint easy to make yo' wish when your a SLAVE. Yes people I was wipe, sold like an animal, discriminated and you know the rest. My life was just like walkin' in hell since the day I was born,my dad died of a whiping and my momma died when I was just 9 months. She was found dead in the cornfields, the people say that too much sun can kill. My ol' master Paul Jackson took charge of me since.

By the age of 10 instead of goin' to sko' i would wake up at 4 o' clock in the morning to wash clothes but not in the washing machines like you Young folks do it now at days, but i would walk a mile with buckets full off clothes to the river, and wash in hand. My hands were always rough and ashy from washing 75pounds of clothes. I would also break big o' rocks so the men can use them to make a building. At the age of 16 the master bought an ol man in Mississippi to help out in the house like i did. His name was Mr. Jones. Oh' was he a sweet o' man he would treat me like his daughter. For the very first time i felt loved and valuable, he would cook for me, he taught me how to read and right, he would always put me to bed and read me a story. How i love feeling like that. He cared so much of me that he would take a wiping for me. One day i had spilled hot chocolate in the new counter the master had bought. i could feel my blood came rising up to my throat that i taught i was gonna choke that's how scared i was when the master found out about my mistake. Just as i taught , the master came yelling at me, "YOU STUPID BLACK THING YOU ARE WORTH NOTHING COMPARED TO MEE COUNTER." as he continued to humiliate me he burned half of my face in the fire that was near. i remember him saying "HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL." Mr Jones heard my horrifying cries and came to the rescue. He had push the master in the fire and carried me to the tub full of water so my face could heel. Thee master just had his leg amputated but still had enough force to tie up Mr.Jones in a tree and whip him til' he fainted and his shirt riped in small pieces. He was the devil i tell ya'.

I grew up hating all white people and being angry with the world. All my life i wondered if my luck would change, and i would become a famous poet sum day. My illusions of becoming a poet were decreasing as i grew older. But still i had two notebooks full of poems, full of hate. i had so much inside of me that i knew by writing poems i took out all my anger. Mr. Jones inspired me all the time, he would put my hopes up. He told me that one day we will be free. But i never saw it coming but one day i had the courage to escape and go to Canada in the underground railroad. Our Master had took us to Mississippi to sell us because we were getting to old for him i was 45 and Mr.Jones was 70. When we were taking a break and the master was asleepp we took off to the entrance to the railroad lead by a kind man named Harriet Tubman. Luckily i made it threw but not Mr. Jones. When i saw Canada i was like WHOA !! it was alot different than Atlanta. It was really cold and i started working as a babysitter and then meet one of the kids momma and she discovered my talent as a poet and i finally became what i always wondered to be. That wonder now became a wish come true.

VALUES come from______????

Everyone has a different way of thinking therefore we value certain things more than others. People develop there own way of valuating by examples of there families actions, there cultures, and not only does our values come from our families, but I take the media as a hug influence in our way of thinking one of them is our values. that’s were our values come from.
What I value compared to other people is very controversial due to how other people were raise An example can be a rich family with a poor family. A poor person might value material things such as a TV because they had to work hard in order to purchase a TV or other expensive materials. And that’s how they raise there kids, by showing them to take care of there things and valuating the things that were hard to reach. On the other hand the rich families wont value material objects as much because they really didn’t put so much effort to get it and they know that if they don’t take care of it they can buy it again. A rich family can value power,fame, fashion and popularity,and money. What we value also influences in what our media says. For example, in teen TV shows they demonstrate teenagers going out with friend drinking and going to teen parties and they also show how teens rely on there friends for every problem they have, instead of going for help to a family member. The media is sending a message to me saying that family is not important that is all about friends. TV is not the only source of media that can influence in what we value music and radios. The modern music lyrics talk about money, power and respect out in the streets, the music videos shows the artist exposing there expensive cars, big houses, jewelry, fashion, beauty. Us as teenagers can be influenced by the media in order to be the coolest person in school or the streets.

its me

Tell us something interesting you did that no one in the class has done

I believe that not most people eat peanut butter and jelly sandwich with pickles which is what i do.

Provide three adjectives about your self
Creative, joyful and active are probably three adjectives that describe me or my personality.

Brief history on your name

The meaning of Viridiana is joyful, glooming, and juvenile, but its known as a Latin female name

that comes from "viridis", meaning "green". The name viridiana was also a name of an Italian saint.

15 goals that i will like to accomplish by July

1. be organize
   
2. get a higher rank
   
3. get a job
   
4. join the softball team
   
5. get my driving permit


6. read an interesting book
   
7. get along with my cousins


8. learn how to cook


9. go to six flags
   
10. go ice skating to downtown


11. learn new tricks on roller-skating


12. get nose pierced


13. visit California in spring break


14. join the color guard team
    
15. visit the John Hancock