Anne's Diary Questions pg 832

1. The families must obey strict rules to avoid discovery. Which rules will be hardest for you to follow? Why? The rule that will be hardest for me to follow will be to be quiet for 11 hours, since they had to make no noise for almost 11 hours so they won't discover them. I think this will be the hardest one for me to keep because when I'm with my family I will be the most loudest one, and just won't stop talking.

2. (a.) In Scene 1, what objects does Mr. Frank find in the secret rooms? The objects that Mr. Frank finds in the secret rooms were a white glove and a scarf, that belonged to Anne and even her diary which Miep gives him.

(b.) How are these objects connected with the rest of the act? These objects are connected with the rest of the act because later on they are used in the act, the glove was part of Anne's dressing in which she used in an occasion, and the Diary was the object that lead us to the act and story of her.

3. (a.) What special meaning does Hanukkah have for the families? The special meaning that Hanukkah has for the families is because it is a Jewish celebration, celebrating re dedication of the holy temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century before Christ E.


(b.) What do Anne's presents show about her? Anne's presents show that she really cares about her holidays and that she will always keep the traditions no matter what. It also shows that she is not selfish and that she gives everyone a present no matter if she don't like them. For example she gave one to Peter, even though she didn't like him.


(c.) Why do the others act with enthusiasm to their presents? The others act with enthusiasm to their presents because they never thought they will get something that year since they had to be hidden they weren't allow to go outside to buy presents, they were amuse when they saw Anne had presents for them. They also acted with enthusiasm because Anne gave almost all of them what they needed, liked or wanted.

4. "There are no locks that anyone can put on your mind." How does Anne prove that is true?
Anne approves that this statement is true by not listening to others opinion, because even thought the Nazis, Germans and all these people involve in the holocaust made Jews suffer and treated them like garbage she still thought that people were nice and had a nice part and heart on them. Anne didn't care about what other people thought and nobody really changed her mind on how she thought about people, nobody couldn't change her mind and lock it there.

5. What is the historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding? The historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding is when they emigrated to Holland and Hitler takes power over the land. The Franks were Jewish, and things got worse for Jews, they will kill every single Jew they find and send them to camps were they will be locked up and die, the Franks didn't want to go through this suffering that they decided to take the risk to go into hiding.

(b.) What effects does this situation have on their daily lives? The affect that this situation has on their daily lives is the hope that one day they will be free and thinking every single day how they are risking their lives and in what danger they are when the Nazis find them in hiding.

6. In scene 2, Anne and Peter discuss the stars of David on their clothes.
(a.) What affects do the Nazis intend the wearing of the stars to have on the Jews? The wearing of the star was a way the Nazis recognize who was Jewish and who wasn't, the Nazis will treat anyone who wore that bad because they'd didn't like Jewish people, and also maybe it was symbol the German made them wear to show them that it was their property.

(b.) What background information about the war and the Nazis' treatment of the Jews helps you to link this cause with its intended effects? It helps me link this cause with its intended effect because the Jewish weren't treated fairly and it wasn't fair for them to go hungry and in hiding just because of their race.

7. Reveals Character and Relationship

Anne - Anne gives a present to everyone even thought if she didn't like them. For example she gives one to Peter and she really didn't like him. When Mr. Dussel was going to move in, Anne was willing to give her room up so he could sleep there. This shows that Anne has a good relation ship with everyone and is not a selfish person.
Advances the action of the plot
When the Franks, the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel hear a noise downstairs and know a thief is robbing the house and they make noise accidentally they loose their hope because now someone knows that they are hiding up there.
Develops the conflict
When the thief tricks on them and a a car pulls down the street one day and men voices are heard all over the house they know that they have found them. They give them five minutes to get their stuff and Peter gives Anne a kiss saying goodbye.

8. After Mr. Kraler asks if Jan Dussel can join the Franks and the Van Daans in hiding, what does the dialogue among the characters reveal about their personalities?
The Dialogue reveals that the Van Daans were selfish because they didn't want Mr. Dussel to move in because the food wouldn't be enough and that shows that they only care about themselves and not other persons. The Franks reveal that they really care because they approved Mr. Dussel move in.

50 Things I Learn About the Holocaust

1. The Nazis came to power in Germany on 1933, they thought that Germans were "racially superior", and that Jews weren't worth it, they wanted to get rid of all "inferior races".

2. Adolf Hitler is appointed to Germany which had a population of 566,00 Jewish people.

3. The Nazis burn the Reichstag building, which is the German government building to create crisis atmosphere.

4. On 1934, Hitler passed laws that didn't allow Jews to have freedom, later on August 19, 1934 he got 90% of germans vote to approve his new powers.

5. Hitler was the one who started everything, he was like the boss who gave the orders to Germany people, the guilty one.

6. Hitler wanted to kill everyone that was different from them, he wanted to make the world perfect, but only succeeded in killing millions.

7. Hitler was also part Jewish, and he was killing people of his own.

8. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889.

9. After the beginning of World War II in 1933 the Jews were taken away from their homes and sent to ghettoes and concentration camps.

10. After the war, the camps were turned into memorial and museums.

11. Germans didn't only kill jews but also other people that were different from them. For example, they killed religious people like Jehova's Witnesses, homosexuals, Gypsies, poles Russians and others.

12. In 1933 the Jewish population was over nine million people.

13. After the war only one-third of jewish people were left, that means two-thirds were killed.

14. Today if they find out someone who was part of this Holocaust they will automatically send them to jail.

15. Jews and other different people different from the germans were killed and died of starvations, persecutions, maltreatment, and bunch of other violence the Germans did to them.

16. When the war ended the few of the Jews that survived emigrated to the United States, Israel, and other nations.

17. Germans killed millions of children, especially Jews. They also killed gypsies children, and german children that were mentally ill, handicapped, and physically bad.

18. Hitler's reason for killing handicapped children was because they consider them "unworthy of life".

19. Children wer killed and maltretaed in different ways. For example children were killed when they arrived in killing centers, and children were also killed after their birth or in instiitutions.

20. Sometimes children in concentration, and ghetto camps will survived because prisoners will hid them.

21. Children were used for medical experiments when they were killed.

22. 1.5 children were killed.

23. Catholic priests and nuns were also Nazi's target.

24. Hans Frank, the Nazi governor said that they don't ask nothing from the jews, that the only ting they asked is for them to dissapear.

25. On November 15, 1940, Nazis sealed jews in homes with big walls, and there they would treat them bad and Jews couldn't go outside or they got shot because they couldn't have contact with the outside world.

26. His sister was mentally reatarded and she and Hitler had a really close realationship.

27. There are some people that believe that the holocaust never existed.

28. There were different kinds of camps- Ghettos, concentration camps, forced labor camps, and extirmination camps.

29. “Holocaust” is derived from the Greek words “completely burnt”.

30. The first victims of the Holocaust were people with disabilities

31. There were about 5 million non-Jewish victims which means 5 million people were not Jews but other race that were violated.

32. Germans created ghettos to segregate jews from the nazis, and they lived under bad conditions.

33. The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw Ghetto, where over 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.

34. Adolf Hitler was doing well in school, but at the age of 16 he quit to go to school.

35. The Nazi's were people who were strongly anti-communist, antisemitic, racist, nationalistic, imperialistic, militaristic.

36. They would gas people in a van.

37. Pregnant women were claimed not able to work, so they kill them or get abortions.

38. Women were raped and abuse in camps.

39. They wore a jacket called the julian noga prisoners jacket.

40. The Germans made Jews work in plants and factories with out getting pay.

41. The Einsatzgruppen killed men, women and children and then they burn them in mass graves.

42. Hitler decide to commit suicide because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in hate and in jail.

43. Girls were dressed as guys and had to look like guys when they went to concentration camps.

44. Germans found new ways on killing alot of people at once, they used poison gases or bombs.

45. Jewish kids that went to school with germans had to stand in front of the class, and they will get insulted.

46. Jewish people wouldn't commit suicide because it was aginst their religion.

47. Jewish and Germans had different stars symbol, the Jewish star had 6 points and the Germans had a 5 point star.

48. Just a few people in camps survived to tell their stories.

49. Genozide still happens now days, But The Nazi holocaust as the worsest.

50. When the war ended in 1945 jewish and victims came out to be really skinny and had critic health problems.

IF you had to blame someone or something for the outcasts deaths who/what would you blame and why?
-Uncle Billy
-citizens of Poker Flat
-bad luck
-outcasts

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If I had to blame someone for the outcasts deaths I would blame the outcasts themselves. I would blame the outcasts themselves because they were the ones who made their own decisions to become who they were. If it wasn't because of them and who they turn out to be, they would of never been kicked out of Poker Flat. I think its their own fault because they decided to be robbers, prostitutes, or whatever bad things they were because they wanted to, even though they knew that consequences will soon come. When their bad luck came it was all because they deserve it and now they had to go through it. This is why I blame the Outcasts themselves for their death.

Desiree's Baby

He re-read the letter over and over again. "No it can't be true!" He cried. He looked around to see if somebody was looking "I can't be black!!" he whispered in a loud voice making sure no one listened. Unfornutally that didn't help at all. He wish he was death, he didn't have a right to live, he was black and that meant he wasn't worth it. "How could this be! Why mother?"

Armand left the fire on and just went into his house and started to cry. He thought about everything "I shouldn't let her go. Desiree come back, I need you!" He thought about it and rushed outside to look for Desiree, it was too late she had already left. He wanted to apoligize, he wanted to go to Valmode and bring Desiree back with his son, but he couldn't present himself this way. He had to get over this first and will then go and bring the women he mostly loved back. He didn't know what to do, what was he going to tell Desiree, Will Desiree accept him the way he is or will she just leave and feel sorry for him. All these thoughts just made Armand loose his strenght to go see Desiree.

He looked outside the window, and saw how his slaves worked hard. He felt embarrass of who he really was. He was one of them, he had the black blood inside him, he had slavery inside him. He should be one of them, and t just made him fell sorry for all of them. He just wanted to die. He went to the mirror and looked at himself. "..my skin is fair. Look at my hand; its whiter than yours." Desiree's words repeated in his head. He was ashame for blaming her when it really was him. He looked once again in the mirror and just couldn't hadle imagining himself as a black person. He started to punch the mirror and just broke it.

He spent days without eating, and just wouldn't do nothing. One day he ended up in the hospital, and everybody knew about it, but they didn't know why he was going through this big depression, he wouldn't tell no one.

Flowers for Algernon

If I was given the chance to take an operation to get much smarter I won't do it because it will be too risky and not worth it. I won't do this because if you have this you will only value it for a while, you will fall in love with your skills you have, and suddenly they will all be taken away from you because you know its temporary. I also won't do it because you never know what will happpen, its an experiment an you just won't know if it will function or just do nothing. I think it will only be a waste of time. I also won't want to be really smart because that way you can loose some friends because they will get annoyed with you. For Example when Charlie became smart and people realized it, they got jelous and didn't talk to him anymore, but when he came back to work in the factory as himself his friends that once use to be the persons who made fun of him were defending him from the person who took advantage of him. Anyways I'm happy that atleast I know how to read and write, and thats just important and I don't think its that neccessary to be really smart.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Explain what this story says about each of these issues:-FAMILY-AGE-BEAUTY. Use examples from the story to support your explanations for each.


Family was a big issue in the book of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I think that in this story the word Family didn't have a meaning. As you read in the book you see that there is no respect love and support in the Buttons Family, they never socialize as a family. This shows that they really don't care about the family, and don't know what it means. For example as you read in the story you can see that Benjamin didn't get respect for who he was, nobody loved him that way he was, and he had no support. Sometimes people will make fun of him when he will say that he was a newborn baby, when he wants to go to college thay don't accept him because he is to old, when he goes to the colonel thay don't accept because he is too young whe he really is old. His parents can't accept him the way he is until they get use to him so it means they really didn't love him, Benjamin's son hates the benjamin is and looks at him as a weirdo. Benjamin doesn't have any support and has to go through everything alone, the critizes and the problems. As you can see when Benjamin has his own family, he don't know what a family is because later he don't love his wife but feels embarass of her because she is to old when he looks young, His son doesn't want to hang out with him because he looks to old to be Benjamin's son.



Age is another big issue in this Story. Age is a really weird action for Benjamin, and a really uncommon thing. Each time he is one year old he gets younger instead of getting older. Age is backwards here, he born as an old man and gets younger as time passes, and he knows one day he will be a baby and everything will turn dark. You could see age is a really important thing, age is required for everything. You can't go to college if your too old because when Benjamin goes to college when he is 18 they don't accept because he looks to old and doesn't look like 18. When he goes to the colonel to get his position he don't get accepted because he looks to young when he really is old enough to take the position. In this story you could also see that in love there is no age a young women could marry an old man, or a young man can marry an old women, but the most important thing is to love each other and not be enbarrass with who you are.



Beauty is another issue in The Case of Benjamin Button. In this story they will make Benjamin look ugly throughout his life. When he was newborn they wouldn't like him because he looked to old and when he was an older person his son wouldn't accept him because he looke to young to be his father. Benjamin and his relatives will always have to worry for him to look the right way. Benjamin couldn't help it, so he just let it on.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter3-7

After reading chapters 3-7, predict three problems you think Benjamin will encounter and give your solution for each.



Three problems I predict Benjamin will encounter

1. Will be that suddenly he will divorce his wife because she is getting older and he is getting younger. A solution for this will be to tell her wife the truth because he won't want to hurt her or cheat on her, I think it will be better to divorce her. 2. He will suddenly be a real new born baby, and it would be like if he had died. A solution for this problem will be to get a plan ready on what he's gonna have to do when this happens because he's going to leave everything behind even his son. He is going to loose all his knowledge and skills he once use to have. 3. He would be a kid when his son is a man. The best solution for this is to tell his son the thruth since he is becoming younger when his son is getting older, one day Benjamin will loose his skill and the best thing to do is teach him everything he knows before it is too late, that way he would be a good father for him.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter 2

Roger is so overly concerned with how Benjamin looks and is worried about what people are going to say. What should he do?

If Roger is so overly concerned of how Benjamin looks and is worried about what people are going to think why dosen't he lies and say that the old man is not his son but just an old friend. He could lie and say that his real son died after an hour born. I think maybe that will be the best way on doing this.

The Curious case of Benjamin Button, Chapter 1

What would you have done if you were Roger Button in Chapter 1?

What I would have done if I was Roger Button, was refuse to beleive that, he was my baby. When I will first see him I would be shock because my baby was born older than me, and I would also be ambarrass because that was just not normal for a baby to be born older than his father. I don't know what I would have decided to do with my baby if he was older than me. It would be a hard one to choose from keeping him or just reject him.

Come back

I need you to come back
This heart can’t really rest if your not next to it
Why keep laughing, when I feel you aren’t here
Why I want the seas, if my boat will soon sink
Why keep on breathing, if you're really far away
Now I’m here sitting thinking when I gave you my back
My heart fades of thirst, but you still won’t come back
Now I became convince that nothing matters in life, if you aren’t here next to me
I felt the sun too dark, I felt something was missing in me
I saw you and the hole was filled inside me
The sound of silence, the one I don’t want to hear
The minutes pass and pass, in my dark solitude
Every minute of silence I think of you
But you still won’t come back, and I''m missing you too much
I guess falling in love with you was the biggest mistake I've done
It really hurts me now, here deep in my heart
Because you wont come back.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

It was burning my eye, the sun was burning me and it just woke me up. It has been sunny these last days, we haven't gotten nothing, but sun. It has been a century since I haven't seen a drop of rain falling from the sky in this town. I just remembered that I had to spend the night outside. My owner died 1 year ago, fighting in the Civil War, and since then his wife couldn't take it no more and is always grumpy. Yesterday I accidentally broke a plate for playing around with Jack, we were playing catch inside the kitchen and as soon as the plate felled, Sarah, Jack's mother was kicking me out the house. She became strict, mean, and selfish that day when she figured out her husband had just died. She became worried and started to see the economy problems without her husband, and unffornutaly his precense is still alive because I feel him and see him.

I saw Bruno up too, "Ready to travel to the West!" he said. Bruno was the family horse, he came from Mexico and had worked with Vaqueros (Cowboys), but after a terrible storm when the barbed wire broke, he ran off, and somehow ended up here. "What you mean traveling to the West?" I asked him. "Well I overheard Sarah saying moving to the West for more apportunities."Bruno told me. I don't know why humans can't hear us, but us animals can communicate with each other without people knowing. I went through the back door and walked into the Kitchen, now I knew what Bruno meant. There were boxes packed everywhere, and I saw Esme getting her kids ready, she was dressing up Alicia, while telling Josh to get the horse ready. "Mommy were are we going?" Jack asked her. Jack was my favorite one, he was the youngest of all, Alicia was the second youngest, and Josh was the oldest. Jack is the one who pays more attention to me than anyone, and thats' why I like him more. "Were getting out of this horrible South and moving to your gradma's in the West" She told Jack. Even thought Jack didn't understand why, he just followed.


"Chan! Your up, guess what? Mom said we had to move to the West! Do you know where that is?" Jack ran up to me yelling and hugging me. I didn't know how to answer him. Mom said getting to the West will take us less time if we go on railroad. I got exited and started to think how the train will look. We got to the train station and the train arrived as soon as we came, we got in and sat down. Bruno had to go on a seperate car on the back of the train. We were all so tire because we had to walk an hour to get to the train station, and know we were here resting for three hours with hunger. I saw that Alicia, Josh, Jack, and Esme had fallen asleep on the train and when I saw them it made me fall asleep too, but I just couldn't it was too hot in here. Finally I felled asleep.

I woke up, not beleiving what I saw with my own eyes. The train had arrived to the West and I was surprised for what was happening here. Was it the same in the South. Everybody was getting off the train and as soon as Jack woke up he started screaming all exited "Look Chan! Look mom! Its RAINING!" We all got off and I started runnig and barking of happiness. At last I felt free. We stayed outside for a while playing in the rain enjoying the West. We finally arrived at the grandma's house and as soon as we walked in She had a pie ready for us.

We just remember it was Josh's and my owner's Birthday, they were both born on the same day and month but different year. All I wished right now is for him to come back and spend this day with us too. As soon as I turn around I saw him once again. I know he was taking care of us and will always do. We were all eating pie, pumpkin pie Josh's favorite, and Esme was giving pie to the horse while I layed my head on her legs. I felt safe here because his precense was here with us. Josh was so hungry that he was the first one getting the first piece, while Jack just stared, and Alicia trying to give food to the horse.Esme was happy here because here women had more rights.

Pet Peeves

1} When my friends or family ditch me to go with there boyfriend.
2} When a person whispers or murmmurs something on someones ear in front of my face.
3} When a person says 'friends 4 ever!' or 'best friend till the end'when they really don't mean it. 4} When friends or family tell you they'll have your back on anything, and when you really need them they aren't there.
5} Waking up early to go to school.
6} When my friends get mad, and don't talk to me.
7} When my mom doesn't let me go outside.
8} When my brother snitches on me.
9} Having to go to the dentist or doctor.
10} Owners not cleanin after their dogs poop.
11} Getting a detention for getting late.
12} Seeing dishes on the sink, and washing them.
13} Realizing that they were two faces, and hypocrites.
14} People calling private, and not answering.
15} People critisizing me or friends.
16} Seeing people being followers instead of them being leaders.
17} Friends saying there my friends, but only use me when they need me. (Like they only come with me when their "real best friends doesn't talk to them" or when they need to tell something to their Mothers.
18} People wanting to start fights.
19} Seeing boys or girls going on the wrong way of life.
20} Seeing parents that don't even care or pay attention to their daughters or sons.
21} Teenagers giving up and droping out of school. (Not caring to graduate)
22} When I see people that once used to be my friends, and now are hanging out with the wrong people.
23} People not keeping their promises.
24} Cheaters, that cheat on their girl/boyfriends or friends that go out with their friends boy friend or girlfriend.
25} Seeing a girl or boy cry for a girl or boy that wasn't even worth it.
26} Waiting in line to pay for something.
27} People talking behing my back.
28} People who don't brush their teeth.
29} When people chew like a cow.
30} When parent makes decisions for you.

The Secret

It was my best friend's deepest, darkest secret and it would be a hard one to keep. I didn't know what to do, I was confused. What was the right thing to do? Tell someone, or just keep it to myself. Anyways either will bring conflict. Telling someone will bring betrayed conflict with mybestfriend, and keeping it by myself will bring conflict with everyone else by not telling no one, or trying to stop her.

She told me that only me was going to know where she was and what happen. I asked her that why just not tell your parents about it, but she refused to do that. I decided not to tell no one about it and keep it to myself. It's really difficult, and hard to do this when you see her mother crying and asking "Where is my daughter? Why did she live? Somebody has to know!" when your the person, the only person in the room who knows, but only answers "I don't know." It's hard to keep it when everyone comes up to you, knowing that you were her bestfriend and has to know, but just won't tell. Seeing the guilt on you, and feeling guilty is the only thing that makes you open your mouth and wan't to say it, but when the word betrayal appears in your mind and eyes you stop.


That day I didn't know what to do or say. Was I suppose to give her advice. How was I suppose to be a real friend. I just stayed quite because I didn't know what was right. She had told me about it before but I never beleive she was going to do it, but she really left this time. She was in New York, but nobody knew where she was. She had dissapeared for everyone else, but for me she was still alive and in good shape. She was 2 month pregnant, and this was her best way of telling her mom she had done a big mistake. She had left the state to another world without parents and without help, only of her young and abandonent cousin. This was all messed up, but I just couldnt betrayed her.

Now I feel guilty about everything that is happennig around here. I just can't stand, putting a foot on the house that once used to be her home before she left. Seeing those faces, that wonder where their daughter is, and are full of hope that one day their daughter will be standing at the door apolygazing for all the suffering she has done to them, when I know that the day was very far away.

It all started that day when she told me that she hasn't gotten her period for a month now. She was scared but I kept on telling her that it was all going to be allright. I knew that because she had always gotten her period late. She started planning everything out, she was going to leave Chicago and move to New York where supposely her cousin will help her and give her a shelter to leave below. She was going to ditch her home in the middle of the night, when her parents are asleep and fly to New York. I never paid any attention to this because I knew this was not going to happen, but this time it really did.

It all happen when I was going to go to sleep and the phone started to ring. It was her, and she was telling me today was the day she was leaving. She wanted to tell me bye and that she will really miss me, but I just couldn't let her go. I told my mom I was going somewhere and will be back as soon as I can. "Don't leave! It just not going to work! I will help you get through it, and I will never leave you alone no matter what, But don't leave!" But she just couldn't hear me, she told me that she doesn't want to give her mom a heart attack or see her face when she tells her that she is pregnant at age 15 from a guy that droped out of school. I started to cry,"Just wait and see her face or have a heart atack when she figures out that her daughter left her house at the middle of the night with no trace, thinking no one knows." I told her.

Now she calls me and tells me that it was all big mistake, that without the help of your parents nothing goes right, but she is afraid to come back through all these years, and her parents thinking that she is heaven with god or resting in peace somewhere. She is afraid seeing her mom's face, when she tells her she has a grandaughter she never knew she existed, without a father. I'm even afraid she coming back when everybody figures out that I knew where she was all this time, but never said a word about it. Im afraid of people figuring out that I still had communication with her through al this time but never mentioned it to no one.

I really don't know what to do, but I am willing to live with that secret as long as she wants me to, and I will always help her. Until now she is still in New York with her five year old daughter and one day I know she will come back, and that will be really soon because she can't stand it over there, and I am willing to confront any problems.

Her Mysterious Death

Her death was due to mysterious circumstances and I was assigned to the case. It was the night of October 28, 2005 when Ricardo had called the police office to report his daughter’s disappearance. I was assigned to the case, so I went quickly to see what I could do to help.

“My daughter was a really calm girl, she never liked to go out nowhere, but that day she left, and I don’t know where she is or why she left.” Ricardo had said

On October 27, 2005 Natalia Waltz, was left home alone, while her parents went out shopping outside the city. Her parents took both of their young boys with them, but left Natalia alone in the house.

“She didn’t want to go, she told me that it was going to be boring anyways, and that she might as well stay here watching TV.” Natalia’s mother said. “And so I let her stay, since she was big enough to take care of herself.”

Natalia was 16 years old when she disappeared. When her parents came back from shopping she wasn’t home anymore.

“We looked all over the house, but we couldn’t find her. I don’t know what happen to her.” Her mother, Alicia had told us crying.

We started to investigate this case. Later on we found out that her friends had come over to her house that day after their parents had left. The neighbors had said that there were two teenage girls and two teenage boys, and that they were inside Natalia’s house for at least an hour. Natalia’s 12 year old brother Mark had said that he had heard Natalia talking over the phone with Jose, one of her friends, earlier that morning. They were talking about a group project they had to do. Now we guessed that those teenage kids were her project partners. We rushed upstairs to Natalia’s room and search it. We finally found her phone book, we found Jose’s number and dialed it on the phone. First he didn’t answer, but on the second try he did.

“Yes, we were working on a school project, but when we finish organizing our ideas Johnny, Haley and I left. Jessica stayed behind with Natalia, and I don’t know for what. Later on I don’t know what else happen.” Jose had told us.

We tried contacting Jessica, but we couldn’t. Her mother recognized the name Jessica, she said it was Natalia’s best friend, and that today she was flying to Mexico. We drove to her house really fast, and Ricardo had volunteered to stay behind and take care of the kids. When we got to Jessica’s house she had already left. We went back to Natalia’s house, and there she was, Jessica talking to Ricardo. She looked scared and stunned, what was wrong with her. We talked to Jessica and asked her some questions, she answer them all and some with out answers. She told us that she had left after she finished planning the surprise party to a friend, but then didn’t know what happen. We let her go, I gave her my card with my phone number on it, and told her to call when she knew something. As soon as I told her that, she looked at me and then took a look at Ricardo who was hugging Natalia’s mother whom was crying, and took off running. That was weird.

I wanted to solve this case, but I didn’t know how. I had to think, look for more evidence. I’ve never failed a case this 12 years as a detective, and I wasn’t going to give up. Where could Natalia be? Why did she live? What happen to her? All of these questions that had to be answered, but only the criminal and the victim knows the answers, or even someone else but doesn’t have the bravery to tell us, and help this family move on. I gave Natalia’s family my card with my phone number on it telling them to call me whenever they find something, and left thinking of the answers to all these questions I had.

The next day a man report finding a body in the woods, in a very cold night. The cops went and identified the body as Natalia Waltz. She had blood all over her face. It looked like beat downs and she had been raped. I called Natalia’s family and reported to them what we found out. They came as soon as they can, and the mother started crying while the father looked at his daughter’s death body, stunned. I asked questions to the man who had found the body. He said that he comes to the woods every single day to look for wood but the day before he didn’t see nothing, so it means someone left the body here this morning.

We took Natalia’s body and examined it, we couldn’t find nothing because someone had washed her body and just left it there. We couldn’t find any fingerprints. This was going to be difficult. At least I got my questions answer, she was nowhere to be found because she was death. She got raped and violated and that’s what happen. But now I needed to know who did this and why? That’s when my phone rang, and I picked up

“Hello, detective Paul Can I help you?” I said.

“Yes, I know who killed Natalia. It was……” there was silence for a long minute, and then there was a beep on the other end.

I recognized the voice. It was Jessica, Natalia’s best friend. I started to suspect on her. Maybe she was the killer, no but it didn’t make sense because she was not a guy. So she knows who killed Natalia, but she won’t say. We had to find Jessica. I typed Jessica’s name on the computer, but nothing came out she had no thickening, or has never been arrested before. I started to think, so if she was in Mexico she had called from there, but why won’t she tell us. Maybe they threatened her not to tell. She was our only hope and had to find her.

The next day I called Natalia’s parents, and told her about the call I’ve received. I asked her some questions about how Jessica used to behave when she came with Natalia, and they told me that she was a really nice person to them.

“How much have you known Jessica for?” I asked them.

“2 years.” Ricardo said.

“Since she was born.” Alicia said.

“So which one is it?” I asked

“Since she was born.” the mother repeated. “Ricardo doesn’t know because I just married him 4 years ago.” Natalia’s mother told me. I stared at them while Ricardo gave a look to Alicia. Now I understand that Ricardo wasn’t Natalia’s real father, but step-father.

The next day, I went out to the city, and stopped by a store. I recognized that person there. It was Jessica, I thought she had gone to Mexico. She saw me and as soon as she saw me she started to run I catched up to her and grabed her. “I need to talk to you.” At first she rejected it, but later she came with me. I told her that she needed to tell me what she knew, or else she will be considered one of the suspects of Natalia’s death and will be put on jail.

“No it wasn’t me! They will kill me if I tell you.” She screamed. Now I knew that she was threatened by some one.

I told her that nothing will happen to her if she tells us who it was because those person’s will be put on jail and will never hurt no one again. “In other words it will help you, and all the people surrounding the neighborhood where she was killed, people will go out in peace because the killer will be in jail.”

“Remember that day when I stayed behind with Natalia, she was telling me, how her parents treated her. She told me that they really didn’t care about her. Her step-father sexually harrased her, but she had never told her mother. and she told me that if she told her mother she would never beleive her, because her mother was really in love with her stepfather." She finally told.

We figured out the whole plot here. that night on October 28 Natalia was left home alone but not for long. Their parents had left town to visit Alicia's mother. They left the rest of the children at the Granny's house and came back for Natalia. Jessica who'm was there hiding under Natalia's bed saw everything. Her parents came home drunk, Jessica guessed they had gone somewhere else and forgot to go pick up their kids. That day Natalia got tired seeing her stepfather like that, so she told her mom to live him and go somewhere elese, her mother refused to do that. Since Natalia didn't find other way to convince her she told her mother the truth about everything her stepfather does to her, to see if that helped. Offortunately it didn't help a bit, her mother refused to beleive her daughter and finally went toward her husband and asked if it was thruth. Ricardo rejected a thousands times that it was not thruth, while Natalia scremed it was truth.

"Don't beleive that stupid daughter of yours, she only does not want me to be with you, so you could be with her father!' Ricardo screamed at Alicia that night." Jessica told us. "She even confessed seeing her stepfather with another girl, her mother just wouldn't beleive her, and that was when the situation just got to far and they stated beating her. They beated her really bad, I was so scared and started to cry."

One thing Jessica had for sure was that after her stepfather raped her that night when they finished beating her up and mother felled asleep, Natalia committed suicide, she cuted her veins and when Jessica finally knew it was safe to leave and went downstairs it was to late. Her parents were sleeping and Natalia was already death. Jessica decided to stay out of trouble and left, but she was sure Natalia's stepfather saw her. The next morning when she passed by Natalia's house too see what was going on, she thought that trhey had confessed their crime but later figurd out that they were being hypocrites. The stepfather told Jessica that she was going to leave to Mexico or dissapeared from here and if she said something she knew she will get killed. Jessica decided to stay out of town until the situation settled down for a while.

We organized the police officers. It was quite that day in the neighborhood, throwing down the door and hearing the screams and cries of a mother who was the partner of the killer of her own daughter, "What is happening here?" she cried

"You should know what is happening, You knew what was happening when your husband abused your daughter." I said

"What? You must be wrong!" Ricardo said. "Jessica you are going to pay."

We figured out that the next morning after Natalia's death, Ricardo had tooked Natalia's body to a lake and washed it and later left in the woods. Not knowing that we will eventually find out the truth they were planning to move out of the country. He had called the police so nthey wouldn't suspect on them.

For the first time in their lives Ricardo and Alicia were siting in the back seat of a police car. So sad a nd terrible everybody looked at them as bad example as parents. Their reputation was messed up.

How To Make Logandale Better

In my opinion, I think more exploratory and more after school activities will make Logandale a better School. I think this for three different reasons. Different exploratory will entertain students more in school. More fun after school activities will make students stay longer in school. Students will be able to learn and experience more things. Logandale is a great school! Don’t you think this will make it even better?

My first reason is that different and more exploratory will entertain students, and that will make the school better. Some schools don’t have music, gym, art, computers, or library, but if we have these we will be a better school. We will be a better school because there are more chances that students will have what they want to have. They could take different classes, and get prepared for High School. We should work hard to make this exploratory educational and at the same time fun and adventurous, because sometimes it will get boring and students will want to miss that class. We should have more time for our exploratory, that way school will be more fun. For example we could have recess, at least we will have some exercises there, by playing and at the same time its fun. This will make students like Logandale better than other schools because some other schools don’t have exploratory or after schools.

My second reason is that more fun after school activities will make students stay longer in school. If we have more sport activities that students enjoy, they would want to stay after school to join them. We should have sports that boundary schools don’t have, that way students can come here, for example Hockey and skating, and other sports. We should have more educational, fun, and personal clubs in the school, were students can do the things they like. For example we could have a sewing, dance, girls, boys, boys & girls club and more were students can talk and express their feelings, because sometimes they can’t count on their parents. More after school activities will make students want to stay longer at school because they will want to be in after school, and learn more.

My final reason is that students will be able to learn and experience more things. If we have more exploratory especially music we will learn how to play instruments because music is the exploratory that schools don’t have. Many people want to learn how to play instruments but sometimes they can’t because their school don’t give classes. Other Students want to take art classes, but they can’t because there are no classes too. I want to learn how to play the guitar that’s why I want to go to a school where they will give you free lessons. If we have different sport activities after school, we will learn how to play different sports, and our school will be athletic. We can have different kind of clubs were people can learn what they want to learn and talk privately with adults that have experience. Don’t you think the students will learn more and think Logandale is the best school ever?

In conclusion, I think that by having more exploratory and more afterschools will make Logandale a better school, in which people will want to come in. Different exploratory will entertain students more in school. More fun after school activities will make students stay longer in school. Students will be able to learn and experience more things. I believe that this will make Logandale a better school, It wont hurt to try it, Right?

Lorena's Life Story

The day my second baby was born, was on December 22, 1994. I had just had a girl at the beginning of this year, and this time it was a girl again, but at the end of the year! What name was I going to put her? I didn’t know. Until later when I had my baby next to me in the hospital room and my brother came in to visit. "Hey sister! How are you both doing?" He asked excitedly. "So have you though on what name your going to put her?" He asked. "That’s what I was thinking about right now, and I really don’t know. How about you brother, you have any ideas?" I asked him. "How about if we call her Lorena, It’s a nice name." He suggested. "Oh yeah! That’s a really nice name, I might as well name her like that. Lorena Valladares. Ok we got the name." I told him. I decided to name her Lorena Valladares, like my brother had said but didn’t give her a middle name.

Lorena was a calm baby, she wasn’t like her older sister Nancy that used to wake me up at night screaming and didn’t let me sleep all night. She woke up only when she was hungry or was dirty. She started to grew and didn’t have favorites. Her older sister Nancy used to like her father better than me because everytime I’ll carry her she will start to cry. Two years passed and Lorena and Nancy will spent all their time playing together, until I was pregnant again from another girl. Now I had three girls and later on I finally had a boy. My house will be full of screams and fighting all the time. Lorena will fight more with her sister Esmeralda. They never liked each other when they were small, she will always be jelous of her sister Esme and spent their days discussing and arguing.

She started to grow, and it was time for her to go to school. The first day at school she started to cry that she didn't want to go, but then got used to it. I was proud of her because she got good grades, better than her sister. Through 1-4th grade she alwasys got A's and B's, and never went to summer school. She came up to be intelligent, but later when she went to Middle School she started to change. She started to get D's and even F's, maybe it was jus harder for her now.

When she was 13 she finally met her cousins, well actually she had met them before but never got really close to them like she is now. They started to hang out with the family again, and she started ot have more friends. Before she used to be really quite and shy but now she talks to people from the outside. I see my daughter so happy the way things are now, because now she goes out and hang out with family and friends. Sometimes I will have problems with her because she will fight alot with her older sisters Nancy and Daisy.

Now she is 14, in 8th grade and her goal is to graduate and be somebody in life one day. I wish my daughter a wealthy and better future than mines. I really think she will suceed in life and sometimes when I see her grow and grow more it just makes me want to stop time and have that little girl that once used to play wit toys back, thinking that one day she will move out and have a family of her own. She will experience this feeling one time when she is a mother and realize life by herself.

What I wish from Barack Obama?

What I wish from Barack Obama is to Honor our Veterans. I think that Barack Obama should care more about the people who sacrifice their lives for our Country. I think that these people should be honor more especially and thankfully. Its sad when a veteran from our country comes back to the world or back to his life, and people look at them like nothing has happen, when they sacrifice their live for our country.

I think Barack Obama, should like reward each veteran for the things they do for us. They will feel happy when people give them the thanks for fighting for them and for us. It’s not you who’s fighting on war and suffering for every single person living in the nation, Its not you who leaves your family behind to show loyalty to the nation, Its not you who sacrifices your life and sees many people die in war, and its not you who comes back from war to your family and sees that you have lost their love and trust and have to gain back. But I’m sure that if it was you, you will like people to give you attention for what you have done for them.

Barack Obama should make sure that these brave persons fighting in war are never in need for something. That they have everything they need even there family, because I think a veteran will be very happy if they honor them by helping there family out. There family are the ones who suffer too when their love ones go to war, and they even suffer more when they die. The president should send these veterans stuff that they need, and make sure they never go hungry or lack of clothing, or other necessary thing.

I think Barack Obama should at least reward or honor each veteran in some way, giving them thanks for what they have done for us. For the people who die there should be honor more especially because they have given their life to the nation, by being brave enough to fight for us and never giving up until there end came. This is why I wish Barack Obama should focus more on the issue on Honoring our Veterans.

Life Changing Event

An event that changed my life was when I met Sandra, and when I started to hang out with my cousins again. Before I used to stay at home all the time because I really didn’t like to go out. I was the kind of person that really didn't like to hang out with there friends that much. My mom would let me go out, but I just didn't want to, I would only go outside and play with my friends that lived in the building. But when I met Sandra (spider pig), and my cousins it really changed my life because I started to make more friends, and have more adventure in my life. This is my story about how I met Sandra and started to hang out with my cousins again. The day when I first talked to Sandra was a school day. I used to see her at school hanging around with a bunch of people, but I really didn’t talk to her.

The day when I talked to her for the first time was when she walking home alone and I was in front of her, since we live close enough and we go on the same directions to get home, I turned around and she was there walking from school to her home. When I turned back, she smiled at me and said "Hi". I said Hi back. I knew her name but she didn't know mines so I told her my name. I remember that day when we were close to my house there was a guy standing in front of his car. He was smiling at Sandra, and then I looked at Sandra and she said "I swear if that guy keeps on following me Im going to tell my mom to send him to jail!" "Why? He follows you?" I asked her "Yeah! He's always right there waiting for me after school, and I really am getting scared, I swear I think that guy is the clown that kidnapped kids!" She told me. I started laughing because around the block there was a rumor that there were some clowns that kidnapped kids, but they didn't who they were. "Hey can I go to your house until this guy lives? Please!!" She asked me begging me. "Sure" I told her. She stayed inside my house for a little while, and then when they guy left she left too.

The next day I went to school, I saw Sandra there, she came toward me and told me How I was, and I told her fine. This time I asked her who that guy really was. At first she didn't want to tell me, but then I gained her trust and she told me everything about him. It passed some weeks until we started to be real friends. One day after school she invited me home and there we started talking, she told me everything about her life, about what had happened to her, and what is happening to her. I understood her, and then she told me since I was the only one that knew everything about her, and the only one she told everything to I was going to be her bff. She presented me to her family, her parents were really nice to me and also the rest of her family. She knows my family too, so we both know each other well. Since that day I started to go out everywhere with Sandra, we got to parties, shopping, and we even go to the laundry together, and I stay sleepovers at her house. We do almost everything together like sisters. We even lie to people that we are sisters and they believe us. I remember that day when my cousins first bought a computer, since we had one, they wanted one like ours.

I remember that day when my father decided to go to my uncle's house. It was a miracle because we hadn't been inside that house for years. We went to their house and I barely recognize my cousins because they looked so different. Anyways I told them how much I missed them these months and years, and they told us the same thing. We were all so happy that we were together again, we had so much to talk about. When it was time to go I really didn't want to go, I wanted to stay there with my cousins because it was fun there. But since then, we promise to each other that we won't fight again and not talk to each other no matter what. Since that day my cousins, sisters, and I, hang around a lot. We go shopping together, we stay sleepovers at our houses in which we don't sleep all night, and we are even planning to do a lot of stuff together this summer.

Later on, when Sandra and my cousins went to church with me they both met each other, they had there problems, but were over it now. So when I met this persons it really changed my life a lot because now I have a lot of adventures and memories with them. I Trust them both and I love them.

Parents are the best teachers

In my opinion I think that parents are the best teachers a person could have, for 3 different reasons. My three different reasons are that, our parents already know how life really is. There the only ones who will want the best for you. Your parents are the best teacher you could have because they are the ones who know you best. Don’t you think your parents are the only ones who could teach you good enough than anyone else?

My first reason is that our parents already know how life is. Our parents already experienced what were going through right now. They know that you can’t play with your life, and mess it up. They know that life can be bad and good. By our parents knowing this they could give us advice and teach us how to live our life these days because there the only ones who care about us.

My second reason is that there the only ones who want the best for you. Nobody loves and wishes you the best as much as your parents do. There could be people whom you trust that are totally fake and only want to hurt you. There are friends and teacher who will only teach you to do bad things, and that’s not a good teacher. This means that the only persons who could teach you to the right things and won’t hurt you, and are the only ones who want the best for you are your parents.

My final reason is that your parents are the best teacher you could have because they are the ones who know you best. They know what you want, and they could tell you if its good or bad. They know how you live and how you act when your feeling something. There the only ones who you could trust. How can a person teach you and be the best teacher if they don’t know you as well as your parents do?

In my conclusion, I think that the parents could be the best teachers a kid, son/daughter could have. Our parents already know how life really is. There the only ones who will want the best for you. Your parents are the best teacher you could have because they are the ones who know you best. Kids won’t realize it until they turn to be parents, they will understand that the only person who will be the best teacher for its son and daughter are the parents.

A Skill Everyone Needs

A very important skill that everyone needs in order to be successful in world today is to be able to know English. One of the most important languages in the world is English. English is the American language, and since everyone wants to come to America to have a better life they have to know English. English is a very easy language to learn but to know how to speak it well is the problem.

People have to know how to speak, read, and understand English to have a good job here in America. If you can't get a job because you don't know English you can't be successful in life. How can you work here in America if your not going to be able to understand or speak English because almost everyone in America knows English. For example you could be working in a restaurant and somebody asks you where the washroom is at and you don't understand them how are you going to respond back and tell the person where the washroom is at.

You have to know English to study in America too. Teachers in America teach in English, and if you don't know English how are you going to learn and understand. They give you your books written in the language English, not in Spanish. If you don't know English you can’t study here to get a career or to prepare a good future that is in front you. Not only immigrants are the ones who have to study, even citizens because there are citizens that are born here and don't know English but there parent’s or family's language. For example there could be one day that the teacher tells you to study because you are going to have a test the next day. How can you study if you don't understand English that well, or at all.

You can teach your children or even grandchildren English, so they won't have to through what you went. Everyone wants the best or better future for there love ones. If you know English you don't even have to send your children to learn because just by speaking it since they were born the kid will have that language in his mind. Sometimes is good to know 2 languages, but especially English. If you know 2 languages is like being worth double than what you are. Knowing English will help a lot especially because almost everything that is important on the world has English on it, even the most important persons know English.

One thing is to know English and another is to learn how to speak it right and well. people like when a person speaks there language well. I don't mean like speak well that it sounds the correct way but to use it in a good way. Like many people curse in English and that is affecting our language. English it's kind of losing its respect in that way and its real meaning, because there are people who change the words and its meanings. So a skill everyone needs is to be able to know English right or speak it right.

The Best Day Ever

I woke up in the morning and I was very happy and excited, that was weird because I'm never excited or happy when I wake up, I am usually tired even thought I don't do nothing. I guess I was happy because that day was my birthday and I was one year older, it was my fourteen birthday. Yep, 4 years away to being an adult, and 2 years away to havin my liscence for driving. Excited I was because we were only 2 days away from Christmas eve! It was December 22, when my "Best day ever" happened.

So I woke up and I was very hungry and wanted to eat breakfast, and I didn't expect my breakfast being on the table ready. So I decided to make some pancakes for myself but when I went to the kitchen my mom already had breakfast ready for me. She had my stack of pancakes with honey and milk ready on the table for me to eat. "Happy Birthday Lore!" My mom told me, while she hugged me and I hugged her back. "Thanks mom." I said. I ate my panckakes, and was surprised that they tasted differently because theses ones tasted more delicious, and better, I ate all my breakfast and everything went well that morning all my family wished me happy birthday.

At 12 pm, my friend came over to my house and asked me if I wanted to go shopping and hang out in the stores. "I don't have money." I told her. "Lore it's your birthday and im inviting you to go shopping, so that means im going to buy you watever you want." she said back. "Oh wow! like how much money do you have?" I asked her, making fun of her. "200 bucks." she said. "Ha ha! Ya right...I beleive you" I told her. "Ok then, look" she said while she was taking the money out, show it to me. "Where did you get that from?" I asked her. "It was my allowence, money I had saved and earned." she responded. "Aha! ya right..I know where you got that from!" "Ok then, don't ask, so are we going?" she asked me. "All right you said it!" We went to downtown, and there we went inside stores and tried clothes on, I liked most of them, but they were expensive because they were like 15 to 30 dollars each blouse and pants. "It doesn't matter, Lore, just take it, Ill pay for it." When we were at the cashier paying for my clothes,me and my friend saw that they were paying us less than what they had to. "All the clothes have 70% off." The cashier told us. "Oh wow, thanks." My friend told her. It was already 2:00 o clock and we were walking around downtown, and we decided to go to Navy Pier, there we just wondered around in the stores and had fun in the parks. We finally were hungry and we went to a chinese restaurant near Navy Pier. It was so much fun in Downtown with me and my friend.

I got home like at 4:30pm o'clock. and when I got home my whole family was in my house, even my big sister that almost never came home, my cousins, uncles, aunts, and friends. They had made a surprise party for me. I was so happy! "You thought I forgot about your birthday, right?" My big sister told me. I got a lot of money and presents, and I loved the ipod touch my sister had gaved me. The most thing I loved about that day was that I spend time with my friends and family and I had so much fun. It was "The Best Day Ever"!

Nature Haiku

Waterfall lying under the blue sky

surrounded by green mountains and trees

so beautiful

so lovely

collapsing as it falls and spills

Her smile

When I looked at her smile, I knew she was up to something. She smiled at me very differently from everyone else. Her smile made me think she wanted to say something to me, but she just couldn't. I loved her smile, she had a shy and nice smile, but something behind that smile told me she wanted to tell me something.

Next day, I went to school "Hey Ricardo!" the girls shouted. "Hey girls." I said. My friends were waiting for me in front of the school to hang out and go to the store. "Hey Rick! Come here!" "Hey Ricardo!" I heard my name being shout everywhere, but as soon as I saw her all alone everything stoped for me. She gave me that smile again, I ditched my friends and went toward her. "Hey." I said to her. "Hey there." "Um......."she started to say, but then kept quiet. The bell rang and then she left. I started to feel something about her, I don't know what, but it was something pretty.

I got in class and the teacher was passing the papers for the prom day, and the requierements for it. I really didn't know who to go with, theres been alot of girls who asked me but I just felt like they weren't the ones for me. Afterschool, I met her outside again, and this time I really got to talk to her we started laughing together and she looked like she really had fun with me. I walked her home, and we really enjoy the day. I really liked her, she is like the first girl I really liked and felt something for her. I left her home she gave me that one smile again and as soon as she walked in her house, I had forgotten that I never asked her for her name. "Oh well tomorrow it'll be another day." I said. I had it! I know what to do! I'm going to ask her to he prom, and I'll do it tommorow.

Tommorow in the morning, I went to pick her up, I just couldn't wait to ask her. I knocked at her door and a lady came out "Yes dear,what do you want." she said. "Um.. does this girl live here?" I asked. "Oh, you mean Natalie! Oh I'm sorry she went to New York last night and won't be coming back until next month."She told me. "What?" I said. "yes dear" She said.

Oh well I guess ill have to wait anyways prom was only two months away, and her smile is the one that gives me patience.

25 Things I want to do in my life time

1. Go to Mexico to see all my family.
2. Go to Sixflags or other fun park in the US.
3. Study and go to collage.
4. Have a career as an architect.
5. Spend time with my family and friends.
6. Learn how to play soccer.
7. Keep on playing volleyball.
8. Learn how to speak french.
9. Learn how to speak chinese and italy.
10. Travel the world and learn new stuff.
11. Help my family in everything I can.
12. Get to graduate this year.
13. Be the first one to graduate from collage in my family.
14. Visit every interesting, beautiful, and fun part or place from the US.
15. I want to see my sister and cousins happy in there life.
16. Learn how to swim well.
17. Keep on reading books all my life because they are fun to read.
18. I want to have kids one day.
19. Help my neices move on, and not give up on school.
20. Learn how to write poems.
21. Get a puppy
22. Get my drivers license
23. Understand everything about life.
24. Be a leader not a follower.
25. Have a good, adventorous, and fun life.