Red Scarf Girl Post #2

After Ji-li's dad blew it and she was sad,.....soooo much happened! The communist leader guy (Mao Zedong) has made ALL these rules about fourolds (which is like kind of Americanish things.) People aren't allowed to have any of those and if they do those things will be taken away and they'll be embarrassed in front of everyone who's watching. There was a da-zi-bao written about Ji-li (which is a poster that says all these "bad" things about her.) She had to go and force her aunt with her classmates to read aloud a da-zi-bao about her. They fired their housekeeper (but also a really good friend of the family) and she suddenly found out that her grandfather was a landlord and that's like really bad in the eyes of all the supporters of Mao Zedong. She's an outcast from other people in her school, and pretty much anyone who knows her. She's been going through even harder times than before with the dance thingy, and it's getting more and more depressing, scary, and stressful. Hopefully it will get better soon!!!

"Red Scarf Girl" Post #1

"Red Scarf Girl" so far, is about this girl named Ji-li and she's going to school. She's really good at like taikwondo, I think, and she performs for her class and there was this lady there that was from this dance academy place and she said that Ji-li was really good and flexible so she asked her and a few other students to go and try out for the dance academy. Ji-li was really excited....but then her father like totally blew and said that she shouldn't try out because they would have to have political backgrounds on her family and he said that would be bad. She asked him why, but he would tell her. So she got really upset and now she's really sad and bummed out in life. That's my 1st blog entry on "Red Scarf Girl."

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Secret....sssshhhhhhh

Ummmmm......I have never just kept a secret to my self. Not saying that I'll tell other people's secrets, but if I have a secret of my own I'll always tell someone. Usually one of my really close friends or my family. I know there are always secrets going around in middle school...usually about who people like or who is dating and stuff like that, but that's probably all the secrets that I've ever had. I've never let any secrets get out to people unless I want to tell them. So..most of my secrets have never been told, but I never really had any secrets in the first place. There was one time though, when we were hosting a surprise birthday party for someone and accidentally I let it slip. It kind of ruined the whole thing, but not too many people got mad at me. I think secrets are not things that you should joke around about and maybe give hints to if you're not supposed to. It may not be hurting you, if it's your secret, but if it's someone else's secret it's really important to them and you should respect their privacy and be very grateful that they trusted you enough to tell you. Live up to that trust and don't let your friend down. Secrets are special and they're only for you to know and whoever you tell. Not for someone else to know that you think "won't tell anybody." Everyone has secrets sooner or later in their life and they shouldn't all be told. Sometimes secrets are meant to always be secrets and never be let out. So that's my opinion on what secrets are and...that was pretty much all of my past secrets. Sorry it's not that interesting.=)

COURAGE!!

Courage. Hmmmmm.....I don't know if there was ever a time in my life when I was like truly "courageous." The only thing I can really think of was when I was like 7 or 8 years old and my family really wanted to go on this rollercoaster ride that was like HUMONGOUS and I really didn't want to go because I was totally freaked out. It had 2 loopdy-loops and the hill at the beginning was the highest I've ever seen! But eventually they talked me into it, even though I was really scared, and it turned out to be a lot of fun. So I guess that was my courageous moment in my life. Now rollercoasters are my absolute most favorite rides at amusement parks and the bigger the better!! So I guess that was like a turning point in my life so I went from totally freaking out, to EXTREME DARE DEVIL! I still get scared when I go on really freaky rollercoasters, but courage isn't supposed to be not being scared. It's supposed to be getting past the point of freaking out because you're so scared and doing what is really important then. So in my case it was really important to go on that rollercoaster, and it turned out to be tons of fun!!