& their journey beyond

This film brought up a lot of points that our generation fails to see upon first glimpse. That families were literally torn apart, and it often took family members that lived several weeks to figure out that their family had actually been killed, and exactly how devastating that was for them especially since they had already lost everything else. It also brings up the truly harsh things that happened in concentration camps, for example when the ladies baby is heard crying the nazi comes in and takes the baby, the women demands to get her baby back and the man warns her to leave it alone. She yells and he responds first by shooting her and then her crying infant in front of all the other women in the bunker scaring their eyes and hearts. The men who created this plan to escape exemplify hope, because there was a little at the time of the holocaust and it ended up being one of the most successful revolts of the entire holocaust, these men showed bravery. The action scene in the movie is rather intense, guns and knives and just chaos occurs as the revolt reaches its peak. The movie also gives an insight to the viewer to the life of a jew in the camps, little to eat, nothing to look forward to, hard labor, uncomfortable everything, and despair. It is so hard to watch people struggle and to think that there were so many bystanders. Finding out that after the escape this camp was buried and covered with trees to hide the evidence is enough to make anyone sick. How awful to think that people tried to cover up everything, even after doing such awful things and putting so many through misery.

the great escape

Escape From Sobibor was a hard movie to watch, as old as it is it brings up all the realities of the holocaust that we as the present generation overlook. The story begins in one of the ghettos, with a somewhat normal life. It is soon brought to an end as all of the people are forced to jam themselves into train cars and make their way to a nearby concentration camp. Upon arrival they are asked if there are any people with special skills (trades) and one of the prisoners, who happens to be a veteran, grabs a man and tells him to speak up, he does in confusion. The women and children are separated and told that they will be headed for a shower. One of the hardest concepts to grasp watching this was that most of the men really had no idea that the showers meant death. This became apparent later in the movie. The man who had been encouraged to lie about his occupation, was told after being brought to work that his wife and son were killed. Furious, he loses his temper and the road to revolt begins. The veteran Feldhendler and his partner in crime Pecherskym put a plan into action. As a veteran Feldhendler knows that in small escapes that the nazis would go awol and kill random crowds of people to prove revolts were powerless, and that they maintained control. Feldhendler makes the decision that if one goes, everyone goes. The plan is formed and they decide that they have to kill all the guards and want to walk slowly through the front gate as all the others had mine fields, although after the guards are killed it is a free for all to get out. The plan takes a while to collaborate and plan out thoroughly. The plan has to remain a secret in order for as many prisoners to have a chance to get out. In the end about 300/600 escape and maybe 60 survived the war.

funny little things

a list of memories with my best friend

Neopets

Cherry Fights

Snow Cones

Burping after you drank my diet pepsi

Lady bug in a bag

your cousins scaring me

taping adams number to the ceiling

EAT FREDDY EAT

Freddy gets dressed

still don’t know why you let me date logan

my cousin also still hates you

endless notes

bucket lists

cookie dough

peanut butter sauce

buddy4u

my first trip to the zoo

pillow pets

orphan

the night i found out my mom had two weeks to live when lucy sang every disney song to me

two big bags of kettle corn

letters to each other for vacation in spain

wittle daniel

when i kissed you and you didnt talk to me for like a day

secret trips to see dan

dropping my phone in the toilet

playing wii fit for hours

endless soccer tournaments

mini straightners

emo hair

crabby and sticky

giant water balloons 

shaving our legs in your driveway bahahahaha

raw pancakes :)

when my brother drove by you on your night walk lol

whitney and pact dodgeball

soccer tournaments

sunkist and reeses

running circles around Katie Moore

crying together on your garage steps

secret trips to see Dan

christmas blankets

boating in chicago

tommy boy life vests

counting down every second left of our last soccer practice

when i scored at state cup and my first thought was that you’d be pissed because we were going to regionals

when i was watching your ducks and dumped there water on myself

some perverted line in ET that we died at

scary movies on end spring break with kyle mullin

when I sat on cooper 

we all failed at dying our hair pink for soccer

when my brother accused me of being lesbian with you

feeling our stomaches to see if they were cold and we were burning calories

watching alen’s DVD on footskills

when i chucked beeny babies at you for an hour

dodgeball with Whitney

PACT

creeping on Derek Wolner

making bucket lists

hiding in that room after my moms funeral so i didn’t have to talk to people

hp

Harry Potter, an international Phenomena. It is truly amazing the things that america will run with. They set these books on fire. They have been made into movies, formed dolls, even constructed amusement parks. As I sit and watch the movie marathon today my mind can't help but to try and wrap itself around this crazy ideal. I can not deny that Harry Potter is simply the most entertaining fantasy series to ever be written. It blows my mind to think that J.K Rowling wrote these for her kids enjoyment only, and then later released them. I wish I could sit inside her mind and take a gander, some of the creativity she displays in her books takes me on wild adventures begging for another chapter. With this book not only has she sparked an epidemic, but gotten all generations involved, she has hit every age group there is not a single one that can not enjoy some part of this superb series. Kids of all ages love listening to their parents read it to them as they fall asleep, crazed teenagers stay up for midnight releases then fall asleep with the lights on fighting to read one more chapter, and parents read in their rooms because they too need a little rest and relaxation. This book has done more than most kids do on the daily. This book brings adventure, life morals, and other  terrific things.

have a little faith

Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

                                           1 Corinthians 13:4-5

This verse is important to me because love has made an impact in my life. My family has gotten a lot closer because of love and all of the things it provides, and how it keeps no record of being wronged reminds me of God and how we are always forgiven because Christ died for us.

Giving me reassurance is one of the many things God has done. He does this through constantly reminding me that he has a plan. He leads me through thick and thin, and continually guides me through. One time in particular sticks out to me: the night my mom died I didn't know where to turn, desperate for answers I prayed. Maybe I didn't get the answer that I wanted, God gave me a better one. He provided me with my moms friends and family who flooded me with their memories of my mom's life. It was exactly what I needed.

Believing is seeing, is the way I understand the holy spirit. It's the presence around you, when all else fails. It's hard to explain the feeling it gives you, the unseen protection around you. It leads you in the right direction.

Jesus died to save us. He came to earth knowing what he came for, yet still went through the pain to give up all of it for us. Through him we are saved. He died so our sins would be forgotten.

The bible is there for us to reference past encounters with God. To show us that others have witnessed acts of christ and to teach us to continue and teach our kids about God. That we will bring others who don't know God, to him. Also to pray for those in need.

Our Faith is something very important to each and every one of us. Its the one thing that will be there for us regardless of what we do. We can turn our backs but its the one thing that holds us together, like the last piece of the puzzle, it fits and makes our life complete.

final

The end of a trimester brings about a lot of reflections and even more cramming for finals. It is truly amazing to me the whole finals process. Teachers range from giving you nothing to attempting to hold reviews over the material from the entire year. (My argument hear excludes AP classes for the most part). Finals are indeed a stressful time of year especially winter finals, considering I think it's safe to say most high school students struggle through this term anyway. To test them over the knowledge they barely managed to comprehend is hilarious. Some teachers even go as far as making it worth 20+ percent of your grade, that just seems unfair to me, why would you take away so much from kids who kept up all term and worked their butts of to stay current and up to the pace of the work. It also gives an opportunity for students who screwed around all term a chance to redeem themselves with an A by acing the final, aka giving crammers recognition for their ability to shove information into their brains. Really? Who's idea was this. I understand AP test preparation and the importance of that, but the constant testing of students, this hole process is a way for the school to push the students and teachers to be crazy with the amount of work they have to do. I say we let teachers test on their own time and students study for manageable amounts of information. No one needs the stress or the massive grade fluctuations, these tests cause so much nonsense and brain stress, I say enough.